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The main aim of the article is to study and analyze the theoretical and practical issues of the trust essence, including the Continental law system countries, and what future development could be in Latvia taking into the account practice of the another European countries. Within the process of the research Latvian and foreign legal acts were analyzed, case – law were used and literature in Latvian, English, Russian, German, French and some other languages were looked through. There are used comparative, historica...

Modern international economic relations are characterized by instability and conflict character. Current events in British political, business and economic life make the nation identify itself in new global environment. The image of the country as a strong player on the international arena is powerful tool which aims to unite its citizens and form the consciousness of prosperity and economic development. This fact makes the verbal characteristics of identity formation in discourse a topical issue to study. The aim...

The study aims to contribute to the development of methods for analyzing the dynamics of economic phenomena in the territorial aspect. Spatial dynamics of development and concentration tendencies in territorial profile is concerning more and more the scientific world and the decision-makers. Knowledge of this two elements is particularly important in developing coherent development strategies at the territorial level. Despite the great interest in economic geography, the number of studies is relatively low and are...

The subject of the paper is the training of sales managers. Sales managers represent an important category of employees in terms of meeting company’s goals and achieving the required performance. The paper presents the results of the research carried out on a sample of Slovak companies. The aim of the research was to find out the current situation in the use of the selected methods of sales managers training in Slovak companies and to test statistically significant differences in the use of these methods in terms ...

The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between career adaptability and satisfaction in the case of psychology students. We were particularly curious about the differences between distance learning and full-time learning students. Based on previous findings, the first hypothesis is that career adaptability will correlate positively with satisfaction (career satisfaction and satisfaction with life) in the whole sample. We also want to investigate the dissimilarities between the two groups (dista...

The paper is devoted to the issues of placing the stress in multi-syllabic Russian and English words; this problem arises in the process of teaching English to bachelors studying in multinational groups (CIS, Afghanistan, Colombia, Cyprus, Iran, Mongolia, Nigeria, Peru, Syria, Somalia, Vietnam, Zambia) at the Institute of Law, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University). The purpose of this study is to reveal some factors of placing the stress in multi-syllabic Russian and English words correctly si...

The unsatisfactory quality of schoolchildren's nutrition is one of the main causes of schoolchildren’s illness in Russia. The infant morbidity indicators are exacerbated by the adverse impact of natural-climatic and derived socioeconomic factors of the northern Arctic regions. The main negative factors of Arctic region are: a long winter, polar night, the lack of vitamins, unavailability some health necessary products and the higher prices for them, limited opportunities for the vacation beyond the Arctic region a...

One of the most important elements involved in the formation of cultural security of the state is the institution of the family. It is family values that underlie the formation of the civic position of young people, which are expressed in the awareness of their involvement in the ideas, principles, religions and local cultural values of the state. Despite the obvious huge role of the institution of the family for the society as a whole, this structure is not always stable and sometimes disintegrates before it has ...

The article considers the issues of import substitution in the agricultural sector of the Russian economy. The import substitution has a positive effect on the economy of the state, promotes the economic independence from other countries in the world arena and is profitable for the state. To prevent a shortage of certain products on Russian market it is necessary to develop and implement a proper import substitution policy. The import substitution in agricultural sector of Russia will also contribute to the constr...

A new insight into comprehensive research of rules and cognitive mechanisms of sense interaction within the edges of ongoing cross-cultural mediated communication has been provided by cognitive approach in modern linguistics and translation theory. Specific features and peculiarities within conceptual structuring of lexical units meaning in mediated discourse are of particular interest for investigation in the light of translation norm of adequacy and equivalence, along with speech act efficiency criteria. Our aim...

V.Makanin’s artistic world is analysed as an ontological model of correlation between social and personal universes, which is disharmonious in its essence. One of the reasons that makes this situation possible is a gap formed between the masculine and the feminine sides of the contemporary world. The suggested study provides an analysis of V.Makanin’s evaluation given to the model of contemporary civilization created by men and for men: this evaluation is related to crisis and hopelessness. In turn, a woman is mos...

In the end of the 31 century BC, the Egyptian rulers at the south part of the Upper Nile began build small tombs in the desert to preserve the ownership of the gold rich territory for their heirs. A significant change in the spatial pattern of those buildings took place during the construction of the huge necropolis of the King Djoser, dedicated to an anniversary of the his reign. Using of small stone blocks instead of mud-bricks allowed the transformation of the traditional barrow in the huge six-level pyramidal ...

The purpose of this article is to design the new method called by authors "mobile video" within the existing technique of blended learning. Creating an educational product on the basis of popular modern technology, we understand what needs to be defined, for what purpose it is possible to use "mobile video", what is its place in the system of teaching, in particular when studying Russian language by foreign students. We consider that "mobile video" as a teaching method well fits into the technique of blended learn...

1520 is the turning point year for Corpus Dionysiacum in its positive reception, especially in the West, Martin Luther expressing, as an echo of the reforming philologists, the total repulsion towards it, naming the text “pernitiosissimus” (extremely dangerous) and its controversial author “plus platonizans quam Christianizans” (“more a Platonist than a Christian”), because of promoting “unbiblical” ideas such as: “hierarchy” (Apostolic succession), “Theurgy” (Priesthood), and “sacred mysteries” (Sacraments). Our ...

Human beings evince a natural tendency to perceive patterns like faces, figures or shapes in otherwise random phenomena. This well-known psychological phenomenon called “pareidolia”, “apophenia” or “clustering illusion” (depending on what we refer to) has a convincing evolutionary explanation. As a universal phenomenon it is therefore part of our human nature, although different cultural and/or religious factors can influence or even determine the sensitivity to detect hidden signs and patterns. The present paper ...

Minimum wage is a tool for regulating the labor market that, over the long term, causes controversy in the areas of both economic theory and practice. The goal of this paper is to present and analyze key theoretical economic approaches to the functioning of the labor market and the tools used to regulate it. These regulatory tools significantly influence the labor market’s allocative efficiency, and we generally consider the institution of minimum wage to be fundamental part of this trend. Therefore, in this paper...

The current knowledge of the management of the capital structures of companies does not enable clear determination of optimum ratios of debt to equity. The factors considered by managers in their decisions concerning ways to finance their companies only partly match the theoretical findings on those matters. Empirical studies mention the following factors affecting the financial leverage: legal and institutional constraints, size of the company, profitability of the company, and growth prospects of the company. Th...

The present paper presents new approaches in paramedics education in the framework of an Erasmus + project entitled “Use of Extraglottic and Glottic Alternative Airways Methods in Alternative Airway Management”. The project is based on collaboration between hospitals and Higher Education Institutes from Turkey, Hungary and Romania and aims to develop, test and adapt a continuous vocational educational medical programme, developed on an exhaustive needs analysis and focusing on a transnational approach for airway m...

This study aims to reveal the findings about the validity and reliability of the psychological empowerment scale (PES) developed by [1]. Research data has been collected by applying survey to the health institution professionals. Of the total 12 items in the scale, 3 were excluded from the analysis due to their low factor loadings. Factor analysis results of the remaining 9 items were collected under 2 dimensions. In the confirmatory factor analysis, model test values (p <.05); x2 (88.117), x2 / df (3.421), confir...

Traditionally, insurance purchasing behavior is associated with individual’ risk aversion. It is assumed that the risk attitudes are correlated with voluntary insurance consumption. We use the potential and realized risk attitudes along with socio-economic and demographic factors as determinants of insurance behavior of Russians. We present the results of modeling of the individual insurance behavior based on Individual Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey – Higher School of Economics (RLMS-HSE) Round 25 data for...

Antimicrobial resistance is a serious threat to global public health and requires action across all government sectors and society. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), an EU agency, monitors 52 communicable diseases, having programmes which cover antimicrobial resistance. The highest rates of non prescription use of antibiotics are in Romania (20%). Objectives: To determine if there is any significant difference between antimicrobial resistance of Gram negative bacteria isolated in hospi...

This paper focuses its attention on how, in a Southern Italian region like Puglia, the environment has been affected by infrastructural policies about the use of the water resource. The management and administration of the water resource and the rules about the use of public water and the pattern of socio-economic development were linked to the limited availability of this essential natural resource. The paper seeks to suggest that the use of water is dependent on peculiarities of social and cultural developme nt ...

The article presents theoretical consideration of types and elements of personnel motivation programs and performance evaluation criteria as obligatory components of a management accounting system, aimed at reaching strategic organization’s goals and objectives, through investments in human capital. Result-oriented performance is only possible by means of matching employees’ professional interests and abilities with corporate goals. The presence of highly qualified personnel in an organization is its main competit...

“Perceived age” is the result of perception of a person's appearance representing the age of a perception object ascribed by a perception subject. Explosion of interest to the analysis of the factors of a person's perceived age is observed in the modern science, because the perceived age of a person is directly related to the biological age of such a person and is an indicator of mortality risk [1, 2]. Researchers studied genetic, ecological, and medical-and-esthetic factors effecting the perceived age of a person...

Companies producing lenses for glasses and contact lenses operate in the sector of high technologies, consequently, the production has high added value. Sustainable development requires a more rapid development of medium high and high technologies sectors. One of the options is development of production of optical vision correction means in Latvia, which would increase the proportion of medium high and high technology manufacturing in the common structure of manufacturing. The analysis was performed guiding by the...

This reflection is an attempt to determine the scope of audiovisuality research in literary text, taking into account theories of connection of literary work with media coverage. It is accompanied by transferring the focus from adaptive thinking (including one medium into another) to transmedia one, where literariness and audiovisuality function on similar rights. Such move is based on an assumption that a context for created new literature is no longer another written text but a media event or an audio-visual com...

The article proposes a methodological approach to forecasting the staffing needs of the innovative economy which makes a provision for creating strategic long-term and mid-term forecasts and their annual adjustment at the operating level. The decomposition by the types of forecasts for such characteristics as level of regulation, purpose, key definitions, methods and approaches, factors, types of information, tools for providing staffing needs at each level has been carried out; the main results are presented. Mod...

In economy based on knowledge, a combination of employees’ skills and experience as well as their engagement in the process of acquiring competences, is not only a factor that shapes the organizational culture but the one which allows for confirming the effectiveness of entrusted tasks’ completion and group work management. Human resources management is an activity which increases both the quality and efficiency of work. It enables increasing the effectiveness of an enterprise and, in consequence, gaining competit...

The concern for consumers protection dates back to antiquity, the development of commodity exchange in the markets from citadel cities is not a random and uncontrollable phenomenon. In the society of the 21st century, where production has exceeded consumers' needs, deviations from the rules appear. Manufacturers have gone from producing what is sold to selling what is produced. Different marketing strategies are used, imposing on the consumer the need for a good or service, even if he does not have the need. Unfor...

Proceedings in cases related to the violation of public finance discipline include ordered sequence of activities, that compose a process aimed to decide by competent authorities about liability for such violation. These proceedings are important part of polish public financial system which are based on the act of 17 December 2004 on the liability for violation of public finance discipline and also polish legal solutions are unique in the world financial and legal solutions. Primary research purpose formulated in ...

This paper focuses on answering question: What are the ideal and most important skills and personality traits that project managers need to have. The aim of the paper is to describe the significance of project manager competencies needed in current changing environment. Project manager is key to the success of each project. For this reason, staffing projects with managers who have the right competences is crucial to achieve project goal. The success of project managers is mainly related to abilities and skills tha...

The purpose of the study is to determine the essential features of the concept "teaching method" and to give its correct definitions. The materials of the study are definitions of this concept in didactic and methodological texts. The methods of the study are conceptual analysis, terminological analysis, and logical analysis of this concept. Results of the study are the following: 1) most of the existing definitions of the concept "teaching method" do not contain its essential features; 2) scientific definitions o...

One of the aims of each financial analyst is to make a statistical analysis of multidimensional data in a financial analysis. The aim of all methods of multi-criteria evaluation is transforming and synthesizing values of various parameters into one - integral indicator, comprehensively expressing the level of individual enterprises in the set of values examined. The purpose of each multidimensional analysis is to process the data in order to clearly indicate the model and thus reveal the hidden phenomenon. The aim...

Wisdom relates to experienced difficult life situations from which one comes out as someone capable of sharing the learned and experienced lessons with other people and able to help other people based on his or her previous experience. Wisdom tops people’s list of values and desired personality traits. In psychotherapy, acquiring wisdom is one of the most desired objectives. In development psychology, achieving wisdom is considered to be the peak of maturation. Wisdom is related to feeling good or bad. Wisdom affe...

As we read in the Prologue of Nikos Kazantzakis’ Saviors of God: “We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. As soon as we are born the return begins, at once the setting forth and the coming back, we die in every moment…But as soon as we are born, we begin to struggle, to create, to compose, to turn matter into life, we are born in every moment”[1]. The above excerpt taken from Kazantzakis’ early work resonates with an omnipresent leitmotif of his novels where we fi...

The aim of the paper is to study the impact of e-commerce on the economic growth measured by GDP growth in Bulgaria. A brief summary of the importance of electronic commerce for the development of the economy is prepared. The research is based on the idea that e-commerce stimulates consumption and therefore economic growth. With the help of the statistical analysis of time-series, the change and the relationship between the indicators: capacity of the telecommunication network on the Internet retail sales, as well...

The aim of this study consists in analyzing the importance of the exchange rate forecast using the Box-Jenkins models, also known as Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models. The first part of the paper presents the main research in this field, which can be classified in two categories (studies applying classical methods, such as Box-Jenkins models and studies which rely on sophisticated prediction tools), and summarizes the main findings of some of the studies applying Box-Jenkins models. In the s...

The process of formation of the “shared values” concept as a result of the evolution of the corporate social responsibility concept has been considered in the article. A number of factors underlying the concept of creating shared values are specified. The method of correlation analysis allows us to put forward and prove the hypothesis on the important role of “trust” factor. The procedure and the results of studies of shared values based on trust relationship in one of the companies that is situated in Tomsk city ...

Nowadays, universities play an important role in research, development and generation of technologies as well as in regional development. In the direction of increasing the creative economy, the university, as a research center, a technology maker, is becoming the main core of economic growth. The study aims to analyze the dynamics of the creative economy in the university centers in Romania, the objective of the research being the evaluation of the creative capacity of each university center. It was created a dat...

Introduction. The IV Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art was held in Ekaterinburg. It is one of the largest regional art projects with international participation introduced in Russia. Once in two years the biennial occupies non-exhibition spaces in Ekaterinburg and other cities of the Sverdlovsk region. The main topic of the IV biennial was “New Literacy”; and the concept was that the fourth industrial revolution in information and communication technologies had changed our lifestyle, work, dreams and ga...

The article draws attention to the social transformation in the fourteenth century and the beginning of the fifteenth century in Florence. During this time, the position of the guild gradually decreased, and the wealth and importance of patricians grew. The increase in the financial capacity of the townspeople has contributed to the rise of their ambitions. Some of them were aspiring to the role of aristocracy. The only barrier was their origin. Cosimo de 'Medici called ‘the Elder’ was a merchant, banker and human...

By the beginning of the XX century in the Russian Empire home beer production was not subject to any taxes and was widely developed among peasants. To large holidays, especially local, village, to weddings peasants always boiled beer in large quantities, but again same only for themselves, not on sale. In the late nineteenth century significantly increased the role of indirect taxes, and above all drink taxes. By the beginning of XX century. Russia had the following indirect taxes: taxes on sugar, matches, oil, to...

In this work, the creative idea that the artist strives to express in a vanguard work of art is put in juxtaposition to the idea embraced by a viewer with insufficient visual experience of perceiving this type of art. At the first stage of the experiment, the artist provided the description of the principal visual structures that reveal the creative concept of a set of his works, as well as the description of the works’ main ideas. After that, the works in question were shown to the viewers who were asked to descr...

Background: Modern studies of the concept of systemic risk presuppose an answer to the main questions: as a systemic risk is defined in the scientific literature and central banks; what is the content of "systemic risk" and what factors are involved in its accumulation; what is "infection" and how does it relate to systemic risk Methods: Central banks rarely suggest a definition of systemic risk. The review of S. Usterlu and J. de Hahn shows that central banks often focus on clarifying definitions of financial ins...

Russia is a country with a high level of international migration. Due to the geographic location of the Far East, China and North Korea used to be the main donor countries for international migration, but in recent years, the international migration from CIS countries is developing. The present situation poses special challenges for the migration policy, including: the development of the labor market taking into account international migration, the reduction of social tension between the local population and inter...

Introduction. Legitimacy is a political and legal concept that means a positive attitude of the population to the existing institutions of state power. Society in the 21st century has become very multicultural, and in the context of the strongest economic globalization there is a clear division of people on racial, ethnic and gender grounds. It becomes more difficult to find a compromise among such a diversified society. In addition, globalization has led to closer international cooperation as the governments of s...

Features of architecture of Abkhazian medieval one-apsidal hall temples are presented in this article. A small one-nave church is easy to build and it was important in the conditions of a need for fast and universal construction of temples. It is a reflection of local architectural preferences and the construction equipment as the local masters could build such temples, not owning difficult technologies of arch building. Besides, by means of a gradual extension of additional rooms the one-apsidal church was easy t...

The article reflects the results of a study in the dynamics of public expenditure in the education sector of the Russian Federation. The article deals with mechanisms, problems, priorities and prospects in financing and developing the education sector in the Russian Empire and the USSR. Comparison of the periods showed that in the imperial period the system proved its necessity, which resulted in the emergence of social needs in education and the transition from facultative acquisition of knowledge to a functionin...

The article is devoted to the analysis of the creativity of the modern Mongolian artist Zorigt Uyanga. The author pays special attention to the means of artistic expressiveness used by the artist in the series “Women of Mongolia”. The paper provides art-critical research of cultural and historical background which forms the basis of the series. It reveals a special interest of the artist to the role and semantic of costume (or its absence) and traditional female hairdo. Mentioned points and their modification in g...

Global trends indicate the approach of the sixth technological structure, which will significantly affect socio-economic situation in a whole world, what may remake global economy structure. The article is dedicated to research the kind of structure changes, which will take place in new technological structure and the methods of reflections on it. The article is dedicated to research interregional interaction as a one of the basic factors of economic efficiency in the sixth technological structure. There is the ov...