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Last decades are characterized by an appeal to the text as a way of understanding the person, his aspirations, logic of thinking, value orientations. In this context, the study of the folklore texts, including a people's will, are seem to be extremely valuable. The resistance to its shape and lexical composition, as the content of the small genre is transmitted from generation to generation, respecting the original vocabulary and syntagmatics. The subject of this article is the names of air masses in the Russian a...

The purpose of this work is to study new and more effective ways of teaching English to EFL students as the timeliness of the issue studied in this article is attributable to the high level of the English language proficiency which potential professionals are required to have due to high competitiveness in the context of the worldwide globalization. The article represents the analysis of advisability and effectiveness of using an authentic feature film in teaching English to EFL students of Kazan Federal Universit...

According to Italian Legislative Decree no. 201/2011, the unfinished works are public works whose construction had been started but had not been completed or even if completed, it is not usable by the community. Unfortunately the national tradition has shown too often the creation of works partially unused and often obsolescent. From March 2013 the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport started the national census-register of unfinished public works. At the end of 2015, were listed more than 800 works, needing a...

The political crisis in Macedonia deepens and it is far from finding a proper and long-lasting solution. The opposition and position parties after the December 11 elections accuse each other for corruption and treason, which prevents the formation of the government and its focusing towards Euro-Atlantic processes and democratic principles. In addition, in this paper we are going to emphasize the role of the political elites and their political ethics, taking in consideration their responsibility for the long lasti...

Cognitive ergonomics is considered with mental processes, such as perception, memory, reasoning, and motor response, as they affect interactions among humans and other elements of a system. The development of cognitive ergonomics discipline is a result of rapid technological advances, especially in the field where a machine is considered rather as an agent with which the human should cooperate than an assistant to the human operator. The increased complexity of technical means contributes the addition of informati...

The Cantacuzinos were a very large imperial orthodox family. The complexity of their relations through kinship goes from the Ottoman dynasty through kinship with Orhan to kinship with the family of Aragon. We can say that these kinships anticipate the genealogical tree of the later Corvinus kinships. This aspect must be directly related to the closest Cantacuzinos’ kinships, namely kinships to the Brankoviches. Brankovich is an old Nemanjic family, still undeterminable. They succeeded in imposing themselves throug...

The aim of the article was to consider the correlation of logistics and marketing functions, which consists in the rather simple phrase: Marketing creates support and increases the demand and Logistics provides it by creating of various systems and schemes of goods traffic (rival and non-rival form) and controlling their passage. The relevance is that for successful modern business management there is a need to establish an effective system of interaction between marketing and logistics, which requires paying atte...

An important factor in the development of critical thinking in high school students is the availability of critically rich information in the educational texts. The problem of this study was to find some kind of universal approach, ensuring the filling of educational chemical texts with critically saturated information. In accordance with the criteria of critically saturated information formulated in the context of the dialectical method of cognition, we have selected and classified the fragments of critically ric...

The present paper is an applied contribution to the analysis of international capital flows. International capital flows play a central role in the global economy; they are closely tied to countries' economic and financial conditions, can influence macroeconomic policy, and bring a range of benefits and risks to beneficiaries. This paper describes the patterns of international capital flows in Russia (a sample of a big emerging market (BEM) economy) in the period 2000?2016, focusing on the last decade. The paper r...

Third-countries migration is considered to be the security threat to the receiving countries. This hypothesis is widely accepted mostly by the public in the receiving states. However, there are only few scientific studies aiming to verify the hypothesis. With missing evidence that would confirm or deny the theory, securitization of the topic in the EU and particularly in Slovakia as a country with limited immigration history raises. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the nexus migration-security more deeply and...

This work is dedicated to the formation of the management strategy of human resources of Government autonomic health institution "Children's Republican Clinical Hospital of Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan" on the basis of the implementation of the principles of process management using strategic management tools. The relevance of the study is the transition to a new stage of development of the institution in connection with the completion of the implementation of the regional program of modernizati...

The paper aims to investigate the existence of a positive feedback process between managed aggregate equity fund flows and equity fund excess returns in short-term and long-term period using monthly data from high- and middle-income EU economies for the time span from January 2000 to December 2016 and to perform subsequently international comparison of the obtained results with existing evidence from other regions or groups of advanced and emerging economies of the world.

Nowadays, access to medicine is a crucial precondition for many disease prevention programmes and the treatment component of virtually all diseases. The availability of qualitative pharmaceutical care services is an integral part of the national welfare system, thus their quality maintenance and improvement under conditions of budget austerity is one of the main challenges for policy makers and pharmaceutical companies. The current research is a continuation of several related research projects implemented in scop...

Economically justified solutions concerning the European transport system are crucial for the competitiveness of the Alliance throughout the World, for the financial growth, for reducing the unemployment and for improving the standards of living. It is exactly the free movement of people across the borders which is one of the four types of freedom typical for the European citizens, together with the free transportation of goods, services and capital. For realizing the mobility of its citizens each country creates ...

One of the most widely used means in achieving firms’ growth and development are mergers and acquisitions (M&As). However, numerous empirical studies have questioned the success of M&As in increasing the firms’ value for their owners. Even though varying in methodology, sample size and structure, monitored time and geographical spread, the majority of research indicate that many M&As fail in accomplishing described criteria, i.e. that they do not increase the firm’s business success. This opens questions about the...

The given research is focused on the study of the book by a contemporary Latvian writer and journalist Inese Zandere titled “The Ship’s Log Book” (Ku?a žurn?ls), which was published in 2016. The author of the research views it from the perspective of hybrid texts and analyses the shift of genre boundaries between poetic texts and journalism. The subtitle of the book is “Notes, essays, excerpts, letters, conversations”. In the title of the book a lexeme denoting a familiar document is used – a log book, which is kn...

Purges of the governmental apparatus became one of the character phenomena of the soviet society in the 1920-es. They acted as a part of the transformation of society by eliminating “class alien” employees from the soviet service. The aim of this study is to estimate a purges scale and to identify how decisions on the “former people” fate were made. The problem is studied on the example of Vladimir region. Research is based on the documents from Vladimir state archive. These documents reflect the implementation an...

The lighthouse, an architecture landmark of the coasts around the world has been the subject of study, especially it focused on the drafting the restoration project of the Punta of Guardia lighthouse on the Ponza island, Italy. Ponza is an island which gives its name to the archipelago of the Pontine islands, located off the Lazio coast. The lighthouse in question is one of the most important signaling systems of medium-high Tyrrhenian, built on a sea stack 112 meters above sea level, at the end of 1800. As almost...

This paper presents a description of the main characteristics of the German banking language, especially from the perspective of lexicology. The paper classifies the banking and finance language, which is characterized by the specific lexical features and terms, as a language for special purposes. The banking terminology and other words relating to banking are used in various forms of the internal and external banking communication, such as documents for bank clients, contracts, printed forms or announcements but ...

Comparison of metaphors in various national discourses is one of the most dynamic research areas that aims at unveiling the interplay between the increasing globalization of the metaphorical toolkit and the drive for the preservation of cultural identity and national traditions. We analyzed over 300 publications devoted to the comparative analysis of political metaphors and revealed the following approaches: (1) comparison of original metaphors and translations thereof, (2) parallel comparison of metaphors with a ...

The aim of media education is to increase individual and social awareness of media, show how media work, how they influence the audience and also how to use them. Such education can take place at informal and formal (school) levels. In both cases, there is an intentional educational effect on individuals with the objective to give them the tools to receive media content and decode, analyse and evaluate it. Through media education, individuals come to recognise the forms of media communication and they should learn...

In today´s globalized world there is a growing importance of regulatory, legislative and institutional frameworks. On the basis of these conditions, the particular national economies may affect the overall competitiveness of the economy not only by production factors but also by creating frameworks that directly affect the production costs and input prices through various taxes, grants or fund contributions. In the context of ensuring the long-term prosperity of each country, the more and more emphasis is placed o...

The article is devoted to topical issues of the public corporations functioning in particular examines the impact of the state corporations activities in the innovative development industries. The state corporation is established not for the purpose of maximizing profits, but to solve national economic problems. The state industrial corporations must provide innovative development, to stimulate economic growth, develop the institutional environment to the expansion and strengthening of the state influence mechanis...

This article is about the problem of financial structure of the firms and about their indebtedness. It is not easy to find some optimal indebtedness in the theory nor in practice. The aim of this article is to do the analysis of the indebtedness of firms in selected branches and to compare the development of this indebtedness within the period between 2010 - 2014 years among the Czech Republic, the Europe and the USA. It is necessary in every area to analyze the absolute indebtedness and its development, mainly de...

Many factors distort teachers’ assessment and evaluation of students in the process of education. These distorting factors include the phenomenon where teachers stigmatize the varieties students bring from home, and according to my hypothesis during educational assessment students’ performance is judged against this variety even in cases where factual knowledge is to be measured. Therefore, in my research I examine the extent to which students’ vernaculars influence the validity of the evaluation and teachers’ att...

The purpose of this study is to provide a description of the nature of palatalized and nonpalatalized consonants in the Russian and Japanese languages on the basis of comparative-typological studies as well as to characterize the manifestations of Russian-Japanese interference at the speech perception level. The basic research methods are the comparative-typological method, empirical method, generalization of analysis results to identify the phonetic interference, method of phonological oppositions, and rules for ...

A new theoretical and methodological approach is proposed for an interpretation essence and a tool for evaluating the competitiveness of the graduate. Meaningful signs of competitiveness are the process by which a subject of labor is able to compete and the outcome of this ability in a competitive labor market. The purpose of the work is to identify the impact (how close the ties between the elements are) of the elements responsible for forming competition abilities on the resulting value-the level of gain. When a...

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is an intermediate state between normal ageing and dementia. This means that subjects with MCI may get worse with the passage of time, and possibly progress to dementia. However, there are also individuals with sustained MCI whose cognitive impairment remains constant for many years, and even such who get better over time. The distinction of persons with different prognoses of MCI is a difficult task. As we do not know who is at risk, non-pharmacological interventions should be inco...

This article presents preliminary results of research into the acoustic insulation of internal concrete slabs. The analyses were designed to answer the question whether concrete slabs—as a material commonly found in architecture—can also serve as an element that improves acoustic comfort in the room. Concrete is a building material that is being consistently used in architectural spaces, not only as a structural element, but more commonly as a decorative element in the form of lining. Theoretical studies indicated...

The scientific purpose of the research is, first of all, an analysis of currently in force and previously in force provisions of Polish law, aiming at identifying and pointing out the amendments, which took place in the Polish legal system with regard to an institution of public-private partnership agreement, and thus to show the evolution of the institution of this agreement. Passing an Act of 19 December 2008 concerning public-private partnership (Journal of Laws of 2015, item 696, with amendments) a legislator ...

Changes in the economic development of countries in recent decades have been influenced by processes that have modified the methods and forms of business. While in the past, the emphasis was putting on the size of the company, now the connection of the company to the various forms of network cooperation is growing. One of these forms is cluster cooperation, where the major position the small and medium sized enterprises have. Their decisions if they join the cluster cooperation depend mainly on the various risks t...

The paper discusses baseline principles of education in the sphere of forensic linguistics in Russian Federation on the example of the discipline “Forensic linguistics” which is included into Master’s Degree Program “Applied linguistics” for the students of philological faculties and institutes. The authors present the content of the course, its basic topics, such as a) linguistic expertise – its general characteristics, main methods, the object, goals and the subject; the problem of abuse in linguistic expertise;...

Mentality is one of the most significant characteristics of each nation, and the au-thors prove it in their article. There is no agreement among scientists about the essence and nature of national character. Different researches study the problem of the national character by different ways. Every person is a part of a class, religious community, eth-nos, state and some other community. The realization that different nations differ from each other with “its traits of a soul”, happens in a cultural history fairly ea...

The study is done because in Latvia supervision rapidly takes its place between professions recognized in the national level, becoming an integral part of professional components. As there is an increasing demand for supervisors, the aim of this study is to find out attitudes about the supervision service and consumer social representations. The main tasks of the research paper are to analyse scientific literature on supervision, consumer social representations and attitude towards supervision, create to gather da...

The study shows how to distribute tomato products at national level. For this purpose, the weights held by the macro regions and the regions of economic development at national level. The drawing of the paper used the method of comparison in time and space. The analyzed period was 2012-2014. The approach presents the national, macroregional and regional situation of the indicators, establishing the structure indices (cultivated area and total production) according to the formula: Is = (Si, Qi / St, Qt) x 100 (%). ...

Adult education requires a special approach to learning material delivery as it targets practical life skills andknowledge. Currently teachers have started widely using various project based case studies. That is why the question "What should an andragogy instructor pay attention to when teaching project -based technology?" is very critical today. The purpose of this study was to define specific characteristics of a project based technology in teacher training. We believe that within the framework of the acmeologi...

Background: In modern Russia, the majority of people does not trust traditional advertising, so advertisers need to use alternative methods to attract attention to a product or a brand. According to Media Logics, in 2016 due to the economic crisis more than ten the largest companies in Russia refused to advertise on television, others reduced its presence on the television screen. Methods: Basic principles of dialectical logic were applied as a theoretical and methodological foundations of the research (ascent fro...

The ecological functions of music play a very important role in the reception-aesthetics of music. From the perspective of the listener, reception aesthetics differentiates the so-called external and internal ecology of music. External ecology is understood as environmental and somatic aspects of listening to music. The categories of auditive environment and auditive culture, which have a mirror relationship to music culture, derive from external ecology of music. Internal ecology of music is a specific category w...

Having a child with chronic illnesses or developmental disabilities have a transformative impact on each family member and can affect a family’s psychological quality of life. But the effects of the disease severity on quality of life have not been shown in some previous studies. So the question why does the quality of life differ in different families with “special” children still exists. This study aims at evaluating the factors that can affect the quality of life in families having a child with chronic illnesse...

Application of molds for creation of glass castings is a common occurrence in work of glass artist. One of the main aims of mold’s using is to create new patterns on a surface of glass sample. Generally, clay flower pots with a hole in bottom are used as glass molds where glass of different color is put. As the result, very interesting but absolutely unpredictable pattern, which would never be replicated, appears on a surface of a sample. So, the problem how to create the pattern, which can be replicated, appeared...

Trends in the Russian stock market are influenced by various internal and external factors, including economic, social, climatic, etc. Among the internal factors usually distinguished: the state of the national economy, industrial production, unemployment, high-volume issuance of government debt securities, increased the total volume of the issue of securities, payments crisis, the national currency exchange rate, trade balance, the size of the key rate, etc. By the significant external factors affecting the forma...

The paper illustrates the author's analysis of green technologies in construction and how they alter the massing of works of architecture. Ranging from small buildings like single family houses, to large structures like skyscrapers - all types of buildings have their respective technologies that can be considered green, ranging from technology that focuses on the internal workings of a building's technical infrastructure, to those that affect its exterior, like solar or photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, external...

The technology and its impact disturb life in a spectacular way both at social and professional levels, determining a new approach to the training and implicitly the selection of the human resources. New challenges appear on the horizon. As a result of technological developments and the growth of the knowledge society's role in areas beyond the classical labor market categories, the leaders of industry have introduced the "soft-skills" paradigm that is supposed to replace the old paradigm of "experience." This cha...

The research is significant because although N.A. Zabolotsky’s creative work has always been the focus of scrupulous attention, it would not be exactly correct to state that all aspects of his creative output were comprehensively studied due to the exclusive unfathomable versatility of masterpieces produced by such a great literary artist. So there are a great number of uninvestigated questions, demanding an in-depth study and thorough analysis. The theme of music in N.A. Zabolotsky’s poetry, the question about th...

Medical tools are often treated as a supporting on the background of the treatment and care of the patient. Their importance is overlooked because the knowledge and skills of the doctor to the forefront. But medical tools has an important means for the recovery of a patient's health from a specialist point of view. Work tools may have a significant impact on the way the operating techniques or other treatments affect the human body. In addition, the limited work space and tools in themselves affect the physician's...

The paper deals with metacognition and metacognitive skills in university teacher students. The main goal is to identify the key didactic competences of students which lead to the development of their critical thinking. The level of pre-graduate students´ critical thinking is a determining factor for developing of this thinking in pupils at elementary and secondary schools (ISCED 2 and 3), for which teacher students are prepared. Metacognition can be defined in various ways. Almost all definitions take in consider...

Philosophy is one of the standard disciplines of knowledge. Therefore, it is necessary to map out the intermediate relationships among subjects that arise in schools where philosophy is taught. It also includes secondary grammar schools. This paper is an attempt to map the basic areas of the penetration of the curricular relations between philosophy and the subject of Slovak language and literature. It is a subject that is composed of several parts. In the area of the Slovak language and literature two basic units...

Mental lexicon is a complex system that reflects in a linguistic form the processes of cognition and structuring the surrounding reality. Mental lexicon can be represented in form of a multidimensional network; its structural units are nodes (fragments of information fixed in individual consciousness) and internodal connections (ways of these elements’ interaction). Internodal connections can have different direction and diverse activation levels. The strongest connections are the semantic ones. They form semantic...

The Arctic development is closely related with the growth of labor potential and requires rise in number of population and labor resources according to economic, political and military interests of the state. In this sense, the problem of social-economic and economic-geographical development of Arctic and Northern regions and its monitoring has vital importance. Currently, research on social, economic, demographical processes on municipal level of the Arctic Russia and foreign countries has great importance. This ...

The development concept of the regional tourist cluster through creation of the recreational territories of regional and international significance has been set forth. The model of the regional tourist cluster in the Euro-Arctic region (the Murmansk region of Russia) has been elaborated. The worked out model enables to improve the effectiveness of using of the tourist –recreational potential of the region while stimulating development of other sectors.