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As the importance of tourism is increasing, ever more states from Europe and not only are using strategic branding and a variety of marketing means to attract a growing number of tourists. However, destinations are among the most difficult entities to market. Considering the importance of a clear marketing strategy and proper images and slogans used, the paper aims to identify the destination personality, see whether RomaniaВ’s official website can have an effect on the image of the country and if it complies with...

This article is directed to consideration of ecological development factors in hospitality. Authors provide and analyze the data of authoritative research such as World Tourism Barometer and Statistical Annex, Environmental performance index 2017 Report, and others. They confirm the growth of tourist flow in general and increasing share of ecological hotels and objects. The information about consumer preferences changing in hospitality is also provided. The second part of article is devoted to determining the key ...

Background: In the artistic context of 20th century, George Enescu is the only representative Romanian composer who will be included in the diverse landscape of the 1900-1940’s, and he will be integrated into the neoclassic direction. He was considered to be “one of the most interesting contemporary spirits”, due to the fact that he remained outside of the avant-gardist experiments, the abstraction trends and the “sterilization” of music. In the Second Suite for Orchestra, op. 20, the composer “will mee...

The article deals with the concept of keywords from the position of an associative approach. This concept is widely used in professional scientific and educational activities. The definition of the key words of the text is a prerequisite for the preparation of a scientific work for publication, as well as one of the stages in the teaching of philological analysis of the text. In this regard, it becomes urgent to identify what is meant by the term "keywords" in the professional activities of a philologist. We belie...

Background Knee osteoarthritis is an interaction of biological, mechanical and biochemical factors which is complicated by injury, with an accelerated pathological processes of the joint. Especially the athletes, particularly those with a history of knee injury that can lead to posttraumatic osteoarthritis, are diagnosed earlier than other people with same age. The aim of this paper was to find the most effective rehabilitation treatment for these patients to reduce pain and inflammation and improve knee joint mob...

The article focuses on the professional competence of the teacher to cooperate with the family of the pupil. It emphasizes the importance and meaning of the cooperation in the primary and secondary environment of the individual. The authors analyse the cooperative competence of the teacher and its contents with the emphasis on the communicative skills. The aim of this article is to clarify the concept of self-efficacy. The authors perceive this concept as the conviction about human abilities and all the possibilit...

An intellective and convulsive spirit (in Madura and Cartage, where he attended his secondary studies, and also in Milan, where he attended Platonist circles), Augustine passed from the knowledge of the sensible world to that of the intelligible, irrevocably fascinated by wisdom perceived as a modus vivendi. He aspired to happiness, yet he did not fully understand it until he was able to know himself. By gaining self-knowledge he understood that there is someone, beyond himself, who helped him discover himself as ...

Competent management of innovation processes in European regions is considered as the key to the development of knowledge economy. The effective use of achievements of research and development sector with regard to socio-economic development is actually a central aspect of this process. Both the efficient process of technology transfer and knowledge commercialization constitute an important attribute of the ability to create economic development based on new technologies. Hitherto gained Polish experiences point t...

Paper's aim is to shed a light on theoretical and practical aspects of taken measures by the Russian government on agriculture business optimization in Southern Russia. Moreover, the paper develops methodology as recommendation for the small agriculture business in Russia based on economy theories, previous studies in the area of agriculture business development. This study analyses federal and regional governmental initiatives and programs addressing optimization of small agriculture business in the period of eco...

The article is focused on the Labeo’s conflicting theory about ownership to newly created island in a river stream and detects its reasoning, aims and philosophical sources of inspiration. A question of insula in flumine nata represents traditional issue of the Roman law things. Such island was considered to belong to private individual(s) who owns the nearest shores of river by most of the sources. However, there is one fragment of Labeo (D 41,1,65,4) which states that such island should belong to public. The r...

In modern society, labor becomes a complex and diverse action. The forms of labor are changing, and it`s boundaries are eroding. In these conditions it is important to rethink the economic understanding of labor. The main goal of this article is to formulate special aspects of labor as of a non-economic action. To achieve the goal the author analyzed such notions as “economic action”, “non-economic action”, and “labor” as they exist in scientific literature. It was also required to find out the distinc...

Migration of the population is one of the most important demographic processes. It has a significant impact on the change in the structure of the population, and as a result - on the overall economic indicators of the country's development. Transformational processes in the Russian economy are responsible for qualitative changes in the labor market. These changes affect both demand and supply of labor. Increasing the efficiency of costs for hiring new employees and stimulating their labor productivity are one of t...

In the course of conducting our own research related to the analysis of the impact of socio-economic factors on the development of migration attractiveness, demographic and economic security of Russia and individual regions of the country, in order to generalize and understand the social and economic situation, identify the most important problems related to the territorial movement of people, classification of labor migration factors that exert the strongest influence on the social and economic situation. For the...

The article is devoted to the urgent problem of occupational safety at work. building an effective recruitment mechanism. The basic legislation in the field of labor protection is presented. One of the conditions for their provision is the creation and successful operation of the OSH management system. In order for the integration of the implemented OSH management system into the overall management system of the organization to be effective, certain organizational and methodological rules are established that take...

This article concerns the EvenkisВ—hunters and reindeer herders of the Siberian taigaВ—and their interactions with the landscape reflecting in a land naming. I use a semantic approach to the analysis of the Evenkis' toponyms, which were gathered during my fieldwork in Eastern Siberia in the 1980s and 1990s and were found in the scientific literature and dictionaries. The features of the land are learnt by the Evenkis from their everyday socio-economic and ritual practices, as well as from their eldest since the ea...

The article analyzes one of the genres of professional-network medical discourse – the official medical site. It is shown that this genre is characterized by intensive borrowings, hybridization of colloquial components, functional styles and semiotic systems modeling multifunctionality and multimodality of network medical discourse. The article states that the study of the Internet language, including the linguistic features of corporate sites, provides important information about oral, written and electronic sp...

The research of interethnic interaction in the educational environment is especially relevant given the global academic mobility processes. The universities all over the world enroll international applicants - representatives of different nationalities and ethnic groups, and this tendency is growing. In view of the above, the fundamental problem of the efficient collaboration of the representatives of different nationalities in global universities is highly pertinent. The article focuses on the analysis of the spe...

The article considers the language specificity within the culture of professional communication: the comparative study of verbal and semantic level of professional and business communication allows not only to establish the role of universal and idioethnic in the structure of professional linguistic personality, but also to trace the relationship and the impact of extralinguistic and linguistic factors on the formation process of linguistic identity. The purpose of this study is to identify the most important verb...

The article considers the language specificity within the culture of professional communication: the comparative study of verbal and semantic level of professional and business communication allows not only to establish the role of universal and idioethnic in the structure of professional linguistic personality, but also to trace the relationship and the impact of extralinguistic and linguistic factors on the formation process of linguistic identity. The purpose of this study is to identify the most important verb...

The research objective is to identify culturally significant information behind semantics of the adjective В‘self-sufficientВ’, which denotes one of the important properties of a human personality in Russian linguoculture against the background of Swedish one. To achieve this goal, definitions of explanatory dictionaries of Russian and Swedish, as well as illustrative contexts of this adjective usage in materials of national corpora of these two languages were analyzed, a questionnaire was developed and a survey o...

Coastal territories are the national growth nodes throughout the world. Concentration of human activity along the coast have long been recognized and conceptualized within the notion of coastalization. Russia is often perceived to be exposed to the opposite effect – continentalization. Article analyzes the antecedents of large business localization in 14 coastal regions of the European part of Russia. Results verify the assumption of companies being attracted to marine coasts of Russia, proving the general coast...

The article studies the festive culture of Latin America, analyzes its shaping under the influence of Spanish festive traditions which were spread to this region. The article shows how the urban environment was changing to correspond with ideas and goals of certain holidays and considers cultural and semantic aspects of Latin American processions similar to European "Entries", both secular and religious. During holidays, local artists depicted the features of urban space, landscape elements, local architecture and...

This article is a contribution to the discussion and analysis of the law-studentsВ’ English language writing skills necessary for effective legal analysis. This paper covers some linguistic issues of lawyerВ’s writing skills developed at law-students studying English at the Institute of Law, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University). The actuality and relevance of this paper is based on the need for adequately prepared lawyers competent to write a speech and various types of legal documents. The g...

One of the most important organizational resources is human resource of that organization, therefore organizations attempt to increase job satisfaction of employees. Employee job satisfaction is an attitude that people have about their jobs and the organizations in which they perform these jobs. Employee job satisfaction is generally recognized as a multifaceted construct that includes employee feelings about a variety of both intrinsic and extrinsic job elements. The result of previous research provide a broad vi...

This paper focuses on youth worker as the educator, who must prioritize and integrate lifelong learning ideas. Firstly, the youth worker is explained as adult learner and on the other side, as the promoter of non-formal education (NFE) in youth center (YC). The formation of a learning society has become a key issue and it is realized through the concept of lifelong learning, which requires the involvement of all parts and opportunities for implementation. European Union lifelong learning basics (the youth self-rea...

In this paper the author deals with the legal and practical analysis of the constitutional principle of presumption of innocence in the Republic of Macedonia. The presumption of innocence is a universally accepted human right that prohibits guilty plea to the accused. The presumption of innocence enables the accused to have an active role in the judicial process. It is the obligation of the public prosecutor to prove the guilty of the accused, not the obligation of the accused to prove his/her innocence. Only the ...

The goal of the criminal and procedural law of (Latvia) consists in the establishment of such an order of the criminal procedure, which provides the effective use of the norms of the Latvian criminal law and fair settlement of the criminal and procedural relations without undue interference in private life. For the achievement of appointment of the criminal procedure within a reasonable time, it is important for the person, directing the process, the investigator, the procurator, the judge to make legal and ground...

This paper analyses legal consequences of applying conscientious objections to childhood mandatory vaccinations in the Czech Republic. There is no common European approach towards childhood vaccination and legal exemptions from statutory duty imposed by part of the states. The European Court of Human Rights considers vaccination campaigns which oblige individual to defer to general interest and not to endanger health of others where his own life is not in danger, not going beyond the margin of appreciation left to...

Generally, the right to employment is considered to be one of the fundamental human rights in a democratic society. It is considered to be a subjective right of anybody to choose employment according to his/her abilities and with a corresponding reward. The legislative base for this right in the Czech Republic is in the constitutional law, particularly in Article 26, paragraph 3 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, which declares that anybody has the right to make his/her living through work. This pr...

The research paper analyses the concept of legal liberalism as the framework for the existence of freedom in modern constitutional states. The genesis of the concept of legal liberalism originates from the works of ancient philosophers, who used to create various theories of ideal states. However, an in-depth analysis of this issue was carried out by great German philosophers Immanuel Kant and Georg Hegel. In Russia, a number of prominent scholars, such as Boris Chicherin, Pavel Novgorodtsev and many others, also ...

The main aim of this article is the evaluation of the private-law regulation of the contract for services in the Polish law. The Polish Civil Code, on the grounds of the principle of the freedom of contracts, has regulated the basic types of the contracts for services as nominate contracts. Pursuant to Article 750 of the Civil Code, the provisions on the contract for mandate apply accordingly to the remaining contracts for services which have not been regulated by other provisions. Thus, it is necessary to establi...

A growing number of areas of daily lives are increasingly affected by robotics. In the European Union (hereinafter: EU) the fast-evolving field of robotics initiated public debate regarding legal framework for the robots. In order to ensure that robots are and will remain in the service of humans, some key legal issues such as human physical safety, liability exposure and privacy/data protection need to be resolved. If we take an example of liability issue, the question is can we hold robots liable for damage when...

The legal policy of the Russian Empire in XIX – early XX centuries in respect of language relations was aimed at strengthening the state positions of the Russian language in a spirit of European doctrines of Romantic era on the importance of the language in the nation’s consolidation. The basis for criticism of the national policy of the Russian Empire was laid by the Russian liberals and the Polish conservatives in the late XIX – early XX centuries. The most revolutionary-radical character the criticism of R...

The legal order of the EU increasingly influences the domestic law of the individual member states of this supranational organization. Labour law is not an exemption, while it is considered to be a relatively independent branch of law in the legal system of the Czech Republic and of the other EU member states. Many member states, including the Czech Republic, have codified this area of law, i.e. the legal relations established through dependent work and the respective co-dependent relations are dealt with by a sep...

This article deals with the modern mechanisms of the non-profit organizations funding and its legal regulation. The matter is that today such organizations play a growing role in building civil society, social dialogue and participatory democracy. But they may be effective if only they are effective in fundraising. NGOs rely on money from a variety of sources, including donations, loans, sponsorships, incomes from entrepreneurial activity and public subsidies. It seems that there are many sources of funding, but f...

The article is devoted to the issues of official results of intellectual activity in the Russian Federation and its connection with labor law. In general, results of intellectual activity are regulated by the civil law; however, in case of service work, service invention, service utility model, service industrial design, service selection invention, and service topology created by the employee in the framework of its labor functions, certain issues are also regulated by the labor law. For instance, the remuneratio...

The legal contractual obligations in comparative law have been regulated in various demeanours. A unified regulation system prevails, upon which both, commercial contracts and civil contracts are regulated by a unified normative legal act. This concept prevails in modern legislation due to the increasing dynamics of movement of goods and services, and it has allowed for the infiltration of numerous civil law rules into the commercial law therein. Contracts, being specific agreements provide for movement of goods a...

Leisure Tourism has increased its share of domestic tourism both in Romania and abroad in the last decades, and so have tourism TV commercials, tourism guides, tourism flyers, etc. The Romanians are practicing new forms of leisure (e.g., golf, kart racing, rafting, river cruise, etc.) involving new means of locomotion to either get to their destinations or to spend their free time. These forms of leisure use such means of locomotion as automobile, balloon, bateau, bicycle, boat, bus, cab, canoe, ferry, gondola, ho...

The aim of the article is to analyse the theoretical basis of the idea of social solidarism proclaimed by Leopold Caro in Poland in the interwar period. Solidarism is for Caro a system different from liberalism and socialism. He contrasted the selfishness characterizing liberalism as well as Marxism and socialist collectivism with an economy for which the overriding values are the person, the common good and the ethical principles present in economic life. Such an approach entailed an interdisciplinary method with...

Proceedings in cases related to the violation of public finance discipline include ordered sequence of activities, that compose a process aimed to decide by competent authorities about liability for such violation. These proceedings are important part of polish public financial system which are based on the act of 17 December 2004 on the liability for violation of public finance discipline and also polish legal solutions are unique in the world financial and legal solutions. Primary research purpose formulated in ...

The paper is focused on religious-geographical research of the city of Liberec, the fifth most populous city in the Czech Republic. Liberec (Reichenberg before 1945) is located in the northern part of the state near the borders with Germany and Poland in the region, which was strongly affected by the expulsion of the German population after the Second World War. This forced emigration and immigration of Czech and Slovak people led to the interruption of tradition and also religious belief which was sharpened durin...

The following thesis focuses on the issues regarding life satisfaction and the impact of well-being on physical and mental health of coalition soldiers during their deployment on a military operation in the Middle East area. The authorsВ’ fundamental research question is how the military operational environment affects the life satisfaction of deployed soldiers and thus affects their health. Obviously, life satisfaction is influenced by the military work activities and specifically in an armed conflict environment...

Introduction: Breast cancer belongs to the most frequent types of cancer in women and its incidence has been increasing worldwide. Mastectomy is one of the treatment options. Breasts represent the symbol of feminity and motherhood, therefore, their loss or surgery resulting in a shape deformity or a scar may lead to psychological problems and low self-esteem. The work aimed to determine the level of overall life satisfaction and the differences in individual scales after complete or partial mastectomy in women. Me...

In the article the author proceeds from the conception that family as a social institution takes a significant part in socialization of the child, being the basic support and a pattern for imitation as a model of the world around. The relations of parents between themselves and the relations of parents with children form a sense-value sphere of the child and as a result his/her life-sense strategies which direct the future life of the child. The theoretical grounds of the research are based on the theories of mean...

In the article the author proceeds from the conception that family as a social institution has got many functions the fundamental one of which is preservation and transference of family values, cultural wealth and traditions. The family has also a significant part in socialization of the person, being the basic support and forming an adequate self-attitude and an attitude to the world as a whole. And transformation of attitudes and values of young men and women is an extremely urgent social-psychological problem i...

The Faculty of Architecture of the Cracow University of Technology has been operating in the adapted building of the Cadet School since. Previously, it was the headquarters of the Kadetten Institute, built in the mid-nineteenth century during the Habsburg Monarchy, on the remains of the former, representative summer residence of Polish kings - in the village of Lobzow near Cracow. Within the walls of this architectural monument are also the remains of a medieval castellum built in 1375 by King Casimir the Great. I...

The most efficient sources of public incomes are public imposts, especially taxes. In accordance with Article 217 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland „the imposition of taxes, as well as other public imposts, the specification of those subject to the tax and the rates of taxation, as well as the principles for granting tax reliefs and remissions, along with categories of taxpayers exempt from taxation, shall be by means of statute”. Shape of the rule of fiscal sovereignty of state laid down in Article...

The tax policy has now become tougher, risks have risen in the use of tax schemes based on abuse of law. Tax authorities and courts are fighting against abuses and illegal schemes in the tax sphere. Taxpayers come up with new methods of tax planning. Russian legislation is gradually beginning to formulate legal norms in the field of tax planning, its principles and criteria. Tax planning and optimization of taxation are not properly regulated at the legislative level, despite the fact that in the science of financ...

Background information The article investigates the role of negation in business discourse, which complies with the communicative code of conduct. It doesnВ’t always permit conversational participants to directly express disagreement, discontent or denial, which fact bespeaks the need to use indirect speech techniques, allowing the interlocutors to achieve their aims while remaining on friendly terms with each other. This is achieved through implicit negation. Methods/Aims The present study aims to give a comprehe...

This paper is concerned with linguacultural peculiarities of slogans featured in advertising discourse. Advertising discourse finds its way into all kinds of institutional communication thanks to its thematically unrestricted nature, genre distinctiveness and its propensity to capture the most inconspicuous manifestations of the ever-changing world. This type of discourse is considered most exemplary as it can reflect the latest trends of socio-linguistic realia within a single slogan, which is viewed as a composi...