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The experience of flow has been known for a long time across all cultures of the world. It was not a privilege of rich elites from industrial countries. Similar terms have been used by old Korean women, adults from Thailand, teenagers from Tokyo, members of the Navajo tribe, farmers from the Italian Alps, and workers from Chicago. Happiness is not a result of coincidence; it is not something you can buy or achieve when you are in power. It does not depend on outside conditions. Happiness is a state for which one h...

While Western European societies are undergoing the process of secularization, post-Soviet Russia is demonstrating religious revival. The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) alternatively known as the Moscow Patriarchate is the largest and most influential religious organization in Russia and the largest of the Orthodox churches in the world. According to various polls, approximately three-quarters of Russians identify themselves as Orthodox and ROC consistently occupies the top position in the rankings of trust among s...

The intensity and scale of socio-political and socio-psychological changes taking place today in modern society imposes special requirements on the psychological resources of a person as a subject of life. In conditions of high uncertainty, rising social tensions and globalization, there is a growing need to master the ways of organizing your life taking into account the time indicators. Modern production methods often require self-organizing in time specialists, who are able to respond adequately to changing cond...

The author studies in this article influence of digital media on changes in present-day culture. He bases his view on the concept of technological determinism (H. Innis, M. McLuhan, J. Lohisse, L. A. White and others), which says that technology, largely represented by media, changes and determines the main path of evolution in culture. J. Lohisse believes that forms of media (such as spoken word, printed word or the Internet) have a great impact on shaping collective mentality (culture) and organisation of societ...

The scientific objective of the research was to determine the substance and legal nature of the equity interests of the shareholders in the capital companies in the Polish legal system. The aim of this research also required answering the question what the shares are in capital companies, as well as defining the mutual relationship between these concepts and the concept of participation in capital companies. The methodology of the research was determined by the indicated objective and both the dogmatic-legal and h...

The article is intended to prove that effective education in a form of e-learning may trigger development of soft competences among students. There were critical literature studies and a statistical description of surveys carried out among students of economic majors. Furthermore, the necessity for education as an action based on adequate selection of communication forms was defined (those existing among the education participants) along with education methods embedded in the classes scenario, intended to achieve ...

In European countries, including Poland, parents and psychologists are starting to pay more and more attention to overload of children with school duties and additional classes and tutoring before starting attractive studies or even working to earn extra money. According to UNICEF, around 150 million children all over the world aged 5 to 14 years are forced to work, with the highest number in African and Asian countries and in Central and Eastern Europe, which represents ca. 5% of global population. This has a neg...

The study and research of extremism is extremely topical. Extremism touches every country. Increasingly, it also appears between intelligent populations or directly at universities. This theme deserves its space because it is Europe's modern geopolitical problem. The article consists of two parts. One part is theoretical and the other part is practical. The theoretical part was devoted to classical definitions such as: extremism, radicalism, but also political extremism and the resulting right-wing extremism and l...

The article presents research outcomes of the strategies and ways used to encode predicative possession in two vernaculars of Khanty: in the Kazym dialect and the Tegi subdialect of Kazym. Data for analysis – 54 texts totaling in 4112 sentences – have been elicited mainly from the text corpus of West Khanty dialects. The present study of possessive constructions in Kazym dialects is conducted within the methodology of the functional theory of grammar. In Kazym and Tegi, three predictive constructions for coding po...

This article deals with the topical issue of international environmental cooperation in the field of water resources protection in the Baltic region. As of the beginning of the XXI century it was possible to observe the negative trend that was developing in the waters of the Baltic Sea and posing a threat to the whole hydrosphere of the region. In the course of the study it was stressed that due to the border neighborhood and the unity of the adjacent water area, international cooperation for many years was built ...

The conventional classification of play areas distinguishes three basic types (traditional, modern and adventure playground), which researchers all around the world analyse in terms of their attractiveness, opportunity to provide conditions for a proper development and safety of children. However, the evolution of play areas runs in two directions, towards finding an even more attractive playground equipment, and contrary to this, casting voices of their criticism. The result of this clash of opinions is several k...

The methodology of teaching Romanian to foreign students involves countless aspects of both classical and modern approaches. In this type of teaching approach one must take into consideration certain effective and subtle stratagems in order to make the learning difficulties of lexical and morpho-syntactic structures of the Romanian language more accessible to the foreign students. That is why it is good to know that learning is efficient if it starts from the understanding of the notions taught or existing in diff...

The article deals with the precedent name "Napoleon" which is regarded as an element of historical memory, a national cultural code. The aim of the work is the semantic-cognitive modeling of this precedent name in a comparative aspect. Analyzing different contexts containing the name "Napoleon" / "Napoléon" we apply methodologies of semantic cognitive modeling, supplemented with contextual and statistical analysis. The analysis revealed a semantic-cognitive model of the precedent name "Napoleon" / "Napoléon" funct...

The concept of quality of life is an important evaluation tool for the subjective benefit of an oncologic population and forms the basis of the rehabilitation process. The aim of this study was to examine the quality of life of people with malignant diseases and to evaluate differences between different groups of people with malignant diseases. A total of 129 people with malignant diseases participated in the study: 29 people with colorectal tumor, 39 women with breast cancer, 35 laryngectomized persons and 26 peo...

An essential component of national wealth and the most important part of the country’s economic capacity are the fixed funds. Fixed assets form the basis of any industry, which produces output, delivers services and executes work. Production facility renovation is one of the crucial tasks to be fulfilled in order to develop exchange relations and maintain the current economic growth rate. The present study: 1. Provides an original definition for the term “investment potential of renovating basic production assets”...

This paper aims to define and analyze the theoretical and practical legal framework of the political opposition, through analyzing constitutional norms, political culture and political dialogue as the main factors determining the state and perspectives of the political opposition in the Republic of Macedonia. Political pluralism is the opposite of monism and represents the idea of a peaceful common life of people with different interests, beliefs and lifestyles, recognizing the existing diversity of political inte...

Customer experience is increasingly perceived as the important marketing concept leading to differentiation and as an effective solution for building competitive advantage on the open global market. The core ability of companies adopting the customer experience management approach is to be able to understand customers’ perceptions of their business that is often significantly different from the conventional company’s view. Nowadays, the most used way to capture and further analyze this customer view is to create c...

The information age shifts focus in professional education from teaching to studying. Consequently University students are to organize their independent learning. One of the most productive ways of self-learning is making ample use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)-aided education. In the Russian Federation the Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation” no 273-FZ introduced in December 2012 imposes an obligation of using various technologies including ICT. Vast application of Internet ...

Sustainable development of the socium and economics, balanced interaction with the environment - these global issues are most relevant today. The world community is forming an understanding that these issues should be in the priority as the vital goals of all countries in the world. The article shows the implementation of the green financing policy in Mongolia at the present stage. Its positive impact on the socio-economic development of Mongolia and international cooperation with its geographical neighbors - Russ...

This article presents the results of a study on the user-generated content and online behavior of political group activists within Facebook's Russian speaking cohort, during the pre-election period. The material comprises 365 politically active groups (as at December 2017 - January 2018), with 496 active users as a core. An interdisciplinary approach was used to gather, refine and classify the data, while psycholinguistic and communicative analysis was adopted to analyze the content. The outcome of the research re...

Teachers as a massive professional social group providing services in the public interest are the subject of educational policies at both European and national levels. These educational policies show a high level of diversity and identify optimal systemic intervention tools to support the professional development of teachers. Educational policies in Slovakia show specific approaches toward teachers arising from school-historical, political and vocational origins. Analysis of these aspects and their impact on the c...

This paper is a contribution to the field of language assessment, namely testing writing. It focuses on the design of test tasks and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of delivering the instructions and prompts in the target (L2) versus native (L1) languages. It analyses the impact of target and native language prompts on the test taker’s performance. The authors analyse the writing ability test results of a high-stakes proficiency examination using two sets of prompts, one given in L1, and one in L2. Both...

Every citizen in the country uses the services provided by the public administration in daily contact. At present, we can see increasing demands on public administration employees, as well as changing citizens' understanding of the client and the consumer, as it is in the private sector. Here, however, it is important to point out that the citizen is more like an unwanted client, hitting a high level of bureaucracy and also the unwillingness of officials to act. The first impression and contact with professional o...

The article describes the Germany’s investment attractiveness mathematical model. The model is based on the institutional and functional approach. The distinctive feature of the institutional-functional approach is the inclusion into the model of the endogenous variables that characterize the institutions performing the function of attracting investors into the country: the technological development institution, the companies’ registration institution, the country economic freedom institution. Functional component...

Education and research today promote cross-sectoral cooperation and development. New possibilities and requirements for education and research are created by the use of modern laser-processing technologies. In order to facilitate interdisciplinary cooperation, it is necessary to focus on the research strategy in an interdisciplinary research process. The aim of the article is to evaluate the progress of interdisciplinary research activities, which is an essential part of the theoretical and empirical assessment of...

This article introduces the analysis of the current situation of the state ecological policy implementation on the regional level in Russia. The main goal of the research is the evaluation of the socio-economic conditions of the ecological activity in the subjects of the Volga Federal District. Natural-socio-productive systems are taken as the object of the research. Statistical and index methods are used in the research as well as methodology of assessing the ecological policy by A.A. Kostylev which is based on t...

The article discussed the specifics of the functioning of the typical mechanisms of re-gional self-regulated organizations to support small businesses in the economy of the Russian Federation. In order to improve the mechanism for the activities of the regional self-regulatory organization to support small business, more complete implementation of the system of statutory functions for the development of small businesses in the re-gion, improve the level of sustainability to fluctuations of the external environment...

The unevenness of providing countries with natural resources, as well as their consumption, puts forward a number of regularities in the economic development of different countries. The first relates to the need to find ways to better manage natural resources in the face of scarcity. The problem is particularly acute for developed countries. As a matter of fact, their variant of industrial development in last decades (economy of resources) and is resource way of economic development. The urgency of the problem of ...

In the activities and behavior of people an important place is occupied by the information aspect. The analysis of information influence on the subject's consciousness is one of the fundamental problems of social philosophy. In modern research offers many options for such analysis. In particular, some studies suggest that several of the most important information problems associated with the transfer of information from one entity to another are highlighted. In this article, I will analyze only one of these proble...

In terms of natural resources and existing potential, balneo-tourism represents one of the main forms of tourism in Romania, that can be even further developed with proper regulations, investments and promotion. Therefore, it is important to raise awareness upon relevant aspects that can help to promote more efficiently this form of tourism. Along with the concepts related to the addressed topic, this paper presents the results of a qualitative research that aimed at identifying the appropriate action directions i...

With the developing of China’s economy, the demand for health products in the Chinese market is increasing. Many countries entered the Chinese health product market in the last century, the Australian brands entered the Chinese market last year, but Russian health products brands are still blocked outside of the Chinese market. Under this background, this paper has been studied. There are not many studies on Russian health products about entering the Chinese market. CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) i...

Modern fuel and energy complex is an important element of global economy. Its development produces risks for global and national economic systems. It’s very important to develop tools for quantitative assessment these risks. For today an empirical studies that use statistical tools for solving this problem are very rare. We propose to conduct a comprehensive formal evaluation of the energy vulnerability by building ratings of the countries. The rating is based upon a number of indicators related to key energy vuln...

In countries with developed market economies, forms of financial support for small and medium-sized businesses have been developing for decades and represent a large set of programs that include activities to assist small and medium-sized businesses throughout their life. Currently, there is a need for in-depth study of the financial support system for small and medium-sized businesses, methods of supporting small and medium-sized businesses, and evaluating the effectiveness of financial events held by the state. ...

Medical Latin has been taught to medical students in Riga Stradi?š University (Latvia) since the foundation of the university in 1950. In the 21st century, along with the development of technologies, the Medical Latin course has undergone significant changes. E-assessment has been acknowledged as more convenient than traditional one. The previous study, which was carried out at the university in 2017, clearly showed no statistically significant difference of opinions on such e-test taking factors as immediate feed...

Newly-built residential districts are equipped with modern comforts and facilities for inhabitants-to-be in these days. These quarters combined comfortable flats in buildings of interesting and modern architectural design, built from energy-saving building materials. Blocks of flats are situated amid beautiful, green spots and they possess their own play grounds. The problem of already existing residential areas lies somewhere else. They are often multi-flat building built in the second half of the 20th century. T...

In most cases the uncertainty of future business development makes it hard for an investor to opt for the one of many enterprises to invest. In conditions of uncertainty it is recommended to invest in companies with a good reputation, since such investments are regarded as less risky. In such a situation the attention is increasingly turned to the companies which meet the consumers’ needs: trade, food production, construction. It is known that the value of business is considered to be the main indicator of the com...

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the effectiveness of electronic educational resources for classes in Russian as a foreign language for medical students. The article analyzes various electronic educational Internet resources, which are used in teaching Russian as a foreign language. The effectiveness of electronic educational resources in teaching Russian as a foreign language to medical students was determined by an experiment conducted in two groups of students of the fourth year of the seventh seme...

The paper discusses the technological complex of wastewater treatment of wastewater treatment of petrol stations. Based on the review of the main modeling methods of discrete-continuous chemical and engineering processes, it substantiates expediency of using the theory of Petri nets (PN) for modeling the process of wastewater treatment of petrol stations. PN enables to simulate discrete parallel asynchronous processes, to get a graphical representation of the network, to describe the system at different abstractio...

The article defines the role of regional innovation clusters in enhancing the innovative development of Russian regions. The authors consider the structure of regional innovation clusters and the benefits of creating regional innovation clusters in Russia, study and present a classification of innovation clusters, as well as explore some support programs for Russian regional innovation clusters. The article studies also financial structure of development programs based on source and industry-specific areas of pilo...

Family as the primary socializing factor represents the space in which a child adopts the basic standards and rules of functioning in society. How successful he can be in the social environment is largely influenced by patterns of behaviour and their compatibility with corporate norms and behaviours. The aim of our study was to find out how parenting influences the occurrence of risk behaviours in young people. A quantitative research strategy has been chosen. The standardized Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ)...

Museum exhibition not only display objects, it tells the stories behind them, brings the ideas and concepts which were the source of their creation. The fundamental aspect of museum exhibitions is to create a space where the process of interpretation and conferring of a meaning will occur as an essential “content” of the museum. Therefore the overriding aim of this paper is to provide specific example of the role of museum exhibition in the process of constructing historical knowledge, based on the uniqueness of c...

There is currently an upward trend in the use of natural plants. Experts recommend the use of natural remedies as an adjunctive to classical therapy, all the more so as the antibacterial action of plant extracts comes up against antibiotic resistance, a problem that dominated the second millennium and seems to persist in an upward trend in the third millennium. The aim of this study was to select the Epilobium parviflorum Schreb species from the many medicinal plants due to its contents in high quantity of biologi...

This study aims to capture the relationship between emotional intelligence, self-esteem and optimism in professional success among students at the Faculty of Dental Medicine in Craiova. In this respect, at this research participated 211 students in the final year of the aforementioned faculty. The study was conducted between April and June 2018 as part of career guidance activities conducted within a European financed project. Four psychological tests have been used to capture the level of emotional intelligence (...

The relevance of the study is confirmed by the fact that globalization of world economics and participation in this process of Russia mean an ever closer intertwining of national economies. This fact promotes more intensive the development of countries on the basis of international economic activity. The study focused on the use and implementation the most common and major index of globalization KOF (Konjunktur for schungsstelle) in world economy. The aim of this study is sensitivity rate analysis of globalization...

The article is devoted to the topical problem of the Russian Federation foreign policy in the Far East transformation in recent decades. Traditionally, the region is a sphere of Russia's special interests. The collapse of the Soviet Union marked a shift in the balance of power in it towards the US-Japanese alliance and the new powers have emerged claiming a leading place, it is primarily China. In the 21st century, Russia is gradually returning to regional affairs as an active actor, focusing its efforts not on pr...

In this paper the negative social and economic consequences of raising the minimum wage for the regional economy on the example of Krasnoyarsk Region are discussed. It is shown that in Krasnoyarsk Region regional coefficients and northern wage surcharges have been established, and according to the Constitutional Court Decree No. 38-P of 07.12.2017 employers are obliged to charge them in excess of the minimum wage. As a result, the social guaranteed minimum wages in the region is even higher factually than the subs...

The article deals with the practice of gift-giving and sharing in modern hunter-gatherer societies, namely among the Evenkis and some other people speaking Tungus languages. This study is based on the field researches conducted in 1988–1991, 1999–2002, 2005–2008 in different regions of Siberia. Being originally taiga hunters and reindeer herders, the Evenkis practiced a custom called nimat. Sharing of a large animals hunter has killed with his neighbours and strangers is at the core of this practice based on the p...

Development of the digital economy and information technology requires the development of an effective urban space management system. In this regard, the Russian state has adopted a strategy for the development of the concept of Smart City. In the process of modernization of Russian energy and transport industries and Civil Engineering industry, new ways of the territorial energy efficiency improvement are relevant. The selected topic of the article is considered very relevant. The authors of the article on the ba...

The terrorism can be considered as the political or security problem, but it is also the kind of crime, although it is very specific crime. However, considering it as the crime, we can also think about it in the connection with criminological categories as the prevention, for example. When we look at latest terrorist attacks, we can name their several common features. For example, tools, which were used for commitment of these crime, were very simple, because perpetrators attacked by firearms, stabbing weapons or ...

The article deals with the views of representatives of the American political science, such as S. Lipset, E. Raab, N. Smelser and others on the problem of extremism. The aim of the study is to determine the factors that contribute to the development of extremist movements and the factors that prevent extremism in a democracy. American scientists demonstrate that this phenomenon is pre-conditioned by both objective and subjective factors, a certain state of the political system, the citizens’ education level, the i...