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The article examines correlation between the existing principles of state competition policy and innovative economic development. A perfect competition model has been currently adopted as an ideal sample of the commodities market state, being characterized by a sufficient number of sellers and buyers, when none of them can decisively influence market prices. Consequently, countries endeavor to bring real markets conditions closer to this ideal state by competitive policy, that occur in dedicated state effort to re...

The main aim of the paper is to examine the role of creative placemaking in shaping the urban environment in Polish cities. It also focuses on challenges and obstacles that creative placemaking projects encounter in Polish realities. Creative placemaking is a “micro-development” strategy (Johnson 2009) that focuses on cultural participation, community engagement and highlights the social role of arts and culture. Artistic interventions provide new perspectives that are not only aesthetic, but also connected with s...

The availability of high-quality and skilled workers is one of the basic prerequisites for the development of the country's economy, together with the technical level and equipment. States seek to promote the education and qualifications of their people. It is an investment in human capital. Human capital is unstable and can migrate, thus contributing to the economic development of other countries or regions (brain drain, brain gain). This phenomenon has not only demographic and sociological but also economic impa...

Persons with disabilities, constituting one of the largest minorities in the world, experience a difficult situation on the labour market and are particularly vulnerable to marginalization resulting from unemployment. In Poland, similarly to other countries, persons with disabilities are characterized by the significantly low activity on the labour market. They are more frequently unemployed and less often take up work comparing to people without disabilities. The survey and the subject literature review carried o...

Online education has become a widespread phenomenon, the dynamic development of which contributes to global educated community formation. The paper reviews changes in educational paradigm that took place in the last decades. These changes concern role of online learning in the present-day society and technologies used for its implementation. Online language learning requires special methodological and technological solutions. The concept of online learning for the Arabic language is fundamentally different from th...

The aim of the research was answering the question of the possible form of concluding the contract for disposal of shares in a Polish limited liability company when the seller is a partner being a foreign person. The issue of the applicable law in the form of contract for disposal of shares in a Polish limited liability company by a partner who is a foreign person is regulated by Rome I Regulation. The contract concluded between persons who remain in the same at the time of concluding thereof is formally valid pro...

Health education has been part of lower secondary education in the Czech Republic for a decade. It is included in the Framework educational programme for elementary education under the educational are Man and health. The purpose of Health education is to promote an active and responsible approach to health, shape adequate lifestyle habits, develop students’ health literacy, and take a formative role in the prevention of risk behaviour. The objective of the research study entitled ‘Health education from the perspec...

The article highlights the way of adapting the constructive techniques in the Banat high plain (South-West of Romania) during the colonization of the territory from the 18th century by the Habsburg Empire. Due to the lack of other natural resources, earth was the preferred building material for realizing the new settlers housing. The study pursues the analysis of physical properties (granulometric curve, characteristic humidity, plasticity limit, compression strength ) of local earth mixed with natural fibers used...

The French composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a colourful and enigmatic figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde. Being active in several spheres of art, in an atmosphere of fin de siècle, he proposed and implemented the concept of musique d'ameublement (“furniture music”). In his vision music was supposed to play an extravagant role (as it was perceived in that period) of an acoustic background accompanying all daily events and not absorbing the attention of the listener. Satie’s idea can be treated...

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...

Background: Healthcare associated infection generally poses a major risk for healthcare professionals. In addition, acute and intensive care is specific because there is often a very first contact between the health care worker and the patient. Blood-borne infections, which represent a major complication for healthcare professionals, are perceived as one of the most risky injuries, particularly in connection with needle-stick injuries. The first objective of the research was to verify the selected theoretical know...

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 ...

Recruitment is one of the main areas that embraced social environments as a universal employment tool, and 92% of recruiters have confirmed its use as part of their employment process. Typical options, such as search engines, are quite limited in providing a fair deal, and therefore the aim of the paper is to show an innovative solution tailored to the Romanian HR sector advancing several Digital Intelligence Interaction (DII) tools developed using both cloud service frameworks and Natural Language Processing (NLP...

First habits connected to alcohol drinking young people gain in the family. Misuse of alcohol and other addictive substances in young people is often connected to complex family situations and family problems while drinking model is primarily developed in peer groups. The aim of this study was to examine the connection between young people’s perception of parental acceptance-rejection, peer pressure and some sociodemographic characteristic (gender, family structure, parent's education, subjective estimation of fam...

In this paper, one of the "problem zones" of mathematics is presented by computer and mathematical modeling. The study concerns the problem of learning of complex concept of the surface area mastering by students understanding. Students construct the multifaceted surfaces of Schwartz cylinder (or "boot") using computer and mathematical and adapt the most important generalized constructions to the actual position of mathematical knowledge concerning the analysis and the essence of the "problem zone" of surface area...

Solidarity is a natural social requirement and represents the link that binds human beings together in mutually supportive relationships. Sometimes this link can break and people find themselves destitute, in difficulty, in loneliness, illness, rupture. To meet these needs, people are involved in charitable organizations, religious or not. Those people and organizations committed to the defense of human rights, for development and against poverty, for justice and peace, work for a culture of life. Christians certa...

This paper deals with the topic of selected social determinants and their influence on the choice of leisure-time activities. Our intention is to present the results of own research which was carried out in the form of a questionnaire survey in 2016. One of its main objectives was to find out whether the selected social determinants (gender, age, education, fathers and mothers education and employment status) have the influence on choice of leisure-time activities within different types of social groups. For this ...

New knowledge and innovations have been developing as a resource of economic stability and growth in recent years. That is why territories become more dependent on the level of new knowledge and innovations. In view of the specified current trends of world economy development, which initiate generation functioning of a new type on the basis of the network concept, it is necessary to consider features of interaction of regional economy subjects in the context of cluster and network collaboration, as well as the con...

In recent times, in the context of the contemporary anthropocentric linguistics, when the study of the pragmatic aspect of the language system functioning becomes particularly relevant, many linguists turned to an issue of particles that are the universal explicators of the semantic and pragmatic meanings (refer to works of A. Wierzbicka, T.M. Nikolaeva, I.M. Boguslavskiy and others). Despite very active and rather fruitful studying of particles, that for a long time had remained on the periphery of research inter...

In order to determine the content of different biochemical components in sweet potato tubers under the conditions of sandy soils from D?buleni, the following varieties were studied: Yulmi, Juhwangmi, Hayanmi, KSP 1, KSC 1, grown in transparent mulch culture, in the first decade of May, in the climatic conditions of the period, 2015-2017. All varieties studied showed a total dry matter content of over 30% and the highest content was determined for KSC1 (38.87%). Also, the results obtained with respect to the conten...

At present, one of the main cardinal factors is the question of economic governance and the sustainability of business entities. The issue of financial and economic analyzes contributes significantly to decisions in the field of corporate management. One of the essential dispositions of each manager is an understanding of financial theory. The aim of the contribution is to point out the sustainability of the company's performance, with an accent on economic performance and indicators of the company's economic perf...

The article presents a brief analysis of sound environmental, economic and technological policy in solving the problem of education in the field of municipal solid waste (MSW) management. The authors make emphases on methodology features of educational activity when training specialists in the field of solid waste management. It is revealed that the creation of a new productive industry is impossible without professional training of specialists, who comprehend the problem, have a good handle in the solid waste pro...

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...

The article reveals the importance of the religious factor in the making of culture; examines the mechanism of interaction of knowledge and will in the formulation of moral imperatives, and also proved the impossibility of social morality in society without religious Absolutes. Culture has hundreds of definitions, the content of which can be clarified as in the context of its correlation with various facets of socio-historical life, and with philosophical categories. Due to the multiplicity of manifestations and g...

The article presents the results of a regional study devoted to the study of strategies and practices of self-preserving behavior of young people. The results of the sociological research showed that most young people consider health to be one of the important values and try to lead a healthy lifestyle, namely: to look at life with optimism, exercise, watch their weight, eat right, pay attention to the shelf life and composition purchased products, do not smoke, limit alcohol consumption, etc. The main factors tha...

The article is devoted to the topical problem of energy security in East Asia under the context of the unfolding struggle of the major powers in this region for priority access to energy sources from Russia, the Middle East and fields in the East China and South China seas. The problems of bilateral and multilateral energy cooperation, ways of its institutionalization in the context of the prospects of the formation of a common region-wide energy space are depicted in this article. The authors note that the territ...

The purpose of this study was to estimate Lithuania’s and EU-15 countries group real GDP per capita growth rates and to evaluate possible convergence scenarios. The real GDP per capita (in purchasing power standards) data for EU-15 and Lithuania for a period of 2005-2016 were employed to establish comparative average annual GDP per capita growth rates. Three possible convergence scenarios were analyzed: “As it Were”, i.e. if the average annual growth rates remain at the current levels, “Speeding Up”, i.e. if the c...

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...

The article considers the calculation of recreational capacity of the territory along a certain route"". We take into account that there is still no clear understanding of the term "recreational forests". Therefore it is necessary to distinguish clearly between the real recreational woods intended for rest and, consequently, convenient, and also the woods which are only partially carrying out recreational function. We consider one of the types of forest recreational forest tourism-a fascinating, useful and enjoyab...

The ACA (Adult Children of Alcoholics) syndrome is a group of relatively well-established patterns of inadequate response in social situations which arose during the trauma of childhood in a family of alcoholics. As a result of painful experiences taken from home an adult child of an alcoholic is experiencing disturbances in cognitive and emotional processes of both the surrounding reality and himself. The cognitive and emotional distortions concern also the perception of parental attitudes. The idea of the ACA sy...

Accompanying people with disabilities (PwD) throughout the end-of-life and dying is an important topic in many scientific and study fields. On the basis of a literary research it can be stated that this topic is being relatively neglected in published studies covering rather recurrent themes. PwD have specific needs, require specific access and means of communication, etc. The found published studies have focused on the end-of-life period predominantly in people with mental retardation and cognitive disabilities f...

Nietzsche's reduction of reason to “practice” of the irrational life, which schematizing chaos, is considered as important aspect of radical turn from classic to non classic European philosophy. Hermeneutic and comparative methods of a history-philosophical research are used. It is shown that M. Heidegger in lectures of 1936?40, which were devoted to F. Nietzsche, actually interprets his genealogy method as some kind of phenomenology reduction. The last allows to find, in the base of conceptual thinking, initial r...

Nowadays, there is an increase in the requirements with regard to the training of the future social workers in university considering the socio-economic processes in Bulgaria which are radically changing the social sphere and resulting in a more complicated professional interaction with the society.This triggers the need of finding innovative methods and forms whose inclusion in the educational process would lead to its intensification and better quality. In this respect, at university level there is an increasing...

The focus of the paper is the nonclassical concepts of responsibility. They lead to the emergence of a specific responsibility ethics in the modern morality theory. There is much evidence that nonclassical concept of responsibility comes across meaningful changes in the understanding of responsibility nature. The changes emerge from the shift of the theoretical and methodological focus to the real-life context, to the reality of the moral life, to actions and responsible choice of the individual, to the rationale ...

The aim of the research was to indicate the characteristics of traditional wooden buildings, determining its multi-faceted value and the role it plays in the contemporary structure of the city, on the example of Rzeszów (south-eastern part of Poland). The research methodology included field work and analysis of the city plan that is identification of existing traditional wooden residential buildings. A query was made of archival materials and studies on conservation documentation regarding the studied objects in t...

As its content itself stipulates, as a rule, the provisions of the Romanian Statute of Civil Servants approved by Law no. 188/1999, republished, do not apply to contractual staff employed in public authorities and institutions’ own bodies and who carry out secretarial, administrative, protocol, management, maintenance-repair, supply and security activities and to other staff categories who do not have public authority prerogatives. Therefore, with regard to contractual staff, the legal relationship developed betwe...

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 context of global social changes, the problem of psychological well-being is increasingly becoming the subject of research. The purpose of the study is to determine the relationship between the students' understanding of the meaning of life and psychological well-being. As a result, it turned out that students with a high level of understanding of the meaning of life and a high level of psychological well-being determine psychological well-being as love, health, self-realization, safety. Students with a low...

Family firms are said to be better positioned when it comes to developing and mantaining long-term mutually-beneficial relationships due to their unique identity which generates, internally, a commitment to quality, while externally triggers positive perceptions in the minds of their stakeholders. The literature suggests that the “family business” tag is associated with characteristics of trustworthiness, authenticity and credibility by consumers, helping these businesses being able to obtain a competitive advanta...

The main question which the author of the report would like to answer is this: "Is a freelancer a man of the future of work?». There are methodological difficulties in the study of freelancing. First, in determining the concept of "freelance". Second, when selecting principles and methods for quantifying the participating workers in a given form of employment. We will be able to overcome these difficulties only partially, using a comparative approach, historical method, analysis of statistical data and a systemati...

Buildings for the performing arts have been built since ancient times. The primary rules for designing the auditorium and the stage have not changed to date. Contemporary buildings for the performing arts are distinguished primarily by the functional adaptability of the auditorium, the stage and support facilities (public spaces). Modern buildings for the performing arts may have, in many cases, flexible auditorium and stage arrangements and also multi-purpose public spaces. Multiple-use of such buildings is assoc...

The article shows the relationship between the development of information technologies, the characteristics of the information society and digital art. The broad possibilities of the digital world related to recording, storing and processing data (cyber text, big data, smart services) and the creation of virtual worlds are pointed out. The influence of the development of information technologies on the character of the works of art (their variability and availability) is also considered. On the basis of representa...

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...

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 relevance of this study is determined by the quality and effectiveness of project management processes that determine the main directions of the business entity development growing importance in the context of global instability and the escalation of competition. There is a need to increase the volume of investments in project risk management, including public-private partnership (PPP) projects as one of the most promising mechanisms for solving accumulated problems in various sectors of the regional economy. ...

With studies on soft skills on the rise worldwide, they obviously play a very important role as a basis for employability requirements on the labour market. In Russia, soft skills are beginning to find ways into university curricula. The broad mismatch of the term connotations among educators, students and employers forces researchers to dwell upon the content and scope of soft skills. As there are various and often controversial perceptions and understandings of soft skills, the authors’ primary goal was to defin...

A man nowadays lives in a world characterized by changeability, unstoppable progress and development. Political, economic and socio–cultural changes inscribed in the variability, apart from the positive effects, i.e. compensation for many civilizational neglects, also have negative consequences and affect the life of an individual or social groups. More and more problems and threats are emerging nowadays: poverty, unemployment, migration, addictions, family dysfunctionality, crime or other disturbing phenomena. Be...

A wide variety of scientific sources and mass media maintain that at present the loss of people, both in the whole world and in individual countries, has taken on noticeable proportions, which are difficult to conceal or leave unattended by society. In this context, it is sufficient to give the following comments: "statistics show: every three minutes on Earth one person disappears without a trace"; "Every year in Germany, more than 100,000 children and young people are reported missing"; "According to official st...

The paper deals with the problems of formation and modeling of spatial industry economic systems, which are a subclass of integrated economic systems. It is shown that new types of cluster associations are being formed that integrate their interests, assets, resources for joint operation within particular economic space. The synthesis of several stably interacting clusters forms a new class of clusters that has its own peculiarities. The new class of clusters is named in the article as cluster systems. The article...

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 ...