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The article is devoted to the issues of personal data regulation in the Russian Federation. Indeed, protection of personal data of an employee occupies an important place in the legislation and judicial practice of the Russian Federation. The author analyses a number of legal acts, as well as certain judicial practice relating to storage, processing and transfer of personal data of an employee. The author emphasizes that on the basis of the judicial practice the criterion of excessiveness in respect of transfer of...

The purpose of this study is to create an original performance scale. For this purpose, exploratory factor analysis and reliability analyzes were performed. A two-step focus group study was conducted to construct scale expressions. When the proposed form was filled in by 45 top managers for 45 white collar employees, a total of 90 forms were obtained. These 90 forms have been prepared for analysis by data entry. In order to measure the performances of 90 white-collar employees, a group of managers, who provided pl...

The authors seek to improve the construction of dynamic assessment model of company’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 characteristi...

The secularization of society, often associated with the phenomenon of modernization of society, represents a complex process characterized by a restructuring of the moral-ethical values and religious practices. One of the issues of contemporary secularization of society involves passing the property belonging to the churches or monasteries into State ownership. While in Western society this process is the consequence of social developments, in the countries of the Communist bloc in Eastern Europe the secularizati...

The aim of this paper is to outline the issue of grasping sustainable development in practice. The institutional system applies this term with pertinent sonority, which entices the general public. Where did the term sustainable development actually come from and what does its application involve with respect to land planning or planning the development of the agglomeration itself, and how can the individual institutions and the public get involved? To answer these questions, one must know the basic principles of s...

This article is an attempt at understanding the role and place of the ethical expertise in the search for competent and fair decisions on issues important from the standpoint of moral in the practice of the social work. Making decisions is an integral part in the social work practice. These decisions are often problematic due to different reasons: insufficient information, time constraints, pressure from various sources, uncertainty about the outcome of the various options and fear of prosecution. This study on th...

Background: The style of our life, our decisions and behavior are immediately connected with the state of our health, increase the risk of illness. Lifestyle, including the participation in different forms of activities, is characterized by the dynamics of changes and increased abilities of adaptation to changing life. Taekwon-offers a variety of physical and mental benefits. The purpose of this study was to assess selected aspects of the impact of practicing taekwondo on health-related behaviors. Method: The stud...

In the field of dramatherapy interventions aimed at addicted persons in detoxification units, no relevant methodology is available. At the same time, the implementation of dramatherapy approaches in the healthcare sector is problematic. Last but not least (according to scientific research), very little attention is paid to the specifics of dramatherapy designed for these clients. The paper deals with the application of dramatherapy designed for persons with addiction in detoxification units. The author presents a ...

The purpose of this article is to assess the effects of imposing economic sanctions on the Russian stock market by some Western countries in the beginning of the political confrontation with Russia in 2014 to identify the potential of the Russian stock market adaptation to the eventual introduction of such economic pressure instruments in the future. On the basis of generalized indicators characterizing the results of trading on stock markets, of price levels, volumes of transactions, stock indices, and by using t...

The paper is focused on the investigation of Dynamic Assessment approach as an alternative to standardized testing methods. Dating back to the Theory of Proximal Development developed by Vigotskiy, the methodology has been actively employed by the helping educationalists, mostly for students with special needs. Its potential is, however, undeservingly undervalued by subject teachers and methodologists, both those involved in schooling and higher education. The given article describes the results of the experiment ...

Division of power as a base principle of construction of state power is a major precondition for establishment and construction of democratic and functional states in accordance with international acquitted standards and practices. The last political and institutional crisis in RM reveals serious flaws in functioning of justice system, as corruption, politization, scope of judicial institutions from politics, etc., but above all the loss of citizens’ faith. The rule of law, democracy and respect for human rights a...

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

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

The monitoring of creditworthiness consists in supervising, monitoring and controlling the borrower's financial and business activities in order to establish its ability to timely and accurately fulfill the obligations on obtained loans. It also includes assessment and forecasts in the creditworthiness evolution under the influence of internal and external impact factors. The most important preconditions and requirements for creditworthiness evaluation are: ?The granted credits, as an absolute value, to match the ...

The main purpose of this research is to reveal the financial events which, in unfavorable economic conditions, emotionally arouse in students either a negative or a positive reaction. The research is based on the hypothesis that there is a difference in the psychological perception of events relating to the objective economic life conditions of a student and to events connected with his personal economic activity. Students of the Humanities Departments of the Ural Federal University underwent the survey. The infor...

The Czech Republic has not yet ratified or acceded to the Convention of the International Labor Organization (hereinafter referred to as "ILO") No. 189 on Foreign Workers. In the vote on the adoption of the Convention in 2011, the vote was abstained and, on the basis of the Czech Government's failure to ratify, the Senate Senate on Health and Social Policy of the Senate of the Czech Parliament on 8 August 2012 decided that the Czech Republic would not join the ratification of the Workers' In a foreign household. T...

The article is based on the results of research work devoted to the problems of corporate social responsibility which over time undergoes significant changes in accordance with the expectations of society. The classic interpretation of the creation of a "shared (common)" value for business and society is the antithesis of corporate philanthropy on the distribution of value previously generated by the business. According to the authors, companies can create both economic and social value in three ways: by rethinkin...

The study is focused on the process of searching bilingual terminology on the Web in the translation process. The experimental data were gathered using computer monitoring (keylogging) and post-translation interviewing. A group of translators was given a short text containing educational terminology with multiple equivalents in the target language. The task was to translate the text with a focus on terminology equivalence and consistency. The computer monitoring data include keyboard activity, a list of Web resour...

The paper presents the main assumptions about the theory of constraint, particularly with regard to its application in the area of improvement of the organization of production processes. The analysis was made on the example of the lacquering process. In analyzing according to the principle of continual improvement, newly diagnosed "bottlenecks" were presented and possible ways of eliminating them and expected effects were presented. The practical application of the theory of constrains confirms the universality o...

This article considers the main trends in developing migration processes in developed countries as well as social and economic consequences for developed countries. It shows the specificities of national governance practices, which have a particular impact on the migration policy. In article the international labor migration as economic category is considered. Nowdays migration regulation policy in particular countries is confronting new challenges of continuously changing environment; and, consequently, today gov...

The paper is devoted to insufficient pre-university IT teaching that is considered a problem in Russian education. The paper examines some issues in school computer science course in the context of informatization of society and new requirements for the orientation in the information space. The authors have been conducting a survey and entry testing of students for several years. First-year students of the Institute of Management, Economics and Finance KFU participated in the study. The article presents the result...

Early literacy, as a foundation for future literacy skills and academic performance, is the actual research trend. This developmental face is a source for the results of formal literacy (Scarborough 2009) and a framework of academic performance (in tests like PISA, PIRLS and others). Besides the contribution to the academic success, the interest for early literacy stems also from the need to recognize children at risk for reading disability and dyslexia (Catts, Petscher, Schatschneider, Sittner Bridges & Mendoza, ...

While also examining procedures related to a direct vote for the president in various European countries, findings in the present paper have been based on an interdisciplinary approach to implementing the system through a constitutional amendment in the Czech political system. With occasional references to other European countries, the new legislation on presidential elections in the Czech Republic is presented with a focus on several issues; firstly, the extraordinary importance of the arrangement for the Constit...

Background: With regard to the demographic ageing of the population, healthy ageing and health literacy of the elderly population, including both healthcare and prevention of diseases and health promotion, represent a hot topic. The health promotion in the elderly is focused on getting information and particularly on the practical application of the information to actual situations. The healthy lifestyle in the old age supports the physical and psychological condition of the elderly population. The elderly need to...

Tourism has an advantageous multiplier effect and severs as an accelerator of the social-economic development. Using a method of a component analysis the most significant indexes for differentiation of territory of Republic Tatarstan with purposes of recreation and tourism were detected. Map - models were constructed and by their superposition the integrated map of a recreational potential of Tatar Republic was obtained and the attractive areas for rest and tourism were detected. Using a method of a component anal...

Enterprise Management in recent years requires a lot of concentration on environmental change, i.e. Increase the competitiveness of enterprises, technical and technological progress, increasing demands by customers, decreasing product life cycle and product innovation. The answer to the problems of modern management companies became controlling and budgeting . The purpose of this article is to present the role of sales budgeting in business management. The applied research methods are based on literature studies o...

In a knowledge-intensive economy, the ability of the individual knowledge worker to produce high quality decisions is perhaps one of the most valuable assets organisations today has and organisations are increasingly concerned with ways of making better decisions, because an organisation’s ability to make high quality decisions is of utmost importance for its success. Consequently, a knowledge worker’s primary deliverable is a good decision, which emphasises their essential role in producing high quality decisions...

Up to the present moment the musical science explains the fundamental phenomena of harmony, such as sonance and tension, either by the abstract numerical logic in the frequency relations of sounds, or by the individual specifics of perception. And though the regularities of perception of sonance are well-known, their objective reasons exist only at the level of hypotheses, and the phenomenon of tension is still regarded only as a result of the perceptual effects. However, the above-mentioned phenomena are the refl...

Background: The study of psychological strategies of network activity and attitudes of student youth towards the Internet is actual and practically significance. Personal characteristics in the network interaction are occurred in the motives of behavior and communication, in the psychologically to the use of electronic technologies, and also in the preference for activities. For most students the Internet is a space in which you can achieve social comfort and have the opportunity to communicate with others and dev...

This contribution is connected with the social skill development of children between the ages 14 -15 who come from socially excluded areas and are educated in non-mainstream informal education realised in low-threshold social clubs for children and youth in the Czech Republic. The theoretical introduction of the thesis characterizes the approaches towards informal education in the Czech Republic, the methods applied and possible realisation of intervention and education itself. Furthermore, another discussed issue...

For implementing partial activities, companies utilize a broad portfolio of financing resources. These resources can be analyzed from various angles. They are usually divided into company´s equity and debt resources. Although the decision about resource utilization is influenced by many factors, the cost of capital is the most prominent aspect that enters this process. The subject of the article is a research in the field of company debt resources. There are a number of circumstances that encourage companies to ch...

Responsible implementation of environmental policies in sustainable development must have as objectives activities gentle with the environment, sustainable planning of the livestock breeding and exploitation sector. It is found that around animal farms there are unused landfills that are sources of pollution for soil, air and water. Analyzing the water sources we found their pollution with organic substances, nitrates and ammonium, and the pH was very close to the upper limit admitted. The quantities of pollutants...

The focus of this research is the system of the public space in Wroclaw - the fourth most populated Polish city. The spatial policy, expressed in the planning documents, is essential for the development of the public space. Based on the analysis of the city development plans, one can specify the principles on which the management of public space areas are established. The cognitive aim is to isolate and evaluate criteria used in planning practice in determining these integration sites. This paper gives the answer ...

The article focuses on pragmatic effects of boulomaic text-worlds as a variety of modal worlds created in advertising discourse. Text-worlds are treated as a type of pragmatically-orientated representational structures of advertising discourse establishing and maintaining relationships between agent and client as main discourse participants. The paper presents an element of a broader World-Modelling Concept [7] – one of the contemporary theories of discourse representation based on Text World Theory initially deve...

Using Internet search data may reveal intentions and expectations in various areas of scientific interest in social sciences. One of them is media studies and especially the research of media literacy, where search engines such as Google can shape the way of investigation of current social trends and academic discourse in the field. In this paper, we analyse various ways of using specific data gathered by Google and delivered by the Google Trends service. We examine whether the online activity measured by Google s...

Relevance of work is caused by processes of regionalization and integration, need of creation of innovative, competitive economy in the Russian Federation. All municipalities, relying on project management, develop programs of spatial development. It does actual the solution of questions of increase of efficiency of activity and a choice of the priority directions of development of economic entities regardless of their level. Are considered spatial development of economic zones of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) o...

Although the Czech Lands (Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia) have an immense amount of accounting records preserved from the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, historians continue to disagree about which accounting system was used. Prior research indicates that unlike in the countries of Western Europe in particular, double-entry bookkeeping was not in use in the Czech Lands in the given period of time. While some authors support, in line with the neighbouring states, the view that it was single-entry bookkeeping, others...

While constructing a conceptual model of human resource assessment, organizational climate and organizational internationalization, the attention was paid to the fact that human resource assessment, organizational climate and organizational internationalization not only form a general system, but also interact. In striving to assess and describe this interaction, there was used a model of dialectical hermeneutics. This model at the level of inductive cognition allowed to extrapolate the model of human nervous syst...

France is a traditional European democracy. Its political system was relatively stable since late 1950s with two political blocs. Right – usually connected with the ideas of Charles de Gaulle and left – represented by Socialist party. The situation seems to be different in 2017. As François Hollande became extremely unpopular he decided not to candidate in 2017 anymore. Socialist party chose Benoît Hamon to be candidate but his result 6, 36 % in the first round was poor and more – the worst in the history of Socia...

Concept of connectivism and possibilities of its usage in education is very actual topic but up until now it did not get enough attention. Connectivism as a theory of education for a digital age is connected with usage of social networks. This paper is focused on the connection between social networks, homework and learning. Paper presents some of the partial results of use of social networks in education from the point of relation of the extent of intentionality to the learning skills of various age groups. Main ...

Small and medium sized companies (SMEs) play a vital role in the securing and building a sustainable and responsible business environment of a particular region. SMEs approach to the surroundings may be based on completely different activities than large enterprises apply. The paper aims to evaluate the possibilities of implementation of social responsible activities in a selected Czech SME. In an effort to increase the continued low level of ethical character of the Czech business environment, it is SMEs that can...

Background: As a result of globalization, borders between countries become only imaginary lines on the map. Due to this spontaneous uncontrolled process there is a blending of cultures whose philosophy can be more or less different from that of the majority society. The objective of this paper is to present partial results of the research grant project and to reflect on the finality of life in contemporary religious traditions. Methods: The research was funded with support of the Grant Agency of the University of ...

Emotional wellbeing during professional activity is the basis of psychological comfort at work and in life. Stress at work is an important problem because it affects the professional abilities, health of the staff, and the quality of their work. The European Union has issued a directive on the necessity of lowering work-related stress. Stress tolerance of mobile and operational staff of private security companies is becoming an acute issue. The following research question was formulated: Are there any differences ...

A series of big scandals from 1990s has drawn attention to the corporate sector and has brought about questions regarding the quality of the legislative scope of corporate governance. Apart from the active role of corporate governance as the key factor in protecting companies from corporate crime, particularly on the microeconomic level, its contribution on the macroeconomic level is also not negligible in terms of its impact on the effects of illegal business operations through the implementation of money launder...

In order to detect the possible ways and obstacles in promoting diversity through the Parliament, we shall briefly introduce the issue of diversity from the perspective of political philosophy and political theory. This will help us create a better comparative framework for the case of the Republic of Macedonia and see if any of the suggestions coming from this stream of thinking are applicable in our scenario. Starting from the premise that the Republic of Macedonia is home to many ethnic groups and is hence mult...

Studying of the motivational mechanisms determining our activity is actualised again in line with those problems which exist in modern society on the way of realization of civil ideals. Reasoning about positive motivation under the conditions of society modernization, we can speak about the necessity of striving for motivational balance, which is reflected in the balanced external and internal conditions for the development of harmonious personality. Balanced conditions do not mean quiet conditions without movemen...

The publication presents the results of empirical research on technologies used in the home pages of the Irish credit institutions authorized under Irish Legislation to carry on banking business in the state according to the Irish Credit Institutions Register, Section 1 (a) in 2017. The home web pages of 10 banks were studied. Our survey reveals some interesting details about the proportion of the used web technologies. The average home page size is around 1.4 MB and the share of the images is around 50%. The shar...

The paper is part of the ‘Back Home’ research project carried out by a group of PhD students from the Polytechnic University of Milan within the framework of the Paquebot Laboratory. The goal of the present research is to reveal historical premises and sociocultural circumstances that provided the basis necessary for the development of the British post-war housing. As one of the major sociocultural and architectural phenomena in the modern history of Great Britain, the new residential development has been taking s...

The perception of Holocaust in the cultural sphere of Latvia is a peculiar segment of social memory. This topic has been expanded upon in researches of Didzis B?rzi?š. Within the framework of the topic, the opposition ours – theirs, we – them is realized, i.e. the events of the Second World War are understood and evaluated from various points of view. In this context, the role of literature in the evaluation of the historic events becomes topical. The paper examines peculiarities of the reflection of the topic of ...

Introduction: Partial edentation is a common clinical situation in adult patients over the age of 40; treatment demands are frequently between 40-50 years for women and 50-60 years for men. Esthetics is a matter of great distress for patients receiving dental treatment, especially prosthetic treatment. Non-metal clasp dentures may be proposed as an alternative. “Non-metal clasp denture” is referred as the generic name of removable partial dentures (RPDs) with retentive elements (resin clasps) made of thermoplastic...