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21st century is characterized by rapid changes in economy, science, education and social life. The necessity for the development of new competence for everybody is growing day by day to be able to compete in the labour market. In order to make the students - future podologistВ’s training and their professional competence development successful, it is necessary to introduce systematic changes in the content of the program, in the use of modern teaching and learning methods and evaluation of the study process of the...

The main objective of the paper is to present the quality and development of the business environment, which is a key factor for economic development of the country. "Good rules" strengthen the functioning of the market, improve efficiency and encourage business. The quality of the business environment affects the operation and success of companies. It also depends on the competitiveness and attractiveness of the country for investment and subsequent growth. Favorable investment climate is a key factor in the infl...

In the article is briefly discussed the question of development of system of regional governance by smoothing of spatial polarization in the region on the basis of implementation of infrastructure projects (as an infrastructure objects are considered hotel businesses in republic of Tatarstan and Mari El republic). Has been carried out the scenery forecasting of tendencies of regionsВ’ development in the conditions of spatial polarization smoothing management on the basis of a diversification of hotel business in T...

The Russian economy is in crisis. In 2014, the Russian government has introduced a food sanctions. This caused a certain economic processes in agriculture, post-Soviet Russia. Now the problem of food security of Russia practically solved. The main figures of the Russian agrarian economy are large agricultural holdings. The value of small farms is reduced. However, the agrarian economy of post-Soviet Russia is on the verge of a new economic crisis associated with the termination of public investment. We discuss a n...

Latvia is one of the European Union (EU) Member States being rich in bioresources. In terms of agricultural land area per capita, Latvia ranks third in the EU, while in terms of forest area per capita, Latvia ranks fourth. Bioeconomy industries may be theoretically divided into several groups: primary biomass production; biomass processing by mainly bioresource-based industries; biomass processing by industries, the bioresources of which compete with other kinds of raw materials; recycling of bio-products and wate...

The article analyzes current social & cultural situation in Russia, which is created under the influence of changes in demographic structure of population, as well as describes trends with new approaches and principles, which currently are being developed to ensure an improvement in the life quality of elderly people. The authors state that elderly people in modern Russia belong to the least protected population segment. The article highlights one specific problem: it is difficult for elderly people to travel, res...

The research is determined by the increase of the quantity and changes in qualitative characteristics of developmental disorders in children with cognitive epileptiform disintegration. According to the definition of K.Yu.Mukhin, cognitive epileptiform disintegration (CED) is considered as a symptomatic complex of acquired disorders of higher mental functions (HMF) in children associated with severe epileptiform activity on the EEG in the absence of epileptic seizures. There are several actual problems connected wi...

The discontinuity of matter was originally postulated with an explicit purpose: to demonstrate the reality of movement. However, a deterministic and necessary movement eliminated the possibility of explaining freedom. Epicurus first, and Lucretius later, modified the doctrine of Democritus (founder of Greek atomism) in regard to a very important point, since they both admitted the spontaneous movement of swerving or clinamen of some atoms, as opposed to their stable fall, situating matter between reality and possi...

The purpose of the study is to develop methodological bases for diagnosing promising labor markets to forecast the staffing needs for the high-tech and innovative sectors of the regional economy. The complexity of the task is in the need to identify intellectual and human resources for promising commodity and labor markets, which currently do not have business customers. Existing methods for assessing the staffing needs cannot fully consider the changes in the strategic priorities for the regional development. As ...

The tragic events that have taken place recently in Romania (the case of the 64 young people dead in the fire from Bucharest club > on October 30, 2015), but also those that happened around the world because of the attacks, give us a lot of questions and reflections related to the dialectic of good and evil, but also to the true faith that can accept suffering and death to enjoy eternity in the Risen Christ. This dialectic of good and evil, of highlighting the good only in the "fight" with evil, made from Dostoevs...

Knowledge of foreign languages is very important, and its importance has been growing in recent years. The “Iron Curtain” was pulled back in the early nineties, and the Czech Republic joined the European Union, resulting in ever expanding opportunities to meet and communicate with foreigners in professional or private settings, to seek out and read foreign language texts on the internet or in printed form, to watch foreign TV channels and to listen to foreign radio stations, and, last but not least, to communi...

Background Our research aim was to emphasized different neurological patterns at athletes, by evaluating the parameters of somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) and compare the obtained results, in order to demonstrate the influence of specific professional training over the cortex. Methods The tested subjects were a group of 21 male athletes, with an average age of 19 years, which practiced fencing or handball, for at least 6 years, homogeneous regarding age, height, weight and training regime. We used the Nihon K...

While distancing themselves from Eurosceptic views, major findings have been critical in their assessment of certain theoretical approaches that have focused on various scenarios of the reconstruction of the European institutional framework through modification of the economic, political and social subsystems. To put it more specifically, individual perspectives proposed by European intellectual opinion leaders, such as Ulrich Beck and JГјrgen Habermas, have offered different solutions for their improvement. When ...

During my numerous research and teaching stays at the universities in Great Britain, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria I was asked to speak about Czech independent literature which existed under the communist regime (1948-1989). As an author of a monograph about Czech literary underground (1999) and many studies on this topic, I expected that it would be easy for me. Nevertheless, I soon came to the conclusion that translation of basic terms connected with independent culture is not only a matter of linguistic ability ...

The influence of small and medium enterprises on the economy of various countries of the world is considered. The study examined the dynamics of small and medium-sized business development in Russia and foreign countries, criteria for classifying small and medium-sized businesses. The dynamics of development of small and medium-sized enterprises in foreign countries and in Russia is analyzed. The impact of small and medium-sized businesses on various sectors of the economy is estimated. The problems faced by small...

It is difficult to translate the poem by Heinrich Heine "Lorelei" due to its special intonation and fine sense. Despite of this, many translators nowadays have tried their hand to deliver all the beauty of this poem to the Russian language. The actuality of this work is in the fact that a lot of attention in linguistics is paid to stylistic means which open up the poems, and many translators are interested in complete translation of stylistically painted devices in their works. The aim of this work is to identify ...

Currently, under the influence of digital technologies, there is a rapid transformation of economic relations and forms of interaction of economic agents, innovative goods and services form new segments of the world economy related to information and communication technologies. These sectors are gradually becoming the drivers of the economic development of the global economic system, although at present their direct contribution to the economy is rather modest in both developed and developing countries. The proces...

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...

The attitude towards disabled people and to disability is one of the most important indicators of the maturity of society and development of human rights. In the late seventies of the 20th century Europe comes to the historical stage, when attempts of integration of disabled people into normal public life, with full recognition of their civil rights, that fully coincide with the rights of citizens without disabilities, are made. Russia is now only on the way of transition to the fifth stage, when the biopsychosoci...

Double-entry bookkeeping system has many information restriction: it does not allow recording an inflation impact or systematize several valuations of the same object; it does not disclose the external and internal environmental factors influencing a business activity, financial results and wealth of the companies. One of the perspectives for transforming the double-entry accounting was developed by Yuji Ijiri in the 1980s. The triple-entry system is based on extension of double-entry system, when a fundamental eq...

The object of the given study, which defines the topic of our research, is the discursive creolized metaphor as a cognitive key to decoding a semiotically complicated (polycode) text. The present-day scholars focus on the problem of correlation of signs of different semiotic systems and different codes, which leads to the appearance of the term “the creolized (or polycode) text”. The creolized text is a text with a complex form combining elements of two or more different semiotic systems that, being interconne...

The Arctic development is closely related with the growth of labor potential and requires rise in number of population and labor resources according to economic, political and military interests of the state. In this sense, the problem of social-economic and economic-geographical development of Arctic and Northern regions and its monitoring has vital importance. Currently, research on social, economic, demographical processes on municipal level of the Arctic Russia and foreign countries has great importance. This ...

The article focuses on the concept of distributed leadership (DL) in the context of growing uncertainty of organizational environment. The article discusses the study, carried out in 212 organizations - different due to the industry, the size, and form of ownership. The purpose of the study was to determine the relation between organization's environment uncertainty and the degree of leadership distribution. Research hypothesis regarding the relation between the DL and environmental uncertainty was formulated and ...

For effectiveness of sheep farms and economic development of the area where farms develop his activity, we propose the following activities, which can be implemented in any farm regardless of the herds and of the location where the farm is situated. These activities are: rediscovering the ancestral technologies of obtaining traditional products (patina cheese, bellow cheese, cheese in shell of tree, smoked curd, fermented curd, soft eweВ’s milk cheese, kneading soft eweВ’s milk cheese), rediscovering specific cust...

This article presents philosophical analysis of such a phenomenon as video games. Today, video games represent a major part of modern culture, which requires a specific research to be carried out. Without studying the ontology of video games it is impossible to give clear answers to such questions as: What are video games? How are they built? It is our goal to disclose and analyze the ontologies in the framework of which video games exist. We need to note that there is no such thing as universal ontology of video ...

Leisure time activities pursued by children are influenced by many factors, and a specific role is played by parents. The paper deals with the outcomes of the research of the relationship between leisure activities pursued by todayВ’s children and leisure activities pursued by their parents in their childhood. The research was carried out in the Czech Republic in 2016 and 2017 and focused on children between the ages of 11 and 15. One of the key research questions was: In what way and to what extent the parentsВ’ ...

New technologies and possibilities of simultaneous processing of large quantities of personal data are developing both in science and the economy. However, collecting and processing personal data opens up a whole range of issues and controversies. The European Union has also recognized the importance of this issue and has implemented a reform of personal data protection through a new instrument aimed at ensuring the protection of the rights and fundamental freedoms of individuals with regard to the processing of t...

After the military collapse of Romania, in the Autumn of 1916, the entire country - except a small part of Moldavia, with Ia?i as main city - fell under Central Powers occupation. Dobrudja was invaded by German and Bulgarian troops and divided. Bulgaria take Southern Dobrudja (lost as a consequence of the second Balkan war, from 1913) and the administration of the rest of the province, for a short time, followed by an effective German administration. In the Summer of 1918, after the Treaties of Buftea and Buchares...

The article deals with phonetic characteristics of Georgian language islands, embedded in Tsovatush (Bats) matrix language. Research focus is on phonetic processes in relation to the stages of bilingualism. Phonetic production of code switching is paid less attention by the scholars, comparing with other domains of the language. Previous studies have generally examined segmental features of code switching, recent researches deal also with suprasegmental level, but phonetic processes have remained relatively unstud...

Romanian Doina was inscribed on the representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009. Doina is a improvised, solemn and lyrical folkloric song, marking the essence of Romanian folklore. It can be sung in any social context, with or without instrumental accompaniment, with expressive ornaments. The emotional magnitude is very impressive. There are various regional types of doina, with different specific elements. Doina is representative for the peasantВ’s soul, expressing his most intense...

The design and construction phases for the realization of a large yacht, today, are involving a growing number of actors, each one with his own special skills, know how and language. Even the old concept of shipyard is evolving in a more fragmented and composed reality.These processes require a strategy in order to optimize communication and exchange of awarness among all the parties involved. Cultural, strategic, economics, technique and even social considerations have to be done in order to develop communication...

Current customers must be able to quickly and accurately navigate through a range of products that are offered at a time of global world, highly competitive and saturated market and producers. On the other hand, enterprises must fully know the requirements, needs and purchasing power of their target customers. By knowing this, they can prepare a proper offer where the customers will be able to choose. The price is therefore one of the determining factors of a functioning market. The price of goods or services is a...

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 ...

International labor migration significantly impacts on the process of economic integration for developed labor markets. Labor migration on the territory of countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States is directed to big labor markets in Russia and Kazakhstan. In this article we describe a model, that takes into account the feedback of average salaries defined by the supply of labor resources, affecting migration processes between countries of origin and destination. The model takes into account the influenc...

The paper aims to investigate the existence of a positive feedback process between managed aggregate equity fund flows and equity fund excess returns in short-term and long-term period using monthly data from high- and middle-income EU economies for the time span from January 2000 to December 2016 and to perform subsequently international comparison of the obtained results with existing evidence from other regions or groups of advanced and emerging economies of the world.

Care for children deprived of properly functioning families represents an integral element of family-oriented social policy in Poland, which is based on the constitutional principle of subsidiarity. According to this principle, the state, through the system of legal guarantees and support structures, offers conditions for support at a local level while empowering families. The entities that are involved in tasks to support families include local social services institutions, non-governmental organizations, and the...

One of the most famous futuristic dystopia in the literature of the twentieth century is the novel of a British prose writer and essayist Aldous Huxley. "Brave New World" (1932) is the vision of a society that has reached a state of total organization and has achieved the ideal of universal happiness. One of the many tools of the social control in the hands of the authorities is the programmed "synthetic music", which meticulously fills every space. A similar image of background music appears in George Orwell's no...

This paper presents a novel approach in training for orthopaedic surgeons, developed within the ERASMUS + research project 2015-1-RO01-KA202-015230, ERASMUS+ VET "Collaborative learning for enhancing practical skills for patient-focused interventions in gait rehabilitation after orthopaedic surgery”. Considering that classical education of orthopaedic surgeons, which is based on lectures, self-study, workshops and cadaver dissections, followed by supervised practical training within daily practice, quite often r...

One of the important features of the contemporary literary process is an actualization of a variety of transgressive or hybrid phenomena. In this connection, the novel “Laurus” (2012) by Eugene Vodolazkin is not an exception. Expressed criticism is sometimes not satisfied with the discreteness of E. Vodolazkin’s text, its peculiar mosaic, explicit eclectic mixture of semantic, speech, structural and genre elements. It seems that these elements have a deeper meaning. The article analyzes the semantics of the b...

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, ...

The scale of the modern world economy has transformed economic growth from a means of solving social problems into a factor of their aggravation. Further expansion of the economic system leads to irreversible devastating consequences for the ecosystem of the planet. Traditional economic logic has come into conflict with the interests of mankind. This article discusses the need to replace the model of economic growth with the paradigm of sustainable economic development, which includes environmental restrictions on...

The article reveals the essence of ecological and economic imbalances, identifies the causes of this phenomenon in the Russian Federation; the calculation of genuine savings indicator showing that there is an imbalance between the economy and ecology of our country. It notes the role of eco-oriented enterprises within the concept of sustainable development, proposes institutional solutions that will help companies to make their ways towards ecological-oriented type of development.

The aim of this paper is to present an ongoing research project „Paradigm Change of Mental Health and Well-being in Lithuania: Towards Empirically Valid Model” (2015-2017) and part of its results (research project is granted by Research Council of Lithuania). This project is aimed to contribute to the paradigmatic change by scientific research and evaluation of efficacy of pharmaceutic and psychotherapeutic treatment to psychological and social functioning, and to estimate economic burden of treatment and menta...

Clear and correct understanding of phenomena would be impossible without taking into consideration existing context of its appearance existence and development. It is completely true when talking about processes on the Arabian Peninsula in the end of the 6th- early 7th centuries AD and the rise of Islam. As a matter of fact the available sources only shed some light on the problems but the final solution is possible after series of further investigations in the future which should have a multidisciplinary characte...

This article raises issues related to development of a modern stateВ’s foreign policy in the context of intensifying the processes of economization of foreign policy and politicization of economy against the background of globalization transformations. In this regard, economic type of diplomacy as smart power allows medium and smaller nations to participate in international processes with maximum efficiency. Special part of the article is dedicated to reviewing the influence of globalization on strengthening the r...

The aim of the work is to evaluate the economic advantages of the application of the most frequently used energy sources for the purpose of heating administrative and office buildings in the conditions of the Czech Republic. Data for comparison are obtained from national statistics of projects and data obtained from suppliers providing energy for selected types of heating. The comparison deals with the assessment of the operating costs of administrative buildings using electric heating, central heat supply and a c...

The article is devoted to the research of factors, which determine the effective counteracting a drug addiction and an illegal drug trade. The factors include those from economic, social, institutional and administrative fields of governmental policy. The methodology of research is based on preliminary studies aimed to identifying factors of social and economic environment influencing drug addiction in order to verify the hypothesis that drug addiction is more economic problem than social or medical. We have built...

Growth models are considered to be interesting to economists. The article shows the analyses of the basic approaches to growth models. Under the conditions of economic uncertainty the theories that take into account non-leaner relationships between development factors are considered to be very powerful. Moreover the solutions to the development factors that form cyclical path and the model based on the use of cyclical nature of economic development can be also very helpful. For this purpose special attention is gi...

The transport infrastructure, mainly then its range and quality, is very important pro the economic development of the national economy. However its extension, operation and maintenance are connected with the important need of financial resources, which are in all cases limited. From this reason it is very important to respect not only national priorities in the area of the development of the transport infrastructure, but also expected net benefit of particular projects for the whole society. The main purpose of t...

Economic and social issues were together with migration crisis in Europe top issues of parliamentary election campaign in the Slovak Republic in 2015/2016. Relevant political parties performed their proposals for future social and economic orientation of the country. Ruling social democrats (DIRECTION-SD) called for fixing their social program and present new initiative in that area (in sense of deepening of current social program). On the other hand, small right (opposition) political parties emphasized the neces...