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According to the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia, the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia is a representative body of the citizens and the legislative power of the Republic is vested in it. The organization and functioning of the Parliament are regulated by the Constitution and by the Rules of Procedure. As a representative body, the Parliament decides on behalf of the citizens based on the will of the electoral body and of the trust during the time of its mandate, therefore, the Parliament is a lega...

Having as a starting point the multiple choice test passed at the beginning of the academic year, the results of the present statistics will underline the fact that the level of knowledge of English in the case of Computer Science from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University is a very good one, ranging from B1 to C2, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The test contains varied multiple choice questions, including vocabulary, reading comprehension and use of English, it has 80 questions to...

The quality of life of a person with severe visual impairment can be and is influenced by a large number of variable factors. One of these factors is the personality of a person with severe visual impairment, which is then further influenced by the environment in which he grows up and then moves. In this paper we will focus on two / respectively three basic variables - the personality of an individual with severe visual impairment, his / her family and then his / her employment. The family of the people with visua...

The article is devoted to the pressing issue of the transformation of Russia’s and China’s foreign policy strategies in Central Asia in recent years. The prevailing aspect of economic approaches as the basis of practical implementation of the “strategic partnership” concept is the main feature of these two states’ policies in Central Asia. However, the two countries maintain military and political cooperation, each of them upholding its own political interests. China’s tactics is in its active support of the integ...

The Pharmaceutical Industry is one of the biggest industries trying to balance the relationships between innovation, competition and superior profits [1]. As we noticed, nowadays, we have many types of drugs at our disposal to buy. But what happens when many pharmaceutical manufacturers produce the same drug, with the same active substances, changing just the appealing packaging? People barely notice and, of course, they pay more for the same original drug that they used to buy. How rapidly new drugs appear on mar...

The paper presents an analysis of the drama Die Rettungslosen (The Hopeless) by a philosopher and writer Susanne Schmida-Wöllersdorfer (1894-1981) who came from Byst?ice pod Hostýnem in Moravian Wallachia (The Czech Republic). A recently documented literary estate of the author provides an extensive and unique corpus of texts – remarkable dramas, lyric poetry, essays, and esoteric texts, in the form of manuscripts and typescripts, serving among other things as a proof of the existence of what can already be termed...

Nursing is a culture and, since time immemorial, it has been connected to a number of cognitive and skill-based preconditions that should be an integral part of the personality equipment of each nurse as representative of the nursing profession. The preconditions include primarily the theoretical-philosophical frameworks of nursing or conceptual models whose importance consists primarily in the effort to offer a comprehensive, high-quality, individualized and documentation-based nursing care, considering the indiv...

The aim of the article is the fulfillment of the comparative legal analysis of the property rights protection in the civil law of the Republic of Kazakhstan and countries of the European Union. The research is based on the spectrum of the civil legal provisions, which regulate the issue of the property rights protection in the civil law of Germany, France and the Republic of Kazakhstan, their compliance with the current requirements and the ability to meet the challenges of time and thereby the development of the ...

The article describes the process of designing and implementing innovative solutions using methods that support creative problem-solving and project management methods. The convergence of innovation management and project management topics are outlined. Consequently, it enabled the creation and presentation of a hybrid innovation management design model that combines methods and tools in the areas of investment, innovation management and project management. In order to establish the innovation management design, m...

The images of permafrost and cold can be depicted through a combination of myths and ethno-cultural representations designed for self-determination and self-presentation of Arctic territories. Related to a multiplicity of images and conceptions in the contemporary culture of the peoples of the North, the symbol of the mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) stands as a semantic nucleus in the Arctic zone. The fossilized animal of the Pleistocene period, through the discovery of remains in the permafrost, was introduced by...

The purpose of the research was to study the category of argumentation as a framework for the process of design and transfer of knowledge as mental representations of real world situations, events, etc. to its addressee in discourse-making process. The study was based on the application of the cognitive model of world perception. The analysis of texts on economics from the point of view of their argumentative organization showed argumentation as one of the main categories that organizes the internal cognitive stru...

This paper deals with the nature of understanding the term green customer in automotive industry. There has been confusion between purported meanings of this term by different groups of people. The green customer shall be defined on the basis of his motivation that ultimately drives his purchasing behaviour. However, this term is often misinterpreted. The definitions of different groups of people are developed in this paper. Logical implications together with empirical validation are applied to test their validity...

Gamification in education can be considered as the algorithm of use of the game elements and game thinking in the educational process in order to archive the educational and training objectives. This process that involves internal motivation and engagement in a greater level, is more innovative, helps not only to archive educational tasks faster but to incorporate new experience into existing pool of knowledge. The article systematizes social and educational functions of gamification, introduces the description of...

The protection of the environment is surely the last frontier in the project for Naval Architects, as the new materials allow us to dare using complex shapes, open spaces, very appealing lines but the challenge is to match the increase in size of the modern mega yacht, who are often Ships of 90-100-120 meters and over, with the environmental protection and the capability for these enormous ‘toys’ to travel everywhere especially in the most suggestive corners of the planet respecting the air, sea and earth. The IMO...

In general, the development of tourism is dependent on the presence of tourist (natural, cultural, specialist) attractions as well as on the state of tourist infrastructure (accom-modation, catering, accompanying and transport infrastructure). Global environmental problems are usually marginalised or entirely overlooked at the stage when tourist offer-ings are developed. The purpose of the research is to identify and define the role of ma-jor global environmental problems in the development of tourism. The researc...

The paper considers the importance of university students’ socialization via foreign language learning. Young people are destined to make their contribution to the society development at each stage of its progress. To fulfill this task younger generation has to inherit and enrich basic social and intellectual values and gains following the path of socialization. That is why the problem of the current state and the potential development trajectories of the students’ socialization in the educational process based on...

Intensive growth of agricultural production caused on the one hand implementation, adopted in 2010 a Food Security Doctrine of Russia, on the other hand, a ban on the import of food products from several Western countries, as a response to imposed against Russia sanctions, has highlighted the need for research and forecasting of development of agroindustrial complex. In the world in general and in Russia in particular, has accumulated substantial experience in building predictive models of agricultural development...

Space truss systems are formed by steel bars which are under axial tension or compression loads connected each other with nodes. These systems provide constructing wide span structures by light structural elements and also make buildings more powerful and useful. Space truss system elements must be dimensioned due to the loads they carry as dead, live, wind and earthquake loads. In this paper; fatigue damage of a steel space truss system is studied under snow and thermal loads. Results are compared to four space t...

Regarding information and communication technologies improvement, the global e-commerce market has already developed. This market almost has not geographical boundaries and is in demand 24 hours per day seven days a week. All countries pay attention to the electronic commerce development. E-commerce might be one of the drivers for the retail trade revival, improving competitiveness, and ultimately the development of the Russian economy. The article reveals the place of Russian e-commerce, determines trends and pro...

The article is devoted to the issues of personal data regulation in the Russian Federation. Indeed, protection of personal data of an employee occupies an important place in the legislation and judicial practice of the Russian Federation. The author analyses a number of legal acts, as well as certain judicial practice relating to storage, processing and transfer of personal data of an employee. The author emphasizes that on the basis of the judicial practice the criterion of excessiveness in respect of transfer of...

The purpose of this study is to create an original performance scale. For this purpose, exploratory factor analysis and reliability analyzes were performed. A two-step focus group study was conducted to construct scale expressions. When the proposed form was filled in by 45 top managers for 45 white collar employees, a total of 90 forms were obtained. These 90 forms have been prepared for analysis by data entry. In order to measure the performances of 90 white-collar employees, a group of managers, who provided pl...

The authors seek to improve the construction of dynamic assessment model of company’s investment appeal. This involves a comparison of the actual order of the investment appeal indices with the standard ones by calculating the Kendall correlation coefficient for the two ranking series based on internal environment indicators of a leading chemical enterprise. The comparison results in the calculation of the dynamic assessment of investment appeal whose maximum value is equal to one when all observable characteristi...

The secularization of society, often associated with the phenomenon of modernization of society, represents a complex process characterized by a restructuring of the moral-ethical values and religious practices. One of the issues of contemporary secularization of society involves passing the property belonging to the churches or monasteries into State ownership. While in Western society this process is the consequence of social developments, in the countries of the Communist bloc in Eastern Europe the secularizati...

The aim of this paper is to outline the issue of grasping sustainable development in practice. The institutional system applies this term with pertinent sonority, which entices the general public. Where did the term sustainable development actually come from and what does its application involve with respect to land planning or planning the development of the agglomeration itself, and how can the individual institutions and the public get involved? To answer these questions, one must know the basic principles of s...

This article is an attempt at understanding the role and place of the ethical expertise in the search for competent and fair decisions on issues important from the standpoint of moral in the practice of the social work. Making decisions is an integral part in the social work practice. These decisions are often problematic due to different reasons: insufficient information, time constraints, pressure from various sources, uncertainty about the outcome of the various options and fear of prosecution. This study on th...

Background: The style of our life, our decisions and behavior are immediately connected with the state of our health, increase the risk of illness. Lifestyle, including the participation in different forms of activities, is characterized by the dynamics of changes and increased abilities of adaptation to changing life. Taekwon-offers a variety of physical and mental benefits. The purpose of this study was to assess selected aspects of the impact of practicing taekwondo on health-related behaviors. Method: The stud...

In the field of dramatherapy interventions aimed at addicted persons in detoxification units, no relevant methodology is available. At the same time, the implementation of dramatherapy approaches in the healthcare sector is problematic. Last but not least (according to scientific research), very little attention is paid to the specifics of dramatherapy designed for these clients. The paper deals with the application of dramatherapy designed for persons with addiction in detoxification units. The author presents a ...

The purpose of this article is to assess the effects of imposing economic sanctions on the Russian stock market by some Western countries in the beginning of the political confrontation with Russia in 2014 to identify the potential of the Russian stock market adaptation to the eventual introduction of such economic pressure instruments in the future. On the basis of generalized indicators characterizing the results of trading on stock markets, of price levels, volumes of transactions, stock indices, and by using t...

The paper is focused on the investigation of Dynamic Assessment approach as an alternative to standardized testing methods. Dating back to the Theory of Proximal Development developed by Vigotskiy, the methodology has been actively employed by the helping educationalists, mostly for students with special needs. Its potential is, however, undeservingly undervalued by subject teachers and methodologists, both those involved in schooling and higher education. The given article describes the results of the experiment ...

Division of power as a base principle of construction of state power is a major precondition for establishment and construction of democratic and functional states in accordance with international acquitted standards and practices. The last political and institutional crisis in RM reveals serious flaws in functioning of justice system, as corruption, politization, scope of judicial institutions from politics, etc., but above all the loss of citizens’ faith. The rule of law, democracy and respect for human rights a...

The French Healthcare System copes with important challenges especially of costs, often linked with “walls” between compartmentalized fields, particularly between Primary Care and Hospital sector. These challenges largely correspond to information and communication issues. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) may constitute an important lever to overpass them and to improve the efficiency of the whole system. New Healthcare Interfaces Organizations (HIO) developed for thirty years constitute an interes...

The new millennium and the revolutionary medium of communication - the Internet brought a lot of change in all spheres of life to individuals and companies. In addition to many positive aspects and opportunities that the Internet provides (such as fast and instant communication, new forms of entertainment, education, an immediate source of information), it is important to recognize the presence of multiple risks linked to communication through new digital media and technologies. We consider that one of the most se...

The monitoring of creditworthiness consists in supervising, monitoring and controlling the borrower's financial and business activities in order to establish its ability to timely and accurately fulfill the obligations on obtained loans. It also includes assessment and forecasts in the creditworthiness evolution under the influence of internal and external impact factors. The most important preconditions and requirements for creditworthiness evaluation are: ?The granted credits, as an absolute value, to match the ...

The main purpose of this research is to reveal the financial events which, in unfavorable economic conditions, emotionally arouse in students either a negative or a positive reaction. The research is based on the hypothesis that there is a difference in the psychological perception of events relating to the objective economic life conditions of a student and to events connected with his personal economic activity. Students of the Humanities Departments of the Ural Federal University underwent the survey. The infor...

The Czech Republic has not yet ratified or acceded to the Convention of the International Labor Organization (hereinafter referred to as "ILO") No. 189 on Foreign Workers. In the vote on the adoption of the Convention in 2011, the vote was abstained and, on the basis of the Czech Government's failure to ratify, the Senate Senate on Health and Social Policy of the Senate of the Czech Parliament on 8 August 2012 decided that the Czech Republic would not join the ratification of the Workers' In a foreign household. T...

The article is based on the results of research work devoted to the problems of corporate social responsibility which over time undergoes significant changes in accordance with the expectations of society. The classic interpretation of the creation of a "shared (common)" value for business and society is the antithesis of corporate philanthropy on the distribution of value previously generated by the business. According to the authors, companies can create both economic and social value in three ways: by rethinkin...

The study is focused on the process of searching bilingual terminology on the Web in the translation process. The experimental data were gathered using computer monitoring (keylogging) and post-translation interviewing. A group of translators was given a short text containing educational terminology with multiple equivalents in the target language. The task was to translate the text with a focus on terminology equivalence and consistency. The computer monitoring data include keyboard activity, a list of Web resour...

The paper presents the main assumptions about the theory of constraint, particularly with regard to its application in the area of improvement of the organization of production processes. The analysis was made on the example of the lacquering process. In analyzing according to the principle of continual improvement, newly diagnosed "bottlenecks" were presented and possible ways of eliminating them and expected effects were presented. The practical application of the theory of constrains confirms the universality o...

This article considers the main trends in developing migration processes in developed countries as well as social and economic consequences for developed countries. It shows the specificities of national governance practices, which have a particular impact on the migration policy. In article the international labor migration as economic category is considered. Nowdays migration regulation policy in particular countries is confronting new challenges of continuously changing environment; and, consequently, today gov...

The paper is devoted to insufficient pre-university IT teaching that is considered a problem in Russian education. The paper examines some issues in school computer science course in the context of informatization of society and new requirements for the orientation in the information space. The authors have been conducting a survey and entry testing of students for several years. First-year students of the Institute of Management, Economics and Finance KFU participated in the study. The article presents the result...

Early literacy, as a foundation for future literacy skills and academic performance, is the actual research trend. This developmental face is a source for the results of formal literacy (Scarborough 2009) and a framework of academic performance (in tests like PISA, PIRLS and others). Besides the contribution to the academic success, the interest for early literacy stems also from the need to recognize children at risk for reading disability and dyslexia (Catts, Petscher, Schatschneider, Sittner Bridges & Mendoza, ...

While also examining procedures related to a direct vote for the president in various European countries, findings in the present paper have been based on an interdisciplinary approach to implementing the system through a constitutional amendment in the Czech political system. With occasional references to other European countries, the new legislation on presidential elections in the Czech Republic is presented with a focus on several issues; firstly, the extraordinary importance of the arrangement for the Constit...

Background: With regard to the demographic ageing of the population, healthy ageing and health literacy of the elderly population, including both healthcare and prevention of diseases and health promotion, represent a hot topic. The health promotion in the elderly is focused on getting information and particularly on the practical application of the information to actual situations. The healthy lifestyle in the old age supports the physical and psychological condition of the elderly population. The elderly need to...

Tourism has an advantageous multiplier effect and severs as an accelerator of the social-economic development. Using a method of a component analysis the most significant indexes for differentiation of territory of Republic Tatarstan with purposes of recreation and tourism were detected. Map - models were constructed and by their superposition the integrated map of a recreational potential of Tatar Republic was obtained and the attractive areas for rest and tourism were detected. Using a method of a component anal...

Enterprise Management in recent years requires a lot of concentration on environmental change, i.e. Increase the competitiveness of enterprises, technical and technological progress, increasing demands by customers, decreasing product life cycle and product innovation. The answer to the problems of modern management companies became controlling and budgeting . The purpose of this article is to present the role of sales budgeting in business management. The applied research methods are based on literature studies o...

In a knowledge-intensive economy, the ability of the individual knowledge worker to produce high quality decisions is perhaps one of the most valuable assets organisations today has and organisations are increasingly concerned with ways of making better decisions, because an organisation’s ability to make high quality decisions is of utmost importance for its success. Consequently, a knowledge worker’s primary deliverable is a good decision, which emphasises their essential role in producing high quality decisions...

Up to the present moment the musical science explains the fundamental phenomena of harmony, such as sonance and tension, either by the abstract numerical logic in the frequency relations of sounds, or by the individual specifics of perception. And though the regularities of perception of sonance are well-known, their objective reasons exist only at the level of hypotheses, and the phenomenon of tension is still regarded only as a result of the perceptual effects. However, the above-mentioned phenomena are the refl...

Background: The study of psychological strategies of network activity and attitudes of student youth towards the Internet is actual and practically significance. Personal characteristics in the network interaction are occurred in the motives of behavior and communication, in the psychologically to the use of electronic technologies, and also in the preference for activities. For most students the Internet is a space in which you can achieve social comfort and have the opportunity to communicate with others and dev...

This contribution is connected with the social skill development of children between the ages 14 -15 who come from socially excluded areas and are educated in non-mainstream informal education realised in low-threshold social clubs for children and youth in the Czech Republic. The theoretical introduction of the thesis characterizes the approaches towards informal education in the Czech Republic, the methods applied and possible realisation of intervention and education itself. Furthermore, another discussed issue...

For implementing partial activities, companies utilize a broad portfolio of financing resources. These resources can be analyzed from various angles. They are usually divided into company´s equity and debt resources. Although the decision about resource utilization is influenced by many factors, the cost of capital is the most prominent aspect that enters this process. The subject of the article is a research in the field of company debt resources. There are a number of circumstances that encourage companies to ch...