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Railway transport facilities are a group of interconnected and interactive parts that perform an important work or task. These include, for example, track and station security equipment, interlocking security equipment, dispatching workplaces, communication equipment elements and others. Many are dependent on electricity supply, although some of their functions may be temporarily supplied from alternative sources. The electricity distribution network, which has a number of different elements, is relatively vulnera...

Scientific and technological progress brought to life a completely new means of communication that combines the functions of the phone with its ability to communicate in real time and a telegram with its written summary form, providing cost-effective communication at any time and from anywhere in the world. The Internet as an information and communication environment is used as a tool for communication and cognition. Language becomes not only a means of communication, but also a means of creating a virtual reality...

At present an economic management of any administrative region (territory with fixed legal boundaries) is impossible without modern technologies of spatial analysis. Administrators of power structures use every opportunity to ensure that the management of the region is based on the automated processing of spatial data and particularly on remote sensing data. First of all, the possibilities of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are used such as data collection and systematization, automated analysis, compilatio...

A fairy-tale describes the events that are impossible in real life; it often combines fantastic, invented and real layers. But the most important purpose of a fairy-tale is not only to make a reader or a listener imagine fabulous actions and characters but also to teach a lesson of kindness and justice, to speak about important things in life in a vibrant and bright manner. Both a fairy-tale and a fable convey moral values, but the difference between them is that a fable moral is expressed explicitly while in a fa...

The aim of the paper is to point out the social need to elevate the ethical culture through knowledge, development of ethical skills and professional ethics, which exists over higher education. The evolution of an ideal professor guided in all the fields of culture constitutes a challenge for university teaching, with a peculiar emphasis on professional ethics. This research offers a conceptual theoretical approach concerning the development of applied ethics. It includes the explanation of two forms of these type...

Increased complexity of the modern battlefield extends requirements for medical support and sustainment that often exceed the capabilities of a single nation. What are the possibilities of increasing efficiency and reducing the costs of providing healthcare to deployed troops, especially in an international environment? This article, which is focused on the experimental work of the Multinational Medical Modular Approach (MMMA), tried to answer this question. One of the methodological approaches used, was a discove...

Commuter rail transport in Russia has been assigned the lead socio-economic role in meeting the mobility needs of local population. The social significance of rail transport lies in its demand among those citizens who have the right for preferential travel, as well as among people with low incomes. Regional authorities set up the cost of travel for such society groups below actual cost. Losses in the income of the carrier are compensated by providing subsidies from the budgets. The mechanism for delivering budget-...

Alexey Bartoshevich, a great Russian theatre historian and critic, often raises a question, “To whom was Hamlet written?”. This question is the starting point of the theatrical, philosophical and sociological discussion. What was the audience like then? What people tried to find in Hamlet later on – in XVIII-XX centuries? How modern theatre directors stage this play, how we see it, understand it, feel it? With each touch, each production the play gets new meanings, implications, contexts. According to Alexey...

Inclusiveness is a critical economic and social paradigm of the XXI century. Since the early years of the first decade of this century, the design assumes an essential role to society as all: if economic development and social well-being are rooted in innovation, the design is responsible for "translating" innovation into new products consumers can value. The last twenty years brought a sustained search for design graduation and post-graduation courses all over the world. From more traditional programs to new high...

In the Renaissance era, the mastery of the organists is increasing, and they are the ambassadors of the increasingly pronounced orientation for instrumental music, supporting and consolidating the instrumentalism. Important organists, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, etc., offer and promote the solution of instrumental music in the European space. The new trend in the approach of instrumental music develops in parallel with the compositional professionalization. Among the Iberian organists, Pedro Alberto Vil...

Everyone has their own individual way of understanding the world, explaining various positive and negative events that they experience in their lives. Striving to achieve their goals sets certain expectations with them. During adolescence, a man plays the role of a student. In this role person sometimes experiences negative emotions. It is increasingly noticed that the requirements set for students are too high in relation to their resources and competences. As a consequence, these situations disturb the students'...

Industrial heritage provides one of the most important records of social progress and urban development and continues to have international potential for education and development as confirmed by the joint ICOMOS – TICCIH Principles for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage Sites in 2011. A global problem is young persons’ decreasing interest in studying natural sciences, architecture and engineering, knowledge of which is a prerequisite for further technological progress and socio-economic development. This ...

Industry 4.0 has recently become a very actual and interesting issue in many areas for lot of people. The questions of the creation of state economic policy for development of sectors of particular industries and the related question of their support by the state are discussed. If this area can be characterized by a pragmatic, predominantly economically oriented approach, there is a greater degree of emotion in other areas discussed. These emotional categories also include the impact of various Industry 4.0 initia...

London is an ambivalent space, a site of renewal and tradition, dissonance and harmony, fragmentation and unity, destruction and rebirth. This paper aims to investigate the mapping of London as a city prone to regeneration, constructed as a sum of factual and fictitious experiences and perceptions of the urban milieu in a transcendent spatial continuum. In this respect, geocriticism will be used as a theoretical point of departure in order to investigate London as a real and imaginary city, whereas psychogeography...

The telecommunications industry is a sector that is developing at a fast pace, in a particularly strong competitive environment. Innovation is a key process in this sector being one of the most important factors ensuring the competitiveness of companies. The analysis of the components that are evaluating the performances of the telecommunication companies as a result of the adoption of the innovations enables the creation of strategic models that can lead to important competitive advantages with the effect of incr...

The global collapse of the environment is inevitable. Developed states should work alongside developing countries to make sure that their economies do not contribute to increasing pollution problems. Today's politicians should think about supporting pollution reduction programs rather than expanding industrialization as much as possible. Environmental conservation strategies should be accepted on a global scale, and people should start thinking about a significant reduction in energy consumption without sacrificin...

Today's, Europe is facing considerable challenges induced by technological and digital advancements which require a highly-qualified and flexible workforce able to support upward economic and social convergence between and within Member States. These challenges point out the necessity of investigating and structuring significant initiatives at European Union (EU) level with particular regard to overcoming Romania Higher Education (HE) bottlenecks and drawing up desirable improvements solutions. The paper is based ...

In Latvia, many of recent cultural activities have been established and developed as a response to decreasing of economic activities as well as shrinking processes of population and institutions in rural territories. The aim of the paper is to analyse the development strategies of five planning regions of Latvia in order to examine the role of cultural resources and activities in terms of regional development. The paper consists of the theoretical review of culture-led strategies as well as the content analysis of...

The basis of this research related to student burnout is the psychosocial approach of Ch. Maslach - American psychologist of Polish origin. According to the author of this concept, one of the indicators of personal and professional successes is the interpersonal functioning of a human being. A lot of research has been done about the burnout. Most often, they concerned professional burnout among employees representing social professions [1], [9], [3], [4]. Unfortunately, little is known about pupils' school burnout...

This article discusses the methodological issues of determining value added in the framework of intercompany networks - industrial clusters, which is an effective tool for analyzing and decision making. A sequence of stages of the formation of value chains (VCC) is proposed, their features and mechanisms for optimizing the interaction and coordination of actions of participants according to the criterion of gross value added (GVA) are highlighted. An approach to the definition of value added in the framework of gl...

This article analyses the aspects of the development of relationships in intercompany networks. For these purposes, the authors summarized data from various studies of Russian and foreign scientists. Also, the article summarizes the results of studying the issues of interaction efficiency both between the network participants and between partners and the network. Emphasis is placed on the ability of a central company to manage individual relationships, a portfolio of relationships, a central network and an industr...

The theory of intercultural citizenship in language education developed by M. Byram plays a very important role as a basis for developing competences for democratic culture. The first goal of this intercultural investigation was to compare Russian university students' self-assessment and peer assessment of the competences of intercultural citizenship. The second goal was to find out whether the results of self-assessment and peer assessment were different among male and female students. The theoretical and empiric...

This study is devoted to the description of psycholinguistic features of Chinese students, the purpose of which is the successful implementation of intercultural communication in the process of teaching them Russian as a foreign language at the pre-University stage of training. At the pre-University stage, many foreigners face problems of adaptation due to the huge difference in national consciousness, cultural traditions and rules of conduct. To help foreign students to adapt to a different language and socio-cul...

The architectural solution of hospital facilities in Slovakia in recent decades is insufficiently saturation of patient and staff expectations. In the field of neonatal health care, the key response to the growing number of pre-term newborns is the key. In the last decade the number of pre-term newborns in Slovakia has increased by up to 30%. In many cases, stressful stimuli from the intensive care unit (noise, light, pain, insensitive manipulation and separation from the mother) cause the damage to many important...

The pursuit of security is one of the basic human needs, which at the level of a state-organized society is transformed into the category of national security in the conditions of various social and natural man-made threats. Understanding of national security and the implementation of individual measures to maintain it are based in national interests, which are the national striving for sustainable development, improvement of welfare, improvement of technology, science and culture, strengthening the role in the in...

In the article authors review rules applicable to international transfers of personal data. With the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union (EU), substantial requirements were introduced by the co-legislators to ensure organisational and technical safeguards of any data processing of EU citizens. These safeguards are crucial to ensure adequate protection of citizensВ’ rights, especially in case of international transfers to the countries outside of the European Union or to ...

The formative-educational process contributes to moulding and defining the individual through the accumulation of theoretical and practical information and the inter-human communication as a result of the relationship with the peers. Due to the evolution of society, interpersonal relationships are generated by several forms of communication that are continuously realized both in the national language space and beyond the boundaries of the mother tongue. The contribution of technology to interpersonal communication...

The concept of enantiosemy as a semantic category of language is investigated in this article. It has long been noted by scientists that the opposite knowledge can be expressed at the level of a sentence. The article discusses some interrogative sentences with enantiosemy meaning in the German language, which have a certain inconsistency in form and content. An additional circumstance potentially predisposing the syntactic constructions to rethinking the original meaning to the opposite is the asymmetry feature of...

Although this paper acknowledges within its theoretical framework seminal ideas put forward by Dominick LaCapra and Cathy Caruth, refashioning FreudВ’s descriptions of ways of experiencing and coping with trauma, it moves in a different direction. It explores the intertextual pattern used to create unexpected, В‘artificialВ’ responses to trauma. The most common labels used to refer to such texts as FoerВ’s 2005 novel are В‘9/11 LiteratureВ’ and В‘The Literature of Terror,В’ with strong reliance on trauma theory. I...

Intertextual cultural competence has long been considered to be of utmost importance to interpreters and translators. Within the poststructuralist framework, every text contains references, implicit or explicit, to other texts. These references are known as intertextual elements or vertical context elements. The accuracy of translation/interpretation rests entirely on the interpreterВ’s / translatorВ’s ability to identify the intertextual element and its function. Thus, a study of intertextuality is of high practi...

The present study focuses on the analysis of the types of intertextual techniques as used in printed advertisements. By means of the analytical, the discourse analytical and the descriptive research methods, the printed advertisements featuring the use of intertextuality have been selected and analysed as to the stylistic patterns used to create intertextuality. Intertextuality in printed advertisements is used to attract larger and / or specific audiences, to promote specific features or advantages of a particula...

Incorporating silk to clothing creates value. However, with increasing worldwide environmental concern, the environmental implications of silk production practices should not be disregarded. A relevant part of environmental assessment studies focuses on the final product (i.e.: silk clothes), however, upstream and downstream processes also contribute to total impacts. Therefore, the objective of this study is to present an introductory analysis for conducting a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the silk cocoon produc...

These days the development of civilizational social relations makes the problem of modern civil society formation ever more acute. Civil society nowadays should be perceived as an area of personal development and self-expression of free citizens, including self-realization of young people. Civil identity, being part of the value-based motivational component of a personality, is responsible for successful self-realization of young people – future specialists of various specializations. Students preparing to becom...

Cultural-religious tourism, as part of cultural tourism, seems to register an increase today, especially with regard to unholy/ secular monuments with a special historical load or with special architecture. This category includes the northern area of Romania, Maramures, where there are not less than 8 wooden churches in the UNESCO Heritage. Besides these there are other religious monuments. Using this monument from the touristic point of view requires an entire infrastructure. Thus, the study aims to find the nece...

Bran castle is a medieval fortress situated in south-eastern Transylvania and the most visited tourist attraction in Romania. Its popularity among international visitors is mainly due to its association with the famous Count Dracula, based on the assumption that this particular castle might be the one that Bram Stoker presents in his novel. The castle has its own history, starting from the 14th century and continuing with its transformation into a summer residence for the royal family of Romania, in the 20th centu...

This article deals with the investigation of the relationship between firm size and firm growth for the firms from the subsector of pig breeding (0146 according to NACE classification), which are located in the Czech Republic. The paper aims to examine the validity of GibratВ’s law (Law of proportionate effect) which is devoted to size-growth link, in this subsector. GibratВ’s law states that growth of a firm is a random effect independent of firm size. We investigate the link during the years 2010 to 2016. The an...

Every business subject strives to achieve the highest possible prosperity and profitability of its business in connection with the fulfillment of its business mission and achievement of the set strategic goals. Successful sales of products and services to customers are a prerequisite for achieving the set goals. Customers are one of the key to future business development, so it is very important for enterprises to pay attention to customer relationship management. Customer Relationship Management is a process of i...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the life and work of Czech protestant theologian Jan Milic Lochman (1922-2004) and the influence of Tomas Garrique Masaryk on Loch-man’s concept of thinking. The author of this paper describes Lochman's works, espe-cially the Decalogue and the Credo, and emphasizes the truth and the struggle for truth. It also highlights the difficult situation between the World Wars in Europe, where ideo-logical struggle was present and the rise of Nazi Germany occured. Lochman and Masa-ryk a...

Article is written on the basis of reconsideration artily – the esthetic principles and fundamentals of philosophy in works so far, search is national – art thoughts of modern Kazakh literary criticism. Fiction, now based on new views of human nature, puts special attention discussion of a subject on personal human aspirations, in its height spiritually – a psychological phenomenon, the relations of the person with the true phenomena through criterion of philosophy. In 70 – 80 years of the XX century cause...

The goal of the work is to map out important external and internal factors that are involved in testing and evaluating the proper pronunciation of English language teaching at Slovak schools. Particularly in language education, it is clear the external legislative influence of the European Union, which determines the reference framework and the levels of language learning which are binding on all Member States, as well as basic Slovak laws on education and training, methodological guidelines on the evaluation and ...

The advance in information and communication technologies as well as globalisation processes create prerequisites for a transition to knowledge economy in which human resources as knowledge carriers and an element of intellectual capital function as an engine of economic development. The aim of this article is to study the changes in the human resources in the economic sector of commerce of the Republic of Bulgaria in the situation of a transition to knowledge economy for the period 2008-2016. When examining the c...

By creating the right conditions for developing creative potential and creative activity of children we should eliminate various blockades that inhibit this development, share knowledge about the work and practice cognitive skills, necessary for creative thinking. To make this possible, it is important that teachers were able to accurately identify and then develop and stimulate the creative potential of each student. It is important, whether they have professional knowledge or base on current knowledge and their ...

We live in a new era -the Anthropocene-. And in a new society with its corresponding mentality and consciousness. But, we keep representing and interpreting the landscape, mainly, through the codes inherited from the Romanticism. This research will address artistic proposals that unite videoart and landscape. After reviewing the wide actual art panorama, we have identified a new type of landscape in the Contemporary Art. A landscape that does represent our society through its typical formal and conceptual codes, a...

The article describes a study of intercultural communication in Latvia. The objective of the research was to study the most problematic issues of intercultural communication in Latvia. The three stages of research (with an interval after every four years) used the critical incident method or critical incident technique from 2004 to 2018. The critical incident technique was used as a qualitative method for the situation analysis. The dominant incidents were those where language choice was central. The results were ...

The article analyzes the approaches to the definition of the basic concept of intercultural communication "language picture of the world" from the perspective of different areas of linguistics, exploring the relationship of language and consciousness. As a problem field of research, definitions of the relationship between language and consciousness, developed in scientific paradigms of such areas of linguistics as psycholinguistics, linguoculturology and system linguistics, often acting as synonyms, namely, "langu...

The purpose of this study was to examine language representation methods of natural disasters and to find the strategies of how English-language media resources describe life-threatening situations. The study was conducted using discourse analysis (DA), conceptual metaphor theory. We used different approaches to discourse analysis (linguistic approach, sociolinguistic approach, philosophical approach). The research analyzed a set of texts about natural disasters found in American, British, Indian and Australian qu...

The given article addresses the issue of Jewish text in the literary production of a contemporary Canadian writer of Latvian origin - David Bezmozgis – focusing on representation of Latvian segment in the collection of his short stories Natasha and Other Stories (2004). Publication of the said collection alongside with his other works (The Free World (2011), The Betrayers (2014)) has aroused great interest among common readers and literary scholars, who in their critical notes consider his works mainly through t...

Most specialists agree with the fact that while the number of employees belonging to the Millennial generation (Gen Me) increases, problems related to their motivation and performance become more complicated because this young generation has different preferences, expectations and attitudes towards work when compared to previous generations. At the same time, as a leader of the organization, the mission to motivate and inspire a Millennial is significantly different from the same mission as a leader of a Baby- Boo...

The era of digitization and, in particular, Industry 4.0 is forcing companies effectively manage the entire value stream and at the same time to increase production flexibility as a result of customer requirements. This requires eliminating all waste not only in manufacturing, but also in administrative processes leading to lean processes. A number of methods have been developed in the historical development. They systematically eliminate the various categories of waste in the production process. Their unique comb...

The purpose of the research was to develop and implement master level students assessment procedures considering learning outcomes. Today learning outcomes are at the forefront of educational change. They represent a change in emphasis from В‘teachingВ’ to В‘learningВ’. Thus, because learners are at the center of the educational process, this approach is often referred to as learner-centered. A great deal of the assessment research in recent years has focused on innovative forms of assessment. The research is inte...