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The purpose of this article is to identify the main speech characteristics that mark the British linguistic identity in business discourse. The authors analyze the concept of linguistic identity, determine the role of the identification of business representatives with ethnic, professional, political groups, identify speech markers of linguistic identity. For the analysis of speech characteristics methods of functional-pragmatic analysis, continuous sampling and contextual analysis were applied. The material of th...

With the advancement of the Internet, the rise of the Big-data, rapid evolution of the computer science, huge progression in robotics and programming caused the development of the Artificial Intelligence, which leads it to deal with complex issues and task. Further, this technology seems to be able to generate contents as different as music, poems, paintings, movie or news scripts, jokes along with creative problem-solving. However, can machines create paintings or produce images as an art? Firstly, this paper bri...

The paper deals with the drivers and barriers for the international competitiveness improvements in the pharmaceutical industry in Russia and the United States. The methodological basis of the study is the combination of the competitive advantages theory by M. Porter with the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index methodology. A grouping of global competitiveness indicators in connection with the determinants of the Porter diamond was carried out and resulted in following seven pillars: factor conditi...

Many years of history of tax havens indicate their attractiveness in terms of hiding income and reducing tax burdens. At the same time, it exposes the weakness of governments and various types of institutions and organizations in the scope of limiting the negative impact of tax havens on the financial conditions of the countries from which the capital has migrated. The creation of new legal forms, often of a hybrid nature, is not a magnet only for business entities but also for individuals. Minimum tax burdens, a ...

TRIZ (the theory of inventive problem solving) is an approach to generate creative solutions for problem solving, it was developed by Genrich Altshuller since 1946. Primarily he creates this theory for technical systems and problems, but then other authors use the same approach to develop theory that you can apply to advertising, public relations etc. One of the instruments in Classical TRIZ is a set of inventive principles that help to create solutions for the problem. This instrument transforms the process of fi...

Current paper analyzes the main trends of the ERP-systems market in Russia and abroad. The main highlights of the research are the following ones: analysis of the market leaders; identification of the industry specificity; analyzes of the structure of the use of the most popular ERP-solutions; identification of the development direction as well as the changes of the market of the presented information systems in the medium-term; the forecasts for the dynamics of development in the medium term. As a result, the mai...

The paper discusses selected results of a telephone in-depth interview (TDI) study conducted among 20 Polish companies employing foreigners. The nature of the study was exploratory and it was aimed at detailing the current knowledge about the help the employers offer to foreign employees and the costs of it for the company. The analysis was made taking into account the labour market segment. Half of the surveyed organizations were respondents who employed foreign employers in jobs from the primary labour market (m...

This paper comes to present and highlight the works of three Romanian composers, who are or were professors at the Arts University "George Enescu" University, institution with 156 years of existence. It is about Sonante by Vasile Spatarelu, Invocations by Viorel Munteanu and Impressions from childhood composed by Bogdan Chirosca. All these works are recorded on the CD named The clarinet in the creation of composers from Iasi, [1]. In this scientific and artistic approach, we propose to present and decode three com...

The article analyzes the process of forming a dialogue between Russian civil society and the authorities with a view to solving environmental problems more effectively. One of the reasons that hinders the existence of system communication is that the authorities sacrifice ecology for the sake of developing the region's economy and yield to pressure from business, in the structure of whose interests the task of preserving a favorable natural environment for people's lives is peripheral. At the same time, the presen...

The purpose of this study is to reveal the relationship between organizational behavior variables by using hierarchical regression analysis. The survey responses collected in the study were analyzed and interpreted using SPSS for Windows 22.00 and AMOS 22.0 program. Descriptive statistical methods (Frequency, Percentage, Mean, Standard deviation) were used when study data were evaluated. Confirmatory factor analyzes of the scales were performed and the relationships between them were analyzed by hierarchical regre...

Tourist information centers play the role of an important subject in the development of tourism in the destination. They exist in all countries with developed tourism and therefore have their foundation in Slovakia as well. The aim of the paper is to explore and compare the environment, the offer of regional products and employees' access in tourist information centers in Western, Central and Eastern Slovakia. In order to fulfill the aim of the paper we have made in the months from January to April 2018 survey in ...

The article considers the issues of innovative development of educational organizations of the system of secondary vocational education of the Russian Federation on the example of the Sverdlovsk region. The authors determine the role of vocational education for the development of the Russian economy at the present stage, consider the features of functioning, and reveal the distinctive characteristics of the system. Special attention is paid to the analysis of negative factors in the functioning of professional edu...

The way that design is being taught is continuously changing under the pressure of the transition from analogical to digital environments. This becomes even more important as the novelty and the alleged superiority of the digital world is used as a marketing tool by competing universities. Even though in some fields of application this approach is desirable, some particular aspects of teaching design and architecture make this transition debatable. The advantages of drawing on blackboards over drawing on whiteboar...

Following the evolution of the state of well-being, as part of social policy, especially in the last 60 years, one can conclude the notable trend of increasing the relevance, that is, the generosity of social policies, with one progressive movement of the welfare state from a state-watchman to a state protector, whose general task is to ensure equality of opportunities, ie chances. In literature, we encounter different definitions of the concept of "state protector" and "welfare state". The concept of "social prot...

The teacher has a crucial role in the process of education. Educational studies suggest that the essential qualities of good teachers include the ability to be self-aware of one's biases; to perceive, understand and accept differences in others; to analyse and diagnose student understanding and adapt as required; to negotiate and take risks in their teaching; and to have a strong conceptual understanding of their subject matter. An ideal teacher is someone who has a combination of qualities, such as being very kno...

Introduction: Social demands aim at the improvement of the modern engineering and technical education in the conditions of the information educational environment of a technical university. The priority purposes of the teaching in the system of Higher education are the personal and professional growth of students: the formation of such qualities of a personality as the ability to take the responsibility, creativity, reflexivity, the ability to work in a team and readiness for further self-development. For this rea...

The problematic of national identity and his affirmation is from a long time an open chapter in the definition of the concept of education from Romania. It had been discussed if the national identity can be defined outside the elements of religious identity and if this issue contradicts or not the perspective of unity on the characteristic of religious diversity. Overall, the national and religious identity is necessary insofar that generates commune values and omens new opportunities of social interaction. Theref...

The paper concerns the analysis of the main concepts of West European tradition of Philosophy, which are the concepts of the other, the subject and the encounter. The research has been inspired by the work of world known indologist Gerhard Oberhammer, particularly the articles ‘Im Angesicht des Anderen. Ramanujas Saranagatigadya. Einwichtiger Text vishnuitisher Religionstradition’ and ‘‘Begegnung’ als Kategorie der Religionshermeneutik’. It is interesting both from historical-philosophical and indological point of...

Latvia has defined the smart specialization strategy in national level since 2013. The planned outcome - increased capacity of innovations - includes the share of high and medium-high technology sectors in the export; number of researchers employed in the private sector; increase in manufacturing productivity and share of innovative enterprises. Smart Specialization Strategy measures are tied to the Latvian Sustainable Development Strategy until 2030, the Spatial Development Perspective and the National Developmen...

Architecture of the Alchemists’ House, which was carried out according to a design of Dariusz Koz?owski in Mochnackiego street in Cracow, inspired cogitation on architecture parlante and threads of significance in architecture of the post-functionalist era. Architecture parlante was born in France and it means „speaking architecture” – expressing through its form, details and general character of a building, content and meaning carried by the architectural work. Turning to the past, postmodern architecture returns...

The relevance of the subject and the research problem is conditioned by the following needs: (1) in the sociocultural context, to convincingly substantiate the pedagogical effectiveness of the dialogue system of higher professional education; (2) in the theoretical context, to substantiate the dialogical organics of pedagogical discourse, the methodological provisions of the dialogue concept of education, and radically revise the educational goals and results of training professional managers in the face of increa...

Understanding local residents’ attitudes towards tourism development and its positive and negative impacts is important and crucial in order to minimize antagonism of local community towards tourists, and also to help local authority in creating adequate tourism policy. This study explores residents’ attitudes of quality of life (QoL) caused by tourism regarding their living distance from the centre of tourism activities, personal benefits from tourism, socio demographic profile, positive and negative tourism impa...

Previous research on the application of innovations in Kosovo have shown that businesses and other institutions have a low level of creating something new. Despite some efforts to change this situation still innovations remain a challenge in Kosovo despite the benefits they bring. This paper discusses the challenges the problems and benefits of small innovations. From the research on the vision for economic development for the future in Kosovo, economic development is focused on innovative opportunities for each s...

The progressive process of erosion of the European institutional structure, which took place starting from the economic crisis up to the crisis resulting from Brexit, requires careful reflection on the process of European integration, in its historical, political and social conditions. The research work conducted by the jurist Joseph Weiler, allows to draw a clear appearance of constitutive aspects of the European Community. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, which includes law, economic, political, social an...

In the paper I present the Slovak illustrator Miroslav Cipár. His artistic creation is famous and appreciated at home as well as abroad. Cipár’s works of art, thanks to their fine-art properties, go beyond home as well as beyond European fine-art traditions. In his works of art there are mixed motives from Slovak folklore art and non-European fine-art cultures, which he became acquainted with during his professional internships in several world-wide destinations. Typical features of Cipár’s fine-art expression are...

The study aims to explain motivational and behavioural patterns of political participation of Russian university youth in the context of contemporary trends in youth political participation in Europe and beyond. It is based on a sociological survey conducted among a sample of 976 students aged 18-21 in 12 higher education institutions of Sverdlovsk Oblast, a region found to be representative of Russia’s youth at large. The findings show that, in line with a global trend, beside alienation from conventional politic...

In the article the author on the basis of comparison of tamg signs on medievial Turkic tribes proves unity of their ethnohistorical and political development. The important role in moving of these tamg signs migratory processes and special mechanisms of formation of Turkic tribes, characteristic for a nomadic way of life have played. Thereupon the author comes to conclusion, that the generality of historical destinies of the Turkic people is defined by the unity of historical ways, since an epoch of ancient Turkic...

Over time, the idea that the regeneration of the world’s residual, intermediate suburban spaces plays a strategic role in testing new models of participatory processes has gradually taken hold. Cohesion, inclusiveness, sharing and integration are the basis of such processes. They are the concepts that lie at the heart of the documents produced at an international level over the past 30 years, particularly the 2030 New Urban Agenda, as the five ‘P’s: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace and Partnership. In such a scen...

The vital need of the present-day development of Russian society regulates the theoretical conceptualization of the notion of civic participation, determination of the conditions under which it can develop, and identification of barriers obstructing this process. Promotion of the local population’s social participation in public activities of municipalities is one of the primary tasks for a local government. The aim of the research is to identify means and conditions for promoting civic engagement in local communi...

Paper roots in the literary-historical research on the Romany literature for children and youth in Slovakia, which documents its footing in the Slovak literature for children and youth. Simultaneously, it points out quantitative increase and generic variety of the Romany literature (folder books, collections of poems and songs, collections of Romany folklore, Romany folk-tales anthologies, collections of modern Romany folk-tales, short stories, novels, romans, non-fiction literature genres, text-books, and spellin...

The aim of the paper is to analyze the risks of corruption, the manifestation and the impact of corruption in the local public administration in the Oltenia region. The objective of the article is to highlight the particularities of corruption in local public administration by correlating them in close connection with case studies. Based on specialized literature and anticorruption strategies and policies, we intended to find a correlation between public administration leadership and corruption in Oltenia by publi...

In the modern world, various projective images of alchemy, of the alchemist, of the ‘great work’ and of the philosopher's stone were formed. The aim of the work is to search for the prototype of an alchemic operation and to prove that it is an operation to create a measure for measuring an unknown quantity that can be chemical, geometric, psychological or of some other nature. The method of investigation is a representative measurement theory based on assigning numbers to things; in this case, things are the lette...

Intercultural competence is undoubtedly one of the most talked about elements of language teaching process, but the assessment of it isn’t without a problem. The range of tools and mechanisms of intercultural competence evaluation is wide, but the interactional and procedural character of this phenomenon makes it difficult to use them in real communication. Distance learning where virtual instruction replaces the face-to-face communication with a teacher creates a new educational arena. New educational scene requi...

In the modern humanities one of themes is interpretation of terms, which were used in antiquity for designation of various types of settlements of the Roman empire. The choice of terms by ancient authors depended on many factors: extent of possession of relevant information, terminological tradition, character of the taking place events (in peace or wartime). Article purpose – to study the nature of the of the term a phrourion use in texts the of authors of the 5th century. Methods of research are comparative-hist...

Motor performance as a multidimensional concept cannot be defined and characterized through a single motor ability. Multidimensionality of the structural model of motor abilities was, however, initially formulated for adult population and mechanically transformed for child population. The purpose of the study is to determine a factor structure of motor and somatic indicators in primary school children. A sample of 436 children aged 7 to 10 years, of which were 222 girls and 214 boys, performed physical fitness tes...

The article defines the phenomenon of space thematisation with regards to rural areas in Poland. The typology of thematic spaces and criteria of their comparative description have been proposed. Thematic villages, home gardens, amusement parks and housing estates have been distinguished. They have been compared in terms of spatial availability, the degree of user participation and the commercial vs. non-commercial creation purpose. The indicated factors were considered decisive for the sustainability of the themat...

This article highlights some aspects of the existing correlation between increasing the effort of allocating a larger defence budget to governments and the effect on economic development and material well-being of the population. Following the basic international rules imposed by NATO on the Member States, each state tries to adapt it to its internal conditions. The results of the existing relationship between defence spending and the economic development index are presented through the statistical analysis of twe...

In this work, we applied sociocultural and statistical approaches to perform analysis of the words "dream", "disappointment" and their cognates in Russian, English and German. The electronic library Google Books and defining dictionaries were used as study material. First, we studied and compared dictionary meanings of words “dream” and “disappointment” and then analysed and interpreted frequency of use of these words and their cognates in different years. As for the English language, frequency of the word “dream”...

The introduction of the theory of conceptual metaphor (G. Lakoff, M. Johnson 1980) marked a new stage in metaphorology development, the distinctive feature of which is the use of the methods of cognitive science and discursive and corpus analyses. One of the top-ical issues of contemporary science is the study of metaphor in different kinds of discourse (political, media, medical, pedagogical, etc.) in different national and socio-cultural variants of the language. This research discusses functioning of metaphors ...

Introduction: Physical activity, by the exercises it puts in hand, is coming to offer a way trough which someone can achieve a perfect body structure, removing the adipose tissue and shaping the musculature. One of my purposes in the undertake didactic experiment, was to draw up a methodological system to action and making it part of pshysical education didactic activities with University of Bucharest's students and making the systematic practice of physical exercise, a habit. I've also followed the awareness of s...

The legal policy of the Russian Empire in XIX – early XX centuries in respect of language relations was aimed at strengthening the state positions of the Russian language in a spirit of European doctrines of Romantic era on the importance of the language in the nation’s consolidation. The basis for criticism of the national policy of the Russian Empire was laid by the Russian liberals and the Polish conservatives in the late XIX – early XX centuries. The most revolutionary-radical character the criticism of Russia...

It is very often the case that students have problems and make mistakes while using and determining the right and consistent sample in their dissertation research. This is also the duty of the supervisor-mentor to follow the student and timely make the right intervention. The sampling technique is viewed in several aspects and it is essentially a statistical operation. It is about to economize and accelerate the process of collecting the factual material. In essence, we are dealing with a large number of populatio...

The paper investigates a sample of 25 European systemically important banks, in terms of performance in fulfilling their financial intermediation function. Performance has been measured by relying on a Malmquist productivity index with panel data, to account for productivity changes over time and to decompose the main sources of changes into the catch-up effect and technological progress. As the database covered the 2007-2016 timeframe, we were able to investigate if the impact of the financial crisis appears in t...

The article deals with the analysis of the inventories of the Royal Alcázar in Madrid. These inventories (1666, 1686, 1700) were first published by Yves Bottineau in the French journal The Spanish Bulletin in 1958. Yves Bottineau was also the first to study and comment on the inventories. In particular, he identified the items from the inventories with those preserved till today. However, the inventories still hold a great amount of information which has not been studied until now. For example, the inventories can...

Modernizations in the educational system is impossible without the readiness of teachers to accept and implement these changes. Readiness to be a part of innovative processes is a necessary condition for the teachers’ successful work. Teachers’ activity nowadays should be based on an creative position, the desire for self-development and self-improvement. However, research shows that teaching stuff of most of Colleges shows resistance to innovation. Teaching staff due to various reasons (personal, organizational, ...

In this paper the author deals with the practical analysis of the relationship between Administrative Law and Criminal Law and, on the other hand, between the Administrative Procedure and the Criminal Procedure within the legal system of the Republic of Macedonia. Although, Criminal Law and Administrative Law are fundamentally different from each other, according to the object and the manner of regulation, since Criminal Law includes legal norms that refer to criminal offense, the perpetrator, criminal liability, ...

The advent of neoliberal capitalism at the beginning of the 1980s led to the rise and media promotion of celebrity philanthropy. Groundbreaking events in the media affirmed celebrity philanthropy, for example Bob Geldof's organisation of the Live Aid concert in 1985 with the aim of collecting aid for the hungry in Africa. Geldof's example was an inspiration for other celebrities such as the musician Bono Vox, the actress Angelina Jolie to engage in philanthropic activities. In the analysis of their philanthropic a...

The investigation belongs to a sphere of cognitive linguistics, which we would call ‘contrastive comparison’. The actuality and relevance of our work is determined by the growing interest of linguists to shape the conceptualization of signs and phenomena in verbal thinking of various cultures’ representatives. One of the most effective methods of conceptualization is the verbalization of the character and appearance of a person, his emotions and certain abstract phenomena using names of plants and vegetables. Lexi...

In this article, the issues of the digital economy in the system of economic security that are relevant to modern Russia are considered. This work is devoted to the investigation of the impact of digital threats, challenges and risks of the digital economy on the economic security of the country. In the study, we set the following main tasks: to consider the main factors affecting the economy in the concept of digital transformation in Russia, to identify the key factors of influence, threats and challenges to eco...

By studying various sources of information about nowadays jewelry, such as published materials, websites, catalogs, exhibitions, salon collections, a digital system for collecting, selecting, analyzing Latvian jewelry design was created. Within the framework of the scientific paper, several aspects of the design of the jewelry from the point of view of the system are considered, such as the author, the pictures, the details about the jewelry, the look of the jewelry, the materials, the technologies used. The infor...