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The role of logistics in today's global business is steadily increasing, which is why the coordination and control of logistics activities has become a necessity. The logistics industry provides a significant contribution to the economy through job creation, the creation of national income and the inflow of foreign investment. However, most of the previous empirical research is based on the assessment of the effects of logistics and 3PL operators on business operations and on the effects on the economy, ignoring t...

Modern studies show that todayВ’s education is focused on the development of the personality of a student. This is due to the fact that at the moment the most important aspect in the process of receiving knowledge is learning the methods of it, which are based on analysis and forecasting. This is guided by the educational process for the development of probabilistic style of thinking that all adequate solutions in the conditions of limited information, and when the decision-making process itself is based on the pr...

The author of this paper made an attempt to determine the optimal shapes and sizes of the functional areas in different types of theatre buildings. There is no ideal shape and size of a theatre. But there are some indicators that can help to define the best possible relation between the facilities in theatres. Buildings for the performing arts are intended for drama, opera, classical or modern music, ballet, dance or other performances where a performing artist communicates with the audience. Each type of a produc...

The term ”comfort food” is a relatively recent expression, being concerned on strengthening and consolation during different periods of life. Its main attribute is to ensure pleasant sensation for the consumer and a quick satisfaction of the physiological needs, without neglecting the psychological sensation involved. Contemporary food practices have emerged and nowadays even schools and education institutions tend to encourage consumption of comfort food products by including such products in their daily menu...

Unlike the Torah, which is given by God from Heaven, royalty belongs to public political life and teaches about order, power and justice. The Israelite kingship is not a purely historical institution, but also a divine one (Ps 89, 28-37). Peace, prosperity, well-being, authority of the Israelite king are images of how God communicates with the people of Israel. The obedience of the Jewish King to the revealed Word of God, the Torah, cancels the monarchic absolutism (Deut. 17:16-17): when the king David stands hims...

The research demonstrates the study of the functioning of В„power" concept in the media discourse space of Russian and English-speaking media. It also aims at understanding the role of discursive power in the life of the younger generation whose consciousness is much more exposed to the influence of the present-day media and consequently to the language of power in the digital media context. To better perceive the "power" concept and its effect on the young peopleВ’s consciousness, free associative and graphic exp...

The discipline on matrimonial property regimes presents significant difficulties for cross-border couples. Therefore, it is necessary to guarantee uniformity in the context of law applicable to the matrimonial property regimes, taking into account the peculiarities of the different legal systems of the Member States. In this regard and in order to guarantee legal certainty, spouses must be made aware in advance with respect to the law applicable to a matrimonial property regime. With Regulation No. 1103/2016, the ...

The ordinary way of financing government expenditures is through taxation. It is to stress the fact that the “basics” of the budget-making process consists of different types of expenditures and revenues from taxation. The best fiscal system for a country is the one that accomplishes fiscal goal of taxation, i.e. allows maximum revenue in the long run and at least administrative costs, but satisfying both efficiency and fairness. Environmental (green) should be consistent with these criteria. On one hand it is...

The purpose of this article is to identify and describe the main aspects of the sociocultural analysis of a foreign language textbook. The material of the study was 5 Russian language textbooks for foreigners of the Beginner level, and 5 textbooks on Russian phraseology for foreigners of the Intermediate level. The following research methods were used: critical analysis of the scientific literature on the textbook expertise; content analysis of Russian language textbooks for foreigners on the following aspects: an...

The presidential elections in Iran in 2013 were held at a time when the country faced significant challenges in economic, political and foreign policy areas. The economy was under heavy sanctions imposed on Iran due to its nuclear program. Hassan Rouhani, who was elected president at such times, had an aim to improve the image of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the international community and to show that he and the government were ready to deal seriously with the West, for which he created a cabinet of ministers,...

The paper focuses on some of the main tenets of the principled eclecticism approach implemented within the CELTA course – a course for adult learners who wish to receive a certificate proving that they can teach adult speakers of languages other than English. As a former CELTA trainee and a graduate of the course, the author sees her goal as threefold. First, to provide some theoretical knowledge of teaching methods within the paradigm of principled or selective eclecticism – an approach that makes use of the ...

In this paper we address issues relating to marketing and the pharmaceutical industry. Specifically, we look into the main marketing concepts, identify the importance of marketing in promoting sales of pharmacy companies and demonstrate the strands used to promote sales and satisfy the needs of consumers in terms of improving their health. In addition, we highlight the development of the pharmaceutical sector in Kosovo, the competition between pharmaceutical producers and distributors, the strategies that firms us...

This paper deals with the functions of the grotesque in V.V. NabokovВ’s works as an artistic and theoretical concept in the associative-semantic aspect; the research proceeds from the perspectives of conceptual and structural-semiotic and cultural scientific methods. The scientific novelty of the paper lies in that such syncretism makes it possible to reveal a combination of grotesque imagery in the writer's texts, both in the spirit of substantive and mythological ideas, on the one less studied hand, and in terms...

The purpose of the article is to find out the role, symbolic meaning, and functions of the image of the Mississippi River in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) [4] and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884) [3], the two greatest works of fiction by Mark Twain; the article also aims to explore how different aspects of American culture are revealed in the two great Mark Twain’s books and how this knowledge can contribute into studying US culture. Our research is based on text analysis and interpreta...

The medical support is a really important part of all armies. High quality medical service is a extremely necessary for all military activities. Army of the Czech Republic has a great tradition with medical support. All soldiers in Czech Republic are professionals, and many members of Czech armed forces have experiences with foreign missions. The same situation is in the Military healthcare service. All personnel have to be professional soldiers and we can find these people in all types of military units. We have ...

In accordance with Section 88 of the Latvian Criminal Procedure Law, a person who has the right to defence is entitled to refuse a defence counsel. Such refusal shall be allowed only on the basis of the initiative of the person himself or herself; whereas if a person who has the right to defence has expressed a request regarding the participation of a defence counsel, the refusal of a defence counsel may take place only in the presence of the defence counsel. The problem is related to the fact that the police prov...

The article concerns urban spaces that are moving towards the principles of sustainable development, which are a currently responsible for shaping the quality of the urban human environment. The inhabitants of Europe, like the rest of the world, face the necessity of making a radical change of lifestyle in cities, mainly in the field of energy consumption, water consumption and waste management. Accelerated technological progress in the world and constantly improving economic conditions of cities development are c...

In the past few decades, in the furniture industry, the value of traditional culture has been underestimated in many countries under the process of western-centric modernisation. The process of the culture grounded competitive advantages of furniture& furnishing firms has not yet identified and still undeveloped theoretically and practically. Using the local identity (culture) to add an emotional and symbolic value to the furniture and creating marketing differentiation advantage is not yet fully recognised by aca...

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

In English speaking countries, several literary monographs and dictionaries about cult fiction were published in the last decades. In our postmodern times, this seems to be quite an inspiring topic because it deals with constant tension between “high brow” literary values usually recommended by state education systems on the one hand, and spontaneous need to overcome these somewhat petrified systems of thinking about artistic values on the other hand. This effort is usually supported by independent intellectua...

Defining language tools for manipulating recipientsВ’ consciousness in public service advertising is quite a topical issue in modern linguistics due to the increasing demand in examining the ways to make a proper impact on the target audience. The main purpose of the article is to explore the ways to create perlocutionary effect in public service advertising by virtue of such stylistic device as pun. The significance of public service advertising in the life of society is determined by the growing necessity to cha...

The paper deals with important shifts in the postnonclassical paradigm of the education. The author underlines the necessity of the compliance of the modern system of education to the requirements of the society (consider, generation Z and Alpha). New technologies of ICT, multidisciplinary researches and magic methods of teaching should be effectively applied in classroom and extracurricular work of students. The author analyses the main reasons of the popularity of the sequel of Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling from ...

Taking into account the fact that the economic growth of the country it is based on the following three elements are important, as follows: the accumulation of capital, which includes investments in fixed assets and human resources; the increase in population and therefore labour force; the progress of technological; it follows that research and innovation have an important role to play in this way. Therefore, the investment in the technology, the costs of the research and development workforce in the field of res...

Recent Orthodox Tradition is the perpetuity of Christ’s divine-human life in the Christians from our times understood as part of the Church or of the mystical body of the Resurrected Jesus Christ, the Lord, in Saint Apostle Paul’s own words (1 Cor. 1: 27; Eph. 4: 12). Contemporary theological writings, in their authentic state – as written testimonies of this real experience – are, in their turn, part of this continuous Tradition. They constitute scientific “recordings” of God’s indescribable uncreated ...

The words “national costume” are used here to denote a novel costume expressing affiliation to a certain cultural heritage in visual form. The creation of the national costume began in many European countries in the 19th century. Since then, the topicality of the costume in European countries has changed. In Latvia, the tradition of the national costume usage continues to this day with the Song and Dance Celebration tradition being one of factors preserving it. In Latvia, there is a historically established no...

Nowadays the phenomenon of the urbanization is passing through an intensification process. As a result, by increasing the pressure on space, the local administration must firmly respond to the demands of an increasingly population requirements. Thus, the quality of life becomes a concept that measures residentВ’s appreciation of living standards, in relation to the environmentВ’s characteristics and personal well-being. In this context, the present work, referring to the perception of the quality of life by the po...

While the issue of the regional boyar families during the 15th and early 16th century Wallachia has already been approached, the princely council may yet be seen as a mixed up puzzle. Even if we have most of the pieces, the general picture continues to escape us. In our paper we wish to present the first results of a wider research. The study of the princely council during the reign of Radu the Great (1496-1508), but also with references to the previous reign of Vlad the Monk (1482-1496), his father, and to the on...

Goal: The goal of this research project was to find with what kind of adverse effects parents most often deal with in their children who are undergoing oncological treatment, and whether these adverse effects affect bio-psycho-social needs of the children. Method: 130 parents of children undergoing oncological treatment partook in this research, using a nonstandardized questionnaire that was handed out to them at the Clinic of Child Hematology and Oncology of 2nd Medical School of Charles University (LF UK), Unive...

This article deals with the problem of clustering North Russian cities on specific socio-demographic characteristics. The K-means method was chosen as the clustering algorithm. This clustering allows us to identify the specifics and important trends in the development of these settlements. The paper presents a cluster analysis of the data of Northern cities on their socio-demographic characteristics. The most informative was the division of all cities into 7 clusters. The division of countries into more clusters w...

The aim of the present study is to assess the relations between both subjective (e.g. traumatic fear, perceived threat to oneВ’s life) and objective trauma appraisal (e.g. number of days of hospitalization, number of deaths, physical wounds) and posttraumatic stress (PTSD) symptoms in victims of road traffic accidents (RTA). Furthermore, we wanted to identify the moderating role of traffic locus of control (T-LOC) (internal and external T-LOC) in the relations between objective and subjective trauma appraisal and ...

In Latvia, since October 1, 2005, the criminal and procedure law is in force, in which with the course of time the legal norms are subjected to changes, amendments. Among the institutions, which have been subjected to changes is one of the institutions of criminal and procedure law – the institution of termination of criminal procedure, in particular, the termination of criminal procedure with the exemption of the person from criminal liability. The article examines the essence of the termination of criminal pro...

The representation of various geographical places and topographical peculiarities is a typical feature of the travelogue genre. However, the reception of one and the same space could be depicted in travel literature in a variety of ways. Such a diversity of images appears due to existing stereotypes opposing each authorВ’s reception and interpretation of the places visited. Besides, the same place can also acquire various representations in different centuries and due to different historical events and paradigms. ...

In my paper I present the aims, the methods and a part of the results of my survey evaluating the reading comprehension competencies of Hungarian secondary school students in Slovakia. The main purpose of the survey was to map the level of secondary school students' reading comprehension skills to be familiar with the domains which need further improvement in our school education. Participants of the survey were first-year students and final-year students studying in three different school types (secondary grammar...

The fantastic is the evolution and the reincarnation of the characters and heroes in Mythology and fairy tales, which are the evolution of real legends, and myths as well. The fantastic reveals the hesitation В‘Is it real or not?В’ in receiverВ’s mind. The fantastic transgresses the border between the imagery and the reality, the true and false. The true and false, the imagery and the real are all intermingled. The receiver does not come up with the answer in the fantastic; on the contrary, it pushes the reader in...

The article discusses the importance of attachment (emotional bond) for the healthy development of personality. It expresses a permanent emotional bond, characterised by the need to seek and maintain proximity with a particular person, especially under stressful conditions. This person is usually perceived as wiser and stronger and cannot be easily replaced with another person. Protection is considered to be one of the basic biological functions, one of the conditions of survival and healthy development of an indi...

The global need for specific actions intended at reducing the climatic changes, the regional disparities and increasing the quality of life have led to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, a set of 17 main focal points acknowledged by all the United Nations Organization (UN) members as totally necessary for contributing to ensuring a global sustainable development. Even so, not all the countries have developed their own National Sustainable Development Strategy, due to different factors such as a very...

The aim of the work is an appreciation of the role of English language, the importance of proper pronunciation in English language acquisition, finding out up & running effective approaches, implement the ways how to avoid, predict and maintain misunderstanding by communicating effectively in English in order to adopt international educational trends and knowledge sharing to achieve self-realization, modernization and development in developing learning word. Pronunciation is of the most difficult aspects of Englis...

This paper explores the particularities of accounting system that serves as the main source of data for analyzing and managing small farm performance in Latvia. Although the topic of accounting in small companies has already been discussed in the literature, there is still a dearth of research on challenges faced by small agricultural holdings. The paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature by providing an insight into highly unsophisticated systems for aggregating and processing data used by some small far...

This study investigates the relationship between art engagement and the well-being of high school students from the Czech Republic, Italy and Slovenia. The research is based on data from a questionnaire survey conducted in high schools in those three countries. Five pieces of information were gathered from the students which included: life satisfaction (happiness), self-reported physical health, weekly time spent doing artistic activities, weekly time spent reading and information concerning studentВ’s ability to ...

The present article is devoted to the analysis of the use of conceptual metaphors and their role in formation of political discourse of English-language media. For identifying the specificity of conceptual metaphors and their influence on this type of discourse, the article presents a grounded theory research, within which metaphoric concepts are chosen with the help of content analysis method. The research shows that conceptual metaphors are significant for both collective and individual identity. Moreover, they ...

The existence of material traces with special cultural value in a certain geographic area could lead to a certain profile of the locality, so as to extend the functional area after them. In our study we are making an analysis of all the locations situated along the Danube, where the traces of the ancient fortresses of antiquity and also of the medieval period prove the intense life of the past, and we are investigating to what extent they constitute today tourist attractions, or participate in the local cultural p...

The Italian artist Alberto Burri is known for his artistic research on the expressiveness of materials and particularly for his pictorial cycles more than for his sculptures. However, his expressive power is strongly manifested also in his sculptures. Burri had a strong sensitivity towards solid geometry and his sculptures are absolute works of art. In particular, the paper will investigate the first sculpture created by Burri in 1973, demolished in 1989 and then rebuilt in 2015: the Teatro Continuo created for th...

The article is dedicated to a theoretical study of a person legal status, which is one of the most important entities and, at the same time, an object of environmental legal relations, which occupies a central place in the system of fundamental environmental values. The author considers the features of the of a person status in the theory of environmental law, the problems of legislative consolidation and implementation of its basic environmental rights and obligations. In particular, the scientific discussions on...

Introduction: Literature suggests that both Assessment and Locomotion regulatory modes are important in oneВ’s general goal-directed behavior and in academic performance in higher education. Objective: The analysis of regulatory mode preference predictive power in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM), respectively non-STEMM field related academic performance in undergraduates. Method: Our study had a correlational design. We applied the Regulatory Mode Questionnaire (Kruglanski et. al...

The icon is defined in the orthodox tradition as the Bible of the low literate, reason for which, in just a few colors it is synthesized important attitudes and events. The look of the believer is inevitably attracted by the face of Jesus and/or of the saints, for finding out and memorize easier the message of the Evangel. The icon "The Judgement of the Pontius Pilate 1829", kept in the Alexander Nevsky Crypt Museum, is an atypical one: Jesus is hard to find between the negative characters, dressed atypical and ke...

The aim of this survey was to identify the hierarchy of most important aspects of what primary, secondary and high-school students, from six schools, in three Romanian cities would describe as “The School of My Dreams” (the ideal school). The methodology used was content analysis of a questionnaire with open answers written by students, along with drawings, on empty postcards. The question was: How would look like the school of your dreams? The answers were written after a discussion on school buildings from d...

East Asia draws the attention of experts in recent years due to the unprecedented economic and political growth of the countries of the region. However, despite the significant role that the region plays in world politics and economics, the absence of security mechanisms and the presence of several potential spots of conflicts, such as the contradiction between China and Japan, make the region volatile. The article makes an attempt to understand the root of the Sino-Japanese relations and their conflicting potenti...

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The primary aim of this article is to create biofeedback using surface electromyography, which can devote audio and visual stimuli. For this purpose, the simple robot from Lego EV3 was created, which can be controlled by muscle tension. This proposal of biofeedback includes the connection between Arduino Uno and Lego EV3. In the first part of the paper, the methods and devices, which was used in this article, were described. There were used the robotic kit Lego EV3 for creation of a simple robot. The Arduino UNO w...

The online news delivery and dissemination format which is known as social media has infiltrated almost every aspect of modern society. Twitter is one such social media platform. This became especially popular amongst politicians and influencers from the moment the president of the United States, Donald Trump, began using it as a propaganda weapon. Twitter allows users to create profiles through which they can share user-generated or curated digital content. Moreover, sharing content - a process which effectively ...