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This paper focuses on audiovisual commercial. The aim of the article is to apply semiotic analysis to Café Noir’s video commercial “The Mime’s Date”. The first part of the article reviews the commercial and the way it is realised. The following part of the article analyses the commercial video “The Mime’s Date” discussing the symbols and codes present in it and analysing their possible meanings. Advertising...
The article reconstructs the history of the formation of the moral values of the Russian medical community, there are four stages of formation of value priorities in medical ethics in Russia: 1) since the beginning of the XIX century to October 1917; 2) from October 1917 to the mid-1940s; 3) since mid- 1940s until the end of the 1980s; 4) since the early 1990s until the present day. The authors identify...
The present article concentrates on the advent of gender mainstreaming as a method of incorporating gender perspective into public policies. It analyses the historical as well as the epistemological foundations of gender mainstreaming laid down during the Beijing Platform for Action Conference of 1995. Furthermore, it analyses the factors that led to the adoption of gender mainstreaming by the European...
The paper discusses the origins and development of the holocaust tourism i.e. the tourism associated with visiting concentration camps that had emerged during the Second World War in Europe and more generally with visiting memorials and museums linked to the phenomenon of the legacy of the Holocaust. The text freely discusses motivational and ethical issues associated with this form of tourism (the...
The analysis of the informal market and its impact on the economy of Ukraine is done in the article. The impact of the shadow economy on economic processes at macro and micro levels is significantly different, which was proved. Studies have also shown a significant impact of the informal market on all stages of the production and distribution: at the stage of forming production factors, use of labor...
The paper points to the issue of both the legalization and comprehensive legislation on domestic violence in the various countries of the European Union. With the legalization of this component of social policy there is a need to rely on international conventions and documents, since in the current system of family policy, each country stems out from its own legal regulation. The overall comparison...
After Lithuania's independence restoration, emigration from this country started and is still one of the most important social phenomena in Lithuania. The consequences of migration of health professionals in Lithuania are perceived rather negatively. External migration of Lithuanian health professionals is seen as a loss of investments made in the process of preparing healthcare personnel. Medical...
Among the key prerequisites for a successful implementation of management practices in the hospitality industry belong, without any question, hotel information systems that provide relevant data for the control and both strategic as well as tactical decisions. Modern information systems have become a regular feature of the most accommodation facilities. The basic functions of the hotel management...
Most explanations of social collapse highlight the ecological strain or the role of economic stratification but they hardly try to establish a link between the origins of prosperity and the causes of collapse. Our purpose is to establish such link, i.e. to provide an explanation of collapse based on the origin of prosperity. For cultures of the Bronze Age, the prosperity came from metalworking, i...
This paper analysis the gravity model of interregional trade of Irkutsk region the base of statistical data on gross regional products and trade flows between Russian regions. We find that the market size significantly impacts the trade volumes. The elasticity of export on importer region size is approximately equal to one. Moreover, it appears that the distance significantly negatively impacts the...
The paper compares and analyses the issues of social policy in selected countries of the European Union, focusing on housing policy. This sub-section of social policy directly depends on the support via family policy and on the opportunities for young families to purchase their own housing. Yet another objective of this paper is mapping the historical development as well as the analysis of current...
According to the analysis of scientific approaches to the interpretation of the structure of the public administration mechanism, the author elaborated the viewpoint and the position regarding the main elements of the public sector and its advantages and disadvantages. Critical rethinking of the content of scientific concepts about the content structure of the public administration mechanism, with...
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