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In the late 40. of twentieth century, there was discovered the possibility of music creation by means of electronic tools. Ten years later – during the Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik – there were held lectures of electronic music. The lectures bounced wide repercussions among the participants of meetings in Darmstadt. In the context of whole legacy and available comments of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luigi Nono, Luciano Berio, or Gyorgy Ligeti, one can be argued that the experience in experimenting with...

The present research aims to study the works of outstanding modern conductor N. Harnoncourt during the period of the late XX c. and early XXI c. for example of productions of the opera wrote by Mozart "La Clemenza di Tito" and identify basic principles and regularities of the dynamics of the style. The methodology of the study was the comparative method, that enabled a comparative historical and cultural analysis of the phenomena of Opera art of modern time. N. Harnoncourt in his work the of Mozart's Opera "La Cle...

This article is about different Multimedia 360В° technologies and some examples, how to use of Multimedia 360В° technologies for filming of different events (theatrical performances, musical concerts, city excursions, etc.). Also described the experience of technological base of Multimedia 360В° technology, created by team of center design and multimedia (ITMO University).

South Yenisei during Russian exploration of Siberia at the beginning of the 17th century was part of the North-Mongolian state ruled by Altyn-khans. However, until recently the name of these rulers was known only in connection with one archaeological site in the area. It was a large fortification surrounded by a stone and earth wall on the right bank of the Yenisei River near the estuary of the Sizaya River. Currently, though, it stands to reason that there is the second object of a similar kind detected, a fortif...

Khakass-Minusinsk Basin is known due to a large number of archaeological objects of different types and ages. Among them there are mountain fortresses which were called В«sveВ» by indigenous people. The fortresses were used in the Middle Ages and the early Modern period. Quite a number of fortresses were built at the confluence of the Belyi and Chernyi Yus Rivers in the north of Khakassia. They could have protected a very important object presumably located in the square made by the valley called Albany on the rig...

The community rites performed in the sacred space of the extra funerary votive crucifixes become social artifacts of social communication, supporting the interpersonal relationships within the same nation or community. The direct experience on the subject has been proven by designing, developing and disseminating the project on "Votive Crucifixes and Border Crosses. Their Role and Meaning in the Life of Rural Settlements in Olt County". The project was developed by the Olt Center for Preservation and Development o...

This paper is focused on both the anthropological and biblical theme. The work aims to present a few aspects of the disciple's figure in the Bible, especially in the Gospel of Saint Mathew. In the Gospels, the disciples followed the Saviour and were witnesses of his wonderful words and deeds. After they learned at the school of Jesus, they were sent to continue the work of spreading God's Kingdom. With respect to the theme, the first step is analytical: some general elements of the identity regarding the disciples...

The purpose of this study is to present some aspects of the symbolism of human clothing in the Book of Revelation. The theme is biblical with regard to anthropology. The work has as starting point some general considerations about the various symbolisms in Revelation, especially the anthropological symbolism. As exemplification, we use a short exegesis of three images: The Son of Man (Revelation 1:12-20), the Woman crowed with 12 stars (Revelation 12); the clothes of saints (Revelation 7:12-17; 19:7-8). The analys...

This article deals with the classification and typology of the stone altars. These objects are quite common for the nomadic tribes of Eurasia from the seventh to third centuries BC. They are widespread in the forest-steppe of the Dnieper region, Northern Black Sea region, Volga river basin, in the Ural and Kazakhstan steppes and Aral Sea region. In this article stone altars, which were found in the territory of the Southern Urals, are regarded. Most of the finds come from burial complexes or were found accidentall...

The cults of solar theology were more prominent in the territory of Serbia in the Late Roman period. The expansion of Christianity was slow so the strong church organization could not have been established in Naissus before of Milan edict. Pagan monotheistic ideas were close to some concepts of Christianity particularly those implying the equality between rich and poor in eternal paradise after death. Nevertheless, contrasts in the concepts of these religions were big and irreconcilable and resulted in decisive vi...

The transition from Gothic to Renaissance usually explained in the canonical architectural criticism as the (re)discovery of Greco-Roman culture fostered by humanism. Faced with this traditional view, the proposed paper attempts to show that the change, rather than disciplinary, was due to the emergence of a new structure of thought. In Europe, this change entailed moving from a world and a transcendent space to another scientist, as reflected in the passage of the space/divine light of Gothic cathedrals to the sp...

Smartness becomes a characteristic of further successful development for any territorial unit – beginning with the EU as a whole through to individual local territorial units in each its Member State. One of the priorities regarding smartness is the expansion of innovative activity, which promotes an increase in the competitiveness of any territory in the global market. Latvia as one of the EU Member States is not notable with high characteristics of innovative action (GCI). For this reason, an important researc...

The timber architecture trails of the borderlands and the inclusion of the preserved Orthodox and Catholic churches, as well as unique timber synagogues on the UNESCO World Heritage Site List has contributed to the development of cultural tourism in Poland and in the neighboring countries. Open-air museums have been established around these timber structures and their staff have started to seek new ways of advertising their exhibitions through marketing. The aim of their management is to increase the popularity of...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the reasons why students from Hacettepe University, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design who have been to Italy have decided to participate in the Erasmus Student Exchange Program. The methods used in the study include interviews and questionnaires conducted on the students who participated in the program. Through these methods, it was examined why the students have attended the Erasmus student exchange program; have choses Italy, and Italy's cont...

The paper presents various aspects of the process of transience in architecture: technical, functional, social and civilizational. Both the transience and the tendency to nomadism are intrinsically linked with the architecture of buildings and cities. However, the perception of these processes is largely associated with hard to define, subjective assessments.

Investment incentive is one of determinants for attraction of foreign direct investments. Due to relatively identical or uniform conditions, incentive is the instrument for governments to gain some advantage in comparison to other countries. The most proclaimed argument to use incentives is the job creation. These jobs would be not created, if the incentives were not provided for foreign investors. On the other hand, incentives themselves mean expenditures that have to be paid in effort to create such jobs. Thus, ...

The paper analyses Romania's destination image communicated in international tourism promotion campaigns, through seventeen TV commercials. The authors analyzed and compared the main destination attributes and the holistic country image communicated in each campaign. The results highlight the way national tourism promotion strategies position Romania within the international travel market.

The aim of the research undertaken by authors is to define the optimal way of interaction of civil society institutions and criminal proceedings in Russia. Its methodology included both the general scientific methods and the specific juridical methods of cognition. The main results of the research include new knowledge about the possibility to implement into the criminal proceedings the institutions which can exercise effective control over the course of the investigation, and to promote the administration of just...

The article is concerned with the problem of uncertain treatment of collaboration and cooperation strategies and complications connected with this approach. The key issue for this problem resolution is an ability to adequate recognition of conflicting parties interests and separation their interests from positions. To realize what is the level of analyses depth adequate to the particular situation is complicated. This is traditionally one of the most important and difficult issues not only for beginners in mediati...

The paper analyzes the Amendment of 328/2002 Coll. Act, the adoption of which had been planned for ten years. Up to 2013, the policemen and soldiers in their best active years were leaving for retirement pension and the state kept losing its skilled and highly active policemen and soldiers with long-term experience. The here discussed Amendment plans to deal with these unwished consequences. The paper therefore sums up changes in social security of policemen and soldiers in Slovak republic that are anchored in afo...

Illegal employment brings about negative social phenomena in relation to dependent activities of individuals performed under an employment relationship. Natural persons who work illegally are unable to bear their burden of producing evidence regarding their entitlement to wages and holidays, allowance for meals, as well as other entitlements under the relevant labour laws. The purpose of the paper is to present the legislation related to illegal work and illegal employment in the Slovak Republic which is the key i...

The paper discusses the questions related to the establishment and functions of programs of political parties. It also reveals a general problem of these programs of the parties, which are represented in the State Duma of the Russian Federation. The result of the study is an idea to change the regulatory requirements imposed on the programs of political parties of the existing legislation in Russia.

The purpose of the paper is to point at the chosen problems which must be dealt with by the society when regulating the acceptance of information in connection with the protection of humanity and human dignity, mainly with the emphasis on the harmonic development of juveniles. Topic of the paper, which is anchored in the area of administrative law , offers the distinctive overlaps to the area of constitutional or family law and directs to multidisciplinary or international law research of the issue, concept and le...

The article is an attempt to assess the status of the institute of administrative penalties in Ukraine from the point of view of effectiveness and appropriateness of its existence in the legal system. Based on the analysis of the basic provisions of the Ukrainian legislation concerning the application of the administrative penalties and the relevant statistical data, it was made the conclusion about the significant contradiction of the institute of the administrative penalties and the needs of the social developme...

This paper will deal with issues related to social distance between ethnic groups in Macedonia. Our intention is to define the development of democracy, 20 years after pluralism. The questions which this paper tends to answer are: Based on the social aspect is Macedonia transforming to state of citizens, as were the expectations of the majority or is it becoming state of one ethnicity? How much is social justice oriented to service the needs of citizens? Is there discrimination on ethical basis? Based on their pre...

The article addresses the issue of homes for the elderly, i.e. one of the types of social care facilities in the Czech Republic. The theme of social security for seniors and the role of institutional care in the form of homes for the elderly is a very topical issue, particularly with regard to increasing human age and the associated on-going aging of the population. Demographic aging means a change in the demographic composition of the population in terms of the aging of the entire human population. The solution i...

The aim of the article is to study the problem of determining the role of an international treaty to regulate interstate relations in the field of environmental protection. The basis of the study of the whole range of the international legal rules governing the issue of environmental protection, and their ability to solve their tasks and their compliance with current requirements and needs of the international community and in this regard the development of new proposals and recommendations for their improvement. ...

In the current Romanian Civil Code, the prescription is not defined, but only its object. Thus, it is established that the right to claim is extinguished by prescription, if it is not exercised within the term given by law. It is that right which constrains a person, by using public force, to perform a certain action, to observe a certain juridical fact or to bear a sanction of a civil nature. Therefore, the prescription may be defined as a civil sanction, which limits the substantive right to court proceeding if ...

Dignity at work is, above all, a fundamental principle of the juridical labour relations, which has to be analyzed in close relation with the principle of the respect for private life, another fundamental principal of human rights. In this context, the present paper analyzes the dispute between the employer's right to surveillance of employee's activities, during the working hours, mainly through the use of information and the right of the employee to enjoy the protection of his private life. Also, this dispute mu...

The article deals with issues that EU Member States may face because of the temporal (periodical) nature of the funding that European structural and investment funds allocate to urban revitalisation (regeneration) activity. The discussion is illustrated by showing how Poland used revitalisation funding in the last budget programming period in the European Union (2014-20). The article is interdisciplinary in character, because not only does it present the legal and financial aspects of the problem under considerati...

Reliability of financial statements is crucial when judging the relevance of financial information created in accounting information system. Although the importance of the problem has been raised many times in the literature, the matter has not been explored very well. Broadly admitting that financial reports should be reliable, there is limited literature on reliability definition. Few attempts to define reliability were based on conceptual framework created by International Accounting Standard Board. On the othe...

The problem of the tax consequences of transfer pricing is now quite urgent for the federal and regional budgets. Transfer pricing is one of the most common ways to minimize taxes. The result of the globalization of the world economy has become the free flow of financial resources, which led to a sharp rise over the past three decades, the number and the economic power of multinational integrated companies. Such structural shifts in the world economy dictate new requirements for the formation of tax systems, and c...

Scientists are increasingly carrying out various studies regarding the tax system in order to determine its areas that can be improved. However, it should be noted that, in terms of entrepreneurship promotion of companies, the latter has not yet been analysed in detail – various authors evaluate the tax system by using different methods or by simply providing intuitive evaluations which are not based on any empirical studies. Thus, methodical insufficiency regarding tax system evaluation in terms of entrepreneur...

Methods of evaluation of investment attractiveness has been much documented in the management research literature, while the information about methodology of increasing of investment attractiveness is lacking. today the problem of development and implementation of strategy of increasing investment attractiveness is very actual for company's managers (the root cause of rising its actuality is changes in structure of Russia's investment market after financial crisis of 2008 year).

The aim of the research is to analyse the results of the implemented aquaculture projects and define the factors, influencing viability of the projects, in addition providing recommendations for development and improvement of further policy in the Latvian aquaculture sector. On the ground of qualitative data the author carried out the analysis on support receivers and the results of their implemented projects, whereas on the basis of the quantitative data the author defined the factors, influencing viability of th...

Introduction. In the last decades the idea that exercising for better fitness is in fact “exercising for health” has been accredited, because physical-sport activities constitute a direct stimulus, almost exclusive of morpho-functional and motric development, as a premise of an optimal state of health. Numerous scientists have dealt with the influence physical exercises have on improving health and physical condition. Research Methods: In preparing the paper we used the following research methods: - Study of l...

The air pollution belongs to the most important environmental threat to human health. Particularly sensitive are children, elderly people and patients with chronic conditions. Individual susceptibility is influenced by many factors: age, nutrition, presence of disease, genetic determination, global health status. Children are a focus points in the health protection considering possibilities of early organs and functions impairment. Material and methods. Cross-sectional study of respiratory health included measurem...

The scientific research is devoted to the problems of a transparent and relevant information, which is created by Russian enterprises through the formation of integrated reporting, who are seeking to build a sustainable business. The key issues in this process, and the main development trends of integrated thinking are identified based on the study of modern established practice of integrated reporting in Russia. It has been defined the lack of transparency and openness of companies, in particular, the low level o...

One of the most “visual” theories in sociology is the dramaturgical concept of I. Hoffman. What Hoffman describes is a direct creation of imagination. By means of the video clips, using sets, mass media seek to show the images of regions created in accordance with socially recognized attributes. These images are visual guides for external observers. It is a ready scenario which inspires the imagination of the viewer. An image of a territory is built in public consciousness mainly as a result of information inf...

In the Romanian society, which is continually getting older, the social services for the elderly are in deficit. The social issues related to retirement and social isolation, as well as the economic ones, are amplified by the moral problems connected to the failure as far as their lawful rights are concerned. Despite its status of member of the E.U., Romania cannot be compared to the developed countries that possess a proper system of social protection. The explanation resides in the huge difference of development...

The objective of the paper is to analyze the relation between materiality level and the audit risk. The presence of this relation comes from International Standard on Auditing ISA 200 "Overall Objectives of the Independent Auditor, and the Conduct of an Audit in Accordance with International Standards on Auditing”. In accordance with ISA 200, the audit risk may be considered as if it consists of two components: risk of material misstatement and detection risk. Authors have mathematically demonstrated that the de...

When seeking to assess the impact of customer satisfaction on company performances, there are many ways to assess such performance. The preferred option, however, is to use ratios. Internationally, one of the most common indicators Tobin's q. This, cannot, however, be used for most enterprises in the Czech Republic. Thus, the authors have come up with a variant of Tobin's q, one that might act as a suitable substitute. This ratio is the growth of assets, and its applicability will be tested in evaluating customer ...

In the present, implant reconstruction is preferred by the majority patients over prosthetic dentures. One of the most important problems than can appear after oral implant insertion is peri-implantitis. The ethiopathogenesis of this disease is complex; one of the major causes is the presence of pathogens bacteria, among which species of Prevotella genus is highly significant. The extent of antibiotic resistance phenomena in peri-implantitis imposes that the choice of antibiotics should be made after the susceptib...

Regarding oral health, the tooth decay and periodontal diseases are the most important oral health problems. There is a link between oral disease and the presence of bacterial species belonging to the oral cavity microflora. The tooth decay is related to the action of bacterial species including Streptococcus mutans, lactobacilli and actinomycetes. Concentrated efforts of specialists from all around the world aimed to obtain in the future herbal remedies with similar antibacterial effect of antibiotics that can be...

Introduction and Objective Caries has multi-factorial etiology. Dental caries is an indicator of poor oral health. Poor oral health is usually associated with a high number of Streptococcus mutans(SM). The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of chlorhexidine (CHX) gel in reduction of Streptococcus mutans at children with high caries risk. Material and methods The studies were conducted in Preventive Dentistry Clinic, Prishtina, Kosovo. A total of 130 children have been included in the study. Children with...

Aim of study: The aim of this study was to determine the occurrence of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in pregnant women. Methods: The research sample was consisted of 133 respondents based on the following inclusion criteria: age 15 to 45 years, pregnant women from week 36 of pregnancy up to labour, a signed informed consent, willingness to complete a questionnaire. Mean age of the respondents was 31.59 years. As a research tool was used the Slovak validated version of the International Consultation on Incontin...

This paper aims to explore which of the new communication tools popular in the web 2.0 era are most common in promoting sport clubs, in a given city (Timisoara, Romania). In a country with more than 8 million Facebook users and with the rapid advent of technology-rooted communication, it is only natural that such tools be used in PR practices aimed at enhancing the visibility of sport clubs. The link between PR practices and sport is rarely tackled in communication studies, with a few notable exceptions mainly ori...

An analysis of the heath status of 1615 active subjects employed in the transportation network, and under periodic medical control, has revealed the presence in 6,7\% of all those investigated, of digestive diseases with morphological signs, the employed in road transportation. The highest incidence was that of gastro-duodenal affections, including ulcers followed by biliary, intestinal and hepatic disturbances. With reference to the risk factors of digestive disease an important role is that of occupational stres...

Alkaloids (fr. alcali; gr eidos - aspect) has organic heterocyclic substances containing alcohol, with a vegetal origin and basic character, originating as a result of plant secondary metabolism. They give characteristic reactions and their effect on animal organisms is most often toxic. The objective of this study is represented by the systematization of data regarding natural compounds with an alkaloid structure. The paper presents the classification of alkaloids according to compound structure and the type of b...

According to Edgar Cayce's philosophy, the diet is an essential element of life. He said that, "The disease begins in your plate". Starting from this concept and from some problems regarding the performance of human resources from organization, the authors present in this paper, a model for conducting nutritional counseling process. In developing the proposed model the authors have used, besides the specific techniques and counseling process, some instruments characteristic of engineering quality. The purpose of t...