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The article presents the results of the study, aiming at substantiation of approaches to the phenomenon definition of «secondary cities», specificity of its manifestation in emerging markets countries. The authors emphasize the importance of «secondary cities», (or secondary tiers cities) in development of national urban systems in emerging markets countries. To confirm this argument, the following factors are used: firstly, a significant number of secondary cities; secondly, intensification of polarization proces...

Being aware of and accepting the fact that English is Language No. 1 in the present world, we can come to the conclusion that this reality can be used and relied upon in the process of teaching other foreign languages. Languages cannot be taught in an isolated way - experience with language learning and teaching results in the establishment of so called "interlanguage". The experience gained through the earlier process of learning the mother tongue and a foreign language (or foreign languages) can support and/or n...

The article studies some aspects of commemoration as exemplified by existing monuments, architectural objects of Yakutia devoted to the Second World War. The issue of commemoration has been studied by foreign researchers ?. Halbwachs, P. Nore, A. Megil, J.K. Olick, J. Robbins, G. Mink, L. Neumayer, E.-C. Onken, F. Martinez, K.L. Klein, A. Confino, ?. Assmann as well as by Russian scholars G. Okladnikova, E. Kandaryan, ?.I. Krasilnikova, ?.I. Miller, ?.V. Romanovskaya etc. However, there are no works on commemorati...

The Romanian insolvency law covers extensively the reorganization phase of the debtor, in accordance with the European legislation in this field. However, the practice has proved that the period between the approval of the creditors of the reorganization plan up to the actual applicability of the measures contained by the plan may lead to question the efficiency of the plan. The article aims to underline the importance of the reorganization plan for both the debtor in insolvency, as well as for its creditors, by c...

The given scientific paper is devoted to a thorough consideration of such topical and socially significant issues as the acute problems of migrants’ adaptation to the values, traditions, customs of European culture as well as various sociocultural consequences of the current global migration crisis in the context of the new world order. The civilizational and cultural differences between migrants and titular nations on the territorial locations of Western European countries under consideration allow to identify th...

There are various ways of images digitizing (reconstruction, conservation) for different sites and monuments of cultural heritage. In this article, one of such methods is considered: the vector method of reconstructing images for textures that could be used for virtual three-dimensional reconstruction. The actual problems of restoration of lost fragments of frescoes from archive photographs in the absence of access to the monument and the possibility of scanning are discussed. Various methods of digital image rest...

The assessment of traditional components as part of the material cultural heritage is an essential element in the development of the cultural tourism. The south-western area of Romania, especially the Banat geographical area, on a rather extensive area, within the rural areas and small and medium-sized towns, faces a rather large economic problem. This was determined by the shift from a censored socialist economy to a free market economy, after which there has been registered a process of restricting the industria...

The article deals with the results of an empirical study conducted within the framework of the project "Social risks of international youth migration in contemporary Russia". The purpose of the presented study is to identify and assess the main social risks that are constructed in the Russian society in the context of international migration. The telephone survey was used as the main method of gathering empirical information. In 2017, two surveys were conducted covering 15 regions in all federal units; the total n...

In the context of local self-government, the Europeanization process includes the "top-down" component (i.e. changes in policies, actions, preferences and participants in local governance resulting from the negotiation and implementation of EU programs and policies), "bottom-up" component (i.e. transfer of innovative urban practices to a supranational arena for the purpose of incorporating local initiatives in pan-European policies and programs) and the horizontal component. This paper focuses on the horizontal Eu...

At present, the packaging is the seller of the goods. In many cases, the quality of goods and packaging design should be interrelated, because the overestimated design and the average quality of the goods are not compatible. This can lead to a failure in the introduction of the product to the market. Overabundance of goods and packages made consumers of products "capricious buyers." In a store, a buyer more often buys a product known to him and there is an ever smaller percentage of buyers who buy a new product, l...

Fanny Burney at 15 wrote in her diary addressing her thoughts to ‘Nobody’, to her silent self and interlocutor. Nobody learnt about this fact until her diaries were published. She became famous with her first epistolary novel about a young lady entering the world, though in the Preface to the novel the author pretended to be an editor of the letters. Her writing could be compared to contemporary blogs. Novelty and variety of subjects, personally coloured irony and wit, acute eyesight, ability to entertain a reader...

The following thesis focuses on the issues regarding life satisfaction and the impact of well-being on physical and mental health of coalition soldiers during their deployment on a military operation in the Middle East area. The authors’ fundamental research question is how the military operational environment affects the life satisfaction of deployed soldiers and thus affects their health. Obviously, life satisfaction is influenced by the military work activities and specifically in an armed conflict environment....

Locative constructions describe various aspects of event’s positioning in the three-dimensional space according to the concrete place of its accomplishment, in particular Earth. This type of location is usually considered to be weekly connected with the characteristics of the event in question. However, this specification is highly important for the semantic interpretation of the text as well as understanding the whole structure of the situation. In the prepositional system of Russian there are many items oriented...

While analyzing various models of socialization and construction of self, it is argued in favour of Milton Bennett's developmental model of intercultural sensitivity and the importance of intercultural communicative competence. Classical developmental models elaborated by authors such as Sigmund Freud, Lawrence Kohlberg, Peter Berger and, Thomas Luckmann emphasize the relevance of primary and secondary socialization; some of them also considered defence mechanisms against alternative cultural and symbolic worlds. ...

System comprise Elements, relationships, and purposes. Precisely because of the complexity of the system, when we solve complex problems, if we use simple thinking, the result will not be satisfactory. Therefore, systematic thinking is a better way of solving complex problems. As Stefan Moritz said, “Service Design is not a new specialist design discipline. It is a new multi-disciplinary platform of expertise”, service design is a complex platform. In order to create a systematic concept or service, the service de...

Background. Online therapy has been making progress over the last 50 years, both in the world and in Romania. However, more details are needed to increase addressability to this form of therapy. Methods. Since 2011, we have developed the “Gandeste Sanatos” (Think Healthy) program, a cognitive behavioral online psychotherapy program. The program consists of several modules designed for customer education for therapy followed by specific information for several disorders: anxiety, depression, panic disorder obsessiv...

This research concerns the mystery as epistemological and aesthetic category. The objective of this paper is mystery as the particular form of conscious. The main target is the esthetical hypostasis of mystery and its role in art’s evolution. Phenomenological conception of conscious by E. Husserl is the base of the research as the method. It is dedicated to phenomenological conception of conscious and we emphasize the intentionality is the most important issue of this conception. Subsequently we consider that the ...

Introduction: Breast cancer belongs to the most frequent types of cancer in women and its incidence has been increasing worldwide. Mastectomy is one of the treatment options. Breasts represent the symbol of feminity and motherhood, therefore, their loss or surgery resulting in a shape deformity or a scar may lead to psychological problems and low self-esteem. The work aimed to determine the level of overall life satisfaction and the differences in individual scales after complete or partial mastectomy in women. Me...

It is widely recognized that Social Capital and Social Support are phenomena influencing start-up creation, development and business success or failure. Trying to develop startup means to experience high levels uncertainty and it is essential to understand the possibilities to reduce the levels of uncertainty in the way the startup developer will perceive that. The research task is to find the forms of social capital and sources of social support the startup owners perceive the best. The aim of research is to inve...

In the path of gender transition, the body may assume a very important role. Through gender transition it is possible to undertake hormonal treatments, surgical operations in order to modify the primary or secondary sexual characteristics, but also other practices of body change and care not bounded to the medical context. These possible interventions or actions may imply different processes of change, meanings and needs, sometimes with doubts and difficulties, for the person in transition who is engaged in giving...

In the Czech Republic is possible to see a new trend in emergency medicine – building new departments of urgent medicine (DUM). These workplaces we can call Emergency or urgent reception department. Creation of these departments is connected with high development of urgent medicine and new styles and possibilities of care about patients. Emergency departments are officially an education centers for all medical personnel (medics, paramedics and nurses) too. Unfortunately, we don’t have some recommendations and meth...

As a result of Ukraine’s independence and its proclamation as a law-governed state, it became necessary to regulate the scientific, technical and production potential of the space industry formed during the time of the Soviet Union under the rules of Ukraine law. Therefore, the Supreme Council of the Ukraine Parliament, Verkhovna Rada, adopted the Law “On Space Activities” No. 502/96-VR on November 15 1996, and this remains in force today. Since 1993, Ukraine space activity implementation has been based on the fol...

Objectives: In this study parent-child and parent-teacher accordance was examined concerning children’s behavioral and emotional problems in secondary school students depending on children’s social-emotional competencies. The main aim of the study was to analyze the agreement or disagreement between parent and child ratings on children’s behavioral problems and to examine the extent of this congruence. Methods: Participants were selected from a Hungarian minority group of 561 children (N=561) from Romania, aged be...

Human identity is constitutively ‘historical’, as well as cultural and a narrative. History is the quintessence of us, as human beings that live in a certain epoch and within a certain culture. But because of the fact that this formation and configuration of our personal identity is rooted in historical, psychological and linguistic (Steiner) mechanisms of representation, then by modifying certain representational axes (i.e., modifying culture, narration, lifestyle practices…) not only may we modify the meaning an...

The article examines correlation between the existing principles of state competition policy and innovative economic development. A perfect competition model has been currently adopted as an ideal sample of the commodities market state, being characterized by a sufficient number of sellers and buyers, when none of them can decisively influence market prices. Consequently, countries endeavor to bring real markets conditions closer to this ideal state by competitive policy, that occur in dedicated state effort to re...

The main aim of the paper is to examine the role of creative placemaking in shaping the urban environment in Polish cities. It also focuses on challenges and obstacles that creative placemaking projects encounter in Polish realities. Creative placemaking is a “micro-development” strategy (Johnson 2009) that focuses on cultural participation, community engagement and highlights the social role of arts and culture. Artistic interventions provide new perspectives that are not only aesthetic, but also connected with s...

The availability of high-quality and skilled workers is one of the basic prerequisites for the development of the country's economy, together with the technical level and equipment. States seek to promote the education and qualifications of their people. It is an investment in human capital. Human capital is unstable and can migrate, thus contributing to the economic development of other countries or regions (brain drain, brain gain). This phenomenon has not only demographic and sociological but also economic impa...

Persons with disabilities, constituting one of the largest minorities in the world, experience a difficult situation on the labour market and are particularly vulnerable to marginalization resulting from unemployment. In Poland, similarly to other countries, persons with disabilities are characterized by the significantly low activity on the labour market. They are more frequently unemployed and less often take up work comparing to people without disabilities. The survey and the subject literature review carried o...

Online education has become a widespread phenomenon, the dynamic development of which contributes to global educated community formation. The paper reviews changes in educational paradigm that took place in the last decades. These changes concern role of online learning in the present-day society and technologies used for its implementation. Online language learning requires special methodological and technological solutions. The concept of online learning for the Arabic language is fundamentally different from th...

The aim of the research was answering the question of the possible form of concluding the contract for disposal of shares in a Polish limited liability company when the seller is a partner being a foreign person. The issue of the applicable law in the form of contract for disposal of shares in a Polish limited liability company by a partner who is a foreign person is regulated by Rome I Regulation. The contract concluded between persons who remain in the same at the time of concluding thereof is formally valid pro...

Health education has been part of lower secondary education in the Czech Republic for a decade. It is included in the Framework educational programme for elementary education under the educational are Man and health. The purpose of Health education is to promote an active and responsible approach to health, shape adequate lifestyle habits, develop students’ health literacy, and take a formative role in the prevention of risk behaviour. The objective of the research study entitled ‘Health education from the perspec...

The article highlights the way of adapting the constructive techniques in the Banat high plain (South-West of Romania) during the colonization of the territory from the 18th century by the Habsburg Empire. Due to the lack of other natural resources, earth was the preferred building material for realizing the new settlers housing. The study pursues the analysis of physical properties (granulometric curve, characteristic humidity, plasticity limit, compression strength ) of local earth mixed with natural fibers used...

The French composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a colourful and enigmatic figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde. Being active in several spheres of art, in an atmosphere of fin de siècle, he proposed and implemented the concept of musique d'ameublement (“furniture music”). In his vision music was supposed to play an extravagant role (as it was perceived in that period) of an acoustic background accompanying all daily events and not absorbing the attention of the listener. Satie’s idea can be treated...

The new normality of individual and business life is increasingly built up under the influence of the key role of digital technology. Economic agents operate in unprecedented global engagement and continuously expanding business opportunities and information sharing capabilities. The information society transforms the restrictive conditions of place and time into factors of relative importance. Digital technologies go deep in a wide range of everyday and routine business processes and cause changes with significan...

Background: Healthcare associated infection generally poses a major risk for healthcare professionals. In addition, acute and intensive care is specific because there is often a very first contact between the health care worker and the patient. Blood-borne infections, which represent a major complication for healthcare professionals, are perceived as one of the most risky injuries, particularly in connection with needle-stick injuries. The first objective of the research was to verify the selected theoretical know...

Some basic characteristics of university culture are considered from the viewpoint of socio-cultural, structural and resource approaches, some formal and informal features of a group of professors as an elite professional group in the professional entity of academic staff are showed, for they are the guardians of traditions and they transfer the university culture. The deformation ratio of formal and informal features of that professional group is reported. The emphasis is laid on the importance of the traditions ...

Recruitment is one of the main areas that embraced social environments as a universal employment tool, and 92% of recruiters have confirmed its use as part of their employment process. Typical options, such as search engines, are quite limited in providing a fair deal, and therefore the aim of the paper is to show an innovative solution tailored to the Romanian HR sector advancing several Digital Intelligence Interaction (DII) tools developed using both cloud service frameworks and Natural Language Processing (NLP...

First habits connected to alcohol drinking young people gain in the family. Misuse of alcohol and other addictive substances in young people is often connected to complex family situations and family problems while drinking model is primarily developed in peer groups. The aim of this study was to examine the connection between young people’s perception of parental acceptance-rejection, peer pressure and some sociodemographic characteristic (gender, family structure, parent's education, subjective estimation of fam...

In this paper, one of the "problem zones" of mathematics is presented by computer and mathematical modeling. The study concerns the problem of learning of complex concept of the surface area mastering by students understanding. Students construct the multifaceted surfaces of Schwartz cylinder (or "boot") using computer and mathematical and adapt the most important generalized constructions to the actual position of mathematical knowledge concerning the analysis and the essence of the "problem zone" of surface area...

Solidarity is a natural social requirement and represents the link that binds human beings together in mutually supportive relationships. Sometimes this link can break and people find themselves destitute, in difficulty, in loneliness, illness, rupture. To meet these needs, people are involved in charitable organizations, religious or not. Those people and organizations committed to the defense of human rights, for development and against poverty, for justice and peace, work for a culture of life. Christians certa...

This paper deals with the topic of selected social determinants and their influence on the choice of leisure-time activities. Our intention is to present the results of own research which was carried out in the form of a questionnaire survey in 2016. One of its main objectives was to find out whether the selected social determinants (gender, age, education, fathers and mothers education and employment status) have the influence on choice of leisure-time activities within different types of social groups. For this ...

New knowledge and innovations have been developing as a resource of economic stability and growth in recent years. That is why territories become more dependent on the level of new knowledge and innovations. In view of the specified current trends of world economy development, which initiate generation functioning of a new type on the basis of the network concept, it is necessary to consider features of interaction of regional economy subjects in the context of cluster and network collaboration, as well as the con...

In recent times, in the context of the contemporary anthropocentric linguistics, when the study of the pragmatic aspect of the language system functioning becomes particularly relevant, many linguists turned to an issue of particles that are the universal explicators of the semantic and pragmatic meanings (refer to works of A. Wierzbicka, T.M. Nikolaeva, I.M. Boguslavskiy and others). Despite very active and rather fruitful studying of particles, that for a long time had remained on the periphery of research inter...

In order to determine the content of different biochemical components in sweet potato tubers under the conditions of sandy soils from D?buleni, the following varieties were studied: Yulmi, Juhwangmi, Hayanmi, KSP 1, KSC 1, grown in transparent mulch culture, in the first decade of May, in the climatic conditions of the period, 2015-2017. All varieties studied showed a total dry matter content of over 30% and the highest content was determined for KSC1 (38.87%). Also, the results obtained with respect to the conten...

At present, one of the main cardinal factors is the question of economic governance and the sustainability of business entities. The issue of financial and economic analyzes contributes significantly to decisions in the field of corporate management. One of the essential dispositions of each manager is an understanding of financial theory. The aim of the contribution is to point out the sustainability of the company's performance, with an accent on economic performance and indicators of the company's economic perf...

The article presents a brief analysis of sound environmental, economic and technological policy in solving the problem of education in the field of municipal solid waste (MSW) management. The authors make emphases on methodology features of educational activity when training specialists in the field of solid waste management. It is revealed that the creation of a new productive industry is impossible without professional training of specialists, who comprehend the problem, have a good handle in the solid waste pro...

Contemporary brain activity monitoring is called Hemoencephalography (HEG), which shows the quantitative changes in brain activity in a different way. Hemoencephalographic neurofeedback training is a modern alternative to physiologically affect the condition in children with ASD, ADHD and other deviations in mental development. Hemoencephalographic neurofeedback can also be used as an alternative supportive therapy in other conditions with frontal lobe pathology alone or in combination with established drug therap...

The article reveals the importance of the religious factor in the making of culture; examines the mechanism of interaction of knowledge and will in the formulation of moral imperatives, and also proved the impossibility of social morality in society without religious Absolutes. Culture has hundreds of definitions, the content of which can be clarified as in the context of its correlation with various facets of socio-historical life, and with philosophical categories. Due to the multiplicity of manifestations and g...

The article presents the results of a regional study devoted to the study of strategies and practices of self-preserving behavior of young people. The results of the sociological research showed that most young people consider health to be one of the important values and try to lead a healthy lifestyle, namely: to look at life with optimism, exercise, watch their weight, eat right, pay attention to the shelf life and composition purchased products, do not smoke, limit alcohol consumption, etc. The main factors tha...

The article is devoted to the topical problem of energy security in East Asia under the context of the unfolding struggle of the major powers in this region for priority access to energy sources from Russia, the Middle East and fields in the East China and South China seas. The problems of bilateral and multilateral energy cooperation, ways of its institutionalization in the context of the prospects of the formation of a common region-wide energy space are depicted in this article. The authors note that the territ...