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Analysis of the present condition and prospects of development of financial markets in Russia and abroad allowed the author to identify risks and provide specific recommendations to improve Russia's economic policy in the new geopolitical reality. The paper aims to examine topical issues on the current status and development prospects of the Russian monetary economy. Developing economy of Russia plays a special role in contemporary world. Financial market is of particular importance for the development of the Russ...

Mining regions are traditionally most technogenic pressured and transformed during the exploration of mineral resources. In each country producing mineral resources the problem of restoration of damaged territories is especially significant because of a variety of consequences of the destruction of natural complexes: latent/ hidden effects, secondary pollutions and destruction of soils and state of groundwater, complex of consequences for the biota. In Russia, i.e., currently there are more than 340 large scale ob...

Environmental pollution, adverse spawning conditions, as well as intensive fishing and other factors have negative influence on fish stock condition, thereby causing fishery enterprises problems to plan their activities in long term. This causes significant consequences not only for the Latvian fishery sector in general, but also for the development of coastal areas and national socio-economic growth. In the modern global economy, competitiveness is put forward as one of the conditions for economic recovery. The c...

Our study presents a model of factors influencing the financial viability of Hungarian social enterprises, and tests the model on a sample of 220 Hungarian firms involved in social entrepreneurship. In the model we suggest that the most important factors for financial viability are the Regulatory environment (the transparency of regulations); the Entrepreneurial attributes of the entrepreneur (business orientation, business skills and experience, business planning tendencies); the Financial support provided by the...

The financialization of operations is related to the growing importance of financial motives in the activities of non-financial entities. Referring the problem to various sized enterprises, due to the specificity of the functioning of large and small and mediumsized enterprises, theoretical differences in the impact of the financial market on the form of management, as well as in the capabilities of access to financial instruments (e.g. through access to the stock market), can be observed. The aim of this publicat...

Changes in the society cause changes in the demands on the process and the result of training an engineer. In the beginning of the 20th century a design engineer was needed; the second half of the 20th century called for engineers capable of carrying out a scientific research and applying its results; labor market in the beginning of the 21st century makes a demand on engineers who are both competent in dealing with theoretical and practical tasks that arise from their professional activities and able to work as m...

The paper deals with the foreign reflection of the work of Jaroslav Seifert, a Czech poet who belongs to the so-called semi-official “grey zone” and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The analysis is based on two essays by Igor Hajek, a distinguished exile critic, included in the collection of Hajek’s literary essays, which was published in Czech translation in 2007. In the first of these articles, Hajek reminds foreign readers of the confined atmosphere of the 1950s, when many authors lost the oppor...

Forensic chemistry as a part of forensic science seems to be appreciated by judicial bodies. Nevertheless, relations and cooperation between authorities conducting proceedings and an expert from such complicated and specific field can be very difficult. The group of forensic experts applying chemical analysis methods for evidence purposes in criminal trial in Poland were surveyed within the studies. Types of physicochemical methods used by forensic experts and approaches utilized for presentation of results in opi...

The article substantiates the thesis about the central role of the phenomenon of ethical in the Kantian and Freudian reconstructions of the culture genesis. Comparative and hermeneutic methods of research are used. With necessity ethical conception of psychoanalysis founder presupposes a reference to Kant, but it contains a clear and hidden polemic with his ethical apriorism. In this connection, a comparative analysis of the two versions of the culture genesis is carried out, and similarity and difference of these...

Our study aim to identify the main sources of individualism, in Renaissance. We have established the conceptual relationships between greek Christian terms hypostas-enhypostas-parahypostas-polyhypostas and their metamorphosis under the influence of iudaic and gnostic philosophy. We are sketching the typology of the individual, reflected in symbolic portraiture of Adam. The individualism excludes any form of constraint and impose with necessity the idea of authenticity. We can observe the deconstruction of the esse...

This paper is linked to a research project that takes into account the Southern Italian landowning class from the eighteenth to the twentieth century and the process of development of the Italian Mezzogiorno, with particular reference to the influence of institutional and economic change on liberal Italy. We focus on the analysis of the life and the career of a southern Italian banker, Quinto Quintieri, whose familyВ’s background and fortunes were entirely rooted in the latifundia who, in November 1944, was sent t...

Today in Ukraine, the issue of organization of recreation becomes a priority issue not only in the physiological-psychological aspect, but also as a socially-organized function of people's lives. It provides an opportunity for an integrated combination of recreation, tourism and excursions, in order to promote the development of tourist excursions. Natural, cultural-historical and socio-economic resources of the region, as well as the presence of territories and objects of the nature reserve fund are important fac...

English Business discourse is a unity of interrelated functional styles (registers) of speech used in business contexts. The register under investigation is the business press as it actualises one of the most important functions of discourse – the function of consciousness formation. Shaping the worldview, forming opinions and attitudes is currently on the global agenda as a point of contention in business, media, and political discourse. Pragmatic impact of mass media speech has attracted attention of researche...

Formation of massive interdisciplinary scientific corpus brought awareness that the results of intense research into reduplication phenomenon in its linguistic forms are far from being complete. Neuro-linguistic programming [1] demonstrated a powerful functional potential of reduplication in the mass media texts. Doubling is used in the development of spoken languages translators. These but not least factors revived scientific interest into the reduplication typology, its patterns analysis. On this reason another ...

Let the linear demand function be ??0(??)=??0???0??,0??????0??0, where ??0,??0>0 and ??0(??) is the unit price with respect to the demand quantity ??.Then the revenue function is ??0(??)=??0?????0??2 where 0??????0??0 . Consider the cost function ??0(??)=??0+??0?? where 0???, ??0>0 and 0<??0<??0. Then we obtain profit function as ??0(??)=??0(??)???0(??)=??0?????0??2???0???0?? where 0??????0??0 . Yao and Lin [Yao J.-S., Lin D.-C., Optimal fuzzy profit for price in fuzzy sense, Fuzzy Sets and Systems 111, 455-464 20...

(CRM, Customer Relationship Management) and solutions for data storage that are usually set and implemented by their headquarters. Need to maintain large stores of data and personal data not excluded are managed by IT, multiple-used in terms of time and aim by analytics (DA, Data Analytics) - e.g. for profiling, data mining, segmentation and other specialists (PDPs, Personal Data Protection Specialists / DPO, Data Protection Officer etc.), performed and controlled by internal controlling department (BI, Business I...

Object recognition involves processes that activate conscious interpretation of the visual field. Such processes are influenced by previous knowledge and experience. However, previous studies report interesting results, which draw out gender asymmetry in visual perception tasks performance, claimed to occur as a reason of biological differences, other findings attribute this difference to socio-cultural factors, as a result of semantic interpretation due to difference of environment. To test this assumption, the a...

In terms of the economic, historical and structural transformations, the Romanian energy sector has contributed and essentially contributed to the country's development and development process through its profound influence on the quality of life, the competitiveness of the economy, the environment and the climate. To support the expectations of energy consumers, the Romanian energy sector must become more economically efficient, technologically advanced and less polluting for human health and the environment. Rom...

The study reflects contemporary Slovak art inspired by the personality of Milan Rastislav Stefanik from the perspective of his contribution to the development of diplomatic relations (Czechoslovakia – France), to the knowledge of the mysteries and laws of space (an astronomer), and the unbreakable belief in victorious battle against an enemy. It evaluates the immense merit through which he went down in Czechoslovakian and world history and surveys the features and acts of his personality that were inspirational ...

Promoting and developing the energy sector is an essential component of the process of Romania's sustainability. Sustainability in the promotion of the energy sector can be achieved by: building new capacities, upgrading and modernizing the energetic sector, stimulating the increase of internal consumption in the context of energy efficiency, promoting and capitalizing on renewable energy sources, especially geothermal energy. In this context, Romania participates in European projects aimed at promoting and capita...

In Romania, at this moment, the framework for the analysis on water protection is specifically debated, under the effervescent pressure of pollution caused by some natural phenomena, from the sources in industry, transport, agriculture, as well as the existence of certain forms of cross-border pollution that significantly disturbs the quality of the waters by forming and depositing new sediments harmful to the environment. In order to prevent and combat water pollution, Romania, as a member of the European Union, ...

The third decade of this century will see transformations resulting from several technological, climatic, and social changes. The labour market will be entered by people born at the turn of the millennium. Being known as Generation Z, they are rather specific in many respects. With opportunities to study abroad, their language skills are at a very good level and they have no problems employing the new advanced technologies. The life values and priorities of this generation will help form the future in each country...

Generic trademarks have been firmly established in the modern English language. However, little is known about the exact number of lexical items in the English vocabulary stock that have previously been nothing but trademarks and brands specially created to indicate the origin of the product and to identify the goods of a particular manufacturer. The legal process of genericization by which the marks are determined in court to have become generic may take a long period of time. Although the legal formalities are c...

Historical novel is, without any exaggeration, one of the most striking literary genres, as a retrospective of the past in the imagination of the writer makes up for the lack of imagination and imagination of a professional historian. Historical novel is, without any exaggeration, one of the most striking literary genres, as a retrospective of the past in the imagination of the writer makes up for the lack of imagination and imagination of a professional historian. The genre of historical novel has gone through a ...

Social enterprises are a relatively new and expanding field of study. They could be private for-profit, non-profit and hybrid organizations with a social mission that use business approaches to achieve their objectives. They typically function upon a range of laws to govern their creation, day-to-day management, tax arrangements and dissolution. Since social enterprises are in the inter-section of the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, policy makers have, in certain countries, sought to encourage it by creating a c...

Starting from underlining the actual existence of a human society in full globalization process and from analyzing a phenomenon as old as time, i.e. human migration, we are trying to highlight in this study the relations that exist without any doubt between globalization and migration. At the same time, a review of the relations and effects between migration and the international community, between the religion and the culture of different societies that come into contact with the migratory phenomena, is performed...

Festivities are one of the most stable forms of spiritual culture, which nowadays undergo significant transformations: the spectrum of festivities, their functions, traditions, the attitudes of people and their knowledge about the festive culture are changing. The influence of western European festivities is another significant trend that has become evident in contemporary Latvia. The research analyses the specificity of the perception of Halloween in the south-eastern region of Latvia – Latgale (the major objec...

The objective of the research was to test the dictation of capital letters and comprehension to sentences in a sample of first grade pupils at a speech-therapy-type primary school (STPS) and a primary school (PS). The author investigated 46 pupils, of whom 13 from the speech-therapy-type primary school, 12 from primary schools for pupils with specific learning disorders and 21 pupils with typical development from a primary school. Results: Pupils from STPS (N=25) achieved an average score of 20.52 out of 34 points...

Bach's genius could be discovered rather in those features of musical language that are no longer contiguous to the pathway initiated by tradition, in those novel solutions which, in spite of displaying a high degree of novelty, are way ahead of their time, foreshadowing evolutions that will become habitual in another stylistic period. One of the elements of the musical language that Bach excels at is harmony which he masters like no other from among his contemporaries. Often a visionary through his manner of appr...

The safety is a key value consisting of personal safety programs, injury prevention, health support and keeping environmental and safety laws and regulations. According to previous experience it is possible to state that students, pre-service chemistry teachers, who are well-prepared due to safety practice and compliance with safety regulations and responsibilities, after starting work, are able to work creatively. With regard to preparing pre-service chemistry teachers, it is inevitable to understand the importan...

Health tourism as a niche has emerged and has rapidly grown to become a very significant and promising industry. In the European Union, health tourism market is definitely a new and strong trend, with total revenues of 46.9 billion EUR, which is equal to 4.6% of all tourism revenues and 0.33% of the EU-28 GDP in 2014. The purpose of this paper is to describe main attributes and to analyze some of the health tourism challenges in Italy and Croatia. In addition, the financial effects of these health tourism markets ...

Rudolf Carnap, one of the most accomplished representatives of logical empiricism, finds himself in discussion with Heidegger in the most radical phase of his work. His radical, critical approach is significant for the syntactic period of Carnap's thought development. Heidegger is, according to Carnap, a philosopher who speaks out against the rules of grammatical rules. Heidegger does not perceive Carnap as a philosopher worthy of a long answer. There are only two Heidegger's responses to Carnap. In his intellectu...

The article is devoted to the history of the mineralogical collection which played a special role in the history of museums of Russian universities. Assembled in Saxony by a chemist and mineralogist Johann Friedrich Henckel and then bought by the owner of several steel factories Akinfy Nikitich Demidov, it was later presented to the Moscow university and then served as the basis of the first Russian university museum. This article reviews the history of the mineral collection before it was sold and explores newly ...

Cultural studies address a wide range of phenomena. Among others, they deal with heritage research combining methodologies adopted in the sciences (chemistry, physics) and the humanities (art history, archival studies). Heritage studies give us a new insight into material history, history of economy, socio-economic topics and local community. The example of Gierczyn (formerly Giehren) – a small Silesian village in Poland, close to the Polish-Czech border, once part of the Kingdom of Bohemia (until 1740/42), Prus...

Individuals? cognition demands are constantly increasing in the current globalized world, and therefore, they have to face the need to work with information in new and more complicated ways not only in their mother tongue but also in foreign languages. In order to orient themselves in the huge amount of information, individuals develop different strategies and procedures that help them sort information and to create a cognitive structure that makes it easier to process information. This process is called a persona...

The research aim is to define and substantiate the methodological guidelines for the historical reconstruction of Ukrainian philosophical tradition of axiology of the nature. First of all, the research methodology as a synthesized self-reflection of historical humanities, in the search for new knowledge, should be based on human-centered approaches, principles and methods and it has to take into account evolutionary changes in the world society, the conceptual and historical-contextual influence on human conscious...

The article analyses the physical representation of national identity in BarnesВ’s England, England (1999). In his novel, Barnes constructs a two-dimensional model of English national identity comprising history and landscape. The significance of these two concepts in the system of national English symbolism is acknowledged by both the English and the outsiders. In the three parts of the novel, the author successively depicts three landscapes with various degrees of symbolic meaning. In the first part, the perspec...

The need to steer our development towards a more sustainable future is ever more imminent in the light of the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Urban areas bear much of the blame and burden and interventions towards urban sustainability may have the greatest impact. Despite increasing interest in urban sustainability, from both the scientific community, as well as practitioners around the world, its clear definition and especially its measurement and monitoring is still a cause of ...

The digital era implies not only changes in the workforce, it has an even greater impact on managers 'education, and from this perspective managers' training needs to be given greater attention. Training has the main starting point for the target audience, but it is not necessary to ignore the start and initial level of the trained. Also, the education and experience of managers who are trained are equally important. In this context, the educational system needs to adapt to the needs of the digital era, not just f...

In the present-day context, economic growth based on the cluster-oriented approach is considered to be one the most rewarding and effective mechanisms to improve the competitive strength of the regions in the country, as well as stimulate the innovative activity within the advanced social and economic development areas. The industrial cluster sustainable development model would be impossible to be implemented without setting up a definite management mechanism and system. As such, this article outlines the framewor...

The web has become a very important source of information for users (students, researchers, general public, etc.) and commercial enterprises. This propulsion of data is related to the diversity of requests for information and the need for versatile knowledge. Access to digital data via web services is facilitated by search tools. Following a request from the user, the search engine has a long list of informational responses, but often containing parasitic pages. Although before the appearance of the web, the searc...

The paper tries to analyze the issue of human capital development on the performance of the organization at national and regional level, to identify and analyze, through the proposed conceptual model, the factors of the human resource development that lead to increasing the organization competitiveness by ensuring the connection between the specialized human capital and the organization performance, which will generate a competitive advantage over the selected organizations. The overall objective of the research f...

Workplace stress is recognized as a worldwide challenge for both employees and organizations. From this point of view, approaching a research topic regarding the factors that determine the occurrence of stress within the project teams from public institutions, along the realized public projects, I think it is also of real interest for public institutions. This research aimed to determine which are the main stressors that appear within the project team, more precisely in the elaboration and implementation of public...

The paper aims to map the roots of the Unity of the Brethren, a religious movement whose origins date back to reform religious thinking represented, e.g. by John Wycliffe in England. The text mentions the key moments in the history of the Unity of the Brethren, notices the influences and contacts with Martin Luther in Germany and later Jean Calvin in Geneva and focuses on the development trends within the church itself. It especially points out the trend towards humanistic traditions of education, scholarship, lit...

This article aims at looking at two centres of modernity, seen in space, time and metaphorical representation, in the early twentieth century as illustrated by the Irish writer James Joyce in Ulysses (1922) and the Romanian novelist Cezar Petrescu in Calea Victoriei [“Victory Avenue”], published in 1929. The analysis is based on recent research that has entangled the representation of space in cultural and fictional texts with the geographic spaces of the respective historical periods, the reason being that, s...

In the context of stimulating personal development, an individual approach to each individual is very important. Considering this approach with respect to modern academic education, it is worth implementing a master-student tradition, lost today with the massification of education. Based on the literature analysis, the following two approaches can be indicated to build personal knowledge. The western strategy focuses on the development and transfer of explicit knowledge, built in a created system of knowledge mana...

There is an ongoing debate in the contemporary studies on religion and society on whether religion is an evolutionary adaptation or a by-product of our human evolution. Taking the most convincing pros and cons into consideration I come to the conclusion that religion is both: as a set of universal norms and ethical regulations it is an adaptation functioning as a cybernetic homeostat; as a set of beliefs and imagined spiritual beings it is a culturally dependent by-product that enables the implementation of behavi...

The present paper aims to investigate the ways in which the First World War was portrayed on the Italian screens during the Fascist regime. For this purpose, the paper will discuss a number of films about the war made in Italy between the 1920s and 1930s, ranging from Mario VolpeВ’s Il grido dellВ’aquila, produced in 1923 on the occasion of the first anniversary of FascismВ’s seizure of power, in October 1922, to Marco ElterВ’s Le scarpe al sole, which is commonly regarded as one of the best Italian films on the G...

Traditional museum is typically characterized especially by presenting exhibits. However, it has recently been enriched by many other features that contribute to the attractiveness of exhibitions. Museum spaces nowadays offer various educational events, creative workshops or shops with artefacts and publications. This paper is aimed at presenting partial research results orientated to human-centered design of museums for children. The introductory part describes innovative design tools that focus on multisensory p...

Business externalization is a common concept in HR management and freelancing is one of the aspects of independent employment. In the past, many authors defined the area of freelancing in media, artistic and creative work, however, contemporary sources note that the area is much broader and changes rapidly. The present study aims to determine the status of freelancing in Croatia. The starting point of this research was to find out whether freelancers have the same opportunity as in other business communities, and ...