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The idea for this paper sprang out from my own experience as a student. I once complained that a particular teacherВ’s lesson was too monotonous and I was left with a sad and frustrated feeling at the end of each lesson. The answer I received perplexed me: learning is not meant to be fun. Humor is international and a harmonious integration of humor into language teaching approaches not only does it have a positive effect on the learning environment, but it can also enhance language learnersВ’ skills, from a lingui...

Landmark preservation is an endeavour to conserve cultural heritage objects for future generations. Necessarily, to protect cultural objects from peril the states impose restrictions on individual owners, namely regarding the way these are to be maintained and repaired. Such constraints are in public interest. However, public interest might be contradicting the individual interests of the owners, or at least it might bring extra costs to them. The contribution seeks to explain what legal provisions restrict owners...

Topicality. The 14th of January, 2019, the day of the commencement of authority of the 7th convocation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, which draws up the completion of the constitutional crisis and the Velvet Revolution in Armenia, which began in April 2018. The report is focused on the legal features of the constitutional crisis in this context that remains still unknown in this aspect. Aim: to disclose the most significant legal features of the constitutional crisis in the context of the Arm...

The theme of the research is topical in todayВ’s challenges in the fight against terrorism, international crime and in maintaining the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states in the context of hybrid war as well as other aggressive activities. The legal framework for emergency regimes has been researched in the aspects of national border security and internal security. The legal analysis method to investigate legal regulation in the field of emergency regimes in Latvia and the EU, the historical method of ...

The topic of the research is topical due to the contemporary challenges of spreading illegal migration, combating international crime, maintaining national sovereignty and territorial integrity in the context of hybrid war and other aggressive activities. The legal framework of the State border of the Republic of Latvia and the Russian Federation is being studied in terms of national border security and national security. The research uses the legal analysis method to study the legal framework of the state border ...

Even though the beginnings of product placement are dated to the end of the 19th century, this marketing communication tool has been globally known and massively used for only a few years. One reason is that product placement has not been legally regulated in countries for a long period of time, so it is often considered as hidden advertising. Its use brings benefits especially to the sponsor / director of audiovisual artworks, and to the owners of the companies whose product or service is presented. In the US and...

The purpose of the article is to identify the specifics of adaptation and life of orphans and children left without parental care after graduation from orphanages, which is associated with multiple social, legislative and ethical problems in society. Arrangement of teenagers-graduates of orphanages after graduation, as well as their lack of experience and skills to adapt to real life situations, is an urgent problem of Russian society. The article analyzes the current view on the problem of orphansВ’ adaptation, c...

In ideal circumstances, parents are the most devoted advocates for their children. They have first-hand information about the children and take care passionately about the childrenВ’s welfare. Therefore, the law recognizes parents as guardians of childrenВ’s welfare and gives them substantial autonomy in making decision for their children. However, sometimes the actions of well-meaning parents could be a subject of testing limits of parental autonomy. It is especially the case if their actions represent a risk for...

The modern Russian language is characterized by the increase in the use of invectives in speech. Invectives are a socially significant phenomenon; therefore their study is relevant for both linguists and the society. The increase in the use of invectives deserves a special consideration taking for the study the dialect material extracted from one dialect system, since it can provide an insight into the functioning of invectives in a separate social stratum. Research material: the whole corpus of invectives recorde...

The article considers the concepts expressed in the primary text (Text 1) and their actualization in the secondary text (Text 2) in regard to the solution of linguistic and cultural issues (representation and decoding, designation of a place in the linguistic worldview and the description of features caused by linguocultural situation). The authors are interested in the following problems: 1) how the concept of the primary text is represented when this text is mentioned as the precedent in the secondary text; 2) h...

The paper proves that the basis of cognitive phraseology is a linguophilosophical postulate which says that 1) any objects, matters or phenomena are verbalized by indirect derived means only through giving them a special meaning; 2) any facts, that are parts of a verbalizable denotative situation, become a single generalized figurative frame. This is due to the combination of discursively actualized meanings of archetypal and symbolic origin within the logoepisteme, which is under review. The interpretation of its...

The article devoted to development and implementation of long-term forecast of the development of public infrastructure in the Russian Federation and its integration into the system of strategic planning. The life cycle of many infrastructure objects (transport, energy, social, etc.) is tens and hundreds of years (railways, sea and river ports, airports, etc.). Various forms and models of public-private partnership are in demand during their creation or modernization in the conditions of objective budget constrain...

Including humanitarian subjects into a core curriculum within STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math) is viewed as a favorable condition for students to take full advantage of a well-rounded education. Meanwhile, STEM students, often driven by narrowly specialized outcomes, feel like they are being forced to engage in non-science fields. As a result, the courses they consider to be irrelevant, commonly fade in their memory. Considering such limitations, the study examines the relevance and process ...

The article studies linguistic representation of the theme of love in the works of Carol Ann Duffy, whose poems can be considered a bright example of national literary language. About 30 poetic works were analyzed; several subtopics were distinguished in the field. The theme of love is manifested in poems with the help of numerous images and associations such as hope, dream and recovery. On the one hand, love is accompanied with the images of nature and carefree childhood. On the other hand, love is connected with...

Current trends in applied linguistics research point to the importance of uncertainty tolerance i.e. low personal need for structure because it affects the development of communicative skills and linguistic self-confidence. In this study, we investigate the correlation of successful performance in German language with the low personal need for structure. Low personal need for structure represents one of the learning styles, the ability of an individual to tolerate ambiguity, the ability to work independently with ...

This article looks at connections and parallels between MachiavelliВ’s depiction of a state leader in his work The Prince and PratchettВ’s portrayal of a character ruling a city state in his fantasy novels. To accomplish this, we analyzed the character of Machiavelli and PratchettВ’s leaders and looked for similarities and differences in their statecraft. This paper will also look for intertextual connections as well as other Renaissance influence that can be traced in the British fantasy. One of Terry PratchettВ’...

The paper provides an extended report on a study of the evolution of management accounting in Russia, with a main phase of investigation during the period 2014-2019. It traces the development of management accounting in the country’s emerging economy during the three post-Soviet decades and investigates the specifics of management accounting in the domain of mid-sized companies – the most typical representatives of the market economy. The research is focused on the “soft” side of management accounting, stre...

During the last decades, accounting researchers have been urged to shift their study of the role and function of management accounting to its natural contexts, thus case research is an efficient approach for such studies. Despite its intrinsic limitations, it offers a much deeper understanding of an organisational context. This paper presents the results of a case-based study of management accounting practices in Russian midsized companies. In general, the research on management accounting in Russia is scarce; onl...

In 2019, an outbreak of influenza A virus infection was detected in Romania with subsequent cases observed in many counties. According to the Ministry of Health At the national level, the total number of cases of acute respiratory infections (clinical flu, upper airway respiratory infections and pneumonia) was 52,991, 9.1% higher than in the same week of the previous season (48,546). The latest information from the National Center for Communicable Disease Control within the National Institute of Public Health show...

There are two fields of state social policy linked in this paper – migration policy and policy of the social protection. This paper is relevant for the terminology of social sphere. For the state, which wants to implement integration policy towards migrants, it is necessary to examine the establishing of care for migrants in one subsystem of social protection – social assistance. The main objective of this paper is to examine measures (instruments) of social assistance and their application in the life of a mi...

Numerous studies reveal the apparent benefits of cultural diversity in the classroom within all the education cycles. A variety of linguistic and cultural scenarios for the internationalisation of higher education across Europe and beyond make the basis for the exploration and statement of the place of Latvian higher education sector within these scenarios with the aim to develop a comprehensive integration framework for international students of diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds in Latvian HEIs. Therefo...

The information society has enormously evolved in recent years and the changes due to progress are in a continuous dynamic. Thus, the marketing communication process has also experimented considerable changes in terms of the development of IT & C technologies, artificial intelligence, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), neuro-tools and methods but also using promotion tools that have been adapted to digital, by bringing significant changes over the buyer brain and the process marketing communication. ...

Marketing communications mix consists of eight major modes of communication – advertising, direct marketing, events and experiences, interactive marketing, personal selling, public relations and publicity, sales promotion, and word-of-mouth marketing – but a fully integrated communications mix also includes email marketing, partnerships / promotions, and social media. The most powerful touch-points are Internet, mobile phones, social media, and TV. Innovative media such as interactive video, mobile development...

Marketing of organic food products is a topic of interest taking into account the upward trend of these products globally. Promoting eco-products is an approach to the increasing demand for high quality consumer products. Organic marketing is important because it can help protect the environment and preserve biodiversity, increase food security and can contribute to sustainable development of agriculture. The paper aim was to analyze consumer preferences in southern Romania concerning organic agri-food products. I...

Today there is an increasing interest in reviving folk festivities and outdoor celebrations. At the same time, the attempts of modern society to properly identify and understand the roots of these festivities and celebrations oftentimes resemble a costume show, or a theatrical performance with a new twist, in which once deep and meaningful traditions and rituals, with original historical and cultural significance, are lost, devoid of any meaning to a modern observer or participant. Realia more familiar to modern c...

Mastering toponyms of a foreign language is a difficult and ambiguous process due to the fact that toponyms have a national cultural component. A toponym is seen as a complex notion indicating both ways of language development and language acquisition. A toponym performs several functions in the language. It names the exact location, represents peopleВ’s attitude towards it and manifests the mentality of the nation. Acquiring such knowledge draws an individual closer to the understanding of the inner mechanisms of...

The Western Piedmont area, where are located the lower Po and Infernotto valleys, is important for intangible heritage, because was the theatre of the main events that took place during the Resistance (September 1943 – April 1945). Consequently, cultural heritage of the community is very conspicuous now. Precisely war diaries, correspondences, video interviews and pictures represent the core of the sources available: part of them is already been published and it is been related to the geography of the territory....

Objective of the study Identification of maternal-fetal outcome in women with chronic autoimmune thyroiditis associated with vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy and postpartum. Material and methods: The study included a group of 36 pregnant women diagnosed with chronic autoimmune thyroiditis and normal thyroid function. Patients were monitorized starting with the first trimester of pregnancy and postpartum. In the first trimester, the serum levels of TSH, FT4, antithyroperoxidase antibodies (TPOAb) and antithyro...

Competency-based learning is currently the basis of the European qualifications system; however, in Latvian professional medical education its implementation requires changes in the design of education programmes, in the use of innovative learning methods and forms in order to create a set of competencies that meets the requirements of modern healthcare, individuals and society. The importance of the research is determined by several problems in the medical field and in professional medical education: lack of mid-...

Applied ethical frameworks in the field of social theory and practice face the limits of moral philosophy, which are given by the absence of a fundamental philosophical reflec-tion of new emerging phenomena in changing current society. It is evident, that the highly organized society suffers from fragmentation and loss of coherence of various ethical theories lacking their deeper metaethic justification. The authors of the article point to a Judeo-Christian narration in which they see important metaethic bases for...

The literary portrayal of physical disability and death in the book by Czech author Daniel Rusar Spring of Cripples (Paskuda books, Bratislava, 2011) combines the means of narrative and non-narrative textual strategies and at the story level uses the contrast between emotional and deemotionalised attitudes of the protagonists to difficult life situations. The resulting textual incoherence creates a receptional situation that makes the readerВ’s cooperation in relation to the plot (his temporal and emotional immers...

Philosophy examines thinking by means of theory of cognition, formal logic, studying forms and laws of the correct thinking, and by means of dialectics giving the general method of research of the logical thinking as a developing process. Psychology studies the logical thinking as active activity of subject; exposes incentive reasons, aims, having the personal meaningfulness, individual features of the logical thinking; investigates cogitative operations from the point of view of realization by the subject of lyin...

People with Down syndrome are slowly and not at all familiar with the notion of leisure time. From our previous research we found out that most of the adults with Down syndrome are at home, with no rehabilitation, or educational or therapeutically services. There are some occupational / vocational centers in some cities across the country. In the urban area, the adults with DS that belong to a NGO are doing sport, dance, leisure and occupational activities from time to time. All the others and especially those liv...

Migration is a process in which individuals and groups of people leave their homes for various reasons, which generally puts them to some disadvantages. The introduction of the study outlines the types of processing of the topic of external and internal migration in the original Slovak literature for children and youth from the end of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century. Migration as a disadvantageous social problem has gained new literary modifications especially after 2010. In three parts of the stud...

The method of dialogue analysis to be used in relation to a literary text as proposed by the Russian linguist, Mikhail Bakhtin, can be used in media communications research. His dialogism comes in handy in the analysis of mass communications processes, especially for the purpose of establishing why the same fact or event is interpreted differently in reports by various media sources. The advantage of heteroglossia as defined by Bakhtin is that it allows us to look at changes that are made to the same report after ...

The popularity of smart mobile devices is growing fast. These digital devices represent a new generation of technological tools that offer remarkable access to content as well as opportunities for creative use even by young children. Most of the best-selling apps in the education category are targeted towards younger children. At the same time, the educational value of those applications is difficult to determine. Parents and educators in Poland, who are turning to those devices for the potential educational benef...

Kaplan and Norton developed the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) model to complement and develop traditional financial performance indicators for the organization. According to a Fortune survey, about 60% of the 1,000 selected US companies have BSC experience, including international corporations (KPMG, Peat Marwick, Allstate Insurance, and AT&T). The scorecard contains a diverse set of performance measures, including financial performance, customer relations, internal business processes, and learning and growth. Advocate...

The current theory of multilingual mental lexicon interprets it as a multidimensional network that exists in human brain and integrates units of different languages into a complex holistic structure. The network is put into operation by the spreading activation mechanism that determines retrieval of the necessary information during speech activity. It is assumed that activation in multilingual mental lexicon is non-selective: nodes of all the languages known to an individual can receive the activation impulse simu...

The topicality of the paper is predetermined by the importance of competitiveness assessment and development for most modern companies, operating on the global arena in the era of globalization, business internalization and the growing opportunities of global sourcing. The term “competitiveness” can appear ambiguous, as competitive abilities of a product on one market can be outperformed on other markets. This trend pushes the companies to the development of more multifactorial strategic approaches in order to...

The aim of the present article is to assess the sustainability of five Estonian Ministries before and after moving the ministries to a joint building to find out if the moving was a reasonable decision. The objects of the study are the cost accounts of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Education and Research, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of the Republic of Estonia in the timeframe between October 2016 and March 2018. Both qu...

The aim of my essay is to introduce a key feature of Miklos ErdelyВ’s oeuvre originating in conceptual art: the modelling of repetition, remembering, and time-travel. While the most salient oeuvre of Hungarian neo-avantgarde is categorized by art historians according to the media technologies applied in the artworks, ErdelyВ’s allround life-work can be best understood through this continuously modified intellectual horizon. Following these range of ideas will lead us to the recognition of the extraordinary charact...

A comparative analysis of the European language policy of multilingualism and its analogue in the Russian Federation is carried out using a systematic approach to the study of the regulatory framework and practical implementation. As a result, common features and obvious differences inherent in these political entities were identified. In the modern world, in the context of globalization in all spheres of human activity, language policy in the state or supranational education is closely related to political and ec...

Pawel Lukaszewski is the famous contemporary Polish composer, born in 1968 in Czestochowa, educated in Warsaw, the full professor of composition at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. His sacral and religious music gained the renown around the world. He was awarded with the В‘Orphee dВ’Or de lВ’Academie du Disque lyriqueВ’ and nine В‘FryderykВ’ Awards in Poland. The prestigious vocal ensembles form Europe, Asia and America perform this music [1]. Lukaszewski's music of religious and sacred character operates ...

The research question of the article is to find out the aspects of Russian smart city developers’ vision of expected inhabitants, as practitioners elaborating “smart city” concepts pay less attention to humanistic aspect of the problem than to technologies. To achieve that, an analysis of Russian articles on smart city mentioning the roles and functions of “smart people” was held. The results of the review are the following: first, the idea of “smart people” is controversial and impossible to achieve,...

Practice of cluster development, being guided by basic provisions of theories, has certain national peculiarities and differs over the certain countries with the width of territorial coverage, extent of regulation, and forms of state participation as well. In RussiaВ’s economy problems both of origin, and effective functioning of clusters remain actual. We assume that a binding condition of effective cluster development in the Russian Federation is the system monitoring of clusters activity that allows participant...

The article presents a theoretical analysis of existing approaches to assessing threats to the state economic security. The analysis revealed three main methods for assessing economic security: a simple rationing method based on a threshold value, a complex rationing method based on a threshold value, a rationing method for amount of discrepancy. These methods, despite the presence of specific features, are implemented in a certain sequence. As a result of the synthesis of methodological approaches, the authors ha...

This year we celebrate centenary of BauhausВ’ school established by Walter Gropius and his team in Weimar in 1919. In my paper I consider the possible influence between Bauhaus ideas in visual arts and music of that time. The main streams in Bauhaus philosophy developed the new concept of art and based on the rules as follows: reduction of decoration, innovation, geometry in construction, form devoted from function, social impact of art. I was inspired by Bauhaus as an interdisciplinary field that concentrates on ...

The work includes the results of the research on morphofunctional parameters of the teenagers aged 15–18 of indigenous small peoples of the North. The anthropometric measurements are based on: body weight and length, depot fat composition (indirect calipermetry method). In addition, Quetelet index is calculated, the somatotype structure is determined according to the classification scheme of B. Heath and J. Carter. To assess the respiratory system functional state, the lungs’ vital capacity is assessed, togethe...

The goal of this paper is to point out some of the mosaic monuments in the Czech Republic as a casuistry of rescue actions and restoration treatments as a response to frequent ignorance or in utmost cases the demolition of mosaic art. Despite a slowly increasing interest in mosaic heritage in recent years the full recognition of mosaics, including the ones from the communist era, as a valuable legacy of the past, still has not taken place. For this purpose the association Art a Craft Mozaika was founded in 2012. W...

Hospice care is a specialized, integrated form of health, social and psychological care provided to patients of all indication, diagnostic and age groups for which a reasonable life expectancy is judged to be less than six months based on reasonable medical judgment and for which active treatment has been discontinued. It is essential to treat pain and care for other symptoms of the terminal stage of the disease, as well as to address the psychological, social and spiritual needs and problems of the sick and conse...