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EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY - PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES IN DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT.‘E-TEACHER’ INFORMATION SYSTEM

Author(s): Lachezar Lazarov / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: information system; 21st century pedagogy; blended learning

Our current 21st century workplace requires workers to master the skills that are essential in a knowledge-based society. The 21st century youths need many sets of special skills in order to succeed in work and life. Educational systems must transform their objectives, curriculum, pedagogies, and assessments to help all students achieve the outcomes required for a prosperous, attractive lifestyle. Therefore, to accomplish this we must transform children’s learning processes and engage student’s interest in gaining 21st century skills and knowledge. Things have changed, old methods and pedagogies are no longer relevant. The urgent questions we should, as educators, ask ourselves are: "What are the driving factors behind this huge transformation in learning?" and "Do we need a new pedagogy to better enhance learning ?" The present article introduces a key subsystem from the integrated management information system of Veliko Tarnovo University, namely the ‘E-teacher’ subsystem.

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DIFFERENCES IN THE QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE BETWEEN MEDICAL AND NON-MEDICAL STAFF AT MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN BULGARIA

Author(s): Yanka Prodanova,Todor Kundurzhiev / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2018

Keywords: quality of working life; MANCOVA; medical establishments; type of staff

The aim of the study is to investigate differences in the perception of the quality of working life between the medical and non-medical staff in the medical institutions in Bulgaria. 510 employees participated in this study. Quality of working life is measured using 7 dimensions (subscales) that have been tested regarding to the variable staff type. The results showed that non-medical staff reported higher average scores in all seven subscales. Non-medical staff reported significantly different average scores as regards Workplace and Organization management. This ascertainment is in according with the results obtained from MANOVA, where the independent variable is a type of staff and the dependent - indicators of quality of working life. The MANCOVA analysis was conducted under control of the variables gender and education. After controlling these variables, there were differences between the medical and non-medical staff in terms of two more subscales.

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT IN THE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN RUSSIA FROM THE STANDPOINT OF INSTITUTIONAL MARKETING

Author(s): Galina Astratova,Maxim Kocherian / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2018

Keywords: state higher education; interdisciplinary research; institutional marketing; marketing; mass sport; physical culture and sport; Russian economics

Based on interdisciplinary research, it was analyzed the role of physical culture and sports (PC&S) in the system of higher education. The main issues on which experts of sociology, pedagogy, economics, management and marketing concentrate their attention in the study of PC&S are identified. It was updating such definition as:"Institutional marketing" (IM), "Institute of PC&S in the system of state higher education” from the standpoint of IM. The author's definitions differ from the known definitions in that marketing is the mechanism of interest’s coordination (state, business and population, or the state, business, society and educational institutions) and market actors are interested in the presence of market restrictions in the functioning of the PC&S Institute. The scientific novelty of the research is: 1) Interdisciplinary approach; 2) Clarification of the study categorical apparatus; 3) Application of IM tools to PC&S at University; 4) Identification of the leading role of PC&S in higher education from the position of IM. Conducted expert survey confirmed the presence of six key functions of PC&S: educational-developing, whole applied, sports, recreational, professional-applied and corrective. The importance of the PC&S functions in General and in higher education is estimated by experts approximately equally, but the whole applied and recreational function of PC&S in higher education is of larger value. It is shown that the economic levers, mechanisms of physical shape and health stimulation are in the process of human activity in general and in the process of education in the University are not developed enough and need further research.

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TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BULGARIAN DAIRY MARKET

Author(s): Kristian Korelov / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2018

Keywords: Bulgarian dairy market; dairy products; milk production

The main object of this article is the dairy market, which includes all Bulgarian companies operating under code 10.5 of „Classification of economic activities 2008“ and bulgarian consumers of milk and dairy products. Тhe main purpose of this article is to analyze the trends in the dairy market including the production and the consumption of dairy products. The dairy market has strategic importance for Bulgaria. Milk is a vital product present in everyday nutrition, but in addition to the social and health effects, the dairy sector contributes to providing permanent jobs in rural areas as well as protecting the environment. The main efforts of dairy producers are aimed at investing at all stages of the production chain as well as encourage trade. Of all the products on the dairy market, Bulgaria has a well-established production potential of yoghurt, cheese and yellow cheese obtained from the different types of milk produced in the country. Despite the dwindling consumption of dairy products, the sustainability of the sector is still preserved. Enterprises in the dairy industry are consolidating and becoming more present in the market.

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APPROACH FOR MESH OPTIMIZATION AND 3D WEB VISUALIZATION

Author(s): Pavel Hristov,Emilian Petkov / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2018

Keywords: mesh; optimization; system; scanning; segmentation; visualization; X3D

This article presents techniques and solutions for publishing reality-based 3D models online. Mesh simplification method is described as a valuable solution for reducing data size and better three-dimensional web user experience. The represented approach describes a process of decreasing size of 3D file by largely simplifying flat areas thus preserving geometric features and visualizing reduced textured three-dimensional model on web. A procedure of object scanning, X3D model viewer representation, including X3D files with Inline node, used within a framework for integrating and manipulating scenes, are also described. These solutions are used for 3D exhibits’ visualization on St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo museum’s web page. Main results are summarized for three-dimensional representation methods and technologies. This report also gives an overview of techniques, conclusions and various approaches applied.

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KINEMATICS OF THE CUTTING PROCESS WITH COMPLEX IMPOSED VIBRATIONS DURING MACHINING OF HOLES

Author(s): Tanya Avramova / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2018

Keywords: cutting process; machining of hole; vibration

In modern mechanical engineering interest are new cinematic schemes which provide high performance coupled with the ensuring the quality requirements of machined surfaces. This paper proposes a new kinematic cutting scheme with complex imposed vibrations in machining of holes. The specificity of the process consists in the additional setting of the tool to axial and rotational oscillations simultaneously, resulting in a change in the primary and the feed motion. Construction of a vibrator for simultaneously setting the axial and rotary oscillations is shown.

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DESIGNING OF ANNULAR DRILLS WITH THE DIRECTION OF THE INTERNAL RESIDUAL STEM

Author(s): Tanya Avramova / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2018

Keywords: an annular drill; a force system; a kinematic cutting scheme

The current article provides a methodology for designing of annular drills which includes determining the tool's operating scheme and the scheme of cutting of the allowance of machining. It’s shown a scheme of annular drill load which is essential for the construction of this type of tools. By the dependencies shown in the current study, a strength calculation of the annular drill with the corresponding diameter was made and it is defined the case where the drill has the greatest sustainability.

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A REVIEW OF TWENTY YEARS (1998-2018) RESEARCH OF THE CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR STUDY IN DIFFERENT MARKETS OF GOODS AND SERVICES, BASED ON THE AUTHOR'S INTERPRETATION OF THE SYSTEM OF VALUES THAT INFLUENCE MARKET BEHAVIOUR OF THE CONSUMER

Author(s): Galina Astratova / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2018

Keywords: consumer: consumer behavior: values: system of values: marketing: marketing research: marketing research tools: marketing-mix

he purpose of this study was to review the results of a 20-year study in the author's interpretation of the system of values (SV), which determines the market behavior of consumers in different markets of consumer goods and services. The scientific novelty of the research is the following results: 1) Interdisciplinary approach to the study of consumer behavior that led to the author's interpretation of the SV of the research methods outlined in the works of Sheth-Newman-Gross (1991), extended and supplemented in the study of Astratova Galina V. (1998). In the future, this working tool has been called "the method of Shet-Newman-Gross-Astratova" and has been successfully tested in various markets of consumer goods and services in Russia over the past 20 years; 2) Development of the Author's Working Tools concerning the method of questionnaire development, analysis and interpretation of the questionnaire results to determine the components of the SV that determine the consumer choice, which allows to establish a correspondence between the answers to the questionnaire questions and a specific component of the marketing mix (“4P”), or – correspondence between the answers to the questionnaire and the" portrait " of the consumer; 3) Identification of the fact that the importance of components in the SV, according to the results of research, is different for different goods and services. This makes it possible to more clearly simulate consumer behavior in the development of a marketing-mix (“4P”) in various markets of goods and services. The work is not only of theoretical and methodological importance, but also of practical value, as it allows economic entities to competently manage the complex of marketing communications and, ultimately, receive the planned volume of sales of goods and services in specific target audiences.

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INNOVATION OF THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM: BELARUSIAN ASPECT Analysis of innovative potential of Belarus and Russia

Author(s): Vladimir Vladimirovich Klimuk,Alla Nikishova / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2018

Keywords: Innovation: innovative development model: tools: innovative activity: component: factor

In the work the problem of innovative activity of economy of the country is highlighted. The authors have analyzed the innovative activity indicators of Belarus, Russia and other countries-leaders and lagging economies. Approaches to the determination of the category “innovation” have been studied. The classification of innovative development models has been proposed. The determination of innovative development models has been proposed. For the assessment of the level of innovative development of the country the tools have been proposed which include the labour, resultant, cost components with the differentiation into indicators. On proposed tools the approbation is performed on the basis of statistical data of Belarus and Russia during the years 2005-2014. The map of innovative development is proposed for visualization and forecasting of the strategy of stable country functioning. As a result it is received that for Russia the productive model of innovative development is indicative, and for Belarus the cloning model is indicative. In order to create conditions for regulating the innovative level of country development the groups of factors of influence are proposed, as well as recommendations for the increase of the level of innovative development of the country.

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POSSIBILITIES AND APPLICATIONS OF CLOUD COMPUTING IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

Author(s): Mariyana Nikolova,Petya Byalmarkova / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2018

Keywords: Cloud computing: education: e-services: flexible learning environment: resources

This document presents the main opportunities and challenges based on structural principles and potential capabilities of the cloud, as applied to the world of education. The purpose of this document is to show how a recent technological development could lighten, in some regards, the burdens of equipment, management and new teaching methods.

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SELECTED ISSUES CONCERNING THE ADMINISTRATIVE AND TERRITORIAL STRUCTURE OF BULGARIA

Author(s): Olga Borisova / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2018

Keywords: administrative and territorial structure: districts: regions: municipalities: cities: villages

he article presents the procedures and requirements related to the establishment of administrative-territorial structures.Different cases from the Bulgarian case law have been analyzed.There is a lack of certain procedures and misuse of terms that may create problems in the future.

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UNCONSCIOUS MOTIVATIONS FOR JOINING AN INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY - A PSYCHOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE

Author(s): Violeta Ilieva / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2018

Keywords: ecovillage: intentional community: psychological needs: psychosocial approach

The current case study applies a psychosocial perspective in exploring the unconscious motivations for joining an intentional community of the ecological type. It argues that through group membership community residents unconsciously seek to fulfill their psychological needs, including the needs for self-affirmation, security and attachment. Due to the lack of a shared goal, lack of structure and norms, as well as periods of social disintegration, the group fails to satisfy these needs, which is interpreted as a primary cause for the high levels of anxiety and psychological fatigue reported by individual members.

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EVALUATION OF CARBON STORAGE AS AN ECOSYSTEM/LANDSCAPE SERVICE IN eutric Cambisols, CMe, albic Luvisols, LVa AND rendzic Leptosols, LPk IN MALA PLANINA

Author(s): Borislav Grigorov,Asen Asenov / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2018

Keywords: ecosystem/landscape services: organic carbon: Mala Planina

The aim of the current investigation is to identify and quantify organic carbon as a supporting ecosystem/landscape service of the following soil subtypes: eutric Cambisols, CMe, albic Luvisols, LVa and rendzic Leptosols, LPk in Mala Planina. Nine soil samples were collected from typical landscapes in the mountain. Each sample weighs 500 grams, which is a necessary weight for the conduction of chemical analyses in a laboratory. The value of carbon per ton in the investigated soils in Mala Planina, equated to the carbon emissions, is determined and displayed as monetary value in EUR to indicate the value of “carbon stock" as a supporting ecosystem/landscape service of eutric Cambisols, CMe, albic Luvisols, LVa and rendzic Leptosols, LPk. The results are comparable to other investigations and fall within the range of the average values for Bulgaria.

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CASE LAW IN THE BULGARIAN LEGAL SYSTEM

Author(s): Goran Goranov / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

Keywords: case law; jurisprudence; legal essence; legal norm; sources of law; theory of law

The sources of law contain legal norms that have legal force. Only sources can objectify the law. They are not only an external form and means of manifesting the law, but also an essential feature. A legal rule is legally binding only when and because it is a recognized as a source of law. According to some authors, case-law has a binding force based on its silent adoption by the legislator. The essence of the case law in Bulgarian legal literature has been the subject of study mainly in the field of sources of law in terms of the general theory of law, the general part of civil law and constitutional law. With very few notable exceptions, most contemporary authors underestimate the normative quality of judicial acts. Too lenient in Bulgarian legal theory was the role of the court in legal hermeneutics. The judge, in our opinion, should not be equated with a state official.

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CRIME AND LAW AFTER SOVIET REVOLUTION. THE CASE OF PASHUKANIS5

CRIME AND LAW AFTER SOVIET REVOLUTION. THE CASE OF PASHUKANIS

Author(s): Stratos Georgoulas / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

Keywords: crime; law; commodity; exchange

Evgeny Pashukanis was an imaginative Marxist, the most imaginative to appear among Soviet scientists of law immediately after the October Revolution. For Westerners Pashukanis works have a fascination, because they trace the evolution of his thought as he tried to bring to bear his sense of what was needed programmatically upon the doctrines as he understood them. In the present we outline the importance of a question confronted but unanswered in Pashukanis’ project (and unaddressed, in our time). How, precisely, are we to understand the historical configuration of state and law in social formations where capitalist property has been abolished but where communism has by no means yet been achieved? How are we to resolve the apparent paradox that the legal practices of most, if not all, social formations dominated by the political rule of the proletariat have included the form, and very often the content, of the legal rules typically associated with capitalist models of production?

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ATTITUDES TOWARD DEMOCRACY AND EU IN TRANSITIONAL SOCIETIES: THE BULGARIAN CASE

Author(s): Daniela Pastarmadzhieva / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

Keywords: Bulgaria; democracy; European Union; Euroscepticism; transition

In 1989, like other countries from Central and Eastern Europe, Bulgaria began its transition to democracy. It started with enthusiasm and great expectations, which later led to disappointment and blaming the democracy for every negative situation, both on personal and national level. In 2007 Bulgaria became member of the EU, which gave the society a new hope for better life, especially in its financial and economic dimensions. Nevertheless, some challenges for the EU of the last few years have been leading to a rise of Euroscepticism. Thus, the purpose of the paper is to examine the transformation of the attitudes toward democracy and the EU since Bulgaria became member of the Union. The data used is from EIU Democracy Index and Standard Eurobarometer. The raw data of the Standard Eurobarometer from 2007 and 2017 was used and the results for Bulgaria were compared and analyzed. Alongside, the results from 2017 were compared to the results of the three most democratic countries in the EU (according to EIU Democracy Index). The results indicate that the share of Bulgarians with positive attitudes toward EU decreased but in many aspects Bulgarians share opinions very close to the countries who are ‘full democracies’.

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Travelling music: the madrigal Morir non può ’l mio core by Giovanni Maria Nanino and its textual and musical transformations

Author(s): Marina Toffetti / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: Giovanni Maria Nanino; madrigal circulation; contrafactum; music assimilation; cultural exchange;

Among Giovanni Maria Nanino’s compositions, the madrigal Morir non può ’l mio core, published in his first book of madrigals (reprinted in Venice in 1579), has been an exceptional catalyst for intertextual phenomena of various kinds. Reprinted at least twice together with all the other madrigals of the first book, it not only reappeared in a number of collective printed collections of the time, but also un- derwent various subsequent reworkings, including a reply by the author himself (the second part of the madrigal, published in his third book) and a canzonetta by his pupil Felice Anerio, which almost exactly reproduces its text, tracing the outline of most of its motifs. Several ritestualised versions of the first and second parts of the original madrigal and a contrafactum of the canzonetta derived from it are also known. The investigation of this composition, music in voyage par exellence, and its European dissemination, reception and assimilation, has revealed a kaleidoscope of different reworking processes.

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Bembo, Palestrina, and an English contrafactum: a cross-cultural translation of Gioia m’abond’al cor and its issues

Author(s): Cristina Cassia / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: Pietro Bembo; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina; Musica transalpina; Gioia m’abond’al cor; contrafactum;

The publication of the madrigal collection Musica transalpina (London, 1588) pro- vided a significant impulse to the spread of Italian music in England. In fact, this anthology contains contrafacta of fifty-seven pieces whose texts were translated into English and adapted to the new audience. Focusing on the third piece, Joy so delights my heart, whose music was originally composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina on Pietro Bembo’s canzone Gioia m’abond ’al cor, this paper aims both at investigating the textual and music changes required by the passage from one language to another and assessing the outcome in the light of the English culture of the time. The translation of Bembo’s poem results in a new piece deprived of close connections with both the original text and music.

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Recomposition of musical works among the Jesuits: practice and theory

Author(s): Tomasz Jeż / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: contrafacta; parody; Jesuits; Rome; Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; Bohemia; music repertoire;

This paper deals with the adaptation of musical works that occurred in Jesuit circles. In sources of Jesuit provenance, we come across the existence of many recompositions of pre-existing works which were accommodated to local needs through various kinds of adaptational strategies. Composers who were active in Jesuit circles in Rome were only too willing to make use of these practices – for instance, Asprilio Pacelli and Kaspar Förster junior who were also connected for a while with musical centres in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Acquaintance with these practices is also attested to by the Roman provenance of organ tablatures. Similar sources of inspiration and analogous techniques of compositional adaptation are also found in Jesuit Bohemian and Silesian circles – Carolus Rabovius and Carolus Pfeiffer, inter alia, made their living this way.The operative strategies employed by composers that we have been studying clearly accorded with the narrative of Jesuit authors who advanced the concept of parodia in their textbooks on poetics – Roberto Bellarmino, Jacob Pontanus and Jacob Masen, amongst other. Like other European humanist authors, their understanding of the concept derived from Aristotle and Quintilian. It is they who made clear the purposes for which one might have recourse to these strategies and the circumstances in which one should employ such tools. Literature and music that came about in reliance on these sorts of procedures had to serve a didactic function, first and foremost. And in point of fact, the same could also be said about the cultural context of repertoire presented in this paper.

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‘Everybody liked it / likes it / will like it’: three possible time-related approaches to contrafacta

Author(s): Katarzyna Spurgjasz / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: contrafacts; music history; time; reception; transmission; Catholic music; Lutheran music; early modern music history;

The motives for making contrafacts throughout the music history were related to dif- ferent aspect of the cultural context. This text aims to discuss the approach related to the time, by proposing a theoretical model of past-, present-, and future-related con- trafacta (as well as some mixed types), illustrated by few examples, mainly from early modern music history.The past-related type occurs when the original melody is deeply rooted in collective memory; the new text uses it as a kind of legitimization, or con- tinuation of the same tradition. It is often the case of ritual/liturgical music, which is perceived as valuable and durable; the new text – be it adaptation to a changed context, or translation – is rather an adjustment than a substantial change. The present-related type of contrafacts is based on a temporary popularity of a specific music piece. The ideas of continuation, or stability are not evoked; the author of a contrafact needs only a well-known musical vehicle for a new text, without paying special attention to the cultural function of the original.This type of contrafacts is often used to cross different types of cultural borders with the change of the text (e.g. secular music re-used in sa- cred context, or different versions of a polemic text addressed vice-versa by two groups of people during a confessional or political conflict). The third type, future-related, occurs when a contrafact is introduced to a new audience, not necessarily with a pre- vious knowledge of the original material. This type of contrafacts could be the most independent from the original (in both musical features and text meaning), as the musical material is not a significant part of neither collective nor individual memory and heritage. In the last part of the text, two mixed types (past/future, present/future) are discussed.

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