Information sources and the methodology of the thesis work

Information approaches and methodological training for the thesis work; guidelines and procedures; sources of scientific and technological information; advanced search techniques in specialised databases; standardised citing of information sources, bibliographic styles; basics of intellectual property, copyrights, trademarks, designs and patents; structure of the thesis, scientific article and a patent; design of research: purpose, objectives and hypotheses, materials and methods; methodology of processing and presentation of results