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The purpose of the research consisted in finding elements of theArt of Memory in the work of the prominent author of the Second Sophistic. To achieve this purpose wesubjected to the textual analysis one of the most popular works relating to the Second Sophistic: The Imagines of the Elder Philostratus. Since the Renaissance the book was subject of scientific analysis and, at the same time, source ofinspiration for many artists. Weconcentrated only on searching of elements of the Art of Memory in The Imagines. Excep...

Article is devoted to development of gnoseological approaches to justification of idea kreatosfer of the Arctic on philosophy of a consent and the world. The main theoretical and methodological approaches to concept of a kreatosfer are generalized. Cultural and natural sources kreatosfer of the Arctic are allocated. Kreatosfer are defined structure of formation and modeling. Role of the Arctic in development of the Russian Federation and many other countries it is very great now. In recent years considerably geopo...

Air transport is currently one of the fastest-growing service sectors. People constantly travel for various reasons (tourism, business) to distant locations worldwide. Consequently, analyses of data concerning both passenger and cargo air traffic is of great importance in designing development strategies for regions with airports in their resources. The main purpose of this study is to prepare a forecast of air passenger transport in the one of the airport which is located in south-western of Poland. There are ver...

The research we propose starts from the premise that the classical music composers of the 20th century turned to religious texts written almost 3 millennia ago, and they rediscovered their essences in spite of the social, territorial, linguistic, and religious changes that took place throughout history. Despite the different musical composition techniques used or the origin of the composers, the subject of David’s Psalms is embodied in the work of some of the most prolific creators of the last century (Arnold Scho...

The goal of the study is development of participatory design method in architecture based on mix of techniques brought from social sciences to help municipalities managing planning phase and construction projects of public schools. Methodology was tested on two primary school building projects. Teachers, pupils, parents and local associations were engaged using questionnaires and workshops in several phases of design process. Our main aim was to establish a two-way channel for exchange of information among future ...

The paper enlarges existing anthropological ontologies on the basis of the theory of complexity, self-organization and nonlocal quantum phenomena. Since recently they have been facilitating quantum-synergetic revolution in NBICS technologies, information quantum theory and physics of the living and are considered to be most promising for the development of artificial intelligence and transhumanism. For this purposes it is suggested to introduce ontologies of states and temporal ontologies of generalized corporalit...

E.O. Wilson, the founder of sociobiology, presents in his work Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge from 1998 a conjecture that postmodernism as a principal line of thought at the end of the 20th century, which is inherent in the mainstream social sciences and humanities, closes the door to the unity of knowledge - the so-called consilience. The purpose of this study was to analyse the possibilities of the consilience of knowledge in humanities and natural and social sciences in the state of postmodern crisis of an...

Demographic security of any state is determined not only by external, but also by internal threats in the population. A growing and quite representative layer of homeless people is a special kind of internal demographic threats. These people almost always fall out of the life of society, both socially and demographically. The presence of a layer of homeless people is multifaceted, because it manifests itself in a variety of ways. The comprehensive scientific research is needed to successfully implement any project...

The main objective of this paper is to design mechanisms that would be applicable as solutions in the current economic conditions of the Slovak Republic to increase the sustainability of the first tier of the Slovak pension system. The wrong genetic code of the first tier, which was based on a pay as you go philosophy, was a significant cause of the annual increase of public debt. Part of the objective is also to analyse current approaches to the pension system with a focus on the history of political intervention...

Mindfulness has been successfully practiced for over 2,500 years with the goal to “quiet the mind’s constant chattering: thoughts, anxieties, and regrets” [14]. Organizational mindfulness refers to a combination of observation of existing expectations and willingness to invent new expectations, and identification of new possible dimensions with aim to improve foresight and current functioning of the organization, in addition to swiftly act in response to emerging threats [15]. According to Jacqueline Carte [3], mi...

Senior education, which has its specific features, is becoming one of the priorities in the present era of ageing of population, especially in Europe. Different kinds of courses are offered to seniors by so called Universities of the Third Age which have been established in the Czech Republic. Courses in foreign languages belong to the most popular and most demanded ones. Teaching at courses in foreign languages offered to seniors has to be adapted to the specific features of adult learners but it also cannot igno...

For Ricoeur, the discourse of action – more specifically, the ‘say your doing’ – can and must be examined from different levels and from different traditional philosophical per-spectives, as follows: (1) conceptual analysis (i.e. the analysis of concepts used to de-scribe action), (2) logical analysis of statements of action (i.e. the proposition by which action is expressed and represented), and (3) the logic of action (i.e. the argumentative construction through which a strategy of action is built and justified ...

This article is dedicated to the study of water archetype in the poetic texts of the Silver Age. The paper presents a theory of the study of the concept “archetype”. Philosophers, linguists and psychologists have been interested in a matter of what an archetype is for a long time The majority of scientists agree that an archetype is an archaic phenomenon, which manifests itself in myths and folklore. Special attention in the article has been given to the distinction between the linguistic and artistic metaphors-ar...

The main objective of this study is to find out the impact of labor force emigration abroad on labor market in the country of origin by means of a dual approach. Solving this problem required an analysis and assessment of specific contexts in labor market trends - employment, unemployment, wage levels, the number of free jobs and labor emigration. Several economic criteria are developed in the study and the effects of labor emigration on labor market are recalculated by means of mathematical calculations. The impl...

Nowadays, in the context of changes in teaching, the education of a man is coming to the foreground who would learn to link the knowledge of different fields of science to the knowledge and acquisition of values that promote the social way of life, living in associations of individuals. The teacher and his personality, professional competencies, ability to create a positive climate in the classroom are significant factors in fulfilling such education. The classroom climate greatly affects the overall results of sc...

The article reveals the essence of the region's innovation infrastructure as a factor in increasing the efficiency of industrial enterprises. The relevance of the topic is due to the fact that the path of innovative development of industrial enterprises in the Russian Federation, based on knowledge, on the change in the economic structure in favor of high-tech industries, to increase human capital, becomes the only possible way of development in the modern economics. Today, innovation is a component of the busines...

The deep crisis that has hit Italy since 2008 is perhaps the worst since the second World War to date. According to the last studies by the Italian National Association of Building Contractors, the construction sector in Italy saw an unprecedented decline: between 2008 and 2015, investments in new residential buildings have collapsed more than 60%, those in non-residential 35% and public works about 50%, altogether 70 billion less. Even in terms of builders, between 2008 and 2014, more than 100,000 small and mediu...

Today the name of Sebastiene Le Prêtre de Vauban is considered to be some kind of equivalent to the bastioned fortification itself. Of course his impact to the European fortification of the late XVII – early XVIII centuries was great. Nevertheless his ideas and his famous “three systems of fortification” were the result of the evolution of ideas that took place in France during the second half of the XVI - the early XVII centuries. Among the most prominent antecedents of Vauban there were J. Errard De Bar-le-Duc, ...

Based on the presently known demographic data for the period of the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945, the author identifies and analyzes the aspects (mobilization to the front, high mortality rate) that have influenced on the change in the population size of the Yakut Republic and also makes a comparison with the respective data concerning the population of Russia and Siberia. The problem of the population size in the regions during wartime was studied by such scientists as V.B. Zhiromskaya, V.V. Alekseev, V.?. Isup...

Proper management of the innovative processes in the European regions is considered to be the key necessary to maintain position of the European economy in the world. The innovative processes are directed primarily by regional innovation strategies. Experiences of the first years of functioning of these instruments in Poland show that their implementation encountered among others awareness barriers, manifested in insufficient coordination and complexity of operations with insufficient activity of the innovation sy...

Recent changes in the business environment exposed the insufficiency of financial data traditionally presented in financial statements. Available researches emphasize that recipients of financial statements demand comprehensive data about the business activity. Modern accounting faces the formidable challenge to reflect company’s values not only by financial data but also by non-financial disclosures. The need for non-financial data disclosures has also been noticed by the Institutions of the European Union. The a...

The paper deals with an experimental application of computational linguistic analysis of Czech text in psychological assessment and psychodiagnostics. The paper presents the design and methodology of an interdisciplinary research CPACT (Computational Psycholinguistic Analysis of Czech Text), as well as its predecessor and pilot study QPA-FPT (Quantitative Psycholinguistic Analysis of Formal Parameters of Czech Text). The CPACT research aims to understand the relations between a person’s personal characteristics an...

In recent years large Russian companies persistently face significant demand of the society to provide it with extensive information on their activities which, in particular, should include reporting on corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues. In previous studies, we have identified the correlation between corporate social policy of a large enterprise and the level of social pollution caused by the entity’s activities in the territory of its location, and hence the level of labor resources' well-being. The re...

Penalties for the offence of stalking have a short history in Polish law. Article 190a was added to the penal code in 2011, and Section 190a §1 states: “Anyone who, through the persistent harassment of another person or another person's next of kin, creates a justified sense of danger or significantly violates the person's privacy, is subject to imprisonment for up to three years”. There was difficulty counteracting this offence prior to the 2011 Criminal Code amendment because previous rules did not always provid...

The article deals with the National Qualifications Framework tertiary education in the Czech Republic and its implementation. The theoretical part of the article deals with so-called descriptors. These descriptors are outputs from learning and we use them to describe general abilities, knowledge and skills, which students learn in given subject. The aim of the practical part of the article is to present the way of solutions and outcomes of the project „The innovation of Microeconomics course with a focus on the ch...

In the age of globalization, international loans and sovereign default probabilities have become one of the main topics of finance. Many severe economic crises have occurred on financial markets in the last decades. Therefore, the problem of measuring countries’ default probabilities due to their external debt obligations has attracted the interest of many researchers. In recent literature there are many studies that use quantitative methods and machine learning techniques to predict countries defaults. Past studi...

{Purpose}. Advertising contributes to the emergence of a new reality, characterized by increasing the integrity of the variety of different cultures, traditions, religions and values. Modern social relations and globalization processes actualize the question of identity of any culture. Modern advertising involves the context of another culture, appealing to basic ideals of their culture, taking into account cultural identity of perception. The purpose of the research - to analyze the phenomenon of advertising in t...

In this article, the autors wanted to expose that the Internet has become very important tool of political communication between citizens and political representatives in modern world and that its importance is increasing. In recent years the advent of new tools and social networks demonstrates true strenght of medium such as the Internet. The Internet, as a new medium, appeared quite recently, at the end of the 20th century. This medium creates new opportunities in political communication. Besides direct access t...

This paper presents the results of a study of cultural concepts on the material of the Yakut language. It deals with the analysis of binary concepts: LIFE / DEATH, GOOD / EVIL, LOVE / HATRED. These are basic cultural concepts that classify the world. In this case we focus on the relations between language and culture according to approaches “language as a cultural resource” (Duranti Alessandro, 1997) and “language as a general cultural phenomenon” (Marcel Danesi, 2004). Words and its meanings, collocations and sen...

It is interesting to follow the process of modernization in industrial metallurgy of the Ural and how it has been realized for three hundred years of its existence and what characteristic features it has had in each period of its development. However, until recently, there was no common, scientifically accepted historical periodization of the metallurgy industry in the Urals, although a number of authors considered the problem. To the authors questions of the periodization of the history of metallurgy in the Urals...

Human Development Index is a composite statistic currently viewed as an indicator of “quality of life”. The rankings of the world’s countries were assessed by the authors to determine the level of compliance with Human Development Index. The results of the comparative analysis defining the potential opportunities for building “smart cities” are presented below. The top 14 countries, ranked by Gross Domestic Product, were assessed over such categories as: education, Information and Communication technology developm...

The paper is based on a case study of flipped classroom approach to teaching English for specific purposes. The major goals of the pedagogic experiment were to create and implement an online classroom to increase the number of academic hours dedicated to learning English for professional communication at university level. The idea behind the experiment was to foster active learning as well as create accessible learning environment that would challenge students outside the classroom and save on-site time for produc...

Sustainable transport has become an important concept as a reaction to global climate changes. Climate change has always belonged among main factors in human society development. Recently such global changes have been gaining speed and strength. The main motor of these changes is increases in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions originated in energy, industry and transport sectors. This is the reason why the Czech Republic adopted a document called Climate Protection Policy. The aim of this policy is to reduce negative ...

The proof of differentiation of estimates of quality and availability of services of institutions of infrastructure and satisfaction with the living environment with families of the different types living in city and rural areas of Russia acts as the purpose of work. Conclusions of a research are constructed on the analysis of data of the official statistical account during 2005-2014 and results of the representative selective research "Complex Observation of Living Conditions of the Population" conducted in the m...

Lithuania has been facing the problem of declining reading skills of primary school children for more than a decade. The majority of pupils will have achieved only low and satisfactory text comprehension levels by the end of the fourth grade, whereas the numbers of pupils who have achieved basic and intermediate levels in reading are considerably lower. The science and practice of the Lithuanian language teaching is searching for answers to this problem, however, there are no placement tests in Lithuania to measur...

Only intensified technological acceleration is capable to provide sustainable development in conditions when annually the number of consumers of culture increases almost by 100 million people. Effective methods of art have to change essentially in these conditions. The analysis of the main lines of topical art process allows to conclude that the replication becomes a basis of preservation and expansion of experience, and the art sphere turns into space of copies. It is possible to see rather clear tendency to fadi...

The article analyzes the trend in the balance of forces between the Western countries and a group of rapidly developing countries of the BRICS group of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. BRICS demonstrate the very different path of development, but all of them are intensively the processes of modernization and technological renovation of production areas. The analysis on several fronts: features BRICS as an international organization; modernization of the economy; trade relations between the BRICS coun...

The article substantiates the role of education, proposes and confirms the hypothesis about the importance and necessity of social partnerships for financing and development of education in knowledge- driven economy. To confirm the advanced hypotheses we studied the evolution of concepts of social interaction and social responsibility to justify patterns of social partnerships in the knowledge-driven economy that allowed us, using the model of "triple helix", to show the necessity of the collaboration of governmen...

Social networks are a noteworthy opportunity to build a more caring and responsible society, a practice that is assimilated by learning to use the Web in a conscious way. The media competence takes the form of expertise both to active participation to the Web and to society. The focus is on the need to acquire the know-how to exploit the media, with particular reference to social networks, in a clever way so as to meke them intelligent instruments (Rheingold, 2013). From an educational point of view, social networ...

Micro-enterprises employing up to 9 employees are the largest group of SMEs. These are the companies that are highly sensitive to the variability of the environment and the quality of the business environment. This specific group of companies often does not have appropriate financial resources necessary to be competitive in the market and has low human and intellectual resources. These distinctive characteristics make micro-enterprises be a frequent beneficiary of external sources of financing. The information on ...

This article presents philosophical analysis of such a phenomenon as video games. Today, video games represent a major part of modern culture, which requires a specific research to be carried out. Without studying the ontology of video games it is impossible to give clear answers to such questions as: What are video games? How are they built? It is our goal to disclose and analyze the ontologies in the framework of which video games exist. We need to note that there is no such thing as universal ontology of video ...

Healthcare research pursues, most of the time, to find natural sources of bioactive compounds for treatment of various diseases. A source of natural compounds with therapeutically effect is represented by plants that have been used, for thousands years, in traditional medicine. Usnea barbata L. is a lichen – a symbiotic organism with a special structure: fungus and alga. In this case, the resulted thallus, is very different in structure, properties and natural compounds, to the two plants taken separately. These m...

The article presents the conceptual framework for strategic management of the portfolio of innovative projects. We determined the definitions, aims, tasks, principles and stages of strategic portfolio management, the main directions of concept realization, methodical and instrumental base. This article proposes a mechanism for the formation of a resource-saving system, which contains an analysis of the factors influencing the effective use of resources, modification of the current resource-saving processes. We vie...

The article explores the system arrangement and determination of a methodology of a new scientific branch in the system of financial law – regional financial law. The work is an attempt to analyze a possible development of the financial law system through changing approaches in the methodology of studying financial law, meaning consideration of financial law system not only horizontally but also vertically, highlighting a new trend in the study of financial law – regional financial law, which, in the authors view,...

Transformation processes in the modern economy have led to changes in labour sphere, which affected the employment relationship between employers and hired workers. On the one hand, the employer now has mostly a dominant role in the labour relationship that allows him to dictate their own often precarious employment terms to hired workers. On the other hand, employees demonstrate their willingness to work without a written employment contract that guarantees the observance of social guarantees, as well as for low ...

Tough competition caused by a market economy makes thousands of enterprises and organisations in any region of the world and under any economic conditions focus on quality management and quality assurance, which makes it necessary to persistently develop and introduce new quality systems, programmes and standards. Quality assurance is necessary for an enterprise to stay in business and increase the number of customers and, therefore, raise sales, as well as to ensure a stable, steady and fully controlled process o...

Many foreign and Russian research papers have been devoted to the successful mastering of foreign languages by bilingual students. Although this problem is sufficiently studied in many languages, the problem of teaching bilinguals is still relevant nowadays and requires a further in-depth study. It is interesting to consider this issue in the context of comparing the phonological systems of two unrelated languages: German and Yakut. The article deals with the problems of teaching the German language to bilingual s...

Background: Cardiovascular diseases constitute one of the main causes of deaths in Europe. They also rank among the most frequent causes of disability. That leads to high economic burden. The occurrence of those diseases is strongly related with life style and risk factors. Influencing of these factors in ill patients within secondary prevention and in risk factors within primary prevention will significantly reduce morbidity and mortality. Motivation is essential in the process of influencing of risk factors. It ...

The oeuvre of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was influenced by the major tenets of Symbolism of the end of the XIX century and German Expressionism of the beginning of the XX century, which allowed the painter to express the depths of meaning of life through visual signs. The objective of our research is to determine the artistic concept of the paintings “Melancholy”, “Separation”, “The Dance of Life” by Edvard Munch as representants of his major cycle of works “The Frieze of Life”. The methodology of the resea...

The research aim of this paper is to reveal the repertoire and the role of personalized images in the overall structure of the image of Europe as perceived by the young generation in today’s Russia. The study is based on the theoretical model of the image of Europe as an integral part of the political picture of the world, this model encompasses the methodological approaches of phenomenology, constructivism and visual sociology. Twelve focus group discussions with representatives of various groups of youth includi...