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The article describes the main spatial properties of traditional cultural landscape of the Evenks in South Yakutia. The study is based on the of field research conducted on key areas of Evenks in South Yakutia – interviews, representation modelling, observations – and the use of Sentinel 2A remote sensing for mapping and contextualising the geographic environment of living places. The characteristic features of the territory of traditional use of natural resources is described; more especially the relations betwee...

The article deals with the potential of original feature films and television series to develop lingvopragmatic competence of foreign students of economic specialties in the field of business communication in conditions of a) real language environment of the Russian university (traditional learning), b) combined real and virtual language environments (blended learning). The named audiovisual sources, which usually performed the function of illustrative material in teaching Russian as a foreign language, are propos...

The article substantiates the topicality of developing the theoretical and methodological bases for threat monitoring in the regional alcoholic beverages market. The need to modernize the regional policy of state regulation of alcohol production in the subjects of the Russian Federation under growing external and internal economic threats has been identified. The assessment of threats to the development of the region as a result of a reduction in the turnover of alcoholic products was conducted using a situational...

The mood for the imagination and inventiveness in Brazil recreates every moment many other "Brazils" that retake and reinvent traditions, weaving an amalgamated diversity with a false idea of festivity and affection among transitions, courage and hope that often suggests a prosaic grace and spontaneity. This "brazilianness" that apparently renews and enriches our material culture is highlighted here under a focus on curious objects made of recontextualized materials in the main urban centers as a result of a cruel...

Playing by ear, or picking by ear is a certain performing art’s activity based on a reproduction of a known music piece, without the written music (or not looking at a score). While playing by ear, different types of musician’s activity are synthesized, which make him/her more like a universal musician of past centuries who was a composer, a performer and an improviser in one person. Playing by ear allows a music teacher to greatly enrich the repertoire of music lessons, including in it the unpublished works. In T...

The solution of the problem of comparative evaluation of economic perfor-mance of enterprises and branches of industry under the situation of application of the multi-criteria projections population is discussed in the paper. The projection approach proposes distribution of performance indicators in relevant groups (projections), solving specific optimization problems within the established groups, and search for the final answer. Multiprojectiveness is applicable to economic problems of the analysis of sus-tainab...

The very nature of the elite phenomenon urgently requires researchers to use an integrated approach, especially in analyzing the system of their core values laid down in each professional community. Since the elite always points to the best that exists in every professional community, the study of the axiological and acmeological data of the elites is the most important condition for any elitological analysis. Empirical measurements can reveal the quality of a particular elite in the current time (“here-and-now” m...

By the total work of art (gesamtkunstwerk) Wagner brings the myth back into focus by illud tempus hoping that in doing so he will re-sacralise the present time and space. Within the framework of the myths he approaches, the present paper deals with the feminine characters whose role is decisive in the unfolding of the Wagnerian drama. Every female character fits a conventional typologies, the present study bringing into question more than twenty such characters. Far from proposing a rigid typology, this analysis o...

Medical services represent one of the essential preconditions of successful military operations. Work of military healthcare personnel, mainly nurses and paramedics, is very important in prehospital care and has a substantial impact on the overall level of survival and mortality of wounded soldiers. It is very important to separate the work of military healthcare personnel employed in the system of military medical support from the work of those who are deployed on the frontline and provide nursing care to fightin...

The research in this article aimed to draw the entire design process, culminating in the identification of a set of characteristics to be implemented in the creation of an inclusive interior play space for preschool children. For this process, it was imperative that final users were part of the project, thus ensuring that their preferences/needs would be taken into account. To determine the process, it was necessary to understand the essential steps for a design project. It was important for the research to identi...

The most important goal of this article is to define the notion of a religious conflict, to introduce a typology of religious conflicts, to analyze the factors of their genesis as well as the possible ways of their mitigation and overcoming. Using the methodology of comparative and content analysis, the authors came to the conclusion that religious motivation among the warring parties, and/or religious legitimation of violence could not be considered as the obligatory conditions for the assignment of conflict as r...

The aim of this study is to identify the educational function of art criticism. The importance of the problem is in unrealized educational potential of art criticism in the field of publication activity, in the need for clear principles of creating the educational effect in the texts of art critics. Historiography of art is represented by the works of such European scholars as Hans Sedlmayr, Germain Bazin. In Russian historiography this issue was explored by scholars V. S. Turchin, V. P. Shestakov and V. G. Arslan...

This paper specifically addresses the key elements that constitute the subphase 1.2 “struggling for survival in the streets” of the original grounded Theory “surviving the streets”. The first section addresses the particularities that comprise each phase of the GT. The specific features of phase 1 are presented in more detail. The second section of the papers summarizes the research method, specifically: (i) characterization of participants [homeless (n = 38), professionals (n = 47) and previously homeless (n = 11...

Today, one of the factors determining the success of the Russian economy includes the establishment of high-technology production, which involves the use of innovation, research and development. On the other hand, most developers of such innovations are often not interested in further commercial use of their R&D results and scientific developments, therefore, are not introduced in the economic turnover and do not reach potential consumers. The paper analyzes the situation on the today’s market of new technical dev...

Debt is a commitment to do something, to give something or refrain from doing anything. Debt itself is not harmful, like fire or knife is no harmful itself. Social work focuses on the debt when the indebtedness of individuals or of the entire population grows so much that it is a barrier to further individual, social or economic development. The Czech Republic is fighting over-indebtedness both by education ie by increasing financial literacy (the subjective side) and by regulating the conditions under which banks...

This article focuses on the cryptographic traits in Western avant-garde music, as well as in contemporary music in Latvia and its neighbouring countries. The contemporary cryptic trend in music differs from ancient cryptography as follows: unlike ancient cryptography, contemporary music has a double function, its code locks and unlocks the secret signs, and unlike creators of ancient crypts, contemporary composers are highly creative when inventing new code systems while avoiding, as much as possible, the traditio...

To investigate the names of the person (the anthroponyms), it is necessary to respect a number of principles and methods. The principles of anthroponymic research are the principle of verification; the principle of knowing as accurately as possible the historical context in which an anthroponym or a group of anthroponyms appeared; the principle of differentiation. The research methods are grouped into two categories: the methods of collecting of the anthroponymic information and the methods of analysis and interpr...

Understanding the human–computer interaction has its own pace, it would be equally wrong to rush it or slow it down. To figure out whether to attack a new phenomenon or to stand with it, we need to choose a viewpoint. Building on background knowledge it can say that none of the disciplines deals with reality, each of them tears out a different part of reality, which is then studied using concepts and methods of that discipline and/or borrowing from other disciplines. Terry Winograd realized that the artificial wor...

The aim of the research work is answer the question: what elements of the legal status of partners (or shareholders) of commercial companies (including partnerships and companies) and what extent, can facilitate the implementation by investors support in the form of venture-capital from the perspective of, significant extent representative of the so-called continental system of company law in Europe, regulation of the Polish Commercial Companies Code of the 15 September 2000 (c.t.: J.L. 2016, it. 1578, hereinafter...

Business digitalization nowadays is not only the recent trend but sooner the changes in human being minds putting all the processes in on-line mode. Digital marketing becomes completely necessary not only for business companies but also in the field of higher education. In Latvia, 71% of the population in the age 15 – 74 in average are using Internet in everyday life ((TNS Latvia Digital, 2016). The digital marketing with it’ alternative definitions as on-line or internet- or web-marketing, is becoming one of the ...

Our undergoing research is focused on the field of study Teaching for Primary Schools – Level 1 at the Faculty of Education of the University of Ostrava. The aim of the research is a qualitative and quantitative change in the concept of the professional undergraduate preparation of the mathematics teaching. In this paper, the part of the research of expectations of the undergraduate students from the practical aspects of a preparation in a mathematics teaching for the first level of primary schools is presented. T...

The article is dedicated to the structural roots of conflicts within modern Russian society. The authors idea is to present consistently the dialectical relationship of economic, political and ideological levels of the order. The article notes that private property is the most important factor of the modern society functioning. It defines social interests and relations, creates the class of owners and generates economic order, which is subsequently legitimized by power structure and ideology. The deformations in e...

The paper examines the psycho-emotional state of tourists under conditions of cultural and educational tour to the Perm Region of Russia. The basic concepts of tourism are presented as well as analysis of literature concerning the assessment of the status of tourists. The paper proposes the method of assessment the state of the tourists under conditions of cultural and educational tour and presents the analysis of indicators. In today's world, cultural tourism provides mankind’s moral and educational unity, promot...

Migration of the population is one of the most important demographic processes. Migration of the population has a significant impact on the changing structure of the population. One of the driving factors of migration is the search for more attractive work. In the context of the transformation of the Russian economy in recent years, there has been an increase in migration flows in connection with the search for work. Taking into account the economic difficulties of moving to a permanent place of residence in anoth...

Religious art is representative of religions concept. Indian mausoleums, which were created during the reign of Mughal represent features of Indian Islam. Art analysis and philosophical interpretation of signs and images of Indian mausoleums helps to understand the unique features of Indian Islam. Religious Islamic art in India continues to have an impact on the recipients in the present. The art works of Islamic architecture can be studied as cultural texts. The ideals, values and standards of Islam are of archit...

In the beginning human rights are divided into two kinds: rights of first generation (civil rights and political rights) and second generation (economic rights and social rights). There wasn’t contradiction or alternative nature between the two 'families', but the second ‘family’ (economic rights and social rights) was practical phase of the first ‘family’. Nowadays, it is only possible to ‘bear’ the rights of freedom, as an expression of enhancement of individual prerogatives, the one and only dimension of global...

The article discusses the social risks and their role in the management of entrepreneurial structures. Risks are indicators of the degree of social tension and level of success of entrepreneurial environment on local level, regional level and enterprise specific, and macro. The General trend in Russia was strengthening the entrepreneurial activities of the state - state equity participation of large companies is becoming one of the most common forms of state regulatory impact on the economic activity of economic a...

New technologies play a key role in the development of every sphere of the modern world, especially speaking of such technologies as robotics. Robots have the potential to be the next effective add-on to traditional education. The tangibility of robots and the excitement they bring into the classroom environment is considered conducive for learning. New training tools, mainly based on the use of information technologies, have appeared in the last 20 years, and the development continues, renewing the variety of edu...

The global struggle for resources as well as increased life expectancy and birth rates conditions the search for new forms of satisfying the needs of the country’s population by using artificial combinations of the potentials of natural organisms. To prevent Russia’s insurmountable social and economic backwardness in the area of new opportunities and also to facilitate the change in shaping the public opinion and the citizens’ outlooks, it is vital to establish the actual coordinates and vectors of development of ...

Background: Chronic pain complaints are modulated by many psychological and psychosocial factors. Low back pain is a complex multidimensional phenomenon. The aim of the investigation was to determine if the personality features and the subjective feeling of pain management participate in the variance of depressive symptoms and automatic negative thoughts at chronic musculoskeletal pain patients. Method: 84 musculoskeletal pain patients of Pain Treatment Outpatient Clinic (duration since initial onset of pain>3 mon...

In recent years, there has been a trend of increasing cases of HIV infection in Russia. According to the latest published epidemiological data (31.12.2014), the cumulative number of reported HIV cases among Russian citizens constituted 907607 and the number of new HIV cases was 85252 (Federal AIDS Center). In opinion of experts, a new growth of the HIV epidemic is associated with the migration process. The largest metropolises (Moscow and St. Petersburg) are facing new migration challenges. Migrants, as well as dr...

Health is a defining attribute of quality of life and well-being and is a viable and instrumental value conditional on the existence and enforcement of the human characteristics. Health problems are usually addressed as part of issues related to health care. Health care, exactly its functionality operation is in fact considered to be the most important factor affecting the quality of life of citizens in the state. Quality health care depends on whether and how effectively the system works, what ideas justified its...

The regions focused on primary industry and raw materials extraction and processing have specific innovative and investment development. The paper presents the analyses of the world experience in applying rating system for innovative development assessment. As the result, the authors devised a new original method for the assessment of innovative development of the regions focused on primary industry and raw materials extraction and processing in terms of investment flows provision for the regions. The index for in...

The article presents materials on the study of the specifics of the formation of financial information in the system of economic security. In the face of increasing competition and the complexity of the economic nature, the role of scientific methods for ensuring the security of information, which is the basis of managerial decisions, is increasing. In modern conditions of distribution of information management systems, the technologies of preservation and confidentiality of financial data become popular. Attentio...

The article explores the roots of the national specific character of Spanish Baroque sculpture. The national specific features of Spanish sculpture are often treated in literature as a set of separate characteristics. However, Spanish sculpture of the 17-18th centuries is an integral phenomenon of a high artistic quality, and it cannot be explained by the influence of discrete factors. So, it is important to find a common reason which could account for the outstanding originality of Spanish sculpture. ?. V. ??r?zo...

Forms of sensibility used for construction of the living world are not universal, but rather specific for different cultural traditions. They are informed by symbolic forms of a culture, and are constantly undergoing transformation. The dominant form of sensibility and the corresponding modes of vision, hearing etc., can be researched by analysing their representations within the manner of depiction of the visible, for instance, in painting or bas-relief. Extraction of the form pattern from artwork is possible by ...

In my paper, I will focus on the reception of Vaclav Havel’s plays among Czech literary critics who lived in exile. Among others, it was Igor Hajek who analysed them in his two treatises, in a review of the collection of plays related to the character of Ferdinand Vanek. Igor Hajek (1931-1995), a Czech exile literary critic, belongs to personalities who have played a significant role in the presentation of Czech literature abroad. He lived in British emigration since 1969 and his name in Czechoslovakia was on the ...

This article aims to analyse the relation between individual values and satisfaction of life that can be seen not only as personal constructs, but also as indicators of social processes in Bulgaria. It presents the results from an empirical research conducted in 2015-2016 among 1913 Bulgarian citizens of active working age – 18-65 y.o. Some of the most complex methods in the social sciences to study values and life satisfaction, such as Schwartz Value Survey, SVS [14] and Satisfaction With Life Scale, SWLS [4] hav...

Focusing on the way universities influence the stylistic and architectural direction of young architect students, this article aims to highlight how the curriculum succeeds in educating their preferences towards expressive and chromatic coherence. This study examines three main directions: architectural, chromatic and stylistic language. The target group is composed of three categories of students from the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Polytechnics Timisoara, Specialization of Furniture and Interior ...

The aim of this paper is to explore the necessity of seeking new conceptual approaches to the management of spatial development of territories to confront the global challenges. The radical changes that have occurred in the modern world formed new trends resulting in cluster and network models in the development of territories. The general trends that influence territorial development are: global synchronization of technologies in advanced industrial sectors, convergence in sciences and technologies, transformatio...

The transport infrastructure, mainly then its range and quality, is very important pro the economic development of the national economy. However its extension, operation and maintenance are connected with the important need of financial resources, which are in all cases limited. From this reason it is very important to respect not only national priorities in the area of the development of the transport infrastructure, but also expected net benefit of particular projects for the whole society. The main purpose of t...

Background: Some recent studies showed a growing interest regarding the motivation influencing the career choice in medical field, because right choice can directly influence the academic performance and the career evolution. These studies suggest that the career choice of dental and medical students may be very different. The aim of this study was to provide a comparison of motivation regarding career choice of dental and medical students studying in the same university. Methods The questionnaire for this study w...

The article explores the problem of optimising university training structure to increase focus on the labour market. The proposed solution is constructed using a deterministic approach in which the following vectors are formed: the phase vector, whose coordinates are the values of the parameters describing the training process in higher education institutions at a certain fixed point in time; the controlling action vector (control vector) that allows influencing (by means of funding, the school-leaving exam score ...

The acquisition and administration of “big data” has become a highly-debated issue not only within the information technology field, but more broadly in the political sociology and social arena ethics as well. While big data may just be another technology used to better find customers (from a business point of view) or help people (from a governmental point of view), its use and misuse has made it a topic of much discussion. Users continue to see lots of data being gathered, stored and analyzed about them as consu...

The interaction between the state and society can be regarded as a phenomenon characteristic of modern society which characterizes the degree of domination of one of the elements of this system. But if we accept as a postulate that interaction is a natural and necessary process, then the static idea of interaction as a phenomenon becomes the dynamic concept of interaction as a process. So, from an applied point of view, the interaction between the state and society is much more interesting to imagine as a complex ...

The article substantiates the necessity to take into account the uncertainty of the environment of the economic entity's operation while determining the cost effectiveness for implementing the system of controlling stability at an industrial enterprise. However, the use of well-known formulas of calculation of profitability, the total of which is calculated as the ratio of profit to cost, that caused the profit, in this case is not possible. This impossibility lies in the fact that industrial enterprise is operati...

This paper identified three academic perspectives for organizational learning studies, which are cognitive perspective, process perspective and capacity perspective. The basic hypotheses, the achievements and problems, as well as the latest trends of organizational learning study under different perspectives were discussed respectively. Based on the analysis of Chinese and English literatures on organizational learning from 2006 to 2015, this paper found that there is not such a general theory of organizational le...

Nowadays the world is changing in many ways. There is a significant influence of the climate change, which can make natural disasters even stronger than before. Moreover, the disaster consequences are more serious due to rising living standards in developed society, the rising level of urbanization, technological development, migration and density of population, and other changes in environment. The organizations of crisis management in public administration have to implement a number of measures to react to these...

The ideas of interest existing today in the theory of civil law are described in this article. Two types of interest are defined: interest as "user fee" (Art. 317.1 of Civil Code of the Russian Federation) and interest as "responsibility for illegal use" (Art. 395 of Civil Code of the Russian Federation). The conclusion is that there is a distinction on the nature of these interests. Features of legal regulation of the interest charged as responsibility are considered. Peculiarities of legal regulation of interest...

The paper seeks to present the numerical composition of the mechanical park for the South West Oltenia region, in a national context, on components: tractors, plows, cultivators, sowing machines, sprayers and dredgers, combines, straw and hay balers, forage feeders. At the same time, the load on the machine is also presented. The editing of the study is based on the comparison method, using two variants: time comparison and space comparison. For the period 2013-2015, a dynamic series of three components and multia...