СИНАНТРОПНЫЕ НАСЕКОМЫЕ В КАРЕЛЬСКОЙ НАРОДНОЙ ТРАДИЦИИ
В статье авторы обращаются к рассмотрению традиционных представлений ка- релов об облигатных синантропных насекомых.
More...We kindly inform you that, as long as the subject affiliation of our 300.000+ articles is in progress, you might get unsufficient or no results on your third level or second level search. In this case, please broaden your search criteria.
В статье авторы обращаются к рассмотрению традиционных представлений ка- релов об облигатных синантропных насекомых.
More...
The distinctive features of the noise protection legislation at the level of 85 subjects of the Russian Federation are considered. The comparative characteristics of the time parameters “day”, “night” for working days and holidays are given. It is compared with similar indicators of other countries. 46% of subjects considered 7 am as the beginning of the “day” period; 61% considered 22 pm as the beginning of the "night" period. For the first time Russia developed the following time periods separately: “day rest”, “evening”, “weekends and holidays”. The penalty system for violation of the noise legislation is analyzed. Irkutsk region has the “smallest” fines in Russia and Novosibirsk and Belgorod regions have the “biggest” fines.
More...
The article presents the contemporary condition in Greece as far as brownfield management is concerned. The analysis of the key-obstacles is illustrated through the case of Piraeus. Research includes literature review and field work. Major Piraeus’ brownfield sites are classified according to international categorizations. Research findings are depicted in thematic maps, using as key-categories the former use, the current use, the system of ownership, the presense of monuments of industrial architectural heritage, the presence of archaealogical sites. This cartographic depiction functions as a necessary tool for policy making on urban regeneration. The conclusions derived from field work provide useful information for further investigation. The ultimate purpose of the article is to highlight the current challenges and potentialities, making the appropriate connections with the international experience on the field.
More...
Bhubaneswar with a warm and humid climate and with humidity much higher than the comfort level requires an enhanced natural ventilation to achieve long term quality of life. The building code which regulates the fabric of the city at present follows a standardized set of regulations governed by National Building Code of India and is developed without giving much consideration to climate. Ground coverage is an important parameter which regulates the footprint of the blocks and allows natural ventilation to buildings as well to outdoor. At present, Bhubaneswar does not prescribe a ground coverage for its apartments and completely dependent on FAR control. As a result, the developments consider quite high ground coverage in certain areas. This particular research focusses on analyzing the current situation of multi storied apartments and proposes a few climate centric recommendations for the byelaw. To examine the situation and arrive at a strategy, a simulation study has been carried out by altering the ground coverage and building orientation of a multistoried apartment consisting of five residential blocks to analyze the effect of natural ventilation. The study inferred that, building layout and orientation in relation to wind direction plays an important role for natural ventilation in the outdoors. A climate centric byelaw ideally should consider both while formulating its building code.
More...
Review of: Tomislav Marijan Bilosnić: "África, Trilce Ediciones", (foreword Alfredo Pérez Alencart, translation Željka Lovrenčić); Salamanca, 2020.
More...
Review of: Matej Škarica „Hrvati Bosne i Hercegovine – naslijeđe i izazovi budućnosti“, Alfa, Zagreb, 2020.
More...
This article investigates dairy farm investment behaviour and the presence of soft budget constraints in the dairy farms of Baltic and Central European transition countries – Estonia, Hungary and Slovenia – using individual dairy farm accountancy panel data for the years 2007–2015. The empirical results confirm that gross dairy farm investment is positively associated with gross dairy farm investment for the previous year for financially unconstrained dairy farms, and negatively for financially constrained dairy farms. It is also positively associated with public investment subsidies, and, except for Slovenia, with growth in real sales for financially unconstrained dairy farms. Mixed results are found for gross dairy farm investment squared and cash flow variables. A particularly significant negative cash flow regression coefficient implies significant soft budget constraints for financially unconstrained Estonian and Slovenian dairy farms, while insignificant cash flow regression coefficients imply weak soft budget constraints for financially unconstrained Hungarian dairy farms.
More...
This article analyses the effects of minimum wage on employment in the Czech and Slovak Republics based on 2005–17 EU-SILC data. Our results contribute to the scant literature on minimum wage effects in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. While prior empirical findings concurred with the effects of minimum wage on labour market outcomes in CEE countries when the minimum wage is relatively high, there is ambiguity when the minimum wage is relatively low. In Slovakia we find that regular minimum wage hikes had insignificant effects on employment. Similarly, we find no negative employment consequences from irregular hikes in the comparatively low minimum wage (MW) of the Czech Republic. Moreover, the groups assumed to be most affected by MW hikes did not experience greater negative consequences following hikes when compared to the overall population of workers in either country.
More...
The sovereign debt crisis led to financial difficulties for European firms and a decline in the use of labour input. We use qualitative firm-level data for 24 European countries, collected within the third wave of the Wage Dynamics Network (WDN3) of the ESCB, to propose a cross-country analysis of the relationship between a credit shock and labour markets. We first derive a set of indices measuring difficulties in accessing the credit market for the period 2010–2013. Second, we provide a description of the relationship between credit difficulties and changes in labour input, both along the extensive and the intensive margins as well as on wages. We find strong and significant correlation between credit difficulties and adjustments along both the extensive and the intensive margin. In the presence of credit market difficulties, firms also cut wages by reducing the variable part of wages. This evidence suggests that credit shocks can affect not only the real economy, but also nominal variables.
More...
Liquid modernity is a concept proposed by Zygmunt Bauman that denotes modern tendencies in the development of the global capitalism economy. One of the main processes characterizing liquid modernity is human mobility, which in its turn results in a fragmented and indefinite identity and in the marginalization of local belonging. Mobility, especially in the form of long-term emigration, has become one of the major demographic problems Latvia has experienced. To provide solutions to the problems caused by emigration, in 2013 the Government of Latvia adopted an action plan to support re-emigration. The main idea of the plan refers basically to economic aspects. Obviously, it is not only economic factors that stimulate expatriates to return back home; psychological, emotional and symbolic aspects are no less significant. One of the most powerful symbols of re-emigration is home. The concept of home occupies one of the most important places in the process of self-categorization. It helps to organize self-knowledge and to recognize one’s own place in the surrounding environment (spatial and social, as well as mental) of emotions and memories. What is home in the era of liquid modernity? The observations made during the fieldworks in Riga, Valka and in the Svētupe region (2013–2016) showed that home is one of the most stable concepts in the construction of Latvian identity and the concept “my father’s home” still exists in Latvian worldview as a mytheme and as a symbolic equivalent of the beginning, of harmonic existence and “source of happiness and strength”.
More...
Hybrid identity seems to be a nowadays phenomenon, even though it has always been present within diasporic communities in different historical times. It has been in a spotlight more recently because of the growing numbers of transnational and diasporic communities around the world, which leaves the impact on the formation of people’s identities. This research looks into the theoretical grounds of diasporic identities, recognizing hybrid and fluid aspects within and inner conflicts which are brought along while finding the stable ground for one’s identity. There is a broad empirical part, where Latvia’s diaspora in Sweden is studied, searching for answers about changes in their identities and belonging issues when living abroad. This study found that formation of the diasporic identity is an on-going process with different and individual stages of being and attitudes towards own identity, home and belonging. The complexity of individual adjustment to diasporic identity is observed, which often can be characterized as a hybrid in-betweenness – the state between two or more identities.
More...
The aim of the study was to decode images of universities located in Wrocław on the basis of the city’s official narrative. The corpus, consisting of 180 media statements, was acquired from the portal www.wroclaw.pl. The chronological scope covered the academic year 2019/2020. The criterion for the selection of research material was the occurrence of the word “university” in the text. One of the analysis subjects was the number of mentions concerning each of the universities and the values attributed to them, the style and context of the texts, the events that were described and the people speaking on behalf of the universities. Another important element of the research was an analysis of genre press photographs, during which reference was made to the typology by Joanna Szylko-Kwas. It was decided to expand the typology to include photo-instruction—a genre appropriate for the relationship between a headline with a directive function and a photograph with an illustrative function. The results of the analysis made it possible to recreate media images of all the universities in Wrocław that emerged from the official narrative of the city. The information and reporting style was dominant in the texts and the headlines mostly had descriptive functions, while the photographs had illustrative functions.
More...
Place branding as an integral part of competitive place development strategy became a relevant topic for urban and rural municipalities in Latvia relatively recently, at the beginning of 2000. In particular, the issue of narrative exploration of place identities in Latvia has become a key subject, linked to sustainable demonstrations of the attractiveness of places, and the listing of their unique benefits in order to increase economic value and improve social welfare for place residents and other stakeholders. The article seeks answers to a range of interdisciplinary research questions related to the topic of place branding: how can a place brand identity be created that is relevant to place residents and expresses the distinctiveness of the place; what are the main features of belonging to place; and what intangible and/or tangible attributes of the place can provide an authentic and convincing identity narratives for place brands? The empirical part of the article is based on a qualitative research methodology, indepth semi-structured interviews with place branding experts, and analysis of the content of brand identities of Latvian cities and regions. The article reveals how place branding as a strategic marketing process is managed by local municipalities and involved stakeholders, provides a critical view of local practices and strengthens appreciation of one of the most important reference stages of the place-branding development process: cooperation in finding the key narratives for place identities.
More...
Review of: Hanna Kupś, Maciej Szatkowski, Michał Dahl (Eds.). „70 lat Chińskiej Republiki Ludowej w ujęciu interdyscyplinarnym“, Warszawa 2021, pp. 309
More...
The paper presents the results of research, whose main goal is to evaluate the aviation and rocket capability of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and Ukraine in terms of a possible launch of regular warfare. The authors primarily focus on changes in the military doctrine of the Russian Federation, which have created legal determinants of the use of armed forces outside the country’s territory in defense of national minorities, illustrated by taking control of Crimea. The authors also stress Russia’s military plans, including the development directions of the potential of armed forces as well as a possible threat to the security of the eastern NATO’s flank in the event of a conflict in Ukraine. In this respect, the capabilities of the air defense of countries on the eastern NATO flank, particularly Poland’s capability, were analyzed.
More...
The most tangible links between migration and economic development are remittances. They represent one of the most important foreign financial resources—external financing, which was the driving force behind Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) in most of Sub-Saharan Africa. Migrant remittances have surpassed FDI in significance as a private financial resource for households and an external financial resource for developing countries' economies, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this study, a time series data set from 2004 to 2019 is used to investigate the impact of remittances on the Gambia's economy. The findings suggest that remittances have a positive impact on the economy of the Gambia, but that this effect is statistically insignificant.
More...
China, has started to get famous and draw attention often by starting to a big rise in international system in recent years. The aim of this study is to examine the importance of Central Asia with its energy reserves in providing the energy needed by China's rising economy.. The study, has answered to research question which is, ‘’ What is the importance of Central Asia among the procurement areas for China which do not become self-sufficient and become foreign dependent for energy?’’ by using the International Energy Agency ‘s statistics and datas called World Energy Outlook which are annual and are published by the one of the its subsidiary called World Energ Council as a method. As a result, within the framework of theories, it has been reached that Central Asia has a greater importance for China in terms of energy supply than other supply regions.
More...
Oenological tourism has grown in Romania in recent years, and during the pandemic of 2020 and 2021, it was the lifeline for some travel agencies operating outside the country. They reshaped themselves and followed this niche, causing the wineries to keep their gates open even in extremely restrictive conditions for mass tourism. The most active areas in the field of oenological tourism during pandemic were Muntenia and Oltenia regions. This paper presents an analysis of the situation of the wine heritage in the Oltenia region to see the offer of oenological tourism in this historic area and from the point of view of vineyards and quality wines, internationally recognized. Some of the most famous wineries from the 5 counties included in this region are analyzed, as they are reflected from the interface with potential tourists, represented by the website of each one. In a case study, the representatives of a winery presented the development projects on the tourist line in the field of wine and terroir that makes it known. Also, the representatives of a specialized travel agency perform an x-ray of a winery visited at random in order to discover its tourist potential. A survey conducted among students at the Faculty of Tourism Geography of the University of Bucharest reflects statistics on wine consumption among young people, culture in the field and preferences for wine tourism. One of the important conclusions of the paper is that although the potential of the Oltenia region is very high for tourism based on wineries and vineyards, this heritage is very little used. The attention of winery businessmen is directed towards massive wine sales, attracting tourists is not one of their priorities and investments in tourist infrastructure are very rare.
More...
This issue of our journal will be especially dedicated to the project READ – Regional Network for Cultural Diversity – funded by the European Commission and implemented under the leadership of Goethe Institut, Skopje, in collaboration with five partner organizations: Instituti i Librit dhe i Promocionit (Albania), Krokodil (Serbia), Kalem Culture Association (Turkey), LOJA Center for Balkan Cooperation (North Macedonia), and Qendra Multimedia (Kosovo). As it can be seen, the space of the action is Balkans. It shall be a contribution to intercultural recognition and to reconciliation by opening new channels of communication for independent cultural organizations, offering them networking opportunities away from the political stage. It is a novelty for the region.
More...
The Uruguay River basin in South America has held a social, cultural, environmental, and economic relevance for many centuries. The river flows for about two-thousand kilometers, linked to an important remnant of native forest, the Selva Misionera in Argentina, and to a Brazilian conservation unit for biodiversity, the Turvo State Park. The Uruguay River is fed by several other important rivers, forming a basin region in which thousands of people live and work. The history of the Uruguay River is intensively linked to the permeable borders between Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay where different social groups circulated in diverse historical time periods. Forests along the river played a very important role with emphasis on the extraction and trade of yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis, Saint-Hilaire), a forest product widely consumed in southern America, and also the timber extraction from native forests, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As a result, a profound socio-environmental transformation took place with the reconstruction of regional landscapes shaped by the Uruguay River basin.
More...