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The main goal of this research is to determine the attitudes of academicians in terms of conflict, the types of conflicts they encountered and conflict management styles they applied. For this research, Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory was used to identify the academicians’ perceptions regarding conflict and conflict management styles. The sample data for this research is 186 academicians in Istanbul. In the research, participants emotional intelligence was assessed by the Emotional Competence Inventory (EC...

Benchmarking is one of the managerial methods used in many industries, but it could be applied with success in the educational system as well. In the introductory part of the paper, we present some features of modern benchmarking. Unfortunately, Romanian managers have strong reservations toward applying benchmarking in their organizations. In order to show their poor knowledge about benchmarking, we developed a research based on a questionnaire. The respondents were managers in small, medium or big organizations, ...

The question about prospects of saving lifestyle, culture and languages of the Russian northern peoples becomes relevant in connection with the Arctic and Russian northern areas industrial development. Main results of ethnosociological research conducted within the project "Sakha (Yakutia) Republic Foresight – 2050" are presented in the article: a) analysis and forecast of changes in Sakha people identity, language and culture transmission considering urbanization process and generational dynamics; b) basis for ...

This study is a comparative analysis of the specific features of traditional culture in China, Korea, and Japan, which were based on literary games and included ritual wine drinking. The games and rituals of the “wine order” existed for over 2000 years in East Asia as a form of entertainment for the elite. In the East Asia region the special wine culture had played not a minor role along with intellectual game traditions and practices of the poetized attitude to wine drinking have engrained in the representati...

Settlement of socio-economic problems generated by industrialization and globalization requires collaboration and effective cooperation between institutions as well as between socio-professional categories involved in economic activities. The Church's mission is not political, economic or social one, but an essentially religious mission, which is to proclaim the Gospel, to the fulfilment of redemption accomplished by Christ. The duty of the Church is to appeal to those responsible of civil life, so they work in or...

The aim of the study is to identify the value orientations of modern Russian youth which are fundamental in the process of family self-determination. The main task is to identify those values, which determine the process of constructing the family image and comprehension of axiological essence of marriage and childbirth. The identification is based on the analysis of structural and informative interpretations of the “happy family” concept perceived by the today's youth. The analysis of the processes associated...

A reality of an undeniable evidence, that does not require any argument, springs from an exhaustive, philosophical, psychological or sociological research, is certainly the love. This human phenomenon, impregnated with a specific complexity, it is felt, experienced and lived by every human being both on a personal level, in its uniqueness, as well as on the interpersonal level, in the society. Due to its complexity, human love can be perceived and lived, by a certain part of society, as a blind and irresistible pa...

The family of first people, as it is recognized by all developed cultures of human society, the one which consists of Adam and Eve is, naturally, the prototype of the natural family. This natural family, consisting of a man and a woman, has received, along the history of human civilization, the traditional family name. There are currently some anthropological current which refuses to be used this expression about the family. These tendencies want to discredit the traditional family and to promote other types of fa...

Without a doubt, culture is one of the most important characteristics of humans. Technology affects all societies, past and present, to a significant extent and the world of post-humans can only be shaped with the assistance of new technologies. In this article, I will discuss the formation of artificial cultures and try to outline the main features of a society with an artificial culture. The main premise is the recognition of the importance of technology in the formation of post-humans and their cultures. The di...

The aim of the research is investigation of a new phenomenon taking place in mass and information discourse called genre constellation. It is a new term for studies of text, genre and discourse. In linguistics it was used first by Danish scientist L. Hjelmslev. He introduced it to describe correlations in language structure, when two elements are compatible but one doesn't suppose presence of the other. In our work we use the term “genre constellation” to denote a special type of interaction between genres whe...

The ideatic formulations of Helmut Lachenmann (b. 1935) consecrate specific connotations to the perception/ grasping of linguistic and social-cultural determinants, driving away any poetic fiction (or false sound-paraphrase) from around aesthetics and music. Conceived as a polyphony of syntactic and semantic organisations, Consolation II (for 16 mixed voices) redefines music as a social-cultural phenomenon. Studying his vision in a critical manner, the polarities are perhaps the most important heritage assimilated...

In today's global world, people living in cities have become more disconnected in terms of social interaction and socio-economic status. The consumerist way of city formation can easily be read in the formation and location preferences of residential settlements. The city formation through housing developments forces people not only to separate different socio-economic groups from each other but also to move in the city by the way of changing their homes at regular intervals. In other words, firstly the income gro...

The contents of this article are an exposition on architecture, both as in itself as well as a scenic object. This reflection is based on the relationship between the signifier and the signified that constitutes the architectural symbol. Methodologically, this reflection begins with a clarification of some concepts which belong to the analysis structure. So we begin by clarifying the concept of symbol; of scenario (space as a manifestation of support and development of an ideal); of the beautiful and the sublime; ...

Even though at the first sight the representation and presentation seems to be almost the same thing, from the architectural point of view, there is a very important difference in between them, which has to be highlighted if a designer wants to create a unique brand new design and also wants to somehow introduce and †sell' it, too. By a quick search through the mostly known trustable dictionaries it can be said that the representation is an artistic likeness or image; a statement or account made to influence opi...

Nowadays it has become really difficult to separate the frontiers between the „real” and the „virtual”. We live in a world where millions of images are in the middle between vision and perception. Often we are caught by images built with perspective effects and even better on the anamorphosis. Starting the geometric-projecting bases of anamorphosis in all its aspects, the research studies and analyzes its applications in modern art, presenting all the possible techniques, traditional and innovative. But es...

As the main users of a teaching building, the teachers and students have a relatively fixed behavior pattern, with which we should take as a start point to make a research on the building's space design. Taking the Building of Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University as an example, this article first discussed about the behavior patterns of the students and teachers working in this building, such as studying, communication and short relaxation, which will generate different space demands. Based on such point...

History of letters in typography is the history of establishing form for each letter. First books printed by Johannes Gutenberg had different forms for each letter imitating the manuscripts, but each letter tried to find out one form for itself, so movable type had one form for each letter in decades. Nowadays digital typefaces also use one form for each letter. This paper discusses opportunities that randomness can give to typography for creating more vivid forms, imitating imperfectness of first books and giving...

Is it possible to design near zero energy buildings without the use of technologically advanced but costly solutions? Or – the other way around - is the use of expensive technical solutions effective from the point of view of the energy balance of the building? Can the overall environmental costs of a home, meeting the tightening up standards of energy consumption in buildings, be higher than anticipated savings? The paper answers these questions, basing on an analysis of the results of measurements of thermal p...

The evolution of urban parks relates both to the evolution of a city itself and to the changing needs of its residents. The process dates back to the late eighteenth century, when private parks and hunting grounds came to be used for public purposes. Initially they served mainly as sites for walks and leisure but new functions have gained in importance as time went by. They inspired development of city's new green spaces, such as folk parks and less common forest parks. Currently, the turn towards landscape ecolog...

The aim of the research is to improve the quality of education in the field of sustainable design at the Faculty of Architecture of Wroclaw University of Technology. The paper describes subjects and courses on sustainability and the effects of evolving the learning process on the example of the course “Designing Sustainable Living Environment” in the years 2011-2015. The study involved three groups of 30 students enrolled in classes taking place at the 2nd degree studies. In subsequent years, output parameters...

A significant amount of structural mechanics' problems is associated with structures working under dynamic loading conditions; however the majority of the existing methods of the solution of dynamic tasks simplifies slightly parameters of model which describes a real building structure. As a rule, a uniform damping model is selected or internal friction is not considered. Number of degrees of freedom is limited; dimensions of the distributed masses are often neglected. External actions are simulated simplistically...

In view of the major social and environmental problems, with which we are faced nowadays, we noticed a certain absence of values in society, where man draws many more resources than nature can replace in the short or medium term. Within the framework of fashion emerges the ethical fashion as a movement in this direction, intending to change this current paradigm. Ethical fashion encompasses different concepts such as fair trade, sustainability, working conditions, raw materials, social responsibility and the prote...

Alfonz Torma belongs to the first generation of Czechoslovak landscape and garden architects, working since the sixties of the 20th century in the Slovak part of the Czechoslovak republic. His work during the fifty years of his creative activity represents a wide range of garden and landscape design projects – from private gardens, through exposition design for garden exhibitions, design of greenery for new parks, public spaces and historic gardens, to urban and landscape greenery planning. The paper presents th...

There have to date been many researches focusing on social sustainability; although there are only a limited number examining the relationship between social sustainability and gated communities. In this study, a case study is made of Ankara (the capital city of Turkey) analyzing the rapid increase in the number of gated communities in the city. These communities promise residents a comfortable lifestyle with strictly controlled entrances; however the social and physical barriers that are formed between the reside...

Within the scope of the study, how much interaction between educational programs of close disciplines contributes to design education is analyzed over the workshop organized jointly by two state universities in Turkey. As a result of the workshop carried out with the students from architecture, interior architecture and landscape architecture departments which give education in the area of design, the survey study and the findings obtained through these activities have been analyzed within this framework. In this ...

This study aims to make a research on how political power and ideology terms got involved in architecture field. In the study, the issue “how the government and ideology terms come together” will be discussed on the basis of various literature definitions of ideology term. What kind of symbol can a government be with the changing architectural understanding over changing frame of mind will be narrated, and examples from historical process will be given. Determinations will be made in respect of to what extent ...

Innovation activity of companies, like nothing else, determined and largely determines the development of the market of products, services and works. Increased competition in the market, the availability of products to consumers anywhere in the world, including in the implementation of the purchase through online stores makes us choose the goods under the strategy fit each individual buyer. But such a strategic vision that promotes the development of innovative solutions, innovative products, and leads to a variet...

The aim of the study is to supplement the theses of the allocation theories and new eco-nomic geography of results the analysis of the agglomerative processes dynamics in the cities and regions of Russia. To achieve this goal the analysis of the studies on this issue was conducted, we presented theoretical back-ground, the analysis of the dynamics of agglomerative processes in Russian cities and regions was also held, and we made the appropriate conclusions. The reported study was supported by RFBR, research proje...

Nowadays, in the post-industrial economy, organizations compete between each other not only of producing goods but also of skills and ability to create, update, and use organizational knowledge and intellectual resources effectively, implementing them in the goods and services. Knowledge, skills and abilities, which provide a competitive advantage of the organization's staff, and also to the whole company. Methodological basis of the study is methods of system analysis, comparisons and analogies, logical-semantic ...

Estimation of efficiency from the perspective of an external investor draws a high enough interest in assessing the efficiency of risk management. Since the methods risk management are nontransparent information, the carrying out of empirical research is enough complicated. However, in a number of papers the elements of the assessment of so-called "market efficiency" are traceable, among which the most common factors are: the behavior of stock prices at the moment of collapse of the market, lower average cost of c...

The paper is focused on the issue of employee performance in regards to employee engagement. Several studies indicate that engagement of employees determines individual performance. In order to investigate this hypothesis, research was conducted in Slovak companies. The main objective of the research is to explore the existence of the relationship between the employee engagement in the organization and employee's performance. In order to reach the research objective, the engagement factors and indicators of indivi...

The article, touching the problems of the Byzantine style history in the architecture of historicism and modern period, is dedicated to revelation of this style in the architecture of Bulgaria, its relations with Byzantine prototypes, Bulgarian art of building and legacy of the National Revival, and comparison with Russian variant of Byzantine style, influencing on the development of the Byzantine current in the Bulgarian architecture.

The aim of the research undertaken by author is to define the unique moral essence of the legal principles and norms fixing the status of a person in criminal justice system from the point of view of their axiological genesis and their correspondence to the international law standards on human rights and to the constitutional grounds of the Russian Federation. It's methodology included the general methods of analysis and synthesis, the dialectic method, which permitted to test the criminal procedure system as soci...

At the level of the European Union there are legislative initiatives designed to create a business environment favourable to research and innovation which promotes the competitiveness of the pharmaceutical sector. When examining the compatibility with EU law of the conditions for the retail supply of medicinal products, the Court of Justice of the European Union stated that the health and life of humans rank first among the values and interests protected by the TFEU and that Member States are responsible for decid...

The aim of the research undertaken by author is to define the most adequate ways of optimization of the institute of disciplinary liability of a lawyer in Russia. Its methodology included both the general scientific methods and the specific juridical methods of cognition. The main results of the research include the original new knowledge that contains the summary and analysis of the achievements of the Russian legal ethical theory, the systematization of the samples of deontological rulemaking submitted by the Ru...

Ukraine's aspiration for European integration makes it necessary to bring the national legislation, including administrative, in line with European standards. Over the past two decades it has formed a significant body of legal rules based on these standards and aimed to establish various aspects of public administration. However, a positive regulatory effect on administrative practices was minimal, due to several factors, both legal and non-legal. Moreover, the main reasons of the revolutionary events in 2013-2014...

In the article the author analyses the position of shareholders who hold non-voting shares of the offeree company in the takeover process. By using the comparative method, the author emphasises the solutions adopted in the European and Croatian Law. According to the Takeover Bids Directive, as well as the Croatian Takeover Act, a mandatory takeover bid has to be published for the acquisition of the shares carrying voting rights in the company. By adopting this solution, the shareholders of non-voting shares are no...

In order to ensure a more efficient and more operational judicial protection of human rights and freedoms and control over the actions of public administration at the end of the twentieth century (1999) Lithuania has established functioning administrative courts. Thus, in modern and advanced democratic countries a widespread autonomous and independent special administrative justice model for resolution of arising disputes between individuals and the public administration was created. This particular article is int...

Through this study we want to highlight the Romanian legislation regarding murder and the circumstances that make the crime of murder severely punished. I analyzed only two circumstances of eight, premeditation and material interest. Each of these circumstances could be taken if specific conditions are met. There are also controversial situations in Romanian literature and jurisprudence regarding the detention of premeditation, situations which are to be analyzed in the paper and submitted to discussions to those ...

The author of this contribution deals with the competence of public prosecution service in the non-criminal field. In the first part of the contribution the author discusses theoretical basis of the non-criminal competence of public prosecution service. Then he analyzes non-criminal competence of public prosecution services of the V4 countries. In the last part he evaluates analyzed legal regulations and provides critical comments concerning in particular the new regulation of the Hungarian public prosecution serv...

Recent experience of Presidencies in the Council of the European Union was characterised by direct participation of V4 countries: the Czech Republic (2009), Hungary (2011) and Poland (2011). Lessons learned also suggest that Member States of the European Union might remain in the spotlight even after completion of their Presidencies. Moreover, in the (geo)strategic regional context, the European Union and its enlargement process open up to the potential and synergies of regional initiatives. Multidisciplinary appl...

Discourse plays an important role in political systems, especially during the electoral period and electoral campaigns. National politicians often used a wide range of themes that are related to any level of the political system, just to be elected once again. In such a competitive world, discourses and buzzwords play an important role in framing behaviour and relations. The themes of regionalization, good governance, autonomy, decentralization and reforms are very popular words of politicians at national level wh...

The main purpose of this paper is to reveal main characteristics of the conflict interaction between a business and authorities in Russia. Another purpose is to verify analytical possibilities of several concepts of the conflict studies for their usefulness in the examination of our subject in the post-Soviet Russia. This analysis gives us opportunities to solve an analytical problem of the conflict analysis in Russia and to describe the content of the new business development in Russia. There are specific ties be...

Robert Fico's candidacy in the Slovak presidential election in 2014 from the position of the Slovak Prime Minister may be perceived as a challenge to restructure the functioning of the executive power. Fico's authority and political past would be in the presidential office in sharp contrast with previous directly elected presidents, who at the time of taking the Office were the small political parties chairmen. Robert Fico as the president of the Slovak Republic could actualize the government system transformation...

Improvement of social situation of Roma citizens in Slovakia has been task for Slovak political elites for decades. It seems like no government or municipality is able to prepare real solution with long term effect. The problem also existed during totalitarian era in former Czechoslovakia. The most visible and the most intensive attempts to solve the issue were those from the late 60s and early 70s of the last century. The goal was to identify the main areas that were the cause of the exclusion of the Roma citizen...

The primary objective of the drafters of the Constitution should be the drafting of a real constitution that takes into account the actual social reality of a country, its real development objectives, the report of the social forces and ensure its implementation in practice. The makers of the constitution on the occasion of the drafting of each article of the constitution should think how it complies with reality, and whether it can be implemented in practice. To devise a realistic and functional constitution mean...

This article is the pilot study of the research focused on ethical values, virtues and character values of students. The main purpose is explain research aimed at investigating university students' perceptions of ethical values, including their importance, application, usefulness, origin, benefits and need for education. For students is necessary to accept ethical values benefits in all aspects of their life and then, to be aware of these advantages and to start applying and developing them in our daily activities...

The paper is focused on the analysis of selected risks with a more detailed elaboration of systematic and unsystematic risks that need to be taken into account in the valuation of the company's capital. In the processing of risk analysis, the focus was on analyzing the development of the $eta$ coefficient, country risk, capital market, as well as financial and business risks. The analysis was performed in selected production systems of the food industry in Slovakia in the period of 2003 - 2015. The paper compares ...

The problem of environment is a global problem. Each country has its own method of monitoring it. But in spite of its specifity, Information plays a great role in preventing environments pollution and decision-making. It is formed in the system of reporting as well as ecological. The data of ecology expense will help to estimate ecology risks. So it seems very up to date to create a method of environment's risk calculation, which should be done under the reporting connected with overrated payments under the negati...

This article is devoted to the solution of the actual problem in modern conditions: the credit portfolio risks assessment of non-credit organizations. The article presents the basic principles of diagnosing short-term credit risk for corporate business. The proposed method allows estimating the influence of the financial risk condition of borrower on the organization credit portfolio on the basis of the results of the analysis. The algorithm of calculation of the short-term risk limit for corporate client was deve...