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The problem of assisting people who have committed crimes has always been one of the most controversial themes among society. Fact of prison isolation, as well as long-term custodial sentences, makes it very difficult for a person to adapt to the society after leaving it. Assistance and effective action on people who have left prison not only helps to adapt them to everyday life in society but also, in particular, prevents them from entering into renewed conflict with the law. These people cannot be left without h...

The article is devoted to the issues of the general economic development and clustering trends within the Black Sea Region. The authors analyze and conceptualize the post-Soviet dynamics of the region for the last decades and point out the vectors that changed the balance of power among the Black Sea countries. Integrative and disintegrative trends are also analyzed, the special attention being payed to cross-border economic clustering (including cross-aquatic one). Such clustering (both existing and potential) is...

The balance is one of the most important skills of the postural control and ability to move. The data of many studies have shown that postural sway was reduced while participants perform a balance task concurrently with a cognitive task. There are some evidences that postural sway decreases under threatening conditions. The aim of this study was to examine the immediate postural responses evoked by head movements standing on foam surface. The study subjects were 32 first-year students. Participants ranged in ages ...

The most general expression of child psychological abuse can be any behavior that damages the self-confidence and self-awareness of the child. One of such situation may be a divorce of parents, which means a huge change in the life of a child, regardless of age. The child must adapt to the transition between two different households and to the day-to-day absence of one parent. The paper provides a theoretical overview of the issue of divorce and its negative impact on the child's psyche, pointing to similar aspect...

This article deals with the use of information and communication technologies as a means of educational and professional self-realization of students in the process of university education. The essence of information and communication technologies as a necessary condition for successful student self-actualization is grounded. The main components of the educational and professional self-realization of students of a higher educational institution are revealed. The concept of educational and professional self-actuali...

The article presents the living idea of the creation of places of worship and religious encounter and dialogue between Christian communities against the background of the division between the Christian East and West and the hidden potential of its returning to ecumenical unity. Based on a short case study, it demonstrates the architectural design of the All Saints Temple as an academic ecumenical chapel in the campus of the Bialystok University of Technology. By referring to the universal symbolism of forms and or...

Presenting the world in its theosis, in transformation into saved reality was and is the basic function of all types of art. This is how it used to be. Is this the case today? Is such a synthesis possible nowadays? Is it a transmission of “living” Church Tradition and its esthetic and religious experience of sacrum? How does it happen? Asking a question about the meaning of human existence, we also ask about the meaning of man’s creativity through art, creativity understood as a continuation of divine work of...

Background information The article studies one of the key pragmatic goals of professional communication – influencing the addressee – by considering French and English precedent phenomena consequential to the target audience. Advertising as a goal-oriented speech effort is becoming an increasingly popular object of humanitarian research. The inextricable connection of language and culture has recently become the focus of renewed interest, and in this context of professional communication studies, precedent phe...

Short-term visions, a weak understanding of the mechanisms of the economic and social environment, lack of responsibility are frequently seen in the global society, signaling the loss of direction of the economic world and lying at the basis of economic and financial disasters, as well as lessons supporting the need to reconsider corporate governance mechanisms and reinforce the place and part of control therein. Corporate governance is as important for the business world as democracy for the rule of law. The grea...

The diffusion and development of digital technologies had radically changed the way in which museums and cultural institutions offer content to the public. In this regard, the academic field has been discussed about the connection between the Design discipline and Cultural Heritage for several years; this is due to the profound transformations faced in both Design and Cultural Heritage areas. Through the description of two different pro-jects we intend to highlight the problem of technology, which does not represe...

Latvia re-established its independence in 1990. National policy-makers imposed serious responsibility when making decisions as they were affecting the LatviaВ’s people's well-being and development. This study analyzes the interaction of two State Presidents of Latvia after regaining of independence in 1991: Guntis Ulmanis, the first State president (1993-1999) and Dr. Vaira Vike-Freiberga (1999-2007), with the Parrliament of Latvia within decision-making process, using suspended veto. State President is a formal l...

In the present article are examined issues of the amount of compensated harm under the traditional approach to tort law, analyzed functions of tort law, defined some regularities: traditional (continental) approach prefers the function of compensation in tort law, while economic analysis approach is based on the function of prevention. Hereby amount of harm subject to compensation directly depends on the function of tort law to which the lawmaker gives priority. Considering modern trend of derogation from compensa...

In the article the problems of the financial controlling in group of medical companies are being researched, the algorithms of calculation relevant in the meaning of the supplier and customer interests the indexes of economic profit are being developed, the forms of financial reporting and registers, forming the price-oriented financial indexes are being represented for the readers attention.

Technologies are changing rapidly. Dynamics of transformations of world economy obliges companies to react to such changes. In our opinion, new innovative economy is an embodiment of J. Schumpeter's ideas about creative destruction. Besides, it is obvious that opportunities of information technologies are not limited yet: forming new potentials for more effective functioning of the markets will continue. But there are many problems in innovations development in well-established companies. In our opinion, in Russia...

Being sentenced to imprisonment is one of the most severe penalties since it substantially limits the freedom of functioning. Imprisonment in a penal institution requires modification of the way the person functions and often forces the person to adjust to the internal principles used in the prison. Therefore, the mutual identity of women who are detained in penal institutions was adopted as the basis for the investigations. The analysis of the identity acquired in penal institutions was based on the theory of tot...

The study deals with the language used in classified ads on online auction websites. Based on a corpus compiled from Czech online advertising websites during autumn 2016 it describes both extrinsic and intrinsic textual criteria of this discourse in order to create a wholesome linguistic picture of the text type classified ad; furthermore, it compares the results with a similar study based on German classified ads (IMO 2012). The classifieds predominantly feature selling second-hand goods. So the study does not in...

The article is devoted to the original author's conception of development of contemporary nonclassical (postnonclassical) science. According to this model, evolution of science is a unity of two processes: a) a process of discretion, formulation and solving of basic scientific problems and b) a process of reflexive-critical comprehension of results of scientific search and its main stages. Intra-scientific and general cultural reflexion reveals features of self-organization and self-correction (in the terms of Cha...

The aim of this study is to gain insights into social workers' experience of working and providing support, as employees of Centers for Social Welfare (CSW), to children with developmental difficulties and their families. Methods: Qualitative research has been conducted. The data were collected by means of a focus group, involving seven social workers, and a semi-structured interview involving twelve social workers with experience of working in the field of supporting children with disabilities and their families ...

The aim of the research undertaken by authors was to analyze the prospects for the development of international cooperation in the field of criminal justice, as well as to assess the prospects for the development of joint counteraction to crime between the Russian Federation and foreign states. Its methodology included both the general scientific methods and specific juridical methods of cognition. The results of the research make it possible to obtain new knowledge in the field of organizing international coopera...

Russian cities have been transformed considerably in the post-soviet period, including economic base, forms of ownership, architectural view, land structure, methods of planning and governance. However, the patterns of such transformation are significantly varying for different types of cities. In this paper the major transformation processes and the factors influencing the pace and scale of urban economy transformationsare discussed on the example of the cities, including in Yekaterinburg agglomeration. The autho...

The number of offences committed by minors remains consistently high. According to data of the State Police of the Republic of Latvia, in 2016 the number of juvenile offences grew slightly from the previous year: 907 offences by minors were recorded in 2016, and the number of minors who committed offences increased. [1] The fight against juvenile crime is a set of complex measures, including both fight and prevention. Complex measures are implemented by state and municipal officials, who have certain duties define...

In modern world, large metropolises are beginning to play an increasingly important role. It also applies to many Polish cities. In Poland carrying out metropolisation process, understood as creating special solutions for metropolitan areas in the form of large urban agglomerations, that are facilities of various networks (transport, scientific, economic) and development centres, is not satisfactory. Initiatives to ensure management of metropolitan areas have been undertaken for a long time, but still without achi...

There has been a trend towards the destruction of semantic unity between the past, present and future generating significant gaps in social memory of the people in the XXI century. The pace of sociocultural changes become extremely high. All these challenges relate to the process of globalization, strengthening of mass communications unification and unpredictable consequences of modernization projects. Challenges of modern situation demand a participation of new specialists in educational process who have interdis...

The intensification of international migration processes in the modern world entails a number of issues, one of which is the problem of social adaptation and integration of migrants in the social life of the host country. This issue is on the agenda in all countries receiving migrants and refugees, including Russia. The Russian Federation is the center of regional migration processes, becoming the main state receiving migrants from the former Soviet Union countries, especially from Central Asian. Along with the po...

The transition to the use of new information technology means is a characteristic feature of the modern general education and higher school. The programs of informatization are being implemented and the means of education informatization are being developed in the educational process of the educational institutions of Tatarstan within the framework of the priority national project "Education". Modern educational standards also pay special attention to the need of competence development in the use of information an...

The article is an analysis of the relevance of such problems of the Russian legal doctrine and practice as a provision of the collective interests in the field of public health. Taking into account the paramount importance of health as a factor determining the quality of life, the authors emphasize the special role of social mechanisms for the protection and promotion of health. The most effective mechanism is similar, in their opinion, is a legal mechanism, the essence of which is to give the protection of health...

In the mentioned scientific article, on the basis of the current administrative procedural legislation, judicial practice and legal doctrine, author has conducted a scientific study of the peculiarities of solving cases involving the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine as a plaintiff in administrative cases concerning persons who violated the legislation of Ukraine about the state border. There are determined main grounds for refusal to satisfy an administrative claim of the body of the State Border Guard Servic...

Supporting a gifted student in the conditions of early school education is associated with any problems concerning, above all, economic and organizational possibilities and traditions of the Polish school and finally - teacher's preparation. The article will analyze these last conditions. The aim of the research was to show the state of preparing teachers for the individual recognizing and supporting the ability of students from the first to the third grade. Research questions were formulated regarding to teachers...

Higher education institutions are accountable for recalibrating education systems to enhance social cohesion and entrepreneurial skills which generate value creation for economy, culture and society. The paper attempts to model the processes needed to transform the teacher-centred learning (TCL) into student-centered learning (SCL) based on the well-known SIPOC (Supplier-Inputs-Process-Outputs-Customers) technique from the quality management domain. The research methodology was built on two objectives: i) qualitat...

Design is largely considered to be everything from a beautiful form to an innovative consumer product. What certainly differs an artefact from the designed product is that a product is created for the mass-cultures and mass-production and its development requires choosing of a precise methods organized in a specific design process. The complexity of design today lies in handling not only the creativity and industry but also rapid scientific and technological development and new social challenges. All these factors...

The article deals with the differential trends in the social and economic regional development in the context of globalization. The authors believe that important factors of regional development today are innovation resource areas, their institutional environment, political regimes and regional policy, and geographical and socio-demographic factors. Globalization processes have an impact on the level of state differentiation. Some countries will follow global trends whereas others can lag behind. Trends are contro...

In the modern economy, competitiveness is put forward as one of the conditions of economic recovery. In order a sector to be competitive and viable in the long term, and to be successful in its activity, the sector has to ensure competitive production. Production competitiveness is a significant factor determining the sector's development potential. The goal of the research is to evaluate the production competitiveness of Latvian fisheries sector. On the grounds of the author's offered evaluation methodology and g...

In the Polish higher education, the career path covers two subsequent academic degrees (doctor and habilitated doctor), as well as the title of professor. Being awarded these degrees and title depends on the individual assessment of scientific achievement in the form of publications, participation in research projects and the degree of internationalization of scientific activities. Having the above universal legal and substantive conditions in mind, there are no objective barriers hindering the professional develo...

Some basic characteristics of university culture are considered from the viewpoint of socio-cultural, structural and resource approaches, some formal and informal features of a group of professors as an elite professional group in the professional entity of academic staff are showed, for they are the guardians of traditions and they transfer the university culture. The deformation ratio of formal and informal features of that professional group is reported. The emphasis is laid on the importance of the traditions ...

Professional skepticism of auditors is considered one of the most important factors of auditing and audit quality. Auditing standards describe requirements to evaluate audit evidence with an attitude of skepticism. Professional skepticism is the crucial element which is missed when audit failures occur. This paper examines academic research related with the auditorsВ’ skeptical judgement and decisions. The main purpose of the research is to provide conceptual description of the professional skepticism, emphasize i...

In the modern socio-economic conditions, professional socialization plays a significant role in the process of reproduction of highly qualified specialists, furthermore, it allows to carry out successful entry of a specialist into a professional space, in accordance with the market demands to transform the socio-professional structure of society. Professional space appears as macro-media, creates the conditions for the formation of a specialist with professional competencies, professional culture, professionalism ...

In this paper we see this research goal is to methodologically provide rationalization for the study of the academic entity development dynamics, which makes it possible to disclose the university culture transformation taking place during the higher professional education modernization process. The systemic character of university culture within the regional society development is reported. University culture is considered to be a special complex of corporate culture, based on the values of professional culture, ...

Background. Sensorimotor alalia (SMA) is regarded as a specific Russian-language term but it has no analogs in neurology and neuropsychology. It is a disorder of impressive and expressive speech development at the early stages without the previous period of normal speech development according to ICD-10. The term SLI (specific language impairment) reflects other types of speech disorders. It is an urgent question if SMA is more closely connected with the disorders of programming, regulation and control functions th...

Within the new era of digitalization, software development and personalization projects play a major role for the IT & Telecommunication players. They also come with a range of associated risks like the risk of not being able to deliver on time, on budget or the needed scope. It is thought that having the clients directly involved in the development and personalization process comes with a range of benefits that help lower the projectВ’s overall risk. In order to demonstrate the added value of supplier-client coll...

Enhancement of English language competence in professional communication can be a great challenge for both teachers and students. This scientific paper aims to showcase the effective implementation of project-based technologies in the formation of appropriate mastery of professional language proficiency among students of architectural and building specialities (on the basis of English language) through simulated professional situations. The application of project-based methods as a powerful technique for the devel...

The need for project training in professional education of bachelors in organizing work with young people is caused by specificity of professional activities with the youth - the development and implementation of projects in the youth environment is the main competence in this field of activity. At the same time, mechanisms for including students in initiating, developing and implementing projects were developed with insufficient thoroughness, and basic indicators and criteria for students' readiness for project a...

The article deals with an algorithm of projecting of orientation basis of actions of monologueВ’s composition at the English lessons based on activity approach principles in learning. The general approaches to the educational process organization are determined and pointed out within the framework of the algorithm described. The authors of the article define the actionВ’s position in future professional activity of the students. The requirements for monologue (descriptors) are pointed out in the article, their met...

Based on the researches focused on the historic trusses of the sacral buildings in Slovakia, we analysed these trusses in order to uncover their geometric concepts and proportional relations. Several trusses in Bohemia and Moravia were also analysed. The proportional relation of a truss to a building was also taken into account in some cases. The data on the principles used in historic trusses of the sacral buildings, supported with the period literature, were applied to the historic truss of the Gothic Roman-Cath...

The article considers the issues of innovative development of educational organizations of the system of secondary vocational education of the Russian Federation on the example of the Sverdlovsk region. The authors determine the role of vocational education for the development of the Russian economy at the present stage, consider the features of functioning, and reveal the distinctive characteristics of the system. Special attention is paid to the analysis of negative factors in the functioning of professional edu...

Evaluating the organizational climate and culture implies the use of different methods by public sector organizations' managers and / or human resource management units. Through the application of different methods, it is possible to collect, summarize and analyze information related to employee motivation and engagement, leadership, internal communication, attitudes towards change as well as other issues relevant to the achievement of the strategic and operational objectives of the administrations in the public s...

Ecotourism represents a significant share in modern world tourism, a distinctive feature of which is visiting areas that have not been subjected to anthropogenic transformations and impacts, and compliance with environmental safety. In Russia, eco-tourism is not developed as intensively as in Western countries, but it has good prospects associated with the availability of unique tourist resources. The Chelyabinsk region (South Ural) is one of such regions that have the necessary potential for the development of th...

The study focuses on the importance of balancing the need to share and use genetic sequences and the need to protect the privacy of biological groups who could be harmed if the genetic data of a group member were made public. Many medical discoveries are based on the use of human cells which are donated by volunteers. But the will of the donors could be in contrast with the will of their relatives. The aim of the study is to determine what the preeminent interest between the desire of the donor to help the researc...

The interests of legal entities in Macedonia are protected by notaries. The notary services in Macedonia are adopted by the Law on the Notary. By accomplishing these services, the legitimate interests of natural and legal persons are also protected and on the other hand the legal certainty is created due to the nature of the notarized documents. With regard to this, the role of the notary comes into expression upon its creation, alteration and revoking of the legal relations. The legal relations are also created d...

The article presents the concept of anticipatory management of career development of graduates of higher educational institution. It is an important element of university strategic management system and providing its competitiveness in the regional, national and international educational services market. It is proved that forming of skills of planning of professional career and effective employment at early stages of training, development and their enhancement throughout all term of training, carrying out various ...

This article presents the results of a study on the user-generated content and online behavior of political group activists within Facebook's Russian speaking cohort, during the pre-election period. The material comprises 365 politically active groups (as at December 2017 - January 2018), with 496 active users as a core. An interdisciplinary approach was used to gather, refine and classify the data, while psycholinguistic and communicative analysis was adopted to analyze the content. The outcome of the research re...