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Cardiovascular diseases rank among chronic diseases that may have negative impact not only on the individual's economic activities but they may have radical impact also on the individual's common life and on its quality. The expenses on the therapy of heart and vessel diseases in the Czech Republic are paid predominantly from public health insurance and partially also in form of financial contribution of the citizens, consisting particularly in payment for medicines. This article, based on the implemented project ...

The main objective of this article is to analyse the experience of Polish companies in using equity - based crowdfunding as a source of capital. The author also shows new solutions which are planned to be introduced in Polish law to make an easier use of this form of financing. Based on the case study of two finished campaigns, the advantages and disadvantages of equity-based crowdfunding are shown as well as the estimated cost of such capital. The consequences for a company and for its owners of using capital fro...

One of the crucial moments of today´s global acceleration is systematic changes of international relations and potential role of regional organizations in this interactive process. This should be an opportunity not only for small and medium states, whose positions in international relations are increasingly marginalized. Interconnection of states, in particular for the needs of self-assertion in international relations, should therefore be a logical step for promotion the interests of states in politics. This is t...

This paper addresses intercultural business communication in the times of globalisation. The research aims to describe the peculiarities of British, American, and Russian lingua-cultures against the background of English professional language as a component of the linguistic system and one of the social dialect types. English professional linguistic culture is commonly not viewed as a separate type of linguaculture. The authors consider it as a subculture comprising such components as speech etiquette, traditions,...

The fundamental challenge of the contemporary world is finding a proper model of transformation of the existing linear, unsustainable and irresponsible economy towards the circular economy harmonised with the needs of present and future generations. Financial institutions, due to their intermediary role, should have a particularly important role in the transition towards a more sustainable economy. In the last 30 years various ethical and alternative financial institutions have been founded in many countries aimed...

The relevance of psychological follow-upof economic processes is determined by growing interest in the human factor influence on the socioeconomic efficiency improvement. Labor psychology has well-proven the obvious link between motivation and success of the expert work.This link needs to be specified in the case of complex analysis, which includes social, economic and psychological aspect of the matter. The aim of the study was to determine the influence of personal qualities of sales managers on the economic eff...

From the beginning of his book Le discours de l’action (1977), Paul Ricoeur empha-sised the fact that a ‘philosophy of action’ is not a ‘science of action’. He underlines that the practical ethical dimension is the specific kind of discourse that the question of ac-tion has had since the ancient era in philosophy. The dialectics between the practical dimension both as a ‘physical’ dimension and as an ‘ethical’ dimension have not only been the basis for the rationalisation and differentiation of philosophy in Arist...

The present article aims at exploring the complex process of interlinguistic translation, proposing a new model which might be easily applied to both literary and non-literary textual types. Indeed, by focusing on both verbal and non-verbal components of the text, the SIS model aims at rendering the approach to any kind of translation more systematic. As the paper suggests by referring to the notion of isotopy, the model could in fact prove valuable in the translation of audio-visual texts and/or hybrid texts such...

The poster includes the partial results acquired within the GAJU 029/2016/S project – Life style of women in private sex business and their (self-)reflection. The main goal of the study consisted in studying and analyzing selected aspects of life style of women in private sex business. Private sex business is a very insufficiently research area, also due to high level of anonymity it provides to the women and to the clients. However, in view of the low mapping level and the relevant issue of sexual assistance, thi...

Although RPAS offer great advantages and creative possibilities, its use by the Creative Industries is still rare and focused on outdoor filming and photography. Until now, RPAS have been primarily designed for outdoor use by different end-users, in fields such as inspections, agriculture, real estate, security, etc. However, since existing RPAS lacks a precise, robust and affordable indoor positioning system as well as advanced safety features, the control of any RPAS in indoor environments is particularly diffic...

The subject of this study is the interrelation and interdependence between the accounting information, the sufficiency of bank capital and the management of credit and liquidity risk. The factors influencing the exact determination of the required capital in conditions of a changing regulatory environment are presented. The effect of the higher capital requirements on the level of bank liquidity and credit strategies applied by the banks in Bulgaria is investigated. From the general study of capital adequacy and t...

Socialization is the process by which individuals learn, gradually, through interaction with other peers and participation in social life, norms, values, thinking and knowledge of a particular culture of birth, or in other words, socialization is the interactive communication of values, norms and methods of behavior specific to a group or a society, throughout his life. Deviance is a set of behaviors and conditions that group members judge the most inconsistent with their expectations, norms and values, and which,...

Among the people threatened with marginalization are people with various disabilities, who, for the subjective reasons, have limited opportunities to satisfy their own needs and experience difficulties with social integration. With the democratic standards, these people should be provided support in various areas of life while providing equal opportunities for education and vocational and social life. The social aspect of disabilities is being more and more often emphasized, which means that the problem results no...

Because of some, ideological rather than scientific, reasons, explanations of human behavior referring to culture as an all-encompassing nomos and as an axionormative matrix shaping all individuals, let alone those accounts referring to the genetic influence, are treated by many social and cultural scientist as reductionistic, deterministic, depersonalizing and reifying. These epithets are subsumed under relatively new term “essentialism” which has become, as Steven Pinker notices, “just about the worst thing you ...

The article explains that the information function of the financial market is the key for pricing of a financial asset. Information acts as an argument of nonlinear function of returns, prices and risk level. At a time when the information becomes a hefty price, the information value of the financial market becomes comparable to its interests effect. It gives the basis to include information factor as a variable in the model of capital asset pricing and the financial market model. In turn, secondary market prices ...

The article proposes classification approach to the analysis and the typology of socio-economic development strategies of municipal regions, which was used in solving practical problems during elaborating municipal regions strategies of the Tatarstan Republic in 2016. This approach is based on machine learning techniques and allows making both quantitative and qualitative assessment of main characteristic features of municipal strategies system of the Tatarstan. This system was developed in the middle of 2016, app...

Development of the Northern and Arctic regions requires innovative approaches to support high quality of living in terms of business processes and everyday life. On the whole, these regions are most hard to support financially and require high costs. Standard of living is closely connected with regional infrastructure development, energy saving playing most import role. In Northern and Arctic regions energy saving has specifics compared to other RF regions as energy resources make up to 30% share of total costs, i...

This article deals with problems of the ancient settlement of Northern Yakutia. Across the Arctic of Yakutia, in the basin of river Uélé, Anabar, Olenek, lower Lena, Indigirka, Kolyma and Islands of the Arctic Ocean discovered and excavated hundreds of monuments of stone and early metal ages in ancient times, the main migratory paths were rivers flowing into the Arctic Ocean, which originate from Central Yakutia. Currently in the Arctic Yakutia there are about 20 sites of mammoth hunters, especially in the basins ...

The presented article is devoted to the study of the role of socio-ecological education in the development of the economy, which is associated with the threat of an ecological disaster, which requires an urgent search for options and ways to dramatically change people's consciousness, their worldview and value systems, requiring an urgent research for options and ways to principal change of people's consciousness, their world perceptionand value systems. The relevance of the research in the article is determined b...

We analyzed the results of field studies in the Tyukhtet District of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The subject of the study is the childhood culture of the indigenous, scarce peoples of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. A group of researchers from Siberian Federal University had studied the Chulym ethnocultural group ("chulymtsy"). The target of the study was Chulym children. The main research methods were field studies and focus groups, which involved observation and expert interviews. The general culture of childhood, the...

Environmental and architectural characteristics that are affecting children`s physical abilities and health were identified in several recent studies. This paper aims to draw attention towards the importance of the interaction with nature during childhood. When talking about green architecture, we consider criteria such as: environmental impact, water conservation, energy efficiency, green design and healthy buildings. In order to identify children`s relationship with nature nowadays, we created a survey that show...

This report describes a document management system in the university related to the learning process. As an example of the application and shows a faculty. The design of the system has developed using three-tier architecture, which allows the separation of key components for efficient reuse of code and allow options for parallel development. The development of system allowing professors and students involved in the development increase their knowledge and acquire practical skills in the design, development and imp...

This paper considers the aspect of adopting discriminatory behavior towards women with different ethno-religious design of the external appearance. An empirical study is presented, with the object of 807 people: 436 women and 371 men, aged 18 to 35 years. Respondents were offered a set of photographs of girls in hijab and without it (5 pairs of photographs). Three situations were proposed for each photo from the "Assessment of Acceptance of Discriminating Behavior towards Ethnic Groups" methodology, proposed by V....

Mastering a foreign language today is of vital importance to specialists as it has become the terms of successful international cooperation. Although there are lots of foreign language teaching methods, graduates experience great difficulties in producing even a low level speech. Therefore, the key aim of the article is to deal with the problem of overcoming the language barrier for vocationally oriented foreign language teaching due to appropriate teaching terms, ways and techniques. The research is based on the ...

A motive for adapting the desecrated churches to new purposes is a broadly discussed matter, progressively better investigated and defined. Is it advisable to introduce a new, permanent function, complementary to the sacred one in the historical ecclesial buildings? This paper presents the results of the research on benefits of adapting the non-utilized attics of monumental churches still performing their sacred function, located in historic centers of the cities. The results were identified in three approaches: c...

Development of tourist services has a major importance in the economy of each country in order to ensure the increasing of living standards of the population. The hotels offer is focused around the accommodation, representing for more than 50% from the total of the receipts, and constitutes a service, quite. The client, who has been captured by the accommodation hotel, is presented with the whole offer, together with other services made available to him. The other services, of smaller importance represent for a cl...

Cultural differences have always been observed in the way that drivers act suggesting that in part, the cultural aspects could bring an insight into risky driving behaviors. Two hundred and five drivers from 3 countries (Morocco, N=30; France, N=87; Romania, N-=88) have taken part into an exploratory study aiming to analyze how various cultural values might have an impact on risky driving behavior and driving anger. Participants had in average 22 years (SD=2.12, min=18, max=25), had had their driving license for 3...

The philosophy and practice interpret categories in the light of certain features of scientific or philosophical knowledge. At the same time, the proclamation of a specific scientific paradigm, in particular complexity theory, presupposes the emergence and development of new categories and concepts. The modern science and philosophy poses a global challenge to the scientific community. The task is to adapt the fundamental classical categories. One such category is the category "quality". The adaptation of quality ...

The modern big city is a space of visual signs. The key role is played by architecture, which, on the one hand, functions as reference points and guiding volumes, on the other hand, is able to influence the outlook and the state of the people passing by. In this connection, the question of how to identify the potential of architectural monuments as visual texts is important. The work is based on the method of philosophical and artistic analysis of works of architecture as a space of interaction of the viewer and t...

Central Park in Astana lies on the bank of the Ishim River. In the past, the park’s area consisted of three equal zones — a recreation zone, amusement zone and ceremonial zone. In the recent years, a redevelopment of the park took place. The new project consists in dividing the park into six zones with different functions. The park has a beach and a sports zone. There is Central Avenue with the city clock, dry fountains, new area of Olympians and a composition of four grottoes surrounding the clock with a unique m...

This paper is a contribution to the discussion and analysis of irregular sentences in written language. Based on empirical evidence of written texts of Czech students, it deals with a description of various types of irregular sentences. This study’s primary purpose is to explore which irregular sentence types can be recognised in the given context with a special emphasis put on the Theme-Rheme structuring of a discourse, as well as searching for reasons why irregular sentences occur in the text. The study utilizes...

The paper considers the first stage of Finland's Russification. The period from 1899 to 1917 is often characterized in the national historiography as a long period of forced russification and oppression. The main methods of research were: review, classification of historical documents and scientific articles on this subject, statistical data analysis, generalization methods. The policy of the Russian Empire towards the Grand Duchy of Finland in late XIX – early XX centuries was named Russification of Finland. It w...

Currently there are no specific studies dedicated to the administrative and legal transformation in the management of protected and protection of democratic values such as the constitutional system, security and welfare of the population. We are talking about protection, and public evaluation of the effectiveness of legal means of managing large complex relationships in the context of the inadmissibility of weakening national security. In consideration of the reader is presented the most difficult legal and admini...

The problem of ethnic history and ethnogeny of Goguryeo people has been of great interest to Russian archaeologists and ethnographers because we have to assume this ethnographic group of ancient Korean people had closer ties with Tungus-Manchurian people, particularly with the DongyiXianbei, Sushen-Yilou, Ugu-Udegeis, possibly Uvas-Uvan, Jurchen people and Manchurians themselves.In 1851 for the first time N.Y. Bichurin suggested that ancient Korean people, Goguryeopeople in particular, were connected to Tungus-Man...

The import substitution policy, carried out both at federal and regional levels, today is one of the structural components of the Russia’s national and economic security ensuring policy. The work examines the effect of import substitution on economic growth of the Russian economy. Authors consider the nature and the role of import substitution, its effectiveness and reasons for implementation, as well as studies issues of imports policy formation of goods and services in the Russian economy under the conditions of...

The authors suggest that the development of civil society as well as of information technologies are objective factors that influence the content of the legislation of any modern state. From this perspective, they evaluate the system of financial control (supervision, audit) in the Russian Federation and the quality of its legal regulation. To determine the specifics of the legislative regulation of financial control, a comparative legal analysis of regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation and of a number o...

Currently, the imminence of the primary regulation of social relations in very varied fields makes it almost impossible for Parliament to intervene timely, which makes use of legislative delegation. Thus, not only the inefficiency, but also the inopportunity of Parliament's legislative activity are among the arguments put forward to empower the Government to issue ordinances, through which Parliament tries to transfer part of its responsibility to social issues to the Government. Legislative delegation is a living...

The aim of the study was to establish correlations between participation of children with cerebral palsy (CP) in hippotherapy classes and their social functioning. A qualitative strategy was adopted in the study, with the focus on case study methodology. The analysis concerned changes in social functioning of twelve children with CP. It was adopted for the purposes of this study that potential changes will be analysed in terms of the development of social competencies and functioning within basic social roles (a c...

The concept of Europeanization can be perceived as a phenomenon affecting all components of sub-national, national and multinational society, however, in the last period, most academics consider it more from the perspective of so called “bottom-down” approach, whose ambition is to explore the peace, form and dynamics of the impact of European integration on society as such. This means that European policies, European legislation, culture, values, and the very existence of the EU have a comprehensive influence on t...

The relevance of the study what attitude employees have towards their organization is closely connected with its influence on the professional and economic efficiency of the individual professionals and the organization itself as a whole. The analysis of scientific resources has demonstrated that the attitude towards the organization is always substituted by the term loyalty, which characterizes a certain level of work perception both from the external and internal position, which determines the quality of profess...

The paper covers comparison of process making decision on shared care in the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. It speaks about all elements of this chain including not only members present in the courtroom but also links having indirect influence on the final decision of the court about shared care. Almost a quarter of families with small children must deal with family breakdown, which can be described as potentially one of the most pressing social problems. Most of the children after a divorce is in a custody o...

The economic development of the Russian economy involves intensive development of services. Tourism in recent years has become a key component of the services sector and the economy as a whole. This direction is of fundamental importance for the formation of Russia's GDP in the postindustrial period of economic development of the world economy. Lately in the world and in Russia the increasing distribution receives the direction of the environmental services, including ecotourism. However, taking into account world...

The article deals with the topical problem - the innovative activity of a modern teacher, a teacher of a foreign language. The introduction of pedagogical innovations means the use and application in practice of new methods and technologies, tools, changing and adapting the known methodology in the new conditions of integrity, openness and pragmatism of education. The Concept for the Development of Russian Education from 2016 to 2020 states a competence approach as the bestto comply with the requirements of the Fe...

The research paper focuses on assessing the impact of the tools of the fiscal policy of the country for the resource regions and municipalities development in the context of the current budget federalism and inter-budget relations. Krasnoyarsk Krai – the largest in its area and the availability of natural resources region of Russia is considered as a model resource region. The Krai’s role in the Russian economy as well as its financial and social well-being are largely determined by the resource model of the econo...

The relevance of the research topic is due to the need to study ways for overcoming the contradictions between the biological and social time of preschool children. In the study the time is objectified in terms of the biological and social age of the child. The concept of asynchronicity – the discrepancy between biological and social age is revealed. The interpretation of the concept of a behavioral strategy for overcoming the asynchronicity is presented. The object of the study is children of preschool age and th...

It is essential to know how color choices influence people, the idea that there is one unique psychological reaction to certain colors being incorrect. Many of the reactions that color psychologists attribute to certain colors are based on personal experience. It is also interesting to note that many cultures have associations of colors with completely different interpretations. Therefore, we will explore some general associations that most people in Western cultures have as a response to certain colors. Although ...

The aim of the article is to present the contemporary changes in the functional and spatial structure of Krakow. The article discusses transformations going on in several spatially, functionally and dimensionally varied fragments of the city which have become attractive locations for new development projects in recent years. Realising these areas’ growth potential derived from their local conditions has changed their character and relations with the surrounding structure. The new varied forms of development in the...

The EU Development Guidelines impose high standards on the role of local government in supporting digital society. To achieve higher availability and reliability of digital public administration services towards citizens and the economic sector, the management of ICT technology must be interconnected with the business strategy of public administration. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as a part of the European Commission legal framework, sets the security of business data and processes as a basis of func...

The article represents partial results of three-year investigation devoted to the childfree phenomenon. The subject of the research is the problem of voluntary refuse from childbearing in modern Russian society and possible consequences of such an ideology. The review of studies devoted to the given subject and the analysis of social researches about family, marriage behavior and reproductive orientations showed that the spreading of the childfree ideology is not able to influence on demographic situation in Russi...

New technologies and possibilities of simultaneous processing of large quantities of personal data are developing both in science and the economy. However, collecting and processing personal data opens up a whole range of issues and controversies. The European Union has also recognized the importance of this issue and has implemented a reform of personal data protection through a new instrument aimed at ensuring the protection of the rights and fundamental freedoms of individuals with regard to the processing of t...