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Towards the end of the 19th century, the international affirmation of Romania as a unitary state by acquiring its independence from the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of the constitutional monarchy, coincided with the proclamation of the autocephaly of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Within all Romanian countries, each of them with different architectural expressions and traditions, a "central" manifest, a spiritual connection between all Romanians, a unitary architectural style was required. Contrary to the E...

The article discusses the issue of improving the quality of life of the population in the Russian regions. It presents an approach to the management of the region in the form of optimization problems aimed at improving the quality of life of the population in the region by increasing the probability of referring it to the class of regions with a higher quality of life. The optimization problem is solved based on identified relationship between the quality of life of the population and socio-economic indicators of ...

Approaches to teaching English for Academic Purposes in a particular discourse vary from elaborating and creating academic grammar and syntax structures, reading, translating and analyzing academic and scientific papers, listening to conference presentations and university lectures as well as discussing academic and scientific subjects with peers and experts. However, none of the enlisted activities is possible without regular, systematic and laborious vocabulary building, self-discipline and new academic words ac...

In 2003 Bulgaria enacted new legislation that introduced various reforms in the social sphere. These changes define a new philosophy of state policy in the area of social services and society’s vulnerable groups. Protected Housing is a social service that enables the transition from the traditional in Bulgaria institutional care to the services offered in the community and the family environment. The practical social work and the social worker in the service Protected Housing are the main subjects of analysis in t...

The purpose of this article is to confirm the thesis that the planning of lighting and illumination is a factor increasing the attractiveness of the night landscape, which significantly improves the quality of life and is positively viewed by the residents and visitors. The author presents new artistic trends in night landscape development, aimed at protecting the historical heritage and local identity of cities, as well as shaping their contemporary image by creating (or updating) planning concepts within the con...

During all the times of destruction of social institutions and socio-cultural norms, there is a split in common social values and those which are reflected in social networks and electronic media. There are few meaningful values for modern women that could be identified: the value of kinship, the value of marriage, the value of motherhood, the value of career and self-made behavior, the value of leisure and hedonistic values. In the article the authors propose models (variants) of the images of mothers with many c...

Animal representation can be traced back to the very first examples of parietal and rock art. Animal symbolism in the Arts parallels the development of humankind. Figurative visual expression and ornament were used throughout the period furniture styles. Furniture design is dominated today by the so called “minimalist expression”, which stands mainly for the elimination of the figurative and of the ornament. Nevertheless, as we enter the third decade of 21’st century, there are numerous signs of a figurative comeb...

The article deals with the problematics of origins and specificity of Russian anarchism. The authors prove that two central versions of Russian anarchism created by M.A. Bakunin and L.N. Tolstoy were dependent on J.G. Fichte’s religious philosophy. The authors refute the idea that Russian philosophy was under strong influence of Hegelianism. It appears that Fichtean late philosophy was much more important source for the thinking of Russian anarchists. M.A. Bakunin is understood as the founder of the fichteonized u...

The instauration of a worldwide urban condition has gone together with a deep innovation in the mapping and data techniques of representation in the last two decades. The paper focuses on the relations between these two sets from the point of view of the urban planner and designer. The method of handling these topics starts from elementary research operations, such as collecting and comparing a series of representations, drawings, diagrams, and schemes about regional patterns of urbanization in European territorie...

The local identity of urban spaces becomes a necessary requirement for the design and planning of urban development. The article proposes a system of the spatial factors influencing the local identity of urban areas and provide new directions for improvement of urban planning practices. The spatial structure of the urban environment becomes clear and obvious when identifying the places with the highest concentration of day and night social activity. Architecture and public spaces of the city create the most durabl...

This research gives the insight of creative technologies, a promising trend in science and pedagogy. Summarizing the findings of the latest research, the authors suggest that higher education be regarded from the point of view of creative discourse, by combining well known pedagogical techniques with the cutting-edge developments conventionally named as Creative Solution Technologies. The article is intended for practical application and helping the reader learn the practical skills with spoken and written, "inter...

Planning local economic development is essential for building, improving and restoring the economic capacity of the region, thereby creating an opportunity to improve the quality of life in the region. In the process of local economic development planning, the public, private and non-governmental sector should be collectively involved, and their joint efforts should be geared towards creating better conditions for regional economic growth, preserving existing and creating new jobs. An important place in the planni...

The paper describes the history and the stylistic choices adopted in the construction of Palazzo Ronzani in Bologna, which was the first building to rise after the heavy demolitions carried out in the historical center of the city at the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1910, the local administration adopted a Detailed Plan to change the aspect of the city, as it was already happening in the main European capitals. In this context, starting from 1911, the architect and scenographer Gualtiero Pontoni designed...

The article explores functional and semantic peculiarities of the lexico-semantic field “power” in the Old Russian language of the XI-XIV century. The most commonly used and succinct in the above mentioned field are the lexemes vlast' / volost' (“power”) which were originally synonyms but later they acquired specialized meanings. Gradually, the originally undivided meaning of the lexeme “power” including the following senses: possession, tenancy, land and territory was divided into separate meanings acquired by sp...

The article discusses the memorial mass tourism in modern Russia. It is noted that in recent years in Russia there has been an increase in the number of citizens traveling around the country. It is shown that the main content of domestic tourism was the preservation of the historical memory of the events of the Second World War. The main tourist sites are the monuments of military glory, memorials, places of battles, mass graves of soldiers and civilians. There are many new routes related to the patriotic themes. ...

Today, environmental education is a priority issue in predicting the ethical attitude to the environment to prevent its further degradation. The Southern Urals is a unique region of the Russian Federation; there are more than 15 thousand industrial facilities polluting the environment of the region. Negative trends in the region contribute to a deterioration of quality of life. The aim of this article is the development of a regional environmental aspect in education focused on the formation of an environmental cu...

Background. Sensorimotor alalia (SMA) is regarded as a specific Russian-language term but it has no analogs in neurology and neuropsychology. It is a disorder of impressive and expressive speech development at the early stages without the previous period of normal speech development according to ICD-10. The term SLI (specific language impairment) reflects other types of speech disorders. It is an urgent question if SMA is more closely connected with the disorders of programming, regulation and control functions th...

The article explores linguistic means of cohesion and coherence, as well as means of intonation manifestation in popular economic discourse in terms of their functional and pragmatic importance. It also provides main approaches to the concepts of discourse and intonation manifestation both in oral and written discourse in modern linguistics. With economy being one of the essential areas of society and with the processes of economic globalization, the language of economy becomes one of the most explored in present-...

The article is concerned with one of the basic conditions for successful redevelopment, recovery and operation of brownfields – efficient human resources. Brownfields that want to operate and expand, to perform better than their present competitors and increase their business value have to attract, cultivate and maintain talented employees – they have to pay consideration to talent management. The article is aimed, on the basis of available theoretical information and the existing practical experience, at describi...

This paper attempts to tackle a problem that intrinsically affects archaeological sites located outside the places where they are generally found and valued: on the one hand, historical centres -where they tend to form part of musealisation projects on an urban scale- and, on the other hand, rural or natural environments -where the sites, generally of a larger scale, constitute a benchmark in themselves in terms of both protection, research and visitor reception. However, our research focuses on those archaeologic...

After the end of the military operations and the German occupation of Poland, the border areas around ?adca in Kysuce Region and Spiš region were joined to Slovakia. The population enthusiastically received reconnection of the territories to Slovakia. After the calming of the situation on the border, the formation of new public administration structures began. The situation at the borders was finally stabilized after the signing of the Slovak-German Border Treaty, on 21 November 1939 in Berlin, which temporarily d...

The sedentarization of the nomadic population was one of the directions of the USSR policy in the North. The transfer to sedentary had been completed in many northern regions. But in Yakutia number of nomadic groups were continued to rise in 1980s. There is an important question – how many of the Indigenous peoples of the North in Yakutia had been keeping nomadic way of life in Socialism period. The task of this study is to make the socio-demographic characteristics of the Evens-nomad in the late Soviet period. Of...

Linguistic nomination is of great interest to modern science. One of the key problems of theoretical linguistics has been those of the theory of nomination. In the study of lexical and semantic development of the language among important issues are secondary naming, including words with transferred meaning, which contribute to the accuracy, expressiveness and figurative transference of semantic information. Expansion, narrowing of the lexical meaning of a word and its semantic potential are closely related to the ...

The aim of our research is to present an approach to systemic liquidity management of the company. We study patterns of liquidity management that reflect the requirements of the relationship between strategic and current financial management, the interaction of liquidity risk and profitability as the core of added value creation, as well as the tools for their implementation. The econometric toolkit was aimed at identifying threshold points in the joint dynamics of liquidity and profitability with the identificati...

Space is the common weal. Its shaping and use are connected with the responsibility for the result, which will be our footprint for future generations. A planner takes responsibility for a future perception of their work. Their action will also have different effects for economy, business and society. These aspects shape our daily living, influence its standard, connected not only with economy, but also with an aesthetic perception and the feeling of safety. Preparing planning studies consists in establishing the ...

The article deals with the interpersonal communication abilities and transformational leadership of senior school students. This article analyses only one domain of interpersonal competence – providing of emotional support. The aim of the research is to reveal the emotional support abilities of senior school students and explore how senior school students’ emotional support abilities relate to charismatic dimensions of transformational leadership. The results show that the transformational leadership of new genera...

Background – Rapid development of interdisciplinary academic connections highlights the importance of written communication. The necessity of the latest data sharing, on the one hand, the scientific achievements promoting, on the other hand, make an ability of health care professionals to written speech activity salient. Materials and Methods – The study is aimed at professional written speech activity of health care professionals. Quantative and statistical methods were used. The progress of respondents was being...

Analysis of pedagogical, psychological and musicological literature shows that musical education is a significant constituent element of future primary (elementary) school teachers' professional training. It is not only necessary for teaching one subject at school, but also for a teachers' spiritual and cultural erudition, communication with children and maintaining interdisciplinary connections. Therefore, the structure of teacher training should have adequate attention for future primary school teachers' special...

The IT technology solution supporting VAT collection popularised by OECD known as the Standard Audit File–Tax (SAF-T) raises many challenges for businesses bound to use it. The aim of the article is to interpret the conclusions drawn from the survey evaluation of SAF-T implementation in Poland conducted by accountants and heads of economic units. For the reasons presented in this article, SAF-T used in Poland (and probably in many other countries as well) currently may appear to be a transitional, not a permanent ...

Human potential is well known to make the main production force in a globalised modern world. However, in order human potential to become human capital educational system is to set and achieve critically new goals. Current university students will tomorrow be working in new economic reality making managerial decisions in the continuously changing environment with subordinates not always ready to face these changes, meet and work under innovations and possibly having a different mindset. Therefore, not only a parti...

The transformation of the former barracks areas is a long-term topic not only in Slovakia but also abroad. Their role and value change over time in cities. The current cultural and historical values and the value of the potential development itself is a discussed topic. The paper aims to map and evaluate the transformation processes and urban structures of selected barracks in Slovakia. By these examples, we describe individual trends and methods of working with the public space and the buildings themselves. The i...

The relationship between the emergence of linear perspective during the Renaissance and scientific cartography is well known. They both inaugurated and exhibited a new relationship to the world – a de-theologised world, which the human being was now able to measure and circumscribe. Linear perspective and cartography both enabled to frame the world in a window which we could from then onwards encompass, think, visualise, and view at a glance. “Framing” became the key operation of Renaissance art and science. The c...

The relevance of the study is determined by several reasons. Firstly, the languages of the indigenous peoples of Siberia belong to the category of languages that do not have an ancient written tradition, and the texts of these peoples present a valuable linguistic material that allows to obtain important data, as well as to draw significant conclusions about the specifics of the genesis of linguistic and cultural processes of the relevant ethnic groups. Secondly, in recent years there has been a certain increase i...

Many cities, towns and villages around the world have adopted new Lighting Emitting Diode (LED) technology in order to save energy, operational and maintenance costs. While energy-efficient, these light sources have a critical effect on the appearance of historic sites at night – and the technology has unique properties and numerous inherent drawbacks that present challenges to decision makers as well as inexperienced lighting professionals. This paper uses practice-based research, critical analysis of literature,...

Today's society is at the junction of two great challenges: the desire to preserve and carry on the values of the past, materialized in heritage sites and the application of all the measures known at present, to ensure high living standard from the point of view of thermal comfort and energy efficiency. These two directions are often found to contradict each other and even end up rejecting each other. To take care of the values of the past, it means applying clear rules in the processes of rehabilitation, restorat...

In 1887 Arthur Conan Doyle acquainted the world with the first adventure of a consulting detective from 221B Baker Street, London. After a few years, Sherlock Holmes became an iconic figure of fictional detective - he was read about, admired, parodied, and adapted both for stage and screen. Sherlock Holmes has become one of the symbols of the Late Victorian Age. But in the 21st century, Sherlock Holmes is still popular. Long time ago the famous detective broke the spatial and temporal borders set by his creator. I...

The objective of the article is to compare two sociological concepts of social reality. Both of them refer to modernity and its’ characteristic phenomena, yet they define this reality differently. On the one hand, Anthony Giddens treats the modern times as the decadent (advanced) era of modernity, the so-called late modernity. On the other hand, Zygmunt Bauman notices that postmodernity (liquid modernity) contains certain features of modernity, which not so much constitute a new-quality epoch, but unmask its malfu...

The formation of independent Kazakhstan after the collapse of the USSR (1991) led to a change in the language situation, the formation of language policy and language construction. The most urgent topics in society were the questions of the revival of the vitality of the state - Kazakh language, the narrowing of the spheres of functioning of the Russian language, the transition from Cyrillic to Latin. A large number of scientific articles analyzing the language situation of Soviet Kazakhstan and post-Soviet Kazakh...

The relevance of this study is due to the need to develop the scientific base of engineering activities, including the approach to understanding engineering as a tool for creating competitive advantages and increasing the competitiveness of organizations. Engineering covers the whole life cycle of the object: from the idea and its development, the creation of a prototype, the application into production, including the subsequent promotion, implementation, maintenance, up to utilization. At the moment the Russian e...

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 ...

The concept of the rhetoric of science remains open to debate, although it has been acknowledged as a research area and an academic discipline in the literature and by universities across the world. This article aims primarily to justify the treatment of the rhetoric of science as an independent research area, to place it in the historical context of the evolution of logic, rhetoric, and philosophy, and to demonstrate the relationship between the possibility of a rhetorical interpretation of science and its interp...

Empirical evidence of financial literacy in the adult population during almost 10 years shows stable financial illiteracy of Russian population. By financial literacy Russia consistently occupies one of the last places in the surveys made by different researches, and does not improve its score with time. Financial illiteracy negatively effects Russian financial market’s stability and economic growth of the country. Numeracy and capacity to do calculations related to interest rates lies in the root financial capabi...

The article analyzes the role of regional development institutions in the social and economic development of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The authors summarize the experience of managing regional development institutions, conclude that it is necessary to increase the degree of influence on the development of the economic and social infrastructure of the regions of the Russian Federation. The article specifies the essence and content of the concept «regional development institution», as well ...

The study was supported from the grant project VEGA 1/0625/16 “The effect of physical activities on the development of motor abilities in integrated children with behavior disorders”. We have extended knowledge about motor coordination of 7 and 8 years old children by determining correlations between somatic parameters and total motor coordination expressed as the converted MQ scores. The somatic parameters measured included body weight, body height, and BMI. To determine the levels of motor coordination, children...

The number of offences committed by minors remains consistently high. According to data of the State Police of the Republic of Latvia, in 2016 the number of juvenile offences grew slightly from the previous year: 907 offences by minors were recorded in 2016, and the number of minors who committed offences increased. [1] The fight against juvenile crime is a set of complex measures, including both fight and prevention. Complex measures are implemented by state and municipal officials, who have certain duties define...

The article deals with an algorithm of projecting of orientation basis of actions of monologue’s composition at the English lessons based on activity approach principles in learning. The general approaches to the educational process organization are determined and pointed out within the framework of the algorithm described. The authors of the article define the action’s position in future professional activity of the students. The requirements for monologue (descriptors) are pointed out in the article, their meta-...

The aim of the present study is to consider the perception of synagogues in the contemporary cultural space of Latgale. The study is based on the fact that Jewish cultural heritage on the territory of Latgale has been being reconsidered. At the present stage, intensive work on the restoration of the tangible and intangible Jewish cultural heritage has been being carried out, and the objects of cultural heritage have been being transferred into the sphere of tourism. The Daugavpils synagogue is a functioning synago...

Recent years in business activities exposed rapid changes, especially in the ownership structure. An increasing number of mergers and acquisitions assume increasingly complicated forms, thus becoming incomprehensible for financial statements’ recipients. Among many consequences associated with business combinations, one should notice a specific accounting category, namely the bargain purchase gain. Describing the basic assumptions as well as legal regulations concerning the bargain purchase gain isone of the main ...

This work is devoted to the historical mythology as a new field in social & human sciences. The author examines the causes of appearance and vitality of myths both in traditional, modern and post-modern societies throw the point of situatedness. Medieval pagan studies provide a good example of mythology development. Every period in historiography has its ‘own paganism’ due to socio-cultural peculiarities of contemporaries. In practice all of investigators try to create their reconstructions of pre-Christian belief...

The purpose of the paper is to analyze the impact of the health systems financing in the EU Member States, identifying the structural and institutional changes necessary to eliminate the negative trends and to increase the efficiency of the healthcare sector. The good health is considered by the European Parliament as the key to economic growth and sustainable development in the EU. The methodology of the study includes a theoretical and methodological analysis, a descriptive approach, a method of analysis and syn...