Development of Small and Medium-Sized Regional Enterprises: Creation of Priority Areas (the Case of Sverdlovsk Region)

This article presents the results of the research which deals with the current level of development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Sverdlovsk region. The study analyses the statistics of entrepreneurship development as well as Russian and international experience in this sphere. It also includes a sociological survey of entrepreneurs’ satisfaction with the business climate in the region. The research was aimed at elaborating guidelines for the long-term development of a regional entrepreneurship support system. This system seeks to facilitate the implementation of the ‘Strategy for the Development of Small and Medium Enterprises in Sverdlovsk Region before 2030’. As a result, an amalgam of strategic responses for the development of SMEs is presented. The completed response comprises measures intended to address the problems entrepreneurs face by developing SME support tools; to solve the endemic problems of the sector by improving the system of regional SME support; and to promote the realization of concrete priority areas for entrepreneurship development.The research work was carried out in collaboration with the Ural Federal University n.a. the First President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin and OOO “Analytical Centre Expert-Ural’” at the request of Sverdlovsk Regional Entrepreneurship Support Fund. The research was conducted in the period of September-November 2014. The state programme of Sverdlovsk region ‘Development of Industry and Science in Sverdlovsk Region Before 2020’ (approved by the Order of Sverdlovsk government of 24 October 2013 № 1293-ПП)

Development of regional strategies in Russia: the case of Sverdlovsk region

The project was commissioned by the Ministry of Economy of Sverdlovsk region and was realized by the analytical centre 'Expert' and the Graduate School of Economics and Management of the Ural Federal University.The article discusses the recent renewal of the 'Strategy for Socio-Economic Development of Sverdlovsk Region until 2030' and its 'Action Plan'. Both of these documents were brought into compliance with the Federal Law № 172-ФЗ 'On Strategic Planning in the Russian Federation'. 1 In the region’s strategic planning it was the first time that the communicative approach was applied. Drafting the strategic documents necessitated setting priorities in the long-term development of the region. The article describes the methodology for designing the region's strategic documentation and the drafting process and provides schemes of strategic planning realized in Sverdlovsk region. The article outlines the key provisions of the 'Strategy of Socio-Economic Development of Sverdlovsk Region for the Period Between 2016 and 2030' and the 'Action Plan for Implementation of the Strategy'. Drawing from the experience of Sverdlovsk region, recommendations are given on optimization of strategic planning on regional and municipal levels

Excitability of Vascular Smooth Muscle

Regulation of pressure and local blood flow occurs at the level of resistance arteries and arterioles. Under physiological conditions, these small vessels exist in a state of partial constriction, termed myogenic tone. Myogenic tone is considered to be an intrinsic property of arteriolar smooth muscle cells, which membranes depolarize in response to increase in the intraluminal pressure. Oscillations of membrane potential in smooth muscles are mediated by the activity of voltage-gated L-type Ca2+ channels, which provide an influx of Ca2+ to activate various voltage-gated and Ca2+-sensitive channels of smooth muscle cells and to initiate endothelial Ca2+ signaling needed for vasodilation. Although a relationship between change in membrane potential and myogenic response is considered to be universal throughout various smooth muscle tissues, it may be regulated differently based on autoregulatory responses and channels expression. Here we review electrophysiological signature of arteriolar smooth muscle in various tissues, with an emphases and specific examples of the excitability of 4th order arterioles isolated from skeletal muscle

The profile linguisticphilosophical of the journalistic concept

El concepto periodístico está introducido en el espacio filosófico siendo el mismo uno de los atributos de su sistema: como instrumento de la cognición. Al tener en cuenta la función informativa y sugestiva del género periodístico en el artículo están aprovechados más adecuados paradigmas filosóficos (causaefecto, induccióndeducción, tesisantitesis) proyectados en el terreno lingüístico. La integración lingüofilosófica permite caracterizar el mundo periodístico en dos planos: extralingüístico, a base de modus real del objeto; intralingüístico, a base de modus conceptual del sujeto.The journalistic conception is incorporated into the pace of philosophy being one of the attributes of its system as an instrument of cognition. Bearing in mind informative and evaluative functions of journalistic genre the most adequate philosophical paradigms (cause and effect, induction and deduction, thesis and antithesis) projected into the sphere of linguistics are used in the article. The Linguistic philosophical integration allows to characterize the journalistic world in two plans: extralinguistic on the basis of real modus of the object and intralinguistic on the basis of conceptual modus of the subject

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

Attitudes towards domestic energy efficiency among Russian consumers : factors influencing behaviour

Masteroppgave i Energy management - Universitetet i Nordland, 201

The Chinese diaspora and security issues in Southeast Asia

В статье рассматривается положение китайских диаспор в Юго-Восточной Азии и их влияние на формирование мирной обстановки в странах региона. Раскрыты основные виды конфликтов и определены факторы, формирующие комплекс противоречий между сообществами зарубежных китайцев в Юго-Восточной Азии и местным населением на государственном и муниципальном уровнях.The article deals with the position of the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia and their effect on the formation of a peaceful environment in the region. The author reveals the main types of conflicts and determine the factors that shape the complex contradictions between communities of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and the local population on the state and municipal levels

Assessment of Multivariate Financial Risks of a Stock Share Portfolio

The method of evaluation of stochastic volatility (SV) model coefficients, with time going to the infinity, is consid-ered. The problem of finding the solution of a system of stochastic differential equations is reduced to that of the analytical solution of the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov asymptotic equation. The constructed algorithm is applied to econometric analysis of daily GAZPROM share prices and values of S&P500 Index options (SPX).stochastic volatility model; Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equation