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For decades there has been a general presupposition that the main aim of an academic degree is to guarantee good career prospects and fulfillment of economic and other material needs of an individual in future. However, recently the focus has finally shifted from the concept of personal welfare to the concept of global wellbeing and universal sustainability. This positive change has been embraced by the leading educational institutions which resulted in adapting the curricular to the modern scenario of the common ...

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...

An optimal health, viewed ontogenetically, is a desideratum that combines several essential factors such as: the physical and mental activity determined by the genetic inheritance and own ideals, correct nutrition, in relation to the physical and mental effort, and rest in accordance with the other factors. All the listed factors apply to the human body as a whole. This paper aims to measure and evaluate the body composition of the students from the University Politehnica of Bucharest by means of the bioelectric i...

The article is devoted to the research of relation between the competitive position of the firm (cluster) and monetary policy. For objective reasons, the Bank of Russia cannot become the main driver of economic development, but can create conditions for this by maintaining price, social and financial stability, ensuring stability and development of the financial sector and settlement system. Bank of Russia conducts monetary policy within the framework of inflation targeting. The interaction of monetary policy and ...

Due to their increasing incidence and intensity, weather anomalies are fast becoming one of the main challenges currently faced by organisations worldwide. Their negative consequences can be reduced, however, by developing organisational resilience that provides the capacity to survive the period of disruption and quickly restore organisational structures. The article discusses the mechanisms of organisational resilience triggered by extreme weather phenomena. Said mechanisms constitute a particular form of organi...

The vital need of the present-day development of Russian society regulates the theoretical conceptualization of the notion of civic participation, determination of the conditions under which it can develop, and identification of barriers obstructing this process. Promotion of the local populationВ’s social participation in public activities of municipalities is one of the primary tasks for a local government. The aim of the research is to identify means and conditions for promoting civic engagement in local commun...

The article shows the relationship between the characteristics of the post-modern society, and the development of media architecture with the function of interactivity. In this context, the duality of the features of post-modern society was emphasized: taking into account its location between creativity and consumerism, as well as on the border between the real and virtual word. The development of media architecture has been linked also to the city development models derived from the Smart City concepts, open to i...

Pursuing the goal, which is to examine the influence of information visualization trend that prevails in the modern culture on the existing mediasphere and transformation processes that have been unwinding in the mass communications and mass information domain over the past several decades, as well as to define the vectors of this influence, its features that transform the content of todayВ’s mass media, their format, genre and typology properties and methods of interaction with the media consumer, the authors of ...

The most important instrument of global governance is social media technology. Women's magazines, as a tool of these technologies, especially in demand in the event of a long process of reformatting the mass consciousness. Young women in Russian society are the most socially active and educated part. Their values and social ideals define the paradigm of the future culture of the next generation in Russia. In this sense, young women are the target audience for the use of social technologies suggestion coordinated u...

The study of media content and its impact on the audience is topical for modern Russian information and communication resources. 33 media threats concerning unmanaged development of media space and 9 methods to minimize harm from the negative influence of media, including social media, on audience were identified by researchers of the Faculty of Communications, Media and Design (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia). These media threats and methods of neutralizing them were tested on a group of respondents o...

In this study, with the help of aesthetic analysis, we considered the video by blogger Danila Poperechnyi “They are trying to shut me up”. We believe that the video content on YouTube should be viewed from not only communicative positions, but also aesthetic ones. Bloggers trying to influence audience emotionally, to broadcast certain ideas. We developed an approximate algorithm for the mediaesthetic analysis of video on YouTube. Also we used the following methods for video analysis: aesthetically-applied anal...

Consumer protection legal regulation has been undergoing a long-term development in the Czech Republic and is largely influenced by European legislative standards, as well as by the national law. Consumer contracts are specific type of obligational relationship where one of the parties (the consumer) enjoys increased legal protection. Mediation has not been a part of the Czech legal system for a long time, yet its use in practice is expanding. Recently, the entrepreneurs begun to include the mediation clauses in t...

This article is devoted to the history of epigrammatic art as one of most problematic and interesting phenomena, paying special attention to its oral and written manifestations closely attached to medical art in all its aspects. Thus, the authors point out the main features and particularities of epigrams as a classical small literary genre which together with poems, epitaphs and other small form a real separate trend in the European literary art. In the frame of diachronic approach to the topic they give a detail...

The paper aims to examine topical issues on the current status and development prospects of the monetary economy of Russia. Developing economy of Russia plays a special role in contemporary world. Financial market is of particular importance for the development of the Russian economy. It has constantly improved, actively developing. Experts believe that in the near future Russian financial and credit institutions will influence more the world economy and stock markets growth. In this regard, of particular interest...

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. ...

The paper investigates memory narratives in contemporary Latvian and North American life-writing with the focus on Latvian writer Anita Liepa's autobiographical fiction and Canadian writer Alice Munro's short stories. The theoretical framework of the paper is related to the fast developing memory culture after the end of the Cold War in Europe and Latvia as well as globally, and sketches out the theoretical framework of memory writing referring to the studies of Maurice Halbwachs, Pierre Nora, Paul Ricoeur, Aleida...

Usage of childВ’s perspective (including its sophisticated utilization of naivety) in the literature for adults is able to unmask deformed social experience and human characters in extraordinarily convincing way. The work of the German author Edgar Feuchtwanger - Hitler, My Neighbour - is ranked among this kind of proses. The author depicts collective trauma of humanity (racial genocide in the 20th century) by the means of the childВ’s optics. The authors of the study interpret two levels of factualism in this mem...

The text investigates new phenomena emerging in the field of social memory and commemoration in contemporary Poland. On the basis of field analyses, case studies and theoretical, transdisciplinary approaches, the paper discusses the issue of contemporary memoryscapes in eastern Poland (Bialystok and Lublin). These emerging forms of remembrance are the result of the sophisticated interplay between different actors involved in the social discourse of memory: witnesses and their testimonies, historical artefacts, arc...

This indicated research embodies a current phase of concerns regarding Cluj-NapocaВ’s commercial spaces within the historic center in order to assign its pure character of the city. Merchandising is a key-factor in a center area on the matter of competing businesses, social and ethnic interaction and also maintaining a full social life of the city. Our current findings point out a severe drop in high-end department stores in the historic area of the city. In this way, low standard department store alters the quali...

Practice represents the most important aspect in a performerВ’s life. It is a creative process that improves musical and functional abilities that one needs in order to master music for performance. Practicing strategies that focus on meta-cognitive skills for deeper understanding and learning, like setting and monitoring goals, or developing the ability to persist in spite of the problems that may appear and also cultivating a growth mind-set (especially in young instrumentalists and singers), have been shown to ...

The documents and data used by scientists to "do research" have become digital and the exchanges of these have accelerated since the invention of the web. Accessing, distributing and sharing via the web is today at the heart of the practices of scientists and students. At the beginning, the web was the support and the vector of the diffusion of the documents and remained at the bottom of the documentary databases, in more or less closed systems. The information is interlinked by hypertext or hypermedia relationshi...

Political metaphorology is a research area in modern science, which arose at the intersection of political linguistics on the one hand, and the conceptual metaphor theory (G. Lakoff), on the other. Until the end of the previous century, the undisputed leaders of the considered scientific area were scholars from the United States, but since the beginning of this century, such studies have been actively carried out in Russia, Germany, France, Bulgaria, and other European countries. The main interest of modern Russia...

The purpose of our article is to describe the teaching of synthetic speech activities as a new technology, which we use when teaching Russian to foreign students. The development of this technology is conditioned by the fact that, at the present stage, various texts of network discourse are used as didactic materials, i.e., newsfeed texts, media projects, videos, and interviews. Changes in the quality of didactic materials require new forms and methods of working with them. All the above-mentioned reasons have led...

Integration interaction, various forms of integration and its participants are of great interest to Russian and foreign economists, researchers of the sectoral, regional, national and world economy. Integration of industrial enterprises is largely determined by economic and social institutions, adaptation to changes is a key condition for the viability, stability and efficiency of the functioning and development of integration structures in industry. The development of mechanisms for the functioning of industrial ...

The methodology of teaching Romanian to foreign students involves countless aspects of both classical and modern approaches. In this type of teaching approach one must take into consideration certain effective and subtle stratagems in order to make the learning difficulties of lexical and morpho-syntactic structures of the Romanian language more accessible to the foreign students. That is why it is good to know that learning is efficient if it starts from the understanding of the notions taught or existing in diff...

The article is devoted to the analysis of methods of innovative development evaluation in social and economic systems. The comparative analysis of methods of innovative development evaluation is carried out. The study identified a number of problems in the metrology of innovative development ratings. The analysis revealed a set of identical indicators characterizing this process at the macro, meso and micro levels. Most of these indicators are aimed at the innovative component evaluation in developed countries. Bu...

This article is devoted to the peculiarities of teaching microsocial studies of students and PhD students in universities. The authors substantiate the difference between microsocial research and sociological research, placing emphasis on the need to study first as much as the latter. The fact is that the problems of a small sample and a deviation from a normal distribution can be solved by using nonparametric statistics, qualitative methods, big data, web 3.0 and case-study strategies. This article details the fe...

The article discussed the specifics of the functioning of the typical mechanisms of re-gional self-regulated organizations to support small businesses in the economy of the Russian Federation. In order to improve the mechanism for the activities of the regional self-regulatory organization to support small business, more complete implementation of the system of statutory functions for the development of small businesses in the re-gion, improve the level of sustainability to fluctuations of the external environment...

The article presents speculation about the possibility of using a corporate tool of strategic planning, such as the balanced scorecard (hereinafter BSC) at the sectoral management level. We propose BSC constructing method for the regional industry (in the context of the Stavropol Territory of the Russian Federation). According to this method, the existing mission of the region's industry is used to build a strategy map, select key performance indicators to achieve the strategic goals, as well as describe control p...

This article is devoted to the modernization of the laboratory practical work of chemical disciplines studied by future bachelors of the technical university with a view to strengthening the research-teaching link, creating conditions for the development of research competence of future engineers while attending junior university courses. On the basis of grounded by us earlier the concept and structure of the information-and-activity-based educational environment for the fundamental chemical training, the structur...

The relevance of the research is conditioned by the need to change approaches to the formation of common criteria and mechanisms for motivating the students' abilities and readiness to effect in non-standard situations. Students have had a social and ethical responsibility for made decisions "in real time". The existing approaches are obsolete, since mutations of extraneous biological objects in the technological processes of different types of products at enterprises occur faster than before Such a situation requ...

Students of non-linguistic universities are currently being exposed to ever more extensive English classes. With this category of students, the least developed methods of teaching Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) are the ones designed to develop the skills of specialised terminology usage. Since terminology forms the core of a professional language, it can be viewed as a conglomerate of its basic attributes and properties. Terms are the most mobile layer of the vocabulary, subject to constant and intensive enr...

A comprehensive and detailed description of the impact of the migration movement of the population on the socio-economic situation cannot be achieved without statistical indicators that quantify the phenomena and processes associated with the territorial movements of people. In this context, it is necessary to note the specifics of the situation. On the surface, a more or less digestible system of indicators of population migration statistics was formed, which is widely used in practice. The overwhelming majority ...

The constant aspirations of mankind towards higher economic growth lead to a sharp consolidation of the geographic space, an increase in the raw-energy deficit and an increase in the world's water consumption. Migration policies during different historical periods are motivated by relevant political, economic and social circumstances. The worst migratory waves have been caused by world and regional wars. The salvation of human life, family and children has always been at the heart of the evolution of migration phe...

Transition to the 21st century brought within the framework of the European a special situation, namely, migration of the population to the other member states in order to find well paid jobs. The research analyses the population migration within the last 3 years compared with the period 1990-2000. It takes into account the level of migration from countries such as Romania, Bulgaria or Hungary immediately after the accession to the European Union. The research is based on data from the European Union reports, the ...

The article analyzes, through the lens of linguistics, psychological problems faced by migrants trying to adapt in contemporary Russian society. The authors consider the “pain points” of people’s language disunity from the standpoint of the anthropological approach to ethnolinguistics and make a hypothesis that it is language that is the main problem of migrants’ adaptation and one of the main reasons for the polarization of society that divides it into two camps on the “friend or foe” principle. Most of...

The article deals with the results of an empirical study conducted within the framework of the project "Social risks of international youth migration in contemporary Russia". The purpose of the presented study is to identify and assess the main social risks that are constructed in the Russian society in the context of international migration. The telephone survey was used as the main method of gathering empirical information. In 2017, two surveys were conducted covering 15 regions in all federal units; the total n...

At present, in institutions and organizations, we can see increasing demands on the ability to cooperate and link the individual components of these organizations more closely, which requires leaders to use new leadership strategies. Even traditional complex hierarchical organizations such as the army and the police must adopt new leadership and management practices in the times of rapid technology and social change, and introduce procedures that focus on sharing power and promoting co-operation. One such strategy...

The aim of the paper is to assess the millionaire cities attractiveness for residents in the Russian Federation in the period from 2011 to 2015. Ranking is made using 20 indices combined in five groups. As a result, authors find out that the best positions among millionaire cities in their attractiveness for living are taken by Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and Chelyabinsk. They are characterized by a high standard of living, the state of the economy, and the provision of social infrastructure. A little lower attracti...

The season of 2017/2018 in Latvia was especially rich in stagings of plays by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828 – 1906). Ibsen’s plays were staged both in theatres and opera, in the capital city of Riga and other towns in Latvia. On the whole in the season of 2017/2018 Latvian audience could watch 7 staged plays by Ibsen. 2 of them are interpretations of “Peer Gynt” in Latvian National Theatre (premiere on 27 October 2016, director Viesturs Kairišs) and Latvian National Opera (premiere on 28 October ...

The experience of flow has been known for a long time across all cultures of the world. It was not a privilege of rich elites from industrial countries. Similar terms have been used by old Korean women, adults from Thailand, teenagers from Tokyo, members of the Navajo tribe, farmers from the Italian Alps, and workers from Chicago. Happiness is not a result of coincidence; it is not something you can buy or achieve when you are in power. It does not depend on outside conditions. Happiness is a state for which one h...

The problems of minimizing tax risks when Russian companies paid income to foreign organizations were constantly in the focus of attention of economists and practitioners. The number of publications of both foreign and Russian researchers in this field has a steady upward trend. This is due to the observed increase in the number of foreign organizations receiving income from sources located on the territory of Russia, as well as the expansion of the range of controversial issues arising in the current conditions f...

In the present paper some possibilities for construction and application of various modifications of the well-known transportation problem are proposed aiming the minimizing of the transportation costs for transferring the material flows between suppliers and consumers. The transportation costs are usually a significant part of the total logistical expenses and each logistic system has its own specifics and characteristics for transportation of materials, goods and products. This gives opportunities for applying d...

Background: Mobbing is one of psychosocial risks; it is a serious and latent problem of many workplaces resulting in a psychological injury and an adverse working atmosphere. Increased staff turnover is a rather common consequence. The aim of our research was to determine the level of bullying in health professionals and the relationship between mobbing and intention to leave a job. Method: The research was designed as a questionnaire survey and took place in 2017. Participants should be employed in their job for ...

The need to ensure mobility of persons with disabilities is due to an increase in the absolute and relative number of people with disabilities, which is a global trend. The United Nations Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, adopted in 2006, was aimed at solving these problems. The actual problem of the Russian social practice is the provision of physical and social mobility of the disabled, the formation of a monitoring system of the rights of the disabled and the availability of infrastructure ...

The article deals with the topic of the mobility of socially excluded Roma women. It is aimed at analyzing how mobility can work as a reaction strategy of solving social exclusion and the related poverty. The topic is based on the theories describing space mobility as motivation for improvement of life conditions, particularly in case of poverty. The study was implemented by the qualitative research strategy, the method of questioning and the technique of biographic-narrative interview. The research set consisted ...

The paper introduces the general model of andragogical vocational consultancy. Based on the theoretical research drawing from theoretical approaches of Slovak and foreign authors and arguments resulting from the current socio-cultural and socio-economic conditions, this paper explains the meaning of the educational consulting support aimed at adults who are healthy and (potentially) productive in their work during their vocational life. The authors consider the andragogical vocational consultancy as a process para...

The creation of socially involved space, both on an architectural and urban scale, has become one of the determinants of contemporary design in recent years. Designing areas that will meet additional social goals is often associated with widening of the group of people involved in its creation. One of the possible models is connected with using local participation as a method of creating a functional space. Examples of activities that were undertaken in 2014-2017 during cyclical architectural workshops in the vill...

The article describes the GermanyВ’s investment attractiveness mathematical model. The model is based on the institutional and functional approach. The distinctive feature of the institutional-functional approach is the inclusion into the model of the endogenous variables that characterize the institutions performing the function of attracting investors into the country: the technological development institution, the companiesВ’ registration institution, the country economic freedom institution. Functional compone...

In today's global world an image of a certain country and its society plays a significant role in international relations. The creation of such image depends largely on the attitude of the mass-media and their ownersВ’ policy. For the past several decades research is done over many different aspects of the modern communication processes in search for better target audience impact methods and models. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the principal model of forming an inter-country communication within a spe...