Surveying transitional experience and subjective well-being : Income, work, family

Subjective well-being patterns found for developed economies do not always valid for the economies in transition. This paper overviews happiness and satisfaction studies on income, work and family life domains with a particular attention to those on transitional countries. While there is a range of similarities in conclusions for two types of economies, the main differences seems to be a result of uncertainty and fast changing conditions in transitional settings. The terms ‘happiness’ and ‘life satisfaction’ should be distinguished, when evaluating the successfulness of transformational period and socio-economic policies. A short summary for 76 studies involving subjective indicators on data from the economies in transition is included.life satisfaction, happiness, transition economies

Milestones chemical technology institute: our past and present

The article is devoted to the 95th anniversary of the Chemical technological Institute (CTI) of the Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin (UrFU), which will be held in October 2015. Over the years Chemical technological Institute (CTI) has undergone many structure transformations in accordance with the tasks which were set before it the time and the development of our country. Currently this is a fairly large educational and research Institute, which employs more than 100 lecturers including more than 70 associate professors – candidates (PhD), 30 professors – doctors of Sciences (Hb), 3 academics and 1 corresponding member of RAS, trained more than 850 students

Homeward Bound: How Translators Negotiate the Foreign in Travel and Tourism. An English-Russian Case Study.

My research addresses intercultural communication in the field of travel and the industry of tourism and the challenges faced by translators between cultures. In my thesis I explore selected texts about foreign travel in English and in Russian and their Russian and English translations (respectively) in order to show the importance of differentiating between the ways in which translators, travellers and tourists represent and contrast foreign and domestic elements. In Chapters One and Two, I explore target-oriented and source-oriented translations. My analysis suggests that target-oriented translation can be creatively combined with source-oriented translation, both on a semantic level, by translators of travel texts and on a narrative level, by those travellers who write accounts of their experiences. Thus translators of travel literature create a holistic image of a foreign culture using analogies familiar to readers of the target language. My comparisons of English-language The Lonely Planet and Rough Guides travel guides to China, Finland and Russia with their Russian translations suggest that texts targeted at different audiences can be significantly divergent in terms of content. Translators take different approaches not only in their use of target-oriented and source-oriented translations, but also in the degree of creativity and adaptation/localization which they employ. My analysis of articles from British Cereal magazine and their Russian translations, which I study in Chapter Three of my thesis, shows that creativity may be a legitimate aspect of translation strategy, or an attempt by publishers to alter the original text radically in order to make it more appealing to the target audience. In Chapter Four, I focus my analysis of online texts for tourists on Condé Nast Traveller magazine and the Booking.Com website (both English and Russian versions) in order to establish why localization experts replace translators. My thesis concludes that the role of the translator in the travel industry encompasses a spectrum of linguistic and extra-linguistic tasks based on connections between foreign and domestic values, including strategies of localization and adaptation

Surveying transitional experience and subjective well-being: Income, work, family

Subjective well-being patterns found for developed economies do not always valid for the economies in transition. This paper overviews happiness and satisfaction studies on income, work and family life domains with a particular attention to those on transitional countries. While there is a range of similarities in conclusions for two types of economies, the main differences seems to be a result of uncertainty and fast changing conditions in transitional settings. The terms happiness and life satisfaction should be distinguished, when evaluating the successfulness of transformational period and socio-economic policies. A short summary for 76 studies involving subjective indicators on data from the economies in transition is included

The Russian Far East: contemporary problems and prospects of a region at the border with China

This article gives a short overview of the population dynamics in the Russian Far East, and of the recent efforts of the Russian government to make the region more attractive for internal and external migrants and capital flows. This paper will also evaluate the role of China, a country sharing more than 3500 kilometres of border with the Far Eastern Federal District, in the region's economy. To unfold the potential of the region, further efforts should be made to invest into the industrial infrastructure, but also into the development of social infrastructure. The latter, together with information on implementation of Target Federal Programmes in mass-media, should create positive stimuli for migration inflows. Higher transparency of legislation related to migration and investment may create pre-requisites for attracting more Chinese (seasonal) manpower and financial resources, without aggravating sovereignity concerns of local population and politicians

Labour market institutions, crisis and gender earnings gap in Eastern Europe

This paper studies gender earnings inequality in ten Central and Eastern EU countries before (2007) and during the ongoing crisis (2009), using quantile regression methods. The analysis reveals remarkable cross-country diversity in levels and patterns of the gender gap along the earning distribution. We address then the role played by country-specific labour market institutions in forming this variety. Labour market deregulation increases gender inequality, particularly reinforcing the glass-ceiling effect. Higher union density and wage coordination reduce the pay gap, with stronger equalizing effects again in the better-paid jobs. Lastly, the crisis seems to further weaken the already poor role of institutions in the low-pay sector

МЕТОДИЧНЕ ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ ОЦІНКИ ЕФЕКТИВНОСТІ МАРКЕТИНГОВОЇ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ ПІДПРИЄМСТВ. (METHODICAL MAINTENANCE OF ENTERPRISES' MARKETING EFFECTIVENESS EVALUATION).

У статті висвітлено та проаналізовано підходи до оцінки ефективності маркетингової діяльності підприємств національних та зарубіжних дослідників. Подано методи вимірювання її як ступеня досягнення поставлених цілей, відношення ефекту від маркетингової діяльності до витрат на її здійснення, ціни бренду, системи показників, оцінки за функціями маркетингу. Рекомендовано використовувати метод експертного аналізу за складовими компонентами маркетингової діяльності з урахуванням специфіки сфери діяльності підприємства. (The article describes and analyzes national and foreign researchers' approaches to enterprises' marketing effectiveness evaluating. It shows the methods of evaluation it as degree of achievement the goals, dividing the marketing effect to the costs of its implementation, as a brand price, as marketing functions evaluation system. It is proposed to use the expert analysis method on components of marketing activities take into account specific of the branch in which the enterprise work.

Rights of Sex Workers in Germany: Shifting Focus from the Locals to the Migrants from Eastern and Southeastern Europe?

The main goal of the German Prostitution Act of 2002 to improve the human and labor rights of sex workers has not been achieved. The gradual substitution of German sex workers with migrants, most of whom stem from Central and Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union countries, is overlooked, since multiple sex workers from these countries are, in reality, not covered by the Act; victims of human trafficking are also not adequately protected by current legislation. The issue is complex and regulation requires policy makers in Germany and the EU to address it together with human trafficking and migration issues

Commodity and Financial Networks in Regional Economics

The article discusses the relationship between commodity-production and financial network structures in the regional economy as dual conjugate systems. Material flows (raw materials, goods and so on) circulate in the commodity network as shown by Leontiev’s input-output balance model. Nonmaterial flows of property rights, money, and so on circulate in the financial network and reflect the movement of material objects in commodity networks. A network structure comprises closed and open circuits, which have fundamentally different characteristics: locally closed circuits meet local demand by supplying locally produced goods, thus ensuring self-reproduction of the local economy; open (or transit) circuits provide export-import flows. The article describes the mechanism of ‘internal’ money generation in closed circuits of commodity-production networks. The results of the theoretical study are illustrated by the calculations of closed and open circuit flows in the municipal economy model. Mutual settlements between the population and manufacturing enterprises are given in matrix form. It was found that the volume of the turnover in closed circuits of the municipal economic network model is about 28.5 % of the total turnover and can be provided by ‘internal’ non-inflationary money. The remaining 71.5 % of the total turnover correspond to the flows in the network’s open circuits providing export and import. The conclusion is made that in the innovation-driven economy, main attention should be given to the projects oriented towards domestic consumption rather than export supplies. The economy is based on internal production cycles in closed circuits. Thus, it is necessary to find the chains in the inter-industrial and inter-production relations which could become the basis of the production cycle. Money investments will complete such commodity chains and ‘launch’ the production cycle.The work has been prepared with the supprot of the Ural Federal University within the UrFU Program for the winners of the competition “Young Scientists of UrFU” No. 2.1.1.1-14/43

Regulation of river water regime by detention dams

The Russian Far East, the North Caucasus and the foothills of the Sayan Mountains are regions of the Russian Federation characterised by a high risk of rainfall floods occurrence. Mountain rivers collect the rainfall runoff on hillsides, which creates a high risk of flooding in urban lands located in floodplain areas. Topographic and hydrological factor analysis and statistical information on the precipitation data enable the identification of the most vulnerable zones where destructive floods are expected. Analysis of the impact of hill slopes on the formation of floods makes it possible to introduce the most effective and environmentally-friendly methods and resources for flood prevention. In order to reduce the negative effects of floods, measures are taken to reduce the flood surge by controlling the inflow to the flood plain. The easiest and most efficient flood run-off control system are self-regulating dams equipped with filters or culverts that allow the creation of temporary detention reservoirs.The use of local materials for the construction of dams (stones, sandbags, brushwood) allows for an efficient and environmentally-friendly system