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The antonyms with the adjectives, nouns and verbs for movement in Bulgarian language are reviewed. They are analyzed from the point of view of their structure – same root (with one or two prefixes expressing opposite) and different roots. Special attention is paid also to their semantics – contradictory, complementary or vector, vocabulary or stylistic antonyms.
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The introductory part of the study presents brief characteristics of Slovník slovenských prekladateľov umeleckej literatúry. 20. storočie (Dictionary of Slovak literary translators. 20th century) and basic information on the translators of Bulgarian literature who are included into it. Presented in the second part are the literary works and translations of Maria Topolska, the most productive translator of Bulgarian literature in Slovakia whose personal life and professional career were inseparably connected with Bulgaria.
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The paper is part of an investigation of the impossible communication between the representatives of the bourgeois state institutions and the traditional person in Bulgarian prose. It treats the reasons for the impossible dialog between the traditional person and the representatives of the church institution as a result of which the very people in need of help and support and seeking answers to existential questions are expelled from the Temple by abbots, monks and priests in four short stories by Elin Pelin.
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The following text presents the concept of “critical methodology”, the relationship between critical reflection on literature, critical approaches, critical action and critical teaching capabilities. The relations between common cultural accumulations and qualitative characteristics of the discipline are interpreted; the changes in the paradigm of knowledge; the new parameters of methodological theory and its working projections in practice, in the context of the cognitive capabilities of students as post-millennium generation (Z-Generation) readers. Critical methodology is supported by the anthropology of abillities, accepts the postulates on the discursive human nature, which is capable of action and change, and recognizes dialogue and forgiveness as a creative engagement towards the Other.
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The article examines a problem that is not posed on its own in the literary education methodology. There is no research answer to the problem “How to ask questions in a literature lesson?” based on the different question-response system in the pedagogical discourse. The essence of asking as an opportunity to explore the unknown through the word implies, on the one hand, some interest of the ignorant towards new knowledge, different than his prejudices, and on the other - sets directions for the discovery of the object of study (HG Gadamer). In the communicative situation of a lesson, however, the roles of the questioner and the respondent are usually exchanged – more often the knowledgeable (the teacher) asks the questions, and the unknowing (the student) responds. This reversal of positions also changes the essence of the question - it should help students learn how to ask questions about the subjects studied (unfortunately in practice test and disciplinary questions dominate). The literature lesson further complicates the formulation of good questions guiding the thought process due to the creative, essentially ambiguous subject of study. In an educational group reading of fiction, the questions of the teacher suggest a possible way to search and discover the meaning of the text through genre pointers of its creation. The examples in this article illustrate the principles for creating models of guiding question that will help the students develop as asking, active individuals - wanting to know and to be able to achieve what they need to.
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The article presents the result of three experimental years. Number indicators are shown in order to measure at the beginning and at the end of the experiment the level of textual competence of one hundred and thirteen students in two secondary schools in the town of Shumen. The level of textual competency is divided into two groups: the first one-receptive skills of the students (defined as the ability of understanding the text and analyzing it) and the second one-productive skills (creating and retelling a composition). According to number results are suggested methodical decisions (exercises, lessons, two types of algorithms-one for analyzing a text and second for editing textual mistakes) all for bettering the level of textual competency of the students in secondary schools in understanding parts of speech as cohesive devices in a text.
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Acquisition and improvement of communicative speech competence is a fundamental objective not only for Bulgarian language training, but also for the primary education. In the context of communicative orientation of the Bulgarian language training is also the integration of information technologies. This paper presents the possibilities of the educational software “Santa Pulls Turnip”, "Wheat Bread“ and "Talks about Hitar Petar“ for using communication exercises in teaching Bulgarian language and literature in 1.- 4. grade. Students work in common environment and use same text resources for linguistic analysis, editing, reproducing and percepting of text.
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This text presents the findings of the survey held in the school year 2014/2015 among students in two small villages in the Eastern Rhodopes. This work is related to absorption and projections of the folklore holiday calendar provided for study in literature classes. It is part of a bigger research text for aquiring Master’s degree in “Education in Bulgarian language and literature in secondary school”.
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As editors of Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Digitalia, we are proud to announce the publication of the third issue of Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Digitalia, the first Romanian academic journal dedicated entirely to the Digital Economy and Humanities research and practice. The main aims of Studia UBB Digitalia are motivating and promoting the research in the interdisciplinary field of Digital Economy and Humanities, especially in Europe, in general, and Romania, in particular. Publishing a new journal on Digital Economy and Humanities is indeed an audacity, given that the field is still seen, after decades of evolution, as an odd hybrid between seemingly incompatible realms of scientific endeavour. Bridging this apparent dichotomy has been the focus of many researchers in the economy, humanities and the computer sciences for the past 50 years, but still the boundaries between the realms exist and grow strong, especially in the institutional practice of universities. Trying to break this barrier proves to be even harder in Romania, where the classification of “traditional” fields of scientific research dictate the distribution of research funds and the evaluation process of research output. Chances are, if an historian publishes an article on his research using computational methods in a journal for computer sciences, that his or her results cannot be “capitalised” in his own field; likewise, computer scientists may see their work in Digital Economy and Humanities not accounted for, if published elsewhere than in well-known CS journals. Digital technologies in economy area have impacted the modern workplace and stimulated the evolution of new forms of management. We are interested how big data and digital technologies are changing how we work and the world we live in. The digital phenomenon is multifaceted and changes the way organizations compete and innovate. It threatens long-lasting business models, and opens up new ways of creating and capturing value. As such, it is not only clearly relevant for management and IT&C practitioners, but also centrally important for management scholars. Digital Humanities and Economy: digital economy is an interdisciplinary field that also uses contributions from digital humanities: big data to understand narratives and plots, methods such as algorithmic analysis of text / videos, advanced visualization techniques, 3-D mapping of texts, digital economy tools for analyzing business and management content, communications, and behavior. The digital humanities sit at the crossroads of computer science and the humanities.
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The main sets of symbols of Russia in the visual media culture of Japan are formed in the XX century. This period was saturated with military conflicts and under the conditions of a bipolar political system; reactionary images with noticeable militaristic influence were formed. This study was performed on the materials of visual media culture in Japan, sources such as anime and manga were studied, in which a high concentration of Russian images is observed. During the study of these sources, a complex of several hundred visual and verbal images of Russia was identified, which seems to be a unique phenomenon. Since such an interest in the country-opponent in foreign policy issues is nowhere else observed. The purpose of this study is to identify markers that denote the space of Russian images in individual visual sources and determine their place in the media culture as a whole. Accordingly, the main objective of the study became the development of methods based on approaches of Digital Humanities and Visual Studies. This study allows us to determine the most economically viable images of Russia in the Japanese media industry and makes it possible to use the results of the research in Russia’s state image by stimulating Japan’s visual media culture sector for representation the most auspicious images.
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The dynamic economic environment is driving the evolution of traditional supply chains toward a connected, smart, and highly efficient supply chain ecosystem. Algorithms become powerfull tools that enable machines to make autonomous decisions in the digitized supply chain of the future. The present paper proposes an decision making mechanism for smart supply chain management in the petroleum industry. This industry has a strategic position as it is the base for other essential activities of the economy of any country. The petroleum industry is faced with volatile feedstock costs, cyclical product prices and seasonal final products demand. The current paper considers the position of a refinery as it is at the middle of the integrated petroleum supply chain, between the upstream and downstream. It procures crude oil from upstream assessing the price, quality, timing, and distance to the refinery in order to decide the optimal acquisition. Additionally, the refiner has to carefully monitor the price risk and manage the inventory. The manufacturing activities of the refiner requires thoroughly planning and scheduling the production levels and supply chains for all the derivates and feedstocks for petrochemical industry using tools for decision making in order to estimate market opportunities and threats under volatile market conditions.In order to provide a reliable and practical decision making model, the current paper proposes a mechanism for decision support under uncertainty using maximum expected utility.
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In the digitalization era, the notion of gamification appeared in every field of activity. Experimenting gamification of programming hours by practitioners and teachers in the 2017-2018 school year at the 5th grade is part of the research area related to identifying ways to improve student engagement and skills for lifelong learning.The article will present the outcome of this pilot experiment, which aims to track the evolution of pupils during the project, by analyzing and comparing the results from the initial evaluation with those from the final evaluation. The purpose of the article is, on one hand, to contribute to the literature with new results in the field of digitization of the teaching-learning activities through gamification, and, on the other hand, to present a new teaching instrument used to streamline the instructive-educational process at the fifth grade students, within the Computer Science, which is now a mandatory object. The experiment was conducted in accordance with the Creative Computing curriculum created by the ScratchEd team at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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In the present study, we analyze the students’ reaction to the introduction of Web 2.0 as teaching-learning environment in digital economic theory, in a society where the internet was introduced in 1990. The article is the result of a research extended over two years. The research focuses on the study of behavior observed to the students with computer usage knowledge in relation to the translation of their activities on Moodle platform. The students belong to a department of Economics Informatics of a Romanian University. Specifically, we sought if Moodle with its facilities to assist/guide the student in the learning process can increase the percentage of those who will assimilate knowledge of databases theory apply in economic fields, compared to traditional ways of teaching. The outcome of this study can be considered favourable on Moodle application.
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The present study was originally aimed at creating a helping tool for teaching and understanding art history through the use of visual schemes. Despite the fact that timelines are often present in both history and art history books their status is rather that of footnotes (Wolf, Gombrich 656-663, * * * 392-395) and a study for their methodology and usage was truly lacking. Considering the way in which simple data visualization can comprise vast amount of information and deliver it in an efficient manner, it makes it worthwhile to ensure its scientific quality and accuracy through proper methods, as well as to actually creating ones that are both simple and eye-catching. Thus this paper is a result of a personal interest in the development of such tools and the challenges encountered along the way. Offering valuable information in a short glimpse through simple graphics over the life and the artistic creation of various artists is only enhanced by the opportunities provided by digital tools and the virtual environment, so it is perhaps an auspicious time to start seriously considering this type of research.
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Once the advances in technology evolved into being recorded, and awareness regarding globalization processes strengthened, it became facile to observe the rhythm and the series of changes produced in societies, political systems or economic and cultural life, as well as the transversal effects that resurface. And unequivocally these effects become implied in most areas of activity. Thus, an example of this could be the appointment of the first Digital Ambassador, namely that of Denmark, “based out in Silicon Valley, in order to create a line of communication between the US tech companies and the Danish government” .
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The author examines the South Slavic Boarding School in the town of Nikolaev under the direction of the Bulgarian Todor Minkov and reveals its contribution for the education and shaping of the Bulgarian national elite in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. From a statistical and historical perspective, he has collected and summarized valuable data on the biography, study and future professional realization of dozens of Bulgarians, many of which joint the intellectual and political elite of free Bulgaria.
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This publication provides information on the status of Bulgarian academ¬ic communities around the world in terms of their size and organizational ac¬tivity. It underlined the need of targeted state policy for intensifying interac¬tions with young Bulgarians with education and experience gained abroad, driven by the necessity of: highly qualified specialists for the development of Bulgarian economy, including in areas that are not covered in our educa¬tional system; building an active Bulgarian lobby in countries having stra¬tegic importance for the development of Bulgaria; using young Bulgarian professionals for the development of bilateral trade and economic relations with the countries in which they were trained. Special attention is paid to the dialogue of the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad with Bulgarian students associations focusing on their return and career development in Bulgaria. Summarized are the positive practices of the institution on the same topic from 2002 to the present. Finally, it is emphasized that the Bulgarian young people with acquired education and experience abroad are a kind of “second Bulgaria“ whose potential has not yet been fully exploited. With properly formulated government policies, that potential can be particularly beneficial to our national interests.
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