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Nowadays launched worldwide programs for the gifted comprise 2-10% of population that is significantly less than the existing necessity. The most number of the potentially gifted children remains unrevealed because either the necessary diagnostic research is not conducted or the used methods are not capable of revealing the potential (hidden) giftedness. This is especially typical of rural schools of the Russian hinterland. In this paper we present methodological basis for creation a system for identifying and dev...

Medical tools are often treated as a supporting on the background of the treatment and care of the patient. Their importance is overlooked because the knowledge and skills of the doctor to the forefront. But medical tools has an important means for the recovery of a patient's health from a specialist point of view. Work tools may have a significant impact on the way the operating techniques or other treatments affect the human body. In addition, the limited work space and tools in themselves affect the physician's...

Many public projects in Poland end up with failure, i. e. with exceeded budget or duration. Therefore there is a need to determine the causes of problems in this type of projects. The first stage of analysing public projects problems is identifying the success and failure factors. In this article we focus on the mentioned factors in the case of infrastructure projects implemented by Polish local government units. In the first place the types of infrastructure projects implemented by Polish local government units a...

The risk of conducting a business activity refers to all entrepreneurs, it is an indispensable element of the operation of organizations on the market. This also applies to mature enterprises which have a specific market position and are characterized by stable revenue growth and financial liquidity, and moreover, which have been operating in the market for more than 10 years and their main objective is to achieve competitive advantage. Such enterprises have features which facilitate the operation on the market, a...

Over the last ten years the variations of religious extremism has been increased sufficiently. Taking into view the controversial nature of the concept content and the difficulty of its adequate use there is a necessity to study the reasons for this affairs state. The reason for the study was the official announcement of the “yellow level” introduction because of the terrorism on the territory of Kazakhstan and enhancement of the diversity of forms of its manifestation in Russia. A group of researchers believe...

Based on the eyewitnesses and contemporariesВ’ memoirs, the paper shows the image of Stalingrad in 1942-1943, when German troops reached the Volga and the city got involved in a fierce battle. The analysis of eyewitnessesВ’ accounts revealed everyday problems of the local population during the occupation. The food problem worsened significantly, food was extremely scarce, the population of the city starved. The paper presents the policy of the occupational authorities in Stalingrad. Most of the city's enterprises ...

Background. Recent psychological research focuses on different factors influencing concern and satisfaction with appearance (Harris et al, 2014; Moss et al, 2012, 2014; Mulgrew & Cragg, 2015; Nergiz-Unalet et al, 2014; Pliner et al, 1990; Stock, 2014). Especially, satisfaction and concern with physical appearance, body form, and body parts has been investigated till now. At the same time due to operationalization of appearance through physical characteristics the impact of evaluation of various appearance componen...

The purpose of the research is to define the current impact of cyber weapons on international security, which is affected by the existence of cyberspace, from where are emerging new security threats. The research is divided into two main parts. In the first theoretical part, we used the descriptive method to characterize the main cybersphere threats in form of selected types of malware. The second part of the paper is dedicated to the analysis of the concrete malware which were discovered and which have had an imp...

Education represents one of the most powerful tools that a society can use for sustainable development. Nowadays, the role and the importance of education for individuals and society at large is continually growing. Some of the advantages that can be obtained through sound education processes can be as follows: we will be able reduce poverty, increase income, enhance economic growth, promote healthier lives, diminish fertility rates, reduce the prevalence of malnutrition, reduce maternal deaths, prevent HIV transm...

An important link between the volume of investment activity and economic growth is represented by the structure of investments implemented into innovations. Innovations are lately widely discussed issue, because without them economy will not be able to compete with foreign production. A lot of money is being spent on innovations in companies but also on the whole national economy. Therefore it is important to determine whether these funds are spent effectively and efficiently. Requirements for efficiency in invest...

The tourism of the last 60 years has been constantly expanding and diversifying, becoming one of the most dynamic and largest economic sectors globally speaking. According to data provided by the National Institute of Statistics (INS), between May and August 2016 in Romania, 3.8 million Romanians and 1 million foreigners have spent their holidays, twice as many as 6 years ago. Regarding foreign tourists who visited our country during the summer, most of them, more than half a million come from Germany. The followi...

According to a study conducted by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection in 2009, approximately 20.5 % of the population, or about 1.7 million people, were permanently ill but their daily workflows are not affected by their condition. Approximately one million people have health restrictions on their personal physical movement. This amounts to about 13 % of the Austrian population. 318,000 people have visual impairment, 218,000 have some level of hearing loss, and 205,000 s...

Senior education, which has its specific features, is becoming one of the priorities in the present era of ageing of population, especially in Europe. Different kinds of courses are offered to seniors by so called Universities of the Third Age which have been established in the Czech Republic. Courses in foreign languages belong to the most popular and most demanded ones. Teaching at courses in foreign languages offered to seniors has to be adapted to the specific features of adult learners but it also cannot igno...

Attaining and sustaining of competitive advantages requires making many decisions in many areas of a complicated company system from the management. One of the areas which can contribute to a company success, and thus its managers, are methods of continuous improvement. The choice of concrete methods depends also on benefits the methods can bring and also on how complicated and organisationally and financially demanding their implementation is. The article informs about the results of a quantitative survey which w...

Requirements for specialists in the tourism market in the modern world determine the training of students specializing in tourism, which has a recreational and environmental focus. This is due to the changed conditions of their professional activities, which should take into account not only the needs of society for recovery and recreation, but also existing environmental problems. In the presented work practical implementation of the model of recreational-ecological training of students of the specialty Tourism i...

The import substitution policy, carried out both at federal and regional levels, today is one of the structural components of the RussiaВ’s national and economic security ensuring policy. The work examines the effect of import substitution on economic growth of the Russian economy. Authors consider the nature and the role of import substitution, its effectiveness and reasons for implementation, as well as studies issues of imports policy formation of goods and services in the Russian economy under the conditions o...

Nursing is a culture and, since time immemorial, it has been connected to a number of cognitive and skill-based preconditions that should be an integral part of the personality equipment of each nurse as representative of the nursing profession. The preconditions include primarily the theoretical-philosophical frameworks of nursing or conceptual models whose importance consists primarily in the effort to offer a comprehensive, high-quality, individualized and documentation-based nursing care, considering the indiv...

The article examines the problem of the need for actualization of progressive ideas of feminist and gender thought in modern society. Feminist thought and its unconventional views on social realities actualized a number of fundamental problems that have coordinated a certain path of the civilization development. Special attention is paid to the fact that global integration processes and human society globalisation had a great qualitative influence on on the social climate in the modern world. At the same time gend...

Attraction of foreign resources has become more topical for international companies in order to be able to assure good results of their business operations, as there are often situations that the resources and expertise available on the domestic market may appear to be insufficient for the development of the business, and this is a key reason why the studied international information technology company involves foreign personnel. The aim of the study is to investigate the most significant deficiencies in the proce...

The purpose of this publication is to present a set of strategies, based on the lessons learned from the devastating flood that occurred on 19 of June 2014 in Asparuhovo district to the city of Varna, Bulgaria to improve flood resilience of local people. For this purpose, a methodological approach based on the concepts of risk and risk management at the catchment level is applied. The first concept presents risk as the result of the societiesВ’ exposure to flood hazards in time, space, and their vulnerability. The...

Currently, in Russia, introduced a system of inclusive education aimed at reducing social discrimination against children with disabilities. Nevertheless, many children who study on an equal basis with healthy children face with the problem of motor adaptation, which subsequently becomes the reason for the reduction of psychological and social adaptation in general. For improving the motor adaptation, it is necessary to study the physiological and biomechanical foundations of the movement, based on which it will b...

This study focuses on the performance improving of social assisted search by using the Redis system as a cache layer between an application and a MySQL system which stores data extracted from the behavior of many users. Since searches made by one particular user can be viewed as a Markov chain, there is need for a lot of data to be read and displayed to the user, and simultaneously small piece of the user behavior data should be written in the database in order to serve in the future searches made by other users. ...

The development of transport infrastructure is an important factor in the economic growth of the territory. The ability to predict the transport demand and traffic on the road network is vital for development of regional and urban transport system. Agent based modelling has emerged as a practice tool of traffic and transport planning in re-gion and urban area. The purpose of the research is to assess the possibility of using agent based models for transport planning in Russian regions and cities. In order to reach...

The article is devoted to the problem of developing an inclusive approach in the framework of modern education. The authors seek to show that the inclusive approach plays a decisive role in providing high-quality education for all students without exception. The article describes the legal foundations of inclusive education, substantiates its relevance to the present day and examines its main functions. The authors describe the barriers that can arise on the way of introducing inclusion in the educational process ...

Tourism is one of the fastest growing and largest sectors of the global economy and has important economic, social, cultural and environmental effects. Slovakia is among the countries with high rates of unemployment in Europe, but has a lot of natural and cultural wealth. Fragmented and diverse socio-cultural and environmental aspects of rural areas in Slovakia offer a variety of business and employment opportunities in the tourism and traditional folk arts and crafts to anticipate the diversity of interests of to...

The purpose of this analysis is to critically examine an experience of perceiving a literary text and to provide a special approach to make the perception deeper. To raise awareness intended to introduce the reader to Isaak Babel’s “Red Cavalry” artistic text a new way of receiving the text has been proposed. A bike by night event of the educational project “Velonotte International” in Sergiyev Posad, Russia, highlights the importance of facilitation of the receiver entering into a relationship with the a...

In the modern world, cities play an important role. In the case of non-competitiveness of the city, the welfare of the population, the conditions for doing business, reducing employment, etc., deteriorates, so the notion of "city competitiveness" comes close to the notion of "sustainable development". In many cities, spatial development begins to experience an increasing imbalance between the demands of the population and business entities, on the one hand, and the opportunities for meeting them by building new an...

The article analyzes the trend in the balance of forces between the Western countries and a group of rapidly developing countries of the BRICS group of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. BRICS demonstrate the very different path of development, but all of them are intensively the processes of modernization and technological renovation of production areas. The analysis on several fronts: features BRICS as an international organization; modernization of the economy; trade relations between the BRICS coun...

Religious art is representative of religions concept. Indian mausoleums, which were created during the reign of Mughal represent features of Indian Islam. Art analysis and philosophical interpretation of signs and images of Indian mausoleums helps to understand the unique features of Indian Islam. Religious Islamic art in India continues to have an impact on the recipients in the present. The art works of Islamic architecture can be studied as cultural texts. The ideals, values and standards of Islam are of archit...

Financial health of companies is a topic that has been historically studied under various conditions. However, the current economy is a living organism and, the conditions affecting the financial health of companies are changing dynamically. There are many ways how to evaluate the financial health of a company. In addition to the use of the ratio indicators, complex models using one numeric indicator expressing the financial health of the company can be applied. These include, for example, bankruptcy and credibili...

One of the factors of specialist competitiveness increasing in any field is foreign languages skills. Requirements to foreign language skills assume professional communication forming of future specialists of the technical direction and for this purpose it is necessary to create a situation close to real communication. The article is devoted to foreign languages training of future civil engineers by individual approach on the example of the national and regional unit "Construction of Yakut traditional dwelling Bal...

The paper examines the significance of an individual identity in the context of the postmodern era. The analysis touches upon the subject of self-identity, which is treated as a processual, dynamic and contextual phenomenon. According to contemporary deliberations, it is risky to state that an identity is something that one can possess. It is better to speak of a continuous process of identifications that allows individuals to define themselves or others. Although an individual identity is seen as the result (“p...

The understanding of individual freedom and its realization in modern Russia is based on the Constitution, but is not limited to it. Public opinion, social norms affect peopleВ’s perceptions of dos and don'ts. Under the frame of empirical research, conducted in September 2016 at RUDN University (Moscow), Russian students were interviewed in order to determine their view of life about processes taking place in the modern Russian society in the context of individual liberty. Thus, the implementation of the individua...

Collaborative work in teaching/learning promotes synergy and nurtures moments when diverse points of view come together. The user-centred design workshop from the Industrial Design program at the Universidad del BГ­o-BГ­o worked collaboratively with the Association of Artisans and the group “Comercio Justo Manos” in order to contribute to the production and/or design of new products. During the first phase of the workshop, students explored the theoretical scope and limits of the category “artisan craftworkв...

The article presents a comparative analysis of the official industrial discourse in the late Imperial and early Soviet periods on the basis of "new political history" methodological approaches. There are different points of view in the historiography on the problem of genetic continuity of the "old" and "new" Russia. The study of production processes of the industrial discourse, its structures and context makes it possible to reveal the continuity of pre-revolutionary and Soviet industrial projects. The external b...

Regeneration of areas, previously used by industry, is a social and spatial necessity. Current efforts to redevelop industrial wastelands and abandoned buildings raises broader views than just architectural and construction issues. In an urbanizing world that is increasingly driven by a stressed free market, how does the concept of industrial heritage adaptive reusing relate to contemporary sustainable city and its public space? How industrial areas can be turned into cultural districts? This contribution is tryin...

Industrial heritage contains two large components: industrial architecture i.e. buildings, which were used like industrial sites, and techno-technological heritage i.e. technique which was used generally in the 19 th – beginning of the 20 th centuries. The preserving industrial heritage arose before countries of Europe, America and Australia as early as in the 50 – 60s of the last century, during the process of rapid technological changes, when the level of industrial production was being changed. First discus...

The given research is focused on the study of the book by a contemporary Latvian writer and journalist Inese Zandere titled “The Ship’s Log Book” (Ku?a žurn?ls), which was published in 2016. The author of the research views it from the perspective of hybrid texts and analyses the shift of genre boundaries between poetic texts and journalism. The subtitle of the book is “Notes, essays, excerpts, letters, conversations”. In the title of the book a lexeme denoting a familiar document is used – a log book,...

The security of citizens and their property is becoming an increasingly complex process. One of the reasons is the fact that the number of negative influences on security increases. It is necessary to know the current state and development of the security to improve its level in the future. Security is generally affected by crime and but also by other various antisocial activities. These antisocial activities do not have to be classified as criminal offenses but can be classified as offenses. The paper highlights ...

One of the main goals of the state economic policy is to increase the level of the human wellbeing. Population is an important part of any economy, demographic policy is an important part of economic policy. Nevertheless, the directions of this policy differ significantly in all the countries depending on the prevailing conditions. In some countries, programs aimed at population growth are the priority, in others the policy is focused on population regulation. Over the past 50 years, the worldВ’s population has in...

The author is in this paper studying influence of digital media on changes in contemporary education. Through phenomenological and hermeneutic methods, he is exploring the basic structure (invariant) of the Internet – the key component of modern digital media. The author observes that the basic structure of the Internet relies on a very fast combining of symbols with dominance of images. Knowing the Internet’s invariant, he finds out that the Internet favours associationist (rhizomatic, image-based) thinking wi...

The article researches the question of extralinguistic factors and the role they play in the development and functioning in the ancient Russian language. This research presents special importance and significance when studying original pieces of art of the ancient Russian literature and chronicles as well. In the article language characteristics of the “The Tale of Bygone Years” and “The Novgorod First Chronicle” are compared. The choice of language means such as lexical, word building and syntactical ones...

The paper illustrates the author's analysis of green technologies in construction and how they alter the massing of works of architecture. Ranging from small buildings like single family houses, to large structures like skyscrapers - all types of buildings have their respective technologies that can be considered green, ranging from technology that focuses on the internal workings of a building's technical infrastructure, to those that affect its exterior, like solar or photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, external...

The goal of the article is to determine the factors that cause changes in the attitude of the youth toward migrants based on the regular monitoring results. It deals with the socio-cultural consequences of modern migration processes and their influence on the modern communicative space as well as on the youth value system and priorities. A ten-year social survey shows that the youth value system is volatile and dependent on both external and internal factors. The expansion of anti-migrant attitudes of young people...

The relevance of psychological follow-upof economic processes is determined by growing interest in the human factor influence on the socioeconomic efficiency improvement. Labor psychology has well-proven the obvious link between motivation and success of the expert work.This link needs to be specified in the case of complex analysis, which includes social, economic and psychological aspect of the matter. The aim of the study was to determine the influence of personal qualities of sales managers on the economic eff...

The paper illustrates the author's analysis of green technologies in construction and how they alter the massing of works of architecture. Ranging from small buildings like single family houses, to large structures like skyscrapers - all types of buildings have their respective technologies that can be considered green, ranging from technology that focuses on the internal workings of a building's technical infrastructure, to those that affect its exterior, like solar or photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, external...

The aim of the article is to analyze the sales change on the selected financial indicator in the construction company. Sales are crucial to the sustainable development of the construction company. It is important to make their prediction as well as cost prediction. Together they influence determination of the operation profit. Economic development of the construction company can be monitored through various financial indicators. Among the important indicators for the companyВ’s assessment belong the above-mentione...

The article is devoted to intonational patterns of the speech of modern Australian business environment (businessmen, economists) representatives and the dependence of intonation on social characteristics of communicants. In our opinion, this issue is one of important directions of modern linguistics. The target audience of economic discourse has a particular impact on the tonal composition of language. The material of the study included several sources, containing samples of natural speech representing interview ...

Introduction: Anaerobic power is an important factor determining physical performance in competitive sports. The aim of this paper is to analyze the anaerobic power of athletes involved in various competitive sports which require different forms of training, and to describe the effect of each groupВ’s specialized training over a period of one year on the anaerobic indicators defined by the 30 second Wingate test. Method: The study involved 15 soccer players (SP), 12 practitioners of martial arts (MA), 15 weightlif...

There is a system of interactions between demographic processes and regional social and economic development. On the one hand, they must be taken into account when determining the prospects for the economic and social development of the country and its regions, on the other hand in the process of making and implementing management decisions. The impact of demographic processes on sustainable social and economic development can be traced in the following main directions: В• In the reproduction of labor resources - ...