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A new approach to mapping cultural ecosystem services /
No full textAccording to various sources, Southern Morocco has stood out as an outstanding tourist destination in recent decades, with global appeal. Dakhla City, including Dakhla Bay, classified by the Convention on Wetlands in 2005 as a Wetland of International Importance, offers visitors various entertainment opportunities at many city sites. Therefore, human activity and social benefits should be considered in conjunction with the need to safeguard the ecosystems and maintain the Ecosystem Services (ES). This study aims to provide an overview of the tourism dynamics and hotspots related to cultural ecosystem services in Dakhla Bay. The landscape attributes are used along with an InVEST model to detect the distribution of preferences for the Cultural Ecosystem Services (CESs), map the hotspots, and identify the spatial correlations between features such as the landscape and visiting rate to understand which elements of nature attract people to the locations around the study area. Geotagged photos posted to the Flickr™ website between 2005 and 2017 were used to approximate the number of tourist visits. The results showed that tourism suffered several dips in 2005–2017 and that tourist visits are currently rising. Additionally, an estimated annual tourist visit rate shows that tourism in Dakhla Bay has been growing steadily by 2%
Bendruomeniniai gyvenimo namai asmenims su sporto ir psichikos negalia kaip stigmos mažinimo kelias: bendruomeninio virsmo link /
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Parents’ health literacy relations to pre-school children healthy nutrition and development of physical activity habits in family.
No full textThe aim of the research – to evaluate relations between parental health literacy and Klaipeda’s city pre-school children's diet and physical activity education. Methodology of the research – quantitative research method was used by creating an online anonymous survey. 375 parents of pre-school aged kids were surveyed. All forms were appropriately filled and used during the research. Applications used for statistical and descriptive analysis: IBM SPSS and Microsoft Excel 2010. Conclusions. More than a half of the parents pointed out that they care about healthy eating habits, but only a one-third of the children and 37,3 percent of parents are eating fresh vegetables daily. Children of physically active parents tend to spend more time outside on the weekends, whilst the children of physically passive parents spend more time at the TV or computer and less time in sports and dance groups activities. 72 percent of parents are constantly interested in the healthy nutrition and physical activity of their children, mostly using method of edification or advice and personal experience. However, 29,3 percent of parents allow their children to engage in activity unrelated to food during mealtime, and 27,7 percent of food is oftentimes fried in fat rather than boiled or stewed. Approximately a fourth of the parents do not encourage their children to be more physically active and attend additional sports or dancing classes. 30,1 percent of the family leisure time is oftentimes spent watching TV, furthermore 61,3 percent of the parents never practice exercises with their children. It was found that 52,6 percent of the respondents had an insufficient level of health literacy, out of which 18,7 percent were inadequate, and 33,9 percent had problematic levels of heath literacy. Only 15,7 percent of parents were found to have perfect health literacy. Majority of those parents control their children's junk food intake, limit the TV time and set an example by eating healthy themselves. Parents with inadequate level of health literacy less often buy healthy food products and five times more frequently fry food with fat rather than boil or stew. Parents with perfect health literacy more often discuss physical activity with their children and its’ benefits, also twice as often engage in physical activity together. Higher level of health literacy translates into more favorable habits being instilled and practiced in the family
Social pedagogical assistance for students who experience bullying situations at school /
No full textThe frequency of bullying and the consequences for the child's development encourage targeted social pedagogical assistance in Lithuanian schools. The article reveals the opportunities of social pedagogical assistance at school for students who have experienced bullying by peers. The results of the qualitative research (partially structured interviews with school leaders, social pedagogues, and class teachers) are presented. The analysis of the research results has revealed that the following social pedagogical support measures are applied at school: the provision of emotional support, consultations, social skills classes, work with parents, individual conversations and etc.. The main difficulties identified by the informants in assisting students are the lack of parental cooperation, the passivity of teachers and a lack of staff competencies to deal with bullying situations. By increasing the possibilities of social pedagogical assistance at school, the informants offer to increase parental responsibility, improve pedagogues‘ competencies, cooperate with assistance organisations
Features of democratisation and de-democratisation in Ukraine.
No full textThere are plenty of insights not only in democratisation but also in de-democratisation in today’s research into political regimes and democracy. The fate of new democracies is actual and relevant. The focus of this article is the evolution of Ukraine’s political regime. Formally, Ukraine is recognised as a country positioning the attributes of democracy. Despite this, the democracy there is facing existential challenges. On the basis of the research conducted into the state of democracy in Ukraine, the connection between processes of democratisation and de-democratisation is analysed in this country, one of the largest in Europe. Attention is paid to the perspective of the hybrid political regime, analysing not only the denial of each other in processes of democratisation and de-democratisation, but also their coexistence, analysing the historicity, contextuality and modern suitability of the hybrid political regime
Samogitian-Curonian military defensive bridgehead: experiences of the first half of the 20th century.
No full textThe article analyses the cases of military actions in the territory of Western Lithuania and Latvia from 1915 to 1945. At the same time, attention is paid to the operational plans of the Lithuanian and Latvian military forces in the second half of the 1930s. Using this method of analysis, based on military history research, an alternative defence concept for small countries whose defence depends on allies not only with ground capabilities but also with naval military capabilities and capabilities to conduct air operations, is disclosed. The strategic directions in which armies invade and retreat in the Eastern Baltic region in the first half of the twentieth century are essentially the same. Only changing technologies, capability of mobility and firepower, and growing/increasing opportunities have affected the pace and geography of military action. In 1915, the Russian army did not concentrate its forces in Courland, and through it the German army saw the possibility of manoeuvring in the northern wing. This helped to defeat the enemy on the Venta-Dubysa river line and take advantage of the success and maintain the initiative to occupy the entire territory of Lithuania by the autumn and reach the left bank of the Daugava. These operations influenced the military planning of interwar Lithuania and Latvia. In 1941, the German forces invaded to the east in the same direction as in 1915, the only difference being that the enemy failed to stop them in Samogitia and Courland, although there was some stopping at Raseiniai near Dubysa. In 1944, the Red Army (RA) broke into the Baltic Sea near Palanga – which is what it failed to do in 1919 – forming the Courland pocket, a bridgehead in which German forces, defending the sea with a sea connection to Germany, were cut off for seven months, from 10 October to 9 May 1945. The Curonian Boiler/bridgehead forces surrendered only after the German capitulation. Klaipėda was defended by the German military for more than 3 months: from October 10, 1944 to January 28, 1945, when there was a threat that the land route through the Curonian Spit would be interrupted; they abandoned the city and left it to the Red Army without a battle
