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The purpose of the study was the evaluation of the patients suffering from obesity and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) starting with anthropometric, biochemical, imaging data and the correlation of the serum level of leptin and adiponectin with the histopathological results. Material and method: we included in this study 20 men and 34 women diagnosed with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease by recent (under 6 months) hepatic biopsy, taking usual blood samples, leptin and adiponectin. Results: According to th...

The country's public debt – a multifaceted characteristic of the economic situation of the country. The statistics of public debt of the Russian Federation for 10 years was reviewed in the article. The study identified several reasons to doubt the validity of the magnitude of the debt burden for the Russian economy. It was concluded that in current Russian conditions a peak of decision-making on the debt had been reached. Over the past four years the debt has increased 2.3 times, while the state guarantees increas...

Ukraine, more specifically the ongoing armed conflict on its soil still attracts a lot of attention. There are still many unanswered questions that might help us understand why conflict started and how long will it last. One of the most important things is to remember that the crisis in Ukraine is multidimensional thus there are many reasons for the current situation and there is no easy solution. In this paper, we mainly concentrate on military issues. The main aim of this article is to find out how deep is the i...

Artistic marketing in Romania represents an increasingly discussed subject within the institutions providing cultural activities such as festivals on national and regional level. There is a wide range of cultural festivals, which encompasses refined opera festivals and folk festivals, including music, theatre, dance, film, literature, arts and crafts. The purpose of organizing festivals varies from entertainment to cultural and educational goals and furthermore to bringing together diverse communities, or even for...

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, etc… The synd...

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 is devoted to development of ecological tourism on the territories of the Arctic, in the territories located north of the polar circle, and extending to latitudes ± 66°33'44". As the research methodology used for comparative analysis of projects and programs of development of tourism in the territories of the Arctic. As the base was used for comparison of the program of state and regional support for tourism, social and entrepreneurial initiatives of the local population, as well as commercial projects...

The paper illustrates the author's analysis of green technologies in construction and how they alter the massing of works of architecture. Ranging from small buildings like single family houses, to large structures like skyscrapers - all types of buildings have their respective technologies that can be considered green, ranging from technology that focuses on the internal workings of a building's technical infrastructure, to those that affect its exterior, like solar or photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, external...

The contribution will focuse on the most controversial issues in the mechanism of human rights protection at the level of the EU and their current reflections in the time of crises, including the proposals de lege ferenda. The key part of the paper will be dedicated to the issues of the judicial enforcement of the provisions of the Charter reflecting the fact that this Union´s catalogue of human rights does not bring its own control mechanism in the form of the special procedure (on the contrary to the European Co...

The paper deals with the necessity of integrating financial systems of state corporations into financial systems of the world in general and separate countries in particular, mutual benefits of this process outlined. Financial architecture plays a significant role in the development of the world economy consisting of a great number of national and regional economies having different levels of innovative development. The world financial architecture is subject to constant reforms, adapting to new approaches connect...

The aim of this work is to provide a comprehensive picture of the development of the Slovak economy in the context of the regional development of the regions with the help of macroeconomic indicators. The content of the article is a literary overview of the basic concepts, methodology explaining the method of calculation, which allows an effective understanding of the content of the present article. When assessing regional disparities, different approaches and methods are used. Comparison and analysis of individua...

According to literature data, there are many causes, motives and motivations for smoking. Connecting adolescent occasional smoking with sensory experience searching can be one of the most important risk factors. The less mature the personality is, the more exposure to the challenges. There is an important influence also for the socio-cultural environment in which the adolescent is socialized. Cigarette consumption might be considered as a lifestyle model. The formation of this lifestyle model in childhood and adol...

Under the circumstances of restructuring and modernizing public finances in Romania, which is subordinated to the requirements of market economy development, the Court of Accounts functions as a financial control institution, independent of the legislative and executive powers.It is the institution empowered to check, in the last resort and in the most demanding manner, the management accounts drawn up in the execution of the state year budget, either to give discharge or to attract the legal responsibility of tho...

The article contains the comparative analysis of the entrepreneurship development in the resource regions. Basing on the statistic analysis of indicators, a classification of the resource regions according to the level of economic diversification (the share of processing industry) and to the level of entrepreneurship activity has been formulated. The indicators have been grouped on the level of business activity, concentration of enterprises in the industry, productivity and investment activity. The correlation an...

Development of cultural landscape is a continuous long lasting process combining both natural conditions and human society activities. Whilst formation of natural environment was a result of processes in remote geological eras, stabilisation of cultural, social and production relationships that has shaped the face of cultural landscape happened in last few centuries. The paper is focused on a long-term development of the selected Slovak cultural landscape types (plains, basins, uplands, highlands, and mountains) i...

The study focuses on academic rituals as part of university culture in Romanian universities. It also tries to underline the role of academic rituals as communication instruments for the universities, both public and private. The latter category adopted the common ceremonies for academic life to gain legitimacy and recognition as part of the higher education area. The analysis focuses on a series of rituals identified in the Romanian universities, mainly the opening of the academic year, the graduation ceremony, a...

Nowadays one of the main tasks is the ability of students to self-study due to Federal State Educational Standards 3+ in the system of Russian higher education. The proper organization of students’ self-education will promote efficient education and monitoring of level of formation of the common cultural competences set by federal standards of higher education: ???-2. One of the modern directions of the organization of self-study having high potential is the use of information and communication technologies. We ha...

Background: Institutional trust is one of the fundamental issues in the Russian society. The crisis of trust towards the social institutions, which are responsible for the processes of vital importance, is becoming total. The use of such category as institutional trust is due to the necessity to react in an integrated and contextual way the processes, which are currently occurring in the system of higher education. The following study, which is based on the sociological research data, shows that strengthening of t...

Currently, the business is considered a key factor for economic growth and development. In this context, it should vigorously address the determinants that affect business activities and hinder its development. This issue is pertracted in different dimensions at the global and national levels and the results of the examination are contained in databases and scientific studies. The source of these data is from 1999 and the project Global Entrepreneurship Monitor - GEM, where the core of the research lies in the nat...

One of the main vectors of the educational development in the digital age is to improve the quality of education and to increase the effectiveness of educational process by using new educational technologies and advanced teaching methods. A key role in this process remains for the teacher, who must master both in innovative pedagogical technologies (blended learning, collaborations, personalized training, etc.) and information technologies (MOOC platforms, learning management systems (LMS), systems for web confere...

The introduction of 3D audio sound systems in commercial cinemas in 2012 aimed to revolutionize multichannel sound. A large number of loudspeakers increase spatial resolution, help to position sources more precisely and enable a three-dimensional sound experience. The new technology – mainly represented by the brands Dolby Atmos and Auro-3D – raises the question whether these new sound formats amount to a merely technical upgrade or whether the expanded possibilities of sound design lead to new ways of storytellin...

In modern criticism, V. Nabokov is revered as one of postmodernism “godfathers”. In the texts of a number of iconic contemporary writers (from A. Bitov up to O. Slavnikova and L. Ulitskaya) the influence of “Lolita” author’s creative works is highly significant. L. Ulitskaya never attributed herself to the postmodernist trend; on the contrary, she insisted that aesthetics under the sign “post” is becoming obsolete. Such experience of the author's self-identification beyond the post-modernism's aesthetics is worth ...

The recent imbalance in providing an adequate plan, training as well as human resource management for the medical institutions is affecting the proper function of the Romanian healthcare system. The present study intended to identify the satisfaction of Romanian medical work-force presently employed in private as well as state healthcare institutions. With this purpose, the study targeted the working environment of the two categories of institutions and focused on the relations and communications between health pr...

The article is devoted to intonational patterns of the speech of modern Australian business environment (businessmen, economists) representatives and the dependence of intonation on social characteristics of communicants. In our opinion, this issue is one of important directions of modern linguistics. The target audience of economic discourse has a particular impact on the tonal composition of language. The material of the study included several sources, containing samples of natural speech representing interview ...

Finding ways to fund the sustainability transition in a difficult financial climate is challenging. Since the sustainability transition depends on successfully increasing individuals' well-being, we suggest a new decentralized paradigm to facilitate the transition to a sustainable future. A decentralized business model emphasizes decentralized control over livelihood resources (natural resources, energy, finance, knowledge, networks) and supports individuals’ autonomy, relatedness and competence. While adverse eff...

In the history (of philosophy, art) there have been different ideas of the body and soul and their mutual relations. First opinions appeared in antiquity, continued in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the modern age, until the present time. The body was mostly the object of investigation, it was examined as a whole and so were studied its parts. In Plato´s philosophy, the body was considered material and the soul intangible. Although he found the soul to be more important, it was not possible to separate them. Ar...

As a universal communication tool the English language plays a key role in consolidating and unifying the world community into a sole, integrated information superpower. Due to this phenomenon the English language is extending its geography and implementation areas which include business and interpersonal interaction along with further computerized integration of international relations among various countries worldwide. All these processes condition the inner changes in the language system structure itself, impac...

Biocompatibility of denture base materials is a key problem in modern dentistry. Different dental alloys induce different biological and structural modifications over the gingival mucosa. The aim of our study was to determine the structural modifications over the gingival mucosa induced by dental materials using the morphometrical analysis. Our study was based on 24 gingival mucosa biopsies analyzed using the classical histological method followed by morphometrical analysis using Lucia G 4.7 software. The software...

Today's world of architecture and art is more frequently separated from transcendence. The pressure of the pragmatism of a sign brutally annuls imagination. The language of symbols seems to be dying out. The victory of semiology, analytical rationalism and the reign of information communication are all the effects of the triumph of a sign over a symbol. The art of architecture, especially its sacral variety, ought to remain symbolic if it wants to be permanent and eternal. So, if it is expected to be the authentic...

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...

Economic activity is largely due to unpredictable market conditions. It is caused by economic freedom of all economic agents. These conditions generate uncertainty, alternative and ambiguity of events. The information space asymmetry causes incremental transaction costs and leads to an enhancement of the information uncertainty role in terms of risks of the organization. Therefore the information component problem of the uncertainty of the economic environment is one of the most current questions of modern economi...

Last decades are characterized by an appeal to the text as a way of understanding the person, his aspirations, logic of thinking, value orientations. In this context, the study of the folklore texts, including a people's will, are seem to be extremely valuable. The resistance to its shape and lexical composition, as the content of the small genre is transmitted from generation to generation, respecting the original vocabulary and syntagmatics. The subject of this article is the names of air masses in the Russian a...

The purpose of this work is to study new and more effective ways of teaching English to EFL students as the timeliness of the issue studied in this article is attributable to the high level of the English language proficiency which potential professionals are required to have due to high competitiveness in the context of the worldwide globalization. The article represents the analysis of advisability and effectiveness of using an authentic feature film in teaching English to EFL students of Kazan Federal Universit...

According to Italian Legislative Decree no. 201/2011, the unfinished works are public works whose construction had been started but had not been completed or even if completed, it is not usable by the community. Unfortunately the national tradition has shown too often the creation of works partially unused and often obsolescent. From March 2013 the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport started the national census-register of unfinished public works. At the end of 2015, were listed more than 800 works, needing a...

The political crisis in Macedonia deepens and it is far from finding a proper and long-lasting solution. The opposition and position parties after the December 11 elections accuse each other for corruption and treason, which prevents the formation of the government and its focusing towards Euro-Atlantic processes and democratic principles. In addition, in this paper we are going to emphasize the role of the political elites and their political ethics, taking in consideration their responsibility for the long lasti...

Cognitive ergonomics is considered with mental processes, such as perception, memory, reasoning, and motor response, as they affect interactions among humans and other elements of a system. The development of cognitive ergonomics discipline is a result of rapid technological advances, especially in the field where a machine is considered rather as an agent with which the human should cooperate than an assistant to the human operator. The increased complexity of technical means contributes the addition of informati...

The Cantacuzinos were a very large imperial orthodox family. The complexity of their relations through kinship goes from the Ottoman dynasty through kinship with Orhan to kinship with the family of Aragon. We can say that these kinships anticipate the genealogical tree of the later Corvinus kinships. This aspect must be directly related to the closest Cantacuzinos’ kinships, namely kinships to the Brankoviches. Brankovich is an old Nemanjic family, still undeterminable. They succeeded in imposing themselves throug...

The aim of the article was to consider the correlation of logistics and marketing functions, which consists in the rather simple phrase: Marketing creates support and increases the demand and Logistics provides it by creating of various systems and schemes of goods traffic (rival and non-rival form) and controlling their passage. The relevance is that for successful modern business management there is a need to establish an effective system of interaction between marketing and logistics, which requires paying atte...

An important factor in the development of critical thinking in high school students is the availability of critically rich information in the educational texts. The problem of this study was to find some kind of universal approach, ensuring the filling of educational chemical texts with critically saturated information. In accordance with the criteria of critically saturated information formulated in the context of the dialectical method of cognition, we have selected and classified the fragments of critically ric...

The present paper is an applied contribution to the analysis of international capital flows. International capital flows play a central role in the global economy; they are closely tied to countries' economic and financial conditions, can influence macroeconomic policy, and bring a range of benefits and risks to beneficiaries. This paper describes the patterns of international capital flows in Russia (a sample of a big emerging market (BEM) economy) in the period 2000?2016, focusing on the last decade. The paper r...

Third-countries migration is considered to be the security threat to the receiving countries. This hypothesis is widely accepted mostly by the public in the receiving states. However, there are only few scientific studies aiming to verify the hypothesis. With missing evidence that would confirm or deny the theory, securitization of the topic in the EU and particularly in Slovakia as a country with limited immigration history raises. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the nexus migration-security more deeply and...

This work is dedicated to the formation of the management strategy of human resources of Government autonomic health institution "Children's Republican Clinical Hospital of Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan" on the basis of the implementation of the principles of process management using strategic management tools. The relevance of the study is the transition to a new stage of development of the institution in connection with the completion of the implementation of the regional program of modernizati...

The paper aims to investigate the existence of a positive feedback process between managed aggregate equity fund flows and equity fund excess returns in short-term and long-term period using monthly data from high- and middle-income EU economies for the time span from January 2000 to December 2016 and to perform subsequently international comparison of the obtained results with existing evidence from other regions or groups of advanced and emerging economies of the world.

Nowadays, access to medicine is a crucial precondition for many disease prevention programmes and the treatment component of virtually all diseases. The availability of qualitative pharmaceutical care services is an integral part of the national welfare system, thus their quality maintenance and improvement under conditions of budget austerity is one of the main challenges for policy makers and pharmaceutical companies. The current research is a continuation of several related research projects implemented in scop...

Economically justified solutions concerning the European transport system are crucial for the competitiveness of the Alliance throughout the World, for the financial growth, for reducing the unemployment and for improving the standards of living. It is exactly the free movement of people across the borders which is one of the four types of freedom typical for the European citizens, together with the free transportation of goods, services and capital. For realizing the mobility of its citizens each country creates ...

One of the most widely used means in achieving firms’ growth and development are mergers and acquisitions (M&As). However, numerous empirical studies have questioned the success of M&As in increasing the firms’ value for their owners. Even though varying in methodology, sample size and structure, monitored time and geographical spread, the majority of research indicate that many M&As fail in accomplishing described criteria, i.e. that they do not increase the firm’s business success. This opens questions about the...

The given research is focused on the study of the book by a contemporary Latvian writer and journalist Inese Zandere titled “The Ship’s Log Book” (Ku?a žurn?ls), which was published in 2016. The author of the research views it from the perspective of hybrid texts and analyses the shift of genre boundaries between poetic texts and journalism. The subtitle of the book is “Notes, essays, excerpts, letters, conversations”. In the title of the book a lexeme denoting a familiar document is used – a log book, which is kn...

Purges of the governmental apparatus became one of the character phenomena of the soviet society in the 1920-es. They acted as a part of the transformation of society by eliminating “class alien” employees from the soviet service. The aim of this study is to estimate a purges scale and to identify how decisions on the “former people” fate were made. The problem is studied on the example of Vladimir region. Research is based on the documents from Vladimir state archive. These documents reflect the implementation an...

The lighthouse, an architecture landmark of the coasts around the world has been the subject of study, especially it focused on the drafting the restoration project of the Punta of Guardia lighthouse on the Ponza island, Italy. Ponza is an island which gives its name to the archipelago of the Pontine islands, located off the Lazio coast. The lighthouse in question is one of the most important signaling systems of medium-high Tyrrhenian, built on a sea stack 112 meters above sea level, at the end of 1800. As almost...

This paper presents a description of the main characteristics of the German banking language, especially from the perspective of lexicology. The paper classifies the banking and finance language, which is characterized by the specific lexical features and terms, as a language for special purposes. The banking terminology and other words relating to banking are used in various forms of the internal and external banking communication, such as documents for bank clients, contracts, printed forms or announcements but ...