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UNVEILING THE PATHWAY TO SUCCESS: LEADERSHIP IN SPORT AND MANAGEMENT - EXPLORING FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN RESEARCH
Get PDFThis paper seeks to cast light on the critical role of leadership in the realms of sport and management and identify potential avenues for future research. The outcomes and accomplishments of sports organizations, athletes, and teams are greatly influenced by effective leadership. Similarly, in the field of management, effective leadership practices can result in enhanced performance, increased motivation, and enhanced organizational culture. This paper reviews the existing literature, identifies current voids, and suggests potential directions for future research to further our understanding of leadership in sports and management domains
AGILE COMPANIES – FEATURES AND BENEFITS
Get PDFRapid changes in the business environment underline the need for companies to move to flexible management and business models. Business agility as an ability to respond in a timely manner to unpredictable changes becomes the important factor of competitiveness. The main competitive advantage of agile companies is especially the constant innovative ability of processes or products. The aim of the paper is to summarize and reveal key features and main benefits of agile companies
NURSING EDUCATION IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY IN THE TERRITORY OF TODAY’S SLOVAKIA
Get PDFThe objective of the study is to outline the general situation in society and the provision of healthcare in Czechoslovakia after 1918. After the establishment of the new republic, there were several problems that needed to be solved and they included the education of medical personnel. The contribution thus focuses on the process of the foundation of nursing schools, their existence and the problems they faced. With the exception of the social-nursing school in Martin, they were church schools run by religious orders. They were the nursing school of the Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross in Bratislava and three schools founded and run by the Company of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, located in Košice, Nitra and Trenčín. In the 1920s, the state was responsible for the foundation of a social- healthcare school in Slovakia, in Turčiansky Sv. Martin. The first, properly organised nursing school was founded in Slovakia by the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross. It opened as early as 1931 and the first course was to start for the 1931/1932 school year. The second church order which dedicated its efforts to the training of nurses was the Company of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. They established a nursing school in Košice in 1932. Unfortunately, only three years later, in 1938, it was dissolved when, as a result of the Vienna Award, the southern regions of Slovakia were annexed by Hungary. Following the war, the order managed to establish two nursing schools, the school in Nitra, went into operation on 1st October 1946 and the other, in Trenčín, on 1st September 1947. In 1950 the repressive Communist Government terminated the activities of the schools through Operation “N” – Nuns, run by the State Security Service
STRATEGIES AND METHODS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENT\u27S MOTIVATION
No full textThe submitted contribution examines the use of methods of developing students\u27 motivation in the educational process at FHLE SUA in Nitra. Its aim was on the basis of educational research to identify and to compare the opinions of teachers and students on use and their importance in the educational process. The basic package included students of study program Landscape Engineering and teachers, who are providing education of core of this program. Teachers and students confirmed in the survey that they are being used to teach various methods of developing motivation. Significant differences between opinions of teachers and students were seen on the utilization of application examples from a practice and on a degree of attractiveness of lectures and exercises. Most students are hard up for praise and feel a primacy of the teachers. Based on the analysis of the survey results, we formulated advices to enhance their motivation, which should lead to improve of achievements
FICTIONAL AND DOCUMENTARY IN BULGARIAN PROSE OF THE 19TH CENTURY. ANALOGIES WITH FOREIGN LITERATURE
Get PDFThe goal of the project is to reevaluate the earliest texts of the Bulgarian national revival by researching the elements that are used to make the written text not just more realistic, but documental, to give the impression that the story that is told is not just realistic, but based on true events. For the rethinking of the authentic ideas of the Bulgarian literature of the 19th century, a particularly important factor was the reader\u27s reception of the Revival audience. The project uses the ideas of the German scholar Robert Jauss in order to analyze how the literary works combine fictional and documentary elements in order to convince the reader that the story they are reading is not only plausible, but really happened
PRINCIPLES OF THE RECEPTION OF WORKS OF ART IN PRIMARY CLASSES
Get PDFThe author examines specific methods for developing the skills of art reception, starting from the specificity of the artwork and the act of reception. It has been established that the proper reception of artwork depends on the educable individual\u27s ability to decode, understand, and interpret the specific language of the arts, and these activities require the application of specific methods of instruction and education. Artwork has a versatile impact on the receiver: it evokes emotions, feelings, inner experiences, and aesthetic pleasure; it conveys information about the external world; it suggests/provides ideas, communicating artistic truths about the world and even about the personality of the educable receiver, with artistic truth having diverse meanings that make the artwork accessible and appreciated at various levels of intellectual preparation and aesthetic experience. Moreover, reception is always accompanied by an evaluation carried out on a certain scale of values. Effective communication of the message can only occur when the repertoires used by the sender and receiver have sufficient common elements. The quality of communication also depends on the identity of the understood form and the transmitted form. This complex system of artistic activity of educable individuals is related to creativity and artistic language - indispensable terms in the artistic- instructive-educational process of students. Therefore, it is important in the context of formal education for the educational framework to consistently and continuously consider the development of these two components, employing specific methods of artistic-aesthetic education, which, by their nature, are also active and participative
THE EFFECT OF METAKAOLIN USED AS CEMENT REPLACEMENT ON THE PROPERTIES OF HARDENED CEMENT PASTE
Get PDFThe article analyses the effect of expanded glass production by-product rich in metakaolin on the properties of hardened cement paste. Portland cement CEM II/A-LL 42.5 N with the average particle size of 14.21 μm and metakaolin with the average particle size of 22.34 μm were used for the tests. Six cement paste compositions were formulated by replacing 0 %, 2 %, 4 %, 6 %, 8 %, 10 % of cement with metakaolin. Ultrasonic pulse velocity, compressive strength, flexural strength, water absorption and porosity of hardened cement paste specimens were measured at 28 days. The analysis of hardened cement paste microstructure (SEM) and physical and mechanical properties leads to the conclusion that the replacement of 8% of cement in the mix with metakaolin creates the densest microstructure that produces the highest values of compressive and flexural strengths and ultrasonic pulse velocity and the lowest values of closed porosity and water absorption rate. It was found that 8 % was the optimal ratio of cement replacement with metakaolin. Metakaolin can be added at 8 % by weight of cement in the production of modified high-performance concrete
COLLECTION OF PACKAGING WASTE FROM PESTICIDES IN THE AREA OF WESTBACKA DISTRICT FROM 2013 TO 2023
Get PDFWith the increase in agricultural areas and more intensive production, the consumption of pesticides also increases. Together with plant protection products, packaging also reaches the market, which after using the products represents packaging waste. Packaging plays an important role in the safe delivery and use of plant protection products, but after use, an efficient packaging waste disposal system should be provided. Packaging waste from plant protection products represents a potential risk to human health and the environment if it is not managed adequately
CALIBRATION AND PARAMETERISATION OF THE AQUACROP MODEL FOR GROWING WINTER WHEAT IN BULGARIA
Get PDFThe sustainable development of modern agriculture and the manufacturing of quality crop production requires a precise assessment and management of the conditions and potential of the available resources. The use of numerical models in operational practice gives insight into the effective utilization of water resources. Numerical modeling methods can be used to assess of the extent and negative impact of agrometeorological drought. It is an increasingly common phenomenon and affects the quantity and quality of the harvest. The AquaCrop model is suitable for estimating the growth and productivity of agricultural crops in areas with insufficient moisture. Our research aims to calibrate and optimize the parameters of the AquaCrop model for winter wheat under the conditions of the country. This will be achieved through conducting a field experiment. The collection of observed and measured data will enable their comparison with the results of the model simulation. Through the AquaCrop model, water effectivity and yield sensitivity to available water reserves will be estimated. In the process of parameterization of the model, the values of the elements of the meteorological, biological, and soil block of the model affecting the soil water balance and natural fertility will be optimized. The obtained results will be widely used in the compilation of agrometeorological forecasts and determination dates for the onset of drought in different regions of the country
HERBAL-ORIGIN ADDITIVES - NOT ONLY TO REPLACE CHEMICAL COCCIDIOSTATS BUT ALSO TO IMPROVE THE MEAT QUALITY OF BROILER CHICKENS
Get PDFBroiler chicken production is widely applicable due to its rapid development, ease of feeding, low conversion ratio, and nutrients required by the human body. Natural products have emerged as a more naturalistic method of preventing coccidiosis, as have herb-based additives used to improve production performance and meat quality. Thus, the aim of this study was to analyse the impact of feed supplemented with an herbal-origin additive on broiler chickens’ meat quality characteristics. The feeding trial was carried out with 1-d-old 600 Ross 308-line combination broiler chickens, which were divided into 2 groups with 4 replicate pens: the control group was fed a standard compound feed (with usual coccidiostats), and the experimental group was fed a standard compound diet (without usual coccidiostats) + 500 g/t herbal-origin additive. At the end of the trial, 10 broilers (35-d-old) were randomly selected from each group and euthanized; breast and thigh muscles were collected post- mortem. The morphological composition of carcasses and the physico-chemical composition of muscles were determined. Results showed that the herbal-origin additive in feed significantly lowered total breast fillet weight and leg muscle yield, but increased breast muscle thickness and carcass weight compared to the control group (P<0.05). Compared to the control group, the experimental group lowered pH in thigh muscles by 0.22, decreased fat content in the breast muscles, and on the contrary, increased it in the thigh; significantly lowered breast muscle redness and drip loss, but increased water binding capacity (P<0.05). An uneven trend was discovered in the cooking loss results: the experimental group decreased the indicator in the breast muscles, while the one in the thighs significantly increased (P<0.05). Although the tendentious herbal additive mechanisms were not revealed during our study, this kind of inclusion in poultry feed can positively impact some breast and thigh muscle quality features