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The Gypsies are one of the most controversial ethnic groups. Periodically the actions of Gypsies (including their individual representatives) cause such violent surges of discontent that can be settled only by law enforcement authorities. For example, in August 2016 in Ukrainian village of Loschinovka there were pogroms of houses inhabited by Gypsy families, in response to the murder of a local girl by a Gypsy; in March 2016, in Tula village of Plekhanovo enforcement authorities were engaged in connection with the...

Modern educational system needs a communicative and self-organized teacher capable to think flexibly. In our opinion, teachers’ professional development consists not only in subject and professional-pedagogical knowledge improvement, but also in motivation for professional -personal development. Nowadays labour optimization depends on many factors, one of which is organization competence. To learn to manage yourself effectively and by own opportunities is not a simple task, however, by means of specific technologi...

The Church of Most Holy Trinity in Klimkovice was build in 1522 – 1529. According to the chronicles local Catholics built the church in late gothic style. Protestants took over the church after the change of owner of the manor in the early 17th century, and according to the principles of the Peace of Augsburg in 1555. The truss of the church and wooden ceiling were exchanged between 1615–1617 (dendrochronologically dating). On the west side was built a wooden four-sided tower, which was removed at the turn of the ...

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...

Information technology is currently one of the most important labour productivity drivers to increase economic efficiency. The aggravation of the geopolitical situation occurred in Russia over the past few years has demonstrated the vulnerability of the domestic financial sector and some other national economy branches to foreign manufacturers and suppliers of various software that led to the intensification of import substitution in this area. The conducted analysis has revealed that information technologies crea...

The article is devoted to the problem of student’s cultural self-determination by means of humanitarianly oriented teaching a foreign language. A person’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 students’ cultural self-determination in the course of humanitarianly oriented teaching a foreign language represent...

The paper deals with analyses of sports activities in pubescent (12 – 15 years old) pupils in the Czech Republic and some EU countries. The aim of the study is to analyse, to verify and to identify the status quo of children’s interest in locomotive activities at basic schools and their attitude to these activities including determinants that shape the attitude. The study is done with help of kinatropological research. We chose a method based on questionnaire survey and following analyses and syntheses of gained d...

After the military collapse of Romania, in the Autumn of 1916, the entire country - except a small part of Moldavia, with Ia?i as main city - fell under Central Powers occupation. Dobrudja was invaded by German and Bulgarian troops and divided. Bulgaria take Southern Dobrudja (lost as a consequence of the second Balkan war, from 1913) and the administration of the rest of the province, for a short time, followed by an effective German administration. In the Summer of 1918, after the Treaties of Buftea and Buchares...

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...

Irregular structures in areas with high seismic activity are always at risk of earthquakes. These type of structures should not have irregularities in any type to avoid heavy damage from earthquakes. Otherwise, the structures will be severe damaged from earthquakes. This damage, results in loss of innocent civilians and damage to the valuable property. Because of this, the limit values of many irregularities in the structures are controlled by codes. One of the irregularities in the buildings is set-back irregular...

The authors analyse the current situation related to methodological and practical aspects of preparation of pedagogical profile bachelors specialising in education for children with disabilities. Integration of inclusive education at schools and universities of the country. Based on the experience of various universities, systemised and created special educational programs of additional education. An important condition of training is the professional self-determination. Methods: the authors of this article to exp...

Visual impairment has a very important psychosocial dimension - it determines the development of an individual's personality, his socialization process, social integration and inclusion into society, his psychological and social well-being too. In the following, we will attempt to outline the basic character of the psychosocial dimension of visual impairment, with an emphasis on the social specifics of a visually impaired individual in the situation of inclusion in educational process in elementary school. As Bakk...

In the history of Sakha literature the names «Yksykylekh Ylyksyj» - A.Y. Kulakovsky, «Alampa» – A.I. Sofronov, «Bilatian Oiuunuskay» – P.A. Oyunsky have a great meaning. The most important thing in their heritage is the distinctive vision of the world, reflected in the unique symbolic systems of their poetry, which confirm eastern sources in the national artistic culture of a northern Turkish branch – the Sakha nation. In poetic works of the early literary traditions we have the presence of folk beginnings as a sp...

The thesis deals with the assessment of the economic impact of the use of ownership and separate operational models on water cost and water infrastructure impacts on the distribution network in the Czech Republic. For the purpose of the work, publicly accessible data from the Czech Statistical Office, data provided by water network operators, financial statements and closures of public network operators and relevant laws and decrees valid in the Czech Republic are used.The article compares the impacts of the owner...

A migration is effect that executes us through the whole history of human race. Although the Slovak Republic belongs to countries with lowest numbers of immigrants the number has an ascendant trend at the present. That is the reason why we should direct our interest to this issue in Slovakia. The intention of this work task is to describe the situation to immigrants, and to find out the opinions of residents in western Slovakia about immigrants. We used the questionnaire for collecting data. The research samples w...

The author discovered an area of unravaged burial complexes on the territory of the Lower Katun mountainous valley regarded a part of the trans-cultural region where large multicultural necropoles were formed. The burial mound group of Chulkov Log-1 is one of them. The monument is located along the Chuya Highway, 1.5 km away to the north-west from the town of Manzherok, Mayminsky District, near the mountainous slope of the Iolgo ridge branches. The burial mound group includes 123 burial mounds with stone structure...

The object of the study is specific language means used in internet communication of foster parents. The main aim of the investigation is to reveal peculiarities of language representation of the topic “bringing up an adopted child” in internet discourse messages dedicated to the problems of foster family and adoption. Russia pursues the politics of rising of popularity of adoption, i.e. an idea to bring up children deprived of parents care in families and not in specialized institutions. That is the reason in tur...

Background: This article addresses the problem of financial security. This topic is very interesting and has been chosen for us because issues relating to the development of companies than ever relevant today. The article is devoted to the complex research of financial security as a factor for sustainable growth companies. In the study, we set the following key objectives: to consider the main factors influencing the growth of companies, identify the key factors of influence, consider the specific situations and e...

The article is devoted to the category ‘Slavic paganism’ which is very popular in modern culture. The author discovers two main meanings of the term – ‘paganism’ as a scientific and ideological construct which derives from 17th century and ‘pogani’ (heathens) as historiosophical concept in the literature of Old Russia. The last can determine any group of people connected with ‘alien’ environment mostly in religious and cultural sense. Also the concept had a strong socio-political context, that’s why ‘pogani’ could...

Teaching a foreign language for specific purposes is one of the goals of the curriculum at a non-linguistic higher education institution. Various lingo-didactic technologies are used to realize this goal. Gamification approach i.e. the use of educational games including computer games is of crucial importance. Different aspects of using games in teaching English for specific purposes were already examined by one of the authors (Belenkova N. Computer Games: Leisure or Stimulus to Learning. International Conference ...

The paper provides a construction grammar perspective to identifying meaning of prepositions in Russian. It describes performance of an interpreter uncovering meanings of prepositions in “master” — preposition — “slave” constructions. In contrast to the classical linguistic methodology focusing on the simplest units of different language levels, modern studies practice synthetic methods trying to catch and describe language structures which integrate different language units: words, collocations, etc. Construction...

The article is devoted to the research of factors, which determine the effective counteracting a drug addiction and an illegal drug trade. The factors include those from economic, social, institutional and administrative fields of governmental policy. The methodology of research is based on preliminary studies aimed to identifying factors of social and economic environment influencing drug addiction in order to verify the hypothesis that drug addiction is more economic problem than social or medical. We have built...

Greenhouse gas emissions produced by agriculture, animal husbandry, fishery and forestry activities continue to increase, although not as fast as emissions produced by other human activities. The paper analyzes the impact of agricultural, livestock, fishery and forestry human activities on greenhouse gas emissions. The goal is to build a model of greenhouse gases being changed due to human activities’ factors. As a theoretical model the authors have chosen ADL-model (auto-regressive-distributed-lags-model), in whi...

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 fundamental value that has been brought by postmodernism as a general cultural phenomenon is pluralism. In philosophy, it is implemented as plurality of opinions and attitudes. In the art, it is plurality of styles. Jean-Francois Lyotard showed differences between the modern and postmodern science, namely in the manner of their legitimization. Modern legitimization through the great stories is overcome by post-modern advances in science and technology, accompanied by insurmountable differences and paralogies. ...

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...

On the material of two speeches pronounced by two Spanish Kings with 39 years interval there is made an attempt to analyze their discourse, to compare its pragmatic, syntactic and lexical value. The speeches are discussed as cross-discourse what gives us certain possibility to reveal a special discourse genre. paper also deals with a problem of royal speech, more precisely, with speeches of two monarchs – father and son, Juan Carlos de Borbón and Felipe VI. The speeches of the two monarchs were delivered on the sa...

Europe has long been a popular destination in global migration waves, the Mediterranean operating as the main route for African or Middle East migrants. This is maybe one of the oldest routes of connection in human history, going back to the Iron Age and the empires of Antiquity. At the very moment, 7 million people are displaced in Syria and in Afghanistan, 4 million refugees are in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon and many more are about to come to Europe. Immigrants often have a positive impact on their host society,...

Social work has a negative image in public opinion. It determines important barriers for quality social work education and social work practice. The main goal of the research has discovered opinions students and social workers toward main ideas about social work importance and professional development. The research is based on sociological questionnaire of 445 students, social workers and other social groups (Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2015-2016). In result we have described students and social workers perceptions of ...

Decision-making about new products is crucial for the growth and prosperity of any company, especially in the rapidly changing medical device market. In recent years the issue of evaluation of investment effectiveness into medical devices has been intensively solved both at private and national level. The most common methods can be divided into three groups: 1. strategic and financial valuation of projects (e.g., NPV, IRR, DCF), 2. weighting and scoring of products and product criteria (e.g., analytic hierarchy pr...

The research topic is formulated with the anticipation that the managers and chief executives will recognize that the salary is not the only one motivating factor at the workplace to ensure the employee’s well-being. There are so many examples when the employees leave well paid jobs and good positions. One of the research tasks is to find out how a person feels at his/her workplace. If the level of well-being at the workplace is high, a higher degree of motivation is achieved. There is a range of factors influenci...

This article aims to explore the possibility of the administration of third party property by another person and not by the owner of the property. The topic is addressed to natural persons and it is governed by rules of civil law, and not commercial law. The legislation lays down the general principles of such administration, the types, the liability and obligations of the administrator (manager). So, the analysis starts with the Romanian Civil Code, which does not define the administration of third party property...

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 ‘a successful person’, ‘a successful man’ and ‘a successful woman’ 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 Russian...

It is frequently stated that the present times relate to the spirit of Apocalypse. In psychological terms, the meaning of the statement underlines dynamic patterns, with intentionality and a complex interdependency. Apocalypse means revelation and intricate processes of evaluation, destruction and rising of a new order, towards a new meaning of human lives. In sciences, new researches bring out new perspectives upon energy and matter, medical interventions are reoriented by the genetics and epigenetics, the cybern...

One of the burning issues in identifying the financial status of an industrial enterprise is a well-balanced system of financial indicators. Existing methods of financial assessment are similar in comprising the following indicators: current liquidity ratio; profitability ratio; indicators of financial sustainability and financial results: receivables and payables; limiting constraints. The specifics of extractive industry companies dictate the need to consider dependence of financial indicators on investments in ...

In the research is made an example of assessment and development of the methodology of multiobjective tasks of decision-making (MTDM) for optimum placement of the logistic objects (LO) needs. In the article are considered the various approaches to weighting of the structured objective tree blocks reflecting the chosen parameters in the tuples of various degree of completeness. Basing on the Republic of Tatarstan data on areas and district is modeling an example of the replacement of the logistics objects approach ...

The article seeks to emphasize the key role of the internal factors of the company’s investment appeal. This includes an overview of the traditional methods of assessing company’s investment appeal and the calculation of the integral index of investment appeal based on the financial performance for a leading chemical enterprise. The study results in a methodical approach to assessing company’s investment appeal on the basis of multiple regression of net return on assets. The authors propose to carry out a ridge-re...

The article is devoted to a very urgent problem of political and economic settlement of the situation in Afghanistan in the context of multilateral cooperation with the SCO countries. Since the 2014 NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan the situation in the country has become aggravated, the Taliban are trying to challenge the Central government in Kabul through both repeated terrorist attacks and seizure of some mountainous regions of the country. Taking into account the current strata’s support of terrorists in Afgha...

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...

In our research, we dealt with the phenomenon of teacher burnout in Hungary. It is a great issue, due to the parliamentary regulations of the public education in Hungary, where the teachers are working in a volatile environment, in which the challenge for them is to provide value by educating the younger generation. This increased pressure from the society increase the level of frustration, and teachers’ mental health may decline, while burnout syndrome may develop. Our future purpose is to create an intervention ...

The global market for green products is growing dynamically. In Poland, the number of green producers is increasing, while the number of purchasers of green products is not high. The ecological awareness of Polish consumers is still low. This affects consumer behavior on the green market. The basic motive for buying green products is health, not the environment. Altruistic motives play the secondary role. Green products, especially organic food, are associated with health and safety. In addition, high prices and s...

The fundamental raison d'être in the production of immersive technologies is the attainment of an absolute psychosomatic and physical embodiment, which Chris Milk, the founder of WITHIN application and a touted master per excellence in 360° video production, provides through his global digital platform where a sense “as if being there” is played out by many world’s VR creators. The hitch, however, for films shot in 360° space, is that their current narrative system as well as their visual configuration oppose the ...

Future social and health workers will be implemented in a complex, multifaceted, difficult activity that needs professionals prepared to work flexibly and effectively with people who have social and health problems. ?hey are responsible for performing different social roles: provider of information /related to documents on social policy and practice/ generator of new ideas / in connection with problem solving/, partner in the process of communication, organizer, assistant in the performance of various practical ta...

Social enterprise is increasingly perceived as a viable solution to real problems due to its nature of an integration of socially favorable activities among communities. At the same time, it helps developing social innovations in the internationalizing European Union. Due to the need to self-finance the displayed model integrates economic, social, and environmental aspects to insure the well-being, interaction, and integration of diverse cultures within its local community while competing with the local network of...

The paper is devoted to a geopolitical and geo-economic interest of China in the Arctic Region, as one of the main trends in the modern Chinese foreign policy is transformation of political and economic grounds of today’s world order. The presented research is targeted at finding and revealing causes of the given trend. The main methods of research for this trend are observation, review and classification of articles on this problem, statistical data analysis, methods of generalization and forecasting. The paper r...

This article discusses the formation of Russian young generation personal and civil identity problems. The basis of identity includes the common culture with the common values, history, myths, and life standards. Obviously, the most important mentality forming function, in the conditions of radical social changes, is performed by the education method based on the activity approach and students’ involvement into the real socially-reformative activity. The article analyzes the sociological poll results of 300 studen...

Manufacturing Execution Systems to support production management at the operational level are focused to the input, monitoring and evaluation of the manufacturing process. The functions of these systems are capable of collecting a large amount of data and their fast processing. It means to respond quickly to events that occur during manufacturing process. MES systems also allow rapid evaluation of key performance indicators that are linked to production efficiency. Their evaluation is based on collected data. Syst...

At the Kazan Federal University annually study the Russian language a few hundred Chinese students. In the article the authors consider the project as one of the most effective forms of training, the Chinese trainees Russian as a foreign language at an advanced stage of training (B2). The urgency of the problem is that students come with a weak level of Russian language proficiency, lack of skills of free communication in Russian, and teachers will have very short time to improve their level of proficiency. The ai...

The objective of this paper is to show Milton's republican vision and the purpose for which republican system was to serve. According to John Milton the Christian alternative to monarchy was to be a free Commonwealth; no other system could free people from the state of slavery in which they were supposed to live, neither could it better secure their freedoms. The republican vision of political order was most precisely delineated in his treaty “The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth” (1660). Milt...

The research purpose is to propose a model for developing the sociocultural competence of profession-oriented text translators as part of translator professional competence. For this purpose, an analysis was made of the specifics of sociocultural competence of profession-oriented text translators in order to redefine the concept of “sociocultural competence of profession-oriented text translators” and consider the content of the proposed model for forming this competence. Based on the cognitive approach, the autho...