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Democracy and the religious manifestations should not be opposite or divergent; on the contrary, they are complementary, if man's freedom is respected and correlated, however, to the perennial values of mankind and not to the various ways of falling from these values. Sociologists, philosophers, theologians (generically speaking), politologists and historians along with many other people with cultural and scientific concerns are looking for a new vision on the relation between democracy and religion, and on the ro...

I would like to present some ideas regarding historical process: its nature and principles. I will start with the idea of eternal return of Heraclitus (c. 535 – c. 475 BCE) and his „Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers” thought. From his conception of cyclical historical process drew Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), who devoted his doctoral dissertation to philosophy of this Ionian thinker. I will discuss extensively Spengler conviction about the collapse of Western civilization which wa...

Psychiatric disorders have a huge impact on life, leaving deep scars on the suffering soul. Although modern man is concerned about spirituality, being attracted to everything representing energy, harmony, relaxation or meditation, he stands powerless when facing mental disease. Therefore we ask the questions: What is the real cause of these diseases and what role plays the Orthodox psychotherapy in the healing process? This study shows that the Orthodox theology's understanding of human inner self and the personal...

Poland is situated in the area of cultural and religious borderland, in the sphere of Greek-Slavonic and Latin influence. In the past, mutual contacts and attempts to exchange values were limited. Both churches, Roman Catholic and Orthodox, were structures of a rather closed character. However, examples of modern churches in Poland seem to prove that these separation tendencies of both Christian churches and cultures are now being reversed, which is not only a symptom of mutual dialogue, exchange of ideas, values ...

A lot of writers, academic researchers and publicists recognized in Latvia have written gastronomic texts. The year of 2012 is the culmination of gastronomic texts. This year and about this time, academic research on the vocabulary of culinary heritage in Latvia, as well as cookery books by writers and prominent people have been published. Actually, the latter are not instructions in culinary but rather narratives about interesting personalities, recipes given by classics of Latvian literature or their relations, ...

The paper analyses the trust of the Romanian citizens in political institutions and leaders at two different levels: first, it is taken into account the relation between trust and institutional performance, and secondly, the influence on trust of the ethical expectations of the population and of the current corruption and lack of accountability of the political actors. Citizens grant and withhold trust based on their evaluation of the performance of the actors and institutions of government, but scientific studies...

The ecstasys of creation has been among the main concerns of the great Russian philosopher. Therefore, in his opinion, creation refers to giving great benefit to mankind. The genius is the one providing the creation force/creativity, while holiness and asceticism turn off the creation power. This study shows why Berdyaev is describing the two concepts in antithesys, thus being outside of Orthodox theology notion of holiness. Berdyaev identifies the isolation and inner consumption of the ascetic with an impoverishm...

The purpose of this research was the development of the psychomotor capacity through movement games in the case of middle school pupils, even though the suitable development age it is considered ( Claparede E., Piaget J., Parlebas P.) to be of 6-8 years old. The longitudinal type teaching experiment was shaped around an applied psychological and teaching intervention, which aimed to estimate the influence of the movement games designed to develop certain components of the psychomotor capacity. This approach spread...

The purpose of our study is to provide a up-to-date comparative analysis of the performance management practices implemented in public sector institutions in European Union countries and to identify the ones that could be successfully adapted to the public sector environment of countries which still need to put an effort into the reform and modernization of their human resources management system. Performance management practices create the connection between individual and organizational objectives and provide th...

The concept of "hybridism" in political science has become the result of the theoretical search to describe the new political realities that have emerged in crises, "transitional" or different socio-cultural contexts. Hybrid forms of political institutions were the subject of research interest of V. Merkel, A. Croissant, G. O'Donnell, H.K.Bhabha, S.P. Peregudov, I.L. Prokhorenko, I.V. Kudryashova et al. The purpose of our research was to assess the status and trends of development of modern hybrid political instit...

The problem of orphan works is one of the main issues in modern copyright law (or we should say droit d'auteur because law of Continental Europe is much more concentrated on an author and his/her rights than on the problem of copying). Works labeled as orphan cannot be popularized because they are protected by law for seventy years from the moment of an author's death. The problem is that we do not know who the author is or what happened to him/her, if s/he is alive or not or who the heir apparents are and we cann...

The Directive 2005/60/EC and the FATF Recommendations prescribe and drive performance and assignment of specific tasks and duties for the non-financial sector professionals in the anti-money laundering system. The scope of their activities is limited to financial transactions, bounded by professional confidentiality; where the obligation to report suspicious activity is legislatively restricted to their core business. The low number of reported suspicious transactions by the non-financial sector professionals, as ...

The paper titled “Social Policy in the Second Fico´s Cabinet” discusses the period when the government headed by Mr. Fico started in 2012 after Ms. Radicova had resigned as the Prime Minister (2010-2012). The government of Ms. Radicova was a right wing cabinet. The Fico´s government is a government of one-party so he is able to implement completely his pre-election programme that is the basis for the programme of the national cabinet. There is the only one political party proclaiming the social-democratic or...

The main sources of the Russian legislation in the field of waste management have been analyzed. The principles of the state policy in the field of waste management have been identified. On the basis of the specific features of the interaction between territorial environmental authorities and natural resource users, the author proposes a mechanism which makes it possible to systemize the basic legal regulations for hazardous waste handling at an enterprise. The practices of waste management in the USSR, as well as...

In the current Romanian legislation, more specifically after the entry into force of the Civil Code on October 1, 2011, the notions of professional and enterprise become particularly important. This importance derives from the fact that the very notion of merchant is part of the larger sphere of the notion of professional. Also, the Civil Code renounces at the notion of merchant within the meaning of the Commercial Code, which had been repealed, but uses the professional, as subject of business relationships. Also...

The complementarity or harmony relations of the great works of the universal culture have been the subject of artistic analyses. Proportionality – the golden ratio – is a construction pattern that has always sparked debate, from various structures of nature to many outstanding artistic achievements that include the creation of architecture, art, music. In several works by contemporary Romanian composers, this concept of proportionality is present both in sound organization structures and in the architectonic c...

The article analyses the role of light in Russian avant-garde. Light, as the most important pictorial and expressive mean of art, is analyzed in the visual art of the beginning of the twentieth century. It is stressed that in Russian avant-garde light was revealed in a new way philosophically and technically. Much attention is given to the experiments with light undertaken by Michail Larionov, Natalya Goncharova, Vladimir Baranov-Rossine.

Evaluation in one of the important strategic instruments for obtaining feedback and testifying to the functionality of the management of research and development (R & D) system. Based on the evaluation results the top leaders generally make decisions and then allocate and redirect funds to support public research in educational institutions. This is primarily the so-called first and second role of universities, namely education, research and development. The intentions of science policy, proposals for priority res...

In last few decades we can see many failures of managers at every size of companies all around the world caused by lack of information. These managers who did bad decision were too tied to the operational requirements of business and the result of their bad decisions affected the whole company business and company strategy. The main problem of these failures are decisions driven by emotions, intuition or political influences inside or outside of the company instead of data and numbers driven decisions. Business In...

The article examines the economic and legal aspects of the functioning of the institute of public-private partnership (hereinafter - PPP) in view of the implementation of priority national projects and justifies an increase in the use of various forms of interaction between government and business in the conditions of overcoming the consequences of the global financial crisis and economic sanctions. The article reveals the problems of the conceptual framework in the studied field of relations and analyzes the doct...

Modern humanity lives in conditions of innovative economy, which is characterized by the swiftness of the environment development, the influx of large flows of information, the continuity of product and technological changes. All this causes uncertainty associated with the future and the lack of full protection of the individual against the economic and financial implications. Economic and financial instability related to the financial and economic losses, while the economic security is linked to certain condition...

Despite the steady growth of innovation activity enterprises in the global competition, they have difficulties in financing innovation. What are the opportunities and limitations for financing innovation enterprises development and what type of financing is most appropriate? The study defines these two issues as the most important to determine the innovation and investment strategy of the states and enterprises. To solve this problems the state strategy of the enterprises innovative development should focus on fac...

The taxes have always represented an important instrument of fiscal policy having a significant influence on the behavior of consumers of taxable goods. Potentially providing multiple effects and financial gains, they can be used as effective means of achieving the energy, transport, environmental, economic, and other goals. Although the EU has no direct jurisdiction over the selection of tax systems and tax forms of its member states, it seems that the limit of the indirect interference into the implementation of...

According to many scientists in the field of economy in Russia today urgent problem of the gap between savings and accumulation processes. Great interest attaches to the process of savings income, which serves as a source of domestic resources for development of the national economy, if provided by the transformation of savings into productive capital. This article discusses the prospects for growth and savings rates rate of accumulation in the current of financial instability in the Russian Federation. In additio...

Both state authorities and the society are in need of performance analysis of public administration. This paper analyzes existing public administration estimation techniques used by international agencies and individual countries. This paper also quantifies an effectiveness of public administration in Russia and interprets the results.

This paper demonstrates inconsistency of GDP per capita as indicator of living standards in Russia. It statistically estimates the living standards of three main age groups by calculating a ratio of income per capita to respective cost of living. Author made a conclusion regarding the governmental financial assistance for birth parents.

This paper aims to investigate how the optimal relationships between crops and chemicals can be determined. In order to answer this question, a piece of research was carried out on the statistical methods. The focus is on the variant method as little research has been conducted on different combination between factor and crop. As a support to establish the optimal link between crops and chemicals indicators of marginalism such as marginal production, marginal cost and expenditure, elasticity, marginal income, marg...

The purpose of this paper is to present the factors of organisational culture in learning organizations for providing of effective flow of competitive intelligence (CI) process. Through engagement into the cultural transformation process of the whole system, the steering group is enabled to create precisely the culture required for providing efficient CI management in the organisation. The study was performed in two stages. At the first stage, research was undertaken in the form of in-depth interview about the tre...

The latest researches consider positive energy buildings as being a new sustainable pathway for reaching a green society. This implies a more secure future, with low resource consumption, zero energy losses, minimization of greenhouse gas emissions and of biodiversity losses. A way to achieve this desideratum is by investing in restoration and new constructions considering the economic, social and environmental impacts. This paper focuses on investigating the new trends in construction and building sector from the...

Consequences of resent economic crises and economic resilience of administrative-territorial units of Russia are considered. We define resilience as the ability of a regional economy to withstand, absorb or overcome internal or external economic shock. We have chosen to use the gross regional product, employment rate and percent of population with incomes lower then living wage as primary indicators of resilience. All territories are divided into four types in accordance with their ability to withstand shock or re...

Competition law prohibits all types of anti-competitive agreements, both express agreements and other arrangements identified as “cartels” or “concerted practices”. The evidence used for proving an agreement may be classified in two categories: direct and circumstantial proofs. When cartel cases cannot be built on the basis of direct evidence, courts require additional proofs to demonstrate its existence, including proofs of communication between competitors and economic evidence, the latter being represen...

In this paper the authors try to present the method PROMETHEE II (Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluation), which they use for comparing the 27 European countries that are in the European Union. Authors focus on five chosen macroeconomic indicators: growth of GDP, unemployment, Harmonized Index of Customer Prices, expenditure on research and development, annual earnings. Using PROMETHEE II and the data of chosen indicators the authors create an absolute range of countries in the time of ec...

Quality of life became a priority for researchers from many study areas. Researches realized in the last few years regarding the quality of life focused mainly on urban reality. The article purposes to offer a short review of the literature concerning quality of life and urban development, to study the connection between this terms and also important statistics from Romania. A survey based on five main themes was conducted with the aim to create an image of quality of life in each quarter of Bucharest. Implication...

Knowledge society has been identified by Academician Blazej as one of the pillars of the 21st century. Explicit knowledge increases and its use in terms of productivity should be meaningful. On the other hand, there there must be no mistake, in which bizarre opinions are announced, such as the inability to set general education or inability of any discipline to be integrated into education. We also believe that cognition, knowledge and natural desire of a man to know are the alpha and omega of knowledge society.Th...

The paper deals with the issue of a systemic approach to strategic management in the period of the transformation of information-based to knowledge-based society, where one of the strategic factors in the process is the use and development of intellectual capital. Described in the first part is the main contexts of the given issue, and then there is a design of a general model of the systemic approach to the development of a knowledge-based society.

This article represents an attempt to reconstruct the history of scientific and educational community in Tomsk throughout two decades (1920-1930s) on the basis of both published and unpublished sources. For the first time authors have formulated the notion of crisis of university lecturers' corporate identity influenced by shaping of the Soviet state based on regional example. Factors of formation and manifestation of scientific and educational community corporate identity have been discerned and analyzed. Special...

This article represents an attempt to reconstruct the history of the development of science in mid 1940s- mid 1950s on the basis of both published and unpublished sources focusing on the example of Tomsk scientific and educational complex. Processes concerned with demilitarization of science after the Great Patriotic War are discerned and analyzed, main fields of research and the most prominent results produces within them are characterized. Cold war that began in 1946 deeply influenced the transformation of resea...

Heidegger, responding to the various issues that are existential for the human beings, also addresses to the philosophy of religion. Our paper is a brief assessment of Heidegger's text Phenomenology and Theology. We believe that Heidegger before rebounding relatively adequately characterized the relationship between philosophy and theology as disciplines of clear cognition and knowledge. He seeks to describe the relationship between philosophy and theology in original way, his solution retains the hallmark of orig...

The article is devoted to the attitude of university professors of the Russian Empire to the student movement in the late XIX – early XX century. The powerful surge of student protest movement took place at the turn of the centuries. The movement, changing the content, became more politicized and, no doubt, it was a harbinger of the revolutions of 1905 and 1917. The activation of the student movement caused a controversy reaction of Russian society including the academic environment. Many professors were in a qu...

The societies in the South-East European area are dominated by relations that have acquired specific tones: Sacred and secular, orality and writing, rural and urban, tradition and modernity. The deciphering of the respective tones can be realized based on the analysis of the mentality flow, mentalities being neither just “prisons of long duration” in the sense of forces preventing progress over long periods of time (Fernand Braudel), nor just a “philosophical way” of approaching the perceptible reality (Ro...

Article studies the influence of corporate ethics of a state-owned company on the stability of its operations, management and growth of business. The authors discuss the cost-based approach to the formation of corporate culture and values. As a result of research, authors found that the process of value creation includes business planning, corporate law, a system of tangible and intangible compensation, and corporate culture (conduct and ethics).

The paper summarizes results of several qualitative researches in this area (from 2006 to 2014). They were focused on the phenomena of employing theatrotherapy in the system of care of persons with specific needs in Czech Republic, on the integrative potential of theatrotherapy within lessons at primary art schools and on the paradox of theatrotherapeutic focus. This paradox is the specific that makes theatrotherapy an independent and non-substitutable approach. Regarding theoretical basis, we focus on comparison ...

The aim of our research was to study the representations of real personalities, who belong to a certain society or social stratum etc. The everyday representations of Enemy and Friend are formed within the everyday communication, and because this type of representations include the following components: Representations about the relation system of Friend and Enemy towards the Other; Representations of Enemy’s and Friend’s appearance; Representations of the gender specific characteristics of Enemy and Friend. Hypot...

Although most psychotherapeutic interventions have a significant impact on the patients` well-being, there is no consensus on the optimal psychotherapeutic intervention in working with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) patients. The study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of different therapeutic strategies and to determine which type of psychotherapeutic intervention can improve the patients` psychosocial integration, ART (antiretroviral treatment) adherence, anxiety and depression. A number of 80 HIV-posit...

Background: In the first part of my article, I refer to the theoretical basis of my line of argumentation: I compare two opposing, though, still popular approaches dominant in Polish reference literature on the quality and role of popular women's magazines in shaping consumer attitudes. Methods and results: In the second part, based on the analysis of the content of the most popular women's magazines (24 issues from 2013), I propose my own theses, abandoning already overused arguments of dominant, repressive or he...

Engagement of students in the learning process seems to be a crucial element of a successful teaching/learning process. Practising and reinforcing language skills belong to the most essential and important parts in foreign language education. Carefully prepared study materials play a very important role in the teaching/learning process. Special attention must be paid when teachers consider and choose study materials for adult learners, whose memory mechanisms are not so reliable and fail more often than at early a...

The main problem of modern young peo ple is social change and indefinite cultural samples. We explored person's social potential in context of sociology. We investigated t heoretical concept of Person's Social Potential. We developed empirical model of sociological research. 16 -34 years old ci tizen, Yekaterinburg city, Russia. December 2013 - March 2014. Essential characteristic of social potential are abilities of constructing of ideal social projects, which is connected with social experience of a person. Soci...

The submitted survey was focused on the analysis of opinions and attitudes expressed by the teachers participating in the national project called ?Education Process Modernization at Elementary and Secondary Schools? performed in selected training centres on the territory of Slovakia in years 2008 – 2013. The main objective of the project was innovation and modernization of teaching procedures, methods, and education forms, supported by a suitable and didactically well-prepared application of available digital tech...

The research aim is to create an innovative concept which includes different technologies helping students to cope with the difficulties connected with healthy nutrition. Nutrition of a student in such an intense way of life is a problem of many universities including the Tomsk Polytechnic University. The problem is not just in price. Students usually do not have time for lunch because of the small breaks between classes and long lines in canteens. And if the student takes homemade food with him/her, it can quickl...

Considered one of the most actual in modern sociological science problems – social community and its main features, among which the temporal characteristics play an important role. The purpose of the article is to analyze the role of social communities in everyday life and discovering of their temporal structures. For proof of this thesis are used in the unity of three main approaches – communities, activities, and temporal. Basic methods of the research: the study of value orientations, attitudes, forms and types...