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Background: Services create most of employment and value added in modern economies and via delivering key intermediate inputs to other sectors they enhance industrial performance and boost economic growth. The significance of international trade in services is systemically growing together with development of ICT technologies. Although Poland's share in global trade in services is rather small (1.01% in exports and 0.72% in imports in 2016) this sector is important for the Polish economy. In 2016, Poland's service...

The breakdown of world trade flows that occurred in 2008-2009 due to the financial and economic crisis was followed by a swift recovery. However, since 2012 global trade growth has been sluggish and the growth rates lower than average growth of global GDP. Various reasons have been named to explain that phenomenon. One of which is the supposed protectionist policies spreading all over the world. The main goal of the paper is to analyze global trade flows since 2012 and pinpoint the main tendencies and factors affe...

The aim of the study is to capture the relationship between the revival of a region and the space that the human inhabits. Owing to unlimited computing power and broad access to information, anyone can make many decisions in a short time. With many communication channels and automation of activities, these decisions will be passed on without any human intervention. The internet enables long-distance communication; we can study and learn from the best even with a limited budget. With internet, running e-commerce, m...

The study proposes to promote ecotourism and to highlight its importance for the economic development of the studied area. Caras Severin County attract a lot of tourists due to the high number of touristic objectives, but mainly due to Bigar waterfall which was nominated as the most beautiful waterfall in the world. Due to the high number of tourists, the natural landscapes are damaged, therefore the purpose of this study is to acknowledge the value of nature, so that the tourists and the managers of the touristic...

The purpose of the article is to determine the linguistic status of advertising based on the functional (pragmasemantic) properties of Russian advertisements. This issue is topical today, when advertising is acknowledged as a crucially important part of successful business, and has to be adequately handled in teaching future business people. The problematic side of it is that advertising contaminates features of different styles and genres, and forming students’ skills of composing efficient ads requires some expe...

The paper has its aim to determine the features of the search of national identity and its origins in the architectural theory in XVII century Britain. In spite of troublesome period of time the rule of Charles I, with its difficulties, which led to the revolution, Civil war, execution of the king, the pass of power to the Parliament, then restoration of Charles II one topic had been constantly present in the British architectural mentality. It was the question, who built Stonehenge and what that already famous an...

One of priority activities in EU is health promotion among all the age groups, resulting from health policy implemented by World Health Organization and European agencies. This is especially important among senior citizens since the precondition for successful ageing is to maintain a good psychophysical fitness through participation in various forms of sport and recreation. With reference to the theory of activity, all humans, even older adults, need physical exercise and being active. Activity and sense of associ...

One characteristic quality of metropolises is their non-continuity. They are composed of a network, a web woven out of various threads - of extremely fine, almost invisible spider's silk, which gives in to the pressure of the wind, as well as thick ropes, which can resist it and support entire skyscrapers, wires that transmit impulses, radio waves and starlight. Everything is in the spaces of these webs: emptiness, grass, the shine of water surfaces, forests and sand, prisons and botanical gardens, tombs and publi...

The piece Trio rustic pentru vioar?, viol? ?i violoncel de Ion Ghiga (Rustic trio for violin, viola and cello by Ion Ghiga) was written in 1950 as he reached his stylistic maturity as a composer. In this work we can distinguish a series of morphological features which are wonderfully mirror the elements of Romanian folk musical language. Such elements are particularly represented by some motifs with archetypal values, as rhythmical and sound pitch elements, harmonic-polyphonic textures or architectural structure. ...

This article presents the perception of professional competences of secondary education teachers from the point of view of wide and open professionalism. We pay our attention to the understanding of the concept of a competence and we define each competence according to the career standards. These career standards were accepted and approved by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic in 2017. The career standard defines teacher competences in three dimensions: the dimension of t...

One of the information sources describing an enterprise, its activities and results is the system of measurement and disclosures – i.e. accounting. This system, in its structure and effects of functioning, by adopting e.g. the final outcome in the form of a financial statement, should take into account the environmental challenges within which it is supposed to carry out the assigned goals. It is natural that changing the modern form of accounting (and therefore also financial reporting) becomes the function of dy...

The article deals with activating methods for geography teaching in out-of-school environment in Slovakia, particularly in the Nitra City. Moreover, it focuses on the popularization of geography among different age categories via the activating methods such as didactic games and experiments. Activating methods lead teaching so that educational goals are achieved mainly on the basis of pupils' own activity with the emphasis being placed on solving problems. Teaching by exploration and discovery by pupils themselves...

Throughout its history, architecture has been created according to the signs memorised for years. From the time of Vitruvius and his theory to the beginning of the twentieth century, buildings were given a perfect shape corresponding to their function. Banks and governmental buildings were to be monumental, the rulers’ seats to intimidate the subjects with their splendour. The great avant-garde of the early twentieth century liberates art and architecture from memorised patterns. The contemporary world changes the...

In recent volatile geostrategic environment have been multiplicated number of actors and threats. Due to faster operational tempo, it is a crucial to keep interactions between politicians fulfilling their political tasks to improve society and generals responsible for forces development, equipment, training and proper usage. Smoother dialogue might save lives and resources, whereas any misunderstanding costs the same and has a negative impact to their society. Behavior patterns are showed in Hitler-Guderian and Ch...

Modern trends in the development of the economy determine the need to improve the efficiency of management of investment processes, since the intensification of investment activity contributes to the renewal of the material and technical base, expansion of production, strengthening of competitive advantages. Analysis of the experience of stimulating investment activity in the regions of the Russian Federation allowed to identify several areas, the implementation of which will provide additional capital inflow to t...

Literary proper names (poetonyms) are universal functional-semantic word signs intended for individualizing and characterizing single objects of artistic reality in the space of literary texts. The semantic-stylistic potential of onomastic units within a literary text is enormous, making them both a significant means of interpretation and an important constructive element of a literary text involved in the processes of text production and meaning-making. Poetonyms become an essential means of text construction, po...

Like the European Union, the Slovak Republic is also experiencing rapid aging of population, which is caused mainly by an increase in the expected life expectancy combined with a low birth rate. In general, the negative impacts of population aging on public finances of the state are analysed. Less attention is paid to the impact of aging on national economy in terms of volume changes and the structure of supply and demand for products and services. The concept of silver economy can be defined as the potential repr...

This study aims to present the sensitivity of the Bologna curator, Francesca Alinovi, who showed great interest in the emergent artistic expressions of her times, amongst which Writing. Francesca Alinovi’s sensitivity towards Writing emerged during her visit to New York City in 1980, a trip on which she saw Graffiti works and gain first-hand experience of their historical and social context. The sense of unease and contestation of mainstream culture which Alinovi found in New York led her to draw parallels, within...

Managerial behavior and the operating philosophy of the firm's executive level characterize entrepreneurial orientation, enabling entry into new markets. Three dimensions most frequently used to describe entrepreneurial orientation are innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking. Most of the earlier research on entrepreneurial orientation aggregates its features into a single construct to examine its impact on the company’s performance. In this study, the dimensions of the entrepreneurial orientation were decon...

The article deals with the basics of the formation of tourism in society, reveals the content of the phenomenon of tourism, offers a unified social system of tourism, its essence, characteristics and philosophical purpose. The analysis of scientific understanding of the phenomenon of tourism based on scientific schools of the Western sociological science is carried out. An attempt is made to systematize the statements of European scientists about the commercial nature of tourism and the creation of a single touris...

During the decades following 1989, characterized by multiple economic and social convulsions, Romania faced a profound transformation of its demographic structures, with a natural population deficit and a negative migratory balance rate. Although our health care system has been in a perpetual state of reform since then, few attempts materialized in long-term policies, patient or prevention-oriented. The steady degradation of the physical and mental health of the population has been caused by perpetual social insec...

The cognitive model of elections is formed in the consciousness of a potential voter under the influence of an electoral media discourse. It is actualized in election narratives. Based on the idea of combating chaos and maintaining stability, a special narrative was formed in the Russian-language electoral media discourse. The cognitive model represents elections as a confrontation between legitimate forces and external rivals, new and incomprehensible institutions. This model was adopted to the particular case, w...

The aim of the article is to evaluate whether the construction of the income tax in Poland indicates the implementation of the principles of social justice to which Article II of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland refers. In order to achieve the pursued objective of the paper, it was analyzed how the amount of the income that is not the subject of individual income tax and the poverty lines in the years 1995-2017 related to each other. The above relationships were compared with relationships in selected co...

In the Czech Republic, but also in the world, there is an increasing amount of extraordinary events and crisis. These situations significantly affect the operation of the state. There are mainly floods, storms or snow calamities, in the Czech Republic. These crises also affect hospitals. These events disrupt the supply of water, food, energy, but also other services. Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic provides these emergency supplies - emergency drinking water supply, emergency food supply, emergency power...

Thesis : Underground architecture engages our sensory system in order to depict and intensify its meaning. The mother’s uterus defines first space in which humans embryo evolves with no access of light, meagre sound reception, suspended in an aqueous environment. In prehistoric times caves and dugouts acted as a cramped, safe place, giving the inhabitants a sense of shelter and protecting them from animals and rough weather conditions. Later it began to adopt different meanings and functions, which often depended ...

A recent investigation of the ecclesiastical organization at lower Danube during the 4th-7th centuries has revealed that a Notitia episcopatuum was drawn up under Patriarch Epiphanius of Constantinople (520-535), in the first decade of Justinian I’s reign (527-565). The aim of the present investigation is to identify the provinces that the metropolitan sees of Sebasteia (in the civil Armenia Prima, then Armenia Secunda) and Melitene (in the civil Armenia Secunda, then Armenia Tertia) were assigned to in that old (...

The article presents the current state of the research project which aims to integrate activities of members of the Faculty of Organization and Management, Silesian University of Technology, Zabrze, Poland, that are focused on the various problems associated with the idea of “Smart City”. The variety of research areas related to multi-screen research conducted by project participants has been treated as an important added value of the project in question. In the first part of the paper, the list of the areas consi...

The authors represent modern society as a society in which the logic of market relations has become the logic of all relations. The market imposes its own conditions and means, which are used between people. The brand is one of the characteristic phenomena of the culture of the consumer society and capitalist society. In such a society, the brand functions as a socio-cultural phenomenon. On the one hand, the brand is a tool of the market. On the other hand, the brand can be viewed as an independent cultural form. ...

The paper addresses the widely discussed problems of development of banking systems, as well as the problem of achieving a balance between ensuring financial stability and stimulating business activity in the country. The lessons of the global financial and economic crisis 2007-2009 prompted regulators and, in particular, the Basel Committee on banking supervision, to transform the regulatory system to more rigid models. The need for restrictions on the freedom of the market through increased powers of regulatory ...

Students of University of Business, Arts and Technology RISEBA starting supervisory practice, are faced with the problem that in the business environment is a lack of awareness and understanding of supervisor work. This raises the concern that the requested service is not required enough in the Latvian market. The situation is a little better with the coaching services, because for the past 5 years coaching promotion was quite active, therefore, awareness and understanding of this service has improved. The aim of ...

Regional property complex transformations in different territories have several distinguishing features since they follow different patterns and result into a particular structure of a region’s economy. No matter how exactly property ownership transformation took place in a given region, specific features of it would be indicated by structural shifts between the private and public sectors. The shifts determine vector and dynamics of social and economic development of a region, thus stipulating the role of both pub...

Culture, as it embodies the way humans have adapted themselves to the environment, -in other words, their particular way of adaptation and their main mean of livelihood in environmental, economic and social terms-, has been largely considered as a source of sustainability. In this sense, the concept of heritage stands out as a cultural asset that makes particularly explicit the historic relationship between men and territory, as well as the result of the diverse human and cultural activities within the environment...

The aim of the study was to analyze the factors influencing the depression score in patients with occupational lung diseases. We have conducted a cross-sectional study on patients with a diagnosis of occupational lung disease evaluated for their current health status in the Colentina Clinical Hospital during October 2017. Patients with severe reduction in lung function or during exacerbations periods were excluded from the study. The patients' status was evaluated based on the standard medical procedures of the cl...

In numerous regions of the world there are artificial mounds, pyramids or earth embankments that distinguish themselves from the surrounding due to their intentional shape pointing to the existence of sacred sites, burial places or the boundaries of protected space. A large number of them refers to the archetype of the mountain, understood as a timeless monumental form rising up to this particular point where the earthly sphere meets the heavenly one. The paper presents the new meanings of the most recognisable la...

Introduction: Adverse factors in occupational exposure of healthcare workers are bringing risk and health threats in mental and somatic symptoms of health care workers, including the burnout syndrome. The aim of the paper is to evaluate psychological risk, focusing on the stress and psychological burden of health care workers. Material and methods. Cross-sectional study was based on the form of structured anonymous questionnaires evaluating the amount of psychological burden of healthcare staff, according to the c...

Constantly changing environment pressures every living for a change, and response becomes a basic reaction of any living form. Change is a natural reaction that enables survivor of all the species. However, in architecture, the responsive structure did not take important role until the twentieth century. During that time many concepts and building introduced kinematics into the discipline. In the late 50 and 60 of XX century, visionary architects introduced responsive and partly autonomous structure. Designers lik...

Today, much of the power of computation comes not only from digitality, but from the ability of computers to ‘represent’ things. So that as it always be in the past, nowadays representation still has a potential to create its own world. In contradiction to engineers who implement digitality as ‘know it when they see it’, the philosophy of representation offers more complicated and multiple meaning to it. This way of thinking gives us opportunity of rethinking about the design and its representation. Digitality can...

The main indicator of the effectiveness and efficiency of the socio-economic policy of any state is the standard of living of the population. It is the well-being of the population, its level of security, prosperity, health, education and self-realization that determine the development of the country as a whole. Currently, incomes and expenses of the population are an important component of the system of social and labor relations not only in Russia but also in many countries around the world. The aim of the study...

The tomatoes have highest share in Romanian crops from protected spaces (greenhouses, solariums). The grafting is an agronomical technique that induces or improves some qualities of the tomato cultivars (resistance to soil diseases and pests, resistance to abiotic factors, quantity and quality of fruit production). The research was aimed the establishing of the technological stages for producing of scion and rootstock seedlings from L. esculentum species, to obtain compatible phenotype when is grafted. The observa...

Background & Aim: To investigate the potential of cardiovascular disease as risk factor for periodontal disease in the context of current etiology model. Methods: It was used a cross-sectional sample consisting of 374 dentate adults, age >30 years. Subjects were selected from patients attending periodontal care between years 2016-2017 in the Faculty of Dentistry Constanta Romania, South-Eastern Europe. Ethical approval was obtained from the local ethics committee and each patient signed an informed consent form. T...

The paper fills the gap of the scarce economic literature devoted to the investigation of systemic banks’ prudential features. The statistical analysis gravitates around those banks designated by the Basel Committee of Banking Supervision as global systemically important banks (G-SIBs). It had been considered a comprehensive sample of 28 European systemic banks whose key financial indicators (capital adequacy, profitability, liquidity, and asset quality) became inputs for the peer analysis performed. The explorato...

Through the analysis of the archival materials and own field data collected in the Iul’tinskii district in Chukotka the authors tracked the changes in a diet of Amguema Chukchi reindeer herders at the second part of the XX – beginning of the XXI centuries. During this period indigenous peoples of the Arctic dramatically changed their food consumption patterns. This paper aims to analyze the process of how a diet change in the North-Eastern Chukotka was accompanied by a transition to a new regime of food autonomy. ...

Practice represents the most important aspect in a performer’s life. It is a creative process that improves musical and functional abilities that one needs in order to master music for performance. Practicing strategies that focus on meta-cognitive skills for deeper understanding and learning, like setting and monitoring goals, or developing the ability to persist in spite of the problems that may appear and also cultivating a growth mind-set (especially in young instrumentalists and singers), have been shown to r...

The Russian-language weekly "British Ally", published in the USSR since August 1942, informed Soviet citizens about the course of the Allied military operations. Covering the events of the week and giving an overview of the British press, the newspaper also reported on Nazi crimes in the occupied territories. The change that occurred in World War II in 1943 enabled correspondents to get more comprehensive and reliable information about camps for prisoners of war and concentration camps and publish reports on the h...

Evolution of the facture theory in the Russian musical science is discussed in this article. System of views, oriented to study the way how a sound tissue is organized, forms a separate area called facturology (as defined by Y. N. Kholopov). The facture theory in music in its orientations at the stage of formation was similar to separate representations of related art and literature. Works of V. Markova, V. Kandinsky etc. are of some interest in this aspect. Later facturology developed as an independent direction ...

The paper presents a part of the research on the most important radical concepts in architecture of the late XX century. The question that the research is trying to answer is: in what way certain concepts did essentially influence thinking and practice of architectural design in the form of the objects that were constructed? The methodology adopted in this research is mainly based on comparative and interpretative studies of writings and projects of the most influential architects of the mentioned period. The pape...

The increasing mobility of families across borders has given rise to a growth in the number of cases in family courts with a connecting factor to a foreign country and thus has become part of judges’ and courts’ daily practice. The recent trend in private international family law shows a decline of nationality, as the traditional connecting factor, and an increased consideration of habitual residence. This change of trend has resulted in the increased application of the 1980 Convention on the Civil Aspects of Inte...

The aim of the study was to identify, which psychological constructs predict career decidedness of students. Survey sample consisted of 74 Slovak grammar school students (Mage = 16,51; SDage = 0,61, 63,5 % women and 36,5 % men). The analysis derives from previous research, which identified the most important predictors of career decidedness. These constructs are defined by Theory of Cognitive Information Processing. The following questionnaires were used: The Career Decidedness Scale (Lounsbury, 2011), The Career ...

Symbol has always been an intrinsic part of a person. A person’s life is marked with symbols. In the past, this was directly reflected in the architecture and in the art of all religions. They have their special compensation in the temple and vice versa; the temple is a concrete manifestation of the function of a symbol. Thanks to them, art could manifest itself, could naturally pass from the level of aesthetics to the level of religion. One of the proofs to confirmate this thesis is an example of dome and iconost...

Arrangement and composition of park ensembles of medieval China remains rather difficult to study, since there is no park of that time preserved in its original form. In particular, this applies to public parks, since the historical descriptions mainly relate to the famous imperial or private parks of the Song Dynasty. In addition, these descriptions are generally not provided with plans or any other images. However the historical chronicle "Jinding Jiankangzhi", describing the city of Nanjing of the Southern Song...