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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 a ...

The article proposes the indicative system of sustainable development of the region that contains thirty indicators grouped into ten projections (macroeconomic sta-bility, industrial development, food development, energy development, financial sus-tainability, personnel development, innovative development, social development, envi-ronmental development and economic development). Each of the projections has three indicators. We have chosen threshold value for each indicator. The choice of threshold value was made f...

Reconstruction, regeneration and modernization of the settlements in the Czech Republic is the current process. The improvement of the existing housing stock, including the improvement of the social life of our settlement sis one of the long-term goals in the development of our cities. The settlements in most of our cities do not correspond with the current requirements of modern trends and modern way of life of people in the 20th century. In the recent time also positive view of life on the settlement (mainly on ...

The article presents the results of interdisciplinary exploratory research aimed to develop the methodological approach to the typology of contemporary urbanization processes for natural resource regions of Siberia. Youth's perception of urban space safety factors as a specific condition determining the urbanization of territories of the Siberian natural resource regions is taken into account. An example of Krasnoyarsk region is studied. The reported study was funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Gover...

The article is devoted to the problem of developing an inclusive approach in the framework of modern education. The authors seek to show that the inclusive approach plays a decisive role in providing high-quality education for all students without exception. The article describes the legal foundations of inclusive education, substantiates its relevance to the present day and examines its main functions. The authors describe the barriers that can arise on the way of introducing inclusion in the educational process ...

The aim of this article is to present the results of a study devoted to the analysis of problems and search of possibilities of interaction between banks and small businesses. The analysis is based on a review of data of borrowers of regional banks of Nizhny Novgorod region in Russia. The study orientated on systematic and comparative analysis of scientific literature, analysis of statistical data. The main method of study is a formalized focused interview of the responsible officials/business owners. Among the pr...

As electric vehicles market in Europe grows, the requirements for higher density of charging infrastructure are increasing. The purpose of this study is to present a method how the existing supply of charging service can be measured. This is demonstrated on the current situation in the Czech Republic. The paper follows on the background of previously published studies dealing with charging infrastructure optimization models. Geographical datasets of various types are processed and merged. Crucial factors of the pr...

Atomic design is a methodology for crafting effective design systems that usually applied to website’s design and development. It provides a structured approach that gives a flexibility to the design system but retains its recognizability. Controllable randomness is an approach that bounds randomness (randomly generated values) by the set of rules developed by the designer. It also gives flexibility and retains recognizability as the atomic design approach does but makes it in a different way. This paper discusses...

The article discusses the history of the emergence of axiology as a science, the interrelation of axiology and culturology, describes the basic terms and concepts of linguistic and cultural axiology; in particular the problem of values is discussed from the perspective of the approaches existing in cultural studies and linguistics. The author analyses the linguistic status of the value and evaluation categories and examines the expression of axiological meanings in language. The aim of the study is to examine the ...

Ever increasing demands on the complexity of modern buildings considerably increase the pressure to improve efficiency in terms of time and quality. In spite of its importance, there has not been sufficient emphasis placed on the project management research yet, but only on project management in general. An effective method for project management is to ensure the planned management of the whole process. All requirements of the project shall be pre-processed, as planned in terms of design and realization. Therefore...

The article deals with alien linguistic phenomena as one of the actual and poor studied aspects of the Tundra Yukaghir language spoken by people of the exremely small ethnic group in Yakutia, Russia. Available statistics as a result of the analysis of a corpus allows detecting over nine hundred lexical units transferred to Yukaghir from Koryak, Chukchi, Evenki, Evens, Yakut and Russian languages. Moreover, Yukaghir borrowed some affixes that assist in word-formation and inflection. The author describes the peculia...

The theme of action has to do with issues related to the dynamic of potential acts, hu-man action, agency and so on. It has a long history in philosophy, running through Aris-totle, Thomas Aquinas, René Descartes, David Hume, Johann G. Fichte, Max Weber, John Searle, to mention some famous thinkers on this topic from ancient times to the contemporary epoch. Philosophy of action has had and still has three major speculative interests: (1) the study of human action in connection to general theoretical or specula-tiv...

The current state of education in Romania might be described as follows: Unhappy students, unhappy teachers and unhappy parents. There is a widespread feeling that corruption, moral degradation and inefficiency are suffocating the education system. There is also a widespread perception that after any attempt to ”reform” education the situation got worse. The purpose of this study is to explore ”The dysfunctional paradigms hypothesis”: It is possible that one or more dysfunctional paradigms may become dominant in a...

The main goal of the study was to identify changes, peculiarities and problems in the life of Russian women in their third and fourth age (50-70 years old and 70+ years old correspondingly), the research subjects included problems of employment, health, psychological self-assessment of the current life, self-identification. The study presents the analysis of the part of the data collected during the all-Russian representative survey "Russian Monitoring of the Economic Situation and Health of the Population" by the...

The government deficit and public debt are always a negative economic phenomenon as a consequence of non-compliance with fiscal discipline. Chronically recurring deficits and consequently resulting debts are the current topic discussed by theoretical and economic-political authorities. The Maastricht Treaty and the Stability and Growth Pact stipulate that the government deficit should not exceed 3 % of GDP and the public debt is considered excessive if it is higher than 60 % of GDP. The growth of the government de...

The aim of this paper is to highlight the most important historical monuments, civil or religious, now present especially in the Romanian towns Constan?a and Mangalia, who originated from the Ancient Greek colonies. Today, both cities host various types of monuments - Royal Palaces, Christian churches, Muslim mosques, Jewish synagogues, the famous Romanian Casino from Constan?a, Greek/Roman/Byzantine remains of walls, roads, buildings, civil and religious ones from late XIX century. Due to lack of the will of the ...

One of the factors of specialist competitiveness increasing in any field is foreign languages skills. Requirements to foreign language skills assume professional communication forming of future specialists of the technical direction and for this purpose it is necessary to create a situation close to real communication. The article is devoted to foreign languages training of future civil engineers by individual approach on the example of the national and regional unit "Construction of Yakut traditional dwelling Bal...

The aim of the research and analyses was to present the design process of industrial facilities, that takes into account their impact on the existing environment in order to limit the impact of the designed facility on the landscape. Industrial architecture work is usually carried out without taking the surrounding landscape into consideration. The proper analyses of the land for investment and its surroundings allows to develop a design strategy. Appropriate arrangement of isolating greenery allows to create natu...

Dramatherapy is a way of psychotherapy which helps people better understand their problems. The method is helpful especially in the field of addictions. The therapeutic community is a traditional form of caring for persons addicted to drugs. A few communities in Czech Republic use dramatherapy. The purpose of the text is to answer the question how dramatherapy works in a community and how the method influences the clients. The paper focuses on the potential of dramatherapy in a therapeutic community for persons wi...

Flexible working time is becoming a tool of linking paid work to family obligations and/or willingness to persuade private interests while retaining full time job. Work – life balance concept is getting more attention world wide of workers, employers and legislators. Flexible working time is also becoming a tool for employers to organize work in non-traditional working schedule and to achieve the best results in working environments which have to adjust to foreign time zones or various external variables. Having i...

As digital fabrication is becoming widely available, to design using CAD modeling methods seems to be the only viable solution. Similar prejudices among students are being observed, in relation to analog methods of formal exploration, which are perceived as being anachronic. The present study is based on a comparative analysis of projects that have been carried out by the 3rd year students of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of Timisoara during the interior design classes of the second semester. The study ...

Based on the analysis of the musical works this article deals with the peculiarities of the art of modern composers of the Republic of Tatarstan (Anatoly Luppov, Rashid Kalimullin, Leonid Lyubovsky), originally refracting the traditional musical material belonging to the radical ethnoses of the Volga region (the Slavic, Finno-Ugric and Turkic people). It is revealed that composers create highly artistic samples of symphonic, stage, chamber-instrumental, vocal and choral music on the basis of artistic-figurative, g...

The purpose of this research is to study English language learning autonomy of the tertiary students with English major, faculty of humanities and social sciences, Suan Sunanda Rajabhat University. The sample of the study consists of 261 English major students (freshmen n = 74, 28%, sophomore n = 71, 27%, junior n = 67, 26%, senior n = 49, 19%) The data collection includes distributing the questionnaire the students. Mean and standard deviation are applied to analyze the data. These statistics work on the assumpti...

The objective of the paper is to present an overview of the findings about applicable models (algorithms) in the area of Breaking Bad News (BBN). The paper presents an overview of selected models with an emphasis on their practical application. The overview was produced by means of an analysis, comparison, discussion and synthesis of relevant findings. The search procedure was performed in line with the specifics of the research strategy using keywords (aimed at methodologies, procedures, and models applied in rel...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the influence of the European Union accession and financial crisis to convergence and integration of the bond yields and bond markets. The results show the deepening of bond market convergence after the European Union accession and the integration has continued until the end of the observed period. The chosen indicators are monthly mid-term bond yields (10-year bond yields). The period of 1/2000 to 12/2016 was chosen in order to show the impacts of the changes. The time period w...

Active introduction of computer technologies which influence the improvement of students training quality within the training process of educational institutions is an inseparable part of modern education. The article considers the organization matter of the training process in Physics with the “Educon” helping as an electronic support. One of the most important factors significantly impact on the physics teaching effectiveness in high school is the students' willingness to cognitive activities, in-depth and detai...

Why is it possible to reasonably ask ‘How do you loosen a screw?’ while it is not rea-sonable to ask ‘How do you raise your arm?’ For Ricoeur, the exercise of a capacity does not simply result from knowledge. In fact, I do not ‘know’ my body when I am acting: I am able to act; that is all. I am able to do it because ‘I can’. The corporal events ‘I know’ are not what ‘I do’. However, if a paralysed man were to ask the question ‘How do you raise your arm?’, it would have the same meaning and logical argumenta-tive j...

The objective of the study is an adaptation of the survey method for the preliminary evaluation of the Rural Development Program (RDP) in short-term, when the quantitative data for the period is not yet available. A survey of agricultural holdings and enterprises (i.e., on-line questionnaires with an e-mail notification) was therefore designed, equally targeting the units supported and non-supported by the Program. The survey covered all regions of Latvia, with a total of 867 responses obtained. The responses were...

In the paper two different models describing distribution and change of the linguistic information in some Indo-European communities are considered: nonlinear dynamic system model and the wave model described by system of the integral-differential equations. Within the frames of these models numerical research of distribution of the linguistic information has been carried in some Indo-European language community, including the initial stage of its formation. We take into consideration two main hypotheses: Anatolia...

The purpose of the study was to identify the specifics of the representations of psychology students on how the viewing of cartoons of foreign and national production affects the development of junior schoolchildren. The study involved psychology students in the number of 70 people, aged 19 to 46. Among them there are 19 psychology students (age 19-27) and 51 people who are psychology students of different age that undergo professional retraining (age 22 to 46). 85% of the respondents were women. At the first stag...

“Global tenderness” by F. M. Dostoyevsky, the idea of “overallunity” by V. S. Solovyev and other Russian thinkers make traditional basis of Russian culture. The main features of Russian national character are constant desire and ability to promptly turn “foreign in own” and, in addition to their own discoveries, foreign borrowing also transform in the “primordial beginnings”, and privately ideas give universal content. A. A. Bogdanov — one of the most original XX century Russian thinkers — aspired to the system kn...

The purpose of the study is to examine the relationship between paternalism, delegation collective organizational engagement and performance. The performance concept in this study consists of individual and organizational performance. Using quantitative analysis methods a study is conducted on the North Marmara Region of Turkey with a sample of 175 employees in different sectors. The result of the study show that there is a positive correlation between paternalism, delegation, collective organizational engagement,...

Over the period of 2010-2017, field research has been conducted in the territories of the Siberian Arctic in Eastern Siberia. The field research was conducted in different northern settlements, including the rural settlement of Khatanga inhabited by the Dolgans. The Dolgans are a small-numbered, indigenous people of the North and Siberia. The settlement of Khatanga is situated in the Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky Municipal District of the Krasnoyarsk Krai, within Russian Arctic territory. During the study, the post-S...

Arad County is located in the western part of Romania, within the DKMT cross-border area. The National Archaeological Record of Romania lists 246 historic sites in this area, most of which are found in villages. Only few of these monuments are valorized as landmarks. Rural monuments are not advertised and have no proper monument protection. Local communities do not have the means, the awareness or the genuine interest to preserve them. Thus, initiatives for rehabilitation, reuse and valorization of some of these m...

Access to digital data through web servers and databases is facilitated by search tools. Following a user query, the search engine has a long list of bibliographic references and web pages. The efficient selection of relevant documents is very difficult given the low accuracy in the list. Typically, the user visits the first page referenced in the list, but it does not consult the fiftieth. In this article, we describe the problem of the queries language when we look for information in an automatic system (search ...

The present study aims to study the relationship between emotional intelligence and satisfaction of using speech technology in the future specialists and experts in the field, students at master speech therapy. Participants were 60 subjects, 30 with speech expertise and 30 students preparing for work in this specialization. The methods used in this study were two questionnaires, including a questionnaire in order to investigate the level of emotional intelligence and a questionnaire regarding satisfaction of using...

The research paper presents innovative approaches to using online services in the course of creating design projects. In order to substantiate theoretical constructs as to using online services in the field of designing we employed a set of theoretical and empirical research methods, among which: modelling professional activities, determining a status of solving the problem, the method of observation, the conversation method etc. Using FloorPlan 3D, Sweet Home 3D, and Planoplan online services, which fall under an...

Throughout the life people have always been treated with care and caution to such phenomena as thunder storm. This fact associated with that person in a long time could not explain the nature of these phenomena. However, these acoustic and optical phenomena formed the basis of many people's predictions. The authors of this article explored the question of the main characteristics to which attention in the preparation of the forecast was drawn. It is established that the frequency response is the first thunderstorm...

International labor migration significantly impacts on the process of economic integration for developed labor markets. Labor migration on the territory of countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States is directed to big labor markets in Russia and Kazakhstan. In this article we describe a model, that takes into account the feedback of average salaries defined by the supply of labor resources, affecting migration processes between countries of origin and destination. The model takes into account the influenc...

The purpose of this study is to examine (on the basis of the analysis of regulatory support) and identify the models for implementation of educational programs, based on networked learning practices, in institutions of higher education. The study is based on a benchmark method that allowed to compare and analyze national (Russian) and foreign networked training and learning practices, as well as statutes, standards and other legal documents, related to regulation of the implementation process of networked learning...

The article presents a model of migration and demographic movement of population. The model is based on the principles of sand-pile model by P. Tank, C. Wiesenfeld and H Tang. These principles have been combined with the structural-demographic theory of Peter V. Turchin and Sergey A. Nefedov and Jack Goldstone. As a result of it the synthesized model of migration and demographic interactions was obtained. The constructed model allows to take into account the influence of the real geographical conditions (such as s...

Background: The education to the faculty of dental medicine has a special part, the clinical education that require the transfer of learned information into the practice. How learning and teaching take place in the clinical training for the preparation of dental students to progress and to be able to provide patient clinical care on one’s own is a fundamental attribute of dental clinical supervisors. The aim of this study was to assess the students’ and clinical teachers’ perceptions about effective clinical teach...

Modern economy is characterized by significant strengthening of integration processes caused by the deepening of relations between countries, international trade liberalization, scientific and technological progress, development of productive forces and the deepening of international labor division. This results in the formation of regional associations, which are evolving progressively into independent centers of the world economy. The article highlights various aspects of the integration processes in the common ...

The relevance of this study is due to the need to improve the methods of industrial policy formation.The development of industrial policy is the area of strategic management of the state and economic entities. The application of mechanisms and instruments of industrial policy should be based on the principles of regulation, coordination, promotion of the most priority areas of activity. Due to the limited resources of any kind, as well as the type of tasks to be solved, the problem of selecting priority options co...

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 typology of the classical sonata reflects, with distinct intensity, the great theme of the classical age: the art of leading musical ideas.” [1] After Beethoven, the sonata became an ideal of the composing conception, that could only be accessed by the creators following the “pure” music. Romanticism represented, on a certain level, a regression of rigorous structural organizational efforts in instrumental music, this decline being due to the views of romantic composers upon the tonal system, the relations of...

The article describes the features of personnel policy formation of an educational institution. The essence of the personnel policy work with the staff corresponds to the concept of educational establishment, ie the personnel policy of any educational institution – it is an integral part of the strategic policy oriented organization. Personnel policy is a powerful strategic tool for the staff of the organization management system.

Businesses today simply cannot ignore corporate sustainability. It has key roles to play in long-term corporate success of an organization as well as value -inspired market services in the society. It is equally important that companies recognize the benefits of sustainability right from the very top or managerial level of the organization keep an annual record of progress made in this regard, and report as well as maintain a local engagement of stakeholders in their environment of operations. The aim of the artic...

Theoretical framework. The research is based on cognitive approach to metaphors and narratives. It touches on the problem of metaphorical and narrative foundations of phenomena "discrimination" and "hate speech". The objective of this research was comparative analysis of "friend" and "alien" metaphors and narratives about interaction with them reflecting different interpretative repertoires of perception of other person as a "friend" and an "alien". Methods. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used: cat...

The aim of our paper is to carry out a two case comparative study comparing two social A two case comparative study applies the following methods: comparison, questionnaire method. The result at which we arrived rests in finding out with which facility of social services the clients are more satisfied. Our premise is that the respondents in the questionnaire express that they are more satisfied with the private facility of social services. The future research in the given area should make research into costs of pr...