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The European car market is progressing with a relatively fast pace during 2017 and the trends in the development of the new car registration in Bulgaria are advancing even further. The automobile industry and the automobile market generate high gross value added in the development of the economy of all countries, which is the rationale for the research of the dynamics and the structure of car sales. The main aim of the current paper is to indicate some fundamental perspectives for the development of the car market...

Confidence-building is one of the main conditions of Russia-EU relations normalization. For better understanding of the ways of confidence strengthening: the concept of confidence in the context of national and foreign policy of the states; legal basis of strategic partnership between Russia and EU (the EU-Russia Partnership and Cooperation Agreement of 1994); the contemporary state of Russia-EU relations; the reasons of Russia-EU relations deterioration; the available doubts of a possibility of strategic partners...

Introduction: Health literacy is a cognitive and social ability determining the individuals` capability of getting an access to information, comprehending and using the information in a way that promotes and maintains good health. It helps to choose healthy behavior and can influence skills achieved in the childhood. Goal: to identify the level of health literacy in children and adolescents between 12 and 18 years. Methodology: A quantitative survey, a questioning method, a face-to-face dialogue. Data collection u...

Human trafficking has been and unfortunately in many societies continues to be one of the main issues that law enforcement institutions are being faced with. The negative sides of human trafficking are generally known, nut on the other hand building appropriate strategies to combat human trafficking has proven to be very difficult, even in developed societies. When it comes to the Republic of Macedonia, the situation is even more complex, having in mind that human trafficking is not a topic being generally discuss...

This article considers the attempt to examine and analyze factors which influence the process of choice and preference of this or that national language as lingua franca by the global community, explores reasons and situations favoring the genesis of the English language as the global language, draws as analogy with other languages, which in different periods of the human history played the role of the universal communication language. It is assumed that the international communication reveals itself as an extrali...

The aim of this article is to clarify doubts arising on the grounds of the application of the legal provisions normalizing the forms of legal acts where the necessary component is as follows: a handwritten signature on the document constituting a statement of will of the person submitting this document. The problems regarding the signature usually refer to the following issues: what should the signature express, is it sufficient to only indicate the surname, should the signature be legible, what shape of letters i...

This paper represents an integrated urban design and social management model which transforms the maintenance of urban public green areas into an urban activity and encourages the students and other citizens to carry out activities by means of a shared, planned, scheduled and regionalist method within the cities. The aim of the study is to explore the potential of education regarding the sustainability of urban public green areas and the appropriation of urban green spaces to generate environmental consciousness. ...

The conceptual framework for forensic accounting expert examination requires the creation of a monitoring mechanism with clearly defined goals, objectives, objects and methods. The procedure of forensic accounting expert examination for selected activities, in particular for railway suburban passenger transport services, has a number of features and is not regulated normatively, so each expert conducts the procedure independently in accordance with professional skills. This leads to different conclusions in solvin...

This paper focuses on the relation between the rhetoric of J.-F. Lyotard’s late writings, The Confession of Augustine in particular, as well as the philosophical approach to the human body in the thought of J.-L. Nancy (Corpus), and the imagery of the early seven-teenth century English metaphysical poetry of John Donne and George Herbert. In the poems, the sublime topics and affections are introduced in the contrastive light of the symbols of earthly matters and the carnal mind, as well as the metaphors of precisi...

The article view the problem of evaluation of teachers’ readiness to solve professional tasks, designated in “Professional standard for teacher”, in the process of continuous training of pedagogical staff. Teacher professional standard – a document which includes a description of the level of knowledge, abilities, skills and experience required for the specialist to solve professional problems in education. Current trends and innovative processes in the system of training of specialists for educational institution...

In Russia, the quality and quantity of multimedia components used in content production vary across the regions. According to Friedman’s core-periphery model, these differences are caused by the discrepancies in regional development. The purpose of this study was to assess the quality and quantity of multimedia materials produced by the regional mass media in the Ural Federal District. In this paper, multimedia production is understood as content creation by using texts, photos, video and audio materials, graphics...

The researches were performed in Orsova region, located at a distance of about 25 km far from Drobeta Turnu Severin (Mehedinti County). The point of attraction of the studied area is the Danube River. In Orsova area tourism is performed through the capitalization of the natural environment and of the accommodation supply, of the services offered by hotels and farms managers and the objective of this activity is to achieve incomes. In the ellaboration of this paper, our objective was to present the touristic potent...

In the present research paper an idea for optimizing the positioning of serving units in modern tourist resorts is proposed using some adapted applications of mathematics in economics. This material is a new step forward for both authors who have treated the topic in their publications in the past. The new idea is that the serving units are not fixed on line segments (e.g. streets) but are chosen from a given area or district (for example a triangle) or are selected from a number of previously given points. The lo...

This paper interprets the contents of family education, investigated through a historic analysis, written in discussions of annual reports of folk schools. Many authors refer to the period from the middle of the 19th century until 1918 as the “golden age” for their generation. The reports of folk schools dating from that period were analyzed, and in 40 of them, texts were found relating to the field of family education. This paper analyzes the contents of family education with which authors wish to act on raising ...

The village and the agrotourist area presents itself as an area of real attraction, where are meat all the elements specific to the local development. The agrotourist activity and the economic and social development of rural area are in a relationship of correspondence and reciprocity. So, the intensification of tourism activity is the result of the general development of the rural areas, development which is also determined at his term by the development of tourism. The potential of rural areas represents an adva...

The article is focused on the issue of evolution of I. Capodistria`s role in Russian Office. The author uses a wide list of published and archival documents and analyzes the reasons Capodistria was invited to the Russian Office, the factors affecting his career growth and his role in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The author applies the method of analogy based on comparing Capodistria`s career and his russian contemporaries. The results of the study revealed that Capodistria was invited to the Russian Diplomatic...

As shown by researchers in the field of management, the goal of strategic management is to increase the competitiveness of various economic actors. At present, in connection with a significant increase in competition, the issues of increasing competitiveness are of paramount importance for economic agents of any kind. At the same time, the constant complication of economic conditions, increasing demands on the economic entities performance not only of economic, but also of social, environmental, etc. character, le...

The transformations occurred in the Romanian town after 1990 meant also changes at the level of urban habitation. Financial difficulties, access to property, the emergence of the real estate market and its fluctuations, the modifications that happened in the location of the urban services, the crisis of houses etc, have determined, immediately after 1990 the intensification of the residential mobility and have created the premises for the apparition of the residential segregation. Later, the credit policy in the b...

The article focuses on voice and manners (manner of speaking and behavior) as social indices implicitly attributing social standing to a speaker/character. Modern British and American literature allows us to draw parallels between two cultures in the way the upper-class characters are depicted in novels and through the prism of voice and manners descriptions come to the conclusion that there is one shared code of prosodic and behavioral signs unambiguously indicating a character’s belongingness to the upper classe...

With the beginning of the early Iron Age, the history of the peoples of the steppe belt of Eurasia marks a new stage. Among the Scythian tribes, the art of the “Scythian-Siberian bestial style” acquired special significance. In Western literature he is known, “the animal style”. Scythian animal style is characterized by a certain set of real and mythological species of animals and birds, canonical poses and compositions. The most famous is “the struggle of predatory and herbivorous animals”, “flying deer”, “curled...

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...

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

The aim of the study was to evaluate the relationship between the anxiety score, the quality of life and the functional status of the patients with occupational lung diseases. We have conducted a cross-sectional study on patients with occupational lung disease, referred to the hospital for their annual evaluation. The exclusion criteria were the presence of an acute disease, the presence of the exacerbation of the lung disease and a severe deterioration of the lung function. Beside the regular clinical and functio...

This paper presents an analysis of the influence of the implementation of programs under the European Social Fund on the continuous vocational training market in Romania in the post-accession period, 2007-2018. They mainly focused on continuing vocational training projects to increase human resources adaptation to the changing needs of the labor market and increase employment. After 15 years of formation of an educational market in this area, made up of thousands of private trainers, profound mutants have grown th...

One of the most cited definitions of “regional political culture” was given by the famous American political scientist D. Elazar. He defined it as a set of persistent political attitudes, values and behaviours that are passed down from generation to generation, which characterize a group of people living in conditions of territorial (geographical) proximity. Thus, regional political culture can be considered as a spatio-temporal phenomenon and in this way it becomes the human geography’s object of study, which is ...

Historical museums are a specific reservoir of ways of representing past events, and a key element in the processes of rationalization and institutionalization of history. Museums legitimize and interpret the past for the visitors, while their wide impact and authority make them jointly responsible for the shape of collective memory. Each museum is part of historical policy pursued in order to shape the historical consciousness and collective memory of a community. Although museums try to appear (ethically and pol...

The welfare of individual and the area of residence is constantly exposed to various risks, the influence of which reduces its level. The authors proposed constitutive types of risks to the welfare of individual and the area of residence, such as risks of impoverishment, health disorders, death from external causes, decline in industrial production, financial depression, disruption in the normal operation of labor market. They determined the chains of risk influence on welfare indicators for example regions includ...

The aim of this review study is to map out the concepts of literary education that were found to be relevant in the pedagogical-psychological and didactical research for improving the quality of teaching and to find out whether and how these concepts are approaching the educational reality. Firstly, the discussions about the target strategies, content and interpretative methodology of literary education that were evoked by the changes declared by the curricular reform are mapped out. Subsequently, the concepts of ...

The change of the social establishment in 1989 paved the way for the large groups of population to the entrepreneurship. The economic theory considers the entrepreneurship to be the basic tool for the economic development of every state. However, the main issue for every beginning entrepreneur is the choice of convenient legal form of entrepreneurship. General commercial partnership and limited partnership representing the types of personal trading companies have their origin in German and Austrian commercial law....

The article examined the main characteristics of philosophical contemplation as a method of philosophizing, as well as the experience of philosophical self-knowledge in accordance with the main characteristics of the philosophical practice of existentialism on the example of “philosophical confession” by N.A. Berdyaev. According to this philosophical practice, in order to truly be a human, one should not be in a state emotional relaxation, but, on the contrary, one should mental tension, the desire towards a signi...

The aim of the study was to find out the opinions of general public and healthcare professionals relating to primary prevention, and the patients` approach to their own health. Development of Health Literacy under the Conditions of the Czech Health Care System A quantitative method using a non-standardized questionnaire was chosen to meet this aim. This questionnaire was based on the standardized questionnaire called The HLS-EU-47 of the HLSEU Consortium for the European Health Literacy Survey (HLS-EU), which is d...

The main aim of the article is to study and analyze the theoretical and practical issues of the trust essence, including the Continental law system countries, and what future development could be in Latvia taking into the account practice of the another European countries. Within the process of the research Latvian and foreign legal acts were analyzed, case – law were used and literature in Latvian, English, Russian, German, French and some other languages were looked through. There are used comparative, historica...

Modern international economic relations are characterized by instability and conflict character. Current events in British political, business and economic life make the nation identify itself in new global environment. The image of the country as a strong player on the international arena is powerful tool which aims to unite its citizens and form the consciousness of prosperity and economic development. This fact makes the verbal characteristics of identity formation in discourse a topical issue to study. The aim...

The study aims to contribute to the development of methods for analyzing the dynamics of economic phenomena in the territorial aspect. Spatial dynamics of development and concentration tendencies in territorial profile is concerning more and more the scientific world and the decision-makers. Knowledge of this two elements is particularly important in developing coherent development strategies at the territorial level. Despite the great interest in economic geography, the number of studies is relatively low and are...

The subject of the paper is the training of sales managers. Sales managers represent an important category of employees in terms of meeting company’s goals and achieving the required performance. The paper presents the results of the research carried out on a sample of Slovak companies. The aim of the research was to find out the current situation in the use of the selected methods of sales managers training in Slovak companies and to test statistically significant differences in the use of these methods in terms ...

The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between career adaptability and satisfaction in the case of psychology students. We were particularly curious about the differences between distance learning and full-time learning students. Based on previous findings, the first hypothesis is that career adaptability will correlate positively with satisfaction (career satisfaction and satisfaction with life) in the whole sample. We also want to investigate the dissimilarities between the two groups (dista...

The paper is devoted to the issues of placing the stress in multi-syllabic Russian and English words; this problem arises in the process of teaching English to bachelors studying in multinational groups (CIS, Afghanistan, Colombia, Cyprus, Iran, Mongolia, Nigeria, Peru, Syria, Somalia, Vietnam, Zambia) at the Institute of Law, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University). The purpose of this study is to reveal some factors of placing the stress in multi-syllabic Russian and English words correctly si...

The unsatisfactory quality of schoolchildren's nutrition is one of the main causes of schoolchildren’s illness in Russia. The infant morbidity indicators are exacerbated by the adverse impact of natural-climatic and derived socioeconomic factors of the northern Arctic regions. The main negative factors of Arctic region are: a long winter, polar night, the lack of vitamins, unavailability some health necessary products and the higher prices for them, limited opportunities for the vacation beyond the Arctic region a...

One of the most important elements involved in the formation of cultural security of the state is the institution of the family. It is family values that underlie the formation of the civic position of young people, which are expressed in the awareness of their involvement in the ideas, principles, religions and local cultural values of the state. Despite the obvious huge role of the institution of the family for the society as a whole, this structure is not always stable and sometimes disintegrates before it has ...

The article considers the issues of import substitution in the agricultural sector of the Russian economy. The import substitution has a positive effect on the economy of the state, promotes the economic independence from other countries in the world arena and is profitable for the state. To prevent a shortage of certain products on Russian market it is necessary to develop and implement a proper import substitution policy. The import substitution in agricultural sector of Russia will also contribute to the constr...

A new insight into comprehensive research of rules and cognitive mechanisms of sense interaction within the edges of ongoing cross-cultural mediated communication has been provided by cognitive approach in modern linguistics and translation theory. Specific features and peculiarities within conceptual structuring of lexical units meaning in mediated discourse are of particular interest for investigation in the light of translation norm of adequacy and equivalence, along with speech act efficiency criteria. Our aim...

V.Makanin’s artistic world is analysed as an ontological model of correlation between social and personal universes, which is disharmonious in its essence. One of the reasons that makes this situation possible is a gap formed between the masculine and the feminine sides of the contemporary world. The suggested study provides an analysis of V.Makanin’s evaluation given to the model of contemporary civilization created by men and for men: this evaluation is related to crisis and hopelessness. In turn, a woman is mos...

In the end of the 31 century BC, the Egyptian rulers at the south part of the Upper Nile began build small tombs in the desert to preserve the ownership of the gold rich territory for their heirs. A significant change in the spatial pattern of those buildings took place during the construction of the huge necropolis of the King Djoser, dedicated to an anniversary of the his reign. Using of small stone blocks instead of mud-bricks allowed the transformation of the traditional barrow in the huge six-level pyramidal ...

The purpose of this article is to design the new method called by authors "mobile video" within the existing technique of blended learning. Creating an educational product on the basis of popular modern technology, we understand what needs to be defined, for what purpose it is possible to use "mobile video", what is its place in the system of teaching, in particular when studying Russian language by foreign students. We consider that "mobile video" as a teaching method well fits into the technique of blended learn...

1520 is the turning point year for Corpus Dionysiacum in its positive reception, especially in the West, Martin Luther expressing, as an echo of the reforming philologists, the total repulsion towards it, naming the text “pernitiosissimus” (extremely dangerous) and its controversial author “plus platonizans quam Christianizans” (“more a Platonist than a Christian”), because of promoting “unbiblical” ideas such as: “hierarchy” (Apostolic succession), “Theurgy” (Priesthood), and “sacred mysteries” (Sacraments). Our ...

Human beings evince a natural tendency to perceive patterns like faces, figures or shapes in otherwise random phenomena. This well-known psychological phenomenon called “pareidolia”, “apophenia” or “clustering illusion” (depending on what we refer to) has a convincing evolutionary explanation. As a universal phenomenon it is therefore part of our human nature, although different cultural and/or religious factors can influence or even determine the sensitivity to detect hidden signs and patterns. The present paper ...

Minimum wage is a tool for regulating the labor market that, over the long term, causes controversy in the areas of both economic theory and practice. The goal of this paper is to present and analyze key theoretical economic approaches to the functioning of the labor market and the tools used to regulate it. These regulatory tools significantly influence the labor market’s allocative efficiency, and we generally consider the institution of minimum wage to be fundamental part of this trend. Therefore, in this paper...

The current knowledge of the management of the capital structures of companies does not enable clear determination of optimum ratios of debt to equity. The factors considered by managers in their decisions concerning ways to finance their companies only partly match the theoretical findings on those matters. Empirical studies mention the following factors affecting the financial leverage: legal and institutional constraints, size of the company, profitability of the company, and growth prospects of the company. Th...

The present paper presents new approaches in paramedics education in the framework of an Erasmus + project entitled “Use of Extraglottic and Glottic Alternative Airways Methods in Alternative Airway Management”. The project is based on collaboration between hospitals and Higher Education Institutes from Turkey, Hungary and Romania and aims to develop, test and adapt a continuous vocational educational medical programme, developed on an exhaustive needs analysis and focusing on a transnational approach for airway m...

This study aims to reveal the findings about the validity and reliability of the psychological empowerment scale (PES) developed by [1]. Research data has been collected by applying survey to the health institution professionals. Of the total 12 items in the scale, 3 were excluded from the analysis due to their low factor loadings. Factor analysis results of the remaining 9 items were collected under 2 dimensions. In the confirmatory factor analysis, model test values (p <.05); x2 (88.117), x2 / df (3.421), confir...