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Historical novel is, without any exaggeration, one of the most striking literary genres, as a retrospective of the past in the imagination of the writer makes up for the lack of imagination and imagination of a professional historian. Historical novel is, without any exaggeration, one of the most striking literary genres, as a retrospective of the past in the imagination of the writer makes up for the lack of imagination and imagination of a professional historian. The genre of historical novel has gone through a ...

Social enterprises are a relatively new and expanding field of study. They could be private for-profit, non-profit and hybrid organizations with a social mission that use business approaches to achieve their objectives. They typically function upon a range of laws to govern their creation, day-to-day management, tax arrangements and dissolution. Since social enterprises are in the inter-section of the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, policy makers have, in certain countries, sought to encourage it by creating a c...

Starting from underlining the actual existence of a human society in full globalization process and from analyzing a phenomenon as old as time, i.e. human migration, we are trying to highlight in this study the relations that exist without any doubt between globalization and migration. At the same time, a review of the relations and effects between migration and the international community, between the religion and the culture of different societies that come into contact with the migratory phenomena, is performed...

Festivities are one of the most stable forms of spiritual culture, which nowadays undergo significant transformations: the spectrum of festivities, their functions, traditions, the attitudes of people and their knowledge about the festive culture are changing. The influence of western European festivities is another significant trend that has become evident in contemporary Latvia. The research analyses the specificity of the perception of Halloween in the south-eastern region of Latvia – Latgale (the major objec...

The objective of the research was to test the dictation of capital letters and comprehension to sentences in a sample of first grade pupils at a speech-therapy-type primary school (STPS) and a primary school (PS). The author investigated 46 pupils, of whom 13 from the speech-therapy-type primary school, 12 from primary schools for pupils with specific learning disorders and 21 pupils with typical development from a primary school. Results: Pupils from STPS (N=25) achieved an average score of 20.52 out of 34 points...

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...

The safety is a key value consisting of personal safety programs, injury prevention, health support and keeping environmental and safety laws and regulations. According to previous experience it is possible to state that students, pre-service chemistry teachers, who are well-prepared due to safety practice and compliance with safety regulations and responsibilities, after starting work, are able to work creatively. With regard to preparing pre-service chemistry teachers, it is inevitable to understand the importan...

Health tourism as a niche has emerged and has rapidly grown to become a very significant and promising industry. In the European Union, health tourism market is definitely a new and strong trend, with total revenues of 46.9 billion EUR, which is equal to 4.6% of all tourism revenues and 0.33% of the EU-28 GDP in 2014. The purpose of this paper is to describe main attributes and to analyze some of the health tourism challenges in Italy and Croatia. In addition, the financial effects of these health tourism markets ...

Rudolf Carnap, one of the most accomplished representatives of logical empiricism, finds himself in discussion with Heidegger in the most radical phase of his work. His radical, critical approach is significant for the syntactic period of Carnap's thought development. Heidegger is, according to Carnap, a philosopher who speaks out against the rules of grammatical rules. Heidegger does not perceive Carnap as a philosopher worthy of a long answer. There are only two Heidegger's responses to Carnap. In his intellectu...

The article is devoted to the history of the mineralogical collection which played a special role in the history of museums of Russian universities. Assembled in Saxony by a chemist and mineralogist Johann Friedrich Henckel and then bought by the owner of several steel factories Akinfy Nikitich Demidov, it was later presented to the Moscow university and then served as the basis of the first Russian university museum. This article reviews the history of the mineral collection before it was sold and explores newly ...

Cultural studies address a wide range of phenomena. Among others, they deal with heritage research combining methodologies adopted in the sciences (chemistry, physics) and the humanities (art history, archival studies). Heritage studies give us a new insight into material history, history of economy, socio-economic topics and local community. The example of Gierczyn (formerly Giehren) – a small Silesian village in Poland, close to the Polish-Czech border, once part of the Kingdom of Bohemia (until 1740/42), Prus...

Individuals? cognition demands are constantly increasing in the current globalized world, and therefore, they have to face the need to work with information in new and more complicated ways not only in their mother tongue but also in foreign languages. In order to orient themselves in the huge amount of information, individuals develop different strategies and procedures that help them sort information and to create a cognitive structure that makes it easier to process information. This process is called a persona...

The research aim is to define and substantiate the methodological guidelines for the historical reconstruction of Ukrainian philosophical tradition of axiology of the nature. First of all, the research methodology as a synthesized self-reflection of historical humanities, in the search for new knowledge, should be based on human-centered approaches, principles and methods and it has to take into account evolutionary changes in the world society, the conceptual and historical-contextual influence on human conscious...

The article analyses the physical representation of national identity in BarnesВ’s England, England (1999). In his novel, Barnes constructs a two-dimensional model of English national identity comprising history and landscape. The significance of these two concepts in the system of national English symbolism is acknowledged by both the English and the outsiders. In the three parts of the novel, the author successively depicts three landscapes with various degrees of symbolic meaning. In the first part, the perspec...

The need to steer our development towards a more sustainable future is ever more imminent in the light of the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Urban areas bear much of the blame and burden and interventions towards urban sustainability may have the greatest impact. Despite increasing interest in urban sustainability, from both the scientific community, as well as practitioners around the world, its clear definition and especially its measurement and monitoring is still a cause of ...

The digital era implies not only changes in the workforce, it has an even greater impact on managers 'education, and from this perspective managers' training needs to be given greater attention. Training has the main starting point for the target audience, but it is not necessary to ignore the start and initial level of the trained. Also, the education and experience of managers who are trained are equally important. In this context, the educational system needs to adapt to the needs of the digital era, not just f...

In the present-day context, economic growth based on the cluster-oriented approach is considered to be one the most rewarding and effective mechanisms to improve the competitive strength of the regions in the country, as well as stimulate the innovative activity within the advanced social and economic development areas. The industrial cluster sustainable development model would be impossible to be implemented without setting up a definite management mechanism and system. As such, this article outlines the framewor...

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...

The paper tries to analyze the issue of human capital development on the performance of the organization at national and regional level, to identify and analyze, through the proposed conceptual model, the factors of the human resource development that lead to increasing the organization competitiveness by ensuring the connection between the specialized human capital and the organization performance, which will generate a competitive advantage over the selected organizations. The overall objective of the research f...

Workplace stress is recognized as a worldwide challenge for both employees and organizations. From this point of view, approaching a research topic regarding the factors that determine the occurrence of stress within the project teams from public institutions, along the realized public projects, I think it is also of real interest for public institutions. This research aimed to determine which are the main stressors that appear within the project team, more precisely in the elaboration and implementation of public...

The paper aims to map the roots of the Unity of the Brethren, a religious movement whose origins date back to reform religious thinking represented, e.g. by John Wycliffe in England. The text mentions the key moments in the history of the Unity of the Brethren, notices the influences and contacts with Martin Luther in Germany and later Jean Calvin in Geneva and focuses on the development trends within the church itself. It especially points out the trend towards humanistic traditions of education, scholarship, lit...

This article aims at looking at two centres of modernity, seen in space, time and metaphorical representation, in the early twentieth century as illustrated by the Irish writer James Joyce in Ulysses (1922) and the Romanian novelist Cezar Petrescu in Calea Victoriei [“Victory Avenue”], published in 1929. The analysis is based on recent research that has entangled the representation of space in cultural and fictional texts with the geographic spaces of the respective historical periods, the reason being that, s...

In the context of stimulating personal development, an individual approach to each individual is very important. Considering this approach with respect to modern academic education, it is worth implementing a master-student tradition, lost today with the massification of education. Based on the literature analysis, the following two approaches can be indicated to build personal knowledge. The western strategy focuses on the development and transfer of explicit knowledge, built in a created system of knowledge mana...

There is an ongoing debate in the contemporary studies on religion and society on whether religion is an evolutionary adaptation or a by-product of our human evolution. Taking the most convincing pros and cons into consideration I come to the conclusion that religion is both: as a set of universal norms and ethical regulations it is an adaptation functioning as a cybernetic homeostat; as a set of beliefs and imagined spiritual beings it is a culturally dependent by-product that enables the implementation of behavi...

The present paper aims to investigate the ways in which the First World War was portrayed on the Italian screens during the Fascist regime. For this purpose, the paper will discuss a number of films about the war made in Italy between the 1920s and 1930s, ranging from Mario VolpeВ’s Il grido dellВ’aquila, produced in 1923 on the occasion of the first anniversary of FascismВ’s seizure of power, in October 1922, to Marco ElterВ’s Le scarpe al sole, which is commonly regarded as one of the best Italian films on the G...

Traditional museum is typically characterized especially by presenting exhibits. However, it has recently been enriched by many other features that contribute to the attractiveness of exhibitions. Museum spaces nowadays offer various educational events, creative workshops or shops with artefacts and publications. This paper is aimed at presenting partial research results orientated to human-centered design of museums for children. The introductory part describes innovative design tools that focus on multisensory p...

Business externalization is a common concept in HR management and freelancing is one of the aspects of independent employment. In the past, many authors defined the area of freelancing in media, artistic and creative work, however, contemporary sources note that the area is much broader and changes rapidly. The present study aims to determine the status of freelancing in Croatia. The starting point of this research was to find out whether freelancers have the same opportunity as in other business communities, and ...

Railway transport facilities are a group of interconnected and interactive parts that perform an important work or task. These include, for example, track and station security equipment, interlocking security equipment, dispatching workplaces, communication equipment elements and others. Many are dependent on electricity supply, although some of their functions may be temporarily supplied from alternative sources. The electricity distribution network, which has a number of different elements, is relatively vulnera...

Scientific and technological progress brought to life a completely new means of communication that combines the functions of the phone with its ability to communicate in real time and a telegram with its written summary form, providing cost-effective communication at any time and from anywhere in the world. The Internet as an information and communication environment is used as a tool for communication and cognition. Language becomes not only a means of communication, but also a means of creating a virtual reality...

At present an economic management of any administrative region (territory with fixed legal boundaries) is impossible without modern technologies of spatial analysis. Administrators of power structures use every opportunity to ensure that the management of the region is based on the automated processing of spatial data and particularly on remote sensing data. First of all, the possibilities of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are used such as data collection and systematization, automated analysis, compilatio...

A fairy-tale describes the events that are impossible in real life; it often combines fantastic, invented and real layers. But the most important purpose of a fairy-tale is not only to make a reader or a listener imagine fabulous actions and characters but also to teach a lesson of kindness and justice, to speak about important things in life in a vibrant and bright manner. Both a fairy-tale and a fable convey moral values, but the difference between them is that a fable moral is expressed explicitly while in a fa...

The aim of the paper is to point out the social need to elevate the ethical culture through knowledge, development of ethical skills and professional ethics, which exists over higher education. The evolution of an ideal professor guided in all the fields of culture constitutes a challenge for university teaching, with a peculiar emphasis on professional ethics. This research offers a conceptual theoretical approach concerning the development of applied ethics. It includes the explanation of two forms of these type...

Increased complexity of the modern battlefield extends requirements for medical support and sustainment that often exceed the capabilities of a single nation. What are the possibilities of increasing efficiency and reducing the costs of providing healthcare to deployed troops, especially in an international environment? This article, which is focused on the experimental work of the Multinational Medical Modular Approach (MMMA), tried to answer this question. One of the methodological approaches used, was a discove...

Commuter rail transport in Russia has been assigned the lead socio-economic role in meeting the mobility needs of local population. The social significance of rail transport lies in its demand among those citizens who have the right for preferential travel, as well as among people with low incomes. Regional authorities set up the cost of travel for such society groups below actual cost. Losses in the income of the carrier are compensated by providing subsidies from the budgets. The mechanism for delivering budget-...

Alexey Bartoshevich, a great Russian theatre historian and critic, often raises a question, “To whom was Hamlet written?”. This question is the starting point of the theatrical, philosophical and sociological discussion. What was the audience like then? What people tried to find in Hamlet later on – in XVIII-XX centuries? How modern theatre directors stage this play, how we see it, understand it, feel it? With each touch, each production the play gets new meanings, implications, contexts. According to Alexey...

Inclusiveness is a critical economic and social paradigm of the XXI century. Since the early years of the first decade of this century, the design assumes an essential role to society as all: if economic development and social well-being are rooted in innovation, the design is responsible for "translating" innovation into new products consumers can value. The last twenty years brought a sustained search for design graduation and post-graduation courses all over the world. From more traditional programs to new high...

In the Renaissance era, the mastery of the organists is increasing, and they are the ambassadors of the increasingly pronounced orientation for instrumental music, supporting and consolidating the instrumentalism. Important organists, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, etc., offer and promote the solution of instrumental music in the European space. The new trend in the approach of instrumental music develops in parallel with the compositional professionalization. Among the Iberian organists, Pedro Alberto Vil...

Everyone has their own individual way of understanding the world, explaining various positive and negative events that they experience in their lives. Striving to achieve their goals sets certain expectations with them. During adolescence, a man plays the role of a student. In this role person sometimes experiences negative emotions. It is increasingly noticed that the requirements set for students are too high in relation to their resources and competences. As a consequence, these situations disturb the students'...

Industrial heritage provides one of the most important records of social progress and urban development and continues to have international potential for education and development as confirmed by the joint ICOMOS – TICCIH Principles for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage Sites in 2011. A global problem is young persons’ decreasing interest in studying natural sciences, architecture and engineering, knowledge of which is a prerequisite for further technological progress and socio-economic development. This ...

Industry 4.0 has recently become a very actual and interesting issue in many areas for lot of people. The questions of the creation of state economic policy for development of sectors of particular industries and the related question of their support by the state are discussed. If this area can be characterized by a pragmatic, predominantly economically oriented approach, there is a greater degree of emotion in other areas discussed. These emotional categories also include the impact of various Industry 4.0 initia...

London is an ambivalent space, a site of renewal and tradition, dissonance and harmony, fragmentation and unity, destruction and rebirth. This paper aims to investigate the mapping of London as a city prone to regeneration, constructed as a sum of factual and fictitious experiences and perceptions of the urban milieu in a transcendent spatial continuum. In this respect, geocriticism will be used as a theoretical point of departure in order to investigate London as a real and imaginary city, whereas psychogeography...

The telecommunications industry is a sector that is developing at a fast pace, in a particularly strong competitive environment. Innovation is a key process in this sector being one of the most important factors ensuring the competitiveness of companies. The analysis of the components that are evaluating the performances of the telecommunication companies as a result of the adoption of the innovations enables the creation of strategic models that can lead to important competitive advantages with the effect of incr...

The global collapse of the environment is inevitable. Developed states should work alongside developing countries to make sure that their economies do not contribute to increasing pollution problems. Today's politicians should think about supporting pollution reduction programs rather than expanding industrialization as much as possible. Environmental conservation strategies should be accepted on a global scale, and people should start thinking about a significant reduction in energy consumption without sacrificin...

Today's, Europe is facing considerable challenges induced by technological and digital advancements which require a highly-qualified and flexible workforce able to support upward economic and social convergence between and within Member States. These challenges point out the necessity of investigating and structuring significant initiatives at European Union (EU) level with particular regard to overcoming Romania Higher Education (HE) bottlenecks and drawing up desirable improvements solutions. The paper is based ...

In Latvia, many of recent cultural activities have been established and developed as a response to decreasing of economic activities as well as shrinking processes of population and institutions in rural territories. The aim of the paper is to analyse the development strategies of five planning regions of Latvia in order to examine the role of cultural resources and activities in terms of regional development. The paper consists of the theoretical review of culture-led strategies as well as the content analysis of...

The basis of this research related to student burnout is the psychosocial approach of Ch. Maslach - American psychologist of Polish origin. According to the author of this concept, one of the indicators of personal and professional successes is the interpersonal functioning of a human being. A lot of research has been done about the burnout. Most often, they concerned professional burnout among employees representing social professions [1], [9], [3], [4]. Unfortunately, little is known about pupils' school burnout...

This article discusses the methodological issues of determining value added in the framework of intercompany networks - industrial clusters, which is an effective tool for analyzing and decision making. A sequence of stages of the formation of value chains (VCC) is proposed, their features and mechanisms for optimizing the interaction and coordination of actions of participants according to the criterion of gross value added (GVA) are highlighted. An approach to the definition of value added in the framework of gl...

This article analyses the aspects of the development of relationships in intercompany networks. For these purposes, the authors summarized data from various studies of Russian and foreign scientists. Also, the article summarizes the results of studying the issues of interaction efficiency both between the network participants and between partners and the network. Emphasis is placed on the ability of a central company to manage individual relationships, a portfolio of relationships, a central network and an industr...

The theory of intercultural citizenship in language education developed by M. Byram plays a very important role as a basis for developing competences for democratic culture. The first goal of this intercultural investigation was to compare Russian university students' self-assessment and peer assessment of the competences of intercultural citizenship. The second goal was to find out whether the results of self-assessment and peer assessment were different among male and female students. The theoretical and empiric...

This study is devoted to the description of psycholinguistic features of Chinese students, the purpose of which is the successful implementation of intercultural communication in the process of teaching them Russian as a foreign language at the pre-University stage of training. At the pre-University stage, many foreigners face problems of adaptation due to the huge difference in national consciousness, cultural traditions and rules of conduct. To help foreign students to adapt to a different language and socio-cul...