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The mortuary temple of king Mentuhotep II and queen Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, Egypt, are well-known as remarkable monuments of architecture, construction, and the changes in religious beliefs of Ancient Egypt. However, the main aspects of selecting the location for the construction of these temples and the meaning of the selected location are described only within the studies of Theban necropolis complex that appeared in the later years. Therefore, the possible conditions that could have served as the basis fo...

In modern socio-economic conditions the human factor plays a key role in any organization: effective management of human resources determines the market stability of the organization, the success of its functioning, the prospects for strategic development. The problem is urgent not only for the countries of the post-Soviet space, but also for countries with developed market economies. The authors of the article pay attention to the differences in the system of motivation in production enterprises and in the educat...

This article is intended to discuss the prospects and the ways of constructing a new model of global development in a situation of factual and theoretical uncertainty indicated in social and political science by the concept of post-globalization. It aims at analyzing the critical and theoretical potential of the concept of post-globalization for understanding the direction of shifting the paradigms of conceptualization of the future. This research is based on contextualization, theoretical analysis, and conceptual...

Today, in the face of the rapidly growing threat of terrorism and extremism, the issue of creating a peaceful international and inter-confessional dialogue acquires an urgent significance. The research is devoted to the study of aggressive behaviour aimed at inciting interethnic hatred and discord via the comments on YouTube Videos. The Internet is used more and more in everyday life, at the same time, the potential threat of manipulative influence on the individual, especially young people, is increasing. Young p...

Several studies approached the work-family relation in a positive manner, considering that performing multiple simultaneous roles is beneficial, determining the accumulation of benefits, the recovery of individual resources through compensation/buffering effects (in the case of a poor performance in one role), the enrichment of personality and the growth of self-esteem; still, most studies approach the work-family relation in terms of role conflict [1]. The main objective of this research was to analyse the predic...

The research on communication on food packages of fresh and very fresh consumer products is the topic of a group of researchers from the Department of Architecture Sciences of the University of Genoa. The proposed theme is well suited to the problems of applied research, which investigate the relationships among design, communication and users; specifically, it focuses on the analysis of a specific food sector, namely that of rapidly perishable products, with the aim of examining in-depth features, constraints and...

The article is devoted to language characters relevant to the area of SMS communication done via cell phones, primarily to the influence of English on German language and the use of English contractions and abbreviations. It gives a brief overview of phenomena that affect the current German language. The main focus is on the influence of English and English abbreviations, which are common for SMS and other forms of modern communication via mobile devices, and on the influence on the language of youths, the so call...

Working meetings are indispensable events in every company, where employees and business partners have the opportunity to share knowledge and information and also to make important decisions. In the informational society, at the level of multinational companies, which have more conference rooms, it is very important to have an efficient management of them. In most large companies with more meeting rooms, management of their availability is usually based on predefined schedules that can create inefficient situation...

Every year in Romania, a significant number of youth and children fall victim to different forms of exploitation: sexual exploitation, forced labor exploitation, exploitation for begging, exploitation by forcing to commit juvenile delinquency. According to the studies published by the National Agency Against Trafficking in Persons (ANITP), in 2016 the number of victims was 756, 14% lower than in the previous year. Adult victims prevail (402 victims, of which 294 women and 128 men), although the number of minor vic...

This article summarizes the experience of using testing to assess students' knowledge of engineering disciplines at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. Authors suggest using the matrix of the test, which should be taken into account when drafting tasks in mid-term and final tests to diagnose the academic achievements of students of engineering disciplines. Attention has been paid to the didactic principles of diagnostics of the author's test. The modern requirements for assessing the validity of...

The paper deals with the linguistic peculiarities of sentiment analysis of documents in Arabic. Automatic definition of emotive component in a large corpus is highly relevant today. At the same time, the theory of emotions in linguistics has not been sufficiently developed yet, therefore there is an urgent need to improve the computer methods of sentiment analysis for carrying out sociolinguistic research. In the framework of this study, we try to determine the patterns inherent in the Arabic language, which must ...

Computer games have become a part of everyday life of young people. They play not only on play station, stationary and mobile computers (as laptops and notebooks), but also on tablets, i-phones, cell phones and other mobile digital devices. They play not only in their free time, but also during their journey in bus or train, while waiting for the public transport or waiting for service in bank, or when they are in a row, waiting for tickets for a concert, theater or cinema. Computer games are popular not only for ...

The Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) is a collaborative instrument for developing business/ technological/ research partnerships for entities around the world especially SME’s (Small and Medium sized Enterprises). One of the key factors for business development is innovation. Innovation management can be assessed using specific methods and instruments. One of these methods is the approach developed by the ImP3ove Academy. The ImP3ove methodology is based on an on-line questionnaire which is filled out by the entity...

Theoretical framework. The paper touches on the problem of distinctions in metaphorical representations about people with similar and different ethnocultural appearances as representations of various ethnic "images of the world". The objective of this research is comparative analysis of metaphors of "friends" and "aliens" having different ethnocultural appearances in members of the same ethnocultural group. The subject of this research was metaphors of "friends" and "aliens" having the Slavic, the Caucasian and th...

Traditionally it is considered that mastering skills of a written language when studying Russian presents special difficulty for foreign students. As practice of work with the students bachelors of the first course who are arriving on specialty "Linguistics" or "Philology" and knowing Russian in volume of the first certified level (B1) equally difficult for them shows there is a creation of both productive, and reproductive texts. In the first case the main problem is that they quite often build a written statemen...

Landscape development is a long-term process which is influenced both by natural and anthropogenic factors. Coal mining and the associated processes, such as subsidence, are in most cases the primary driving forces that influence the landscape and land use in coal mining areas. Moreover, coal mining usually triggers a series of ecological and environmental problems that may result in social and economic issues. The aim of the article is to analyze and assess land use changes, their causes and consequences in the m...

The present paper focuses on the perception of residential social workers of their own readiness to accompany dying persons in residential social services in the Czech Republic. The pilot study uses a qualitative strategy carried out in a selected retirement home (semi-structured interviews with 9 employees, coding, categorization and thematic analysis). Based on the analysis and interpretation of the results the following 5 areas were defined: (1) Feelings and experience with death; (2) Accompanying; (3) Communic...

Currently ecology is a special scientific discipline, which is of great importance both for society as a whole and for an individual. The protection of the environment and the conservation of biological diversity on the whole planet depend significantly on the results of environmental education. The purpose of environmental education should be not only the training of future environmental specialists, but also environmental upbringing aimed at the formation of a certain ethic of attitude towards nature. This is gr...

The study deals with the language used in classified ads on online auction websites. Based on a corpus compiled from Czech online advertising websites during autumn 2016 it describes both extrinsic and intrinsic textual criteria of this discourse in order to create a wholesome linguistic picture of the text type classified ad; furthermore, it compares the results with a similar study based on German classified ads (IMO 2012). The classifieds predominantly feature selling second-hand goods. So the study does not in...

The philosophy of a housing estate adapted to the needs of the recipient is not new to the modern planners. Architects and developers alike have noted the need to humanize urban spaces – although they do not adequately benefit from habitat knowledge and experiences, the topicality of which has grown over the years. The modern housing structure requires a rethinking of the way public spaces are created and the responses to the everchanging needs of the inhabitants. The article includes the answers to the qualitativ...

The global problem of the XXI century is the problem of municipal solid waste (MSW). Exactly the problem of solid waste, which concerns everyone, is the most urgent and requires most attention because it affects all Russian cities without any exception (especially the cities of Moscow region and the resort area). The article demonstrates the importance of the ecological approach, as the most attractive for the tourism, when choosing the technological criterion for the preparation of the MSW for recycling. The auth...

Taking into account environmental, socio-economical, health and safety aspects cycling is fastest growing sustainable mobility alternatives also in Latvian municipalities, having a growing number and diversity of cycling communication projects, but still facing a number of growth difficulties, particularly, lacking governance system development approach and having cycling practice realization fragmentation. Having yet no national framework or any overall support system, in the same time, there are to be seen cases...

The Slovak Republic has a long-standing tradition within many industries. An example of this is the engineering, chemical, electrical, woodworking and food industries. The Slovak Republic is considered as one of the leaders in the automotive industry. The automotive industry in Slovakia produces about one million vehicles per year. For several years, the Slovak Republic has been awarded the first prize in terms of the number of cars produced per capita. The main objective of the paper is to present development of ...

In this work the terms prapatti and tawakkul are considered as similar ones in sense and value in the Vai??ava and Sufi religious and philosophical traditions. Both terms mean the condition of self-surrender to God which lead the devotees to the spiritual realization in the scope of the particular tradition. The doctrine of prapatti take a special place in Vai??avism. It origins arise at least from P?ñcar?tra sa?hit?s and religious poetry of the ??v?rs (aprox. 6-10th cent.). It is regarded as the alternative path ...

The study focuses on the social construction of relationships between social workers and clients in solving family problems. The concept of social construction is used to examine the categories of categorization, stereotyping. The goal is to find out how social workers are constructing relationships and bringing them closer to family intervention. We are focused on workers of social protection and social care in the Slovak Republic. The theoretical part looks at the problem of instability, threats, family crises i...

The aim of this study is to define the image of contemporary preschool education in Po-land in perception of representatives of various social groups. Theoretic analysis of the issue was supplemented by empirical studies. The method of diagnostic survey was used accompanied with the technique of questionnaire. The study aimed at finding how the preschool education was perceived in Poland, what was its social reception and how it fulfilled the needs and expectations of contemporary society. The survey showed that p...

The article is devoted to the study of the actual interrelations of education, mobility (primarily tourism) and city development. This article is not about the mobility of low-skilled labor migrants, but about the part of the population wishing to get a better education before they start looking for a place to apply their labor. The desire to receive quality education, new knowledge, and constant (lifelong) learning is one of the striking features of the post-industrial economy. Knowledge, as the main commodity of...

Brain damages and injuries with their frequency and high mortality constitute one of the most serious diseases both in the world and in the Czech Republic. The individual who has suffered a brain damage faces a number of socio-economic changes. The precondition for full social integration of such individual is timely care and cooperation of individual professionals on the given case. But such cooperation and interconnection among professionals is often missing in subsequent organizations, which may slow down the i...

The article is devoted to the analysis of the possibilities of improving the urban environment and the quality of life in large cities through the implementation of investment projects in the sphere of tourism and hospitality. The author considers the Federal Target Program “Development of Inbound and Domestic Tourism in the Russian Federation (2011-2018)”, which includes 112 investment projects proposed by 59 regions. Each project is the result of cooperation of state and municipal authorities with private invest...

There are two well-known anomalies about initial public offering companies; abnormal initial returns to outside investors and long-term underperformance. These two well-documented anomalies are still unsolved puzzles which attract great attention in corporate finance research. This leads to generation of many possible explanations with different hypotheses. Beside many other theories and perspectives, agency theory related explanations for these anomalies is a flourishing and fruitful area for further research. In...

Personnel training and development is one of the key activities an organization should be concerned about. Providing better quality goods and services to the market, increasing productivity and, eventually, economic success of an organization – all these are only possible due to attracting and retaining the most qualified and efficient employees. Investments in human capital, in the form of personnel training and development, are essential for ensuring implementation of corporate strategic goals. The aim of this p...

There are many businesses in the market that try to attract customers to their services. If the services are not offered by the staff, the owners of the premises may be unnecessarily trying to increase their profits. If a business management decides to perform quality evaluation through a third, objective person, they can opt for the mystery shopping method. Mystery Shopping is a method of evaluating the process of providing a service. It is mainly about evaluating the performance of employees who are in direct co...

The Second Sophistic played extremely important role in the history of the Byzantine education. Rhetorical education was based mainly on those textbooks on rhetoric which were created at the time of the Second Sophistic. Works by sophists were used as examples of the Attic style. The fact that the Greek educational tradition was continuous throughout centuries allows us to assume that educational techniques did not undergo essential change during so long time too. On this background the absence of the special sect...

This paper presents our strategic management approach on tourism destination with the help of the SWOT analysis. We consider that a macro-economic analysis on a region is of utmost importance for all the stakeholders implied in tourism activities: tourists, businesses, tourism agencies and professional associations, local and national governance actors, NGO’s etc. In this regard, the general objectives of this paper are: a. identifying strengths and weaknesses of these two counties which shall generate tourist des...

The balance is one of the most important skills of the postural control and ability to move. The data of many studies have shown that postural sway was reduced while participants perform a balance task concurrently with a cognitive task. There are some evidences that postural sway decreases under threatening conditions. The aim of this study was to examine the immediate postural responses evoked by head movements standing on foam surface. The study subjects were 32 first-year students. Participants ranged in ages ...

The paper dwells upon the problems of formation and modeling of the bitcoin crypto-currency market. The huge interest of both the scientific community and the citizens of the world dictates the need to analyze the prospects for the development of the bitcoin and other crypto-currencies market. The article outlines the construction of a model covering the bitcoin market and the factors affecting it. As an endogenous variable "Bitcoin market capitalization" is introduced that estimates the aggregate demand for bitco...

Czech Republic is a member of NATO since 1999. The Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic, in its 2015 framework document entitled 2030 Long-term Outlook for Defence, confirmed the political-military ambitions of the Czech Republic, where one of the priorities was the fulfilment of the obligations arising from NATO membership. These requirements include healthcare requirements. Military medicine has a long tradition and czech military healthcare service is a very important part of many foreign military missions...

Communication is a key element in all the interactions of a couple. In addition to conversation and dialogue, the intrinsic laws of real communication reveal similar or opposite personality structures, show reciprocity in some acceptances, decisions, trust in the partner’s capacities, but also dysfunctional interventions, disproportionate expectations and motivations, in certain couples or families. In a couple or a family in its entirety, communication can complicate interaction, due to the communication style di...

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 of one of political argument of the negative image of Russia in America. Hypothesis: The USA authorities did not want to put up with the fact tha...

The paper focuses on the quality of working life of deaf people. The main aim is to describe the possibilities of their employment with regard to the historical context of the labour market situation and current possibilities. Further, the other goal of the article analyses subjective perception of deaf people within their possibilities of employability on the labour market and overall satisfaction. To obtain the data a qualitative approach was implemented through a semi-structured interview with deaf people, who ...

The paper examines the issue of “two cultures” (natural science and humanities) in relation to the realities of contemporary education. The peculiarities of the humanities rationale are analyzed. The authors demonstrate that educational practices are based on incorrect assumptions regarding the correspondence between intellect and affect, the non-critical perception of which promotes an undesirable dissent between the two above mentioned cultures. The historical origins of the entrenchment of such assumptions are ...

Introduction. Psychological training is one of the factors that can make the difference between opponents in a sport competition. The paper aimed to identify the level of psychological abilities of the volleyball player and to compare the results between male and female players. Method. To determine the volleyball player's mental training level, a questionnaire has been applied, to measure the level of stress and other athletes’ psychological abilities. Thus, the subjects of the research were 18 male volleyball pl...

The article summarizes of materials sociological monitoring of student of Sverdlovsk region (1995-2016) – in terms of the motivation of choice University. Monitoring materials published [1], disclosed in the publication methodology and research technique, unsubstantiated picks and sample size. The sample included monitoring student survey III course on four main areas of learning (socio-economic, humanitarian, scientific and technical). A number of issues (in particular, of the reasons for the choice of the Univer...

Adaptive education model as a modern implementation of the well-known pedagogical principle of instruction individualization is becoming increasingly popular. However, effective adaptive learning cannot be effective and functional without adaptive testing. The paper examines the prerequisites for using models of adaptive instruction in general and adaptive testing in particular. The experience of using computer-based adaptive tests, in the context of a group of about fifteen students with different levels of train...

In the course of conducting our own research related to the analysis of the impact of socio-economic factors on the development of migration attractiveness, demographic and economic security of Russia and individual regions of the country, in order to generalize and understand the social and economic situation, identify the most important problems related to the territorial movement of people, classification of labor migration factors that exert the strongest influence on the social and economic situation. For the...

The study, which was supported by the grant project VEGA 1/0625/16 “The effect of physical activities on the development of motor abilities in integrated children with behavior disorders”, deals with the effects of exercise programs on the development of children’s motor abilities. The purpose of the study was to assess the levels of coordination abilities among nine and ten years old children by administering the KTK standardized test battery and to determine the relationship between their somatic parameters and ...

The paper focuses on the examination of the relationship between firm size and firm growth for the companies in Slovakia during years 2009 – 2016. The aim of the article is to investigate the validity of Gibrat’s law (Law of proportionate effect), so if the firm growth is a stochastic process resulting from a lot of unobserved random variables and firm growth is independent of the firm size. For measuring company size, it was used three number of employees. This firm size indicator is most often used in studies de...

Preferential trade agreements are not a new item in the history of global trade policy, but there has been a marked proliferation of them since the beginning of the 21st century. It is believed that they became a way to overcome the lack of progress in multilateral trade negotiations carried out within the World Trade Organization. However, among various global powers, the European Union was a latecomer to the so called "new wave" of regionalization. The goal of the paper is to point out main reasons and factors a...

The effectiveness of scientific research belongs to the categories that are difficult to measure. Its assessment is generally subjective and based on various criteria. In the paper it is assumed that the effectiveness of scientific research is determined by a number of publication as well as the speed of commencing and concluding the doctoral conferment procedure. The effectiveness of scientific research is affected by many factors. The authors assumed that the most important ones is the knowledge of methodologica...

The article presents speculation about the possibility of using a corporate tool of strategic planning, such as the balanced scorecard (hereinafter BSC) at the sectoral management level. We propose BSC constructing method for the regional industry (in the context of the Stavropol Territory of the Russian Federation). According to this method, the existing mission of the region's industry is used to build a strategy map, select key performance indicators to achieve the strategic goals, as well as describe control p...