This paper attempts to provide an approach to understand, not just describe, the judgement process in auditing. It will make some general criticisms of currently established judgement methods from the view point that without an adequate understanding of underlying social interactions, efforts oriented towards judgement formulation will continue to be unrewarding. It will present an alternative ...

In this paper we describe the application of a variation of cultural probing for identifying barriers in the use of public transportation for target groups with visual, cognitive or language-related handicaps. To be able to better focus on the targeted aspect the barriers we applied modifications to the traditional cultural probing approach: Users were encouraged to generate data related to the...

Aurally-adequate recording and analysis technology has been available to acoustic engineers working to measure and analyze sound in a way analogous to human hearing since the early eighties. Aurally-adequate measurement technology, using the Artificial Head for recording sound and applying psychoacoustic calculation for analysis, is vital in achieving acoustic quality and good sound design. How...

The paper aims at considering the peculiarities of translation process in period digital transformation, revealing trends and identifying algorithms models that facilitate qualitative translation. authors state is undergoes influence both linguistic social factors. In new century transformation paradigm can determine system content. seen through cognitive aspect under conditions transformed req...

The academic paper highlights the results of studying zoomorphic metaphors modern Ukrainian linguoculture. Poetic texts ХХ - ХХІ centuries were primarily source base because language poetry is natural medium metaphor. In poetry, potential metaphor fully implemented. It conveys numerous shades meaning, and semantic nuances, as well purpose influencing reader, stimulating his creative imagination...

impulse buying behavior is one of main concepts in marketing. it is affected on various factors such as cultural factors, psychological factors, personal factors and positional factors. buying can be done because of different reasons (including of needing a production) and this fact aids marketers to better understand consumers’ behavior. impulse buying is one of pervasive aspect of consumer be...

abstract background: the most important part in experiencing and recognizing the threshold of pain is the perception of pain. reflexology is a kind of complementary therapy which is rooted in the beliefs of the community. this study was aimed to determine the effect of reflexology on pain perception aspects in patients with chronic low back pain. materials and methods: this single-blind clinica...