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Creating ecological parks - a new trend in landscaping and environmental activities in Kazan. Social and environmental prerequisites for the creation of ecological parks was a long struggle of environmental organizations and residents to preserve small reservoirs in the city. Mainly in the design of the Protected area (Eco-park) is to create an ecological location in the city, while maintaining high biodiversity areas, which will carry the aesthetic function and be a place of rest of the townspeople. When the proj...

Problem statement: In this paper we aimed to demolish the modern „myth” stating that when it comes to optimize the motor potential, „high-tech”, machine-assisted training is compulsory. This myth is wide spread in modern society. Many people believe that, in order to reach his maximum physical potential, one has to train with last-generation fitness machines. We strongly believe that old school, Progressive Calisthenics may be a viable alternative for improving several aspects of the motor potential of the student...

The understanding of individual freedom and its realization in modern Russia is based on the Constitution, but is not limited to it. Public opinion, social norms affect people’s perceptions of dos and don'ts. Under the frame of empirical research, conducted in September 2016 at RUDN University (Moscow), Russian students were interviewed in order to determine their view of life about processes taking place in the modern Russian society in the context of individual liberty. Thus, the implementation of the individual...

The article considers questions of conceptual aspects in developing of knowledge management theory. The relevance of the article is due to development of innovational economics and necessity to create and to implement the knowledge management system as its component. The purpose of article is to develop theoretical and practical provisions about place and role of knowledge management at the enterprise in conditions of new economic functioning. In the study, authors designed the theoretical and practical nature of ...

The paper aims to analyse the sole trader (Rom., persoana fizica autorizata or P.F.A.) from the Romanian law perspective, by focusing on the characteristics of this legal institution, the liability for performing economic activities under this form, as well as certain implied practical and fiscal issues. The Romanian legislation has suffered serious amendments in the last period as it is the case of the Romanian Civil Code, which has been amended in year 2011. The legal provisions on the sole trader have been also...

The present research paper deals with the problem for determining the optimal positioning of units in logistics system aiming the minimization of the transportation costs for providing communication between the units. For the purposes of the research a logistics system is treated as relatively stable set of units (structural and/or functional subunits of the company but also suppliers, consumers and logistical mediators) connected to each other and united in one management of the logistical process for realizing t...

The article is dedicated to the problem of the creative act, specifics of creativity in interpretation of the Russian philosopher I. A. Ilyin (1883-1954). I. A. Ilyin brings new ideas in the esthetics, developing regulations on specifics of the creative act, considering a problem from the perspective of the creating artist and the perceiving recipient. Each artist possesses his own vision of the outside world and of the inner world of soul and has to deepen his creative act and keep within plots and subjects ident...

The scope of this study is the problem of universality and conventionality of human and civil rights. This institute is legislatively recognized in almost all modern legal systems. The shared values are the values that define the position of the individual in society - freedom, equality, justice. But representatives of each civilization have their own world view that affects the interpretation of these categories. It is no accident that the adoption of universal international acts on human rights is accompanied by...

The article focuses on the problem of applicability in the accounting practice of valuation of the company's assets and liabilities at the discounted value. The authors make the conclusion about the need of discounted value usage for evaluation of the company's assets and liabilities and preparation of the actuarial balance. This proves the feasibility of practical application of the methods of forming the actuarial balance sheet for the purposes of evaluation of the created economic costs and future cash flows of...

Data shows an increasing number of children and youth growing up in a family atmosphere burdened with parental conflicts. Hostility in relationships between parents often spills over into the parent-child relationship. This paper will present the results of quantitative research which was focused on correlations between children's perception of parental conflicts, and the quality of the parents' marriage, and the experience of parental acceptance-rejection during childhood. The survey included 468 students of the ...

The paper deals with the policy and support of the creative industry in the Zilina Region. In the Zilina Region, the major part of the creative industry is represented by the advertising industry. The main aim of the paper is to identify the aspects of the support in the advertising industry in the Zilina Region. To achieve the aim of the paper, the primary research consisting of personal, telephone, and e-mail questioning was carried out. The survey was aimed at the advertising agencies operating in the Zilina Re...

The aim of the work is to identify the actual contents and methods of training future music teachers for professional activities in a multicultural educational environment. Object of research: the bases, an entity of a method of culturological interpretation of spiritual traditions of music and results of its implementation in musical and educational process. The main form of introducing different layers of society to the traditions and values of the peoples of the world is intercultural dialogue and joint work cr...

The fodder base is the basis for the development of reindeer husbandry and, consequently, the existence of indigenous peoples of the North. Currently lichen pasture areas continue to decline. Reduction of pasture areas can lead to a decline in production in the traditional sector due to the narrowing of its activities. The development of reindeer husbandry is primarily determined by the state of pastures and their deer carrying capacity. For 01.01.2001 out of the total territory of reindeer breeding districts of t...

The aim of this paper is to explore whether hermeneutical critique is a good method for describing, evaluating, and implementing deliberative democracy. The well-known philosophical direction is critical hermeneutics and key authors of this school of thought include Jürgen Habermas, Paul Ricoeur and Hans-Herbert Kögler. We want to inquire how they work with critical hermeneutics and we aim to show why it may be better to establish hermeneutical critique in the place of critical hermeneutics. One of our inquiring a...

Management and building of a positive corporate reputation is a frequently discussed topic in modern economic literature. The thing is that in the current market environment a positive reputation is a key intangible and hard-to-copy factor, which decides whether the company will be successful or not. Obviously, a positive reputation stems from a long-term successful operation of a company in the market, it is an image of personal experience, but it also results, to a certain extent, from the “public opinion” share...

Concept “Culture” in the language consciousness of Yakut language speakers is analyzed with the aim to reveal the core of the concept. There are 15 stimulus words, which were revealed as a result of the analysis of 25 Russian and 25 English definitions of the word “culture”. The associative experiment is the basic method to get the world image of language speakers, the “Gestalt method” by Y.N. Karaulov is the basic to reveal the core and periphery conceptual signs of the concept. Associations of Yakut language spe...

Continuous technical progress, nature being constantly enslaved by human, industrialization, the Earth's drastically changed surface have caused a global ecological crisis. Among the primary global environmental problems there is environmental pollution, water pollution with industrial, agricultural and domestic waste, soil degradation, deforestation, loss of biodiversity. The planet overpopulation leads to unsustainable use of natural resources and their depletion. Most methods of producing energy cause varying d...

In the near-native proficiency stage[26], the oral production of L2 and subsequent speakers is slightly different from the native speaker production, phonetically (foreign “accent”[13], [24]), pragmalinguistically and sociopragmatically[16]. The standard Italian language in the Croatian Istra is a minority language of lesser sociolinguistic prestige and reduced domains of usage[7], [14], [21], [23]. Language contact occurs between Italian, the Istrovenetian dialect, the Croatian standard language and the Chakavian...

The article analyzes the role and significance of health protection activities in the processes of social interaction at the national (internal) and international levels. The authors focus on the contradictions existing in modern societies in the relations between different social strata, on the discrepancy between the interests of the political elite and the interests of the majority of citizens, on the confrontation of the world elites among themselves, which contributes to the development of social alienation p...

Foreign-language education quality improvement demands the search for effective forms, means and methods in teaching foreign languages, including the teaching of a second foreign language. Unlike in schools where teaching a second foreign language started not so long ago, providing language education in higher institutions in Russia, a second foreign language has been taught for a long time, since the middle of the 20th century. Despite this, the specifics of teaching a second foreign language are still not suffic...

Geography education in Bulgaria is conducted in conditions of centralized planning. It is organized in a system which obtains certain parameters – content, struc-ture, organization and environment. The most important factor defining the geography education statute is state educational policy which is a result of social, economic and political conditions. Public needs, nature of geography science and the essence of geog-raphy knowledge and cognition find their particular reflection in the mission of geogra-phy educ...

The research presented in this article is part of a PhD project, whose objective was to identify a set of characteristics to be implemented while creating an inclusive indoor children's play space. This article aims to create an interview guide directed at children, inquiring their preferences regarding the possible characteristics of a play space for them. In order to do that it was necessary to first understand the main existing characteristics of children's play spaces, in order to verify those thare are transv...

This article analyzes taxonomic strategies that are most frequently used in academic medical discourse: classification of objects, identification of their types, groups, species and varieties as well as assignment of objects, processes, states, signs, etc. to a particular classification unit. There are three main types of structural-substantive discourse taxonomic strategies which are observed in academic medical discourse: classification strategies, systematization strategies and typologization strategies. A deta...

Creative tourism as part of the global creative economy has shown a significant increase in the world. However, Slovakia falls considerably behind these trends. The aim of the study is to analyse the current state of demand for creative tourism in Slovakia. In the paper we define creative tourism from supply and demand perspective and its growing importance for destinations as well as visitors. We characterize preferences and interest of Slovak tourists in domestic creative tourism activities, we define creativity...

The image, which emerged in the last century, showing the transformation of concrete from a material of purely utilitarian (structural) properties into a kind of ideological matter with expressive aesthetic identity, allows one to perceive this building material as a refined one, which is used in the construction of a number of prestigious buildings, significant for today’s architectural art. The construction of structures with the use of fair-faced concrete is a complex process involving a large number of people ...

According to the European Space Agency statistics posted on July 2013, the orbit contains a curious number of debris. Specifically, there are more than 170 million debris smaller than 1 cm (0.4 in), and about 670,000 debris ranging between 1 and 10 cm. Further, around 29,000 larger debris were estimated to be in orbit. Figures from the U.S Strategic Command drafted report indicate that in the Earth’s orbit, there are 17,852 artificial objects, including 1,419 operational satellites. Due to the fact that we can cou...

The paper determines features of the Empire style in Russia before and after the Great fire of Moscow of 1812 during the war with Napoleon I. The Russian Empire style has generally three branches: Moscow, St Petersburg and provincial one with their specific features. The Imperial power established an elaborated system of model designs (more then a 1000 made by a team of architects of different nationalities) for a detailed typology of civil, military and private buildings and town planning elements made by the dec...

The educational system in Romania has known many transformations in the last 25 years of democracy. The orientation towards the European values, to multiculturalism, and also the liberalization of the work market, all in all let to a reevaluation of the domestic values and traditions. Family is one of the most important paradigms of establishment in this period of transition in the Romanian society. Without this important segment of our social existence the institutions implicated in the politics of education coul...

Background Our research aim was to emphasized different neurological patterns at athletes, by evaluating the parameters of somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) and compare the obtained results, in order to demonstrate the influence of specific professional training over the cortex. Methods The tested subjects were a group of 21 male athletes, with an average age of 19 years, which practiced fencing or handball, for at least 6 years, homogeneous regarding age, height, weight and training regime. We used the Nihon K...

Tourism in rural areas in Poland in the years 1999-2016 was an important element of socio-economic and cultural life. The aim of the study is to present tourism in rural are-as in Poland in the years 1999-2016. The following research methods were used: analy-sis of historical sources, synthesis, induction, deduction, and a comparative method. There was significant development of tourism in rural communities in Poland in the period from 1999-2016. Rural tourism was a major element in the life of country dwell-ers. ...

Final energy consumption in Latvian households fluctuated massively because of serious political and social changes in the country between 1990 and 2015; this study explores why final energy consumption trends in Latvia during the last decades, meanwhile in Europe is the opposite situation observed. This paper investigates the downward trend in average household energy consumption of the last 30 years and shows the impact of social factors towards energy consumption. The method applied portrays factors such as lev...

In considering the issue of coordination between monetary policy and fiscal policy, or a lack of it, one has to take account of the so-called zero lower bound on nominal interest rates, also known as a zero-bound (ZLB) problem. The problem basically is that nominal interest rates cannot drop below zero. Many economists argue that a near-zero interest rate encourages fiscal stimulation that certainly has influence on the type of decisions made by the central bank. Some studies point to higher effectiveness of fisca...

The article focuses on the research of the Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy concerning the conceptional understanding of peace in the Antique ages. Theses of the brilliant Greek and Roman philosophers like Heraclitus, Xenophon, Aristotle, Socrates, Cicero, Polybius, and Marcus Aurelius are being analyzed and introduced as the arguments for the conclusions which demonstrate crucial points of vision of peace not only for ancient philosophers, but for the ancient people on the whole. The topic is both historical an...

The concept of social entrepreneurship is related with entrepreneurial projects that are based on principles of social, economic and environmentally sustainable business. Social entrepreneurs are committed to resolving different socio-economic problems through projects based on social innovations. The realised profits are entirely or partially reinvested in the community. Social entrepreneurship is a significant part of the social economy. In the EU, there are 2 million social economy enterprises and organisations...

In the context of globalization the media have a significant impact on the language. The modern society is characterized by the rapid pace of development in the sphere of literature and art, as well as by scientific discoveries and the uprising of new realities and definitions, linguistic and extralinguistic forms of reflecting the reality. Understanding the language as a part of the culture of any modern society and a primary means of communication cannot but have specific features of mass culture development as ...

The aim is to construct a functional model of a centralized admission campaign in Russian universities. As a research tool used methodology for functional modelling IDEF0. The main result was the functional model, decomposed into blocks "Enter data in the federal information system to ensure the state final examination and receiving", "Carry the exam and the state final exams", "Enter the competition results", "Carry entrance examinations in higher educational institutions", "Conduct national competition". The mod...

The article is dedicated to finding the main features of the relationship between the church and the government during the first months of the Soviet power based on the analysis of the events in December 1917- January 1918 in Petrograd. That is where started a series of events, that accompanied the decree-laws concerning the church and religion passed by the new government. Based on a wide range of sources, the article shows the beginning of anti-religious persecution the Petrograd church went through, and outline...

Media play an important role in shaping public opinion about social problems and issues related to social work. There is a strong believe among social workers in Slovakia that media has been reporting negative picture of social work profession. The paper explores how the social work profession is portrayed in print media in Slovakia. The author analyzed the 5 most popular newspapers. Articles from year 2016 containing key words „social work“ and/or „social worker“ were analyzed (N=105). Content analysis was used. ...

This study dealt with a possible dual origin of scepsis as a platform for critical thinking, which is connected with the very substance of philosophical research. The original question was whether there is a ‘pure scepsis’ as a zero point, which various thinkers can get closer to or further from depending on a particular case, or whether there are approaches which, although based on scepsis, are mutually incommensurable. To answer this complex question, we used interpretation using the combination of a nomological...

This paper is dedicated to the methodology for evaluating financial benefits of selected mezzanine capital instruments, which refer to hybrid forms of long-term funding combining the features of debt and equity, particularly to those characterized by a higher debt tendency (so-called debt mezzanine instruments). The authors aimed to review the theoretical background of evaluation of financial benefits of classic financing sources and to propose methodology for assessing financial benefits of debt mezzanine instrum...

The present paper-work aims to find some explanations for the decline of official statistics in Romania after the World War I, despite a promising tradition. My contribution consists of two main perspectives: a comparative approach (highlighting potential sources of influence, looking at other contemporary European patterns of organizing statistical services) and a close-up view of institutional development of this field in Romania, in the first half of interwar period (using archive documents and other primary so...

The increasingly noticeable Polish population ageing is attracting more and more interest in the problems of ageing. Successful ageing means reaching an old age with insignificant risk of disabilities and illnesses, with high intellectual and physical fitness and maintaining high level of activity. Meeting the needs is the most basic human act that is regarded as extending the humanity. On the one hand, it is expressed by solidarity and commitment to support other members of society and overcoming difficult situat...

The foreign students’ phonetical and graphical adaptation to Romanian is extremely difficult given they belong to some phonetical and phonological systems sometimes totally different from the Latin one, to which Romanian also belongs. The difficulty of adaptation resides not only at the writing level but also at the pronunciation one, uneasy for those who belong to Slavic, Arabian or Asian languages with an obvious differentiation on all language levels. Still, one must notice that due to the knowledge of English,...

There are only a few instruments related to career among the Hungarian sample from Transylvania. Moreover, instruments that assess career maturity are not available in Hungarian language. That is why the main purpose of the study was to translate and adapt Career Maturity Inventory form C for Hungarian students from Transylvania. In addition, the effects of gender and age on career maturity were examined. Both university students and high school students were assessed. During the Bachelor program, university stude...

Corporate culture is an important element of almost any company: most researchers, both theorists, and practitioners underline the key role of corporate culture in the success and prosperity of any organization. Speaking about corporate culture, we mean firstly the combination of values and perceptions prevailing in the organization, and also norms and patterns of behavior that determine the status and activities of employees. Evaluation of the level of development of a corporate culture and the mutual dependency ...

The equality between men and women has been an intense debate subject and broadly covered in media in the recent years. Several studies have proved that in many states women are outnumbered by men in leadership positions. Ensuring gender equality is one of the European Union’s main objective and necessary component in the Europe 2020 strategy. Today an increasing number of countries are adapting rules and regulations on implementing quotas in corporate governance and state-owned enterprises. The trend is that majo...

Currently the overwhelming majority of countries worldwide recognized the need for innovative economic development and creation of own innovations that would give an impulse to qualitatively new, evolutionary development of the economy, industry, and society. Exclusive rights to intellectual property items, most often obtained on the basis of innovations, are valuable asset that can make monopolist of a single individual or legal entity, a whole state or a group of countries by giving them competitive advantages a...

The article deals with the actual labor market problem of creating an effective recruitment mechanism. It presents the key parameters of recruitment strategies. The best solutions of the problemar are considered in the context of asymmetric information. The article presents alternative models of recruitment, the principal-agent problem in each type of model and considers the key features of each agent’s behavior. In addition the opportunities of optimal contract between recruiter and employer and the optimal compe...

The article is devoted to the role of the Russian style in Russian art history. Russian style is discussed as an example of national historicism. The main features and attributes of Russian style and their expression in architecture, art and design are described. Stages of Russian style development are described, including “Society for the Revival of artistic Russia” as the most completed stage of Russian style concept forming. The idea of recreating the image of Holy Russia was supported by state. Fedorovsky (Rus...

The article discusses the necessity for and direction to improve evaluation of accounting and control procedures of the facts of business units economic activities in auditing. Author’s definition of the concept of ‘accounting and control procedures’ is given in the article. The constituent elements of the system of accounting and control procedures are defined. The indicators of the elements evaluation are systematized in terms of the accounting and control procedures system elements. A technique of accounting an...