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The present paper is intended to be an analysis of the female ideal during the Renaissance period, respectively during the 14th-17th centuries, both in the realities of the times and in the art. The Italian Renaissance was inspired by Greek-Roman mythology, i.e. Olympus was fascinated by the goddess of beauty, Venus, as well as the ideal of the Middle Ages represented by Virgin Mary and Eve. Although the Church blames the feminine beauty as a source of sin, the prosperous Renaissance society divinises the beauty o...

This article deals with employee holiday. Holiday is a time of relax, by which the right of employees to longer leave of absence within the calendar year is realized. The right to annual holiday with pay is one of the basic social rights of employees; this right is guaranteed by international as well as Czech legal regulation together with the right to just conditions of work. The aim of this article is to define employee holiday and its fundamental principles according to the Czech legal regulation and point out ...

Corporate Social Responsibility is a management concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and interactions with their stakeholders. CSR is built on four pillars (dimensions) – economic, social, environmental and philanthropic. The main objective of the contribution is to find out more detailed information on CSR on transport enterprises through research. The work focuses on enterprises in the Transport and Storage sector, where primary research is carried ou...

Digital games are among the fast-growing market segment. It is a contemporary phenomenon of entertainment, relaxation, but also of competition, business and, last but not least, it would be inappropriate to omit the educational function of games. Therefore, it is extremely important for academics to pay attention to various aspects and to try not only to describe but also to clarify the causality of individual aspects of the games. This is precisely why the contribution is devoted to selected elements that include...

The realization of laboratory and field work as a specific form of teaching natural science in subjects of physics, chemistry, biology and geography is part of their state educational programs in Slovakia. While physics and chemistry as experimental sciences a laboratory is a central space for practicing and realization of school experiments; for geography, the space is a landscape, in which fieldwork is carried out in various forms (e. g. trip, excursion, opinion survey, mapping, material collection). Both labora...

The Proclamation of Independence of Latvia by the People's Council of Latvia on November 18, 1918 called Proclamation Day of the Republic of Latvia became the most important date in self-awareness of the Latvian people. In the interwar period, the 18th of November became a public holiday uniting all nations and ethnical groups inhabiting Latvia. The establishment of the independent country also caused reflection on this event – gradually increased a necessity to study historical circumstances, preconditions and re...

The article discusses problems associated with the adaptation of attics in buildings located in the historical old town complexes of European cities. It is an attempt at illustrating several aspects of the preparation and implementation of a complex development process based upon, among other elements, a multi-criteria decision-making process. In comparison to development projects planned outside of building complexes of historical value, the introduction of a new form of use into existing structures of a historic...

Family relationships are related to the cohesion between family members and their interaction and the ability to solve everyday problems and crisis situations. The family is influenced by internal and external factors that affect relationships between family members. These factors also affect intimate life of partners. The family naturally faces a developmental and situational crisis. These crises are milestones that can impact the future life of the family. In the family which takes care of a child with disabilit...

The article is devoted to the study of the process of de-offshorization of the Russian economy, which was initiated by the Russian Government at the end of 2014.Amnesty of capital, or their legalization, is an economic mechanism, which is a kind of contract between the state and economic entities, or individuals, allowing to build relationships between the parties from "zero". Since many Russian legal entities conduct business through foreign offshore companies, they will in any case have to leave the shadows in o...

Using Unreal Engine 4 in linguistics to create standalone educational applications Creating customized standalone applications is one of the current trends in business that also started to have its influence on the sphere of education. It offers a large variety of opportunities to linguists and language teachers alike. In this publication the author explored the untapped potential of the latest technology that became available to a very wide audience due to the recent rapid development of mobile graphics processin...

The purpose of this paper was to study the degree of students' satisfaction by the quality of teaching the discipline “philosophy”. The research method was the survey. Introductory questionnaire allowed to clarify the expectations of students in relation to lectures and seminars, the qualities of the teacher and the role of philosophy in broadening their world view. The analysis of the final survey demonstrated an increase of students' interest in this subject, a high degree of satisfaction with the assimilation o...

Industry 4.0 is a concept which puts forward by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology at the Hannover Messe 2013. The German academic community believes that the "Industry 4.0" concept is the fourth industrial revolution dominated by intelligent manufacturing, or a revolutionary production method. The strategy aims to transform manufacturing into an intelligent enterprise by leveraging the combination of ICT and cyberspace virtual systems: Cyber-...

A high priority task nowadays is to improve the quality and effectiveness of education. Systematic education on, consequent acquisition of and active identification with the philosophy of reducing waste production plays a crucial role as early as primary and lower secondary levels of education. One of the specific objectives of the project is to emphasize the interdisciplinary nature and the deep interconnection of sciences integrated into traditional school subjects. This paper aims to give information about the ...

European residents and international tourists often visit European city centres, breathing in their atmosphere, searching for memorable places with cultural and historical distinctness. Downtown urban complexes, where works of architecture create a substance layered across centuries through urban regulation and parcellation, create a material record of history, exceptionally valuable to national culture and the familiarity and identity of cities. Fascination with history and the past, drawing on them and their con...

This paper is to present Polish-Ukrainian-Jewish relations in Galician education in 1867-1914. The activity of the Land Education Council in Galicia for the development of public education from the point of view of the above-mentioned nations was present-ed in it. It was demonstrated that its composition did not reflect that of Galician popula-tion. The LEC was dominated by Poles, which caused the protests for the part of Ukrainians, and its activity was largely determined by politics, and not conducive to de-velo...

The study deals with the cognitive approach to investigation of conceptual metaphors in speeches of American presidents. According to G. Lakoff, conceptual metaphors are cognitive mechanisms that structure the perception of socio-political reality in the minds of population. Conceptual metaphors, used by a particular president, form the scope of key concepts crucial to balancing negative and positive in minds of people. Investigation of these mechanisms within a considerable period of time provided new data for co...

This article is devoted for studying the forms and directions of cooperation between Ukraine and African countries, the analysis of the negative and positive aspects of this process, its perspectives and role in modern world politics and economics. The relevance of the research topic comes from the need to study the process of cooperation between the countries of the developing regions of the world in the economic and political spheres. Secondary actors of world politics are the objects of study in all three main ...

Rule of law has been designed as a construction mainly aiming at observing the rights and freedoms of individuals, by protecting them and ensuring general balance where everyone obeys state law and no one is above the law. The amount of legislation, the political power interested in satisfying its own interests, which are frequently in opposition with the general interests of individuals, the shaping of the various groups of interests that try to impose their own will, are harmful factor that endanger the very exi...

This paper presents “second life” of abandoned Christian temples. It focuses on searching for modern methods of saving the architecture of temples from ruination and profanation, while ensuring its dignified transformation. It presents selected examples of full or partial reconstructions of the ruins of temples and interconfessional conversions in the last quarter of a century in Poland. Apart from a retrospective look at first post-war buildings of this type there are also latest author projects introduced. They ...

The problems associated with the transition of the Kazakh state from Cyrillic to Latin, especially in 2017-2018 are of concern to many people. The discussion was attended not only by specialists, linguists, but also political scientists and, of course, "natural linguists" – citizens of some post-soviet countries. Among the different opinions there are very provocative. Some people, including those who identify themselves with the educated elite, still retain an oriental, arrogantly condescending attitude toward th...

First mentions of the glass as a material appear in prehistoric times. There is evidence of conscious use of obsidian as natural glass in this period. Glass is a traditional full-value building material that has been proven for centuries. Glass is one of the few building materials that is transparent and translucent, which is an important feature in architecture. We use these features in modern contemporary buildings, but also in renovations and in historical parts of cities. This article discusses the possibiliti...

New approach to conceptualize social development and to measure its level is proposed for societies facing the paradoxical consequences of globalization. The economic and social divide between the group of the largest cities and the rest of the world supports the idea that globalization has resulted not in the ‘world society’ or ‘worldwide sociality’ but rather in networked enclaves of globality. In the post-globalization age, the ‘core’ of socioeconomic order is dispersed into networks of enclaves of globality. T...

The banking system plays an important role in the development of the economy of any country, which is determined by its goals, functions and tasks, as well as its role in the economic system. The functioning of the Russian banking system under modern conditions is influenced both by positive external economic factors and by domestic economic processes that create favorable conditions for the development of the banking sector market. For the stable functioning of the national economy in general and the banking syst...

The paper is devoted to the issues of youth workers´ professionality which are given as the priority by European Commission in 2015. Non-formal education must more efficiently support formal education. For youth workers, this has created, in particular new challenges and difficulties (such as a lack of professional scenes), but also opportunities. During the period 2005-2017 various studies showed the high mobility of Estonia youth workers in youth centers and shortage of personnel with special education. The purp...

This article deals with history of development of cultural landscape in yakut village. Yakut village as a cultural space of modern Yakutia appears as a result of the policy of village resettlement in the middle of the twentieth century, and while preserving the traditional elements of the Yakut cultural landscape does not change to this day. Highlighting the features of the cultural landscape at the beginning of the XXI century, we notice the emergence of neopaganic religious buildings in the village – Archy Dyete...

The article studies the higher education reforming period in the Russian Federation (since December 25, 1991 to the present time) and presents the analysis of the Russian Federation legislation in the field of education, which is based on the following documents: Law of the Russian Federation "On education" dated July 10, 1992; Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation "On the enactment procedure of the Law of the Russian Federation "On education" No. 3627-I dated 10 July, 1992; Federal Law No. 125-FZ...

Article is devoted to Byzantine style features identification in Greece in comparison with the similar in temple-building of other orthodox countries. Stages of Greek Byzantine formation @ the Ellyn-Byzantine style@, actually byzantine style of the period of historicism, the archaeological option of style dominating during the interwar period, influence of art-deco, functionalism and modernism and also three directions in architecture of the post war decade Byzantine style – radical, compromise and traditional are...

Under the European Union law regulations, social organisations whose statutory activities include promoting environmental protection (ecological organisations) have obtained extensive procedural rights in the area of administrative procedures in environmental matters requiring public participation. The solutions adopted in EU law have been transposed and adapted to the local conditions of individual Member States, including Poland. The regulations applicable in the above-mentioned scope regarding ecological organi...

In the last decade much attention is paid to a problem of sleep disorders at young age. The dream is one of the most important aspects of human activity. Research objective: to reveal the factors promoting a sleep disorder and to compare a sleep disorder of the students studying at different faculties of the University. 50 respondents (18 young men and 32 girls) of students Medical (27 people) and Financial-economic (23 persons) the Institutes studying at the 1 on 5 courses, mainly at the fourth year have taken pa...

Urban areas are subject to continuous transformations. Apart from central parts of cities, residential districts develop the fastest. Together with the expansion of cities and sprawl of building development over larger and larger areas, transformations also occur in the existing structures. The introduced changes frequently lead to a complete change of the character of building development. The objective of the article is the analysis of parcellation, functional, and spatial transformations occurring in the area o...

As the marketization of education continues to be promoted, it is necessary to ask what educational role museums and adult education programs are playing, and to clearly explicate the importance of their existence. Who visits museums? What kind of experiences do museum visitors have, and how do they learn? These are question that both researchers and practitioners must answer. The purpose of this paper is to examine how museum visitors in general respond to the exhibits they saw, and how survivors of the Great Eas...

The purpose of this article is to consider the visual image as the basis of the modern paradigm of thinking, to reveal its functions and essential specifics as the most important tool for reflecting the reality, to reveal the role of the image in modern society and culture and its links with the technosphere. The theoretical and methodological basis of the research comprises of the works of representatives of various branches of humanitarian knowledge (philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and others) devoted to th...

The aim of the article is to present characteristic astonishing phenomena occurring in health resorts located by the Baltic Sea. Coastal villages, especially those in which medical activities have been carried out for years, are of great interest to numerous tourists and visitors. Although there are 45 spa resorts in Poland, only six of them are located on the Baltic coast. (?winouj?cie, Kamie? Pomorski, Kolobrzeg, Ustka, Sopot and until 2007 D?bki). Seaside spa towns have been for years an attractive place for nu...

For a long period of time, the main trading partners of Canada are the United States and Mexico under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). But in recent years, Canada has significantly expanded its trade cooperation not only with the countries of the European Union (EU), but also with other states, for example, with China, Japan, South Korea and India. The article examines the dynamics of foreign trade turnover, exports and imports of Canada with major trading partners; countries that play the most imp...

In our paper, we wish to present some conclusions concerning the importance of spirituality in music. Music has qualities that serve to elevate humans beyond materialism, thus it implies spirituality that includes personal growth. Spirituality crosses the entire musical art, as well as the whole creative thinking of humanity. Analyzing (from a hermeneutic point of view) the musical opera scores of the 19th century composers, we wish to emphasize the diversity of the ways of expressing the religious spirituality th...

This paper focuses on the virological epistemology principles that form the basis for viral idea translation in terms of the world of knowledge (“Third World”, as defined by Karl Popper). Within this framework, five principles can be identified, specifically, dependence on the knowledge holder, infecting, spreading, networking and self-organization. For the evolutionary epistemology, with the modern evolutionary synthesis being its metaphorical resource, such transfer is quite traditional. Two constituents of the ...

The involvement of the creativity and the cultural values which are specific to the ethnicities living in the region of Oltenia, Romania, in the local economic development of the rural communities of Romania, regardless of the administrative unit they belong to, have faced, in the last years, issues of economic nature. The study of vines which comes in support of the remedy of this situation by searching solutions springing from the traditional culture and creativity of the ethnic communities. Starting from this i...

The concept of universal design that is being implemented by developed democratic societies is a strategic approach to planning and design, the goal of which is to provide all citizens with the ability to participate in public life. According to definitions, universal architecture is a type of architecture whose use is not limited by any of our individual qualities - be they physical, psychological, social, or cultural. Introduced in the 1960’s and developed in the 1990’s along with the concepts of sustainable des...

The article considers topical issues of dialogue between cultures in the context of the contradictory socio-cultural processes. Based on the study of the contemporary cultural situation, the author came to the conclusion that the dialogue is the only possible way of interaction between cultures. As an example, the author considers Russia, where pursuance of dialogue with other communities and cultures is historically inherent. The transformation of contemporary society towards enhancing information sharing and vir...

The article is devoted to the analysis of the concepts of the creatosphere and post-Fordism in the context of the creative and cultural economies of the Arctic. Interest in the Arctic space has recently been linked to the strategic interests of countries. Management paradigms of thinking - the creatosphere and post-Fordism - are proposed. The author defines the creatosphere. The creatosphere is when, with the help of knowledge, new intellectual values, innovations, humanitarian technologies are created that improv...

Background: Health and health promotion in the old age are one of the hot topic both in association with the ageing population and in the context of providing complex health care of the elderly, not only in the Czech Republic. Health promotion in the old age, as one of the dimensions of health literacy, relates (1) to getting and understanding the health-related information, (2) to the ability to take care of one`s own health, and (3) to reducing the inequality in the approach to health in the elderly population. ...

This article shows how the developed, adopted and implemented by the Party and the Soviet power in 1929, regulations, resolutions and other acts marked the beginning of the new attack stage on the religious organizations when the state bodies in fact proceeded to their complete elimination. A particularly severe blow was inflicted on the Russian Orthodox Church. One of the main arguments of the outbreak of the anti-religious campaign was the accusation of the Russian Orthodox Church of being “counter-revolutionary...

The article discusses the main properties of spatial orientation in the traditional cultural landscape of Sakha people (Yakuts) in the Vilyui region. Particular attention is paid to the centrality, multiscale structure and anisotropy of cultural landscape at the local level. We have described characteristic features of the mental design of cultural landscape based on mythological representations and traditions of the local community. The real design of the ethnocultural landscape reflecting the natural and economi...

Domestication is a continuing process which takes place in the context of animals’ and humans’ cohabitation on same territory and should not be approached as a one-time and completed action. The control over animals’ movements in the context of the sustaining landscape is one of the main aspects of reindeer domestication. Reindeer herding is based on constant relocation of animals from place to place, implying daily short-term movements in order to bring them to a camp and to monitor predators’ movements. In case ...

Territory marking signs for the preservation of ethno-forming culture Industrial development of Siberia and the Northern part of Russia continues. The number of unauthorized penetration of oil and gas and timber processing enterprises into the territory of traditional natural resource use of the indigenous population is increasing. Part of the pollution extends through river ecosystems to the Arctic Ocean. Along the river systems, the full functioning of the traditional life activities of the indigenous peoples of...

This article focuses on development and design of class of the counterparty reliability recognition system which constitutes verification process of potential or currently existing counterparty of any scale and form of ownership. The Relevance of the development depends on organizations’ necessity for understanding of due diligence indicators in contract award. The target audience of the program is small and medium enterprises of Russian Federation and individual entrepreneurs who can gain additional competitive a...

Fairy tales have their roots in archaic society and archaic thought, thus immediately succeeding myths. Myths have close connection to their bearers and folktales are ‘displaced’ in time and space. The timelessness of the tale and lack of geographic specificity endow it with utopian connotations. The spatiotemporal indefiniteness, or such a definiteness, which is not characteristic to reality is the most essential feature of the tale genre. The particular construction of fictional space and time, the chronotope, i...

The article deals with the scholarly edition of 19th-20th cc. Georgian writers’ epistolary legacy (thirty-volume set), initiated by our scientific team from 2010, the modern research methods for textual and editorial studies, we guide with in preparing the volumes, our editorial strategy, based on which traditional attitudes and modern technologies have been combined with each other in research process, it became possible, by using computational technologies, to read several indecipherable texts of the writers, un...

Problem of extremism in modern society is one of the most important, because thanks to modern level of technical development, borders and distances start to be very relative definitions, and humanity still haven’t worked out mechanisms of painless coexistence in the situation of open wide borders. Modern Russian prose gives rich material for regarding and classification of theme of extremism. Being largely a mirror of the society, literature allows to select and analyze its most evident and painful appearance. We ...

The paper studies foreign practices of tax policy formation. The capability of a state to ensure social stability based on reasonable distribution of national wealth and household income is a very important indicator of modern society development level. However the mechanism of income distribution and the results of its operation may not agree with the social idea of justice. Many economists adhere to the opinion that the state should regulate the distribution of the incomes of the society and it is advisable to o...