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Sustainability is a response to a crisis solution, an attempt to balance the relationship between man and the environment, or acting through man. But without that connection, direct and natural contact with the environment, man has to act outside. Hence, an assurance of sustainable principles that hated them, man would have the chance to assume for the beginning, so that he could then assimilate them. Architecture should not be limited or focused only to the object of architecture, but to the whole process of buil...

Russia is making efforts to reconsider its policy and achieve leadership in innovation and technology sector. A mechanism that is called to fulfill these ideas is the National Technology Initiative (NTI), that seeks to identify the most perspective technologies and implement necessary administrative and legislative changes. This project is concerned with creating new businesses and technological agendas, concurrently transforming and modernizing public opinions and attitudes about the future of the country and soc...

The purpose of scientific research is the study of acoustic Landscape as part of the national culture. The Old Tatar settlement is one of the historic districts of Kazan; the architectural ensemble consisting of mosques which were the main location of social life of Tatars. We applied the methods of audio and video recordings, study of historical materials, descriptions, and recollections of old residents of this historical and cultural center of Kazan; the method of emotional immersion in the sound environment fo...

Our living in the dramatically globalizing world makes us admit that individuals need new abilities to survive and succeed in the societies with a high level of interdependence and integration. As a response to these current challenges global competence appears to play a very important role in bringing up a globally competent person who can work and communicate effectively with people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds which is especially urgent for Russia as it is actively participating in solving...

The scale of the modern world economy has transformed economic growth from a means of solving social problems into a factor of their aggravation. Further expansion of the economic system leads to irreversible devastating consequences for the ecosystem of the planet. Traditional economic logic has come into conflict with the interests of mankind. This article discusses the need to replace the model of economic growth with the paradigm of sustainable economic development, which includes environmental restrictions on...

The urgent medicine is very young and dynamic discipline of health sciences. Work at department, called Emergency or Departments of urgent medicine has to be very quick and arduous. The main aim of management of this department is continuous increase of quality of health care. Very important parts of medics’ teams there are nurses. The nurses’ work is essential component of full system of care. We would like to know; what is the impact of this work on the nurses employed at department. The identification of proble...

Clear and correct understanding of phenomena would be impossible without taking into consideration existing context of its appearance existence and development. It is completely true when talking about processes on the Arabian Peninsula in the end of the 6th- early 7th centuries AD and the rise of Islam. As a matter of fact the available sources only shed some light on the problems but the final solution is possible after series of further investigations in the future which should have a multidisciplinary characte...

A number of serious consequences for the person, his organism and its safety has resulted from transition from post-industrial to information society. One of such consequences are information overloads. Information overload is only a factor that is somehow connected in the future with negative consequences for a person. The problem of information stress as a form of psychological stress was revealed today. Information overload, first of all, affect the emotional component of stress that acts as a kind of trigger f...

The aim of our study is to define and interpret macro-structural changes in a contemporary society that have determined a transformation of the way of life of selected social strata, and pushed their social status down. The author’s intention is to highlight an individual impact of social changes, with a focus on the phenomenon of social exclusion of selected strata that consists of ever increasing number of individuals; that means their reduced chances to participate in economic, social and cultural life of the c...

The aim of the article is to identify and characterize the level of business environment risk in the sector of small and medium-sized enterprises in Poland and Slovakia to prepare the recommendation for risk management improvements in the future. Article is based on own questionnaire research, conducted among total 273 SMEs from Poland and Slovakia in 2016. The descriptive statistics and Gamma correlation will be used in empirical data analysis to achieve the paper goal. Authors emphasized that risk management sho...

Agri-farms of Tatarstan Republic (Russian region) have a positive dynamics of development and stably take its place among the first four constituents of the Russian Federation. Having cultivated 2.3% of agricultural lands in Russia, Tatarstan provides 4.7% of agricultural production, in the amount of 188.8 billion rubles. Agricultural sector becomes profitable, and begins to entice such a great investors as "Krasny Vostok Agro", "Kulonstroy", "Zolotoy Kolos", "Tatfondbank", "Agrosila Group", et al., who invest mul...

ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) presents challenges that affect everyday life and learning for pupils as well as their teachers and parents. Much has been written and researched when it comes to the disorder, with some conclusions resulting in great debate and controversy. Experts on ADHD offer a number of suggestions to help pupils with reading and writing. Paper presents some ways to provide pupils with secondary “fidget” activities, ones that don’t distract pupils from the task at hand but actua...

Background: Inventories are one of the most important assets. Their excess in an enterprise generates unnecessary costs but also has a positive impact on the safety of the company functioning as it improves its liquidity. In turn, the low level of stocks can reduce costs in an enterprise, but can lead to downtime in production or sales. Managers are looking for methods and strategies that will lead to optimal inventory levels and reduction of management costs. To reduce costs businesses often create purchasing org...

The literal translation of “queer theory” might be considered as a “theory of oddity”, or “theory of strangeness”. Initially negatively perceived designation became the official theory name in the second half of the 20th century, which deals dominantly with a marginal – in order to analyse the mainstream cultural construct. Although the “queer reading” in the Western-European society plays a significant role still not only within the area of literature theory, but also in politics, culture, economics, or education...

The vision about the family and the relations it relies on has recently experienced radical changes, some positive, others negative, the accent seeming to pass from the sense of the family destination to the evaluation of the personal relation of those who support or deny it. The destination or the goal of the family used to be lived in direct relation with its traditional image, great-grandparents, grandparents, parents, namely father and mother, children, grand-children and great-grandchildren. Yet, this image h...

Achieving sales is an essential for long-term business activity on the market. Sales information represent a valuable source of information for business management and hence for its future managerial decisions. These decisions are essential to achieving the company strategic goals that are part of the long-term strategic management concept of the company - valued information concerns especially the sales and the expenses development. Development of sales company's values can be predicted to a certain extent by app...

Public finance comprises specific financial relationships and operations. Within the economic system, there is an interaction between public administration institutions on the one hand and other entities of the economic system on the other. The purpose is to raise funds and effectively use them to finance sub-government policies. A significant source of public finance revenue is the tax collection existing in the territory of a particular country. Taxes form a coherent system that is partially harmonized in the EU...

The present study is devoted to those Arabic verbs whose roots are not traditional for Arabian morphology by three-part ones, but have either one more consonant or one less consonant in the root. Together with their few derivatives, they form an obvious vocabulary minority, but this is only quantitative, since it is an inalienable, frequency, replenished and most expressive lexical layer of modern Arabic. Quite the contrary, it is of great research interest to consider verbs with such roots from the point of view ...

In the middle of XVIII century the Italian architect Giovanni Battista Borra travelled to Ottoman Empire with the scientific expedition in Levant organized by James Dawkins, John Bouverie and Robert Wood. Progress, knowledge and communication were the goal of the expedition. Borra’s task was drawing archaeological sites. The report of his scientific journey is published by Robert Wood in: The ruins of Palmyra otherwise Tedmor in the Desert (London, 1753) and The ruins of Balbec otherwise Heliopolis in Coelosyria (...

The article researches the question of extralinguistic factors and the role they play in the development and functioning in the ancient Russian language. This research presents special importance and significance when studying original pieces of art of the ancient Russian literature and chronicles as well. In the article language characteristics of the “The Tale of Bygone Years” and “The Novgorod First Chronicle” are compared. The choice of language means such as lexical, word building and syntactical ones and pec...

Despite the exponential growth of transcultural/ translingual studies in recent decades, phenomenon of literary translingualism is still open to question. Specifically, it has been suggested that translingual practices in literature are equivalent to a “cultural bomb” that make minority ethnic groups forget their “names”. Translinguism is as old as the mythical Babylon itself. But if in the usual communication the translingual practices are evaluated rather positively (as the strategy of cooperation with the Other...

Negative transition in the football game mainly refers to the first reaction of a player or a group of players in order to retrieve the ball or to remove the danger of delaying the opponents’ attack and achieving a rapid defence organization. Obviously, this can be achieved in various ways, which will depend on the individual and group characteristics of the players. A coach will have to find the means that will best suit his team, he will try to remove the habits of the team that does not match his players. Our w...

The aim of the contribution is to examine the impact of employment policy instruments on the development of unemployment and employment in Slovakia and in selected EU countries, as well as the definition of employment policy instruments, suitable for application in SR. We are focused on explaining various interpretations and opinions on the origins, consequences and possibilities of eliminating the negative phenomena associated with unemployment. Attention is also paid to the mapping of the most important historic...

The author deals with the issue of stronger tabloidization of the so-called quality media and political scene in post-millennial years. She points to the acceptance of tabloidization processes in conditions of late modern societies and in the chaos of postmodern cultures. She presents and illuminates the processes that determine formation of the mental atmosphere in the first and second decades of the new millennium. According to her, these are in particular creation of a new cultural logic and a change of media l...

The represented article is devoted to the investigation of conditions for the developing of the pedagogical experience of newcomers to the university teachers in the process of intercultural interaction and improvement of the training of newcomers to the university teachers for intercultural interaction. The analysis of the scientific literature declares that named issue has not yet obtained the sufficient theoretical substantiation in pedagogical literature and viable practical fulfilment. As a result, the proble...

The article suggests solutions to the problems that may arise in the practical implementation of a new approach to the distribution of state-funded places among the universities, subordinated to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the competition among the applicants. These problems include the excess of educational organization material resources with a sharp increase in the number of applicants recommended for enrollment; the mechanisms for taking into account additional creative ...

This paper deals with the concept of the social area of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Directed interviews conducted in a few large chemical enterprises in the Czech Republic discovered an interesting fact concerning perception of social activities within corporate social responsibility. What is surprising is the fact how often statutory employee care is confused or identified with above-standard care in corporate practice. It is also obvious that employees take a number of above-standard employee benefits...

The concept of benchmarking can be defined in many ways. In general it is a method of increasing the performance and competitiveness of a company on the basis of comparing oneself with the best in a given field. The objective of this method is to gain information that will help to identify the strengths and weaknesses of a company with its competitors and which will serve as inspiration for improvement. Information is gained by constant observation and evaluation. At present, businesses, if they want to be competi...

Tourism in the modern world, becoming one of the most widespread phenomena in society. This is facilitated, on the one hand, its effectiveness as a form of economic activity, and, on the other hand, the emergence of the society members of new possibilities, i.e., more free time, greater mobility, increased financial possibilities. At the same time, tourism as a social phenomenon, is immersed in the space of modern mass culture and, to a certain extent, is part of it. The phenomenon of tourism is studied in many sc...

The goal of this paper is to describe and analyze the ‘Brexit’ and its potential impact on the United Kingdom and the European Union. Any discussion of a Brexit should be set against the backdrop of an increasingly convulsive European landscape. The merits and shortcomings of the European Union should be judged not in isolation, but through the lens of their implications upon a broader postwar European order that Britain has helped to build and sustain for nearly seven decades. US strategic retrenchment, Germany's...

In working life occupational health and safety is an important issue. The factory workers who feel sick may not have high performance at work. The feeling of illness will lead the worker to depression. Some of the problems of worker’s health and safety arise from the individual some of them are from the workplace. With this study it has been aimed to build a model revealing the relations among the individual variants such as perceived pain, The Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Questionnaire. The aim of this rese...

The aim of this study was to analyze the components of appearance in the structure of perception of other people's age. The main method of study: original methodology «Identification of person’s age using photovisualization». Participants of study estimated the age of 20 people (10 men and 10 women aged from 18 to 58 years represented on the photos) and answered the question: «What in this person allows you to make a conclusion about his or her age?’. Subjects of perception were 60 respondents. As the result 3268 ...

This study deals with the role and place of social rights in the legal system of the first Czechoslovak Republic. The aim is to point out that the first Czechoslovak Republic did not adopt market economy right from the beginning of its formation. After the end of the First World War there was the gradual transition of the Czechoslovak war economy towards market economy. The milestone was the adoption of the Czechoslovak Constitution in 1921, which not only signalized the development of civil rights but also social...

The contemporary society is drawn towards the spectacular, the out-of-the-ordinary, the amazing. Many companies, communities, cities acknowledge this feature and fight for public recognition by joining competitions and taking the effort to be placed in rankings. The paper focuses on Romanian records registered in the world-famous Guinness book of records as strategies for gaining recognition and reputation management. The study makes an overview of Romanian records and presents the case-study of Timisoara, which h...

High-quality, full-featured urban public spaces are characterized by wide complex of attributes. Places for fun and relax, offering emotions of joy, happiness and a good time for inhabitants and visitors, can raise the quality of urban environment. With their functional and emotional potential, the places for relax and entertainment can contribute to make the urban public spaces of contemporary cities more attractive, more lively and more people-friendly. We examine the potential of fun and relax spaces and design...

The paper is devoted to the problem of youth workers´ professional growth. The European Commission notes of the European Union (EU) youth work directions currently in growing professionalisation and the rise of the proportion professional education youth workers and expected the increasing demand for youth work by society. However, it was noted that state support can be decreased with the pressure of the sector and can discourage youth work, thus contributing to staff turnover (2014). During the period 2005-2015 v...

The basis of the paradigms Environmental Sociology uses roots in the 19th-century social thought. It is possible to elucidate the conceptions of the Classical Sociology theoreticians which constitute the basis for “Environmental Sociology”. Although ideas directly in relation to the environment were not included in the studies of Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, and Max Weber, it is possible to apply their paradigms to “Environmental Sociology”. Since Classical Sociology Theories take an important place in the basis of ...

The aim of the investigation was to determine the attitude of parents towards the diagnosis of their children and to focus on the problems of families with children suffering from a deficit of partial functions, as well as on the cooperation with specialists and the school and the ways of tackling the education difficulties of these children. This research is part of a larger project - the research concerning the educability dynamics at children and pupils in need of special education support measures and the fact...

The main purpose of the paper is to highlight the main components of revenues and expenditures, respectively their influence on the financial result indicators. Simultaneously attempts are made to make recommendations for improving the financial situation. The paper analyzes the specific situation of the 2013-2015 period. For this purpose, documentation was carried out at the unit level and time comparison was used as a method of analysis. As the key indicators we use, we discuss revenue, expense and profit-relate...

The article is focused on studying phonetic peculiarities of economic discourse of New Zealand English. The topic seems to be understudied and is extremely important due to the special status of this national variety of the English language: the progress of its pronunciation system was highly influenced by a number of extralinguistic factors – historic, cultural, territorial, socio-economic and socio-political. The issues of phonetic, intonational and prosodic arrangement of speech in the framework of business com...

There is a specific group of information processes performed in an organisation which are particularly linked with information acquisition, processing and rendering. And even though numerous highly advanced IT solutions are commonly available, handling of such processes often involves a considerable share of manual activities. In order to support them, one can use tools developed in spreadsheets by following the author’s signature concept referred to as “Microtools Based on the Relational Data Model”. The article ...

The present work is devoted to the problem of functional systemity of the English discourse in terms of linguosynergetics, which presents a dynamic and systemic approach to the language and speech analysis. The objective of the work is to reveal the functional properties of different means of expression of possessiveness in the process of formation of possessive meanings and modification of the discursive functional space. The reasons for special attention to possessive nominations in the English discourse are qui...

The purpose of the article is the investigation of the different types of the professional stratification of public servants. The main methodological approaches were system, activity and institutional ones. The base methods which authors have used are the analysis of the documents, including laws and other normative papers, massive questionnaire survey of different groups of servants and an expert survey of their managers. Indicators for the analysis of the characteristics of professional stratification of servant...

The article deals with the problem of political liberalism and aims to show the criticism of the western liberalism by Russian political thinkers. The authors focus on the political philosophy by Boris Chicherin and Ivan Ilyin who were the most outstanding representatives of the Russian liberalism. In his fundamental work “History of political doctrines” Chicherin shows that the main features of the western liberal tradition based on the philosophy of the Enlightenment should be found in the principles of individu...

The article continues the series of publications on cognitive urbanism - a newly applied field of research and design in the built environment studies. The MACRO-level of the Built Environment incorporates such models as the "enclave", "region (area)" and "district" that are different in pedestrian proximity, circulation and identification of place. The local centers in residential areas should be programmed and located in the context of these cognitive models. The roles and importance of local centers have been s...

Contradictions between the private and public sectors appear to be significant. The presented article maps the state and possibilities of cooperation of municipalities with private companies in the construction area. It deals mainly with the involvement of voluntary associations of municipalities operating in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. These associations of municipalities are one of the possibilities of interregional cooperation, which allows provision of public services to the members of the...

In protecting nature successfully from man the “Green Buildings” movement reveals its own program narrowness and a tendency to make a fetish of technology’s role which results in posing persistently a question concerning a return to the ideals of architecture with its mission to protect man from nature. This objective controversy is being solved by the way of architecture and nature’s integration, the methods of which have been used intuitively during the whole mankind’s history of creating an artificial environme...

The article reviews some similarities of the present tense categories in the indicative mood in two unrelated languages. Unrelated languages (for example, French and Japanese), remotely related (French and Russian), close related (French and Spanish), variations of one language (French language in France and Canada), different stages of one language (modern French and Old French languages) can be an object of comparative and typological linguistics. In our article, we consider similarities of the present tense cat...

The aim of this article is to demonstrate the significance and theoretical aspects of 3D-reconstructions of badly preserved ancient architectural masterpieces for architectural theory and modern architectural practice. The contemporary interpretation of classical architecture is mainly based on the foundation which was created by architects and art historians in the XVIII-XIX centuries. The archaeological discoveries in the first half of the XX century were also important for neoclassic architecture. However moder...

This article looks into natural science problems. Although a lot is being done in the country in the improvement of natural science education in schools, however, as international research data show, students’ natural science competence is insufficient. The present day student as well as schoolchildren is a technology generation person. His attitude to natural sciences, motivation to develop natural science competence is similar to schoolchildren’s. In this article it is discussed, how pre-service primary school t...