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Environmental pollution, adverse spawning conditions, as well as intensive fishing and other factors have negative influence on fish stock condition, thereby causing fishery enterprises problems to plan their activities in long term. This causes significant consequences not only for the Latvian fishery sector in general, but also for the development of coastal areas and national socio-economic growth. In the modern global economy, competitiveness is put forward as one of the conditions for economic recovery. The c...

The aim of the article is to analyse the attitude of the Polish Socialist Party – former Revolutionary Faction (PSPfRevFr) towards the Reform camp in the period 1928-1935. This party appeared on the Polish political scene as a result of a split that took place in the Polish Socialist Party (PSP), against the background of party members' attitude towards J. Pilsudski after the coup d'etat he had carried out in May 1926. For two years in the PSP there was a rivalry between two factions, which finally ended with the ...

The article reviews the results of empirical research, which is focused on the position of youth in the Russian education system. The research was conducted among Russian young people in 2017-2018; the statistical population of Russia is represented by total sample of 1600 responders. Problems of involvement of young people in the educational system and satisfaction with the educational system are considered through the prism of the social context. The following issues were identified within the framework of the s...

A new approach to measuring multi-user loyalty is proposed. This approach allows ensuring the development of the company in the long term. An effective development scenario is implemented on the basis of the consistent identification of the causes of mistrust on the part of potential participants in the company. Many typical offers by loyalty program developers contradict with the negative feedback from their users regarding the low effectiveness of their implemented tools. That is why a company shall have at its ...

Research over the past 20 years has shown the enormous role of tourism in the economies of most countries. First of all, it allows solving problems of stimulating social development of regions. Tourism has a stimulating effect on such sectors of the economy as transport, communications, trade, construction, agriculture, production of consumer goods and contributes to the development of practically all sectors of the economy [1]. In the late 70s of the twentieth century, ecological tourism becomes one of the most p...

The article is devoted to the history of the mineralogical collection which played a special role in the history of museums of Russian universities. Assembled in Saxony by a chemist and mineralogist Johann Friedrich Henckel and then bought by the owner of several steel factories Akinfy Nikitich Demidov, it was later presented to the Moscow university and then served as the basis of the first Russian university museum. This article reviews the history of the mineral collection before it was sold and explores newly ...

The article considers the negative factors of the human impact on the environmental situation during the largest world wars. The analysis of various sources made by the authors resulted in the conclusion that this problem remains underestimated in the scientific community up to the present and enjoys little popularity with historians and ecologists, which leads to the gaps in large environmental studies and modern projects. Unfortunately, today the factor of the adverse impact on the environment is neither a suffi...

The Roman Ancient culture makes no exception from the long line of humanity's empires, which have not paid attention to femininity in its beauty and goodness, instruction and education. The Roman woman represented, both during the Empire and in the Republic, a controversial subject and treated most often differently. While common women only received elementary skills (writing and reading), upper and middle-class women had the right to a selected education, granted by the family's position. Ever since birth, the st...

The problem of adaptation of migrants in receiving countries determines the urgent need to find ways to solve it. The article notes that a special role in the process of rooting foreign citizens in a new community plays the study and perception of its history, traditions, language, spiritual values. Particular attention is paid to the development of tests as one of the means of testing the acquired knowledge, and the socio-cultural adaptation. The authors analyze the materials of the manuals and the content of the...

Numerous studies reveal the apparent benefits of cultural diversity in the classroom within all the education cycles. A variety of linguistic and cultural scenarios for the internationalisation of higher education across Europe and beyond make the basis for the exploration and statement of the place of Latvian higher education sector within these scenarios with the aim to develop a comprehensive integration framework for international students of diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds in Latvian HEIs. Therefo...

The purpose of the present paper is to assess the relevance of several notoriously applied financial indicators to construct an appropriate risk evaluation structure for enterprises. The authors aim to include in the empirical study a wide array of variables, grouped into clusters, to match the complexity implied by the data collected from 100 Nasdaq quoted companies, based in 9 countries, from 8 industries. The methodology employed is the Principal Component Analysis, which supports in capturing the most signific...

Social enterprises are a relatively new and expanding field of study. They could be private for-profit, non-profit and hybrid organizations with a social mission that use business approaches to achieve their objectives. They typically function upon a range of laws to govern their creation, day-to-day management, tax arrangements and dissolution. Since social enterprises are in the inter-section of the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, policy makers have, in certain countries, sought to encourage it by creating a c...

Today in Ukraine, the issue of organization of recreation becomes a priority issue not only in the physiological-psychological aspect, but also as a socially-organized function of people's lives. It provides an opportunity for an integrated combination of recreation, tourism and excursions, in order to promote the development of tourist excursions. Natural, cultural-historical and socio-economic resources of the region, as well as the presence of territories and objects of the nature reserve fund are important fac...

The problem of ageing population is increasing. So, the governments in different countries are trying to find some solution of the deficit of the pension systems and so different types of reforms suggest itself. These reforms can be only parametric or can be also systematic. The parametric reform is represented mainly by the increase of the pension age and by the increase of the minimum insurance period. But it needn?t be satisfactory and for that reason a lot of governments in the middle and east Europa were tryi...

The global collapse of the environment is inevitable. Developed states should work alongside developing countries to make sure that their economies do not contribute to increasing pollution problems. Today's politicians should think about supporting pollution reduction programs rather than expanding industrialization as much as possible. Environmental conservation strategies should be accepted on a global scale, and people should start thinking about a significant reduction in energy consumption without sacrificin...

All projects in different sectors are unique, but the information technology industry is a prosperous and growing sector of all developing countries, which is mainly based on projects [1]. The purpose of the work is to investigate the quality of working life of IT project managers in Riga, causes of job related stress and influencing factor and to find out what strategies for stress management are used and also, develop proposals for major IT companies to improve the quality of life of IT project managers and over...

The State Standards of Pedagogical Education in the Russian Federation envisage the core component of school-based experience for pedagogical students. The experience falls into obligatory and optional components and is organized throughout the whole course of studies. The paper describes the system of school-based experience in a selected Pedagogical University where all students are enrolled in the programs with double majoring. The methodology applied includes case study, evidence-based education research and m...

Our research focuses on different ways of understanding parenting styles and the similarities and differences between conceptual understanding as well as statistical issues for 2 measurement instruments. Starting with Baumid vision of consistent and persistent ways of interactions between parents and child, there is evidence that these constant ways of interactions do have certain influences on child development. As it was shown in previous research, addiction to substance abuse, especially alcohol in adolescence ...

Introduction: One of the objectives of complex education of diabetic patients is to prevent the development of diabetic foot syndrome. All diabetics, including seniors, should undergo preventive education on complex leg care. Awareness and compliance with appropriate foot care, which also includes the selection of high-quality prophylactic footwear, assists in the diabetic foot syndrome. In the paper we focused on the use of preventive footwear for the elderly people. In this article the attention was focused on t...

The article attempts to consider the ways the persistent perceptions of Russian literature by Latvian inhabitants have been formed and developed. Russian literature has been part of Latvian cultural landscape for a long time. Its perception in Latvian society is heterogeneous and changeable both in the temporal and in the socio-cultural aspect. First, when studying the specifics of the perception of Russian literature in Latvian society, it is necessary to take into account the stages and characteristics of the fo...

The purpose of this article is to present the texts of a new nature, i.e. professionally oriented digital texts that are usually read by students of the current generation who use their mobiles and tablets while studying at the universities or institutes. These texts usually contain hyperlinks, audio or video contents that clarify and supplement the additional information of the main source text. The analysis shows that these texts have their special features. The professionally oriented digital texts may be consi...

The Aztecs are among the most prominent, most developed and even the most explored pre-Hispanic (prior to the Spanish 16th century colonization of the Americas existing) cultures of Mesoamerica, a culture-historical area comprising Central and Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and certain parts of other Central American states except for Panama. In a broader sense, Aztecs can be identified with Nahuas, who dominated the relatively independent region of Mesoamerica called Central Mexico (the Mexican Valley and its...

Pedagogical Faculty of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (PNU), the Faculty of Humanities of Mukachevo State University (MSU), and the Medical Faculty of Ternopil I. Horbachevskyi State Medical University (TSMU) within a four-year period (2013-2018) became a space for an intense research into intransient educative potential of arts and literature aiming to prove regional fiction power to nurture modern students spiritually and culturally competent despite their obvious alienation from reading. Metho...

Topicality. The 14th of January, 2019, the day of the commencement of authority of the 7th convocation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, which draws up the completion of the constitutional crisis and the Velvet Revolution in Armenia, which began in April 2018. The report is focused on the legal features of the constitutional crisis in this context that remains still unknown in this aspect. Aim: to disclose the most significant legal features of the constitutional crisis in the context of the Arm...

Consolidated financial reporting is an important source of information for strategic decision making. Not all stakeholders have access to company's internal data. Analytical procedures allow stakeholders to make a calculation from key indicators and give an adequate assessment of the company. This article is devoted to the development of an universal method of rapid assessment of company's consolidated financial reporting, depended on the interests of stakeholders.The authors have developed algorithms for rapid as...

The effective continuing professional development (CPD) of vocational teachers is an important factor for reforming the vocational education and training system. While Lithuanian vocational teachers are inclined to professional development, the process provides no appreciable results. However, analysis and evaluation of CPD practice and impact is complex. In seeking to understand some of the complexities, a framework of eight CPD models was applied and surveyed with a stratified sample of 346 vocational teachers. ...

Railway transport facilities are a group of interconnected and interactive parts that perform an important work or task. These include, for example, track and station security equipment, interlocking security equipment, dispatching workplaces, communication equipment elements and others. Many are dependent on electricity supply, although some of their functions may be temporarily supplied from alternative sources. The electricity distribution network, which has a number of different elements, is relatively vulnera...

Issues of regional culture and cultural unity of the peoples of the North Caucasus have been the object of study of many Russian scientists. At the same time, the religious beliefs of each people have unique features, as they evolved under the influence of individual cultural and historical conditions. This article reflects the specific features of the demonology of the peoples of the North Caucasus in the cultural aspect. The author conducted a comparative analysis of the mythological characters of various ethnic...

Article relates to the issue of alternative education and multiculturalism on the example of Roma minority. The author raises a topics of theoretical approach and concept of cultural identity, which is understood as the most important kind of collective identity, which is historically conditioned, cultural method of behavior by a given human collectivity. In considerations in accordance with modern concepts of sociological assumed that identity is not a state but a process. The following sections of the article pr...

During the last decades, the paradigm of management accounting and control has noticeably changed from “number-crunching”, assuming mostly a technical role of an accountant, towards strategic partnership within a management team. Leadership is mentioned as one of the four building blocks of the professional competency framework, determined by Global Management Accounting Principles [13]. Besides this “internal” trend within a profession, an external trend of increasing influence of social and organizational factor...

In the 19th century, urbanization and transport in European cities contributed creation of industrial territories, reducing areas of natural greenery, but changes at social life altered the attitude towards nature: the natural environment has been replaced by man-made cultivated roadside and walking allees provided a functional link between green areas of various significance, uniting parks and squares into one system. In the mid- 19th century, functional issues at European largest cities as Berlin, Paris, Vienna,...

In this paper we aim to analyze the degree of concentration of some of the key sectors in Romania, taking into account not only the picture at national level, but also the structure of those markets compared to the Member States of the European Union. Based on the available information, certain data analysis is made taking into account both the market shares of the enterprises in the sector and the number of active competitors, turnover or output, while the economic approach might not be homogeneous from one secto...

In the context of the globalization and integration processes development, and changes in the geopolitical position and foreign policy course, which are overlapping on them, the border regions of Russia, Mongolia and China have acquired new opportunities for socio-economic development. Therefore, the study of the barrier and contact functions of the state border impact on the cross-border cooperation and the socio-economic situation of border regions will be a special relevance. The international tourism developme...

The employment of people with disabilities is a key element of social inclusion and economic independence. Due to the decline in the working-age population in Latvia and taking into account the forecasted labour shortage in the coming years, people with disabilities should be recognized as a valuable resource in the job market. Professional programmes of rehabilitation plays an important role in the inclusion of people with disabilities in the labour market according to their needs and in line with the demands of ...

The article considers the concepts expressed in the primary text (Text 1) and their actualization in the secondary text (Text 2) in regard to the solution of linguistic and cultural issues (representation and decoding, designation of a place in the linguistic worldview and the description of features caused by linguocultural situation). The authors are interested in the following problems: 1) how the concept of the primary text is represented when this text is mentioned as the precedent in the secondary text; 2) h...

The effectiveness of school pupils' functioning is conditioned by many factors. One of them is the involvement of students referring to active participation in lessons and knowledge preoccupation. The positive attitude of a student to school, participation in school and class life as well as identification with the class prevents various forms of socially unacceptable behavior. Involvement causes students to have such traits as perseverance, creativity and effectiveness in achieving goals. The condition of commitm...

Topic modeling is a method of automated definition of subtopics in a text corpus. Usage of topic modeling for short texts, e.g. tweets, is highly complicated due to their short length and grammatical restructuring, including broken word order, abbreviations, and contamination of different languages. In this paper, the authors use the BTM topic modelling algorithm (previously found to work best in comparison with two other topic models measured by automated coherence metrics Umass and NPMI) to test three topic qual...

The historic Brewery in Szczytno is a very interesting architectural object, but does not have accurate documentation. In works on historic buildings, it may be very helpful to make documentation in BIM technology. This technology allows you to create a virtual building that can be filled with all information about it. Thanks to this, it is possible not only to track changes in the documentation, but also to quickly find any collisions. In order to reproduce the documentation that can be used during the renovation...

Today, the most urgent issue that faces start-up entrepreneurs is the issue of attracting funding for the implementation of the project. Traditional forms of capital raising, such as credit, can solve these problems, but it may be problematic for start-up companies and individual entrepreneurs to take out loans on good terms. The problem of capital search served as an impetus for the development of new models for financing projects, one of which is crowdfunding. Crowdfunding is becoming an increasingly popular sou...

The family associations have a particular importance in the comprehension of those new social subjectivities that are emerging within an increasingly decentralized social fabric from a point of view not only institutional and economic but also epistemic and civil. The research conducted so far leave the question open on the new ways of declination of family associations in a supranational horizon. The last few decades have encountered a process of change and differentiation that has affected on different spheres o...

The relevance of the study is determined by the necessity to consider the specifics of the visual components functioning of media content of the leading social and political media, presented in major social networks. The empirical study base (the research is supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project No. 18-18-00007) is the content of Meduza media for the period from the 30th of April, 2018 to the 6th of May, 2018. The total amount is more than 240 units. The results of the study are provided in the arti...

The paper presents the results of a survey St. Petersburg residents about trust in e-government technologies. The study was based on the ideas of actor-network theory and the approach of social construction of technology (SCOT). 600 respondents took part in the survey (sampling error does not exceed 4%, with a 95% confidence level). The study proposes an approach to cyber-social trust in the field of e-government technologies: online services provision, citizens’ e-participation in the management of the city, soci...

In Romania, the physical education lesson goes through a stage of reforming in line with student requirements, adapting exercises to video and computer games. Thus, for six months, 40 students (aged 8-10 years) participated twice a week in work programs that had interactive games in their structure. Subjects were tested before and after the application of work schedules, following their progress in some components of motor capacity. The tests performed referred to the coordination, balance and speed. The statistic...

The direction I chose for my research applicable to the 6th International Multidisciplinary Conference on Science and Arts (SGEM) considers the state of freedom of religion in the 21st century with a concentration on monetary law. I am studying the relationship of religious law and international law in my overall research through analyzing life dynamics such as marriage, divorce, burial, religious holidays, and financial law in different states through 3 religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The internationa...

The present study is based on the fact that nowadays the sphere of education is constantly developing. The clear majority of universities all over the world tend to provide their students with higher education that will be recognised globally. There is a wide range of universities in Russia that follow this trend. Institutions of higher education are designed for students with diverse language backgrounds among them there are universities that focus on teaching students with a different ethnic and linguistic origi...

Bach's genius could be discovered rather in those features of musical language that are no longer contiguous to the pathway initiated by tradition, in those novel solutions which, in spite of displaying a high degree of novelty, are way ahead of their time, foreshadowing evolutions that will become habitual in another stylistic period. One of the elements of the musical language that Bach excels at is harmony which he masters like no other from among his contemporaries. Often a visionary through his manner of appr...

These days the development of civilizational social relations makes the problem of modern civil society formation ever more acute. Civil society nowadays should be perceived as an area of personal development and self-expression of free citizens, including self-realization of young people. Civil identity, being part of the value-based motivational component of a personality, is responsible for successful self-realization of young people – future specialists of various specializations. Students preparing to become ...

The strict preventive measures in the financial sector force money launderers to seek alternative channels for money laundering operations. Unique characteristics of the football sector and sport in general represent alternative means of money laundering than in the sectors traditionally exploited by money launderers. Likewise actions were noticed by some football and European authorities as a starting point of raising awareness of the money laundering risks and establishing implementation of the anti-money launde...

The current theory of multilingual mental lexicon interprets it as a multidimensional network that exists in human brain and integrates units of different languages into a complex holistic structure. The network is put into operation by the spreading activation mechanism that determines retrieval of the necessary information during speech activity. It is assumed that activation in multilingual mental lexicon is non-selective: nodes of all the languages known to an individual can receive the activation impulse simu...

The failure of the critical infrastructure elements represents a significant impact on the national security, safeguarding the basic living needs of the inhabitants, human health or the state's economy. Several critical infrastructure elements are defined, including transport. The world is threatened by several emergencies - floods, drought, tornadoes and other. These events threaten the state's critical infrastructure. Different events could trigger cascading effects. It means that the impact of an emergency on t...