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The article focuses on the study of communicative culture in the northern Tunguses’ (Evens and Evenks)geocultural space based on using of an integrated approach to the illumination of peripheral ethnolocal groups of the YakutianTunguses. The focus of the research’s attention is the analysis of traditional and modern behavioral strategies, ethnic identity, as well as symbolic means of communication as a spiritual component of culture using methods of interpretive anthropology. The use of this approach also enables ...

Modern training approaches combine both traditional and new electronic learning technologies. The interpretation of some concepts is different in educational environments, that is why the notion of ‘combined learning’ and ‘blended learning’ in Russian pedagogical reality is analyzed. Variety of electronic environments offers a choice of the most appropriate for educational organization. Approaches to the selection of software platforms for supporting various forms of training are discussed. Description of electron...

The paper aims to examine topical issues on the current status and development prospects of the monetary economy of Russia. Developing economy of Russia plays a special role in contemporary world. Financial market is of particular importance for the development of the Russian economy. It has constantly improved, actively developing. Experts believe that in the near future Russian financial and credit institutions will influence more the world economy and stock markets growth. In this regard, of particular interest...

The paper observes a psychological phenomenon called “self- identification” of a human being connected to the characteristics of a personality: life senses and self-management ability. Self- identification is interpreted as an indicator of a person’s own activity and guided by self-management and meaningful life. This ability is available in a desire to choose, follow one’s own way of living and meet external challenges flexibly, while keeping maintaining a tendency to self-development. The combined value-meaningf...

Research of corruption is mostly limited by legal perception of this phenomenon being exceptionally referred to as a consequence of criminal nature of actions practiced by the corruptionist. Meanwhile, the fact that corruption has not only social grounds but also social functions is often ignored. The author claims the approach which treats corrupt and its milder complementing informal practices as both products and mechanism of social order in some communities to be more productive. In 2016, a mass telephone surv...

This article is a reflection of civil defence education as one of basic element of education. The research focuses on the period 1938 – 1951; period between the time before World War II burst out and the time of political changes in the Czechoslovakia. The aim of the research is to explore the basic approaches to the implementation of education in relation to civil defence education in Czechoslovakia. The comparative historical analysis is utilized as the research method on the subject of civil defence education. ...

Topicality. Russia was always one of the main subjects of political thought as one of influential factor in world policy. The report is focused on the history of American political thought that remains still unknown in this aspect. And attempts to better understanding of the roots of actual negative connotation of Russia and Russians in USA. Aim: to reconstruct the logic and basic political arguments of the negative image of Russia in America. Hypothesis: the negative discursive American practice about Russia is d...

As more organizations adopt project management approaches and the demand for project managers grows, there is increasing interest in the competence of project managers and in standards for development and assessment of project management competence. This paper will compare the level of achieved core competencies of the project manager within project management approaches. The current situation requires readiness of university students to be able to apply their knowledge of project management in their professional ...

In this paper, the authors would like to focus on the importance of the translation of the Kralice Bible (named after the village of Kralice nad Oslavou in Moravia where it was printed), whose third and most famous edition was published in 1613, for the development of the Czech language and culture at the time of the Renaissance. The first part of the paper outlines the situation in Europe in the 16th century, during the Humanism and Renaissance period, when the emphasis was put on the importance of translating th...

As the importance of tourism is increasing, ever more states from Europe and not only are using strategic branding and a variety of marketing means to attract a growing number of tourists. However, destinations are among the most difficult entities to market. Considering the importance of a clear marketing strategy and proper images and slogans used, the paper aims to identify the destination personality, see whether Romania’s official website can have an effect on the image of the country and if it complies with ...

Non-governmental organizations belong to the third sector and operate in the economy along with public administration (the first sector) and the business sector (second sector). Nowadays, most national economies are based on these three pillars, which form the basis for the cooperation, partnership and development. The purpose of non-governmental organizations is to meet social needs, therefore they are often called the foundation of a civil society. Non-governmental organizations present on the Polish market are ...

The purpose of this study was to research the level of physical activity and to establish the correlation between physical activity and the quality of life in the elderly suffering from type 2 diabetes and the elderly not suffering from type 2 diabetes in the Republic of Croatia. The study population included 120 participants from 65 to 93 years of age divided into two groups. The study used a sociodemographic questionnaire for the examinees, WHOQOL-bref questionnaire for the evaluation of the quality of life and ...

In the previous study the authors suggested and examined the principles of architecture's integration into nature (i. e. the principle of preservation of the place, regeneration of biocenose, interaction of environments, harmonization, using of natural-born forms, seamlessness, rational consumption, consolidation of forces). They have been used intuitively during the whole mankind’s history of creating an artificial environment. The aim of this paper is to show how the principles of architecture's integration into...

The trial of the Nazi war criminals who committed their crimes in the North-West of Russia was held in Leningrad in the winter of 1945 - 1946, simultaneously with the trial in Nuremberg. Its course was covered by all the major city newspapers: Leningradskaya Pravda, Smena, and Vecherny Leningrad. The criminal proceedings were attended by journalists, photographers, filmmakers, and newspaper cartoonists. In addition to regular reports on the progress of court sessions in the print media, op-ed articles, and intervi...

In our paper we will talk about the diversity of religious expressions through the writings of psalms in Franz Liszt’s creation, that appears to us as a micro-cosmos of the romantic period, with an expressiveness that underlines the finest differences between possible human feelings in relation to Divinity. Glory, gentleness, hope, despair, all of these are typically valid human feelings, which David’s Psalms synthesize with grace, and Liszt has managed to faithfully voice. Franz Liszt chose to listen to the words...

The implementation of a new public function into the non-used church spaces like attics or cellars in context of revitalizing a lawfully protected historical city areas have diversified aspects. The article describes the financial aspect of adaptation of omitted spaces of monumental sacral buildings by presenting funding possibilities in the European Union countries available in period of 2017-2018 and the funds planned for the future. The founds were identified in four types: as sources divided within the EU Comm...

Innovative financial strategies are transforming the pace and stakes of business and accelerate emerging market changes supporting the principal strategic factors that can undertake successful progressive advances, therefore the importance of innovative financial strategies have a central position and are responsible for the corporations’ business excellence. The top pioneering companies prioritise and emphasise years of organizational performance and are uniquely qualified to inspire and enhance innovation becaus...

The article aims at answering the following question: does the architecture of moderation and understatement, architecture full of respect for the multi-layered context, history, topography, culture of place etc., i.e. genius loci, exist in Poland today? The question seems to make sense because of numerous, spectacular realisations of structures devoted to culture which were completed since the year 2004, when the country accessed the EU, but also because of many revitalisations. The authoress of the article, beca...

The paper presents a part of a research project which is aimed at the creation of corpus-driven semantic field of the concept of "empire" in Russian, English and Czech languages. The result will be a lexical semantic net (thesaurus) with frequency characteristics and usage examples for lexical units. This paper presents results of automatic creation of the semantic field in Russian. Achievement of the goal is provided with the solution of a number of tasks, in particular, the corpus research of semantic relations ...

The article contains a sociological analysis of Russian students’ position in relation to an important problem of science meddling into human reproduction sphere, to new scientific reproduction technologies that are supposed to meet the challenges of new generation reproduction and population control. The research covers the attitude of the young people to traditionally discussed technology of induced termination of pregnancy (abortion). The respondents included representatives of the most reproductively active pa...

One of basic banking activities is granting loans to both retail and corporate clients. This is obviously related to the potential risk of customers’ failure to settle liabilities by the agreed dates. For these reasons, banks often use very advanced techniques and tools to predict the creditworthiness of borrowers. In banks, there are special teams dedicated to this purpose dealing with broadly understood credit risk management. To assess the creditworthiness of retail clients, a wide range of analytical and stati...

Generally, the right to employment is considered to be one of the fundamental human rights in a democratic society. It is considered to be a subjective right of anybody to choose employment according to his/her abilities and with a corresponding reward. The legislative base for this right in the Czech Republic is in the constitutional law, particularly in Article 26, paragraph 3 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, which declares that anybody has the right to make his/her living through work. This pr...

Under the conditions of Austro-Hungarian legal regulation, cooperatives had been based on associations which had developed from societies and therefore underwent specific legal regulation that differed from that regarding trading companies. In countries following the continental law based on the Roman law, cooperatives as legal entities have been regulated separately from trading companies. This division has been taken over by the Slovak commercial law as well. However, the Commercial Code as lex generalis of comm...

The aim of this article is to put a fundamental question for the architectural studies. Is architecture a Science or an Art? Is architecture an autonomous, professional discipline or is it just a conglomerate of a different scientific disciplines? Is it a practical skill, scientific knowledge or a social art? What is the methodological status of architecture? What its role in scientific researches? Is architecture a multidisciplinary science or an intellectual poacher? This questions are essential for every discip...

Pervasive changes seem to bring about an increase in the social demand for talented and gifted individuals able to digest an overwhelming delug of information. Such individuals are characterised by a high degree of independence, openness to new experience as well as rational thinking. This state of things implies some educational practices. It might be said that schools, by virtue of their missions, are expected to teach students to effectively apply and make use of the knowledge and skills acquired during the lea...

The influence of media, in particular computer and Internet, has increased over the last several decades. They play now a significant role in everyone's life, independent of his or her age. The overwhelming influence of computer on the development of next generations is visible while observing behaviors of young people and listening to their talks. Computer and Internet have started to attract attention of the young users and, developing very dynamically, have forced their way into almost all fields of everyday li...

Cities as living organisms are subject to constant changes in time. The urban heritage conservation system introduced in Poland in the 20th century attempts to stop the process of natural transformation of the structure, particularly with reference to historical areas of development. Nevertheless, there is no way to preserve the changing life, functions, and communities this tissue is home to. The goal of this paper is to identify traces of old times in the city structure, as symbols of memory and identity of the ...

Technological needs of the modern economy significantly change the nature of engineering education. Today's engineers must be willing to work in the conditions of increasing technological processes and equipment complexity. The article discusses the main challenges and trends in Russian engineering educational development on example of Tobolsk Industrial Institute (branch) of "Tyumen Industrial University." The authors reveal the reasons for graduates' preparation quality declining in technical university training...

The article presents a view of the three related factors that determine the basis of European understanding of social assistance in the context of the Book of Exodus as the starting point of the Judaist-Christian perception of man. First of all, it is a presentation of human dignity, the definition of which, in Europe, cannot be separated from the image of man that is derived from the image of man. Subsequent is the concept of non-judgment, which is the first step in the effort of social assistance to another pers...

The article is devoted to the problem of the formation of educators’ willingness and capacities in situations of inclusive education for children with disabilities. The adoption of the Federal Law “About Education in the Russian Federation”, Russian Federal State Educational Standard for people with disabilities, Teacher Professional Standard represents a significant challenge for educators, who are bound to renovate not only learning environment, but also all educators’ attitude to children with special needs. Th...

Online journalism has become a significant kind of journalistic work quite quickly – media producers as well as recipients of journalistic products have had relatively little time to accept this new situation on the media market. The last three decades have shown that the typology of newspaper reading (and reading as such) is changing dynamically, as well as the attitude of the readers towards the written word – undoubtedly under the influence of rapid development of information technologies or rather as a result ...

Within the framework of the scientific paper, the technologies used in the manufacture of jewelry in the last 13 years in Latvia have been studied; the research was carried out using the field research method. The data used is aggregated in the database created by the author and used in the Internet environment, which contains information about the jewelry created by Latvian authors, such as materials, photographs of jewelry and others. In the period until June 17, 2018, data on 857 photos of Latvian jewelry were ...

The interest of the Renaissance to the antique culture and to the hermeticism consequential led to the study of the Old Egypt and to the research of the Egypt writing. But at the moment of appearance of this interest the understanding of it was lose. 1419 priest from Florence Christoforo de? Buoldemonti found on the island Andros in the Aegean See the manuscript “The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous”. He bought it and got to Italy. 1505 the manuscript was published in Ancient Greek in Venice. According to the his...

Clustering techniques are frequently applied in business and economy, for example in customer classification, enterprise grouping and in other economic data analysis. This paper presents a new clustering method, based on Delaunay triangulation and iterative aggregation of points distributed in the feature space. In the first part of the article we propose a clustering algorithm that utilises this concept. The algorithm iteratively connects specially selected pairs of nodes in the triangulation mesh and leads to sy...

Period furniture styles, from Antiquity to Rococo, were characterized by the constant use of ornament as a way to connect visually and intellectually to Nature, as did Art in general. The evolution of furniture design in the last hundred years was marked by the almost total disparition of ornament. The thesis that form should originate solely from function, lead to the crisis of Modern Architecture. Innovation in furniture design faces today a number of challenges, which originate in part from the limitations set ...

The paper focuses upon an analysis and review of those phenomena, which were inevitable for democratisation processes of the Slovak part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and which helped to overcome Slovakia´s political, cultural, social and industrial backwardness up to that point when it got a potential to be transformed into an independent state and a sovereign political actor with its own political status, authenticity, cultural uniqueness, and pragmatism of relations with the Central European neighbours and pe...

The article deals with new paintings of Nada Žiljak, an academic painter. She applies an infrared method in painting. Infrared painting is an innovative method of creating a unique double image - one visible to the eye, and the other, hidden drawing that can be seen with an infrared camera. The first image is a luxurious, often abstract painting concealing a monochrome drawing of distinct erotic themes. The author creates an original world based on hiding and discovery inspired by the power of his own imagination....

Self-identification of young people essentially determines their life priorities, frequently preventing their harmonious socialization in the development of their life competencies. Hence, timely diagnosing attitudes may help to identify key problem fields in the perception of the personality, but also to create basis for the alignment of optimum ways of its full integration into society. In this regard the inherent extensive potential lies in the methods of linguistic diagnosing that are not perceived by young pe...

Economic authorities (central bank and government), conducting the monetary and fiscal policy, affect the economy as well as each other. In pursuit of its goal, which is the desired level of inflation (the inflation target), the central bank applies appropriate monetary policy strategies with varying degrees of expansiveness/ restrictiveness measured by the interest rate. In turn, the government striving to achieve the goal which is the desired economic growth also uses strategies with a different degree of expans...

The article describes the study conducted with the intention to facilitate the development of learners’ speaking skills through test-taking strategies while teaching English to energy engineering students at Surgut State University (Russia). This study specifically determined the methods to improve students’ language competence in general and their speaking skills in particular. The research indicated that there is a significant difference in the level of English language competence and speaking skills of the stud...

In this study we propose to decode and to highlight the most important stylistic and interpretative landmarks of the Mannheim School, with emphasis on Concerto no. 1 for clarinet and orchestra, composed by Carl Stamitz. Carl Stamitz is considered the first composer which composed an impressive number of concerts for the clarinet – 11 concerts – with a special melodic quality and difficult technical problems for that time. However, little is known about his work. Alongside of the concerts no. 10 and 11, Concerto no...

Health resorts and spas have been created around many large cities and European metropolises for centuries. For years, the Author has been researching spatial conditions in Polish and European spas in literature and during field- related architectural and urban studies. In the article the Author presents issues of spa treatment centres in the Cracow metropolis, where the first of them began their activities in the 18th century. The work distinguishes several types of organisational and programme-spatial situations...

In the introductory part of the study, Down syndrome is briefly described as innate genetic disorder, where intellect is usually within the level of mild and moderate intellectual disability. The second part of the study offers brief overview of a person with Down syndrome as an object of literary portrayal in the production for children and youth in Slovakia since the 19th century to the present time. In the third part there are analysed and interpreted characteristic features of such a literary text, which was c...

The aim of the article is to analyse the theoretical basis of the idea of social solidarism proclaimed by Leopold Caro in Poland in the interwar period. Solidarism is for Caro a system different from liberalism and socialism. He contrasted the selfishness characterizing liberalism as well as Marxism and socialist collectivism with an economy for which the overriding values are the person, the common good and the ethical principles present in economic life. Such an approach entailed an interdisciplinary method with...

In the 19th century a number of modern curative and healthcare hospitals with complex functional and spatial layout were erected in the territory of the West Prussia. The largest of them were specialist centres treating physical and mental illnesses and disabilities: institutions for mentally ill patients (including addicts), epileptics and disabled people. Apart from the medical treatment section, there were administrative, social and technical facilities, all constituting parts of the complex. The hospital part ...

This indicated research embodies a current phase of concerns regarding Cluj-Napoca’s commercial spaces within the historic center in order to assign its pure character of the city. Merchandising is a key-factor in a center area on the matter of competing businesses, social and ethnic interaction and also maintaining a full social life of the city. Our current findings point out a severe drop in high-end department stores in the historic area of the city. In this way, low standard department store alters the qualit...

Currently, many enterprises have an integrated management system, which usually includes: a quality management system, an environmental management system and a health and safety management system. Of course, depending on the type of business activity conducted by a given organization, other aspects may be subject to, such as: information security management system or energy management system. These standards are usually combined with the organizational benefits in mind, often ignoring the logical connections betwe...

Business communication in English is getting more highlighted in the globalized context, as the English language spreads as the most dominant lingua franca in international business settings. While the volume of studies focused on business communication in various disciplines continues to increase, new strands of research emerge; some approaches are going out of focus. To improve our understanding and offer a more realistic picture of the field of business communication in English, we examined promising trends in ...

The article describes the peculiarities of architecture of the objects of the second line of defense of Anacopia (the capital of the early-medieval kingdom of Abkhazia) – a unique monument of early-medieval architecture of VI-XI c.: the tower at the gates, the adjacent gate and walls. We revealed regional historic processes, shew the results of archaeological researches, digital examination, analysis of the building stratigraphy of the mortars, research applying methods of natural sciences, basing on which we made...

The issue of innovation is becoming more relevant day by day, as the most severe competition among large corporations of the world is observed precisely for the market of innovations. Any project should start with a well-planned and well-executed planning. The article considers the innovation planning system at the enterprise. The following types of planning will be considered: strategic, operational, product-thematic, technical-economic and volumetric-calendar. The composition and combination of different types o...