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The relationship between philosophy and history covers many topics and their overlapping results in numerous ideas. Surely, it is also due to the fact that philosophy does not repudiate the methods it uses as obsolete. In connection with the history of philosophy it is thus not possible to speak of theories which lost their validity long time ago. Various streams of thought which, in various ways, react to their predecessors were the inhibitors as well as reflections of contemporary historical events. As a result,...

Today more than ever, it can be considered that the management of non-financial key performance indicators is a process of constant improvement in the quality aspect of entire processes, service, products and people. The researcher expects the findings to shed light on the research and to guide future research in determining a standard for non-financial key performance indicators used in a way to communicate information as a single version. By standardising common non-financial key performance indicators, all smal...

Now studying of innovative process is connected with research of model of the open innovation. This model answers calls of the modern market, allows to keep the speed of development of new products demanded in today's conditions. It works on the principle of broad cooperation with third parties: customers, suppliers, research institutes, laboratories and competitors. Inside the company, the work is based on the integration between the departments involved in the innovation process, using different tools, such as i...

The state administration bodies in exercising supervision through the inspectorate exercise control over the activity of administrative bodies, administrative acts, organizations that have public authorizations, economic entities and other institutions, they impose administrative measures in accordance with the legislation. The Republic of Macedonia, like many other countries, competes in European integrations, which require standards related to administrative control, which is also reflected in the inspective con...

The image of the state created by another nation, would seriously affect his image, so the image of the state should be studied comprehensively. Research should not only sociological character, but also needs to involve related Humanities as psychology, linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics. Our study aims to identify Russia's image in the language consciousness of French on the material of the directional associative experiment. The experiment was conducted among the French two generational groups from...

Demographic security is a multifaceted phenomenon. In the study of demographic threats, dozens of indexes are investigated. It is difficult to conduct a comparative analysis of demographic threats in different countries across all indexes. To perform this kind of analysis, it is advisable to use integrated indexes. The construction and application of the integrated indexes in the assessment of various phenomena and processes makes it possible to take into account the main features of the object of research and to ...

The article deals with unveiling the peculiarities of decentralization process of public authority in the states of Central Europe (on the examples of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic). The scientific and theoretical interest in this issue is caused by the necessity of improvement (actual renewal) of a number of basic institutions of democracy and local government in Ukraine. The methodological basis of the investigation involves a set of scientific research methods which are typical of legal science in ...

Background The publication presents the results of a comparative analysis of the problem of environmental protection as it pertains to residential architecture. The study was performed on a group of users of residential projects in Poland and the Netherlands. The two countries are at a different level in terms of the level of knowledge regarding sustainable development and the design of sustainable residential projects. Poland is not at an equal level to the Netherlands. This is mainly because of ineffective educa...

Modern experienced society calls for new ideas and projects that are implemented to ordinary life and its activities. There is no difference in tourism. Through developing new products, regional visits can be supported and bring new tourists to it. Paper brings theoretical overview of regional development based on innovation implementation. The main purpose of the paper is to point to the necessity of innovation implication while developing the region. It points out the theory of regional development with combinat...

Although some types of administration have existed earlier, however, the traditional public administration model actually dates back to the middle of the nineteenth century. Previous administration systems showed an important characteristic. They were "personal", based on loyalty to a particular individual as a king or a minister, instead of being "undetermined" on the basis of legitimacy and loyalty to the organization and the state. Their practices often resulted in corruption or abuse of office for personal gai...

The aim of this research is to determine models of contact between arts different by their nature and to offer a relevant classification. The last could aid to comprehend, how the principles of interaction of arts have changed in historical perspective. Consideration of this problem allows: 1) to propose a new approach for studying of correlations between different arts; 2) to establish ontological correspondences between arts of the same epoch; 3) to develop a method of analysis of means of expression in temporal...

Introduction: The article is focused on interconnection of selected social and health characteristics with regard to the concept of quality of life and social determinants of health according to Wilkinson and Marmot. The selected characteristics include social exclusion and social support and their impact on the health of the Ukrainians living in the Czech Republic. The selected social characteristics were chosen with regard to the 10 social determinants of health: social gradient, stress, childhood, social exclus...

The aim of this paper is to present the Five Ways to Wellbeing method. This original Anglo-Saxon concept in applied the Czech Republic as part of therapeutic interventions for persons with addictions. The experience with this method is described in the qualitative analysis. The ultimate question is whether the Five Ways to Wellbeing method is applicable in the Czech Republic. What are the specifics and whether they are consistent with the conventional methods and procedures used in the target group. Another aim wi...

Efficiency is one of the most important indicators of elite professionalism. Measuring this indicator we reveal the quality of a particular elite community, their professional training and acmeological level. Empirical data only gives an external quality measure. Personal assessments of elite subjects are made In the role of an internal criterion. It is the comparison of the objective and subjective (external and internal) indicator which gives us an adequate assessment of the effectiveness of modern political eli...

The period of 1970-1985 became that period of the highest development of the SPhTI. SPhTI was the country’s leading academic institute in the development of scientific areas related to the solution practically significant problems in the promising fields of science and technology. Among these fields the following should be mentioned the theory of alloys and the development of cold-resistant materials; The theory and development of methods for receiving weak optical radiation, methods for amplifying radio signals o...

The article deals with the structure of the civil society forming in Russia. A lot of attention has been given to this phenomenon recently both in theory and in practical terms. Over the last years, major changes have taken place in the social and political life of Russia. New institutions have appeared. According to their formal features they can be assigned to the elements of civil society. However, there are some opinions that civil society in Russia is still in its infancy. The article analyses the reasons why...

The toponymy of Yakutia is very complex, heterogeneous, and consists of many linguistic strata: Turkic, Tungus-Manchu, Mongolian and Russian. The paper is devoted to study the features of toponyms of Tungus-Manchu origin (Evenk) in Central Yakutia. The comprehensive analysis of the place names data base allows to identify the peculiarities of formation, evolution, interaction and using of these toponyms in Yakutia. Toponymic analysis shows to observe the ancient settlement of indigenous people, the features of the...

The paper examines historical transformations of the unique phenomenon of Soviet culture – the Recreation and Culture Park. Alongside with changing the Soviet ideological project into the specific culture of consumption, the Soviet park was transformed. The authors determine the stages of the Park development and characterize the peculiarities of this culture phenomenon in different periods. Originally, the Park intended to play a new role in the society. It should contribute to the creation of a new human being o...

The system of partner relations of Russian business and government is in the process of formation. The economic crisis is not the best way influenced this process. In a crisis situation, level of investment activity of Russian companies on the background of maintaining the limitations of funding sources (borrowing of credit resources abroad and high interest rates on loans of domestic banking institutions) continued to decline. The negative impact of administrative factors, such as the tightening of the customs re...

The following article is devoted to structural, semantic characteristics of brands and trade mark nominations. The linguistic pragmonim status is not accurately defined because it’s a periphery class in proper name space (onomastics). The purpose of the research is to examine the trademark function in Russian mental space. The selection of study material is caused by methodology and a technique of the analysis. We use the interpretive method to identify the general linguistic and onomastic concepts, the formalizin...

The article focuses on the concept of distributed leadership (DL) in the context of growing uncertainty of organizational environment. The article discusses the study, carried out in 212 organizations - different due to the industry, the size, and form of ownership. The purpose of the study was to determine the relation between organization's environment uncertainty and the degree of leadership distribution. Research hypothesis regarding the relation between the DL and environmental uncertainty was formulated and ...

The goal of this study is to determine the effectiveness of different erasers in performing dry cleaning on unvarnished monochrome samples (painted with acrylics, oils, alkyd oils and gouache). These samples are representative of the problem with modern monochrome works lacking any protective film that might prevent dirt from entering the paint surface--they require careful cleaning procedures taking into consideration the painting materials used, which in many cases are sensitive to certain solvents. For this rea...

Many researches in psycholinguistics concern the study and analysis of the associative meanings of different word-stimuli which allow revealing the forms and the means by which the constituent images of consciousness are stored and maintained. The verbal associative experiment is one of the most suitable methods of studying the psychological, categorical and objective aspects of word meaning. Associative fields embody the nature, structure and the organization of images of consciousness as well as uncover the patt...

Landscape development is a long-term process influenced by many factors. It is primarily affected by human society and its impact is constantly growing which is also reflected in natural processes. Spatial heterogeneity is considered one of the decisive factors of biodiversity as well as ecological stability. The aim of the paper is an analysis and assessment of land use changes and landscape heterogeneity in the town of Handlová and municipalities of Rázto?no and Cige? which are located in Western Slovakia. The s...

The article is devoted to the study of the theory and methods of linguistic analysis of the folklore text. Material for the study consists of Tatar folk tales, baity (tragic folk song). In the study of the vocabulary taken into account baity dedicated to any historical events or personalities, describes the dramatic fate of the women, or personal tragedy. The leading method of research was used such as analysis, observation, experiment, generalization. The use of verbs in fairy tales and in baity has its own chara...

Autobiographicity is a peculiar form of writing based on the personal life experience of the author of a literary work reflecting its facts and events. Limits of the autobiographical character of a literary work are not easy to establish; its investigation requires deep knowledge of the biographical facts of the respective author that is drawn from the analysis of documents of extra-textual reality (letters, contemporaries’ memoirs and evaluations, reviews of the literary work, the biographical information provide...

The purpose of the research consisted in finding elements of theArt of Memory in the work of the prominent author of the Second Sophistic. To achieve this purpose wesubjected to the textual analysis one of the most popular works relating to the Second Sophistic: The Imagines of the Elder Philostratus. Since the Renaissance the book was subject of scientific analysis and, at the same time, source ofinspiration for many artists. Weconcentrated only on searching of elements of the Art of Memory in The Imagines. Excep...

Article is devoted to development of gnoseological approaches to justification of idea kreatosfer of the Arctic on philosophy of a consent and the world. The main theoretical and methodological approaches to concept of a kreatosfer are generalized. Cultural and natural sources kreatosfer of the Arctic are allocated. Kreatosfer are defined structure of formation and modeling. Role of the Arctic in development of the Russian Federation and many other countries it is very great now. In recent years considerably geopo...

Air transport is currently one of the fastest-growing service sectors. People constantly travel for various reasons (tourism, business) to distant locations worldwide. Consequently, analyses of data concerning both passenger and cargo air traffic is of great importance in designing development strategies for regions with airports in their resources. The main purpose of this study is to prepare a forecast of air passenger transport in the one of the airport which is located in south-western of Poland. There are ver...

The research we propose starts from the premise that the classical music composers of the 20th century turned to religious texts written almost 3 millennia ago, and they rediscovered their essences in spite of the social, territorial, linguistic, and religious changes that took place throughout history. Despite the different musical composition techniques used or the origin of the composers, the subject of David’s Psalms is embodied in the work of some of the most prolific creators of the last century (Arnold Scho...

The goal of the study is development of participatory design method in architecture based on mix of techniques brought from social sciences to help municipalities managing planning phase and construction projects of public schools. Methodology was tested on two primary school building projects. Teachers, pupils, parents and local associations were engaged using questionnaires and workshops in several phases of design process. Our main aim was to establish a two-way channel for exchange of information among future ...

The paper enlarges existing anthropological ontologies on the basis of the theory of complexity, self-organization and nonlocal quantum phenomena. Since recently they have been facilitating quantum-synergetic revolution in NBICS technologies, information quantum theory and physics of the living and are considered to be most promising for the development of artificial intelligence and transhumanism. For this purposes it is suggested to introduce ontologies of states and temporal ontologies of generalized corporalit...

E.O. Wilson, the founder of sociobiology, presents in his work Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge from 1998 a conjecture that postmodernism as a principal line of thought at the end of the 20th century, which is inherent in the mainstream social sciences and humanities, closes the door to the unity of knowledge - the so-called consilience. The purpose of this study was to analyse the possibilities of the consilience of knowledge in humanities and natural and social sciences in the state of postmodern crisis of an...

Demographic security of any state is determined not only by external, but also by internal threats in the population. A growing and quite representative layer of homeless people is a special kind of internal demographic threats. These people almost always fall out of the life of society, both socially and demographically. The presence of a layer of homeless people is multifaceted, because it manifests itself in a variety of ways. The comprehensive scientific research is needed to successfully implement any project...

The main objective of this paper is to design mechanisms that would be applicable as solutions in the current economic conditions of the Slovak Republic to increase the sustainability of the first tier of the Slovak pension system. The wrong genetic code of the first tier, which was based on a pay as you go philosophy, was a significant cause of the annual increase of public debt. Part of the objective is also to analyse current approaches to the pension system with a focus on the history of political intervention...

Mindfulness has been successfully practiced for over 2,500 years with the goal to “quiet the mind’s constant chattering: thoughts, anxieties, and regrets” [14]. Organizational mindfulness refers to a combination of observation of existing expectations and willingness to invent new expectations, and identification of new possible dimensions with aim to improve foresight and current functioning of the organization, in addition to swiftly act in response to emerging threats [15]. According to Jacqueline Carte [3], mi...

Senior education, which has its specific features, is becoming one of the priorities in the present era of ageing of population, especially in Europe. Different kinds of courses are offered to seniors by so called Universities of the Third Age which have been established in the Czech Republic. Courses in foreign languages belong to the most popular and most demanded ones. Teaching at courses in foreign languages offered to seniors has to be adapted to the specific features of adult learners but it also cannot igno...

For Ricoeur, the discourse of action – more specifically, the ‘say your doing’ – can and must be examined from different levels and from different traditional philosophical per-spectives, as follows: (1) conceptual analysis (i.e. the analysis of concepts used to de-scribe action), (2) logical analysis of statements of action (i.e. the proposition by which action is expressed and represented), and (3) the logic of action (i.e. the argumentative construction through which a strategy of action is built and justified ...

This article is dedicated to the study of water archetype in the poetic texts of the Silver Age. The paper presents a theory of the study of the concept “archetype”. Philosophers, linguists and psychologists have been interested in a matter of what an archetype is for a long time The majority of scientists agree that an archetype is an archaic phenomenon, which manifests itself in myths and folklore. Special attention in the article has been given to the distinction between the linguistic and artistic metaphors-ar...

The main objective of this study is to find out the impact of labor force emigration abroad on labor market in the country of origin by means of a dual approach. Solving this problem required an analysis and assessment of specific contexts in labor market trends - employment, unemployment, wage levels, the number of free jobs and labor emigration. Several economic criteria are developed in the study and the effects of labor emigration on labor market are recalculated by means of mathematical calculations. The impl...

Nowadays, in the context of changes in teaching, the education of a man is coming to the foreground who would learn to link the knowledge of different fields of science to the knowledge and acquisition of values that promote the social way of life, living in associations of individuals. The teacher and his personality, professional competencies, ability to create a positive climate in the classroom are significant factors in fulfilling such education. The classroom climate greatly affects the overall results of sc...

The article reveals the essence of the region's innovation infrastructure as a factor in increasing the efficiency of industrial enterprises. The relevance of the topic is due to the fact that the path of innovative development of industrial enterprises in the Russian Federation, based on knowledge, on the change in the economic structure in favor of high-tech industries, to increase human capital, becomes the only possible way of development in the modern economics. Today, innovation is a component of the busines...

The deep crisis that has hit Italy since 2008 is perhaps the worst since the second World War to date. According to the last studies by the Italian National Association of Building Contractors, the construction sector in Italy saw an unprecedented decline: between 2008 and 2015, investments in new residential buildings have collapsed more than 60%, those in non-residential 35% and public works about 50%, altogether 70 billion less. Even in terms of builders, between 2008 and 2014, more than 100,000 small and mediu...

Today the name of Sebastiene Le Prêtre de Vauban is considered to be some kind of equivalent to the bastioned fortification itself. Of course his impact to the European fortification of the late XVII – early XVIII centuries was great. Nevertheless his ideas and his famous “three systems of fortification” were the result of the evolution of ideas that took place in France during the second half of the XVI - the early XVII centuries. Among the most prominent antecedents of Vauban there were J. Errard De Bar-le-Duc, ...

Based on the presently known demographic data for the period of the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945, the author identifies and analyzes the aspects (mobilization to the front, high mortality rate) that have influenced on the change in the population size of the Yakut Republic and also makes a comparison with the respective data concerning the population of Russia and Siberia. The problem of the population size in the regions during wartime was studied by such scientists as V.B. Zhiromskaya, V.V. Alekseev, V.?. Isup...

Proper management of the innovative processes in the European regions is considered to be the key necessary to maintain position of the European economy in the world. The innovative processes are directed primarily by regional innovation strategies. Experiences of the first years of functioning of these instruments in Poland show that their implementation encountered among others awareness barriers, manifested in insufficient coordination and complexity of operations with insufficient activity of the innovation sy...

Recent changes in the business environment exposed the insufficiency of financial data traditionally presented in financial statements. Available researches emphasize that recipients of financial statements demand comprehensive data about the business activity. Modern accounting faces the formidable challenge to reflect company’s values not only by financial data but also by non-financial disclosures. The need for non-financial data disclosures has also been noticed by the Institutions of the European Union. The a...

The paper deals with an experimental application of computational linguistic analysis of Czech text in psychological assessment and psychodiagnostics. The paper presents the design and methodology of an interdisciplinary research CPACT (Computational Psycholinguistic Analysis of Czech Text), as well as its predecessor and pilot study QPA-FPT (Quantitative Psycholinguistic Analysis of Formal Parameters of Czech Text). The CPACT research aims to understand the relations between a person’s personal characteristics an...

In recent years large Russian companies persistently face significant demand of the society to provide it with extensive information on their activities which, in particular, should include reporting on corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues. In previous studies, we have identified the correlation between corporate social policy of a large enterprise and the level of social pollution caused by the entity’s activities in the territory of its location, and hence the level of labor resources' well-being. The re...

Penalties for the offence of stalking have a short history in Polish law. Article 190a was added to the penal code in 2011, and Section 190a §1 states: “Anyone who, through the persistent harassment of another person or another person's next of kin, creates a justified sense of danger or significantly violates the person's privacy, is subject to imprisonment for up to three years”. There was difficulty counteracting this offence prior to the 2011 Criminal Code amendment because previous rules did not always provid...