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In modern conditions is rapidly changing external business environment, in-creasing competition, rapidly updated product range. So now to win the competition it is very important to better and more complete than our rivals, to meet the current demand and growing consumer demands. This can only be achieved through effective product policy. Errors in the formation of product policies lead to volatility in the assortment structure, loss of control over the competitiveness and the quality of products and will ultimate...

In Russia, the international migration is growing. In this situation, it is important to identify and assess the main social risks of international migration. The construction of social risks is reflected by public opinion. The analysis, based on public opinion polls data and statistical indicators, allows to find out mail social risks and fears of population. The main methods are telephone survey (N=1017) and survey on the streets of St. Petersburg (N=821), that are conducted in 2016. Additionally, a secondary an...

Eleven examples of a special type of jewellery – flat, double spiral, bronze wire earrings have been recorded in monuments dated to the late Hunno-Sarmatian period. This paper analyses the main characteristics of the jewellery in question and their area of distribution. It also focuses on a likely source of origin within the culture of the Altai people. We note that neither prototypes nor analogues have been found at Altai sites dated to the Early Iron Age and Middle Ages. Nor have analogues been found in adjacent...

The problem of poverty has always been considered as one of the most topical problems in Russia. The poverty threshold is legally fixed at the subsistence level, which, unlike similar indicators in other countries, does not meet the requirements of human needs satisfaction at the appropriate level. Since 2012 the population with income below the subsistence level has been steadily growing while income spread has been constantly increasing. It is due to peculiar features of the Russian social policy model that this...

The significance of the theme lies in posing the question of strengthening of collective identities through development of modern forms of culture, creative industries, in particular. The aim of the article is to show that clusters of creative industries compose innovative part of urban space without any damage to traditional landscapes of urban culture but through providing variety and attractiveness. The author names the causes of instability of sociocultural pictures of the world connecting it with sophisticati...

Audio-Lingual Method (ALM) is a teaching principle used in teaching second/foreign languages. Audio-Lingual Method was pointed out that ineffective for teaching second/foreign languages. Some linguists and second/foreign language teachers believe that Audio-Lingual Method is a rote learning style. However, this study was done on a belief that Audio-Lingual Method will be able to solve Thais’ English speaking problem. The distinction of Audio-Lingual Method in this paper was “adapted ALM”. Adapted ALM was applied t...

The paper surveys the Czech banking sector from the perspective of corporate financing. The article presents the current state of the Czech financial market, and the importance of the banking sector for the economy. The questionnaire survey investigated main trends in the use of various products offered by the banking sector for financing, satisfaction of companies with banking products and overall confidence of business customers in the banking sector in the Czech Republic. Results of investigation and empirical ...

The purpose of the research is to investigate the practices of philosophical communities in Russia within the concept of trading zones and the problem of public philosophy. Our main theoretical framework is the notion of the trading zone, originally developed by Peter Galison to explain intra-scientific collaboration through the coordination of action and belief. In this study, we interpret the concept of trading zones in terms of communications between philosophers and non-philosophers. In so doing, we introduce ...

The goal of study is determining the conception of scientific fraud and its regulation by the norms of criminal law. The most dangerous delicts in international law received were named international frauds. To such deeds are related cyber crimes corruption, frauds with using official position, unfair commercial action, but such type of crime as scientific fraud did not get a normal consolidation. Even if this action has an international character, and brings not only material, but moral damage and brings treat to ...

The years of negligent attitude and scarcity of financial resources at the disposal of local self-governments have intensified the processes leading to the degradation of urban areas. As a result, many cities and towns are not only adversely affected by the deterioration of technical infrastructure but also suffer from the lowering of the standard of living. Therefore, it should be considered necessary to reinvigorate degraded urban areas with the intention to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of revi...

The paper is aimed on lifelong learning of the adult population and assessment of the influence of selected determinants on participation in lifelong learning within the European Union Member States. Governments invest in education to help foster the economic growth, enhance the productivity, contribute to the personal and social development or reduce social inequality. A lack of skills strengthens the risk of unemployment and the differences in skills have an impact on earnings. Higher levels of educational achie...

The research results of different types of students’ social activity in the biggest universities of the Ural Federal District are presented in this report. Higher education system in Russia is reformed strictly in accordance with global trends. The ethos of economic efficiency, accountability, standards, productivity, profitability and ubiquitous managerialism dominates in the educational management. Thus, universities are beginning to transform and gradually turn into trans-object industries, which interact with ...

The subject of all architectural and urban forms is man, an individual, who is the constituent element of society. Societies create metropolises, residing in them, working and resting. This is why the quality of a society determines, in all probability, all the other qualities that serve these purposes, including the quality of the geographic and social environment. Beauty is induced by a free, self-governing society and makes itself evident in respect towards man by his abiding of the laws that govern it, and at ...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants of global competitive intelligence development and analyse the competitive environment in Latvia in historical perspective. The development of the market is a lasting historical process that exists in interaction with all the other markets. Competitive Intelligence (CI) obtained its present pattern in the mid-1990s, and, according to Bergeron and Hiller, it was influenced by several factors relating to social experience and historical precedents. In order to...

There seems to be general agreement that the western military capabilities were more efficient than the Seljuks in the course of the marvelous victories that comprised the First Crusade. This paper focuses on the role of Kilij Arslan I on the warfare between the Seljuk Turks and the Christian forces in Asia Minor during the three main military waves of the First Crusade. Kilij Arslan was the leader of the Turkish forces against the People’s Crusade and the first (1096-1099) and second (1100-1101) Princes’ Crusade ...

The analysis of stepping qualifies within the current scope of biomechanical researches that complete the set of investigations concerning the posture deficiency prophylaxis and recovery. This paper aims to compare the main stepping indicators of students with deficient posture with those of healthy students, bringing additional impartial information on the posture assessment. To reach such target, a research was carried out during the academic year 2016-2017, in which students diagnosed with deficient posture and...

Article is written on actual topic connected with formation of the common migration policy of the European Union and improvement of the European legislation in the sphere of regulation of migratory processes. The analysis which is carried out in article reflects the profound changes which happened in the legislation of the European Union at a turn of the XX-XXI centuries in the field of migration policy. Activities of institutes of the European Union for development and realization of effective migration policy pr...

Introduction: Dental caries is a disease that affects all age groups, most commonly children. Dental caries in preschool represents a health and a social problem, especially when the the provision of preventive measures and the treatment rate are very low. A severe category of dental caries that is very common among children of preschool age is known as early childhood caries (ECC). In an earlier study, the prevalence of ECC in preschool children of Kosovo was 17.4%, while the mean dmft in children with ECC was 11...

Based on the eyewitnesses and contemporaries’ memoirs, the paper shows the image of Stalingrad in 1942-1943, when German troops reached the Volga and the city got involved in a fierce battle. The analysis of eyewitnesses’ accounts revealed everyday problems of the local population during the occupation. The food problem worsened significantly, food was extremely scarce, the population of the city starved. The paper presents the policy of the occupational authorities in Stalingrad. Most of the city's enterprises we...

Introduction: Anaerobic power is an important factor determining physical performance in competitive sports. The aim of this paper is to analyze the anaerobic power of athletes involved in various competitive sports which require different forms of training, and to describe the effect of each group’s specialized training over a period of one year on the anaerobic indicators defined by the 30 second Wingate test. Method: The study involved 15 soccer players (SP), 12 practitioners of martial arts (MA), 15 weightlift...

During the last decades one can notice a positive effect of tourism activities in rural or remote areas, tourism managing to induce economic development in peripheral spaces where primary activities like agriculture, low industry or craftsmanship were not economic profitable anymore. Positive role of tourism activities in rural areas can be translated into different ways, like the increase of well-being, stabilization of population in exodus localities, bigger resistance towards financial crisis, and even a growth...

This article is dealing with the spatial differences of the European population ageing. The research is focused on spatial differences of ageing process between 28 European Union countries. The analyses on this spatial level are working with the creation of cartogram method for processing of the demographical data. We can use ArcGIS and his version ArcMap as a complete system for information for better processing the spatial data by the help of cartogram method. Our principal main is to group the all 28 EU members...

Leaders and their role in organizations management are some of the most analyzed subjects in organizations management. Specifically in tourism organizations leader is the person who plans, manages, organized, monitors and motivates employees in all of these functions and processes. Thus leader’s role is essential gaining competitive advantage in the tourism organizations. One of the leader’s role issues is ethics and how ethical behavior influences the motivation of employees. Accordingly the aim of this article i...

Assessment of the influence of fundamental factors of the knowledge economy development that have a specific refraction at the subregional level and assessment of the impact of the existing structure of human and physical capital in the resource regions of Russia on the scale of economic growth in the context of transition to the postindustrial information society and knowledge economy are carried out in the research paper. Intensive industrial development, primarily based on the increase of the scope of natural r...

Our study focuses on learning characteristics of students attending initial teacher education (ITE) program for bachelor degree in preschool and primary school teaching. Previous research conducted [1], [2], [3], [8] showed that there are significant particularities in ITE that are related to professional maturity levels, multi-leveled usage of learning styles and an internal locus of control. Our approach aims to look for a well determined pattern in succeeding during the first year of ITE, so we can generate a p...

The problem of estimating the price of residential real estate is considered. For its solution it is proposed to use hedonic house price models such as local spatial models: geographically weighted regression and kriging. They attempt to explain variation in house prices using property structural and location characteristics. To improve the quality of construction of a variogram model, it is proposed to use robust methods. Methods are compared based on real data on the house prices in the city of Novosibirsk. The ...

In modern science there is a large number of typologies of universities. The most of them are linear, vertical. Typically, such typologies are based on quantitative characteristics. The rating of universities as one of the methods of their typologization is based on the same criteria. The Russian Federation today is divided into 8 macro-regions - federal districts, each of which has its own unique economic, political, cultural, social characteristics. The educational space of each of the macro-region has a number ...

Modern society is characterized by a common desire to pursue higher education after school. This is defined as a measure of democracy. Is it truly so? Do all school graduates must pursue higher education? Perhaps this universal movement determines the life plans of a school graduate and pushes him\her to choose what is approved and give up on what is interesting and where he or she could achieve certain success. In this article, we would like to focus on the overall concept, which was adopted by society and has ch...

Autistic Spectrum Disorders as a heterogeneous group of disorders in the dysogenogenesis are an object of interest in many specialties and interdisciplinary sciences. As far as the mental development disorders are examined by the psychology, the somatic and neurological disorders are a subject to pediatrics and child neurology, it seems that the problems of social cognition of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders remain in the background. Considering the fact that social work and social activities generally a...

In Russia a new qualification evaluation system has entered into operation and professional standards are being introduced into practice. This new qualification evaluation system assumes an independent state estimation of employees to meet the required qualifications reflected in the professional standard. The professional standard is a normative legal act approved by the order of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Russia, and it reflects the requirements for education and the necessary competencies, k...

Migration today is a worldwide phenomenon that plays an increasingly central role in economic development. The signing of free trade agreements in the early nineties, such as the Schengen Agreement (1985) or NAFTA (1995), increased mobility and encouraged movements between signatory member countries’ populations. At the same time, improvements in transportation and communication infrastructures have also tended to increase net migration, making it not only the most important demographic aspect, but also a key to u...

The objective of the text is to examine the cultural reception of texts on values as good, which are often described as universal. Texts were carried out by representativeness of many cultures using the method of transformative drama while at the University of Pécs. Students from Russia, Kazakhstan, Haiti, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, China, Mongolia, Korea, Laos, Hungary, Egypt, Syria, Cameroon, Mexico, Indonesia, in a dramatic cutscene illustrated, how is the concept of good understood in their culture.

The focus of the research is accessibility of the public space designated in the legal documents generating social policy of Wroclaw city. Integration and expansion of social development constitute one of the main objectives of economic development, both at the national and local level. Spatial planning should satisfy basic social needs and provide room to interpersonal relationships. Accessibility is one of the most important features defining areas of public space. Depending on various points of view from which ...

The authors reveal the structure of the new political phenomenon - network public policy, formed under the influence of societal changes in contemporary society. As a result of these changes, political institutions and practices acquired new network universal qualities. Network public policy takes place in an environment integrated with the Internet public space and includes the activities of various social and political actors that have significant levels of reflection and use network mechanisms to search for res...

Direct relationship of the development of foreign trade and FDI was confirmed by a correlation analysis. The coefficient of correlation was 0.97. A strong relationship (R=0.97) showed between the turnover of foreign trade and GDP, as well as between the share of export and GDP, and the share of import and GDP, where the coefficient of correlation reached the value of 0.99. The GDP growth rate indirectly affected the unemployment growth rate. The relationship between these parameters was weak, as the coefficient of...

Like in many other countries, the status of women in Croatian politics is neither satisfactory nor have their political rights been developed to an adequate degree. Croatian women face numerous prejudices and stereotypes and are almost invisible at a high political level. Consequently, the number of Croatian female MPs is small despite the fact that the rules on electoral gender quotas were introduced in 2008. As stipulated by those rules, there shall be at least 40% of women on parliamentary candidate lists. Inst...

The article reveals the main stages of the development of political thought in France in the XVII century. Political thought was focused first on the approval of absolutist ideas, and then on justification of the "power" and "grandeur" of the French state. During the second half of XVI - early XVII centuries the ideological suppositions of establishing the hegemonic aspirations of the French monarchy were evolved and later were implemented in the Age of Louis XIV. In the second half of the XVI century, the politic...

Functioning of the modern economy and society is unthinkable without a well-functioning banking system. The modern commercial banks are key component of the financial system because of their role and position in the credit intermediation in our country. They are financial mediators who operate not only with their own funds, but above all with public capital. Banks buy and sell money by accepting on different accounts the free funds of their clients and grant them to those customers having need of. Banks earn from ...

The Republic of Macedonia passes through many turbulences, it faces with problems of different nature(various kinds) and in particular with the problems of interethnic, inter religious, intercultural, socio-economic characters etc. The environment of the party moment reflects on political, ideological and ethnic overpopulation. In the ideological sense collide left-wing and right-wing ideologies expressed through SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE, in the interethnic sense clashes(collide) between Macedonia and ethnic Albanians ...

Background: The priority direction of modern Russian education is orientation to the humanistic nature of training. In the center of educational system there is a spirituality. Spirituality of the personality - the highest step of intellectual and moral development of the person. A key element of the humanistic direction in pedagogics and psychology is the theory of self-actualization. Self-actualization assumes education of such qualities of the personality as ability to take the responsibility, creativity, refle...

The problem of organization of personally-oriented independent work with the minimal direct impact on students by teachers is currently among the most topical problems of pedagogy and the methodology of teaching foreign languages. In the conditions of transition to a credit-modular system of teaching, independent work becomes the main source of knowledge acquisition and the formation of various methods of students’ activities. Today the Russian higher school formes the preconditions for a paradigm shift in educati...

The paper examines historical transformations of the unique phenomenon of Soviet culture – the Recreation and Culture Park. Alongside with changing the Soviet ideological project into the specific culture of consumption, the Soviet park was transformed. The authors determine the stages of the Park development and characterize the peculiarities of this culture phenomenon in different periods. Originally, the Park intended to play a new role in the society. It should contribute to the creation of a new human being o...

The system of partner relations of Russian business and government is in the process of formation. The economic crisis is not the best way influenced this process. In a crisis situation, level of investment activity of Russian companies on the background of maintaining the limitations of funding sources (borrowing of credit resources abroad and high interest rates on loans of domestic banking institutions) continued to decline. The negative impact of administrative factors, such as the tightening of the customs re...

The following article is devoted to structural, semantic characteristics of brands and trade mark nominations. The linguistic pragmonim status is not accurately defined because it’s a periphery class in proper name space (onomastics). The purpose of the research is to examine the trademark function in Russian mental space. The selection of study material is caused by methodology and a technique of the analysis. We use the interpretive method to identify the general linguistic and onomastic concepts, the formalizin...

The article focuses on the concept of distributed leadership (DL) in the context of growing uncertainty of organizational environment. The article discusses the study, carried out in 212 organizations - different due to the industry, the size, and form of ownership. The purpose of the study was to determine the relation between organization's environment uncertainty and the degree of leadership distribution. Research hypothesis regarding the relation between the DL and environmental uncertainty was formulated and ...

The goal of this study is to determine the effectiveness of different erasers in performing dry cleaning on unvarnished monochrome samples (painted with acrylics, oils, alkyd oils and gouache). These samples are representative of the problem with modern monochrome works lacking any protective film that might prevent dirt from entering the paint surface--they require careful cleaning procedures taking into consideration the painting materials used, which in many cases are sensitive to certain solvents. For this rea...

Many researches in psycholinguistics concern the study and analysis of the associative meanings of different word-stimuli which allow revealing the forms and the means by which the constituent images of consciousness are stored and maintained. The verbal associative experiment is one of the most suitable methods of studying the psychological, categorical and objective aspects of word meaning. Associative fields embody the nature, structure and the organization of images of consciousness as well as uncover the patt...

Landscape development is a long-term process influenced by many factors. It is primarily affected by human society and its impact is constantly growing which is also reflected in natural processes. Spatial heterogeneity is considered one of the decisive factors of biodiversity as well as ecological stability. The aim of the paper is an analysis and assessment of land use changes and landscape heterogeneity in the town of Handlová and municipalities of Rázto?no and Cige? which are located in Western Slovakia. The s...

The article is devoted to the study of the theory and methods of linguistic analysis of the folklore text. Material for the study consists of Tatar folk tales, baity (tragic folk song). In the study of the vocabulary taken into account baity dedicated to any historical events or personalities, describes the dramatic fate of the women, or personal tragedy. The leading method of research was used such as analysis, observation, experiment, generalization. The use of verbs in fairy tales and in baity has its own chara...

Autobiographicity is a peculiar form of writing based on the personal life experience of the author of a literary work reflecting its facts and events. Limits of the autobiographical character of a literary work are not easy to establish; its investigation requires deep knowledge of the biographical facts of the respective author that is drawn from the analysis of documents of extra-textual reality (letters, contemporaries’ memoirs and evaluations, reviews of the literary work, the biographical information provide...