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Traditionally, insurance purchasing behavior is associated with individual’ risk aversion. It is assumed that the risk attitudes are correlated with voluntary insurance consumption. We use the potential and realized risk attitudes along with socio-economic and demographic factors as determinants of insurance behavior of Russians. We present the results of modeling of the individual insurance behavior based on Individual Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey – Higher School of Economics (RLMS-HSE) Round 25 data for...

Antimicrobial resistance is a serious threat to global public health and requires action across all government sectors and society. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), an EU agency, monitors 52 communicable diseases, having programmes which cover antimicrobial resistance. The highest rates of non prescription use of antibiotics are in Romania (20%). Objectives: To determine if there is any significant difference between antimicrobial resistance of Gram negative bacteria isolated in hospi...

This paper focuses its attention on how, in a Southern Italian region like Puglia, the environment has been affected by infrastructural policies about the use of the water resource. The management and administration of the water resource and the rules about the use of public water and the pattern of socio-economic development were linked to the limited availability of this essential natural resource. The paper seeks to suggest that the use of water is dependent on peculiarities of social and cultural developme nt ...

The article presents theoretical consideration of types and elements of personnel motivation programs and performance evaluation criteria as obligatory components of a management accounting system, aimed at reaching strategic organization’s goals and objectives, through investments in human capital. Result-oriented performance is only possible by means of matching employees’ professional interests and abilities with corporate goals. The presence of highly qualified personnel in an organization is its main competit...

“Perceived age” is the result of perception of a person's appearance representing the age of a perception object ascribed by a perception subject. Explosion of interest to the analysis of the factors of a person's perceived age is observed in the modern science, because the perceived age of a person is directly related to the biological age of such a person and is an indicator of mortality risk [1, 2]. Researchers studied genetic, ecological, and medical-and-esthetic factors effecting the perceived age of a person...

Companies producing lenses for glasses and contact lenses operate in the sector of high technologies, consequently, the production has high added value. Sustainable development requires a more rapid development of medium high and high technologies sectors. One of the options is development of production of optical vision correction means in Latvia, which would increase the proportion of medium high and high technology manufacturing in the common structure of manufacturing. The analysis was performed guiding by the...

This reflection is an attempt to determine the scope of audiovisuality research in literary text, taking into account theories of connection of literary work with media coverage. It is accompanied by transferring the focus from adaptive thinking (including one medium into another) to transmedia one, where literariness and audiovisuality function on similar rights. Such move is based on an assumption that a context for created new literature is no longer another written text but a media event or an audio-visual com...

The article proposes a methodological approach to forecasting the staffing needs of the innovative economy which makes a provision for creating strategic long-term and mid-term forecasts and their annual adjustment at the operating level. The decomposition by the types of forecasts for such characteristics as level of regulation, purpose, key definitions, methods and approaches, factors, types of information, tools for providing staffing needs at each level has been carried out; the main results are presented. Mod...

In economy based on knowledge, a combination of employees’ skills and experience as well as their engagement in the process of acquiring competences, is not only a factor that shapes the organizational culture but the one which allows for confirming the effectiveness of entrusted tasks’ completion and group work management. Human resources management is an activity which increases both the quality and efficiency of work. It enables increasing the effectiveness of an enterprise and, in consequence, gaining competit...

The concern for consumers protection dates back to antiquity, the development of commodity exchange in the markets from citadel cities is not a random and uncontrollable phenomenon. In the society of the 21st century, where production has exceeded consumers' needs, deviations from the rules appear. Manufacturers have gone from producing what is sold to selling what is produced. Different marketing strategies are used, imposing on the consumer the need for a good or service, even if he does not have the need. Unfor...

Proceedings in cases related to the violation of public finance discipline include ordered sequence of activities, that compose a process aimed to decide by competent authorities about liability for such violation. These proceedings are important part of polish public financial system which are based on the act of 17 December 2004 on the liability for violation of public finance discipline and also polish legal solutions are unique in the world financial and legal solutions. Primary research purpose formulated in ...

This paper focuses on answering question: What are the ideal and most important skills and personality traits that project managers need to have. The aim of the paper is to describe the significance of project manager competencies needed in current changing environment. Project manager is key to the success of each project. For this reason, staffing projects with managers who have the right competences is crucial to achieve project goal. The success of project managers is mainly related to abilities and skills tha...

The purpose of the study is to determine the essential features of the concept "teaching method" and to give its correct definitions. The materials of the study are definitions of this concept in didactic and methodological texts. The methods of the study are conceptual analysis, terminological analysis, and logical analysis of this concept. Results of the study are the following: 1) most of the existing definitions of the concept "teaching method" do not contain its essential features; 2) scientific definitions o...

One of the aims of each financial analyst is to make a statistical analysis of multidimensional data in a financial analysis. The aim of all methods of multi-criteria evaluation is transforming and synthesizing values of various parameters into one - integral indicator, comprehensively expressing the level of individual enterprises in the set of values examined. The purpose of each multidimensional analysis is to process the data in order to clearly indicate the model and thus reveal the hidden phenomenon. The aim...

Wisdom relates to experienced difficult life situations from which one comes out as someone capable of sharing the learned and experienced lessons with other people and able to help other people based on his or her previous experience. Wisdom tops people’s list of values and desired personality traits. In psychotherapy, acquiring wisdom is one of the most desired objectives. In development psychology, achieving wisdom is considered to be the peak of maturation. Wisdom is related to feeling good or bad. Wisdom affe...

As we read in the Prologue of Nikos Kazantzakis’ Saviors of God: “We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. As soon as we are born the return begins, at once the setting forth and the coming back, we die in every moment…But as soon as we are born, we begin to struggle, to create, to compose, to turn matter into life, we are born in every moment”[1]. The above excerpt taken from Kazantzakis’ early work resonates with an omnipresent leitmotif of his novels where we fi...

The aim of the paper is to study the impact of e-commerce on the economic growth measured by GDP growth in Bulgaria. A brief summary of the importance of electronic commerce for the development of the economy is prepared. The research is based on the idea that e-commerce stimulates consumption and therefore economic growth. With the help of the statistical analysis of time-series, the change and the relationship between the indicators: capacity of the telecommunication network on the Internet retail sales, as well...

The aim of this study consists in analyzing the importance of the exchange rate forecast using the Box-Jenkins models, also known as Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models. The first part of the paper presents the main research in this field, which can be classified in two categories (studies applying classical methods, such as Box-Jenkins models and studies which rely on sophisticated prediction tools), and summarizes the main findings of some of the studies applying Box-Jenkins models. In the s...

The process of formation of the “shared values” concept as a result of the evolution of the corporate social responsibility concept has been considered in the article. A number of factors underlying the concept of creating shared values are specified. The method of correlation analysis allows us to put forward and prove the hypothesis on the important role of “trust” factor. The procedure and the results of studies of shared values based on trust relationship in one of the companies that is situated in Tomsk city ...

Nowadays, universities play an important role in research, development and generation of technologies as well as in regional development. In the direction of increasing the creative economy, the university, as a research center, a technology maker, is becoming the main core of economic growth. The study aims to analyze the dynamics of the creative economy in the university centers in Romania, the objective of the research being the evaluation of the creative capacity of each university center. It was created a dat...

Introduction. The IV Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art was held in Ekaterinburg. It is one of the largest regional art projects with international participation introduced in Russia. Once in two years the biennial occupies non-exhibition spaces in Ekaterinburg and other cities of the Sverdlovsk region. The main topic of the IV biennial was “New Literacy”; and the concept was that the fourth industrial revolution in information and communication technologies had changed our lifestyle, work, dreams and ga...

The article draws attention to the social transformation in the fourteenth century and the beginning of the fifteenth century in Florence. During this time, the position of the guild gradually decreased, and the wealth and importance of patricians grew. The increase in the financial capacity of the townspeople has contributed to the rise of their ambitions. Some of them were aspiring to the role of aristocracy. The only barrier was their origin. Cosimo de 'Medici called ‘the Elder’ was a merchant, banker and human...

By the beginning of the XX century in the Russian Empire home beer production was not subject to any taxes and was widely developed among peasants. To large holidays, especially local, village, to weddings peasants always boiled beer in large quantities, but again same only for themselves, not on sale. In the late nineteenth century significantly increased the role of indirect taxes, and above all drink taxes. By the beginning of XX century. Russia had the following indirect taxes: taxes on sugar, matches, oil, to...

In this work, the creative idea that the artist strives to express in a vanguard work of art is put in juxtaposition to the idea embraced by a viewer with insufficient visual experience of perceiving this type of art. At the first stage of the experiment, the artist provided the description of the principal visual structures that reveal the creative concept of a set of his works, as well as the description of the works’ main ideas. After that, the works in question were shown to the viewers who were asked to descr...

Background: Modern studies of the concept of systemic risk presuppose an answer to the main questions: as a systemic risk is defined in the scientific literature and central banks; what is the content of "systemic risk" and what factors are involved in its accumulation; what is "infection" and how does it relate to systemic risk Methods: Central banks rarely suggest a definition of systemic risk. The review of S. Usterlu and J. de Hahn shows that central banks often focus on clarifying definitions of financial ins...

Russia is a country with a high level of international migration. Due to the geographic location of the Far East, China and North Korea used to be the main donor countries for international migration, but in recent years, the international migration from CIS countries is developing. The present situation poses special challenges for the migration policy, including: the development of the labor market taking into account international migration, the reduction of social tension between the local population and inter...

Introduction. Legitimacy is a political and legal concept that means a positive attitude of the population to the existing institutions of state power. Society in the 21st century has become very multicultural, and in the context of the strongest economic globalization there is a clear division of people on racial, ethnic and gender grounds. It becomes more difficult to find a compromise among such a diversified society. In addition, globalization has led to closer international cooperation as the governments of s...

Features of architecture of Abkhazian medieval one-apsidal hall temples are presented in this article. A small one-nave church is easy to build and it was important in the conditions of a need for fast and universal construction of temples. It is a reflection of local architectural preferences and the construction equipment as the local masters could build such temples, not owning difficult technologies of arch building. Besides, by means of a gradual extension of additional rooms the one-apsidal church was easy t...

The article reflects the results of a study in the dynamics of public expenditure in the education sector of the Russian Federation. The article deals with mechanisms, problems, priorities and prospects in financing and developing the education sector in the Russian Empire and the USSR. Comparison of the periods showed that in the imperial period the system proved its necessity, which resulted in the emergence of social needs in education and the transition from facultative acquisition of knowledge to a functionin...

The article is devoted to the analysis of the creativity of the modern Mongolian artist Zorigt Uyanga. The author pays special attention to the means of artistic expressiveness used by the artist in the series “Women of Mongolia”. The paper provides art-critical research of cultural and historical background which forms the basis of the series. It reveals a special interest of the artist to the role and semantic of costume (or its absence) and traditional female hairdo. Mentioned points and their modification in g...

Global trends indicate the approach of the sixth technological structure, which will significantly affect socio-economic situation in a whole world, what may remake global economy structure. The article is dedicated to research the kind of structure changes, which will take place in new technological structure and the methods of reflections on it. The article is dedicated to research interregional interaction as a one of the basic factors of economic efficiency in the sixth technological structure. There is the ov...

In the doctrine and judicial practice, it has been stated that the performance of the obligations stipulated in synallagmatic contracts must be made simultaneously by both parties. Therefore, the refusal of one of the contracting parties to perform its own obligations breaks the balance that must exist between the reciprocal performances of synallagmatic contracts so that the other party is also entitled to cease performing its own obligations. Thus, the exception of non-performance consists in the possibility for...

The article deals with issues related to the charitable activities of zemstvos on the example of the Vladimir zemstvo in the second half of the XIX – the beginning of the XX century. The zemstvo budget is analyzed in terms of its revenue and expenditure: sources, amounts, revenue dynamics, directions and expenditures, and sources for covering the budget deficit of the Vladimir zemstvo. The description of the financial security of social institutions, whose activities were controlled by the Vladimir zemstvo is give...

The innovations, especially social, are widely recognized as a strategic base of rural areas’ sustainable development. Numerous studies have found the positive impact of social capital on innovations, especially social innovations. Furthermore, the innovation is an important tool to transform social capital into the higher income levels and higher innovation performance. The paper presents an assessment of the role of social capital and its relationship to innovations, particularly social innovations in rural area...

The problem of many European Union countries has been for a long time a high deficit of public finances and also high public debt. This situation resulted in the year 2012 to debt crisis, which need to be addressed by non-standard measures of economic policy. Although Slovakia never fell between countries with excessive public debt, however, since the formation of independent Slovak Republic in 1993 never reached a balanced state budget. The government, therefore, has developed „The stability program of the Slovak...

The paper focuses on the so-called Berlin school and its role in urban and architectural realizations in the period of the historicism. The present study was covered the eastern areas of Prussia, currently located in the boundaries of Poland. The following cities were analyzed: Berlin, Szczecin, Pozna? and Wroc?aw, which in the first half of the 19th century underwent a process of intense changes in urban planning and architecture. The scientific literature of subject and research of archival materials in the coll...

Image making of politicians is nowadays a pre-set, specially managed and construed process aimed at the key objective of drawing attention to specific individual, party or political process. Quite often such images do not match the real personalities and their features, they only exist on the cognition of political supporters as reflection of the developed image. The images, however, serve as the key tools that provide support, attract attention and votes by electorates, raise to trust, expectations, etc. The aim ...

The aim of the article is to study ways of the implementation of the strategy of the economic diversification in countries – major oil exporters. It is well-known that the expansion of non-oil sources of added value is the main guideline of the economic diversification and decreasing the dependency on oil revenues in the developing countries – oil exporters. Many economists recommend to such states rapid privatization and reduction of the government participation in the economy as almost the only way of the divers...

Developing adequate methods for stocktaking of landscape resources and for assessment of the landscape is a key issue for its proper preservation and shaping, which are determinant actions conditioning sustainable development and spatial order. The need to develop a method for assessing the cultural landscape, adapted to contemporary ways of defining its attractiveness (considering not only aesthetic or utilitarian but also social and emotional aspects), is clearly visible in the context of the dynamics of the cul...

University teacher is a factor which determines the level of the educational process, but also the level of scientific and research activities. Recently, there can be permanently witnessed the efforts at the national level by stressing the importance of the project and research activities in higher education institutions. In the process of quality assessment are mostly preferred quantitative indicators. The development of personality of students, however, contributes significantly to the level of teaching activity...

Knowledge takes many forms and shapes. Usually we associate our gathering of information and knowledge by what is transmitted in books and text. But it is often through our visual heritage that we perceive and build a notion of world and space around us. According to J.B. Harley [1] there has probably always been a natural impulse to create maps. Cartographic maps are historically synonymous of power, since geographic representation and knowledge in them concentrated influences, moved reigns, borders, and controll...

An inalienable content of a state of law, which is Latvia, is the protection and enforcement of rights and legitimate interests of the individual, especially in relation to enforcement of rights of persons, involved in criminal procedure. Freedom of the individual, his/her rights and guarantees are increasing and it is also a characteristic of the criminal procedure. Latvia is a full member of the European Union. To issues of enforcement of human rights are paid special attention and attempts are made to change ra...

In the therapeutic use of modelling from clay, effective factors of multisensory therapeutic approaches overlap with the principles and processes of art therapy. Clay as a medium offers various sensory stimuli, including dispersed touch, temperature and smell. These inputs may serve as triggers for memories or emotional associations and as means of change. Art therapy can intentionally work with the sensory qualities of the material realizing their potential in art-therapeutic creation. This qualitative study expl...

For decades there has been a general presupposition that the main aim of an academic degree is to guarantee good career prospects and fulfillment of economic and other material needs of an individual in future. However, recently the focus has finally shifted from the concept of personal welfare to the concept of global wellbeing and universal sustainability. This positive change has been embraced by the leading educational institutions which resulted in adapting the curricular to the modern scenario of the common ...

The implementation of the Russian professional standard for teachers has determined the topicality of the study. The main aim of this research is the improvement of English language teachers’ professional competence within the system of training courses on EL methodology. During the research the theoretical, empirical, diagnostic methods were used. Theoretical methods included the analysis of the problem and the subject of research, systematic and logical analysis, a holistic approach to the study of pedagogical p...

Any social or business sphere implies interaction and relationship between people at different levels. The simplest way of setting proper relations is language. A skilled specialist should be able to use a foreign language as a tool of communication, on the one hand, and as an instrument of influencing the cognition of the partner for creation an adequate and necessary effect in the communication process, on the other. Hence a real professional should understand what kind of relationship with an interlocutor s/he ...

The subject is the key element, the basis of the structure of the fugue form due to its melodic, rhythmic, harmonic and polyphonic features. Even from the Baroque period, the development and the final entry were the sections with the most innovative constructive aspects due to a certain freedom given to the composer in the treatment of the theme, resulting in a multitude of ways to conceive them. In 20th-century music, this freedom becomes manifest in all musical parameters (melody, rhythm, key, writing etc.), but...

The aim of the contribution is to acquaint readers with the development of new training methods for fire brigade members and their application within the “Training Simulator for Type Activities” project. This applied research has helped to create a special software tool for the training of fire brigades. Thematically, this project focused on the area of regular special preparation of fire brigades in response to selected emergencies when the joint action of Integrated Rescue System services is necessary – so-calle...

The scientific-educational approach, combining the educational point of view with the scientific criticism of the educational approach, was formed, oddly enough, in the study of alchemy, and views the latter as a stage in the development of chemistry. It is this approach which combined the ideas of the Enlightenment with natural science and its history and became the basis for the formation of a classical view of the Hermetic tradition. This approach is based on the reality of the object of alchemy, proving that i...

Motivation has been the subject of numerous books on human resources management. However, it is not frequently discussed in the energy sector, and particularly not in the mining industry. The ongoing restructuring processes in the Polish mining industry make it impossible to identify a consistent motivational scheme. The existing programmes, due to the ever-changing operational conditions of mining companies, are maladjusted to employees’ expectations. This article attempts to evaluate the expectations of miners t...