TRANSITION AND FOOD CONSUMPTION

This paper examines why transition from planned to market economies in the countries of the former Soviet bloc has changed their mix and volumes of food consumption. During transition, consumption of high value products, such as meat and dairy products, has plummeted, while consumption of staple foods such as bread and potatoes has remained steady, or even increased. The paper shows that in the pre-reform planned economy, planners "desired" the production and national consumption of high value (and cost) foodstuffs more than consumers. When market reform resulted in consumer prices adjusting to reflect the full cost of production, consumer demand switched from high cost foods to other goods and services. The demand-driven nature of food restructuring in these countries has implications for food security, reinforcing the argument that any food security problems are not mainly the result of inadequate aggregate supplies of agricultural products.Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,

Russia's Transition to Major Player in World Agricultural Markets

Russia, Agriculture, Trade, Grain, Meat, WTO Accession, International Development, F14, P33, Q17,

Information analitical system of analysis and forecasting the needs in skilled workers for regional economies

In these theses the informational analytical system developed by Budget Monitoring Center at Petrozavodsk State University is considered. This system provides an opportunity to forecast and estimate the regional economy needs in skilled workers, to analyze Russian labor market supply by graduates in terms of their training volume as for each 83 Russian regions but also for Russian Federation as a whole

TECHNOLOGY OF ART AND DESIGN ANALYSIS ON THE CASE STUDY MALE DAGHESTAN NATIONAL COSTUME

The article considers the stages of artistic analysis of masculine humeral service widespread on the territory of Daghestan in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For example Circassian presents illustrative material: photos, technical drawing, scan cut. The results of the artistic design of the analysis are shown in table form and in the quality of the chart. The elements identified male costume can be used in design designing modern service

Experiment K-6-16. Morphological examination of rat testes. The effect of Cosmos 1887 flight on spermatogonial population and testosterone level in rat testes

Testes from rats flown on Cosmos 1887 for twelve and a half days were compared to basal control, synchronous control and vivarium maintained rats. When the mean weights of flight testes, normalized for weight/100 gms, were compared to the vivarium controls they were 6.7 percent lighter. Although the flight testes were lighter than the synchronous, the difference is not significant. Counts of spermatogonial cells from 5 animals in each group revealed a 4 percent decrease in flight compared to vivarium controls. In both cases the t-Test significance was less than 0.02. The serum testosterone levels of all animals (flight, synchronous and vivarium) were significantly below the basal controls

New Year Semantics in Anna Akhmatova’s Poetry

Поступила в редакцию 12.06.2019. Принята к печати 17.07.2019.Submitted on 12 June, 2019. Accepted on 17 July, 2019.В статье рассматривается семантика Нового года в общем контексте лирики Ахматовой. Автор задается целью уточнить значение этого события в свете осмысления автором не только личной судьбы, которую поэт связывает с влиянием на нее календарного цикла. Лирическая героиня поэзии Ахматовой чувствительно воспринимает календарный «сдвиг», результатом которого стало появление в России особого праздника — «Старый Новый год», что расширило период святочного карнавала, соединив при этом два Сочельника, отличавших Рождество Христово от Богоявления. В сознании лирической героини это наложило отпечаток на восприятие всей русской «праздничной» жизни. Этот психологический сюжет сопровождается трагическим эмоциональным фоном, где воспроизводятся события любого праздника, особенно Нового года как обещания «нового горя» — новой череды человеческих жизней, приносимых в жертву Танатосу в разных его ипостасях. Героиня Ахматовой постоянно ощущает себя в страшном для нее святочном хронотопе, в центре которого располагается Новый год. В славянской традиции святочный ритуал предполагал обряд «игры в покойника». Эта фольклорная традиция отразилась в ранней лирике Н. Гумилева, предопределив сюжет праздника мертвых в «Новогодней балладе», и первой части «Поэмы без героя» А. Ахматовой. Новогодняя семантика пропитана в этой художественной системе эсхатологическим смыслом в понимании динамики как личного существования, так и всей истории «некалендарного ХХ века». В исследовании представлена тематическая подборка текстов, не привлекавшая ахматоведов в этой связи (в том числе и тексты, не вошедшие в основные сборники). Сделанный отбор с сопровождающей его интерпретацией позволяет глубже проникнуть в сложную символическую структуру психологии личности Серебряного века, которой пришлось пережить глобальные исторические катаклизмы и искать им если не рационально-логическое, то иррационально-мистическое объяснение. Ахматова, всегда чувствительная к датам, на этом уровне пыталась мучительно понять трагический «ребус бытия».This article examines New Year semantics in the context of Anna Akhmatova’s lyrical poetry. The author aims to define the meaning of this event in the context of the author’s conceptualisation going beyond Akhmatova’s personal destiny which she regards as affected by the calendar cycle. Akhmatova’s lyrical heroine is sensitive to the calendar shift which resulted in the emergence of a peculiar Russian holiday, the so-called “Old New Year”. It extended the period of Christmas carnival, thus combining two Christmas Eves which had distinguished Christmas from Epiphany. This affected the poet’s lyrical heroine’s perception of all Russian festive life. This psychological plot is accompanied by a tragical emotional background reproducing any holiday events, especially those of the New Year perceived as an omen of “new grief” and new human lives sacrificed to Thanatos in his different guises. Akhmatova’s heroine constantly perceives herself as being in Christmas Eve chronotope scary for her with the New Year in its centre. In the Slavic tradition, there existed a Christmas Eve ritual of “playing dead”. This folklore tradition was reflected in Nikolay Gumilyov’s early poetry, having predetermined the “feast day of the dead” plot in the New Year’s Ballad and the first part of the Poem without a Hero by Akhmatova. New Year semantics is permeated in this artistic system with eschatological sense in understanding dynamics both as personal existence and the entire history of the “split twentieth century”. The article considers a thematic selection of Akhmatova’s texts which have not been studied by researchers in this connection (including texts not to be found in her major collections). This selection accompanied by its interpretation makes it possible to look deeper into the complex symbolic structure of the psychology of a representative of the Silver Age who had to live through a number of global historical cataclysms searching for irrational and mystical explanations if not rational and logical ones. On this level, Akhmatova, who had always been sensitive to dates, painfully tried to solve the tragic riddle of being

Antiproliferative activity of PEP005, a novel ingenol angelate that modulates PKC functions, alone and in combination with cytotoxic agents in human colon cancer cells

PEP005 is a novel ingenol angelate that modulates protein kinases C (PKC) functions by activating PKCδ and inhibiting PKCα. This study assessed the antiproliferative effects of PEP005 alone and in combination with several other anticancer agents in a panel of 10 human cancer cell lines characterised for expression of several PKC isoforms. PEP005 displayed antiproliferative effects at clinically relevant concentrations with a unique cytotoxicity profile that differs from that of most other investigated cytotoxic agents, including staurosporine. In a subset of colon cancer cells, the IC50 of PEP005 ranged from 0.01–140 μM. The antiproliferative effects of PEP005 were shown to be concentration- and time-dependent. In Colo205 cells, apoptosis induction was observed at concentrations ranging from 0.03 to 3 μM. Exposure to PEP005 also induced accumulation of cells in the G1 phase of the cell cycle. In addition, PEP005 increased the phosphorylation of PKCδ and p38. In Colo205 cells, combinations of PEP005 with several cytotoxic agents including oxaliplatin, SN38, 5FU, gemcitabine, doxorubicin, vinorelbine, and docetaxel yielded sequence-dependent antiproliferative effects. Cell cycle blockage induced by PEP005 in late G1 lasted for up to 24 h and therefore a 24 h lag-time between PEP005 and subsequent exposure to cytotoxics was required to optimise PEP005 combinations with several anticancer agents. These data support further evaluation of PEP005 as an anticancer agent and may help to optimise clinical trials with PEP005-based combinations in patients with solid tumours

Synthesis of New Diazahomoadamantanone and Study the Reactivity of Carbonyl group

In this paper, new diazahomoadamantane was prepared by condensation of cyclic ketone (cyclododecanone) with 1,3,6,8-tetraazatricyclo[4.4.1.13,8]dodecane and acetic acid in 2-propanol gave new diazahomoadamantanone (13,16-diazatetracyclo-[9.6.1.11,13.111,16]eicosan-18-one) by Mannich,s reaction. Also were studied the reactivity of carbonyl group with various chemical agents like ( NaBH4 , H2N-NH2.H2O and NH2-OH.HCl). A simplified procedure was developed for the synthesis of 1,3,6,8-tetraazatricyclo [4.4.1.13,8]dodecane from condensation of ethane-1,2-diamine with paraform (Type A) in a very good yield. This new compound was characterized by FT-IR, Mass spectrum, 1H NMR and 13C NMR spectroscopy method

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Restaurant: Recommendations Based on an Expert Interview

This study examines how the impact of the coronavirus spread on business operations in the restaurant business varies depending on the level of restaurants adaptability to the challenges encountered during the pandemic, using three dimensions (analysis of consumer demand problems, optimization of corporate strategy and use of the company’s innovative potential). Through in-depth interviews with eight key food service industry experts in St. Petersburg, Russia, this study describes and fleshes out the rapidly transforming challenge of identifying major market changes in the restaurant business during the pandemic. The analysis showed that chain restaurants with sufficient resources to deal with employee turnover, technology development, brand building and customer loyalty are more resilient to the challenges resulting from the impact of the coronavirus spread than similar food service companies. While the presence of serious problems associated with consumer demand, the optimization of the offered dishes format and service had a significant impact on the relationship between the impact of the coronavirus spread and the inability to adapt to the new reality of doing business. The results of the research can be useful for entrepreneurs and managers of chain restaurants who develop marketing strategies to establish or adjust management decisions to adapt catering companies during a pandemic

THE PHENOMENON OF POLITICAL HUMOR IN THE KVN TV-SHOW ACCORDING TO THE MATERIALS OF CONTENT ANALYSIS

The article suggests the definition of political humor as based on the stereotypes optimization tool of communication about the political situation in the country and key figures on its political arena. The participants of this communication can be political subjects and their audience and also citizens themselves. Based on the content analysis of the KVN (Club of cheerful and resourceful) games was made a conclusion about the censoring political humor according to the aims of government propaganda; it was revealed that in the political humor of the KVN they actively use the manipulative methods; it was proved that political humor which made V. V. Putin a hero and discredits those disliked by the government political figures and ideas of other countries in the mass consciousness. As a result it provides the support of the internal policy of Russia by the population and at the same time it fixes prejudiced attitude to everything «foreign» in the society