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SECURITY AND SAFETY OF TOURISTS AS A FACTOR FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM, BASED ON THE EXAMPLE OF BULGARIAN BLACK SEA RESORTS
No full textDifferent types of crimes are factors negatively affecting tourism worldwide. However, managers and even tourists themselves are refraining from submitting crime reports and whistleblows. The main goal of the study is to analyze the attitude of the hotels’ managers on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, regarding the submission of whistleblows to the competent authorities. In particular, managers of hotels in Albena, Golden Sands, Dunes, St. Constantine and Helena, and Sunny Beach are studied. The main research hypothesis is that hotel managers should ensure the safety of guests by reducing gaps in the control environment, preventing financial frauds, helping for environmental protection, and supporting the process of reporting crimes and suspicious behavior in the hotels. However, the current management policy relies mainly on the installed security devices and the Security Department staff. This results in applying no specific internal rules, procedures, and training for non-security department employees, regarding crime identification and timely reporting. The adopted research methods are based on the logical, deductive, and comparative methods, as well as on the methods of analysis and synthesis. For the empirical study, the method of in-depth interviews is used. The results of the study support the literature by presenting more in-depth data regarding the used security devices and assets by Bulgarian Black Sea resort hotels. Also, more data on the attitude of hotel managers on the safety and security of tourists and the submission of whistleblows, as a factor for sustainable development of tourism on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, is presented
USAGE OF ADVANCED DATA ANALYSIS IN AUSTRIAN INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES
No full textData has become one of the most valuable resources for companies. The large data volumes of Big Data projects allow institutions the application of various data analysis methods. Compared to older analysis methods, which mostly have an informative function, predictive and prescriptive analysis methods allow foresight and the prevention of future problems and errors. This paper evaluates the current state of advanced data analysis in Austrian industrial companies. Furthermore, it investigates if the advantages of complex data analyses can be monetarized and if cooperate figures such as the turnover or company size influence the answers of the survey. For that reason, a survey among industrial companies in Austria was performed to assess the usage of complex data analysis methods and Big Data. It is shown that small companies use descriptive and diagnostic analysis methods, while big companies use more advanced analytical methods. Companies with a high turnover are also more likely to perform Big Data projects. On an international comparison for most Austrian industrial companies, Big Data is not the main focus of their IT department. Also, modern data architectures are not as extensively implemented as in other countries of the DACH region. However, there is a clear perception by Austrian industrial companies that forward-looking data analysis methods will be predominant in five years
OBSTACLES OF ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - ANALYSIS OF OBSTACLES AND NECESSARY COMPETENCIES AND METHODS FOR SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION
No full textIn order to keep up with the new requirements of a market or a business environment, organizational developments are a necessary change to align the company with the future. Every change in the company is associated with various obstacles, ranging from the difference between the current and the new business model to the employees' acceptance of the organizational development. In order to follow the new vision of the company, structured and extensive communication and structured planning of the implementation is required, in which every stakeholder has to be involved. The change that the organization implements must be accompanied by methods and models and thus learn in the development phase how to avoid obstacles and rejection to arouse motivation and interest so that uncertainties are prevented. Different methods are listed and evaluated in their implementation and content for a possibility for the change. The main focus is on the employees because without the acceptance of the most important stakeholders in a company, no further development is possible. If the employees do not support the vision, the change will fail. In order to accompany a successful development of the company, some necessary competencies and skills are listed, which are to be imparted by the company management and which the employee must acquire. This structured and modeled procedure is intended to accompany and enable change in a company
INNOVATIVE POLICY IN THE FIELD OF PERSONNEL TRAINING IN THE CIVIL SERVICE
No full textThe hypothesis of the presented article is the idea that the innovation policy in the field of public administration personnel training is based on two principles: 1) training of personnel of a new format, corresponding to the requirements of reality and ready for quick and not always anticipated changes, 2) careful attitude to the human resource, that is, the human potential of the public administration system. The introduction describes the archaic system of Russian personnel policy. The introduction of relevant principles into the state personnel policy will improve the professional competencies of employees, adapt them to the process of changes in public administration, and allow interested employees to plan and build a career perspective. The formulated principles are a consequence of the teamwork of the educational organization and government authorities in order to understand new staffing requirements for the public administration system. These principles include the principle of corporate training, the principle of customizing educational content, the principle of personalizing additional professional programs, the expert principle, the principle of innovative methodology, the blended format principle, the motivational principle, the principle of independent assessment of the quality of training of students, the principle of independent assessment of the quality of conditions, the principle of internal evaluation systems, analysis principle. In conclusion, the author substantiates the statement that it is necessary to expand the range of fundamental principles in connection with the openness and dynamism of the structure of innovative personnel policy
IMPACT OF SOCIO-CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE COMMUNICATIVE DESIGN IN GALICIA
No full textThe development of information and communication technologies has determined their spreading in the design of the visual information environment of human activity. This was the main reason for this research — the search for the starting points of the communicative design in Galicia as the phenomenon of artistic-project culture and examining it. The methodological basis of the paper includes interdisciplinary and system approaches in solving the assigned tasks.
The comparative historical analysis and the culturological method has been used to analyze socio-cultural processes in Galicia. This paper analyzes the historical and socio-cultural preconditions for the formation and development of design in Galicia. This paper observed that public organizations, industrial committees, associations, educational and cultural societies have a salience role in improving the design of industrial products. The graphic design of printing products, advertising style, photo, and film productions models the communication characteristics and identity of the graphic design objects.
The result of the probability of design in Galicia was obvious due to the activity of artists, whose graphic design works created harmonious communicative encirclement of human activity.
The complexity of the language of European aesthetics and the sources of national creativity of the Galician masters constituted the paradigmatic basis of communication design. An integral communicative and multifaceted process in the context of socio-cultural transformation consolidated the phenomenon of formation and development of design in Galicia.
FACTORS INFLUENCING THE CHOICE OF THE SOCIAL PROFESSION 'TEACHER'
No full textThis article is aimed at revealing the specifics of the professional choice made by students-future teachers. The increased interest in recent years of young people in studying pedagogical specialties provoked our research attention towards differentiating the factors influencing their professional choices. This article presents the results of a study conducted with students majoring in "Primary school pedagogy with a foreign language" who study at the Faculty of Education at Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. The results of the study indicate that in their professional choices, students are influenced by a wide range of social and personal factors. The most important social factors are: proximity of the university to the place where the student resides, the high social assessment of the quality of education at the university/faculty, and the prestige of the teaching profession in society. Among the personal factors for choosing the profession of pedagogue, students rank in leading positions their desire to work with children and their love for the teaching profession, formed under the influence of the high professionalism of their good teachers
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE USABILITY OF DIFFERENT PRODUCTION SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS AND RULES
No full textProduction scheduling optimization is a very important part of a production process. There are production systems with one service object and systems with multiple service objects. When using several service objects, there are systems with service objects arranged in a parallel or in a serial manner. We also distinguish between systems such as flow shop, job shop, open shop and mixed shop. Throughout the history of production planning, a number of algorithms and rules have been developed to calculate optimal production plans. These algorithms and rules differ from each other in the possibilities and conditions of their application. Since there are too many possible algorithms and rules it is not easy to select the proper algorithm or rule for solving a specific scheduling problem. In this article we analyzed the usability of 33 different algorithms and rules in total. Each algorithm or rule is suitable for a specific type of problem. The result of our analysis is a set of comparison tables that can serve as a basis for making the right decision in the production process decision-making process in order to select the proper algorithm or rule for solving a specific problem. We believe that these tables can be used for a quick and easy selection of the proper algorithm or rule for solving some of the typical production scheduling problems
LINGUISTIC SUMMARIES IN EVALUATING ELEMENTARY CONDITIONS AND THEIR APPLICATION IN SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT
No full textData users are generally interested in two types of aggregated information: summarization of the selected attribute(s) for all considered entities and retrieval and evaluation of entities by the requirements posed on the relevant attributes. Less statistically literate users (e.g., domain experts) and the business intelligence strategic dashboards can benefit from linguistic summarization, i.e. a summary like most customers are middle-aged can be understood immediately. Evaluation of the mandatory and optional requirements of the structure P1 and most of the other posed predicates should be satisfied beneficial for analytical business intelligence dashboards and search engines in general. This work formalizes the integration of the aforementioned quantified summaries and quantified evaluation into the concept of database queries to empower their flexibility by, e.g., the nested quantified query conditions on hierarchical data structures. Later in our work, we adapted our research into practical application. We created a software environment for evaluating data based on a dataset retrieved from The Statistical Office of the Slovak republic. These datasets are aimed mainly on landscape characteristics like altitude, area sizes of towns and villages, and similar parameters. Based on user's preferences, our system recommends the most suitable place for holidays to spend on
VERIFICATION OF TACTICAL AND TECHNICAL DATA OF THE BREATHING APPARATUS
No full textThe function of the breathing apparatus is to protect the health of firefighters in a harmful and non-respirable environment. Closed-circuit breathing apparatus provides members of the Fire and Rescue Service with respiratory protection in the elimination of adverse events in tunnels and underground spaces. The MSA 4h Air Elite is a four-hour self-contained breathing apparatus that operates on the principle of generating oxygen by an exothermic reaction of potassium hyperoxide. Each breathing apparatus has its tactical technical parameters. We verified the tactical and technical data of the MSA AIRE ELITE by the experiment they participated in the firefighter. Each firefighter was equally coupled. An MSA Air Elite was used during the experiment. Tactical-technical data reported by the manufacturer varies in some points with the practical results that we have managed to obtain. The manufacturer's largest deviations in tactical and technical data and practical results are mainly in the length of work activity, temperature in use in intervention, and air consumption. According to our experiment, the MSA 4h Air Elite breathing apparatus does not last in the working activity 240 minutes as it discloses a manufacturer, but on the other hand, this time-inconsistency may be caused by the intensity of training and demanding of the training track
Front Matter: Volume 2
No full textThis PDF file contains the front matter of the Proceedings of CBU in Natural Sciences and ICT Volume 2 including the Title Page, Copyright information, Table of Contents, Introduction, and Conference Committee listing