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Political discourse of social networks (and the discourse of Twitter in particular) exhibits a number of structural and semantic features that differentiate it from other political discourses. Such factors as multimodality, interactivity, immediacy and limitation on the message length affect the communication on Twitter in terms of what communicative strategies are used and how they are implemented. This study explores the linguistic and paralinguistic means employed by US presidential candidates Donald Trump and ...

The article analyzes the communicative universe of the speech norm in its sociocultural, linguistic and cognitive aspects. The authors emphasize that it is not enough for the interlocutors to know only the grammatical system of the target language in order to adequately understand each other. Reflecting on the problems of the communicative norm formation, the authors expand the methodological field of research and "bring" the learner into the so-called communicative space, which must be built taking into account a...

Historical museums are a specific reservoir of ways of representing past events, and a key element in the processes of rationalization and institutionalization of history. Museums legitimize and interpret the past for the visitors, while their wide impact and authority make them jointly responsible for the shape of collective memory. Each museum is part of historical policy pursued in order to shape the historical consciousness and collective memory of a community. Although museums try to appear (ethically and pol...

The aim of the study was to analyze the factors influencing the depression score in patients with occupational lung diseases. We have conducted a cross-sectional study on patients with a diagnosis of occupational lung disease evaluated for their current health status in the Colentina Clinical Hospital during October 2017. Patients with severe reduction in lung function or during exacerbations periods were excluded from the study. The patients' status was evaluated based on the standard medical procedures of the cl...

The actual problem of the present is the overcoming of global inequality. This article discusses current theoretical models that seek to explain the uneven pace of economic growth. The aim of the research is to study the causes of the uneven economic development of the countries of the world and the proposed ways to make away economic backwardness. The research method is a comparative analysis of the concepts of the new institutional economic theory and the Other Canon on the origins of wealth and poverty of moder...

This article proposes the concept of development of the method for teaching Italian as a second foreign language based on the three most common foreign European languages - Spanish, English and French. Basing on the experience of teaching Italian as a second foreign language, the main problems encountered in the course of study and preventing the achievement of the minimum required level of preparation in the second studied language were identified. Primarily, there is significant heterogeneity of the students in ...

This article is devoted to the consideration of one of the most significant problems in the Russian-American relations - Information confrontation. Russia and the United States have different views on the information policy, there are also significant differences in the mechanisms of information impact on the opponent. In this regard, the relevance of the research topic is that in the XI century, along with the forceful methods of resolving conflicts, non-force mechanisms are actively used, which often prove that ...

At present, it is widely accepted that the innovation represents the engine for the economic development, increasing the quality of life and building a sustainable future for humanity. Innovation exists from the beginning of mankind, in various forms, but only during the last century, its role increased continuously and became a fundamental element in the development process. European Union started to assess the performance in innovation from 2001 with European Innovation Scoreboard, a composite indicator that cov...

The study is based on the hypothesis that various extracts from Usnea barbata L. have antibacterial action. In this work, six lichen extracts of different concentrations in: 96% ethanol, acetone and water, have been studied. Their inhibitory action was tested by diffusimetric antibiogram method, on Gram-positive bacteria from the oro-dental cavity: two Streptococcus species: Streptococcus intermedius and Streptococcus oralis and two Staphylococcus species: Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus aureus. Our ...

Customer experience is increasingly perceived as the important marketing concept leading to differentiation and as an effective solution for building competitive advantage on the open global market. The core ability of companies adopting the customer experience management approach is to be able to understand customersВ’ perceptions of their business that is often significantly different from the conventional companyВ’s view. Nowadays, the most used way to capture and further analyze this customer view is to create...

This paper presents the results of a quantitative research study focusing on the comparison of the classroom climate in a traditional school and the most common types of alternative schools in the Czech Republic - Waldorf schools and Montessori schools. The research was based on the premise that one of the characteristics of alternative schools is the paidocentric approach to the child and a greater emphasis on teacher-student communication, and access to a teaching approach, which more respects the individual cha...

The aim of the paper is to analyse social work with groups in selected social welfare services in Slovakia and to identify the benefits of social work with the group (social group work) as compared to social work with the individual (social casework). The authors have chosen a qualitative research strategy; the research method was a structured interview. We have established research question: What are the typical features, advantages, but also disadvantages, which provides social work with a group in comparison to...

The article analyzes the problem of compensatory communication in a modern communicative situation. The defining influence on the world of communication these days has been performed by the development of new social networks. For example, the Internet has greatly expanded the sphere of people's information interaction and its opportunities as a means of communication and socialization. Communication in networks can compensate some deformations in the structure of direct interpersonal communication that is subjecti...

The realization of laboratory and field work as a specific form of teaching natural science in subjects of physics, chemistry, biology and geography is part of their state educational programs in Slovakia. While physics and chemistry as experimental sciences a laboratory is a central space for practicing and realization of school experiments; for geography, the space is a landscape, in which fieldwork is carried out in various forms (e. g. trip, excursion, opinion survey, mapping, material collection). Both labora...

This paper focuses on answering question: What are the ideal and most important skills and personality traits that project managers need to have. The aim of the paper is to describe the significance of project manager competencies needed in current changing environment. Project manager is key to the success of each project. For this reason, staffing projects with managers who have the right competences is crucial to achieve project goal. The success of project managers is mainly related to abilities and skills tha...

TodayВ’s world is a world in which urbanization seems to be the rule because most of the planetВ’s inhabitants are living in towns. As humanity has already entered the urban century, cities have increasingly become places where various stakeholders, such as governments, institutions, companies, non-governmental organizations, policy makers, academics and citizens, are interconnected in order to better address social, economic, environmental, demographic, cultural and technological issues. This is why the destiny o...

The purpose of this paper is to study the change in the competitive structure of electronic retailing (e-retailing) compared to traditional trade and to reveal the processes of their mutual influence. The development of two main indicators for assessing the intensity of competition - market growth and concentration is investigated, based on which is compared the dynamics of the competitive structure of e-commerce retail with that of traditional trade. For the purpose of the analysis data from the National Statisti...

The paper deals with the drivers and barriers for the international competitiveness improvements in the pharmaceutical industry in Russia and the United States. The methodological basis of the study is the combination of the competitive advantages theory by M. Porter with the World Economic ForumВ’s Global Competitiveness Index methodology. A grouping of global competitiveness indicators in connection with the determinants of the Porter diamond was carried out and resulted in following seven pillars: factor condit...

Deforestation is a contemporary challenge manifested in extensive areas, requiring both quantitative analysis through established and qualitative methods by applying fractal analysis methods. Using GIS methods for processing post-processed satellite imagery, the loss area during 2000-2016 were determined and prepared as images necessary for fractal analysis. The fractal methods used were the Local Connected Fractal Dimension (LCFD), the Tug-of War Lacunarity and the Fractal Fragmentation Index (FFI). Methods that ...

The study focuses on the work of architect and theorist Pavel Janák (1882-1956) – as an early proponent of Cubist architecture in Bohemia. He was no mere a Cubist but was concerned to develop innovative figures of architecture in Prague that yet possessed both historical continuity and universal validity. The investigation associates geometric relations present in Janák’s theory as proposed in the essay “The Prism and the Pyramid”(1911-1912). This eventually will lead to the description of an original arc...

Background The article presents a study of the problem of the comprehensiveness of information and aid in terms of shaping sustainable residential development projects. The study employed the point of view of the users of sustainable developments in Poland and in the Netherlands on this matter. When beginning the process of shaping one's own residential development project, users who show a willingness and need to adopt the rules of sustainable architecture expect reliable information and aid in terms of planning ...

The Internet has become a very important source of information for users (students, researchers, general public, etc.) and commercial enterprises. This propulsion of data is related to the diversity of information demands and the need for versatile knowledge. Access to digital data via web services is facilitated by search tools. Following a user request, the search engine has a long list of bibliographic references and web pages. The efficient selection of relevant documents is very difficult given the low accura...

In this paper, one of the "problem zones" of mathematics is presented by computer and mathematical modeling. The study concerns the problem of learning of complex concept of the surface area mastering by students understanding. Students construct the multifaceted surfaces of Schwartz cylinder (or "boot") using computer and mathematical and adapt the most important generalized constructions to the actual position of mathematical knowledge concerning the analysis and the essence of the "problem zone" of surface area...

The influence of media, in particular computer and Internet, has increased over the last several decades. They play now a significant role in everyone's life, independent of his or her age. The overwhelming influence of computer on the development of next generations is visible while observing behaviors of young people and listening to their talks. Computer and Internet have started to attract attention of the young users and, developing very dynamically, have forced their way into almost all fields of everyday li...

In the article the questions of mathematical education of law students focused on computer modeling of professional tasks with discovering of mathematical potential synergy in professional competences formation and personal development are actualized. A synergistic approach has been chosen as an effective strategy for the implementation of this problem. The authors explore the potential possibilities of self-organization and self-development of students in relation to mathematical education. The search and actuali...

The paper presents a new, developed by the author, concept of an artificial neural map, named COMSOM and inspired by classic SOM neural networks. The initial part of the article shows a general idea of COMSOM model and its structure, which includes two layers of artificial neurons: input layer (with typical task of distributing input values to data processing neurons) and basic layer containing usually a great number of processing elements, located inside a rectangular part of an XY plane, and able to move freely ...

Objective of the article is the analysis of the theoretical aspects of research of the procedural actions applied at the criminal case initiation stage and classifications procedural actions on the various bases. The research is based on the dialectical method of studying the procedural actions at the criminal case initiation stage. The main subject of the study is a theoretical understanding of the procedural actions, as well as to evaluation of correlation between the above mentioned category and the allied cate...

Latvian childrenВ’s and young peopleВ’s literature, being a significant segment of literary production, in the course of history has not attracted attention on regular basis but rather fragmentarily; studies of its development trends have not been regular and have often remained marginal against the background of the total literary research. But childВ’s image is one of the most important components in the structure of childhood narrative; great significance is attributed in its depiction to charactersВ’ portrait,...

The influence of media, in particular computer and Internet, has increased over the last several decades. They play now a significant role in everyone's life, independent of his or her age. The overwhelming influence of computer on the development of next generations is visible while observing behaviors of young people and listening to their talks. Computer and Internet have started to attract attention of the young users and, developing very dynamically, have forced their way into almost all fields of everyday li...

The problem of ensuring effective state management in the context of an exceptionally complex and unstable socio-economic environment, formed by the network society and economic realities, remains invariably relevant in today's globalizing world. As a result, the concept of the Open Government was formed and the basic principles of the work of this system were worked out. Its main task is to transform the internal and external relationships of the traditional government through the use of communication networks to...

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...

Ambiguity is inherent to everyday human communication. It implies that there are two distinct senses assigned to one acoustic form. This research aims to contribute to an integrated interdisciplinary theory of ambiguity as a cognitive phenomenon and identify conceptual mechanisms underlying it. To this end, a variety of empirical and theoretical research methods, including referential analysis (understood in a broader sense as referring to a particular cognitive context used for disambiguation) are employed for th...

The most effective means of teaching mathematics, based on information technology, dynamic geometry software (DGS) are internationally recognized. The purpose of this study is the theoretical grounding of methodological features, the development and pilot testing of the effectiveness of the methodology for teaching the geometry of students in basic school using DGS. The article formulated conceptual approaches to the teaching of geometry in the basic school with the use of DGS, defined the forms of organization of...

Through the implementation of the stylistic and conceptual plan, the guitarist is able to establish on an experimental basis the phenomenological issues which will then be solved gradually since the preliminary phase of reading at first sight. The simplification of the double comprehension, first achieved by the performer through the establishment of the previsionary traits of the imaginative-interpretative plan, both conceptual and stylistic, and then by the receiver, must contain the inverted decryption key for ...

The article attempts to conceptualize the verbal-conceptual apparatus of intercultural communication on the basis of the works of the outstanding German linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt. Some of the works in full translation for the first time saw the light in Russian in the collection published for the 250th anniversary of the great linguist. The main attention is paid to the spiritual component of V. von Humboldt's researches, as many factors that ensure the success of intercultural communication as the interaction...

Judiciary represents the only way for settling all kinds of disputes in a modern state. The ability of judiciary to settle disputes in a reasonable and acceptable time has become endangered owing to the complication in ways of life and the increasing and overlapped disputes. Consequently, the problem of slow pace of litigation and that of inefficiency of judgments have arisen. These two phenomena are too dangerous and threaten justice. Further; they strip the right of litigation guaranteed by constitution of its v...

Rule of law has been designed as a construction mainly aiming at observing the rights and freedoms of individuals, by protecting them and ensuring general balance where everyone obeys state law and no one is above the law. The amount of legislation, the political power interested in satisfying its own interests, which are frequently in opposition with the general interests of individuals, the shaping of the various groups of interests that try to impose their own will, are harmful factor that endanger the very exi...

This paper aims to define and analyze the theoretical and practical legal framework of the political opposition, through analyzing constitutional norms, political culture and political dialogue as the main factors determining the state and perspectives of the political opposition in the Republic of Macedonia. Political pluralism is the opposite of monism and represents the idea of a peaceful common life of people with different interests, beliefs and lifestyles, recognizing the existing diversity of political inte...

This paper aims to define and analyze the constitutional, legal and practical aspects of political parties through analyzing constitutional and legal norms as the main factors that determine the party system of the Republic of Macedonia. Political parties are the cornerstone of a democratic society and the modern democratic state. Without political parties, there can be no real political mobilization of citizens and articulation of the political interests and needs of the citizens, something that is expressed thro...

Active learning, as an inevitable construct of contemporary teaching, is the basis of every studentВ’s integral growth and development. It is based on the constructivism and socio-constructivism where the emphasis is on students as constructors and co-constructors of their own knowledge. Here, the process of learning includes the studentsВ’ experiences and interests, pre-knowledge, and the creation of their own interpretations. The constructivist active learning environment is directed to students ? they take the ...

The aim of the current paper is to analyze the consumer attitude towards life insurance in Bulgaria during 2018, considering the contemporary European trends and the increased necessity for life insurance. The European life insurance market has been developing with a rapid pace for the past several years, indicating that on average a European spends 1159 EUR annually for life insurance products. According to this indicator Bulgaria is one of the least developed countries among the EU member states. This begs the q...

The pharmaceutical sector is one of the most regulated sectors in the world. In spite of various legislative constraints, companies are spending millions for drug promotions in the market in the fight for consumers, their attention and loyalty. Nowadays the competition between companies is very high especially when several analogous pharmaceutical products with the same effect on human health can exist simultaneously in the market. Therefore, it becomes important for companies to understand consumer behavior in th...

Currently, information about the safety and quality of consumer goods attracts a lot of attention, but there is a question about consumer confidence in the sources of information, their independence, competence and objectivity. Comparative testing of goods and services is one of the most effective mechanisms for informing consumers about the quality of goods developed in the international and European community. Comparative testing is an independent evaluation of similar goods, but different brands and manufacture...

Constantly changing environment pressures every living for a change, and response becomes a basic reaction of any living form. Change is a natural reaction that enables survivor of all the species. However, in architecture, the responsive structure did not take important role until the twentieth century. During that time many concepts and building introduced kinematics into the discipline. In the late 50 and 60 of XX century, visionary architects introduced responsive and partly autonomous structure. Designers lik...

The paper aims to explore the potential role of contemporary art as a catalyst for social transformation and civic engagement. The research focuses on the visual arts and their power to change social attitudes in contemporary society. On the basis of theoretical, transdisciplinary approaches and analysis of artwork the paper investigates emerging forms of art and how they address pressing social issues and concerns that would otherwise remain unfamiliar. Artwork that reveals social phenomena and trends lying hidde...

The Romanian composer Constantin RГ®p? is an outstanding personality of contemporary music who seeks to integrate myths of the universal philosophy and mythology by means of his last opus: the ballet The Young Man and Death. The performance is a synthesis of all its constituent elements: music, literary content, choreography, and scenography. Through a vision evoking total theatre, and a remarkable conceptual unity, the composer confers this ballet a dramatic character, extending its duration from one to three act...

The conventional classification of play areas distinguishes three basic types (traditional, modern and adventure playground), which researchers all around the world analyse in terms of their attractiveness, opportunity to provide conditions for a proper development and safety of children. However, the evolution of play areas runs in two directions, towards finding an even more attractive playground equipment, and contrary to this, casting voices of their criticism. The result of this clash of opinions is several k...

The way seaside resorts have functioned from the very beginning of their founding idea has been the result of symbiosis – a close connection between the town and nature. West Pomeranian seaside tourist resorts have developed into today's resorts from former fishing villages or small summer resorts. Before the post-war political division of the historical Province of Pomerania, its resorts formed a uniform set of spatial assumptions, characterized by similar features and originating from common cultural roots. Es...

First mentions of the glass as a material appear in prehistoric times. There is evidence of conscious use of obsidian as natural glass in this period. Glass is a traditional full-value building material that has been proven for centuries. Glass is one of the few building materials that is transparent and translucent, which is an important feature in architecture. We use these features in modern contemporary buildings, but also in renovations and in historical parts of cities. This article discusses the possibiliti...

The article view the problem of evaluation of teachers’ readiness to solve professional tasks, designated in “Professional standard for teacher”, in the process of continuous training of pedagogical staff. Teacher professional standard – a document which includes a description of the level of knowledge, abilities, skills and experience required for the specialist to solve professional problems in education. Current trends and innovative processes in the system of training of specialists for educational inst...