Optimization of Agriculture Land Use Development Basing on Natural-resource Potential (On the Example of the Stavropol Territory)

Natural resources potential of the territory and natural-historical mechanism of its development are pacing factors in agriculture differentiation and AIC-development. Key branches in the Stavropol Territory are crop production, sheep breeding and meat and milk cattle breeding. To meet the market demands “equating” differentiation of agricultural enterprises is implemented. Thus, in Stavropol Territory crop lands have been increased for crops required in the market that disbalanced the crop rotation, disturbed agro technologies and resulted in reduction in yields and grain quality. In the Territory 70 % of tillage is in risky agriculture. About 65 % of crop production (wheat, barley and others) are in draughty areas where out of 141 years (1861–2002) 41 % draughty, which determine high natural-climatic dependence of grain economy [1]. Annual and areal variability of grain production is also determined by topsoil heterogeneity and variety of relief. At present production of the basic market crop – winter wheat, which takes 75 % of acreage for cereals and leguminous crops, the productivity of the cultivated crop is 22.4–39.5 centner/hectare. It results in top soil changes such as compaction, fertilizer impoverishment and organic matter content (organic matter deficit is 400–700 kg/ha). Intensification of agrarian production results in quicker erosion processes, soil properties decline and lower fertility. The total area of eroded lands in the Territory is 1792000 ha [2]. That is why it is important to develop a new model of the economic use of Stavropol Territory. The main methods of study are analysis of the current status and organization of the agricultural zones of the Territory. The data were preceded with the software Statistica

Youth Migration from Tajikistan to OECD Member Countries: History and Present-Day Trends

Introduction. Being a country with a young age structure, Tajikistan has become a prominent participant of various migration flows in recent years. A large number of labor migrants from Tajikistan to the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have been reported since 2014, which is associated with a fall in the ruble’s exchange rate and a decrease in incomes of migrants to Russia in currency equivalent. At the same time, traditionally Tajik youth used to to study in Russia and Kazakhstan, but in recent decades the flow to OECD member countries has also increased significantly. Goals. The study aims to identify the causes and features underlying the reorientation of the flows of educational migrants from Tajikistan toward new geographical directions, namely the OECD member countries. Materials and methods. The work basically employs two research methods. Firstly, the statistical method processes data on the scope and structure of educational emigration from Tajikistan. Secondly, the sociological method provides insights into outcomes of sociological surveys and expert interviews (secondary analysis of sociological data). The key sources of information are OECD-related data from the OECD.Stat reports, and the author’s survey (conducted online via Facebook social network — banned in Russia — accounts of several associations of Tajik citizens abroad) among young individuals from Tajikistan who study in OECD member countries. The questionnaire contained 17 questions about adaptation and integration of migrants, educational levels of migrants, age-sex structure, migration channels, reasons for the reorientation of labor migrants toward OECD member countries, resettlement, and sectoral employment in host countries. The convenience sampling yielded a total of was 417 individuals who were then undertaking training programs in Austria, Germany, the U.S., and Canada. The survey was primarily seeking to identify adaptation strategies selected by young emigrants from Tajikistan in OECD member countries. Results. So, the article presents the outcomes of the survey. Half of Tajik university graduates try to continue their studies and/or find a job abroad via the Internet. Actually, many tend to view educational migration as an emigration channel. This process is accompanied by that Tajik citizens take additional training or retraining programs, seek to receive acknowledgement certificates for diplomas of Tajikistan, and undergo corresponding courses in the receiving countries. As a rule, they quickly adapt to labor markets in OECD member countries: it takes ‘less than a month’ (or ‘from 1 to 3 months’) to get a job. The working language for most Tajik migrants is English and German, and they get jobs in the fields of education and medicine, which attests to somewhat increased educational levels of theirs

Actual Problems of Human Trafficking and Illegal Migration in the Russian Federation

Human trafficking in the Russian Federation is closely linked to irregular migration into which huge numbers of people from the former USSR have been drawn. The European Parliament's fight against organized crime and money found 880 thousand. Modern slaves in the EU, writes the German weekly "Der Spiegel", become familiar with its report. In this business was involved about 3,600 international criminal gangs. Only trafficking in human beings brings € 25 billion a year. Comparable income - € 18-26 billion - brings together trade bodies with a prohibited wildlife trade; the report said (Enslaved Europe, http://www.crime.vl.ru/index.php?p=4835&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#more4835, 2015)). The author analyzes the problem of illegal migration, which became relevant in the present time in Russia. The data for the research was collected by employing statistical, sociological, cartographic and analytical methods. The report analyses the scale of trafficking for labour exploitation in the Russian Federation and its link to irregular migration. The system for the regulation of labour migration in the Russian Federation can be viewed as imperfect and currently incomplete, enabling the possibility for labour migrants to be actively drawn into human trafficking and labour exploitation by unscrupulous employers and criminals. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s1p62

The Specificity of the Differential Regulation of Economic Integration in the Context of Contemporary Labor Migration

The issues of integration in the modern world become relevant in the rapidly changing geopolitical realities, and the strategic imperative of time for the vast majority of States. Today in accordance with the principle of multi-level and various-speed integration on Eurasian space are successfully developing various integration formats. They complement each other to provide a wide partnership platform. The authors argue that the main participants in labor migration in the post-Soviet space reflect the actual path of social and economic interaction worked out historically. Common historical fate and similar paths of development, similar mental conceptosphere steel trigger mechanism for the implementation of the Eurasian Economic Union. Researches show that labour of migrant workers from different countries is widely distributed in different sectors of Russia's economy, their labour is used almost everywhere. In many industries a mechanism was established where officially Russian workers are registered at enterprises, but foreign migrant workers are actually employed. Russians began to actively move, migration processes have increased substantially, new forms of temporary migration. These processes have become more active throughout Eurasia. The authors analyze the causes and characteristics of migration in the Eurasian economic union at the present stage. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3p9

Modern Aspects of Human Trafficking in the Context of Labor Exploitation and Irregular Labor Migration in the Russian Federation

For the Russian Federation, human trafficking for labour exploitation has become particularly acute due to the country’s special socio-economic situation and geographical location. In Russia, the collapse of the USSR was followed by a sharp increase in socio-economic inequality and a rise in unemployment and poverty, which created a socio-economic rationale for the involvement of sizeable socio-demographic groups among the Russian population in trafficking. Russia is not only a source and destination country for internal and external trafficking in human beings for labour exploitation, but by virtue of its geographical location and size, Russia has become a country through which a significant number of migrants from Asia, Africa, and the Near East attempt to enter Europe. The aim of this research is to identify trends and patterns in human trafficking for labour exploitation as well as related irregular labour migration in the Russian Federation under the current socio-economic conditions and to formulate recommendations to combat these adverse phenomena. In this research trafficking for labour exploitation is considered from a broad perspective, not only focusing on the legal definition of trafficking for forced labour but also on less legally severe cases of labour exploitation that constitute and facilitate the context in which a trafficking situation can occur. Slave labour and trafficking for labour exploitation are utilized as synonyms to trafficking for forced labour throughout the article of authors. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s2p6

About alkiline fly ash utilization

The problem of technogeniс waste formation is described. The alkaline fly ash formation sources, fly ash quantity and utilization ways are presented.В работе описывается проблема образования техногенного отхода – золы. Рассмотрены источники образования основной золы-унос, количество образующейся золы и способы ее утилизации

The ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a general-purpose, heavy-ion detector at the CERN LHC which focuses on QCD, the strong-interaction sector of the Standard Model. It is designed to address the physics of strongly interacting matter and the quark-gluon plasma at extreme values of energy density and temperature in nucleus-nucleus collisions. Besides running with Pb ions, the physics programme includes collisions with lighter ions, lower energy running and dedicated proton-nucleus runs. ALICE will also take data with proton beams at the top LHC energy to collect reference data for the heavy-ion programme and to address several QCD topics for which ALICE is complementary to the other LHC detectors. The ALICE detector has been built by a collaboration including currently over 1000 physicists and engineers from 105 Institutes in 30 countries. Its overall dimensions are 161626 m3 with a total weight of approximately 10 000 t. The experiment consists of 18 different detector systems each with its own specific technology choice and design constraints, driven both by the physics requirements and the experimental conditions expected at LHC. The most stringent design constraint is to cope with the extreme particle multiplicity anticipated in central Pb-Pb collisions. The different subsystems were optimized to provide high-momentum resolution as well as excellent Particle Identification (PID) over a broad range in momentum, up to the highest multiplicities predicted for LHC. This will allow for comprehensive studies of hadrons, electrons, muons, and photons produced in the collision of heavy nuclei. Most detector systems are scheduled to be installed and ready for data taking by mid-2008 when the LHC is scheduled to start operation, with the exception of parts of the Photon Spectrometer (PHOS), Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) and Electro Magnetic Calorimeter (EMCal). These detectors will be completed for the high-luminosity ion run expected in 2010. This paper describes in detail the detector components as installed for the first data taking in the summer of 2008

Современное состояние и перспективы развития сельского хозяйства Ставропольского края

The present state and prospects of agricultural development in the Stavropol Area The article analyzes the present state and prospects of plant-breeding development, as a leading branch of the Stavropol Area that specializes on cultivation of grain and technical crops and on animal breeding. Special attention is paid on dynamics of sowing areas, gross yields and productivity of grain crops, ratio of branches and products of plant-breeding and husbandry, their profitability (unprofitability), and adaptive branch development and planning of agriculture and AIC as an unclaimed function in the system of modern state management. The article emphasizes that the objective features of the grain economy of the Stavropol Area are that no less than 70% of the arable land is located in the area of risky farming and about 65% of the total production of agricultural crops is provided by wheat, barley and other crops in the semi-arid zones. This largely determines the high natural and climatic dependence of the grain economy, the annual and regional variability of grain production, which is proved by mathematical analysis. However, the realizable market relations in the absence of a state adaptive concept of the agricultural development of the region result in misbalance and inefficiency in the industry functioning, simplification of the system of production organization of agricultural production, and agro zoning activity. The article draws the conclusions that indicate a greater dependence of plant-breeding on market conditions, the volume of capital investment and pricing, the natural resource potential of land use, and the significant deformation of the modern agricultural system

Topical antibiotics for acne treatment

Urgency. Acne is a prevalent polymorphous multifactorial inflammatory disease with various clinical forms ranging from the mildest ones (comedonal) to the most severe forms such as phlegmonous, indurative and cystic acne. According to epidemiology studies, the acne incidence rate in general population varies from 85% to 93%; moreover, there is a trend towards the growth in the incidence rate of postpubertal and persistent acne in adults. Acne treatment methods depend on the adequate clinical assessment of the disease severity, character of eruptions, skin type, any concomitant pathologies and patient’s age. Topical therapy is administered to all patients regardless of the disease severity and forms a mandatory part of the therapeutic complex treatment of acne patients. Despite the range of available drugs and treatment methods, researchers keep searching for new drugs and treatment methods for treating acne. Combination acne therapies enjoy keen interest in the world for reasons such as stable treatment results and improved compliance. It is essential that the administration of a combination therapy came along with drugs having a complimentary mechanism of action. Drug combinations have an effect on a large number of pathogenetic factors resulting in acne (excessive follicular hyperkeratosis, propagation of P. аспвв, inflammation). Goal. The goal of this article is a review of literature sources on current aspects of acne topical therapy and examining results of studies of a combination therapy, azelaic acid and clindamycin. Study materials and methods. The project was carried out at the GBOU VPO Kursk State Medical University, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. Major results. Both Russian and foreign authors use combination therapies with topical administration of azelaic acid and clindamycin on a broad scale. According to a study conducted in Russia, azelaic acid is a good combination substance for administration with both topical antibiotics (the antibiotic is to be applied to pustules once a day) and adapalene. According to the clinical study results, 15% azelaic acid (Azelic gel) as a part of a combination topical therapy reduces adverse effects observed in the course of a monotherapy with topical retinoids and improves the therapeutic efficacy when combined with antibacterial drugs. Conclusion. The practical experience and different variants of a combination therapy with 15% azelaic acid (Azelic gel) and 1% clindamycin gel (Clindovit) provide dermatologists with an opportunity to treat acne in different groups of patients on an everyday basis with increased efficacy achieving a longer remission of the inflammatory process