Faculty of Humanities in Kaunas

Faculty of Humanities in Kaunas

Sukurta: 30 August 2013

khf8 Muitinės, LT-44280 Kaunas
Tel. 42 3222, fax 42 3222,
E-mail:
www http://www.khf.vu.lt

Dean – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kęstutis Driaunys

STAFF

79 teachers (66 holding research degree), 3 research fellows (1 holding research degree), 42 doctoral students.

 

RESEARCH AREAS

Business Environment Factors
Information Technologies for Business and Education
Poetics, Rhetoric and Linguistics: Fundamental and Applied Research into Literary and Non-literary Texts

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS MAINTAINED IN 2014

A. Gedžiūtė. Female projection in the mythopoetics of death as reflected in celtic mythical stories, folktales and late medieval literature.
I. Griesienė. Business partnership development on the basis of internal and relationship marketing.
R. Bartkutė. The dimensions of social capital in the management of social sustainability.
Ž. Grundienė. Determination of fraud in the financial statements.
L.Verbauskienė. Effect of customer experience on satisfaction and intentions of hospitality customers.
M. Ambraziūnas. Enterprise model based MDA information systems engineering method.
A. Mialik. Logistic method to indicate unsustainable growth situations.

MAIN CONFERENCES ORGANIZED IN 2014

International interdisciplinary conference TELL ME: Thought Elaboration: Linguistics, Literature, Media Expression

11th professor Vladas Gronskas postgraduate and PhD Students’ conference Economy Development: Theory and Practice

International conference Man in the Space of Language
International  conference Ads Quasi Art, http://www.reklamamenas.khf.vu.lt/lt/

6th workshop on applications of knowledge-based technologies in business (AKTB 2014)
in conjunction with  17th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2014)

MAIN SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2014

Drößiger, Hans-Harry. 2014. Realienbezeichnungen in den Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm. Intrakulturelle und interkulturelle Aspekte. Hamburg: Dr. Kovač.

DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT

8 Muitinės, LT-03225 Kaunas
Tel. (8-37) 42 2344
E-mail:
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Asta Mikalauskienė

STAFF

Professors: Habil. Dr. R. Čiegis, Dr. D. Štreimikienė.
Associate professors: Dr. E. Bartkus, Dr. E. Jasinskas, Dr. A. Mikalauskienė, Dr. D. Pilinkus, Dr. R. Pušinaitė, Dr. I. Šarkiūnaitė, Dr. V. Tamulienė, Dr. I. Kiaušienė.
Lecturers: Dr. R. Bartkutė (part-time), Dr. I. Griesienė (part-time), Dr. R. Grunda (part-time), Dr. B. Toluba, Dr. L. Verbauskienė (part-time), M. Dilys (part-time), I. Šikšnelytė (part-time), Dr. D. Žvirdauskas (part-time), G. Romeika (part-time).
Doctoral students: M. Dilys, I. Šikšnelytė, D. Ročkė, R. Žemaitytė, G. Vilutytė, A. Pukis, M. Akulavičius, R. Tatoris, M. Dubnikas, M. Radzevičius, K. Andriuškevičius, M. Sueldo, S. Jurgelėnas, N. Barakauskaitė - Jakubauskienė.

RESEARCH AREAS

Sustainable development issues, labour market, gender equality implementation, institutional change management.
Sustainable development issues in the context of globalization, sustainable energy development, sustainable urban and regional development, social and environmental problems in the economy.
Entrepreneurship development challenges: economic, social, demographic, political-legal factors in human resources management.
Sustainable innovation and its role in the context of sustainable development
Marketing communication tools for the leisure and entertainment industry.

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2014

Projects Supported by University Budget

The Dynamics of Housing Indicators Relevant to Quality of Life. Prof. Dr. D. Štreimikienė. Assoc. Prof. Dr. I. Kiaušienė.

The research carried out under this project analyses how modern society has to deal with different challenges, which are fostered by fast processes of globalization, changeable economic state, present economical and social changes, etc. Thus there raise a need to analyze and assess adjustment trends of different and closely related interdependent aims. The increase of the quality of life is the main aim of sustainable development. Relevance of the dynamics of housing indicates quality of life.

Main publications:

Štreimikienė, D., Kiaušienė, I. 2014. Housing indicators in Baltic states after EU accession. Transformations in Business and Economics, vol. 13, no. 1, 97–106.

Development of Sustainable Innovations through Cooperation with Stakeholders. Assoc. Prof. Dr. R. Pušinaitė, PhD Student M. Dilys.

The concept of sustainable innovations and the role of the sustainable development are analysed. The need for organizations’ harmonious interaction with participants of the environment as well as the usefulness of the search and incorporation of stakeholders into the common activity are reasoned. Cooperation of organizations with stakeholders and their involvement in joint activities allow to optimize the activities of organizations and to adapt to business environment changes more purposefully.

Main publications:

Pušinaitė, R., Dilys, M. 2014.  The development of sustainable innovations through cooperation with stakeholders. Journal of International Scientific Publications: Economy & Business, vol. 8, 172–182.

Sustainable Development Issues: Sustainable Energy. Prof. Dr. R. Čiegis, Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Mikalauskienė.

Sustainable development issues are particularly important in these days of economic development area. In Lithuania, as in all European Union countries, sustainable development is one of the priority developments of the country’s policies. Sustainable energy can be considered as one of the constituent parts of sustainable development. Therefore, sustainable energy issues are a very important area of research.

Main publications:

Čiegis, R., Dilius, A., Mikalauskienė, A. 2014. Darnaus vystymosi sričių dinamikos vertinimas Lietuvoje (Assessment of Dynamics of Sustainable Development Dimensions in Lithuania). Journal of Social Sciences. Regional Formation and Development Studies, No. 1 (11), 45–59.

Pažėraitė, A., Kazlauskas, M., Mikalauskienė, A. 2014. Spread of clean technologies in Lithuanian electricity sector. Transformations in Business and Economics, vol. 13, no.2, 174–187.

Štreimikienė, D., Mikalauskienė, A. 2014. Comparative assessment of costs of ultimate disposal facilities for carbon dioxide storage. Journal of Strategic and International Studies, vol. 9, no 6, 34–40.

Social Media Perspectives and its Turn to be the Latest Challenge for the Society. Assoc. Prof. Dr.  V. Tamulienė.

The research concerned marketing communication tools and how they are characterized by a combination of youth leisure and entertainment industry. Penetration of information technology is particularly visible in the youth segment, which cannot justify the result of costly and inefficient traditional marketing communication tools in the market. Yet, at the same time it creates a huge potential for digital marketing on communication tools and their application in the youth segment.

Main publications:

Tamulienė, V., Čelombijava, O. 2014.  Komunikacijų priemonių taikymas jaunimo segmentui laisvalaikio ir pramogų versle. Studijos šiuolaikinėje visuomenėje, no. 5(1), 232–241.

Impact of Oil and Natural Gas Prices on Lithuania’s Real GDP Variation and Household Purchasing Power. Prof. Dr. R. Čiegis, Assoc. Prof. Dr. R. Pušianitė.

The research dealt with the mechanisms of variations of energy costs influencing economy, changes in energy price on household disposable income and product demand. The methodological analysis of the impact of oil and natural gas prices on Lithuania’s economy and consumers was presented, and the analysis of indicators related to changes in oil and natural gas price were provided.

Main publications:

Čiegis, R., Pušinaitė, R., Pileckaitė, R. 2014.  Impact of oil and natural gas prices on the economy and consumers in Lithuania. Transformations in Business and Economics, vol. 13, no. 1, 107–123.

Entrepreneurship Development Challenges: Economic, Social, Demographic, Lolitical-Legal Factors in Human Resource Management. Assoc. Prof. Dr. I. Šarkiūnaitė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. E. Bartkus, Assoc. Prof. Dr. E. Jasinskas, Lect. Dr. R. Bartkutė, PhD Student G. Vilutytė, PhD Student D. Ročkė.

Local and international aspects of human resource management were analyzed: future manager’s, employees’ (expatriants) career possibilities, the heritage site marketing, its major principles, as well as marketing tools featured in heritage that can help in the development of the heritage area and attract visitors.

Main publications:

Radzevičius, M., Jurėnienė, V. 2014.  Cultural heritage marketing. International Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Science, vol. 2, no. 4, 16–26.

Radzevičius, M., Jurėnienė, V. 2014.  Models of cultural heritage management, Transformations in Business and Economics, vol. 13, no. 2, 236–256.

Ročkė, D. 2014. Ekspatriantų žinių valdymas tarptautinėse įmonėse. Ūkio plėtra: teorija ir praktika. 11-oji prof. Vlado Gronsko mokslinė  magistrantų ir doktorantų konferencija, Kaunas: VU KHF, 2014 m. gruodžio mėn. 11 d., 363–373.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Lithuanian Sports University
National University of Food Technologies (Ukraine)
Institute of World Economy & International Relations NAS Ukraine (Ukraine)
Information Systems Management Institute (ISMA) (Latvia)
Latvia University of Agriculture (Latvia)

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. Dr. I. Šarkiūnaitė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Mikalauskienė –

Prof. Dr. R. Čiegis –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. E. Jasinskas –

Prof. Dr. D. Štreimikienė –

DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING

12 Muitinės, LT-44280, Kaunas
Tel: (8-37) 422 926
Email:

Head – Prof. Dr. Kristina Rudžionienė

STAFF
Professors: Dr. R. Kanapickienė, Dr. K. Rudžionienė, Dr. G. Žigienė.
Associate professors: Dr. G. Gipienė, Dr. E. Freitakas, Dr. D. Teresienė.
Lecturers: Dr. P. Aniūnas, Dr. R. Klimaitienė, Dr. A. Ramanauskaitė, Dr. Ž. Grundienė.
Doctoral students: D. Gliaubicas, M. Valukonis, P. Paškevičius, L. Matusevičienė, M. Vijūnas, R. Špicas.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Quality of financial statements, potential fraud and financial element in the assessment
Intellectual capital disclosure trends and evaluation of the likelihood
Internal control systems and financial condition and evaluation
Fiscal decentralization peculiarities of Lithuania

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2014

Projects Supported by University Budget

Quality of Financial Statements, Potential Fraud and Financial Element in the Assessment. Prof. Dr. R. Kanapickienė, Prof. Dr. K. Rudžionienė, Dr. Ž. Grundienė.

The concept of fraud in the financial statements is analyzed and referred to as a separate type of fraud. Themes analyzed are decision-making processes in the financial statements and system. After examining the advantages and disadvantages of fraud detection models in the financial statements and having analyzed them in the framework of scientific literature, a model of fraud in the financial statements is analyzed, including the determination of the action used in accounting, economics, law and computer science.

Main publications:

Kanapickienė, R., Grundienė, Ž. 2014. Apgaulių finansinėse ataskaitose nustatymas finansinių santykinių rodiklių pagalba. Apskaitos ir finansų mokslas ir studijos: problemos ir perspektyvos, no. 1, 34–43.

Kanapickienė, R., Grundienė, Ž. 2014. Apgaulių finansinėse ataskaitose nustatymo veiksmai.  Buhalterinės apskaitos teorija ir praktika, vol. 15A, 37–48.

Gudonytė, B., Rudžionienė, K. 2014. Tikrosios vertės taikymo finansinėse ataskaitose ir finansinės krizės ryšys. Buhalterinės apskaitos teorija ir praktika, vol. 15, 43–51.

Intellectual Capital Disclosure Trends and Evaluation of the Likelihood. Prof. Dr. K. Rudžionienė, Dr. A. Ramanauskaitė .

The conducted research confirmed that so far the research of intellectual capital has mostly been oriented towards the identification, valuation and management of the Intellectual assets. The research generalizes the methods of intellectual capital valuation, suggested by a number of scholars, provides comparisons, reveals the multiplicity of the methods, and highlights the unlimited research of the academic field.

Main publications:

Freitakas, E., Gipienė, G. 2014. The model of intellectual capital evaluation and presentation in financial statements. Review on doctoral dissertation. Transformations in Business & Economics, vol. 13, no 1 (31), 223–231.

Ramanauskaitė, A. 2014. Įmonės intelektinio kapitalo vertinimas informacijos atskleidimo finansinėse ataskaitose aspektu. Apskaitos ir finansų mokslas ir studijos: problemos ir perspektyvos, nr. 1(9), 187–194.

Ramanauskaitė, A. 2014. The Model of intellectual capital evaluation and disclosure in financial statements. Proceedings of the 9th International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics: Knowledge and Management Models for Sustainable Growth. Matera, Italy: Institute of Knowledge Asset Management (IKAM), Arts for Business Institute, University of Basilicata, 1457–1481.

Internal Control Systems and Financial Condition and Evaluation. Prof. Dr. R. Kanapickienė. Dr. A. Ramanauskaitė.

Research was based on sustainable development specifying financial and non-financial information overlapping in a single report. The world is not created of uniform principles and patterns that help integrate non-financial information in the financial records. Integrated report is still in the experimental stage. Therefore, an integrated reporting model was developed that includes financial and non-financial information.

Main publications:

Narbuntaitė, E., Ramanauskaitė, A. 2014. Šešėlinės ekonomikos Lietuvoje vertinimas. Buhalterinės apskaitos teorija ir praktika, vol. 15 A, 149–161.

Marcinkevičius, R., Kanapickienė, R. 2014. Possibilities to apply bankruptcy prediction models in Lithuanian companies of construction and transport. Proceedings of international conference New challenges of economic and business development 2014, May 8–10, Riga, 252–261.

Kanapickienė, R. 2014. Kontrolės priemonės viešojo sektoriaus subjektų nematerialiojo turto apskaitoje. Buhalterinės apskaitos teorija ir praktika, vol. 16, 19–27.

Fiscal Decentralization Peculiarities in Lithuania. Prof. Dr. G. Žigienė, Dr. E. Freitakas.

Composition of public expenditure affects economic growth was analysed: public expenditure, depending on its impact on the economy is divided into productive means costs the economy, education, health, defense, environmental protection, public order and unproductive, such as social protection, general public services, recreation, culture and religion, as well as positive balance between these two sources provide economic benefits and promote economic growth.

Main publications:

Žigienė, G., Slavickaitė, S. 2014. Valstybės išlaidų struktūros ir politinės ideologijos sąsajų įtaka šalies ekonomikai. Taikomoji ekonomika: sisteminiai tyrimai, vol. 8, nr. 1.

Freitakas, E. 2014. Relationship of volumes of credit and economic cycle. Proceedings of the 12th international conference Management and Engineering 14, Sozopol, Bulgarija.

Kanapickienė, R., Kanapickas, A. 2014. Evaluation of wind energy investment projects. Proceedings of international conference New challenges of economic and business development 2014, May 8–10, Riga, 229–239.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Fribourg University (Switzerland)
School of Business Administration Turiba (Latvia)
University College of Economics and Culture (Latvia)
University of Latvia (Latvia)
Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia)

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr. K. Rudžionienė –

  • member of the Association of Lithuanian Accounting Educators and Researchers;
  • editor-in-Chief of the journal Accounting Theory and Practice.

Prof. Dr. R. Kanapickienė –

  • president of the Association of Lithuanian Accounting Educators and Researchers;
  • editorial board member of the journal Accounting Theory and Practice;
  • member of the Certification Board for Internal Auditors of Public Legal Persons Managing and/or Using State and/or Municipal Property and Having It at Their Disposition as well as of Persons Occupied in the Field of Internal Audit, www.lar.lt.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. G. Gipienė –

  • member of the Association of Lithuanian Accounting Educators and Researchers.

Assoc. Prof. Dr.  G. Žigienė –

  • member of National Council for Higher Education, Lithuania, www.smm.lt;
  • member of the Association  of Financial Analysts, Lithuania, www.finansai.lt;
  • member of Centre of International Business and Economic Research, www.ciber.lt .

Dr.  R. Klimaitienė –

  • member of the Association of Lithuanian Accounting Educators and Researchers.

Dr. D. Teresienė –

Dr. P. Aniūnas –

Dr. A. Ramanauskaitė –

  • member of Lithuanian Chamber of Auditors (LCA), www.lar.lt;
  • Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) by IIA Lithuania, www.theiia.org;
  • Certified Auditor (CA) by LCA, www.lar.lt.

DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

8 Muitinės, LT-44280 Kaunas
Tel. (8-37) 42 2477, Fax 42 3222
E-mail
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jurgita Kerevičienė

STAFF

Professors: Prof. Habil. Dr. O. Poliakovas (part-time), Prof. Dr. T. Solomonik-Pankrašova (part-time).
Associate professors: Dr. D. Deltuvienė, Dr. A. Diomidova, Dr. O. Perov, Dr. Ž. Nemickienė (part time).
Lecturers: Dr. V. Linkevičiūtė, Dr. J. Radavičiūtė, Dr. D. Vengalienė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Linguistic means of conflict communication used in the political discourse of the Lithuanian, Russian and British political leaders.
Conceptual metaphors in the political discourse
Cognitive aspects in the media discourse.
Cognitive approach to the problems of ironic communication
Translation problems from English, Russian and German to Lithuanian

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2014

Projects Supported by University Budget

Linguistic Peculiarities of Political Discourse. Dr. V. Linkevičiūtė, Dr. D. Vengalienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ž. Nemickienė.

Exploration of the linguistic framework of political texts. The focus of the 2014 research was put on stylistic means in the process of discourse modification.
Examination the linguistic means of political conflict communication characteristic of the political discourse. The main goals were to describe linguistic metaphors, to reconstruct the conceptual metaphors which determine the origin of these linguistic metaphors and to reveal the social impact of irony in the political discourse.

Main publications:

Linkevičiūtė, V. 2014 Conceptual metaphors in Blair’s political discourse. Res  Humanitariae, vol. 13.

Vengalienė, D.2014. On some social functions of irony in politicized discourse. Inter-studia Humanitatis, vol. 16, 105–119.

Cognitive Analysis of Advertising Discourse. Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Diomidova, Dr. D. Vengalienė.

Cognitive analysis of natural parenting and its confrontational ideology in the advertising discourse. The subject of the analyzed discourse is set critically in relation to the modern practice of consumption, declares the personal position free from stereotypes and willingness to confront the dictatorial influence of consumer values on the style of parenting.

Main publications:

Diomidova, A., Makarova, V. 2014. Движение "естественное родительство"- как (как бы) противостояние обществу потребления. Respectus philologicus, No. 26.

Media, Philosophic and Religious Discourse and its Translation Peculiarities. Assoc. Prof. Dr. D. Deltuvienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. O. Perov, Dr. J. Radavičiūtė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ž. Nemickienė.

Investigation concerning the expression of the conflicting parallel between traditions and modernity in the literary discourse. Linguistic analysis of translation units in the business discourse.

Main publications:

Radavičiūtė, J. 2014. The play with the connotations of sexuality in Midnight’s Children. Ined. Joel Kuortti, MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN. Series: Critical insights.

Perov, O. 2014. Диалог естественно-природного и человеческого миров в повести Л.Н. Толстого «Холстомер». Литература и культура в контексте христианства. Образы, архетипы, мотивы, Ульяновск, УлГТУ.

Nemickienė, Ž. 2014. Some peculiar differences of business idiom translation. Mokslo taikomieji tyrimai Lietuvos kolegijose, vol. 10, 174–183.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

St. Petersburg State University (Russia)
Belarussian University of Linguistics (Belorussia)
University of Latvia (Latvia)
Daugavpils Pedagogical University (Latvia)

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Prof. Habil. Dr. O. Poliakovas –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Diomidova –

  • editorial board member of the international journal Man in the Space of Language.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ž. Nemickienė –

  • scientific editor of the English language of the international journal of scholarly papers Respectus Philologicus, http://filologija.vukhf.lt;
  • scientific editor of the English language of the international journal of scholarly papers Management of Regional Development in the European Union Countries - the State and Perspectives.

Dr. J. Radavičiūtė –

  • editorial board member of the international journal Man in the Space of Language.

DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC PHILOLOGY

8 Muitinės, LT-44280, Kaunas
Tel. (8-37) 422 604
E-mail:
Head – Assoc. Prof. Danguolė Satkauskaitė

STAFF

Professors: Dr. H. Droessiger, Dr. T. Solomonik-Pankrašova, Dr. J. Krūminienė, Dr. L. Ulvydienė.
Associate professors: Dr.  G. Rumšienė, Dr.  E. Alosevičienė, Dr.  J. Kerevičienė, Dr.  V. Pasvenskienė, Dr. D. Satkauskaitė.
Lecturers: Dr. I. Šležaitė, Dr. L. Niedzviegienė, Dr. I. Bartkuvienė, R. Mačiulskienė, A. Kuzmickienė, S. Stankevičienė, J. Astrauskienė, G. Jankauskas.
Doctoral students: J. Astrauskienė, G. Aleknavičiūtė, I. Koverienė, D. Šidiškytė, G. Buivytė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Strategies and problems of audiovisual translation
Semantic and pragmatic problems of text translation
Cognitive aspects of discourse analysis
Computational English studies: word-building processes, semantic aspects and comparative analysis of natural and computational language problems
Fictional worlds within conceptual categories: from etymology to pragmatics
Interpretative understanding of literature: leading aspects of hermeneutical approach to literature
Inter-textual criticism: poetic text within the change of horizons of reading
Literature and history: re-reading traditions of Postmodernism
Poetics of Modernism: history, fantasy and fiction
Conceptualization of emotions in lyrics: metaphor and metonymy

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2014

Projects Supported by University Budget

Text and Context Interaction. Prof. Dr. A. Krasnovas, Prof. Dr. J. Krūminienė, Prof. Dr. G. Bankauskaitė-Sereikienė.

The research carried out under this project deals with the poetics and rhetoric of fiction and public discourse. Special attention was devoted to the exploration of literary wit in dramatic verbal contests of the 17th century English drama. Ricoeurian hermeneutics was applied for the analysis of the problem of evil in the 20th century literature. The exploration of the emotional decoding process in the context of language specificity and gender was carried out.

Main publications:

Astrauskienė, J., Krūminienė, J. 2014.  John Webster’s drama “The Duchess of Malfi”: the contexts and contests of wit. Respectus Philologicus, nr. 26, 44–56.

Onskulytė, M., Šležaitė, I. 2014. The hermeneutics of evil in C.S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters”. Thought Elaboration: Linguistics, Literature, Media Expression: TELL ME 2013 (a collection of scientific articles). Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty of Humanities [Electronic format], 40–61.

Krūminienė, J., Riviello, M. T.,Maskeliūnas, R., Esposito, A. 2014. Language and gender effect in decoding emotional information: a study on Lithuanian subjects. Recent advances of neural networks models and applications. Proceedings of the 23rd workshop of the Italian neural networks society (SIREN), May 23–25, Italy. Ed. Simone Bassis. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies Series, vol. 26, 353–362.

Applied Aspects of Linguistic and Interdisciplinary Language Research. Assoc. Prof. Dr. D. Satkauskaitė, Prof. Dr.  H. Droessiger.

The research carried out under this project deals with audiovisual translation, culture-bound translation, as well as cognitive and sociolinguistics. The attitude of the Lithuanian audience towards AVT modes such as subtitling, dubbing and voice-over was investigated based on a survey-questionnaire method. The culture-bound translation of literary pieces, films and commercial slogans was taken into account. The research was centred towards cognitive analysis of physiological and emotional feelings.

Main publications:

Ulvydienė, L. 2014. Psychology of translation in cross-cultural interaction. Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences. Amsterdam: Elsevier BV. vol. 116: 5th World Conference on Educational Sciences - WCES 2013, 217–226.

Koverienė, I., Satkauskaitė D. 2014. Lietuvos žiūrovų požiūris į pagrindinius audiovizualinio vertimo būdus. Studies about Languages, nr. 24, 26–35.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION)

Lithuanian Association of Literary Translators (Lithuania)
Kaunas National Drama Theatre (Lithuania)
Middlesex University in London (Great Britain)
University of Dicle (Turkey)
American Studies Centre, European Humanities University (Belarus)

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr. H. H. Droessiger –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. V. Pasvenskienė –

Prof. Dr. J. Krūminienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr.  D. Satkauskaitė –

Prof. Dr. L. Ulvydienė –

DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATICS

2 Naugardo, LT-44280 Kaunas
Tel. (8-37) 42 2566, fax 42 3222
E-mail:
Head – Prof. Dr.  Audrius Lopata

STAFF

Professors: Dr. A. Lopata, Dr. S. Gudas, Dr. V. Sakalauskas, Dr. G. Garšva, Habil. Dr. R. Simutis (part-time), Dr. R. Butleris (part-time).
Associate professors: Dr. K. Driaunys, Dr. D. Krikščiūnienė, Dr. V. Rudžionis, Dr. S. Masteika.
Lecturers: Dr. D. Dilijonas, Dr. V. Moskaliova.
Assistants: A. Kalnius, J. Mykolaitis.
Doctoral students: A. Mialik, A. Stravinskienė, M. Ambraziūnas, P. Tamošiūnas, I. Veitaitė,  L. Dovydaitis, Š. Dargelis, T.Rasymas, M. Liutvinavičius.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Enterprise modelling methods, requirements engineering, enterprise data and knowledge modelling, management of information processing and CASE tools
Intelligent decision support systems in financial and currency markets, portfolio management and loan risk analysis, logistic capital accumulation models, financial anomalies and bubbles
Exploring artificial intelligence methods, their advanced extensions in the domains of financial, customer analytics, decision support in management and economics in the Big Data settings
Artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining; computational finance and risk evaluation; decision support systems engineering and development; modern business and financial information systems; business intelligence; modelling of business process; software engineering and development
Intelligent computational models for integrated research of marketing, e-commerce, e-banking, e-learning and social network information. Complex evaluation of customer behavior Dynamic modelling of process bahaviour by applying fuzzy cognitive models.
Artificial intelligence for speech recognition and analysis technologies (Lithuanian language)
Intelligent models for marketing systems, social networks, e-business, e-learning and e-government.

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2014

Projects Supported by University Budget

Development and Analysis of Artificial Intelligent Systems. Application of Intelligent Methods to Investigation of Financial Markets. Financial Risk Research. Prof. Dr. V. Sakalauskas, Assoc. Prof. Dr. D. Krikščiūnienė, Prof. Dr. G.Garšva, Dr. D. Dilijonas, Assoc. Prof. Dr. S. Masteika, Phd Student M. Liutvinavičius.

The area of exploring artificial intelligence methods and their advanced extensions in the domains of financial market customer analytics was analyzed. The main focus particularly lies on larger datasets, with emphasis on their unbalanced nature, this often the case of real world data. It was proposed to use a hybrid approach, based on linear SVM and particle swarm optimization, to select a linear classifier together with its parameters.

Main publications:

Garšva, G., Danėnas, P. 2014. Particle swarm optimization for linear support vector machines based classifier selection. Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control, vol. 19, no. 1, 26–42.

Krikščiūnienė, D., Sakalauskas, V. 2014. Intelligent models in marketing systems: monograph (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 384 p.

Driaunys, K., Masteika, S., Sakalauskas, V., Vaitonis M. 2014. An algorithm-based statistical arbitrage high frequency trading system to forecast prices of natural gas futures. Transformations in Business and Economics, vol. 13, no. 3, 96–109.

Applied Research in E-commerce, E-learning, E-business and E-government. Prof. Dr. V. Sakalauskas, Assoc. Prof. Dr. D. Krikščiūnienė.

Intelligent computational models for integrated research of marketing are analyzed. The research in the area of e-commerce model advancement by exploring popularizing factors related to web page design compounds were analysed. Complex evaluation of external user specification rules for access control in enterprise resource planning systems. Dynamic modelling of process behaviour by applying fuzzy cognitive models was explored in the e-commerce environments.

Main publications:

Krikščiūnienė, D., Sakalauskas, V. 2014. Intelligent models in marketing systems: monograph (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 384 p.

Krikščiūnienė, D., Sakalauskas, V. 2014. Fuzzy influence of design widgets to blog visibility. Business information systems. Proceedings of the 2014 international workshops, Larnaca, Cyprus, May 22–23. Series: Lecture notes in business information processing, Eds. Witold Abramowicz, Angelika Kokkinaki. Berlin: Springer, vol. 183, 52–60.

Sakalauskas, V., Krikščiūnienė, D., Strigūnaitė, S. 2014. Hierarchical fuzzy rule models for project risk evaluation. Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, 60 p.

Enterprise Modeling and Knowledge Based Information Systems Engineering Research.   Prof. Dr. A. Lopata, Prof. Dr. S. Gudas, Prof. Dr. R. Butleris, PhD Student I. Veitaitė, PhD Student Š. Dargelis, Phd Student Martas Ambraziūnas, PhD Student P. Tamošiūnas.

Research involves application of enterprise management knowledge models to enterprise architecture frameworks modification and to enhancement of e-learning systems towards knowledge-based systems. UML diagrams generation process from enterprise model in IS development process by using knowledge-based subsystem is analyzed. The usage of knowledge-based subsystem, as an additional computer aided software engineering (CASE) tool component is proposed.

Main publications:

Gudas, S., Tekutov, J., Denisovas, V. 2014. Requirements enhancement approach based on the problem domain model. BIS 2014 International Workshops, Larnaca, Cyprus, May 22–23, Revised papers. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 183, 61–72.

Lopata, A., Veitaitė, I., Gudas, S., Butleris, R. 2014. CASE tool component - knowledge-based subsystem. UML diagrams generation process. Transformations in Business and Economics, vol. 13, no. 2B, 676–696.

Veitaitė, I., Ambraziūnas, M., Lopata ,A. 2014. Enterprise model and ISO standards based information system’s development process. Business information systems. Proceedings of the 2014 international workshops, Larnaca, Cyprus, May 22–23. Series: Lecture notes in business information processing, Eds. Witold Abramowicz, Angelika Kokkinaki. Berlin: Springer, vol. 183, 73–79.

Development of Digital Technologies in Phonetics and Voice Recognition. Assoc. Prof. Dr. K. Driaunys, Assoc. Prof. Dr.  V. Rudžionis, PhD Student T. Rasymas, PhD Student L. Dovydaitis.

Several approaches for hybrid speech recognition were evaluated. These approaches use trained acoustic models of several foreign languages (English, German, Dutch, Spanish). These acoustic models are adapted to recognize Lithuanian voice commands (using Sphynx toolkit). Each of the adapted foreign language recognizers produces own hypothesis when recognizing Lithuanian voice command.

Main publications:

Rudžionis, V., Raškinis, G., Maskeliūnas, R., Rudžionis, A., Ratkevičius, K., Bartišiūtė, G. 2014. Web services based hybrid recognizer of Lithuanian voice commands. Elektronika ir elektrotechnika, vol. 20, nr. 9, 50–53.

Rasymas, T., Rudžionis, V. 2014. Combining multiple foreign language speech recognizers by using neural networks. Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications, vol 268: Human language technologies - the Baltic perspective. Eds. A. Utka et al., 33–39.

Driaunys, K., Masteika, S., Sakalauskas, V., Vaitonis, M. 2014. An algorithm-based statistical arbitrage high frequency trading system to forecast prices of natural gas futures. Transformations in Business and Economics, vol. 13, no. 3, 96–109.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway)
Free University of Bolzano (Italy)
Dresden University of Technology (Germany)
Cottbus University of Technology (Germany)
Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary)

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr. A. Lopata –

Prof. Dr. V. Sakalauskas –

Prof. Dr. R. Simutis –

  • editorial board member of the journal Information Technologies and Control, http://itc.ktu.lt/.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. D. Krikščiūnienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. V. Rudžionis –

  • editorial board member of the international journal Northern European Language Technologies,  http://www.nejlt.ep.liu.se/board.htm;
  • organizer of the workshop with Lithuanian Forensic Centre State-of-the-art of the Speech Processing Technologies for the Forensics;
  • member of programme committee and organizer of  4th Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in Business (AKTB 2013 in conjunction with 16th international conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2013) Poznan, Poland, http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/16th_bis/.

Prof. Dr. G. Garšva –

  • editorial board member of the e-collection of articles Electronic Learning, Information and Communication: Theory and Practice;
  • member of Lithuanian Computer Society (LIKS), www.liks.lt.

Assoc. Prof. Dr.  S. Masteika –

  • member of programme committee of the International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modelling, & Prediction (SBP2013), http://sbp2013.org/;
  • member of Lithuanian FuturICT Hub, http://futurict.lt/.

DEPARTMENT OF LITHUANIAN PHILOLOGY

8 Muitinės, LT-44280 Kaunas
Tel.  (8- 37) 42 2604
E-mail:

Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rita Baranauskienė

STAFF

Professors: Habil. Dr. O. Poliakovas, Dr. G. Bankauskaitė-Sereikienė, Dr. A. Krasnovas, Dr.  D. Mikulėnienė (part-time), Dr. R. Miliūnaitė (part-time).
Associate professors: Dr. D. Aliūkaitė, Dr. R. Baranauskienė, Dr. S. Biržietienė, Dr. S. Juzelėnienė, Dr. S. Keturakis (part-time), Dr. E. Keturakienė, Dr. R. Kudirka, Dr. I. Mickienė, Dr. S. Šarkauskienė.
Lecturers: R. Deksnė (part-time), Dr. E. Gabrėnaitė, Dr. V. Meiliūnaitė (part-time), V. Norvaiša (part-time), Dr. G. Russetti (part-time), Dr. M. Grigaitis, A. Venislovaitė, T. Ruškienė (part-time).
Doctoral students: K. Bačiulienė, L. Bačiūnaitė-Lužinienė, D. Vilkelionok, S. Zelenkienė, S. Amankevičiūtė, L. Buividavičiūtė, V. Seredžiūtė, E. Merkytė-Švarcienė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Historical awareness in the Lithuanian poetry of the 19th century
Contemporary reception of the literary inheritance and criticism
Research on text and context
Research on literary criticism
Poetics, stylistics and rhethoric of fictional texts and public discourse
Poetics, stylistics and rhetoric of advertisements
Semantic functions of cases
Peculiarities of the connotative meaning of semantic units
Sociolinguistic research of dialectal speech
Perceptual analysis of the dialectal discourse
Cultural significance of dialects
Sociolinguistics of signs
Methodology of geolinguistics
Methodology of pictorial metaphors
Exploration of toponyms
Exploration of visual metaphors

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2014

Projects Supported by University Budget

Sociolinguistic and Cognitive Research on Lithuanian Language.  Assoc. Prof. Dr. D. Aliūkaitė.

Attempts were made at constructing the identity and the variability of the Lithuanian language at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, linguistic and extralinguistic characteristics of the written and spoken texts and other communication systems by applying the analytical principles from the fields of sociolinguistics, perceptual dialectology, geolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, stylistics, rhetoric and semantics.

Main publications:

XXI a. pradžios lietuvių tarmės: geolingvistinis ir sociolingvistinis tyrimas (žemėlapiai ir jų komentarai). Sud. Daiva Aliūkaitė, Danguolė Mikulėnienė, Violeta Meiliūnaitė, Jurgita Jaroslavienė, Asta Leskauskaitė ir kt. Vilnius: Lietuvių kalbos institutas, 2014.

Šarkauskienė, S., Juzelėnienė, S., Kalninytė, M. 2014.Produkto personifikacija lietuviškose spausdintinėse interneto reklamose. Filologija, no.19, 65–73.

Mickienė, I, Baranauskienė, R. 2014.Veliuonos apylinkių pravardžių struktūros ypatumai: antrinės pravardės. Respectus Philologicus, nr. 26 (31), 262–269.

Gabrėnaitė, E. 2014. Paveikiojo diskurso argumentacija: argumentum ad tempus. Verbum, nr. 5, 86–95.

Interfaces of Text and Context. Prof. Dr. A. Krasnovas, Prof.  Dr. J. Krūminienė, Prof. Dr.  G. Bankauskaitė-Sereikienė.

The researchers in this scientific field analysed the processes of the modernization of Lithuanian literature focusing on the reception of literary heritage, the poetics and rhetoric of fictional texts and public discourse (with special attention paid to the advertising) according to the social, cultural, genre and the others contexts, to the mutual interaction of text and context.

Main publications:

Krasnovas, A. 2014. Lietuvos pasienio miestelių atmintis ir tapatybė: Valkininkai, Vilkyškiai, Žeimelis. Monografija. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. Bendraautoriai Lina Būgienė, Jurga Jonutytė.

Keturakienė, E. 2014. Kūryba kaip estetinis regėjimas ir laikas Maironio daugiabalsėje poezijoje „Eina garsas: nauji Maironio skaitymai“, tarptautinės konferencijos straipsnių rinkinys, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, p. 143–170.

Keturakienė, E., Sereikienė, G. 2014. Henrikas Radauskas and Rainer Maria Rilke: parallels in their poetry. Travelling Texts: J. M. Coetzee and Other Writers, vol. 10, 238–248.

National Research Projects

The State Commission of the Lithuanian Language. Bendrinės kalbos vieta mentaliniame lietuvių kalbos žemėlapyje. Standart Language location in the Mental Map Lithuanian language. Assoc. Prof. Dr. D. Aliūkaitė 2014-2016. Nr. K-5/2014.

Development of the research methodology of the geolinguistic competences; analysis of the materials; methodological seminar “Standart Language Location in the Mental Map of Lithuanian Language. The theoretical and methodological approaches” (18 September, 2014).

International Research Projects

Academy of Science of the Saksofonija. Normen- und Wertbegriffe in der Verständigung zwischen Ost- und West-Europa. Prof. Dr. O. Poliakovas. 2014.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Institute of Lithuanian Language (Lithuania)
University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy)
Jaen University (Spain)
Jesuit University School of Philosophy and Education IGNATIANUM (Poland)
Jan Kochanovski University of Humanities and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Humanities in Kielce (Poland)

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES.

Prof. Dr. G. Bankauskaitė-Sereikienė –

Prof. Dr. A. Krasnovas –

Prof. Dr. O. Poliakovas –

  • editorial board member of the international journal of scholarly papers Respectus Philologicus, http://filologija.vukhf.lt;
  • member of the commission of History of Slavistics of the International Committee of Slavists;
  • member of the commission of the Study of Relations between Baltic and Slavonic Languages of the International Committee of Slavists.

Assoc. Prof.Dr. D. Aliūkaitė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. S. Juzelėnienė –

 Assoc. Prof. Dr.  R. Baranauskienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. I.  Mickienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. S.  Šarkauskienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. E. Keturakienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. S.  Biržietienė –

Dr. E. Gabrėnaitė –

DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURAL STUDIES

8 Muitinės, LT-44280 Kaunas
Tel. (8-37) 20 2627, fax 42 3222
E-mail

Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Donatas Pilinkus

STAFF

Professor: Dr. V. Jurėnienė.
Associate professors: Dr. D. Pilinkus, Dr. A. Rimkutė, Dr. A. Urbonienė, Dr. A. Novelskaitė (part-time), Dr. R. Pučėtaitė (part-time), Dr. J. Svičiulienė (part-time), Dr. J. Solnyškinienė (part-time), Dr. G. Žilinskas (part-time).
Lecturers: Dr. D. Kulakauskienė (part-time), Dr. A. Martinkus (part-time), D. Tomkevičienė (part-time), R. Freitakienė (part-time), G. Vilutytė (part-time), R. Poškuvienė (part-time).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Culture and consumption, peculiarities of contemporary cultural needs in Lithuanian society
Cultural industries development in Lithuania
Cultural tourism
Gender issues in Lithuania
Research ethics
Corporate social responsibility

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2014

Projects Supported by University Budget

Society, Culture and Consumption. Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Urbonienė, Prof. Dr.  V. Jurėnienė.

Exploring the role of cultural organizations in the contemporary society various management and educational aspects of these organizations were analyzed. Creativity is one of the issues and in the publications the most important factors of its development are highlighted. Management of cultural heritage is another important field of the research suggesting solutions for the cultural tourism management. Culture and education are also closely related topics and attract attention of the researchers.

Main publications:

Grigutytė, V., Urbonienė, A. 2014. Managing creativity in alternative cultural spaces in Lithuania. International Journal on Global Business Management and Research. Chennai: RI Publications, vol. 2, No 2, 5–14.

Jurėnienė, V., Urbonienė, A. 2014. Cultural centres as informal learning environments. International Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Science, vol. 2(2), 97–109.

Jurėnienė, V., Radzevičius, M. 2014. Models of cultural heritage management., Transformations in Business & Economics, vol. 13, No 2 (32), 42–62.

National Research Projects

Research Council of Lithuania. Impact of Organizational Ethics on Transformation of Organizational Innovativeness to Sustainable Innovations(No. VP1-3.1-ŠMM-07-K-03-042). Assoc. Prof. Dr. R. Pučėtaitė. 2013–2015.

Five research articles with the project results were published in international journals. The findings and research in progress were presented in 11 presentations at 6 international conferences, namely, 18th World Congress of Sociology in Yokohama (Japan), annual conference of European Business Ethics Network “Business Ethics in a European Perspective - A Case for Unity in Diversity?” and 4 presentations at national conferences.

Main publications:

Pučėtaitė, R., Novelskaitė, A. 2014. The mediating effect of organizational trust in the relationship between leader member exchange and organizational innovativeness.Ekonomika ir vadyba, 19 (2), 192–201.
Pučėtaitė, R., Novelskaitė, A. 2014. The effect of leader-member exchange on organizational innovativeness: findings from a Lithuanian public sector organization. Journal of International Scientific Publications: Economy and Business, No. 8, 159–171, available at http://www.scientific-publications.net/get/1000007/1409338674732477.pdf

Pušinaitė, R., Dilys, M. 2014. The development of sustainable innovations through cooperation with stakeholders.Journal of International Scientific Publications: Economy and Business, No. 8, 172–182, available at http://www.scientific-publications.net/get/1000007/1409338706961621.pdf

Research Council of Lithuania.Educational Activity of Culture Centres in Terms of Intercultural Mobilisation (No. MIP-023/2012). Prof. Dr. V. Jurėnienė. 2012–2014.

Implementing the project the results were presented in one presentation given at an international scientific conference and in one scientific paper.

Main publications:

Jurėnienė, V., Urbonienė, A. 2014. Cultural Centres as Informal Learning Environments. International Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Science, vol. 2(2), 97–109.

Jurėnienė, V., Urbonienė, A. 2014. Role of cultural centers in cities. Proceedings of  conference Creative Urban Development: Culture, Business,Community, November 20–21, Kaunas.

International Research Projects

FP7  Marie Curie IRSES scheme. Pro-ecological Restructuring of Jobs - PRORES (No. PIRSES-GA-2010-269251). Prof. Dr. V. Jurėnienė is a coordinator in Lithuania, senior scholar. 2011–2015.

Country analysis with respect to sustainable development policies and actions has been carried out. The monograph is being prepared by Jurėniene Population: Lithuania, Ukraine.
The team has carried out all the plans of interns as set in the project. Also it accepted and provided conditions for the internship of interns from the IWEIRN (Kiev Academy of Sciences) and NUFT (the National University of Food Technologies).

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

University of Jyväskylä, School of Business and Economics (Finland)
University of Tampere, School of Management (Finland)
Estonian Business School (Estonia)
Lithuanian Institute of Social Researches (Lithuania)
Swedish School of Social Sciences (Sweden)

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr. V. Jurėnienė –

  • deputy chief editor and member of the editorial office of the international journal  Developing World Women Issues: Law, Justice and Health, http://index.sciencepub.se/ojs/index.php/DWW;
  • editorial board member of the international Journal of Cultural and Religious Studies, USA www.davidpublishing.com;
  • consultant of the reforming of the publication of the continuous reviewed scientific works of the Sociological Research Centre of Ukraine, deputy chief editor and member of the editorial office of the Economics and Sociology,  http://www.csr.ua;
  • member of panel external examiners to North-West University, VAAL TRIANGLE CAMPUS, Faculty of Economic Sciences & IT, South Africa, http://www.nwu.ac.za;
  • scientific committee chair person of the international conference Social and Ecological Implications of Restructuring during and after the Global Economic Crisis, organized by Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty of Humanities, May 9–10, 2013, http://www.prores.khf.vu.lt/index.php/scientific-committee;
  • Head of the organizational committee of the international conference Creative Urban Development: Culture, Business, Community, organized by Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty of Humanities, November 20–21, 2014, http://www.prores.khf.vu.lt/index.php/scientific-committee.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. R. Pučėtaitė –

  • editorial board member of the international journal EJBO – Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organizational Studies, (ejbo.jyu.fi);
  • editorial board member of the international peer-reviewed journal Journal of Management and Change, http://www.ebs.ee/en/research/research-and-development/ebs-review-2/editorial-board-6-2/;
  • scientific and organizational committee member of the international conference Creative Urban Development: Culture, Business, Community, organized by Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty of Humanities, November 20–21, 2014, http://www.prores.khf.vu.lt/index.php/scientific-committee;
  • Organizer and co-chair of a special track “Organizational Ethics and Organizational Innovativeness” in European Business Ethics Network annual conference Business Ethics in a European Perspective - A Case for Unity in Diversity, Berlin, Germany, June 12–14, 2014.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Novelskaitė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Urbonienė –

  • scientific committee chairperson of the international conference Creative Urban Development: Culture, Business, Community, organized by Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty of Humanities, November 20–21, 2014;
  • editorial board member of the international journal JOLMS - Journal of Leadership and Management Studies, ;
  • advisory board member of the international journal IJGBMR – International Journal on Global Business Management and Research, http://www.rajalakshmi.org/ijgbmr/.

CENTRE FOR SOCIO-CULTURAL RESEARCH

8 Muitines, LT-44280 Kaunas
Tel.: (8-37) 50 536, 37 422 344; fax 37 423 222
E-mail  

Head – Prof. Dr. Gabija Bankauskaitė-Sereikienė

STAFF

Professors: Prof. Dr. G. Bankauskaitė-Sereikienė (part-time), Prof. Dr. E. Lassan (part-time), Prof. Dr. D. Štreimikienė (part-time).
Research fellows: Dr. D. Kulakauskienė, Dr. V. Makarova, Dr. M. Sarvutytė-Gailiūnienė, Dr. I. Griesienė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Analysis of the processes of meaning formation, development and transformation in various types of texts was conducted.
Problems of individual and mass consciousness, technique of manipulation in political discourse, sacralisation of authority, ethnospecific features of a verbal activity were taken into account.

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2014
Research Areas
Long-term scientific research development programmes of Vilnius University Poetics, Rhetoric and Linguistics: Fundamental and Applied Research into Literary and Non-literary Texts and Business Environment Factors were carried out.

Projects Supported by University Budget

Sustainable Development Group

The market saturation issues were investigated and the main factors influencing reproduction in market economy were determined for forecasting market bubbles. Sustainable development issues were investigated and the main indicators of sustainable economic development were determined. Assessment of countries was carried out based on proposed set of indicators.

Main publications:

Štreimikienė, D, Mikalauskienė, A. 2014. Environment and quality of life.Business and management 2014. Proceedings of the 8th international scientific conference, May 15–16, Vilnius, Lithuania, 558–596.

Štreimikienė, D. 2014. The impact of research and development for business innovations in Lithuania.Amfiteatru economic, vol. 16, no 37, 965–979.

Dapkus, R., Štreimikienė, D. 2014. The use of EU structural funds for sustainable development in Lithuania. International Journal of Social Science and Humanity, vol 4, no 2, 108–112.

Phonetics and Voice Technologies Group

Several approaches for hybrid speech recognition were proposed and evaluated. These approaches are using trained acoustic models of several foreign languages (English, German, Dutch, Spanish). These acoustic models are adapted to recognize Lithuanian voice commands (using Sphynx toolkit). Each of the adapted foreign language recognizers produces own hypothesis when recognizing Lithuanian voice command.

Main publications:

Rasymas, T., Rudžionis, V.  E. 2014. Combining multiple foreign language speech recognizers by using neural networks.Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications, vol. 268: Human language technologies - the Baltic perspective. Eds. A. Utka et al., 33–39.
Rudžionis, V. E., Raškinis, G., Ratkevičius, K., Rudžionis, A., Bartišiūtė, G. 2014. Medical - pharmaceutical information system with recognition of Lithuanian voice commands. Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications, vol 268: Human language technologies - the Baltic perspective. Eds. A. Utka et al., 40–45.

Cognitive Linguistics Group

The manipulation techniques in political discourse and national behavior were analyzed. The sacralization of the bell originates in the poetry of Slavophiles, who used this image for their civil and confessional identity were analysed. The movement of “natural parenting” and its confrontational ideology was investigated.

Main publications:

Diomidova, A., Makarova, V. 2014. Движение "естественное родительство"- как (как бы) противостояние обществу потребления.Respectus Philologicus, nr. 26, 270–282.

Philological Research Group

The aspects of the structures and evolution of the literary consciousness were analyzed: various symbols and signs in the texts of interwar Lithuania. The water theme through a mythical aspect of archetypicality, meanings and symbolism of water was analysed in the creation by Lithuanian writers was analysed (Antanas Vaičiulaitis, Nelė Mazalaitė). The egodocuments (epistolarity, reminescences, and memoirs) by Šatrijos Ragana were analysed.

Main publications:

Keturakienė, E., Bankauskaitė-Sereikienė, G. 2014. Henrikas Radauskas and Rainer Maria Rilke: parallels in their poetry. Travelling texts: J.M. Coetzee and Other Writers. Eds. Bożena Kucała, Robert Kusek, 239–248.

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr. G. Bankauskaitė-Sereikienė –

Prof. Dr. E. Lassan –

Dr. V. Makarova –

Prof. Dr. D. Štreimikienė –