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The aim of the study is to perform and present the synchronic and diachronic analysis of the Russian writer’s, Anton Chekhov’s (1860 – 1904), reception in Latvia in four most significant cultural historical periods that determined the establishment and formation of the writer’s “literary reputation” (I. Rozanov) in Latvia. The material of the study is essays, dedication poetry, translations, and staged performances to trace the borrowings and direct influences that form the “outer” and “inner” rec...

Introduction: Pregnancy is a period that imposes intense requirements on womenВ’s bodies. Anxiety is a very common problem of a pregnant women. It results from indefinite reasons and feelings, which are typical for pregnancy. The aim of the study was to investigate the anxiety symptoms of pregnant women. Methods: A standardized questionnaire, the Beck Anxiety Scale (BAI), was used as an exploratory method to measure symptoms of anxiety in pregnant women. CronbachВ’s ? for the BAI was 0.68. The participants were 30...

Nowadays, it has become evident that teaching a foreign language is ineffective if cultural aspects are ignored. A language being the instrument for cross-cultural communication serves as the medium for culture cognition. The English language is accepted as the language for international cooperation in a wide array of activities including political, social, and educational areas. In such circumstances, the simultaneous teaching of a foreign language and culture focused only on the Anglo-Saxon environment would cre...

The authors seek to improve the construction of dynamic assessment model of companyВ’s investment appeal. This involves a comparison of the actual order of the investment appeal indices with the standard ones by calculating the Kendall correlation coefficient for the two ranking series based on internal environment indicators of a leading chemical enterprise. The comparison results in the calculation of the dynamic assessment of investment appeal whose maximum value is equal to one when all observable characterist...

Nowadays the world is changing in many ways. There is a significant influence of the climate change, which can make natural disasters even stronger than before. Moreover, the disaster consequences are more serious due to rising living standards in developed society, the rising level of urbanization, technological development, migration and density of population, and other changes in environment. The organizations of crisis management in public administration have to implement a number of measures to react to these...

In the modern world, it is very important to pay special and significant importance to the process of corporate and social responsibility (CSR). Socially responsible activity brings a new look at the social direction of the business and it brings benefits to organizations, both directly and indirectly, which provides a long-term competitive advantage. The business entities have competed by several tools, mainly from the point of view of product’s quality, services, customers, etc. But the time is running and the...

The purpose of the present article is to meditate on the teaching methods used in the two faculties where our teaching takes place (at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University and at George Enescu National University of Arts from Ia?i), based on ongoing evaluation, entrance and final tests, didactic activities during the last four academic years (2013-2017), insisting on the specific methods used for addressing students in a scientific and humanistic approach.

The article describes the process of designing and implementing innovative solutions using methods that support creative problem-solving and project management methods. The convergence of innovation management and project management topics are outlined. Consequently, it enabled the creation and presentation of a hybrid innovation management design model that combines methods and tools in the areas of investment, innovation management and project management. In order to establish the innovation management design, m...

In modern science there is a large number of typologies of universities. The most of them are linear, vertical. Typically, such typologies are based on quantitative characteristics. The rating of universities as one of the methods of their typologization is based on the same criteria. The Russian Federation today is divided into 8 macro-regions - federal districts, each of which has its own unique economic, political, cultural, social characteristics. The educational space of each of the macro-region has a number ...

The concept of social entrepreneurship is related with entrepreneurial projects that are based on principles of social, economic and environmentally sustainable business. Social entrepreneurs are committed to resolving different socio-economic problems through projects based on social innovations. The realised profits are entirely or partially reinvested in the community. Social entrepreneurship is a significant part of the social economy. In the EU, there are 2 million social economy enterprises and organisations...

An important factor in the development of critical thinking in high school students is the availability of critically rich information in the educational texts. The problem of this study was to find some kind of universal approach, ensuring the filling of educational chemical texts with critically saturated information. In accordance with the criteria of critically saturated information formulated in the context of the dialectical method of cognition, we have selected and classified the fragments of critically ric...

The present study is devoted to those Arabic verbs whose roots are not traditional for Arabian morphology by three-part ones, but have either one more consonant or one less consonant in the root. Together with their few derivatives, they form an obvious vocabulary minority, but this is only quantitative, since it is an inalienable, frequency, replenished and most expressive lexical layer of modern Arabic. Quite the contrary, it is of great research interest to consider verbs with such roots from the point of view ...

As a rule, the elucidation of the artistic image of decorative and applied art work is contributed by the ornamental dГ©cor it contains. During the study of material monuments of culture of the North Caucasus people it was revealed that local ornament is not just a decoration, but above all, is the unity of the semantic integrity of the creative origin of elements, each of which has the status of a sign - symbol. In the context of the stated problem, the author considers the study of artistic and expressive, and s...

Frequent economical, political and cultural exchanges between German and Scandinavian people during the Middle Ages led to the large scale changes that affected many parts of people’s lives and resulted in the appearance of German-Scandinavian frontier culture with its specific features. This article, using the example of Middle German heroic epic “Das Nibelungenlied” and the corpus of adjoining texts that comprise “the legend of Nibelungs ” aims at describing how literature transgresses boundaries, how f...

The novel about the Chechen War “Asan” (“????”, 2008), where the concept “betrayal” has a structure-forming function, is the most significant text among the ones written by V. Makanin during the past decades. Key lexemes (it is repeatedly emphasized by the author himself) explain what is happening in the society: “to turn in” – “to betray” – “to sell”. The novel “Two Sisters and Kandinsky” (“??? ?????? ? ??????????”, 2011) constructs the concept “betrayal” in the context of ...

The interior acoustics has nowadays strong impact at the architectural design of public use buildings. Among them, churches seem to be especially important, due to their religious, spiritual and cultural role in the society and overall importance in life of individuals. Moreover, in a present-day religious communication and celebration В‘the statementВ’, thus speech, seems to weigh over the chant and organ pipe music. Such approach has substantial influence on contemporary design of churches, introducing significa...

The architectural metaphors transform the built environment into a symbolic poetical framework with a strong identity. They are the richest semantic means of architectural communication, superior creative methods of transmitting architectural concepts, being characterized by originality and novelty. Generated by unusual shapes and unique combinations of architectural language elements, they got enclose a high power of evocation and stimulate very diverse interpretations. Their suggestive power is valued in contemp...

In this study we explore the effect of the form of space on people. We approach the problem from the concept of enclosure, and its measurement. We made enclosure measurable. Several studies have described that to enclosure, spatially different surfaces and their distances from the subject are relevant. To make measurable this effect, we developed a new index called architectural space density. This is an integral along the perceived surface, what is (mathematically) reached for a subject with the average of the su...

Through this paper I present the results of my research concerning the link between literature, architecture and urban space. In two scientifically supervised studies at Graz University of Technology and at the Technical University of Berlin, students approach the spatial design based on narrative texts. On the basis of the evaluations of the experiment at Graz University of Technology, it is shown that it is possible to think architecture out of the place, to write, and to develop real space drafts from this resu...

Living organisms have been constantly adapting to the specific environmental conditions of the most diverse places in the world and have developed a balanced relationship with nature that is particularly interesting to observe in extreme conditions. The landscapes are continually influenced, even shaped by natural forces. Many of the beautiful natural formations are created by the water and wind erosion. The creations of humans are quite a different case. Architecture hasnВ’t evolved yet to be a natural part of it...

The purpose of the research was to study the category of argumentation as a framework for the process of design and transfer of knowledge as mental representations of real world situations, events, etc. to its addressee in discourse-making process. The study was based on the application of the cognitive model of world perception. The analysis of texts on economics from the point of view of their argumentative organization showed argumentation as one of the main categories that organizes the internal cognitive stru...

This article is dedicated to the study of water archetype in the poetic texts of the Silver Age. The paper presents a theory of the study of the concept “archetype”. Philosophers, linguists and psychologists have been interested in a matter of what an archetype is for a long time The majority of scientists agree that an archetype is an archaic phenomenon, which manifests itself in myths and folklore. Special attention in the article has been given to the distinction between the linguistic and artistic metaphor...

The early 20th century was to become a significant milestone not only for the development of relations between Russia and Yakutia, but also for the convergence of Russian and Yakut people, largely through Russian literature. The beginning of the 20th century, as the time for the Russian-language literature appearance in Yakutia, was a difficult period, given the fact that the beginning of the century was a time for the political change of eras and ideals, the time to search for political, social, and spiritual val...

Background The publication presents the results of a comparative analysis of the problem of environmental protection as it pertains to residential architecture. The study was performed on a group of users of residential projects in Poland and the Netherlands. The two countries are at a different level in terms of the level of knowledge regarding sustainable development and the design of sustainable residential projects. Poland is not at an equal level to the Netherlands. This is mainly because of ineffective educa...

The foreign studentsВ’ phonetical and graphical adaptation to Romanian is extremely difficult given they belong to some phonetical and phonological systems sometimes totally different from the Latin one, to which Romanian also belongs. The difficulty of adaptation resides not only at the writing level but also at the pronunciation one, uneasy for those who belong to Slavic, Arabian or Asian languages with an obvious differentiation on all language levels. Still, one must notice that due to the knowledge of English...

The aim of the research work is answer the question: what elements of the legal status of partners (or shareholders) of commercial companies (including partnerships and companies) and what extent, can facilitate the implementation by investors support in the form of venture-capital from the perspective of, significant extent representative of the so-called continental system of company law in Europe, regulation of the Polish Commercial Companies Code of the 15 September 2000 (c.t.: J.L. 2016, it. 1578, hereinafter...

The analysis of stepping qualifies within the current scope of biomechanical researches that complete the set of investigations concerning the posture deficiency prophylaxis and recovery. This paper aims to compare the main stepping indicators of students with deficient posture with those of healthy students, bringing additional impartial information on the posture assessment. To reach such target, a research was carried out during the academic year 2016-2017, in which students diagnosed with deficient posture and...

The aim of this paper is to highlight the most important historical monuments, civil or religious, now present especially in the Romanian towns Constan?a and Mangalia, who originated from the Ancient Greek colonies. Today, both cities host various types of monuments - Royal Palaces, Christian churches, Muslim mosques, Jewish synagogues, the famous Romanian Casino from Constan?a, Greek/Roman/Byzantine remains of walls, roads, buildings, civil and religious ones from late XIX century. Due to lack of the will of the ...

Currently, the business is considered a key factor for economic growth and development. In this context, it should vigorously address the determinants that affect business activities and hinder its development. This issue is pertracted in different dimensions at the global and national levels and the results of the examination are contained in databases and scientific studies. The source of these data is from 1999 and the project Global Entrepreneurship Monitor - GEM, where the core of the research lies in the nat...

The aim of the article is to identify and characterize the level of business environment risk in the sector of small and medium-sized enterprises in Poland and Slovakia to prepare the recommendation for risk management improvements in the future. Article is based on own questionnaire research, conducted among total 273 SMEs from Poland and Slovakia in 2016. The descriptive statistics and Gamma correlation will be used in empirical data analysis to achieve the paper goal. Authors emphasized that risk management sho...

The article seeks to emphasize the key role of the internal factors of the companyВ’s investment appeal. This includes an overview of the traditional methods of assessing companyВ’s investment appeal and the calculation of the integral index of investment appeal based on the financial performance for a leading chemical enterprise. The study results in a methodical approach to assessing companyВ’s investment appeal on the basis of multiple regression of net return on assets. The authors propose to carry out a ridge...

Relevance of this work is caused by an increasing requirement to involve the population in solving problems of sustainable development of municipalities. This paper, based on the results of sociological studies, provides the urban populationВ’s evaluation of environmental situation and also determines its willingness to participate in solving environmental problems. The results show that the urban population is concerned about the ecological situation because of its contact with environmental issues in everyday li...

This paper is dedicated to the methodology for evaluating financial benefits of selected mezzanine capital instruments, which refer to hybrid forms of long-term funding combining the features of debt and equity, particularly to those characterized by a higher debt tendency (so-called debt mezzanine instruments). The authors aimed to review the theoretical background of evaluation of financial benefits of classic financing sources and to propose methodology for assessing financial benefits of debt mezzanine instrum...

The regions focused on primary industry and raw materials extraction and processing have specific innovative and investment development. The paper presents the analyses of the world experience in applying rating system for innovative development assessment. As the result, the authors devised a new original method for the assessment of innovative development of the regions focused on primary industry and raw materials extraction and processing in terms of investment flows provision for the regions. The index for in...

Micro-enterprises employing up to 9 employees are the largest group of SMEs. These are the companies that are highly sensitive to the variability of the environment and the quality of the business environment. This specific group of companies often does not have appropriate financial resources necessary to be competitive in the market and has low human and intellectual resources. These distinctive characteristics make micro-enterprises be a frequent beneficiary of external sources of financing. The information on ...

The research paper focuses on assessing the impact of the tools of the fiscal policy of the country for the resource regions and municipalities development in the context of the current budget federalism and inter-budget relations. Krasnoyarsk Krai – the largest in its area and the availability of natural resources region of Russia is considered as a model resource region. The Krai’s role in the Russian economy as well as its financial and social well-being are largely determined by the resource model of the ec...

Assessment of the influence of fundamental factors of the knowledge economy development that have a specific refraction at the subregional level and assessment of the impact of the existing structure of human and physical capital in the resource regions of Russia on the scale of economic growth in the context of transition to the postindustrial information society and knowledge economy are carried out in the research paper. Intensive industrial development, primarily based on the increase of the scope of natural r...

Labor productivity is the most important factor in the economic growth of the region. Traditional production functions assess the contribution of labor resources to three-fourths of the total one. But today there are new factors, the inclusion of which in the model is necessary, since they determine the key forces of economic development, iden-tify the direction of regional policy. Economic growth, according to neoclassical theory and the theory of endogenous growth, is influenced by labor resources: population de...

There has been an increasing interest in studying associations among physical fitness, motor coordination and physical parameters in early childhood over the past decades. Available research data on the relationship between childhood obesity and motor competence at early ages remains rather inconclusive. The aim of the study was to analyze the association between physical fitness, motor competence indicators and somatic parameters in primary school-aged children. Data were collected from 213 prepubertal children. ...

The main objective of this article is to inquire ourselves about the environmental aspects that engage the architectural process on the understanding that they involve much more than physical context. The context has an atmospherical component that embodies psychological, technological and cultural parameters. The atmosphere goes beyond the concept of environment. It includes the synergies generated precisely in the limit of building and context, the facades: the blurred environmental boundaries where dialogue sta...

This article sets forth the problem of attitudes towards women in connection with the ethno-religious characteristics of the processing of their appearance (for example, hidjab (Islamic head-cover)). Research design. The object of the study were 500 people (250 male; 250 female), aged 18 to 25 years (mean age 20 years), residents of Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Methods. The study used the author's questionnaire, which consisted of stimulus material (2 sets of photos of 4 girls; in one case it was a portrait shot from th...

The article analyses attitudes of nursing students towards learning the subject of gerontology. Since an individual is able to self-assess his/her learning best by thinking over his/her performance and actions helping to develop new skills on the basis of existing knowledge and understanding, the attitudes of nurses were researched by presenting a questionnaire to be completed in writing. The questionnaire consisted of three open-ended questions: what were the most useful aspects in gerontology classes? What did n...

The paper focuses on joint education of students with autism spectrum disorder in elementary schools. The paper presents the results of a research study, the principle objective of which was to assess the attitudes of teachers to the process of integration of students with autism spectrum disorder. The purpose of the research study was also to determine whether there was an association between the teachersВ’ attitudes to the integration of a student with ASD in the context of the teachersВ’ experience with educati...

Business digitalization nowadays is not only the recent trend but sooner the changes in human being minds putting all the processes in on-line mode. Digital marketing becomes completely necessary not only for business companies but also in the field of higher education. In Latvia, 71% of the population in the age 15 – 74 in average are using Internet in everyday life ((TNS Latvia Digital, 2016). The digital marketing with it’ alternative definitions as on-line or internet- or web-marketing, is becoming one of t...

Pituitary tumors often manifest through their local extension, involving the optic chiasm or the optic nerve and producing subsequent visual field alterations. Bitemporal hemi-anopsia is the most common visual field (VF) lesion in pituitary adenomas. According to tumor size and the degree of involvement of the optic chiasm, a variety of field modifications can occur. In the non-secreting pituitary adenomas patients, these alterations may very well predate the clinical features. The aim of this study was to report ...

As digital fabrication is becoming widely available, to design using CAD modeling methods seems to be the only viable solution. Similar prejudices among students are being observed, in relation to analog methods of formal exploration, which are perceived as being anachronic. The present study is based on a comparative analysis of projects that have been carried out by the 3rd year students of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of Timisoara during the interior design classes of the second semester. The study ...

The article deals with the potential of original feature films and television series to develop lingvopragmatic competence of foreign students of economic specialties in the field of business communication in conditions of a) real language environment of the Russian university (traditional learning), b) combined real and virtual language environments (blended learning). The named audiovisual sources, which usually performed the function of illustrative material in teaching Russian as a foreign language, are propos...

Autobiographicity is a peculiar form of writing based on the personal life experience of the author of a literary work reflecting its facts and events. Limits of the autobiographical character of a literary work are not easy to establish; its investigation requires deep knowledge of the biographical facts of the respective author that is drawn from the analysis of documents of extra-textual reality (letters, contemporariesВ’ memoirs and evaluations, reviews of the literary work, the biographical information provid...

Border delimitation processes in the past decade have been characterized by involvement of interdisciplinary professionals such as: Legal experts, land surveyors, geographers, political scientists, historians, security experts, along with border practitioners engaged in the real aspects of border demarcation, delimitation and management. Frontier disputes caused various challenges to new countries of former SFR Yugoslavia. This article provides an overview of the dispute and debates on border demarcation process b...

The very nature of the elite phenomenon urgently requires researchers to use an integrated approach, especially in analyzing the system of their core values laid down in each professional community. Since the elite always points to the best that exists in every professional community, the study of the axiological and acmeological data of the elites is the most important condition for any elitological analysis. Empirical measurements can reveal the quality of a particular elite in the current time (“here-and-nowв...