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The advent of technology has overshadowed children's leisure time and deprived them of the opportunity for physical activity. The main target of the current study is to discuss about the methodology of individualized diagnostics of motor activity peculiarities among children during the preschool period. The aspect of physical activity development is of federal importance. The research problem is presented as a search for pedagogical possibilities to optimize the motor activity of a growing person during preschool age. The characteristics of a child's motor activity and transformation factors are described when deviating from the age norm, both in the negative and in the positive direction. In the course of the study, the results were obtained that testify to the high efficiency of diagnostic techniques aimed at identifying the features of the motor activity of children in different types of preschool educational institutions. Distribution of the sample according to the behavioral characteristics of motor activity is possible; according to the profile of the main needs of the subjects and the emotional attitudes of preschoolers to different types of physical activity using color choices.

The article examines the global university reputation race, launched in 2003. Between 2003 and 2010, there appeared a cluster of publications on the qualitative comparative analysis of their methodologies, and since 2010, a cluster of publications on the quantitative comparative analysis of university rankings has started to form. The review made it possible to identify a number of unsolved problems concerning the stability of university rankings, aggregation of the number of universities and their Overall Scores (Total Scores) by country in various rankings. Our study aimed at solving these tasks was carried out for TOP-100s of ARWU, QS, and THE rankings. When calculating the fluctuation range of the university rankings, the top twenty of the most stable and most unstable university rankings were identified in the rankings under study. The best values of the aggregated indicators by the number of universities and the Overall Scores were identified for the USA and the UK.

This study aimed to assess parents' attitudes and practices concerning their children's oral healthcare, dietary habits, and dental care during the war. The study was conducted with a sample of 375 parents of children aged 4-7 years selected randomly from public schools, kindergartens, and the pediatric public dental clinic after obtaining informed consent. A questionnaire was used to assess the attitudes and practices of parents toward their child's dietary habits, oral hygiene measures, and dental information during the war. Most of the parents had satisfactory knowledge and positive attitudes regarding their children's oral health. The internally displaced children experienced more dental problems (P= .02) and consumed more food (P= .008) than the local population. The parents with university education and professional occupations were more involved in supervising their children tooth brushing (P= .0001). 57.07% of children brush their teeth once a day. 47.47% of parents supervised their child's oral hygiene, and 47.73% needed more time to implement additional oral hygiene measures. The surveyed Ukrainian parents displayed satisfactory attitudes and practices towards oral health, but they lack awareness of their children's oral hygiene measures, which could be related to the inconveniences faced both by parents and children during wartime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the study is to understand how the diversity of university language websites and social networks influence the universities' reputation in the World University Rankings and how this diversity can be described. Combining the union of sets of university names in Times Higher Education (THE), QS World University Ranking (QS), and Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2018, the World's Top 100 Universities Rankings enabled us to obtain a set of 146 universities. From October 18, 2018, through November 1, 2018, the availability of website versions in different languages and social media applications was checked. The study enabled a 146x15 binary matrix to be built in the first case, and a 146x21 one in the second, with 15 meaning the number of website versions in foreign languages, and 21 standing for respective number of various social media accounts. The binary matrices were clustered with a view to obtaining dense submatrices consisting of units only. The study shows that approximately 47 percent of the universities surveyed have their websites in more than one language. All the 146 universities have websites in English, those in Chinese coming second and equalling to 21. Most popular social networking sites have been revealed, with over 84 percent of universities having Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram accounts. On the whole, 18 universities form a dense binary submatrix for 6 social media, including four of the above, as well as LinkedIn and Google+. The binary matrices are proved to be effective for higher education managers and experts focusing on specific regions and social media. Correlational dependence calculations on comparative analysis of traditional and altmetrics rankings are also performed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]