The specifics of creating foreign language environment as a successful journey in educational process

The relevance of the topic is caused by searching for effective technologies and instruments of both psychological and pedagogical spheres in the field of methodology of teaching foreign languages in the higher educational establishments of Ukraine. It is based on the purpose to reach more productivity and results in mastering English by students for making them demanded specialists in modern multicultural world. The main attention is focused on the problem of creating foreign language environment in educational process. The purpose of using this teaching approach is to increase students’ motivation to study foreign languages, reveal their communicator’s creative potential, and overcome possible psychological and language barriers during the process of gaining all the necessary skills in foreign language communicative competence, which is based on developing speaking skills due to practice in real-life circumstances. The article reflects the problematic of such concepts as: “communicative competence”, “foreign language communicative competence”, “educational environment”, “foreign language educational environment”. The main components and functions of communicative competence are distinguished, as well as the key competences that form foreign language communicative competence to analyze the specifics of creating foreign language environment in educational process. The research proves that learning foreign language is not only knowledge of lexical and grammatical structure of a language, but it is also necessary to solve the problem of removing psychological and cultural barriers and shocks that always arise in the process of entering a new linguistic and cultural environment community. And creating foreign language educational environment, as a teaching approach if made appropriately, is able to lead to real improving students’ success at gaining or developing foreign language communicative competence

The effect of an early-career involuntary job loss on later life health in Europe

Recent years have witnessed an increase in interest towards the long-term health consequences of early-career job loss and youth unemployment. Relying on detailed retrospective data from the third wave (2008/09) of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) this paper investigates whether an involuntary job loss in the first 10 years after labour market entry has lasting negative effects on health more than 30 years later. The results show that an early-career involuntary job loss due to a layoff or plant closure increases the probability of fair or poor self-rated health in late life by about 6 percentage points. Moreover, examining the mechanisms behind this relationship, the analysis reveals that the subsequent unemployment risks and employment instability only explain a small share of the total effect. In line with previous studies, these findings highlight the importance of early career experiences for workers’ later life health

Morphological characteristics and determination of volatile organic compounds of Diospyros virginiana L. genotypes fruits

The aim of this study was to determine morphometric differences of fruits and seeds between 19 selected American persimmon (Diospyros virginiana L.) genotypes. The genotypes of American persimmon have been growing more than 15 years in Forest-Steppe of Ukraine in the M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden of NAS of Ukraine. They are well adapted to the climatic and soil conditions. The fruits were collected at the period of their full maturity (October). The population differs in a weight, shape, size and color of fruits and seeds. Their morphometric parameters were following: fruit weight from 2.30 to 81.30 g, fruit length from 8.84 to 49.73 mm, fruit width from 12.84 to 55.34 mm, seed weight from 0.1 to 1.0 g, seed length from 8.30 to 20.88 mm, fruit width from 7.04 to 14.88 mm, seed thickness from 1.98 to 7.09 mm and number of seeds in the fruit from 1 to 8. Partenocarpic fruits are found in some genotypes. The shape indexes of fruits and seeds were found ranging from 0.74 to 1.10 and from 1.01 to 1.77, respectively. During the analysis of qualitative composition and quantitative content of volatiles of fruits from the 4 perspective genotypes of Diospyros virginiana 106 compounds were detected. From them 83 compounds were identified. The identified compounds belong to alcohols, saturated and unsaturated aldehydes, ketons, fatty acids, esters, terpenoids etc. The fruits are rich in fat acids. The outcome of the research points to the fact that the genepool of Ukrainian Diospyros virginiana is a rich source of genetic diversity and might be used in selection for creation a new genotypes and cultivars

Interdependencies between labour market insecurity and well-being: Evidence from panel data

Mettre en perspective les Disability Studies britanniques avec les pistes ouvertes par le perfectionnisme moral invite à questionner deux frontières qui, par hypothèse, sépareraient pour l’une le eux - qui seraient-ils ? - du nous - qui serions-nous? - , différencieraient pour l’autre l’avant de l’après. Stanley Cavell propose d’appréhender le perfectionnisme sous l’angle d’une invitation à se positionner, à prendre part: le lecteur d'une oeuvre, au cours de sa lecture, se trouve invité par l..

Consequences of losing a job when young on late life well-being and health in Europe

Given that young people are more likely to be affected by job losses resulting either from the economic crises or other events, like the recent Covid-19 pandemics, a question arises whether the early adverse life course events can have disproportionate effects on later life outcomes. The answer to this question is important from policy perspective both in terms of the identification of vulnerable groups in the face of adverse macro events which have a potential to lead to mass job losses and in terms of understanding of what kind of support may be needed to enable affected individuals to overcome negative consequences of job losses. This paper exploits a unique opportunity provided by the retrospective module of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe to investigate the impact of involuntary job loss experienced at young age on physical and mental health as well as on reported wellbeing measures at age 50 and beyond. Using the growth curve modelling within a panel data framework, we find that early career involuntary job losses have long-lasting negative effects on individual wellbeing, mental health and physical health, both in terms of levels and age trajectories. Partially, this effect can be attributed to changes in health-affecting behaviours – higher levels of BMI and lower levels of physical activity

Effects of pre-operative isolation on postoperative pulmonary complications after elective surgery: an international prospective cohort study an international prospective cohort study

We aimed to determine the impact of pre-operative isolation on postoperative pulmonary complications after elective surgery during the global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. We performed an international prospective cohort study including patients undergoing elective surgery in October 2020. Isolation was defined as the period before surgery during which patients did not leave their house or receive visitors from outside their household. The primary outcome was postoperative pulmonary complications, adjusted in multivariable models for measured confounders. Pre-defined sub-group analyses were performed for the primary outcome. A total of 96,454 patients from 114 countries were included and overall, 26,948 (27.9%) patients isolated before surgery. Postoperative pulmonary complications were recorded in 1947 (2.0%) patients of which 227 (11.7%) were associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection. Patients who isolated pre-operatively were older, had more respiratory comorbidities and were more commonly from areas of high SARS-CoV-2 incidence and high-income countries. Although the overall rates of postoperative pulmonary complications were similar in those that isolated and those that did not (2.1% vs 2.0%, respectively), isolation was associated with higher rates of postoperative pulmonary complications after adjustment (adjusted OR 1.20, 95%CI 1.05–1.36, p = 0.005). Sensitivity analyses revealed no further differences when patients were categorised by: pre-operative testing; use of COVID-19-free pathways; or community SARS-CoV-2 prevalence. The rate of postoperative pulmonary complications increased with periods of isolation longer than 3 days, with an OR (95%CI) at 4–7 days or ≥ 8 days of 1.25 (1.04–1.48), p = 0.015 and 1.31 (1.11–1.55), p = 0.001, respectively. Isolation before elective surgery might be associated with a small but clinically important increased risk of postoperative pulmonary complications. Longer periods of isolation showed no reduction in the risk of postoperative pulmonary complications. These findings have significant implications for global provision of elective surgical care. We aimed to determine the impact of pre-operative isolation on postoperative pulmonary complications after elective surgery during the global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. We performed an international prospective cohort study including patients undergoing elective surgery in October 2020. Isolation was defined as the period before surgery during which patients did not leave their house or receive visitors from outside their household. The primary outcome was postoperative pulmonary complications, adjusted in multivariable models for measured confounders. Pre-defined sub-group analyses were performed for the primary outcome. A total of 96,454 patients from 114 countries were included and overall, 26,948 (27.9%) patients isolated before surgery. Postoperative pulmonary complications were recorded in 1947 (2.0%) patients of which 227 (11.7%) were associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection. Patients who isolated pre-operatively were older, had more respiratory comorbidities and were more commonly from areas of high SARS-CoV-2 incidence and high-income countries. Although the overall rates of postoperative pulmonary complications were similar in those that isolated and those that did not (2.1% vs 2.0%, respectively), isolation was associated with higher rates of postoperative pulmonary complications after adjustment (adjusted OR 1.20, 95%CI 1.05–1.36, p = 0.005). Sensitivity analyses revealed no further differences when patients were categorised by: pre-operative testing; use of COVID-19-free pathways; or community SARS-CoV-2 prevalence. The rate of postoperative pulmonary complications increased with periods of isolation longer than 3 days, with an OR (95%CI) at 4–7 days or ≥ 8 days of 1.25 (1.04–1.48), p = 0.015 and 1.31 (1.11–1.55), p = 0.001, respectively. Isolation before elective surgery might be associated with a small but clinically important increased risk of postoperative pulmonary complications. Longer periods of isolation showed no reduction in the risk of postoperative pulmonary complications. These findings have significant implications for global provision of elective surgical care