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The paper presents the multi-criteria approach in the design process of residential structure as a part of a multifunctional building system. The purpose of work was to broaden the field of multifunctional building system design process. Background for the presented work is to define the direction of architectural growth of the modern city center area where actually are built complex and large capacity structures with a great impact on the total urban structure. The methodology depends on the analysis of the multi...

The transformations occurred in the Romanian town after 1990 meant also changes at the level of urban habitation. Financial difficulties, access to property, the emergence of the real estate market and its fluctuations, the modifications that happened in the location of the urban services, the crisis of houses etc, have determined, immediately after 1990 the intensification of the residential mobility and have created the premises for the apparition of the residential segregation. Later, the credit policy in the b...

Different studies indicate that problems occurring during adolescence can impact the appearance of disharmonic tendencies in the development of personality [1]; nevertheless, other studies show that some adults show no signs of such tendencies, as they possess the psychological capacity of resilience [2] [3]. The general objective of this research was to analyse the Romanian adolescentsВ’ resilience in relation to disharmonic tendencies during the structuring of personality. The subjects were 62 adolescents from B...

The present article shall be devoted to the analysis of the regulation on the resolution of sports related disputes by the United States Olympic Committee (hereinafter referred to as “the USOC”). The research is made in the frames of the author’s doctoral study on alternative disputes resolution methods for resolving sports related disputes. The research is based on empirical-analytical group of the research methodology. The following sections shall be presented: the introduction; the role and functions of th...

In the paper we focus on foreign literature for children and young adults in Slovak translations. The criterion for our choice was the presence of the character with disability. We deal with two books, which were published in Slovak translation in recent five years: A social novel Aristoteles a Dante spoznГЎvajГє svet a tajomstvГЎ vesmГ­ru (Benjamin Alire SГЎenz: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, 2012; Slovak translation in 2016) and a novel with fairy-tale features ГљВћasnГЎ cesta Barnabyh...

The tomatoes have highest share in Romanian crops from protected spaces (greenhouses, solariums). The grafting is an agronomical technique that induces or improves some qualities of the tomato cultivars (resistance to soil diseases and pests, resistance to abiotic factors, quantity and quality of fruit production). The research was aimed the establishing of the technological stages for producing of scion and rootstock seedlings from L. esculentum species, to obtain compatible phenotype when is grafted. The observa...

The objective of this experimental work was to evaluate a grafted watermelon organic culture at Research and Development Institute for Processing and Marketing of Horticultural Products – Horting, Bucharest, Romania for pollution reduction and efficient use of land destined to urban research and education. The watermelon (Citrullus lanatus sp. vulgaris) is a plant originally from the South Africa and cultivated over all in world. It is a very popular and important crop in Romania. This research was conducted on ...

The research was carried out between 2016-2017 at Research and Development Station for Plant Culture on Sands Dabuleni on sandy soil with reduced natural fertility. Five Korean sweet potato varieties (Yulmi, Juhwangmi, Hayanmi, KSP 1, KSC 1) were studied, using planting rooted shoots and non-rooted shoots. The results show increase in the number of tuberous roots, with 0.42 large tubers/plant and 0.65 small tubers, by using rooted shoots for planting, compared to planting of fresh cut shoots. Were observed Yulmi a...

This article deals with the noun gender category and provides its comparative analysis based on the two languages for the purpose of teaching Russian as a foreign language in an audience of Tajik students. The relevance of the study is determined by the growing role of the Russian language in the former USSR republics and the emergence of a stable interest in its study. The aim of the research is to compare the gender category in the native (Tajik) and studied (Russian) languages of the students. The following res...

Miedzianka is a small town in Lower Silesia, in region of Rudawy Janowickie, which has basically disappeared. Possessing municipal rights until 1945, today it is merely a village, with a few houses and a church being all we can find here. The diploma engineering project presents an interesting history of the former mining settlement and a proposal to revitalize post-mining areas for purposes of tourism. The aim of the student's work was to bring Miedzianka back to life, discovering or creating assets that provide ...

The purpose of this article was to analyse the premises of gross ingratitude, allowing the donor to revoke their donation pursuant to the provisions of the Polish Civil Code. The term "gross ingratitude" is an indeterminate phrase referring to moral norms and leaving it to the court to establish whether the particular conduct of the donee justifies the donor revoking the donation. The fact that the deed of donation is very often used in the legal practice - especially in family relationships, as a manifestation of...

In contemporary society, issues of social justice are considered more broadly, in an existential sense, at both the level of local communities and at a global level of world politics and have become a subject of intense debate and controversy. The leaders of radical social and religious movements are calling upon their supporters to employ terrorist tactics in the name of achieving “justice.” Reform and revolution are the main instruments used to pursuit social justice. However, is reform or revolution really ...

The concept of the rhetoric of science remains open to debate, although it has been acknowledged as a research area and an academic discipline in the literature and by universities across the world. This article aims primarily to justify the treatment of the rhetoric of science as an independent research area, to place it in the historical context of the evolution of logic, rhetoric, and philosophy, and to demonstrate the relationship between the possibility of a rhetorical interpretation of science and its interp...

The game of space was and still is a crucial aspect of visual arts. The aim of this study is to examine how the arrangement of hues, rhythms and angles of various polygons can create an impression of depth and movement on a flat surface. The so-called Penrose tiling and Ulam's spiral are mathematical models that have been applied for the painting experiment. There is a vast amount of evidence gathered over the ages that shows art is strictly interrelated with science. It refers both to music, literature, architect...

The concept of political extremism is used by lay and expert public in various contexts. Because of a diversity of its perception in political, societal, journalist, official, criminal, scientific, or lay context, it is extraordinary vague concept, which belongs among the most amorphous concepts in the social sciences. The issue of the extremism has attracted, during the last 30 years, attention of the major part particularly the European political science community. Development and research of this phenomenon is ...

Aim: Research aim is to explore the differences in the childbirth- related fear with regard to age, parity, previous birth experience and socio-economic factors. Another objective of the research was assessing the link between childbirth- related fear and symptoms of depression among pregnant women. Method: The research sample includes 136 women (age 29.82В±5.68). Wijma Delivery Expectancy Questionnaire (W-DEQ-A) was used for assessing the childbirth- related fear; and Edinburg Postnatal Depression Scale was used ...

The welfare of individual and the area of residence is constantly exposed to various risks, the influence of which reduces its level. The authors proposed constitutive types of risks to the welfare of individual and the area of residence, such as risks of impoverishment, health disorders, death from external causes, decline in industrial production, financial depression, disruption in the normal operation of labor market. They determined the chains of risk influence on welfare indicators for example regions includ...

Engineering activity is charged with a very high risk. The engineering and construction activity is connected with a number of tasks, both planning and design as well as execution and maintenance of facilities already in use. At each stage of investment process operation they depend on a number of external and internal factors. They have a large impact on the success or failure of the investment project. When preparing the project, it is necessary to analyze the accompanying conditions. Recognizing possible threat...

The paper is involved in the discussion on the educational meaning of rock narratives. It presents research results aimed at understanding pedagogy studentsВ’ approaches to rock narratives considered by them to be educationally meaningful. The qualitative research strategy, including both the hermeneutic method and descriptive-interpretive analyses, was employed to realise the aim of the paper. Essentially, the goal of the qualitative method is enable one to explore, extend and gain a deeper understanding of the m...

In the work the role of educational institutions in the prophylactic treatment of the youth on a regional level is considered. There are data of arrangement of special conditions for skill development and formation of protective factors against taking psychoactive substances in educational institutions.

In this paper we present the part of results of wider research which are focused on finding the dependence of leisure time activities on philosophical, values and religion attitudes of respondents. Our intention is to present the results of research which was carried out in the form of a questionnaire survey in 2016. For this research the data from over 2300 respondents among The Czech Republic were collected. For the measurement of leisure activities has been the Catalogue of Leisure Activities used and the hypot...

Previous research on the application of innovations in Kosovo have shown that businesses and other institutions have a low level of creating something new. Despite some efforts to change this situation still innovations remain a challenge in Kosovo despite the benefits they bring. This paper discusses the challenges the problems and benefits of small innovations. From the research on the vision for economic development for the future in Kosovo, economic development is focused on innovative opportunities for each s...

In times of tough competition, companies spend more and more time on the positioning of their image in the labour market. One needs to be unique and innovative. A company needs to be able to stand out in the competitive labour market. The situation is, of course, easier if the company is a leader in its sector, but employees are also needed in other companies who have not yet become leaders. The web-based personnel recruitment company is an international company which offers a wide range of opportunities in web-ba...

Prospects for the development of social education in Russia are considered. Factors are formed under the influence of the development of Western experience and trends; specificity of domestic practice of social institutions. Education as a social institution has a social leading character. We need to use new approaches, innovations in social problems solving. The aim of the study is to determine the prospects for the development of education in the sphere of social work. In the research, based on questionnaires an...

This article is devoted to the study of the novel by Vladimir Nabokov "The Luzhin Defence" as a reflection of the sensual picture of the world of the writer himself. The scope of the study is limited by the verbs of perceptual vocabulary of the novel. Notable, this work has brought the writer world fame, in addition of interest is the sensual world of the protagonist, which is very similar to the worldview of Nabokov, which allows the analysis of perceptive sensations of the main character to form an idea of the s...

Visual elements always performed important functions in journalistic publications: they added to the information, made it more vivid and clear and helped varying the text component. Nowadays along with the development of Internet media the role of visualization significantly increased. It may perform as a complete language for communication allowing the construction of narratives along with the verbal language and provision of coherence and continuity of message. The given article considers the role of visual elem...

Water and greenery have always accompanied cities. Initially, their role was purely utilitarian, while over time, during the modern period, they started toВ—in conjunction with buildings and the open public spaces of representative squares and streetsВ—build the urban composition of many European cities. During the period of the nineteenth-century excessive densification of urban tissue linked with the sudden increase in industrial production and the influx of people into cities, greenery and polluted water practi...

Paper roots in the literary-historical research on the Romany literature for children and youth in Slovakia, which documents its footing in the Slovak literature for children and youth. Simultaneously, it points out quantitative increase and generic variety of the Romany literature (folder books, collections of poems and songs, collections of Romany folklore, Romany folk-tales anthologies, collections of modern Romany folk-tales, short stories, novels, romans, non-fiction literature genres, text-books, and spellin...

Towards the end of the 19th century, the international affirmation of Romania as a unitary state by acquiring its independence from the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of the constitutional monarchy, coincided with the proclamation of the autocephaly of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Within all Romanian countries, each of them with different architectural expressions and traditions, a "central" manifest, a spiritual connection between all Romanians, a unitary architectural style was required. Contrary to the E...

Japanese tourists are increasingly more interested and travel around the Baltic Sea countries including Latvia, Estonia and Finland. Compared to Central Europe and West Europe, the Baltic Sea region is safer and offers varied tourism opportunities. High potential exists in the Japanese market for Latvia, Estonia and Finland, but exploitation requires development, redesign/adaptation and promotion of suitable products which take account of Japanese customs, culture, language and expectations. The challenges on the ...

As part of the history of international relations, bilateral relations between Italy and Russia are of particular interest. Numerous studies in this field suggest certain interdependence between Russian and Italian policies over centuries. The initial part of the article is concerned with the less known historical vicissitudes of the relations. Major attention is paid to the Cold War period when the Italian Christian democrats managed, despite block policy impediments, to establish good working relations with the ...

Topicality. Russia was always one of the main subjects of political thought as one of influential factor in world policy. The report is focused on the history of American political thought that remains still unknown in this aspect. And attempts to better understanding of the roots of actual negative connotation of Russia and Russians in USA. Aim: to reconstruct the logic and basic political arguments of the negative image of Russia in America. Hypothesis: the negative discursive American practice about Russia is d...

Confidence-building is one of the main conditions of Russia-EU relations normalization. For better understanding of the ways of confidence strengthening: the concept of confidence in the context of national and foreign policy of the states; legal basis of strategic partnership between Russia and EU (the EU-Russia Partnership and Cooperation Agreement of 1994); the contemporary state of Russia-EU relations; the reasons of Russia-EU relations deterioration; the available doubts of a possibility of strategic partners...

The article is devoted to the problems of direct democracy in Russia. As well known, the main forms of direct democracy are elections and referenda. The concepts of “suffrage”, “referendum participation” and “democracy” are interconnected and allow us to characterize status and development of the “state-society” system. Only when determining the level of implementation of electoral rights and right to participate in a referendum of citizens and the guarantee level of these rights can one determine ...

Locative constructions describe various aspects of eventВ’s positioning in the three-dimensional space according to the concrete place of its accomplishment, in particular Earth. This type of location is usually considered to be weekly connected with the characteristics of the event in question. However, this specification is highly important for the semantic interpretation of the text as well as understanding the whole structure of the situation. In the prepositional system of Russian there are many items oriente...

In 2016, more than 16.3 million migrants were recorded, while there is illegal migration in Russia, which generates serious social, economic, and political problems. The attitude of the population towards migration policy in Russia is ambiguous, and it is reflected in social networks. Social networks and blogosphere contain data to study the effectiveness of migration policy by social science. The paper deals with reflection of the international migration and migration policy in social network. The analysis of the...

In Russia, the quality and quantity of multimedia components used in content production vary across the regions. According to FriedmanВ’s core-periphery model, these differences are caused by the discrepancies in regional development. The purpose of this study was to assess the quality and quantity of multimedia materials produced by the regional mass media in the Ural Federal District. In this paper, multimedia production is understood as content creation by using texts, photos, video and audio materials, graphic...

The article highlights the issues of international student mobility and the process of choosing the country to go to study abroad. South Korea is on the third place in the list of top East Asian countries hosting international students from all over the world. The article presents the results of the research on Russian students graduated from the universities in South Korea and its motivation to study abroad. Data collection from the semi-structured interviews revised the perception of educational system of Korean...

In recent years, some Russian scientific journals have noted that interest in texts and literature in general written in the language of the metropolis is becoming more and more actual, in particular, in foreign linguistics (English linguistics), the scientific interest in the so-called 'Contact Literature'. A well-known American scientist of Indian origin, the author of the term 'contact literature' Braj B. Kachru writes: "Language changes as a result of the contact of languages are not limited to grammar, vocabu...

With Orthodox icons, darkness seldom occurs, and even then it is in order to emphasize some want, the want of light. Biblical scenes or characters are always bright as, according to St. Basil the Great, by approaching light, the soul itself becomes light. Darkness has come into the world as a consequence of the original sin. It does not exist in itself, since it is not part of God's creation, but lack of light. However, its presence within the created world would disturb man's view on the world at large, resulting...

This article focuses on the sacred space, on specifics of deploymentand manifestation in the profane world. About hierotopy as a method that allows to study the processes of creation of sacred space and the consciousness of people participating in the process of sacralization. Particular attention is paid to the hierotopic practice of sacralization as the method of transforming profane space into a sacred space. It is accentuatedthe difference between hierophany and hierotopy as two ways of creating a sacred space...

The subject of the paper is the training of sales managers. Sales managers represent an important category of employees in terms of meeting companyВ’s goals and achieving the required performance. The paper presents the results of the research carried out on a sample of Slovak companies. The aim of the research was to find out the current situation in the use of the selected methods of sales managers training in Slovak companies and to test statistically significant differences in the use of these methods in terms...

It is very often the case that students have problems and make mistakes while using and determining the right and consistent sample in their dissertation research. This is also the duty of the supervisor-mentor to follow the student and timely make the right intervention. The sampling technique is viewed in several aspects and it is essentially a statistical operation. It is about to economize and accelerate the process of collecting the factual material. In essence, we are dealing with a large number of populatio...

Service orientation is now becoming an important factor favorable to manufacturers competitiveness. The focus in organizational service orientation is in the whole organization-wide inherent ability to create and to deliver excellent services. It is required changes in structures and capabilities. Prior research has sought to identify service-related capabilities of manufacturers through explorative research. Although extant research on organizational service orientation, servitization and hybrid offerings has sug...

The key finding of the previous research is the fact that protests are a result of a multifactorial negative impact of socio-economic factors on an individual and group consciousness of citizens. Thus, effective counteracting protest activity assumes managing and administrating social and economic processes in order to neglect threats and overcome negative consequences of crisis in society and economy. The research reveals methodology of counteracting protest activity on the basis of cognitive maps which is an eff...

The stage set has been designed, costumes for two spectral areas. Textile design has been arranged with two independent images, two pieces of information that we observe through infra-red cameras and parallel projection. The clothes contain a hidden image that brings its own story. The consequences of introducing a dual scene is a necessity for new methods in directing, stage set and the way of articulating new and old pieces for the theater stage. Digital print of the fabric has been subordinated to arranging twi...

Intensified by poly-cultural space of translation, specific nature of scientific discourse, which increasingly invokes the phenomenon of intertextuality, precondition special relevance of cognitive text forming mechanisms aimed at ensuring scientific text perception and comprehension in what concerns semiotic and functional potential thereof. The aim of this study is to consider the intercorrelations between cognitive and linguistic structures of the medical concept “BoNTA naïve injections” within scientific ...

The article presents the results of the study, aiming at substantiation of approaches to the phenomenon definition of В«secondary citiesВ», specificity of its manifestation in emerging markets countries. The authors emphasize the importance of В«secondary citiesВ», (or secondary tiers cities) in development of national urban systems in emerging markets countries. To confirm this argument, the following factors are used: firstly, a significant number of secondary cities; secondly, intensification of polarization pr...

From the point of view of modern science, we do not know all the properties of light. We still have a very poor idea of light. Apparently, our understanding about the environment, including light, are still very primitive and simple. We know almost nothing about the surrounding nature, the cosmos, about other civilizations. In a scientific way - about the microcosm, the macrocosm and megacosm. In a popular way - about the middle, upper and lower worlds. Human organs of the senses do not sense the invisible ritual ...

In numerous international and national documents, the protection of human life is grounded with the utmost gravity and authority. An individual’s right for health is protected and prioritized in all modern national legal systems as a fundamental human right. The paper critically reviews the content of safety when providing health care. Security is of high value to society and individuals. Insuring safety and security entails providing stable institutional framework by which individual needs can be met. The paper...