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From the end of the 19th century to the present day, many cultural values were created through emigration. Only a small part of the documentary heritage of the Lithuanian diaspora has been preserved and known. Part of it was inevitably destroyed by time, and the rest is scattered in various archival institutions and private archives in Lithuania, Canada, the USA, Australia, Germany, and other countries.The article aims to present the problems of the fate of the documentary heritage of the Lithuanian diaspora in more detail: to what extent Lithuania cares about the preservation and recovery of this heritage, what problems are faced by the institutions protecting and managing the collections of the diaspora, how far this heritage is known, recognized and researched. Based on the experience of the Lithuanian Diaspora Institute, which has been operating for almost 30 years at the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, the issues of the fate of the documentary heritage of the Lithuanian diaspora relevant to both Lithuania and the diaspora are discussed; the problems of the relevance of the cultural heritage of the diaspora, the dispersion of archives, preservation, accessibility, research, and dissemination are analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the concept and models of creativity, which demonstrates the viewpoints of various authors considering directions for research on creativity factors. The authors determine three main individual creativity factors: openness, perception and idea content. The paper describes the concept of the introduced creativity factors and the results of an econometric analysis of the effect of these factors on the creativity of engineering staff. The surveyed data is used for analyzing organizational behavior in industrial firms, which has an impact on the utilization of creativity potential for engineering personnel. The viewpoint on creativity and dominant organizational behavior in industrial firms shows that an "economic-commercial" creativity model is applied in practice. In most industrial establishments, employee's creativity is viewed only as an opportunity to increase company's revenue and profit and no attention is paid to the expression of employee's intellectual power and independency. The paper provides suggestions on how to improve organizational behavior in order potential for employee's creativity would be better utilized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper describes methods how to apply Windows API hooking with third party libraries and solutions. In this research were used Windows API function SetWindowsHookEx, Detours and EasyHook libraries. Libraries methods, features and advantages were discussed in this paper. The practical part contains libraries tests. In analysis we tested target program start with hooking library and injected function call. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Modern studies and research in the field of architecture are developed on the basis of strengthening international cooperation on different geopolitical spaces. Strategies of developing landscape architecture as well as research and educational services are presented in European Landscape Convention. For this reason this document is reviewed in the paper. International European study and research platform Le:Notre is one of the effective ways to develop integral and coordinated studies and research in landscape architecture. Having virtual easily accessible space for collaborative research, art and studies in landscape as its aim, Le:Notre is becoming a place where innovative knowledge-based products, which are significant internationally and reflecting regional specifics, are created. Researchers and teaching staff of the Faculty of Architecture of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, including the author of this paper, for several years have been involved in the collaborative research on this platform and are looking forward to improving and widening the prospects for studies and research of landscape architecture at VGTU by working recently in a comprehensive modern European virtual study program in landscape architecture. It is strongly anticipated that this product will affect the quality of landscape studies at VGTU and encourage our students and junior researchers to deepen their knowledge in landscape architecture of Lithuania and other European regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Second Congress of Lithuanian Historians was held in Klaipeda, Lithuania, on September 10-12. The first such congress was held in Vilnius in 2005. The congresses, because of their newness to the country since independence from the Soviet Union, attracted considerable attention. This conference included a plenary session on broad topics of history at which members of the public were allowed to participate, and a session in which individual historians discussed recent research projects. The authors provide a synopsis of some papers and discussions -- a full conference report will be published at a later date -- and describe the attitudes, projects, and future prospects for Lithuanian historians officially united as a group. [ABSTRACT FROM CONTRIBUTOR]

The importance of electronic government (e-Government) research increases altogether with the perception of e-Government as one of the most important means to accomplish the strategic goals of the state oriented towards better governance. The interdisciplinary nature of e-Government raises new requirements for the planning, carrying out and successful implementation of e-Government research and its results. The main objective of the paper is to survey some of the global tendencies in e-Government research and review its state-of-play in Lithuania. The policies of the European Union (EU) and the USA are described in the article as well as the most developed research themes and the existing gaps in the current e-Government research. In the second part of the paper the present situation of e-Government research in Lithuania along with some launched e-Government projects are analysed. Finally, the article summarizes the results of the future foresight projects in e-Government, co-funded by the EU, in some of which Mykolas Romeris University has participated, and provides recommendations for the future development of research into e-Government in Lithuania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors of this paper together with the other VGTU scientists participate in the international project INTELCITIES and present Multiple Criteria Web-Based Negotiation Decision Support System for Real Estate (NDSS-RE). INTELCITIES project is a research and development project that aims to pool advanced knowledge and experience of e-government, planing systems and citizen participation. NDSS-RE includes a decision support tool based on the methods of alternative generation and multiple criteria analysis that enable negotiating parties to evaluate their systems of preferences and recognize opportunities for trade-off between differently valued objectives and joint gains. At present the developed NDSS-RE allows for the performance of the following functions: search for real estate alternatives; finding out alternatives and making an initial negotiation table; multiple criteria analyses of alternatives; negotiation based on real calculations; determination of the most rational real estate purchase variant on the ground of characteristics describing effectiveness of the analysed alternatives. The third part of the paper deals with traditional negotiation principles and describes negotiation tactics, such as "The Atractive Alternative", "The Stall and Jolt", "The Comparative Value", "The Third Party", "The No More Money" and "The Walk Away" tactics. More traditional negotiation principles and tactics have been planned to integrate in future concerning the described NDSS-RE system because the knowledge and implementation of all the above mentioned tactics and principles lead to more successful negotiation for the lowest possible price buying real estate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The prepared publication is intended for the initial systematization of the experience of applying wooden constructions in Lithuania. The paper deals with research conducted by the experts in the field from other countries. This part of material cultural heritage in Lithuania has been first introduced by the scholars from Scandinavia, Germany, Russia and partly Poland - the countries representing notable achievements looking into cultural and economic history. The produced works mainly focus on the forms of wooden constructions, the original decoration of different parts of the building, the plasticity of details, style and colours. Scant attention has been paid to structural solutions. More sophisticated and interesting wooden constructions of the local buildings (bridges, churches, synagogues, manors, etc.) were seriously deteriorated or possibly fictitious. The majority of analogical constructions found in the neighbouring countries were described earlier. Later, these investigations were properly completed by the graduates studying in Lithuania. However, they had to be thoroughly trained to become professionals. For this purpose, advanced study programs and first course books in Lithuanian were prepared. From a historical point of view, for the future, gained experience in overcoming earlier backwardness within a short period of time and intercepting valuable elements of European experience are the issues worth paying attention. This is the way of how young and promising graduates were trained. They were good enough at proceeding with works started by their teachers. In the post-war period, a large number of them became emigrants or exiles and lost the possibility of carrying on their works in Lithuania. A. Bistrickas, J. Paulauskas and other graduates from Vytautas Magnus University are those deserved for their significant accomplishments in the field of wooden constructions. They were also the teachers of several following generations of the future engineers. Algirdas Baltrušaitis, one of the graduates from Vytautas Magnus University started developing intensively a new stage in the field of wooden constructions and was probably the first associated professor of Kaunas University of Technology (former Kaunas Polytechnic Institute) who participated in the international conferences and suggested in-depth research on the development of wooden constructions. The introduced publication has been prepared with reference to his anniversary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the necessity for market research, that is, on the issue, which is popular in the arts market nowadays. The authors of the article examine several cases of the latest market researches recently conducted in the art organizations in Lithuania. The drawbacks of the completed research and possible reasons for certain insufficiency of cultural operators to conduct research in the field of culture are discussed in this article. Theoretical insights by Madden, Schuster, kotler and Scheff and others are provided as a methodological basis for further discussion. A variety of international and national research institutions and their activities are presented in the article as a potential support for art organizations carrying out research. The issue of cultural indicators is raised in the paper as well. Conclusions and recommendations on how to improve the quality of research in arts organizations are provided in the final part of the article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the results of comparative research on the roughness and tool life of the machined surface when steel and cast iron work pieces were turned, reamed and tapped and the cutting zone was lubricated by various coolants (mineral oils, oil emulsions) with and without twisted nematic liquid crystals. The tested liquid crystals were taken from the same homologous series (fatty acid cholesterol esters) but had different molecular mass. It has been established that the most positive tribological effect of liquid crystalline additives is achieved when high-molecular liquid crystals are used in operations characterized by the largest tool-work piece interface area (reaming, threading). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the performance of a negative-stiffness vibroisolating table in the range of a frequency of 2--110 Hz and reviews other possible ways of vibroisolating. The paper deals with conducted experimental tests on the transmissibility of vibrations employing specific tested equipment for vibration excitation enabling to execute research facilities. The article also describes the methodology of experimental tests and presents the obtained results and conclusions of experimental analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with a flat plate solar collector. The experiment was conducted using the finite element method and described the theoretical effectiveness of the flat solar collector as well as the factors that produce the major loss of heat. Investigation has concentrated on several different transparent surfaces used for determining the efficiency of the collector: 5 mm thick transparent glass and 5 mm thick transparent glass coated with a film of 120 µm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the movement of the car on the curve on the slippery and snowy road surface with asphalted ruts. The paper reviews literature related to lateral and longitudinal vehicle acceleration and dynamics of vehicle movement. The experimental facts of vehicle lateral acceleration are given in graphical charts. The article also describes the acceleration values and stability of the automobile depending on the speed in the curve. The findings are given based on the results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Big five factors are used in many research fields. The literature survey showed that the personality trait theory was used to study and explain relations with different variables. The article focuses on a brief description of methods that can help with identifying the Big five factors and considers the model for applying them in personnel selection. The paper looks at scientific researches assessing relations between the Big five factors and different variables such as job performance, academic performance, student knowledge management and evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a concept of creative industries, looks at its definition varying in different countries and presents a phenomenon of a creative economy. In the context of the creative economy of the 21st century, the paper deals with classification systems and models of creative industries. Theoretical principals are based on the UNCTAD analysis of the creative economy. Creative industries are based on the production cycles of creative content that applies to creativity and intellectual property which is knowledge based activities covering both tangible products and an intangible creation of intellectual or creative services. According to the UNCTAD classification system, four groups of creative industries, including heritage, arts, media, and functional production can be distinguished and subdivided into subgroups. Research on worldwide creative industries refers to four models: UK DCMS model, symbolic text model, concentric circle model and WIPO copyright model. While appealing to the above mentioned models, classification systems with the output of complex interdisciplinary research might be designed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Paper discusses about control and data acquisition, processing, visualization, which must be adapted to the investigation and examination of identification process. A description of the device, the functionality and customization possibilities are presented. The relevant experimental model and its characteristics are obtained for measurement, control results using this model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper offers both the theoretical and practical approaches to the important problem -- development of cooperation between science and business sectors, focusing on its specific features of the link in the context of science management. The authors have applied procedural operational attitude to business and science institution management and enhancement of their interaction. A special emphasis is placed on creating new, original and effective managerial scenarios of promoting partnership between science and business. On the basis of the two-sided analysis of science and business sectors transformations, carried out by the authors, challenges of the partnership have been defined. The authors have described managerial reasons for demand and offer in the area of cooperation between science and business sectors, and have identified factors, which have negative effect on this process. The publication introduces principles and guidelines for creation of the above-mentioned scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article experimentally investigates the depth of the film cut under different "Summa plotter S 160" plotter operation regimes. Cut depth has been measured using a microscope. The paper determines regularities of the dependence of cut depth on cutting speed and press force, presents the regimes of high-quality cutting and formulates practical recommendations for selecting cutting speed and pres force. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the material and results of the re- search of the Scalvian society in the second half of the 4th century and the second half of the 5th century, namely of the cemetery of Vėluikiai. The research focused on the reflection of society's spiritual culture on burial customs as well as investigated the heritage of manufacture activities in the spheres of the production of weapons, tools, household articles and ornaments. The author emphasizes the autochthonic origin of the finds such as weapons, riding gear, household articles and ornaments. The article also presents a more detailed boundary of the Scalvian ethnos - now it is fixed in the district of Skaudvilė, next to the hill-fort of Ivangėnai Karšuva. On the basis of the research conducted by the anthropologist R. Jankauskas (he investigated the remains of two men and one woman), the conclusions are drawn concerning certain aspects of the society's social life, its relationship with the Baltic world and the rest of Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]