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The article is devoted to the complex consideration of the problem of health protection as one of the most important directions of the social policy of the modern state. Noting the social orientation of the majority of democratic states, the authors point to the inextricable link between the notions of social assistance and health protection. This conclusion they draw on the basis of analysis of international and domestic legal acts. In the study of the question of the place and role of health in the structure of ...

The contribution focuses on homelessness as the current social problem of humanity in every stage of its development. In the Slovak Republic, after 1989, not only the political, but also the social and social situation changed significantly. The problem of homelessness has emerged and continues to the present, with dimensions growing. The theoretical part of the contribution defines a social group endangered by homelessness, presents approaches and legislation in the Slovak Republic, taking into account the intern...

The economics has been regarded as an applied field in the economy, essentially an application of the neoclassical economy of well-being and in close connection with medical sciences and medical technology. In the scientific-didactic journal no. 1 (103) / 2018 of the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova, we have argued that the incentives to reduce the cost per case is the motivation of payment per case as a prevailing element. Case-based funding is induced by the conviction that hospitals have many opportunitie...

Nietzsche’s various observations about the body undoubtedly represent a fundamental hermeneutic crossroad in the area of the moral reflection on the topic of corporeity. At the same time, the reconstruction of his thought on this delicate subject constitutes a decisive testbed to critically rethink reason, seeking to review its position within the world of the human. The Leitmotif of the body firmly binds to one another Nietzsche’s harsh criticisms of the Western civilisation, which, from Socrates onward, saw the ...

The article delves into the problem of representation of various images (metaphors) of wellbeing which are constituted and reproduced in various academic disciplines. At the present time there are great numbers of scientific approaches and concepts of wellbeing which at times touch upon different aspects of man’s life. These approaches often do not agree with each other. This article presents an attempt to construct an integral matrix of wellbeing theories which will provide for the review of various wellbeing con...

Spatial development of Russia has large disproportions of financial and economic nature. This can be illustrated by the example – most of the regions have a regional budget deficit. At the same time, the debts of the regions to higher budgets and banks are steadily growing. All this reduces the potential for regional development and the opportunities to ensure the economic security of regions’ development, the financial and economic risks of bankruptcy of the territories are growing. The purpose of the presented s...

The subject of this paper is an analysis and evaluation of budgetary policy and the state of public finances in Scandinavian countries of the European Union (Denmark, Finland and Sweden) in 2000-2018. The adopted basis of assessment is budget deficit and public debt ratios to the GDP. The statistical data was drown from the AMECO and IMF databases. Comparison of the situation of the public finances in the analysed countries to the average situation in the euro area is an important aspect of the evaluation. The goa...

Currently, information about the safety and quality of consumer goods attracts a lot of attention, but there is a question about consumer confidence in the sources of information, their independence, competence and objectivity. Comparative testing of goods and services is one of the most effective mechanisms for informing consumers about the quality of goods developed in the international and European community. Comparative testing is an independent evaluation of similar goods, but different brands and manufacture...

The article analyzes, through the lens of linguistics, psychological problems faced by migrants trying to adapt in contemporary Russian society. The authors consider the “pain points” of people’s language disunity from the standpoint of the anthropological approach to ethnolinguistics and make a hypothesis that it is language that is the main problem of migrants’ adaptation and one of the main reasons for the polarization of society that divides it into two camps on the “friend or foe” principle. Most of the focus...

The purpose of the report is to present a framework of marketing of Varna District as a tourist destination for cultural tourism. It defines cultural tourism and its diversity due to different motivational purposes. As an indicator of the tourism demand for cultural tourism, the number of museum visits in the destination is used. The dynamics of the volume of museums visits in Varna District was compared to the volumes of the visits in other districts of Bulgaria for the period 2012-2017. The report analyzes the r...

The paper is involved in the discussion on the educational meaning of rock narratives. It presents research results aimed at understanding pedagogy students’ approaches to rock narratives considered by them to be educationally meaningful. The qualitative research strategy, including both the hermeneutic method and descriptive-interpretive analyses, was employed to realise the aim of the paper. Essentially, the goal of the qualitative method is enable one to explore, extend and gain a deeper understanding of the mu...

The school system in Slovakia is going through various changes since 2008, which also affected the field of teachers' development. The main change in the field of teachers' development was the adoption of Act 317/2009 - the Teacher Act. The Act defined the credit system and career development. The problem, as demonstrated by the practice during nine years, was the automatic linking of teachers' education to their wages. In the presented contribution, we map the views of the main actors of the school system on the ...

The paper considers the problems of methodical approaches to the assessment of the activities of large, medium and small businesses in the region and determining their role in the social and economic development of the region. Few attention is paid to the analysis of the activities of enterprises in regional studies, during developing strategies at the federal and regional levels and while working out the regional policy measures. The methodology for assessing the activities of complex of enterprises in the region...

The aim of this article is to analyze the cultural resources of Bulgarian entrepreneurship through the dominant value orientations in this socio-professional group, using the Schwartz Value Survey (Schwartz, 2006, 2008). According to this model, the value system on cultural level is described by seven universal value orientations: embeddedness, autonomy (intellectual and affective), hierarchy, egalitarianism, harmony, and mastery. The relationship between these values reflects three basic contradictions (alternati...

The article focuses on the impact of underground brown coal and lignite mining and landslides on land use. The study area is represented by the Handlová town and municipality of Cige? (Western Slovakia) which are well-known in Slovakia for subsurface mining of brown coal and lignite. Furthermore, the study area is susceptible to landslides. The first mention about brown coal surface mining is from the year 1772 (Handlová) and the year 1784 (Cige?) although industrial coal mining began in 1909. At present, active c...

Background: The improvement of e-learning is required for independent activity of students. One of the options of e-learning are educational web-quests on the basis of cloud computing. Information resources of the Internet are used in educational web quests. Methods: With e-learning in two groups of problems have to be solved: methodical and technical ones. Web-quest, using information resources of the Internet and integrating them into educational process, helps to effectively solve a number of practical problems...

The legal contractual obligations in comparative law have been regulated in various demeanours. A unified regulation system prevails, upon which both, commercial contracts and civil contracts are regulated by a unified normative legal act. This concept prevails in modern legislation due to the increasing dynamics of movement of goods and services, and it has allowed for the infiltration of numerous civil law rules into the commercial law therein. Contracts, being specific agreements provide for movement of goods a...

Background: In the artistic context of 20th century, George Enescu is the only representative Romanian composer who will be included in the diverse landscape of the 1900-1940’s, and he will be integrated into the neoclassic direction. He was considered to be “one of the most interesting contemporary spirits”, due to the fact that he remained outside of the avant-gardist experiments, the abstraction trends and the “sterilization” of music. In the Second Suite for Orchestra, op. 20, the composer “will meet the needs...

The study focuses on the work of architect and theorist Pavel Janák (1882-1956) – as an early proponent of Cubist architecture in Bohemia. He was no mere a Cubist but was concerned to develop innovative figures of architecture in Prague that yet possessed both historical continuity and universal validity. The investigation associates geometric relations present in Janák’s theory as proposed in the essay “The Prism and the Pyramid”(1911-1912). This eventually will lead to the description of an original architectura...

Tribal business in Russia has a long history and positive experience in breeding adapted to the local climate high-yielding breeds of cattle. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, tribal activities were conducted, mainly with the use of imported material, which led to the decline of domestic cattle breeding. Currently, there is a stabilization in the field of breeding activities and a gradual increase in its quality characteristics. This is confirmed by a number of analytical indicators calculated by the authors...

Sources, editing the private letters promotes establishing a strong basis for scientific The article highlights the importance of the scholarly edition of the famous persons’ epistolary legacy: writers, historians or public figures, emphasizes that together with the historical documents, epigraphic monuments and editions of the corpus of different other writing research: gathering-systematizing them in one edition and deeper examining is the best source for familiarizing with the private life and public work of pr...

In this paper the author deals with the legal and practical analysis of the constitutional principle of presumption of innocence in the Republic of Macedonia. The presumption of innocence is a universally accepted human right that prohibits guilty plea to the accused. The presumption of innocence enables the accused to have an active role in the judicial process. It is the obligation of the public prosecutor to prove the guilty of the accused, not the obligation of the accused to prove his/her innocence. Only the ...

The article dwells upon the peculiarities of economic cooperation of the USSR and the allies during the World War II. After the war had begun, the main task of the Soviet diplomacy was the fastest consolidation of all countries fighting against fascism. One of the priority directions of cooperation was the fastest receiving from the allies of military and economic aid that was supposed to be a significant contribution to the future Victory. The basis of the cooperation between the USSR, Great Britain and the Unite...

Cognitive linguistics dealing with cognitive reflection on language considers the categorization and conceptualization as crucial for understanding the words and phrases in the figurative sense. People often use words not at the level of their meanings, but at the level of concepts and conceptual symptoms. The anthropocentric nature of expressing the time or other physical variables is obvious from the expression of the smallest unit of time: “okamih” – word which originated from two words: “mihnutie okom” what me...

In recent decades, attention to the issue of ‘narrative identity’, and problems connected to it, has seen an exponential development in different research fields, with the effect of significant connections and intertwining between various disciplines, both at the theoretical-reflective level and at the level of an applicative research. It is true that, in addition to the fields of narratology and the science of culture, narrative identity is mainly thematised in the psychological field. It is here, in fact, that i...

Political discourse of social networks (and the discourse of Twitter in particular) exhibits a number of structural and semantic features that differentiate it from other political discourses. Such factors as multimodality, interactivity, immediacy and limitation on the message length affect the communication on Twitter in terms of what communicative strategies are used and how they are implemented. This study explores the linguistic and paralinguistic means employed by US presidential candidates Donald Trump and ...

The article is devoted to the analysis of methods of innovative development evaluation in social and economic systems. The comparative analysis of methods of innovative development evaluation is carried out. The study identified a number of problems in the metrology of innovative development ratings. The analysis revealed a set of identical indicators characterizing this process at the macro, meso and micro levels. Most of these indicators are aimed at the innovative component evaluation in developed countries. Bu...

The purpose of the article is to analyze the normativity of syntactic constructions with preposition “p?” - one of the most frequently used prepositions in modern Russian business language. To achieve the purpose it is essential to accomplish the following objectives: firstly, to determine the directions and reasons of semantic extension of this preposition; secondly, to systematize the criteria of normativity developed for these constructions in Russian linguistics; thirdly, to estimate various types of construct...

Until September 2017, only children who had a diagnosis were entitled to help and support in education in the Czech Republic. Whether the amendment to the Education Act is criticized by experts, it has mainly brought comprehension to Czech education. Not only in its theoretical level, it should offer and, of course, provide support and training aid to all who need it. One of the groups that did not apply to the original section 16 on special educational care was also a group of children living in substitute family...

Background: Renal disorders during pregnancy are variable, ranging from asymptomatic bacteriuria to end stage renal disease. Pregnancy increases the risk of urinary tract infections (UTIs), especially due to the hormonal and mechanical changes, that are predisposing to renal and urinary stasis. UTIs in pregnancy are associated with high risks, both to the fetus and the mother, so adequate management is required. Aim of study was to monitor the incidence and prevalence of lower and upper UTI during pregnancy, as we...

The article presents the results of research connected with the implementation of pain, anxiety and depression scales and questionnaires in patients with low and high levels of alexithymia (AT). Patients with high level of alexithymia experience difficulties working with psychometric instruments, which are used in the process of diagnosis in diseases associated with pain syndromes, anxiety disorders and dizziness. So, the comparative research of questionnaires and scales informativity for non-alexithymic and alexi...

Political sphere attracts the attention of representatives in various social sciences: economic theory, law, sociology, psychology and linguists; and especially translators. Socio-political translation is an important part of the translation. Nowadays socio-political translation is one of the most popular and demanded types of translation, due to the rapid development of international cooperation in various fields, active social changes and the increasing importance of political events in the world. In up-todays s...

In this study, with the help of aesthetic analysis, we considered the video by blogger Danila Poperechnyi “They are trying to shut me up”. We believe that the video content on YouTube should be viewed from not only communicative positions, but also aesthetic ones. Bloggers trying to influence audience emotionally, to broadcast certain ideas. We developed an approximate algorithm for the mediaesthetic analysis of video on YouTube. Also we used the following methods for video analysis: aesthetically-applied analysis...

The aim of the present study is to bring problems of treatment and rehabilitation of addicted people in Poland closer to the reader. The paper was aimed to indicate changes that have occurred in the last year and those which are possible to be implemented. Due to the increasing tendency for people becoming involved in drug abuse, the study was focused mainly on this social problem. It should be emphasized that the problem of addiction affects both women and men, whereas 'market' saturation in cities has led to a d...

The paper discusses the adverse acoustic phenomena occurring in the semi-open interi-ors (courtyards, yards) covered with a glass roof. Particularly negative is the reverbera-tion noise, which leads to the degradation of the utility functions of the resulting spaces. It involves the drastically reducing the intelligibility of speech, loss of natural sounding of music, problems with the sound system, as well as disturbances in the voice alarm system operation. The work refers to historic interiors, where preservati...

Latvian children’s and young people’s literature, being a significant segment of literary production, in the course of history has not attracted attention on regular basis but rather fragmentarily; studies of its development trends have not been regular and have often remained marginal against the background of the total literary research. But child’s image is one of the most important components in the structure of childhood narrative; great significance is attributed in its depiction to characters’ portrait, act...

The aim of the paper is to measure the level of financial literacy of students of the Social Work study programs in their last study year, as many experts are convinced that social workers are suitable professionals to help individuals and families with an advisory on finance and debt counselling in the context of accompaniment and social counselling. The authors chose a quantitative research strategy and used the data collection method of a questionnaire, which was composed of three parts: socio-demographic chara...

Cognitive linguistics has already taken its place in the concept paradigm in contemporary world linguistics. The establishment and development of exactly cognitive linguistics in modern times is one of the most important problems of this period linguistics. Cognitive linguistic studies the language as a cognitive mechanism playing a certain role in transformation and coding of data. Investigating the semantic structure of the components included in the root word slots in the conceptual context is a completely new ...

Name days (also known as feast days) are celebrated in several European countries, but nowhere else has it acquired such a wide recognition as in Latvia. The origin of the feast goes back to the eighteenth century after the first Catholic Calendars were published in Latvia, nevertheless, nowadays there is no longer explicit connection to Christianity. Although in the Church (Catholic, Lutheran, Orthodox) calendars, the name days are arranged on the basis of the saints’ heavenly birthday or the date of death, it is...

The purpose of this article is to determine and present complex information regarding the technical aspects of housing for seniors, both from the theoretical angle and from the angle of subjective viewpoints of the seniors, with a specific focus on the Czech Republic. Firstly, we deal with the technical requirements for housing buildings in general, and secondly, we characterize the specificities regarding housing places for the elderly. Our emphasis on the group of seniors, i.e. those aged 65 and more, is derived...

Defining strategies for language manipulation in advertising has become particularly relevant in modern linguistics due to increased demand for the means of persuading potential buyers amid brisk competition in a saturated market. The purpose of the present research is to reveal linguistic tools of manipulating in English-language advertising. Theoretical background for the issue under investigation is based on the critical analysis of literature on modern linguistics and manipulation of customers. The linguistic ...

An important element of contemporary social and economic reality takes the form of intra- and intergenerational transfers. They are present both in the entire society scale (macro scale) and in individual families (micro scale). In the subject oriented perspective, among economic intra-family transfers the following types of transfers are identified: “gifts of time”, “gifts of space”, “financial and material transfers”. Financial transfers take two forms: inter vivos and post mortem. The first of them may have a r...

The increasing role of intellectual capital in producing goods and services, as the main source of corporate competitive advantages, makes organizations reconsider their financial reports with the aim of proper intellectual capital accounting. Currently, only intangible assets and intellectual property are recorded in financial accounts. Intellectual assets themselves, by means of which goods are produced, are not presented in modern accounting systems. The absence of information about intellectual assets in accou...

The purpose of the study is to describe the nature of accommodation (coarticulation) of Russian and Japanese vowels based on a comparative typological study, and to characterize the manifestations of Russian-Japanese interference at the level of speech perception. The main research methods are the comparative-typological method, empirical method, method of observation, method of auditory analysis, instrumental methods, and generalization of obtained results in order to reveal phonetic interference. The analysis of...

The article presents the elements of the management concept for the development of subsidiary industrial subdivisions of agrarian enterprises. The development of ancillary units (subdivisions) is supposed to be carried out through the organization of cooperatives with their participation, with the participation of other legal entities, peasant (farmer) households, representatives of private subsidiary farms possessed by the population. Subsidiary units of agrarian enterprises are given the main role. The proposed ...

Administrative authorities and autonomous administrative authorities are public institutions included in the administrative system of the state. Each of these two types of authorities aim at enforcing laws and ensuring the proper development of the social environment. Administrative and autonomous administrative authorities have a joint purpose; however, they are different through various elements that reflect their very essence. From a time-related perspective, autonomous administrative authorities are legal enti...

Intercultural identity of student teachers is defined as an aggregate of intercultural knowledge, communication skills, attitudes and personal features that are necessary for successful activity of teachers in the context of interaction among different cultures. The aforesaid components are implemented at the cognitive, behavioural and affective areas. In this context, the research problem is formulated as a question: what is the level of the intercultural identity of pre-service music teachers and what are the po...

The current system of higher education is undergoing significant changes. The ongoing changes are not only a requirement of the time, but also an opportunity to reach a qualitatively new level of development. Ensuring the continuity and stability of the education system, preventing distortions and imbalances of the current system, requires today administrative methods of influence on homogeneous groups of universities. With the help of the modified correlation coefficient in the article, an attempt is made to make...

Paper's aim is to shed a light on theoretical and practical aspects of taken measures by the Russian government on agriculture business optimization in Southern Russia. Moreover, the paper develops methodology as recommendation for the small agriculture business in Russia based on economy theories, previous studies in the area of agriculture business development. This study analyses federal and regional governmental initiatives and programs addressing optimization of small agriculture business in the period of eco...

Hospitals and hospital complexes represent an important function in the urban fabric of cities. As usually closed and impassable areas, they have specific requirements for a good accessibility and for a constant implementation of innovations in healthcare and technologies. Old hospital complexes situated in city centres and their outdated hospital buildings are often not able to adopt the advances in healthcare and they become dysfunctional. New modern hospital complexes are developed in more suitable urban locati...