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Environmental problems related to the pollution and protection of the natural resources; deterioration of the air quality; pollution of water and soil; hygiene and influence of chemical substances on living organisms; waste and the proper usage and disposal of the waste; resources of energy by their rational utilization; material cycles and energy in the nature are not unknown issues. All these concerns are taken into account within science lessons such as chemistry, geography, ecology, biology and physics at prim...

Relevance of this work is caused by an increasing requirement to involve the population in solving problems of sustainable development of municipalities. This paper, based on the results of sociological studies, provides the urban population’s evaluation of environmental situation and also determines its willingness to participate in solving environmental problems. The results show that the urban population is concerned about the ecological situation because of its contact with environmental issues in everyday lif...

In the article potential possibilities and real successes of Russia in the mastery of the Arctic, first of all in the energy direction, are examined. Structural components of the article are the role of Russia in the mastery of the Arctic; the basic directions of international collaboration, in which Russia is interested under the conditions of geopolitical instability in the XXI century. In the light of numerous economic and political risks the author stimulates attention in the eastern foreshortening of the Arct...

The existing negative trend in fiscal development and increasing indebtedness of public finances, strengthened by the last crisis, have disrupted the fiscal stability of countries and have required governments´ interventions in the form of fiscal consolidation within their fiscal systems. The success of the fiscal consolidation process is conditioned by many determinants, among which may the fiscal rules be included. The role of fiscal rules is to provide a permanent pressure on fiscal policies with the intention ...

Study deals with the thematisation of visual deprivation (blindness) in the picture books, which are (in connection with its designation both as for intact as well as for handicapped reader) labeled with attributes “accessible” and “inclusive”. As illustrated in creative practice, such books are characteristic by an emphasis on its sensual-concrete realization (“artefacticity”) and subsequently by an experimental semiotic connection between verbal (literary) and visual (illustrative) component. Study attempts to s...

The use of ochres and pigments, derived from vegetable and mineral world, to color parts or sometimes completely the skin of the body, is a practice still in use in many populations and ethnic groups of our planet. Anthropological research carried out on the oldest languages of the world has shown that in terminology there are names only for light and darkness, so for white and black. The third color that appears is red, which sums up the shades of pink, purple, purple and orange, and is psychologically linked dir...

Religious rights and controversial approach to their provision and implementation will always be in the centre of discussions in all states including multiconfessional Russia. One of the points is connected with educational process. The most contradictory issues are talking about Muslim religion: on the one hand, there are multiple examples from judicial practice where the right of Muslim women to dress in accordance with their religious commitments meets no protection, on the other hand, there is the permission t...

Religion is a form of social consciousness that represents a basis of the deepest human reflections through specific theories and practices. This reflects the continuous tendency of human mind: to know, to question in connection with what is known, to overcome concrete existence, to enter a world that is beyond the objective aspects. Man as a multidimensional being, relates to existence, not only by reason and pragmatism but also by feeling and contemplative experience, ranging restlessly between the profane socia...

The article substantiates the topicality of theoretical basics and methodological fundamentals development for the monitoring system for economic and investment security of the Arctic regions in the Russian Federation. The need to modernize the state strategic management of the Arctic Zone regions in the Russian Federation arises due to the emergence of internal and external threats. Timely evaluation and prevention of crises on the territory of the whole Arctic Zone and specifically in the Arctic regions of the R...

The article describes the positive experience in preserving and developing the Tatar language in computer technologies. Two main directions for fundamental and applied research are represented: localization of computer technologies for the Tatar language, and developing linguistic resources and NLP for the Tatar language. The first direction implies creating technical and terminological standards for language representation in computer technologies. The second direction involves the development of new electronic l...

The region of Latgale historically has existed as a multicultural region, where one of the most important spheres is connected to the Jewish culture and history. Members of other ethnic groups form their own system of views about the world of Jews, with positive or negative connotations, based mostly on stereotypes. Historically these views transform, leaving behind traces in the world view. The aim of the paper is to research one of the linguistic world view spheres of Latgale inhabitants that is connected to the...

In Latvia, tourism is considered to be one of the opportunities for economic growth and one of the priorities for the services sector, as it is a significant source of export revenue that contributes to the country’s GDP. An essential role in tourism development is played by tourism suprastructure, i.e. accommodation establishments and enterprises providing catering services. The research aim is to examine the tourism suprastructure in the regions of Latvia. The research aim has two subordinate tasks: (1) to exami...

The paper deals with investigating thorough analysis that reveals the impact of digitalisation as the development of new communication platforms are changing consumer's purchasing behaviour in the online environment. The main aim of our research to identify the dynamics of consumer preferences in relation to the communication platforms of digital equipment for purchase in the online environment. To fulfil the aim of the research we are in the period 02.21.2016 - 03.06.2016 conducted a questionnaire survey located ...

OBJECTIVE: Medical statistics show that cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) constitute the most frequent cause of mortality both in our country and in the world. We classify those diseases as lifestyle diseases. The therapy of cardiovascular diseases requires active cooperation of the patient. The level of the patient's cooperation with the healthcare staff is called compliance. The concept of compliance is being replaced by the term adherence. Adherence is defined as a behaviour in which the patients implement suggest...

{{Background: }} The aim of the study was to find out the way of providing information preferred by patients after implantation of vascular prosthesis in lower extremities or abdominal aorta in order to develop a new educational material. {{Methods: }} The participants involved in the study had achieved at least 24 points of Mini Mental State Examination and had undertaken the surgery. The study was agreed by the institutions`s ethical committee and all the participants who had been informed about the study purpos...

Everyone needs protection, whether if we think at individuals or legal entities. Throughout a lifetime, are accumulate a series of goods, values, agonized with a lot of labor, which can disappear in a moment following a fire, an earthquake, a theft or some other reason. The resulting financial loss can not be offset otherwise than by insurance. The insurance market is a framework in which insurance transactions are carried out only on a contractual basis. Here are found the insurance request, coming from individua...

This article is devoted to the problem of revealing and interpreting sources of the history of international esoteric organizations in the 20th century, using the example of the Russian Theosophical Society in China. The authors emphasize that in recent years the interest to the problem of the birth and development of the occult currents which are not related to traditional religions is growing in Russia. Last years the religious situation in Russia has changed, the freedom of religion was established in the count...

Using Big Data in organizations, regardless of their size and specific, offers significant opportunities for growing the business performance. Through the study conducted, we intend to explore the perception of managers on the use of Big Data for business development. The data collected through a questionnaire applied to 1,152 managers, from companies of different sizes and from different fields, were the basis for the creation of a database subsequently processed with appropriate software, the Statistical Package...

The work compares chthonic images in three cultural epic and folklore traditions - Yakut, Russian, and English. Despite some specific instances of asymmetrical chthonic features, there are, however, general and universal ones. Chthonic creatures, which initially resembled the wild and natural strength of the earth, as well as the underworld, and other similar notions, serve as mediators between the world of the dead and the world of the living. These mediators have the ability to exist in two worlds simultaneously...

Political socialization of indigenous minority of the North has social, economic and psychological features. This process [political socialization] is a part of their global problem of integration into modern society, including its social and political structure. At the same time the process of national self-identification increasing should be noted. There are losses of quality of political socialization and involvement of indigenous minority of the North in this process as a result of political socialization most...

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is one of the most important indicators of the system of national accounts, which characterizes the final result of the production activity and dynamics of the market value of all final goods and services, produced during the year in all sectors of the economy in the territory of country for consumption, export and accumulation, regardless of national appurtenance of used production factors. For proactive management of territorial development of the national economy, it is important to...

The article deals with the prospects of interstate cooperation in the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) - Russia's integration project - and the Silk Road Economic Belt (One Belt, One Road - OBOR) - China's initiative of building land trade routes from Asia to Europe. The author points out that the political consensus reached on implementation of the EAEU and the OBOR between the leaders of two countries significantly reduces geopolitical risks in Russian-Chinese relations and clarifies rules of regi...

The following article gives a picture of the history and current state of the entertainment gaming industry, which is rapidly developing and changing in these few years. Compares features of gaming devices and consoles, methods of distribution of its products to consumers and describes the modern selling models such as microtransactions. The article deals about current sales and marketing models used in this industry. It also focuses on the big problem in the gaming industry which is piracy. In the analytical part...

The decision on the capital structure is one of the important decisions the owners of the corporation have to make. This decision affects the risk and the return on the capital invested by the owner. The aim of this paper is to analyze how the agricultural sector in Europe uses the debt capital in its funding. The factors used for the analysis of the agricultural companies debt capital level are the size of the agricultural unit, the country of its operation, the time period, the return on assets before interests ...

Historical literature and numerous medieval fortresses offer great premises for the development of cultural-historical tourism in Romania. Fiction tourism also fits into the general picture of tourism consumption. The phenomenon seems to lure ever more tourists that are interested in legends and myths. The tighter/closer the connection between the myth and the historical character, the stronger the attraction seems to be. The methodology of the paper is based on the determination of historical truth by a thorough ...

The topic of the Holocaust was under an unofficial ban in the USSR. It was not even mentioned in the encyclopedia "The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", which was published in 1985 when Perestroika started. To denote all victims of the Nazi occupation policy in the USSR, the term "peaceful Soviet citizens" was used, without specifying nationalities. Valuable information on the destruction of the Jewish population in the Nazi-occupied territory of Russia can be obtained by studying the documents of war criminal ca...

The birth of a child with a pathology is experienced by a parent as a stressful situation, which defines the need for psychotherapeutic assistance. It should be provided at the neonatal pathology department where a child stays during the period of acute condition, and parents get informed of the causes of the pathology, severity of condition and possible consequences. The article presents data on examining the effectiveness of rational emotive behavior therapy techniques in working with mothers of newborns with se...

In adolescence, reproductive capacity and even physical growth gradually reaches. In terms of health, it is important to pay attention to the sexual behavior of adolescents, their health education within the meaning of minimizing the possible risks and incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STD). Design: The study was designed as a descriptive cross-sectional study. {{Materials and methods: }} The aim of this study was to determine the level of sexual behavior of adolescents in relation to use of contraceptio...

Introduction: Assessing various physiological parameters at the second ventilatory threshold (ATV2) is one of the ways of determining a person's cardiovascular fitness. The intensity of exercise that accompanies the reaching of ATV2 is sufficient to act as a training stimulus. The purpose of this paper is to assess whether a period of one year’s sport specific training produced any metabolic, circulatory, and respiratory changes in athletics runners (AR) and race walkers (RW) when tested at a level of physical exe...

The article’s focus is to evaluate language education in terms of formation of multilingualism as one of the factors of successful internationalization. The questions of language education are discussed in the article as well as the modern language policy of the Republic Sakha (Russia) has been considered and the activities implemented at the University level are evaluated. The research was conducted on the base of state policy documents analysis, reports on modern position of Russia in the international market of...

Melodic interpretation of an instrument (the piano) is the main part of piano performance. One of the most important criteria of the quality of a pianist’s performance is an ability to show piano’s melodic potential, to convey the vocal expressiveness to the sound of a melodic “tapestry”. Many well-known concert pianists used exquisite piano cantilena, a piano “sang” in their performances, relaying a palette of nuances of vocal intonation using the means of pianistic sonority. The study and research of the subject...

The article performed from the position of psycholinguistic school gives the full and detailed analysis of similarities and differences of the dynamics of modern family images exciting in the language consciousness of Russian students. Persistent interest to this problem is caused by anthropocentric focus of modern science and understanding that a person lives in the changing social and economic conditions that steadily find reflection in all spheres of life. A person perceives and fixes the world in his conscious...

This paper presents first the difference between the field of thoughts were architecture itself is com-position of figures resulting in architectural objects … without any contact with social Sciences and the field of thoughts where architecture itself is a dis-position of matters resulting in an architectural operation in the ‘Real’ so that architecture becomes a fundament of social science. And these fields of thoughts are under condition of how we consider the ‘anthropos’. Knowledge can stay in a field of thoug...

The article seeks to identify the most important predictors of profit of credit institutions. This involves the use of multiple regression for econometric modeling of several variables on the results of banks’ operations. The study aims to show the capabilities of multi-factor regression in the analysis of credit institutions. The paper proposes a methodological approach to the measurement of marginal predictors of credit institutions. The authors use special techniques to adjust the models to avoid a collinearity...

The goal of the article is to point out the ethical and moral issues of education in the Slovak history of the 18th century as well as their philosophical and religious starting points. Teaching was usually accepted at that time only as a transitional position to the priestly occupation and therefore it was not sufficiently evaluated. Opinions concerning education as well as the teaching in the 18th century were rare only in advanced schools. The effort to improve the material equipment of the schools and the teac...

The role of the Diagnostic Center is to help children and parents to identify the most common causes of child behavioral disorders and to promote the development of their social skills. The Decree of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic states that the role of the diagnostic centers is to involve children in the re-socialization, reeducation and also in the diagnostic process. Resocialization is the process of reeducation, the task and the goal is to alleviate or overcome the long-term social need of t...

Air transport is one of the youngest transport industries, yet in a few decades of its existence, it has built a monopoly position in the transport of people, mail and some types of cargo for very long, long and medium distances. Air transport is also the main transport mode in the international transportation. There are even some destinations that are served only by air transport. For transport operators such as transport planners, airlines, airports and aircraft manufacturers, knowledge of air transport demand i...

Mobility along with housing and food are mayor household consumption clusters and the main driving forces of environmental impact. The need for transportation and importance of mobility for entrepreneurship and households has risen in the past decades. Even though transportation conveys socioeconomic benefits, it also has significant environmental, social and economic costs. Therefore, there is an exigent need to promote behavior change, and, when it comes to transport, it means, promotion of modal shift, use of e...

Active competition for good employees can currently be observed among employers because the most frequently mentioned topical issues in the labour market in Latvia are associated with ageing of the society, emigration of working-age population. The shortage of qualified labour due to the demographic processes and also the high levels of competition in the labour market in the transportation sector, the high levels of personnel turnover and the low levels of responses to the announced vacancies from potential emplo...

While distancing themselves from Eurosceptic views, major findings have been critical in their assessment of certain theoretical approaches that have focused on various scenarios of the reconstruction of the European institutional framework through modification of the economic, political and social subsystems. To put it more specifically, individual perspectives proposed by European intellectual opinion leaders, such as Ulrich Beck and Jürgen Habermas, have offered different solutions for their improvement. When p...

The article examines the problem of the need for actualization of progressive ideas of feminist and gender thought in modern society. Feminist thought and its unconventional views on social realities actualized a number of fundamental problems that have coordinated a certain path of the civilization development. Special attention is paid to the fact that global integration processes and human society globalisation had a great qualitative influence on on the social climate in the modern world. At the same time gend...

Insolvency legislation reform in the country began back in 1997 when the new bankruptcy law was enacted and published in the “Official Gazette” in October 1997. It entered into force on 6 November 1997 and came into effect on 5 June 1998. With the enactment of this new law, the former “Law of Forced Settlement, Bankruptcy and Liquidation”, as state regulation, used after the breakup from Yugoslavia, was replaced and never used again. This 1998 law was amended three times: in July 2000, 2002 and 2004, and was stron...

The lexical-semantic group of nouns with the metaphorical meaning of quantity in English and Russian is characterized in the article from the viewpoint of connotational markedness. The study uses the method of dictionary definitions, the method of continuous sampling, the method of componential analysis, the method of contrastive analysis, the descriptive method. Relying on the analysis the author identifies that the studied group is heterogeneous: some lexemes are neutral, and others are connotationally marked. T...

The aim of the research is to estimate the size and saturation of the labor market with companies, which have progressive human resource services in their management structure. The main hypothesis of the research is that the HR service development rate is determined by the dynamics and the speed of change in the management sphere of the company. The development level of the HR services is higher at stable companies, functioning at the market during the phase of active formation of the labor management theory and p...

Over the past twenty-thirty years, innovations have received increasing attention. The complication and fast progress of the current innovation-driven economy requires national governments to develop new directions for innovation governance. Global trend demonstrates that developing nations are no longer lagging in their efforts to improve innovation performance, but have become leaders. The aim of this paper is to provide an integrative framework for the comprehensive understanding of the innovation governance in...

This article represents the result of research on the transformation of modern pilgrim practices. In a crisis of religious identity, defensive reactions on the level of social behavior and interaction of the various religious and pseudo-religious groups and communities become actual. According to the authors such reactions have both destructive and constructive potential that is proved by questionnaires and statistical analysis. The article states the emergence of new types of pilgrimage as a spiritual tourism, id...

In the process of studying the modern role of the insurance market potential in the Russian Federation and the prospects for its development, there are inevitably questions about the reasons for its underestimation and its failure to fully perform its functions in the system of ensuring the economic security of the state. The National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation defines various ways of ensuring state and public security, the ecology of living systems and rational nature management, economic growth ...

Morality as a concept has once again invoked scientific curiosity, not only from the philosophical point of view, but from the perspective of other social sciences - especially psychology, which has offered new ways of rethinking the concept. Within the context of cognitive-developmental approach, moral reasoning is interpreted as a central construct of the morality in general (issues such as moral behaviour, moral sensitivity, moral motivation etc.). The main aim of this study was to identify some potential moral...

The modern society is characterized by multilingualism. The English language as a language of international communication cannot be considered as the only linguistic tool of interpersonal and professional relations. More and more people realize the importance of the knowledge of two or more foreign languages. That explains the students’ interest to learning a second foreign language. The paper presents the experience of the Department of Foreign Languages, Institute of Law, RUDN University in teaching German as a ...

The conditions for the formation and effective use of human capital are the leading factors in innovative development, the determination of a country’s competitiveness, and the social and economic well-being of citizens. In the context of globalization, there is a growing role for the study and adaptation of the social and educational policy tools used by countries that are leaders in the knowledge economy. The data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies have made it possible to ...