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With a history spanning over more than 200 years, the traditional ensemble of three instruments known in Romania under the name of Transylvanian Trio gathers instruments of different sizes and shapes, encompassing a specific repertoire, unique in the Romanian area. In order to collect this specific repertoire, for its preservation and promotion, a Transylvanian Trio Festival takes place in Cluj County every year, bringing together the local ensembles of this type. The present paper analyzes the audienceВ’s percept...

In a world of perpetual transformation, the awareness of social responsible education gains valuable meaning for higher education institutions which have the mission to frame and disseminate knowledge related to ethics, social responsibility, and sustainable practices. The paper aims to investigate the effects of teaching activities in social responsibility and civic skills, and to assess the outcomes of an intensive study programme (ISP) in this topic, designed and tested in UPB, during five teaching and learning...

While analyzing various models of socialization and construction of self, it is argued in favour of Milton Bennett's developmental model of intercultural sensitivity and the importance of intercultural communicative competence. Classical developmental models elaborated by authors such as Sigmund Freud, Lawrence Kohlberg, Peter Berger and, Thomas Luckmann emphasize the relevance of primary and secondary socialization; some of them also considered defence mechanisms against alternative cultural and symbolic worlds. ...

Background: As a result of the demand for information regarding mutual relations between the business entity and the environment, socially responsible accounting has been established and the concept of corporate social responsibility appeared. Among the many issues of interest to socially responsible accounting, there are the following ones can be mentioned: social and employee-related, environmental, respect for human rights, counteracting bribery and corruption. In Poland, there has long been a statutory obligat...

As things stand now, the two foreground factors, among others, contributing to sustainability of the integrated structures represented by regional industry clusters are sound use of energy resources and improvement of the economic efficiency of energy conservation measures and technologies being mastered by the manufacturers. The issues related to tailoring of a package of energy conservation measures followed by assessment of the influence produced by energy conservation projects on the efficiency and sustainabil...

In this paper authors present the assessment of ecological well-being in large Russian cities, situated in the Volga Federal District. Comparative analysis is made for five cities of the Volga Federal District of the Russian Federation for the period 2008-2015, based on data published annually by the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation, namely the statistical yearbooks “Regions of Russia. Main socio-economic indicators of cities”. To assess the ecological well-being of inhabitants, s...

Modern trends in the development of the economy determine the need to improve the efficiency of management of investment processes, since the intensification of investment activity contributes to the renewal of the material and technical base, expansion of production, strengthening of competitive advantages. Analysis of the experience of stimulating investment activity in the regions of the Russian Federation allowed to identify several areas, the implementation of which will provide additional capital inflow to t...

One of the tools of budgetary financial management is the normative per capita financing of university educational programs. The main financial instrument to support the development of Russian universities is currently earmarked funding of federal education development programs (FEDRO) and the country's leading universities. Analysis of the financial support of the FEDPRO from 2006 to 2015 showed that the insufficient level of financial support significantly reduces the effectiveness of the FEDPRO. Minimizing the ...

The purpose of this paper was to study the degree of students' satisfaction by the quality of teaching the discipline “philosophy”. The research method was the survey. Introductory questionnaire allowed to clarify the expectations of students in relation to lectures and seminars, the qualities of the teacher and the role of philosophy in broadening their world view. The analysis of the final survey demonstrated an increase of students' interest in this subject, a high degree of satisfaction with the assimilati...

The paper considers the problems of methodical approaches to the assessment of the activities of large, medium and small businesses in the region and determining their role in the social and economic development of the region. Few attention is paid to the analysis of the activities of enterprises in regional studies, during developing strategies at the federal and regional levels and while working out the regional policy measures. The methodology for assessing the activities of complex of enterprises in the region...

The paper focuses on the possibilities of assessing the attractiveness of open recreational areas in the city using mathematical tools based on fuzzy logic. Urban studies aimed at evaluation of the chosen urban structure or its fragment always require taking into account many criteria. They are factors which often are difficult to be measured. Then the expert's knowledge and experience play a key role. The paper presents the concept of inference based on fuzzy logic. It has been used to assess the attractiveness o...

Many years of history of tax havens indicate their attractiveness in terms of hiding income and reducing tax burdens. At the same time, it exposes the weakness of governments and various types of institutions and organizations in the scope of limiting the negative impact of tax havens on the financial conditions of the countries from which the capital has migrated. The creation of new legal forms, often of a hybrid nature, is not a magnet only for business entities but also for individuals. Minimum tax burdens, a ...

Spatial zoning is regulated by numerous laws, acts of law and ordinances. On the other hand, it should reach out to meet the needs of growing cities and housing estates as well as the business sphere connected with urban areas. The limits of human settlements change constantly, their areas can grow and this invariably entails the spread of roads and road networks. Roads are essential for the economic growth of regions, but their construction often raises controversies. The localization of a transportation route so...

The relevance of the study is confirmed by the fact that globalization of world economics and participation in this process of Russia mean an ever closer intertwining of national economies. This fact promotes more intensive the development of countries on the basis of international economic activity. The study focused on the use and implementation the most common and major index of globalization KOF (Konjunktur for schungsstelle) in world economy. The aim of this study is sensitivity rate analysis of globalization...

The change of party to the dispute presents an institute that allows one party (either a plaintiff or a defendant) to withdraw from the proceedings in the course of civil litigation, whereas someone else is thereby allowed to enter into the proceedings and replace the former party. For a court to permit the change of party, though, a legal regulation requires that a legal fact, resulting in the transfer or assignment of rights or duties that constitute the cause of action, occurs only after the commencement of the...

This is a first national scale research of people’s attitude towards hunters in Latvia aiming to establish the current situation because there is a perception that the negative public attitude against hunting has increased over the past years. Attitude is one of the most important aspects of our life – a positive or negative internal thought and emotion about specific issues with an effect on behaviour. Attitude is also a type of positioning to act according to the inner state therefore we can predict behaviour...

Introduction: Motherhood is an important part of life of every woman. The aim of our study was to find out views on motherhood among adolescent girls. Methods: The non-standardized questionnaire of our own design was employed in the study. The study sample consisted of 141 female students of secondary school. The age of the respondents ranged from 17 to 20; the average age was 18 В± 0,79 years. For data processing we used a simple descriptive statistics. Results: In analyzing the results, we found that most respon...

In this article the importance of listening skills in effective communication for language students is discussed and the benefits of using audiovisual materials in the teaching of English-as-a-second and foreign-language (ESL/EFL) are considered. To show the effective use of audio podcasts in teaching English for specific purposes a representative sample of undergraduate students of the Degree in Landscape Architecture Education were selected for the study. Data was gathered by means of questionnaires and intervie...

This reflection is an attempt to determine the scope of audiovisuality research in literary text, taking into account theories of connection of literary work with media coverage. It is accompanied by transferring the focus from adaptive thinking (including one medium into another) to transmedia one, where literariness and audiovisuality function on similar rights. Such move is based on an assumption that a context for created new literature is no longer another written text but a media event or an audio-visual com...

Investment decision - making has acquired the importance in the economy of the Slovak Republic especially in connection with its transition to a market one. It is connected with a long-term time horizon, and a badly focused and inefficient investment can lead the company not only to financial problems, but even to bankruptcy. In SMEs, the success of the investment, sometimes involving all of its own capital, can decide on their further existence. In addition to investment decisions that solve the question of which...

The topic of efficiency in the field of banking activity is widely debated because it is perceived as being a leading factor, with impact on banksВ’ financial performance and soundness. PaperВ’s theme is in line with current concerns expressed by European and national regulators and supervisory bodies, which are strengthening supervisory practices for best assessing the risk profile and potential exposure to shocks of large, systemic banks. PaperВ’s focus is on a sample of representative Romanian banks, which are ...

The article critically analyzes the established, generally accepted approaches to study a state of competition based on market concentration index. These indicators have such obvious advantages as relative simplicity of their determining and comprehensible interpretation of the content. However, they also have some fundamental drawbacks as follows: the use of stringent, frequently unreasonable threshold values for obtaining final research findings about the state of competition in any commodities market, the inabi...

Aim-This paper presents a pilot study on the application of the Best Worst Model to evaluate the teaching style and the lessons from the perspective of the secondary school students and from the perspective of their parents. The study was conducted in a secondary school from Romania, in June 2017. I used as respondents both genders, boys and girls, mothers and fathers, in almost equal proportions. Design/Methodology/Approach-Three traditional methods (Best minus Worst, the rank weights and the square root of the r...

The data quoted on the legal employment of foreigners do not show the actual employment rate of immigrants in our country. Firstly, due to Poland's membership in the EU, citizens of other EU countries who take up employment in Poland do not need to register this fact, do not need a work permit and are (in accordance with EU legislation) treated as employees of the target country1. Secondly, and it is resulting from the first fact, there is a lack of statistics on the number of actually employed citizens on the bas...

The study aim was to determine the papers published on “critical thinking in primary education” in Web of Science Core Collection Index database. The papers in all categories in this database were checked without a time limit being restricted to "critical thinking" and "primary education". There was retrieved 47 publications published between 1900 and 2018. The publications of the concerned topics start just in 2006. The average citations for an item is 0.74, and there are only 3 publications (6.3%) reaching h...

The worldwide challenges related with the agricultural sector are diversifying and the financing of this field is more and more required in order to develop the sustainable agriculture while mitigating and adapting to climate change. This paper aims to overview the agriculture finance landscape worldwide by investigating the Scopus research publications. Also, it was conducted an analysis at BRIC and USA levels. The review uses the bibliometric techniques for emphasizing the evolution during 1960-2016 time frames,...

This paper discusses bilingualism in early and pre-school age. Considering that the world has become a global village and a multicultural community, bilingualism in general and especially in the young population, is a unique phenomenon, and as such it is increasingly subject to the interest of many linguists, sociolinguists, psychologists and other professionals (including school and kindergarten teachers). In this paper we discuss the various definitions of bilingualism and the very process of becoming a bilingua...

The advent of neoliberal capitalism at the beginning of the 1980s led to the rise and media promotion of celebrity philanthropy. Groundbreaking events in the media affirmed celebrity philanthropy, for example Bob Geldof's organisation of the Live Aid concert in 1985 with the aim of collecting aid for the hungry in Africa. Geldof's example was an inspiration for other celebrities such as the musician Bono Vox, the actress Angelina Jolie to engage in philanthropic activities. In the analysis of their philanthropic a...

In economic relations, the equality of the parties is purely of formal nature at times, especially in the case of entering into the legal relationship with a professional whose capital and information position is implicitly stronger than the position of a non-professional contractual partner. When offering goods and services to the consumers, the entrepreneurs are encumbered with many domestic or supranational duties (for example obligation to provide information). However, the practical examples prove that the co...

The article is devoted to topical issues of application of the blended learning methodology for teaching foreign languages in a higher educational institution. According to the author, blended learning, mediated by network interaction using computers and the Internet, can be successful if the role of students and their autonomy is strengthened in the learning process, and the emphasis is shifted from teaching to training, from teacher to student. Based on conducted practical experience, comparative analysis and in...

In the path of gender transition, the body may assume a very important role. Through gender transition it is possible to undertake hormonal treatments, surgical operations in order to modify the primary or secondary sexual characteristics, but also other practices of body change and care not bounded to the medical context. These possible interventions or actions may imply different processes of change, meanings and needs, sometimes with doubts and difficulties, for the person in transition who is engaged in giving...

The article shows the relationship between the development of information technologies, the characteristics of the information society and digital art. The broad possibilities of the digital world related to recording, storing and processing data (cyber text, big data, smart services) and the creation of virtual worlds are pointed out. The influence of the development of information technologies on the character of the works of art (their variability and availability) is also considered. On the basis of representa...

This paper considers boredom as a non-authentic modus of human existence, which includes emptiness of life and absence of fullness, as the opposite to an authentic modus, which means living full and meaningful life. From the one hand, by contrast, it could be used as a source of inspiration. From the other hand, from the deeper point of view, it could be used as an opportunity to manage self-transformation. We also used a classification of types of boredom by M. Heidegger - from the routine to the deep existential...

The visual identity of airlines is important component of their business. This is emerging from intermediate service character of air transport which is not primary target of passengers and is significantly unified at the international level. Air transport as a service is intangible, processes and resources are very similar and thus greater emphasis must be placed on the visual identity of companies. The article describes the specifics of the marketing mix of airlines with emphasis on the fifth and sixth P - Peopl...

The article concerns the problem of the gradual change in the balance of power between the West and a group of rapidly developing countries, particularly the BRICS countries. The data from the World Bank, the IMF, the OECD, the Total Economy Database and other open sources have formed the base for research. In recent years, the world economy has demonstrated the accumulation of unresolved imbalances. Evaluation of observed trends in the world economy proves the need to complement the actions of international econo...

In the 1950s, Alison and Peter Smithson, somewhat unfortunately used the term brutalism to name an emerging trend. In English, the element of brutality of this term turned out to be very strong, creating negative thinking about architecture made of raw concrete. However brutalism is not only the rawness of the material, it is also an expressive architectural form, and this rawness emphasizes this expressiveness. Brutalist architecture is often sculptural, but above all it is massive, dominating over its surroundin...

The subject of this paper is an analysis and evaluation of budgetary policy and the state of public finances in Scandinavian countries of the European Union (Denmark, Finland and Sweden) in 2000-2018. The adopted basis of assessment is budget deficit and public debt ratios to the GDP. The statistical data was drown from the AMECO and IMF databases. Comparison of the situation of the public finances in the analysed countries to the average situation in the euro area is an important aspect of the evaluation. The goa...

This article is devoted for studying the forms and directions of cooperation between Ukraine and African countries, the analysis of the negative and positive aspects of this process, its perspectives and role in modern world politics and economics. The relevance of the research topic comes from the need to study the process of cooperation between the countries of the developing regions of the world in the economic and political spheres. Secondary actors of world politics are the objects of study in all three main ...

This study presents the results of studentsВ’ work from Hafen City University in Hamburg and Gdansk University of Technology, carried out as part of a joint studio dealing with Nowy Port problem area. It refers to the methodology and design proposals, as well as to individual projects of students from Gdansk University of Technology - Spatial Management and Architecture. The aim of this study is to present framework project guidelines resulting from in-depth analyzes and projects of international groups to show de...

The European car market is progressing with a relatively fast pace during 2017 and the trends in the development of the new car registration in Bulgaria are advancing even further. The automobile industry and the automobile market generate high gross value added in the development of the economy of all countries, which is the rationale for the research of the dynamics and the structure of car sales. The main aim of the current paper is to indicate some fundamental perspectives for the development of the car market...

Business communication in English is getting more highlighted in the globalized context, as the English language spreads as the most dominant lingua franca in international business settings. While the volume of studies focused on business communication in various disciplines continues to increase, new strands of research emerge; some approaches are going out of focus. To improve our understanding and offer a more realistic picture of the field of business communication in English, we examined promising trends in ...

Business ethics is a wide subject that can be applied to all moral or ethical issues that arise in a business environment. Recent business ethics scandals have created a moral minefield of shifting expectations and growing uncertainty about the responsibilities of business. Economies fare better thriving in environments free of scandals, in morally cleaner firms. Firms often start out making good, ethical decisions, but the line separating right from wrong can be easy to cross. The article aptly illustrates that 1...

Economic security of a stable enterprise that gains profit meeting its ownersa?? demands, is based on presence and efficient usage of all required components for marketable goods production in the respective legislative environment. There are two aspects of economic security of an enterprise: operative and strategic. A strategy targets economically safe development of an enterprise, while business activities are to guarantee effective functioning of an enterprise in terms of economic security, which means generati...

The topic of inbound logistics costs has recently become very actual. Inbound logistics involves a relationship with suppliers and also includes all the activities required for income, physical control and warehouse of inputs. Inbound logistics has become an interdisciplinary science that deals with optimal coordination, alignment, interconnection and optimization of the flow of raw materials, materials, semi-finished products, products and services, but it must not forget the flow of information and finance. The ...

The article deals with the topical issue of assessment of recreational loads on the most visited forest areas near the lakes of the Republic of Mari El. Here in the organization of rest a special role belongs to the owners of leased areas, which do not limit mass visits exceeding the established standards. Therefore, in conditions of significant recreational nature and exhibiting a natural deficit of water recreational resources of growing importance for the purposes of recreation acquire comprehensive studies to ...

With the advancement of the Internet, the rise of the Big-data, rapid evolution of the computer science, huge progression in robotics and programming caused the development of the Artificial Intelligence, which leads it to deal with complex issues and task. Further, this technology seems to be able to generate contents as different as music, poems, paintings, movie or news scripts, jokes along with creative problem-solving. However, can machines create paintings or produce images as an art? Firstly, this paper bri...

In recent years, some Russian scientific journals have noted that the interest in texts and literature written in the language of the metropolis is becoming more and more topical in foreign (i.e., English-language) linguistics, and the scientific interest in the so-called 'Contact Literature' is growing as well. A well-known American scientist of Indian origin, the author of the term 'contact literature' Braj B. Kachru writes: "Language changes as a result of the contact of languages are not limited to grammar, vo...

Museums are essential memorial institutions that keep information about the lives of our At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, human resources are already a very important part of the factors of production. Apart from land, labor and financial capital, human resources are sum of the unique capabilities of individuals, which can be both inherited and acquired, can be expanded by appropriate investment and lead to the production of goods, both public and private. In today's modern theory, people are less seen ...

This paper focuses on captions for visuals as a specific type of scientific microtext and provides functional, semantic and structural analysis of this linguistic phenomenon in English scientific texts. For our research, we used captions for visuals in monographs and edited volumes, as well as collections of scholarly articles published in the last decades (1990-2010). Papers in scientific journals were deliberately ignored, because in this type of publications authors are generally restricted by the journal style...

Background & Aim: To investigate the potential of cardiovascular disease as risk factor for periodontal disease in the context of current etiology model. Methods: It was used a cross-sectional sample consisting of 374 dentate adults, age >30 years. Subjects were selected from patients attending periodontal care between years 2016-2017 in the Faculty of Dentistry Constanta Romania, South-Eastern Europe. Ethical approval was obtained from the local ethics committee and each patient signed an informed consent form. T...