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This work will describe, summarize and present the up to day results of the excavation from a cave site, Lion’s cave on Hymettus Mountain in Attica. The excavations are a joint project of the University of Athens and the Eforate of Speleology and Paleoanthropology. It is is an interdisciplinary research project organized and directed by the author of this article and a number of specialists in archaeological and palaeoenvironmental disciplines are participating. A considerable number of students from the National ...

The object of the given study, which defines the topic of our research, is the discursive creolized metaphor as a cognitive key to decoding a semiotically complicated (polycode) text. The present-day scholars focus on the problem of correlation of signs of different semiotic systems and different codes, which leads to the appearance of the term “the creolized (or polycode) text”. The creolized text is a text with a complex form combining elements of two or more different semiotic systems that, being interconnected...

The development of transport infrastructure is an important factor in the economic growth of the territory. The ability to predict the transport demand and traffic on the road network is vital for development of regional and urban transport system. Agent based modelling has emerged as a practice tool of traffic and transport planning in re-gion and urban area. The purpose of the research is to assess the possibility of using agent based models for transport planning in Russian regions and cities. In order to reach...

In the context of a need for lifelong learning as a factor determining success of a modern qualified specialist in the international labor market, assertiveness and creativity of an individual throughout the process of self-education are of a top priority. Formation of the latter is in the stage of a significant progress during the period of study at university, since by this very moment students have formed a conscious attitude towards such activities, connected with vision of their future professional growth. Th...

In this paper I am going to focus on the work of the Czech writer Karel Capek, who lived in the first half of the 20th century, as it was perceived by the Czech exile literary critics and Western scholars specialized in Czech studies. This author enjoyed great popularity in Britain in the period between the two world wars, but his works had gradually fallen into oblivion over time, perhaps except for his play RUR, which enriched the English language with the word robot, and the novel War with the Newts. I am going...

Some offences under Polish law are codified in Acts other than the Criminal Code. For example, Criminal Liability is regulate in the 14th chapter of the Act of 4th February 1994 “Law on Copyright and Related Rights”. The most important offences legislated are acts of plagiarism and copyright piracy. The first offence is codified in Article 115 and the second in Articles 116 and 117. Plagiarism is prosecuted ex officio, with maximum penalty up to 3 years imprisonment, and Copyright piracy is prosecuted on a complai...

In this paper we extend an existing approach developed by M. Abrams to the analysis of Russian youth’s consumer behavior in the field of fashion. The major research objective was to clarify whether the choice of fashion clothes constitutes a certain form of consumer behavior and, if so, which factors affect this social activity. {{Methodology.}} Fashion as a phenomenon has been considered from the standpoint of the concept of imitation, the theory of demonstrative consumption, theories of postmodernism, theory of ...

This presentation examines the origin of the productive and multifunctional1 derivational suffix -?k of the Udmurt language, using the material of the Turku-Izhevsk Corpus. Two opposing views have been put forward as to the origin of this suffix: the first one posits that it is the result of the fusion of two different derivational suffixes (a reflexive and a frequentantive one), whereas the other one hypothesizes one single (frequentantive) derivational suffix from which it developed. When she posits two differen...

The paper discusses the pictorial data received in the survey in 1994 and 2012 as the result of the task consisting in drawing a picture of a representative of a given nation. Treated as evidence of mental representations, the pictures are examined on account of the occurrence of the traces of the past and studied as manifestations of dynamic collective memory of the group.

Nowadays companies due to the growing external influence are placing greater emphasis on social responsibility, they are not only paying attention to these activities, but also supporting these from their resources, which is often very different from the central economic beliefs. Very often the expectations are vague, but powerful, nevertheless it is worth dealing with them. Although certain requirements appear in the law also, yet, corporate managers dedication remains an open question like their willingness to i...

The article analyzes translational reading in terms of translation studies, didactics of translation, personality- and activity-oriented, sociocultural and discursive approaches, which made it possible to identify specific features of this type of reading. For translators of scientific and technical texts, reading is an important work stage, constituting a more complex type of speech activity and having its own specific features that distinguish it from unprofessional reading. In terms of the competence approach, ...

Government regulation of migration has proved to be very important in periods of wars, military conflicts, natural disasters and technological catastrophes. In this connection, the article is not only of scientific but practical interest. It is dedicated to the historical experience of solving refugees’ problems. The evacuation occurred in the USSR in 1941-1945 was unprecedented in scale and it has remained unique in the world history. The aim of the article is to determine the quantitative and qualitative structu...

It is difficult to translate the poem by Heinrich Heine "Lorelei" due to its special intonation and fine sense. Despite of this, many translators nowadays have tried their hand to deliver all the beauty of this poem to the Russian language. The actuality of this work is in the fact that a lot of attention in linguistics is paid to stylistic means which open up the poems, and many translators are interested in complete translation of stylistically painted devices in their works. The aim of this work is to identify ...

Nowadays Building Information Modelling is one of the most investigated research fields in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industry. In particular, the costs analysis of a building life cycle is one of the most interested topics to optimize data management related to the refurbishment of existing buildings on different fields such as space management and Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing engineering systems maintenance. This study aims at investigate the economic value of BIM, taking into account...

Care for children deprived of properly functioning families represents an integral element of family-oriented social policy in Poland, which is based on the constitutional principle of subsidiarity. According to this principle, the state, through the system of legal guarantees and support structures, offers conditions for support at a local level while empowering families. The entities that are involved in tasks to support families include local social services institutions, non-governmental organizations, and the...

Social value is an issue of crucial importance for comprehension of nascent forms of both social entrepreneurship and hi-tech business. In this paper I intend to substantiate the historically heterogeneous types of values created by entrepreneurs and to identify the distinguishing features of social value and modi of its creation. I resort to enactivist theory; the theory of regulative, normative and cognitive pillars of institutions; and the actor-network theory. According to the latter, socially constructed obje...

Study of entrepreneurial behavior is based on in-depth empirical qualitative research. Research explores and explains entrepreneur actions and counteractions under business environment munificence/scarcity. Surrounding environment evokes entrepreneurial behavior which has become an important issue. Entrepreneurs identify a business idea and change that into a venture. More enterprises operate in a munificent and stable environment which leads to theories that the environment supports and stimulates entrepreneurshi...

In the vocabulary of each language, there are such expressions that are actively used in communicating people in the form of generally accepted formulas for expressing greetings, farewells, gratitude, etc., and are of a traditional nature. Most of the works on speech clichés are based on the analogy of stable complexes of a single language. Comparative studies of the funds of speech clichés of different languages exist, but, as experience shows, the material of the stock of speech clichés of one language is insuff...

In recent years, European countries have become increasingly desirable immigration destinations. Europe recognizes that good immigration management is a cure against the demographic problem. This is one of the possible solutions for our country to tackle the demographic deficit in our economic development. A working population is a valuable source of tax revenue. Having enough working-age population is vital not only for the economy but also for tax revenue. This money is needed to finance the retirement and healt...

The present study examines the financial resources of the Russian Arctic on the System of National Accounts methodological basis. This research was designed to estimate the efficiency and sustainability of the Arctic’s region added value. Russian Arctic’s territories financial balances for generation, distribution and consumption were constructed. SNA’s methodological approaches were modified by defining indicators for sectors “Corporations”, “Government sector” and “Households” that are essential for Arctic’s ter...

The concept of organizational culture is of maximum interest worldwide. The wish for performance growth in forms generated in the seventh decade of the 20th century preoccupations for the analysis of this concept. A particular aspect of organizational culture is the culture of the school organization, the school presenting specific, particular aspects. Analysing the organizational culture of the school institution, Elena Vacarescu School, starting from the model of Geert Hofstede, we found the following: • Average...

The Rose was the first purpose-built theatre on London Bankside. The playhouse was erected in 1587 as a theatre of Philip Henslowe. At the end of the XVI century, the Lord Admiral's Men moved to the Rose playhouse and performed there, attracting audiences, becoming popular and eventually prosperous. Rose’s repertory included plays of Marlowe, and Shakespeare. The Rose’s success encouraged other theatres to be built on Bankside; these new theatres overtook the Rose, which had been abandoned by 1606. The Globe becam...

This article discusses the Copyright in Kosovo after the year of 2001. Copyright is defined as the totality of legal standards that which arrange social relations arising from the creation and evaluation of scientific, literary-judicial works. Copyright defines in two meanings in the objective and in the subjective sense. In objective sense, copyright includes complexity of legal standards which stipulate legal relations for intellectual creativity in the field of literature, science, art, and other legal provisio...

Modern humanitarian knowledge has increasingly paid attention to axiological aspects of human life. In search of moral values of the present, it makes sense to address to the cultural heritage of the previous eras. Restoration Comedy, emerged as a reaction to six-year puritanical dictatorship, followed by the restoration of the monarchy, is of special interest, in this sense. The peculiar attitude towards the moral standards found the reflection in comedies of manners of the Restoration era is, certainly, related ...

The most common system in Russia is placing unsorted waste at landfills. The existing system poses a significant threat to the environment and does not ensure that waste is included in the turnover as recyclable materials. The present work deals with various options for sustainable waste management in the Russian cities. We calculated the volume of solid municipal waste (SMW) generation from the housing stock on the basis of the approved norms for their accumulation and and studied the real amount of waste in the ...

The issue of relations among national and regional literatures is closely bound with the concept of national literary canon. National literary canon is a system for studying and segmenting authors who belong to a national literature. National literary canon is formed by writers and their literary works. A canon has a marked nucleus. In Latvia “Latvian Cultural Canon” was compiled in 2007 as a treasure trove that contains the most important cultural achievements of all times including also the branch of literature....

An investment climate is influenced by a regional policy and a set of regional factors. The attractiveness of investment climate in a region depends on how close these two elements interact with each other. The region’s investment climate is largely defined by the combination of its investment potential and investment risk. In the paper, the regional investment climate was estimated by a set of indicators representing these two main constructs. The investment potential that is mainly determined by capital efficien...

The article deals with one of the eternal issues of the theory and practice of literary translation: “What happens to a literary original after it has been translated?” The answer to this question could be probably found through interdisciplinary approach which takes into consideration not only exclusively translation categories and literary translation traditions but also broad literary, cultural and political contexts of the target text. The subject of the present research is the experience and results of foreig...

This article presents the thesis about consolidation of regional identity of the republic. Development of regional identity raises region competitiveness. Materials and methods: the theoretically methodological basis of a research is compiled by works of national philosophers, culturologists and historians. Empirical material for article compiled in the Russian researches. The purpose and contents of article determined the choice of methodological acceptances: principle of historicism, logical methods. Results: th...

In the current global recession, the world’s leading central banks face strong and sustained deflationary pressures. As a response to the global financial crisis the leading central banks undertake a wide range of unconventional monetary policy measures. Central banks introduce unconventional measures unprecedented in their scope and magnitude. The subject of the current research is the unconventional monetary policy of the leading central banks in the world – the European Central Bank (ECB), the US Federal Reserv...

Nowadays, with the rapid development of international relations, sharply increases the intensity of migration processes, and as a consequence - the number of migrants. From the Russian Federation adopted obligations to respect human rights implies the need to ensure individual rights to free choice of residence and freedom of movement. There is a process of formation of the renewed worldview in which every human disorder encourages the search for a better life. One of the consequences of such a disorder are migrat...

The paper presents results of archaeological excavations lasting 11 seasons, in years 1981-1986 and 2000-2004 by Archaeology Institute of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru? (Poland). In Strzelno - a tiny town in Kuyavia region (North Poland) - the Premonstratensian nunnery had been functioning from the end of 12th c. to the 19th c. This is the site of a small Romanesque St. Procopius rotunda and Holy Trinity convent basilica with 4 famous Romanesque columns. The main purpose of the research was to determine t...

The article deals with the phenomenon of staginess in choral performance as an artistic device of enlivening academic music and stage performance. The authors’ research attitude is based on the interpretation of staginess as an effective device of enhancing communicative character of music, which manifests itself in the choral arts through the union of music and words, in which words are the script of a composition. The research was carried out on the basis of the following methods: cultural and historical method,...

In the climate change context, the efficient usage of natural resources has become a global objective key. The study addresses to the providing utilities for fresh water supply issue, and to the electricity supply of the communities, and isolated buildings, avoiding the risk of the natural resource depletion. In the absence of the possibility of connecting to the distribution networks (DN) of the national energy system (NES), renewable energy sources represent the solution to the energy problem of these types of c...

In Italian building tenders, the number of awarding environmental criteria is increasing. This gets out from a wide spread green sensitivity, but on the other side it could act as an opaque “green” screen on the decision process: the more the environmental require-ments are heavy awarded in the calls for bids, the more it is important their effective-ness instead of their standardization. Otherwise they work as a decision justifying fac-tor instead of a local tailored and valuable contribution to a better environm...

The main objective of the paper was to find out what conceptualisation processes are evoked in children of older school age by the word “education”, and what meanings are attached to this word in Czech Radio's newcast programmes from 1970 and 2015. The individual goals of the research were to reveal a particular influence of school upon the education of children, and to spotlight the changes in education in relation to a particular ideology in society. The theoretical basis of the research were theses of cultural ...

The early 20th century was to become a significant milestone not only for the development of relations between Russia and Yakutia, but also for the convergence of Russian and Yakut people, largely through Russian literature. The beginning of the 20th century, as the time for the Russian-language literature appearance in Yakutia, was a difficult period, given the fact that the beginning of the century was a time for the political change of eras and ideals, the time to search for political, social, and spiritual val...

The article demonstrates the application of phenomenological description method to describe the architectural space of Saint Petersburg Empire period. The style originating in the French architects designs in the late nineteenth century was fully embodied in St. Petersburg, thus creating the image of a perfect capital. The style involves a particular vision of space, that can be perceived only from a supervisor’s perspective, creating a panoramic view, combining planimetric images with perspective ones, implementi...

The aim of this work is to build a mathematical model of the dynamics and mutual influence of the population and environmental factors – pollution of the atmosphere and surface water bodies – on an urbanized territory. The paper proposes a simulation model of dynamics and interaction of external and internal directions in biosphere-compatible city activities. The external direction of city’s activities is removal of resources from the Biosphere and emission of waste polluting water, air and soil into it. The inter...

The article analyzes current social & cultural situation in Russia, which is created under the influence of changes in demographic structure of population, as well as describes trends with new approaches and principles, which currently are being developed to ensure an improvement in the life quality of elderly people. The authors state that elderly people in modern Russia belong to the least protected population segment. The article highlights one specific problem: it is difficult for elderly people to travel, res...

Within the framework of cognitive-discourse approach, the authors focus on the conceptual effects of metaphors used in commercial advertising for the sake of sales promotion. The article gives insights into the construction of pragmatically-orientated mental representations activated by metaphors as means of persuasion and entertaining the target audience. The authors chiefly draw on Text World Theory [1], [6], [7], [10], [11], [12] and Conceptual Blending Theory [5] because their heuristics can provide an adequat...

At European Union level is the regular adaptation of the principles laying down the basic standards dealing with the area of migration and asylum policy. European Union external migration and asylum cooperation has increased as the result of the integration and the current refugee crisis resulting in a new instruments of cooperation with the third partner countries. This article reflects on an overview of forms of European Union external actions with a pointing out the current situation in Slovak republic. The stu...

In this article, I discuss the category of time in light of heritage preservation. Although change is central to the conservation theory, it is also a concept that raises the greatest doubts and ambiguous interpretations. The reason for this is very simple: change is related to as foundational a concept as time. In this article, I use metaphysical time models to analyse the life course of things, their damage, and in the end I also refer to conservation theories derived from Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and John Ruskin. ...

The article is devoted to the philosophical interpretation of the specifics of creativity of A.S. Pushkin, the famous poet and writer, one of the geniuses of the world culture. Pushkin didn’t leave his own philosophical legacy. However, his works inspired many philosophers, who understood its philosophical depths. This article examines the works of A. S. Pushkin through the prism of analysis of the creative heritage by the Russian philosophers abroad G. P. Fedotov, N.A.Berdyaev and I.A. Ilyin, as well as modern Ru...

The collapse of the Soviet Union led to the emergence of new political and cultural situation. The society of Internationalism cracked, and old ethnic tensions have gained new forms. All this found its expression in many and varied ethnophaulisms. In this article, the authors try to trace the various slurs constructed with the assistance of the nutritional and vestimentary metaphors. They also make the assumption that the abundance of food metaphors for marking the Other/Alien shows that the food problem is percei...

The emergence and functioning of the European Union is not an element of absolute novelty in international relations, but it could be argued that it is the consequence of capitalizing on the experiences that history has built over time at national and international level for each of the European states. The history has reflected the necessity of an international alliance between states, the fundamental aim being to ensure stability on a regional and continental level, as well as the fact that alliances created by ...

Didactic competence, operationalized in the educational process, it means much more than a "technique" of carrying out the training tasks or the indispensable information for their fulfilment; It is the result of the teacher’s abilities, skills and attitudes, in direct correspondence with the nature and complexity of the instructive-educational objectives, with the exercise of all the didactic abilities, throughout the teacher's socio-professional behavior. In essence, both at European and national level, it is st...

In modern Russian conditions, the system of social services is being upgraded. These processes are regulated by the new Federal Law "On the foundations of social services to citizens in the Russian Federation", which entered into force on 1 January 2015. According to this law, any legal entities and individual entrepreneurs might be social service providers. And clients are entitled to choose the supplier of services and to participate in the drafting of individual programs. In this situation, the social service a...

The paper deals with academic discourse as a process and product in the higher education institutions, with focus on academic writing. The introductory part of the paper contains the literature review of the linguistic background to the topic of academic writing, in particular approaches in Slovak, British, and American sources. The features and genres of academic discourse are discussed from theoretical and practical aspects, and the need for developing learners’ knowledge and skills in this area is justified. Th...

The architectural metaphors transform the built environment into a symbolic poetical framework with a strong identity. They are the richest semantic means of architectural communication, superior creative methods of transmitting architectural concepts, being characterized by originality and novelty. Generated by unusual shapes and unique combinations of architectural language elements, they got enclose a high power of evocation and stimulate very diverse interpretations. Their suggestive power is valued in contemp...