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This article has been written in response to Alexander Maxwell’s paper published in this issue of the Historický časopis. Based on an in-depth reading of Ludevít Štúr’s Nárečja slovenskuo alebo potreba písaňja v tomto nárečí, it is here demonstrated that the author of the mentioned paper creates an erroneous interpretation of Štúr’s term nárečja, when equating it with the modern term dialect or nárečie. What present-day linguists call dialect was by Štúr unambiguously denoted as rozličnorečja. Moreover, it is evident from Štúr’s Nárečja slovenskuo that Štúr cannot be regarded exlusively as a Pan-Slav (in the sense of an advocate of the All-Slav idea), since at the same time he was not only a Slovak patriot, but also a Pan-Humanist.

This review article focuses on Jewish insurgency under the British mandate for Palestine from 1939 to 1948. The Jewish guerrilla campaign represents a successful case study in the field of the research on small wars and insurgency, proxy wars. The authors analyze the early phase of the British Mandate in 1918-1939, referred to as the prelude to the subsequent Jewish uprising; a period when Jewish paramilitary groups including the Haganah, Irgun, and Lehi emerged and developed, emphasizing their ideological underpinnings, operational and tactical strategies of warfare, and the material capacities that these organizations possessed. The authors primarily emphasize the period from the initiation of the White Paper in 1939 until the establishment of the State of Israel in May 1948. British restrictions on Jewish immigration and the beginning of the Second World War stimulated the Jewish forces to a massive terrorist campaign against the British resulting in an unprecedented Zionist victory.

The paper deals with the evaluation of the mechanical properties of the crepe paper and chickpaper. The thickness of crepe paper was 300 m with the surface mass 150 g*m-2 and chickpaper paper thickness was 100 m with the surface mass 40 g*m-2. Crepe paper and chickpaper are usually used for chicken breeding. Longitudinal and transversal tensile properties were studied. The tensile behavior was monitored on the motorized test stand ANDILOG STENTOR 1000 (Andilog Technologies, Vitrolles, France).There were measured the tensile properties as modulus of elasticity, maximal elongation, maximal tensile force, tensile strengths, tensile index and strain at break of the longitudinal and transversal samples by testing paper strips. Mean values of the maximal elongation b of longitudinal chickpaper samples were three times smaller than maximal elongation of transversal samples. Mean values of maximal tensile force Ft, tensile strength btensile indexwand maximal strain at break T of longitudinal chickpaper samples were two times smaller than maximal quantities of transversal samples. Mean values of the tensile modulus of elasticity of longitudinal and transversal chickpaper samples were almost equal. Chickpaper mechanical properties in tension were different in the longitudinal and transversal direction of the original paper surface. Mean values of the maximal elongation b and maximal strain at break T of longitudinal crepe paper samples were sixty times smaller than maximal elongation and maximal strain at break of transversal samples. Mean values of maximal tensile force Ft, tensile strength bandtensile indexwof longitudinal crepe paper samples were fourth times smaller than maximal quantities of transversal samples. Mean values of the tensile modulus of elasticity of longitudinal samples of crepe paper were thirty eight times smaller than values of transversal samples.

Although the US Constitution introduced a republican state system, there is no specific definition of the republic there. The US Constitution is deliberately short document. Its authors wanted to create a charter that would survive throughout times and conditions. However, given the briefness of the Constitution, they felt the need to explain and defend the ideas that had been advocated in it. Thus, The Federalist still serves as the primary source of interpretation of the US Constitution. It is therefore my intention to examine the meaning of republicanism in The Federalist. Although I speak of the republican teaching of The Federalist, there is, in fact, an ambiguity in the use of the word in those essays. This ambiguity reflects an ambiguity in the general use of the word in the political theory and discourse of the 18th century. However, more fundamental problem seems to be the so-called Madison’s “two definitions” of republic from Federalist No. 37 and No. 39. Both of these essays were written by James Madison. I agree that there is a fundamental difference between these two definitions. I do not, however, believe that it reflects inconsistency in Madison’s thinking. I will argue that these “two definitions” reflect Madison’s strategy to introduce a new definition of the republic. Thus, in The Federalist, there are two uses of the word republic: 1) its putative meaning in America, the meaning which was embodied in most of the state constitutions and which is the Anti-Federalist understanding of republicanism; and 2) The Federalist’s understanding of what constitutes republicanism. This second use is a new republicanism and represents a significant break on certain crucial points from the then dominant American understanding.

The conducted study has shown problems with electronic documents already in the moment of their accession, as well as arrangement and description, storage and providing access to them in the archive. It turned out that, unfortunately, electronic documents are treated only as an addition to paper versions of materials. The study uses method of document analysis (including electronic document), as well as a survey – a questionnaire. The object of the study was a private papers of Professor Stanisław Gorgolewski.

This article aims to assess the fulfilment of goals of the White Paper on Defense in the areas of financing of the French Armed Forces and modernization of their equipment under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy. Three indicators for this assessment are defined: the military budget of the French Armed Forces, the acquisition of modern weapon systems and assorted equipment, and extraordinary revenues and expenses of the French defense budget. The article comes to the conclusion that almost from the beginning there were serious difficulties in attaining the projected goals of the White Paper on Defense. In addition, it is concluded that we can expect a reduction of original goals in the course of the ongoing revision of the White Paper on Defense.

Although the cultural life of Slovak communities found in the territory of Hungarian Lower land quite long lacked a direct contact with dramatic culture, at the turn of the 1910s theatre and dramatic art were already an integral part of Slovak-language culture in Vojvodina. Theoretical reflection on modern dramatic art developed, too, which can be proven by two articles published in Národnie noviny in 1914. Both of the authors had more or less direct links with the Slovak-language Lower-land enviroment. Vladimír Hurban Vladimírov (1884 – 1950) from Stará Pazova, nowadays regarded as the most significant Lower-land playwright, focused in his lecture O dramatickom umení (On Dramatic Art, Národnie noviny, 18 July 1914) on the basic principles of dramatic art being applied from the earliest times to present, which he had derived from contemporary German theatre studies. His paper received an immediate response from Ivan Lilge-Lysecký (1886 - 1918), working in Báčki Petrovac for some time, whose article Dramatické umenie (Dramatic art, Národnie noviny, 30 July 1914, 4 August 1914) was intentionally specialized in modern dramatics – in this respect Lilge was the first Slovak to inform about so-called intimate theatre. Both of the papers show the contemporary - yet unaffected by war - thinking on the form and character of dramatic art, which on the one hand grew against a background of analytically oriented Naturalism and Realism, and, on the other hand, it placed weight on synthetic expression, symbol, stylistic features and a new way of depicting intimacy. At the same time, they demonstrate that modernists´ attempts were not merely poetic and prosaic, but they were also made in the area of drama, moreover they occurred in the most modern form and a close connection with European contemporary tendencies and trends.

This paper deals with new Transport Supply System. One type of intermodal container built to transport bulk cargo like paper on railway and ship is Stora Enso Cargo Unit. This Unit is too big and heavy to be transported on road, and instead they are transported only by railway and ship. NETTS (North European Transportation and Supply System) is a delivery and transportation system developed by Stora Enso. Its aim is to offer competitive transportation costs to plants operating in northern Finland, to increase the frequency of shipping as well as to improve customer service, minimise damage and develop shipment tracking. The multimodal transport system essentially integrates the Swedish railways with North Sea traffic for the supply of paper and board products from Sweden and Finland to Europe.

Introduction: The electronic health record (EHR) is a computerized health information system where provider record detailed encounter information such as patient demographics, encounter summaries, medical history allergies, intolerances, and lab test histories [9]. The EHR will be used in future diagnostic and treatment decision making. The decision is always taken by a physician or dentist. Medical documentation contains information about treatment, communication with insurance service system and statistical data evaluation. The EHR may support and improve future diagnostics and therapy in general. The data can be used in statistics and other scientific purposes. Aim: The aim of study is to verify the simplicity of data process implementation and time of data storing for modification of classical paper WHO dental card, lifetime dental EHR controlled by keyboard and lifetime dental EHR controlled by voice. Methods: All three methods were applied on 126 patients. The dental status of patients was examined and the data recorded in classical way into the paper WHO dental card. The same person recorded all data to lifetime dental EHR using keyboard and using voice. Then we compared the time, which was needed for recording the data using these three methods.Using Friedaman test we found very significant differences in time of recording among three methods (p

Due to the rapid expansion of irrigated agriculture, effi cient use of the limited water resources in arid and semi-arid regions is becoming more and more vital. However, water salinity is a major problem due to its negative infl uence on the yields of many crops. It reduces citrus trees’ growth and causes physiological disorders. Primarily salt-stress lowers net CO2 assimilation, stomatal conductance, and water potential of citrus tree leaves, in addition to accumulation of excessive concentration of Chloride or Sodium in leaves. A great deal of research indicates that citrus have the genetic potential to be salt-sensitive; however inheritance studies in citrus are scarce. In this paper the adverse of effects of salinity on physiological aspects of citrus are reviewed. The review summarizes the prevailing state of knowledge about the responses and tolerance of citrus trees to salinity.

Competences have been identified as legitimate educational goals wherever it is not only knowledge that counts in learning (and educators are concerned with not only the cognitive domain in their teaching). There is an ongoing discussion on “key competences for all” identified by the European Parliament as a necessary prerequisite for personal fulfilment, active citizenship, social cohesion and employability in a knowledge society (cf. EP, 2006). Also in the field of EE and ESD, there have been attempts to find appropriate operationalisation of action-oriented, learner-centred, and socially and environmentally responsible educational strategies which would help to realize a transition of the whole education system towards sustainability. Competences appear to be an appropriate concept providing an opportunity especially for a change of traditional teaching/learning practices and proper assessment of these innovations at the level of the student, educational module or programme, and also the policy level – they might be specifically designed for different disciplinary and cultural contexts and easily adjusted for all ISCED levels. As a proper tool for setting transformative educational goals and reflection of the prerequisites/outcomes of the relevant learning processes, they have been stressed in prominent ESD policy documents (UNECE, 2011, 2013), in theoretical discussions (Wiek et al.,2011) as well as in practice (growing knowledge base of case studies in relevant journals). We encourage concerned experts to enrich this debate and contribute to the pool of knowledge by providing results of their original research and share their experience with practical implementation of the concept – and submit their work for the thematic issue of Envigogika. We accept articles in the category of research papers and case studies; moreover, there is a possibility to provide multimedia presentations of existing learning programmes and other activities. The deadline for submission of the manuscripts is 15 September 2014; the thematic issue will appear after the review process by the end of the year. The theme of the Envigogika issue is closely related to the international COPERNICUS Alliance Conference to be held on 3 October 2014 the outcomes of which are expected to be one of the main contributions to the UNESCO Decade for ESD (2005‑2014), ending this year. Conference-related themes cover curricular aspects of university education; thus they provide an opportunity to reflect ESD-oriented higher education in all disciplinary fields from the perspective of the educator and his/her professional development. Articles related to the themes of the Conference can be presented in parallel sessions as part of the afternoon programme (see here) if they are submitted in the form of abstracts through the registration system on the conference website by 15th July 2014. Other competence-related themes may be submitted for the special issue of Envigogika as well. Authors are warmly welcome to attend the COPERNICUS Alliance Conference to meet top European experts in the field and discuss issues of common interest. The Conference is closely associated with the UE4SD project which links the competence theme with professional development of university educators in the field of ESD. In the project, 55 partners from 33 countries are represented, the majority of which are expected to attend the Conference as it is a constitutive part of their cooperation. Four regions (East, West, North and South) are evenly covered by the partners’ consortium and thus the Conference will be a unique opportunity to also make links with these regional networks. Authors from the Czech Republic and its neighbours are therefore especially encouraged to consider their involvement in the Conference programme as the transition towards sustainability is an issue to be highlighted in this part of the world. References• EP, (2006). Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 on key competences for lifelong learning. European Reference Framework in the EC. Official Journal L 394 of 30.12.2006. [online] [cit 2014-05-12] available from http://www.cmepius.si/files/cmepius/userfiles/grundtvig/gradivo/key_competencies_2006_en.pdf (see also http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/education_training_youth/lifelong_learning/c11090_en.htm ). • UN ECE (2011). Learning for the future: Competences in Education for Sustainable Development. Geneva: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Steering Committee on Education for Sustainable Development. Retrieved from http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/env/esd/ESD_Publications/Competences_Publication.pdf • UN ECE (2013). Empowering educators for a sustainable future: Tools for policy and practice workshops on education for sustainable development Competences. Geneva: , United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Steering Committee on Education for Sustainable Development. Retrieved from http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/env/esd/8thMeetSC/ece.cep.ac.13.2013.4e.pdf • Wiek, A., Withycombe, L., & Redman, C. L. (2011). Key competencies in sustainability: a reference framework for academic program development. Sustain Sci, 6(2), 203-218. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11625-011-0132-6 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-011-0132-6

Within the research project itself, the detailed literature review focusing on global research projects together with those available at the PortEconomics academics initiative will be supplemented with local and regional information and research sources. The research key objective is to assess factors that could help mitigate bottlenecks within CEE logistics platforms and the Czech Republic in particular.

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The purpose of this article is to explore broadsheet newspaper framing and agenda-setting of two events using the five-frame model developed by Semetko and Valkenburg (2000). This article provides insight into how the leading broadsheet newspaper within BiH’s Republika Srpska frames relationships between the three main ethnic groups and is the first such study to occur in BiH. By identifying and exploring the most common frames in Glas Srpske during the five-year period (from 31 December 2015 to 30 December 2020), the research is meant to answer the following research questions: How does Glas Srpske frame the conversation about it and portray the Day of Republika Srpska (RS) and Referendum of the RS Day? The results, which find Attribution of Responsibility and Conflict frames to be the more prevalent in Glas Srpske, illustrate contentious politics that reinforce differences between ethnic groups in BiH. These events and the controversial narrative surrounding them are relevant more than ever in the light of the recent non-paper ‘Western Balkans – A Way Forward’.

The issue of the ecclesiastical history of the secondary lands of the Bohemian Crown continues to offer a number of topics for possible research. One of them is the relationship of King John of Luxembourg to the ecclesiastical institutions in Upper Lusatia, which he gradually brought into his immediate possession. He was thus able to fully develop his donating activities there. The aim of this paper is, based on sources of a diplomatic nature, to analyse and interpret the monarch’s policy towards the various ecclesiastical institutions in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Out of the numerous relicts of rampart fortifications identified in the Lesser Carpathians, we can reliably ascribe four, which were the object of archaeological research, to the bearers of the Čaka, Velatice, Podolí and Lusatian cultures. As can be seen by the surface finds, the hitherto little known hillfort of Starý plášť in the cadastral district of the municipality of Plavecký Mikuláš was also built in the later or late Bronze Age. A fortification rampart, entrance gate and roads leading to a source of water have been identified in the hillfort. The paper includes available information on contemporaneous hillforts in Bratislava - Devín, Marianka, Plavecké Podhradie and Prašník. The authors focused on the process and construction of the fortifications, dating the settlement, the period of construction of the fortifications as well as access to sources of water. New information on the morphology of the terrain and on the course of the fortification was provided by data from Airborne laser scanning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is dedicated to the literary historical legacy of the slavist Rudo Brtáň (1907 - 1998). It is inspired by Brtáň's research on Slovak-language Low-land literature, in particular the chapter Literature and Culture of Slovak Protestants in Sarvaš (1722 - 1918), which comes from the yet unpublished manuscript titled Slovak-language Low-land Literature until 1918. The paper focuses on the work of Michal Markovič Sr. (1707 - 1762/4), who worked in Sarvaš (present-day Hungary) as a Slovak evangelical priest. The analysis deals with Markovič's collection of poems called Duchovní zrcadlo ženského pohlaví z Písem svatých představené/The Spiritual Mirror of the Female Sex presented in the Holy Scriptures, printed probably in Bratislava in 1783. The method of the text analysis is supported by the theoretical assumptions of the Czech literary historian Eduard Petrů, who saw the basis for the interpretation of a literary work in revealing the interpretation core. The goal is to identify the author's intention encoded in the genesis of Markovič's collection, and to decode the reader's interpretation of that time. Markovič wrote the collection in order to stimulate moral attitudes of the whole evangelical community, not only the women's. He composed it with the intention to support the Bible self-study motivating the readers with the inserted biblical coordinates as well as narratives reduced to several poetic lines. The contribution of the analysis can be seen in classifying the genre of the collection as a collection of epigram-like poems. These findings confirm the influence of ancient and renaissance literature on Slovak literary production written in the local vernacular in the mid-18th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines whether the White Paper on the Future of Europe the EU Commission published in March 2017, encourages real public discourse on different options for the future of Europe. In other words, are the different options of the White Paper ground for discussion in which ‘every voice will be heard’ as promised, or are there implicit restrictions to the inclusiveness incorporated in its approach? Analyzing this document using theories on rhetoric and rhetoric techniques, it suggests that the White Paper uses rhetoric devices to create a misleading impression of inclusiveness, while in fact aiming at the same target as the Five Presidents Report of 2015: advocating for the highest degrees of integration.

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The study brings an overview of empirical research carried out in the field of pre-primary education in the Czech Republic between the years 2000 and 2010. The authors analysed research papers published in research journals and relevant conference papers. The main aims of the review paper were to analyse the topics of the pre-primary school education research and to sum up the main findings. The review shows that the foci of realised research projects often lied on collecting data about pre-school children and their parents. Large proportion of the research also focused on undergraduate education of kindergarten teachers and their needs concerning inservice education. The research areas are however not covered systematically. The research projects are often isolated attempts to answer narrow research questions.Moreover, some of the analysed research projects show indications of weak (or poorly described) methodology. In the given period (2000–2010), there was a complete lack of large-scale research that would help bring deeper understanding of the processes within pre-primary education.

The primary mission of commanders and staffs is a skillful realization of all measures related to preparation, planning, conduct and control of military operations. Ability to implement these measures originates from their professional knowledge of the theory of operational art and capability to execute it in practice. Similar to education in courses, it is necessary to obtain a feedback from the courses participants who attend the educational process. Their opinions contribute to creating a more comprehensive picture about the status of operational art in the ACR. The authors of the article propose a set of measures which may contribute not only to improvement of the level of knowledge, skills and competences of military personal, but also to increase interest in the overall development of operational art in the ACR.

The author's experience of emigration makes visible - in literary works and public speeches - one of the aspects of multilingualism as not only a consequence of migration and globalization, but also of the concept of metamultilingualism which contributes to expanding of our understanding of linguistic dynamics in literary production. Through selected literary texts and interviews with the Slovak-Swiss author Irena Brežná, the paper outlines the concept of metamultilingualism and literary multilingualism as one of the characteristics of the "new" world literature. Metamultilingualism as a generator of literary multilingualism is presented through the definition by Elke Sturm-Trigonakis and through its realisation in the form of linguistic commentary. The paper also takes a look at the reflection of languages in I. Brežná's writing as one of the frameworks of her work and a part of the literary process. At the same time, it looks at the concept of monolingualism as an artificial construct and multilingualism as a natural social condition as outlined in the theory of Yasemina Yildiz and Till Dembeck. In the analysis of the internal plane of the text, the article relies on the concept of manifest, latent, and excluded multilingualism, systematically elaborated by Natalia Blum-Barth, who, like Immacolata Amode, sees multilingualism as intratextual. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper first follows the terms paradigm and paradigm shift from the beginnings throughout the main paradigm-shifts in literary science, then examines the effects of the current 'digital age' upon literature teaching, especially in higher education, with main focus on teaching German literature within German Studies (at the University of Pannonia in Veszprém and at the J. Selye University in Komárno). The study further investigates the extent to which literature teaching in the digital epoch can mean a new paradigm, or, in what terms it can be related to the series of paradigm shifting in literary science throughout the past century, as well as to literature teaching methods whatsoever. The paper also dedicates special attention to digital teaching methods applied during the pandemic and their applicability or necessity in terms of teaching (German) literature in future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper reflects the need for comprehensive, goal-oriented and innovative education in the field of health education at the primary level of education. Currently, health education is not a separate subject at the mentioned level of education, but its structure and content are intertwined with individual subjects. With the intention of this fact, we note the need for greater interest in health education, especially in emphasizing its health-promoting character. The individual educational programs mentioned in the article have the potential to become a guide to the effectiveness and structural integration of health education at the primary level of education. At the same time, in the paper we introduce and briefly characterize some educational programs supporting, above all, the field of rational nutrition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the paper is to point out the relationship between sociodemographic factors (age, gender) and the ICT use of Slovak teachers at ethnic schools in Hungary. The results of this research dealing with ICT use in relation to gender and age are inconsistent and yield findings with varying results. This paper is based on the data gathered in a survey conducted in 10 Hungarian counties between January and April 2019, using a sample of 139 teachers at ethnic schools (monolingual, bilingual, and schools teaching the ethnic language as a separate subject). We processed the obtained research results using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics methods (Pearson correlation coefficient; Mann-Whitney U test). The analyses showed that the older, 51-68-year-old generation of teachers use all the ICT resources mentioned in the questionnaire the least, compared to the other age categories. No statistically significant differences were found between any of the groups when comparing men and women. The study concludes with the finding of no relationship between educators' ICT usage rate with gender. On the contrary, it can be concluded that in relation to the rate of ICT use with the age of the educator, there are significant differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to concentrate on the topic of literary education, or creative activities, as an activity that develops language, reading, or communication abilities, we shall review research papers in this article. We will discuss the fundamental viewpoints of literary scholars and didacticians about literary texts and literary education as a subject of study; specifically, we will discuss their objectives for the enhancement of the abilities and proficiencies under investigation. Next, we'll examine the current status of the field by considering surveys designed to help people acquire the skills we're looking into. Our paper's goal is to ascertain if the research papers, when taken as a whole, at least partially corroborate the claim that working with literary texts fosters students' growth or motivation in communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper describes the implementation of a survey aimed at verifying the author's preventive program. The analysis of the obtained results is processed on the basis of quantitative-qualitative methods. The specific findings relate to changes in the devaluation expressions of students' communication towards the teacher and changes in the classroom climate after the implementation of the preventive program. The obtained data show that by applying the author's preventive program, it is possible to achieve changes in the interactions taking place in the teaching process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents research findings exploring modalities by which anthropology, as a critically oriented discipline emphasising identity deconstruction, can adopt an ethnological perspective on culture, tradition, and history as more appropriate in reconciliation processes in post-conflict regions. Previous investigations conducted in the Western Balkans context indicate that the ethnological perspective holds substantial potential to facilitate dialogue and cooperation among individuals with diverse and often conflicting views on cultural heritage. Within the framework of reorienting identity disputes and conflicts towards cooperation and development, this analysis underscores the significance of the ethnological-anthropological continuum in Serbian ethnology and anthropology. Combining the results of previousstudies with the findings of ongoing theoretical and field research, this paper examinesthe potential of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) as a means of fostering cooperation and trust-building between communities. Special attention is devoted to aspects of shared ICH manifested through various forms of popular culture. In this context, the paper summarises ongoing ethnographic research conducted in Pljevlja, a Montenegrin town marked by identity tensions between local Serbs and Bosniaks/Muslims. The study highlights tamburitza music as a particularly significant segment of the town’s popular culture and cultural identity, positing it as having the capacity to initiate the much-needed dialogue and cooperation between these two cultural identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focuses on the message of the Byzantine Cyrillo-Methodian mission in Great Moravia, which lasted only a short time but became an important part of our common European heritage. The message of the mission of brothers from Thessalonica, whom Pope John Paul II had declared Co-Patrons of Europe, influenced the religious and cultural development of Slavic peoples. The spread of its cultural heritage through generations had a significant impact on political events in Central Europe as well. The purpose of the paper is not to provide an analysis of the influence of Cyrillo-Methodian mission among Slavs, but rather to pay attention to how the Cyrillo-Methodian heritage and tradition was used as cultural, national, social and political capital in the history of the Slovak nation. The paper briefly deals with political factors and ideological interests that significantly determined the possibilities and limits of the spiritual and social message of these Christian theologians, teachers and missionaries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The territory of Slovakia, during the period when it was part of Hungary, was considered a food storehouse, which was in charge of procuring the majority of food supplies for the country. Nothing about this changed even during the existence of the interwar Czechoslovak Republic, in which the southern part of Slovakia was the republic’s “granary”. The situation in the agrarian area significantly worsened with the adoption of the arbitration decision, on the basis of which the southern territory of Slovakia was ceded to Hungary. The paper focuses on the research of the agricultural situation in the period of the post-arbitration decision in the southern border areas of Slovakia and at the same time in the ceded territory of Hungary. The aim of the paper is to research the effects of the Vienna Arbitration on agriculture in the mentioned territories and, subsequently, on stabilization of the situation in the period from November 2, 1938 to March 14, 1939. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Slovakia, campanology as part of epigraphy is ranked among the sciences with a specific object of study - bells. Despite the fact that the research in the field of bells and their originators in Slovakia still does not reach the level of European campanological research, its beginnings, reflected in individual scientific works and papers from the late 1960's to the 1980's, as well as its successful advance between 1990 and 2010, mean a move in the right direction. The main objective of the paper is to characterize and summarize the problem of historiography of campanological papers from 1945 up to the present, and to analyze its current position and prospects, as well as to suggest tendencies of its possible development in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contrastive reduplication (CR) (e.g., milk-milk or soy milk) has emerged as a notable linguistic phenomenon in both spoken and written English, drawing attention across various linguistic dimensions, including morphology, semantics, and pragmatics. However, the phonology and prosody aspects of CR remain relatively unexplored. This paper represents a summary of an MA thesis (Petrechová, 2022) addressing this gap by conducting a comprehensive analysis of approximately 200 spoken excerpts of CR. The CR corpus encompasses diverse sources such as literature, radio, movies, and TV series, with manually curated spoken examples. The analysis investigates the overall intonation patterns of CR constructions, with special attention given to acoustic properties, including contrastive features in terms of intonation, overall duration of elements, and measurements such as F1 and F2 of stressed vowels. The investigation aims to shed light on the nuanced interplay of prosody and phonology in expressing contrast within CR constructions. The study also analyses the interconnection of acoustic and prosodic features of CR and other observed variables, such as the speaker’s gender, CR pragmatic functions, and the position of CR in a sentence. The study provides evidence that the first element of CR tends to be more prominent and stressed, and that the intonation pattern of CR depends on the overall intonation pattern of the whole clause in which CR occurs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this paper is to define main development trends in terms of the volume and structure of assets in the banking sector and in the sector of non-bank financial institutions (NBFI) in the last two decades. The first part of the article provides a definition of individual subsectors of the financial sector and their position in the financial system. The next section presents current trends in the volume and structure of assets in individual subsectors. The available data shows that over the last decade the volume of financial assets of NBFIs has grown dynamically worldwide. On the contrary, the growth dynamics of the banking sector's assets varied among individual economic entities. In the euro area and some other economies, the NBFI's market share has expanded significantly at the expense of the banking sector. One of the reasons for the dynamic expansion of the NBFI sector is the much lower degree of regulation compared to the banking sector. The last part of the paper is devoted to current innovations in the NBFI sector [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]