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In the current unstable international circumstances, the specific features of everyday life during extreme hardship have become an intensively debated issue in European and Russian historiography. In terms of human survival and coping with difficulties, the Second World War, involving the Soviet-German conflict 1941-1945, is among the primary topics for investigation. Furthermore, the emergence of new approaches and the release of declassified war archives have shed new light on the everyday history; the anthropol...

Sustainable competitiveness as a concept is introduced in the scientific debate in the last two decades. It is addressed on considering economic, social and environmental factors that determine competitiveness in the long run. The paper is focused on measuring sustainable competitiveness at the national level. Two indexes are considered: the Sustainability Adjusted Global Competitiveness Index (World Economic Forum) and the Global Sustainable Competitiveness Index (SolAbility). The paper compares sustainable compe...

The aim of the paper is to indicate the essence of the concept of sustainable development as a new paradigm in the theory of management science. Different paradigms reflect different interpretations and aspects of modern management which are changing faster and faster. The twenty first century poses many challenges to management. Nowadays, the reconciliation of economic, social and environmental aspects is one of the most difficult problems in the area of modern enterprise management since, in the science of susta...

At present, the management of wastewater in the cities of Russian Federation has many problems. In this paper, we have analyzed the water supply and wastewater treatment systems in one of the cities of the Russian Federation (Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk region). It was found that wastewater treatment facilities are obsolete. There is a significant excess of actual wastewater volume over the capacity of existing urban treatment facilities, low cleaning effect, open discharges of untreated domestic and industrial wastewat...

This paper is the materialisation of the work of a team who participated in the „Design & Business workshop - innovative Romanian products. Creative Industries, Creative Communities, Creative Cities”, which took place in 2015 in Arad, Romania at Aurel Vlaicu University - Faculty of Design. The team consisting of four students was coordinated by PhD. Prof. Ionescu Claudiu Emil and Ass. Arch. T?m??an Maria. Arad County, Romania is located in the DKMT cross-border area. In spite of this favourable geographical pos...

The idea of sustainable development was devised as an answer to the dynamic development of civilisation, in order to minimise its negative consequences. The main task that was set before society has been the outlining of new methods of utilising global resources. As a result, it was possible to plan a number of projects that meet the requirements of Sustainable Development and environmentally friendly architecture, built in a manner that stresses the social aspect of these settlements. This paper focuses on three ...

This article is based on the theoretic ideas of Kazan linguistic school about syntagmatic relations and describes the syntagmatic relationships of the lexemes meaning “morality” contained in the novels of one of the most shocking and replicable modern writers Sergei Minaev. Realizing the author's intent, Minaev's novels are always a kind of challenge to the conventional wisdom; they seek to provoke the reader's reflection about ongoing social changes, in particular, in terms of moral principles and criteria. T...

The article explores the system arrangement and determination of a methodology of a new scientific branch in the system of financial law – regional financial law. The work is an attempt to analyze a possible development of the financial law system through changing approaches in the methodology of studying financial law, meaning consideration of financial law system not only horizontally but also vertically, highlighting a new trend in the study of financial law – regional financial law, which, in the authors v...

The author deals with the issue of stronger tabloidization of the so-called quality media and political scene in post-millennial years. She points to the acceptance of tabloidization processes in conditions of late modern societies and in the chaos of postmodern cultures. She presents and illuminates the processes that determine formation of the mental atmosphere in the first and second decades of the new millennium. According to her, these are in particular creation of a new cultural logic and a change of media l...

Robo-advisors are online wealth management platforms that provide tailored automated investment solutions. First platforms were located in Silicon Valley in 2011 and since then have enjoyed continuous success among private investors all over the world. Thanks to the simplification of the relation between investors and advisors through digitalisation, low fees and good performance achieved through the use of personalized algorithms, new investor segments are approaching to digital wealth management. Although the It...

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

The article describes the changes in the taxation system for oil companies introduced within the period of 2002 - 2016. It is indicated that introduction of tax exemptions was due to decrease in the economic efficiency of oil production due to the growth of the tax burden. The important role of tax exemptions for mineral extraction tax (MET) is considered to be important for stimulating the growth of hydrocarbon production. Amendments to the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, expanding the list of privileges on t...

Tax policy is one of the main instruments of economic policy of any state. It is realized through the establishment of goals, objectives and specific quantitative parameters of revenues and the country's budget. Condition of public finance has a significant impact on the real economy. So, the choice and justification of the measures, decisions and actions in the area of tax policy, directed on realization of conceptual ideas within the existing Russian economic policy is one of its key contents. The article is ded...

This article analyzes taxonomic strategies that are most frequently used in academic medical discourse: classification of objects, identification of their types, groups, species and varieties as well as assignment of objects, processes, states, signs, etc. to a particular classification unit. There are three main types of structural-substantive discourse taxonomic strategies which are observed in academic medical discourse: classification strategies, systematization strategies and typologization strategies. A deta...

Foreign-language education quality improvement demands the search for effective forms, means and methods in teaching foreign languages, including the teaching of a second foreign language. Unlike in schools where teaching a second foreign language started not so long ago, providing language education in higher institutions in Russia, a second foreign language has been taught for a long time, since the middle of the 20th century. Despite this, the specifics of teaching a second foreign language are still not suffic...

It has always been a common place that learning phrasal verbs is the hardest English vocabulary for students. To learn phrasal effectively either on their own or in class, students must be made to elaborate an appropriate approach to deal with the new notion and use it naturally and properly referring to the executive functioning skill of organizing thoughts. As many teachers may know, it takes a lot of experience to present phrasals to students to be accepted in the right and long-term way. To develop own methods...

Didactic competence, operationalized in the educational process, it means much more than a "technique" of carrying out the training tasks or the indispensable information for their fulfilment; It is the result of the teacherВ’s abilities, skills and attitudes, in direct correspondence with the nature and complexity of the instructive-educational objectives, with the exercise of all the didactic abilities, throughout the teacher's socio-professional behavior. In essence, both at European and national level, it is s...

The article highlights some of the issues of teaching Russian and Tatar languages in the Republic of Tatarstan in the late twentieth and the beginning of XXI century. It is emphasized that the education system in Tatarstan requires special attention to the improvement of bilateral Turkish – Russian and Russian-Tatar bilingualism. The urgency of the problem lies in the fact that in modern conditions of development of bilingualism it is necessary to strengthen attention to language preparation of students, improvi...

Background: Professional self-determination in the educational system of modern Russia have no common policy in the sphere of it organization. UrFU is working with the secondary school students by the different technologies of professional self-determination. The University organizes the activities of schools and programs in various areas of training, such as "Test drive", "Pro debut, testing centers," Academy of power". Methods: The purpose of the article is empirical researchВ’s results of three years of experie...

Modern educational system needs a communicative and self-organized teacher capable to think flexibly. In our opinion, teachersВ’ professional development consists not only in subject and professional-pedagogical knowledge improvement, but also in motivation for professional -personal development. Nowadays labour optimization depends on many factors, one of which is organization competence. To learn to manage yourself effectively and by own opportunities is not a simple task, however, by means of specific technolog...

In this article the problem of an efficiency of mathematical education of future teacher by means of manifestation of a synergy is discussed. One of the factors of manifestation of a synergy is possibility of an introduction, adaptation and the research of complex knowledge against the identification of "problem zones" in learning of mathematics. The criteria of a choice of "problem zones", the directions and technologies of emergence of synergetic effects in learning mathematics are developed: the content of math...

The global village, in the hyper-metropolises - that form its sub-centres - in which there now lives almost a third of the world's population, with over half living in cities overall - demands its built environment to be constructed with newer and newer technologies. This also requires innovative thinking about the form of future cities. Increasing the effectiveness of land use, accomplished through constructing even taller building, is associated with the struggle between their structures and the destructive impa...

Today an active attempts of understanding the anthropological and social dimensions of modern technoscience are made. The most important way of technoscience is the NBICS convergence. In the article special attention is paid to the understanding of technoscience as anthroposocial project, including the public in a number of factors that can affect decision-making in the field of innovation management. However, this effect is recursive and requires an understanding of the possible consequences and risks of technosc...

Achieving an optimal balance between work, personal life and family responsibilities is a key contributing factor to the employee's overall well-being, reflected in 3 areas: health care, employee productivity and retention. There are many ways to enhance work life balance and creating a flexible organizational culture is one of the most effective option. In this paper, we reveal the importance of telework in enabling a supportive and healthy work environment, which will help employees to achieve a better work life...

The goal of the study is development of participatory design method in architecture based on mix of techniques brought from social sciences to help municipalities managing planning phase and construction projects of public schools. Methodology was tested on two primary school building projects. Teachers, pupils, parents and local associations were engaged using questionnaires and workshops in several phases of design process. Our main aim was to establish a two-way channel for exchange of information among future ...

The text theme is one of the integral units of the text information space, representing one of the types of text compression. As such information constructs, one can consider the idea of a text, the concept of a text, the meaning of a text- each of them is based on a special method for processing textual information. We believe that the explication of mechanisms for processing information using the above constructs is relevant for modern linguistics. The subject of this article is the explication of mechanisms for...

Medieval towns lived in carnival life. It was opposed to the official culture, its norms and rules which were stable, given and serious in their restrictive and rigid form. The ritual and mimetic forms of laughter culture included carnival-style celebrations and laughter ceremonies. They represented different aspects of life from the official ceremonies. Carnivals were a real, though, a temporary form of life that was meant for enjoying. The carnival became a living space with specific rules. It was characterised ...

During the last couple of months the Republic of Macedonia has been amidst a deep political crisis ever since the leader of the largest opposition party started publishing wiretapped conversations of the highest ranking authorities with the core of the countries government including those from the prime-minister, leaders of the political parties, key ministers and key representatives from within the secret services of the country. The affairs that has to do with many millions of dollars, abuse of power. Corruption...

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

The paper deals with investigating thorough analysis that reveals the impact of digitalisation as the development of new communication platforms are changing consumer's purchasing behaviour in the online environment. The main aim of our research to identify the dynamics of consumer preferences in relation to the communication platforms of digital equipment for purchase in the online environment. To fulfil the aim of the research we are in the period 02.21.2016 - 03.06.2016 conducted a questionnaire survey located ...

The concern to protect consumersВ’ dates back to antiquity, the development of merchandise exchanges in markets from cities is not a random and uncontrollable phenomenon. The market of tourist products and services, in continuous development, leads implicitly to evolutions in the field of consumersВ’ protection, which will strengthen the cooperation with non-governmental organizations and with civil society. ConsumersВ’ protection in the tourism sphere is part of the social policies promoted by any state. At the s...

In the course of education a significant role is played by motivation of students. The study of academic motivation is one of the fundamental problems in pedagogics and psychology, since an efficient interaction between teachers and students is possible within understanding of their motivation. To teach in todayВ’s environment it is necessary to be able to interpret such pshyco-pedagogical characteristics of a person as motivation, independent behavior, active performance and ability to reach oneВ’s goals. To asse...

Tax fraud can be characterized as deliberate circumvention of rules to avoid paying taxes. Illegal avoidance of tax payments and their circumvention results in tax evasion. The main reason for the existence of tax evasion is the inconsistency between the state's interest (in maximizing the tax collection as much as possible) and the taxpayer's interest (in paying as low tax as possible). Tax frauds and their personal backgrounds, sophisticated forms, extensive structures and so on are always a step ahead of nation...

The topicality of the subject matter is conditioned by the modern tendencies towards globalization and the active development of the new information technologies that exert considerable influence on the development of modern towns and the decrease in the significance of the national economy. The article presents the analysis of the work of foreign authors which emphasize the leading and even dominant role of towns and urban creativeness in the life of humankind. The role of the extension and development of the cre...

This article is about the problem of financial structure of the firms and about their indebtedness. It is not easy to find some optimal indebtedness in the theory nor in practice. The aim of this article is to do the analysis of the indebtedness of firms in selected branches and to compare the development of this indebtedness within the period between 2010 - 2014 years among the Czech Republic, the Europe and the USA. It is necessary in every area to analyze the absolute indebtedness and its development, mainly de...

Following the Carolingian reform and until the first true Gothic, churches remained predominantly introverted structures with thick walls, looking unto their inner life, the liturgical event. The stone skin delimited the mundane from the divine and created the space to experience the Light of Christ and the sense of the presence of God, unknowable through reason alone, Deus absconditus. The interior space of the church was a hidden jewel that came alive under the light, be it natural or artificial, with its column...

The philosophy and practice interpret categories in the light of certain features of scientific or philosophical knowledge. At the same time, the proclamation of a specific scientific paradigm, in particular complexity theory, presupposes the emergence and development of new categories and concepts. The modern science and philosophy poses a global challenge to the scientific community. The task is to adapt the fundamental classical categories. One such category is the category "quality". The adaptation of quality ...

The article examines the relationship between the armed forces of the Russian Empire and film companies in the early twentieth century. It shows the Emperor Nicholas II’s interest in the cinema. The history of A. A. Khanzhonkov’s company, which created the films "Defense of Sevastopol city" and “The Baltic fleet", is shown. The paper gives examples of military people participation in the feature and documentary films. It also shows the role of cinema in promoting the Russian Empire armed forces’ reputation at...

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

Innovation policy is the interface between research and technological development policy and industrial policy and aims at creating a conducive framework for bringing ideas into market. Innovation is an important improvement and development element in all areas of economic and social life, business environment as well as regional processes. The correct risk approach helps eliminate the negative trends in activities carried out by innovation and because of that it may increase the interest of other stakeholders to ...

Management develops strategic advantages in the area of economic activity through the implementation of the Total Quality Management (TQM) principles into each management system. The purpose of this paper is to redefine the quality management principles and to develop an individualized questionnaire to measure the management perceptions when principles are implemented. We have studied the application of management principles in small and medium–sized enterprises in two Romanian regions on the basis of four hypot...

The equality between men and women has been an intense debate subject and broadly covered in media in the recent years. Several studies have proved that in many states women are outnumbered by men in leadership positions. Ensuring gender equality is one of the European UnionВ’s main objective and necessary component in the Europe 2020 strategy. Today an increasing number of countries are adapting rules and regulations on implementing quotas in corporate governance and state-owned enterprises. The trend is that maj...

The goal of this paper is to point out the importance that thermal waste processing plants can have within an urban space. Despite the fact that the first thermal waste processing plant was built around the half of the XIX century, the question of their importance within the space of a modern city is currently very important and viable. In recent years, the number of thermal waste processing plants that are being designed has greatly increased. They are being built as environmentally friendly structures, guarantee...

The authors address the current issue of communicative barriers in intercultural social practice that reveals hidden conceptual horizons of the mass and individual consciousness, implicitly represented in the humanitarian discourse, the teaching practice and the choice of communication. The paper deals with the borders of the semantic barriers in intercultural communication connected to the intellectual style and ethic context. The research on human communication barriers in the dynamic conditions of modern societ...

During the reign of Constantin Brancoveanu, remarkable achievements were recorded in architecture and painting. We shall meet the values of art and architecture in our country, in general, and especially those of the age of Saint Constantin Brancoveanu, which has left its mark not just on the territory in Muntenia, as it also penetrated in Transylvania, crossed the Romanian western boundaries into Serbia and went up to Bessarabia. Today, the art of Brancoveanu’s epoch is brought again to light by the monuments t...

Religion is a form of social consciousness that represents a basis of the deepest human reflections through specific theories and practices. This reflects the continuous tendency of human mind: to know, to question in connection with what is known, to overcome concrete existence, to enter a world that is beyond the objective aspects. Man as a multidimensional being, relates to existence, not only by reason and pragmatism but also by feeling and contemplative experience, ranging restlessly between the profane socia...

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

The article considers the features of production development in the conditions of the sixth technological order and the related needs in changing the level of education and training of human resources. Particular attention is paid to the training of management personnel, which will determine the efficiency and effectiveness of new production structures. It emphasizes the need to reassess the profile of the competencies of management specialists. In the mandatory managerial skill set one should assign skills that d...

A good leader might be the difference between success and failure in the contemporary ever changing business environment. Leadership is crucial to employee motivation, employee satisfaction, productivity and overall business performance. It includes a variety of elements and success techniques, although personal characteristics should not be underestimated. A complex connection of interpersonal relations and communications is created in any leader-follower situation. Although several theoretical approaches have be...

The goal of the research is to reconstruct the interior and iconostasis of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (1839–1864) in Vyatka (now Kirov, Russia) and the Dormitory church in Kukarka (now Sovetsk, Kirov region). Both are associated with names of exiled capital architect Alexander Vitberg and painter and architect Micha?o Elwiro Andriolli (correspondingly). The passing results of findings and researches made in 2016 are represented in this article. Research methods include archival and bibliographic stages, the ...