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Health is a fundamental good that can not be bought in a market, and its determinants are the genetic "luggage", lifestyle, the environment, and health care, regardless of whether we are talking about humans or animals. The need for health care is a relative concept involving both the individual and society, all of which has as its starting point the poverty of information (knowledges) that an individual has in relation to his "needs" for health care. The relations with customers and communication between them is ...

In the study basing on the key regional indicators and export goods analysis is discussed the possibilities of current regional foreign trade models in the social and economic development in case of the sanctions restrictions (on the example of the Republic of Tatarstan). Basing on the received estimates is analyzed the proposed position that the current foreign economic relations models of export-oriented regions are capable to compensate in the medium term some lost profits in the cases of the sanctions restrict...

Background: The goal of the study was to find out how and to which extent patients are informed before and after their vascular prosthesis implantation. The criterion for being included in the study was to achieve at least 24 points of Mini Mental State Examination and to meet the established indication criteria for the surgery. The ethical committee of the health care facility and all participants, who were informed on the purpose of the study, agreed with the study. Crohnbach`s alpha was calculated to identify i...

The innovation becomes vital for increasing the competitiveness of national economies. Innovation means investment in R & D by the private sector, large research institutions and extensive collaborations between universities and industry. The aim of this paper is to study the relationship between innovation and competitiveness in European Union countries. Ensuring future economic growth will require solutions that are more creative than any we have seen so far. The European economies faced a long period of low gro...

Early intra-prosthetic dislocation is one of the most common postoperative complications in Total Hip Arthroplasty (T.H.A.), for both women and men, affecting between 3-5% of patients. The main causes of early intra-prosthetic dislocation are due to the incorrect positioning of the hip joint prosthetic components (including the attention paid by the surgeon with respect to the anteversion or torsion angle), the patient’s muscular diseases, or the geometry of the prosthetic components which are not totally compatib...

The article is devoted to the research of woman names in the phrasicon of Russian linguoculture. The topicality of the study is determined by the effort to bring into sharp focus the specific features of the analyzed phraseological semantic group in Russian phrasicon. The scientific novelty lies in consideration of the Russian phraseological woman names in different aspects – structural-semantic, functional-stylistic and linguocultural. In the article a classification of the phraseological group units is presented...

The first half of the 20th century was in many aspects very complicated period. This paper reveals the reasons behind the existence of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes with focus on the fundamental rise of anti-Jewish moods in the Czech part of the Czechoslovak state occurred in the post-Munich period. The open anti-Jewish behavior of a part of the Czech political spectrum publicly or in print was not avoided, in addition, this trend was gradually showed also in some governmental parties. Therefore, it was n...

Background. One of the prominent tasks of the psychology of physical appearance is to investigate the factors influencing the growth of lookism accessibility during communication. The researchers stress various cultural, social-psychological, and personality factors that impact lookism [4]. In spite of the central role of physical appearance in lookism development little research was conducted scrutinizing the interplay of appearance perfectionism, satisfaction and concern with own appearance in these processes. N...

This paper aims to analyse the ways in which a marriage can be concluded in the case of rich and noble families, as well as in the case of the poor ones. Marriage habits are different, depending on the social and economic status, and most of these traditions prevail nowadays also. The institution of marriage will lead to a transformation of the sentimental imaginary, starting from the Middle Ages’ fin amor, played by the troubadours, to the pragmatic, interested relationship, focused on procreation and the transfe...

The paper focuses on modeling the macrostructure of discourse-world of the political event as derived from G20 Leaders’ Declaration and publications united by the theme of 2017 summit. The purpose of the authors is to reveal basic macroframes that are viewed as cognitive ‘pillars’ of discourse world of one of the most crucial political events of the past year – international forum for economic cooperation. The notion of discourse world macrostructure draws on World-Modelling Theory initially inspired by Text-World...

Artistic representation of a human figure, as a subject of interests of many researchers, became the subject of investigation regarding both development of children’s drawings as well as studies on intelligence and personality. Researchers often focused on drawings from childhood period, mainly due to diversity of used forms and domination of their subjective nature. Psychologists used various techniques, tools and analysed the subject matter closest to children, including “a human figure”. The aim of the conducte...

The purpose of this work is to study the economic phenomenon "city - entrepreneur" and to justify the parameters of its identification in relation to the realities of the modern Russian economy. The main method of research is the analysis of statistical indicators. The authors propose quantitative parameters that allow identifying the city-entrepreneurs in the Russian economic space: the level of economic diversity and services; the availability of human capital: the level of urban environment and living condition...

Introduction The heterogeneous distribution of clinical manifestations in psoriatic arthritis has a major influence on the quality of life and physical function in these patients. Although impairment of peripheral joints is less severe than in patients with rheumatoid arthritis for an equal duration, the impact on functional and quality of life indices has been similar [1], with predominance of joint pain and socio-emotional disorders in patients with PA. Aim To determine the relationship between functional status...

The purpose of this study is to explore the coping with disease in adolescents with type 1 diabetes in its complexity – from the viewpoint of emotional distress, perception of the disease, and equally that of preferred coping strategies in the context of differing levels of metabolic compensation. Set of questionnaires consisting of Big Five Inventory (BFI), Brief-Cope, Problem Areas in Diabetes Questionnaire (PAID), Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (BIPQ) and Diabetes Adolescent Problem Solving Questionnair...

In the development strategies and programmes of the Russian Federation as a whole and of individual regions, tourism is recognized as an important tool for sustainable rural development. The popularity of rural tourism is largely due to the low cost of recreation and the possibility of recreation and rehabilitation in certain climatic conditions, but its development requires the search for new forms of organization and the creation of appropriate conditions, and in the first place – infrastructure. The aim of the ...

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 21...

In the presented work the authors describe a design-project of a cafe located in the airport building. In this particular case structural features of the building do not allow use of natural lighting. People for a long time waiting for their flights are in conditions where far every artificial light source gives the optimum level of light flux. In this particular case structural features of the building do not allow use of natural lighting. Besides, staff of the cafe, working around the clock, does not have the op...

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 project’s overall risk. In order to demonstrate the added value of supplier-client colla...

The philosophy of science and technology has sufficient methodological potential for the interpretation of categorical apparatus, taking into account the various features of modern philosophy and science. Postnonclassical science is characterized by the multiplicity of ideas and concepts, and therefore multiparticulate. The proclamation of a specific scientific paradigm as a key direction generates pluralism of opinions not only in a certain area of research, but also in philosophy and science as a whole. To date,...

Yakutia is a region where the largest mining projects have been implemented for several decades, but traditional activities for the North (e.g. livestock, reindeer herding, fishing, hunting and gathering) maintain their steadiness, which spawns conflicts in land and nature use. The paper is devoted to the issue of access of Yakut traditional communities to land and natural resources in the context of ensuring income and consumption on the basis of traditional economic activities. The evolution of the settlement sy...

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...

In this article the institutional environment of the banking system of the BRICS countries are analyzed. There is analysis of the key statistical characteristics of the banking sector, the main trends in its development. Also article reveals the characteristics of the external institutional environment. The purpose of our study is to test the following hypothesis: factors of the external institutional environment affect the banking system. The subject of the study is the BRICS countries banking system. The period ...

Modern airports and their surroundings are constantly changing, as does the form and functions of contemporary cities. So far, the public awareness associated airports with the place of plane landing, functioning of control towers and other facilities used for air transport. Currently, this traditional model gives way to the idea of the so-called air cities. This idea is based on the assumption that in addition to own infrastructure and services, the airport also develops additional services, not related to air, w...

The article deals with the actual problem of territorial disputes between China and Japan, as well as the role of the two countries in the settlement of the “Taiwan problem”. In recent years, there has been a rapid growth of contradictions and negative trends in Sino-Japanese relations, periodically exacerbated by the unraveling conflict around the Senkaku Islands, processes of general militarization of the region, including the activation of military cooperation between Japan, the United States and Taiwan. Agains...

Nowadays, companies deal with a dynamic process of adapting economic sectors to the EU requirements and conditions as well as to internal domestic regulations in terms of corporate sustainable activities, including identifying, measuring, estimating and disclosing various information. Ongoing economic changes determine conditions under which today’s business is conducted also in the area of municipal management, and impose the necessity to implement innovative organizational, financial and accounting solutions. Th...

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...

The article presents the results of the study, aiming at substantiation of approaches to the phenomenon definition of «secondary cities», specificity of its manifestation in emerging markets countries. The authors emphasize the importance of «secondary cities», (or secondary tiers cities) in development of national urban systems in emerging markets countries. To confirm this argument, the following factors are used: firstly, a significant number of secondary cities; secondly, intensification of polarization proces...

Being aware of and accepting the fact that English is Language No. 1 in the present world, we can come to the conclusion that this reality can be used and relied upon in the process of teaching other foreign languages. Languages cannot be taught in an isolated way - experience with language learning and teaching results in the establishment of so called "interlanguage". The experience gained through the earlier process of learning the mother tongue and a foreign language (or foreign languages) can support and/or n...

The article studies some aspects of commemoration as exemplified by existing monuments, architectural objects of Yakutia devoted to the Second World War. The issue of commemoration has been studied by foreign researchers ?. Halbwachs, P. Nore, A. Megil, J.K. Olick, J. Robbins, G. Mink, L. Neumayer, E.-C. Onken, F. Martinez, K.L. Klein, A. Confino, ?. Assmann as well as by Russian scholars G. Okladnikova, E. Kandaryan, ?.I. Krasilnikova, ?.I. Miller, ?.V. Romanovskaya etc. However, there are no works on commemorati...

The Romanian insolvency law covers extensively the reorganization phase of the debtor, in accordance with the European legislation in this field. However, the practice has proved that the period between the approval of the creditors of the reorganization plan up to the actual applicability of the measures contained by the plan may lead to question the efficiency of the plan. The article aims to underline the importance of the reorganization plan for both the debtor in insolvency, as well as for its creditors, by c...

The given scientific paper is devoted to a thorough consideration of such topical and socially significant issues as the acute problems of migrants’ adaptation to the values, traditions, customs of European culture as well as various sociocultural consequences of the current global migration crisis in the context of the new world order. The civilizational and cultural differences between migrants and titular nations on the territorial locations of Western European countries under consideration allow to identify th...

There are various ways of images digitizing (reconstruction, conservation) for different sites and monuments of cultural heritage. In this article, one of such methods is considered: the vector method of reconstructing images for textures that could be used for virtual three-dimensional reconstruction. The actual problems of restoration of lost fragments of frescoes from archive photographs in the absence of access to the monument and the possibility of scanning are discussed. Various methods of digital image rest...

The assessment of traditional components as part of the material cultural heritage is an essential element in the development of the cultural tourism. The south-western area of Romania, especially the Banat geographical area, on a rather extensive area, within the rural areas and small and medium-sized towns, faces a rather large economic problem. This was determined by the shift from a censored socialist economy to a free market economy, after which there has been registered a process of restricting the industria...

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...

In the context of local self-government, the Europeanization process includes the "top-down" component (i.e. changes in policies, actions, preferences and participants in local governance resulting from the negotiation and implementation of EU programs and policies), "bottom-up" component (i.e. transfer of innovative urban practices to a supranational arena for the purpose of incorporating local initiatives in pan-European policies and programs) and the horizontal component. This paper focuses on the horizontal Eu...

At present, the packaging is the seller of the goods. In many cases, the quality of goods and packaging design should be interrelated, because the overestimated design and the average quality of the goods are not compatible. This can lead to a failure in the introduction of the product to the market. Overabundance of goods and packages made consumers of products "capricious buyers." In a store, a buyer more often buys a product known to him and there is an ever smaller percentage of buyers who buy a new product, l...

Fanny Burney at 15 wrote in her diary addressing her thoughts to ‘Nobody’, to her silent self and interlocutor. Nobody learnt about this fact until her diaries were published. She became famous with her first epistolary novel about a young lady entering the world, though in the Preface to the novel the author pretended to be an editor of the letters. Her writing could be compared to contemporary blogs. Novelty and variety of subjects, personally coloured irony and wit, acute eyesight, ability to entertain a reader...

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 authors’ 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....

Locative constructions describe various aspects of event’s positioning in the three-dimensional space according to the concrete place of its accomplishment, in particular Earth. This type of location is usually considered to be weekly connected with the characteristics of the event in question. However, this specification is highly important for the semantic interpretation of the text as well as understanding the whole structure of the situation. In the prepositional system of Russian there are many items oriented...

While analyzing various models of socialization and construction of self, it is argued in favour of Milton Bennett's developmental model of intercultural sensitivity and the importance of intercultural communicative competence. Classical developmental models elaborated by authors such as Sigmund Freud, Lawrence Kohlberg, Peter Berger and, Thomas Luckmann emphasize the relevance of primary and secondary socialization; some of them also considered defence mechanisms against alternative cultural and symbolic worlds. ...

System comprise Elements, relationships, and purposes. Precisely because of the complexity of the system, when we solve complex problems, if we use simple thinking, the result will not be satisfactory. Therefore, systematic thinking is a better way of solving complex problems. As Stefan Moritz said, “Service Design is not a new specialist design discipline. It is a new multi-disciplinary platform of expertise”, service design is a complex platform. In order to create a systematic concept or service, the service de...

Background. Online therapy has been making progress over the last 50 years, both in the world and in Romania. However, more details are needed to increase addressability to this form of therapy. Methods. Since 2011, we have developed the “Gandeste Sanatos” (Think Healthy) program, a cognitive behavioral online psychotherapy program. The program consists of several modules designed for customer education for therapy followed by specific information for several disorders: anxiety, depression, panic disorder obsessiv...

This research concerns the mystery as epistemological and aesthetic category. The objective of this paper is mystery as the particular form of conscious. The main target is the esthetical hypostasis of mystery and its role in art’s evolution. Phenomenological conception of conscious by E. Husserl is the base of the research as the method. It is dedicated to phenomenological conception of conscious and we emphasize the intentionality is the most important issue of this conception. Subsequently we consider that the ...

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...

It is widely recognized that Social Capital and Social Support are phenomena influencing start-up creation, development and business success or failure. Trying to develop startup means to experience high levels uncertainty and it is essential to understand the possibilities to reduce the levels of uncertainty in the way the startup developer will perceive that. The research task is to find the forms of social capital and sources of social support the startup owners perceive the best. The aim of research is to inve...

In the path of gender transition, the body may assume a very important role. Through gender transition it is possible to undertake hormonal treatments, surgical operations in order to modify the primary or secondary sexual characteristics, but also other practices of body change and care not bounded to the medical context. These possible interventions or actions may imply different processes of change, meanings and needs, sometimes with doubts and difficulties, for the person in transition who is engaged in giving...

In the Czech Republic is possible to see a new trend in emergency medicine – building new departments of urgent medicine (DUM). These workplaces we can call Emergency or urgent reception department. Creation of these departments is connected with high development of urgent medicine and new styles and possibilities of care about patients. Emergency departments are officially an education centers for all medical personnel (medics, paramedics and nurses) too. Unfortunately, we don’t have some recommendations and meth...

As a result of Ukraine’s independence and its proclamation as a law-governed state, it became necessary to regulate the scientific, technical and production potential of the space industry formed during the time of the Soviet Union under the rules of Ukraine law. Therefore, the Supreme Council of the Ukraine Parliament, Verkhovna Rada, adopted the Law “On Space Activities” No. 502/96-VR on November 15 1996, and this remains in force today. Since 1993, Ukraine space activity implementation has been based on the fol...

Objectives: In this study parent-child and parent-teacher accordance was examined concerning children’s behavioral and emotional problems in secondary school students depending on children’s social-emotional competencies. The main aim of the study was to analyze the agreement or disagreement between parent and child ratings on children’s behavioral problems and to examine the extent of this congruence. Methods: Participants were selected from a Hungarian minority group of 561 children (N=561) from Romania, aged be...

Human identity is constitutively ‘historical’, as well as cultural and a narrative. History is the quintessence of us, as human beings that live in a certain epoch and within a certain culture. But because of the fact that this formation and configuration of our personal identity is rooted in historical, psychological and linguistic (Steiner) mechanisms of representation, then by modifying certain representational axes (i.e., modifying culture, narration, lifestyle practices…) not only may we modify the meaning an...