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In this paper we aim to analyze the degree of concentration of some of the key sectors in Romania, taking into account not only the picture at national level, but also the structure of those markets compared to the Member States of the European Union. Based on the available information, certain data analysis is made taking into account both the market shares of the enterprises in the sector and the number of active competitors, turnover or output, while the economic approach might not be homogeneous from one secto...

In the context of the globalization and integration processes development, and changes in the geopolitical position and foreign policy course, which are overlapping on them, the border regions of Russia, Mongolia and China have acquired new opportunities for socio-economic development. Therefore, the study of the barrier and contact functions of the state border impact on the cross-border cooperation and the socio-economic situation of border regions will be a special relevance. The international tourism developme...

The employment of people with disabilities is a key element of social inclusion and economic independence. Due to the decline in the working-age population in Latvia and taking into account the forecasted labour shortage in the coming years, people with disabilities should be recognized as a valuable resource in the job market. Professional programmes of rehabilitation plays an important role in the inclusion of people with disabilities in the labour market according to their needs and in line with the demands of ...

The article considers the concepts expressed in the primary text (Text 1) and their actualization in the secondary text (Text 2) in regard to the solution of linguistic and cultural issues (representation and decoding, designation of a place in the linguistic worldview and the description of features caused by linguocultural situation). The authors are interested in the following problems: 1) how the concept of the primary text is represented when this text is mentioned as the precedent in the secondary text; 2) h...

The effectiveness of school pupils' functioning is conditioned by many factors. One of them is the involvement of students referring to active participation in lessons and knowledge preoccupation. The positive attitude of a student to school, participation in school and class life as well as identification with the class prevents various forms of socially unacceptable behavior. Involvement causes students to have such traits as perseverance, creativity and effectiveness in achieving goals. The condition of commitm...

Topic modeling is a method of automated definition of subtopics in a text corpus. Usage of topic modeling for short texts, e.g. tweets, is highly complicated due to their short length and grammatical restructuring, including broken word order, abbreviations, and contamination of different languages. In this paper, the authors use the BTM topic modelling algorithm (previously found to work best in comparison with two other topic models measured by automated coherence metrics Umass and NPMI) to test three topic qual...

The historic Brewery in Szczytno is a very interesting architectural object, but does not have accurate documentation. In works on historic buildings, it may be very helpful to make documentation in BIM technology. This technology allows you to create a virtual building that can be filled with all information about it. Thanks to this, it is possible not only to track changes in the documentation, but also to quickly find any collisions. In order to reproduce the documentation that can be used during the renovation...

Today, the most urgent issue that faces start-up entrepreneurs is the issue of attracting funding for the implementation of the project. Traditional forms of capital raising, such as credit, can solve these problems, but it may be problematic for start-up companies and individual entrepreneurs to take out loans on good terms. The problem of capital search served as an impetus for the development of new models for financing projects, one of which is crowdfunding. Crowdfunding is becoming an increasingly popular sou...

The family associations have a particular importance in the comprehension of those new social subjectivities that are emerging within an increasingly decentralized social fabric from a point of view not only institutional and economic but also epistemic and civil. The research conducted so far leave the question open on the new ways of declination of family associations in a supranational horizon. The last few decades have encountered a process of change and differentiation that has affected on different spheres o...

The relevance of the study is determined by the necessity to consider the specifics of the visual components functioning of media content of the leading social and political media, presented in major social networks. The empirical study base (the research is supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project No. 18-18-00007) is the content of Meduza media for the period from the 30th of April, 2018 to the 6th of May, 2018. The total amount is more than 240 units. The results of the study are provided in the arti...

The paper presents the results of a survey St. Petersburg residents about trust in e-government technologies. The study was based on the ideas of actor-network theory and the approach of social construction of technology (SCOT). 600 respondents took part in the survey (sampling error does not exceed 4%, with a 95% confidence level). The study proposes an approach to cyber-social trust in the field of e-government technologies: online services provision, citizens’ e-participation in the management of the city, soci...

In Romania, the physical education lesson goes through a stage of reforming in line with student requirements, adapting exercises to video and computer games. Thus, for six months, 40 students (aged 8-10 years) participated twice a week in work programs that had interactive games in their structure. Subjects were tested before and after the application of work schedules, following their progress in some components of motor capacity. The tests performed referred to the coordination, balance and speed. The statistic...

The direction I chose for my research applicable to the 6th International Multidisciplinary Conference on Science and Arts (SGEM) considers the state of freedom of religion in the 21st century with a concentration on monetary law. I am studying the relationship of religious law and international law in my overall research through analyzing life dynamics such as marriage, divorce, burial, religious holidays, and financial law in different states through 3 religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The internationa...

The present study is based on the fact that nowadays the sphere of education is constantly developing. The clear majority of universities all over the world tend to provide their students with higher education that will be recognised globally. There is a wide range of universities in Russia that follow this trend. Institutions of higher education are designed for students with diverse language backgrounds among them there are universities that focus on teaching students with a different ethnic and linguistic origi...

Bach's genius could be discovered rather in those features of musical language that are no longer contiguous to the pathway initiated by tradition, in those novel solutions which, in spite of displaying a high degree of novelty, are way ahead of their time, foreshadowing evolutions that will become habitual in another stylistic period. One of the elements of the musical language that Bach excels at is harmony which he masters like no other from among his contemporaries. Often a visionary through his manner of appr...

These days the development of civilizational social relations makes the problem of modern civil society formation ever more acute. Civil society nowadays should be perceived as an area of personal development and self-expression of free citizens, including self-realization of young people. Civil identity, being part of the value-based motivational component of a personality, is responsible for successful self-realization of young people – future specialists of various specializations. Students preparing to become ...

The strict preventive measures in the financial sector force money launderers to seek alternative channels for money laundering operations. Unique characteristics of the football sector and sport in general represent alternative means of money laundering than in the sectors traditionally exploited by money launderers. Likewise actions were noticed by some football and European authorities as a starting point of raising awareness of the money laundering risks and establishing implementation of the anti-money launde...

The current theory of multilingual mental lexicon interprets it as a multidimensional network that exists in human brain and integrates units of different languages into a complex holistic structure. The network is put into operation by the spreading activation mechanism that determines retrieval of the necessary information during speech activity. It is assumed that activation in multilingual mental lexicon is non-selective: nodes of all the languages known to an individual can receive the activation impulse simu...

The failure of the critical infrastructure elements represents a significant impact on the national security, safeguarding the basic living needs of the inhabitants, human health or the state's economy. Several critical infrastructure elements are defined, including transport. The world is threatened by several emergencies - floods, drought, tornadoes and other. These events threaten the state's critical infrastructure. Different events could trigger cascading effects. It means that the impact of an emergency on t...

The article analyzes the Kurdish factor in the context of Turkey’s Middle East Policy from the beginning of the Syrian crisis. Turkey’s Middle East policy has changed from beginning of Justice and Development Party’s governance, but Turkey totally shifted its attention to the Middle East since 2011. The main attention is paid to the role of the Kurdish factor in the Turkish-Syrian relations. The features of the Turkish policy on the Syrian-Kurdish issue are considered in the context of Turkey’s national interests....

Open innovation is a new paradigm for the development of agribusiness in Romania and the Danube macro-region. Studies on agro-food chains and clusters are still scarce. In the Romanian agro-food sector, 7 regional and cross-regional clusters are very active. This study aims to present the state of the art on open innovation in agribusiness in Romania, identifying how it is adopted, the role of clusters and the factors that influence this process, a collaborative platform for agro-food clusters and their members an...

The modern Russian language is characterized by the increase in the use of invectives in speech. Invectives are a socially significant phenomenon; therefore their study is relevant for both linguists and the society. The increase in the use of invectives deserves a special consideration taking for the study the dialect material extracted from one dialect system, since it can provide an insight into the functioning of invectives in a separate social stratum. Research material: the whole corpus of invectives recorde...

Teaching the correct writing and usage of Romanian prepositions to foreign students may be a real challenge taking into account that the preposition is one of the most important inflexible parts of speech of the Romanian language, without which one cannot correctly express and last but not least considering the preposition’s high degree of usage in the everyday language. Most of the prepositions express varied reports, bearing multiple functions, their role is often understated, which leads to an increasing number...

Around 60% of the urban population in Romania lives in blocks of flats made of prefabricated panels, built mostly between 1960 and 1990. Interventions on these buildings are a highly debated topic in order to achieve the 20-20-20 EU targets, but less discussed is the part that makes these interventions truly sustainable on long run. The study presented in this paper constitutes the part related to social sustainability conducted for a project that defines some alternative solutions for Timisoara. These proposals a...

The story of Tommaso Astarita is an expression of the passage, made by the few dynamic financial operators of the South, from the ancient regime society to the modern society, implementing in their work the separation between the functions of merchant-entrepreneur-banker, first indistinct. With the General Bank of the Sorrento Peninsula, in fact, one of the first private banking institution was born in the South of Italy, under the legal form of a joint-stock company, able to resist the competition of the big nati...

The discipline on matrimonial property regimes presents significant difficulties for cross-border couples. Therefore, it is necessary to guarantee uniformity in the context of law applicable to the matrimonial property regimes, taking into account the peculiarities of the different legal systems of the Member States. In this regard and in order to guarantee legal certainty, spouses must be made aware in advance with respect to the law applicable to a matrimonial property regime. With Regulation No. 1103/2016, the ...

The research is devoted to the analysis of social entrepreneurship in the sphere of social service and problems of its development in Russia. Social entrepreneurship is one of the tools of modernization of the Russian social sphere and a source of additional resources, as well as innovative technologies. At the same time, its formation as a social institution in Russia is hampered by a number of barriers and difficulties. On the basis of empirical research the features of social entrepreneurship development in Rus...

In the current research, we analyse the displacement of the church from the village Timiseni to the “Dimitrie Gusti” National Village Museum (Bucharest) as being part of the environmental conflicts which resulted after the exploitation of coal in the Carboniferous Basin Rovinari. The old community of free village people, called in the Romanian language “Mosneni”, from the village Timi?eni had been surviving over the centuries because they were placing all they had more precious, treasures and hopes for a better fu...

Risk management in museums of the Czech Republic is inadequate and is not implemented in most museums. The presented issue of risk management in museums is only the first step towards introducing this knowledge into museums. The introduction of risk management as part of an integrated museum management system is very important, as emergencies and disasters are very democratic and unexpectedly reach out to all countries of the world and thus to a variety of institutions.

Contemporary society creates the premises of individual training through different educational processes. Nowadays, the possibilities of accessing these oportunities enable each individual/student to broaden his own horizons and, therefore, to capitalize on the educational and professional training period. In addition to the activities they can perform at national level, the opportunities offered by international activities are also multiple, and students can come in contact with them through various types of info...

The article reviewed and analyzed the interpretation of the term «environmental safety». It was concluded that, now, there are no uniform criteria for measuring environmental safety in either Russian or international scientific practice. The reason for this is the lack of a clear understanding of the definition of «environmental safety». The main drawback of the many definitions available for this term is the lack of statistical (quantitative) definitions and the lack of indications of their relationship with the ...

In the context of the global crisis (linked to rapid depletion of natural resources, climate change, polarisation of living standards, an increase in inequalities, etc.) experienced in the early 21st century, culture is considered a resource of unlimited sustainability potential. Therefore, the policy documents of Latvia state that the future of Latvia should be based on a core of values that do not require intense utilisation of physical resources. In such a situation, the value of human capital is at the forefro...

Mastering toponyms of a foreign language is a difficult and ambiguous process due to the fact that toponyms have a national cultural component. A toponym is seen as a complex notion indicating both ways of language development and language acquisition. A toponym performs several functions in the language. It names the exact location, represents people’s attitude towards it and manifests the mentality of the nation. Acquiring such knowledge draws an individual closer to the understanding of the inner mechanisms of ...

The introduction of 5G technologies is urgent for any EU Member State, including Latvia that has begun making preparations for introducing such technologies. In Latvia, mobile communication operators have begun installing 5G base stations, and several hundreds of them have been put into service. The clients of LMT and Tele2 could start using the fifth generation network or 5 G as early as next year. A survey of mobile communication users revealed that 99% of the respondents believed that transition from 4 G to 5 G...

Accurate data and information about competition, about market trends and about consumers’ needs and habits are essentials for any business company based on profit and efficiency objectives. Forecasting is a decision-making tool used to assess the economic trends and to allow business owners to benefit or to counteract them, in essence, to prepare business owners and management to act instead of react to conditions. This paper aim to reveal the importance of forecasting in decision-making process - with emphasis on...

The ordinary way of financing government expenditures is through taxation. It is to stress the fact that the “basics” of the budget-making process consists of different types of expenditures and revenues from taxation. The best fiscal system for a country is the one that accomplishes fiscal goal of taxation, i.e. allows maximum revenue in the long run and at least administrative costs, but satisfying both efficiency and fairness. Environmental (green) should be consistent with these criteria. On one hand it is fai...

The web has become a very important source of information for users (students, researchers, general public, etc.) and commercial enterprises. This propulsion of data is related to the diversity of requests for information and the need for versatile knowledge. Access to digital data via web services is facilitated by search tools. Following a request from the user, the search engine has a long list of informational responses, but often containing parasitic pages. Although before the appearance of the web, the searc...

For modern scientific knowledge it is typical to have a deep concern in issues of verbal communication. One of linguistic fields dealing with these problems is functional linguosynergetics. Functional linguosynergetics aims to determine the relationship between linguistic units and the conditions of their use in a certain communicative and pragmatic space which is characterized by the author and the addressee’s interaction and by precise peculiarities of this interaction. It helps to see the process of full functi...

Nutrigenomics (NGx) is an emerging area of study focusing on the interaction between nutrients and genotype which is useful in understanding and preventing chronic diseases. It is also called personalised nutrition, an approach that uses individual information to develop dietary advice, products and services that are beneficial for human health. The success of the introduction of NGx depends heavily on public acceptance. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to determine Malaysian stakeholders’ intention to adopt NG...

In this paper computer and mathematical modeling with synergetic effects present one of the «problem zones» in mathematics concerned with the surface area of three-dimensional bodies. The main activity of students is to construct the multifaceted surfaces (for example, Schwartz cylinder (or "boot")) using computer and mathematical and adapt the most important generalized constructions of surface area to the actual positions of mathematical knowledge and fractal parameters. The computer design and mathematical mode...

The anthropology of exile is the new field of research of the present with Europe becoming a fortress with high walls and gloomy gates through their very opening. The accommodation of the exiled is just an appearance, is a terrible joke, dimensioned by the camps' fences in which they are "housed". It is true, they can see the sea through these fences, but it has become a border rather than freedom. Caught in a purgatory space, migrants have no place to take refuge but into themselves, in that self-culturally and i...

The article describes a role-playing game for sociology majors who study English as a foreign language. Drawing on the experience of American and Spanish authors we have developed a game that is instrumental in checking students’ knowledge of sociological terminology, translation skills and factual material. The rules of the game are easy to master even for people who have never played board games and its mechanics can be easily adapted to fields other than sociology. Anecdotal evidence from students reveals that ...

In the vast majority of the situations, the scientific papers related to the Romanian folklore have had as main topics types of traditional customs which are interpreted by ensembles and have a somewhat spectacular character in relation to other folkloric categories; which accounts for the fact that they are the ones which are best known both internally and abroad. Songs and “doinas” sung in concerts with audiences, presented with orchestral accompaniment and with literary lyrics (thus, easy to understand by the p...

The aim of this study was to identify a change in the attitude and behaviour of secondary school students from “Fine Arts High School” of Timi?oara, Romania, after their optional involvement in the refurbishment of their classroom. Students could experience ‘design thinking’ and learn steps necessary to put their creative ideas into a project, and then implement the project: “Classroom of my dreams”. 20 students filled in a 22 points questionnaire for the post occupancy evaluation, five months after the inaugurati...

Bran castle is a medieval fortress situated in south-eastern Transylvania and the most visited tourist attraction in Romania. Its popularity among international visitors is mainly due to its association with the famous Count Dracula, based on the assumption that this particular castle might be the one that Bram Stoker presents in his novel. The castle has its own history, starting from the 14th century and continuing with its transformation into a summer residence for the royal family of Romania, in the 20th centu...

In the life of a child, a pupil, student, the authority is fundamental and is of key importance for its further social experience. As a dynamic element, it is subject to a number of changes especially between childhood and adolescence. We cannot separate the authority from the educational process, as the constitutive element of the teaching profession it manifests itself in the social relationship between the teacher and the learner. The teacher plays an important role in this process, as the pupils are reliant on...

The present study aims to achieve a morphogenetic theory application in the field of artistic form, thus expanding the applicability domains of this theory and in the area of interest of the arts . An interesting approach to the concept of form (studied in the biological, chemical, physical forms) and then extrapolated to any systems in which, form is involved as a fundamental notion is Rupert Sheldrake 's morphic resonance theory. He argues that not all phenomena of life are explicable in terms of physical and ch...

The recent sentence of the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation on the well-known case of Massimo Giuseppe Bossetti, in which thousands and thousands of genetic profiles were analysed, offers an occasion for a number of observations on the subject: on the one hand, on the genetic proof and its value in the Italian criminal process and, on the other hand, on the role of the DNA database which in Italy, in contrast to other European situations, as yet contains few profiles. In fact, even if active since 2017, it only ...

In Poland, the transformation period, initiated in 1989, brought a huge development of academic education. The number of studying youth has increased many times. This process forced building investments in higher education in Poland at an unprecedented scale. Still lively "old" traditional university centers have been developing dynamically, yet at the same time many new ones have been created. Wroclaw University of Science and Technology is the largest university in Lower Silesia and one of the best technical uni...

Òhe article deals with reading treated as representation of belles-lettres embedded in the modern culture of performance; offers a review and analysis of fancy-dress forms of presenting fiction in diachrony and synchrony. The article also presents an analysis of existing aids on Russian as a foreign language and as a mother tongue, which learning guides use the forms of handling the literary text that are close to those proposed in the present article. As a result, this engenders a concept of reading belles-lettre...