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Philosophy examines thinking by means of theory of cognition, formal logic, studying forms and laws of the correct thinking, and by means of dialectics giving the general method of research of the logical thinking as a developing process. Psychology studies the logical thinking as active activity of subject; exposes incentive reasons, aims, having the personal meaningfulness, individual features of the logical thinking; investigates cogitative operations from the point of view of realization by the subject of lyin...

Social marketing becomes the philosophy of modern management and business practices. Higher education institutions also seek to implement the concept of social and ethical marketing that characterizes the philosophical foundations of marketing to the fullest extent possible and orients towards satisfying consumers’ needs taking into account the development of the society. The main problem considered in this paper is the building of a system of thought aimed at satisfying the needs of educational services. The obje...

Today there is an increasing interest in reviving folk festivities and outdoor celebrations. At the same time, the attempts of modern society to properly identify and understand the roots of these festivities and celebrations oftentimes resemble a costume show, or a theatrical performance with a new twist, in which once deep and meaningful traditions and rituals, with original historical and cultural significance, are lost, devoid of any meaning to a modern observer or participant. Realia more familiar to modern c...

This research aims to identify the effects that different types of taxes have on happiness, considering that the main feature of the tax systems should be related to being fair, otherwise they fail to be sustainable. For this, the question arises on the fact that happier taxpayers would pay higher taxes or not. This study will reveal, through regression analysis, the effect taxes have on various indicators of happiness, over the period 2009-2016. In order to highlight whether or not the level of taxes is directly ...

Freelancing is not a new concept at the labor market, however, as our business environment changes, it requires a quick adaptation to new conditions. A large study was conducted with the aim to find out about the status of freelancing in Croatia. This paper presents the employers’ standpoint. Although keeping employees satisfied is often in focus as one of the primary managerial tasks, the starting question of this paper is, what kind of a freelancers keep employers happy? The research method was a questionnaire w...

It is an increasingly widespread view that the Roma are a specific and unique ethnic group, since they do not have a state and have never been at war; moreover, most of them preserve their ethnic (Roma) identity, refuse to merge into the majority society and actually intend to never give up themselves for the mainstream society. The research focused on superstitions about an important turning point in human life, i.e. on superstitions related to death, as deaths affect people and the fate of a tight community (esp...

The article presents the analysis of the topical problems in the practice of Moscow state administrative bodies providing public services to citizens. The analysis of regulatory documents, statistical data and sociological analysis revealed legal, organizational, technological and social problems in the provision of public services. The author argues, that the core of standard and legal problems is in the lack of unified legislative base, inadequately developed order of services provision and quality requirements....

Traditional museum is typically characterized especially by presenting exhibits. However, it has recently been enriched by many other features that contribute to the attractiveness of exhibitions. Museum spaces nowadays offer various educational events, creative workshops or shops with artefacts and publications. This paper is aimed at presenting partial research results orientated to human-centered design of museums for children. The introductory part describes innovative design tools that focus on multisensory p...

Diasporas nowadays consists of economic migrants who are belive to have the potential for chanelling financial and social transfers as well as technology and qualifications. Remittances sent by migrants make the main source of external income, not only often bigger than the foreign help but also direct foreign investment. Money transfers make the stable source of funds reaching directly families and make the poverty smaller. Dominican Republic is constantly percieived as a country of a mass emigration to United St...

Information theory is based on interdisciplinary defined mathematical, computer sciences and artificial intelligence. The information is based on theory of mathematically defined the basic preconditions for the fulfilment of the conditions of information processing, and perception quantified properties informative value. While the total applicable and informative value is often lost in a mathematical bite - mathematically measurable value information. The most effective instrument to eliminate the risk is to provi...

This paper points out at the ability of music to capture and make sense of the existence of human, since music is, in its essence, the element of it. The artistic work of Roman Berger is an urgent message, the defence of values, and, the anxiety and concern for both the Truth and the state of the contemporary world. Personal experience, encounter with suffering and pain, and, attitude to eternity have all become a ubiquitous source for the feeling of life and the artistic inspiration for Roman Berger, an exception...

The article follows an investigation conducted last year at the Department of Toxicological Rehabilitation of the Psychiatric Hospital in Kromeriz and the Detoxication Department of the Military Hospital in Olomouc. It focuses on evaluation during the process of drama-therapeutic intervention in persons with a drug addiction, and on cover-up strategies in the evaluation process. The material from the original investigation and the subsequent content of the evaluation are evaluating statements of clients.

The present study deals with the concept of multimedia, discussed in the context of convergence, which appears to be a mass communications trend. The purpose of the article is to consider the specifics of convergence in terms of merging information channels and platforms for placing a multimedia product, as well as to review the issues of the interrelation between the verbal and non-verbal aspects of communication. The author convincingly indicates that multimedia is a key characteristic of the media convergence, ...

This study presents findings resulting from a comparative analysis of the system of nominal morphological markers attested by various researchers and observed in the research trips to Vakh Khanty. The analysis focused on the morphological markers that form paradigms of three nominal categories: number, possession and case. It aimed at systematizing the linguistic data in the Vakh Khanty dialect. A comparative analysis of the paradigms of morphological makers has revealed some controversial issues regarding their f...

The paper deals with the foreign reflection of the work of Jaroslav Seifert, a Czech poet who belongs to the so-called semi-official “grey zone” and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The analysis is based on two essays by Igor Hajek, a distinguished exile critic, included in the collection of Hajek’s literary essays, which was published in Czech translation in 2007. In the first of these articles, Hajek reminds foreign readers of the confined atmosphere of the 1950s, when many authors lost the opportunit...

The aim of the present article is to assess the sustainability of five Estonian Ministries before and after moving the ministries to a joint building to find out if the moving was a reasonable decision. The objects of the study are the cost accounts of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Education and Research, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of the Republic of Estonia in the timeframe between October 2016 and March 2018. Both qu...

I have conducted a study which is an analysis of the most important laws created during the different ages of the Ancient Roman era, from 212 BC until 391 AD, relating to luxury, fashion and lifestyle matters. My work is, therefore, a survey through which I explored the Ancient Roman world of luxury by underlining the different laws created by emperors to limit luxury and opulence in Roman society which was a serious issue at the time. The methodology used for this paper is based on the reading and the investigati...

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

The personal need for structure (PNS) began to appear in the literature in the 1990s. In its essence, PNS means the need to sort information that an individual receives from the surroundings. PNS is; therefore, closely related to categorization. The ability to structure and categorize helps individuals in their orientation and understanding of things, using categories; it also enables them to understand the contexts and patterns in processes. This is related to the tolerance of ambiguity, which can be understood a...

Bedrich Smetana is one of the most important composers of the 19th century national schools, being the one who stylistically outlined the Czech music. Our paper highlights the discursive archetypes of his art, in an attempt to summarize the concise but exhaustive picture of his compositional means of articulating the musical discourse. Although his compositional means are typical for Romanticism, the vastness of the musical genres he chose makes us say that he is one of those who possesses, together with Dvorak, t...

The purpose of this article is to present the texts of a new nature, i.e. professionally oriented digital texts that are usually read by students of the current generation who use their mobiles and tablets while studying at the universities or institutes. These texts usually contain hyperlinks, audio or video contents that clarify and supplement the additional information of the main source text. The analysis shows that these texts have their special features. The professionally oriented digital texts may be consi...

The Aztecs are among the most prominent, most developed and even the most explored pre-Hispanic (prior to the Spanish 16th century colonization of the Americas existing) cultures of Mesoamerica, a culture-historical area comprising Central and Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and certain parts of other Central American states except for Panama. In a broader sense, Aztecs can be identified with Nahuas, who dominated the relatively independent region of Mesoamerica called Central Mexico (the Mexican Valley and its...

Pedagogical Faculty of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (PNU), the Faculty of Humanities of Mukachevo State University (MSU), and the Medical Faculty of Ternopil I. Horbachevskyi State Medical University (TSMU) within a four-year period (2013-2018) became a space for an intense research into intransient educative potential of arts and literature aiming to prove regional fiction power to nurture modern students spiritually and culturally competent despite their obvious alienation from reading. Metho...

Introduction: One of the objectives of complex education of diabetic patients is to prevent the development of diabetic foot syndrome. All diabetics, including seniors, should undergo preventive education on complex leg care. Awareness and compliance with appropriate foot care, which also includes the selection of high-quality prophylactic footwear, assists in the diabetic foot syndrome. In the paper we focused on the use of preventive footwear for the elderly people. In this article the attention was focused on t...

The article attempts to consider the ways the persistent perceptions of Russian literature by Latvian inhabitants have been formed and developed. Russian literature has been part of Latvian cultural landscape for a long time. Its perception in Latvian society is heterogeneous and changeable both in the temporal and in the socio-cultural aspect. First, when studying the specifics of the perception of Russian literature in Latvian society, it is necessary to take into account the stages and characteristics of the fo...

Internet and Internet marketing are currently the most used and most effective promotion tools, as well as tools of attracting new consumers in any area of business. In the current strongly saturated market it is also necessary to constantly develop innovative changes and create new markets that encourage consumers to purchase behaviour. Determinant of success is to understand the requirements and desires of consumers and be able to assume their future expectations. An important starting point for understanding th...

This article deals with methodological issues related to the use of psychometric and non-psychometric approaches to the study of the core factors in the structure of giftedness (intellect, creativity, motivation). Based on the analysis of the results of existing foreign and national scientific research in this area, the main achievements and limitations of each approach are outlined. The methodology of the pilot research to identify the potentially gifted children among 473 adolescents and senior school students o...

In 2010 the municipality of Senigallia, located in Marche region (Italy),requested to thethe Department of Agricultural Sciences together with the Department of TerritorialPlanning of the Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna and in collaboration with four architects, two agronomists and communaltechnicians to draft the Green Masterplan (GM) of the city. Aim of the request was to promote a neat, homogeneous and sustainable development of the territory and improve the quality of life and the wellness of its inhabitants. ...

The carsharing of a current generation is a short-term car renting service with a capability to find in the nearest surrounding a fleet car parked anywhere in the public space where the previous user left it, as well as to book, open, rent and pay of, with the use of a dedicated mobile application. Nowadays, only a minority of municipalities is considering implementing the carsharing in their policies. The lack of awareness of decision-makers about carsharing results from the lack of a research regarding complex p...

The EU's collective identity was built on the memory of the Holocaust and, to a lesser extent, colonialism. In the 1990s, this memory began to be replaced by the idea of Captive nations more suitable for new members from CEE and their liberation within the framework of the concept of a ‘Europe Whole and Free and at Peace’. There was a substitution of concepts and the result was a crisis of solidarity. Those integration blocks, where the convergence of the values of migrants and host societies is potentially possib...

In contemporary society, issues of social justice are considered more broadly, in an existential sense, at both the level of local communities and at a global level of world politics and have become a subject of intense debate and controversy. The leaders of radical social and religious movements are calling upon their supporters to employ terrorist tactics in the name of achieving “justice.” Reform and revolution are the main instruments used to pursuit social justice. However, is reform or revolution really the ...

Russia's relations with the international financial institutions had a multi-faced character. In the transition period of the 90-ies foreign borrowings, especially from the IMF were not always well-grounded and effective. The obtained financial resources were mainly used to service the state debt and cover the budget deficit and were not aimed at financing technological renovation of Russia's economy, the development of infrastructure and creation of export-oriented high-tech industries. In the early 2000's the ec...

The article considers questions of applying the dynamic macroeconomic model of economic growth R. Solow for modeling and forecasting the dynamics of gross regional product on the example of the Volga federal district regions. The models were built at current and comparable prices, taking into account (and without taking into account) funds input delay. Multiplicative production functions were considered as a production function taking into account (and without taking into account) scientific and technical progress...

As a result of globalization, the transfer of ownership to the hands of foreign firms, as a result of acquisitions and mergers, the accounting entity switches to other accounting systems. In the US, the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles accounting standard is used, the International Financial Reporting Standards accounting system is increasingly being promoted in Europe, and the Czech Accounting Standards are the most widely used in the Czech Republic. However, some Czech companies also keep IFRS accounting...

Identifying reserves for development in the manufacturing sector in Russia points to the need to not only strengthen the positions of large enterprises, but to also fully realise the potential of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In this regard, the purpose of this study was to identify typological groups in Russia’s regions that differ in the level and balance of SMEs’ development in the manufacturing sector. This study was based on data from the Russian Federal State Statistics that reflects the development o...

Commerce at large format facilities is a creation whose genetic analysis covers areas of many fields. It is impossible to miss the amount of emotions as well as changes it causes which must be a result of some influential phenomenon. This influence constitutes a source of knowledge on the architecture of modern stores. Thus, the phenomenological approach to the problem of space for commerce that rejects historical facts and all warning information does not allow to gather sufficient data for real and useful conclu...

A growing number of areas of daily lives are increasingly affected by robotics. In the European Union (hereinafter: EU) the fast-evolving field of robotics initiated public debate regarding legal framework for the robots. In order to ensure that robots are and will remain in the service of humans, some key legal issues such as human physical safety, liability exposure and privacy/data protection need to be resolved. If we take an example of liability issue, the question is can we hold robots liable for damage when...

Philosophy and methodology of science has sufficient methodological and categorical resource for transposition of concepts, principles and categories of philosophy in various scientific fields, including applied. One of the key features of post-nonclassical science is multiparadigmatic. Often, this feature is the main factor in the emergence of a plurality of ideas and concepts in the context of one direction of research and post-nonclassical science and philosophy. At the turn of the century, the newest interdisc...

The article characterizes the post-perestroika period, which, trying to materialize its life to the detriment of spirituality, has lost the basis of traditional concepts of the people. The stratification of society into the poor and the rich, the blocking of Russia by Western countries, children's films about violence, cruelty, otherworldly forces of darkness, deaden the origins of spirituality. Many peoples of Russia and Eurasia, in an effort to preserve their native culture, began a policy of indigenization agai...

People employed in an enterprise are its most important resource. They have unique knowledge and skills that they bring to the company thanks to their participation in the production process. These factors combined with predispositions for work, using appropriate methods of motivation, can be a source of competitive advantage for the company. The efficiency and effectiveness of the company's operations depends mainly on the employees of the organization and employed management, as well as the atmosphere at work, r...

The paper dwells upon the historical process of introducing multilingual dictionaries into the Russian linguistics and its influence upon the Russian lexicography development. In the article two first Russian multilingual dictionaries of P.S. Pallas (1787-1789) and of T. Yankovich de Mirievo (1790-1791) were examined. It is noted that this type of dictionaries marked the qualitative shift from pure language facts collecting to comparative-historical and typological linguistics beginning, as multilingual dictionary...

Modern society has no time for rituals or rhythms; the modern man serves his food at fast at fast-food near the workplace, surrounded, but not together, with his colleagues. Both the Romanian of the big urban agglomerations, as well as of the one from the rural space, has no time for even one of the three tables; he uses products with beautifully colored and encoded labels, because they do not know how else they could talk about: emulsifiers, stabilizers, a bunch of E-s, a whole bunch of acids mentioned on the pac...

Leisure Tourism has increased its share of domestic tourism both in Romania and abroad in the last decades, and so have tourism TV commercials, tourism guides, tourism flyers, etc. The Romanians are practicing new forms of leisure (e.g., golf, kart racing, rafting, river cruise, etc.) involving new means of locomotion to either get to their destinations or to spend their free time. These forms of leisure use such means of locomotion as automobile, balloon, bateau, bicycle, boat, bus, cab, canoe, ferry, gondola, ho...

In this paper, the authors analyzed the prison system of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, as well as the way of achieving the idea of rehabilitation within prisons. By a case study method on selected examples of inmates of the Royal Court prison in Osijek, the authors tested the thesis that prisons could not fully implement the two ways of achieving rehabilitation. The analysis showed that rehabilitation could not be achieved in prisons by way of education. The main role in achieving rehabilitation was taken over by...

This study aims to identify new patterns that occurred in multi-family high-density housing of urban areas in Romania, and to analyze local trends in comparison with European trends. The paper explores historical housing policies, their relation to European trends, and current housing policies as well as new types of multi-family housing built in the last decade in Romania. The main concern was to research the manifestation of new architectural patterns in multifamily residential buildings in Romania and to verify...

In their study of polysemy, the authors build on the principle of cross-disciplinarity and resort to the methods of conceptual analysis and conceptual modelling in linguistic research. The authors focus on the notion of conceptual structure and analyse the role of different conceptual attributes in word sense formation. The article shows that conceptual attributes have a different status and play different roles in the structure of the concept associated with a sense of a polysemous word. Conceptual attributes var...

The paper analyses the issues of Bratislava’s industrial heritage that are related to urban planning, addressing the inappropriateness of many locations chosen historically for development of industry. The objective is to identify less obvious factors that have impact on optimal development of formerly industrial zones, and explain why consideration of a broader urban structure is crucial for the assessment of any situation occurring within it, including the endeavour for heritage conservation or sustainable re-us...

Human capital plays an important role in the development of an innovation-oriented economy, the multiplication and spread of which will allow to preserve the existing and create new competitive advantages in high-tech industries, improve the development of the territory. The article deals with the features of statistical evaluation of the effectiveness of investment in human capital. The authors emphasize the need for an integrated approach to such an assessment in accordance with the types of effects. The analysi...

Rail transport and its reforms are matters of current discussions. Member States of European Union have started to consider importance of rail transport and the necessity to emphasize it, as this matter has been underestimated in the past. As consequence, rail transport has lost its competitiveness to road transport. Due to this fact, there have been several reforms of rail transport on level of the European Union, in order to increase performance and to strengthen position of rail transport to other types of tran...

The last two decades have been an intensive development of residential development in many Polish cities in areas outside of urbanized downtown areas. Unfortunately, a significant part of new settlements is carried out, more or less consciously, as detached to existing urban structures. New housing complexes, already implemented within administrative boundaries of the city or already in neighboring municipalities, create, suspended, often in open space structures, changing the way existing structures, communicatio...