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The contribution focuses on historical relationships of the development of vocal performance and vocal pedagogy in the second half of the 20th century, which is definitely based on the classical vocal performance and vocal pedagogy respecting the bel canto principle of singing. The Slovak vocal school fully respected the Italian bel canto principle of singing. The founding personality of the vocal pedagogy in Slovakia was a Czech violinist, composer, singer and teacher Josef Egem, who adopted the bel canto singing...

Medieval towns lived in carnival life. It was opposed to the official culture, its norms and rules which were stable, given and serious in their restrictive and rigid form. The ritual and mimetic forms of laughter culture included carnival-style celebrations and laughter ceremonies. They represented different aspects of life from the official ceremonies. Carnivals were a real, though, a temporary form of life that was meant for enjoying. The carnival became a living space with specific rules. It was characterised ...

The process of forming new industries contributes to the resource region’s promotion to a higher level of competitiveness. A wide range of strategic analysis tools was used to develop an algorithm for territorial and sectoral development based on two major global trends. They are the transformation of production and technological chains, and new organizational forms of regional development that support and accompany these processes. The revealed patterns of the spatial and branch development of the resource region...

The practice of inclusive education gets increasingly obvious in gains more support and interest in education system in Russia as well as all the world over. There is a distinctly declared agreement in the world that all children have the right to education regardless of their race, gender, nationality, disability, etc. In this regard, the emergence of a system of inclusive education is, on the one hand, an important step towards the elimination of discrimination against healthy children and children with disabili...

The risk of conducting a business activity refers to all entrepreneurs, it is an indispensable element of the operation of organizations on the market. This also applies to mature enterprises which have a specific market position and are characterized by stable revenue growth and financial liquidity, and moreover, which have been operating in the market for more than 10 years and their main objective is to achieve competitive advantage. Such enterprises have features which facilitate the operation on the market, a...

The activities of modern companies depend not only on economic performance but also on a broadly understood sustainable development strategy from economic, social and environmental perspective. Polish hard coal mining undertakings aspire to be such companies. Therefore, currently many of mining and post- mining communities is looking for new possibilities of development. They have to look for different ways of economic activation and new possibilities for those areas. Entrepreneurs are looking for different ways t...

During the last years the tertiary education support is growing mainly due to researches that claim it can foster the development of individuals and so the economy as a whole. This growth is creating a significant pressure on countries’ public budgets, as the main source of support, and the effectiveness of its allocation. This paper deals with the evaluation of public spending on education efficiency, with an emphasis on tertiary education in EU countries. It is devoted mainly on economic aspects of education, em...

The article is devoted to the analysis of translation of Yakut story "Balyksyt" into French. On the one hand, is considered translation problems, in particular, methods of transfer for adequate translation. On the other hand - the practical experience of the translator to transfer of culture and language generalizing in a text form. Translation process means text transformation from one language into a text equivalent in another language. Yakut and French languages and cultures are independent from one another, th...

Occurrence of cognitive distortions in managerial work relates to the objective conditions of this work but also to the subjective characteristics of managers. In this context, the presented paper focuses on the analysis of gender specifics of the links between the attributes of emotional intelligence of managers and assessment of the occurrence of cognitive distortions of managers. Data were collected from 67 female and 80 male managers using the methodologies TEIQue (emotional intelligence) and PCD18 (occurrence...

Efficiency is one of the most important indicators of elite professionalism. Measuring this indicator we reveal the quality of a particular elite community, their professional training and acmeological level. Empirical data only gives an external quality measure. Personal assessments of elite subjects are made In the role of an internal criterion. It is the comparison of the objective and subjective (external and internal) indicator which gives us an adequate assessment of the effectiveness of modern political eli...

The period of 1970-1985 became that period of the highest development of the SPhTI. SPhTI was the country’s leading academic institute in the development of scientific areas related to the solution practically significant problems in the promising fields of science and technology. Among these fields the following should be mentioned the theory of alloys and the development of cold-resistant materials; The theory and development of methods for receiving weak optical radiation, methods for amplifying radio signals o...

The article deals with the structure of the civil society forming in Russia. A lot of attention has been given to this phenomenon recently both in theory and in practical terms. Over the last years, major changes have taken place in the social and political life of Russia. New institutions have appeared. According to their formal features they can be assigned to the elements of civil society. However, there are some opinions that civil society in Russia is still in its infancy. The article analyses the reasons why...

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...

When talking about Rem Koolhaas, the mirror reflects multiple images. We can find Rem the media celebrity, the intellectual, the conceptualizer, the builder, the analyst, the journalist, the actor... This research sets the spotlight on Rem, the communicator. "Rem at both sides of the mirror” belongs to a research on architectural media, its influence on the architectural production and vice versa. The aim is to discern whether communication and architectural production collide and converge in the case of great com...

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 Yakuts an...

To develop the northern and arctic territories, highly skilled workers are needed. But the problem is that if the quality of life and work does not meet their expectations, they will not be equal in other regions, this can be an important condition for obtaining and consolidating the results of research and development of the Arctic areas and on the ecology of the northern region. It is necessary to create or transform settlements that should be maximally adapted to a particular territory, should not violate the b...

Tourism is a business that involves interaction, communication and promotion. Tourists need a reason to visit a place: interesting things to do and see, in a word, attractions. They may be natural or man made an activity or an event. People will not visit a place just because it has attractions, these must be developed and promoted to attract visitors. Someone has to tell them about that place or community and teach them how it should be done through marketing communication and different communicational strategies...

Playing by ear, or picking by ear is a certain performing art’s activity based on a reproduction of a known music piece, without the written music (or not looking at a score). While playing by ear, different types of musician’s activity are synthesized, which make him/her more like a universal musician of past centuries who was a composer, a performer and an improviser in one person. Playing by ear allows a music teacher to greatly enrich the repertoire of music lessons, including in it the unpublished works. In T...

The solution of the problem of comparative evaluation of economic perfor-mance of enterprises and branches of industry under the situation of application of the multi-criteria projections population is discussed in the paper. The projection approach proposes distribution of performance indicators in relevant groups (projections), solving specific optimization problems within the established groups, and search for the final answer. Multiprojectiveness is applicable to economic problems of the analysis of sus-tainab...

The very nature of the elite phenomenon urgently requires researchers to use an integrated approach, especially in analyzing the system of their core values laid down in each professional community. Since the elite always points to the best that exists in every professional community, the study of the axiological and acmeological data of the elites is the most important condition for any elitological analysis. Empirical measurements can reveal the quality of a particular elite in the current time (“here-and-now” m...

By the total work of art (gesamtkunstwerk) Wagner brings the myth back into focus by illud tempus hoping that in doing so he will re-sacralise the present time and space. Within the framework of the myths he approaches, the present paper deals with the feminine characters whose role is decisive in the unfolding of the Wagnerian drama. Every female character fits a conventional typologies, the present study bringing into question more than twenty such characters. Far from proposing a rigid typology, this analysis o...

Medical services represent one of the essential preconditions of successful military operations. Work of military healthcare personnel, mainly nurses and paramedics, is very important in prehospital care and has a substantial impact on the overall level of survival and mortality of wounded soldiers. It is very important to separate the work of military healthcare personnel employed in the system of military medical support from the work of those who are deployed on the frontline and provide nursing care to fightin...

The research in this article aimed to draw the entire design process, culminating in the identification of a set of characteristics to be implemented in the creation of an inclusive interior play space for preschool children. For this process, it was imperative that final users were part of the project, thus ensuring that their preferences/needs would be taken into account. To determine the process, it was necessary to understand the essential steps for a design project. It was important for the research to identi...

The mood for the imagination and inventiveness in Brazil recreates every moment many other "Brazils" that retake and reinvent traditions, weaving an amalgamated diversity with a false idea of festivity and affection among transitions, courage and hope that often suggests a prosaic grace and spontaneity. This "brazilianness" that apparently renews and enriches our material culture is highlighted here under a focus on curious objects made of recontextualized materials in the main urban centers as a result of a cruel...