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Italy is a country with the centuries-old history, the country which has given the world a lot of great rulers and strategists, politicians and scientists, philosophers and artists. The research is aimed at examining the main directions and priorities of the foreign policy of Italy with Russia. Italy is one of the countries which has special relations with Russia. The fact that Italy prefers involving Russia in the European affairs to containing it doesn’t imply its automatic agreement with Moscow on all issues. W...

Increasing the production of unstructured information on the Web requires further analysis of the query component of information retrieval systems. The problem concerns the extraction of knowledge from the "raw query" formulated during an interrogation of the index databases of the Web which evolves constantly with the multiplication of the data. The activity of retrieving information from the initial query makes it possible to understand the information extraction (or behavioral) capabilities of the user on the W...

In the light of recent researches and findings the scope of medical practice must be expanded beyond the core competencies to incorporate additional skills and procedures that improve care for patients and their families. The present paper summarise new educational approaches for ortopaedic medical doctors by the use of a Learning Management Systems delivered through the Internet, within the framework of e-TRAUMA project. e-TRAUMA is an on-going EU funded project under ERASMUS+ programme entitled “e- Training of o...

The safety is a key value consisting of personal safety programs, injury prevention, health support and keeping environmental and safety laws and regulations. According to previous experience it is possible to state that students, pre-service chemistry teachers, who are well-prepared due to safety practice and compliance with safety regulations and responsibilities, after starting work, are able to work creatively. With regard to preparing pre-service chemistry teachers, it is inevitable to understand the importan...

Project management represents a modern analytical approach for managing the phases of project cycles that support strategic goals and programs. The aim of this research is to create a unique rounded theoretical and applicative basis for understanding and using the concept of strategic management within the higher education projects in North Macedonia. After the completed studies of the theoretical aspects of strategic project management, a comprehensive analysis was conducted on the projects supporting the strateg...

Forensic chemistry as a part of forensic science seems to be appreciated by judicial bodies. Nevertheless, relations and cooperation between authorities conducting proceedings and an expert from such complicated and specific field can be very difficult. The group of forensic experts applying chemical analysis methods for evidence purposes in criminal trial in Poland were surveyed within the studies. Types of physicochemical methods used by forensic experts and approaches utilized for presentation of results in opi...

The paper examines alternative forms of the museum – concepts of contemporary art museums by artists in comparison with the traditional museum buildings and following the initial artists’ interventions in the exhibition space formed in the first half of the 20th century. The thesis analyses several concepts of the contemporary art museum by active artists from the 70s-90s of the 20th century, which according to their authors, present an ideal platform for art presentation. The analysis reveals that the artists bri...

The article aims to analyze the anthropological content of metaphysical concepts of Sankhya and to answer the question what determines it. The analysis of the metaphysical Sankhya concept showed that when characterizing Purusa and Prakriti as the principle of subjective and objective reality the representatives of this philosophical school use the terms that alongside ontological meaning have also anthropological one. This specificity is manifested in the description of Prakriti evolution process since every stage...

The article presents logistical aspects of the economic security system. The determinants of economic security are presented, and the monitoring and hazard indicators of the analysed security are analysed. The role and tasks of logistics in shaping the country's economic security as well as a comprehensive strategy for improving economic security are presented. Analyses and research revealed that it is important both cognitively and for economic practice to learn the mechanisms of efficient logistics. Logistical p...

The Romanian musical folklore represented and is an inexhaustible source of suggestions for Romanian cult music. The characteristic is monodical singing, but simultaneous singing of several voices is indicated from ancient times. They are either specific to traditional instruments, or they are practices of singing, accompanying, or heterophonic music. Concerning harmony, it has some peculiarities, specific to this geographical area. In this study we will try to identify these practices of polyphonic or harmonic so...

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...

which provides a link between the sphere of social relations, cultural norms and political processes. It is a set of principles that influence political behavior and help systemically structure common values, attitudes, beliefs, and orientations that form the basis of the relationship between an individual, society, and the state. The stability of a political culture is based on such factors as the legitimacy of the existing system and political regime. This article discusses the features of the political culture ...

This article is about the problems of the development of the indebtedness of the firms in different branches in the USA and in the Europe. The analysis of this development is important besides other things for the purpose of the identification of the average indebtedness and so-called branch standards that can be used for the process of optimizing of the capital structure. That is the topic inviting for the large discussion and very large researches which plays an important role in the sphere of the financial mana...

With the case study technique being generally quite profoundly worked out, some peculiar aspects still need further development, in particular, those connected with communicative effectiveness of business rhetoric. This research is aimed at studying the ways to enhance pragmatic impacts of students’ communicative activities in case study. The analytical methods used in the present paper include elements of the descriptive, comparative and functional analyses. The author shows that case study increases teachers’ an...

Object recognition involves processes that activate conscious interpretation of the visual field. Such processes are influenced by previous knowledge and experience. However, previous studies report interesting results, which draw out gender asymmetry in visual perception tasks performance, claimed to occur as a reason of biological differences, other findings attribute this difference to socio-cultural factors, as a result of semantic interpretation due to difference of environment. To test this assumption, the a...

In the clinical and technical stages for the manufacture of fixed mixed prostheses, the metal frame analysis represents a relevant process. The professional communication among the main professional actors is a technical act of horizontal communication supported by the theoretical notions of both partners and exemplified strictly on the working model / dental abutment and metallic frame. The study material is the analysis of a number of 50 metallic elements representing the metal structure of fixed mixed prosthesi...

The need to steer our development towards a more sustainable future is ever more imminent in the light of the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Urban areas bear much of the blame and burden and interventions towards urban sustainability may have the greatest impact. Despite increasing interest in urban sustainability, from both the scientific community, as well as practitioners around the world, its clear definition and especially its measurement and monitoring is still a cause of ...

We intend, during this study, to identify the level of satisfaction of some participant’s students at a summer school, held two years ago, within The Faculty of Physical Education and Sport at the University of Craiova. The summer school was held over two weeks, being our first experience of this kind. The project, Be active in summer through sport (AG_21) was financed within the scheme of competitive grants for universities- summer programs bridge type (SGCU-PV) – ROSE. The project’s beneficiaries were 52 pupils,...

The present scientific paper deals with the German social psychologist and philosopher Erich Seligmann Fromm’s social pedagogy, ethical and worldview attitude about human nature and tries to transfer it in the sphere of business and technology education and management organization for enterprise development. As it is seen from the paper, according to Erich Fromm’s main scientific work “Man for Himself”, each social organization and structure, existing in the business sphere, has its own values, which create the so...

The paper shows research through a case study of interior design of the functionalist, residential complex Avion, built in 1932, which has been paid only marginal attention in previous works. Due to its exceptional architecture, the building was already part of the cultural heritage of the then Czechoslovakia in 1985, and in 2011 it was declared a building of a century in the category of residential buildings in Slovakia. Almost a 90-year-old Avion performs its original function without interruption and is still a...

Pre-Romanticism literature is characterized by several features reflecting its approaching towards Romanticism. Karamzin’s “Russian Traveller’s Letters” (Ïèñüìà ðóññêîãî ïóòåøåñòâåííèêà / Pis’ma Russkogo Puteshestvennika,1791-92) is not a chaotic sequence of unselected impressions, it is not a descriptive enumeration of unsorted facts. In contrast, it is a collection of thoughts and ideas deliberately chosen for the book and mirroring different events of less than two years, 1789-1790, witnessed by N.M.Karamzin (1...

The region of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), which unites nineteen Arab countries, is one of the most important areas of foreign economic and foreign policy activities of the Russian leadership. It has an advantageous geographical position and rich natural resources, especially oil and gas reserves. Here are the interests of the leading world powers and the main contradictions of modern international relations of economic, political and military character intersect. The Arab countries have been part of t...

A strict connection exists between mobility patterns and urban quality. The cities that throughout time gave priority to public transport, bicycles and pedestrians against the use of private car are those which today are characterized by a higher urban and life quality. Nevertheless, most of contemporary cities grew according to the model of “spread metropolis” generating suburbs that eluded, more or less consciously, the monitoring of the authorities, in which public space, dominated by the automobile, totally lo...

Neo-avant-garde, neo-sonorism or, at least in some cases, simply electronic ‘rumbling’ seem to predominate in the music of classical contemporary composers. Listening to this kind of music may result in overstimulation, leaving audiences tired and disheartened. Consequently, the existing disparity between listeners and musicians continues to grow as artists try to outdo each other by coming up with ever smarter and more shocking technological effects and experiments. Ignacy Zalewski is a composer that tries to put...

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 student’s ability to p...

enterprises have recently been attracting attention and participation of various stakeholders in the country. The combined efforts and engagement create an emerging multi-stakeholder ecosystem that constitutes a supportive environment for the development of social enterprise in Vietnam. Investigating the models of Vietnamese social enterprises is important to understand their nature development and shape supporting policies for further development. In this paper, four broad models of social enterprise that can be ...

The capital companies in order to carry out the activity for which they have been authorized to function have 3 categories of organs: management, administration and control. The management of the companies is carried out by the general meeting, which can be ordinary or extraordinary. The control of the companies is carried out by censors or auditors, as the case may be. The joint stock companies can be managed in a unitary system (of France origin) or in a dualistic system (of German origin). The unitary system as...

The present paper aims to analyze the level of concentration of the electricity markets in Romania compared to that of the other European states. The purpose of this study is to check whether electricity markets in Romania are less competitive than in other European countries. The degree of concentration has been used both as a tool to analyze possible anticompetitive behaviors and to examine the effectiveness of competition policy as a whole in order to protect and facilitate competition throughout the economy. T...

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 diffe...

Workplace stress is recognized as a worldwide challenge for both employees and organizations. From this point of view, approaching a research topic regarding the factors that determine the occurrence of stress within the project teams from public institutions, along the realized public projects, I think it is also of real interest for public institutions. This research aimed to determine which are the main stressors that appear within the project team, more precisely in the elaboration and implementation of public...

Industry 4.0 has recently become a very actual and interesting issue in many areas for lot of people. The questions of the creation of state economic policy for development of sectors of particular industries and the related question of their support by the state are discussed. If this area can be characterized by a pragmatic, predominantly economically oriented approach, there is a greater degree of emotion in other areas discussed. These emotional categories also include the impact of various Industry 4.0 initia...

This paper proceeds from music, which if applied in teaching as a narrative medium, can be an important identifying factor for student / listener if its background is interpreted meaningfully. Thus this paper interprets song lyrics as a teaching medium whose meaning mediation can motivate students if the teacher places emphasis on understanding the background text of the song instead of emphasizing passive listening. The song is not just a mere decoration, something that accidentally fills one’s environment, wheth...

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...

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...

The relationship between economic growth and unemployment has been a topic of interest in academia for almost 60 years but with a special focus on developed countries and only recent papers present results at the regional level. This paper analyzes the regional Okun’s Law in two emerging countries, namely Bulgaria and Romania applying original data. To best achieve the research objective, we consider the widely valued specification of Okun’s Law, that investigates the relationship between the cyclical components o...

The present paper outlines regional and local self-government bodies represent special management system of public administration, which consists of many interconnected elements, among which one of the most important elements is public-political communication. In this management system such subsystems are functional that are responsible for adaptation of elements of the management system at the time of changes of conditions. These subsystems which get information from outside initiate communication management meth...

Currently there is a clearly expressed public need for organizing intergenerational communication in the digital environment with the purpose of transmitting cultural memory of the older (“analog”) generation. Such transmission determines the possibility of memory perception by the “digital” generation in the process of its socialization and realization of their cultural identity. The article is devoted to the development of methodology and private methods of research of communicative-cultural memory and features ...

The context of the research issue: Education exists within limits established by applicable laws and regulations; these clearly define rights and duties. Ethics has a large part to play here. Is it necessary to add an educational code of ethics to the existing laws? Objective: The main objective of the study is to answer the question: Do education workers require an educational code of ethics? And if so, to what extent? Methodology: A literature search to analyse and compare ethical codes, as well as foreign and l...

The subjects of public international law are the states, as primordial subjects of international law and international intergovernmental organizations. The legal status of the individual - the natural person - within the international public law represents an important topic of discussion, both in the specialized doctrine and within the specific institutions that apply the international law. Two points of view have emerged in time: in the first opinion, legal entities are real subjects of public international law,...

The Romanian gastronomy is a very rich branch, very developed, which over the years has gathered a lot of both indigenous elements and some borrowed from other nations and peoples. When it comes to Romanian culinary habits, each geographical area has its own traditions, and these are manifested especially around Christmas, when most people prepare selected dishes. Speaking in general, however, Romanians are used to using tarragon, thyme and garlic when it comes to spices, and a special position in the Romanian cui...

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 aim of the article is to present the development of spa architecture in Poland on the example of one of the most famous spa town in Poland, Krynica-Zdroj. The town is known not only because of its picturesque location, the richness of the natural environment in natural mineral resources manifesting in numerous healing mineral waters, exploited in this spa, but due to the richness of the forms of resort architecture, accumulated during almost 200 years of Krynica-Zdroj’s activity as a health resort, is a very i...

Even though the beginnings of product placement are dated to the end of the 19th century, this marketing communication tool has been globally known and massively used for only a few years. One reason is that product placement has not been legally regulated in countries for a long period of time, so it is often considered as hidden advertising. Its use brings benefits especially to the sponsor / director of audiovisual artworks, and to the owners of the companies whose product or service is presented. In the US and...

This study aims to clarify the ways in which the authorities involved in place brand management choose to use new technologies to communicate their online identity, within a broader context, defined by circular economy. We focused on a methodology repository, applying an already validated instrument, which could generate standardized and comparable results, from previous research, addressing the online identity of place brands issue. However, exploring contextualization, which is now mandatory for place brands in ...

The purpose of this study is to present business models as the success factors of social enterprise and their applicability in the outlook of new economic trends which include the perspective of transition from a linear to a circular economy. The issue of the study provided the opportunity to establish success factors of social enterprise as well business models that are used in practice. The paper uses a fragment of a wider survey conducted by the author in the period 2015- 2016 concerning the Polish model of soc...

Background. Due to globalization and rapid economic changes the job insecurity is becoming more and more common for the contemporary labor market in most countries. There are many investigations devoted to the consequences of an job insecurity for individual and organization in the international scientific literature. But there is still little research on this theme in the Russian context. So, the aim of our study is to fill this gap. In our previous studies (Chuykova, Sotnikova, 2016); (Chuykova, 2018) we found t...

The article discusses the regional characteristics of the demographic processes of Russian Federation. The causal relationships between socio-economic factors and demographic indicators in the context of the subjects of the Russian Federation are disclosed. The theoretical justification of the study was the concept of a geodemographic situation. The concept of geodemographic situation allows to prove the need of movement from quantitative indicators of evaluation to qualitative characteristics and indicators of th...

The purpose of this study is to thoroughly analyze a general phenomenon, such as gender, within video games to develop a better understanding of its particularities in this form of media and to expand the general body of knowledge on video games as a research topic. As prior literature shows, gender within video games can be either defined by its biased and sexualized character or by a tendency towards equality and strength for women. To explain those varied results the author proceeds with a qualitative discourse...

Understanding the text is a process of linguistic nature. The understanding of the text involves understanding the semantic value of words and syntactic structures. The sentence is part of thematic plan of the text and at the same time it is a projection of its speech realization. In this way it becomes part of “lang” and “parol”. Understanding the text has an ontological dimension. Understanding the text takes place in the mental space with the participation of the structural processor. Parser converts the syntac...

The term audionarratology was coined by Jarmila Mildorf and Till Kinzel in 2014, as a reaction to Lawrence Kramer who had argued a few decades earlier that music could not act as a narrative on its own. They took an opposite stand by offering theoretical considerations as well as methodological challenges with emphasis on narrative experientiality, audioception, situatedness, auricularisation, and focalization in sound. While they covered spoken language, radio plays, sound installations, music, video games, and t...