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The article deals with the National Qualifications Framework tertiary education in the Czech Republic and its implementation. The theoretical part of the article deals with so-called descriptors. These descriptors are outputs from learning and we use them to describe general abilities, knowledge and skills, which students learn in given subject. The aim of the practical part of the article is to present the way of solutions and outcomes of the project „The innovation of Microeconomics course with a focus on the ch...

In the age of globalization, international loans and sovereign default probabilities have become one of the main topics of finance. Many severe economic crises have occurred on financial markets in the last decades. Therefore, the problem of measuring countries’ default probabilities due to their external debt obligations has attracted the interest of many researchers. In recent literature there are many studies that use quantitative methods and machine learning techniques to predict countries defaults. Past studi...

{Purpose}. Advertising contributes to the emergence of a new reality, characterized by increasing the integrity of the variety of different cultures, traditions, religions and values. Modern social relations and globalization processes actualize the question of identity of any culture. Modern advertising involves the context of another culture, appealing to basic ideals of their culture, taking into account cultural identity of perception. The purpose of the research - to analyze the phenomenon of advertising in t...

In this article, the autors wanted to expose that the Internet has become very important tool of political communication between citizens and political representatives in modern world and that its importance is increasing. In recent years the advent of new tools and social networks demonstrates true strenght of medium such as the Internet. The Internet, as a new medium, appeared quite recently, at the end of the 20th century. This medium creates new opportunities in political communication. Besides direct access t...

This paper presents the results of a study of cultural concepts on the material of the Yakut language. It deals with the analysis of binary concepts: LIFE / DEATH, GOOD / EVIL, LOVE / HATRED. These are basic cultural concepts that classify the world. In this case we focus on the relations between language and culture according to approaches “language as a cultural resource” (Duranti Alessandro, 1997) and “language as a general cultural phenomenon” (Marcel Danesi, 2004). Words and its meanings, collocations and sen...

It is interesting to follow the process of modernization in industrial metallurgy of the Ural and how it has been realized for three hundred years of its existence and what characteristic features it has had in each period of its development. However, until recently, there was no common, scientifically accepted historical periodization of the metallurgy industry in the Urals, although a number of authors considered the problem. To the authors questions of the periodization of the history of metallurgy in the Urals...

Human Development Index is a composite statistic currently viewed as an indicator of “quality of life”. The rankings of the world’s countries were assessed by the authors to determine the level of compliance with Human Development Index. The results of the comparative analysis defining the potential opportunities for building “smart cities” are presented below. The top 14 countries, ranked by Gross Domestic Product, were assessed over such categories as: education, Information and Communication technology developm...

The paper is based on a case study of flipped classroom approach to teaching English for specific purposes. The major goals of the pedagogic experiment were to create and implement an online classroom to increase the number of academic hours dedicated to learning English for professional communication at university level. The idea behind the experiment was to foster active learning as well as create accessible learning environment that would challenge students outside the classroom and save on-site time for produc...

Sustainable transport has become an important concept as a reaction to global climate changes. Climate change has always belonged among main factors in human society development. Recently such global changes have been gaining speed and strength. The main motor of these changes is increases in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions originated in energy, industry and transport sectors. This is the reason why the Czech Republic adopted a document called Climate Protection Policy. The aim of this policy is to reduce negative ...

The proof of differentiation of estimates of quality and availability of services of institutions of infrastructure and satisfaction with the living environment with families of the different types living in city and rural areas of Russia acts as the purpose of work. Conclusions of a research are constructed on the analysis of data of the official statistical account during 2005-2014 and results of the representative selective research "Complex Observation of Living Conditions of the Population" conducted in the m...

Lithuania has been facing the problem of declining reading skills of primary school children for more than a decade. The majority of pupils will have achieved only low and satisfactory text comprehension levels by the end of the fourth grade, whereas the numbers of pupils who have achieved basic and intermediate levels in reading are considerably lower. The science and practice of the Lithuanian language teaching is searching for answers to this problem, however, there are no placement tests in Lithuania to measur...

Only intensified technological acceleration is capable to provide sustainable development in conditions when annually the number of consumers of culture increases almost by 100 million people. Effective methods of art have to change essentially in these conditions. The analysis of the main lines of topical art process allows to conclude that the replication becomes a basis of preservation and expansion of experience, and the art sphere turns into space of copies. It is possible to see rather clear tendency to fadi...

The article analyzes the trend in the balance of forces between the Western countries and a group of rapidly developing countries of the BRICS group of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. BRICS demonstrate the very different path of development, but all of them are intensively the processes of modernization and technological renovation of production areas. The analysis on several fronts: features BRICS as an international organization; modernization of the economy; trade relations between the BRICS coun...

The article substantiates the role of education, proposes and confirms the hypothesis about the importance and necessity of social partnerships for financing and development of education in knowledge- driven economy. To confirm the advanced hypotheses we studied the evolution of concepts of social interaction and social responsibility to justify patterns of social partnerships in the knowledge-driven economy that allowed us, using the model of "triple helix", to show the necessity of the collaboration of governmen...

Social networks are a noteworthy opportunity to build a more caring and responsible society, a practice that is assimilated by learning to use the Web in a conscious way. The media competence takes the form of expertise both to active participation to the Web and to society. The focus is on the need to acquire the know-how to exploit the media, with particular reference to social networks, in a clever way so as to meke them intelligent instruments (Rheingold, 2013). From an educational point of view, social networ...

Micro-enterprises employing up to 9 employees are the largest group of SMEs. These are the companies that are highly sensitive to the variability of the environment and the quality of the business environment. This specific group of companies often does not have appropriate financial resources necessary to be competitive in the market and has low human and intellectual resources. These distinctive characteristics make micro-enterprises be a frequent beneficiary of external sources of financing. The information on ...

This article presents philosophical analysis of such a phenomenon as video games. Today, video games represent a major part of modern culture, which requires a specific research to be carried out. Without studying the ontology of video games it is impossible to give clear answers to such questions as: What are video games? How are they built? It is our goal to disclose and analyze the ontologies in the framework of which video games exist. We need to note that there is no such thing as universal ontology of video ...

Healthcare research pursues, most of the time, to find natural sources of bioactive compounds for treatment of various diseases. A source of natural compounds with therapeutically effect is represented by plants that have been used, for thousands years, in traditional medicine. Usnea barbata L. is a lichen – a symbiotic organism with a special structure: fungus and alga. In this case, the resulted thallus, is very different in structure, properties and natural compounds, to the two plants taken separately. These m...

The article presents the conceptual framework for strategic management of the portfolio of innovative projects. We determined the definitions, aims, tasks, principles and stages of strategic portfolio management, the main directions of concept realization, methodical and instrumental base. This article proposes a mechanism for the formation of a resource-saving system, which contains an analysis of the factors influencing the effective use of resources, modification of the current resource-saving processes. We vie...

The article explores the system arrangement and determination of a methodology of a new scientific branch in the system of financial law – regional financial law. The work is an attempt to analyze a possible development of the financial law system through changing approaches in the methodology of studying financial law, meaning consideration of financial law system not only horizontally but also vertically, highlighting a new trend in the study of financial law – regional financial law, which, in the authors view,...

Transformation processes in the modern economy have led to changes in labour sphere, which affected the employment relationship between employers and hired workers. On the one hand, the employer now has mostly a dominant role in the labour relationship that allows him to dictate their own often precarious employment terms to hired workers. On the other hand, employees demonstrate their willingness to work without a written employment contract that guarantees the observance of social guarantees, as well as for low ...

Tough competition caused by a market economy makes thousands of enterprises and organisations in any region of the world and under any economic conditions focus on quality management and quality assurance, which makes it necessary to persistently develop and introduce new quality systems, programmes and standards. Quality assurance is necessary for an enterprise to stay in business and increase the number of customers and, therefore, raise sales, as well as to ensure a stable, steady and fully controlled process o...

Many foreign and Russian research papers have been devoted to the successful mastering of foreign languages by bilingual students. Although this problem is sufficiently studied in many languages, the problem of teaching bilinguals is still relevant nowadays and requires a further in-depth study. It is interesting to consider this issue in the context of comparing the phonological systems of two unrelated languages: German and Yakut. The article deals with the problems of teaching the German language to bilingual s...

Background: Cardiovascular diseases constitute one of the main causes of deaths in Europe. They also rank among the most frequent causes of disability. That leads to high economic burden. The occurrence of those diseases is strongly related with life style and risk factors. Influencing of these factors in ill patients within secondary prevention and in risk factors within primary prevention will significantly reduce morbidity and mortality. Motivation is essential in the process of influencing of risk factors. It ...

The oeuvre of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was influenced by the major tenets of Symbolism of the end of the XIX century and German Expressionism of the beginning of the XX century, which allowed the painter to express the depths of meaning of life through visual signs. The objective of our research is to determine the artistic concept of the paintings “Melancholy”, “Separation”, “The Dance of Life” by Edvard Munch as representants of his major cycle of works “The Frieze of Life”. The methodology of the resea...

The research aim of this paper is to reveal the repertoire and the role of personalized images in the overall structure of the image of Europe as perceived by the young generation in today’s Russia. The study is based on the theoretical model of the image of Europe as an integral part of the political picture of the world, this model encompasses the methodological approaches of phenomenology, constructivism and visual sociology. Twelve focus group discussions with representatives of various groups of youth includi...

This work will describe, summarize and present the up to day results of the excavation from a cave site, Lion’s cave on Hymettus Mountain in Attica. The excavations are a joint project of the University of Athens and the Eforate of Speleology and Paleoanthropology. It is is an interdisciplinary research project organized and directed by the author of this article and a number of specialists in archaeological and palaeoenvironmental disciplines are participating. A considerable number of students from the National ...

The object of the given study, which defines the topic of our research, is the discursive creolized metaphor as a cognitive key to decoding a semiotically complicated (polycode) text. The present-day scholars focus on the problem of correlation of signs of different semiotic systems and different codes, which leads to the appearance of the term “the creolized (or polycode) text”. The creolized text is a text with a complex form combining elements of two or more different semiotic systems that, being interconnected...

The development of transport infrastructure is an important factor in the economic growth of the territory. The ability to predict the transport demand and traffic on the road network is vital for development of regional and urban transport system. Agent based modelling has emerged as a practice tool of traffic and transport planning in re-gion and urban area. The purpose of the research is to assess the possibility of using agent based models for transport planning in Russian regions and cities. In order to reach...

In the context of a need for lifelong learning as a factor determining success of a modern qualified specialist in the international labor market, assertiveness and creativity of an individual throughout the process of self-education are of a top priority. Formation of the latter is in the stage of a significant progress during the period of study at university, since by this very moment students have formed a conscious attitude towards such activities, connected with vision of their future professional growth. Th...

In this paper I am going to focus on the work of the Czech writer Karel Capek, who lived in the first half of the 20th century, as it was perceived by the Czech exile literary critics and Western scholars specialized in Czech studies. This author enjoyed great popularity in Britain in the period between the two world wars, but his works had gradually fallen into oblivion over time, perhaps except for his play RUR, which enriched the English language with the word robot, and the novel War with the Newts. I am going...

Some offences under Polish law are codified in Acts other than the Criminal Code. For example, Criminal Liability is regulate in the 14th chapter of the Act of 4th February 1994 “Law on Copyright and Related Rights”. The most important offences legislated are acts of plagiarism and copyright piracy. The first offence is codified in Article 115 and the second in Articles 116 and 117. Plagiarism is prosecuted ex officio, with maximum penalty up to 3 years imprisonment, and Copyright piracy is prosecuted on a complai...

In this paper we extend an existing approach developed by M. Abrams to the analysis of Russian youth’s consumer behavior in the field of fashion. The major research objective was to clarify whether the choice of fashion clothes constitutes a certain form of consumer behavior and, if so, which factors affect this social activity. {{Methodology.}} Fashion as a phenomenon has been considered from the standpoint of the concept of imitation, the theory of demonstrative consumption, theories of postmodernism, theory of ...

This presentation examines the origin of the productive and multifunctional1 derivational suffix -?k of the Udmurt language, using the material of the Turku-Izhevsk Corpus. Two opposing views have been put forward as to the origin of this suffix: the first one posits that it is the result of the fusion of two different derivational suffixes (a reflexive and a frequentantive one), whereas the other one hypothesizes one single (frequentantive) derivational suffix from which it developed. When she posits two differen...

The paper discusses the pictorial data received in the survey in 1994 and 2012 as the result of the task consisting in drawing a picture of a representative of a given nation. Treated as evidence of mental representations, the pictures are examined on account of the occurrence of the traces of the past and studied as manifestations of dynamic collective memory of the group.

Nowadays companies due to the growing external influence are placing greater emphasis on social responsibility, they are not only paying attention to these activities, but also supporting these from their resources, which is often very different from the central economic beliefs. Very often the expectations are vague, but powerful, nevertheless it is worth dealing with them. Although certain requirements appear in the law also, yet, corporate managers dedication remains an open question like their willingness to i...

The article analyzes translational reading in terms of translation studies, didactics of translation, personality- and activity-oriented, sociocultural and discursive approaches, which made it possible to identify specific features of this type of reading. For translators of scientific and technical texts, reading is an important work stage, constituting a more complex type of speech activity and having its own specific features that distinguish it from unprofessional reading. In terms of the competence approach, ...

Government regulation of migration has proved to be very important in periods of wars, military conflicts, natural disasters and technological catastrophes. In this connection, the article is not only of scientific but practical interest. It is dedicated to the historical experience of solving refugees’ problems. The evacuation occurred in the USSR in 1941-1945 was unprecedented in scale and it has remained unique in the world history. The aim of the article is to determine the quantitative and qualitative structu...

It is difficult to translate the poem by Heinrich Heine "Lorelei" due to its special intonation and fine sense. Despite of this, many translators nowadays have tried their hand to deliver all the beauty of this poem to the Russian language. The actuality of this work is in the fact that a lot of attention in linguistics is paid to stylistic means which open up the poems, and many translators are interested in complete translation of stylistically painted devices in their works. The aim of this work is to identify ...

Nowadays Building Information Modelling is one of the most investigated research fields in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industry. In particular, the costs analysis of a building life cycle is one of the most interested topics to optimize data management related to the refurbishment of existing buildings on different fields such as space management and Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing engineering systems maintenance. This study aims at investigate the economic value of BIM, taking into account...

Care for children deprived of properly functioning families represents an integral element of family-oriented social policy in Poland, which is based on the constitutional principle of subsidiarity. According to this principle, the state, through the system of legal guarantees and support structures, offers conditions for support at a local level while empowering families. The entities that are involved in tasks to support families include local social services institutions, non-governmental organizations, and the...

Social value is an issue of crucial importance for comprehension of nascent forms of both social entrepreneurship and hi-tech business. In this paper I intend to substantiate the historically heterogeneous types of values created by entrepreneurs and to identify the distinguishing features of social value and modi of its creation. I resort to enactivist theory; the theory of regulative, normative and cognitive pillars of institutions; and the actor-network theory. According to the latter, socially constructed obje...

Study of entrepreneurial behavior is based on in-depth empirical qualitative research. Research explores and explains entrepreneur actions and counteractions under business environment munificence/scarcity. Surrounding environment evokes entrepreneurial behavior which has become an important issue. Entrepreneurs identify a business idea and change that into a venture. More enterprises operate in a munificent and stable environment which leads to theories that the environment supports and stimulates entrepreneurshi...

In the vocabulary of each language, there are such expressions that are actively used in communicating people in the form of generally accepted formulas for expressing greetings, farewells, gratitude, etc., and are of a traditional nature. Most of the works on speech clichés are based on the analogy of stable complexes of a single language. Comparative studies of the funds of speech clichés of different languages exist, but, as experience shows, the material of the stock of speech clichés of one language is insuff...

In recent years, European countries have become increasingly desirable immigration destinations. Europe recognizes that good immigration management is a cure against the demographic problem. This is one of the possible solutions for our country to tackle the demographic deficit in our economic development. A working population is a valuable source of tax revenue. Having enough working-age population is vital not only for the economy but also for tax revenue. This money is needed to finance the retirement and healt...

The present study examines the financial resources of the Russian Arctic on the System of National Accounts methodological basis. This research was designed to estimate the efficiency and sustainability of the Arctic’s region added value. Russian Arctic’s territories financial balances for generation, distribution and consumption were constructed. SNA’s methodological approaches were modified by defining indicators for sectors “Corporations”, “Government sector” and “Households” that are essential for Arctic’s ter...

The concept of organizational culture is of maximum interest worldwide. The wish for performance growth in forms generated in the seventh decade of the 20th century preoccupations for the analysis of this concept. A particular aspect of organizational culture is the culture of the school organization, the school presenting specific, particular aspects. Analysing the organizational culture of the school institution, Elena Vacarescu School, starting from the model of Geert Hofstede, we found the following: • Average...

The Rose was the first purpose-built theatre on London Bankside. The playhouse was erected in 1587 as a theatre of Philip Henslowe. At the end of the XVI century, the Lord Admiral's Men moved to the Rose playhouse and performed there, attracting audiences, becoming popular and eventually prosperous. Rose’s repertory included plays of Marlowe, and Shakespeare. The Rose’s success encouraged other theatres to be built on Bankside; these new theatres overtook the Rose, which had been abandoned by 1606. The Globe becam...

This article discusses the Copyright in Kosovo after the year of 2001. Copyright is defined as the totality of legal standards that which arrange social relations arising from the creation and evaluation of scientific, literary-judicial works. Copyright defines in two meanings in the objective and in the subjective sense. In objective sense, copyright includes complexity of legal standards which stipulate legal relations for intellectual creativity in the field of literature, science, art, and other legal provisio...

Modern humanitarian knowledge has increasingly paid attention to axiological aspects of human life. In search of moral values of the present, it makes sense to address to the cultural heritage of the previous eras. Restoration Comedy, emerged as a reaction to six-year puritanical dictatorship, followed by the restoration of the monarchy, is of special interest, in this sense. The peculiar attitude towards the moral standards found the reflection in comedies of manners of the Restoration era is, certainly, related ...