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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 HandlovГЎ and municipalities of RГЎzto?no and Cige? which are located in Western Slovakia. The...

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 authors of thepaperturned to the topicalissue of the collective memory. It is highlighted that the politics of memory or historical politics is a subject of transformationaccording to the present political discourse. Collapse of the Soviet Unionledto the revision of common history ofthe post-Soviet countries and deepenedthe contradictions in collective memory narratives between the Russian and post-Soviet tradition. It is stressed, that such 'strugglefor the common history' could often serve as a prelude to se...

Two – thousandth years of history of Christianity proved that a main criterion of a value of church architecture was not based on architectural precursors. This architecture was sacred because it was a carrier of a „truth of God” and – like a liturgical mysterion and iconography art – it was a theological comment. It was a codified language of the transposes of religions essences and orders, into the form of architectural expression. This was in an East Christianity and this happens there up to this day. ...

Important component of fortification in system of resettlement of mountain societies were settlements. Concerning the main settlements in defense the natural factor had also defining value: - a remote location of the settlement (existence on approaches to him of natural barriers: - breaks, steep slopes, rocks); - existence of the circular review of the area surrounding the settlement; - existence of communications of the basic with seasonal settlements – the settlements located in even more hard-to-reach spots h...

Although some types of administration have existed earlier, however, the traditional public administration model actually dates back to the middle of the nineteenth century. Previous administration systems showed an important characteristic. They were "personal", based on loyalty to a particular individual as a king or a minister, instead of being "undetermined" on the basis of legitimacy and loyalty to the organization and the state. Their practices often resulted in corruption or abuse of office for personal gai...

Heritage is central to all humankind and to any community. Throughout millennia the distribution of cultural background, necessary skills were done by way of a tradition. In a tradition as well as in other developments of social life a historical link between new and old on-going process of continuum and consistency is true to take place. At present the subject of conservation and consolidation of the younger generation cultural values appears to be currently central more than ever. A young gentleman in a contempo...

“Global tenderness” by F. M. Dostoyevsky, the idea of “overallunity” by V. S. Solovyev and other Russian thinkers make traditional basis of Russian culture. The main features of Russian national character are constant desire and ability to promptly turn “foreign in own” and, in addition to their own discoveries, foreign borrowing also transform in the “primordial beginnings”, and privately ideas give universal content. A. A. Bogdanov — one of the most original XX century Russian thinkers — aspire...

Although RPAS offer great advantages and creative possibilities, its use by the Creative Industries is still rare and focused on outdoor filming and photography. Until now, RPAS have been primarily designed for outdoor use by different end-users, in fields such as inspections, agriculture, real estate, security, etc. However, since existing RPAS lacks a precise, robust and affordable indoor positioning system as well as advanced safety features, the control of any RPAS in indoor environments is particularly diffic...

The following research consists of introduction, three chapters, with subsequent parts,and the conclusion. The aim of the research is to analyze the transformation process of Spanish banking sector after the financial crisis in 2008. Author examines a hypothesis that Spanish banking sector plays a significant role in Spanish national economic advancement. Banking sector had been substantially transforming during the economic recession, and now it serves as the prerequisite for State economic advancement in post cr...

Religious rights and controversial approach to their provision and implementation will always be in the centre of discussions in all states including multiconfessional Russia. One of the points is connected with educational process. The most contradictory issues are talking about Muslim religion: on the one hand, there are multiple examples from judicial practice where the right of Muslim women to dress in accordance with their religious commitments meets no protection, on the other hand, there is the permission t...

The period we live in is commonly referred to as “postmodernity”. Both ambiguities of interpretation and modern age ambivalence of the term on the tapis compelled authors to take its ontology under close consideration by virtue of stating the ideological basis a confluence of multifaceted factors and processes is to be perceived as a unity. Prehistory of a term «postmodernity» and its diverse interpretations of divergence with Modern age ideology are covered in the article. The initial issue of the interpret...

The aim of the paper is to analyse the historical perspective of changing the social status, role and position of the woman and to focus on the womenВ’s self-realization in the public sphere and the labour market. Statistical data not only from the Czech Republic, or more precisely, from the EU, but also from other developed and developing regions in the world reflect the unequal position of women in the labour market, access to education, their limited representation in positions and posts connected with decision...

The article deals with the statistical relationship between transformational leadership and initiation of interpersonal communication of senior school students. The article emphasises peculiarities of new generation school students. It is relevant to reveal the main traits of transformational leadership of new generation students and their relationship to interpersonal communication. The results of the research show that the most typical leadership of senior school students is the transformational one. The transfo...

After 25 years since dissolution of the Soviet system, St. Petersburg is still a city in transition and therefore undergoing a period of significant changes in its socio-economic and political-administrative reorganization. The industrial belt of St. Petersburg, once a sign for wealth and growth is today characterized by brown fields, functional and spatial diversity and fragmentation. However, with its huge territory, unique landscapes and built heritage it has potential to respond to current demands of St. Peter...

The Western Balkan countries during the last three decades go through successive changes which sociologically are articulated as "social transition". The transition process represents a social change that is primarily political in nature, but that ultimately affects every pore of the society. This radical transformation brought up the debate over the new values against the old ones, about the nature and construction of the new society, etc. Macedonia as a country with mixed multicultural and multiethnic society ha...

The industrial complex of Russia is one of the leading sectors of the national economy and a key component of the expanded production in general, ensuring the formation of more than 37% of GDP, over 32% employment, and more than 40% of the consolidated budget of the Russian Federation. Until 2004 inclusive, industry was regarded as an isolated, the largest branch of the national economy, consisting of isolated industries, operating exclusively in the sphere of material production. Since January 2005, the branch sy...

This paper studies the trends in higher education and internationalization policies in context of Singapore and Russia. The main idea of this research is analysis and comparison of education system policies in Singapore and Russian Federation in order to discover the key differences and possibilities for future development and growth factors. Correlation analysis of the economical and educational statistical data reveals common principles responsible for the economic success. Problems and possible actions in the a...

The present paper is an applied contribution to the analysis of international capital flows. International capital flows play a central role in the global economy; they are closely tied to countries' economic and financial conditions, can influence macroeconomic policy, and bring a range of benefits and risks to beneficiaries. This paper describes the patterns of international capital flows in Russia (a sample of a big emerging market (BEM) economy) in the period 2000?2016, focusing on the last decade. The paper r...

In the area of complex issues of the Romanian education, the teachersВ’ initial training represents a modeling action of the student according to the societyВ’s requirements and the Romanian education systemВ’s priority, apparently slightly valorized, but in fact closely correlated with the other components of the education systemВ’s reform in Romania. The present studyВ’s orientation toward the initial issue of teacher education requires the approach of the theme not only from the initial training perspective but...

Public buildings have always been, and still are - especially in recent years, one of the most intensively realized groups of buildings. This allows to notice some trends both in the decision making process related to these buildings and in the applied design solutions. These trends can be generally referred to as “trends towards exaggeration”. It reveals in several aspects such as big number of those buildings or their excessive scale and standard. Among the numerous the reasons of emergence and prevalence of...

Background: Institutional trust is one of the fundamental issues in the Russian society. The crisis of trust towards the social institutions, which are responsible for the processes of vital importance, is becoming total. The use of such category as institutional trust is due to the necessity to react in an integrated and contextual way the processes, which are currently occurring in the system of higher education. The following study, which is based on the sociological research data, shows that strengthening of t...

The toponymy of Yakutia is very complex, heterogeneous, and consists of many linguistic strata: Turkic, Tungus-Manchu, Mongolian and Russian. The paper is devoted to study the features of toponyms of Tungus-Manchu origin (Evenk) in Central Yakutia. The comprehensive analysis of the place names data base allows to identify the peculiarities of formation, evolution, interaction and using of these toponyms in Yakutia. Toponymic analysis shows to observe the ancient settlement of indigenous people, the features of the...

The problem of ethnic history and ethnogeny of Goguryeo people has been of great interest to Russian archaeologists and ethnographers because we have to assume this ethnographic group of ancient Korean people had closer ties with Tungus-Manchurian people, particularly with the DongyiXianbei, Sushen-Yilou, Ugu-Udegeis, possibly Uvas-Uvan, Jurchen people and Manchurians themselves.In 1851 for the first time N.Y. Bichurin suggested that ancient Korean people, Goguryeopeople in particular, were connected to Tungus-Man...

The present paper-work aims to find some explanations for the decline of official statistics in Romania after the World War I, despite a promising tradition. My contribution consists of two main perspectives: a comparative approach (highlighting potential sources of influence, looking at other contemporary European patterns of organizing statistical services) and a close-up view of institutional development of this field in Romania, in the first half of interwar period (using archive documents and other primary so...

The purpose: a comparative study of the type and direction of reaction in conflict situation among masculine men and feminine women of Russian and Armenian nationalities. Design: kind of gender identity and ethno-cultural characteristics may condition differences in types and directions of reaction in conflict situation among both men and women of Russian and Armenian nationalities. The technique: 1. Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study which is aimed at identifying the type of reaction to the conflict situation a...

Today we see the emergence of new forms of political self-organization of the society (active development of interregional relations within international organizations as well as new forms of autonomy of different territories. According to authors, one of the most effective methods of their investigation is interdisciplinary activity-geospatial approach as a method of learning the spatial forms of self-organization of a society, especially of itВ’s geopolitical self-organization. Disclosure of the theoretical cont...

Preservation of monuments of cultural inheritance is one of the priorities of cultural policy all over the world. It is especially important to preserve historical monuments in the regions possessing unique specimen of world level cultural phenomena in their original interpretation, unusual for the capital city. Nowadays architectural monuments, which are at the same time objects of cultural heritage and part of the current city environment, need more careful attitude, protection and reconstruction of their histor...

“The typology of the classical sonata reflects, with distinct intensity, the great theme of the classical age: the art of leading musical ideas.” [1] After Beethoven, the sonata became an ideal of the composing conception, that could only be accessed by the creators following the “pure” music. Romanticism represented, on a certain level, a regression of rigorous structural organizational efforts in instrumental music, this decline being due to the views of romantic composers upon the tonal system, the rela...

The term “heterotopia”, introduced into scientific discourse by M. Foucault, is being increasingly used in the modern humanitaristics for the cultural area analysis. This article presents a typology of heterotopic spaces and their analysis in the scope of the Russian cultural landscape. Based on the E. Soja’s trialectics of spatiality – real spatiality, spatiality of mentalities and the “Thirdspace”, which is “habitable, the real and the imagined, the actual and the virtual” – we propose to distin...

This article observes the Udagan's culture of the Yakuts. The authors concentrate on the study of the Udagan’s culture based on materials of the Yakut epos – Olonkho. The authors associate this phenomenon of culture with early religious ideas of the Yakuts and believe that it presents an early layer of culture. The word “udagan” as a term is referred to the languages of the Turkic-Mongolian, Tungus-Manchu peoples. However, the authors state that the Ugadan culture as a layer of culture is typical for the Ya...

This study investigates the rural population distribution in the Republic of Tatarstan. This article considers the rural population and settlements of Tatarstan Republic in terms of development and distribution factors from 1950ies to the present day. The paper analyzes the main factors influencing the placement of rural settlements such as geographic, demographic, natural, transportational, economic and socio-domestic. The authors have examined the rural population migration as well as changes in the rural popula...

In our article we would like to dwell on ‘the system typology of languages’ created by the Russian scholar G.P. Mel’nikov. He revealed ‘the internal determinants’ of four morphological types of languages as four internal forms which characterize morphological types of languages selected by V. Humboldt: a situational – incorporating languages (or polysynthetic) (qualitatively) indicative – agglutinative type, eventive – fusional (inflectional) type, occasional – root-insulating (analytical or root-insu...

Currently, unemployment and its consequences may be deemed to be in focus of the government’s social policy aimed at elimination of possible risks for both individuals and the society. This paper deals with an analysis of development of the unemployment rate and its selected characteristics in Slovakia during the years 2011 - 2015 while focusing on identification of relations between the education level and age of economically active population on one hand and the education level and age of the unemployed on the...

The paper focuses on the factors influencing the process of teaching students with hearing disability at university. A qualitative approach was used in this preresearch. It was realized through an interview with university teachers and with using a semi-structured questionnaire. The aim was to describe the factors influencing the communication between the university teachers and the student with hearing disability, to identify the forms of cooperation between the subjects and the form in which the students are mad...

Objective: To describe the dynamics of the joined currency and stock markets system in Russia and study the behavior of significant unobservable components of system state, in particular the dollar investment in the Russian currency. System structural model is proposed in which the main short-term control variable is the price of oil and when investing in currency rubles mass is taken from the stock market and vice versa. We use logarithms to obtain a linear relationship between due output vector and state vector....

Any urbanized territory is a multicomponent system. The current tendency of management and planning of urbanized territories is aimed at finding a solution for a multidimensional multicriteria problem with a complex system of constraints and, sometimes, not deterministic (the existence of a multivariate choice of path and various kinds of risks). As any economic task, the urbanized territory can be considered as a place of various interestsВ’ conflict: - various levels of power, from the federal level to the local...

The technology and its impact disturb life in a spectacular way both at social and professional levels, determining a new approach to the training and implicitly the selection of the human resources. New challenges appear on the horizon. As a result of technological developments and the growth of the knowledge society's role in areas beyond the classical labor market categories, the leaders of industry have introduced the "soft-skills" paradigm that is supposed to replace the old paradigm of "experience." This cha...

Atomic design is a methodology for crafting effective design systems that usually applied to websiteВ’s design and development. It provides a structured approach that gives a flexibility to the design system but retains its recognizability. Controllable randomness is an approach that bounds randomness (randomly generated values) by the set of rules developed by the designer. It also gives flexibility and retains recognizability as the atomic design approach does but makes it in a different way. This paper discusse...

GIS provide enormous opportunities in the field of analysis of territories on the basis of thematic maps and satellite images when planning medical services in remote areas. The article considers the problems of providing a planned, emergency medical care outside of the city, as well as ways to optimize traffic routes, taking into account remoteness, natural and climatic factors, vegetation terrain, soil and soil, terrain, bodies of water permeability, the technical characteristics of vehicles on the bridge obstac...

Using Internet search data may reveal intentions and expectations in various areas of scientific interest in social sciences. One of them is media studies and especially the research of media literacy, where search engines such as Google can shape the way of investigation of current social trends and academic discourse in the field. In this paper, we analyse various ways of using specific data gathered by Google and delivered by the Google Trends service. We examine whether the online activity measured by Google s...

Internationalization at home is a term that appeared at the turn of the century largely describes the process of acquiring intercultural competence by students without leaving their native city/country. The article aims at conducting the experimental analysis of MOOCs used as a tool to promote and enhance internationalization at home. The MOOCs were used as part of law studentsВ’ independent learning of foreign (English) language, which is a compulsory subject for lawyers-to-be. To attain the set purpose we conduc...

In the development of modern pedagogy and other disciplines, we can note two main vectors. On the one hand, it focuses on the preservation of its traditional content (adherence to the principles of humanization, fundamentality, continuity and universality), on the other hand, tries to meet the challenges of the time, in particular, is focused on making creative character of educational process. In this article we consider the possibility of developing creative thinking in students, with the involvement of differen...

The research considers the efficiency of using the regional component with the aim of teaching tolerance to students. The aim of the study was to reveal that the intensive implementation of elements of the regional component involving region related data in English lessons allows teachers to apply the principle of multiculturalism, which is focused on a sociocultural group with its main components - religious, political, ethnical, class, language, professional, gen-der, age peculiarities. Enriching the content of ...

Management and building of a positive corporate reputation is a frequently discussed topic in modern economic literature. The thing is that in the current market environment a positive reputation is a key intangible and hard-to-copy factor, which decides whether the company will be successful or not. Obviously, a positive reputation stems from a long-term successful operation of a company in the market, it is an image of personal experience, but it also results, to a certain extent, from the “public opinion” s...

The purpose of this study is to create an original performance scale. For this purpose, exploratory factor analysis and reliability analyzes were performed. A two-step focus group study was conducted to construct scale expressions. When the proposed form was filled in by 45 top managers for 45 white collar employees, a total of 90 forms were obtained. These 90 forms have been prepared for analysis by data entry. In order to measure the performances of 90 white-collar employees, a group of managers, who provided pl...

Architecture plays an important role in an urban regeneration. The Urban development reflects an economic development. Environmental sustainability and sustainability of cities as well is nowadays a frequently questioned issue. There has been a case study carried out in the area of architecture in the Slovak Republic. The reason was a lack of a comprehensive view of the architecture in the Slovak Republic and insufficient support of this sector at the national level. There has been a survey - personal interviews c...

This article is dedicated to the 10th anniversary of Bulgaria’s accession to the European Union – EU (01.01.2007 – 01.01.2017) and the 60th anniversary of its creation (25.03.1957 – 25.03.2017). The aim of the study is to compare the Bulgarian cultural model with that of the EU member states and to outline the value similarities and differences among them. On the basis of the method for diagnostics of cultural value orientations proposed by Schwartz [8] it can be established that while the cultural value id...

The article discusses the history of the emergence of axiology as a science, the interrelation of axiology and culturology, describes the basic terms and concepts of linguistic and cultural axiology; in particular the problem of values is discussed from the perspective of the approaches existing in cultural studies and linguistics. The author analyses the linguistic status of the value and evaluation categories and examines the expression of axiological meanings in language. The aim of the study is to examine the ...

This article aims to analyse the relation between individual values and satisfaction of life that can be seen not only as personal constructs, but also as indicators of social processes in Bulgaria. It presents the results from an empirical research conducted in 2015-2016 among 1913 Bulgarian citizens of active working age – 18-65 y.o. Some of the most complex methods in the social sciences to study values and life satisfaction, such as Schwartz Value Survey, SVS [14] and Satisfaction With Life Scale, SWLS [4] h...