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The focus of this research is the system of the public space in Wroclaw - the fourth most populated Polish city. The spatial policy, expressed in the planning documents, is essential for the development of the public space. Based on the analysis of the city development plans, one can specify the principles on which the management of public space areas are established. The cognitive aim is to isolate and evaluate criteria used in planning practice in determining these integration sites. This paper gives the answer ...

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...

In this paper, we have developed a database, which represents a collection of three-dimensional models of cultural and historical heritage objects located in the central part of Tambov (Russia), both existing and completely or partially destroyed. They include the elements of Tambov fortress of the XVII century (towers, walls, church), Bogorodnichnaya church of the XVIII century and the Library named after A.S. Pushkin built on its place in the XX century, the building of the Nobility Assembly of the XIX century, ...

This article is part of a broader study on the new visual methods to organize data and information, with the aim to recognize the designing of archives as an active process in information storage and retrieval. The building of an Archive, a structured and declared element of information, implies the awareness of existing data organization processes. The management of this information will connect with the capability to interpret and read information that is otherwise impervious. Design, archiving and image are fer...

One of the important goals set up by school is the formation of communicative-aesthetic, cognitive and creative abilities of students. Moreover, Russian schools have practically no specialization subjects (apart from the lessons of drawing and singing) aimed at the solution of this problem, hence, the skills and forms of aesthetic understanding the world and aesthetic communication are actively developing in the process of the Russian language studying. In this situation visual texts, namely the reproduction of fi...

The aim of the article is to analyze the current state of the register of municipalities in the Czech Republic with a focus on their influence on the development and operation of the technical infrastructure. Voluntary associations of municipalities represent one of the ways of interregional cooperation; the purpose of all associations of municipalities is to provide public services to their members. The first voluntary associations in the Czech Republic were founded in the early 1990s. Roughly half of the associa...

The publication presents the results of empirical research on technologies used in the home pages of the Irish credit institutions authorized under Irish Legislation to carry on banking business in the state according to the Irish Credit Institutions Register, Section 1 (a) in 2017. The home web pages of 10 banks were studied. Our survey reveals some interesting details about the proportion of the used web technologies. The average home page size is around 1.4 MB and the share of the images is around 50%. The shar...

The acquisition and administration of “big data” has become a highly-debated issue not only within the information technology field, but more broadly in the political sociology and social arena ethics as well. While big data may just be another technology used to better find customers (from a business point of view) or help people (from a governmental point of view), its use and misuse has made it a topic of much discussion. Users continue to see lots of data being gathered, stored and analyzed about them as c...

Although remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPASs) offer great advantages and creative possibilities, they are primarily designed for outdoor use by different end-users for activities such as inspections, agriculture, real estate, security and so on. The creative industries are starting to use RPASs for outdoor filming and photography. However, since the existing RPASs lack a precise, robust and affordable indoor positioning system as well as advanced safety features, the control of any RPAS in an indoor environme...

The article is devoted to the speech behavior of Fedor N. Plevako who appeared in a court not only as a barrister, a representative of a civil action, but also as a private prosecutor. The main focus of this article will be on three points. First, we will find out what kind of speech behavior Plevako used in his speeches as a barrister and a prosecutor. Second, whether PlevakoВ’s speech behavior differs from the average speech-genre index of speech behavior of the respective professional groups consisting of barri...

The issue of the organizational culture of geographic education nowadays is becoming more and more relevant as it relates to a number of problems in the geographical community. Such are, for example, the lack of organization of geography teachers, the poor activity of methodological unions in secondary schools, the limited opportunities for creative geography teachers, the discontinued printing of emblematic magazines, etc. Despite the fact that the activities of the Bulgarian Geographical Society were resumed, an...

A motive for adapting the desecrated churches to new purposes is a broadly discussed matter, progressively better investigated and defined. Is it advisable to introduce a new, permanent function, complementary to the sacred one in the historical ecclesial buildings? This paper presents the results of the research on benefits of adapting the non-utilized attics of monumental churches still performing their sacred function, located in historic centers of the cities. The results were identified in three approaches: c...

The article performed from the position of psycholinguistic school gives the full and detailed analysis of similarities and differences of the dynamics of modern family images exciting in the language consciousness of Russian students. Persistent interest to this problem is caused by anthropocentric focus of modern science and understanding that a person lives in the changing social and economic conditions that steadily find reflection in all spheres of life. A person perceives and fixes the world in his conscious...

Scholars have lately displaying constantly growing interest in the role of the woman in music and in the specificity of women music making. These subjects are considered both in broad terms and as concrete phenomena. It seems to be expedient to try to combine the above subjects and by the example of a particular phenomenon – the Vietnamese female ca tru singing to trace some typological community with other traditions of female music making in countries of the Far East and partly South East Asia. Generally, thre...

Like in many other countries, the status of women in Croatian politics is neither satisfactory nor have their political rights been developed to an adequate degree. Croatian women face numerous prejudices and stereotypes and are almost invisible at a high political level. Consequently, the number of Croatian female MPs is small despite the fact that the rules on electoral gender quotas were introduced in 2008. As stipulated by those rules, there shall be at least 40% of women on parliamentary candidate lists. Inst...

The aim of the present research was to explore some intergenerational patterns of bounday flexibility in the context of family – work interface. First of all, we explored how young women expectations regarding the flexibility of their future family and work boundaries were related to their parents’ willingness and ability to flex these boundaries. Furthermore, we investigated the differences between spouses in the ability and willingness to flex family and work boundaries. In order to test our hypotheses, we co...

A successful balance between work and private life provides benefits to employees and companies. Employees are an essential resource in the companies operating in the business sector, and, according to the long-term estimates in the labour market, the services sector will continue to develop in Latvia in the future as well, and, consequently, there will also be a demand for human resources. The aim of the research study: To study work and private life balance differences between various generations of the personne...

Background: Working capital is an element that has a significant impact on the financial security of an entity, its profitability and the efficiency of its asset management and its selected liabilities. Working capital management is designed to keep an enterprise engaged in its day-to-day “financial health”. This is a complicated and time-consuming process because it involves the management of current assets and current liabilities. Therefore, it is important to choose appropriate management strategies for ind...

The Czech Republic has not yet ratified or acceded to the Convention of the International Labor Organization (hereinafter referred to as "ILO") No. 189 on Foreign Workers. In the vote on the adoption of the Convention in 2011, the vote was abstained and, on the basis of the Czech Government's failure to ratify, the Senate Senate on Health and Social Policy of the Senate of the Czech Parliament on 8 August 2012 decided that the Czech Republic would not join the ratification of the Workers' In a foreign household. T...

The main objective of this study is to identify the impact of labor force immigration on the labor market of Slovak Republic. The solution of this issue required an analysis and examination of specific relations within the labor market trends development in Slovak Republic (employment, unemployment, wage level, number of free jobs) and labor immigration. Several economic criteria are developed in this study and the effects of labor emigration on labor market are recalculated by means of mathematical calculations. ...

Strategic objective of state policy is reliable providing the country with fuel and energy resources, increase in efficiency of their use and decrease in anthropogenous impact of fuel and energy complex on the environment. The appropriate measures aimed at providing energy saving and increase in energy efficiency are necessary for achievement of this purpose; ensuring need of domestic market for reliable, high-quality and economically reasonable supply with the electric power and heat; development of oil and gas a...

The relevance of this study in the context of the intensification of integration processes occurring in the world community in all spheres of human activity, including the system of higher education, is determined by the need to manage the processes of enhancing international academic mobility of students. The process of developing the migration of academically oriented young people, whose pace is very significant, provides access to recognized centers of knowledge - the place for the formation of leading scientif...

The paper is devoted to the problem of youth workers’ professional growth. The European Commission notes of the European Union (EU) youth work directions currently in growing professionalisation and the rise of the proportion professional education youth workers and expected the increasing demand for youth work by society. However, it was noted that state support can be decreased with the pressure of the sector and can discourage youth work, thus contributing to staff turnover (2014). During the period 2005-2015...

In the labyrinth of the Nietzschean interpretations, what is missing is a chapter which investigates Nietzsche's critique of the city of men. This is what the following research sets out to do: to reconstruct – through first-hand reading of the Nietzschean texts and the little bibliography on the topic – Nietzsche's reflections on the everyday rationale of city life. A posthumous note dating back to his early years suggests that Nietzsche had planned a work dedicated to the metropolis as part of the incomplete...