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With the increased production of data related to the web and library collections, database growth continues to grow. This scalable web has generated derived information from social networks. Indeed, information (true and/or false) comes from social media (Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, etc.), and that appear in the results of the search engines. All these productions generate problems of documentary noise linked to the increasing number of multilingual resources on the Internet. The search for information in several la...

The cultural movement of Renaissance affected profoundly all the accusations of intellectualism. The hallmark of this alternation came with the publication of Nikolaus Copernicus work in 1543 entitled «De revolutionibus orbium coelestium». This work was the formalization of multiannual considerations, of the astronomers of that time, on the existing interpretational theories for our planetary system. The constant search for truth that governs our planetary system, remained irreducible throughout the course of the ...

The article is about written exercises which are necessary to use at the Russian lessons for foreign students. Students should watch and write written exercises at the same level as oral exercises during developing Russian pronunciation skills. Urgency of the research of this theme is in its importance. Intonation and phonetics lessons take a special place in teaching Russian language for foreigners because correct pronunciation of the words is the most important for communication in Russian language and the devel...

A successful balance between work and private life provides benefits to employees and companies. Employees are an essential resource in the companies operating in the business sector, and, according to the long-term estimates in the labour market, the services sector will continue to develop in Latvia in the future as well, and, consequently, there will also be a demand for human resources. The aim of the research study: To study work and private life balance differences between various generations of the personne...

Sustainable competitiveness as a concept is introduced in the scientific debate in the last two decades. It is addressed on considering economic, social and environmental factors that determine competitiveness in the long run. The paper is focused on measuring sustainable competitiveness at the national level. Two indexes are considered: the Sustainability Adjusted Global Competitiveness Index (World Economic Forum) and the Global Sustainable Competitiveness Index (SolAbility). The paper compares sustainable compe...

Romanian Doina was inscribed on the representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009. Doina is a improvised, solemn and lyrical folkloric song, marking the essence of Romanian folklore. It can be sung in any social context, with or without instrumental accompaniment, with expressive ornaments. The emotional magnitude is very impressive. There are various regional types of doina, with different specific elements. Doina is representative for the peasant’s soul, expressing his most intense ...

The article analyzes the works performed by Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin, a Russian artist, whose artistic ascent took place at the turn of the 20th century while Russian intellectuals were actively engaged in identifying the specific features of Russian cultural identity. The article also provides a short description of the works by Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin in the context of visual arts theory and performance. The analysis of the artist's works brings to light visual images of the Russian cultural identity that they ...

The article is devoted to several approaches to understanding of the legal culture phenomenon. The object approach dominating in the domestic theory is inadequate, because it reduces legal culture only to knowledge of current legislation and law-abiding behavior. The author's approach reveals the underlying foundation of legal culture of the different social actors, which are the leading values - formal equality, freedom and justice.

Nowadays, mainly due to socio-demographical processes, but also the need to stay competitive in the globalizing economy, diversity management is gaining more and more attention from enterprises. However, as research shows, it is still being implemented by only a few Polish organizations. The aim of the following paper was to examine the genesis of diversity management initiatives in Polish organizations, the main sources if this initiative, the motivation for implementing diversity management as well as the source...

The article overviews cases of modern history of budget sector reforming, stages of restructuring and privatization in social sphere are considered, particularities of each stage are emphasized, prospects and mechanisms of social sphere development in Russia in up-to-date social and economic conditions from the point of strategy of sustainable development of urban environment are considered. Activities of public administration bodies on reforming of social sphere as Russian economics sector has been carried out du...

The tourism of the last 60 years has been constantly expanding and diversifying, becoming one of the most dynamic and largest economic sectors globally speaking. According to data provided by the National Institute of Statistics (INS), between May and August 2016 in Romania, 3.8 million Romanians and 1 million foreigners have spent their holidays, twice as many as 6 years ago. Regarding foreign tourists who visited our country during the summer, most of them, more than half a million come from Germany. The followi...

In the article the historical periods of accession and development by the Russian State of outlying lands of North-East Asia, administrative and territorial structure and social and economic parameters of the North-East of Russia as a major macroregion are shown. Its social and economic development during the Soviet era (1917-1990) and in the post-Soviet period (2013-1991) are considered more detailed. Regional characteristics that significantly affect the formation of the structure, efficiency and growth in the e...

The term Paleo-Asiatic peoples (Paleoasiatic) was proposed by the Russian scientist L. I. Strencom in the middle of the 19th century to refer to a number of indigenous peoples of the North and North-East Siberia with the archaic features of culture, characteristic of the Neolithic stage of development. The basis for selection of these people in a special group was that their languages are not connected with large language families of Northern Asia. This is the reason that they are preserved in the place names of t...

Management develops strategic advantages in the area of economic activity through the implementation of the Total Quality Management (TQM) principles into each management system. The purpose of this paper is to redefine the quality management principles and to develop an individualized questionnaire to measure the management perceptions when principles are implemented. We have studied the application of management principles in small and medium–sized enterprises in two Romanian regions on the basis of four hypothe...

The aim of this research paper is the study of legal status of the European company, reflection of preconditions for creating a new legal form of a company, which has a European origin, the identification of features of the legal regulation of its establishment and operating activities, as well as the analysis of the advantages and drawbacks of these legal entities, which define its effectiveness for large business and prospects. The methodological basis of the research is historical, comparative-legal, particular...

The nurse's educational activities in cardiovascular prevention play an important role. Quantitative method of questionnaire technique with the help of standardized structured interview was used for the survey. Data were processed by the descriptive statistic methods. The SASD program and the contingency tables of selected indicators of the 2nd classification degree were subsequently used for processing. The degree of dependence of selected features was determined by the chi2, t-test.

The problems emerging from the damage to the environment cause changes, conflicts and injustice in the social sphere. For this reason, sociology discipline deals with environmental problems. A result of the activities of humans, who have lost harmony with nature, which damage the environment is “Global Climate Change and Global Warming”. As a result of “Global Climate Change and Global Warming”, it is predicted that arid regions on the Earth’ surface will expand, erosion will accelerate, productive soils will decr...

Graduate studies at universities are conducted not only in theoretical research but also in order to find solutions to the needs of the sector. With this study, it is aimed to investigate the studies made about career by content analysis method. This study aimed at investigating master and doctoral dissertations on human resources management published between 2000 and 2017 at Turkish universities by content analysis. Totally 113 dissertations are included in the analysis. The dissertations are examined according t...

The main objective of this paper was identifying the needs, wishes and expectations of Romanian customers in connection with their holidays, to the purpose of attempting the rebound of this economic branch, and the increase of the interest of as many potential customers as possible for Romania. The reason for choosing this topic resulted mainly from a desire to offer relevant information about a real-life situation on the Romanian tourism market, in which Romanians prefer spending their holidays abroad. In the res...

The purpose of research is to study the linguacultural peculiarities of British national variant of English basing on the material of economic discourse. The methods include functional and pragmatic analysis of speech of representatives of economic and financial business circles. The major findings are that British economic discourse reflects such features of British mentality as evasiveness, ritualized nature, conventionality, individualism. The peculiarities of the national culture explain the tendency of the Br...

During our life, our values and value orientation are shaped by many factors. Values form a dynamic structure of beliefs which, in many ways and with varying intensity, influence our everyday decision making. In the research carried out in 2016, we asked if and how the value orientation is influenced by the economic situation of the family the person lives in. Since the economic situation of the family plays an important role in many areas of our life, we assumed it also had a significant role in the area of value...

Development of cities provides a challenge for city transport, resulting in an increased need for fast and environment-friendly option of travel. The parking problem is a trivial, but complex problem. It lies in the domain of many scientific disciplines, including architects - who create local spatial development plans. The aim of the paper is to define the current status of public cubature car parks in Polish cities and presenting experiences of selected cities of Western Europe - as examples which will be follow...

The article concerns the most important feature of «social competence» essence as country cultural and social value and environment. The problem of social competence studying as a modern phenomenon is relevant and useful, because it defines the criteria of the individual’s success in all social life spheres. In scientific discourse has found a clear interpretation of «social competence» phenomenon essence, as an integrative personality quality that combines axiological understanding of social reality, social knowl...

The article is devoted to the discussion of the phenomenon of the culture of understanding within the framework of social communication, the established tendencies of the interpretation of the two-way nature of the culture of understanding are analysed. The culture of understanding, being the condition and the result of social communication, contributes to both the regulation of people’s social behaviour and the structuring of the communicative space with the aim of reaching public agreement and mutual understandi...

The Expressionism, a modern artistic and literary movement emerged at the beginning of the 20th century in Germany, is characterized by a strong tendency to express inner feelings sometimes irrational, through tension, drama, subjectivity. In this paper, we approach the issue of the lyric expressionist theater, here represented by Erwartung monodrama of the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, presenting it both from the point of view of the diversity of means of accomplishment, as well as of the stylistic and exp...

The article shows the changes in the population on the present territory of the Republic of Tatarstan from ancient times to the end of the XIX century. The article pays a special attention to the peculiarities of settlement before including the Kazan Khanate to the Russian state. It was at that time when a constant network of settlements began to emerge on the territory of present Tatarstan. The paper investigates the ethnic aspects of the historical and geographical settlement and identifies the main types of dis...

The purpose of the research is to study the issue of training highly skilled professionals in the sphere of international economic relations in nonlinguistic universities. The chosen methods of research are the method of studying the teaching techniques, as well as the comparative method. The study shows that it is essential to train professional language on early stages of the education programme. Early training of professional language contributes to the forming of professional cross-cultural communication compe...

To eat rationally means to follow the general rules of healthy eating based on its basic principles. People have fed since they live on the ground, but rational nutrition has become an acute public health issue in the last two decades after an observation and some research showed that most of the diseases that currently affecting humanity, which cause early disability and shorten the thread of life are largely due to an uncontrolled diet. The present paper proposes, in the context described above, to emphasize rig...

The purpose of this analysis is to critically examine an experience of perceiving a literary text and to provide a special approach to make the perception deeper. To raise awareness intended to introduce the reader to Isaak Babel’s “Red Cavalry” artistic text a new way of receiving the text has been proposed. A bike by night event of the educational project “Velonotte International” in Sergiyev Posad, Russia, highlights the importance of facilitation of the receiver entering into a relationship with the author fam...

The industrial complex of Russia is one of the leading sectors of the national economy and a key component of the expanded production in general, ensuring the formation of more than 37% of GDP, over 32% employment, and more than 40% of the consolidated budget of the Russian Federation. Until 2004 inclusive, industry was regarded as an isolated, the largest branch of the national economy, consisting of isolated industries, operating exclusively in the sphere of material production. Since January 2005, the branch sy...

Hi-tech entrepreneurship increasingly deals with the mental capabilities of in-tellectual workers as the major resource of the post-Fordist enterprise. These workers discover and use ? on their own account ? new properties of intellect-intensive re-sources, and in doing so they acquire features that are similar to entrepreneurial quali-ties. Relying on the theory of autopoiesis, the radical subjectivist strand in econom-ics, and the radical humanist criticism of post-Fordism; we studied the major conse-quences of ...

The history of the organisation of trips to places of Military Glory of the partisans of the Leningrad region is discussed in the article. The very first routes were paved by veterans of the partisan movement. In the 60-70-ies of the XX century the Soviet Party authorities joined in the organization of memorial tourism. For tourists (especially for the young ones) dozens of routes related to the history of the Great Patriotic War were offered. They included not only the familiarization with the places of fighting ...

The number of migrants in EU countries has increased sharply since 2000. Successful implementation of integration policies is therefore very important. While immigrant integration policies remain a competence of the Member State, the European Commission proposed the initiatives to promote integration. The first part of the article describes the latest developments in integration policies in the EU countries. It shous that new policies are being developed in the EU countries and that they are implemented on a wide ...

Russian law gradually begins to form legal norms in the field of tax mediation. Tax mediation is not recognized at the legislative level. For this reason, the question of the use of mediation for tax disputes deserves close consideration. At the present time in Russia the problems of application of procedures of mediation in tax dispute are frequently discussed. In modern conditions of formation of judicial practice on tax disputes the issue of pre-trial settlement of disputes acquires the increasing relevance. Th...

In the modern economic conditions companies are forced to reconsider their approaches to management of financial, economic and business processes in manufacturing. This fact is due to high speed of transformation of the environment under the influence of disturbing factors generated by the globalization of the economy, the rise of transnational corporations, accelerated flow of information and other influences. In this case, it is necessary to develop a toolkit, which would allow to adjust the management in view o...

There has been an increasing interest in studying associations among physical fitness, motor coordination and physical parameters in early childhood over the past decades. Available research data on the relationship between childhood obesity and motor competence at early ages remains rather inconclusive. The aim of the study was to analyze the association between physical fitness, motor competence indicators and somatic parameters in primary school-aged children. Data were collected from 213 prepubertal children. ...

The main objective of this study is to identify the impact of labor force immigration on the labor market of Slovak Republic. The solution of this issue required an analysis and examination of specific relations within the labor market trends development in Slovak Republic (employment, unemployment, wage level, number of free jobs) and labor immigration. Several economic criteria are developed in this study and the effects of labor emigration on labor market are recalculated by means of mathematical calculations. ...

The attitude towards disabled people and to disability is one of the most important indicators of the maturity of society and development of human rights. In the late seventies of the 20th century Europe comes to the historical stage, when attempts of integration of disabled people into normal public life, with full recognition of their civil rights, that fully coincide with the rights of citizens without disabilities, are made. Russia is now only on the way of transition to the fifth stage, when the biopsychosoci...

One of the main types of tourism is recreational tourism, aimed at providing the rest necessary for the restoration of the physical and mental strength of human beings. In addition, ecological tourism has recently become very popular, due to travel to places with relatively untouched nature, which does not violate the integrity of ecosystems and creates favorable economic conditions for the protection of natural resources by the local population. A special kind of tourist activity, combining the tasks of both the ...

This article discusses the concentrations in Republic of Macedonia in the 2014 and 2015 with regard to the developments in concentrations. The discussion is primarily focused in the legislative framework of the developments as well as in the relevant case law during the time period 2014-2015. This paper reviews the meaning and ways of creating concentrations and gives concrete examples of the practice in Republic of Macedonia. Further on, this paper continues with the various types of concentrations. Concentration...

The relevance of the presented research is unquestionable in the context of the new challenges, initiated by the growing processes of globalization and spasmodic trends in the world economy development, facing Russian territories. These challenges determine the need for an innovation-oriented modernization of the management system for developing territories, taking into account the reality of cyclicality and the state of the fundamental resource base that can give impulses to positive socio-economic dynamics. The ...

The major research objective was to study the social role of the paternity in a modern family. Nowadays the family has been transformed as a social institution, and its importance in the life of both men and women is decreasing. More and more people choose a career at the expense of the family, childfree phenomenon becomes popular. On the one hand, there is an increase in single-parent families and a decrease in the father's overall contribution to the upbringing of children. On the other hand, there is a reorient...

Attaining and sustaining of competitive advantages requires making many decisions in many areas of a complicated company system from the management. One of the areas which can contribute to a company success, and thus its managers, are methods of continuous improvement. The choice of concrete methods depends also on benefits the methods can bring and also on how complicated and organisationally and financially demanding their implementation is. The article informs about the results of a quantitative survey which w...

This article analyses the sources for forming a common social identity between migrants of different ethnicities from Central Asia and a host community, the citizens of Ekaterinburg. Ekaterinburg is a big city hosting a large number of migrants belonging to different ethnicities. The ethnocultural characteristics possessed by the migrants and the citizens of Ekaterinburg are different; this makes it problematic to form a common social identity. The authors consider the formation of a social identity as a process t...

The article describes results of the research that revealed correlation between emotional intelligence and adaptation in the group of foreign students RUDN University. The text describes actuality and the importance of study the subject of adaptation in the not native culture in psychological science. Also the article describes the actuality of theme of emotional intelligence and touches upon the question about current research trends in this context. The main individually determinants of emotional intelligence, a...

Wide adoption of social media in everyday life and professional activity involves the formation of a complex of normative-legal acts, aimed at comprehensive regulation of the generated relations. One of the key directions in this field was the development and testing of mechanism of providing the state and municipal employees reporting on the activity carried out in the virtual space. Despite the fact that competent agencies have yet to give the final assessment of the accuracy and completeness of the information ...

Requirements for specialists in the tourism market in the modern world determine the training of students specializing in tourism, which has a recreational and environmental focus. This is due to the changed conditions of their professional activities, which should take into account not only the needs of society for recovery and recreation, but also existing environmental problems. In the presented work practical implementation of the model of recreational-ecological training of students of the specialty Tourism i...

According to a study conducted by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection in 2009, approximately 20.5 % of the population, or about 1.7 million people, were permanently ill but their daily workflows are not affected by their condition. Approximately one million people have health restrictions on their personal physical movement. This amounts to about 13 % of the Austrian population. 318,000 people have visual impairment, 218,000 have some level of hearing loss, and 205,000 s...

Aim: The purpose of the present study was to compare the levels of Interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) and Human beta 3 Defensin (hBD-3) in peri-implant crevicular fluid (PICF) and to assess if there is a correlation between this two parameters and the orodental clinical status in peri-implantitis. Microbial colonization of dental implants and infection of the peri-implant tissues can cause peri-implant bone destruction and may lead to implant failure. Inflammatory mediators of the host, such as IL-1beta, and antimicrobi...

The paper deals with the issue of employee training and development for sales managers. Training and development of sales managers is from the point of view of human resource management very important as it can directly affect the company's business results. Managing a team of salespersons is difficult and it requires a wide range of knowledge and competences such as team motivation, goal setting, evaluation of team’s success, effective communication, and more. In order to determine the current situation in the fi...