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The article is devoted to the analysis of methods of innovative development evaluation in social and economic systems. The comparative analysis of methods of innovative development evaluation is carried out. The study identified a number of problems in the metrology of innovative development ratings. The analysis revealed a set of identical indicators characterizing this process at the macro, meso and micro levels. Most of these indicators are aimed at the innovative component evaluation in developed countries. Bu...

This article is devoted to the peculiarities of teaching microsocial studies of students and PhD students in universities. The authors substantiate the difference between microsocial research and sociological research, placing emphasis on the need to study first as much as the latter. The fact is that the problems of a small sample and a deviation from a normal distribution can be solved by using nonparametric statistics, qualitative methods, big data, web 3.0 and case-study strategies. This article details the fe...

The article discussed the specifics of the functioning of the typical mechanisms of re-gional self-regulated organizations to support small businesses in the economy of the Russian Federation. In order to improve the mechanism for the activities of the regional self-regulatory organization to support small business, more complete implementation of the system of statutory functions for the development of small businesses in the re-gion, improve the level of sustainability to fluctuations of the external environment...

The article presents speculation about the possibility of using a corporate tool of strategic planning, such as the balanced scorecard (hereinafter BSC) at the sectoral management level. We propose BSC constructing method for the regional industry (in the context of the Stavropol Territory of the Russian Federation). According to this method, the existing mission of the region's industry is used to build a strategy map, select key performance indicators to achieve the strategic goals, as well as describe control p...

This article is devoted to the modernization of the laboratory practical work of chemical disciplines studied by future bachelors of the technical university with a view to strengthening the research-teaching link, creating conditions for the development of research competence of future engineers while attending junior university courses. On the basis of grounded by us earlier the concept and structure of the information-and-activity-based educational environment for the fundamental chemical training, the structur...

The relevance of the research is conditioned by the need to change approaches to the formation of common criteria and mechanisms for motivating the students' abilities and readiness to effect in non-standard situations. Students have had a social and ethical responsibility for made decisions "in real time". The existing approaches are obsolete, since mutations of extraneous biological objects in the technological processes of different types of products at enterprises occur faster than before Such a situation requ...

Students of non-linguistic universities are currently being exposed to ever more extensive English classes. With this category of students, the least developed methods of teaching Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) are the ones designed to develop the skills of specialised terminology usage. Since terminology forms the core of a professional language, it can be viewed as a conglomerate of its basic attributes and properties. Terms are the most mobile layer of the vocabulary, subject to constant and intensive enr...

A comprehensive and detailed description of the impact of the migration movement of the population on the socio-economic situation cannot be achieved without statistical indicators that quantify the phenomena and processes associated with the territorial movements of people. In this context, it is necessary to note the specifics of the situation. On the surface, a more or less digestible system of indicators of population migration statistics was formed, which is widely used in practice. The overwhelming majority ...

The constant aspirations of mankind towards higher economic growth lead to a sharp consolidation of the geographic space, an increase in the raw-energy deficit and an increase in the world's water consumption. Migration policies during different historical periods are motivated by relevant political, economic and social circumstances. The worst migratory waves have been caused by world and regional wars. The salvation of human life, family and children has always been at the heart of the evolution of migration phe...

Transition to the 21st century brought within the framework of the European a special situation, namely, migration of the population to the other member states in order to find well paid jobs. The research analyses the population migration within the last 3 years compared with the period 1990-2000. It takes into account the level of migration from countries such as Romania, Bulgaria or Hungary immediately after the accession to the European Union. The research is based on data from the European Union reports, the ...

The article analyzes, through the lens of linguistics, psychological problems faced by migrants trying to adapt in contemporary Russian society. The authors consider the “pain points” of people’s language disunity from the standpoint of the anthropological approach to ethnolinguistics and make a hypothesis that it is language that is the main problem of migrants’ adaptation and one of the main reasons for the polarization of society that divides it into two camps on the “friend or foe” principle. Most of...

The article deals with the results of an empirical study conducted within the framework of the project "Social risks of international youth migration in contemporary Russia". The purpose of the presented study is to identify and assess the main social risks that are constructed in the Russian society in the context of international migration. The telephone survey was used as the main method of gathering empirical information. In 2017, two surveys were conducted covering 15 regions in all federal units; the total n...

At present, in institutions and organizations, we can see increasing demands on the ability to cooperate and link the individual components of these organizations more closely, which requires leaders to use new leadership strategies. Even traditional complex hierarchical organizations such as the army and the police must adopt new leadership and management practices in the times of rapid technology and social change, and introduce procedures that focus on sharing power and promoting co-operation. One such strategy...

The aim of the paper is to assess the millionaire cities attractiveness for residents in the Russian Federation in the period from 2011 to 2015. Ranking is made using 20 indices combined in five groups. As a result, authors find out that the best positions among millionaire cities in their attractiveness for living are taken by Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and Chelyabinsk. They are characterized by a high standard of living, the state of the economy, and the provision of social infrastructure. A little lower attracti...

The season of 2017/2018 in Latvia was especially rich in stagings of plays by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828 – 1906). Ibsen’s plays were staged both in theatres and opera, in the capital city of Riga and other towns in Latvia. On the whole in the season of 2017/2018 Latvian audience could watch 7 staged plays by Ibsen. 2 of them are interpretations of “Peer Gynt” in Latvian National Theatre (premiere on 27 October 2016, director Viesturs Kairišs) and Latvian National Opera (premiere on 28 October ...

The experience of flow has been known for a long time across all cultures of the world. It was not a privilege of rich elites from industrial countries. Similar terms have been used by old Korean women, adults from Thailand, teenagers from Tokyo, members of the Navajo tribe, farmers from the Italian Alps, and workers from Chicago. Happiness is not a result of coincidence; it is not something you can buy or achieve when you are in power. It does not depend on outside conditions. Happiness is a state for which one h...

The problems of minimizing tax risks when Russian companies paid income to foreign organizations were constantly in the focus of attention of economists and practitioners. The number of publications of both foreign and Russian researchers in this field has a steady upward trend. This is due to the observed increase in the number of foreign organizations receiving income from sources located on the territory of Russia, as well as the expansion of the range of controversial issues arising in the current conditions f...

In the present paper some possibilities for construction and application of various modifications of the well-known transportation problem are proposed aiming the minimizing of the transportation costs for transferring the material flows between suppliers and consumers. The transportation costs are usually a significant part of the total logistical expenses and each logistic system has its own specifics and characteristics for transportation of materials, goods and products. This gives opportunities for applying d...

Background: Mobbing is one of psychosocial risks; it is a serious and latent problem of many workplaces resulting in a psychological injury and an adverse working atmosphere. Increased staff turnover is a rather common consequence. The aim of our research was to determine the level of bullying in health professionals and the relationship between mobbing and intention to leave a job. Method: The research was designed as a questionnaire survey and took place in 2017. Participants should be employed in their job for ...

The need to ensure mobility of persons with disabilities is due to an increase in the absolute and relative number of people with disabilities, which is a global trend. The United Nations Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, adopted in 2006, was aimed at solving these problems. The actual problem of the Russian social practice is the provision of physical and social mobility of the disabled, the formation of a monitoring system of the rights of the disabled and the availability of infrastructure ...

The article deals with the topic of the mobility of socially excluded Roma women. It is aimed at analyzing how mobility can work as a reaction strategy of solving social exclusion and the related poverty. The topic is based on the theories describing space mobility as motivation for improvement of life conditions, particularly in case of poverty. The study was implemented by the qualitative research strategy, the method of questioning and the technique of biographic-narrative interview. The research set consisted ...

The paper introduces the general model of andragogical vocational consultancy. Based on the theoretical research drawing from theoretical approaches of Slovak and foreign authors and arguments resulting from the current socio-cultural and socio-economic conditions, this paper explains the meaning of the educational consulting support aimed at adults who are healthy and (potentially) productive in their work during their vocational life. The authors consider the andragogical vocational consultancy as a process para...

The creation of socially involved space, both on an architectural and urban scale, has become one of the determinants of contemporary design in recent years. Designing areas that will meet additional social goals is often associated with widening of the group of people involved in its creation. One of the possible models is connected with using local participation as a method of creating a functional space. Examples of activities that were undertaken in 2014-2017 during cyclical architectural workshops in the vill...

The article describes the GermanyВ’s investment attractiveness mathematical model. The model is based on the institutional and functional approach. The distinctive feature of the institutional-functional approach is the inclusion into the model of the endogenous variables that characterize the institutions performing the function of attracting investors into the country: the technological development institution, the companiesВ’ registration institution, the country economic freedom institution. Functional compone...

In today's global world an image of a certain country and its society plays a significant role in international relations. The creation of such image depends largely on the attitude of the mass-media and their ownersВ’ policy. For the past several decades research is done over many different aspects of the modern communication processes in search for better target audience impact methods and models. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the principal model of forming an inter-country communication within a spe...

Childlessness in the modern world is becoming increasingly common. Of absolute interest is the assessment of the scale and trends of voluntary childlessness, a comprehensive assessment of factors and models of childlessness. The article attempts to identify the main determinants and typological groups of voluntarily childless men and women on the basis of methods of statistical analysis – descriptive statistics, construction of a goal tree and cluster analysis. Conscious childlessness is not a new phenomenon, wh...

The paper discusses the technological complex of wastewater treatment of wastewater treatment of petrol stations. Based on the review of the main modeling methods of discrete-continuous chemical and engineering processes, it substantiates expediency of using the theory of Petri nets (PN) for modeling the process of wastewater treatment of petrol stations. PN enables to simulate discrete parallel asynchronous processes, to get a graphical representation of the network, to describe the system at different abstractio...

The behavior of local economies during the economic crisis is one of the greatest concerns in the scientific world. The study aims to highlight the patterns of evolution of local economies from Romania, which have a spa tourism function (officially in 2016 there were attested more than 30 territorial systems with spa tourism functionality), for the period 2009-2016, a period marked by a decline for most local economies. In the present paper we intend to quantify how spa tourism contributes to increase the adaptive...

The article describes the main results of interdisciplinary studies devoted to development of a methodological approach to typologization of urbanization processes for small and medium-sized cities in resource regions of Siberia, as well as to modeling the impact of key urbanization factors on the innovative technological, economic and socio-cultural development of the said regions. The reported study was funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Government of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Krasnoyarsk Region Science an...

Organic farming in Latvia is becoming more and more popular. The number of certified organic farms in Latvia increases annually. In 2016, the number of certified organic farms was 4147. The number of companies offering organic products as well as the number of consumers who are willing and able to buy these products is increasing. However, organic products are relatively expensive and less affordable than conventional products, which makes it difficult for farms to sell their produce, thus hindering the developmen...

Insurance means protection against different kinds of risks with financial consequences. In frame of this protection, the insured transfers its risks, the possible negative consequences of which are unbearable to the insurer, i.e. to an insurance company. In order to compensate the insurer for such consequences, the insurance company collects the premium for the transfer of risk, the amount of which depends on the size of conventional damages, having a random character. The balance between premium written and prem...

Mixed use is a term used for implementation of different functions (uses) in the same building. Mixed used buildings are very often related to a high density (compact)urban landscape: city centers, urban centers, particular densities and uses. The term low density refers to housing and describes partially urbanized land with dispersed (non-compact) housing(very often single family houses or semidetached housing). In times of constant urbanization, low density mixed-use houses occur more and more often. It is commo...

Russia's relations with the international financial institutions had a multi-faced character. In the transition period of the 90-ies foreign borrowings, especially from the IMF were not always well-grounded and effective. The obtained financial resources were mainly used to service the state debt and cover the budget deficit and were not aimed at financing technological renovation of Russia's economy, the development of infrastructure and creation of export-oriented high-tech industries. In the early 2000's the ec...

The article analyzes the innovative potential of game technologies for developing studentsВ’ professional dialogical competence. The authors make a historical journey to look at the game theory in the format of interdisciplinary scientific interests, examine a technological model of a training business game in relation to speech studies, and show the educational attractiveness of game technologies for a modern higher school. Consideration is given to didactic aspects of innovative learning models aimed at developi...

Historiography of the history about Civil war is currently on the rise. In many ways, this is connected with the 100th anniversary of the beginning of large-scale military operations on the territory of Russia in the spring of 1918. Recently, a significant number of historiographical works on the history of Civil war have been published and need to be evaluated. The aim of the article is to present the results of the study of the topic, reveal the problems of discussion, note the most important directions that req...

When you develop businesses in the online environment, there are a number of online marketing tools and strategies that generally you have to use: websites, mobile apps, SEO/SEM campaigns, social media and content marketing, etc. If you have a website, in order to improve your business, you should use a Facebook account, a YouTube channel, etc. Also, if you have a YouTube channel, the current online marketing strategies suggest to build a blog for your channel, a mobile app, advertise them on Facebook, and so on. ...

Background: The article discloses some problems of upbringing in recreational activities of children and young people based on innovative trends, forms and methods of work that contribute to their inclusion into the proclaimed humanitarian ideals and values both declaratively and objectively. Special attention is given to SpArtan games that are conditioned by the necessity to solve important modern socio-cultural and pedagogical problems that contribute to recreation and leisure, as well as spiritual and physical ...

What Francis Poulenc means for todayВ’s listener? Successful musician of the 20th century, having a huge success with the public, the French artist, who was brought up and created in a fascinating musical and cultural environment, and whose sources of inspiration, creative directions, genres, styles, concepts of creative thought impress both professionals and the general audience. If we access the official website dedicated to his personality, we are provided with an overall view on the huge documentation around P...

Today, the global economy is in a state of transition from one technological mode to another, more advanced. According to various evaluation society will be the sixth technological way in 2020-2030 This situation has a significant impact on the processes of economic development of individual countries, particularly highly developed. The most significant phenomenon that characterizes this state of the world economy is the so-called digital economy. This was influenced by the active use of information and communicat...

In the article the authors analyze the problem of modernization in Russia, which is currently one of the most important factors of economic development. Modernization is considered as a macro-process of transition from the traditional society to the modern one, which supposes qualitative change of the whole way of life of the country. Studies have shown that society has different views on the concept of the essence of modernization. Many members of society consider this term quite narrowly, most often understandin...

Contemporary brain activity monitoring is called Hemoencephalography (HEG), which shows the quantitative changes in brain activity in a different way. Hemoencephalographic neurofeedback training is a modern alternative to physiologically affect the condition in children with ASD, ADHD and other deviations in mental development. Hemoencephalographic neurofeedback can also be used as an alternative supportive therapy in other conditions with frontal lobe pathology alone or in combination with established drug therap...

Money laundering is the operation by which considerable amounts of illegally achieved money, from different activities such as drug trafficking, drug smuggling, arms dealing, human trafficking, bribery, and corruption or other crimes, are transformed into legal funds earned from legitimate activities. The purpose of this paper is to present the primary forms of money laundering and different mechanisms they set in action and their effects. The methodology used for this paper is made of scholarly articles and artic...

This paper is devoted to the philosophical research of videogames as a phenomenon of modern culture. The subject for study is myth and mythological structures in videogames. Videogames represent value and meaning related constructions of the modern époque. However, they fulfill mythological elements inherent to the archaic consciousness at the same time because the archaic story of the hero’s way consisting of the three basic stages – exodus, initiation, and returning along with the appearance of the hero’s i...

The executive project of the Forte Montecchio North, drawn up by the Military Genius Works Management in 1912 and revised in 1914 with the aim of expanding the powder magazine in the cave in order to store explosives in the same, for road breaks, come from the suppressed TannoВ’s powder magazine (near Chiavenna), reflects the typical characteristics of the Italian forts built between 1904 and 1914, debtors of the theoretical studies of general Enrico Rocchi (Rome, 1850 - 1933). The contribution aims to offer, thro...

Monument has accompanied architecture for ages. From the first civilizations to the twentieth century people erected buildings related to memory, religion or politics, giving them an appropriately serious/solemn style. They expressed social and cultural aspirations. Today, there are no styles and rules in architecture. Yet, we still need to express the greatness, dignity and uniqueness, arousing awe and admiration for buildings. Hence the monumental architecture probably still exists. The subject of research conce...

Describing the Mozart style, the Austrian conductor-authenticator Nikolaus Harnoncourt compared his music with a mirror, which reflects the most bitter conflicts of humanity, while remaining unresolved. According to the conductor, the strength of the moral impact of Mozart's music is due to the transfer in his works of genuine multifaceted human characters, which provided the problems presented in them, where the issues of opposition to good and evil occupy one of the leading places, acute relevance in the conditi...

The author aims at the Ethical Education teaching introduction realized at primary and secondary schools in the Slovak Republic. This subject creates a main supporting area for pupil’s and student’s moral development. Besides the education aspects, the author points at the importance of critical and analytical thinking processes development within this class as a mean of helping and enabling to deepen the understanding and internalization of moral values and norms.

Emotions were always at the heart of the primary nominations. Not a single word was born without a person's emotions. The linguistic aspect of emotionality has become an integral part of scientific research in various fields of knowledge (philosophy, psychology, linguistics, medicine, psycholinguistics, etc.). The ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle described the world of emotions. The problem of realization of the emotional function of the Arabic language was reflected in the works of medieval philolog...

The labor market is the most important element of the economic system, since it represents the aggregate of supply and demand for labor, the balance of which determines the economic growth of the country as a whole and of the particular region, in particular. On the other hand, it is largely correlated with the capital market, the means of production, consumer goods, etc. Thus, it can be said that the labor market is the most important factor in the development of the economy, the effective functioning of which en...

Beauty and accuracy are the two features that a botanical illustration must have in order to be considered as such, rather than simply as an artistic representation of a plant. The scientific and teaching focus must take priority over questions of aesthetics and art. From the first example of botanical illustration on the walls of the Temple of Thutmose III in Karnak, to the illustrations of RedoutГ© in the 19th century, the evolution of botanical illustration has been constant and parallel to science, until photo...