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In the modern economic conditions companies are forced to reconsider their approaches to management of financial, economic and business processes in manufacturing. This fact is due to high speed of transformation of the environment under the influence of disturbing factors generated by the globalization of the economy, the rise of transnational corporations, accelerated flow of information and other influences. In this case, it is necessary to develop a toolkit, which would allow to adjust the management in view o...

In this paper we examine how cross-cultural aspects influence Kazakh and Russian students when they form the image of the managerВ’s profession. Our research based on the data of comparative sociological survey of Kazakh and Russian university students studying management from the first to the fourth year of study. We have found that the share of Kazakh students, who plan to work as a manager in business, or in public administration sphere, and who has an experience of such work is bigger than that of Russian stud...

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 ...

In the context of the need for cost reduction and consumption of electric energy, and environmental protection, the need of a continuous investments in clean technology, honorary in terms of pollution, transforming and improving the existing capacities of the production and distribution of electricity also upgrading infrastructure and services, necessary. The evaluation of savings through the regulatory process in order to achieve efficiency in electricity market, is necessary to establish the measures for the eff...

The article investigates the problem of influence of processes of globalization and transformation on the world financial and credit system. Discusses is the main directions and trends of the transformation process, as well as the nature and consequences of globalization. It reveals the positive and negative aspects of globalization in the economy and specifically in the financial sector.

Focusing on the way universities influence the stylistic and architectural direction of young architect students, this article aims to highlight how the curriculum succeeds in educating their preferences towards expressive and chromatic coherence. This study examines three main directions: architectural, chromatic and stylistic language. The target group is composed of three categories of students from the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Polytechnics Timisoara, Specialization of Furniture and Interior ...

The paper is devoted to the role of information context in dynamics of investments in the Russian Federation. The basis for the study was a selection of news from major Russian TV channels for 2006-2016. The news available to ordinary viewers of the three main Russian television channels was analyzed. News was defined as negative or positive using two methods: according to linguistic characteristics and their economic meaning. In obedience to the results of the study. Increased uncertainty (the spread of positive ...

Many foreign and Russian research papers have been devoted to the successful mastering of foreign languages by bilingual students. Although this problem is sufficiently studied in many languages, the problem of teaching bilinguals is still relevant nowadays and requires a further in-depth study. It is interesting to consider this issue in the context of comparing the phonological systems of two unrelated languages: German and Yakut. The article deals with the problems of teaching the German language to bilingual s...

Economic activity is largely due to unpredictable market conditions. It is caused by economic freedom of all economic agents. These conditions generate uncertainty, alternative and ambiguity of events. The information space asymmetry causes incremental transaction costs and leads to an enhancement of the information uncertainty role in terms of risks of the organization. Therefore the information component problem of the uncertainty of the economic environment is one of the most current questions of modern economi...

The article deals with the National Qualifications Framework tertiary education in the Czech Republic and its implementation. The theoretical part of the article deals with so-called descriptors. These descriptors are outputs from learning and we use them to describe general abilities, knowledge and skills, which students learn in given subject. The aim of the practical part of the article is to present the way of solutions and outcomes of the project В„The innovation of Microeconomics course with a focus on the c...

With the establishment of Soviet power, there have been changes not only in socio-economic development, but also in the scientific and educational complex of Siberia. In the first half of the 1920s, the academic community of physicists was able to partially realize their ideas about the establishment of a research institute that would unite the efforts of physicists in the region. The article focuses on the study of the specificities of the structure, financial position, main directions and key results of the Inst...

The interaction between the state and society can be regarded as a phenomenon characteristic of modern society which characterizes the degree of domination of one of the elements of this system. But if we accept as a postulate that interaction is a natural and necessary process, then the static idea of interaction as a phenomenon becomes the dynamic concept of interaction as a process. So, from an applied point of view, the interaction between the state and society is much more interesting to imagine as a complex ...

In the USSR, the interaction of the state security bodies and the media was carried out, in the first place, on the initiative of the KGB. Not all journalists had an opportunity to get documents of interest for their work. But when a historian or a newspaperman used in their work information unknown to a wider audience, a case evolved into a cause cГ©lГЁbre. That was an important aspect of the propaganda warfare between the Soviet Union and the West. Active cooperation between the state security bodies and the med...

The article presents the methodological aspects of control and analytical functions in the internal accounting system. Attention is focused on the problems of the organization of an effective system of financial accounting. The essence ofthe main approachesto the organization ofthe internal control systemis to determine theset ofregulatoryprocedures to ensurethe reliability ofaccounting data, thereforeimproving the quality ofinformation,tax recordsare of particularimportancein decidingthe users concerned. Discusse...

Currently, the role of investment both in global and national economies is extremely high and is one of the most pressing problems. With the growing number of transnational corporations and their branches in most of the countries began a new stage in the development of international investment relations. As a result of increased export of capital over export and import goods, the Russian economy suffers from an acute shortage of foreign investment. It is necessary to create a favorable climate and to develop a sys...

The paper presents an analysis of the drama Die Rettungslosen (The Hopeless) by a philosopher and writer Susanne Schmida-Wöllersdorfer (1894-1981) who came from Byst?ice pod Hostýnem in Moravian Wallachia (The Czech Republic). A recently documented literary estate of the author provides an extensive and unique corpus of texts – remarkable dramas, lyric poetry, essays, and esoteric texts, in the form of manuscripts and typescripts, serving among other things as a proof of the existence of what can already be te...

This article seeks to present and assess the usefulness of didactic methods aimed at preparing future architects for their role in the process of social participation. The article focuses on [a] a general overview of selected participation methods and tools, along with the examples of their application in the context of spatial management in Poland; [b] an overview of teaching methods used with a view to enhancing participation - as applied by the authors in didactics of architectural design; [c] assessment of the...

The present study aims to analyse some of the main aspects of the Italian positivist culture as outlined in the correspondence between Arcangelo Ghisleri and Giulio Andrea Belloni. The relationship of mutual respect and friendship that bound the two exponents of the Italian Republican Party – the first, a geographer and journalist, always Mazzinian and federalist, was among the founders of PRI; the second, jurist and future member of Parliament, was a member of the Republican left and proponent of the thesis of ...

On November 21, 1949, as is well known, due to the approval of Resolution 289 by the UN General Assembly, Italy obtained the Trusteeship Administration of Somalia, a result that finally rewarded the efforts of the government of Rome and, in particular, of the President Alcide De Gasperi and his Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Republican Carlo Sforza. The aim of the Trusteeship was to lead – in a maximum of ten years – Somalia to independence, through a gradual and necessary economic and political emancipation...

The region of Latgale historically has existed as a multicultural region, where one of the most important spheres is connected to the Jewish culture and history. Members of other ethnic groups form their own system of views about the world of Jews, with positive or negative connotations, based mostly on stereotypes. Historically these views transform, leaving behind traces in the world view. The aim of the paper is to research one of the linguistic world view spheres of Latgale inhabitants that is connected to the...

On the material of two speeches pronounced by two Spanish Kings with 39 years interval there is made an attempt to analyze their discourse, to compare its pragmatic, syntactic and lexical value. The speeches are discussed as cross-discourse what gives us certain possibility to reveal a special discourse genre. paper also deals with a problem of royal speech, more precisely, with speeches of two monarchs – father and son, Juan Carlos de Borbón and Felipe VI. The speeches of the two monarchs were delivered on the...

Insolvency legislation reform in the country began back in 1997 when the new bankruptcy law was enacted and published in the “Official Gazette” in October 1997. It entered into force on 6 November 1997 and came into effect on 5 June 1998. With the enactment of this new law, the former “Law of Forced Settlement, Bankruptcy and Liquidation”, as state regulation, used after the breakup from Yugoslavia, was replaced and never used again. This 1998 law was amended three times: in July 2000, 2002 and 2004, and w...

Under the circumstances of restructuring and modernizing public finances in Romania, which is subordinated to the requirements of market economy development, the Court of Accounts functions as a financial control institution, independent of the legislative and executive powers.It is the institution empowered to check, in the last resort and in the most demanding manner, the management accounts drawn up in the execution of the state year budget, either to give discharge or to attract the legal responsibility of tho...

Introduction: Children and young people remain at the heart of a large part of initiatives and projects addressing the development of media literacy. An important element of these processes is also research focused on pedagogical, psychological, sociological, media studies and other aspects of the subject. The aim of this study is to present selected findings of research into media literacy of children and adolescents in Slovakia. This is one of the first comprehensive research tasks in Slovakia, which is trying t...

The paper presents the analysis of resolving the problem of parking in Wroclaw according to P&R rules. The analysis uses software tools made based on evaluation model of P&R facilities location. The model was built on the basis of urban expert knowledge transformed into fuzzy inference algorithm. Fuzzy inference is commonly used in computer science as a decision-making tool of artificial intelligence. The proposed model of evaluation of the location of P&R objects in the first stage of the work was subjected to a ...

The last great poem written by T. S. Eliot, The Four Quartets, offers a complete vision of his philosophical and poetical mind. Beginning with his first questioning poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, going through Gerontion and The Waste Land, with their expectations and prophecies, and advancing into the poems after conversion (Ash-Wednesday, The Ariel Poems) where the questions receive answers and the prophecies, fulfillment, the main themes and symbols of this last poem develop their power of revelation...

The article suggests solutions to the problems that may arise in the practical implementation of a new approach to the distribution of state-funded places among the universities, subordinated to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the competition among the applicants. These problems include the excess of educational organization material resources with a sharp increase in the number of applicants recommended for enrollment; the mechanisms for taking into account additional creative ...

This article considers the main trends in developing migration processes in developed countries as well as social and economic consequences for developed countries. It shows the specificities of national governance practices, which have a particular impact on the migration policy. In article the international labor migration as economic category is considered. Nowdays migration regulation policy in particular countries is confronting new challenges of continuously changing environment; and, consequently, today gov...

The images of permafrost and cold can be depicted through a combination of myths and ethno-cultural representations designed for self-determination and self-presentation of Arctic territories. Related to a multiplicity of images and conceptions in the contemporary culture of the peoples of the North, the symbol of the mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) stands as a semantic nucleus in the Arctic zone. The fossilized animal of the Pleistocene period, through the discovery of remains in the permafrost, was introduced by...

Background: This article addresses the problem of financial security. This topic is very interesting and has been chosen for us because issues relating to the development of companies than ever relevant today. The article is devoted to the complex research of financial security as a factor for sustainable growth companies. In the study, we set the following key objectives: to consider the main factors influencing the growth of companies, identify the key factors of influence, consider the specific situations and e...

In this article the mechanism of formation and functioning of creative spaces of territorial formations of the Russian Federation. This mechanism is considered as part of the concept of development of territorial entities and economic security of the country. The proposed mechanism will contribute to innovative development of territories associated with environmentally friendly use of former industrial buildings in the city, former industrial areas and improving the quality of life of the population, which will be...

The article describes the main results of interdisciplinary studies on the development of a methodological approach to monitoring of migration flows in the regions of Siberia and the Arctic zone taking into account current and projected profession composition of settlements, the threshold characteristics of human behavior and institutional mechanisms that ensure the inclusion of monitoring (based on new methodology) in quality of life management system and development of a differentiated spatial policy of the coun...

The paper aims to choose the marketing metrics to measure the performance of the corporate client relationship management and to estimate the relationship marketing efficiency in the industrial market. The choice of client metrics was made according to the corporate targets for the development of industrial organization, availability of statistical data and the companyВ’s needs for information in order to manage relationship with the customers. It was tested and approved in the real case of industrial enterprises....

There seems to be general agreement that the western military capabilities were more efficient than the Seljuks in the course of the marvelous victories that comprised the First Crusade. This paper focuses on the role of Kilij Arslan I on the warfare between the Seljuk Turks and the Christian forces in Asia Minor during the three main military waves of the First Crusade. Kilij Arslan was the leader of the Turkish forces against the PeopleВ’s Crusade and the first (1096-1099) and second (1100-1101) PrincesВ’ Crusad...

This article analyzes pension reforms conducted since the 2000s in Russia and in the so-called "Beveridge countries" (England, Sweden, the Netherlands and Switzerland), as well as in Germany. The main ways of pension provision modernization were set in the new Russian pension scheme development strategy of 2012. Russia is aiming for international standards in this area, however it does not take into account the consequences of some of its steps. As before its goal is to decrease the level of poverty and social ine...

The system of partner relations of Russian business and government is in the process of formation. The economic crisis is not the best way influenced this process. In a crisis situation, level of investment activity of Russian companies on the background of maintaining the limitations of funding sources (borrowing of credit resources abroad and high interest rates on loans of domestic banking institutions) continued to decline. The negative impact of administrative factors, such as the tightening of the customs re...

At present the problem of regional innovation development in Russia is rele-vant. The incipient new industrial policy aimed at the priority development of high-tech industries, the growth of output of science-intensive and competitive goods at the for-eign and domestic markets should been separable associated with the growth of innova-tion activity, innovation potential and the effectiveness of innovation in the regions of the Russian Federation. The article describes one of widely accepted methods of inno-vative ...

In the passage into the third millennium, mankind has gone through many changes. Among them or together with them was noticed the belying of the “forecasts” about “the end of religion”. One can feel even the need to re-evaluate the role and the functions of religion worldwide, at a beginning of millennium in which the existential void represents a phenomenon in the information chaos, the confusion of values is much greater, and the sense of life and of the family is increasingly threatened. In front of the...

The deepening fragmentation of urban landscapes related to chaotic development processes increases interest in the concept of green infrastructure, especially in shaping the river corridors. Usually they are perceived in the context of basic ecosystem services. Nevertheless, in many cities well-known and less known attempts are made to use the river as a path of a peculiar journey in time, showing the history of place and local community. Against the background of such excellent examples like London Arcadia the au...

This paper identifies the steps, parameters and criteria for evaluating technologies in terms of its potential for creating new sectors in the economy of resource region. We established the key principles for prioritizing the directions of technological development: maximizing the technologyВ’s potential for future economy, integrating the effects of regional development with national economy. The study is based on an analysis of the global and national trends in technological development, identification of techno...

The vision about the family and the relations it relies on has recently experienced radical changes, some positive, others negative, the accent seeming to pass from the sense of the family destination to the evaluation of the personal relation of those who support or deny it. The destination or the goal of the family used to be lived in direct relation with its traditional image, great-grandparents, grandparents, parents, namely father and mother, children, grand-children and great-grandchildren. Yet, this image h...

Even now, 2,000 years after his disappearance, the Latin poet Ovidius Publius Naso continues to remain one of the most appreciated writers of verses that belong to the ancient Roman period. Considered to be one of the most influential sources of inspiration in European culture, Ovid's work and especially Metamorphoses stimulated the imagination of some of the greatest creators of universal culture in various artistic fields such as poetry, literature, visual arts, or music. In 1951, composer Benjamin Britten made ...

1. Questions connected with national identity are relevant in the modern world because of their global nature. Culture, science, art, literature in post-soviet Kazakhstan for the last 25 years is characterized by the surge of interest to national identity, to the awareness of their belonging to a certain ethnic community as an important condition for the existence of human society. National identity is one of the ideas due to the peoplesВ’ national image of the world and history. This idea is directly connected wi...

The article explores the roots of the national specific character of Spanish Baroque sculpture. The national specific features of Spanish sculpture are often treated in literature as a set of separate characteristics. However, Spanish sculpture of the 17-18th centuries is an integral phenomenon of a high artistic quality, and it cannot be explained by the influence of discrete factors. So, it is important to find a common reason which could account for the outstanding originality of Spanish sculpture. ?. V. ??r?zo...

Postmodern discourse presented by authors like M. Foucault, J. F. Lyotard, J. Derrida, G. Deleuze, etc., contains the common ground resulting from the development of one line of thought, which advanced from the linguistically-oriented discourse of structuralism, over post-structuralism to postmodernism. The thesis that social relationships and linkages are formed by discourse is an essential prerequisite for understanding the way in which these authors analyse the society. The semiologic version of structuralism i...

The rapid development of scientific research, involving numerous improvement of production processes, technologies, management practices, determines the necessity of personnel of appropriate qualifications involvement. The change of generations of technology in the production activities occurs, according to various estimates, every 5-10 years. This means that the education received by plant personnel 10 years ago, is outdated and does not meet the requirements of the moment. And this, in turn, implies the need for...

According to our researches, the relationship between illegal migration and the terrorism should be emphasized. The attitude of the European legislators was changed by the terrorist offences were committed in the territory of the European Union in the past few years. Terrorist offences proved the vulnerability of the European States, and the rule of democratic law. In 2014, 276.113 migrants entered the European Union irregularly, which represents an increase of 138% compared to the same period in 2013. It should b...

At the end of XX - beginning of XXI century in the conditions of AzerbaijanВ’s transition from a planned economy to a market-oriented one the chaotic development of residential areas in Baku has intensified due to the insufficient control in urban planning. It was accompanied by destruction of numerous architectural monuments, increase in building density, a severe reduction of public spaces and green zones. To prevent these negative trends in urban development of Baku the State program "The new principles of urba...

One of the key instruments for improving tax administration in the Russian Federation is a new setting of the tax system in 2017-2018 years. First of all, innovations relate to the VAT system. In particular, will need further study questions of expediency and needs to increase the basic rate of tax, the abolition of preferential rates. To achieve a balance in the tax relations will be reduced the tax burden for businesses of Direct Taxes. To harmonize the taxation of individuals, need to develop methodical bases o...

The purpose of the paper is to consider literary translation in reference with the notion of image which has become essential for the philosophy of arts and intercultural artistic communication. Imagery is regarded as one of typological properties of a literary text constituting its essence along with artistic ideas, emotivity and lingual form. The comparative analysis of originals and their translation has allowed us to discover how the source text (ST) imagery may change in the target text (TT) and to distinguis...