Regional population expenditure for foodstuffs in the Russian Federation: componential and cluster analyses

The article describes the solving of the problem of conducting the component and cluster analyses of population expenditure on food as one of the most important components of the standard of living. The purpose of the analysis is to develop the regional clusters of the Russian Federation, which vary in the structure of household expenditure for foodstuffs. The foodstuffs are presented in absolute units taking into integral account the standard of living index. The methods of intellectual analysis such as component and cluster analyses are applied as the research methods. The procedure for the data intellectual analysis based on the interconnected performance of component and cluster analyses is proposed. The procedure of the data intellectual analysis considers the interrelation between the results received by different methods, and also the possibility to return to the previous method for the purpose of repeating the analysis to specify consistently the clusters composition. Few clusters of the wealthy regions characterized by the high and average levels of expenditure for foodstuffs are revealed as well as the quite many clusters of not enough wealthy and not wealthy regions characterized by the low level of expenditure for foodstuffs. It is shown that the growth of standard of living characterized by the size of a gross regional product per capita is followed by the growth of the Gini coefficient, which indicates both the inequality of income distribution and reduction in expenditure for low-value foodstuffs. The results of the analysis can be applied to the development of the decision-making support system intended for the analysis of the scenarios of macroeconomic regulation in the eld of income policy for the purpose of increasing the standard of living of population. The analysis of the population expenditure for foodstuffs has allowed to reveal the cluster structure of the regions of the Russian Federation, to show it according to the generalized indications, to formulate the specific characteristics of the clusters of the regions and important management decisions

Methodological Approach to Measure the Quality of Life of the Region’s Population

The article is devoted to the urgent problem of the regional development, i.e. to the development of methodological tools to evaluate the quality of life of the population in the region. The article considers the concept of “quality of life”, and the terms related thereto; and substantiate the author’s position with respect to the concept. The existing domestic and foreign approaches to evaluate the quality of life of the population were analyzed, and the application of the comprehensive approach was reasoned within this study. The criteria for evaluation of the quality of life of the population were distinguished. The authors proposed the methodological approach that considers not only objective indicators of the quality of life presented in the statistical reports of the Russian Federal State Statistics Service, but also employs subjective evaluations of the local population enabling more appropriate evaluation of the quality of life in the region. The methodological tools of the research include mathematical methods of statistical data processing and online survey of the population about the level of satisfaction with various aspects of their life. The methodological tools were tested using the example of the Sverdlovsk Region that is characterized both by the steady improvement of statistical indicators of the quality of life and by low satisfaction of population with certain aspects of the quality of life, which generally decreases the integrated indicator of the quality of life despite positive dynamics of social and economic development of the region and vigorous social policy of the regional authorities. The proposed methodology was used in the evaluation of the quality of life of the Sverdlovsk Region population as part of the development of the Concept of comprehensive regional program “New quality of life of Ural residents” (Decree of the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region No. 45-UG dated January 29, 2014 “On the Concept of the life quality improvement for the Sverdlovsk Region population before 2030 year — “New quality of life of Ural residents”).The article has been prepared with the support of the grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) No. 15-06-09169 “Development of methodical measurement tools and evaluation of the impact of social, economic, medical and demographic factors on mortality rates of working-age population”

The development of an ecological-economic substantiation algorithm for BAT selection for enterprises within the power industry

The Russian Federation is on the verge of crucial changes in the system of governmental regulation for the protection of the environment. A new system of setting the norms for an acceptable impact upon the environment that provides for the rejection of individual permissions for each enterprise and the introduction of norms and plans for the gradual reduction of pollution to the levels corresponding to the best available technologies (BAT), the establishment of the advanced industry of waste disposal and the extended application of renewable energy sources are the main directions of this reforming. The objective of this paper is to develop an algorithm for ecological-economical substantiation for the BAT application of enterprises within the power industry. The obtained results have enabled the formulation of recommendations on the assessment of expenditures for the substantiation of appropriateness of a concrete BAT application, whilst taking into account its ecological/economical effectiveness. This will enhance the validity of managerial solutions concerning the adoption of these technologies at power industry enterprises. This will lead not only to the stable decrease of an adverse impact volume but also to the increase of Russian enterprises' competitive capacity. © 2014 WIT Press.International Journal of Safety and Security Engineering;International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning;WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environmen

THE OVERVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS IN RESEARCHING OF DEGENERATIVE DISEASES OF THE SPINE IN SCIENTIFIC CENTER OF RECONSTRUCTIVE AND RESTORATIVE SURGERY SB RAMS FOR 10 YEARS

This article represents the result of 10 years work of scientific stuff going into researching of degenerative diseases of the spine. The new theoretical knowledge taken to the basis of new ways of diagnostics, forecasting and treatment was obtained. The introduction of suggested new technics of diagnostics, treatment and forecasting of pathologies of the spine let to improve results of treatment of patients with spinal stenosis, postoperative adhesion scar-epiduritis, herniated intervertebral discs, instability of the spinal motion segment. Finding out the regularities and mechanisms of multifactorial syndrome of instability was taken as the basis of working out by scientists pathogenically founded ways of correction of this syndrome. All new methods are patented and adopted by new technologies

Reflectivity and microhardness of sulfide minerals as genetic information source (case study: pyrite and arsenopyrite)

Reflectivity and microhardness of pyrite and arsenopyrite of black shale gold-ore deposits in Chertovo Koryto (Patom upland) were studied. It was found that sulfides of different generations are characterized by different values of above-mentioned parameters which is associated mechanical and isomorphic impurities

Reflectivity and microhardness of sulfide minerals as genetic information source (case study: pyrite and arsenopyrite)

Reflectivity and microhardness of pyrite and arsenopyrite of black shale gold-ore deposits in Chertovo Koryto (Patom upland) were studied. It was found that sulfides of different generations are characterized by different values of above-mentioned parameters which is associated mechanical and isomorphic impurities

Manifestation of finite temperature size effects in nanogranular magnetic graphite

In addition to the double phase transition (with the Curie temperatures T_C=300K and T_{Ct}=144K), a low-temperature anomaly in the dependence of the magnetization is observed in the bulk magnetic graphite (with an average granular size of L=10nm), which is attributed to manifestation of the size effects below the quantum temperature. The best fits of the high-temperature data (using the mean-field Curie-Weiss and Bloch expressions) produced reasonable estimates for the model parameters, such as defects mediated effective spin exchange energy J=12meV (which defines the intragranular Curie temperature T_C) and proximity mediated interactions between neighboring grains (through potential barriers created by thin layers of non-magnetic graphite) with energy J_t=exp(-d/s)J=5.8meV (which defines the intergranular Curie temperature T_{Ct}) with d=1.5nm and s=2nm being the intergranular distance and characteristic length, respectively

Development of virtual space of library

This article tells about development of the electronic scientific and educational resources, multimedia publications of library of the Perm University executed by visualization tools. Statistical data are includedВ статье сказано о развитии электронных научных и образовательных ресурсов, мультимедийных публикациях Научной библиотеки Пермского университета, выполненных средствами визуализации. Приведены статистические данны