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The work is devoted to understanding the intrinsic characters of the "analogue" and "digital" generation of mass media, summarizing their generational media practice in the digital age. As a result, generations with stable characteristics of "analogue" and "digital" have been revealed. Also, we found out two transitional generations, the affiliation to which is established based on the level of "information competency". Besides, echo-generation was discovered – a transition between "digital" and "analogue" gener...

The idea of creating a story or a short novel, in which the hero-artist would have appeared as the modern Faust, occupied the mind of T. Mann at the beginning of his literary career. The realization of this bold plan was postponed for almost half a century, but the novel “Doctor Faustus” (1947) with all its genre ambiguity is primarily Kunstlerroman, revealing three main typological signs of the works of this kind: its plot-composition center is the life story of the hero-artist, the novel contains a lot of re...

The aim of our study is to investigate the way teachers see the physical environment of their school, and what they would need for better teaching abilities and skills for 21 century students. Physical learning environment can have a holistic impact on userВ’s performances, teachers and students alike. In Romania, 60% of primary and secondary schools in rural areas and 20% in urban areas are not equipped with libraries, 72% of rural areas and 30% of urban areas lack laboratories and only 32% of rural gymnasiums an...

The introduction of 5G technologies is urgent for any EU Member State, including Latvia that has begun making preparations for introducing such technologies. In Latvia, mobile communication operators have begun installing 5G base stations, and several hundreds of them have been put into service. The clients of LMT and Tele2 could start using the fifth generation network or 5 G as early as next year. A survey of mobile communication users revealed that 99% of the respondents believed that transition from 4 G to 5 G...

Reconstructions are popular nowadays both with liberal arts and sciences when conducting modern complex studies. Historical reconstructions are used widely as a research method, particularly paleopathological analysis that provides additional historical information about ancient peoples who inhabited different territories of Russia. In fact, the pit culture was identified at the beginning of the 20th century by V.A. Gorodtsov who dated it to 3000 BC. Scientists and archaeologists attached great importance to the q...

The interest in ancient religions and their sources, essence and artefacts in society is increasing, which is a new feature of our age and requires many values to be reassessed. Among them, there are many low-quality sources and unreliable indications, as well as fakes and simple replicas of artefacts. There is always a lot of contradictive information in the media and it takes several years for researchers to refute it. However, such situation has certain positive elements as well, since such refusals require the...

This paper intends to critically reflect on the work of Austrian film director Willi Forst. Forst has been widely regarded as one of the great names in the history of German-speaking cinema, and in discussing ForstВ’s work, scholars have repeatedly pointed to the close connection between ForstВ’s films and AustriaВ’s history and cultural tradition. In fact, Forst has been often labeled as the most Austrian film director, typically associating ForstВ’s work with the musical genre and the so-called Viennese Film, of...

The song cycle “Intoarceri la Blaga” ("Revisiting Blaga") for soprano and piano, part of composer Viorel Munteanu's oeuvre, is both a moment of synthesis and the crowning of a creative effort spanning several decades. Starting from a melogram created using the name of the poet Lucian Blaga, the composer constructs a mode that will become the foundation for the motifs that will generate the entire cycle of seven miniatures. The specialists will appreciate the composer's craft, which has transformed just a few s...

The pharmaceutical field in Romania, although, at first glance, seems to be well-organized, in practice faces a number of problems, many of them being the consequence of a failure to apply a good management, but also of a sometimes confusing or contradictory legislation. The pharmacist, is responsible of a pharmacy, as manager, faced with a multitude of issues requiring immediate solution, which makes the spectrum of managerial activities more extensive and complex. There are often situations in which such a manag...

People, who are not achieving common standards in their physical appearance or in their mentality, do not lead simple lives despite the declarations about their integration and inclusion in the current society systems. It is important to talk about their specific life situation, life feelings, self-reflection and the way of experiencing their world, especially with the children and youth by the means of literary art. This issue is elaborated into literary works with an intention to mediate life situation of people...

The study aims to highlight the leadersВ’ auto-perception on their leadership style, through a semi-structured interview. We analyze data collected during a series of eleven face-to-face and telephonic interviews, conducted in Dambovita County, Romania, with educational leaders from pre-university institutions. The interview guide was designed to include five variables (motivation, leadership, team relations, success and challenges) and twenty questions. The research objective was to emphasize the transformational...

Museums can be regarded as a tool that, beyond presenting sections of art and culture, have an important role to inform and connect with elements that generate tendencies at a local or general level; mentally and emotionally. They promote new ideas, new information, they promote local aspects. Museums are institutions with their own identity, leading to the creation of new phenomena in the social framework (through exhibitions and a varied type of organized events). The study is centered around those specific muse...

The aim of this paper is to present a design of a metallic structure. The structure was obtained by reusing of an old barge, which belongs to the Romanian navigation company. In order to respect the UN Sustainable Development goal and the COP21 objectives, the Waterborne sector in Europe is increasing and fits for next generations. Galati, a Romanian port on Danube river, with its cliff that have a length of 2.48 km, itВ’s included among 250 European ports and navigable inland waterway that measure 40.000 km. The ...

The given article is devoted to describing main lines and particular features of epigrammatic art development in European literature, beginning from Ancient Greek-Roman period (VII-VI cc.) up to XX century. In this connection the authors try to give a general review of epigrams specific features and diverse manifestations in the works of world known writers and poets, such as: Martial, N. Boileau, C. Marot, F. Villon, J.G. Byron, I.W. Goethe, A.S. Pushkin and others. They come to a conclusion that modern epigramma...

This article presents the results of a study of silver coins with the name of Khan Shadibek from Izmeri treasure from the collection of the Tatarstan National Museum (Russia). This treasure is interesting in that it contains golden Horde coins minted in 1402-1419. With the advent of Khan Shadibek, the monetary reform of the Golden Horde was carried out, which resulted in relative order of money circulation in the state. In the same period, the work of the mint in the Bulgarian settlement was restored. Mint "Bolgar...

According to the requirements to in-service teachers in the Russian Federation pedagogical forecasting is considered one of the educator's professional functions. Pedagogical students are to be taught acquisition of forecasting skills in undergraduate and postgraduate teacher training programs. The difficulties of forecasting lie in the accuracy of predictions. One of the means to teach forecasting accuracy to pedagogical students is to train them to predict their academic success early and late in the academic ye...

The modern organizations are competing on globalized markets characterized by high speed, fast changes induced by digitalization and digital technologies, which create significant pressures on increasing organizations? productivity through innovation, performance improvements and better competitiveness. The paper tackled the challenges of improvements with particular regard to overall organizational efficiency that require a unified approach to coherently respond to changing customer requirements as well as custom...

The study has an analytical-interpretative character and brings a partial research probe of the artistic depiction of the Holocaust theme. It deals with the ways of dramatizing the most authentic and most often translated book on the topic of the Holocaust The Diary of Anne Frank. In the study we describe on the basis of theatrological and literary-scientific research actual forms of artistic interpretation of Anne FrankВ’s Diary in a contemporary Slovak theatre. We focus on interpretation of a classical drama the...

Acute limb ischemia associated with scheletal injury represent a challenging aspect of modern traumatology with high individual and social impact especially due to complications which require prolonged hospitalization, repeated surgery and considerable costs. That is why medical research is directed to establishing the most efficient diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms able to decrease the incidence of complications and promote optimal fracture healing. The purpose of this paper is to underline the importance of...

Introduction: Management of the health of oral tissues is a main prerequisite in dentistry. Nanotechnology, an emerging interdisciplinary field with rapid development, has become one of the most favoured technologies in dental applications. This review aims at defining the role and potential of bio-nanomaterials in dental medicine. It describes the basic concept of nanomaterials, latest innovations in nanomaterials and their applications in dentistry. Materials & methods: To validate these issues, current literatu...

Mister Sherlock Holmes has appeared in the cultural space of Latvia at the very end of the 19th century. Arthur Conan DoyleВ’s detective stories were published both in the Latvian periodicals and in the books by different publishers. Unfortunately, the attitude towards the fictional character Sherlock Holmes was not serious; during the first half of the 20th century DoyleВ’s detective stories were regarded only as the phenomenon of the pulp fiction. It can be observed by the analysis of the translations carried ou...

The second decade of the 21st century is characterized by a boom in digitization and digital transformations. Social networks are a digital phenomenon of the last decade. Social networks are becoming an important medium for business marketing, especially for their promotion and advertising. At the same time, it should be emphasized that this channel is important in many ways, not only as a source of information, but as a means and interpersonal communication. The article presents research we conducted through an e...

The present study deals with the concept of multimedia, discussed in the context of convergence, which appears to be a mass communications trend. The purpose of the article is to consider the specifics of convergence in terms of merging information channels and platforms for placing a multimedia product, as well as to review the issues of the interrelation between the verbal and non-verbal aspects of communication. The author convincingly indicates that multimedia is a key characteristic of the media convergence, ...

We need to think that an ecosystem is working for us all time, proving a constant flow of resources as economical input, sustain life and all necessary condition for the agricultural activity, creating a mechanism that is wider than our comprehension. An agricultural ecosystem is producing food, fuels, non-food products. This activity is depending on the ecosystem service, by water, climate, soil fertility, carbon sequestration, biodiversity as genetic reservoir. Usually the connection between agriculture and ecos...

The present paper is dedicated to investigation of the business protection technologies from the perspective of security facilities at multiple levels of the organisation development. Objective instruments that allow to ascertain causes of the organisation disruption and to develop a system of countermeasures act in the capacity of such resources. We offer a new method of assessment of the security service level of readiness to perform their duties in the conditions of changes introduced within the organisation. I...

A new approach to measuring multi-user loyalty is proposed. This approach allows ensuring the development of the company in the long term. An effective development scenario is implemented on the basis of the consistent identification of the causes of mistrust on the part of potential participants in the company. Many typical offers by loyalty program developers contradict with the negative feedback from their users regarding the low effectiveness of their implemented tools. That is why a company shall have at its ...

BACKGROUND: In pregnancy, proteinuria can be commonly increased and varies from non-nephrotic range proteinuria to nephrotic syndrome. Diagnosis and proper management are very important for both maternal and fetal health. Little is known about pregnancy in women with Alport Syndrome (AS). AS, a hereditary disorder X-linked (85%) or autosomal recessive (15%), associated with mutations in type IV collagen, is characterized by hearing impairment, ocular changes and progressive glomerulonephritis leading to chronic re...

Article relates to the issue of alternative education and multiculturalism on the example of Roma minority. The author raises a topics of theoretical approach and concept of cultural identity, which is understood as the most important kind of collective identity, which is historically conditioned, cultural method of behavior by a given human collectivity. In considerations in accordance with modern concepts of sociological assumed that identity is not a state but a process. The following sections of the article pr...

The problem addressed in the article is ambiguity and its subtypes. Depending on the intention of employing ambiguity in different types of discourse, one can identify several subtypes of ambiguity – strategic, constructive, destructive and manipulative. Broadly speaking, any kind of intended ambiguity can be considered manipulative since the speaker when generating an utterance aims at achieving a particular goal or effect. Strategic ambiguity can be defined as a deliberate choice of words or language structure...

The paper deals with the issue of outsourcing of talented employee recruitment process, in particular the personnel leasing. Outsourcing of employee recruitment process means recruitment through an external company. Given that the use of personnel leasing is becoming popular, the research was carried out to find out what is the situation like in Slovak companies. The aim of the research was to find statistically significant differences in the perception of working conditions by talented employees, who are internal...

The family associations have a particular importance in the comprehension of those new social subjectivities that are emerging within an increasingly decentralized social fabric from a point of view not only institutional and economic but also epistemic and civil. The research conducted so far leave the question open on the new ways of declination of family associations in a supranational horizon. The last few decades have encountered a process of change and differentiation that has affected on different spheres o...

Introduction: Society demands the improvement of modern transport education. Therefore, a key target in the system of higher transport education is the development of the studentВ’s research activity. The most important factor here is an open informational and educational environment. The core of such an environment is informational and remote technologies. A societyВ’s demand is interpreted and translated into reality by the teaching faculty of a specific university, therefore training a student to become a speci...

This study presents findings resulting from a comparative analysis of the system of nominal morphological markers attested by various researchers and observed in the research trips to Vakh Khanty. The analysis focused on the morphological markers that form paradigms of three nominal categories: number, possession and case. It aimed at systematizing the linguistic data in the Vakh Khanty dialect. A comparative analysis of the paradigms of morphological makers has revealed some controversial issues regarding their f...

The present paper is concerned with reviewing different types of tools and methodologies that are already implemented for statistical analysis of performance and efficiency within the economic field. For this purpose, our attention considers both parametric and non-parametric methods and tries to identify the most appropriate ones. This research is oriented on different levels, namely on identifying the difference between parametric and non-parametric methods, their purpose and applications. Regarding the test per...

The Global Real Estate Transparency Index covers one hundred markets and is based on 186 variables. These indicators are divided into six parts – performance measurement, regulatory and legal frameworks, and governance of listed vehicles, market fundamentals, environmental sustainability and transaction process. The Index is one of the tools that helps to assess and compare markets across the Globe and give an idea of how investable the market is based on its transparency. Because transparency is critical to the...

The higher education providers play a main role in facilitating the acquisition of valuable skills and international experiences for their students, fostering the attractiveness and international dimension of education, and bridging Europe's knowledge, skills and competences gap. Within this sphere, the Erasmus+ programme represents one of the most powerful investment tools of the EU in the field of education and training. It aims to strengthen the European identity based on meaningful contributions which target a...

Building innovation is a controversial subject, because this industry has unique features and peculiarities that cannot always be framed by the classical innovation management theory. To improve competitiveness and meet the needs of society and customers, the construction industry needs to innovate successfully by improving strategies to increase the performance of the construction organization and respond to the needs of stakeholders. Successful innovation requires effective cooperation among different stakeholde...

The complexity of modern economic conditions in which service companies operate is determined by increasing uncertainty, rapidly changing market conditions and the external environment. In this connection, the need to ensure and develop the adaptive abilities of the company for a long period is more acutely recognized, which, in turn, determines the importance of implementing strategic changes. Service companies can implement a variety of strategic changes, develop them, and implement several strategic changes at ...

The article deals with the problem of foreign language textbook analysis as a way of reconstructing teaching methodology. Modern textbook analysis schemes reflect requirements of modern language pedagogy and are not applicable to textbooks of the 19th century. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a scheme that would match peculiarities of language pedagogy of that time. The purpose of the study is to develop a scheme for analyzing foreign language textbooks of the 19th century and carry out its approbation. Resea...

Consolidated financial reporting is an important source of information for strategic decision making. Not all stakeholders have access to company's internal data. Analytical procedures allow stakeholders to make a calculation from key indicators and give an adequate assessment of the company. This article is devoted to the development of an universal method of rapid assessment of company's consolidated financial reporting, depended on the interests of stakeholders.The authors have developed algorithms for rapid as...

Thematic outline is one of the basic concepts of structural evolution of classical music. This is obvious more or less in almost any type of transformation and is very clear when the melody of the theme can be expressed in a different profile without repeated melodic speech directly, but indirectly through links of specific notes or common intervals. From this point of view, in this paper we approach the piano sonata K. 545 by W. A. Mozart starting from RetiВ’s concept, the thematic process. The main idea of this ...

The present article studies the evolutionary process of a set of designs, interconnected among themselves, according to the guidelines of the artistic model Unplugged Evolutionary Algorithms (UEA). Therefore, an indivisible set consists of sixty images structured in ten generations, so that each generation is composed of six images. This generational process allows us to study the evolution of images and their meaning, analyzing the whole of a single work. The Horizon Project - Emotion in Lines project has been de...

This article explores the contributions of one of the greatest Russian writers in the contemporary literature Andrei Bitov, who has written several novels and short stories that reflect the postmodernism literary works in Russia. The first post-modernist work in Russian was A. Bitov’s novel “Pushkin house” from A.S. Pushkin, the creator of the Russian literary language; the largest and most prominent figure in Russian literary life. A.G. Bitov was one of the first Russian writers in the Soviet Union who devot...

A new awareness around animal welfare has risen in the last decades. While in the past the animal used to be considered as res to exploit, nowadays many people see them as life companions. This new condition of the domestic animal originates, from a legal perspective, significant questions, and it can have non-negligible implications. Some scholars believe that in order to give more effective protection to animals a form of legal subjectivity has to be recognized. Such a relevant change needs anyway a deeper refle...

The article aims to analyze the anthropological content of metaphysical concepts of Sankhya and to answer the question what determines it. The analysis of the metaphysical Sankhya concept showed that when characterizing Purusa and Prakriti as the principle of subjective and objective reality the representatives of this philosophical school use the terms that alongside ontological meaning have also anthropological one. This specificity is manifested in the description of Prakriti evolution process since every stage...

The article presents the main results of the study of the Ethnography of the road as a separate and specific sphere of the ethnic tradition of the Tungus on the basis of an integrated approach in the coverage of the geoculture of the peripheral ethno-local groups of the Northern Tungus (Г…vens and Evenks). The focus of the research attention is the culture of the road as a set of customs, norms of behavior, material attributes and representations associated with direct movements - a fairly new, successfully develo...

The rate of development of genomic technologies exceeds the rate of creation and adoption of medical technologies and their legal support. The purpose of the article is a review of genomic technologies and their capabilities, limits, ethical and social risks, the legal regulation of these technologies in the Russian Federation. It is noted that in the near future it will be possible to improve the quality of the procedure being analyzed by introducing Whole-Exome Sequencing testing. However, this will require impr...

Traditional wooden joints, which have developed for centuries, featured their own function and their own aesthetics. However, from today's point of view, they are too complicated to produce – not only in the terms of time but also the skill required to manufacture them, which is one of the main reasons for their disappearance. In order to clarify whether it makes sense to bring them to life and to define their desired form, questionnaire research has been carried out. It explored consumer preferences and the pot...

In the post-war period, the architecture of Polish single-family houses went through a number of phases. As a result, the landscape of Polish homes is very diverse and illegible. Currently, the prevailing architectural styles are strongly mixed up and their placement is accidental and does not flow from deeper historical analyzes and the architectural - urban context. In addition, the level of architectural awareness of investors and developers makes that there is a dramatic spatial chaos in Poland. The article co...

Every architectural interference involves an unavoidable change in space the object is created in. That changed site would never be the same as it was before, neither in the material nor symbolic dimension. To build is to discover the location. This discovery of the 'new' site is tantamount to learning about the 'found' place, called context - its cognitive, aesthetic, cultural values as well as spatial, typological and morphological properties. Therefore it is always a kind of continuation. Creators recognize the...