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In my paper I am going to consider the process of composing from the perspective of influences from space surrounding the author. I was inspired by environmental psychology – human factors science - as an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the interplay between individuals and their surroundings encompassing natural environments, social settings, built environments, learning environments, and informational environments. We know today that environmental psychology expands widely in attracting other areas of ...

In the end of the 31 century BC, the Egyptian rulers at the south part of the Upper Nile began build small tombs in the desert to preserve the ownership of the gold rich territory for their heirs. A significant change in the spatial pattern of those buildings took place during the construction of the huge necropolis of the King Djoser, dedicated to an anniversary of the his reign. Using of small stone blocks instead of mud-bricks allowed the transformation of the traditional barrow in the huge six-level pyramidal ...

For a long time the interest in environmentally friendly materials in architecture is no longer limited to the use of renewable and natural substances such as wood, stone, straw, or reusable materials, such as metals or glass. Today the so-called naturals and the materials compatible with the idea of sustainability constantly appear on the market in new forms. Increasing awareness of the necessity to limit the building sectorВ’s negative impact on the environment at all possible levels changed the way designers, a...

The multidimensional space of the digital (networking) era is making adequate understanding of events increasingly difficult. Continuous accumulation and layering of infinitely large amounts of data (big data) is implicitly undermining qualitative forecast of any type, although it is supposed to work the other way round. Thus modern philosophers, interpreting the new digital reality, are facing the ever more obvious task of creating relevant ontological models, able to encompass the whole complexity of the network...

Fanny Burney at 15 wrote in her diary addressing her thoughts to В‘NobodyВ’, to her silent self and interlocutor. Nobody learnt about this fact until her diaries were published. She became famous with her first epistolary novel about a young lady entering the world, though in the Preface to the novel the author pretended to be an editor of the letters. Her writing could be compared to contemporary blogs. Novelty and variety of subjects, personally coloured irony and wit, acute eyesight, ability to entertain a read...

Current paper analyzes the main trends of the ERP-systems market in Russia and abroad. The main highlights of the research are the following ones: analysis of the market leaders; identification of the industry specificity; analyzes of the structure of the use of the most popular ERP-solutions; identification of the development direction as well as the changes of the market of the presented information systems in the medium-term; the forecasts for the dynamics of development in the medium term. As a result, the mai...

This paper considers error mechanics in architectural translation and representations. The investigation is based on two examples. First situation describes Italian architect Giacomo Leoni and published by him in instalments the first complete English language edition of Palladio's I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, which Leoni entitled The Architecture of A. Palladio, in Four Books. LeoniВ’s publication became a main tool in spreading the essence of PalladioВ’s style among British and American architects. Origina...

The purpose of the study is to determine the essential features of the concept "teaching method" and to give its correct definitions. The materials of the study are definitions of this concept in didactic and methodological texts. The methods of the study are conceptual analysis, terminological analysis, and logical analysis of this concept. Results of the study are the following: 1) most of the existing definitions of the concept "teaching method" do not contain its essential features; 2) scientific definitions o...

The article proposes a methodological approach to forecasting the staffing needs of the innovative economy which makes a provision for creating strategic long-term and mid-term forecasts and their annual adjustment at the operating level. The decomposition by the types of forecasts for such characteristics as level of regulation, purpose, key definitions, methods and approaches, factors, types of information, tools for providing staffing needs at each level has been carried out; the main results are presented. Mod...

The paper is devoted to the issues of youth workers’ professionality which are given as the priority by European Commission in 2015. Non-formal education must more efficiently support formal education. For youth workers, this has created, in particular new challenges and difficulties (such as a lack of professional scenes), but also opportunities. During the period 2005-2017 various studies showed the high mobility of Estonia youth workers in youth centers and shortage of personnel with special education. The pu...

The work can be seen as a consecration, but also as a form of dehumanization, that alienates our human condition. Since the emergence of the industry in so-called "developed" countries, many people have dreamed of a humanizing job. However, the evolution of tasks and the speed of change imposed by technologies engulf many workers with anxiety. It becomes difficult for them to reconcile work and family life or civic engagement. Pope Leo XIII already denounced these constraining, competitive and monopolizing factors...

The teaching and ethical competences represent the most important aims of university programs for preschool and primary education teachers. Introductory knowledge in ethical theories is based on students` arguing and on interactive activities. Students analyze ethical principles, design case-studies to illustrate these principles or judge behaviors that violate them. Students are involved in cooperative activities of building the teacher`s ethical profile or in analyzing the main provisions of the Education Law. T...

University teacher is a factor which determines the level of the educational process, but also the level of scientific and research activities. Recently, there can be permanently witnessed the efforts at the national level by stressing the importance of the project and research activities in higher education institutions. In the process of quality assessment are mostly preferred quantitative indicators. The development of personality of students, however, contributes significantly to the level of teaching activity...

Theoretical framework. The paper touches on the problem of distinctions in metaphorical representations about people with similar and different ethnocultural appearances as representations of various ethnic "images of the world". The objective of this research is comparative analysis of metaphors of "friends" and "aliens" having different ethnocultural appearances in members of the same ethnocultural group. The subject of this research was metaphors of "friends" and "aliens" having the Slavic, the Caucasian and th...

The acculturation of ethnic minorities of migrants and the harmony of interethnic relations in the regions of their compact settlement in the South of Russia is discovered in the article. The authors classify the ethnic minorities into three categories. They are: the groups of indigenous small peoples; the representatives of historical diasporas of the South of Russia; local groups formed mainly during the post-Soviet period abroad within the country. Migrant ethnic minorities became the subjects of the most acute...

The elaborate treatment of the issues as the role of ethnic information as well as other information, the contexts of the use of ethnos names – ethnonyms in mass media products, the linguistic presentation of ethnic positive / negative data, their influence on consciousness of information consumers and their functions in press media of any country is considered very topical. Since the role of mass media along with other factors in giving corresponding or conflicting characteristics to interethnic and intercultur...

In our own times the consensus with respect to the validity of the European policies goes into crisis, reducing the sense of belonging of its citizens in a common destiny. The recent case of Brexit is a perfect example of the malaise in which pours European citizenship. Specifically, European citizenship poses a definitory problem: the status of European citizen depends on being citizens of one of EU member states. This dependence, which determines a relationship of superposition, tends to mask the difference of t...

The European Commission has announced that Year 2018 is the European Year of Cultural Heritage /EYCH/. The undertaken activities are to boost the awareness of citizens as well as governments in terms of the creation of collective memory and identity of Europeans. The Commission’s assumption is the “abolition of borders”, or stepping beyond the territory of a given state or region and getting to know cultural heritage as the common good, fostering social integration. 600 years of history of the Radziwi??s, one...

The purpose of this study was to estimate Lithuania’s and EU-15 countries group real GDP per capita growth rates and to evaluate possible convergence scenarios. The real GDP per capita (in purchasing power standards) data for EU-15 and Lithuania for a period of 2005-2016 were employed to establish comparative average annual GDP per capita growth rates. Three possible convergence scenarios were analyzed: “As it Were”, i.e. if the average annual growth rates remain at the current levels, “Speeding Up”, i.e....

The present paper addresses the subject of developing sustainable tourism in the Black Sea basin in conjunction and cooperation with the European Commission's concerns on maritime tourism in this part of Europe. The first part of the paper discusses the theoretical framework, and defines the concepts of "sustainable development" and "sustainable tourism" as well as describes the main milestones leading to a sustainable development of tourism. It continues with the presentation of the six coastal countries Bulgaria...

The paper investigates a sample of 25 European systemically important banks, in terms of performance in fulfilling their financial intermediation function. Performance has been measured by relying on a Malmquist productivity index with panel data, to account for productivity changes over time and to decompose the main sources of changes into the catch-up effect and technological progress. As the database covered the 2007-2016 timeframe, we were able to investigate if the impact of the financial crisis appears in t...

The paper attempts to assess the impact of the recent 2007-2009 crisis on economies of the Baltic countries. Following the relevant literature review, two different approaches are tested: the first one attempts to summarize two dimensions of crisis severity, and the second approach is based on the notion that the recession brought by the crisis is just a painful readjustment of economy to normal trend of development which was corrupted by the unhealthy boom. In the first case, two types of severity index, embracin...

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) wanting to meet the demand of extremely competitive environment, more and more often appreciate the importance of knowledge management (KM), which fosters their innovation and development. Yet, due to their character (resulting, among others, from limited human, financial and material resources and a lack of time for creativity development) they require different tools and practical recommendations than large enterprises in terms of knowledge management. Quite often, knowl...

Background: The goal of the study was to find out whether the educational materials for patients who have undergone the implantation of a vascular prosthesis in lower extremities or abdominal aorta are of high quality, understandable and usable for patients. Methods: The evaluation included educational materials in written form – two brochures for patients prior to the surgery, one brochure for patients after the surgery and an information map. The PEMAT (Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool) was chosen f...

The principles of efficiency evaluation of executive bodiesВ’ activity in economic development of a subject in the RF (Russian Federation) are based on integration and synergy of the adopted in the RF principles of strategic planning in the state industrial policy as well as on the principles of efficiency evaluation in specific components of public administration. The paper explores the limitations in employing state regulation tools to solve economic development problems; substantiates the need to create the reg...

Exhibition business today performs many functions: with the help of exhibitions, an information field is formed, intensification of business communications is provided, jobs are created, and, what is especially important, contributes to the acceleration of innovative processes and the introduction of innovative solutions. The article deals with the development of innovation policy in the field of education and science, modernization of industry. Today, in the development of any business process, it is increasingly...

This article defines the specificity of the concept of В«food security in the regionВ». The authors have analyzed the adequacy of the existing regulatory and legal provision of food security at the national and subnational levels. Based on the analysis were made conclusions about the absence of an unified system of criteria and indicators for assessing the level of food security. The necessity to develop an evaluation system is determined by the needs of managing food security at the regional level. The authors ex...

Since 2007 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index provides the opportunity to compare countries within the travel and tourism competitiveness. This index evaluates a number of areas related to travel and tourism, which may affect its competitiveness. One of the essential factors for travel and tourism competitiveness is health and hygiene. Within health and hygiene pillar, sub-pillars such as Physician density, Access to improved sanitation, Access to improved drinking water, Hospital beds, HIV prevalence, and M...

Introduction: Health literacy is a cognitive and social ability determining the individuals` capability of getting an access to information, comprehending and using the information in a way that promotes and maintains good health. It helps to choose healthy behavior and can influence skills achieved in the childhood. Goal: to identify the level of health literacy in children and adolescents between 12 and 18 years. Methodology: A quantitative survey, a questioning method, a face-to-face dialogue. Data collection u...

The theoretical foundations and the basis of the comparative research are based on empirically substantiated theories and research outcomes in the area of manipulative cover-up techniques in the interaction/ communication of individuals. They are a result of research on the position of evaluations in expressive therapies (especially feedback and self-exploration as part of so-called specific effective factors) and the role-system of the Russian structuralist Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (the author of arguably the m...

In recent decades, the world community is objectively forced to admit - humanity is getting fat. It is not fatiguing in a figurative sense, that is, in terms of access to a variety of goods, services and opportunities, but in the literal sense, that is, in terms of a constant increase in the number and proportion of people suffering from overweight. The terrestrial population expands in its composition the representation of fat people, which due to this circumstance more and more drop out of the society. The total...

Introduction: Adverse factors in occupational exposure of healthcare workers are bringing risk and health threats in mental and somatic symptoms of health care workers, including the burnout syndrome. The aim of the paper is to evaluate psychological risk, focusing on the stress and psychological burden of health care workers. Material and methods. Cross-sectional study was based on the form of structured anonymous questionnaires evaluating the amount of psychological burden of healthcare staff, according to the c...

Background: Services create most of employment and value added in modern economies and via delivering key intermediate inputs to other sectors they enhance industrial performance and boost economic growth. The significance of international trade in services is systemically growing together with development of ICT technologies. Although Poland's share in global trade in services is rather small (1.01% in exports and 0.72% in imports in 2016) this sector is important for the Polish economy. In 2016, Poland's service...

Tourism is one of human life field where IT technologies are becoming essential occurrence in the contemporary world. The service of tourism becomes smart because of smart phoneВ’s usage during traveling. On the last decade the usage of smart phones was enhanced with advanced features and the usage of smart phones is going to increase more than 2.8 billion until 2020 year. Thus, it is obvious that changes in the tourism industry in the near future will be related to smartphones due to the potential of these device...

The paper presents the results of evaluation of strategic development plans for cities with more than million population in Volga Federal District of the Russian Federation. Integral ranking of the strategic plans is made by combining the results of accessibility of strategic documents for stakeholders, availability of communication channels and readability of these documents. The studies have shown that that on all three criteria city Samara is the first, followed by Kazan and Perm. City Ufa is on fourth place an...

This article introduces the analysis of the current situation of the state ecological policy implementation on the regional level in Russia. The main goal of the research is the evaluation of the socio-economic conditions of the ecological activity in the subjects of the Volga Federal District. Natural-socio-productive systems are taken as the object of the research. Statistical and index methods are used in the research as well as methodology of assessing the ecological policy by A.A. Kostylev which is based on t...

The article defines the necessity of forming complex production groups and technologically connected chains incorporating different business entities in order to achieve concrete economic results within one administrative territory. The authors propose a hypothesis of positive influence of cluster structures on the economy of the region. In order to assess the economic sustainability of the region and an evaluation system itself which is aimed at identifying priority cluster structures the authors conducted an ana...

The last two decades have been an intensive development of residential development in many Polish cities in areas outside of urbanized downtown areas. Unfortunately, a significant part of new settlements is carried out, more or less consciously, as detached to existing urban structures. New housing complexes, already implemented within administrative boundaries of the city or already in neighboring municipalities, create, suspended, often in open space structures, changing the way existing structures, communicatio...

The theme of the paper is the topic of strategic management and the strategic managerial tools used by the managers of the small and medium-sized enterprises of the construction sector. The approach to the topic is conducted through the own international questionnaire survey of managers from Czech Republic and Austria. Thus, we were able to collect the data about the managerial evaluation of several indicators of strategic management in abovementioned enterprises. While the survey was conducted in the time of ongo...

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. ...

The paper concerns the analysis of the main concepts of West European tradition of Philosophy, which are the concepts of the other, the subject and the encounter. The research has been inspired by the work of world known indologist Gerhard Oberhammer, particularly the articles ‘Im Angesicht des Anderen. Ramanujas Saranagatigadya. Einwichtiger Text vishnuitisher Religionstradition’ and ‘‘Begegnung’ als Kategorie der Religionshermeneutik’. It is interesting both from historical-philosophical and indological po...

Article is devoted to the history of the one of the first state medical facility in Russia- Naval hospital in Kroonstad (nowadays he 35th Lenin Military Naval Hospital named in in honour of N.?. Semashko). Peter the Great initiated global changes in the state medical care, according to his decree 10 hospitals and 500 infirmaries have begun their work in the largest cities; the military naval hospital in Kronstadt was one of them. This hospital was built in 1717 in Kroonstad by solders of fortress for the fleet nee...

The article studies the higher education reforming period in the Russian Federation (since December 25, 1991 to the present time) and presents the analysis of the Russian Federation legislation in the field of education, which is based on the following documents: Law of the Russian Federation "On education" dated July 10, 1992; Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation "On the enactment procedure of the Law of the Russian Federation "On education" No. 3627-I dated 10 July, 1992; Federal Law No. 125-FZ...

The aim of the paper is to evaluate the role of the exchange rate in shaping the export of Poland and selected European Union countries: Sweden, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Denmark and the Czech Republic in the years 2008-2016. The author presented exchange rate regimes in the analyzed countries and assessed if the choice of applied exchange rate system had a significant impact on the variability of nominal exchange rates. Subsequently, changes in real effective exchange rates (REER) and their impact on export co...

The Russian-language weekly "British Ally", published in the USSR since August 1942, informed Soviet citizens about the course of the Allied military operations. Covering the events of the week and giving an overview of the British press, the newspaper also reported on Nazi crimes in the occupied territories. The change that occurred in World War II in 1943 enabled correspondents to get more comprehensive and reliable information about camps for prisoners of war and concentration camps and publish reports on the h...

Economic authorities (central bank and government), conducting the monetary and fiscal policy, affect the economy as well as each other. In pursuit of its goal, which is the desired level of inflation (the inflation target), the central bank applies appropriate monetary policy strategies with varying degrees of expansiveness/ restrictiveness measured by the interest rate. In turn, the government striving to achieve the goal which is the desired economic growth also uses strategies with a different degree of expans...

The paper discusses selected results of a telephone in-depth interview (TDI) study conducted among 20 Polish companies employing foreigners. The nature of the study was exploratory and it was aimed at detailing the current knowledge about the help the employers offer to foreign employees and the costs of it for the company. The analysis was made taking into account the labour market segment. Half of the surveyed organizations were respondents who employed foreign employers in jobs from the primary labour market (m...

Rail transport and its reforms are matters of current discussions. Member States of European Union have started to consider importance of rail transport and the necessity to emphasize it, as this matter has been underestimated in the past. As consequence, rail transport has lost its competitiveness to road transport. Due to this fact, there have been several reforms of rail transport on level of the European Union, in order to increase performance and to strengthen position of rail transport to other types of tran...

Communication is a key element in all the interactions of a couple. In addition to conversation and dialogue, the intrinsic laws of real communication reveal similar or opposite personality structures, show reciprocity in some acceptances, decisions, trust in the partnerВ’s capacities, but also dysfunctional interventions, disproportionate expectations and motivations, in certain couples or families. In a couple or a family in its entirety, communication can complicate interaction, due to the communication style d...

For over two decades we work under increasingly changing conditions. These changes are mostly the result of globalization, deregulation of labor markets and increasing competition. Among these changes we should name above all the growth of insecure employment. In the context of downsizing and more temporary or short term contract work, many employees may consider their jobs insecure. According to results of many investigations job insecurity influences negatively attitudes towards the job and the organization, as ...