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Childlessness in the modern world is becoming increasingly common. Of absolute interest is the assessment of the scale and trends of voluntary childlessness, a comprehensive assessment of factors and models of childlessness. The article attempts to identify the main determinants and typological groups of voluntarily childless men and women on the basis of methods of statistical analysis – descriptive statistics, construction of a goal tree and cluster analysis. Conscious childlessness is not a new phenomenon, wh...

The paper discusses the technological complex of wastewater treatment of wastewater treatment of petrol stations. Based on the review of the main modeling methods of discrete-continuous chemical and engineering processes, it substantiates expediency of using the theory of Petri nets (PN) for modeling the process of wastewater treatment of petrol stations. PN enables to simulate discrete parallel asynchronous processes, to get a graphical representation of the network, to describe the system at different abstractio...

The behavior of local economies during the economic crisis is one of the greatest concerns in the scientific world. The study aims to highlight the patterns of evolution of local economies from Romania, which have a spa tourism function (officially in 2016 there were attested more than 30 territorial systems with spa tourism functionality), for the period 2009-2016, a period marked by a decline for most local economies. In the present paper we intend to quantify how spa tourism contributes to increase the adaptive...

The article describes the main results of interdisciplinary studies devoted to development of a methodological approach to typologization of urbanization processes for small and medium-sized cities in resource regions of Siberia, as well as to modeling the impact of key urbanization factors on the innovative technological, economic and socio-cultural development of the said regions. The reported study was funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Government of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Krasnoyarsk Region Science an...

Organic farming in Latvia is becoming more and more popular. The number of certified organic farms in Latvia increases annually. In 2016, the number of certified organic farms was 4147. The number of companies offering organic products as well as the number of consumers who are willing and able to buy these products is increasing. However, organic products are relatively expensive and less affordable than conventional products, which makes it difficult for farms to sell their produce, thus hindering the developmen...

Insurance means protection against different kinds of risks with financial consequences. In frame of this protection, the insured transfers its risks, the possible negative consequences of which are unbearable to the insurer, i.e. to an insurance company. In order to compensate the insurer for such consequences, the insurance company collects the premium for the transfer of risk, the amount of which depends on the size of conventional damages, having a random character. The balance between premium written and prem...

Mixed use is a term used for implementation of different functions (uses) in the same building. Mixed used buildings are very often related to a high density (compact)urban landscape: city centers, urban centers, particular densities and uses. The term low density refers to housing and describes partially urbanized land with dispersed (non-compact) housing(very often single family houses or semidetached housing). In times of constant urbanization, low density mixed-use houses occur more and more often. It is commo...

Russia's relations with the international financial institutions had a multi-faced character. In the transition period of the 90-ies foreign borrowings, especially from the IMF were not always well-grounded and effective. The obtained financial resources were mainly used to service the state debt and cover the budget deficit and were not aimed at financing technological renovation of Russia's economy, the development of infrastructure and creation of export-oriented high-tech industries. In the early 2000's the ec...

The article analyzes the innovative potential of game technologies for developing studentsВ’ professional dialogical competence. The authors make a historical journey to look at the game theory in the format of interdisciplinary scientific interests, examine a technological model of a training business game in relation to speech studies, and show the educational attractiveness of game technologies for a modern higher school. Consideration is given to didactic aspects of innovative learning models aimed at developi...

Historiography of the history about Civil war is currently on the rise. In many ways, this is connected with the 100th anniversary of the beginning of large-scale military operations on the territory of Russia in the spring of 1918. Recently, a significant number of historiographical works on the history of Civil war have been published and need to be evaluated. The aim of the article is to present the results of the study of the topic, reveal the problems of discussion, note the most important directions that req...

When you develop businesses in the online environment, there are a number of online marketing tools and strategies that generally you have to use: websites, mobile apps, SEO/SEM campaigns, social media and content marketing, etc. If you have a website, in order to improve your business, you should use a Facebook account, a YouTube channel, etc. Also, if you have a YouTube channel, the current online marketing strategies suggest to build a blog for your channel, a mobile app, advertise them on Facebook, and so on. ...

Background: The article discloses some problems of upbringing in recreational activities of children and young people based on innovative trends, forms and methods of work that contribute to their inclusion into the proclaimed humanitarian ideals and values both declaratively and objectively. Special attention is given to SpArtan games that are conditioned by the necessity to solve important modern socio-cultural and pedagogical problems that contribute to recreation and leisure, as well as spiritual and physical ...

What Francis Poulenc means for todayВ’s listener? Successful musician of the 20th century, having a huge success with the public, the French artist, who was brought up and created in a fascinating musical and cultural environment, and whose sources of inspiration, creative directions, genres, styles, concepts of creative thought impress both professionals and the general audience. If we access the official website dedicated to his personality, we are provided with an overall view on the huge documentation around P...

Today, the global economy is in a state of transition from one technological mode to another, more advanced. According to various evaluation society will be the sixth technological way in 2020-2030 This situation has a significant impact on the processes of economic development of individual countries, particularly highly developed. The most significant phenomenon that characterizes this state of the world economy is the so-called digital economy. This was influenced by the active use of information and communicat...

In the article the authors analyze the problem of modernization in Russia, which is currently one of the most important factors of economic development. Modernization is considered as a macro-process of transition from the traditional society to the modern one, which supposes qualitative change of the whole way of life of the country. Studies have shown that society has different views on the concept of the essence of modernization. Many members of society consider this term quite narrowly, most often understandin...

Contemporary brain activity monitoring is called Hemoencephalography (HEG), which shows the quantitative changes in brain activity in a different way. Hemoencephalographic neurofeedback training is a modern alternative to physiologically affect the condition in children with ASD, ADHD and other deviations in mental development. Hemoencephalographic neurofeedback can also be used as an alternative supportive therapy in other conditions with frontal lobe pathology alone or in combination with established drug therap...

Money laundering is the operation by which considerable amounts of illegally achieved money, from different activities such as drug trafficking, drug smuggling, arms dealing, human trafficking, bribery, and corruption or other crimes, are transformed into legal funds earned from legitimate activities. The purpose of this paper is to present the primary forms of money laundering and different mechanisms they set in action and their effects. The methodology used for this paper is made of scholarly articles and artic...

This paper is devoted to the philosophical research of videogames as a phenomenon of modern culture. The subject for study is myth and mythological structures in videogames. Videogames represent value and meaning related constructions of the modern époque. However, they fulfill mythological elements inherent to the archaic consciousness at the same time because the archaic story of the hero’s way consisting of the three basic stages – exodus, initiation, and returning along with the appearance of the hero’s i...

The executive project of the Forte Montecchio North, drawn up by the Military Genius Works Management in 1912 and revised in 1914 with the aim of expanding the powder magazine in the cave in order to store explosives in the same, for road breaks, come from the suppressed TannoВ’s powder magazine (near Chiavenna), reflects the typical characteristics of the Italian forts built between 1904 and 1914, debtors of the theoretical studies of general Enrico Rocchi (Rome, 1850 - 1933). The contribution aims to offer, thro...

Monument has accompanied architecture for ages. From the first civilizations to the twentieth century people erected buildings related to memory, religion or politics, giving them an appropriately serious/solemn style. They expressed social and cultural aspirations. Today, there are no styles and rules in architecture. Yet, we still need to express the greatness, dignity and uniqueness, arousing awe and admiration for buildings. Hence the monumental architecture probably still exists. The subject of research conce...

Describing the Mozart style, the Austrian conductor-authenticator Nikolaus Harnoncourt compared his music with a mirror, which reflects the most bitter conflicts of humanity, while remaining unresolved. According to the conductor, the strength of the moral impact of Mozart's music is due to the transfer in his works of genuine multifaceted human characters, which provided the problems presented in them, where the issues of opposition to good and evil occupy one of the leading places, acute relevance in the conditi...

The author aims at the Ethical Education teaching introduction realized at primary and secondary schools in the Slovak Republic. This subject creates a main supporting area for pupil’s and student’s moral development. Besides the education aspects, the author points at the importance of critical and analytical thinking processes development within this class as a mean of helping and enabling to deepen the understanding and internalization of moral values and norms.

Emotions were always at the heart of the primary nominations. Not a single word was born without a person's emotions. The linguistic aspect of emotionality has become an integral part of scientific research in various fields of knowledge (philosophy, psychology, linguistics, medicine, psycholinguistics, etc.). The ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle described the world of emotions. The problem of realization of the emotional function of the Arabic language was reflected in the works of medieval philolog...

The labor market is the most important element of the economic system, since it represents the aggregate of supply and demand for labor, the balance of which determines the economic growth of the country as a whole and of the particular region, in particular. On the other hand, it is largely correlated with the capital market, the means of production, consumer goods, etc. Thus, it can be said that the labor market is the most important factor in the development of the economy, the effective functioning of which en...

Beauty and accuracy are the two features that a botanical illustration must have in order to be considered as such, rather than simply as an artistic representation of a plant. The scientific and teaching focus must take priority over questions of aesthetics and art. From the first example of botanical illustration on the walls of the Temple of Thutmose III in Karnak, to the illustrations of RedoutГ© in the 19th century, the evolution of botanical illustration has been constant and parallel to science, until photo...

The article provides data on motivational method of teaching students when developing a new sanitary and hygienic product intended for the use in food processing industry and agro-industrial complex enterprises. The research objective was introduction of a new methodology for teaching students when the method of "Game constructing " becomes "Motivational" and is included in the educational process that enables the establishment of universal, general professional and professional competencies of graduates with the ...

Traditionally, the main goal in life is among concepts representing the highest level of the goals hierarchy and self-regulation. This level is closely associated with a presence of meaning in life. The assessment of goals at the highest level depends on a methodological approach. Quantitative studies reduce the assessment of the main goal to its generalized perception, while qualitative studies present a broad variability in its formulations. The aim of this exploratory study was to integrate these views of the m...

The paper presents a multi-criteria approach in multifunctional building system design process. The aim is to develop a theory relative to the engineering system of multifunctional with a mathematical representation defined by a holistic network for the lifecycle of the designed object. The idea of work was to define the structure of a complex system. Background for the presented field is to develop a design strategy for multifunctional high-rise buildings in an intensively used urban space. The methodology depend...

The objects of the research presented in this article are the processes labeled by cultural, philosophical and sociological discourse as clustering of culture and society. The topic of research concerns one of many tendencies of large-scale sociocultural transformation, known as multi-elitism by the author. Cluster communities formed by information facilities, free information exchange (being an "estranged experience"), and by interpersonal communication interactions are defined in the work as "projective" forms o...

The article describes a multilingual educational-methodological complex, “Medical Russian”, which was proven to be the most efficient and intensive, methodically verified, relevant and consistent in conditions of strict time limitations and insufficiently formed competence in Russian as a foreign language. In this multilingual educational-methodological complex, where there is a common “Russian part” but other components are different, the author realizes the methodological strategy for developing professi...

The paper discusses the issue of the possibility of use and applying the latest technological achievements used to collect and display artifacts from the past. The increasing number of collected works and emerging newer areas of archaeological research, later transformed into museum centers, enforce the introduction of other means than physical storage and exhibition. It is becoming easier to show the huge collected material obtained during research and archaeological excavations with the help of several stations ...

The paper presents the results of the first phase of research focused on the evaluation of effective factors of multisensory approaches in the field therapeutic education. The research focuses on -qualitative observation of interventions in people with autism spectrum disorder that were implemented in the year 2017 in Slovakia. Extraction of effective communication factors was accomplished through qualitative methodology using the Atlas software. Multisensory play takes place in a pre-prepared environment that all...

Taking into account environmental, socio-economical, health and safety aspects cycling is fastest growing sustainable mobility alternatives also in Latvian municipalities, having a growing number and diversity of cycling communication projects, but still facing a number of growth difficulties, particularly, lacking governance system development approach and having cycling practice realization fragmentation. Having yet no national framework or any overall support system, in the same time, there are to be seen cases...

A certain article aims to develop a topic of the IT and visitor interaction in terms of a museum's space. The essay evaluates a practical implementation of the IT technologies as well as its utilitarian function. The article proves that a practice of using gesture management tools as well as semantic web possibilities are the future of the European cultural landscape. Analysis of the museumВ’s cases within international field gives a certain opportunity to understand both current and future possibilities of the cu...

The objective of the text is to focus on museum-based education as an element of critical pedagogy of space based. The text is the result of project titled Regional or trans-regional cultural education using the example of museums finansed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. It shows regional museums play important role in teaching about space interpreted as a glocal cathegory. The task of education is to make this journey more visible and to show its educational value, with particular emphasis on th...

Museum exhibition not only display objects, it tells the stories behind them, brings the ideas and concepts which were the source of their creation. The fundamental aspect of museum exhibitions is to create a space where the process of interpretation and conferring of a meaning will occur as an essential “content” of the museum. Therefore the overriding aim of this paper is to provide specific example of the role of museum exhibition in the process of constructing historical knowledge, based on the uniqueness ...

In this work, authors present the study of two examples of modern museums, i.e. the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem (YVHHM, Israel) and the Family Home of John Paul II Museum in Wadowice (JP2FHM, Poland). The main objective of the research was to analyze the influence of the multi-method style of narration on stimulating learning environments in both museums. On the first stage of the study, the literature review was prepared. On the basis of the other authorsВ’ observations as well as own experie...

This study aims to describe the main musical and aesthetic concepts that define music as a special kind of language. The Ancient Greek doctrine of ethos claims that music is associated with feelings, since it imitates the human voice and expresses oneВ’s state of mind or mood. In the doctrine of the affections music is compared to the art of rhetoric in its ability to affect emotions. So if rhetoric is an art of persuasion, then music is an art of suggestion. Romanticism in its turn declares music the language of ...

Music is a sensory marketing element. Retail image is formed by material, functional and psychological factors in physical environment showing how consumers identify the brand, price position and offered values. Retail atmosphere is closely related to the perception of psychological factors, which are retained in memory as brand symbolism and a pleasant atmosphere affects consumerВ’s loyalty. Music stimulates consumerВ’s response and behaviour in the retail environment. The effects of music are studied in terms of...

The paper presents the results of research focused on music education at elementary schools that specialize in regional culturally oriented education and folk culture in Slovakia after 2008. The Elementary Art School of Folk Dance and Music in RuВћomberok is introduced here in greater detail.

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

Background: Managers are looking for methods and tools that will allow their enterprises to function safely and be competitive in the market and develop systematically . The simplest solution applied mainly in the commercial sector is functioning in a group purchasing organization. Such groups are mainly associated with joint purchases and the use of economies of scale. However, within the group purchasing organization of an enterprise, in addition to common purchasing power, they are able to use various types of ...

There are many businesses in the market that try to attract customers to their services. If the services are not offered by the staff, the owners of the premises may be unnecessarily trying to increase their profits. If a business management decides to perform quality evaluation through a third, objective person, they can opt for the mystery shopping method. Mystery Shopping is a method of evaluating the process of providing a service. It is mainly about evaluating the performance of employees who are in direct co...

Economic history of the Soviet period needs further study to understand the motivations and actions of the state leaders, as well as the response of the population and public institutions to the ensuing results. Soviet political economy was primarily a tool of ideology. The objective laws of economics were not considered, as reflected in the economic policy of the Soviet state. The Kosygin reform of the 1965 takes a special place among the numerous Soviet reforms. They were preceded by the period of political "tha...

The article deals with the precedent name "Napoleon" which is regarded as an element of historical memory, a national cultural code. The aim of the work is the semantic-cognitive modeling of this precedent name in a comparative aspect. Analyzing different contexts containing the name "Napoleon" / "NapolГ©on" we apply methodologies of semantic cognitive modeling, supplemented with contextual and statistical analysis. The analysis revealed a semantic-cognitive model of the precedent name "Napoleon" / "NapolГ©on" fun...

The new normality of individual and business life is increasingly built up under the influence of the key role of digital technology. Economic agents operate in unprecedented global engagement and continuously expanding business opportunities and information sharing capabilities. The information society transforms the restrictive conditions of place and time into factors of relative importance. Digital technologies go deep in a wide range of everyday and routine business processes and cause changes with significan...

A broad approach to essential theoretical issues, the multilateral examination of the defining aspects of the national specificity and the stylistic system that they express are an imperative for our aestheticians and art critics. The profound originality of our culture, the outstanding artistic sensitivity of the Romanian people, the exceptional achievements both in folkloric and cultural arts, developed within the same stylistic coordinates, must be studied with insistence and depth, the result of research being...

In today's world, animals play an important role in people's lives. They become friends of people, a source of joy and happiness for children and adults, a cure for loneliness for the elderly. The way of thinking of peoples is diverse due to national specifics, which is reflected in the diversity of figurative meanings of the vocabulary related to the names of animals [1]. This agenda is what the article is devoted to. Knowledge of the specifics of the associative-figurative meanings of the vocabulary of a certain...

Today in Russia an independent system of qualifications replacing tariff-qualification reference book is being introduced. In foreign countries such systems already exist and run successfully, but in Russia they have appeared relatively recently. Therefore the implementation of an independent system of qualifications involves certain difficulties. An independent system of qualifications consists of four elements: a professional standard, an independent assessment of qualifications, a professional-public accreditat...

The article investigates the influence of the national-cultural specificity of speech behavior on the formation of expressive forms of address in the Russian language as well as in the Colombian and Costa Rican variants of the Spanish language. Groups of expressive addresses are distinguished depending on their semantic load, ways of transferring evaluativity and expressiveness; pragmatic factors affecting their formation and functioning are described, namely: evaluative-characterizing and emotivecharacterizing on...