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The study is devoted to the specific area of industrial design, design of public passenger transport stops (bus stop, tram stop, trolleybus stop). The main objective is to model relations between general features of the stops, environmental restrictions of places where the stops are situated and characteristics of people with their physical and psychological characteristics. The above-mentioned characteristics affect both sub-parameters and layout plan of the entire unit. The study has conveyed systematic research...

The article discusses the problem of choosing the system and general applied software for the support of distance learning by the teacher and the principles of the choice between proprietary and free software for its subsequent use in the educational process. Remote forms of instruction are formulated and appropriate recommendations are given. Distance learning more and more covers today not only extended education, but also main education itself, in particular, systematically they are applied in a case of the pos...

The article explores the problem of optimising university training structure to increase focus on the labour market. The proposed solution is constructed using a deterministic approach in which the following vectors are formed: the phase vector, whose coordinates are the values of the parameters describing the training process in higher education institutions at a certain fixed point in time; the controlling action vector (control vector) that allows influencing (by means of funding, the school-leaving exam score ...

From 2008, an increase of Russian Federation ambitions has induced public demand in EU countries to strengthen their military power. A new recruitment wave is affected by economic struggle, previous downsize of overall equipment, still unfit legislation and low willingness of young generation to serve in order to protect our globalized society. When recent eligible pool of society does explicit difficulties to recruit, then gravity of our interest will have to be pulled to upcoming generation. Moreover, current mi...

The aim of this study was to identify if there is a possible correlation between the salivary secretory Immunoglobulin A (IgAs), 8- hidroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) and the clinical status in aggressive periodontitis (AgP). This disease has a high incidence around the globe of between 15-20% according to WHO. It is generated by the periodontopathogenic bacteria that lead to an imbalance in the production of oxygen reactive species resulting cell destruction and teeth loss in young adults. Due to evolution of technol...

The article presents a brief overview of organisation and activity arrangement of the Soviet Union penal institutions and detention camps for Soviet citizens and foreigners convicted of especially dangerous crimes against the State from historical and legal perspectives. The main source of information used by the authors was provided by the State Archive of the Russian Federation (abbreviated GARF). The authors of the article managed to reconstruct the system of detention places for dangerous state prisoners, whic...

The aim of revitalization is to bring permanent economic recovery into a degraded areas. Revitalization processes are of special nature, due to their complex character, combining different aspects of urban policy, as well as due to the unpredictability of time and finance determinants. It is this unpredictability which forces the need to secure long term funding for these processes. The International Specialized EXPO 2022 is expected to address the problems of revitalization. The only European city that has submit...

The problem of organization of personally-oriented independent work with the minimal direct impact on students by teachers is currently among the most topical problems of pedagogy and the methodology of teaching foreign languages. In the conditions of transition to a credit-modular system of teaching, independent work becomes the main source of knowledge acquisition and the formation of various methods of studentsВ’ activities. Today the Russian higher school formes the preconditions for a paradigm shift in educat...

According to the Rssian tradition, an activity is regarded as a purposeful activity which implements the needs of the person. Soviet scientists while exploring the human in all aspects of the life, have come to realize that the activity itself, the conditions for its implementation, implements, etc. have a strong impact on both physical and mental health. The activities of the students as the subjects of the educational process have their own characteristics. On the one hand, in activity the students realize their...

The article considers the organizational and economic aspects of the problem of municipal solid waste (MSW)В’s formation and placement. This problem becomes more and more relevant for the cities of Russia including the Sverdlovsk region. Referring to foreign experience, we demonstrate the necessity to form an effective MSWВ’s management system in Russia via required reforming based on the laws and regulations. Comparison of the existing options for MSW elimination shows that the cheapest but inefficient option fro...

The purpose of the research was to identify and analyse organisational solutions of strategic controlling, in particular incorporation of strategic controllers in the organisational structure, as well as controlling responsibility centres (especially in the context of the contingency theory). The results of the research were related in particular to the manpower of the controllers team, the range of responsibility and the decision-making powers delegated to strategic controllers, as well as the factors influencing...

Theoreticians and experienced practitioners agree that organisational innova-tiveness is a key factor leading to the continuation of business activity and to developing of contemporary organisations. There are many publications about innovativeness de-terminants. According to practitioners and theoreticians organizational structure is one of the important innovativeness determinant. This article presents the results of empirical research concerning the relationship between the organizational structure and the ente...

In the context of the gloablizing world and the developing Russian society with its ethnopolitical and ethnocultural specifics arises the necessity of organzing intercultural dialogue both internally and externally. History education is essential for achieving this goal. Before reaching its modern state, history education in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) passed through several stages which are outlined in this article. The most important changes took place in the 1990s. That stage saw the emergence of new types ...

The Pharmaceutical Industry is one of the biggest industries trying to balance the relationships between innovation, competition and superior profits [1]. As we noticed, nowadays, we have many types of drugs at our disposal to buy. But what happens when many pharmaceutical manufacturers produce the same drug, with the same active substances, changing just the appealing packaging? People barely notice and, of course, they pay more for the same original drug that they used to buy. How rapidly new drugs appear on mar...

Mastering a foreign language today is of vital importance to specialists as it has become the terms of successful international cooperation. Although there are lots of foreign language teaching methods, graduates experience great difficulties in producing even a low level speech. Therefore, the key aim of the article is to deal with the problem of overcoming the language barrier for vocationally oriented foreign language teaching due to appropriate teaching terms, ways and techniques. The research is based on the ...

The article is devoted to the category ‘Slavic paganism’ which is very popular in modern culture. The author discovers two main meanings of the term – ‘paganism’ as a scientific and ideological construct which derives from 17th century and ‘pogani’ (heathens) as historiosophical concept in the literature of Old Russia. The last can determine any group of people connected with ‘alien’ environment mostly in religious and cultural sense. Also the concept had a strong socio-political context, that’s why ‘p...

The aim of our research is to create an adequate preoperative education in order to reduce anxiety of patients, therefor it is necessary to understand their emotional experiences, cognitive processes and behavioral aspects as well. This article presents the development of a measure of pain in patients in whom vascular procedures using prosthetic grafts are indicated. The test battery is based on the Dynamic Model of Psychological Processes in Chronic Pain primarily used in clinical practice. Dynamic Model includes...

The term Paleo-Asiatic peoples (Paleoasiatic) was proposed by the Russian scientist L. I. Strencom in the middle of the 19th century to refer to a number of indigenous peoples of the North and North-East Siberia with the archaic features of culture, characteristic of the Neolithic stage of development. The basis for selection of these people in a special group was that their languages are not connected with large language families of Northern Asia. This is the reason that they are preserved in the place names of t...

The humanities are rapidly changing nowadays. Since the late nineteenth century the humanities claimed to follow an own method: ‘hermeneutics’ (Verstehen). This method was different than the methods of the (natural) sciences. While scientists explain nature by way of counting, measurement, and formulating laws, scholars in de humanities try to understand (hermeneutics) particular and unique phenomena – such as texts, artworks, or for instance a historical period – by way of empathy and imagining. However, du...

In modern society, the trend toward the spiritual impoverishment of a person, indifference, lies is firmly established. Meanwhile, it is well known the word has a moral nature. As a consequence, the study of language units with the projection on the moral principle is associated with the idea of the necessity of strengthening the spiritual foundations of the modern person, of a native speaker. Language, in turn, determines a person belonging to a particular national culture, which is reflecting his mental and mora...

The authors explore the problem of identity as a result of the interaction of subjects in the process of communication. The authors allocate various types of identity depending on the historic stage of the existence of the human community. They distinguish ethnic identity, religious identity, linguistic identity, national identity, cultural identity. The authors select such form of identity as transcendental identity and consider it to be the ultimate form of identity and the most significant on a contemporary soc...

In the present paper, the authors study practice of public participation in the budget process in the Russian Federation and analyze huge material thereon for the period from 2007 till 2017. Particular attention is paid to participatory budgeting (PB) as a dynamically developing form of public participation and civil initiatives. With the account of the world experience of PB use, the authors investigated the problems of participation thereof in the Russian Federation exploring in detail implementation of RB in Sa...

The purpose of this study is to determine the peculiarities of migratory activity of the population in the 21st century. In this study, attention will be paid to the main factors determining the migratory activity of the population. Determining the key factors will provide a practical opportunity for describing and analyzing extremely dynamic and constantly changing processes by the degree and intensity of their manifestation in the changing world. The monitoring of migration flows will be carried out in a retrosp...

The nurse's educational activities in cardiovascular prevention play an important role. Quantitative method of questionnaire technique with the help of standardized structured interview was used for the survey. Data were processed by the descriptive statistic methods. The SASD program and the contingency tables of selected indicators of the 2nd classification degree were subsequently used for processing. The degree of dependence of selected features was determined by the chi2, t-test.

Background. Immune causes of miscarriages are not well known. Toll-like receptors (TLR) are receptors of innate immunity, situated on innate immunity cells, including epithelial cells, and capable to recognize structures of pathogens (bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa) and activate immune response. Toll-like receptors, recognizing bacterial structures, are membrane receptors, which through MyD88-dependent pathway activate synthesis of proinflammatory cytokines. TLR1, TLR2 and TLR6 recognize lipopeptides of Gra...

The process of forming new industries contributes to the resource regionВ’s promotion to a higher level of competitiveness. A wide range of strategic analysis tools was used to develop an algorithm for territorial and sectoral development based on two major global trends. They are the transformation of production and technological chains, and new organizational forms of regional development that support and accompany these processes. The revealed patterns of the spatial and branch development of the resource regio...

It is known that the information acquired before the journey is essential for building visitor expectations and behavior. With its increasing role as information and communication tool, internet has become a key factor for destination image formation. Specialized travel websites in particular have a major contribution to building and communicating destination image, especially those with user generated content. Perceived as more objective, personal visitor experiences shared online are much more convincing and inf...

It is generally accepted that advertising is one of the fundamental issues, which plays an important role in a rapidly globalizing world. Numerous investigations have highlighted that advertising effects processual quality of language and means of communication. The evolution of media language and its peculiarity are determined by its important influence on the national language diversity affecting mainly material, spiritual, economic, political and social development of the society. The research of the advertisin...

This article discusses the formation of Russian young generation personal and civil identity problems. The basis of identity includes the common culture with the common values, history, myths, and life standards. Obviously, the most important mentality forming function, in the conditions of radical social changes, is performed by the education method based on the activity approach and studentsВ’ involvement into the real socially-reformative activity. The article analyzes the sociological poll results of 300 stude...

The article is devoted to topical issues of the public corporations functioning in particular examines the impact of the state corporations activities in the innovative development industries. The state corporation is established not for the purpose of maximizing profits, but to solve national economic problems. The state industrial corporations must provide innovative development, to stimulate economic growth, develop the institutional environment to the expansion and strengthening of the state influence mechanis...

The purpose of the paper is to explore the impact of childrenВ’s congenital maxillofacial pathology on the social development of young patients. We applied many survey techniques to measure attitudes. We conducted a 2-stages study among adolescents with congenital maxillofacial pathology at the medical and social rehabilitation center. Important advantage is that we also included in the random sample former adult patients of the center and the parents of the children. At the first stage, for the attitude questions...

In this paper we try to highlight some features of the anthroponymy in the Carpathian-Balkan space, from the first centuries of the Christian era to the present day. To accomplish this, we will use a series of methods, grouped together in the methods of collecting of name information and the methods of analysis and interpretation of anthroponyms. Among the collection methods (sources), we highlight the collections of inscriptions, documents, various statistical records, yearbooks, websites, etc. In the analysis an...

The article presents the results of a study of the formation and development of the system of professional qualifications in the Russian Federation. In this study, methods of expert estimations, the theoretical-methodological methods of generalization and synthesis, which allowed to make the authorsВ’ estimation of the evaluation system of professional qualifications in the hospitality industry, and to develop recommendations for its amendment were used. The author's approaches to the description of professional q...

One of the main types of tourism is recreational tourism, aimed at providing the rest necessary for the restoration of the physical and mental strength of human beings. In addition, ecological tourism has recently become very popular, due to travel to places with relatively untouched nature, which does not violate the integrity of ecosystems and creates favorable economic conditions for the protection of natural resources by the local population. A special kind of tourist activity, combining the tasks of both the ...

In modern society, which is developing rapidly, any teacher should try to find a successful solution of his or her goals of activity, to maintain composure and to stay as a role example of tactful and calm behavior for his or her students, no matter what stressfull factors influence him or her. However, numerous research shows the fact of emotional tension in teachers, caused by endless situations of decision-making in curriculum, evaluation, and communications wits pupils, their parents, colleagues, etcВ… The syn...

This study explores the effect of ethnicity and gender on peers relationships and school adjustment among primary school students in a multicultural sample. Participants were 166 primary school students (aged between 8 and 11 years, 46.4% boys) enrolled in second (42.2%), third (31.9%) and fourth grade (25.9%) with diverse ethnic background, 78.3% Romanian and 21.7% Roma. Students completed a socio-metric questionnaire measuring the preference and the rejection in peers relationships. Data about school adjustment ...

The aim of our study was to reveal the relationship between visual perception of the painting during free viewing and the following verbalization of the perceived information. Eye movements were recorded while 30 subjects were looking at the classic painting of a genre scene, and then they were asked to compose coherent verbal description of this painting. Comparative analysis revealed strong correlation between distribution and duration of the gaze fixations during free viewing and the following narration. The mo...

EmployeesВ’ appraisal belongs among one of the most demanding and sensitive management tasks in many organizations and therefore some managers deliberately avoid this activity and consider it to be unnecessary and administratively burdensome. The aim of the article is to explain the very important issue of the evaluation of employees - environmentalists in organizations. The difference between the performance management and the performance appraisal is explained and the roles and responsibilities of specialists in...

The present contribution wants to show the main features and the focus points of the recent evolution of the Italian railway, so to introduce the reasons underneath its present “high speed” and its perspectives of development in the European space. On a methodological point of view, this essay is based on normative and quantity data concerning the Italian and European situation. This give us the chance to better comprehend the reasons between the produced connection and the railway system of each member state,...

Binding the outgrowing of educational content, often observed just as a group of rules throughout history, with ethical ideas of good and philanthropy that have the power to change the image of the world, this paper aims to demonstrate the factors and social conditions in which processes that have contributed to the science of nurturing, namely pedagogy, take place, as an independent and autonomous scientific discipline in today's Croatian territory. Over the course of history, the pedagogy systematized from the p...

The oeuvre of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was influenced by the major tenets of Symbolism of the end of the XIX century and German Expressionism of the beginning of the XX century, which allowed the painter to express the depths of meaning of life through visual signs. The objective of our research is to determine the artistic concept of the paintings “Melancholy”, “Separation”, “The Dance of Life” by Edvard Munch as representants of his major cycle of works “The Frieze of Life”. The methodol...

The article is devoted to the philosophical interpretation of the specifics of creativity of A.S. Pushkin, the famous poet and writer, one of the geniuses of the world culture. Pushkin didnВ’t leave his own philosophical legacy. However, his works inspired many philosophers, who understood its philosophical depths. This article examines the works of A. S. Pushkin through the prism of analysis of the creative heritage by the Russian philosophers abroad G. P. Fedotov, N.A.Berdyaev and I.A. Ilyin, as well as modern R...

The purpose of this work is to conduct debate on aspects that interconnect energy efficiency of insulation projects and human behavioural aspects. The objective of this paper is to describe the significant difference between energy as a physical phenomenon and the usage of energy for the good and profit of the consumer as the human behaviour and perception of energy inevitably should be taken into consideration while elaborating governmental strategies and performing energy efficient insulation projects. Insight i...

Philosophy has always strived for understanding the most general principles of human being and knowledge. It has been constituted as a scientific discipline with strictly methodological thinking processes and it has contributed towards the analysis of all knowledge. Although different sciences have separated from philosophy in the course of history and have developed their own methodological systems of recognizing reality and their own self-concepts, they still, up to this day, cannot develop knowledge without bei...

The concept of inclusion has been widely used in social, political, economic, cultural, but especially in educational context. However, there is still a need for its thorough philosophical reflection. The article focuses on philosophical understanding of inclusion by analysing the concept of normality and its relation to exclusion. We undertake to answer the question if there is a difference in understanding of normality and inclusion in the context of modern and postmodern philosophical paradigm through theoretic...

The article is focused on studying phonetic peculiarities of economic discourse of New Zealand English. The topic seems to be understudied and is extremely important due to the special status of this national variety of the English language: the progress of its pronunciation system was highly influenced by a number of extralinguistic factors – historic, cultural, territorial, socio-economic and socio-political. The issues of phonetic, intonational and prosodic arrangement of speech in the framework of business c...

The modern big city is a space of visual signs. The key role is played by architecture, which, on the one hand, functions as reference points and guiding volumes, on the other hand, is able to influence the outlook and the state of the people passing by. In this connection, the question of how to identify the potential of architectural monuments as visual texts is important. The work is based on the method of philosophical and artistic analysis of works of architecture as a space of interaction of the viewer and t...

Background. Every fifth citizen of Lithuanian are at the age of 60 years and older. Old age is related to the frailty and disability. Depression is related to disability, suicide risk and higher mortality rates. Older people's poor sleep is associated with a reduce physical activity. Besides, adequate sleep duration reduced mortality in older adults. The main goal of this paper is to assess physical status, depression and sleep quality of older patients in nursing departments. Methods. The study has been taken fro...

Introduction: Assessing various physiological parameters at the second ventilatory threshold (ATV2) is one of the ways of determining a person's cardiovascular fitness. The intensity of exercise that accompanies the reaching of ATV2 is sufficient to act as a training stimulus. The purpose of this paper is to assess whether a period of one yearВ’s sport specific training produced any metabolic, circulatory, and respiratory changes in athletics runners (AR) and race walkers (RW) when tested at a level of physical ex...

The paper aims to present and discuss the results of a research study conducted to investigate the role of the narrative photovoice in stimulating metacognitive talk and reflection. A longitudinal design was preferred to conduct the study. A number of 35 subjects were selected to participate in the study, but 11 of them left earlier the project. In the first phase, all the subjects completed the COMEGAN-ro questionnaire to assess the initial level of metacognition. In the second phase of the research, the particip...