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The purpose of the publication is to classify the European Union countries with an application of the modified HDI indicator for year 2005 and 2015 The index, which will be created, is treated as a modified Human Development Index due to the fact that it will be completed with the added information. The modified synthetic index will be calculated for the following determinants: economics, science and technology, health, education and living conditions. The source data will be obtained from Eurostat databases. The ...

No successful economy can be implemented in closed mode in the contemporary globalized world. A view of an explosive development of the national IT technology the society is forced to transform itself from vertically-integrated model into horizontal model. The functions of state authorities change significantly, shifting from interim measures to a standard of quality services provision. The way of life of a contemporary person changes significantly; there is also a process of state borders blurring and state’s fin...

We observe the abandonment of the dynamics in the development of the administrative services, both in the central authorities of the executive power and in the bodies conducting the local self-government. It is noticeable that a small part of the central administration has made it possible for applications for the provided administrative services to be submitted via its territorial units and, moreover, no one administrative services to the central administrations can be declared through the municipal administratio...

In the today’s spatial structure of the centre of Cracow there are many places associated with the former functions of industry or craftsmanship. Due to rapid development of the city in the 20th century industrial plants, which in the 19th century were located in the suburbs, are now in its central part. The goal of the study is to determine in what way old and unused industrial areas can create contemporary urban spaces. What is their potential to build an attractive public space? What is the attitude of the muni...

In modern society, labor becomes a complex and diverse action. The forms of labor are changing, and it`s boundaries are eroding. In these conditions it is important to rethink the economic understanding of labor. The main goal of this article is to formulate special aspects of labor as of a non-economic action. To achieve the goal the author analyzed such notions as “economic action”, “non-economic action”, and “labor” as they exist in scientific literature. It was also required to find out the distinction between...

International trade is the oldest and most development form of international relations. The current conditions of globalization of the economy have become a powerful stimulus for the development of international trade, especially within the existing customs, trade and economic unions. Despite the fact that the USA and Mexico are traditionally the main partners of Canadian foreign trade policy in the framework of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), in recent years the countries of the European Union (E...

The problem of interaction between traditions and novations is relevant in many aspects: ontological, epistemological and axiological. It is no less interesting in terms of cultural research, since it allows us to trace not only the dynamics of internal tendencies in culture, but also the influence of a particular culture on the development and formation of a frontier identity. The process of interaction between traditions and novations is ambivalent. On the one hand, the novation enriches its own culture by other...

Clinical psychology is characterized by different theories and approaches to the study of human being, mental disease and the possible ways for identity change. This plurality of points of view represents a richness, since it allows psychologists, psychotherapists and also patients to refer to a wide choice of possibilities (such as the variety of configurations, strategies and tools) in order to improve the quality of wellbeing and life for people who need help. Anyway, each theory, on the basis of its epistemolo...

Both in current and earlier theories of crime and risky behaviour, the quality of close relationships is considered to be one of the key risk and protective factors. In accordance with these theories (mainly Hirschi, Bowlby etc.) are as the key family factors mentioned basic emotional ties, namely the quality of attachment and acceptation by parents. Another crucial relationship in the early age of children and youth is that with friends and peers. The aim of the research was to find out how the quality of relatio...

The analysis of foreign experience in the implementation of projects for sustainable development economy has shown that in almost all countries the greatest number of innovation projects are carried out in the construction and energy sectors, while very strict requirements for energy efficiency level are imposed on the facilities The accumulated array of analytical data in this field is definitely insufficient to obtain clear and unambiguous conclusions about the relationship between the energy efficiency of the b...

The Bucharest Pinacotheque collection preserves 2500 paintings created by Romanian and European artists, more or less known to the public. In this context, the article presents the results of a research that aimed at offering a clearer image of Art Nouveau expressions in Romanian painting, under the influences of the late 19th century European artistic vision. Although the Art Nouveau movement in Romanian fine arts has been little embraced and researched, some audacious examples are still preserved, painted by the...

The paper focuses on analyzing and evaluating the potential of small and medium-sized towns with emphasis on tourism, cultural heritage and cultural landscape in contact with the Danube River. Small and medium-sized towns located outside the main urbanisation centers and the main urbanisation axes need impulses to ensure their social and economic development and attraction. For these cities it is important to evaluate their cultural and landscape potential, which they have but however, it is still under-utilised a...

The Yenisei region is almost entirely the territory of Middle Siberia (the Yenisei basin and some neighboring areas of the Ob basin). Most of the indigenous population of the region in the XVII–XIX centuries was part of the Russian state. In this regard, it is important to trace the historical destinies of indigenous people in the conditions of Russian economic and cultural influences. People of different origins lived here. The most numerous were Turkic-speaking groups – Kyrgyzs, Kachints, Shorts, Chulym-Turks (“...

The article is dedicated to the role of education and science in the contemporary world. Development and interaction of them are necessary for mankind to survive under conditions of increasing challenges and threats of our civilization, especially ecological. The author accentuates attention in the importance of education in ecological sphere in all Institutes of Higher Education, including non-specialized, and for all specialties. This must be preceded by training ecological consciousness, beginning from the pre-...

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

The paper deals with the application of the methods of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in the area of the eGovernment development evaluation. eGovernment is one of the current priority trends of public administration modernization in the European Union both at the level of the governing bodies of the EU and the individual member states.It is a way to government transformation in sense of increasing of the availability, effectiveness, transparency and accountability and one of the possible options how to prov...

The Republic of Croatia is a country with significant number and large variety of autochthonous products. In recent years, more attention is paid to the importance of local products and their protection at national and even European level. The aim of the paper is to explore tourists perception towards autochthonous products quality. For the purpose of this paper the primary research in the area of Dubrovnik has been carried out. Autochthonic products in Croatia can be protected by the marks of origin, geographical...

This work is devoted to the topical issue for Armenia: the development of tourism by identifying the factors influencing the satisfaction of Russian tourists visiting Armenia, as well as factors influencing their intention to revisit the destination and its recommendation to friends. According to statistics from the past nine years, tourism in Armenia gained new pace of development. Among all other countries and regions, the leader in the number of tourists visiting Armenia is Russia. Also, the two countries signe...

One of the most important characteristics of media communication in the 21st Century is the active participation of media audience members in creating cultural meanings. The scholarly article deals with a particularly important way media audiences actively participate in media culture and its processes – fandom. The authors aim to reflect on ‘the culture of the fans’ and its current understanding in the light of media culture and media studies, drawing attention to related cultural phenomena. Given the scope and r...

This article studies the international cooperation of national judges to enhance the implementation of the 1980 Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and the 1996 Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Cooperation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children. The International Hague Network of Judges (IHNJ) began 20 years ago with judges from China (Hong Kong SAR), New Zealand, the United Kingdom (England and Wales), ...

In modern times, paying taxes is deemed an indisputable fact. However, the development of the fiscal state has not abolished disputes over taxation nature and its fairness. While it is generally agreed that taxes should be paid, there is still an issue regarding how high tax rates should be. The key issue is to determine the critical shifting point for taxation targets: from settling public expenditures to confiscation of an individual’s property and, potentially, the punitive role of tax. The problem should be ad...

Balkan architecture, as a synthesis between Orient and Occident, has offered modern architecture many possibilities for continuity and particularization. These features, interpreted and exploited by Henriette Delavrancea-Gibory, Romanian architect from the modern period, can be found within the architectural works on the shore of the Black Sea. The villas from Balchik, integrated to a specific landscape and in harmony with the spirit of the place, continue and reinterpret the local traditions of the vernacular arc...

The worldwide challenges related with the agricultural sector are diversifying and the financing of this field is more and more required in order to develop the sustainable agriculture while mitigating and adapting to climate change. This paper aims to overview the agriculture finance landscape worldwide by investigating the Scopus research publications. Also, it was conducted an analysis at BRIC and USA levels. The review uses the bibliometric techniques for emphasizing the evolution during 1960-2016 time frames,...

Our main research goal was to define the effectiveness of intervention programme focused on second career directional choice of grammar school students. The intervention programme was based on the Theory of Cognitive Information Processing. An assumption of change in experimental group was to increase the self-knowledge and improve the competence that is necessary in process of second career directional choice. The following questionnaires were used: Career Decidedness Scale (Lounsbury, Gibson, 2011), The Career M...

Background: The monitoring of the skin lesions in clinical practice varies significantly. For the necessity of unified pressure ulcers monitoring, the care process, and the treatment of pressure ulcers (hereinafter named PU), a specially prepared and pilot-tested dataset was compiled. The aim of the research is to analyse the completeness and availability of data according to the created dataset in the individual centres (faculty hospitals) involved in the research. There were observed items evaluating incidence a...

In today's world, animals play an important role in people's lives. They become friends of people, a source of joy and happiness for children and adults, a cure for loneliness for the elderly. The way of thinking of peoples is diverse due to national specifics, which is reflected in the diversity of figurative meanings of the vocabulary related to the names of animals [1]. This agenda is what the article is devoted to. Knowledge of the specifics of the associative-figurative meanings of the vocabulary of a certain...

The dialogue between Cultural Heritage and design practices is a recent theme in academic studies, the connection with fashion design practices seems to be still in exploration. In this regard, the paper is based on the desire to create wearable objects that are representative of Made in Italy values, which encourage the activation, the interaction and the emergence of new relationships between individuals and cultural heritage, exploiting the potential of digital technologies. The designed wearable products were ...

The article discusses some problems of federalism in Russia, which have recently become particularly acute. These problems are related to the specific functioning of the mechanisms of mandatory rotation at the level of heads of subjects of the Russian Federation. The aim of the study is to show that they are rooted in the peculiarities of the system of federative relations that has been formed over the past 20 years of modern Russian history. Using historical method and also methods of structural-functional analys...

A common legal framework for immigration and asylum policies in the EU has been formulated as well as common procedure for implementing them by Member States. However, Member States do not always adhere to the EU approach adopting and disposing of common procedure for implementing immigration and asylum policies. Member States seek their national interest first leading to possible incompatibilities of national legislations and administrative practices with EU immigration and asylum regulations even though they are...

Recently, the problems of indigenous peoples of the North have been related to the realization of the indigenous low-numbered peoples' basic right to own and use their land. Its acquisition is often antagonized, which is not only due to ignorance of these peoples' specifics, but also their lands rich in oil, gas and other natural resources. The special importance of the land issue for indigenous peoples is currently connected with the modern Russia realities: privatization, land leasing and private property rights...

Low bone mineral density (BMD) is associated in patients with NAFLD, but the mechanisms behind the reduced BMD in NAFLD are still not completely known. Several factors may influence bone mineralisation such as : cytokines, vitamin D deficiency, limited physical activity. Aim of our study was to establish the relationship between osteoporosis and the degree of fibrosis in NAFLD patients estimated by transient elastography (TE) . Methodes: We include 145 patients with NAFLD and we performed for all of them TE, abdom...

Learning aspirations reflect personality dispositions and pupils’ ability to achieve certain goals; they are the pupil’s ideas about these goals at school formed by the pupil’s self-concept and previous successes or failures. In pupils of younger school age, aspirations are strongly determined by parenting and parents’ attitudes to the child’s school career. In the operational phase, a socio-psychological approach was chosen, according to which aspirations are not only the conscious and rational disposition of a p...

Artistic installation understood as art in a public space today constitutes a visually attractive method of healing and new characterization of aesthetically degraded places and landscapes, deprived of their cultural sense. Such works, created in the existing public space, by adding other contexts and symbolic meanings construct a completely new quality of a place, generate emotional sensations and experiences referring to the context of a place, the history of one’s ancestors and cultural heritage. An analysis of...

The Joint Rescue System (JRS) in the Czech Republic consists of primary and other components. Primary components include the Fire Rescue System, the Police, and the Medical Emergency Service. It is essential for both the core and the other components to co-operate together. For these purposes, the tactical exercises of the JRS components serve. Crisis managers, in their joint work, require effective interactive communication to address the crisis. It is therefore essential that they have managerial and communicati...

In the given article, the lexical units associated with the umbrella concept “clothes” in medieval Germany and its further development in idioms are considered as the material under study. The purpose of the work is to trace the influence of the concept “clothes” on the changes in the lexical composition of the language. According to the authors, this topic is studied insufficiently and may be of interest for further research, with a view to a more detailed understanding of the constituent components of idioms. Th...

One of the most basic rights of an individual is the right to the protection of personal data. Personal data is the common term for information about an identified or identifiable individual. Identifiable individual is defined as someone who can be directly or indirectly recognized, in particular by means of such characteristics as name, surname, identification number, location data, online ID, as well as physical, physiological, psychological, economic, cultural or social factors. Undoubtedly, 25 May 2018 can be ...

The article describes a study aimed at studying the values and life meanings of the younger generation. Research in the field of human values is the object of undying interest of researchers. The processes taking place in Russia are undergoing changes not only in the economic and political spheres of the state's life but also in the values and meanings of both individuals and society as a whole. From what values will prevail in a person on the basis of them and he will build his life, personal relationships, famil...

In the ferment of the demonstrations activated in Genoa in the last years and in the research projects of the University, in the Department of Architecture and Design, we must also include the relation established among studies funded by external bodies, including private ones, and theoretical-methodological research, in particular on the importance of representative choices in communication. The general objective lies in a careful analysis of the role that representative choices play in the communication of visua...

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...

The labyrinth, as a riddle alike, is one of the most primordial cultural images. Initially, its image was related to the prevention of evil and its deterrence, also by luring and imprisoning evil spirits in it. It served to confuse and stop the intruder, who, to enter it, had to guess the puzzle or find its way to its center. The labyrinth, like the templum, was an image of the city, protecting and renewing it. The meaning of this image seems to be ambivalent, but polar and complementary: on the one hand, achievin...

The Bucharest Municipality Pinacotheque is a project that was born through a successive chain of donations supported by a warm spirit of meditation and goodwill. The birth certificate is dated July 19, 1933 and has the signature of the Mayor of that period, Dem I. Dobrescu, which works by affiliation, together with the Municipal Museum, under the institutional trusteeship, as today, the Capital City Hall. Initially, the Pinacotheque’s heritage consisted of numerous donations of art or movable property from the eli...

The current highly competitive situation requires organizations to seek, find and use new potentials to increase competitiveness in both strategic and tactical aspects of activity. In the article the approaches to efficient administration with significant contemporary bases of organization competitive advantage as set of strategies at various levels and its integration actions are analyzed. This in-depth analysis of the main idea of complex strategies, integration activity of organizations and its interaction spec...

In 2015, when Hungary was in the centre of the migratory flow, a new special criminal procedure has been inserted into the Hungarian Act on Criminal Procedure (Act XIX of 1998) referring to the – so-called - crimes against the closing of border. Considering that: (a) the irregular migration did not decrease in the past years, and (b) the main directives of the codification on the new procedural code were the rapidity and the efficiency, the special procedural regulations on crimes against the closing of border had...

The study "From words to images or from images to words?" is an application of Media and Communication field, Literature and Film Studies in particular. It analyses the short story "Tinere?e f?r? de tinere?e" ("Youth Without Youth"), by Mircea Eliade, in the film adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola. Mircea Eliade is better known internationally as a historian of religions, more than as a writer of fantastic literature. In an era which prefers image to the written text, the transfer of it in images implies a high di...

Problems of studying dependence of cognitive processes on language, the concept of language as a key to understanding thinking and knowledge, to solving problems of modern life are presented in the article. The explication of main approaches to the study language philosophy of the twentieth century, analysis of language problems, which received an insignificant degree of researchers’ reflexion, is discussed. The authors considered attempts to explain the complexity of modern life through the study of language, inv...

This article sets forth the problem of attitudes towards women in connection with their ethno-religious characteristics of the processing of their appearance (for example, hidjab (Islamic head-cover)) and sex and age of respondents. Research design. The object of the study were 794 people (350 male; 444 female), aged 18 to 40 years (mean age 27 years), residents of Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Methods. The study used the author's questionnaire, which consisted of stimulus material (2 sets of photos of 5 girls; in one ca...

Due to fast development of new technologies, to emerging of new products and to discoveries being done in different spheres of life, any language experiences its getting enlarged. All these factors cause positive changes in expansion of a language where a lot of specialized words appear which fix and transmit the knowledge contained in those achievements. To express that knowledge different terminological units representing many phenomena of a lot of scientific areas are used. It is known that specialized words ar...

Consumer protection legal regulation has been undergoing a long-term development in the Czech Republic and is largely influenced by European legislative standards, as well as by the national law. Consumer contracts are specific type of obligational relationship where one of the parties (the consumer) enjoys increased legal protection. Mediation has not been a part of the Czech legal system for a long time, yet its use in practice is expanding. Recently, the entrepreneurs begun to include the mediation clauses in t...

The aim of the research is detection the interaction structure between the main actors of urban conflicts in the major cities of modern Russia and impacting political and institutional factors on it. The analysis is based on the theory conflict theses, which linking the management of conflict processes with the need for their institutionalization, including political sphere. For obtaining empirical data, an expert survey was used, in which 36 experts from three regional centers of Russia were represented (Voronezh...

Background: The new content of mathematical education should ensure the achievement of state, social and personal needs and interests of students. Current situation related to the methodological and psycho-pedagogical aspects in-depth studying of mathematics is considered by authors. The rethinking of traditional methods of teaching and searching new techniques to form independent and cognitive activity occurs at the step of transition to the new quality of education. It happens in the process of teaching mathemat...