Motivational and value preferences of townspeople in the field of fitness

The article presents the results of a survey of Odessa residents as part of a study of the motivational and value preferences of townsfolk in the field of fitness. It has been established that the determining motives for choosing a place for fitness are the individual trainer's approach to the client, personal comfort and convenient location of the fitness club. It was revealed that respondents have an interest in innovative training, but it has not yet acquired the character of a trend. We also obtained data about the significance of playing sports under the supervision of a personal trainer and sports physician. The collected empirical material served as the basis for revealing the behavioral patterns of townspeople and allowed to identify three groups of city residents who are characterized by different motivational and value preferences in the field of fitness. The first ones are focused on personal achievements, the second – on health, good physical form, good time among like-minded people, the third – on the development of special skills, achievements and opportunities to escape from problems. Based on the survey, it was also revealed that the overall physical development of the child is the leading physical motivation for children to do sports, and despite the fact that children may have certain achievements in sports, parents do not attach much importance to them

Silica-scavenging effects in ceria-based electrolytes

Mestrado em Ciência e Engenharia de MateriaisGadolinium-doped ceria based powders were co-fired with additions of silica, and silica and lanthanum oxide, to test the silicascavenging role of lanthanum. The formation of one ionic conducting secondary phase, instead of an insulating phase, was attempted. The structural, microstructural and electrical characterization of these samples confirmed the formation of one apatite-type lanthanum silicate-based phase and a significant enhancement of the grain boundary conductivity of these materials. ABSTRACT: Pós de céria dopada com gadolínio foram sinterizados com adições de sílica, e de sílica e óxido de lantânio, para testar o efeito de remoção de sílica do óxido de lantânio. Com esta abordagem explorou-se a formação de uma fase secundária condutora iónica em vez de uma fase isoladora. A caracterização estrutural, microestrutural e eléctrica das amostras confirmou a formação de uma fase tipo apatite derivada do silicato de lantânio e uma melhoria significativa da condutividade da fronteira de grão destes materiais

URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PREFERENCES OF TOWNSFOLK: AN EMPIRICAL SURVEY WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL MODEL OF THE CITY

The article presents the results of an interdisciplinary (psychological, behavioral, sociological, urban) survey of residents of elite residential complexes of Odessa regarding theirs urban infrastructure preferences, as well as the degree of satisfaction with their place of residence. It was found that respondents are characterized by a high level of satisfaction with their place of residence. It was also revealed that the security criterion of the district is the main one for choosing a place of residence, which indicates the unmet townspeople need for the general safety of the urban environment. Based on the obtained empirical data, an analysis of significant factors affecting the urban infrastructure preferences of residents from the point of view of the systemic concept of the social ecology of the city is conducted. Obtained data viewed that living in high-rise (multi-storey) buildings correlates with a low level of satisfaction, while low-rise buildings positively correlate with such significant aspects as the view from the window, a small number of neighbors, proximity to the sea, and effective house management. Multivariate regression revealed a positive relationship with such infrastructure objects as shopping and entertainment centers, postal services, places of family leisure, etc., which indicates the dominance of the consumer strategy in the behavior of the city resident. The collected empirical material served as the base for identifying the behavioral trends of the townspeople and allowed to simulate a qualitative profile of the activity of everyday support and personal development

National Identity Formation under Statelessness: Experience of Ukraine in Soviet Times

The issue of national identity is multifaceted, disputable and extremely important in modern society, being one of the factors that determine its vitality. This paper presents the look at the problem from pedagogical perspective. The authors aim to explore the peculiarities of the formation of Ukrainian national identity in native intelligentsia under Ukrainian statelessness in Soviet times using the life and activity of Yurii Stupak as an example. Yurii Stupak is a notable representative of Ukrainian intelligentsia, an educator, scholar, literary studies expert, art critic, local history researcher, the author of numerous works in history of education and ethno-pedagogy. The study uses qualitative methodology and is founded on the laws and categories of scientific research. The researchers applied modern research approaches (personality oriented, cultural, personified, interdisciplinary) and methods (general scientific analysis, comparison, generalization, systematization; textual analysis, elaboration of the source base and historiographical work on the selected problem; the method of retrospective analysis). The authors have established that formation of the personality of Yurii Stupak as a teacher and scholar was influenced by numerous socio-political, socio-economic, cultural-educational and personal factors. The authors prove the decisive impact of family education and learning from nationally conscious teachers at higher education institutions as well as self-education and will for constant personal and professional development on facilitating the continuity of the process of formation of Ukrainian national identity in the native intelligentsia during the investigated period. It is confirmed that national identity does not depend on the existence of sovereign statehood, but it stimulates its revival

FORMATION OF CREATIVE ACTIVITY OF STUDENTS IN THE STUDY OF GRAPHIC EDITORS IN THE SEWING INDUSTRY

The article presents the psychological, pedagogical and methodical aspects of the development of students' creative activity. Examples of creative assignments when studying graphic editors in the sewing industry are presented

New Brand Model Implementation : Case: Florencia

What is the New Brand Model? How does it work? - The questions I was eager to find answers to and did so during the process of creating my thesis work. To achieve the goal, I explored a new way of brand building, depicted by Marty Neumeier in his book The brand flip: why customers now run companies and how to profit from it. I followed the book’s theory in order to implement the New Brand Model (from this point on referred to as NBM) in a real-life branding case for a local Flowers & Lifestyle Store, named Florencia. An important part of my brand building process was customer engagement, which in the end was achieved through voting, interviews and workshops among other means. Customers built Florencia’s new brand. Me, Myself and my Thesis Work were to assist and document the process, leaving the rest to them

Improving detection of foraminifera by cathodoluminescence

Cathodoluminescence (CL) studies of Lower-Middle Oxfordian marls and limestones, as well as clasts from the uppermost Turonian-?Early Coniacian conglomerates of the Cracow Upland (southern Poland), reveal that the CL view of foraminifers from some lithologies differs from that in transmitted light. In particular, the CL technique revealed abundant tests of planktonic species Globuligerina oxfordiana in the Middle Oxfordian glauconitic marls, which under transmitted light are either poorly visible or remain completely undetected. Bright red-orange luminescence characterizes originally hyaline aragonitic tests of G. oxfordiana, but also several calcitic benthic species, in spite of their different taxonomic position and original test structure and mineralogy. In sponge microbial boundstones, foraminifers generally do not show the CL emission, or show a weak luminescence. Similarly, Late Cretaceous foraminifera represented mostly by planktonic taxa were detected or their view was clearly improved under CL only in some clasts from the uppermost Turonian-?Early Coniacian conglomerates filling karstic cavities. In other clasts, foraminifera are clearly visible only under normal transmitted light, therefore the luminescence signature is highly spatially variable. These results indicate a strong influence of lithology and diagenesis and rather minor effects of shell structure on luminescence of microfossils. The CL technique can be a useful tool in the detection and documentation of abundance patterns of foraminifers that are poorly preserved under transmitted light

Oxfordian to Valanginian palaeoenvironmental evolution on the western Moesian Carbonate Platform : a case study from SW Bulgaria

Three sections (Rebro, Lyalintsi and Velinovo) of the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous carbonate sequences from the Lyubash unit (Srednogorie, Balkanides, SW Bulgaria) have been studied for elucidation of biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental evolution. Palaeontological studies of foraminifera, supplemented by studies of calcareous dinoflagellate cysts and corals, enabled the determination of the Oxfordian-Valanginian age of the analysed sequences. They were deposited on the Dragoman Block (western part of the Moesian Platform), and during Mid-Late Cretaceous included to the Srednogorie. A possible Middle to Late Callovian age of the lowermost part (overlying the Bajocian-Lower Bathonian Polaten Formation) of the studied sections assumed till now has not been confirmed by the present studies. Eleven facies have been distinguished and attributed to depositional environments. Marine sedimentation on a homoclinal ramp started in the Oxfordian and till the Early Kimmeridgian - in all three sections - was dominated by fine-grained peloidal-bioclastic wackestones to grainstones. Since the Late Kimmeridgian, when a rimmed platform established, facies pattern underwent differentiation into (i) the inner platform (lagoon and tidal flat facies) - only in Velinovo, (ii) reef and peri-reef facies/bioclastic shoals - mainly in Lyalintsi, and (iii) platform slope - mainly in Rebro. Sedimentation generally displays a shallowing-upward trend. Two stages in evolution of the rimmed platform are postulated. The mobile stage lasting till the Tithonian/Berriasian boundary was followed by a more stable stage in the Berriasian to Valanginian time. Reefs are developed mainly as coral-microbial biostromes, lower coral bioherms or coral thickets, in the environment of moderate energy and sedimentation. They contain highly diversified corals (72 species). Micro- bialites contributed to the reef framework, but they never dominated. Locally, microencrusters and cement crusts formed important part of reefal framework. During the mobile stage of the platform evolution a relative sea-level rise interrupted reef development, as evidenced by intercalations of limestones with Saccocoma. During the second stage high carbonate production and/or regressive eustatic events, not balanced by subsidence, decreased accommodation space, limiting reef growth and enhancing carbonate export to distal parts of the platform

Innovative potential of the consumer sector of the economy: financial, economic and legal aspects

The authors of the article have analyzed the legal, financial and economic aspects of the innovative capacity of the consumer sector of the national economy of Ukraine. The problems that slow down the process of forming the innovative capacity of the consumer sector of the national economy have been identified. The results of theoretical and methodological research of the essence of the innovative capacity of the consumer sector of the national economy have been presented. It has been offered to consider the following the most influential financial and economic aspects for the formation of the innovative capacity of the consumer sector of the national economy: the dynamics of issuing security documents for industrial property facilities in Ukraine; volumes and sources of financing of innovation activity in Ukraine; motivation to intensify innovation activity. It has been concluded that Ukraine has created a regulatory legal base for regulating innovation activity, but it needs further improvement and adaptation to European legislation. It has been determined that the innovative capacity of education as a component of the consumer sector of the national economy is influenced by several factors, namely: the dynamics of budget funding of general secondary educational institutions and the dynamics of changing in the number of such institutions. The authors have suggested the list of resources, which are expedient to involve at acceleration of the process of the formation of innovative capacity of the consumer sector of the national economy