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One of the aims of each financial analyst is to make a statistical analysis of multidimensional data in a financial analysis. The aim of all methods of multi-criteria evaluation is transforming and synthesizing values of various parameters into one - integral indicator, comprehensively expressing the level of individual enterprises in the set of values examined. The purpose of each multidimensional analysis is to process the data in order to clearly indicate the model and thus reveal the hidden phenomenon. The aim...

Modern fuel and energy complex is an important element of global economy. Its development produces risks for global and national economic systems. ItВ’s very important to develop tools for quantitative assessment these risks. For today an empirical studies that use statistical tools for solving this problem are very rare. We propose to conduct a comprehensive formal evaluation of the energy vulnerability by building ratings of the countries. The rating is based upon a number of indicators related to key energy vul...

Although the Republic of Croatia has committed itself by both international obligations and its national legislation to respecting the rights of persons with mental disorders, preserving their dignity, improving their health and integrating them into the family, work and social environment, their status in society is far from satisfactory. Persons with mental disorders are faced with a series of problems in their everyday life, e.g. systematic discrimination, lack of adequate health and social services, poor rehab...

The status of the Roma population in Slovakia remained very difficult in the 2nd half of the 20th century. They lacked job opportunities and high proportion of the Roma was still living in very poor conditions in shacks in the Roma settlements. They lived without basic hygienic conditions and without access to education, often illiterate. For this reason, in the 1950s, the social integration of the Roma population and raising their cultural level became the most important tasks. It had to be decided whether the Ro...

The paper has its aim to determine the features of the search of national identity and its origins in the architectural theory in XVII century Britain. In spite of troublesome period of time the rule of Charles I, with its difficulties, which led to the revolution, Civil war, execution of the king, the pass of power to the Parliament, then restoration of Charles II one topic had been constantly present in the British architectural mentality. It was the question, who built Stonehenge and what that already famous an...

The rate of changes and the growing uncertainty rise to the need for a strategic approach to development planning, which is active and flexible in relation to the changing reality. Strategic planning, occurring in companies, was adapted by the social-economic development planning of self-government units. However, there are difficulties in applying the strategic planning in the spatial planning and integration of the two forms of planning rarely takes place. Scientific publications focus on strategic planning of s...

The merger processes in relation to universities have different objectives than processes characteristic of business sectors. One of the key objectives of the university is usually to increase the scientific or didactic effectiveness as a result of the merger. This is connected with the mechanism of "critical mass" and the progressive globalization of the science and higher education sectors. The larger scale of research and didactics resulting from the potential combination should provide better scientific result...

The article is devoted to the analysis of the evolution of Soviet policy on enhancing industrial development in the context of social transformations led by the Communist Party. Authors introduce new periodization of industrial policy, give a brief analysis of its stages. The main goal of the study is to analyze the historical experience of the Soviet state in transformation and adjusting of industrial policy. The study is based modernization theory, as well as on the method of statistical and comparative analysis...

The article presents the results of a regional study devoted to the study of strategies and practices of self-preserving behavior of young people. The results of the sociological research showed that most young people consider health to be one of the important values and try to lead a healthy lifestyle, namely: to look at life with optimism, exercise, watch their weight, eat right, pay attention to the shelf life and composition purchased products, do not smoke, limit alcohol consumption, etc. The main factors tha...

Annexation of the Baltic states within the Soviet Union in 1940 affected all spheres of life, including culture. Writers and their texts were intentionally selected for being circulated outside the territory of each subject of the USSR. One of the ideological tasks of the Soviet socialist republic writers’ unions was creating an impression that peoples incorporated in the whole territory of the USSR have willingly joined the Soviet Union and agree to replacing their national languages by a single official – Rus...

The purpose of this article is to identify the main speech characteristics that mark the British linguistic identity in business discourse. The authors analyze the concept of linguistic identity, determine the role of the identification of business representatives with ethnic, professional, political groups, identify speech markers of linguistic identity. For the analysis of speech characteristics methods of functional-pragmatic analysis, continuous sampling and contextual analysis were applied. The material of th...

This article considers the development of the theory of knowledge management. The relevance of the article is due essentially to the powerful development of the information and digital economy and its impact on all areas of the economy of the state. The purpose of the article is the development of theoretical provisions on the strategy, organization and economy of the knowledge management system as a component of the enterprise management system as a whole. Methods of forming the strategy of the knowledge manageme...

A man nowadays lives in a world characterized by changeability, unstoppable progress and development. Political, economic and socio–cultural changes inscribed in the variability, apart from the positive effects, i.e. compensation for many civilizational neglects, also have negative consequences and affect the life of an individual or social groups. More and more problems and threats are emerging nowadays: poverty, unemployment, migration, addictions, family dysfunctionality, crime or other disturbing phenomena. ...

While existing studies deal with stress involved in the work-family relation [1], [2], this research includes the academic education (as a cognitive-didactic activity) as a third element of this relation, manifesting itself simultaneously with the other two (given that the continuous education is more and more present). The general objective was to analyze the above-mentioned relation considering variables such as level of stress, coping strategies, gender, profile of the university and educational results. The re...

The paper deals with one of the most frequently tested relationship within industrial economics literature, namely structure – performance relationship. It is based on the theoretical background of structure – conduct - performance paradigm and review of results of related empirical findings in conditions of selected industries. The analytical part of the paper in applied on the conditions of steel industry primarily focusing on Slovakia. Besides evaluation of trends in steel industry development, the paper pr...

In the modern system of vocational education, the research activities of students play an important role in ensuring the quality of their professional training. At the same time, at the present, the prestige of scientific activity and the activity of students in this field have significantly decreased, which actualizes the need to develop new forms and tools for involving students in research activities. Despite a rather large number of studies in this area, the issues of new forms and effective tools for involvin...

Developed communicative competence today is an urgent need of an individual, one of the ways for his intellectual, spiritual and professional self-affirmation and self-improvement. Its quality, according to the authors, is significantly determined by the nature and format of the teacher-student interaction in the classroom. In order to track the relationship between the influence of the educational interaction format on the development of general cultural and professionally oriented competences of trainees, we con...

At present, the packaging is the seller of the goods. In many cases, the quality of goods and packaging design should be interrelated, because the overestimated design and the average quality of the goods are not compatible. This can lead to a failure in the introduction of the product to the market. Overabundance of goods and packages made consumers of products "capricious buyers." In a store, a buyer more often buys a product known to him and there is an ever smaller percentage of buyers who buy a new product, l...

The article presents the conceptualization of the process of pedagogical influence on the student’s self-development, the existential approach as the basis of this influence, the essence of self-development, the criteria of readiness for self-development and classification of needs in self-development. The essential spheres of the human being – intellectual, emotional, motivational, spheres of self-correction, volition, self-realization, existential - are discussed. The content of socio-pedagogical support of s...

There is currently an upward trend in the use of natural plants. Experts recommend the use of natural remedies as an adjunctive to classical therapy, all the more so as the antibacterial action of plant extracts comes up against antibiotic resistance, a problem that dominated the second millennium and seems to persist in an upward trend in the third millennium. The aim of this study was to select the Epilobium parviflorum Schreb species from the many medicinal plants due to its contents in high quantity of biologi...

As more organizations adopt project management approaches and the demand for project managers grows, there is increasing interest in the competence of project managers and in standards for development and assessment of project management competence. This paper will compare the level of achieved core competencies of the project manager within project management approaches. The current situation requires readiness of university students to be able to apply their knowledge of project management in their professional ...

The main indicator of the effectiveness and efficiency of the socio-economic policy of any state is the standard of living of the population. It is the well-being of the population, its level of security, prosperity, health, education and self-realization that determine the development of the country as a whole. Currently, incomes and expenses of the population are an important component of the system of social and labor relations not only in Russia but also in many countries around the world. The aim of the study...

The article explores linguistic means of cohesion and coherence, as well as means of intonation manifestation in popular economic discourse in terms of their functional and pragmatic importance. It also provides main approaches to the concepts of discourse and intonation manifestation both in oral and written discourse in modern linguistics. With economy being one of the essential areas of society and with the processes of economic globalization, the language of economy becomes one of the most explored in present-...

The paper presents the situation of investments in the hotel and restaurant industry, from the eight development regions of Romania, during 2008-2016. The data used in the study was taken from several sources of statistical data of various organisms in the field, and then they were sorted and hierarchized for further processing. The purpose of the processing was to highlight the level of investment in the hotel and restaurant industry in each development region of Romania and to compare the turnover of the sector ...

The progressive process of erosion of the European institutional structure, which took place starting from the economic crisis up to the crisis resulting from Brexit, requires careful reflection on the process of European integration, in its historical, political and social conditions. The research work conducted by the jurist Joseph Weiler, allows to draw a clear appearance of constitutive aspects of the European Community. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, which includes law, economic, political, social an...

The paper presents a synthesis of the fundamental elements characterizing the bank deposits and, in particular, the deposits of the non-governmental clients. The concept of deposit as a whole, the typology and the role of bank deposits are analyzed. The study started in this paper will continue with other researches in this regard. The methods used by the authors to support the research consisted of data collection, documentary analysis, graphic representation, classification, comparative analysis. Scientific rese...

Modern society has no time for rituals or rhythms; the modern man serves his food at fast at fast-food near the workplace, surrounded, but not together, with his colleagues. Both the Romanian of the big urban agglomerations, as well as of the one from the rural space, has no time for even one of the three tables; he uses products with beautifully colored and encoded labels, because they do not know how else they could talk about: emulsifiers, stabilizers, a bunch of E-s, a whole bunch of acids mentioned on the pac...

Religion and religious environment are the factors that affect the development and psychological status of a person. It is important for adolescents, who are sensitive to changes in the environment. The purpose of the study is to highlight the factors shaping the religiosity of adolescents and their idea of God. The degree of religiosity of adolescents were studied using a questionnaire of Professor C.A. Lewis. Correlations were analyzed by Pearson product-moment correlation. Sample was composed by 320 adolescents...

Mass media is the most expanded means of communication nowadays. For decades mass media has been actively working out the strategies to influence the recipientВ’s mind. In this research the author makes efforts to make a survey of what appears to be the most efficient, acute and widely practiced expressive stylistic means applicable in the media. The key word here is expressiveness since it reflects the speaker's attitude to the events and forms the pragmatic value of the text. As modern psycholinguists believe, e...

The paper draws attention to the stylistic aspects of vocal interpretation in the historical context of the genres and forms of non-art music. The increasingly wide range of genres, along with the unstoppable development of technology and the media, gave rise to the necessity of systematization and categorization in the field of non-art music. While classic vocal techniques characterized trained singers and performing artists, the folk singers, chansonniers, singers of couplets, of musicals and jazz went their own...

The Romanian lied after the second half of the 20th century till now has manifested in different ways of expression, both as chamber works with texts of secular inspiration and with texts of religious inspiration. Thus, the lieds composed by the Romanian composers are based on songs, poems or ballads of folkloric inspiration, then the texts of the Romanian poets and also of the foreign poets. Constantin Tufan Stan, in his article published in the Music Magazin, states about lied that: 'By the broad, affective and ...

Risk management of innovative projects is one of the most difficult tasks in project management due to high degree of uncertainty in future results. One of the most important stages in risk management of innovative projects is the development of the risk mitigation program. In the research approaches to the risk management of innovative projects the methodical apparatus of each individual stage of risk management - identification, assessment and risk mitigation - is considered disconnected and often without any sp...

Thesis : Underground architecture engages our sensory system in order to depict and intensify its meaning. The motherВ’s uterus defines first space in which humans embryo evolves with no access of light, meagre sound reception, suspended in an aqueous environment. In prehistoric times caves and dugouts acted as a cramped, safe place, giving the inhabitants a sense of shelter and protecting them from animals and rough weather conditions. Later it began to adopt different meanings and functions, which often depended...

Background: On the basis of the theoretical and empirical analyses published in the scientific literature, it can be stated that the concept of successful ageing presented in educational discourses is understood differently by authors and it is focused primarily on three issues related to 1/ spirituality, 2/ fulfillment of oneВ’s own well-being, 3/ a sense of community. The article discusses research results aimed at comparing ways of understanding successful ageing in the scientific literature with ways of defini...

The aim of this article is to discuss the findings of the research carried out in the years 2012 – 2014 identifying models and conditions of succession processes in Polish family enterprises. The research consisted of quantitative and qualitative part. The studies show that in the majority of firms, although the generational change has not yet taken place (the percentage of firms in the second and next generations is exceptionally low), there is no striving for actions that would solve the problem of maintaining...

New approach to conceptualize social development and to measure its level is proposed for societies facing the paradoxical consequences of globalization. The economic and social divide between the group of the largest cities and the rest of the world supports the idea that globalization has resulted not in the В‘world societyВ’ or В‘worldwide socialityВ’ but rather in networked enclaves of globality. In the post-globalization age, the В‘coreВ’ of socioeconomic order is dispersed into networks of enclaves of global...

Increased mobility and international cooperation are crucial objectives for Latvia to foster integration to the European Higher Education Area and European Research Area, which builds the basis for Latvia to utilise its potential for education and research as well as serves as a means to build research capacity, strengthen the image of Latvian Higher Education Institutions (HEI) and promote the positive image of the country globally. The paper introduces the selected results of the study conducted in the framework...

Sustainable development is a way of developing a human society that aligns economic and social progress with full environmental conservation. One of its pillars is the Economic Pillar, which consists of all economic activities in a given company, interactions between them and between the environment and society. The aim of the paper is to specify and analyse the contribution and effectiveness of business co-operation through regular offline networking meetings in the given locality with an impact on the economic p...

The aim of the article is to present the methods supporting the internationalization of the small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in the Czech Republic. The SME sector in this country is identified, and the methods used in this country to support internationalization are presented. The article assumes that supporting small and medium-sized enterprises is crucial for the success of the internationalization process. Currently, the foundations of the modern economy are companies from the sector of small and medium...

The immaterial products of today environment is overpopulated with 'tools' for enter-taining, education, creativity, geographic orientation and so on. Everything is designed to create layer over layer of wich we name 'reality'. From a philosophical point of view, our world is becoming an 'opera aperta' of information for developers, companies, aca-demics and individuals. But is it so? Are transacted data part of an one piece of work? Could such data became artwork? As part of my doctoral approach of education and ...

Introduction: Tobacco smoke and second-hand smoking exposure, at home or in school during childhood and adolescence, increases the risk of respiratory illness. Youth smoking is mostly associated with parents, and their smoking behavior. Also, there are other influences: social environment, targeted advertising, easy access to cigarette products, no control over age limit in purchasing cigarettes, lack of knowledge about the effects of smoking. Material and method: To evaluate the influence of the environment, soci...

The research study offers an analysis of the public opinion of citizens of the Slovak Republic focused on the results of the referendum vote in the United Kingdom in 2016, in which the British voters decided to leave their country of the European Union. The study also presents prevailing opinions, attitudes, preferences and values of the Slovak people on the possible impacts of Brexitis in Great Britain on Slovaks or on the future of the European Union. We used the questionnaire method in the research. The survey ...

In the doctrine and judicial practice, it has been stated that the performance of the obligations stipulated in synallagmatic contracts must be made simultaneously by both parties. Therefore, the refusal of one of the contracting parties to perform its own obligations breaks the balance that must exist between the reciprocal performances of synallagmatic contracts so that the other party is also entitled to cease performing its own obligations. Thus, the exception of non-performance consists in the possibility for...

This article analyses the sustainability of legislation providing the developments of the Estonian national language and foreign languages. The model for content analysis designed by the authors is based on the AGIL paradigm or AGIL model by Talcott Parsons, which states that the continuity of a social system requires the balance performance between four components of the system: adaptation (A), goal attainment (G), integration (I) and latent pattern maintenance (L) or values. Our results demonstrate that the Stra...

Nowadays, companies deal with a dynamic process of adapting economic sectors to the EU requirements and conditions as well as to internal domestic regulations in terms of corporate sustainable activities, including identifying, measuring, estimating and disclosing various information. Ongoing economic changes determine conditions under which todayВ’s business is conducted also in the area of municipal management, and impose the necessity to implement innovative organizational, financial and accounting solutions. T...

The 2030 agenda for sustainable development addresses the challenges of economic, health and development inequalities within and among countries and regions, by defining an ambitious framework to foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies in all over the world. In the pursuit of establishing win-win cooperation between all countries and all regions of the world, the framework envisages 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) to achieve sustainable development in a balanced and integrated manner of all key dimen...

The permanent covering of a floor generally provides a wearing surface on top of a support structure, with shape, appearance and materials chosen mainly for architectural, structural and economical reasons. At the same time each flooring choice is unique, and it means and does a lot more than just supporting weight and offering surfaces to walk on. Modern floorings propose strategies and specialized solutions in order to recommend the perfect link between technology and customers. Flooring alternatives, from tradi...

In last two decades, sustainability is one of the most important subject in our society. Retrofitting and reduction of CO? emisions from residential buildings is becoming an anchor of interactive approch to global, environmental and socio-economic policy. There are several measures taken to increase the energy efficiency, both for new buildings and for existing buildings, such us the 20 –20 –20 EU Policy andthe Nearly Zero Energy Buildings goal set bythe Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2010/31/EC, wh...

Sustainable building structures are one of presumptions of long-lasting and environmental friendly urban areas. Building structures are affected by many contrary impacts within their lifetime, i.e. weather, human, animal, vegetable, fungal and environmental interventions, natural and non-natural disasters. Timely and appropriate maintenance or other remedial measures could be selected using up-to date diagnostics or monitoring methods. One of the big issues of the building sustainability can be found in durability...

Background: Understanding the individual food preferences is critical for creating tailored strategies to promote individual healthy eating behavior. Individual sensory liking appears to be an important determinant of dietary intake. Taste preferences influence satisfaction and satiety, and may consequently influence weight status and psychological balance. The purpose of this study was to identify the association between taste preferences (sweet, salt, sweet and fat, salt and fat) and the histrionic personality s...