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Historical Development of Security Features of Document Protection
Full text linkIn the presented article, the author discusses the historical
development of technical protection of documents in the
conditions of the Slovak Republic, as well as new trends in
document protection. The aim of the paper is to point out the
importance of constant development of technical protection
and security elements that are used in document protection. The elements of technical protection and their constant development
contribute to a large extent to the prevention of
falsification and alteration of the documents in question
Odorologinė ekspertizė įrodinėjimo procese. Teorija, metodai ir praktika
Full text linkThis scientific article discusses various problematic aspects of the odorological
examination method – as a specific branch of forensic technology that
studies the mechanisms and patterns of the formation of odor traces and their
procedural application in the process of pre-trial investigation. Natural science,
technical and tactical, as well as procedural aspects are taken into account
Science in Eighteenth-Century French Literary Fiction: A Step to Modern Science Fiction and a New Definition of the Human Being?
Full text linkCC BY-NC 4.0In eighteenth-century France, scientific progress and its spreading
met a growing interest among public, an enthusiasm that was to be reflected
in literature. Fictional works including scientific knowledge in their narrative
made their appearance, paving the ground for a genre promised to a growing
success in the following centuries—science fiction. The article presents three
eighteenth-century French literary works, each one centered on a different
domain of science: Voltaire’s Micromégas (1752), Charles-François Tiphaigne’s
Amilec, or the Seeds of Mankind (Amilec, ou la graine d’hommes, 1753) and
François-Félix Nogaret’s The Mirror of Current Events, or Beauty to the Highest
Bidder (Le miroir des événements actuels, ou la belle au plus offrant, 1790).
The first one, an iconic Enlightenment work that promotes critical thinking,
relies on discoveries made in astronomy and optics. Tiphaigne de la Roche
is far from sharing the fame of Voltaire, but his odd Amilec is noteworthy as
it is possibly the very first science-fiction work in which biology is central.
Written in the unique atmosphere of the French revolution, Nogaret’s work
The Mirror of Current Events depicts androids-like interacting with humans.
Our purpose is to show that these works were a precursor (proto science
fiction) of the science fiction genre in literature, to describe how and what
science or technology was depicted in them, and how they influenced the
view of Man (humans) in eighteenth-century France
Law Enforcement Officers’ Ability to Recognize Emotions: The Role of Personality Traits and Basic Needs’ Satisfaction
Full text linkCC BY 4.0Background: This study intended to explore the role of personality traits and basic psychological needs in law enforcement officers’ ability to recognize emotions: anger, joy, sadness, fear,
surprise, disgust, and neutral. It was significant to analyze law enforcement officers’ emotion recognition and the contributing factors, as this field has been under-researched despite increased excessive
force use by officers in many countries. Methods: This study applied the Big Five–2 (BFI-2), the
Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Frustration Scale (BPNSFS), and the Karolinska Directed
Emotional Faces set of stimuli (KDEF). The data was gathered using an online questionnaire provided
directly to law enforcement agencies. A total of 154 law enforcement officers participated in the study,
50.65% were females, and 49.35% were males. The mean age was 41.2 (age range = 22–61). In order
to analyze the data, SEM and multiple linear regression methods were used. Results: This study
analyzed variables of motion recognition, personality traits, and needs satisfaction and confirmed
that law enforcement officers’ personality traits play a significant role in emotion recognition. Respondents’ agreeableness significantly predicted increased overall emotion recognition; conscientiousness
predicted increased anger recognition; joy recognition was significantly predicted by extraversion,
neuroticism, and agreeableness. This study also confirmed that law enforcement officers’ basic
psychological needs satisfaction/frustration play a significant role in emotion recognition. Respondents’ relatedness satisfaction significantly predicted increased overall emotion recognition, fear
recognition, joy recognition, and sadness recognition. Relatedness frustration significantly predicted
decreased anger recognition, surprise recognition, and neutral face recognition. Furthermore, this
study confirmed links between law enforcement officers’ personality traits, satisfaction/frustration
of basic psychological needs, and emotion recognition, χ2 = 57.924; df = 41; p = 0.042; TLI = 0.929;
CFI = 0.956; RMSEA = 0.042 [0.009–0.065]. Discussion: The findings suggested that agreeableness,
conscientiousness, extraversion, and neuroticism play an essential role in satisfaction and frustration
of relatedness needs, which, subsequently, link to emotion recognition. Due to the relatively small
sample size, the issues of validity/reliability of some instruments, and other limitations, the results
of this study should preferably be regarded with concern
Issues in the Practice of Implementing the Istanbul Convention
Full text linkOn May 11, 2011, in Istanbul, Turkey, the Council of Europe
Convention on preventing and combating violence against women
and domestic violence, better known as the Istanbul Convention, was
opened for signature. The Istanbul Convention, along with the CEDAW
Convention, is a gender-asymmetric antidiscrimination instrument. This
differentiates these instruments from the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights of 1948 and all major UN and regional human rights instruments,
which establish gender-neutral or symmetric prohibition of discrimination
on the grounds of sex
Storytelling on the Russia-Ukraine war: #CreativesForUkraine, a transmedia activism project in the European creatives industries
Full text linkCC BY-NC-ND 4.0The research describes the storytelling created by the European creative community in response to the invasion of Ukraine. Methodologically, it includes a content
analysis of the #CreativesForUkraine project creations and two questionnaires
addressed to authors and recipients. The results show high harmony of sense and
interpretation between the two poles of the communicative process. Among the
conclusions, the storytelling that sympathizes with Ukraine prevails, reserving the
role of dystopian villain to Vladimir Putin. Digital communication and transmediality are the critical factors for spreading the message and calling to action
Social work with children and youth in the Covid-19 pandemic
Full text linkCC BY-NC-ND 4.0The entire world faced a crisis associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The social impacts
of the pandemic were severe, the movement of people was strictly limited, and schools, day care
centres, and youth centres were closed. This affected social workers working with children and youth
activities. The goal of this article is to analyse the memories of social workers working with children
and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic in Lithuania. In order to explore the memories of social
workers, a qualitative research methodology was used, and non-probability purposive sampling was
applied for finding research participants. In-depth interviews were used for data collection, with
each research participant facing one main question: describe your everyday activities during the
pandemic. Qualitative content data analysis was applied. Three categories were formulated and
are presented in the article: challenges of social work during the pandemic; positive factors of work
during the pandemic; and ways of working during the pandemic. These were followed by seventeen
subcategories: adaptation to restrictions; organizational work; teaching; cooperation with other
institutions; filming; IT knowledge; psychological aspects; activeness and tension at work; spending more time together; improved competencies; closer communication with other institutions; closer
communication among social workers; courses and seminars; volunteers; IT programmes; various
types of consultations; and creativity. The challenges and positive aspects revealed show that social
workers looked for ways to adapt to new working conditions and were ready to overcome challenges
in order to help children and youth during the pandemic
Some Remarks on an Electronic Case Management System in the Criminal Justice Area
Full text linkStorage capacity, transmission of huge amounts of data from one part of the World to another within seconds
has created solid technological ground for usage it in the conservative area our social life such as the criminal
proceedings.
The author of this research aim is to present his vision and vectors based on his practical experience on usage
the achievements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution for an electronic criminal case management system in the
criminal justice area, namely at the criminal proceedings. The above mentioned issue trend points out the main
objective of this paper:
To describe main elements of e-case management system’s architecture.
Research type: fixed research
Career Management in Organisations: What’s New?
Full text linkCC BY-NC 4.0Purpose – by systematically collecting and analysing recently published scientific
articles to identify trends and hot topics in the field of organizational career management
monografija
Full text linkAt the beginning of the 21st century, there are still 781 million illiterate people in the world (UNESCO, 2015). If we take literacy in its broadest sense to mean the ability to successfully navigate today’s world, then the term illiteracy takes on an even broader meaning in more developed countries, encompassing even more adults for whom even an approximate number cannot be determined. When it comes to literacy and literate people, new dimensions emerge - enough, not enough, literate enough in their personal environment but not literate enough to hold certain positions in their home village, not literate enough to develop in a big city or abroad, and so on. Adult literacy is an important prerequisite for successful employment and greater financial resources, for raising one’s own children, for more successful socialization, and even for maintaining health while avoiding poverty, exclusion, and gender inequality. Although literacy is often considered only as human capital, necessary and beneficial for competing for skilled labour, and as an important factor in increasing a country’s global competitiveness, it can be said that almost every major social problem is affected in one way or another by low literacy, and that literacy is essentially responsible not only for economic but also for virtually everyday social problems.Tyrimą finansavo Lietuvos mokslo taryba (Nr. S-MIP-20-33)