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Being one of the most multi-ethnic areas of Russia, Tatarstan is home to representatives of over 115 ethnic groups, including 8 nationalities, and a “bridge” of tolerance between different religious communities, nationalities, cultural backgrounds and people. Therefore, it is very important to construct a cultural interaction between different people where their needs should be recognized and united in terms of gender, race, belief, age, disability, and culture. The modern role of a language teacher in the educati...

The article mainstreams the problems and prospects of transformation of the educational process, caused by the occurrence of informative and educative clusters (Open Online Courses). The system of high academic education is currently on the verge of radical transformation. The main sources of such transformations are technology and globalization. Acceleration of innovative processes, in various sectors of the modern society, acts as the catalyst for the changes in the methods of acquiring and producing knowledge. ...

The paper is devoted to the analysis of constructing a new concept “politeness” in the Soviet culture in the 1930s. The methodology of the paper is based on V. Volkov’s and S. Fitzpatrick’s ideas about mastering culture by the Soviet people. Principles of new Soviet politeness are revealed, and main etiquette situations typical for children’s everyday life are characterized (communications with classmates, teachers, parents, behaviour in public transportation, sports events) on the materials of the popular newspap...

Objective of the study is to analyse the concept of diplomatic signalling in the context of foreign policy of small states in the literature of foreign policy signalling. In order to achieve his objective author is using the method of literature review, covering literature on diplomatic communication, diplomatic signalling and foreign policy of small and medium states. Research gives insight in several aspects related to concept of diplomatic signalling in foreign policy of small states. The majority of literature...

In thi¾ paper are empha¾ized the achievement¾ and academic deci¾ion of a ¾tudent who ha¾ a belief in hi¾ / her ability that may be over or undere¾timated. The behavior and attitude of mo¾t ¾tudent¾ i¾ more or le¾¾ contrary to academic integrity ¾tandard¾. Thi¾ i¾ al¾o the ca¾e in large univer¾itie¾, where elite ¾tudent¾ are no exception. In thi¾ context, it i¾ analized the effect of optimal deci¾ion¾ regarding a ¾tudent and it¾ dynamic evolution, the po¾itive influence of committed cour¾e participant¾ ("peer effec...

The paper deals with the issue of outsourcing of talented employee recruitment process, in particular the personnel leasing. Outsourcing of employee recruitment process means recruitment through an external company. Given that the use of personnel leasing is becoming popular, the research was carried out to find out what is the situation like in Slovak companies. The aim of the research was to find statistically significant differences in the perception of working conditions by talented employees, who are internal...

The International Labor Organization was founded in 1919 under the Peace Treaty of Versailles (1919). Currently I.L.O. is the main international institution under the aegis of the United Nations that ensures the balance in labor relations between employers and employees. The organization is structured on a tripartite level and consists of representatives of employees, employers and governments, thus ensuring an effective social dialogue. I.L.O. issues two categories of acts, conventions and recommendations. To bec...

The possibility of attending a regular classroom close to home, having sufficient support from the school and creating the conditions for a full-featured development should be a matter of course for equal inclusion in society. In Slovakia, there are no optimal conditions for the education of children with different needs in mainstream education. The authors of the article describe the issue of inclusion of children with special educational needs which has been a topical topic for several years, not only in pedagog...

The topicality of the paper is predetermined by the importance of competitiveness assessment and development for most modern companies, operating on the global arena in the era of globalization, business internalization and the growing opportunities of global sourcing. The term “competitiveness” can appear ambiguous, as competitive abilities of a product on one market can be outperformed on other markets. This trend pushes the companies to the development of more multifactorial strategic approaches in order to mai...

The design process is a complex, multi-aspectual set of actions and decisions that go toward achieving a concrete aim. In the history of the development of design as a professional field, an essential role has been played by an expanding number of methodological tools, created to support the effective execution of the design process. The diversity of the tools and methods to support design is often overwhelming. Instead of offering more tools, the KMP WFP team has attempted to develop a device whose main goal is t...

Dioscuri is the name given to the two twin brothers, Castor and Pollux, sons of Zeus (Dios), born of his union with Leda. They had Helena and Clytaemnestra as sisters. But as Leda was the wife of mortal Tyndareus, the king of Lacedaemon, her children were also called Tindaris. And because Leda had met the same night with Zeus, who had taken the appearance of a swan, and with her husband, the two pairs of twins who came out of her eggs were assigned both to Zeus and to Tyndareus: Helena and Pollux - born with Zeus ...

The idea for this paper sprang out from my own experience as a student. I once complained that a particular teacher’s lesson was too monotonous and I was left with a sad and frustrated feeling at the end of each lesson. The answer I received perplexed me: learning is not meant to be fun. Humor is international and a harmonious integration of humor into language teaching approaches not only does it have a positive effect on the learning environment, but it can also enhance language learners’ skills, from a linguist...

Social integration of youth from placement centers is a problem still faced by th e soc social assistance system in Romania, and the strategies adopted so far failed to fully resolve this issue. A lot of young people after the age of 18 years leaving placement centers receive no support from family and their integration capability is reduce reduced. Th is study aimed to explore the possibilities of social integration of young people who leave placement centers in Romania and especially their perceptions of their c...

The article deals with the history of Spanish art exhibitions in Russia from the 19th century up to nowadays. The turning points of this history are closely related to the social, cultural and political situation both in Russia and in the world. It proves the relevance of one of the basic principles of art studies about the certain dependence of art research on the general cultural and ideological policy of the state. The article describes the first Spanish art exhibitions in Russia in the 19th – the early 20th ce...

The theme of lecture is postcolonial novel in Slovak literature which is a new kind of novel in the Slovakia as the self-colony of Ex-Soviet Union. The lecture analyses the term postcolonial novel as it is defined by prof. Tibor Zilka from Faculty of Central European Studies Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra. Postcolonial novel is more precisely defined in the example of the novel Krajina zabudnutia (2000, The Land of Forgetting) written by Anton Balaz, who, on the basis of personal testimonies of su...

The present paper aims to highlight the existing links within the clusters for development at regional, national and international level, defining the human resource. In this research we set off from a series of assumptions that organizational expectations are related to the involvement of human capital and the factors leading to economic development. In order to achieve this objective, surveys have been carried out within the clusters in the North-West region of Romania with more than 350 members and complex orga...

Without being exhaustive, the present paper aims to analyse the complex developments that involved international conflicts between the Fifties and the early Seventies. At that time, the international relations were strongly marked by the bipolarism and by the opposition between both the Superpowers, United States and Soviet Union, and their respective fields of influence. In the time frame considered, the dynamics included not only the European equilibrium – the most visible theatre of dispute between US and USSR ...

The State is the main subject of public international law and the main actor on the international scene. The role of states in the development of international relations has evolved over time, starting with the classical manifestation of state sovereignty and reaching to this day when the role of individually viewed states has gradually yielded ground to international organizations such as the European Union or the United Nations. This is due to the fact that, in line with the new global challenges, states singula...

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), Prussi...

In our study we intend to analyze a part of a hagiographic source, The Life of Saint Niphon, written by Gavril the Protos in 1520 or 1521, and whose main characters are Radu the Great and Neagoe Basarab, two princes who ruled Wallachia at the end of 15th and early 16th centuries. The writing of Gavril the Protos narrates facts from the history of the country from 1504 until 1520, from a perspective that was favorable for prince Neagoe and the Craiovesti family, being an excellent example of using the past as a dev...

Currently, there is no particular or unanimously implemented regulation of crypto currency at European Union (EU) level. Crypto currency is a digital asset. From a legal point of view it is considered as a good/service or as a payment instrument. The purpose of virtual currency is to secure financial transactions by using powerful cryptography. Unlike digital payment systems or central bank systems, crypto currencies use decentralized control. However, crypto currencies are used to make global transactions and hav...

Serving English language learners (ELLs) has been a major focus of the Reading Recovery (RR) early literacy intervention since its inception in New Zealand and continues to be a focus in the United States. In 2017-18, in the United States, RR served more than 6,000 ELL students in 1st grade. A recent randomized control trial conducted over 4 years, with 6,888 students, of which 19% were ELL, concluded, The growth rate we observed in students who participated in Reading Recovery over approximately a five-month peri...

The literary portrayal of physical disability and death in the book by Czech author Daniel Rusar Spring of Cripples (Paskuda books, Bratislava, 2011) combines the means of narrative and non-narrative textual strategies and at the story level uses the contrast between emotional and deemotionalised attitudes of the protagonists to difficult life situations. The resulting textual incoherence creates a receptional situation that makes the reader’s cooperation in relation to the plot (his temporal and emotional immersi...

Ensuring a decent standard of living is one of the most important issues that any state is called upon to resolve. Taxation and other obligatory payments levied on citizens have a direct impact on the size of real incomes of the population. Experts predict that the fiscal burden on the population in 2019 in the Russian Federation will increase significantly. At the same time, the situation may worsen due to a fairly high level of inflation, the growth of which in 2019 is predicted by many experts. In addition, aga...

The article is devoted to the study of the social and natural aspects of the city environment. The city environment is recognized as the most important factor of creating and maintaining comfort in the city. The city environment forms the quality of life. Therefore, the city receives advantages in competition for residents, tourism and investment. The study examined the views of the local expert community on the most important factors that form a comfortable city environment. Research was conducted on the example ...

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...

A comparative analysis of the European language policy of multilingualism and its analogue in the Russian Federation is carried out using a systematic approach to the study of the regulatory framework and practical implementation. As a result, common features and obvious differences inherent in these political entities were identified. In the modern world, in the context of globalization in all spheres of human activity, language policy in the state or supranational education is closely related to political and ec...

The article dealt with aspects of the professional growth basic elements. The issue of the Estonian youth centers youth workers? professionality has been relevant for many years, as employees often changed. Expectations for youth work (YW) as a promotion of non-formal education and supporting the development of young people are high. There is no research explained the issues related to the youth workers professional growth, including work-load and tasks? factors. The theoretical framework of the research created R...

The article contains the results of an empirical study of Russian youth. A study conducted by the author in years 2017-2018. The study used quantitative method for collecting primary data (survey) and a qualitative method (in-depth interviews). During the survey the all-Russian sample of Russian youth of 1600 respondents was reached. The study raises questions about life values of Russian young people. Life values of young people are revealed through the study of the attitude of young people to their future, throu...

The third decade of this century will see transformations resulting from several technological, climatic, and social changes. The labour market will be entered by people born at the turn of the millennium. Being known as Generation Z, they are rather specific in many respects. With opportunities to study abroad, their language skills are at a very good level and they have no problems employing the new advanced technologies. The life values and priorities of this generation will help form the future in each country...

The given article is devoted to describing main lines and particular features of epigrammatic art development in European literature, beginning from Ancient Greek-Roman period (VII-VI cc.) up to XX century. In this connection the authors try to give a general review of epigrams specific features and diverse manifestations in the works of world known writers and poets, such as: Martial, N. Boileau, C. Marot, F. Villon, J.G. Byron, I.W. Goethe, A.S. Pushkin and others. They come to a conclusion that modern epigramma...

Gifted children are characterized with above average abilities in one or more domains (subjects) or with high versatility and proficiency in many disciplines. They may also be described by accelerated development and unceasing motivation coupled with the interests, persistence and enthusiasm as well as passion and creativity. J. Renzulli [1] recognizes these features as the most important predictors of outstanding achievements of gifted children. On the other hand, numerous children indicate the Inadequate Achieve...

The central counterparty (CCP) is that market infrastructure entity that comes between the parties of a transaction, becoming a buyer for each seller and a seller for each buyer, thus ensuring the proper execution of transactions in the process of settlement, or of the obligations relating to open positions. This market infrastructure entity can provide guarantee services for transactions based on financial instruments carried out both on the spot trading venues and on the venues specific to the derivatives market...

The article is devoted to colour naming study of medicinal herbaceous plants in Russian and Kazakh languages. The fundamental principles of Russian and Kazakh scientists, dedicated to studying this issue, are presented in this work. Similarities and differences in color naming of the compared languages are revealed according to analysis, which indicate the importance of color naming in linguistic world view of two nations.

The universe of Hejduk’s, is a unitary and undivided ‘reality’ of a trinitarian form, where poetry, painting, and project are interconnected and undistinguishable worlds. His is a deeply dramatic architectural universe; a sort of reliquary inhabited by angels and demons and adorned with fantasy characters, animals, machines and anthropomorphic figures. A world completely infused with a poetic soaked of a profound sense of the sacred. This tight connection between architecture and literature, in addition to marking...

The study I conducted is an analysis of how the world of jewels and precious stones was perceived in the legal system during the different ages of the Ancient Roman era. My work is therefore a survey through which I explored the Ancient Roman jewelry world under the magnifying glass of property law: from the purchase of a property right to its limitations to its claim in court thus including also a brief history on how this right, including its multiple facets such as possession and the usucapion, has evolved duri...

This article deals with the investigation of the relationship between firm size and firm growth for the firms from the subsector of pig breeding (0146 according to NACE classification), which are located in the Czech Republic. The paper aims to examine the validity of Gibrat’s law (Law of proportionate effect) which is devoted to size-growth link, in this subsector. Gibrat’s law states that growth of a firm is a random effect independent of firm size. We investigate the link during the years 2010 to 2016. The anal...

Ethics is an important ability in any profession but, considering the spectrum of responsibilities of the certified accountants, ethics should be even more important. The research concerning ethical issues related to accountants’ profession has increased in the last years. Those studies highlight mostly the nature and extent of ethical problems. This study aims to validate the different importance given to ethical behavior in accountants’ profession in Portugal, for men and women, and to understand how they also f...

Authors of the paper are focusing on American artist James Turrell's investigation of the nature of light in his conceptual projects. By the means of creating a specific immersive environment where a spectator is plunging into a unique optical space set up by light installations, the artist reconstructs a sensory synesthesia experience: a synthesis of light, colour, music and meditation. This being the case light becomes the main character of a story told by him. The artist analyses a phenomenon of perception and ...

The purpose of the article is to consider possible ways to improve the efficiency of student-centered learning in Russian universities. It is well known that the involvement of students in the management of higher education institutions (HEI), their active participation in the definition of individual trajectories of their professional training increases the motivation of students, and hence the quality of education. To do this, it is necessary not only to consolidate the principles of student self-government in t...

This paper aims at illustrating and analyzing the elements of the sacred in the symbolic structure of early twentienth-century Croatian Futurist literary texts and works of art, as well as semantic and stylistic range thereby implied within such corpora. Methodological attention is drawn to their significant reception and socio-cultural resonance, including interconnections with other aspects of artistic expression (in the interdisciplinary fields of visuality), and concomitantly with analogous manifestations in I...

Our study aim to identify the main sources of individualism, in Renaissance. We have established the conceptual relationships between greek Christian terms hypostas-enhypostas-parahypostas-polyhypostas and their metamorphosis under the influence of iudaic and gnostic philosophy. We are sketching the typology of the individual, reflected in symbolic portraiture of Adam. The individualism excludes any form of constraint and impose with necessity the idea of authenticity. We can observe the deconstruction of the esse...

Numerous factors are involved in assessments made to measure the influence of building investments on the natural environment. Most concern the period after a building development has been completed and produces a prolonged impact on nature during its useful life. As important as its future exploitation, there are factors connected with the production of building materials and structure, their transport and assembly as well as any other events associated with the execution of a building plan on site. Noteworthy is...

In the context of urban space, many new concepts now appear. There is talk of modern solutions used in urban areas. More and more information is necessary for the correct and functional management of the city. One of the most frequently used phrases is Smart City. Striving to create smart cities is now a priority. Improving the comfort of living is to be achieved thanks to the latest technologies. This is what Digital City is about to do. The digitization of the city gives the opportunity to determine the directio...

In this article, the authors review the ethical and legal aspects of screening of newborns for hereditary diseases in the context of the implementation of this medical technology as a specific medical service. In Russia, screening of newborns for phenylketonuria started in 1985, and since 1993 for congenital hypothyroidism, since 2006 - screening for cystic fibrosis, adrenogenital syndrome and galactosemia. In Russia this medical service is one of the services “imposed” and obligatory for all children born regardl...

In a circular economy we have to rethink, redesign, reduce, reuse, recycle, and recover the waste through a circular economy which is generating a valuable chain between raw material producer and consumer. Economic circular models could be shaped into short cycles, long cycles, cascades, pure cycles, dematerialized cycles and production on demands. Using these models and adapt them for agriculture we save a lot of resources, being able to decouple substantially production by resource extraction. An agri-food syste...

Background Sprain ankle is a common musculoskeletal injury, characterized by partially or completely tear of its ligaments, due to sudden stretching, which commonly occurs when the ankle is suddenly twisted, during sportive activities (running, jumping), at athletes or by stepping off an uneven surface, at sedentary people. Purpose of this study, was to show the efficiency of physical exercises programme in sprain ankle treatment, by studying the speciality literature. Methods The 22 subjects, represented by seden...

This paper aimed to determine the efficiency of Body-weight exercises in the physical training of the students who practice volleyball. The experiment was conducted during the academic year 2017-2018, for 28 weeks, one lesson per week. The working sample consisted of 40 students, divided into two groups. Both groups took similarly volleyball lessons, acquiring their specific skills according to the UMF Carol Davila Volleyball Program. The difference consisted in the strength training approach. The Control Group pe...

Poultry rearing has always been an integral component of social systems around the world. It is also the fastest and most flexible among the livestock sectors. It has expanded and globalized over a period of 15 years in countries of all income levels owing to its ever-growing demand. Rural poultry is estimated to be the livelihood of about one billion poor farmers of the world in areas experiencing food insecurity. It contributes to about 80% of poultry stocks in under-developing and developing countries; improvin...

Today’s research upon efficiency of user interaction with large web portals has established links between webpage popularity and crucial elements of webpage design, such as page layout and navigation on the portal, or, more narrowly, menu design. But despite their established importance, the two aforementioned elements of web design are next to never studied together, and their relative roles in rising webpage ranks are virtually unknown. In this paper, we assess pages with high betweenness centrality within the s...