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Over the past twenty-thirty years, innovations have received increasing attention. The complication and fast progress of the current innovation-driven economy requires national governments to develop new directions for innovation governance. Global trend demonstrates that developing nations are no longer lagging in their efforts to improve innovation performance, but have become leaders. The aim of this paper is to provide an integrative framework for the comprehensive understanding of the innovation governance in...

Forms of sensibility used for construction of the living world are not universal, but rather specific for different cultural traditions. They are informed by symbolic forms of a culture, and are constantly undergoing transformation. The dominant form of sensibility and the corresponding modes of vision, hearing etc., can be researched by analysing their representations within the manner of depiction of the visible, for instance, in painting or bas-relief. Extraction of the form pattern from artwork is possible by ...

The increasingly noticeable Polish population ageing is attracting more and more interest in the problems of ageing. Successful ageing means reaching an old age with insignificant risk of disabilities and illnesses, with high intellectual and physical fitness and maintaining high level of activity. Meeting the needs is the most basic human act that is regarded as extending the humanity. On the one hand, it is expressed by solidarity and commitment to support other members of society and overcoming difficult situat...

Negative transition in the football game mainly refers to the first reaction of a player or a group of players in order to retrieve the ball or to remove the danger of delaying the opponentsВ’ attack and achieving a rapid defence organization. Obviously, this can be achieved in various ways, which will depend on the individual and group characteristics of the players. A coach will have to find the means that will best suit his team, he will try to remove the habits of the team that does not match his players. Our ...

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...

The article is devoted to analysis of the specific of negotiation between adults and adolescents in conflicts connected with teenagersВ’ misbehavior in different social situations. These are the surveyВ’s results and practical counselling and mediation experiences presented in the article. Possibilities to negotiate difficult issues between teenagers and their peers, teenagers and adults depending on their age, education, experience and gender were explored. The factors of negotiationsВ’ failure and success have b...

The authors reveal the structure of the new political phenomenon - network public policy, formed under the influence of societal changes in contemporary society. As a result of these changes, political institutions and practices acquired new network universal qualities. Network public policy takes place in an environment integrated with the Internet public space and includes the activities of various social and political actors that have significant levels of reflection and use network mechanisms to search for res...

The relevance of the research subject is proved by transformation of social communication under the influence of social and technological progress factors. In our opinion, this process requires studying, as it directly influences public consciousness, creates new images of reality, determines the framework of interaction between the person and the social environment. We draw on M. McLuhan's ideas about the dominating role of communication in public relations, concepts of the sociotechnical imaginaries after Sh. Ja...

This article presents major properties and features of network technologies from the social, management, and riskological point of view. Network technologies are considered an important aspect of convergent NBICS technologies and are primarily determined by their informative and social direction. The author has developed a system of parameters and indicators (including input and output parameters) for a social network project of network technologies risk management and analyzed their development opportunities. The...

Background: For the modern Russian society is characterized as a violation of institutional links between higher education, business, and academic science. This is due to a number of reasons. First of all, the tradition of managing these areas under a centralized state regulation and radical reform of higher education, which is associated with deep restructuring of the entire it system. The One of the priority ways of development of higher education is the expansion of its network of relationships with stakeholder...

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 present paper presents new approaches in orthopaedic and rehabilitation training within the framework of COR-skills project. COR-skills is an ERASMUS+ funded project that started in december 2015 and will finish in december 2017, based on collaboration between hospitals and Higher Education Institutes from different European countries. The project aimes to develop, test and adapt a continous vocational educational medical programme, developed on an exhaustive needs analysis and focusing on a “real-life” tr...

Poland, as cultural and religious borderlands which are now, as in the past, a part of Latin, West Roman-Catholic, Greek-Slavic and East Orthodox culture, is a good place to apply comparative analyses of art of both Christian Churches: the Eastern and Western one. This paper presents selected examples of interaction between architecture, iconography and theology in contemporary sacred art of the last decade in Poland. It also shows the process of evolution of traditional spatial and functional structures and appli...

The study is devoted to the pragmatic meaning of environmental terms in French within texts on agricultural technologies. The intention to introduce neologisms has been analyzed and ways to update environmental terms in speech at different levels of communication have been discussed: in particular, within the expert community of specialists in agriculture (scientific publications); in communication of experts with decision-makers (administrative documents, reports, requests); in texts addressed to consumers (popul...

The Fundamental Law of Hungary came into effect on 1 January 2012 and it has resulted in major changes in terms of the entire state organization. These changes significantly affected local authorities also. The Hungarian system of the administrative supervision accomplished a unique system. A relatively strong supervision came true so, internationally with unique device, the replacement or substitution of the decree. The previous devices remained beside this, that they were joined by new ones. The paper analyses t...

The author is reflecting on the fact that a modern man is living in a rather intimate relationship with new information and communication media, starting thus various connections and degrees of integration with these media. A human subject is therefore “homo medialis“ (digitalis, interneticus, informaticus), existing on the interface, virtualised, augmented, hybridised with the technology of new media. The author believes that virtual cyberspace is bringing a man a new living space, a space that shares the ide...

Russia-USA economic relations are subjected today to new realities, which imply a combination of effects, including geopolitical situation in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, mutual economic sanctions that coincided with other negative phenomena in the Russian economy, such as the dramatic drop in oil prices and depreciation of rouble. These events have seriously affected trade and investment statistics with USA. During last years U.S.-Russia economic ties were relatively limited and now they are decreasing. The USA is...

In Russia a new qualification evaluation system has entered into operation and professional standards are being introduced into practice. This new qualification evaluation system assumes an independent state estimation of employees to meet the required qualifications reflected in the professional standard. The professional standard is a normative legal act approved by the order of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Russia, and it reflects the requirements for education and the necessary competencies, k...

This paper presents the preliminary results of scientific survey on unique social phenomenon – the nomadic way of life of reindeer herders in Yakutia. Main trends of nomadic way of life’ changes in Yakutia were outlined on base of collected archival and published sources, statistical data and field materials. Firstly, the situation with conceptual approaches on nomadic way of life was analyzed. Authors recognize that from the very beginning of the Russian Arctic exploration the lifestyle of nomads was in the sp...

One of the urgent problems of modern linguistics is the question of how language picture of the world is reflected in the grammatical level. Traditionally, it is mainly discussed the issues related to lexical semantics. This content vocabulary plan serves as the material for the finding and further study the specific features of the national perception of the world, national thinking. The article throws light upon the omens with the structure of syncretic sentences (transition between simple and complex) in which ...

The objective of this contribution is to investigate non-formal media education projects in the European Union. [1] The study reviews initiatives and projects in the field of media education in the Member States. The most important finding of this study is the fact that the film education, film literacy and the practical skills of filmmaking are greatly developed in the EU countries. Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania and the United Kingdom pay attention to the film literacy and film production....

This article is part of a broader study focused on the perception of functional domestic objects. We propose the analysis of user perception of said objects, through literary revision of key authors and concepts, and also via an enquiry and photographic records of the objects of study in their domestic environment. By promoting investigation of user perception we aim to provide product designers with information and potentially tools which will be conducive to a more informed approach during the design process. вЂ...

In modern Russian conditions, the system of social services is being upgraded. These processes are regulated by the new Federal Law "On the foundations of social services to citizens in the Russian Federation", which entered into force on 1 January 2015. According to this law, any legal entities and individual entrepreneurs might be social service providers. And clients are entitled to choose the supplier of services and to participate in the drafting of individual programs. In this situation, the social service a...

The collapse of the Soviet Union led to the emergence of new political and cultural situation. The society of Internationalism cracked, and old ethnic tensions have gained new forms. All this found its expression in many and varied ethnophaulisms. In this article, the authors try to trace the various slurs constructed with the assistance of the nutritional and vestimentary metaphors. They also make the assumption that the abundance of food metaphors for marking the Other/Alien shows that the food problem is percei...

The mood for the imagination and inventiveness in Brazil recreates every moment many other "Brazils" that retake and reinvent traditions, weaving an amalgamated diversity with a false idea of festivity and affection among transitions, courage and hope that often suggests a prosaic grace and spontaneity. This "brazilianness" that apparently renews and enriches our material culture is highlighted here under a focus on curious objects made of recontextualized materials in the main urban centers as a result of a cruel...

The author of the paper discusses the subject of the importance of big-box stores in small towns in the second half of the XX century and the beginning of the XXI century. The goal of the paper is to point out whether – and if so, then in what manner – the placement of large area retail buildings influences the spatial structure of small towns. Particular focus was directed towards the changes that have occurred over the past 25 years (after the change of the socio-economic regime in Poland) and the retail bui...

Penalties for the offence of stalking have a short history in Polish law. Article 190a was added to the penal code in 2011, and Section 190a §1 states: “Anyone who, through the persistent harassment of another person or another person's next of kin, creates a justified sense of danger or significantly violates the person's privacy, is subject to imprisonment for up to three years”. There was difficulty counteracting this offence prior to the 2011 Criminal Code amendment because previous rules did not always p...

Some offences under Polish law are codified in Acts other than the Criminal Code. For example, Criminal Liability is regulate in the 14th chapter of the Act of 4th February 1994 “Law on Copyright and Related Rights”. The most important offences legislated are acts of plagiarism and copyright piracy. The first offence is codified in Article 115 and the second in Articles 116 and 117. Plagiarism is prosecuted ex officio, with maximum penalty up to 3 years imprisonment, and Copyright piracy is prosecuted on a com...

The development concept of the regional tourist cluster through creation of the recreational territories of regional and international significance has been set forth. The model of the regional tourist cluster in the Euro-Arctic region (the Murmansk region of Russia) has been elaborated. The worked out model enables to improve the effectiveness of using of the tourist –recreational potential of the region while stimulating development of other sectors.

The article substantiates the preservation for the coming period the value of oil, as one of the world's main sources of energy, and for this reason, its prospects as an export share of the Russian economy. However, the export potential of oil is currently declining objectively due to, on the one hand, the reduction in the volumes of easily recoverable stocks with good transport accessibility, on the other hand, the relative decline in world prices, which reduces the commercial attractiveness of developing new fie...

The paper illustrates the role played by historic workersВ’ housing estates in the process of development of towns and cities of the Upper Silesian Agglomeration (Poland) and their current situation, as the most endangered element of the identity of the cultural landscape of this region. The paper provides the typology of spatial solutions of the housing estates, prepared on the basis of in situ studies. It demonstrates their distinctness from post-war block development of Upper Silesian landscape. The Upper Siles...

The presented article is an attempt at an analysis of the issue of fanaticism. Looking at the present times, we are left with an idea that fanaticism is not only a serious problem, but a kind of moment in which a modern “to be or not to be” or humanity plays out. Fanaticism has its sources, its roots. It did not come out of nowhere; it is not the invention of Muslims, Christians, the wealthy, the possessed, or the passionate. It is analysed as a social, cultural and ethical phenomenon, as well as a political a...

The notion of “concept” is currently widely used in linguistics (cognitive and psycholinguistics, theory of intercultural communication and sociolinguistics, etc). We ventured to investigate the ways the concepts ‘downshifting’, ‘travelling’, ‘space’ and ‘time’ are interpreted in the modern British fiction created by the female authors. At first, these concepts might seem incompatible and even antagonistic (belonging to either emotional sphere, to the abstract or philosophical stratums), but still thei...

Positivism has been the dominant paradigm across the social sciences. Its quasi-monopoly has been broken only in the last several decades when with the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s grounbreaking study The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), other meta-theoretical stances have managed to assert themselves. From the 1980s onwards, the field of International Relations (IR) has witnessed the emergence of a reflectivist current characterized by the embrace of post-positivism. Reflectivist theories – from pos...

Collocation extraction is a prominent task in natural language processing, its results are important in various areas of applied linguistics. The research focuses on a comparison between seven statistical measures based on the large Russian ruTenTen corpus. The paper examines the bigrams with a number of Russian high-frequency nouns that were extracted by the given measures. The analysis is organized in two ways. First, we ranked the lists of bigrams obtained by each measure and evaluated the results against the R...

This study dealt with a possible dual origin of scepsis as a platform for critical thinking, which is connected with the very substance of philosophical research. The original question was whether there is a В‘pure scepsisВ’ as a zero point, which various thinkers can get closer to or further from depending on a particular case, or whether there are approaches which, although based on scepsis, are mutually incommensurable. To answer this complex question, we used interpretation using the combination of a nomologic...

Grammar is viewed as an essential element for communication because it shows how language is used. The process of grammar teaching is more successful when it deals with grammatical points that can be used for communication. The communicative view of language extended the structural view of language adding situational and functional aspects. When teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) the four language skills - listening, reading, speaking, and writing, are usually stressed equally while in English for Specifi...

The northeast of Russia by in large and Yakutia in particular, is almost undeveloped tourist region of the world. However the region has the considerable tourist and recreational potential allow considering him as perspective. Tourist and recreational division into zones act as scientific base of territorial planning and management of a tourist complex. Now division into zones of this part practically of Russia isn't developed. The option of tourist and recreational division into districts of the Republic of Sakha...

Up to the present moment the musical science explains the fundamental phenomena of harmony, such as sonance and tension, either by the abstract numerical logic in the frequency relations of sounds, or by the individual specifics of perception. And though the regularities of perception of sonance are well-known, their objective reasons exist only at the level of hypotheses, and the phenomenon of tension is still regarded only as a result of the perceptual effects. However, the above-mentioned phenomena are the refl...

E.O. Wilson, the founder of sociobiology, presents in his work Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge from 1998 a conjecture that postmodernism as a principal line of thought at the end of the 20th century, which is inherent in the mainstream social sciences and humanities, closes the door to the unity of knowledge - the so-called consilience. The purpose of this study was to analyse the possibilities of the consilience of knowledge in humanities and natural and social sciences in the state of postmodern crisis of an...

Nowadays the need to create (or construct) new ethical norms emerges constantly in the spheres of politics, medicine, ecology, demography etc. But can we call normative ethics (i. e. ethics which not only describes and explains facts of the societyВ’s moral life but also postulates certain moral norms and principles) a science? The majority of contemporary logicians will answer negatively. According to them normative ethics cannot be a science since it is impossible to give scientific (logically correct) proof of ...

The article is devoted to the issues of personal data regulation in the Russian Federation. Indeed, protection of personal data of an employee occupies an important place in the legislation and judicial practice of the Russian Federation. The author analyses a number of legal acts, as well as certain judicial practice relating to storage, processing and transfer of personal data of an employee. The author emphasizes that on the basis of the judicial practice the criterion of excessiveness in respect of transfer 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.

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...

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is an intermediate state between normal ageing and dementia. This means that subjects with MCI may get worse with the passage of time, and possibly progress to dementia. However, there are also individuals with sustained MCI whose cognitive impairment remains constant for many years, and even such who get better over time. The distinction of persons with different prognoses of MCI is a difficult task. As we do not know who is at risk, non-pharmacological interventions should be inco...

A migration is effect that executes us through the whole history of human race. Although the Slovak Republic belongs to countries with lowest numbers of immigrants the number has an ascendant trend at the present. That is the reason why we should direct our interest to this issue in Slovakia. The intention of this work task is to describe the situation to immigrants, and to find out the opinions of residents in western Slovakia about immigrants. We used the questionnaire for collecting data. The research samples w...

The proposed paper introduces the research focused on the implementation of mobile technologies into Physical Education lessons. Mobile technologies can shorten the users’ time spent in physical (particularly motoric) activities. Our intention was to exploit the attractiveness of mobile devices and implement them in common lessons of Physical Education at the lower secondary school, and thus use their potential to support motoric activities. The paper is a follow-up to the pilot research conducted in 2016. It ai...

The birth of a child with a pathology is experienced by a parent as a stressful situation, which defines the need for psychotherapeutic assistance. It should be provided at the neonatal pathology department where a child stays during the period of acute condition, and parents get informed of the causes of the pathology, severity of condition and possible consequences. The article presents data on examining the effectiveness of rational emotive behavior therapy techniques in working with mothers of newborns with se...

The article presents a multifactor optimization model of balance sheet indicators of a company. The model enables to develop measures aimed at enhancing creditability of a potential borrower. The first steps offered in our research are the identification of all the items of balance sheet to be corrected and planning of measures for affecting the items of concern. The task of optimization is developed consisting of target function formulation and constraint system establishment. Under such constraints the model con...

The protection of life, health and property of individuals is now in the center of public interest. Without distinction, whether private or public sector secures the providing of such protection. Private security services plays an important role in protection of persons and property. The subject of protection is not only persons and property, but also sensitive information, which are relevant for the state interest or business entities. Based on research, private security service are not systematically selecting e...