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Reconstruction, regeneration and modernization of the settlements in the Czech Republic is the current process. The improvement of the existing housing stock, including the improvement of the social life of our settlement sis one of the long-term goals in the development of our cities. The settlements in most of our cities do not correspond with the current requirements of modern trends and modern way of life of people in the 20th century. In the recent time also positive view of life on the settlement (mainly on ...

R?dolfs BlaumanisВ’ personality as well as literary works created by him lay a firm foundation for the Latvian classical literature. WriterВ’s views and texts reflect the rural and urban environment of the end of the 19th c. and the beginning of the 20th century, focusing on the juxtaposition of townspeople and countrymen, the patriarchal and industrial life rhythms, addressing family and marriage problems, as well as exploring the relationships between the Latvians, Baltic Germans, Russians, and Jews. Folklore is...

The country's public debt – a multifaceted characteristic of the economic situation of the country. The statistics of public debt of the Russian Federation for 10 years was reviewed in the article. The study identified several reasons to doubt the validity of the magnitude of the debt burden for the Russian economy. It was concluded that in current Russian conditions a peak of decision-making on the debt had been reached. Over the past four years the debt has increased 2.3 times, while the state guarantees incre...

The article justifies the classification of professional-business letters for linguodidactic purposes. Discourse analysis of business letters is a way to establish methodically significant features of the texts of this genre and analyze their essence and significance for learning the reception and production of business letters. The features of professional-business letters include their function, subject, composition, social characteristic and communication channel. The performed analysis of 80 texts also allows ...

Quantitative methods applied to corpus data allow researchers to evaluate the represented results. Statistical association measures are used to evaluate the collocation strength and to produce lists of most plausible collocations. Such information about wordsВ’ collocability supplied with statistical data can be used in many areas of computational and applied linguistics. The paper deals with the description of an integrated Russian collocations database that will contain automatically extracted collocations evalu...

The research objective is in revealing thematic affiliation of standards of stable comparisons, motivation of comparison, the importance of these units in the Russian language consciousness according to questioning of native speakers, as well as to investigate features of their functioning in the modern Russian speech. The analysis of Russian language units was carried out against the background of kindred and not kindred languages. To achieve the goal, the authors have identified the structure of standards of the...

Short stories and novels by Waclaw Sieroszewski were periodically reviewed in critical and bibliographic sections of the leading Russian magazines and journals of the time: “??????? ?????” (Russkaja mysl’) (Moscow), “??????? ?????????” (Russkoe bogatstvo), “??? ?????” (Mir Bozhij), “?????” (Zhizn'), “????? ?????” (Novoe slovo), “??????? ??????” (Vestnik znanija) (all - St.Petersburg) and others. The most intensively the works of the Polish writer were published and reviewed in the period f...

Regarding information and communication technologies improvement, the global e-commerce market has already developed. This market almost has not geographical boundaries and is in demand 24 hours per day seven days a week. All countries pay attention to the electronic commerce development. E-commerce might be one of the drivers for the retail trade revival, improving competitiveness, and ultimately the development of the Russian economy. The article reveals the place of Russian e-commerce, determines trends and pro...

The issue of Russian influence in the Romanian Principalities, one of the most delicate and nebulous, with great emotional impact until today, was often the subject of many spiteful reactions, but unfortunately, only the few truly specialized studies documented and analytical. Political, legal and institutional Russian influence, defined today in the formula „political culture”, it was seen from the angle of positive-negative, without understanding the nature and its role to generate a constant concern and stud...

The article presents the problems of RussiaВ’s foreign policy governance between the February and October revolutions of 1917 in the Russian liberalsВ’ opinion. The liberal opposition supported the government in the main issues of tactics and strategy of the foreign policy activity. One can speak about the identity of positions of the Russian liberals and autocratic government and Ministry of Foreign Affairs on a range of foreign policy issues only in the context of the time period of years 1907-1914. The liberals...

The practice of inclusive education gets increasingly obvious in gains more support and interest in education system in Russia as well as all the world over. There is a distinctly declared agreement in the world that all children have the right to education regardless of their race, gender, nationality, disability, etc. In this regard, the emergence of a system of inclusive education is, on the one hand, an important step towards the elimination of discrimination against healthy children and children with disabili...

Today information technologies provide good opportunities for computerization in the financial sector for financial services and individual investment. The majority of Russians look at investment process as very difficult and risky, therefore preferring to deposit their money. To support this argument, the growth of the individual deposits for the period from 01.01.2012 to 01.01.2016, grew by 98% [1]. On the contrary, the number of private investors in the Russian stock market is less than one percent of the count...

The article is devoted to the role of the Russian style in Russian art history. Russian style is discussed as an example of national historicism. The main features and attributes of Russian style and their expression in architecture, art and design are described. Stages of Russian style development are described, including “Society for the Revival of artistic Russia” as the most completed stage of Russian style concept forming. The idea of recreating the image of Holy Russia was supported by state. Fedorovsky ...

The main goal of the study was to identify changes, peculiarities and problems in the life of Russian women in their third and fourth age (50-70 years old and 70+ years old correspondingly), the research subjects included problems of employment, health, psychological self-assessment of the current life, self-identification. The study presents the analysis of the part of the data collected during the all-Russian representative survey "Russian Monitoring of the Economic Situation and Health of the Population" by the...

The article considers the problems and prospects of foreign policy of Russia in the CIS. This region has traditionally been of high priority for Russia's foreign policy after the collapse of the USSR. At the same time, it is noted that for one and half decade after the collapse of the Soviet system, Russia's cooperation with the CIS countries was weak, and the integration initiatives were not convert into practice. The situation began to change in the mid-2000s. During the years 2009-2013 the integration processes...

In Late Antiquity, Sicily became a privileged place of religious changes in the Ancient Mediterranean: the south eastern part of the island is the last frontier of the Byzantine Empire, place of last resistance to Islamic domination. The dimension of the sacred is reflected in a specific socio-political organization of the space and is often configured as a “landscape of power”: in this way, some examples of cave churches in the middle of the Island dedicated to the cult of saints, can be explained, many of wh...

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

The architectural and art historical heritage of Salona, the capital city of the Roman province of Dalmatia, is enormous in scope. A considerable amount of data on the research sites in the city and serendipitous discoveries of its art objects, has however been lost. This study engages with the dispersed data in the literature and archives by an interdisciplinary approach that results in a synthesized work which includes previously unpublished documents and lost objects. The sources in this study are historical-li...

Geography education in Bulgaria is conducted in conditions of centralized planning. It is organized in a system which obtains certain parameters – content, struc-ture, organization and environment. The most important factor defining the geography education statute is state educational policy which is a result of social, economic and political conditions. Public needs, nature of geography science and the essence of geog-raphy knowledge and cognition find their particular reflection in the mission of geogra-phy ed...

Cooperation between schools and parents is a broad and extremely important part of school life. It is not only the involvement of parents in school life through the School Board or the participation of parents in regular information meetings with teachers in classrooms. The effort of the school is to impress parents directly in school, to share common joys, to solve common problems in education as well as to educate their children and cooperate within the interests of children. These processes facilitate a persona...

The aim of this article is to demonstrate the significance and theoretical aspects of 3D-reconstructions of badly preserved ancient architectural masterpieces for architectural theory and modern architectural practice. The contemporary interpretation of classical architecture is mainly based on the foundation which was created by architects and art historians in the XVIII-XIX centuries. The archaeological discoveries in the first half of the XX century were also important for neoclassic architecture. However moder...

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

Air transport is currently one of the fastest-growing service sectors. People constantly travel for various reasons (tourism, business) to distant locations worldwide. Consequently, analyses of data concerning both passenger and cargo air traffic is of great importance in designing development strategies for regions with airports in their resources. The main purpose of this study is to prepare a forecast of air passenger transport in the one of the airport which is located in south-western of Poland. There are ver...

Second Language Learning is thought to be a fast developing sphere of applied linguistics. The increase in international contacts in all spheres of communication has provided an abundant practical material to analyze verbal communication and new approaches to teaching English as a foreign language. Contemporary studies in linguistics and psychology have proved that verbal communication should be considered an interaction of people with the intention to produce a motivated persuasive affect on the communication par...

At the beginning of World War II, Hungary was still keeping its neutrality. However, in June 1941, it entered the war against the Soviet Union as a result of urging by the Germans and pushing by the Hungarian military leadership. The government was afraid that Hitler would support the neighbouring states (Romania, Slovakia) in their territorial disputes against Hungary if Hungary did not take part in the war. Hungary did not have any conflict with the Western Powers. In December, 1941, however, Great-Britain procl...

Secularization is a profound transformation of the society, in the sense of restructuring the relations between society and religion. Contemporary society are marked by a decrease of the role of religious institutions in the sphere of public life, by an accentuation of the general processes of individualization and rationalization as well as by the replacement of the traditional religious with innovative religious convictions and practices. The mutations in the field of values, norms, beliefs and practices of cont...

Third-countries migration is considered to be the security threat to the receiving countries. This hypothesis is widely accepted mostly by the public in the receiving states. However, there are only few scientific studies aiming to verify the hypothesis. With missing evidence that would confirm or deny the theory, securitization of the topic in the EU and particularly in Slovakia as a country with limited immigration history raises. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the nexus migration-security more deeply and...

The Slovak Republic provides the security for an every citizen throughout its territory. At the local level, the community is concerned about creating a safe environment within its territory. One of the ways to create such an environment is to use the services of municipal police. It helps to ensure security and to reduce illegal activities at the local self-government level. Municipal police is a unit responsible for maintaining law and order in the municipalities, environmental protection, and fulfillment of tas...

Agri-farms of Tatarstan Republic (Russian region) have a positive dynamics of development and stably take its place among the first four constituents of the Russian Federation. Having cultivated 2.3% of agricultural lands in Russia, Tatarstan provides 4.7% of agricultural production, in the amount of 188.8 billion rubles. Agricultural sector becomes profitable, and begins to entice such a great investors as "Krasny Vostok Agro", "Kulonstroy", "Zolotoy Kolos", "Tatfondbank", "Agrosila Group", et al., who invest mul...

Cardiovascular diseases rank among chronic diseases that may have negative impact not only on the individual's economic activities but they may have radical impact also on the individual's common life and on its quality. The expenses on the therapy of heart and vessel diseases in the Czech Republic are paid predominantly from public health insurance and partially also in form of financial contribution of the citizens, consisting particularly in payment for medicines. This article, based on the implemented project ...

The poster includes the partial results acquired within the GAJU 029/2016/S project – Life style of women in private sex business and their (self-)reflection. The main goal of the study consisted in studying and analyzing selected aspects of life style of women in private sex business. Private sex business is a very insufficiently research area, also due to high level of anonymity it provides to the women and to the clients. However, in view of the low mapping level and the relevant issue of sexual assistance, t...

The objective of the paper is to present an overview of the findings about the attitudes to (and perceptions of) sexuality in adults with intellectual disability (ID). The overview was produced by means of an analysis, comparison, discussion and synthesis of relevant scientific findings in accordance with the defined criteria. The search procedure was performed in line with the specifics of the research strategy using keywords; the search focused fulltexts of scientific papers published between 2000 and 2017 (prim...

Inequalities and disparities are essential parts of each society. However, the evolution in the first thirty years after WWII finally seemed optimistic in most spatial and social aspects. The last forty years of social evolution have been connected with vast developing polarization. The social dimension of current society is significantly changing not only in our country but also in whole Europe and other parts of the developed world. We live in the era when the demand for social and other securities is increasing...

The aim of our study is to define and interpret macro-structural changes in a contemporary society that have determined a transformation of the way of life of selected social strata, and pushed their social status down. The authorВ’s intention is to highlight an individual impact of social changes, with a focus on the phenomenon of social exclusion of selected strata that consists of ever increasing number of individuals; that means their reduced chances to participate in economic, social and cultural life of the ...

In the history (of philosophy, art) there have been different ideas of the body and soul and their mutual relations. First opinions appeared in antiquity, continued in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the modern age, until the present time. The body was mostly the object of investigation, it was examined as a whole and so were studied its parts. In Plato’s philosophy, the body was considered material and the soul intangible. Although he found the soul to be more important, it was not possible to separate them. ...

The quality of life of a person with severe visual impairment can be and is influenced by a large number of variable factors. One of these factors is the personality of a person with severe visual impairment, which is then further influenced by the environment in which he grows up and then moves. In this paper we will focus on two / respectively three basic variables - the personality of an individual with severe visual impairment, his / her family and then his / her employment. The family of the people with visua...

Background: Chronic pain complaints are modulated by many psychological and psychosocial factors. Low back pain is a complex multidimensional phenomenon. The aim of the investigation was to determine if the personality features and the subjective feeling of pain management participate in the variance of depressive symptoms and automatic negative thoughts at chronic musculoskeletal pain patients. Method: 84 musculoskeletal pain patients of Pain Treatment Outpatient Clinic (duration since initial onset of pain>3 mon...

Cultural heritage in a local and global perspective has a significant impact on the overall development of local communities as well as of the whole regions. The authors remind the sociological concept of culture, the importance of culture for society and for the identity of the individual. Culture is a product and expression of a particular social body, and at the same time it is the condition for its development. In common sense, culture is often understood very narrowly only as an aesthetic area. However, the s...

The relevance of the study is determined by the need to select indicators that assess the level of housing and communal development of municipalities in the metropolitan area and methods for assessing the degree of interterritorial differences in the housing and municipal development of the urban agglomeration in order to identify these differences and, subsequently, to carry out a set of measures for their equalization for harmonious development agglomeration as a whole. Based on the main alignment objectives and...

Cancer is a dreaded disease due to its magnitude, prevalence and incidence. In connection with this, a number of theories have emerged that explain the possible causes of the origin and development of this disease. Enormous burden enters to life of cancer patients with the onset of disease. Disease has not only a biological, but also a psychic, social and spiritual component, and disease affects all these components of life at the same time. It is not just the diagnosis itself and its impact on the health of the i...

Social networks are a noteworthy opportunity to build a more caring and responsible society, a practice that is assimilated by learning to use the Web in a conscious way. The media competence takes the form of expertise both to active participation to the Web and to society. The focus is on the need to acquire the know-how to exploit the media, with particular reference to social networks, in a clever way so as to meke them intelligent instruments (Rheingold, 2013). From an educational point of view, social networ...

The purpose of this research is to study English language learning autonomy of the tertiary students with English major, faculty of humanities and social sciences, Suan Sunanda Rajabhat University. The sample of the study consists of 261 English major students (freshmen n = 74, 28%, sophomore n = 71, 27%, junior n = 67, 26%, senior n = 49, 19%) The data collection includes distributing the questionnaire the students. Mean and standard deviation are applied to analyze the data. These statistics work on the assumpti...

Self-efficacy is a motivational variable associated with increased school achievement. It can be related with nonverbal communication consisting in gestures that accompany or replace verbal communication. This study explored gender differences in the relationships between the gestures expressed during Romanian lessons, the level of self-efficacy and school achievement in primary school students. In this study participated 161 students enrolled in first, second, third and fourth grade (aged between 7 and 11 years, ...

In the near-native proficiency stage[26], the oral production of L2 and subsequent speakers is slightly different from the native speaker production, phonetically (foreign “accent”[13], [24]), pragmalinguistically and sociopragmatically[16]. The standard Italian language in the Croatian Istra is a minority language of lesser sociolinguistic prestige and reduced domains of usage[7], [14], [21], [23]. Language contact occurs between Italian, the Istrovenetian dialect, the Croatian standard language and the Chaka...

This contribution is connected with the deviant behaviour of children from socially excluded areas in the Czech Republic between 14 -15 years of age and their self-evaluation of such inappropriate behaviour. The theoretical introductory part of the work characterises the most common social pathologic phenomena which are more frequent during puberty. Also the issues of socially excluded areas will be discussed including the social handicaps, which are overt among children from these areas. A certain amount of atten...

The article deals with the problem of semantic relations of definite/indefinite nouns based on the example of the Russian printed mass media. These relations have rich potential for the investigation of this category from the point of cognitive approach. The novelty of the study is in the authors' attempt to represent the frame structure of morpho-syntactic category of definiteness/indefiniteness in the language of modern Russian media texts. The ground for the study of the above mentioned category is in its conce...

From the beginning of his book Le discours de lВ’action (1977), Paul Ricoeur empha-sised the fact that a В‘philosophy of actionВ’ is not a В‘science of actionВ’. He underlines that the practical ethical dimension is the specific kind of discourse that the question of ac-tion has had since the ancient era in philosophy. The dialectics between the practical dimension both as a В‘physicalВ’ dimension and as an В‘ethicalВ’ dimension have not only been the basis for the rationalisation and differentiation of philosophy...

Why is it possible to reasonably ask В‘How do you loosen a screw?В’ while it is not rea-sonable to ask В‘How do you raise your arm?В’ For Ricoeur, the exercise of a capacity does not simply result from knowledge. In fact, I do not В‘knowВ’ my body when I am acting: I am able to act; that is all. I am able to do it because В‘I canВ’. The corporal events В‘I knowВ’ are not what В‘I doВ’. However, if a paralysed man were to ask the question В‘How do you raise your arm?В’, it would have the same meaning and logical ar...

For Ricoeur, the discourse of action – more specifically, the ‘say your doing’ – can and must be examined from different levels and from different traditional philosophical per-spectives, as follows: (1) conceptual analysis (i.e. the analysis of concepts used to de-scribe action), (2) logical analysis of statements of action (i.e. the proposition by which action is expressed and represented), and (3) the logic of action (i.e. the argumentative construction through which a strategy of action is built and just...

Servant leadership is a philosophy that includes methods, principles, practices and many useful concepts that can be applied to build better organizations, help businesses run more effectively and efficiently, to protect and encourage well-being. The term servant leadership is firstly used in essay “The servant as leader" and is created by Robert Greenleaf in 1970 [5]. Servant leadership is important for its approach and views of organizations, individuals and communities, it focuses on their growth and well-bei...