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The article presents the current state of the research project which aims to integrate activities of members of the Faculty of Organization and Management, Silesian University of Technology, Zabrze, Poland, that are focused on the various problems associated with the idea of “Smart City”. The variety of research areas related to multi-screen research conducted by project participants has been treated as an important added value of the project in question. In the first part of the paper, the list of the areas c...

Currently, one of the main directions of Russian policy in the sphere of economic security and social and economic development of the territories is to ensure the sustainable development of the national financial system. The base for the development of the financial system is the corporate finance. The share of tax revenues of regional budgets in Russia is in the range of 70-85%, as shown by the analysis of the dynamics of revenues of the consolidated budget of the region. The share of tax revenues from the ten la...

The involvement of the creativity and the cultural values which are specific to the ethnicities living in the region of Oltenia, Romania, in the local economic development of the rural communities of Romania, regardless of the administrative unit they belong to, have faced, in the last years, issues of economic nature. The study of vines which comes in support of the remedy of this situation by searching solutions springing from the traditional culture and creativity of the ethnic communities. Starting from this i...

The article is focused on the issue of evolution of I. Capodistria`s role in Russian Office. The author uses a wide list of published and archival documents and analyzes the reasons Capodistria was invited to the Russian Office, the factors affecting his career growth and his role in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The author applies the method of analogy based on comparing Capodistria`s career and his russian contemporaries. The results of the study revealed that Capodistria was invited to the Russian Diplomatic...

The main question which the author of the report would like to answer is this: "Is a freelancer a man of the future of work?В». There are methodological difficulties in the study of freelancing. First, in determining the concept of "freelance". Second, when selecting principles and methods for quantifying the participating workers in a given form of employment. We will be able to overcome these difficulties only partially, using a comparative approach, historical method, analysis of statistical data and a systemat...

Background: Lublin is the economic and cultural capital of Eastern Poland, from ages being the bridge between western and eastern cultures of historical Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The golden era in the 16th century created even the Lublin Renaissance - an architectural style developed in the Lublin region of Poland. The current strategy of the city is summarised to be the “city of inspiration” – to build future with history and culture in mind. The primary goal of the paper is to explore the growth of...

The paper focuses on the examination of the relationship between firm size and firm growth for the companies in Slovakia during years 2009 – 2016. The aim of the article is to investigate the validity of Gibrat’s law (Law of proportionate effect), so if the firm growth is a stochastic process resulting from a lot of unobserved random variables and firm growth is independent of the firm size. For measuring company size, it was used three number of employees. This firm size indicator is most often used in studies...

Issue of personal identity, i.e. personal uniqueness of an individual in its dynamics, is widely discussed and has become interesting also for artistic literature in the 21st century. The authors of the paper in the introduction briefly clarify concept of identity from philosophical, sociological and psychological aspect. The essence of the paper is focused on analysis and interpretation of image-textual narration Boy without name by the writer Slavka LiptГЎkovГЎ and the illustrator Fero LiptГЎk. The authors exami...

The paper examines the issue of “two cultures” (natural science and humanities) in relation to the realities of contemporary education. The peculiarities of the humanities rationale are analyzed. The authors demonstrate that educational practices are based on incorrect assumptions regarding the correspondence between intellect and affect, the non-critical perception of which promotes an undesirable dissent between the two above mentioned cultures. The historical origins of the entrenchment of such assumptions ...

No successful economy can be implemented in closed mode in the contemporary globalized world. A view of an explosive development of the national IT technology the society is forced to transform itself from vertically-integrated model into horizontal model. The functions of state authorities change significantly, shifting from interim measures to a standard of quality services provision. The way of life of a contemporary person changes significantly; there is also a process of state borders blurring and stateВ’s fi...

An analysis of the contribution of the information technology industry in India showed that the country had found a profitable middle ground between science and economy, the share of the sector in the country's GDP structure is more than 10% in 2016/2017. On the other hand, the total contribution of information technologies, including the digital and mobile component of the Russian economy, amounted to 5.06% of GDP in 2017. Despite the economic stagnation, high-tech segments have continuing to develop and find new...

Informatization changes the world of the contemporary organizations. They seem more and more dependent on its information system infrastructure. On the one hand IT can increase the efficiency of the organizationВ’s management and improve general organizational efficiency, on the other hand it can cause the problems with the security of the information flow or generate risk of key data leak. In that context, IT reliability is considered as one of the critical factor required for modern organizationВ’s efficient and...

The paper focuses on the oldest known collection of recipes written in Romanian, namely an undated manuscript of an unknown author, elaborated in Wallachia. The authors of the text edition published in 1997 presumed that it was written at the court of the prince BrГ®ncoveanu. It is a singular work in its age as the next cookery book in Romanian is from 1842 and has a French model. The manuscript includes 293 recipes and it ends with advice on ink preparation, silvery cleaning, gun cleaning and gunpowder preparatio...

The Bucharest Municipality Pinacotheque is a project that was born through a successive chain of donations supported by a warm spirit of meditation and goodwill. The birth certificate is dated July 19, 1933 and has the signature of the Mayor of that period, Dem I. Dobrescu, which works by affiliation, together with the Municipal Museum, under the institutional trusteeship, as today, the Capital City Hall. Initially, the PinacothequeВ’s heritage consisted of numerous donations of art or movable property from the el...

The article deals with the problematics of origins and specificity of Russian anarchism. The authors prove that two central versions of Russian anarchism created by M.A. Bakunin and L.N. Tolstoy were dependent on J.G. FichteВ’s religious philosophy. The authors refute the idea that Russian philosophy was under strong influence of Hegelianism. It appears that Fichtean late philosophy was much more important source for the thinking of Russian anarchists. M.A. Bakunin is understood as the founder of the fichteonized ...

The article is devoted to the topical issue of the struggle between China and Japan for political and economic influence over the Korean peninsula in the modern era. After the division of Korea into two hostile states in the middle of 1950-s, the struggle of world powers for influence over the peninsula has not ceased for nearly 70 years. In recent decades, in addition to the traditional actors as the United States and Russia China which is rapidly gaining power has joined the struggle. In response to the ChinaВ’s...

The article addresses the problem of militarization in the East Asian region in the context of the unfolding crisis in Japan-China relations. Numerous territorial disputes between China and Japan and other countries in East Asia being divided into two hostile sides in the recent past, the complicated history of the last century along with innumerable military conflicts, the deficiency of effectively operating security organizations in this region, the inequality of economic development between countries, all these...

The main character of Jaroslav HasekВ’s The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes during the World War has become one of the Czech legendary heroes. The article deals with the reception of the book abroad in connection to the English translation of the novel. At the beginning, it presents various opinions in the literary criticsВ’ dispute whether Svejk is a suitable representative of the Czech nation abroad. This section culminates by looking for answers to the question who Josef Svejk really is and how to character...

The Romanian Civil Code entered into force in 2011 has stipulated, inter alia, a unified regulation of the private law, in line with the similar provisions of European law. Although it represents the common law in matters related to companies, the legal provisions governing in detail the companies are found in the Companies Law. Thus, these provisions lay down the types of companies, as well as their functioning and management. The joint stock company may be managed differently, either in the unitary system or the...

This work based on Romantic literature reflects the image of Jozef Bem as a romantic hero and a symbol of Polish-Hungarian friendship. Comparing the progress of the national literatures of this epoch, mainly the Polish and Hungarian one, and conditions of their development leads us to their overall conjunction of the 19th Century. In our paper, we use sources from history and literature and we try to put Jozef BemВ’s person into right context of Hungarian revolution set in years 1848/1849 during governance of Habs...

In this paper the author deals with the practical analysis of the relationship between Administrative Law and Criminal Law and, on the other hand, between the Administrative Procedure and the Criminal Procedure within the legal system of the Republic of Macedonia. Although, Criminal Law and Administrative Law are fundamentally different from each other, according to the object and the manner of regulation, since Criminal Law includes legal norms that refer to criminal offense, the perpetrator, criminal liability, ...

The initial part of the article provides an overview of the constitutional and statutory bases of the institution of petition and the constitutional bases of the administration of justice in Poland. The author also presents the parliamentary procedure of considering petitions with a particular emphasis on the role of the Committee on Petitions in this regard. These considerations are followed by the analysis of five petitions submitted to the Sejm in the 8th term of office, which began on 12 November 2015, until 3...

We need to make decisions us throughout our lives. This skill is sometimes necessary even to survive, because our vigilance and behaviour in a crisis situation is the basic mechanism of natural selection. Human behaviour has been the subject of many studies and theories. The expected utility theory, assumes that if a person has a choice of profit x, which is certain and a more favourable option y, but burdened with risk, then he should choose the certain profit. Its usefulness is expected to be higher than the ris...

Considering that the adoption and usage of a functionally integrated information system represent significant aspects for increasing the performance of a hospital, this paper presents a series of relevant issues concerning this topic. The first section of the article outlines important particularities related to integrated information systems for hospitals such as the components of these systems, their basic functionalities and the advantages of using these systems in hospitals. The second part of the paper presen...

The current European and international concerns on economic growth are embracing the stimulation of innovation and research, by generating new knowledge to ensure the competitiveness of organizations regardless of type, size, and operating industry. The paper addressed the issue of innovation for sustainable economic growth and investigated main factors responsible for innovation potential within Romanian business sector. The research methodology envisaged statically analysis of data by highlighting the results of...

As the importance of tourism is increasing, ever more states from Europe and not only are using strategic branding and a variety of marketing means to attract a growing number of tourists. However, destinations are among the most difficult entities to market. Considering the importance of a clear marketing strategy and proper images and slogans used, the paper aims to identify the destination personality, see whether RomaniaВ’s official website can have an effect on the image of the country and if it complies with...

This article is directed to consideration of ecological development factors in hospitality. Authors provide and analyze the data of authoritative research such as World Tourism Barometer and Statistical Annex, Environmental performance index 2017 Report, and others. They confirm the growth of tourist flow in general and increasing share of ecological hotels and objects. The information about consumer preferences changing in hospitality is also provided. The second part of article is devoted to determining the key ...

Background: In the artistic context of 20th century, George Enescu is the only representative Romanian composer who will be included in the diverse landscape of the 1900-1940’s, and he will be integrated into the neoclassic direction. He was considered to be “one of the most interesting contemporary spirits”, due to the fact that he remained outside of the avant-gardist experiments, the abstraction trends and the “sterilization” of music. In the Second Suite for Orchestra, op. 20, the composer “will mee...

The article deals with the concept of keywords from the position of an associative approach. This concept is widely used in professional scientific and educational activities. The definition of the key words of the text is a prerequisite for the preparation of a scientific work for publication, as well as one of the stages in the teaching of philological analysis of the text. In this regard, it becomes urgent to identify what is meant by the term "keywords" in the professional activities of a philologist. We belie...

Background Knee osteoarthritis is an interaction of biological, mechanical and biochemical factors which is complicated by injury, with an accelerated pathological processes of the joint. Especially the athletes, particularly those with a history of knee injury that can lead to posttraumatic osteoarthritis, are diagnosed earlier than other people with same age. The aim of this paper was to find the most effective rehabilitation treatment for these patients to reduce pain and inflammation and improve knee joint mob...

The article focuses on the professional competence of the teacher to cooperate with the family of the pupil. It emphasizes the importance and meaning of the cooperation in the primary and secondary environment of the individual. The authors analyse the cooperative competence of the teacher and its contents with the emphasis on the communicative skills. The aim of this article is to clarify the concept of self-efficacy. The authors perceive this concept as the conviction about human abilities and all the possibilit...

An intellective and convulsive spirit (in Madura and Cartage, where he attended his secondary studies, and also in Milan, where he attended Platonist circles), Augustine passed from the knowledge of the sensible world to that of the intelligible, irrevocably fascinated by wisdom perceived as a modus vivendi. He aspired to happiness, yet he did not fully understand it until he was able to know himself. By gaining self-knowledge he understood that there is someone, beyond himself, who helped him discover himself as ...

Competent management of innovation processes in European regions is considered as the key to the development of knowledge economy. The effective use of achievements of research and development sector with regard to socio-economic development is actually a central aspect of this process. Both the efficient process of technology transfer and knowledge commercialization constitute an important attribute of the ability to create economic development based on new technologies. Hitherto gained Polish experiences point t...

Paper's aim is to shed a light on theoretical and practical aspects of taken measures by the Russian government on agriculture business optimization in Southern Russia. Moreover, the paper develops methodology as recommendation for the small agriculture business in Russia based on economy theories, previous studies in the area of agriculture business development. This study analyses federal and regional governmental initiatives and programs addressing optimization of small agriculture business in the period of eco...

The article is focused on the Labeo’s conflicting theory about ownership to newly created island in a river stream and detects its reasoning, aims and philosophical sources of inspiration. A question of insula in flumine nata represents traditional issue of the Roman law things. Such island was considered to belong to private individual(s) who owns the nearest shores of river by most of the sources. However, there is one fragment of Labeo (D 41,1,65,4) which states that such island should belong to public. The r...

In modern society, labor becomes a complex and diverse action. The forms of labor are changing, and it`s boundaries are eroding. In these conditions it is important to rethink the economic understanding of labor. The main goal of this article is to formulate special aspects of labor as of a non-economic action. To achieve the goal the author analyzed such notions as “economic action”, “non-economic action”, and “labor” as they exist in scientific literature. It was also required to find out the distinc...

Migration of the population is one of the most important demographic processes. It has a significant impact on the change in the structure of the population, and as a result - on the overall economic indicators of the country's development. Transformational processes in the Russian economy are responsible for qualitative changes in the labor market. These changes affect both demand and supply of labor. Increasing the efficiency of costs for hiring new employees and stimulating their labor productivity are one of t...

In the course of conducting our own research related to the analysis of the impact of socio-economic factors on the development of migration attractiveness, demographic and economic security of Russia and individual regions of the country, in order to generalize and understand the social and economic situation, identify the most important problems related to the territorial movement of people, classification of labor migration factors that exert the strongest influence on the social and economic situation. For the...

The article is devoted to the urgent problem of occupational safety at work. building an effective recruitment mechanism. The basic legislation in the field of labor protection is presented. One of the conditions for their provision is the creation and successful operation of the OSH management system. In order for the integration of the implemented OSH management system into the overall management system of the organization to be effective, certain organizational and methodological rules are established that take...

This article concerns the EvenkisВ—hunters and reindeer herders of the Siberian taigaВ—and their interactions with the landscape reflecting in a land naming. I use a semantic approach to the analysis of the Evenkis' toponyms, which were gathered during my fieldwork in Eastern Siberia in the 1980s and 1990s and were found in the scientific literature and dictionaries. The features of the land are learnt by the Evenkis from their everyday socio-economic and ritual practices, as well as from their eldest since the ea...

The article analyzes one of the genres of professional-network medical discourse – the official medical site. It is shown that this genre is characterized by intensive borrowings, hybridization of colloquial components, functional styles and semiotic systems modeling multifunctionality and multimodality of network medical discourse. The article states that the study of the Internet language, including the linguistic features of corporate sites, provides important information about oral, written and electronic sp...

The research of interethnic interaction in the educational environment is especially relevant given the global academic mobility processes. The universities all over the world enroll international applicants - representatives of different nationalities and ethnic groups, and this tendency is growing. In view of the above, the fundamental problem of the efficient collaboration of the representatives of different nationalities in global universities is highly pertinent. The article focuses on the analysis of the spe...

The article considers the language specificity within the culture of professional communication: the comparative study of verbal and semantic level of professional and business communication allows not only to establish the role of universal and idioethnic in the structure of professional linguistic personality, but also to trace the relationship and the impact of extralinguistic and linguistic factors on the formation process of linguistic identity. The purpose of this study is to identify the most important verb...

The article considers the language specificity within the culture of professional communication: the comparative study of verbal and semantic level of professional and business communication allows not only to establish the role of universal and idioethnic in the structure of professional linguistic personality, but also to trace the relationship and the impact of extralinguistic and linguistic factors on the formation process of linguistic identity. The purpose of this study is to identify the most important verb...

The research objective is to identify culturally significant information behind semantics of the adjective В‘self-sufficientВ’, which denotes one of the important properties of a human personality in Russian linguoculture against the background of Swedish one. To achieve this goal, definitions of explanatory dictionaries of Russian and Swedish, as well as illustrative contexts of this adjective usage in materials of national corpora of these two languages were analyzed, a questionnaire was developed and a survey o...

Coastal territories are the national growth nodes throughout the world. Concentration of human activity along the coast have long been recognized and conceptualized within the notion of coastalization. Russia is often perceived to be exposed to the opposite effect – continentalization. Article analyzes the antecedents of large business localization in 14 coastal regions of the European part of Russia. Results verify the assumption of companies being attracted to marine coasts of Russia, proving the general coast...

The article studies the festive culture of Latin America, analyzes its shaping under the influence of Spanish festive traditions which were spread to this region. The article shows how the urban environment was changing to correspond with ideas and goals of certain holidays and considers cultural and semantic aspects of Latin American processions similar to European "Entries", both secular and religious. During holidays, local artists depicted the features of urban space, landscape elements, local architecture and...

This article is a contribution to the discussion and analysis of the law-studentsВ’ English language writing skills necessary for effective legal analysis. This paper covers some linguistic issues of lawyerВ’s writing skills developed at law-students studying English at the Institute of Law, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University). The actuality and relevance of this paper is based on the need for adequately prepared lawyers competent to write a speech and various types of legal documents. The g...

One of the most important organizational resources is human resource of that organization, therefore organizations attempt to increase job satisfaction of employees. Employee job satisfaction is an attitude that people have about their jobs and the organizations in which they perform these jobs. Employee job satisfaction is generally recognized as a multifaceted construct that includes employee feelings about a variety of both intrinsic and extrinsic job elements. The result of previous research provide a broad vi...

This paper focuses on youth worker as the educator, who must prioritize and integrate lifelong learning ideas. Firstly, the youth worker is explained as adult learner and on the other side, as the promoter of non-formal education (NFE) in youth center (YC). The formation of a learning society has become a key issue and it is realized through the concept of lifelong learning, which requires the involvement of all parts and opportunities for implementation. European Union lifelong learning basics (the youth self-rea...