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This article deals with the modern mechanisms of the non-profit organizations funding and its legal regulation. The matter is that today such organizations play a growing role in building civil society, social dialogue and participatory democracy. But they may be effective if only they are effective in fundraising. NGOs rely on money from a variety of sources, including donations, loans, sponsorships, incomes from entrepreneurial activity and public subsidies. It seems that there are many sources of funding, but f...

The relevance of the study isconfirmed by the fact thatcurrently, attraction of developed countries concentrated on conformation “knowledge economy”, where degree of economic advance and dynamic depends up efficiency arrangement of production and using knowledge. The aim of this study isdefinition development level ofthe knowledge economy of the country. To achieve this goal the following problems were solved: examine international and native methods definition development level of the knowledge economy of the cou...

This paper examines the potential basis for the determination of a barometer to size democracy, a new instrument designed to measure the differences in the quality of democracies established for the East and North European Union countries. This new research instrument is based on a comprehensive concept of democracy, which includes three principles: freedom, equality and control, which are assured by nine functions: individual freedoms, the rule of law, public sphere, competition, mutual constraints, governmental ...

In Slovakia the beginnings of systematic interest in folklore and culture are related to the Enlightenment or to the early periods of Slovak National Revival. The first Slovak sources documenting the systematic and conceptual interest in prosaic folklore, as presented by the German romantic school and which received a great deal of appreciation on a European scale in the form of writing and editing, was in the 1840s. As in other areas of scientific interest, the same methodological principle was applied here and f...

The relevance of the study isconfirmed by the fact that over the past few decades worldwide degree of export sociability and correlation of national economies, increased dramatically values and intensity of international trade and international capital movement, accelerated the forming of global finance markets. These factorsare exhibit comprehensive, disposition of development of the modern world –globalization. The aim of this study is forecasting of development major macroeconomic indicators: export and import ...

Contemporary process of general education shifts focus from teaching large groups of pupils to organize their independent learning. Teacher Training Universities are to prepare pre-service teachers for organizing pupils’ independent work in order to assist a better development of the child’s abilities. Application of tutoring support in primary, secondary and high school is one of the effective means to achieve these goals. This task is set in the Law “On Education in the Russian Federation” (2012), which stresses...

The article suggests the results of the All-Russian study, one of the tasks of which was to measure some indicators of the quality of life of Russians. The indicator of the quality of life and its components can be used not only in the static assessment, but also to show the dynamics of the change, linking it with the administrative decisions on the development of territory adopted over a specified period. As a topic of comparative research, the quality of life can establish real positions comparing territories, s...

Pursuing the goal, which is to examine the influence of information visualization trend that prevails in the modern culture on the existing mediasphere and transformation processes that have been unwinding in the mass communications and mass information domain over the past several decades, as well as to define the vectors of this influence, its features that transform the content of today’s mass media, their format, genre and typology properties and methods of interaction with the media consumer, the authors of t...

Topicality. The question of self-identification of contemporary national philosophy remains insufficiently studied. This paper specifies the tradition of political philosophical discourse in France – the most influence national philosophy in Europe – and the reconceptualization of its main ideas – freedom, liberty and equality in 21st century. The aim is to propose the case study of Charlie Hebdo and the transformation of the political discourse in Europe. Hypothesis. In France, the date that became the point of r...

According to § 48 of Civil Code (Act No. 40/1964 Coll.), as effective in the Slovak Republic, contractual party may withdraw from contract if such withdrawal is granted by the law or if the contractual parties have so agreed. Accordingly, there are two rights, the statutory right and the contractual right to withdraw from contract. Both rights can be exercised in diverse situations; as a rule, however, they are exercisable as a result of a breach of contract. The remaining question is, specifically, by what time c...

We need to make decisions us throughout our lives. This skill is sometimes necessary even to survive, because our vigilance and behaviour in a crisis situation is the basic mechanism of natural selection. Human behaviour has been the subject of many studies and theories. The expected utility theory, assumes that if a person has a choice of profit x, which is certain and a more favourable option y, but burdened with risk, then he should choose the certain profit. Its usefulness is expected to be higher than the ris...

Risk management of innovative projects is one of the most difficult tasks in project management due to high degree of uncertainty in future results. One of the most important stages in risk management of innovative projects is the development of the risk mitigation program. In the research approaches to the risk management of innovative projects the methodical apparatus of each individual stage of risk management - identification, assessment and risk mitigation - is considered disconnected and often without any sp...

The features of state utopia implementation are analyzed on the basis of Soviet socialism conceptions. The transformation of social-economic and philosophical-political foundations of state is disclosed through the phenomena of property and freedom. The research is based on systemic, comparative-historical and statistical approaches. The research objective is to study the interrelation between the socioeconomic and the political-visionary spheres of functioning of the first socialist state, and to reveal the cause...

The national program ”milk and croissant” addresses both pre-school and elementary and secondary school pupils, through each pupil offers a milk or dairy product in quantities of 200 ml and bakery products in packages of 80 g/unit. Through this scientific approach, we intend to determine how milk and dairy products influence this program, finding that the majority of pupils (71.25%) surveyed said the program did not influence their behavior on the frequency with which they consume milk or dairy products, and a sma...

The progress of the architecture and urbanism raises problems requiring interdisciplinary research conducted with the use of advanced experimental techniques and computer simulation. The fields of this research include aerodynamics, especially in intensively developed area of Environmental Wind Engineering (EWE). Aerodynamic phenomena occurring around buildings have a significant impact on the quality of the climate in the cities. This paper deals with the issue of dependence of air exchange in urban spaces on the...

The article deals with the actual problem of the evolution of Chinese foreign policy in East Asia in recent decades. Historically, the region is a sphere of special interests of China. After the end of the Cold War era, the balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region shifted in favor of the US-Japan bloc, but in modern conditions of economic weakening of Japan and losing of the military and political superiority on a global scale of the United States, and in the situation of strengthening Russia as an important pl...

The present paper addresses the subject of developing sustainable tourism in the Black Sea basin in conjunction and cooperation with the European Commission's concerns on maritime tourism in this part of Europe. The first part of the paper discusses the theoretical framework, and defines the concepts of "sustainable development" and "sustainable tourism" as well as describes the main milestones leading to a sustainable development of tourism. It continues with the presentation of the six coastal countries Bulgaria...

Speech culture is as a complex unity of communicative qualities, normative, ethical and aesthetic tendencies existing in a particular culture. Phonetic culture is a complex unity of knowledge of communication tactics, rules of functioning sounding speech units in different communicative situations, as well as the ability to use acoustic, articulatory, rhythmic, melodic, accentuating, temporal means, modal and emotional specifics etc. to create the necessary communicative effect in the communicative process. Curren...

The aim of the study was to examine the degree of quality of life, as a whole and in domains, of elderly persons in the Republic of Croatia who are suffering from type 2 diabetes and those who do not have it. The study included 120 participants who according to chronological age belong to a group of elderly people. Participants were divided into two groups. The study group included 60 elderly patients with type 2 diabetes, and the control group had 60 elderly non-diabetic subjects. The WHOQOL-bref (The World Healt...

At the beginning of 1938 the Slovak-Polish relations were stabilised. Although Poland considered Czechoslovakia in the long term as an artificial state unit to be broken up over time, it sought to maintain relations with Slovak political representation. This attitude was supported by a fact that in the most powerful Slovak political party - Hlinka's Slovak People's Party operated strong Polonophil wing. This wing wished to establish good relations with Polish political representation. After Austria's anschluss, wi...

In the article the questions of mathematical education of law students focused on computer modeling of professional tasks with discovering of mathematical potential synergy in professional competences formation and personal development are actualized. A synergistic approach has been chosen as an effective strategy for the implementation of this problem. The authors explore the potential possibilities of self-organization and self-development of students in relation to mathematical education. The search and actuali...

Design is largely considered to be everything from a beautiful form to an innovative consumer product. What certainly differs an artefact from the designed product is that a product is created for the mass-cultures and mass-production and its development requires choosing of a precise methods organized in a specific design process. The complexity of design today lies in handling not only the creativity and industry but also rapid scientific and technological development and new social challenges. All these factors...

Our research offers a solution to the problem of searching for a universal methodology that will allow describing the structure and functions of consciousness in the form of a coherent system. As such a methodology, we consider the constructivist approach. Thanks to consciousness, the subject builds a constructive relationship with the world, realizes the subjectivation of reality, which is conditioned by a single system of mutually defining and mutually referring constructs. In the system of these constructs, bot...

The article focuses on foreign language students’ involvement in certain activities in different areas of culture. Some authors [1; 2; 4; 8; 10] claim that only an intelligent or cultured person can participate in the activities in different spheres of culture, as well as follow, interpret and assess their manifestations. Therefore, one of the main trends of the involvement into cultural activity is a person’s cultural intelligence. Considering the approaches of western of scholars [1; 4], the following aspects of...

The purpose of this article is to identify the main speech characteristics that mark the British linguistic identity in business discourse. The authors analyze the concept of linguistic identity, determine the role of the identification of business representatives with ethnic, professional, political groups, identify speech markers of linguistic identity. For the analysis of speech characteristics methods of functional-pragmatic analysis, continuous sampling and contextual analysis were applied. The material of th...

With the advancement of the Internet, the rise of the Big-data, rapid evolution of the computer science, huge progression in robotics and programming caused the development of the Artificial Intelligence, which leads it to deal with complex issues and task. Further, this technology seems to be able to generate contents as different as music, poems, paintings, movie or news scripts, jokes along with creative problem-solving. However, can machines create paintings or produce images as an art? Firstly, this paper bri...

The paper deals with the drivers and barriers for the international competitiveness improvements in the pharmaceutical industry in Russia and the United States. The methodological basis of the study is the combination of the competitive advantages theory by M. Porter with the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index methodology. A grouping of global competitiveness indicators in connection with the determinants of the Porter diamond was carried out and resulted in following seven pillars: factor conditi...

Many years of history of tax havens indicate their attractiveness in terms of hiding income and reducing tax burdens. At the same time, it exposes the weakness of governments and various types of institutions and organizations in the scope of limiting the negative impact of tax havens on the financial conditions of the countries from which the capital has migrated. The creation of new legal forms, often of a hybrid nature, is not a magnet only for business entities but also for individuals. Minimum tax burdens, a ...

TRIZ (the theory of inventive problem solving) is an approach to generate creative solutions for problem solving, it was developed by Genrich Altshuller since 1946. Primarily he creates this theory for technical systems and problems, but then other authors use the same approach to develop theory that you can apply to advertising, public relations etc. One of the instruments in Classical TRIZ is a set of inventive principles that help to create solutions for the problem. This instrument transforms the process of fi...

Current paper analyzes the main trends of the ERP-systems market in Russia and abroad. The main highlights of the research are the following ones: analysis of the market leaders; identification of the industry specificity; analyzes of the structure of the use of the most popular ERP-solutions; identification of the development direction as well as the changes of the market of the presented information systems in the medium-term; the forecasts for the dynamics of development in the medium term. As a result, the mai...

The paper discusses selected results of a telephone in-depth interview (TDI) study conducted among 20 Polish companies employing foreigners. The nature of the study was exploratory and it was aimed at detailing the current knowledge about the help the employers offer to foreign employees and the costs of it for the company. The analysis was made taking into account the labour market segment. Half of the surveyed organizations were respondents who employed foreign employers in jobs from the primary labour market (m...

This paper comes to present and highlight the works of three Romanian composers, who are or were professors at the Arts University "George Enescu" University, institution with 156 years of existence. It is about Sonante by Vasile Spatarelu, Invocations by Viorel Munteanu and Impressions from childhood composed by Bogdan Chirosca. All these works are recorded on the CD named The clarinet in the creation of composers from Iasi, [1]. In this scientific and artistic approach, we propose to present and decode three com...

The article analyzes the process of forming a dialogue between Russian civil society and the authorities with a view to solving environmental problems more effectively. One of the reasons that hinders the existence of system communication is that the authorities sacrifice ecology for the sake of developing the region's economy and yield to pressure from business, in the structure of whose interests the task of preserving a favorable natural environment for people's lives is peripheral. At the same time, the presen...

The purpose of this study is to reveal the relationship between organizational behavior variables by using hierarchical regression analysis. The survey responses collected in the study were analyzed and interpreted using SPSS for Windows 22.00 and AMOS 22.0 program. Descriptive statistical methods (Frequency, Percentage, Mean, Standard deviation) were used when study data were evaluated. Confirmatory factor analyzes of the scales were performed and the relationships between them were analyzed by hierarchical regre...

Tourist information centers play the role of an important subject in the development of tourism in the destination. They exist in all countries with developed tourism and therefore have their foundation in Slovakia as well. The aim of the paper is to explore and compare the environment, the offer of regional products and employees' access in tourist information centers in Western, Central and Eastern Slovakia. In order to fulfill the aim of the paper we have made in the months from January to April 2018 survey in ...

The article considers the issues of innovative development of educational organizations of the system of secondary vocational education of the Russian Federation on the example of the Sverdlovsk region. The authors determine the role of vocational education for the development of the Russian economy at the present stage, consider the features of functioning, and reveal the distinctive characteristics of the system. Special attention is paid to the analysis of negative factors in the functioning of professional edu...

The way that design is being taught is continuously changing under the pressure of the transition from analogical to digital environments. This becomes even more important as the novelty and the alleged superiority of the digital world is used as a marketing tool by competing universities. Even though in some fields of application this approach is desirable, some particular aspects of teaching design and architecture make this transition debatable. The advantages of drawing on blackboards over drawing on whiteboar...

Following the evolution of the state of well-being, as part of social policy, especially in the last 60 years, one can conclude the notable trend of increasing the relevance, that is, the generosity of social policies, with one progressive movement of the welfare state from a state-watchman to a state protector, whose general task is to ensure equality of opportunities, ie chances. In literature, we encounter different definitions of the concept of "state protector" and "welfare state". The concept of "social prot...

The teacher has a crucial role in the process of education. Educational studies suggest that the essential qualities of good teachers include the ability to be self-aware of one's biases; to perceive, understand and accept differences in others; to analyse and diagnose student understanding and adapt as required; to negotiate and take risks in their teaching; and to have a strong conceptual understanding of their subject matter. An ideal teacher is someone who has a combination of qualities, such as being very kno...

Introduction: Social demands aim at the improvement of the modern engineering and technical education in the conditions of the information educational environment of a technical university. The priority purposes of the teaching in the system of Higher education are the personal and professional growth of students: the formation of such qualities of a personality as the ability to take the responsibility, creativity, reflexivity, the ability to work in a team and readiness for further self-development. For this rea...

The problematic of national identity and his affirmation is from a long time an open chapter in the definition of the concept of education from Romania. It had been discussed if the national identity can be defined outside the elements of religious identity and if this issue contradicts or not the perspective of unity on the characteristic of religious diversity. Overall, the national and religious identity is necessary insofar that generates commune values and omens new opportunities of social interaction. Theref...

The paper concerns the analysis of the main concepts of West European tradition of Philosophy, which are the concepts of the other, the subject and the encounter. The research has been inspired by the work of world known indologist Gerhard Oberhammer, particularly the articles ‘Im Angesicht des Anderen. Ramanujas Saranagatigadya. Einwichtiger Text vishnuitisher Religionstradition’ and ‘‘Begegnung’ als Kategorie der Religionshermeneutik’. It is interesting both from historical-philosophical and indological point of...

Latvia has defined the smart specialization strategy in national level since 2013. The planned outcome - increased capacity of innovations - includes the share of high and medium-high technology sectors in the export; number of researchers employed in the private sector; increase in manufacturing productivity and share of innovative enterprises. Smart Specialization Strategy measures are tied to the Latvian Sustainable Development Strategy until 2030, the Spatial Development Perspective and the National Developmen...

Architecture of the Alchemists’ House, which was carried out according to a design of Dariusz Koz?owski in Mochnackiego street in Cracow, inspired cogitation on architecture parlante and threads of significance in architecture of the post-functionalist era. Architecture parlante was born in France and it means „speaking architecture” – expressing through its form, details and general character of a building, content and meaning carried by the architectural work. Turning to the past, postmodern architecture returns...

The relevance of the subject and the research problem is conditioned by the following needs: (1) in the sociocultural context, to convincingly substantiate the pedagogical effectiveness of the dialogue system of higher professional education; (2) in the theoretical context, to substantiate the dialogical organics of pedagogical discourse, the methodological provisions of the dialogue concept of education, and radically revise the educational goals and results of training professional managers in the face of increa...

Understanding local residents’ attitudes towards tourism development and its positive and negative impacts is important and crucial in order to minimize antagonism of local community towards tourists, and also to help local authority in creating adequate tourism policy. This study explores residents’ attitudes of quality of life (QoL) caused by tourism regarding their living distance from the centre of tourism activities, personal benefits from tourism, socio demographic profile, positive and negative tourism impa...

Previous research on the application of innovations in Kosovo have shown that businesses and other institutions have a low level of creating something new. Despite some efforts to change this situation still innovations remain a challenge in Kosovo despite the benefits they bring. This paper discusses the challenges the problems and benefits of small innovations. From the research on the vision for economic development for the future in Kosovo, economic development is focused on innovative opportunities for each s...

The progressive process of erosion of the European institutional structure, which took place starting from the economic crisis up to the crisis resulting from Brexit, requires careful reflection on the process of European integration, in its historical, political and social conditions. The research work conducted by the jurist Joseph Weiler, allows to draw a clear appearance of constitutive aspects of the European Community. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, which includes law, economic, political, social an...

In the paper I present the Slovak illustrator Miroslav Cipár. His artistic creation is famous and appreciated at home as well as abroad. Cipár’s works of art, thanks to their fine-art properties, go beyond home as well as beyond European fine-art traditions. In his works of art there are mixed motives from Slovak folklore art and non-European fine-art cultures, which he became acquainted with during his professional internships in several world-wide destinations. Typical features of Cipár’s fine-art expression are...

The study aims to explain motivational and behavioural patterns of political participation of Russian university youth in the context of contemporary trends in youth political participation in Europe and beyond. It is based on a sociological survey conducted among a sample of 976 students aged 18-21 in 12 higher education institutions of Sverdlovsk Oblast, a region found to be representative of Russia’s youth at large. The findings show that, in line with a global trend, beside alienation from conventional politic...