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The article analyzes the Kurdish factor in the context of Turkey’s Middle East Policy from the beginning of the Syrian crisis. Turkey’s Middle East policy has changed from beginning of Justice and Development Party’s governance, but Turkey totally shifted its attention to the Middle East since 2011. The main attention is paid to the role of the Kurdish factor in the Turkish-Syrian relations. The features of the Turkish policy on the Syrian-Kurdish issue are considered in the context of Turkey’s national interests....

Open innovation is a new paradigm for the development of agribusiness in Romania and the Danube macro-region. Studies on agro-food chains and clusters are still scarce. In the Romanian agro-food sector, 7 regional and cross-regional clusters are very active. This study aims to present the state of the art on open innovation in agribusiness in Romania, identifying how it is adopted, the role of clusters and the factors that influence this process, a collaborative platform for agro-food clusters and their members an...

The modern Russian language is characterized by the increase in the use of invectives in speech. Invectives are a socially significant phenomenon; therefore their study is relevant for both linguists and the society. The increase in the use of invectives deserves a special consideration taking for the study the dialect material extracted from one dialect system, since it can provide an insight into the functioning of invectives in a separate social stratum. Research material: the whole corpus of invectives recorde...

Teaching the correct writing and usage of Romanian prepositions to foreign students may be a real challenge taking into account that the preposition is one of the most important inflexible parts of speech of the Romanian language, without which one cannot correctly express and last but not least considering the preposition’s high degree of usage in the everyday language. Most of the prepositions express varied reports, bearing multiple functions, their role is often understated, which leads to an increasing number...

Around 60% of the urban population in Romania lives in blocks of flats made of prefabricated panels, built mostly between 1960 and 1990. Interventions on these buildings are a highly debated topic in order to achieve the 20-20-20 EU targets, but less discussed is the part that makes these interventions truly sustainable on long run. The study presented in this paper constitutes the part related to social sustainability conducted for a project that defines some alternative solutions for Timisoara. These proposals a...

The story of Tommaso Astarita is an expression of the passage, made by the few dynamic financial operators of the South, from the ancient regime society to the modern society, implementing in their work the separation between the functions of merchant-entrepreneur-banker, first indistinct. With the General Bank of the Sorrento Peninsula, in fact, one of the first private banking institution was born in the South of Italy, under the legal form of a joint-stock company, able to resist the competition of the big nati...

The discipline on matrimonial property regimes presents significant difficulties for cross-border couples. Therefore, it is necessary to guarantee uniformity in the context of law applicable to the matrimonial property regimes, taking into account the peculiarities of the different legal systems of the Member States. In this regard and in order to guarantee legal certainty, spouses must be made aware in advance with respect to the law applicable to a matrimonial property regime. With Regulation No. 1103/2016, the ...

The research is devoted to the analysis of social entrepreneurship in the sphere of social service and problems of its development in Russia. Social entrepreneurship is one of the tools of modernization of the Russian social sphere and a source of additional resources, as well as innovative technologies. At the same time, its formation as a social institution in Russia is hampered by a number of barriers and difficulties. On the basis of empirical research the features of social entrepreneurship development in Rus...

In the current research, we analyse the displacement of the church from the village Timiseni to the “Dimitrie Gusti” National Village Museum (Bucharest) as being part of the environmental conflicts which resulted after the exploitation of coal in the Carboniferous Basin Rovinari. The old community of free village people, called in the Romanian language “Mosneni”, from the village Timi?eni had been surviving over the centuries because they were placing all they had more precious, treasures and hopes for a better fu...

Risk management in museums of the Czech Republic is inadequate and is not implemented in most museums. The presented issue of risk management in museums is only the first step towards introducing this knowledge into museums. The introduction of risk management as part of an integrated museum management system is very important, as emergencies and disasters are very democratic and unexpectedly reach out to all countries of the world and thus to a variety of institutions.

Contemporary society creates the premises of individual training through different educational processes. Nowadays, the possibilities of accessing these oportunities enable each individual/student to broaden his own horizons and, therefore, to capitalize on the educational and professional training period. In addition to the activities they can perform at national level, the opportunities offered by international activities are also multiple, and students can come in contact with them through various types of info...

The article reviewed and analyzed the interpretation of the term «environmental safety». It was concluded that, now, there are no uniform criteria for measuring environmental safety in either Russian or international scientific practice. The reason for this is the lack of a clear understanding of the definition of «environmental safety». The main drawback of the many definitions available for this term is the lack of statistical (quantitative) definitions and the lack of indications of their relationship with the ...

In the context of the global crisis (linked to rapid depletion of natural resources, climate change, polarisation of living standards, an increase in inequalities, etc.) experienced in the early 21st century, culture is considered a resource of unlimited sustainability potential. Therefore, the policy documents of Latvia state that the future of Latvia should be based on a core of values that do not require intense utilisation of physical resources. In such a situation, the value of human capital is at the forefro...

Mastering toponyms of a foreign language is a difficult and ambiguous process due to the fact that toponyms have a national cultural component. A toponym is seen as a complex notion indicating both ways of language development and language acquisition. A toponym performs several functions in the language. It names the exact location, represents people’s attitude towards it and manifests the mentality of the nation. Acquiring such knowledge draws an individual closer to the understanding of the inner mechanisms of ...

The introduction of 5G technologies is urgent for any EU Member State, including Latvia that has begun making preparations for introducing such technologies. In Latvia, mobile communication operators have begun installing 5G base stations, and several hundreds of them have been put into service. The clients of LMT and Tele2 could start using the fifth generation network or 5 G as early as next year. A survey of mobile communication users revealed that 99% of the respondents believed that transition from 4 G to 5 G...

Accurate data and information about competition, about market trends and about consumers’ needs and habits are essentials for any business company based on profit and efficiency objectives. Forecasting is a decision-making tool used to assess the economic trends and to allow business owners to benefit or to counteract them, in essence, to prepare business owners and management to act instead of react to conditions. This paper aim to reveal the importance of forecasting in decision-making process - with emphasis on...

The ordinary way of financing government expenditures is through taxation. It is to stress the fact that the “basics” of the budget-making process consists of different types of expenditures and revenues from taxation. The best fiscal system for a country is the one that accomplishes fiscal goal of taxation, i.e. allows maximum revenue in the long run and at least administrative costs, but satisfying both efficiency and fairness. Environmental (green) should be consistent with these criteria. On one hand it is fai...

The web has become a very important source of information for users (students, researchers, general public, etc.) and commercial enterprises. This propulsion of data is related to the diversity of requests for information and the need for versatile knowledge. Access to digital data via web services is facilitated by search tools. Following a request from the user, the search engine has a long list of informational responses, but often containing parasitic pages. Although before the appearance of the web, the searc...

For modern scientific knowledge it is typical to have a deep concern in issues of verbal communication. One of linguistic fields dealing with these problems is functional linguosynergetics. Functional linguosynergetics aims to determine the relationship between linguistic units and the conditions of their use in a certain communicative and pragmatic space which is characterized by the author and the addressee’s interaction and by precise peculiarities of this interaction. It helps to see the process of full functi...

Nutrigenomics (NGx) is an emerging area of study focusing on the interaction between nutrients and genotype which is useful in understanding and preventing chronic diseases. It is also called personalised nutrition, an approach that uses individual information to develop dietary advice, products and services that are beneficial for human health. The success of the introduction of NGx depends heavily on public acceptance. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to determine Malaysian stakeholders’ intention to adopt NG...

In this paper computer and mathematical modeling with synergetic effects present one of the «problem zones» in mathematics concerned with the surface area of three-dimensional bodies. The main activity of students is to construct the multifaceted surfaces (for example, Schwartz cylinder (or "boot")) using computer and mathematical and adapt the most important generalized constructions of surface area to the actual positions of mathematical knowledge and fractal parameters. The computer design and mathematical mode...

The anthropology of exile is the new field of research of the present with Europe becoming a fortress with high walls and gloomy gates through their very opening. The accommodation of the exiled is just an appearance, is a terrible joke, dimensioned by the camps' fences in which they are "housed". It is true, they can see the sea through these fences, but it has become a border rather than freedom. Caught in a purgatory space, migrants have no place to take refuge but into themselves, in that self-culturally and i...

The article describes a role-playing game for sociology majors who study English as a foreign language. Drawing on the experience of American and Spanish authors we have developed a game that is instrumental in checking students’ knowledge of sociological terminology, translation skills and factual material. The rules of the game are easy to master even for people who have never played board games and its mechanics can be easily adapted to fields other than sociology. Anecdotal evidence from students reveals that ...

In the vast majority of the situations, the scientific papers related to the Romanian folklore have had as main topics types of traditional customs which are interpreted by ensembles and have a somewhat spectacular character in relation to other folkloric categories; which accounts for the fact that they are the ones which are best known both internally and abroad. Songs and “doinas” sung in concerts with audiences, presented with orchestral accompaniment and with literary lyrics (thus, easy to understand by the p...

The aim of this study was to identify a change in the attitude and behaviour of secondary school students from “Fine Arts High School” of Timi?oara, Romania, after their optional involvement in the refurbishment of their classroom. Students could experience ‘design thinking’ and learn steps necessary to put their creative ideas into a project, and then implement the project: “Classroom of my dreams”. 20 students filled in a 22 points questionnaire for the post occupancy evaluation, five months after the inaugurati...

Bran castle is a medieval fortress situated in south-eastern Transylvania and the most visited tourist attraction in Romania. Its popularity among international visitors is mainly due to its association with the famous Count Dracula, based on the assumption that this particular castle might be the one that Bram Stoker presents in his novel. The castle has its own history, starting from the 14th century and continuing with its transformation into a summer residence for the royal family of Romania, in the 20th centu...

In the life of a child, a pupil, student, the authority is fundamental and is of key importance for its further social experience. As a dynamic element, it is subject to a number of changes especially between childhood and adolescence. We cannot separate the authority from the educational process, as the constitutive element of the teaching profession it manifests itself in the social relationship between the teacher and the learner. The teacher plays an important role in this process, as the pupils are reliant on...

The present study aims to achieve a morphogenetic theory application in the field of artistic form, thus expanding the applicability domains of this theory and in the area of interest of the arts . An interesting approach to the concept of form (studied in the biological, chemical, physical forms) and then extrapolated to any systems in which, form is involved as a fundamental notion is Rupert Sheldrake 's morphic resonance theory. He argues that not all phenomena of life are explicable in terms of physical and ch...

The recent sentence of the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation on the well-known case of Massimo Giuseppe Bossetti, in which thousands and thousands of genetic profiles were analysed, offers an occasion for a number of observations on the subject: on the one hand, on the genetic proof and its value in the Italian criminal process and, on the other hand, on the role of the DNA database which in Italy, in contrast to other European situations, as yet contains few profiles. In fact, even if active since 2017, it only ...

In Poland, the transformation period, initiated in 1989, brought a huge development of academic education. The number of studying youth has increased many times. This process forced building investments in higher education in Poland at an unprecedented scale. Still lively "old" traditional university centers have been developing dynamically, yet at the same time many new ones have been created. Wroclaw University of Science and Technology is the largest university in Lower Silesia and one of the best technical uni...

Òhe article deals with reading treated as representation of belles-lettres embedded in the modern culture of performance; offers a review and analysis of fancy-dress forms of presenting fiction in diachrony and synchrony. The article also presents an analysis of existing aids on Russian as a foreign language and as a mother tongue, which learning guides use the forms of handling the literary text that are close to those proposed in the present article. As a result, this engenders a concept of reading belles-lettre...

The fluctuation of aesthetic and artistic values in contemporary art implies the need to shape the aesthetic sensitivity of children from an early age. The authoress focused on the analysis of the way, how Slovak non-fiction for children with the theme of visual arts contributes to this task. The reason for choosing the topic was the fact about visualization of contemporary culture as well as the fact that illustration is an integral part of children’s books and a dominant component of picture books, which are bec...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the life and work of Czech protestant theologian Jan Milic Lochman (1922-2004) and the influence of Tomas Garrique Masaryk on Loch-man?s concept of thinking. The author of this paper describes Lochman's works, espe-cially the Decalogue and the Credo, and emphasizes the truth and the struggle for truth. It also highlights the difficult situation between the World Wars in Europe, where ideo-logical struggle was present and the rise of Nazi Germany occured. Lochman and Masa-ryk are...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the connection between existential philosophy and the literary work of particular authors. In the first part, it will focus on the work of Egon Hostovsky, who belongs to the typical representatives of existential prose. Due to his Jewish origin, Hostovsky was forced to stay in exile at the time of the occupation of Czechoslovakia, but he felt very dissatisfied and never came to terms with his destiny of the emigrant. His feelings became the basis for his existentially oriented ...

According to the requirements to in-service teachers in the Russian Federation pedagogical forecasting is considered one of the educator's professional functions. Pedagogical students are to be taught acquisition of forecasting skills in undergraduate and postgraduate teacher training programs. The difficulties of forecasting lie in the accuracy of predictions. One of the means to teach forecasting accuracy to pedagogical students is to train them to predict their academic success early and late in the academic ye...

Josef Frank (1885-1967) certainly occupies a prominent place in the central European architectural scenery of the early twentieth century. His work is entirely devoted to living and of course, in addition to having designed furniture, furnishings and beautiful fabrics, Frank designs and creates architectures. The furniture and objects of furniture that he produces in Vienna at the beginning of the twenties, born on the idea of English furniture from which he takes inspiration to reinterpret the models and adapting...

Using Freud’s psychoanalysis as a starting point for our study, we want to investigate whether the built environment one grew up in has an influence on our brains and on our future architectural preferences. The Viennese psychologist aims to make the unconscious mind, conscious, and his findings teach us that the repressed emotions and experiences have an impact on our brains, and therefore on the quality of our lives. How does the brain influence our perception of the space? Everything is a matter of perception, ...

The study of subjective well-being of Russian and Chinese students appears relevant, firstly, because of an individual’s pursuit of inner harmony, which becomes ever more important in the modern multi-cultured society where the number of contacts between people of different ethnic backgrounds is constantly increasing, and the societal demands for individuals are growing. Secondly, the relevance of the study is accentuated by the growing dynamism of Russian-Chinese relations, showcased by high student mobility that...

The concept of value co-creation (VCC), which has been widely discussed in recent years in economic literature, is used in the paper to consider the co-creation of the value of works of art. Three entities involved in co-creating the value of a piece of art are indicated: 1. the artist – the creator of a piece of art; 2. the recipient/intermediary in the conclusion of a transaction; and 3. the customer/buyer. Special attention is paid to the interactive nature of creating the market value of a piece of art. In the...

In the paper with the modern quality management methods using is argued the rationality of rehabilitation equipment production for the patients with the hand and fingers movement disorders basing on the 3D - printing technology. First of all, we start from the descriptions of special needs in rehabilitation for some distributed diseases and shortly characterize the proposed case study (assistive device). Next, we choose the best 3D - printing method for our case study compared with the others, and after that we ma...

The study reflects contemporary Slovak art inspired by the personality of Milan Rastislav Stefanik from the perspective of his contribution to the development of diplomatic relations (Czechoslovakia – France), to the knowledge of the mysteries and laws of space (an astronomer), and the unbreakable belief in victorious battle against an enemy. It evaluates the immense merit through which he went down in Czechoslovakian and world history and surveys the features and acts of his personality that were inspirational fo...

In recent years, the scientific community, as well as practitioners around the world, have gradually turned their attention towards the matter of life quality, both from an ecological, as well as from a socio-economic point of view – particularly in relation to the realities of the urban environment. Within contemporary cities, collective housing neighborhoods concentrate the highest densities of housing units, thus offering shelter to a large percentage of the population. These developments therefore have the lar...

During the last decades, accounting researchers have been urged to shift their study of the role and function of management accounting to its natural contexts, thus case research is an efficient approach for such studies. Despite its intrinsic limitations, it offers a much deeper understanding of an organisational context. This paper presents the results of a case-based study of management accounting practices in Russian midsized companies. In general, the research on management accounting in Russia is scarce; onl...

Generic trademarks have been firmly established in the modern English language. However, little is known about the exact number of lexical items in the English vocabulary stock that have previously been nothing but trademarks and brands specially created to indicate the origin of the product and to identify the goods of a particular manufacturer. The legal process of genericization by which the marks are determined in court to have become generic may take a long period of time. Although the legal formalities are c...

The term "digital dementia" refers to the relationship of diminishing cognitive abilities of man and his excessive involvement in relation with social networks activities and cyber reality as such. The authors believe that the term "digital dementia" reveals some of the causes of loss of critical thinking, which correlates with an increase in young generation's interest in conspiracy theories. The article argues that it is precisely the loss of critical thinking that is associated with the phenomenon of an increas...

The main aim of the research is to raise awareness of some of the most intractable eating disorders of the last two centuries – anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. In accordance with this aim in mind, the following sub-aims were also pursued by the authors: 1) to highlight the most typical feature of both diseases, 2) to compare them with a view to establishing convergent and subevent features, 3) to track some of the possible causes and consequences of these disorders, 4) to suggest possible treatment, 5) to pu...

The article analyzes the approaches to the definition of the basic concept of intercultural communication "language picture of the world" from the perspective of different areas of linguistics, exploring the relationship of language and consciousness. As a problem field of research, definitions of the relationship between language and consciousness, developed in scientific paradigms of such areas of linguistics as psycholinguistics, linguoculturology and system linguistics, often acting as synonyms, namely, "langu...

This work describes the first results of a research on applying potential literature ideas to scientific texts. Natural language has a major importance for communication, and its limits need to be defied in all possible ways if we want to reach different audiences with the most diverse themes. Science communication, for example, is a field where new kinds of media have been applied in order to aggregate artistic elements to subjects that are intrinsically specialized and technical enough to intimidate or even repe...

Object: is to formulate provisions that basically would constitute an integral and consistent view of the role and significance of developing the legal framework for international cooperation in the context of responding to natural disasters. Methods: special historical methods, such as specific historical, comparative historical and chronological methods, as well as historical and legal and complex methods, which allowed to go beyond formal research and study the development of the legal field of the internationa...

The present article is devoted to the analysis of the use of conceptual metaphors and their role in formation of political discourse of English-language media. For identifying the specificity of conceptual metaphors and their influence on this type of discourse, the article presents a grounded theory research, within which metaphoric concepts are chosen with the help of content analysis method. The research shows that conceptual metaphors are significant for both collective and individual identity. Moreover, they ...