I was not yet six years old when the Russians came to our provincial town in the northwest of Hungary. I don’t know the date but it was early spring, in 1945. There wasn’t any serious fighting in the immediate vicinity that I know of, although there were three burned-out Russian tanks two or three kilometres east of the town on the main road, pointing toward us, so there must have been some action prior to the arrival of the Red Army.
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Keywords: Moldova; boarding schools; UNICEF; Child’s Rights Information and Documentation Center; Aliona Stepan; National Human Development Report; Ministry for Labor; Social Protection; and Family; money migrants; orphaned and abandoned children;
A vicious circle of poverty, migration, and limited state resources condemns many Moldovan children to life on the fringes of society
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Keywords: North Caucasus; economy; conflict; Kabardino-Balkaria republic; Russia; violence; Valeriy Kokov; President Arsen Kanokov; crisis; Boren textile plant; tourism; agriculture; construction materials; Prielbrusye ski area; bombs; dead; FSB; terrorism; ethnic
The twin plagues of organized crime and ethnic conflict threaten a rare economic success story in the North Caucasus.
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Keywords: foreign direct investments; economic growth; development regions; regional dissimilitude; competitive advantages
One of integration’s advantages it is represented by the increasing grade of economic opening toward the rest of the world, with benefic effects over intercepted foreign direct flows, reciprocal flows of working force and work productivity. Given this context and taking into account analyses presented in our research, I appreciate that North – East Developing Region will further attract larger flows of foreign direct investments, flows that will in turn accelerate, through chain effect, the process of regional development.
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Keywords: Armenia; education; schools; classrooms; pupils; new system; teacher; relaxation day; mathematic; curriculum; kindergarten; group discussion method; noise; Education Ministry; certification; headmasters; critical-thinking qualities; new textbooks;
A shakeup in Armenia’s schools was supposed to mean more lively classrooms and a streamlined curriculum, but some habits die hard.
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Keywords: Hungary; Iron Curtain; economic crisis; Left Front; Hungarian Communist Worker’s Party; 1956 revolution; Roma; Jobbik party; extreme right; EU; elections; Berlin Wall; 1989; Marx; Soviet gulag; communist ideology;
In some corners of the old Iron Curtain, it’s not just frustrated pensioners who still hum the “Internationale.”
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Keywords: Family; educational method In our family; teaching aid The Children’s House; methodical publications and audio media
The author leads a team of Czech and Slovak experts on pre-school music education.The article discusses the importance of positive family environment surrounding a preschool child. It introduces the educational method, In our family, which is based on the integration of artistic skills and on the five human senses. It emphasizes the role of music in the healthy development of individual personality. The author introduces the teaching aid called The Children’s House and other publications related to it.
More...Keywords: peasants; consumption; goods; Vilnius; Kaunas; Grodno;
This research starts from the premises that peasants as part of the emerging the Vilnius, Kaunas and Grodno provinces consumer group were most rigid, conservative, maintaining traditional, archaic lifestyles. Therefore, peasants, as the ‘bottom’ of absorbing the latest consumer trends, best reflected the change in the consumption patterns of a modernizing society. The theme under the investigation covers the period of 1861—1914. The study attempts to examine the economic modernization of Vilnius, Kaunas and Grodno provinces society and rudiments of the consumer society in the second half of the 19th—early 20th centuries by taking into account the peasants’ habits.
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Keywords: marriage; divorce; daily life; household; Arad; eighteenth century
The two documents, which are the subject of the present study, made to share property in the event of divorce, help to form an image on various aspects of daily life, poorly known from other sources: household size, land property, earnings in marriage furniture, tools, animals, prices, food, secular and religious involvement of the private life etc. In addition to legal information, both inventories, which stood at the base of documents on which the property was to be divided, reveal another perspective on social history of Arad in the late eighteenth century.
More...Keywords: restitution; movable goods; immovable goods; destination.
In the context of restitution Law no. 10/2001 a particular situation is discussed: are the goods that existed at the moment of taking over subjected to restitution? Everything in the chemist’s shop represent its inventory and, at the same time, they are the chemist’s shop itself, because their destination is not given by the building in this case, but by the fact that there is the right to practice and necessary equipment to make it a sanitary unity according to legal standards. Consequently, they are movable goods which became immovable through incorporation (as is the shop license to be a chemist’s shop - sanitary unity, given to the person because he possessed the quality of a chemist, and work authorization for the building as such), as well as goods, that is to say utensils and outfit, taken over at the moment of abusive nationalization.
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"The only good artists are dead artists.” The old maxim of Budapest art dealers seemed to have lost some of its ironic truth about a year ago when the first glitzy New York-style gallery opened in central Budapest between the river and Váci utca, the fashionable shopping street. The openings at this new gallery are equally popular with the over-age end of Hungarian yuppies and the egghead society—the little of it that remains from the good old days.
More...Keywords: enterprise; costs; acquisition
Most countries more or less developed rely on the dynamism and resistance to risk of the private companies. Worldwide, the SMEs represent 85% of private companies that engages approximately 60% of the workforce. The company’s performance is reflected in expenditure analysis which is an important factor to be considered in an enterprise. Because of the importance of this issue,we performed an analysis and the presentation of costs of a company working in the field of IT. The expenses, if they are well established and commensurate with the income, the company will certainly be able to overcome the economic barriers that occur during the course of business activity. There search methodology lies in analyzing and highlighting the company's expenses, aiming at the necessary equipment, acquisition of intangible fixed assets, administrative expenses, external services and not least the wage costs. Spending is a factor that depends entirely on the company's control, so it represents a primary factor for analysis. In conclusion the biggest expenses in the first year are those aiming at the acquisition cost of intangible fixed assets, respectively 103.090.00 representing the software necessary for conducting the activity, and those with external performance executed by third parties amounting to 330,800.00 lei, the largest share could be found in the research activity. Salary expenditures in the first year of operation are of 299.267.00 lei.
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Keywords: design, definition; marketing; concept; aesthetic; functional
Design means modernism, and almost always novelty.Starting from marketing management in the sociology of design andthe always existing competition, market development, evolution oftechnologies and lifestyles - all these force companies to adapt theirstrategies and products regularly to the demands of the ever fasterchanges. Today, more and more managers realise that they cansubstantially improve their competitive power if they adopt design inthe concept of firms.
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Keywords: vitality; urban space; statistical analysis;quality of life index;
This is the urban spaces that make living in a city pleasant and the urban landscape delightful. Vitality, an indispensable feature in the life of a city, is an undeniable gap in many urban spaces today. Spaces lacking vitality make no passion to stop within them and no incentive to pass by them. Over time urban spaces are getting uncrowded and deprived of social life and this event puts the current urban spaces of a country seriously in danger. Given the vitality impact on desirability of urban spaces and the research concern toward this on-the-wane quality, two important streets of Tehran, Enghelab and Vali-e-Asr, were compared to investigate the effective factors in vitality more thoroughly and in terms of several needs of people in urban spaces. According to different spirits of the two streets as well as positive and negative effective factors, the amount of vitality criteria in both spaces was studied through surveys. In this regard, 200 questionnaires, prepared by the authors, have been analyzed. SPSS software was used for statistical analysis and the results were demonstrated in charts. These figures confirm the vitality potential of both spaces. However, it was concluded that the spirit in each of the spaces was different as the atmosphere of the Vali-e-Asr Street was commercial-recreational and the atmosphere of the Enghelab Street was commercial-cultural. The vitality amount of each of them is compared on the basis of their spirits. To strengthen the vitality and encourage people to engage more with the space, some suggestions have been finally presented.
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Keywords: urban chromatic identity; local colours; chromaticscape
The concept of sustainable competitiveness, referring to the city, requires the analysis of the characteristic elements that confer identity to the city. Could be colour one of them? This article, based on the Doctoral Dissertation "The colour in rehabilitation" presented to the Faculty of Architecture, University of Architecture and Urbanism "Ion Mincu" Bucharest, explores the role of colour in the urbanscape in terms of local identity and perceptual connections, concluding that the transformations of urban space and architecture are visible even on the chromatic level. The colour control in urban areas can be a means of preserving local identity and a potential element of sustainable urban competitiveness.
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Świadomi i zaangażowani interesariusze są niezbędni do skutecznego wdrożenia zmiany związanej z projektem. Można zatem stwierdzić, że umiejętne angażowanie interesariuszy jest jednym z kluczowych czynników sukcesu w zarządzaniu projektami.W obliczu stale rosnącego znaczenia projektów dla organizacji i gospodarki, określanego mianem projektyzacji (ang. projectification) kompetencje w zakresie kształtowania i środowiska społecznego projektów stają się obiektem zainteresowania zarówno badaczy jak i praktyków zarządzania. Bardzo ważne jest również skupienie się na kluczowych interesariuszach. Z tego względu podjęcie badań w tym obszarze jest celowe i uzasadnione - zarówno ze względów naukowych jaki praktycznych. Prezentowany artykuł stanowi podsumowanie badań realizowanych w latach 2016-2017 w organizacjach realizujących projekty w Polsce. Zaprezentowano podstawowe zagadnienia dotyczące kluczowych interesariuszy w projektach. Przedstawiono kluczowe wnioski z badań.
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Keywords: nostalgia; systemic transformation; hauntology; PRL; popular culture
This review discusses the book Duchologia polska. Rzeczy i ludzie w latach transformacji (2016) by Olga Drenda, placing it in the context of a larger cultural tendency representing an interest in the end of the period of socialist Poland and the transition to capitalism and democracy as well as a more global trend described, among others, by Simon Reynolds as the ‘Re’ Decade (2011). Polish hauntology refers to the mythologization of the past, which cannot be assessed unambiguously, but is recalled with nostalgia, largely without taking into consideration the nature of the cultural phenomena it refers to. In a nostalgic perspective, it is not the balanced assessment that comes to the foreground but emotions and personal memories. This article looks at Olga Drenda’s book as a valuable voice in the discussion on nostalgia, capturing some of these personal responses to the past. The book shows in a successful, though incomplete way, that events, people, places and objects stored in old photographs and memories may create a unique cultural experience.
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Keywords: Exchange Rate; Volatility; Trade Flows Panel; Data Analysis;
After the collapse of Bretton-Woods system in 1973, many countries adopted the floating exchange rate regime. This situation led to fluctation and uncertainties in the exchange rates. There are number of studies that analyze the effect of Exchange rate volatility on trade flows but previous studies cannot obtain results about sectoral base due to the lack of disaggregated data sets. This study investigates the effects of exchange rate volatility on trade flows in Turkey. For this purpose using annual data covers the period 2002-2013. Exports to 15 European countries and imports from 15 European countries are analyzed by panel methodology. According to the test results, export sectors are negatively affected; import sectors are both positively and negatively affected from exchange rate volatility.
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Keywords: Key audit matters; listed companies; CEE countries; Turkey; manufacturing sector
This study aims to identify and analyze the most significant matters (key audit matters) in auditing highlighted in auditors’ reports of companies in the manufacturing sector and to determine whether there is a divergence or convergence between the CEE countries and Turkey. Three CEE countries were chosen according to their economic development levels (Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic). Audit reports of the firms listed in stock exchange examined and analyzed for the year ended in 2017 by frequency and cross-table analysis. When the manufacturing sector is considered as a whole, both key audit matters (KAMs) sub-headings and the average number of KAMs showed the most similarity in Turkey and Poland. In a more specific assessment, Turkey bears a resemblance to both Poland and Romania in the “fabricated metal production” sub-sector. The most notable difference in terms of KAMs sub-headings between Turkey and two of the CEE countries (Poland and Romania) is “going concern.”
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