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A fundamental element in the debate about public space is understanding and determining its meaning. Tadeusz Buksi?ski in his article O miejskiej sferze publicznej focuses on its prevailing social function and differentiates eight types of public realm: for presenting oneself, expression, worship and holy places, view/landscape/cityscape, authority, commercial, utility, leisure and entertainment.[7] In 1748 Giambattista Nolli had created a map of Rome, which most important feature is distinguishing public spaces i...

Life satisfaction and related work-life balance is often discussed in connection with working professionals, but it concerns everybody, including students. We attempted to identify what the key factors that influence life satisfaction in university students are and how these may influence their work-life balance. The case study included four selected sets of respondents from among university students of all ages, both in full and part-time study programmes of School of Business Administration in Karvina, Silesian ...

Today information space is a natural human life environment. Almost unlimited technical capability of modern interactive gadgets allows people to become co-authors or even creators of their own virtual reality. General availability of personal data makes it possible to interfere in other peopleВ’s private lives, forming their values and sense attitudes. So, the problem of psychological safety of a person in information space has become of vital importance. As a theoretical ground of the research we use such concep...

Providing opportunities of lifelong learning is the actual problem of modern system of training in the field of education. The last research to achieve the lifelong learning allowed to set that it is not only the articulation between all the existing institutions with administrative measures which could include high school and training system. The matter of this appearance is providing for individ the problem area for a continuous process of self-realization and creative self-development. In our research work the ...

The United Arab Emirates today is the country which demonstrates successful coexistence of different cultures, languages, traditions and religions. The unique situation in the region is characterized by linguistic diversity from one side and its fast development from the other. This article examines the peculiarities of the linguistic situation in the region in the historical perspective, as well as possible tendencies of its development are predicted. The key aspect of the topic is the study of the role and statu...

Diplomatic discourse as a specific type of discourse attracts the attention of many researchers because it quickly reflects global changes in the world community and constructs a special reality. It is obviously that in the era of global world conflicts the correct choice of words in international communication is crucial. The right words can help to solve conflict situations and make peaceful decisions. In another case, a careless word or violation of the rules of a diplomatic protocol and diplomatic ceremonial c...

The article tackles the problem of linguistic means that correlate to the cinematic art of montage. Within the research, we focus on linguistic means that make elements of narrative discourse look like a film. The author chiefly draws on Theory of Montage initially developed by N. Utilova and expanded upon by contemporary Russian linguists. The author also relies on the works of R. RichardsonВ’s В‘Literature and filmВ’ (1969), B. KawinВ’s В‘Telling it again and again. Repetition in literature and film.В’ (1972), J...

Proverbs and sayings, traditions and customs of the country serve as a bright reflection of national identity. They are collected and transmitted from generation to generation in written texts, primarily in works of fiction. In the process of reading and translating texts containing a large amount of linguistic and cultural information, foreign students are faced with the problem of understanding these words. This is due to the fact that they belong to the layer of nonequivalent lexis, which is present in every la...

Linguopolitical personology is a relatively new field of Russian linguistics, which focuses on the phenomenon of professional linguistic personality in the political sphere. This research discipline helps reveal new facets of homo loquens and contributes to political communication studies, enabling to highlight its discursive and national specificity. The present article reports the results of an analytical review of recent papers on politicians' speech behavior. The objective of the review was to specify basic te...

Health concepts are dealt with by a multitude of professionals: presenting, analyzing, systematizing, debating, adding new and meaningful elements and then re-analyzing, debating and systematizing them [9]. There are few basic concepts like health that most people define as very simple, but experts beliefs this issue are very complex and multi-dimensional. The European Union's White Paper sets out important strategies for school health promotion, which provides as a guideline for Member States. In addition to the ...

The article continues the series of publications on cognitive urbanism - a newly applied field of research and design in the built environment studies. The MACRO-level of the Built Environment incorporates such models as the "enclave", "region (area)" and "district" that are different in pedestrian proximity, circulation and identification of place. The local centers in residential areas should be programmed and located in the context of these cognitive models. The roles and importance of local centers have been s...

Development of cities provides a challenge for city transport, resulting in an increased need for fast and environment-friendly option of travel. The parking problem is a trivial, but complex problem. It lies in the domain of many scientific disciplines, including architects - who create local spatial development plans. The aim of the paper is to define the current status of public cubature car parks in Polish cities and presenting experiences of selected cities of Western Europe - as examples which will be follow...

Information asymmetry is the most significant factor slowing down the financial market development, that exists at the moment in Russian economy, which is due to the lack of reliable financial statement information for investors. The main reasons for the current situation are the increase in the number of attempts and the variety of methods for falsifying the public companies financial statements. Therefore, an external audit conducted to increase investor confidence in the reliability of public companies' financi...

The aim of the research and analyses was to present the design process of industrial facilities, that takes into account their impact on the existing environment in order to limit the impact of the designed facility on the landscape. Industrial architecture work is usually carried out without taking the surrounding landscape into consideration. The proper analyses of the land for investment and its surroundings allows to develop a design strategy. Appropriate arrangement of isolating greenery allows to create natu...

At present, in the energy sector, the development and introduction of clean, safe, affordable energy-efficient technologies requires significant efforts and long time even for small scale projects. Sustainable and efficient use of energy requires increasing the share of renewable energy sources, use of clean generation technologies. Most countries face the following energy problems: the use of environmentally harmful energy sources that pollute the atmosphere, periodic interruptions in the electricity supply, heat...

The risk of having a musculoskeletal injury or work-related disorder may be high in dental practice. Sit-down dentistry is not without potential harm to the dentist or if equipment or other constraints create postural problems. Surveys of musculoskeletal disorders of dentists are few, and lower limbs pathology is sometimes neglected. {{The aim}} of this paper is to investigate occupational health problems involving lower limbs in Romanian dentists who work in Constanta city. {{Method}}. A pre-tested, self-administ...

Management accounting and the data obtained from it are used for internal management of the company. This way of accounting is not regulated by law; its form may differ from company to company. Current form of management accounting implies the integration of several areas. These areas include cost accounting, financial accounting, controlling, financial plans, financial analysis, price calculations, budgets, etc. This paper deals only with the areas of financial analysis in context of management accounting. Using ...

The article discusses the issue of improving handling of complaints concerning the qualitative incompatibility of fiscal devices manufactured for the retail industry. The author described the legal aspect of the issue based on the regulations in force in Poland. Taking into account the method of accounting and the rules of complaint procedure in consumer sales, he classified and characterized value and material claims. He described in detail the conditions for organizing and conducting service activities for the c...

Today more than ever, it can be considered that the management of non-financial key performance indicators is a process of constant improvement in the quality aspect of entire processes, service, products and people. The researcher expects the findings to shed light on the research and to guide future research in determining a standard for non-financial key performance indicators used in a way to communicate information as a single version. By standardising common non-financial key performance indicators, all smal...

This work is dedicated to the formation of the management strategy of human resources of Government autonomic health institution "Children's Republican Clinical Hospital of Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan" on the basis of the implementation of the principles of process management using strategic management tools. The relevance of the study is the transition to a new stage of development of the institution in connection with the completion of the implementation of the regional program of modernizati...

Managerial factors with a particular influence on the exploitation technologies of cattle for meat and milk are largely dependent on the exploitation systems implemented in the farms, because the rigorous compliance of the farm activities contributes to the formation of conditional reflexes regarding the rest, feeding and drinking of the cattle. A particularly important role is played by the nutrition of pregnant females who in the last three weeks of gestation will be fed differently depending on the expected max...

The individuality of the manager, his personal disposition (psychological, social, physical, professional), his / her abilities, skills and knowledge is decisive for the particular person's deployment in a real crisis situation. The manager has to manage not only routine but is also responsible for managing the situation endangering the lives of people, causing extensive material damage and, eventually, rehabilitation of affected organizations. In such situations it is necessary to replace managerial management (l...

Managing the firmВ’s physical evidence includes everything tangible-from the physical facilities to brochures and business cards and the way organizationsВ’ personnel are dressed. The physical evidence can fall into different categories such as facility exterior includes what includes exterior design, signage, parking, landscaping and surrounding environment, facility interior what includes elements such as interior design, equipment, signage, layout, air quality and temperature, colours, music, scents and other t...

The article deals with one of the eternal issues of the theory and practice of literary translation: “What happens to a literary original after it has been translated?” The answer to this question could be probably found through interdisciplinary approach which takes into consideration not only exclusively translation categories and literary translation traditions but also broad literary, cultural and political contexts of the target text. The subject of the present research is the experience and results of fo...

The aim of the research is to estimate the size and saturation of the labor market with companies, which have progressive human resource services in their management structure. The main hypothesis of the research is that the HR service development rate is determined by the dynamics and the speed of change in the management sphere of the company. The development level of the HR services is higher at stable companies, functioning at the market during the phase of active formation of the labor management theory and p...

The purpose of the article is how use of marketing analyzes in political marketing. Research question: what marketing methods and analyzes are used in the creation of strategy and political marketing political in Slovakia. The methodology we use are current scientific studies and own research to identify which analyzes are used in practice, these findings are used to evaluate and create conclusions. The main objective is identifying and research marketing analysis to be used in Slovakia. We have identified which m...

The relevance of social media is increasing every year. Social media is an im-portant channel for marketing communication of airlines all over the world. In modern environment, social media ensures fast and purposeful reach of target market. However, the extent of communication in social media in case of airlines in Central and Eastern Europe remains unspecified. Such a lack of knowledge supposed the purpose of this pa-per: to analyse marketing communication in social media in case of airlines in Central and Easte...

The current educational system and market economy orientation, in the context of the European UnionВ’s educational policy, create an interconnected and complex relation. Therefore, the integral topic of the European educational system is to flexibly react to socio-political changes and increase a nationВ’s productivity. Thus, pressures from the economy significantly influence not only educational policy, but also pedagogical theory and practice. Schools and universities increasingly adopt the new public management...

One of the contemporary famous architect Le Corbusier pointed out the time dimensions in architecture. He described it in his theoretical studies Vers une architecture first published in 1923 (English version titled Towards a New Architecture). In the same time some modern visionary composers reacted the references between space and music underlining a spacious character of sounds and inventing the new forms based on the spacious dimensions of music. My paper is about the possible connections between modern music ...

In the article potential possibilities and real successes of Russia in the mastery of the Arctic, first of all in the energy direction, are examined. Structural components of the article are the role of Russia in the mastery of the Arctic; the basic directions of international collaboration, in which Russia is interested under the conditions of geopolitical instability in the XXI century. In the light of numerous economic and political risks the author stimulates attention in the eastern foreshortening of the Arct...

The research focuses on the study and the identification of significant relationships between the observed peaks of the creative activity in such fields as art, music, literature, philosophy, science and technology. To establish the relationship between the development of cultural fields and development of society the structural-demographic theory was used, according to which a state goes through integration and disintegration phases during its existence. According to this, we propose the hypothesis that a phase o...

The paper presents mathematical model of the changing age structure of the population of the region is submitted. The population is considered as a system consisting of three groups: working age, young age and elderly age. The model is a system of differential equations with respect to shares of the above three age groups in the general population and the corresponding initial conditions. The model parameters are the coefficients of fertility, mortality and age-shifting, obtained by processing statistical demograp...

The aim of this work is to build a mathematical model of the dynamics and mutual influence of the population and environmental factors – pollution of the atmosphere and surface water bodies – on an urbanized territory. The paper proposes a simulation model of dynamics and interaction of external and internal directions in biosphere-compatible city activities. The external direction of city’s activities is removal of resources from the Biosphere and emission of waste polluting water, air and soil into it. The ...

The governments of all countries are pressing towards improving of the welfare of their citizens. The high level of welfare demonstrates the right direction and good ongoing socio-economic policy. For many decades, welfare has been evaluated mainly in terms of economic factors, with the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the main metric for gauging the quality of peopleВ’s lives. Researchers are seeking to assess more precisely the welfare of the population, avoiding usual economic indicators. The interest in alterna...

Recent years have shown the increased importance in Corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting, especially among large multinational corporations. The European Di-rective 2014/95/EU requires that so-called ‘large public-interest entities’ – companies with more than 500 employees – start reporting on their non-financial indicators. How-ever there is a ‘significant flexibility’ in the disclosure of non-financial information, since no agreed-upon guidelines on CSR reporting exist. As companies are free t...

In the age of globalization, international loans and sovereign default probabilities have become one of the main topics of finance. Many severe economic crises have occurred on financial markets in the last decades. Therefore, the problem of measuring countriesВ’ default probabilities due to their external debt obligations has attracted the interest of many researchers. In recent literature there are many studies that use quantitative methods and machine learning techniques to predict countries defaults. Past stud...

This paper provides a methodology for assessing sustainability performance by using financial reports of organisations. In this process, we applied Talcott ParsonsВ’ AGIL paradigm, which is based on system theory and states that the continuity of a social system requires the balance performance between all four components of the system: adaptation (A), goal attainment (G), integration (I) and latent pattern maintenance (L) or values [1]. In her doctoral thesis, Roostalu proved that the AGIL paradigm constitutes a ...

The paper seeks to present the numerical composition of the mechanical park for the South West Oltenia region, in a national context, on components: tractors, plows, cultivators, sowing machines, sprayers and dredgers, combines, straw and hay balers, forage feeders. At the same time, the load on the machine is also presented. The editing of the study is based on the comparison method, using two variants: time comparison and space comparison. For the period 2013-2015, a dynamic series of three components and multia...

Now studying of innovative process is connected with research of model of the open innovation. This model answers calls of the modern market, allows to keep the speed of development of new products demanded in today's conditions. It works on the principle of broad cooperation with third parties: customers, suppliers, research institutes, laboratories and competitors. Inside the company, the work is based on the integration between the departments involved in the innovation process, using different tools, such as i...

The D?browa Basin is a geographical and historical area established in the 19th century and located in southern Poland, with rich sports traditions. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to present the profiles of sportspeople from the D?browa Basin who in the period of communism won medals for Poland at the Olympic Games. They are competitors born on the territory of the D?browa Basin or in a given Olympic year representing sports clubs, associations and organizations from the area of the Basin. A basic research me...

Russian law gradually begins to form legal norms in the field of tax mediation. Tax mediation is not recognized at the legislative level. For this reason, the question of the use of mediation for tax disputes deserves close consideration. At the present time in Russia the problems of application of procedures of mediation in tax dispute are frequently discussed. In modern conditions of formation of judicial practice on tax disputes the issue of pre-trial settlement of disputes acquires the increasing relevance. Th...

The paper focuses on some medical and sociological problems of Inborn Gender Identity Disorder Syndrome (IGIDS), the so-called transsexualism. It reflects on an in-depth reading of publications exploring the question of transsexualism, as well as the experiences resulting from medical care of such individuals. In short, the analysis bases on both medical experience in diagnostics and treatment of people with this syndrome, as well as several publications in the field of social sciences. The aim of the paper is an ...

Mentality is one of the most significant characteristics of each nation, and the au-thors prove it in their article. There is no agreement among scientists about the essence and nature of national character. Different researches study the problem of the national character by different ways. Every person is a part of a class, religious community, eth-nos, state and some other community. The realization that different nations differ from each other with “its traits of a soul”, happens in a cultural history fairl...

The paper deals with metacognition and metacognitive skills in university teacher students. The main goal is to identify the key didactic competences of students which lead to the development of their critical thinking. The level of pre-graduate students’ critical thinking is a determining factor for developing of this thinking in pupils at elementary and secondary schools (ISCED 2 and 3), for which teacher students are prepared. Metacognition can be defined in various ways. Almost all definitions take in consid...

Being a multidimensional and complex issue metaphor has been considered frequent in fiction but rare and even non-existent in official discourse by classical books on stylistics for many years. Though many researchers still describe official communication as unemotional different political and business leaders nowadays often use various language ways of making their speeches more expressive including such figure of speech as metaphor. The research analyzes the use of the metaphor in business discourse which is rev...

The article deals with the topic of metaphoric aspect of flowers nomination, reflecting anthropological links between different semiotic systems. We regard the metaphoric field of flowers from the point of view of semiotics and symbolism. The main aim is to present the results of a comparison of two sign systems – the systems of linguistic and flower languages. The main task of our research is closely connected with the possibility of distinguishing and describing the so called language of flowers. We suggest th...

Theoretical framework. The research is based on cognitive approach to metaphors and narratives. It touches on the problem of metaphorical and narrative foundations of phenomena "discrimination" and "hate speech". The objective of this research was comparative analysis of "friend" and "alien" metaphors and narratives about interaction with them reflecting different interpretative repertoires of perception of other person as a "friend" and an "alien". Methods. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used: cat...

Within the framework of cognitive-discourse approach, the authors focus on the conceptual effects of metaphors used in commercial advertising for the sake of sales promotion. The article gives insights into the construction of pragmatically-orientated mental representations activated by metaphors as means of persuasion and entertaining the target audience. The authors chiefly draw on Text World Theory [1], [6], [7], [10], [11], [12] and Conceptual Blending Theory [5] because their heuristics can provide an adequat...

Theoretical framework. The research is based on the psychological conception of metaphors as a way of social cognition. It touches on the problem of distinctions of representations about "friend" and "alien" persons with different ethnocultural appearance reflected in metaphors and narratives. The objective of this research was comparative analysis of metaphors of "friends" and "aliens" with different ethnocultural appearance of persons with different stratificational characteristics (gender, age, level of educati...

The theme chosen by us (in this case, learning French language by Russian students of Agro-Technological Institute and Environmental faculty of RUDN University, Moscow) should make an accent on cultural aspects of gardening helping students to solve their life and professional situation, to be integrated into the professional world community. The main theoretical position is the idea that the incorporation of historical and cultural aspects helps to form flexibility and tolerance, and at the same time, self-belief...