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The relationship between the emergence of linear perspective during the Renaissance and scientific cartography is well known. They both inaugurated and exhibited a new relationship to the world – a de-theologised world, which the human being was now able to measure and circumscribe. Linear perspective and cartography both enabled to frame the world in a window which we could from then onwards encompass, think, visualise, and view at a glance. “Framing” became the key operation of Renaissance art and science. The c...

The relevance of the study is determined by several reasons. Firstly, the languages of the indigenous peoples of Siberia belong to the category of languages that do not have an ancient written tradition, and the texts of these peoples present a valuable linguistic material that allows to obtain important data, as well as to draw significant conclusions about the specifics of the genesis of linguistic and cultural processes of the relevant ethnic groups. Secondly, in recent years there has been a certain increase i...

Many cities, towns and villages around the world have adopted new Lighting Emitting Diode (LED) technology in order to save energy, operational and maintenance costs. While energy-efficient, these light sources have a critical effect on the appearance of historic sites at night – and the technology has unique properties and numerous inherent drawbacks that present challenges to decision makers as well as inexperienced lighting professionals. This paper uses practice-based research, critical analysis of literature,...

Today's society is at the junction of two great challenges: the desire to preserve and carry on the values of the past, materialized in heritage sites and the application of all the measures known at present, to ensure high living standard from the point of view of thermal comfort and energy efficiency. These two directions are often found to contradict each other and even end up rejecting each other. To take care of the values of the past, it means applying clear rules in the processes of rehabilitation, restorat...

In 1887 Arthur Conan Doyle acquainted the world with the first adventure of a consulting detective from 221B Baker Street, London. After a few years, Sherlock Holmes became an iconic figure of fictional detective - he was read about, admired, parodied, and adapted both for stage and screen. Sherlock Holmes has become one of the symbols of the Late Victorian Age. But in the 21st century, Sherlock Holmes is still popular. Long time ago the famous detective broke the spatial and temporal borders set by his creator. I...

The objective of the article is to compare two sociological concepts of social reality. Both of them refer to modernity and its’ characteristic phenomena, yet they define this reality differently. On the one hand, Anthony Giddens treats the modern times as the decadent (advanced) era of modernity, the so-called late modernity. On the other hand, Zygmunt Bauman notices that postmodernity (liquid modernity) contains certain features of modernity, which not so much constitute a new-quality epoch, but unmask its malfu...

The formation of independent Kazakhstan after the collapse of the USSR (1991) led to a change in the language situation, the formation of language policy and language construction. The most urgent topics in society were the questions of the revival of the vitality of the state - Kazakh language, the narrowing of the spheres of functioning of the Russian language, the transition from Cyrillic to Latin. A large number of scientific articles analyzing the language situation of Soviet Kazakhstan and post-Soviet Kazakh...

The relevance of this study is due to the need to develop the scientific base of engineering activities, including the approach to understanding engineering as a tool for creating competitive advantages and increasing the competitiveness of organizations. Engineering covers the whole life cycle of the object: from the idea and its development, the creation of a prototype, the application into production, including the subsequent promotion, implementation, maintenance, up to utilization. At the moment the Russian e...

The article deals with the topical issue of assessment of recreational loads on the most visited forest areas near the lakes of the Republic of Mari El. Here in the organization of rest a special role belongs to the owners of leased areas, which do not limit mass visits exceeding the established standards. Therefore, in conditions of significant recreational nature and exhibiting a natural deficit of water recreational resources of growing importance for the purposes of recreation acquire comprehensive studies to ...

The concept of the rhetoric of science remains open to debate, although it has been acknowledged as a research area and an academic discipline in the literature and by universities across the world. This article aims primarily to justify the treatment of the rhetoric of science as an independent research area, to place it in the historical context of the evolution of logic, rhetoric, and philosophy, and to demonstrate the relationship between the possibility of a rhetorical interpretation of science and its interp...

Empirical evidence of financial literacy in the adult population during almost 10 years shows stable financial illiteracy of Russian population. By financial literacy Russia consistently occupies one of the last places in the surveys made by different researches, and does not improve its score with time. Financial illiteracy negatively effects Russian financial market’s stability and economic growth of the country. Numeracy and capacity to do calculations related to interest rates lies in the root financial capabi...

The article analyzes the role of regional development institutions in the social and economic development of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The authors summarize the experience of managing regional development institutions, conclude that it is necessary to increase the degree of influence on the development of the economic and social infrastructure of the regions of the Russian Federation. The article specifies the essence and content of the concept «regional development institution», as well ...

The study was supported from the grant project VEGA 1/0625/16 “The effect of physical activities on the development of motor abilities in integrated children with behavior disorders”. We have extended knowledge about motor coordination of 7 and 8 years old children by determining correlations between somatic parameters and total motor coordination expressed as the converted MQ scores. The somatic parameters measured included body weight, body height, and BMI. To determine the levels of motor coordination, children...

The number of offences committed by minors remains consistently high. According to data of the State Police of the Republic of Latvia, in 2016 the number of juvenile offences grew slightly from the previous year: 907 offences by minors were recorded in 2016, and the number of minors who committed offences increased. [1] The fight against juvenile crime is a set of complex measures, including both fight and prevention. Complex measures are implemented by state and municipal officials, who have certain duties define...

The article deals with an algorithm of projecting of orientation basis of actions of monologue’s composition at the English lessons based on activity approach principles in learning. The general approaches to the educational process organization are determined and pointed out within the framework of the algorithm described. The authors of the article define the action’s position in future professional activity of the students. The requirements for monologue (descriptors) are pointed out in the article, their meta-...

The aim of the present study is to consider the perception of synagogues in the contemporary cultural space of Latgale. The study is based on the fact that Jewish cultural heritage on the territory of Latgale has been being reconsidered. At the present stage, intensive work on the restoration of the tangible and intangible Jewish cultural heritage has been being carried out, and the objects of cultural heritage have been being transferred into the sphere of tourism. The Daugavpils synagogue is a functioning synago...

Recent years in business activities exposed rapid changes, especially in the ownership structure. An increasing number of mergers and acquisitions assume increasingly complicated forms, thus becoming incomprehensible for financial statements’ recipients. Among many consequences associated with business combinations, one should notice a specific accounting category, namely the bargain purchase gain. Describing the basic assumptions as well as legal regulations concerning the bargain purchase gain isone of the main ...

This work is devoted to the historical mythology as a new field in social & human sciences. The author examines the causes of appearance and vitality of myths both in traditional, modern and post-modern societies throw the point of situatedness. Medieval pagan studies provide a good example of mythology development. Every period in historiography has its ‘own paganism’ due to socio-cultural peculiarities of contemporaries. In practice all of investigators try to create their reconstructions of pre-Christian belief...

The purpose of the paper is to analyze the impact of the health systems financing in the EU Member States, identifying the structural and institutional changes necessary to eliminate the negative trends and to increase the efficiency of the healthcare sector. The good health is considered by the European Parliament as the key to economic growth and sustainable development in the EU. The methodology of the study includes a theoretical and methodological analysis, a descriptive approach, a method of analysis and syn...

Many issues are connected with the ecological security of the state. This institution is a good example of the complexity of the relationship between the instruments of legal protection of the environment that create it. The aim of this paper is to consider the connections between planning instruments related to the functioning of the legal institution of ecological security in the system of environmental law. In the process of implementing environmental policy in the Polish State, ensuring ecological security, a ...

The article discusses the processes taking place in the system of higher education in Russia. The purpose of the article is to identify the key differences between basic undergraduate and graduate educational programs. The article discusses the conditions and mechanisms required to ensure the continuity between bachelor’s and master’s degree programs as a basis for quality higher education. The article contains a comprehensive evaluation of basic undergraduate and graduate education programs offered by the Russian...

The efficiency and time saving constantly are actual subjects of the civil procedures and for solutions of civil disputes. The civil procedural principles and procedural sanctions are those aspects which should ensure the efficiency of hearing of civil disputes in courts. The author of this article is civil rights lawyer and has of many years standing practice experience. This article analysis the procedural principles and instruments which one are stipulated in civil procedural law in Republic of Latvia and Repub...

In article is presented an analysis of the peculiarities of the consciousness and behavior of the student youth in the consumer sphere is presented. Based on a sociological investigation, the models of typical consumer practices of Sverdlovsk region students are outlined. Russia experienced a change of type of culture, value orientations in the XXI century. Formation of market relations contributes to formation of a market-oriented personality type. The concept is based on a relation to consumption as to a termina...

The research paper analyses the concept of legal liberalism as the framework for the existence of freedom in modern constitutional states. The genesis of the concept of legal liberalism originates from the works of ancient philosophers, who used to create various theories of ideal states. However, an in-depth analysis of this issue was carried out by great German philosophers Immanuel Kant and Georg Hegel. In Russia, a number of prominent scholars, such as Boris Chicherin, Pavel Novgorodtsev and many others, also ...

Pursuing certain professions in Poland is associated with certain entitlements, other than the job-specific basic pay. In the case of mining, there is a distinction between underground and surface jobs. These entitlements are referred to as privileges and are unavailable to other professional groups. These include in particular: awards, various bonuses, allowances, and other benefits in kind. They result, to some extent, from centuries-old mining tradition (miners were among the first professional groups to acquir...

One of the most important organizational resources is human resource of that organization, therefore organizations attempt to increase job satisfaction of employees. Employee job satisfaction is an attitude that people have about their jobs and the organizations in which they perform these jobs. Employee job satisfaction is generally recognized as a multifaceted construct that includes employee feelings about a variety of both intrinsic and extrinsic job elements. The result of previous research provide a broad vi...

The increasing complexity of buildings and structures, the high rate of construction and the need to reduce design time, enhance internationalization and international cooperation in design and architecture, as well as many other factors triggered the rapid improvement of computer design tools. At present, this approach to design is commonly referred to as Building Information Modeling (BIM), and the related technologies and software tools are called BIM-technologies. All of the above logically leads to the conclu...

Currently, suburban passenger transportation in Russia has a leading socio-economic role in satisfying the citizens’ requirement for displacement. The social significance of railway transport is primarily in its demand among the population with low income. Russian Federation regions establish the passenger-fare for selected groups of the population below the actual cost, so as not to reduce passenger traffic. Meanwhile, regional governments need to compensate for the loss of carrier's income which appears as a res...

The article deals with the peculiarities of information compression in the process of professional activity of a biologist (as a representative of the natural-science direction) and philologist (the representative of the humanitarian sciences). As the main method of research the semantic charting of the text, based on the psycholinguistic experiment, was used. The analysis of the themes and microthemes wording was based on the principle of matching/ mismatching of the wordings with the words from the whole texts: ...

Background/Purpose- Over recent years, in the Italian scenarios, several routes have been entered to face the lack of complementarity and interaction between public and private bodies. Although, the management dimension of public affairs fields has assumed relevant proportions in both social and economic terms, companies still struggle in considering it as a deserving capacity of their strategies, germinating the absence of a committed task. In this framework, the paper aims to define a theoretical and practical m...

A majority of students have the opportunity to be the centre of attention (to present a speech, to read a report, to sing, to conduct, or to play) and to feel emotional strain. The latter touches us all but not in the same way. For some personalities emotional stress helps to mobilise their spiritual power, others change unrecognizably: a person becomes tense, confused, the colour of his/her skin changes, a person’s hands start trembling. The profession of the music teacher may also be regarded as a profession of ...

The need to ensure mobility of persons with disabilities is due to an increase in the absolute and relative number of people with disabilities, which is a global trend. The United Nations Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, adopted in 2006, was aimed at solving these problems. The actual problem of the Russian social practice is the provision of physical and social mobility of the disabled, the formation of a monitoring system of the rights of the disabled and the availability of infrastructure ...

A huge increase in the importance of individual transport in the 20th the century concerned practically all Western European countries and the USA. This was favored by changes in urban planning and society, such as the sprawl of cities and the development of the automotive sector. The prices of passenger cars dropped significantly, which in turn meant that the car ceased to be a luxury commodity and became the everyday means of human communication. Most European citizens can afford to buy a used car. The city auth...

Immersion in a language environment is a method developed to teach people in a second language that assumes that the language being studied is used just for educational purposes. Immersion education is not only suitable for most students but may also be the only opportunity for some students to learn a foreign language. In some cases, when a student lags behind in development and cognitively, termination of an immersion program is beneficial to the student. Deciding which way one or another student should go is up...

This article is devoted to the modernization of the laboratory practical work of chemical disciplines studied by future bachelors of the technical university with a view to strengthening the research-teaching link, creating conditions for the development of research competence of future engineers while attending junior university courses. On the basis of grounded by us earlier the concept and structure of the information-and-activity-based educational environment for the fundamental chemical training, the structur...

The conducted research concerns the self-reflection of young teachers as a factor identifying their professional needs. The theoretical assumptions referred to the concept of self-improvement. Moreover, the concept of an open intellectual / author's personality / intentional man and self-understanding was referred to. The aim of the article is to show the importance of visiting blogs by the young teachers (in the context of their self-development). Research questions concerning motivation to satisfy their professi...

A new quality of economic growth is being formed and related to the development of digital computer technologies in the modern world. The government of the Russian Federation has taken a course to transfer the Russian economy to a digital basis. It is reflected in the program approved in 2017 "Digital Economy". Among the main end-to-end digital technologies within this program are neurotechnologies, which, together with other advanced technologies, are created to reduce the gap with the leading countries in the ne...

Direct democracy as a concept of empowering citizens by enabling them to directly decide on matters of significant state importance became a very popular and catchy slogan in Poland, similarly to other Central and Eastern European countries, in the early 1990s when the process of constitutional transformation began. Direct democracy was perceived in this context as an instrument of legitimizing the activities of state authorities, such as, above all, the adoption of a new constitution. In Poland, not only the inst...

The article considers the language specificity within the culture of professional communication: the comparative study of verbal and semantic level of professional and business communication allows not only to establish the role of universal and idioethnic in the structure of professional linguistic personality, but also to trace the relationship and the impact of extralinguistic and linguistic factors on the formation process of linguistic identity. The purpose of this study is to identify the most important verb...

Contrary to the southern Europe the first signs of Renaissance in northern parts of the Holy Roman Empire as well as in Poland and Lithuania might be observed only at the beginning of the 16th century. Initially, they were created by Italian teams which came from Florence, Rome and the region of Como. One of the most recognizable marks of that process was the transfer of the Italian craftsmen and architectural solutions, e.g. the team of Bartolomeo Berreci from Florence who built the Sigmund’s Chapel in the capita...

Introduction: The SES status belongs to the most important health determinants in developed countries. Individual susceptibility for acute respiratory diseases is influenced by many factors: age, nutrition, presence of disease, genetic determination, global health status. Children are a focus points in the health protection considering possibilities of early organs and functions impairment. Material and methods. Cross-sectional study of respiratory health included parents questionnaires collected data about socio-...

Background Taking into account, that many recent research papers about functional anatomy, emphasized strong connections between motor cerebral areas and pre-frontal ones and that professional training performed on a period of time longer than 5 years, produced cerebral hemispheres functional plastic modifications, we consider opportune, to study the effects of long term physical effort, over cerebral activity at athletes, with a professional sportive experience longer than 5 years, from different sports as handba...

The article concerns the problem of the gradual change in the balance of power between the West and a group of rapidly developing countries, particularly the BRICS countries. The data from the World Bank, the IMF, the OECD, the Total Economy Database and other open sources have formed the base for research. In recent years, the world economy has demonstrated the accumulation of unresolved imbalances. Evaluation of observed trends in the world economy proves the need to complement the actions of international econo...

The purpose of research is to investigate information distortion linguistic means used by the printed and electronic media sources to manipulate the reader and form desirable by the addressee perception of reality. Among basic linguistic tools widely applied in mass media to shape the reader’s attitude to certain concepts, events, figures etc.in the article are distinguished labelling (providing unjustified emotionally charged characteristics of an individual, event, notion, etc.), insider-outsider concept (reflec...

The current research answers the question whether the energy efficiency resulting from the application of modern technologies is associated with savings at the scale of individual housing units, and further – at the scale of whole cities and countries. Therefore, the results indicate whether under certain climatic and economic conditions, the further improvement of the energy parameters of buildings is profitable. The research was carried out on a selected, heterogeneous fragment of housing development in Wroc?aw....

Igor Hajek belongs among the personalities who played an essential role in presenting Czech literature abroad. The paper aims to illustrate his work reflecting his viewpoint of two important books by Josef Skvorecky, namely The Cowards, a novel capturing the atmosphere of the last days of the Second World War, and The End of the Nylon Age, a novella set in the world of the fading glory of the post-war Czechoslovak democracy, and shows the clash of two worlds, which is Skvorecky’s favourite topic. Hajek’s original,...

The article presents technical solutions for the design of automated information systems that allow automating the management of municipal programs. Description of technical solutions is the content of the approach to the design of software equipment used in making managerial decisions by the municipal management authorities in the Russian Federation. A set of technical solutions can be used to prepare a technical task for the development of the system, and as a rationale in describing the characteristics of the s...

Ecotourism represents a significant share in modern world tourism, a distinctive feature of which is visiting areas that have not been subjected to anthropogenic transformations and impacts, and compliance with environmental safety. In Russia, eco-tourism is not developed as intensively as in Western countries, but it has good prospects associated with the availability of unique tourist resources. The Chelyabinsk region (South Ural) is one of such regions that have the necessary potential for the development of th...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the concept of destructive communication, propose a possible classification of the situations of destructive communication in discourse as well as analyze some language clues of destructiveness. Destructiveness is viewed as a discourse category represented by a body of linguistic and paralinguistic means of expression, the main function of which is the organization of communicative process. Destructive communication is aimed at deliberate and intentional infliction of moral ...

The following text discusses some relationships between humans, image, and, language, within the perspective that language can be, which often different from what is usually suggested, i.e., not a "barrier" to reaching what is real or profound knowledge but for some people the exact opposite: the only possible way to expand one´s horizons and experience what is to be known about the world. To recognize the positive force of language, we argument is based on the well-known story of writer Helen Keller, who became b...