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This article is dealing with the spatial differences of the European population ageing. The research is focused on spatial differences of ageing process between 28 European Union countries. The analyses on this spatial level are working with the creation of cartogram method for processing of the demographical data. We can use ArcGIS and his version ArcMap as a complete system for information for better processing the spatial data by the help of cartogram method. Our principal main is to group the all 28 EU members...

The article describes the main spatial properties of traditional cultural landscape of the Evenks in South Yakutia. The study is based on the of field research conducted on key areas of Evenks in South Yakutia – interviews, representation modelling, observations – and the use of Sentinel 2A remote sensing for mapping and contextualising the geographic environment of living places. The characteristic features of the territory of traditional use of natural resources is described; more especially the relations be...

This article deals with the specific features of medical net discourse. To identify these features, a comparative analysis of literature was made and texts posted on the Internet were also studied. These studies made it possible to identify the following specific features of medical net discourse: its linguo-therapeutic focus (i.e. focus on assistance to patients, prevention or correction of pathological conditions); subjective sphere heterogeneity and targeted openness (different educational background of patient...

In the science and practice of management, attention has been drawn to the problems of assessing and ensuring the effectiveness of managing organizations under the influence of risk factors. As evidenced by domestic and international experience, most managerial decisions are made in a risk environment, with a number of factors: uncertainties in the external and internal environment, elements of chance, lack of information, which causes the actual results to deviate from the planned ones. To level these deviations,...

The following article gives a picture of the history and current state of the entertainment gaming industry, which is rapidly developing and changing in these few years. Compares features of gaming devices and consoles, methods of distribution of its products to consumers and describes the modern selling models such as microtransactions. The article deals about current sales and marketing models used in this industry. It also focuses on the big problem in the gaming industry which is piracy. In the analytical part...

This article is devoted to the study of the concept “Siberia” and its specifics of visualization in paintings on the example of the contemporary Krasnoyarsk artist Anton Dovnar. Of particular interest is the fact that the authors propose to consider the concept of “Siberia” not on the verbal, but rather on the visual level. The relevance of the study is in determining the additional possibilities of forming a regional identity, in expanding the characteristics and content of the concept “Siberia” owing...

In the scientific study, author discusses recognition as a forensic method, which in terms of criminal law also constitutes an important procedural step. Scientific study is one of the outcomes of the research project registered by the Academy of the Police Force in Bratislava under the number 167, entitled "Implementing the recognition in the police practice". The research was conducted from 2012 and it was completed in 2016. The collection of empirical material was done by using a structured questionnaire and th...

The article analyzes translational reading in terms of translation studies, didactics of translation, personality- and activity-oriented, sociocultural and discursive approaches, which made it possible to identify specific features of this type of reading. For translators of scientific and technical texts, reading is an important work stage, constituting a more complex type of speech activity and having its own specific features that distinguish it from unprofessional reading. In terms of the competence approach, ...

The article contains the comparative analysis of the entrepreneurship development in the resource regions. Basing on the statistic analysis of indicators, a classification of the resource regions according to the level of economic diversification (the share of processing industry) and to the level of entrepreneurship activity has been formulated. The indicators have been grouped on the level of business activity, concentration of enterprises in the industry, productivity and investment activity. The correlation an...

This paper addresses intercultural business communication in the times of globalisation. The research aims to describe the peculiarities of British, American, and Russian lingua-cultures against the background of English professional language as a component of the linguistic system and one of the social dialect types. English professional linguistic culture is commonly not viewed as a separate type of linguaculture. The authors consider it as a subculture comprising such components as speech etiquette, traditions,...

Background: There are not many phenomena in life that are common to all people. One of such phenomena is death, but people’s perception of death differs, even though everybody is aware of their own mortality. In the formation of attitudes to death, which can be positive, negative and neutral, the spirituality of the individual is crucial, which means the life experience, the way of perception and personal assessment of what goes above and beyond us. The aim of this article is to present partial results of the re...

The glance we threw at the cinema production Life of Pi intended to reveal various aspects connected with the topic of spirituality and the problems raised by the story in this sense and in connection with the concept of truth. We had taken up this analysis because we noticed the predominance of aspects linked with the spiritual, which is an ever-present strain at the back of the charactersВ’ minds no matter how trivial the subject of a given conversation. Also, the way the notion of truth became problematic but a...

Job involvement is one of most useful instruments that companies can use to increase work productivity, since involved employee work loyalty creates positive environment for company growth. Engaged employees work better, are considering less job change options, feel higher personal growth and wellbeing together with the company. If employee is engaged in company work, he becomes motivated to care about what happens in the company, contributes to company goal accomplishment and tries to work as good as he can. Enga...

European countries support their national economies and entrepreneurs in various ways. Goals include GDP growth, employment growth, and the development of public services. The article focuses on the various types of state aid. The states are limited by the regulations of the European Union: under Article 107 (1) TFEU, state aid is incompatible with the internal market and is therefore generally prohibited. An exemption from the prohibition may be granted on the basis of block exemptions or the decision of the Euro...

The paper deals with the necessity of integrating financial systems of state corporations into financial systems of the world in general and separate countries in particular, mutual benefits of this process outlined. Financial architecture plays a significant role in the development of the world economy consisting of a great number of national and regional economies having different levels of innovative development. The world financial architecture is subject to constant reforms, adapting to new approaches connect...

The draft of “The Conception of State Policy in the Religious Sphere for 2017-2020” was developed in Kazakhstan on behalf of the Head of State, but it has not yet been approved by the Parliament. Nevertheless, it is obvious that it will be rubber-stamped, like most other documents initiated by the President. The purpose of this paper is to analyze what changes in the sphere of social relations and, in particular, in the religious situation in the country, this conception embodies. Methodology. In the course of...

Solvency of health insurance company depends on tariff politics that should be adequate to value of risks insured which depends on number of claims received. InsuredВ’s diseases can occur simultaneously or in various combinations so claims in health insurance are depended. Traditional actuarial methods based on calculation of proportion of insured with each disease among insured individuals donВ’t take into account possible dependencies between diseases occurrence. Multivariate probit models are the contemporary e...

Stereotypic ideas about social characteristics of a person have universal and nationally specific features. The research objective was in revealing stereotypic ideas of the one who is considered В‘a successful personВ’, В‘a successful manВ’ and В‘a successful womanВ’ in the Russian linguistic culture against the background of the Chinese one. To achieve this goal, a questionnaire was submitted to young and middle-aged people, speakers of Russian and Chinese languages with higher education. The survey involved 76 R...

The relevance of this study is due to the need to improve the methods of industrial policy formation.The development of industrial policy is the area of strategic management of the state and economic entities. The application of mechanisms and instruments of industrial policy should be based on the principles of regulation, coordination, promotion of the most priority areas of activity. Due to the limited resources of any kind, as well as the type of tasks to be solved, the problem of selecting priority options co...

The article presents the conceptual framework for strategic management of the portfolio of innovative projects. We determined the definitions, aims, tasks, principles and stages of strategic portfolio management, the main directions of concept realization, methodical and instrumental base. This article proposes a mechanism for the formation of a resource-saving system, which contains an analysis of the factors influencing the effective use of resources, modification of the current resource-saving processes. We vie...

In many countries housing systems are in transition towards privatization, deregulation and decentralization of public tasks. These transformations in institutional and economic context have led to a more market-oriented social housing management. Public housing system in Poland is based on a local government-dominated social rented sector in which the social landlords' functions are in the vast majority filled directly with municipalities. These entities integrate the functions of local authorities with the role ...

For a long time, agriculture has played an essential role in the development of rural areas, but agricultural activities are no longer the only option for the development of these areas, "agriculture is no longer the vertebral column of rural economies." For the next period attention should be directed to: the development of rural villages and farms; support for processing agricultural products; relocating young people to rural areas; Development of activities in the tourism sector; Creating SMEs in rural areas. R...

The article studies concepts of “company competitiveness”, “strategic sustainability of a company”, and analyses their interrelation. Relevant issues of supporting competitiveness of printing companies have been found out by signs of micro-, meso-, and macro level. Basic ways of coping with the found out problems are defined. It has been established that under conditions of competition growth at the printed product market maximization of strategic sustainability of the company is becoming a critical factor...

In the study of professional choice of a graduate of particular importance are researchers of household strategies in the education sphere. As the household strategies, we consider the effective usage of available resources (economic, social and cultural assets) in reaching the goal. The goal, in this aspect, is defined as the optimal choice of educational and professional paths, taking into account the real possibilities and social benefits. As shown by the results of many sociological types of research when choo...

This study focuses on the birth of the various methodologies concerning the conservation of Street Art. Due to the current commercial success of this artistic movement people have begun to ask how best to conserve the many contemporary artworks painted on walls. Street artists make use of different surfaces when creating their works: canvases, paper posters, stickers and billboards. For the preservation of all works painted on walls the course of action generally taken is to exhibit them in museums. The Smithsonia...

Background: Stress has turn out to be an important topic in academic environment as well as in our society. Many studies, in the field of behavioral science have carried out extensive research on stress and its outcomes and concluded that the topic needed more attention. The profession of medicine and dental medicine are considered extremely stressful for all stages of the medical career. The aim of this study was to identify different factors of stress among dental and medical students at Faculty of Medicine and ...

It is a well-known fact that schenkerian principles of analysis and musical thinking open comprehensions of the musical works that are not reachable by using other methods of analysis. Breaking a piece down into manageable fragments and identifying strategies for sight reading, learning and memorizing are steps that have to be identified and completed that could be possibly leading to the development of the brain functions that are essential to instrument playing but also for the cognitive control of behavior. The...

The article is dedicated to the structural roots of conflicts within modern Russian society. The authors idea is to present consistently the dialectical relationship of economic, political and ideological levels of the order. The article notes that private property is the most important factor of the modern society functioning. It defines social interests and relations, creates the class of owners and generates economic order, which is subsequently legitimized by power structure and ideology. The deformations in e...

The article is devoted to development of ecological tourism on the territories of the Arctic, in the territories located north of the polar circle, and extending to latitudes В± 66В°33'44". As the research methodology used for comparative analysis of projects and programs of development of tourism in the territories of the Arctic. As the base was used for comparison of the program of state and regional support for tourism, social and entrepreneurial initiatives of the local population, as well as commercial projec...

The aim of our study was to assess the relation between anxiety levels, lifestyle characteristics and irritable bowel disease (IBS) in instrumentists, as well as finding the prevalence of symptoms IBS in this group. Material and method. We performed a cross-sectional survey on instrumentalists studying in "Gheorghe Dima" Music Academy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. We used validated questionnaires for music performance anxiety – Music performance anxiety inventory for adolescents and for the irritable bowel disease - th...

The research results of different types of studentsВ’ social activity in the biggest universities of the Ural Federal District are presented in this report. Higher education system in Russia is reformed strictly in accordance with global trends. The ethos of economic efficiency, accountability, standards, productivity, profitability and ubiquitous managerialism dominates in the educational management. Thus, universities are beginning to transform and gradually turn into trans-object industries, which interact with...

Background: The education to the faculty of dental medicine has a special part, the clinical education that require the transfer of learned information into the practice. How learning and teaching take place in the clinical training for the preparation of dental students to progress and to be able to provide patient clinical care on oneВ’s own is a fundamental attribute of dental clinical supervisors. The aim of this study was to assess the studentsВ’ and clinical teachersВ’ perceptions about effective clinical te...

The article is devoted to the problem of studentВ’s cultural self-determination by means of humanitarianly oriented teaching a foreign language. A personВ’s cultural self-determination is the formation of the student as a subject and an object of the public relations, the establishment of the stable relations with the world around us caused by the valuable and semantic contents. The development of the studentsВ’ cultural self-determination in the course of humanitarianly oriented teaching a foreign language repres...

StudentВ’s research work management is work experience-centred and it is intended to mould certain competencies. One of the main competencies in the current social and economic conditions is preparedness to carry out professional activities. The psychological structure of preparedness includes such a component as the ability to self-manage activities. In the Russian science, activities self-management is associated with the characteristics of the professionalВ’s personal qualities structure and with their values, ...

The purpose of this paper is to identify consumers' preferences for Geographical Indication wines from the Mini? M?derat vineyard, wines that are traditionally in the area and at the same time are also km 0, favoring a sustainable development of the area. Two wine centers, Mini? and M?derat, although they are close, shows important differences. Mini? climatic conditions and soil conditions favor the production of quality red wines, and at M?derat, located further north, the climate is less generous and soils more ...

We analyzed the results of field studies in the Tyukhtet District of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The subject of the study is the childhood culture of the indigenous, scarce peoples of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. A group of researchers from Siberian Federal University had studied the Chulym ethnocultural group ("chulymtsy"). The target of the study was Chulym children. The main research methods were field studies and focus groups, which involved observation and expert interviews. The general culture of childhood, the...

Application of molds for creation of glass castings is a common occurrence in work of glass artist. One of the main aims of moldВ’s using is to create new patterns on a surface of glass sample. Generally, clay flower pots with a hole in bottom are used as glass molds where glass of different color is put. As the result, very interesting but absolutely unpredictable pattern, which would never be replicated, appears on a surface of a sample. So, the problem how to create the pattern, which can be replicated, appeare...

The present study aims to study the relationship between emotional intelligence and satisfaction of using speech technology in the future specialists and experts in the field, students at master speech therapy. Participants were 60 subjects, 30 with speech expertise and 30 students preparing for work in this specialization. The methods used in this study were two questionnaires, including a questionnaire in order to investigate the level of emotional intelligence and a questionnaire regarding satisfaction of using...

In his whole, rural tourism includes a wide range of accommodation modalities, of activities, events, festivities, sports and entertainments, all running into an environment with rural specific. Therefore, rural tourism represents an concept that includes the tourist activity organized and managed by the rural local population and which has on base a close relation with human and natural environment. Agrotourism comes, in the frame of rural tourism, as a complementary activity, that fructify the surplus of accommo...

The purpose of this paper is to present issues concerning the status and evolution of the Romanian economy. The study started in this work will continue with other research in this regard. The working methods used by the authors were the data collection, processing, analysis and comparison. The research is based on a bibliography consists of various scientific publications, statistical data, books without claiming to have exhausted the literature on this subject. Economic growth represents the essential engine for...

Since the 2016/2017 school year, the Czech system of education has undergone certain changes. One of them is common education of all children within mainstream education at all school levels, including kindergarten, except for children with the severest physical or mental handicaps. Further changes include compulsory kindergarten attendance in the last year before compulsory school attendance commencement, the right of two-year-olds to attend kindergarten, and employment of nannies in kindergartens. These are majo...

Background. Rate of early miscarriages is about 10-15% worldwide, and immune causes can play an important role in their pathogenesis. Normally Th2 lymphocytes is predominant subpopulation during early stages of pregnancy, while Th1 lymphocytes, which provide activation of cell immunity, are decreased. Regulatory T-lymphocytes (Treg, Th3) maintain tolerance to self-antigens and suppress excessive inflammatory response and also may be involved in pathogenesis of miscarriages. Th17 lymphocytes (Th17) play an importan...

Final energy consumption in Latvian households fluctuated massively because of serious political and social changes in the country between 1990 and 2015; this study explores why final energy consumption trends in Latvia during the last decades, meanwhile in Europe is the opposite situation observed. This paper investigates the downward trend in average household energy consumption of the last 30 years and shows the impact of social factors towards energy consumption. The method applied portrays factors such as lev...

The demand for supervision is currently developing rapidly globally and in Latvia. Since 2014, the profession of a supervisor/consultant, monitor appears in the section of lead experts of the Classification of Professions. The Latvian Association of Supervision includes 58 certified supervisors, has published two books and numerous articles of supervision. This profession can be acquired in three institutions of higher education (RISEBA, RSU, LKrA), and two doctoral dissertations related to supervision have been d...

The article presents the results of an insufficiently discussed issue in the Bulgarian literature about the professional burnout of social workers in the service "Protected Housing". In the real practice, the social worker is a typical social mediator between the vulnerable groups of people and regulating social institutions, civil communities and generally accepted moral norms. At the same time, he is assigned to perform his tasks in a social environment in which social relations are regulated by different legal ...

The number of older adults is increasing in all European countries and these tendencies are also noticeable in Poland. Older adults are a group with substantial intellectual and social potential that can be used in many areas. The precondition for successful ageing is to maintain a good psychophysical status through participation in various forms of activity. With respect to the activity theory, the gerontologists emphasize that each human, even at older age, needs to be active and to feel needed while lost social...

The objective of the study is an adaptation of the survey method for the preliminary evaluation of the Rural Development Program (RDP) in short-term, when the quantitative data for the period is not yet available. A survey of agricultural holdings and enterprises (i.e., on-line questionnaires with an e-mail notification) was therefore designed, equally targeting the units supported and non-supported by the Program. The survey covered all regions of Latvia, with a total of 867 responses obtained. The responses were...

In the current unstable international circumstances, the specific features of everyday life during extreme hardship have become an intensively debated issue in European and Russian historiography. In terms of human survival and coping with difficulties, the Second World War, involving the Soviet-German conflict 1941-1945, is among the primary topics for investigation. Furthermore, the emergence of new approaches and the release of declassified war archives have shed new light on the everyday history; the anthropol...

Sustainable competitiveness as a concept is introduced in the scientific debate in the last two decades. It is addressed on considering economic, social and environmental factors that determine competitiveness in the long run. The paper is focused on measuring sustainable competitiveness at the national level. Two indexes are considered: the Sustainability Adjusted Global Competitiveness Index (World Economic Forum) and the Global Sustainable Competitiveness Index (SolAbility). The paper compares sustainable compe...

The aim of the paper is to indicate the essence of the concept of sustainable development as a new paradigm in the theory of management science. Different paradigms reflect different interpretations and aspects of modern management which are changing faster and faster. The twenty first century poses many challenges to management. Nowadays, the reconciliation of economic, social and environmental aspects is one of the most difficult problems in the area of modern enterprise management since, in the science of susta...