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Investigation of dynamics of language in use, representing an important tendency that contributes to forming of modern predominant approach in linguistic science, meets the cherished objective of solving a wide range of issues arising from the functioning of language, which can be efficiently viewed in the context of cognitive approach. In the theoretical framework of the cognitive paradigm of linguistic researches the cognitive approach in translation, as we opine, is to be profiled through the prism of intertext...

The present article investigated three main constructs of self-perceived creativity: creative self-efficacy, creative role identity and creative behavior. Culture being an element of the social context, it could influence creativity, more specifically the level of development, or predictors of creativity, for example the creative self-efficacy or creative role identity. Moreover, previous studies showed that culture may shape creativity via its influence on some environmental factors. Based on these findings the m...

The development of the attractiveness for the Compostela Ways for thirty years corresponds to an important socio-cultural phenomenon. After having given some markers of the success of the Compostela Ways (number of pilgrims, etc.), we try to highlight the different motivations of the participants. We propose a typology of these different “pilgrims” or walkers. By analyzing situations of information and communication, we will study the aspects of identity and the relationship with others but also with oneself (...

The objective of the text is to examine the cultural reception of texts on values as good, which are often described as universal. Texts were carried out by representativeness of many cultures using the method of transformative drama while at the University of PГ©cs. Students from Russia, Kazakhstan, Haiti, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, China, Mongolia, Korea, Laos, Hungary, Egypt, Syria, Cameroon, Mexico, Indonesia, in a dramatic cutscene illustrated, how is the concept of good understood in their culture.

Reminding us of the title of the French author Jean Giono’s novel “Joy of Man’s Desiring” (1936) and Johann Sebastian Bach’s chorale “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”, the author Cornelia Golna has chosen an intriguing name for her first novel which is related to the story of culturally marked individuals, like the Greek girl Theodora Vlachos, the Russian Natalya Petrovna and the American professor John Townsend. Having as major focus the struggle for adaptation to a new life after the Young Turk Revolutio...

Historical literature and numerous medieval fortresses offer great premises for the development of cultural-historical tourism in Romania. Fiction tourism also fits into the general picture of tourism consumption. The phenomenon seems to lure ever more tourists that are interested in legends and myths. The tighter/closer the connection between the myth and the historical character, the stronger the attraction seems to be. The methodology of the paper is based on the determination of historical truth by a thorough ...

The social dimension of state culture and art at the regional level is an important task of the state and involves the assessment of the quality of services once a year for several cultural organizations. We propose a unified model of independent assessment of the quality of services of organizations of culture using the automated information system of accounting of three metrics: opinions of recipients of services, and the availability of information on two official websites of the organization. The results of th...

The paper deals with the theoretical reflection of digital gameplayers (sub)culture. The authors examine these aspects in connection with the media studies and also with the theory of digital games. The main objective of this paper is to point out the status of digital gameplayers community in a current socio-culture reality. The introductory part of the study defines the key terms as the audience, subculture, gamer and digital game. In the next part of the paper the authors explain the problematic of gamers’ su...

The article presents a complex analysis of “culture of security” notion. The main definitions of “culture of security” are explored in such problem fields as international relations and national security. These definitions’ limits and discrepancy to the challenges of modernity are demonstrated. The necessity to elaborate “everyday culture of security” is argued to provide for a range of competences and personal rights, which foster security of an individual. Conceptualization of “everyday culture of...

The aim of the work is to identify the actual contents and methods of training future music teachers for professional activities in a multicultural educational environment. Object of research: the bases, an entity of a method of culturological interpretation of spiritual traditions of music and results of its implementation in musical and educational process. The main form of introducing different layers of society to the traditions and values of the peoples of the world is intercultural dialogue and joint work cr...

The paper deals with the policy and support of the creative industry in the Zilina Region. In the Zilina Region, the major part of the creative industry is represented by the advertising industry. The main aim of the paper is to identify the aspects of the support in the advertising industry in the Zilina Region. To achieve the aim of the paper, the primary research consisting of personal, telephone, and e-mail questioning was carried out. The survey was aimed at the advertising agencies operating in the Zilina Re...

ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) presents challenges that affect everyday life and learning for pupils as well as their teachers and parents. Much has been written and researched when it comes to the disorder, with some conclusions resulting in great debate and controversy. Experts on ADHD offer a number of suggestions to help pupils with reading and writing. Paper presents some ways to provide pupils with secondary “fidget” activities, ones that don’t distract pupils from the task at hand but ...

Increase of dynamism and competitiveness in business environment, stimulates providers of catering services to focus on the measurement of customer loyalty. However, the current methodological potential of this field is not developed enough to use in practice. The methodological insufficiency of customer loyalty measurement determined the topicality of academic research substantiating the model that creates the background for the measurement of customer loyalty towards a provider of catering services. The aim of t...

Customer orientation is essential for long term success competing between sports organizations in this dynamic business world. Customer performance might be essential providing competitive advantage of sportВ’s organization. Accordingly customer orientation in strategy might create value for the customers and increase customers' loyalty. CustomersВ’ of sportВ’s organization might behave differently according to the type of sport and even gender of sportВ’s team. In this case customersВ’ (fansВ’) performance of wom...

The new millennium and the revolutionary medium of communication - the Internet brought a lot of change in all spheres of life to individuals and companies. In addition to many positive aspects and opportunities that the Internet provides (such as fast and instant communication, new forms of entertainment, education, an immediate source of information), it is important to recognize the presence of multiple risks linked to communication through new digital media and technologies. We consider that one of the most se...

The paper surveys the Czech banking sector from the perspective of corporate financing. The article presents the current state of the Czech financial market, and the importance of the banking sector for the economy. The questionnaire survey investigated main trends in the use of various products offered by the banking sector for financing, satisfaction of companies with banking products and overall confidence of business customers in the banking sector in the Czech Republic. Results of investigation and empirical ...

This study deals with the role and place of social rights in the legal system of the first Czechoslovak Republic. The aim is to point out that the first Czechoslovak Republic did not adopt market economy right from the beginning of its formation. After the end of the First World War there was the gradual transition of the Czechoslovak war economy towards market economy. The milestone was the adoption of the Czechoslovak Constitution in 1921, which not only signalized the development of civil rights but also social...

Division into periods of D.H. LawrenceВ’s creative activity mainly is based on his biographical facts, but we should find a point of his departure from the apprenticeship, from the traditions of the English novel of the 19th century. In many respects the author of Sons and Lovers departs from traditions, although he does not break with them completely. Lawrence creates a synthetic genre, combining the structure of a Bildungsroman and a KГјnstlerroman, giving his protagonist some autobiographical traits. Buthe does...

The victory in the Great Patriotic War was achieved not only due to the military potential of the Soviet Union and fighting on the fronts, but also due to the efforts of the whole society: the situation of socio-economic, political, cultural and leisure spheres played an essential role in winning the victory. At the same time, the emergency war atmosphere inevitably led to the deterioration of living conditions of the entire countryВ’s population, including Southern Russia, where the Stalingrad battle occurred, wh...

During the Second World War in Poland in the years 1939-1945 several million people died at the hands of Nazi Germany. Commemoration of the people who were murdered in concentration camps, extermination camps, ghettos, prisons, and during mass shootings, and those who were killed in warfare and uprisings, is an essential part of the remembrance of these inhumane crimes, as well as a warning to future generations. One form of commemoration of the victims is dark tourism. Every year millions of people (tourists) fro...

The French Healthcare System copes with important challenges especially of costs, often linked with “walls” between compartmentalized fields, particularly between Primary Care and Hospital sector. These challenges largely correspond to information and communication issues. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) may constitute an important lever to overpass them and to improve the efficiency of the whole system. New Healthcare Interfaces Organizations (HIO) developed for thirty years constitute an int...

During the last years the tertiary education support is growing mainly due to researches that claim it can foster the development of individuals and so the economy as a whole. This growth is creating a significant pressure on countriesВ’ public budgets, as the main source of support, and the effectiveness of its allocation. This paper deals with the evaluation of public spending on education efficiency, with an emphasis on tertiary education in EU countries. It is devoted mainly on economic aspects of education, e...

The problems of crimes against families, which include domestic violence, have been present in society for many years. Nevertheless, with all changes in functioning of society and progress in the systems used to prevent violence and help both victims and offenders, it is worth analysing this topic further. On the one hand, the social awareness of the problem of violence and methods to react if it is observed are improving. On the other hand, violence is perceived as a problem concerning only women: it is often hea...

The decision on the capital structure is one of the important decisions the owners of the corporation have to make. This decision affects the risk and the return on the capital invested by the owner. The aim of this paper is to analyze how the agricultural sector in Europe uses the debt capital in its funding. The factors used for the analysis of the agricultural companies debt capital level are the size of the agricultural unit, the country of its operation, the time period, the return on assets before interests ...

In a lease agreement, when it comes to determine the residual debt at a given date in case of insolvency or continuous arrears (i.e. an early termination, before the maturity of the lease plan), often the contract decides upon the penalties and some lump sum refund for impairment. Accounting purposes require both the lessor and the lessee to calculate separately for the amount of the outstanding debt and the agreed-upon for the impairment and the penalties. In this paper, the authors propose a model for a precise ...

In 2004, Peter Goldie accentuated a common feature of certain contemporary artworks and social psychology experiments: the „deception” of viewers and, respectively, of participants in the experiment. Peter Goldie uses the term „deception” for the strategy of social psychologists, because the entire experiment is based on a hoax (in Milgram’s experiment on obedience, for example). The participants fallaciously believe until the end of the event that they are taking part in a general knowledge test, playing b...

The problem of choice practically affects all aspects of human life. Public interest to the topic of decision-making process has been continuously and extensively escalating over the last decade. This study explores the basis of conflict in choice of decision-making strategy and provides a thorough research analyzing how matriculates choose what universities to apply to and what strategy they are inclined to use when doing so. The article provides results of such research and represents collected data on more than...

Although the most loyal of the socialist satellite states in the 50, a decade later Romania dared to challenge soviet commandments in some crucial moments of the international arena. Among the episodes that characterized the independent impulses of the Romanian foreign policy in the second half of the `60, we can include the Six-Day War, in June 1967. Relying on archive documents, official statements, and media sources of that particular year, we can assert that the Romanian government, its leaders practiced a qui...

Creative tourism as part of the global creative economy has shown a significant increase in the world. However, Slovakia falls considerably behind these trends. The aim of the study is to analyse the current state of demand for creative tourism in Slovakia. In the paper we define creative tourism from supply and demand perspective and its growing importance for destinations as well as visitors. We characterize preferences and interest of Slovak tourists in domestic creative tourism activities, we define creativity...

Values can be defined as general standards, as measures of goodness or desirability, as higher order norms (Carrow et.al., 1998). Social values are moral goals to which we commit ourselves. Sociological theories and those about collective deviation today speak about the risk society, moral panic (Thompson), moral breakdown, etc. Education plays a central role in the development and dissemination of basic values. Instances or international institutions implement certain social values that serve the building of a ha...

The Great Patriotic War demanded an utmost exertion of powers of the whole population of the Soviet Union both in and behind the front lines. This article confirms the hypothesis of unity between the front and rear. All people of the USSR joined their forces to repulse the act of fascist aggression. And small nations, wherever they lived, were not exclusion and contributed to the Victory. New approaches to studying of demographic losses in Yakutia revealed a probable number of people mobilized to the front line, t...

During the last decades one can notice a positive effect of tourism activities in rural or remote areas, tourism managing to induce economic development in peripheral spaces where primary activities like agriculture, low industry or craftsmanship were not economic profitable anymore. Positive role of tourism activities in rural areas can be translated into different ways, like the increase of well-being, stabilization of population in exodus localities, bigger resistance towards financial crisis, and even a growth...

Background Faculty of Dental Medicine is teaching facility that is the favorite option for comprehensive dental treatments due to their reputation, affordability and professional competence of the clinicians. The dental care delivered to the patients is primarily by the students under guidance of experienced faculty clinical educational staff. The need to teach students about providing good quality dental treatment to the patients is a major concern for clinical training faculty. Because the success of an oral hea...

The author of the article suggests an analysis of the names of a person in modern Russian from the point of view of wordsВ’ structural and semantic features and she made an attempt to separate neostructured words in accordance with their derivational-semantic models, according to which semantic derivation took place. In each model subgroups of nouns (united by the word-formation potential and similar semes) are observed. All neostructured words are examined from the point of view of the basic processes of semantic...

A significant degree of uncertainty in the consistent of the fiscal development within EU countries has prompted governments to stop or decrease unfavourable developments and to look for solutions to ensure sufficient debt financing. In the context of debt financing, which is one of the major ways of financing the fiscal imbalance, are countries, as reported by OECD surveys, besides traditional debt instruments focusing also on the use of specific financial instruments - derivatives. The aim of the paper is to ana...

The article demonstrates the application of phenomenological description method to describe the architectural space of Saint Petersburg Empire period. The style originating in the French architects designs in the late nineteenth century was fully embodied in St. Petersburg, thus creating the image of a perfect capital. The style involves a particular vision of space, that can be perceived only from a supervisorВ’s perspective, creating a panoramic view, combining planimetric images with perspective ones, implement...

Ever increasing demands on the complexity of modern buildings considerably increase the pressure to improve efficiency in terms of time and quality. In spite of its importance, there has not been sufficient emphasis placed on the project management research yet, but only on project management in general. An effective method for project management is to ensure the planned management of the whole process. All requirements of the project shall be pre-processed, as planned in terms of design and realization. Therefore...

This article concerns specifics of designing associational cultural landscapes. It demonstrates that, taking the objectВ’s specifics into account, a special cognitive layer that determines the switch of a visitorВ’s motivation must be introduced in the laying-out process. It demonstrates that the switch of a visitorВ’s motivation can be controlled. Using the self-reflexing subject model suggested by Vladimir Lefebvre, the motivation control efficiency is evaluated for the first time. The article demonstrates that ...

At the Kazan Federal University annually study the Russian language a few hundred Chinese students. In the article the authors consider the project as one of the most effective forms of training, the Chinese trainees Russian as a foreign language at an advanced stage of training (B2). The urgency of the problem is that students come with a weak level of Russian language proficiency, lack of skills of free communication in Russian, and teachers will have very short time to improve their level of proficiency. The ai...

The research paper presents innovative approaches to using online services in the course of creating design projects. In order to substantiate theoretical constructs as to using online services in the field of designing we employed a set of theoretical and empirical research methods, among which: modelling professional activities, determining a status of solving the problem, the method of observation, the conversation method etc. Using FloorPlan 3D, Sweet Home 3D, and Planoplan online services, which fall under an...

The entrepreneurial intention issue is considered nowadays as an important source of corporate sector growth and competitive advantage of enterprises. The strengthening of intentions towards entrepreneurship should be developed by educational system, achieving the strongest intensity at higher education level. Identification of factors influencing the entrepreneurial intention among students could lead to improvements in education system to be more entrepreneurial oriented. The main aim of the paper is to identify...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants of global competitive intelligence development and analyse the competitive environment in Latvia in historical perspective. The development of the market is a lasting historical process that exists in interaction with all the other markets. Competitive Intelligence (CI) obtained its present pattern in the mid-1990s, and, according to Bergeron and Hiller, it was influenced by several factors relating to social experience and historical precedents. In order to...

The aim of the study is to analyze the natural and anthropogenic factors and long-term processes that explained the intensity and scale of the flood disaster that occurred on 19.06.2014 in Varna. For this purpose two related models of disaster – ‘Pressure and Release model’ (PAR model) and ‘Access model’ are applied. The PAR model shows how the causes of vulnerability can be traced back from unsafe conditions, through economic and social (dynamic) pressures, to underlying root causes. The idea is that a disa...

A subject of this article is a museum-visitor interaction that uses modern type of communication based on information technology. We have a great chance to implement a concept of the Internet of Things in museums and other buildings due to Bluetooth Low Energy technology. The Internet of Things presents a major opportunity for a large number of user applications that promise to improve interest to exhibitions and provides extra knowledge about museum objects and a digital extension into the physical world. The art...

The digital world has become an integral part of life for the majority of the world's socially active population. Topicality of the research could be substantiated by numerous researches [1], [2], [3] clearly stated the extreme importance of enterpriseВ’ powerful brand in a digital era for raising the competitiveness of a company and customer satisfaction. This trend requires every entrepreneur to pay considerable attention to the strategy of building the robust digital brand identifying social interests and focus...

Financial literacy is a certain level of knowledge and skills in the financial sector, which in conditions of market economy enables the citizen to rationally assess the real situation and make the right life decisions. The problem of increasing the level of financial literacy in recent years and especially after the aggravation of the global financial crisis has become one of the priority tasks for governments in many countries, including the Russian Federation. The results of the conducted studies indicate that ...

The purpose of this article is to attempt of the authors which is based on an analysis of current theoretical approaches to develop a model for the professional identity of civil servants, which will contribute to the systemic and structural solvation of the problems of the public administration system. In the methodological plan, numerous studies do not give an unambiguous definition of the concept of professional identity, nor a single understanding of its essence. Special attention is paid to the acmeological a...

In this article the author analyzes the influence of amendments in the religious sphere of postsoviet society on strengthening anomie in it. Among factors, that influence anomie and characterizes the religious sphere state of the modern Russian society, he names the existence of many religious confessions due to missionery activities, traditional confession restoration (Orthodox, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Lutheranism), actualization of religious identity matter, phenomena of “out of confession heresy” and inte...

Background. The issues addressed in the article are of particular relevance, being in line with the main current trends in methodology of teaching foreign languages in Russia and abroad. The aim of the article is to present results of building a model of the development of autonomous learning skills among Yakut native students. Method. The research has revealed that there is a strong correlation between the content of the foreign language teaching in Russia and the development trends of the Russian society; the le...

The main purpose of the paper is to analyze the economic development of construction companies in the monitored period during the crises. The economic development is performed with the financial indicators, which express the performance and the financial stability of the construction company. Financial indicators are represented mainly by the Return on Equity (ROE) and indebtedness of the company. The methodology is based on the collection of information from accounting statements (the balance sheet, the profit lo...