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The purpose: a comparative study of the type and direction of reaction in conflict situation among masculine men and feminine women of Russian and Armenian nationalities. Design: kind of gender identity and ethno-cultural characteristics may condition differences in types and directions of reaction in conflict situation among both men and women of Russian and Armenian nationalities. The technique: 1. Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study which is aimed at identifying the type of reaction to the conflict situation a...

This article is devoted to the study of modern trends in the education of Russia, namely the question of integrating business technologies into the educational process, which at the present stage of economic development acquires special significance. As for the education sector this process is new and not adequately worked out by law and educational programs are facing many problems while including and implementing educational programs using modern business technologies. In this context, it is interesting to study...

The current policy of the Russian Federation in the Arctic is aimed to large-scale expansion of the resource base in the region, development of economic sectors and construction of infrastructure facilities. The implementation of these ambitious projects requires recruitment of qualified labor resources to the region and attractive social and labor conditions. In the article, the current state of the socio-labor sphere of the northern region is considered on the example of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) as one of...

In the course of education a significant role is played by motivation of students. The study of academic motivation is one of the fundamental problems in pedagogics and psychology, since an efficient interaction between teachers and students is possible within understanding of their motivation. To teach in today’s environment it is necessary to be able to interpret such pshyco-pedagogical characteristics of a person as motivation, independent behavior, active performance and ability to reach one’s goals. To assess...

In many countries housing systems are in transition towards privatization, deregulation and decentralization of public tasks. These transformations in institutional and economic context have led to a more market-oriented social housing management. Public housing system in Poland is based on a local government-dominated social rented sector in which the social landlords' functions are in the vast majority filled directly with municipalities. These entities integrate the functions of local authorities with the role ...

The goal of the research is to reconstruct and recreate the elements of interior and exterior of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (1839–1864) designed by Alexander Vitberg (1787–1855). This cathedral was built in Vyatka (Russia, Kirov region) to commemorate the visit of the Emperor Alexander I to the city in October, 1824. The cathedral was blown up in 1937 in the times of atheism. The study is of a great significance as this major cathedral is part of both local and national cultural heritage. Research methods incl...

Foreign language learners must develop proficiency in the target language. They must find ways to deal with the challenge of learning foreign languages. Learners who are able to regulate their own learning through a variety of metacognitive and cognitive perspectives and procedures are more likely to meet this challenge successfully. This problem has already been studied by different authors. But self-regulation as applied to EMI has not been much developed yet. To bridge this gap this paper examines the self-regu...

Diplomacy has been an extremely important in the development of civilization from its beginnings to the present days. More broadly, diplomacy presents the design and implementation of the foreign policy, models of the foreign policy, international negotiations and professional activity performed by diplomats. The paper presents the development of the diplomacy from its origins in the era of nation Maya, throughout the Middle Ages, specific forms of creating and building relationships that have developed within the...

Cultural trauma appears when a group of people feels they were made some horrible event experience leading to indelible traces in their collective consciousness, leaving an imprint in their memories forever and changing their identity irreversibly. During the 20th century, first in the Western societies but soon also worldwide, people constantly were stating that they had been traumatized by some experience, event, act of violence or frightening, or just by sharp and sudden and sometimes even not very hostile expe...

The authors address the current issue of communicative barriers in intercultural social practice that reveals hidden conceptual horizons of the mass and individual consciousness, implicitly represented in the humanitarian discourse, the teaching practice and the choice of communication. The paper deals with the borders of the semantic barriers in intercultural communication connected to the intellectual style and ethic context. The research on human communication barriers in the dynamic conditions of modern societ...

The theme chosen by us (in this case, learning French language by Russian students of Agro-Technological Institute and Environmental faculty of RUDN University, Moscow) should make an accent on cultural aspects of gardening helping students to solve their life and professional situation, to be integrated into the professional world community. The main theoretical position is the idea that the incorporation of historical and cultural aspects helps to form flexibility and tolerance, and at the same time, self-belief...

The aim of the article is to analyze the impact and importance of social solidarity in Polish political and socio-economic thought in the period 1918-1939. The article explores the source of the idea of solidarity in Poland, with particular reference to the French and German concepts of social solidarity at the end of the 19th century, as well as the attitude towards them in selected political spheres during the development of regeneration after the period of the partitions of the Polish State. The idea of social ...

The goal of this paper is to point out the importance that thermal waste processing plants can have within an urban space. Despite the fact that the first thermal waste processing plant was built around the half of the XIX century, the question of their importance within the space of a modern city is currently very important and viable. In recent years, the number of thermal waste processing plants that are being designed has greatly increased. They are being built as environmentally friendly structures, guarantee...

The author of the study analyses the formats of reality shows broadcasted by Slovak media with emphasis on the psychological and communication aspects intentionally employed by their creators and which recipients knowingly or subconsciously reflect. Based on observations of media content produced by Slovak and foreign media, there is an assumption that emotion and extremity can be found practically throughout the entire composition of the program, i.e. in various program formats, in the actual content and form of ...

Knowledge of foreign languages is very important, and its importance has been growing in recent years. The “Iron Curtain” was pulled back in the early nineties, and the Czech Republic joined the European Union, resulting in ever expanding opportunities to meet and communicate with foreigners in professional or private settings, to seek out and read foreign language texts on the internet or in printed form, to watch foreign TV channels and to listen to foreign radio stations, and, last but not least, to communicate...

The evolution of political metaphorical systems is one of the growing areas of political discourse studies, metaphor being the main mechanism of discourse formation. The authors stress the importance of the diachronic approach for the theory of political metaphor as national systems of political metaphors are constantly developing: each period brings new metaphors and changes national metaphorical systems. The aim of the diachronic analysis is the reconstruction of the historical course whose national systems of p...

Contemporary forms of work with children and youth with behavioural problems are based on the holistic approach (the experience of successful methods and application according to the assessment of the professionals). Different authors underscore the importance of combining different approaches, methods and techniques of direct work with users with behavioural problem in educational institutions (individual, group, workshops and small rehabilitative programs). The goal of this research was to explore the experience...

Achieving an optimal balance between work, personal life and family responsibilities is a key contributing factor to the employee's overall well-being, reflected in 3 areas: health care, employee productivity and retention. There are many ways to enhance work life balance and creating a flexible organizational culture is one of the most effective option. In this paper, we reveal the importance of telework in enabling a supportive and healthy work environment, which will help employees to achieve a better work life...

The article presents the analysis and the evaluation of the direct foreign investments’ influence on the structural changes in the region’s economy. Foreign investments affect the processes of the economic development due to decreasing the gap between the level of needed investments and the level of domestic savings, what is undoubtedly a favorable factor for innovative modernization of the industry. Based on the systematization and comprehensive analysis, the demand in direct foreign investments for innovative mo...

Background: For the modern Russian society is characterized as a violation of institutional links between higher education, business, and academic science. This is due to a number of reasons. First of all, the tradition of managing these areas under a centralized state regulation and radical reform of higher education, which is associated with deep restructuring of the entire it system. The One of the priority ways of development of higher education is the expansion of its network of relationships with stakeholder...

The research shows that cancerous disease is formed under the combined action of various endogenous factors (age, sex, gentle factors, pre-existing diseases), exogenous factors - environmental factors (air, soil and water pollution with noxes and chemicals), stress factors. Among the exogenous factors, it has been scientifically proven that the nutrition has a decisive role in the emergence and evolution of malignant tumors. It is estimated that 50% of cases of cancer in women and 45% in males are due to nutrition...

The security of modern society and an individual is seriously tested by a terrorist threat, which is often perceived as something external, that violates relative social harmony and order. Attempts to “seal” society, to protect it from any form of extremism, lead to huge public costs, but do not lead to the elimination of the threat. The article discusses the problem of sociocultural mechanisms of terrorism dissemination and the question of how philosophical framework of public security strategy should be changed ...

The sacred places are signs and markers in the perception of the physical, symbolic and cultural space: therefore we have to study local contexts through the analysis of all the available sources, including the spatial distribution of the holy places and the spatial relationships existing between the various evidences of archaeological contexts, according to the perspective of global history of the "Landscape Archaeology". The research on sacred places proves to be a privileged means of investigating the social an...

The notion of “concept” is currently widely used in linguistics (cognitive and psycholinguistics, theory of intercultural communication and sociolinguistics, etc). We ventured to investigate the ways the concepts ‘downshifting’, ‘travelling’, ‘space’ and ‘time’ are interpreted in the modern British fiction created by the female authors. At first, these concepts might seem incompatible and even antagonistic (belonging to either emotional sphere, to the abstract or philosophical stratums), but still their investigat...

The article justifies expediency of creation basic universities in the industrially developed regions of Russia with a significant scientific, educational and innovative po-tential and well-established links with industrial enterprises of the region. The strategic mission of the basic universities is to promote the development of the real economy through the organization of an effective transfer of knowledge and technologies, as well as the training competitive specialists that ensure the implementation of modern ...

The following research consists of introduction, three chapters, with subsequent parts,and the conclusion. The aim of the research is to analyze the transformation process of Spanish banking sector after the financial crisis in 2008. Author examines a hypothesis that Spanish banking sector plays a significant role in Spanish national economic advancement. Banking sector had been substantially transforming during the economic recession, and now it serves as the prerequisite for State economic advancement in post cr...

Within the framework of andragogical approach, the authors focus on the conceptual effects of coaching methods in lifelong education to help adult learners to shift their perspectives and thereby maximize their performance. The article gives insights into the essence of person-to-person coaching technique for discovering greater autonomy in adult learning as a means of developing and using their potential to achieve external goals. The authors chiefly draw on principles of Andragogy and Adult Learning and Coaching...

Lean Management (LM) has been presented as a one of the methods for improving the competitiveness of manufacturing companies. Today, observations show that, despite the many benefits of implementing LM tools, relatively few companies make a decision to -employ them. Although considerable research has been devoted to lean manufacturing, rather less attention has been paid to conditions of its implementation. It is important to know the drivers and barriers of the implementation of lean, however, diverse business co...

The main purpose of this research is to identify different methodological approaches that can be used in economics to evaluate environmental resources that are integrated in tourism product. Environmental resources form essential physical plant for tourism development. It would be almost impossible to imagine tourism product that does not integrate, directly or indirectly natural resources. Strong expansion of tourism development, reflected in significant increase in number of international visitors, same as accep...

The paper analyses the functions of modern media in the situation of information confrontation. It shows that the media may play an increasingly destructive role exacerbating political conflicts between nations creating negative stereotypes of opponents and even demonizing them. Manipulation of public opinion, which has become an important function of the media, is getting more explicit and takes more aggressive forms. As aggression in the media discourse can be performed by both verbal and non-verbal means, we of...

The article discusses the issue of improving handling of complaints concerning the qualitative incompatibility of fiscal devices manufactured for the retail industry. The author described the legal aspect of the issue based on the regulations in force in Poland. Taking into account the method of accounting and the rules of complaint procedure in consumer sales, he classified and characterized value and material claims. He described in detail the conditions for organizing and conducting service activities for the c...

The discontinuity of matter was originally postulated with an explicit purpose: to demonstrate the reality of movement. However, a deterministic and necessary movement eliminated the possibility of explaining freedom. Epicurus first, and Lucretius later, modified the doctrine of Democritus (founder of Greek atomism) in regard to a very important point, since they both admitted the spontaneous movement of swerving or clinamen of some atoms, as opposed to their stable fall, situating matter between reality and possi...

Contemporary companies increasingly are guided by the idea of sustainable development. This means paying attention to not only the economic aspect but also, equally important, social and environmental dimensions. On the other hand, stakeholders also look at the enterprise through the prism of effective action in all three dimensions of sustainability. Traditional mandatory reports (mainly financial) do not meet stakeholder expectations. It is believed that these expectations will be met only through a holistic app...

The paper describes an empirical research aimed at setting up a model of such a communication scheme that will be potentially applicable in assessing the ability of people with cognitive impairment to communicate. In a wider sense, cognitive disorders can include, for example, disorders of the intellect or mild and severe neurocognitive disorders. Severe neurocognitive disorders are most common in seniors who experience memory problems, pathological changes in behavior, difficulties in understanding the language, ...

The article undertakes an attempt to consider laughter as a phenomenon of a person’s religious life, analyse the symbolic meaning of laughter in religious practices and myths. Laughter played rather a relevant role in the archaic culture: particularly ritual laughter assured the link between the sacral and secular segments of existence. The connection between laughter and religion (apart from ritual laughter) can be traced to specific aspects of laughter culture of the ancient and medieval periods, as well as in c...

In terms of technological approach to the definition of information society, an important aspect in the formation of human capital is the development of technological innovations and their impact on human capital. Level of human capital amenities is becoming a key factor in the economic growth of the country. In terms of information society, there is a fundamental change in human capital, as a result of the introduction of new technologies. Innovation can bring transformation in job skills, work organization and i...

The tragic events that have taken place recently in Romania (the case of the 64 young people dead in the fire from Bucharest club > on October 30, 2015), but also those that happened around the world because of the attacks, give us a lot of questions and reflections related to the dialectic of good and evil, but also to the true faith that can accept suffering and death to enjoy eternity in the Risen Christ. This dialectic of good and evil, of highlighting the good only in the "fight" with evil, made from Dostoevs...

Over the last ten years the variations of religious extremism has been increased sufficiently. Taking into view the controversial nature of the concept content and the difficulty of its adequate use there is a necessity to study the reasons for this affairs state. The reason for the study was the official announcement of the “yellow level” introduction because of the terrorism on the territory of Kazakhstan and enhancement of the diversity of forms of its manifestation in Russia. A group of researchers believes th...

Public buildings have always been, and still are - especially in recent years, one of the most intensively realized groups of buildings. This allows to notice some trends both in the decision making process related to these buildings and in the applied design solutions. These trends can be generally referred to as “trends towards exaggeration”. It reveals in several aspects such as big number of those buildings or their excessive scale and standard. Among the numerous the reasons of emergence and prevalence of the...

Introduction. A significant percentage of children (i.e., 5 to 8%) may present a significant language delay and/or impairment (Tomblin et al. 1997) which is not directly linked to any intellectual or cognitive disability. In such cases, children receive a diagnosis of Primary Language Impairment (PLI). Considering these numbers, it is extremely important to have reliable batteries of tests suitable to characterize and quantify such linguistic impairments in affected children. To the best of our knowledge, however,...

The article presents the essence and importance of labour productivity, which is the primary indicator for the assessment of the competitiveness of countries in the international market. The aim of the work is the analysis and evaluation of labour productivity in Poland against the background of the countries of the European Union and international statistics. The results of the research and analysis presented concern activities and courses of action within the framework of the Polish labour productivity growth st...

Economic and social issues were together with migration crisis in Europe top issues of parliamentary election campaign in the Slovak Republic in 2015/2016. Relevant political parties performed their proposals for future social and economic orientation of the country. Ruling social democrats (DIRECTION-SD) called for fixing their social program and present new initiative in that area (in sense of deepening of current social program). On the other hand, small right (opposition) political parties emphasized the neces...

The aim of our research is to create an adequate preoperative education in order to reduce anxiety of patients, therefor it is necessary to understand their emotional experiences, cognitive processes and behavioral aspects as well. This article presents the development of a measure of pain in patients in whom vascular procedures using prosthetic grafts are indicated. The test battery is based on the Dynamic Model of Psychological Processes in Chronic Pain primarily used in clinical practice. Dynamic Model includes...

The need to modernize the system of interagency interaction in the context of an increase in external and internal threats in the production, turnover and retail sale of alcoholic beverages accounts for the topicality of devising the methodological base and identifying mechanisms and building the system of measures for state regulation and development of the regional alcoholic beverages market. A comparative analysis was used to reveal the relationships between the authorities of the constituent entities of the Ru...

Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) is along with Jaroslav Hašek and Milan Kundera one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century, his works are translated to 27 foreign languages. The present paper pays attention especially to his texts written in the early 1950s when Hrabal started to use his specific narrative style that combines modernist impulses with down-to-earth tall tales inspired by the milieu of Czech pubs. In that time Hrabal was in a close and friendly contact with much younger Egon Bondy, a poet and ph...

Global increase of cultural variety in modern society has led to the necessity of formation of ethnic and cultural tolerance of the youth as the most active social group. Educational space should be built inf the context of harmonization of intercultural and religious relations. Pedagogical influence on sensitive points of personal development, aimed at formation of ethnic and cultural tolerance may prevent the youth from patterns of extremist behaviour.

Life satisfaction and related work-life balance is often discussed in connection with working professionals, but it concerns everybody, including students. We attempted to identify what the key factors that influence life satisfaction in university students are and how these may influence their work-life balance. The case study included four selected sets of respondents from among university students of all ages, both in full and part-time study programmes of School of Business Administration in Karvina, Silesian ...

In the article the questions connected with research of a modern condition of ecological tourism and prospects of its development in Russia are considered. To date, environmental tourism is one of the most promising and rapidly developing sectors of the tourism industry, occupying one of their leading positions. The methodological basis was the work of domestic and foreign scientists studying the problems of ecological and rural tourism and the development of special protected natural areas of Russia. In this cont...

Philosophy has always strived for understanding the most general principles of human being and knowledge. It has been constituted as a scientific discipline with strictly methodological thinking processes and it has contributed towards the analysis of all knowledge. Although different sciences have separated from philosophy in the course of history and have developed their own methodological systems of recognizing reality and their own self-concepts, they still, up to this day, cannot develop knowledge without bei...

The aim of the study is to analyze the natural and anthropogenic factors and long-term processes that explained the intensity and scale of the flood disaster that occurred on 19.06.2014 in Varna. For this purpose two related models of disaster – ‘Pressure and Release model’ (PAR model) and ‘Access model’ are applied. The PAR model shows how the causes of vulnerability can be traced back from unsafe conditions, through economic and social (dynamic) pressures, to underlying root causes. The idea is that a disaster i...