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In the first part of my paper, I will present the project ‘Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy, c. 1350-c. 1650’ and its provisional research findings. This project, founded for 3 years, starting January 2017, by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, aims to reconstruct the corpus of all the exegetical works on Petrarch’s Italian literary production. This vast and variegated material includes commentaries, academic lectures, glossaries, annotations, and all the other forms of exegetical works...

For many years, Germany has been distinguished by a large surplus on the current account which has now reached almost 8% of the country's GDP. Since 2016, this surplus is the largest in the world and contributes to longstanding global trade and investment asymmetries as well as serious macroeconomic imbalances within the euro area. The main purpose of this study is to analyse the state of Germany's current account in 2000-2017 in order to identify and systemize the most important factors affecting the current acco...

Paper's aim is to shed a light on theoretical and practical aspects of taken measures by the Russian government on agriculture business optimization in Southern Russia. Moreover, the paper develops methodology as recommendation for the small agriculture business in Russia based on economy theories, previous studies in the area of agriculture business development. This study analyses federal and regional governmental initiatives and programs addressing optimization of small agriculture business in the period of eco...

In this paper we present the results of an ongoing educational project which was started in the year 2016 in Samara State University of Economics, Russia. The purpose of this study was to monitor and assess the changes in the students’ Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) level attained through two different approaches: blended Learning approach and Traditional Classroom method. In Russia English for Specific Purposes (ESP) clearly dominates in tertiary educational institutions. Thus, the research was based on ESP course. T...

This article aims to identify and evaluate Polish achievements in implementing sustainable development in the context of Goal 12 of the 2030 Agenda, that is, creating patterns of sustainable consumption and production. The current set of synthetic substantive and complementary indicators, established by the UNO, were used to measure the progress of this implementation. The research period covers the period 2010–2016. The authors analyzed legal acts, institutional reports, statistical data, dynamics and ratio analy...

A human being is viewed from various perspectives. The individual is considered as a multidimensional being. The persons with visual impairment can be exposed to a number of stimuli that influence their biological nature (physiology of the organism), psychological nature (personality), social nature (socialization, inclusion) and spiritual nature (values, belief). We aimed at the different areas of the everyday life in the student with visual impairment. The main objective of the paper is to achieve a deeper under...

The article is part of research on rationalist tendencies in contemporary architecture. The subject of the following considerations is the concept of order in relation to the architectural form. Raising the subject is to systematize knowledge and draw attention to the issue of order as a general principle and a tool for shaping architecture. Some creators willingly submit to the rigor of laws and rules, perceiving order as a kind of liberation, while others reject order as being excessively restrictive. The text i...

The article studies the festive culture of Latin America, analyzes its shaping under the influence of Spanish festive traditions which were spread to this region. The article shows how the urban environment was changing to correspond with ideas and goals of certain holidays and considers cultural and semantic aspects of Latin American processions similar to European "Entries", both secular and religious. During holidays, local artists depicted the features of urban space, landscape elements, local architecture and...

The paper touches upon problems of liguocultural adaptation of Chinese students to training at a Russian higher school in terms of learning Russian as a foreign language (RFL) at a preparatory stage. Chinese students are known as one of the most difficult contingents of Russian universities, which is largely explained by fact that they speak not only a different language, but also have other culture, other pedagogical tradition, family, school and university training. Against the background of an increase of the n...

Transhumanism is the movement for a radical change in human nature: physiology, emotions and feelings, intellect, etc.; it exists for several decades. Transhumanism as a project of human transformation is impossible without the use of high technologies. These include cloning, genetic engineering, cognitive technology, nanotechnology, information technology. It is important that Transhumanism uses scientific developments, but is not limited to them. The ideologists of Transhumanism try, firstly, to explain the reas...

With a history spanning over more than 200 years, the traditional ensemble of three instruments known in Romania under the name of Transylvanian Trio gathers instruments of different sizes and shapes, encompassing a specific repertoire, unique in the Romanian area. In order to collect this specific repertoire, for its preservation and promotion, a Transylvanian Trio Festival takes place in Cluj County every year, bringing together the local ensembles of this type. The present paper analyzes the audience’s percepti...

The article deals with the process of applying heuristic methods of training in vocational education. For this purpose, the main features of heuristic technology were identified. It is noted that the student's work acquires efficiency in his ability to evaluate his actions, bring the solution to the end, while noting the importance of flexibility in thinking, the ability to update and organize information in the task at hand. The definitions of the concepts "heuristic rules", "heuristic task" are distinguished. Th...

Globalization is one of the major trends of today’s world, and at the same time a challenge, not only to the tourism industry, but also to tourism education. The modern civilization model is focused on overcoming intercultural barriers, national, language and cultural boundaries, on integration of the best national cultural achievements. The aim of this paper is to discuss the necessity of building intercultural competence for the effective performance of tourism employees in a multicultural environment. The fact ...

In the sixteenth century, after the austerity of the medieval atmosphere,and the perfect harmony of the Renaissance forms, the rich and cultured commission of the European courts began to turn towards new architectural and expressive solutions. These new expressions, had a substantial purpose: to amaze, to distance themselves from such elegant perfection as if one wanted to declare a certain "boredom" towards the now consolidated splendor. Today, in the yacht design world we are witnessing what we could call a for...

This article analyses the sustainability of legislation providing the developments of the Estonian national language and foreign languages. The model for content analysis designed by the authors is based on the AGIL paradigm or AGIL model by Talcott Parsons, which states that the continuity of a social system requires the balance performance between four components of the system: adaptation (A), goal attainment (G), integration (I) and latent pattern maintenance (L) or values. Our results demonstrate that the Stra...

The article reveals the essence of research activity and the process of its organization at the university in the context of the competence approach. The concepts of "competence" and "competence approach" are defined. It is established that the essence of the competence approach implies not only the acquisition of knowledge and skills by the students, but also the ability to apply them in practice. The article also highlights the principles of the teachers’ work, as well as the scientific research principles in a ...

The technology of keeping reindeer has its own characteristics that directly affect the productivity of reindeer husbandry. The main condition for further increase in the number of reindeer and increase their productivity is the rational use of pastures, that is, compliance with the correct methods of keeping and grazing reindeer. For the organization of the most complete and correct use of fodder grounds it is necessary knowledge not only of productivity of pastures, but also changes of vegetation under the influ...

Modern information technologies keep changing our world and bringing a new quality to it. A new type of culture has emerged – information culture, which reflects the specifics of social relations in a modern society. The paper raises the issue of information culture formation and its impact on the development of personality in the course of information socialization. The paper analyses possible perspectives and consequences of social interaction of people within information culture at the main stages of formation ...

The theoretical study presents partial results of the project "Management of the discipline in the classroom at the primary school". The main objective of the project is to create, apply and evaluate an optimal model of discipline management in the classroom, which influences the effectiveness of teaching and leadership in the field of self-control and self-regulation. The positive learning climate in a classroom requires the teacher to focus on modifying but especially on preventing unwanted pupils' behaviour. Th...

The global transport landscape is generally experiencing a transformative time, likely due to a combination of new technologies and society driven innovations. these changes gradually convert the meaning of products and services related to mobility, altering ex-pectations for the consumer involved in the process [1]. This study intends to describe the processes and design methods used by the DIT lab., a joint laboratory of the DesignCampus of the University of Florence and Trenitalia com-pany s.p.a., which deals w...

The expectations of teachers and their professional activities are currently changing, and new professional standards are being implemented, including EC Supporting Teacher Competence Development, UK Teachers’ Standards, Transforming American Education, and Russian Teacher Professional Standard. An analysis of these standards reveals wide variations in their functions and application, but all of them define teachers’ competences in terms that are both country-specific and universal. One of these universal metrics ...

The current labour market in Latvia features shortage of professional labour due to demographic, emigration, payment, education and other reasons. An emerging tendency is that employees change their jobs more frequently, the mean duration of employment in a company is dropping, and companies experience higher levels of personnel turnover. Research reveals that it is the first six months of employment that have the crucial influence on the job performance of new employees and their intent to stay in the organisatio...

The assessment of the road infrastructure projects are based on life cycle costs, which consist of capital and social costs. Social costs are monetized negative impacts of users, environment and society. At present, a lot of tools exist for economic efficiency assessment of road projects. However, there are some differences in distribution and valuation of individual social costs components. This distribution depends on used assessment tools. The valuation of economic efficiency of road section project I/72 Zbojsk...

Engineer and painter François Albanis Beaumont (1753-1811) travels on the most famous routes of the Grand Tour. Albanis Beaumont writes and draws. His approach to the region was different. In fact, the great Italian cities, their buildings and famous antiquities, seem relegated to second place, nevertheless he is a critical observer. The descriptions of the trips of Albanis Beaumont across the Alps are rich of topographical, economic, geological, anthropological and historical information. The traveller, however, ...

Today the definition ‘Transnational Literature’ is used by some Russian philologists to determine the layer of Literature that can not be unequivocally attributed to a particular national literature. If, for example, the works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are directly connected with Russian Literature and culture, then there are still difficulties with regard to Literature created by non-Russian writers in Russian. During the Soviet period, Russian-language Literature (Russophone Literature – alternative term) was st...

The exception to contractual non-performance is perceived in the doctrine as a defense or remedy available to a contracting party which, by simply invoking this exception, may block the claim brought by the other party (which has not executed its own obligations), in order to oblige the party that invokes the exception to perform its own contractual obligations. With respect to third parties, the exception to non-performance may be invoked against them, where the claim results from the contract (when the third par...

This paper considers boredom as a non-authentic modus of human existence, which includes emptiness of life and absence of fullness, as the opposite to an authentic modus, which means living full and meaningful life. From the one hand, by contrast, it could be used as a source of inspiration. From the other hand, from the deeper point of view, it could be used as an opportunity to manage self-transformation. We also used a classification of types of boredom by M. Heidegger - from the routine to the deep existential...

The objective of the work is the application of contrastive approach in teaching English pronunciation for Slovak learners. As the global character of English language is strengthened every day, the only knowledge of English grammar and vocabulary is not sufficient as the importance of being able to lead an intelligible and practical communication plays a vital role as well. Therefore, at finding out some of the useful ways we can make an improvement in terms of teaching and learning pronunciation in English lesso...

Is it possible to learn more from the fact that cities are subject to scaling laws, than just about their complexity? It is often pointed out that along with the increase in size, some important characteristics of cities do not grow linearly but exponentially - in some cases - as in the case of infrastructure development - with an exponent smaller than one; and in some, as in the case of residents' income - with an exponent greater than one. This means that larger cities use the acquired resources more effectively...

Today the requirements of Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education demands educational process modernization. The question of content projecting based on activity approach attracts attention of both national scientists (L.N. Ananyev, L.S. Vigotsky, V.V. Davydov, V.S. Lazarev, L.N. Nosova, D.B. Elkonin) and foreign ones too (Ph. Barker, Jac. Neale, A.R. Putnam, L. Shulman). The present study overviews these basic ideas suggested by scholars on the subject of the approach implementation into educationa...

The issues of professional implementation and education are among the most important in our life. And it's not surprising, considering how much time each of us spends on study and work and how much depends on it. And of course, the radical changes that are taking place now can not but affect these spheres. Today in Russia, much attention is paid to the discussion of innovation, the digital economy, labor productivity and competitiveness. However, these plans are unrealizable without a systematic approach to the de...

Mass media is the most expanded means of communication nowadays. For decades mass media has been actively working out the strategies to influence the recipient’s mind. In this research the author makes efforts to make a survey of what appears to be the most efficient, acute and widely practiced expressive stylistic means applicable in the media. The key word here is expressiveness since it reflects the speaker's attitude to the events and forms the pragmatic value of the text. As modern psycholinguists believe, ef...

Among the numerous classifications of economic systems, one of the most common classifications is based on the choice of an approach to managing and regulating the behavior of economic entities. As it is commonly believed, this approach can be based on economic and non-economic criteria for decision-making. In the latter case, they speak of the traditional model of the economy, which in modern conditions (from the standpoint of technocratic analysis) is considered to be backward and inefficient. Indeed, the standa...

In the face of evolutions in Polish railway, and of its division as well as complex problems the localities which serviced busy railway traffic lost their importance. The former junctions, handling stations and railway settlements, presently are subject to uncontrolled changes and natural destruction. It also happened in the case of I?owo-Osada (Poland) .In the 19th century, this settlement thanks to the railway line was blooming, but at present forgotten and neglected experiences stagnation.As the railway is bein...

Distinctive prosodic features of spontaneous and read-aloud speech are difficult to determine due to several degrees of spontaneity, individual speaking styles, and a variety of emotional states, registers, and communicative situations. Nevertheless, scientists have been making a number of attempts in pursuit of this goal. The article presents the results of comparative analysis of spontaneous and read-aloud speech, obtained on identical material, characterized by neutral pronunciation style – from the perspective...

Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (GDPR) comes into force on 25th May 2018. This regulation exchanges the present Act No. 101/2000 Coll. on personal data protection in the Czech Republic and implements totally new rules for this issue in the EU member states. The aim of the article is to apply the selected provisions GDPR regulations to a di...

The article describes the history, architecture and development of the Eastern Battery (also known as the Gerhard Fort) – one of three remaining coastal forts in ?winouj?cie (former Swinemünde) located in northern Poland, by the Baltic Sea. The research is mostly based on historical cartographic material and architectural plans verified during field studies. This data served to create a digital model – one of the results of the study, as well as a research tool helping to detect and visualize transformations of th...

Real estate markets show specifics across the particular segments of real estate and also different performance in terms of market efficiency in real time. Moreover each country has some legal framework and other specifics. The paper deals with monitoring of asking price development till realizing a market transaction as the indicator of the market efficiency. Such microeconomics research should determine both the price differences and the duration to sell for individual observation of selected market and segment....

This paper is devoted to the philosophical research of videogames as a phenomenon of modern culture. The subject for study is myth and mythological structures in videogames. Videogames represent value and meaning related constructions of the modern époque. However, they fulfill mythological elements inherent to the archaic consciousness at the same time because the archaic story of the hero’s way consisting of the three basic stages – exodus, initiation, and returning along with the appearance of the hero’s image ...

Alberto Burri is an Italian artist who worked in the post-war period; his works belong to the current called "arte informale", that is, contrary to any form. His artistic research ranges from painting to sculpture, where he always focused on the expressiveness of materials, while making his works with common materials. His career initially developed as works in separate series, where each series used a different material. This is precisely the great strength of Burri's work, as each material becomes itself the mai...

Insurance means protection against different kinds of risks with financial consequences. In frame of this protection, the insured transfers its risks, the possible negative consequences of which are unbearable to the insurer, i.e. to an insurance company. In order to compensate the insurer for such consequences, the insurance company collects the premium for the transfer of risk, the amount of which depends on the size of conventional damages, having a random character. The balance between premium written and prem...

The main aim of the paper is through an analysis of selected documents to desribe and compare the possibilities of counselling in relation to support specifically focused on the area of completion of compulsory education for pupils with special education needs (SEN) and transition to the next stage of their lives. The first part of paper introduces the current system of counselling services in the Czech Republic (CZ) and the United Kingdom (UK). The author – based on a methodological approach consisting in a searc...

This paper aims to define and analyze the constitutional, legal and practical aspects of political parties through analyzing constitutional and legal norms as the main factors that determine the party system of the Republic of Macedonia. Political parties are the cornerstone of a democratic society and the modern democratic state. Without political parties, there can be no real political mobilization of citizens and articulation of the political interests and needs of the citizens, something that is expressed thro...

In the modern world, there are tendencies to form the economy of a new type of economy - the digital economy. The formation of a new economy is associated with the intensification of various risks. In this regard, insurance is the main source of incentives for production activities and economic growth, which provides the conditions for protecting property interests. Losses arising from unforeseen factors (economic, political, social, etc.), cause an objective need for insurance. In all developed countries of the w...

Headlines, which are generally more available to readers than articles, were analyzed from the following media: BBC, The Economist, Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Independent, and The Guardian on the general topic “Education”, - basically, from the linguistic perspective. It was found that newspaper headlines tend to be longer (10-11 words, on average; and certain headlines reach the length of 17-19 words), incorporate direct speech and reporting clauses, and have the form of...

The intensity and frequency of the daily activities of the population is a direct consequence of the town’s physical size growth. Urban dynamics depend both on the physico-geographical characteristics of space and on human behavior as the "pressure factor". The town of Botosani it was mentioned for the first time, by the chronicler Grigore Ureche, in 1439, as the largest fair in Moldavia. Situated at the intersection of important commercial roads of the time, the affirmation of urban life has been linked to trade ...

This paper presents an example of historical research for investigating a couple of old locks used for raising and lowering watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on one of the waterways of Milan (Italy), better known as “Navigli”. The “Navigli” canals wooden locks, which nowadays are preserved in the National Museum of Science and Technology “Leonardo da Vinci” of Milan (MUST), are considered an excellence of 15th century Lombard cultural heritage. A current historical analysis was mandatory gi...

What used to be a rare and eccentric narrative technique in the Golden Age of Hollywood, where a protagonist would address the viewer or implicit audience directly, is now deployed more frequently in Cinematic VR. This paper aims to investigate whether such an inherent capacity of ‘you' to target a narratee, as it accommodates a variety of you's and a variety of I's, and the combination of both to blur the boundary between the discourse of virtual reality and the story, makes the second-person narration a natural ...

The Romanian lied after the second half of the 20th century till now has manifested in different ways of expression, both as chamber works with texts of secular inspiration and with texts of religious inspiration. Thus, the lieds composed by the Romanian composers are based on songs, poems or ballads of folkloric inspiration, then the texts of the Romanian poets and also of the foreign poets. Constantin Tufan Stan, in his article published in the Music Magazin, states about lied that: 'By the broad, affective and ...

An analysis of the contribution of the information technology industry in India showed that the country had found a profitable middle ground between science and economy, the share of the sector in the country's GDP structure is more than 10% in 2016/2017. On the other hand, the total contribution of information technologies, including the digital and mobile component of the Russian economy, amounted to 5.06% of GDP in 2017. Despite the economic stagnation, high-tech segments have continuing to develop and find new...