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The article reports on results of field research conducted in the Siberian Arctic between 2010 and 2015. Field research was conducted at the place of compact residence of indigenous people: Evenks, Dolgans, Nganasans, Chulyms, Nenets people, and Selkup people. In addition to field research, methods of expert interview were applied, with representatives of the indigenous people of the Siberian Arctic, including scholars, community leaders, members of the business community, and local government officials acting as ...

In Romania, the apiarian sector is very important because it develops in very good conditions referring to the climate conditions, air and soil quality, and not in the last place the honey potential, significant apiarian production were obtained. In the last three years, the number of entrepreneurs from the apiarian sector, which manages 150 beehives, had an increasing trend. From the study, we can see that the Romanian honey and the bee products are very appreciated both in our country and in other countries like...

The article focuses on the integration implementation in Central Asian region. The integration process is perceived through the concept of positive and negative integration based on works of Jan Tinbergen. The goal is to show the role of interregional organizations such as the European Union (the EU), the Eurasian Economic Union (the EEU), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (the SCO) and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (the CSTO) in promoting Central Asia as the whole region. Such cooperation falls ...

In recent times volunteering became more diverse. Its various types and manifestations can increasingly be reflected in different spheres of modern society’s life. The importance of the study of child volunteering is determined by the social meaning of this activity and its educational potential. The study of children and adolescent volunteering is also useful in the context of understanding volunteerism as a broad social phenomenon. The purpose of the article is to examine the child-teen volunteering as local pra...

Background: The members of statutory bodies of corporations are responsible for the damage caused by them personally and unlimitedly within the period of their function. Legal claims for compensation can be submitted by the company, shareholders, creditors, bankruptcy administrator or employees. The negative consequences of decision made by statutory body can occur even after longer period of time and can influence other subjects (e.g. husband, wife, heirs). Directors and officers liability insurance covers damage...

Important component of fortification in system of resettlement of mountain societies were settlements. Concerning the main settlements in defense the natural factor had also defining value: - a remote location of the settlement (existence on approaches to him of natural barriers: - breaks, steep slopes, rocks); - existence of the circular review of the area surrounding the settlement; - existence of communications of the basic with seasonal settlements – the settlements located in even more hard-to-reach spots hav...

Pituitary tumors often manifest through their local extension, involving the optic chiasm or the optic nerve and producing subsequent visual field alterations. Bitemporal hemi-anopsia is the most common visual field (VF) lesion in pituitary adenomas. According to tumor size and the degree of involvement of the optic chiasm, a variety of field modifications can occur. In the non-secreting pituitary adenomas patients, these alterations may very well predate the clinical features. The aim of this study was to report ...

Introduction. A series of studies presented in the paper indicate that people with motor experience are better mentally prepared to prevent and combat stress, negative emotional states due to the fact that psychic states influence the physiological state of the body which in turn has a repercussion on the psyche. Objective. This research seeks to identify the impact of physical activity on the personality of future lawyers, the echo of the research results, which we expect to be positive, reaching other students o...

Animals have been present in human life since the first domestication of their species. Nature was encircling urban areas with its abundance, while being human’s source of life and the greatest threat. With the development of urbanization some of the species inhabited human’s settlements, while some remained in the wilderness surrounding the enclosed urban space. Uncertain man's situation caused aversion to "alien" in the city. The progressive development of the world's urbanization has made it difficult to talk a...

The term “heterotopia”, introduced into scientific discourse by M. Foucault, is being increasingly used in the modern humanitaristics for the cultural area analysis. This article presents a typology of heterotopic spaces and their analysis in the scope of the Russian cultural landscape. Based on the E. Soja’s trialectics of spatiality – real spatiality, spatiality of mentalities and the “Thirdspace”, which is “habitable, the real and the imagined, the actual and the virtual” – we propose to distinguish three basic...

This article analyzes pension reforms conducted since the 2000s in Russia and in the so-called "Beveridge countries" (England, Sweden, the Netherlands and Switzerland), as well as in Germany. The main ways of pension provision modernization were set in the new Russian pension scheme development strategy of 2012. Russia is aiming for international standards in this area, however it does not take into account the consequences of some of its steps. As before its goal is to decrease the level of poverty and social ine...

The article presents the didactic values of garden exhibitions. The text is depicted by examples of theme gardens from Bundesgartenschau 2015, which bring visitors attention towards issues of nature protection. Show gardens are a particular type of gardens designed to amaze visitors with bold solutions, fabulous colours and new plant varieties. One type of show gardens - the theme garden seems to be a great opportunity to communicate with visitors. To observant guest they can unveil a story hidden on symbolic laye...

1. Questions connected with national identity are relevant in the modern world because of their global nature. Culture, science, art, literature in post-soviet Kazakhstan for the last 25 years is characterized by the surge of interest to national identity, to the awareness of their belonging to a certain ethnic community as an important condition for the existence of human society. National identity is one of the ideas due to the peoples’ national image of the world and history. This idea is directly connected wit...

The current arguments based on the alleged “unusual size structure” of the Czech agriculture resulted in regulation by Act No. 395/2009 Coll., on Significant Market Power in the Sale of Agricultural and Food Products and the Abuse thereof and Act No. 50/2016 Coll., amending the Act No. 395/2009 Coll. which was issued on 13 January 2016. The article focuses on the research – when and under what circumstances concentrated economic structure of the Czech agriculture was created. It is the purpose of this article to s...

This article is devoted to the actual problem of transformation of foreign policy strategy of China in Eastern Asia during the last years. The main aspect of Chinese policy in the region are domination of economic approaches and practical embodiment of “soft power” concept. China seeks to transfer reviews about problematic points in economical interaction with the region`s countries and decisions about territorial disputes from the multilateral level to bilateral level, furthermore actively counteract to the polic...

One of the key instruments for improving tax administration in the Russian Federation is a new setting of the tax system in 2017-2018 years. First of all, innovations relate to the VAT system. In particular, will need further study questions of expediency and needs to increase the basic rate of tax, the abolition of preferential rates. To achieve a balance in the tax relations will be reduced the tax burden for businesses of Direct Taxes. To harmonize the taxation of individuals, need to develop methodical bases o...

Currently, in Russia, introduced a system of inclusive education aimed at reducing social discrimination against children with disabilities. Nevertheless, many children who study on an equal basis with healthy children face with the problem of motor adaptation, which subsequently becomes the reason for the reduction of psychological and social adaptation in general. For improving the motor adaptation, it is necessary to study the physiological and biomechanical foundations of the movement, based on which it will b...

This article focuses on the question of the barrier-free use of zoological gardens with respect to the legislative provisions for this issue in the legal system. A zoological garden is a place of scientific and cognitive interest intended for the breeding of endangered and less endangered animals. By virtue of their logical purpose these facilities should be designed as barrier-free to serve everybody. It focuses on the basic barrier-free criteria which are demonstrated in two examples - Wroclaw Zoo and Ostrava Zo...

The paper aims to investigate the impact of chosen fund attributes, industry and country characteristics in the given group of high- and middle-income economies from EU on excess return of open-end equity funds domiciled in these countries by means of a panel regression with fixed effects for the time span from January 2000 to December 2016 and to perform subsequently international comparison of the obtained results with existing evidence from other regions or groups of advanced and emerging economies of the world.

The article deals with the scholarly edition of 19th-20th cc. Georgian writers’ epistolary legacy (thirty-volume set), initiated by our scientific team from 2010, the modern research methods for textual and editorial studies, we guide with in preparing the volumes, our editorial strategy, based on which traditional attitudes and modern technologies have been combined with each other in research process, it became possible, by using computational technologies, to read several indecipherable texts of the writers, un...

Problem of extremism in modern society is one of the most important, because thanks to modern level of technical development, borders and distances start to be very relative definitions, and humanity still haven’t worked out mechanisms of painless coexistence in the situation of open wide borders. Modern Russian prose gives rich material for regarding and classification of theme of extremism. Being largely a mirror of the society, literature allows to select and analyze its most evident and painful appearance. We ...

The paper studies foreign practices of tax policy formation. The capability of a state to ensure social stability based on reasonable distribution of national wealth and household income is a very important indicator of modern society development level. However the mechanism of income distribution and the results of its operation may not agree with the social idea of justice. Many economists adhere to the opinion that the state should regulate the distribution of the incomes of the society and it is advisable to o...

The aim of the work is to evaluate the economic advantages of the application of the most frequently used energy sources for the purpose of heating administrative and office buildings in the conditions of the Czech Republic. Data for comparison are obtained from national statistics of projects and data obtained from suppliers providing energy for selected types of heating. The comparison deals with the assessment of the operating costs of administrative buildings using electric heating, central heat supply and a c...

This paper presents selected examples of interconfessional conversions of Christian temples in last fifty years in Poland. It also shows the process of transformation of spatial and functional structures as well as iconography of the temples, implemented throughout adaptation. It covers problems in architectural conservation as well as essential ideological aspects of symbolical and liturgical nature. Those examples are representative for the architecture of cultural borderland, which attempts to synthesize both W...

The study is devoted to the specific area of industrial design, design of public passenger transport stops (bus stop, tram stop, trolleybus stop). The main objective is to model relations between general features of the stops, environmental restrictions of places where the stops are situated and characteristics of people with their physical and psychological characteristics. The above-mentioned characteristics affect both sub-parameters and layout plan of the entire unit. The study has conveyed systematic research...

Each Romanian geographical region is characterized by some characteristics that can be seen as landmarks and analysed in order to assess their cultural and tourism profile. Oltenia, a historical province that dates back to the Dacian-Roman period and inhabited ever since, has a rich/vast tourism offer, with numerous cultural attractions spanning centuries/from each century. It is necessary to distinguish between the historical heritage items from different time periods ranging from the ancient Dacian, to Roman era...

Background. Immune causes of miscarriages are not well known. Toll-like receptors (TLR) are receptors of innate immunity, situated on innate immunity cells, including epithelial cells, and capable to recognize structures of pathogens (bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa) and activate immune response. Toll-like receptors, recognizing bacterial structures, are membrane receptors, which through MyD88-dependent pathway activate synthesis of proinflammatory cytokines. TLR1, TLR2 and TLR6 recognize lipopeptides of Gra...

In sectoral research of entrepreneurship there is a deficit of data about medical entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurship of doctors. The medical sector is diverse because it encompasses various size business entities that specialize in many possible aspects of the medical business. It seems, however, that there are some common features of medical entrepreneurship which are worth investigating. The result of such analyses could be the construction of models of medical entrepreneurship, which would allow a better...

As more and more companies invest a lot of money and effort into building their own corporate universities, the economic effectiveness of corporate universities is under increased scrutiny. However, not many researchers have addressed the issue of the evaluation of learning effectiveness in corporate universities. In our article, the main methods, applied by famous corporate universities to measure the results that corporate education delivers, are analysed. The importance of the evaluation of learning effectivene...

It is hard to imagine nowadays building a competitive economy without including in the process the achievements of scientists and Ph.D. students perceived as a source of new knowledge. The process of technology transfer and commercialization of knowledge is an important driving force for economic growth and social well-being. The transfer of knowledge from academic institutions to businesses and social environment can take place through various channels such as education, publications, commissioned research, staff...

In terms of legal theory, Ukraine, as the main structural element of the political system, carries out the state policy the aim of which is provided in the Constitution of Ukraine. This policy is demonstrated in different directions, defining the main objectives and content of the state activity in all areas of public relations. One of the structural elements of the state policy is legal policy, the main task of which is to create an effective system of social relations regulation by legal means. Depending on its ...

Reminding us of the title of the French author Jean Giono’s novel “Joy of Man’s Desiring” (1936) and Johann Sebastian Bach’s chorale “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”, the author Cornelia Golna has chosen an intriguing name for her first novel which is related to the story of culturally marked individuals, like the Greek girl Theodora Vlachos, the Russian Natalya Petrovna and the American professor John Townsend. Having as major focus the struggle for adaptation to a new life after the Young Turk Revolution, the book ...

Background: Originality is the main specific feature of mathematical Olympiad problems. Formulating these problems requires a special kind of creativity and only a few people have this ability. They are called problem composers, and Rosen Nikolaev is one of them. H? creates mathematical tasks every day. More than 14 of them have been selected for the The National Student Olympiad in Mathematic and more than 40 for the Bulgarian Mathematical Olympiad. Such specialists are unique, not only because of their special a...

The major research objective was to study the influence of the students’ religiosity on their moral consciousness. Religion has always been the most effective and widespread means of maintaining social order. It has played a variety of roles in different social contexts and, as a subsystem of society, changed along with it depending on the specific historical circumstances. In the socialist countries, positioning itself as atheistic, the level of religiosity of the population was extremely low. Currently, there is...

In the demanding competitive environment, manufacturers find it more and more difficult to differentiate physical products, and so they resort to differentiation of the offer through services and customer solutions. The thing is that the product level cannot be assessed according to the quality of its technical features only, but particularly according to the way how the clients are provided with it - services. Their importance is growing on a long-term basis, and their sufficient level is a critical factor of the...

The article justifies the classification of professional-business letters for linguodidactic purposes. Discourse analysis of business letters is a way to establish methodically significant features of the texts of this genre and analyze their essence and significance for learning the reception and production of business letters. The features of professional-business letters include their function, subject, composition, social characteristic and communication channel. The performed analysis of 80 texts also allows ...

This paper presents the issue of adaptation of the existing railway facilities to the new needs and their potential and significance for the local communities in small towns. Presented examples of adaptation indicate the possible functional solutions and methods of investment implementation. The examples of modernization and adaptation carried out include station buildings in rural areas and small towns. Based on these examples, an attempt was made to create a model way of program planning and functional layout as...

Through this paper I present the results of my research concerning the link between literature, architecture and urban space. In two scientifically supervised studies at Graz University of Technology and at the Technical University of Berlin, students approach the spatial design based on narrative texts. On the basis of the evaluations of the experiment at Graz University of Technology, it is shown that it is possible to think architecture out of the place, to write, and to develop real space drafts from this resu...

Today information space is a natural human life environment. Almost unlimited technical capability of modern interactive gadgets allows people to become co-authors or even creators of their own virtual reality. General availability of personal data makes it possible to interfere in other people’s private lives, forming their values and sense attitudes. So, the problem of psychological safety of a person in information space has become of vital importance. As a theoretical ground of the research we use such concept...

“Stylistic synchronism” and “aesthetic analogy” are two of the most spectacular phenomena in the dynamics of the present-day artistic world which may acquire special (and even paradoxical!) connotations when they manifest “spontaneously” – i.e. involving no deliberative/predetermined factors. In this context, non-intentionality and, respectively, the absence of any individual attempt to relate to an antecedent (alternative) reference enhances the importance of identifying the stylistic and language vectors that sh...

The archaeologic site from Basarabi is digged into a lithological generated hill, consisting of chalks and chalky marnes, where Senonian occurs continuously over the Baremiene limestone from the valley Carasu flank, or over the Aptiene gravels. The limestone from Basarabi is compact, with variable thickness from 42 m to 95 m, and below them there are marl and limestone. It is white with flint nodule with 91% CaCO3. From geological and technical point of view, could be identified semi-hard rocks (limestone, limesto...

Cultural linguistics is one of the fast developing fields of modern linguistics which studies different concepts of different property. Gender approach is considered to be the most interesting and important in study of concepts. The aim of this research is to describe important questions of modern concepts and aspect of gender concepts functioning in the Russian picture of the world etymologically connected with the names of fairy creatures (Baba Yaga, Zmey Gorinich, Tsarevna Lyagushka, Fox, etc.). For the sake of...

The article is dedicated to representation of such a characteristic personality trait as intelligence, particularly the image of a clever person shaped and perceived by Russian native speakers. Theoretical grounding for the research is the integration of functional and psycholinguistic approaches. The data were obtained through ???????????? ?????? ???????? ????? (????) ‘Russian National Corpus’ [7]) data (syntagmatic level), dictionaries of modern Russian language (word and phrase levels), two surveys based on con...

A subject of this article is a museum-visitor interaction that uses modern type of communication based on information technology. We have a great chance to implement a concept of the Internet of Things in museums and other buildings due to Bluetooth Low Energy technology. The Internet of Things presents a major opportunity for a large number of user applications that promise to improve interest to exhibitions and provides extra knowledge about museum objects and a digital extension into the physical world. The art...

In 2004, Peter Goldie accentuated a common feature of certain contemporary artworks and social psychology experiments: the „deception” of viewers and, respectively, of participants in the experiment. Peter Goldie uses the term „deception” for the strategy of social psychologists, because the entire experiment is based on a hoax (in Milgram’s experiment on obedience, for example). The participants fallaciously believe until the end of the event that they are taking part in a general knowledge test, playing by the p...

In this paper we examine how cross-cultural aspects influence Kazakh and Russian students when they form the image of the manager’s profession. Our research based on the data of comparative sociological survey of Kazakh and Russian university students studying management from the first to the fourth year of study. We have found that the share of Kazakh students, who plan to work as a manager in business, or in public administration sphere, and who has an experience of such work is bigger than that of Russian stude...

Labor productivity is the most important factor in the economic growth of the region. Traditional production functions assess the contribution of labor resources to three-fourths of the total one. But today there are new factors, the inclusion of which in the model is necessary, since they determine the key forces of economic development, iden-tify the direction of regional policy. Economic growth, according to neoclassical theory and the theory of endogenous growth, is influenced by labor resources: population de...

One of the important features of the contemporary literary process is an actualization of a variety of transgressive or hybrid phenomena. In this connection, the novel “Laurus” (2012) by Eugene Vodolazkin is not an exception. Expressed criticism is sometimes not satisfied with the discreteness of E. Vodolazkin’s text, its peculiar mosaic, explicit eclectic mixture of semantic, speech, structural and genre elements. It seems that these elements have a deeper meaning. The article analyzes the semantics of the blendi...

Development of ICT, Internet and electronic commerce tools has totally changed the way of doing business, business processes, marketing and Public Relations. A new type of activities in the digital environment provides an advantage to small and microenterprises to effectively communicate directly with the target group of customers and achieve much better results than with the traditional media. The purpose of this article is to describe the main factors influencing the usage of e-commerce in microenterprises’ mark...

In recent years, the hard coal mining industry is increasingly practicing outsourcing according various types of work. These practices are not necessarily well perceived by miners because they can affect their wages indirectly or directly. First of all external employees treat work in mining company as a source of a quick income. Therefore, external companies often calculate their employees compensation not based on a working time but on the basis of a specific, accomplished task. Such employment is called piecewo...