title: Conformational and kinetic properties of hyperbranched architecture poly(methyl methacrylates) in solutions

dc.contributor.author

value: Yevlampieva, Natalia P.

value: Kurmaz, Svetlana V.

value: Iljasova, Yulia V.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Molecular properties of hyperbranched macromolecules-nanoparticles obtained by copolymerization
of methyl methacrylate with the branching agents m-ethyleneglycol dimethacrylates at m = 1
and m = 3, have been studied by the methods of hydrodynamics and dielectric spectroscopy. By
means of comparison with the linear poly(methyl methacrylates) it is shown that the conformational
properties of these macromolecules can be characterized as the intermediate between
statistical Gaussian coils of linear polymers and dendrimers. Their hydrodynamic behavior in
solution does not correspond to solid unpenetrative nanoparticles. The influence of the length of
branching agent on kinetic properties of hyperbranched copolymers of methyl methacrylate with
m-ethyleneglycol dimethacrylates has been established. Refs 28. Figs 8. Tables 1.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

value: nanoparticles

value: hyperbranched polymers

value: poly(methyl methacrylate)

value: scaling relationships

value: macromolecular kinetics


title: Chromatographic and mass spectrometric characteristics of monoesters of phthalic acid

dc.contributor.author

value: Fakhretdinova, Lilia N.

value: Zenkevich, Igor G.

dc.description.abstract

value:
In contrary to the widespread and thoroughly characterized disubstituted esters of benzene-1,2-
dicarboxylic (phthalic) acid, their primary metabolites — monosubstituted esters of phthalic
acid — have not yet to be characterized with standard mass spectra, as well as gas chromatographic
retention indices on standard non-polar stationary phases. We argue that is the cause of
a significant number of errors in their GC-MS identification. To prevent such errors these esters
should be characterized with standard mass spectra, as well as gas chromatographic retention
indices on standard non-polar stationary phases. The results of the determination of these analytical
parameters for series of monoesters of phthalic acid are discussed. As it is shown, one of
the useful modes of GC data interpretation is based on the retention indices correlation for monoesters
and diesters as most related structural analogues. The monoesters under consideration
are characterized additionally with retention indices in reversed phase high performance liquid
chromatography. Refs 28. Figs 2. Tables 4.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 4. Physics. Chemistry;Vol. 3 (61); Issue 3

dc.subject

value: monosubstituted esters of phthalic acid

value: gas chromatography

value: high-performance liquid chromatography

value: retention indices

value: mass-spectra

dc.type

value: Article

format: Adobe PDF


title: Ferromagnetic resonance as a diagnostic method of the quality and functional properties of multilayer structures

dc.contributor.author

value: Kupriyanova, Galina S.

value: Orlova, Anna N.

value: Zubin, Andrei Yu.

value: Astashenok, Artem V.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article presents the main results of an investigation into the structural and magnetic parameters
of samples formed on single-crystal (MgO) and the amorphous substrates Si/SiO2 structures.
In order to identify individual contributions and anisotropy constants, a series of experiments was
carried out to investigate the angular dependence of the resonance field and linewidth of the FMR
depending on the direction of the external magnetic field in the two geometries. Quality indicators
such as the paramagnetic phase, the presence of impurities, and an analysis of the functional
properties were assessed. The radiophysical methods features for the diagnosis of prospective
structures were shown. Refs 17. Figs 3. Tables 2.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
Школа-конференция проведена при финансовой поддержке Российского фонда фундаментальных
исследований (проект № 15-32-10480) и OOO «Брукер».
Работа была выполнена в рамках гранта МО ГК 02.740.11.0550.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.subject

value: ferromagnetic resonance

value: spintronics

value: linewidth

value: Gilbert damping constant

value: anisotropy


title: Luminescent and UR-spectral studies of doped polycrystalline triptycene

dc.contributor.author

value: Nosova, Darja A.

value: Kushaeva, Mata A.

value: Zarochentseva, Elena P.

value: Vysotskaya, Sofja O.

value: Klemesheva, Nina A.

value: Tsyganenko, Aleksej A.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The luminescent and excitation spectra of polycrystalline triptycene doped by diphenyl and triazole
have been studied. In triptycene—diphenyl systems sensitized luminescence was observed
when the excitation of the matrix (triptycene) led to luminiscence of the energy acceptor — the
dopant. For the latter system the maximum luminescence of the donor and that of the excitation
band of the energy acceptor differ by 10 nm, unlike the triptycene—triazole system where
differences amount to 75 nm and the sensitized luminescence was not detected. This result is
consistent with the notion that effective electronic excitation energy transfer occurs in systems
with the greatest overlap of the emission spectrum of energy donor with the excitation spectrum
of the acceptor. The IR study of triptycene films deposited at 77 K reveals irreversible structural
changes upon raising the temperature indicating a possible effect of recrystallization on the
luminescence spectra. Refs 12. Figs 7. Tables 1.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 4. Physics. Chemistry;Vol. 3 (61); Issue 3

dc.subject

value: sensitized luminescence

value: energy transfer

value: triptycene

value: doped polycrystals


dc.contributor.author

value: Gapeshin, Roman A.

value: Novikova, Ekaterina A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Gapeshin R. A., Novikova E. A. Remote effects of left median cerebral artery lacunar stroke. A case report. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Series 11. Medicine, 2016, issue 3, pp. 49–55.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Cerebrovascular pathology is one of the most serious problems in modern medicine. The prevalence
of all subtypes of ischemic strokes is about 85% from all acute cerebrovascular accidents. The lacunar
subtype of ischemic stroke is defined as a small (<2 cm) area of infarction in brain tissue that generally
originates from single perforating artery. It can be difficult to diagnose this type of acute cerebrovascular
injury by clinical, laboratory and instrumental methods. Authors report the case of a patient 65
years old with remote effects of left medial cerebral artery (MCA) lacunar stroke of unknown age with
incomplete damage of internal capsule and vascular lesions, mainly, in frontal and temporal lobes. Patient’s
speech and attention became slightly better after complex salvage therapy, performed at the 2nd
Neurological Department, which was confirmed by assessment on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment
scale (MoCA). Refs 13. Table 1.

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value: ru

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value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 11. Medicine;Issue 3

dc.subject

value: lacunar subtype

value: ischemic stroke

value: remote effects

value: MoCA

value: vascular dementia

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Galebskaya, Liudviga V.

value: Solovtsova, Irina L.

value: Miroshnikova, Elena B.

value: Sushkin, Mikhail E.

value: Razumnyy, Artem V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Galebskaya L. V., Solovtsova I. L., Miroshnikova E. B ., Sushkin M. E., Razumnyy A. V. Paradoxical effects of antioxidant action in the photohaemolisis system. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Series 11. Medicine, 2016, issue 3, pp. 95–102.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The influence of Mexidol (solution for intravenous administration, “PHARMASOFT Ltd”.) in its therapeutic
(0,24–3,9 μg/мл) and more high (15,6 μg/мл) concentrations on photo induced lysis (with
Radachlorin, “RADAPHARMA Ltd”, as a photo sensitizer and a monochrome diode 653 nm as a light
source) of donor RBC was under study.
Strong acceleration a photo induced haemolysis was found in Mexidol presence evidencing the
preparation prooxidant action. The grade of the photo induced haemolysis acceleration was rising
with the increase of Mexidol concentration up to 3,9 μg/мл. High Mexidol concentration (15,6 μg/мл)
still remaining prooxidative were less effective than some of therapeutic concentrations. The spectral analysis showed that therapeutic mexidol concentrations (0,24–3,9 μg/мл) didn’t
change absorption maximum of Radachlorin in its “red” maximum. High Mexidol concentration
(15,6 μg/мл) caused a hypochromic shift of the “red peak”, and its decrease that is in agreement with
our data on photo induced haemolysis. Possible mechanisms of Mexidol prooxidant activity in photoinduced
haemolisis system are discussed. Refs 12. Fig. 1. Tabl. 2.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: prooxidant

value: antioxidant

value: photo-induced haemolysis

value: photo sensitizer

value: erythrocyte


dc.contributor.author

value: Churilov, Leonid P.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Churilov L. P. Eponymous and no longer anonymous: hard life and long fame of Russian physicians. Proceeding II: Who was Doctor Taratynov? Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Series 11. Medicine, 2016, issue 3, pp. 122–132.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to biographies of Russian physicians of the Silver Age (a period in the History of
Russian culture between 1890 and 1917). They made early, significant and internationally recognized
contributions to medical science and became eponymous, although social disasters of the twentieth
century caused deep impact on their subsequent lives and careers so that their role was occluded
from the global medical community. These proceedings are devoted to the biography and academic
achievements of Nikolay Ivanovich Taratynov (1887–1919), known for first description of a local form
of histiocytosis X (solitary eosinophilic granuloma). It was also he who first correctly hypothesized
that Charcot-Leyden crystals belong to products of eosinophilic leucocytes. He also studied the role of
the immune system in the regeneration of muscles, but he was killed during Civil War in Russia. The
previous proceeding dealt with academic and personal biography of A. K. Zivert, known for first description
of Siewert-Kartagener triad, and the subsequent proceeding will cover also biography of their
contemporary S. S. Abramov, discoverer of primary idiopathic myocarditis. The contribution of these
scientists to Medicine is reviewed in the context of historical epoch against the background of their
different individual social choices and the fate of their families. Besides their eponymous descriptions,
other medical innovations of these scholars are analyzed. Some previously unpublished materials from
their family archives are presented, which witness to the possible existence of an unknown prototype
for the main hero of the novel ‘Doctor Zhivago’ by B. L. Pasternak and for probable other priorities. The
factors facilitating rapid development of theoretical and practical Medicine in the imperial Russia of
the late 19th and early 20th centuries are discussed. One of them was definitely the fruitful activity of
the Imperial Kazan University, which was at the top of its academic development during that period.
The conclusion of the author is that in any epoch, even the most cruel and unfavorable one, creative
activity is a means toward social immortality. Refs 19. Figs 12.

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value: en

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value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 11. Medicine;Issue 3

value: Nikolai Ivanovich Taratynov

value: Taratynov’s disease

value: eosinophilic granuloma

value: histiocytosis X

value: Charcot–Leyden crystals

value: Kazan University

value: History of Medicine

value: Civil War in Russia

value: Boris Leonidovich Pastenak

value: “Doctor Zhivago”


dc.contributor.author

value: Gribanova, Tatiana G.

value: Fokin, Vladimir A.

value: Martynov, Boris V.

value: Trufanov, Gennady E.

value: Malakhovsriy, Vladimir N.

value: Serebryakova, Svetlana V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Gribanova T. G ., Fokin V. A., Martynov B. V., Trufanov G. E., Malakhovsky V. N., Serebryakova S. V. Comparison of different methods of neuroimaging in differential diagnosis of the recurrence of malignant brain tumors and radiation necrosis. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Series 11. Medicine, 2016, issue 3, pp. 56–63.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The problem of differential diagnosis of recurrent gliomas and radiation necrosis is still of current
interest. The contrast enhancement for these different states appears similar in magnetic resonance imaging,
and is the result of damage to the blood-brain barrier. Magnetic resonance perfusion allows us
to investigate the blood flow in the enhanced area in contrast and determine its quantitative indicators.
Comparison of the enhanced areas with signs of hyper- and hypoperfusion and radiopharmaceutical
activity with positron emission tomography will improve the differential diagnosis of recurrence and
radiation necrosis. 154 test conducted at different stages of treatment were examined. We revealed
48 recurrence and 8 of radiation damage, which manifested in contrast enhancement with signs of
hyper- and hypoperfusion, respectively, and we also noted the coincidence of reccurence areas with
increased radiopharmaceutical activity areas. There are no significant differences with MR diffusion
for differential diagnosis. Refs 8. Figs 2. Tables 4.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: brain

value: glial tumors

value: radiation therapy

value: magnetic resonance imaging

value: magnetic resonance perfusion

value: radiation necrosis

value: relapses

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Niauri, Dariko A.

value: Dzhemlikhanova, Lyailya Kh.

value: Gzgzyan, Alexandr M.

value: Osinovskaya, Natalia S.

value: Gorovaya, Ekaterina A.

value: Ivashchenko, Tatyana E.

value: Sultanov, Iskender Yu.

value: Tkachenko, Antonina N.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Dzhemlikhanova L. K., Niauri D. A., Osinovskaya N. S. Catechol-O-methyltransferase polymorphism in women with uterine leiomyoma and adenomyosis. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Series 11. Medicine, 2016, issue 3, pp. 103–110.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The aim of this research was to study the frequency of polymorphic variants Val158Met (rs4680) of
catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene in patients with uterine leiomyoma. A polymerase chain
reaction was performed to figure out the frequency of polymorphic alleles of COMT gene in 54 patients
with uterine leiomyoma and 103 women from the general population. It is shown that the presence
of the genotype G/G of the COMT gene is associated with 2.5 times-increased risk of uterine
leiomyoma (RR 2,44, Cl95: 1,168-5,103), whereas the genotype A/A is not associated with the development
of leiomyoma. At the same time, a comparative analysis of the genotypes frequencies of the
COMT gene polymorphism between groups with different combinations of hyperplastic processes
of reproductive system (uterine leiomyoma, adenomyosis, hyperplastic processes of endometrium),
showed no statistically significant differences. Refs 26. Tables 3.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 11. Medicine;Issue 3

dc.subject

value: fibroids

value: leiomyoma

value: adenomyosis

value: hyperplastic process of endometrium

value: catechol-o-methyltransferase


dc.contributor.author

value: Yablonskii, P. K.

value: Vasilev, I. V.

value: Sokolovich, E. G.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Yablonskii P. K., Vasilev I. V., Sokolovich E. G . The role of surgery in the diagnosis and the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Series 11. Medicine, 2016, issue 3, pp. 64–70.

dc.description.abstract

value:
In the recent years, the tactic of tuberculosis treatment has undergone significant changes due to increased
incidence of MDR and XDR-TB. These forms of the disease can not be treated by the usual
chemotherapy regimens. A similar trend is observed worldwide. Therefore, TB surgery has obviously
experienced a kind of rebirth in many countries. This article summarizes the current views on the
surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. Refs 33.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: pulmonary tuberculosis

value: thoracic surgery

value: lobectomy

value: tuberculoma

value: cavitary tuberculosis

dc.title

value: Article


title: Prifessor Marsel’ Mirgayazovich Minnebaev

dc.description.abstract

value: Professor Marsel’ Mirgayazovich Minnebaev

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 11. Medicine;Issue 3


dc.contributor.author

value: Gulyaev, Nikolay I.

value: Varavin, Nikita A.

value: Korovin, Alexander E.

value: Kuznetsov, Valery V.

value: Yakovlev, Vladimir V.

value: Gordienko, Alexandr V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Gulyaev N. I., Varavin N. A., Korovin A. E., Kuznetsov V. V., Yakovlev V. V., Gordienko A. V. Modern aspects of pathogenesis of calcification of the aortic valve. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Series 11. Medicine, 2016, issue 3, pp. 20–34.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Aortic valve calcification with accompanying stenosis is the predominant reason for cardiac valve replacement.
Lack of medical treatments, together with a high frequency of occurrence of calcific aortic
stenosis represent one of the main problems in cardiological practice. New observations in human
aortic valves support the hypothesis that calcific valvular aortic stenosis is the result of active bone
formation in the aortic valve, which may be mediated through a process of osteoblast-like differentiation
in these tissues. Although there are similarities with the risk factor as well as with the process of
atherogenesis, not all the patients with coronary artery disease or pathogenesis exhibit aortic valve stenosis.
Modern pathogenesis of the calcific aortic stenosis is presented in the article which also provides
its comparative characteristics with atherosclerosis. Refs 51. Figs 3. Table 1.

dc.subject

value: aortic valve

value: aortic stenosis

value: сalcification

value: osteoprotegerin

value: RANKL

value: RANK

value: atherosclerosis

value: endothelial dysfunction

value: matrix metalloproteinases

value: Wnt signaling


dc.contributor.author

value: Ponomarev, Andrey V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Ponomarev A. V. System multifactor analysis in prediction of risk of development of pain dysfunction syndrome TMJ. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Series 11. Medicine, 2016, issue 3, pp. 79–94.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The research presents the substantiation of a systemic multivariate analysis and mathematical modeling
for diagnostics, including detection of the risk of development of pain dysfunction syndrome
of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) on the basis of automated personal rapid screening of the
Ethio-anamnestic and of early signs of TMJ dysfunction and the use of this method in dental practice.
Determination of the individual integrated indicator of TMJ condition of each case makes it possible
to realize practical algorithm to classify a particular object of study into selected diagnostic groups:
clinical standards, risk groups dysfunction or pain dysfunction syndrome of TMJ. This provides clear
information, a diagnostic approach and corrective measures. Refs 20. Figs 7.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 11. Medicine;Issue 3

dc.subject

value: pain dysfunction syndrome of TMJ

value: a rapid screening system multi-factor analysis

value: the formal model of prediction

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Litvinenko, Igor V.

value: Boyko, Ernest V.

value: Dynin, Pavel S.

value: Litvintsev, Bogdan S.

value: Trufanov, Artem G.

value: Lobzin, Vladimir Yu.

value: Leonov, Valentin I.

value: Litvinenko, Elena V.

value: Gimadutdinov, Rifat F.

value: Yurin, Anton A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Litvinenko I. V., Boyko E. V., Dynin P. S., Litvintsev B. S., Trufanov A. G ., Lobzin V. Ju., Leonov V. I., Litvinenko E. V., Gimadutdinov R. F ., Jurin A. A. Morphological changes of the visual analyzer and disturbance of visual-spatial perception in Parkinson’s disease. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Series 11. Medicine, 2016, issue 3, pp. 35–48.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Modern data about the etiopathogenesis of the considered symptoms is represented. The results of our
own research with estimation of the thickness of the various layers of the retina, the cerebral cortex,
clinical and neuropsychological examination of patients are presented. Examination of the retina and
the thickness of the cerebral cortex were carried out using the technique of optical coherent tomography
and magnetic resonance imaging of the brain, respectively. Clinical and neuropsychological testing,
aimed at setting the degree of severity of the disease, the severity of visual-spatial and cognitive
changes and their relationship were conducted. The data allow us to view the presence of the most sensitive areas of the retina and cerebral cortex in the development of visual-spatial impairment in
Parkinson’s disease patients. Refs 37. Figs 3. Tabl. 4.

dc.subject

value: Parkinson’s disease

value: visual-spatial disorders

value: cognitive disorders

value: retina

value: morphometry

value: optical coherence tomography


dc.contributor.author

value: Mineev, Valery N.

value: Lalaeva, Tatiana M.

value: Nesterovich, Irina I.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Mineev V. N., Lalaeva T. M., Nesterovich I. I. Adipokine signaling in bronchial asthma in combination with overweight. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Series 11. Medicine, 2016, issue 3, pp. 5–19.

dc.description.abstract

value:
We examined 173 overweight patients with bronchial asthma (BA) using ELISA method, identifying
leptin, adiponectin and resistin from samples of plasma and sputum. The idea that BA is heterogeneous
in relation to adipokines signaling dependant on the variant of BA, severity of disease, sex and age
of patients has been advanced. The imbalance of proinflammatory (leptin, resistin) and antiinflammatory
(adiponectin) signaling molecules, at the system level, organ level (in sputum) and target cells
(mononuclear cells peripheral blood) was revealed. The identification of the phenomenon of presence
of adipokines (leptin and resistin) in the sputum is considered as one of mechanisms of adipokines
elimination during exacerbation of BA, which allows to extend the understanding nonrespiratory lung
function in BA. Refs 15. Figs 5. Tabl. 11.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 11. Medicine;Issue 3

dc.subject

value: bronchial asthma

value: adipokine signaling

value: leptin

value: adiponectin

value: resistin

value: plasma

value: sputum

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Gayvoronsky, Ivan V.

value: Pashenko, Pavel S.

value: Nichiporuk, Gennadii I.

value: Butenko, Kirill G.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Gaivoronskiy I. V., Paschenko P. S., Nichiporuk G. I., Butenko K. G . Collection of gunshot wounds exhibits of the period of the Great patriotic war in the museum of general anatomy department of the S. M. Kirov Military medical academy. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Series 11. Medicine, 2016, issue 3, pp. 133–142.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Thanks to the vigorous activity of the management of the Head Medical Department, and also prominent
pathologists of Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army, in the first years of the war the collection and
manufacturing of preparations of gunshot wounds from the fronts of the Great Patriotic War were organized. This served as more effective training for the mobilized civil medical experts in the field of
military field surgery.
Collected preparations after the Great Patriotic War were more than 40 years in the Militarymedical
museum of the Ministry of Defence of the Soviet Union where the part of exhibits lost their
demonstrative properties, and some preparations became worthless. In the late 1980s, thanks to the
efforts of professors I. V. G aivoronsky and P. S. Paschenko, the rest of athe collection was transferred to
the department of general anatomy of Military Medical Academy and became the foundation for the
appropriate section in the educational museum.
The collection of preparations has been recreated thanks to the enormous initiative work from
teachers of the department of general anatomy. They conceived the exposition concept and developed
a multi-stage technique for restoring the anatomic preparations which had lost their demonstrative
properties. This also included adequate labelling of specimens.
The collection includes 4 sections: “Gunshot wounds of the locomotor apparatus” (2 exhibition
cases, 73 preparations), “Gunshot wounds of internal organs” (4 cases, 57 preparations), “Gunshot
wounds of the central nervous system” (22 preparations) and “Fire damage in modern armed conflicts”
(24 illustrations).
The collection over the years of its existence was considerably enriched with data on statistics of
gunshot wounds of the period of the Great Patriotic War, war in Afghanistan, the Chechen campaign,
and also materials illustrating the newest methods of diagnostics and treatment of fire damage.
Now the collection is actively used as educational division for systematic studies to increase the
interest in military-medical specialties and moral education of future doctors. Refs 20. Figs 3.

dc.subject

value: collection of anatomic preparations

value: Great Patriotic War

value: museum business

value: general anatomy

value: gunshot wound

value: fire damage

value: exposition


dc.contributor.author

value: Zhiguleva, Lubov U.

value: Abdulkadyrov, Кudrat М.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Zhiguleva L. Y u., Abdulkadyrov K. M. Analysis of survival parameters of patients with hematological malignancies in Saint Petersburg at the population level. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Series 11. Medicine, 2016, issue 3, pp. 111–121.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article presents an analysis of changing parameters of cumulative 5-year survival, corrected and
relative survival of patients with various hematological malignancies in Saint-Petersburg with the
population divided in relation to sex, age, and the time of diagnosis (for 1996–1999, 2000–2003 and
2004–2007). The study was conducted according to the database of the Population Cancer Register
(PCR) of Saint-Petersburg. Parameters were calculated with the actuarial method using the PCR software
complex. Positive survival changes were noted in patients with Hodgkins lymphoma, multiple
myeloma, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (<18 years-old group (y. o.)), chronic lymphoid leukemia,
chronic myeloid leukemia (<60 y. o.); negative changes were observed in acute myeloid leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (≥18 y. o.), chronic myeloid leukemia (≥60 y. o.). Male survival was lower in
the majority of hematological malignancies compared to female survival. Positive survival changes indicate
the efficacy of the programmed treatment of hematological malignancies. The most striking increase
of patient survival was noted for those diagnosed in years 2004–2007, which may be explained
by the use of highly efficient target drugs of the latest generations. Patients’ age had the most significant
impact on survival parameters. Refs 8. Tables 8.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 11. Medicine;Issue 3

value: survival

value: hematological malignancies

value: population level


dc.contributor.author

value: Fokin, Aleksey A.

value: Mudriakova, Mariya V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Fokin A. A, Mudriakova M. V. Comparative results of surgical treatment of bilateral atherosclerotic occlusive stenotic carotid artery disease. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Series 11. Medicine, 2016, issue 3, pp. 71–78.

dc.description.abstract

value:
ICA occlusion leads to stroke at a frequency of up to 40% during the first year after the occlusion, and
then at a rate of about 7% per year. The occlusion of the internal carotid artery in the neck is observed
in 90% of cases, in other cases, occlusion takes place in the cavernous terminal part of the internal
carotid artery. Improved treatment results, taking into account the information obtained in the prevention
of ischemic stroke in patients with occlusion of the internal carotid artery in the remote period
of observation. During the period from 2007 to 2015 in the department of vascular surgery OKB №3
530 patients were treated with lesions of brachiocephalic arteries. The number of patients with occlusion
of the internal carotid artery on one side and stenosis on the other was 93 (17.5%). The group of
patients treated only conservatively maintained a high incidence of TIA, 20.5% over the first year of
observation. Within 8 years, 26.6% had ipsilateral stroke in the pool, this marked the occurrence of
the two deaths due to myocardial infarction, and 8 due to ischemic stroke; Two patients had concomitant
death due to cancer. The results of 8 years observation on operated and non-operated patients
show that in patients who were operated on in most cases the marked signs of impairment of cerebral
circulation in ipsilateral hemisphere were not developed. The results of observation over a group of
patients who were not operated coincide with the average data according to which the patients who
suffered an ischemic stroke have the risk development of the subsequent stroke at a level of 5–9% in a
year, and approximately 40% of them have a repeated stroke over a 5 year period after the first stroke.
The best clinical effect belonged to carotid endarterectomy, performed on patients with transitional
ischemic attacks. The analysis of the results of the research testifies to the stable and long-term effect
of the procedure. Refs 8. Fig 1. Tables 2.

value: occlusion of internal carotid artery

value: stenosis of internal carotid artery

value: carotid endarterectomy

value: ischemic stroke

dc.type

value: Article


title: Практические аспекты внедрения профессиональных стандартов в промышленности

dc.contributor.author

value: Величко, Елена Александровна

dc.description.abstract

value: Применение системы профессиональных стандартов, представляющих собой модель профессиональной деятельности работников, связано с необходимостью регламентации трудовых функций и действий по каждой конкретной должностной позиции или рабочей профессии. Данная задача, без сомнения, является на сегодняшний день приоритетной для развития национальной экономики. Однако, как показал опыт ряда ведущих предприятий отечественной промышленности, успешное решение задачи стандартизации трудовых процессов в целом ряде случаев столкнулось с существенными трудностями, причины которых носят вполне объективный характер.

dc.publisher

value: Научно – издательский центр «АЭТЕРНА»

dc.subject

value: Стандартизация трудовых процессов, трудовая функция работника, профессиональные стандарты, управление квалификацией сотрудников.

dc.title

description: "Основная статья"


dc.contributor.author

value: Sergeeva, Nadezhda A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Sergeeva N. A. Revising the Characteristics of the Non-Classical Prose: F. V. Bulgarin and V. A. Odoevsky. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism, 2016, issue 3, pp. 64–73.

dc.description.abstract

value:
In modern literary science the “classic” literature is generally distinguished from the “non-classic”.
Though, there is still not clear what literature should be called non-classic. In current paper we make
an attempt to find some features common for non-classic prose using writings of F. V. Bulgarin and
V. F. Odoevsky as examples, because their aesthetic ideaswere quite differentand both names are not
well-known for modern reader. Our material is represented with two texts that could seem to have
nothing in common with each other — didactic essays created by Bulgarin in 1820s and 1840s, and
Odoevsky’s series “Russian nights” (1843). Analysis of the text structure shows the basic characteristics
of a non-classic prosaic text. Refs 18.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism;Issue 3

dc.subject

value: V. Odoevsky

value: F. Bulgarin

value: didactic essays by F. Bulgarin

value: “Russian Nights”

value: classics

value: nonclassic literature

value: fictionality

value: fictional discourse

value: narratology


dc.contributor.author

value: Bolshev, Aleksandr O.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Bolshev A. O. Communication Crisis in the Kolyma Tales by V. Shalamov: On Narrating the Transcendent. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism, 2016, issue 3, pp. 74–82.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The main concern of the paper is communication in the Kolyma Tales by V. Shalamov, with a specific
focus on communication failure when Shalamov’s heroes face something relating to the transcendent
or to a reality beyond what is perceptible to the senses, supernatural, which is not to be rendered,
namely when a hero is standing between life and death. In other words, it is a metaphysical communication
barrier. In narratology there are two new terms: “unnarrate” and “unnarratable”, that is a
narrator refuses to tell about something due to some reasons. The analysis of Shalamov’s prose calls for
adding to Robyn R. Warhol’ system of unnaratable a new category: a narrator refuses to narrate something
due to something relating to the transcendent or to a reality beyond human experience. Refs 11.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: communication crisis

value: degradation

value: humanistic illusions

value: unnarratable

value: the transcendent

value: metaphysical strain

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Kalinin, Ilya A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kalinin I. A. Shklovsky vs. Jakobson: A War of Languages. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism, 2016, issue 3, pp. 55–63.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The longstanding friendship between Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson, which gave way to a
gradual cooling of relations and finally arrived at a complete rupture, has for almost a century been
the subject of numeral scholarly researches. The reality of personal conflict and the obviousness of
the multiple psychological, biographical and historical causes that made this conflict inevitable have
nearly completely obscured the persistent theoretical dimension of the evolving relationship between
the two men. The story of their relationship may be interpreted as a history of the clash of two perspectives
on the development of the humanities, as a history of clash of two metalanguages or of two ways
to see the relationships between poetic language and language, between the subject and language, and
between language and reality. Refs 22.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism;Issue 3

dc.subject

value: V. Shklovsky

value: R. Jakobson

value: Russian formalism

value: structuralism

value: poetic language


dc.contributor.author

value: Astvatsaturov, Andrey А.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Astvatsaturov A. A. Andrei Ivanov and Henry Miller: Comparative Analysis. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism, 2016, issue 3, pp. 101–108.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The paper offers a comparative study of two figures in Russian аnd American literature: Andrey Ivanov
(b. 1971) and Henry Miller (1891—1980). One of the modern Russian writers, Andrey Ivanov deliberately
focuses and develops in his “Scandinavian trilogy” a certain tradition of American Literature
which is represented in the writings of Henry Miller and historically involves such figures as H. D. Thoreau
and W. Whitman. The paper attempts to trace the transformation of this tradition in Andrey
Ivanov’s novels. It emphasizes some similarities in their biographies, their specific alien status in the
countries where they live. Both shared a common religious search, the notion of the irrationality of
the world run by the latent energy hidden in its diverse manifestations. However the moral evaluation
toward this energy is different. While Henry Miller is positive and rejoices the reunion of his narrator
with it, Andrey Ivanov seems to be negative. Refs 25.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Henry Miller

value: Andrey Ivanov

value: catalogue technique

value: anecdotes

value: modernism


title: On Proper Names in Russian Fairy Tales

dc.contributor.author

value: Marinicheva, Julia Ju.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Marinicheva Ju. Ju. On Proper Names in Russian Fairy Tales. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism, 2016, issue 3, pp. 34–40.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article analyses how proper names are used in communicative situations in Russian fairy tales.
A proper name in the tale serves the same communicative function as a medial formula: a means by
which the storyteller can become a character in his/her own tale or may allow the listener to become a
fairy tale character in the tale which is being related. Refs 12.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
Статья подготовлена в рамках проекта «Коммуникативные параметры жанров русского
фольклора: номинации и обращения» (Шифр ИАС УНИ 31.38.309.2014). Впервые тема была апробирована в виде доклада на ежегодных Декабрьских чтениях памяти Натальи Михайловны Герасимовой 06.12.2014 г.

dc.subject

value: folklore

value: fairy tales

value: communicative act

value: proper names

value: pragmatics

dc.title

value: On Proper Names in Russian Fairy Tales

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Movnina, Natalia S.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Movnina N. S. The Conception of “Dolg” in I. S. Turgenev’s Novel “Home of the Gentry” and the Ethical Ideas in the Mid-19th Century. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism, 2016, issue 3, pp. 92–100.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article considers I. S. Turgenev’s conception of “dolg” presented in his works “Faust” and “Home
of the Gentry” in the late 1850s and its connection to the history of the Russian concept “dolg”. The
analysis of Turgenev’s contribution to the conceptual history takes into account the semantic aspects
of the Russian word “dolg” relating to Christian and public duty (debt). Turgenev’s ethical ideas are
regarded as an effort to rethink the moral principles and ideals of the Russian gentry during the radical
social changes. Refs 14.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism;Issue 3

dc.subject

value: I. S. Turgenev

value: Russian gentry

value: ethical ideas


dc.contributor.author

value: Veselova, Inna S.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Veselova I. S. Transforming Reality: Personal Names in Ritual Speech (Vinogradyo — Carols from the North of Russia). Vestnik SPbSU. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism, 2016, issue 3, pp. 15–23.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article analyses how proper names are used in Vinogradyo, i.e. a song with ritual functions and
semi-epic plot. Choosing one of the typical plots and using of the proper name of the addressee as
the name of Vinogradyo personage depends on the social and gender status of the addressee. Those
communicative parameters create unique symbolic reality, which transforms the social reality of the
addressee. Refs 9.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
Статья подготовлена в рамках проекта «Коммуникативные параметры жанров русского
фольклора: номинации и обращения» (Шифр ИАС УНИ 31.38.309.2014).

value: Vinogradyo

value: communicative parameters

value: oral speech

value: symbolic reality

value: ritual speech


dc.contributor.author

value: Adonyeva, Svetlana B.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Adonyeva S. B. Addressing in Oral Speech and Frames of Social Network. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism, 2016, issue 3, pp. 5–14.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The object of the research is a referential field of addressing in a spoken language. Repertoire of acceptable
addressing and normatively acceptable but never used addressing in oral speech demonstrate the
specific field of meanings, which is very important part of social conventions of the speech community.
Addressing in everyday communications is the process of negotiating, accepting or refusing of actual
relations of communicants. Refs 8.

value: аddressing

value: frames of social network

value: everyday communication

dc.type

value: Article


title: The Addressee Nominations in Lullabies

dc.contributor.author

value: Kupriyanova, Sofia O.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kupriyanova S. O. The Addressee Nominations in Lullabies. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism, 2016, issue 3, pp. 24–33.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article considers the ways to name the addressee in lullabies at the subject and communication
levels. Introduction of a lulled child’s name into the lyrics is one of the parameters connecting the
situation of the text performance with its plot and providing suggestive impact of lullabies. Refs 18.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism;Issue 3

dc.subject

value: lullabies

value: form of address

value: proper noun

dc.title

value: The Addressee Nominations in Lullabies


dc.contributor.author

value: Guskov, Nikolai A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Guskov N. A. Lyrical Subject in the Poetry of A. P. Sumarokov. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism, 2016, issue 3, pp. 46–54.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is dedicated to the lyrical hero in A. P. Sumarokov’s poetry. Although this writer has a genre
thinking, which was typical for 18th century, he created a group of texts that can’t be attributed to specific
genres. They are united by a common lyrical subject that has autobiographical traits. The same
lyrical subject appears in the texts of different genres, he is at the center of the Sumarokov’s poetic
system. So in the works of Sumarokov there are signs that anticipated the work of the Romantics — the
lyrical hero, first of all. Refs 16.

dc.subject

value: Russian literature

value: Russian poetry

value: Russian literature of 18th century

value: Sumarokov

value: lyrical subject


title: New Works on Chekhov in English

dc.contributor.author

value: Stepanov, Andrei D.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Stepanov A. D. New Works on Chekhov in English. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism, 2016, issue 3, pp. 187–193.

dc.description.abstract

value: New Works on Chekhov in English

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Meyer-Fraatz, Andrea

dc.identifier.citation

value: Meyer-Fraatz A. The body of war in Vladimir Makanin’s novel Asan. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism, 2016, issue 3, pp. 120–128.

dc.description.abstract

value:
It is very conspicuous how in Vladimir Makanin’s novel Asan war is depicted first of all from its corporal
point of view. Soldiers are presented as living, wounded, or dead bodies. Communication in war is
performed by means of corporal signs; when characters speak, it seems that the bodily quality of their
voices is more important than the words they speak and the voices are often compared with voices
of various animals. There are many corporal metaphors related to military institutions and weapons,
so war turns out to be a tremendous military body. This paper interprets these bodily metaphors by
means of Lakoff and Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory, thus describing a complex metaphor, underlying the novel’s plot. Refs 25.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism;Issue 3

dc.subject

value: Makanin

value: the novel “Asan”

value: literature and war

value: the body

value: conceptual blending


dc.contributor.author

value: Ovcharskaia, Olga V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Ovcharskaia O. V. «Petty press» of 1880s as Paraliterature: Commonplace, Repetition, Self-Repetition. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism, 2016, issue 3, pp. 129–137.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article studies causes of repetitions emerging in such a paraliterature form as “petty press” of
1880s. The majority of “petty press” texts used commonplaces to cover a very small amount of topics.
The reader could feel the repetition since the material was organized by the similar literary devices.
The author examines both extra-literary (censorship, interest to up-to-date events, allowable text size)
and intra-literary (short list of genres and comic devices) causes of repetition in “petty press”. Since
Chekhov began his writing career in this strictly regulated type of literature, many peculiarities of his
manner, as well as many topics of his stories can not be understood without investigation of the “petty
press” rules. Refs 21.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
Статья написана при поддержке гранта СПбГУ «Интертекстуальный анализ: принципы
и границы» (Мероприятие 2/14, шифр ИАС 31.38.301.2014).

dc.subject

value: “Petty press”

value: paraliterature

value: Chekhov


title: The 12th International Congress of Balticists, October 28–31 2015, Vilnius, Lithuania

dc.contributor.author

value: Kazanskiene, Vanda P.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kazanskiene V. P. The 12thInternational Congress of Balticists, October 28–31 2015, Vilnius, Lithuania. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism, 2016, issue 3, pp. 180–186.

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Stepanova, Alla S.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Stepanova A. S. Pseudoantithesis in Short Story Ionych by A. Chekhov. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism, 2016, issue 3, pp. 138–146.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The short story Ionych belongs to the most complicated Chekhov’s works; some details and even episodes,
its explicit and implicit references to the Russian literature and music often lack definite interpretation.
Admittedly, the folk song Luchinushka belongs to such elements. Most Chekhov scholars
believe that this song serves as an antithesis of Vera Turkina’s novel, but this article attempts to revise
this opinion. Refs 19.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Anton Chekhov

value: Ionych

value: Luchinushka

value: antithesis

value: context


dc.contributor.author

value: Buharkin, Pjotr E.

value: Strechen’, Lidija L.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Bukharkin P. E., Stretchen L. L. 400 years of Latin literature in Ukraine (A review on the book: Trofymuk M. S. Latin Literature of Ukraine in the15-19th centuries: Genres, motifs and ideas. — Lviv: Lviv National University named after I. Franko, 2014. 380 p.). Vestnik SPbSU. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism, 2016, issue 3, pp. 170–175.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism;Issue 3


dc.contributor.author

value: Guskov, Nikolai A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Guskov N. A. The 1st International Scientific Conference “Russian Literature in Translations INTO Foreign Languages. The Russian Literary Canon: The Center and the Periphery”, Kraków, Poland, October 22–23 2015. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism, 2016, issue 3, pp. 176–179.


title: In memoriam of Alexandr Sergeevich Gerd (1936–2016)

dc.type

value: Article

filename: 24-Gerd(In Memoriam).pdf


dc.contributor.author

value: Liapushkina, Ekaterina I.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Liapushkina E. I. «…thereof one must be silent» (Nabokov’s «Ultima Thule» and the Philosophy of Silence). Vestnik SPbSU. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism, 2016, issue 3, pp. 83–91.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article discusses the possibility to read Nabokov’s story “Ultima Thule” in the light of Heidegger
and early Wittgenstein’s concepts of silence. The story touched different kinds of hermeneutical topics
and it is in accordance with both Heidegger’s understanding of silence as the most important ontological
experience and the basic idea of the “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” expressed in its final
aphorism: “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”. Since these authors approached the
problem of word and silence with a completely different positions and did not take into account each
other’s experiences, meanings, which are revealed during the analysis, are considered as being in relation
of cultural co-beingness with each other, overlapping, but not borrowing each other’s arguments
and not quoting each other. Refs 10.

dc.subject

value: hermeneutics

value: language structure

value: word

value: silence

value: ontological experience

value: true


dc.contributor.author

value: Semenova, Antonina S.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Semenova A. S. “A ja, mal’chik, nachuzhbinepozabytotl’udej”: Self-nominations in Non-Ritual Songs. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism, 2016, issue 3, pp. 41–45.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Modern field recordings of folk songs allow to compare information about a singer of folk songs with
the basic characteristics of a speaker which is explicated in the lyrics. These characteristics are quantity,
gender, and age category. The field data shows that the singer and the subject of the speech explicated
in the lyrics may be different. The difference becomes apparent in the songs with self-nominations, i.e.
nominations that a singer refers to himself. The fact that self-nominations refer to the speaker draws
special attention in the study of the pragmatics of folk songs performance. Refs 9.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: folk songs

value: non-ritual songs

value: self-nominations

value: singer

value: individual repertoire

value: loci communes

value: pragmatics


dc.contributor.author

value: Pronin, Alexander А.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Pronin A. A. The Diegetic Narrator in the Documentary-Portrait. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism, 2016, issue 3, pp. 157–166.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The narrative strategy of the author determines the choice of narrative possibilities that is presented in
the work. The “literary” films of Roman Liberov are not only unusual for the viewer as a synthesis of
documentary and game animation (“animados”), but as the original narrative strategies. This is a “pretend
story” in the film about Brodsky, while in the film about Dovlatov — “text to text”. In the first case,
the consistent implementation of the strategy allowed the author to expand the story of the hero in the
form of lively reflection on the issues of “collective” of the interviewer, while in the second case — a
screen version of the autobiographical novel written “with the participation” of Roman Liberov. Refs 9.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism;Issue 3

dc.subject

value: narrative

value: narrative strategy

value: documentary

value: biography

value: author

value: Liberov

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Belobratow, Alexander V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Belobratow A. V. Russian Literature in the Regions of the German Language: 250 Years Together (A review on the book: Jürgen Lehmann: Russische Literatur in Deutschland. Ihre Rezeption durch deutschsprachige Schriftsteller und Kritiker vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Stuttgart: Verlag J. B. Metzler, 2015. 417 S.). Vestnik SPbSU. Series 9. Philology. Asian Studies. Journalism, 2016, issue 3, pp. 167–169.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University


dc.contributor.author

value: Loginova, Larisa V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Loginova L. V. Precarization of labor relations: problems and prospects of institutionalization. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 12. Sociology, 2016, issue 3, pp. 34–47.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article analyzes the changes in the system of labor relations under the influence of the spread of
atypical, flexible forms of employment. The reasons for the institutionalization of precarization considered
the spread of liberal ideas about the need to increase labor market flexibility and labor relations,
as well as scaling up of various atypical forms of employment. The article analyzes the background of
institutionalizing precarization: the formation in atypical forms of employment needs, organizational
structure, precarization as a new for of workers rules. Precarization is demonstrated to be a new social
stratum in our present society, which is composed by staff who do have not had permanent employment
and social guarantees for a long time. Precarization is characterized as capital attack on workers’
rights. The prospects of institutionalizing precarization are also considered. Refs 34.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 12. Sociology;Issue 3

dc.subject

value: labor relations

value: precarisation

value: prekariat

value: precarious employment

value: the labor market

value: the institutionalization


dc.contributor.author

value: Serebryakova, Zinaida Ol.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Serebryakova Z. O. Experience in qualitative research of institute of journalism deinstitutionalization. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 12. Sociology, 2016, issue 3, pp. 48–59.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article describes the experience of qualitative social research of some aspects of the phenomenon
of Russian journalism deinstitutionalization — which expresses features of institutional order
demonopolization, deconstruction and decentralization. Unlike a number of related formal terms (for
example, new media or alternative media), journalism deinstitutionalization points meaningfully to
the whole complex of objective and subjective counter-institutional tendencies in the social institution
of journalism. Journalism deinstitutionalization has two dimensions: internal and external. External
deinstitutionalization occurs, under the influence of modern communication technologies, the
so-called creative audience, much of which produces and distributes socially meaningful content by
itself that creates a situation of “chaos paradigm” in communications. It demonopolizes expert (professional)
journalistic knowledge and allows it to engage in a wide range of “amateurs”. The internal deinstitutionalization
is a personal (hidden or open) protest of professional journalist against institutional
coercion of journalistic organization, it’s a specific form of professional ethics, the desire to follow a
professional mission and being guided by the merits of the journalistic case, even if it runs counter to the dominant institutional logic. The article gives the results of in-depth interviews with an expert
and an non-expert groups of respondents. The author poses several research questions suitable for research,
including: is there a process of journalism deinstitutionalization? What is it’s expression? What
are the trends in modern journalism’s isolated representatives of the journalistic sphere (professional
journalists and bloggers) and information consumers? Also raised is the question of trust in modern
media sources. The conclusion is that there are signs of total distrust in media resources in a professional
environment and environment of information consumers. Refs 19.

dc.subject

value: institutions

value: deinstitutionalization

value: journalism

value: media

value: trust

value: interview


title: B o o k R e v i e w: Comparative Sociology: A Handbook for bachelor / ed. by A. V. Rezaev. St. Petersburg University Press, 2015

dc.contributor.author

value: Ermakova, Maria A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Ermakova M. A. B o o k R e v i e w “Comparative Sociology: A Handbook for bachelor” / ed. by A. V. Rezaev. St. Petersburg University Press, 2015. Vestnik SPbSU. Serirs 12. Sociology, 2016, issue 3, pp. 134–138.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Tykanova, Elena V.

value: Khokhlova, Anisya M.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Tykanova E. V., Khokhlova A. M. Key concepts and approaches in sociological life course studies. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 12. Sociology, 2016, issue 3, pp. 4–19.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This paper seeks to systemize the core approaches to life course studies, and to compare and operationalize
the key working terms used in different traditions of life course studies such as agency,
generation, cohort, opportunity structure and period effect. This makes a challenging task, as a stable
and conventional conceptual apparatus has not been shaped in life course studies yet. Having analyzed
some ‘pressure points’ of the sociological inquiry into life courses, the authors outline a set of recommendations
and perspectives relevant for the development of this research field. In particular, they
uphold the productivity of synthetic theoretical and empirical models and tools capable of accounting both for the micro- and the macro-factors of life choices and trajectories of individuals and whole
generations and cohorts. They show that such models should consider both the consequences of individual
efforts and decisions (agency), and the influence of objective external conditions determined by
historical, political, social and cultural contexts (opportunity structure). Refs 61.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
Статья подготовлена при финансовой поддержке Российского гуманитарного научного фонда (проект № 15-03-00421) «Траектории жизненных курсов петербуржцев в постсоветской России:
межпоколенческий анализ».

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Series 12. Sociology;Issue 3

dc.subject

value: life course

value: agency

value: opportunity structure

value: generation

value: cohort

value: period effect


dc.contributor.author

value: Elistratova, Olga A.

value: Shcheblanova, Veronika V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Elistratova О. A., Shcheblanova V. V. Social attitude to the problems of youth narcotism: regional aspect. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 12. Sociology, 2016, issue 3, pp. 71–85.

dc.description.abstract

value:
For contemporary societies drug addiction has become an crucial social threat and extremely difficult
phenomenon, which touches on an extensive range of social issues. The prevalence of this phenomenon,
characteristically among teenagers and youth, its growth and scenarios for further development
indicate the need for studying the problems of drug addiction among the young university student
population. The analysis of data of sociological research conducted by questionnaires in one of the
Higher Education Institutions of Saratov in 2015 are analyzed. Identification of the modern relation of student’s youth to a drug addiction problem was the purpose of an anonymous survey. The obtained
research data have allowed the authors to designate the main social attitudes of student youth, to reveal
the specific features of the social factors determining narcotization at the regional level. A research
has shown, the principles and main methods of the prevention of drug addiction in Higher Education
Institutions are awareness of the scale and consequences of this problem and monitoring the moral
and social sphere of the personality in this connection. The authors offer a number of the preventive
measures directed to prevention and counteraction of youth drug addiction. Refs 16. Tables 5.

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dc.subject

value: youth drug addiction

value: poll

value: social problems

value: social relation

value: experience of acquaintance to drugs

value: reasons of their use

value: narcoconsumption prevention


title: Travel notes from the third isa forum of sociology “The Future we want: Global sociology and the struggles for a better world”, Vienna, Austria, July 10–14, 2016

dc.contributor.author

value: Yaroshenko, Svetlana S.

value: Lychkovskaya, Oksana R.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Menshikova, Galina Al.

value: Mironova, Anna A.

value: Pruel, Nikolay A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Menshikova G. A., Mironova A. A., Pruel N. A. Regulatory Impact Assessment as a public expertise of administrative decisions. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 12. Sociology, 2016, issue 3, pp. 101–117.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The new technology of social management known as regulatory impact analyses (assessment) (RIA) is
described in this article. Its implementation means a qualified change in governance as a transition to
regulative technologies; i.e., firstly, the prevailance of horizontal (subject-to-subject) relations, including
accountability in interaction between government and the population, secondly, co-ordination of
decisions with world practice, thirdly, realization of the permanent evaluation monitoring of government
efficiency. The aim of the article is to compare foreign and Russian practices of RIA implementations
in governance. This process began 30 years ago abroad. RIA was incarnated there as obligatory,
but it adopted various practical forms according to the evaluation of changes in social management
prompted by corresponding decisions at different levels of power. Its obligation was envisaged by the
system of legislative acts at the highest level and is shown in the creation of corresponding structures
in the governments accountable for their realization. In our country the period of its introduction took
10 years. The sphere of evaluation is limited to legislative activity. The control over its implementation
is entrusted to Ministry of economic development. The necessity of its comprehension is indisputable
for sociologists taking into account direct embodiment in RIA the participation of population
(experts, business representatives), and also special, more or less sociological, tools of evaluation. They
must assist the formation of new skill sets in civil culture through educating students in methodology
and methods of evaluation of public processes. Exactly they, becoming experts, must join the realization
of evaluation procedures and forming the system of the social monitoring as objective basis of
examinations. Refs 28. Tables 5.

dc.subject

value: regulatory impact analyses (assessment)

value: evaluation

value: regulating

value: administrative reforms

value: world practice

value: problems of implementation in Russian Federation


dc.contributor.author

value: Davydov, Dmitry A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Davydov D. A. Social capital as a public good: the problem of conceptualization. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 12. Sociology, 2016, issue 3, pp. 20–33.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to the conceptualization of social capital as a public good. It is shown that main
attempts in this area are based on some methodological premises such as “economization” of social
and political motives. Capitalist subject defined by some authors as someone who included to active
investments in different forms of community (for example through involvement in politics) while in
real capitalism some declining of civic cohesion observed. It is concluded that the reason of this vulnerability
is in a distortion of the original meaning of term “capital” by sociologists and political scientists.
This distortion led to the inclusion in the researchers view some phenomena are actually rental
benefits. The author conducted a consistent conceptualization of social capital. To the author’s point of
view, social capital is a set of dues, social norms or images and ideas formed in the minds of individuals,
in which self-interested rational agents invest material goods. The novelty of this definition is that
social capital is presented as a result of activity of homo oeconomicus. It helps to distinguish social
capital from other phenomena related to altruistic and emotional subjectivity of actors. For a description
of a number of positive economic effects the author proposes the term “social rent”. The author
substantiates the thesis that social rent is determined by the benefits of social environment regardless
of individual’s labor and investments. Refs 24.

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value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 12. Sociology;Issue 3

value: social capital

value: social rent

value: capitalism

value: individualization

value: community


dc.contributor.author

value: Popov, Maxim E.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Popov M. E. Sociocultural integration and resolving identity-based conflicts: regional perspective. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 12. Sociology, 2016, issue 3, pp. 86–100.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This paper is devoted to researching the main theoretical approaches to analyze sociocultural integration
as a tool for resolving regional identity-based conflicts. Author focuses on the ability of sociocultural
integration to transformation of destructive identity-based conflicts. The author considers
the factors of the identity-based conflicts and emphasizes destabilizing role of the politicization of
ethnicity. Among the structural conditions of the escalation of regional conflicts, the author calls: social
inequalities, economic polarization, contradiction between the system modernization and social
disintegration. Refs 23.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
Статья подготовлена в рамках проекта «Социокультурная интеграция как способ снижения
этнической напряженности на Северном Кавказе», Грант Президента РФ № МД-7429.2015.6.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: sociocultural integration

value: regional conflicts

value: identity-based conflicts

value: conflict resolution

value: the North Caucasus

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Kalashnikova, Alina A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kalashnikova A. A. Hand-made as the autonomizing field of symbolic production. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 12. Sociology, 2016, issue 3, pp. 60–70.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article analytically regards the sociological phenomenon of the ‘handmade’. The author investigates
its historic origins, relations to global and local cultures, and the process of the manual labour
valuation in the virtualizationing society. There are investigated handmade contemporary development
probable factors, such as the feministic ideology, the global economic crisis and the handiwork
tradition of lower and higher (idle) classes. Handmade is claimed to be connected with the “Arts &
Crafts” movement and with the encounter of local cultural traditions in the global space created by
the new media. Aesthetical, social and psychological contents of handmade activities are analyzed.
We regard to both the subjective motivation of participation in handmade activities and the change
in the way products are used, deriving from the growth of artisans’ skills (the opportunities for use,
presentation or sale). Practices of the experience of exchange between handmade artisans and critical
absence are also put under bourdieusian consideration as a means to create the mutual recognition
necessary for the distribution of the nomination authority in the emerging field. Handmade products
are considered as reified social actions and relations, delegates in latourian sense. It is demonstrated,
that handmade approves the unconditional value of the manual labour, aiming to occupy the position
of the fine arts with its unable-to-negate symbolic value of artistic production. Therefore, contemporary
handmade is explored as successfully making bids for creating its autonomous field between that
of fine arts and design. Refs 18.

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value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 12. Sociology;Issue 3

dc.subject

value: handmade

value: manual labour

value: artwork

value: field of symbolic production


dc.contributor.author

value: Sikevich, Zinaida V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Sikevich Z. V. Method of semantic differential in sociological research (the experience of application). Vestnik SPbSU. Series 12. Sociology, 2016, issue 3, pp. 118–128.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article focuses on the experience of applying the method of the semantic differential in sociological
research. The author gives a description of the classic test developed of Osgood as well as her own
modification of this method applied to the study of ethnic and political stereotypes and value concepts.
The article also describes the results of using the method and indicates the specifics of the construction
of scales. Refs 9. Tables 2.

dc.subject

value: Semantic differential

value: sociological research

value: social stereotype

value: ethnic stereotype

value: value concepts

value: bipolar scales

value: effect of social desirability


dc.contributor.author

value: Strekalova, Natalia D.

value: Rogova, Galina I.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Strekalova N. D., Rogova G. I. Social Aspects of Professional Development Management of Russian Federal Tax Service Civil Servants: Results of Empirical Research. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 8. Management, 2016, issue 3, pp. 82–106.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article focuses on professionalism and professional development of public service employees (civil ones). The goal of the study was to examine professional motivation of these employees and to carry out an empirical study of professional attitudes of Federal Tax Service (FTS) executives in the Russian Federation. Sociological approach (based on management sociology) and concepts of new public management, public service motivation and achievement motivation were used in the study. It is shown that professionalism of the employees is formed by virtue of their professional attitudes and professional achievements motivation. It is emphasized in management, that it is necessary to find out and take into consideration professional attitudes defining an employee’s willingness to professional development, and efforts he/she applies. The study reveals the structure and main types of professional attitudes of managers — Federal Tax Service executives in Russia. The results of gender analysis of the professional attitudes of the managers are presented as well.
The formal survey method (Work Test) was used to identify professional attitudes of the heads of tax offices. The survey involved 90 heads of tax offices from different regions of Russia. It was found out that the dominating attitudes in the structure of professional attitudes of the heads of tax offices are those aimed at professional and qualification development and creative type of work. The dominating type of the executives surveyed is that of “experts-creators”, which means a strong focus on professional development, creative type of work, as well as internal work motivation. The research did not confirm the hypothesis that the attitudes of the career growth and algorithmic type of work (doers) dominate in the structure of professional attitudes of the tax office executives. The gender analysis of the data obtained showed that female executives dominate among tax offices executives. Selective data do not give grounds to reject the hypothesis that female heads are more focused on professional and qualification development and creative type of work than male ones; however, this dependence is not of any significance. Recommendations of how to implement the obtained results for human resource professionals of the Federal Tax Service in Russia are offered. The study contributes to the development of new public management, public service motivation, (issues of public service employees’ professional development motivation and management), as well as to the testing of the method of finding out professional attitudes of the employees indicated. The study is of practical significance for strategic planning and management of public service employees’ professional development and implementation of the Concept of Personnel Policy of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 8. Management;Issue 3

dc.subject

value: professionalism

value: professional development

value: professional development management

value: professional development motivation

value: professional attitudes

value: Federal Tax Service of Russia

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Aray, Yulia N.

value: Petrova-Savchenko, Anastasia A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Aray Y. N., Petrova-Savchenko A. A. World is Open for Everybody: Is It Possible to Turn Accessible Tourism into a Business in Russia? (Case Study). Vestnik SPbSU. Ser. 8. Management, 2016, issue 3, pp. 166–176.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The case is dedicated to the developmental problems of social entrepreneurship in a certain institutional environment and is focused on the problems of organizational development and sustainability. The specific character of these challenges is that they should be dealt taking into account not only the sphere of the company’s operation, its history and the specifics of the business environment but also the need of constant balancing between the commercial and social goals. The company also faces a classic organizational crisis demanding transition to a new stage of the life cycle and the management challenges caused by this transition. The crisis is hardened by substantial dependence of the company’s activities on moral motivation of its founders.
The case is based on a real situation: a tour company for people with limited abilities from the very beginning has been working in a specific sphere in which the commercial goals are intrinsically linked to a social goal — tackling the problem of the isolation of people with limited abilities from the social and economic life. Working in the sphere of social enterprising which is not defined by the law in Russia and does not result in any organizational or tax latitudes the company’s founders have to constantly find a balance between the social and the commercial parts of their project which endangers the stability of the company and deepens the problems faced in the process of its development.
The case is made for discussions within bachelor and master courses as well as advanced training programs while studying such disciplines as “Business Ethics”, “Corporate Social Responsibility”, “Social Entrepreneurship”. The case can also be used within courses concentrating on problems of strategic management and processes of organizational development.
The case aims to attain the following learning outcomes: to discuss the idea of social entrepreneurship, illustrate the business model specificity in social entrepreneurial organizations; to develop students’ skills in analyzing social and commercial goals of organizations; to develop students’ skills in taking management decisions in the balancing between economic and social goals of social entrepreneurship and obtaining long-term stability without abandoning the social part of its work, as well as range of problems of organizational development and transition to a new stage of a lifecycle While working with the case it is recommended to organize group discussions directed towards the production of practical recommendations based on studying the foundations of social entrepreneurship, strategic management theory and concepts of organization lifecycle.
The case is accompanied by a list of supplementary readings that discuss the specificity of social entrepreneurial organizations, business models as well as challenges of organizational development with the aim of balancing between social and economic goals.
The case was tested on such disciplines as “Corporate Social Responsibility” (Bachelor Program), “Basics of Management” (Bachelor Program), on Executive Education Program and several seminars for social entrepreneurs.

dc.subject

value: social entrepreneurship

value: business model

value: organization life-cycle

value: accessible tourism


dc.contributor.author

value: Baryshnikov, Mikhail N.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Baryshnikov M. N. V. P. Baranovsky. Private Initiative in the Defense Sector of Russian Economy in the Early Twentieth Century. Vestnik SPbSU. Ser. 8. Management, 2016, issue 3, pp. 139–165.

dc.description.abstract

value: Private business contributed significantly to the growth of the defense sector of the economy in the Russian Empire in the early twentieth century. This paper analyzes the evolution of the company of P. V. Baranovsky and its role as a corporation to promote military-industrial development of Russia. The company’s activity was accompanied by a very specific government model of financing defense industries in order to stimulate domestic manufacturing and lessen the country’s dependence on imported goods. The role played by the strategic leadership of the founder and director of the company Victor Petrovich Baranovsky is of particular interest. By exploring the case of Baranovsky company, this paper illuminates how equity military-industrial enterprises took shape through traditional Russian family business, Western corporate culture and investment. The article contains a number of new approaches to the explanation of the institutional and organizational aspects of the company. It shows the structure of ownership and control, orientation relationships among managers and shareholders, the process of development and implementation of strategic and operational plans. The analysis of Baranovsky`s part in the management of joint-stock companies shows scales of its business, degree of its business activity (complete or limited, including participation of the partners or occupied post), its integration in most dynamically developing structures of the Russian business, ability to work with large industrial and financial resources (first of all associated). Finally, the participation of Baranovsky in the activity of business group allows to reveal structural parameters of industrial business in the beginning of the 20 century which were the most important for defense sector of the Russian economy. The analysis also highlights the role of financial intermediaries (banks) in the investment support of business groups.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: private initiative

value: family business

value: corporations

value: defense sector

value: Russia

value: investment

value: banking

value: business group


dc.contributor.author

value: Aleksandrova, Ekaterina A.

value: Verkhovskaya, Olga R.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Aleksandrova E. A., Verkhovskaya O. R. Motivation of Entrepreneurial Activity: The Role of Institutional Environment. Vestnik SPbSU. Ser. 8. Management, 2016, issue 3, pp.108 –139.

dc.description.abstract

value: This article presents the results of a research which purpose was to investigate the link between institutional features and the motivation of entrepreneurial activity on the country level. We evaluate the level of total early-stage entrepreneurial activity, and, more specifically, the share of necessity-driven entrepreneurship. Taking into account Scott’s institutional theory, we established the main factors of the institutional environment — the regulatory, normative, and cognitive pillars. The empirical analysis was conducted using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Survey for the period between 2009 and 2014; information for every country that participated in the project in that period was used in the article. Using data from various sources, such as Global Competitiveness Report, World Bank, Doing Business, Economic Freedom of the world, Hofstede’s Cultural Indicators, we identified proxy-variables for every institutional dimension of Scott’s theory. The results of our econometric analysis indicate that the regulatory, normative, and cognitive factors influence not only the level of total early-stage entrepreneurial activity, but also the share of necessity-driven entrepreneurs.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 8. Management;Issue 3

value: entrepreneurship

value: necessity-driven entrepreneurship

value: institutional environment

value: Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Survey

value: cross-country analysis

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Bordunos, Aleksandra K.

value: Kosheleva, Sofia V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Bordunos A. K., Kosheleva S. V. Evolution of Strategic Human Resource Management trough the Lens of High Performance Work System. Vestnik SPbSU. Series 8. Mangement, 2016, issue 3, pp. 30–53.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article represents critical revision of the Strategic Human Resource Management concept evolution with a special attention to High Performance Work Systems (HPWS). The goal of the article is to reveal the list of patterns which could a) help in recognizing exploited HPWS, and b) guide in exploration of the best-fit solution, diminishing significant issues: instability of the HPWS outcomes, equifinality of practices, and conceptual bias of key terms.
Fundamental HPWS were reconstructed with the «path-dependence» method, which helped to discover their roots in the Porter’s market positioning strategy, the Resource Based View or the Dynamic Capabilities approach to corporate strategies. The theoretical thematic analysis on a latent level allowed to deal with the revealed key terms’ bias. The flexibility within HPWS configuration is allowed, due to a deeper level of analyses: the attention moves from the set of practices to the expected personnel response and key values related to employees.
The paper introduces three basic latent reference standards (LRS), which, similarly to the additive RGB color model, could be added together to reproduce a broad array of different SHRM. Each referent standard was “locked in” under certain limitations associated with the strategic orientations of the company, the degree of legitimization of the identified HPWS, the specificity of key objectives related to organizational health. Accounting of these factors allowed to reduce HPWS results’ inconsistency.
This is a conceptual paper; offered theoretical findings should be tested empirically. Despite broadening the focus by adding issues of identity and organizational health, deductive approach still means narrowing researchers’ attention.
The findings are of interest for such areas as HRM, Strategic Planning, Performance Management, Change Management, Sustainable Development and CSR.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: HRM

value: human capital

value: SHRM

value: personnel management

value: high-performance work systems

value: latent reference system

value: organizational health


dc.contributor.author

value: Orekhova, Svetlana V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Orekhova S. V. Institutional effectiveness estimation of wage indexation. St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies, 2016, issue 3, pp. 130–154.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is aimed at studying the causes of differences between the legally established wage indexation and real labor practice of Russian companies. Based on the neoinstitutional economic analysis, the author selects and investigates the structural and comparative efficiency of indexation, systematizes methods of wage indexation in Russia and conducts an empirical analysis of indexation mechanism in 176 Russian mining and metallurgical companies. The analysis results allow the author to conclude that structural efficiency of wage indexation is low. The main reason of that is a lack of real enforcements of this social guarantee. In the article the author suggests ways to overcome the institutional gaps and develop a unified mechanism for calculating wage indexation. Evaluation of the comparative effectiveness of the wage indexation institute in Russia shows that the institutional gaps in the establishment and implementation of this social guarantee are not random, but depends on the existence of alternative institutions and the specifics of Russian institutional environment.
Refs 51. Figs 2. Tables 7.

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value: St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies;Issue 3

dc.subject

value: institutional effectiveness

value: wage indexation

value: enforcement


title: Multiple Sectors DSGE Model of Russia

dc.contributor.author

value: Ivashchenko, Sergey M.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Ivashchenko S. M. Multiple Sectors DSGE Model of Russia. St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies, 2016, issue 3, pp. 176–202.

dc.description.abstract

value:
A dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with multiple sectors is constructed. The production is divided into 5 sectors: 1) mining; 2) manufacturing; 3) electricity, gas and water; 4) trade, transport and communication; 5) other. The model is estimated in 29 time-series of Russian statistical data. The model produces high quality out-of-sample forecasts (better than auto regressions). The consequences of export price decline, restriction of access to foreign finance, tighter monetary policy and higher government spending are computed.
Refs 18. Figs 5. Table 1.

dc.subject

value: DSGE

value: industries

value: out of sample forecasts

dc.title

value: Multiple Sectors DSGE Model of Russia

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Nissen, Volker

value: Müllerleile, Thomas

value: Kazakova, Elena О.

value: Lezina, Tatiana А.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Nissen V., Müllerleile T., Kazakova E., Lezina T. Analyzing Process Acceptance with IT-Enabled Experimental Research. St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies, 2016, issue 3, pp. 109–129.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The positive results that are frequently associated with business process management, can only be achieved through triggering of the process by its users and the correct execution by the process operators. Unfortunately, business scandals in various domains have shown that companies, or rather the process operating subjects, sometimes do not execute their processes according to given standards or do not use existing processes at all. This failure in process execution can lead not only to suboptimal performance but also to life threatening disasters. By circumvention of official channels, individuals within the company create shadow organizations. Thus, unofficial processes and shadow IT systems emerge, which run alongside the official organization. This in turn has several disadvantages, among others increased complexity and lack of transparency, compliance risks and higher costs.
It is, therefore, of crucial importance to understand, why people accept or dismiss official business processes. Basically, this question calls for an explorative empirical research approach. A possible way of investigation is field studies in business organizations. However, such a form of study is expensive, time-consuming and it is difficult to attract a sizeable number of qualified participants. Moreover, there are known methodical problems with empirical research that relies on questioning people about their own sphere of responsibility. In this paper, we suggest to proceed in a different way to determine whether a process fits the end users. Our methodology is based on setting up process acceptance experiments in a crowdsourcing environment that allow for a more objective investigation at reduced time and cost, as compared to classical field studies.
Refs 27. Figs 6. Tables 3.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: process acceptance

value: business process management

value: measuring process acceptance

value: process acceptance testing

value: crowdsourcing environment


dc.contributor.author

value: Paschke, Marian

value: Sergeev, Igor B.

value: Lebedeva, Olesya Y.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Paschke M., Sergeev I. B., Lebedeva O. Y. The Supply of Rare Earths for “Green” Energy and Sustainable Development. St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies, 2016, issue 3, pp. 56–73.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The paper investigates key issues related to alternative energy provision with the rare earth metals. The problem is essential for the energy sector as one of the most intensively developing sectors of the world economy, since the reliability of resource supply depends heavily both on China’s foreign trade policy and the ability of the monopoly supplier to cope with environmental problems. Fast growth of the latter questions the viability of sustainable development ideas on a global scale. In the paper, the resources needed for alternative energy were estimated taking into account the target structure of world energy production and consumption. The prospects for reliable supply of consumers with critical raw materials were analyzed on the basis of countries’ resources and production capacities. The investigation of the environmental pollution problem comprised consideration of ecological, trade and economic, as well as some legal aspects of providing European “green energy” with critical raw materials. Some economic, technological and environmental measures were offered, which together with the mechanisms of international bilateral and multilateral agreements will allow progress to be made in addressing the global problem — providing “green energy” with rare earth elements in the context of sustainable development.
Refs 43. Figs 2. Table 1.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies;Issue 3

value: rare earth metals

value: “green” energy

value: raw mineral base

value: sustainable development

value: critical raw materials

value: environmental pollution

value: reliable supply


dc.contributor.author

value: Telekhov, Ignatii I.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Telekhov I. I. Analysis of R&D Innovation Projects with Embedded Real Options. St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies, 2016, issue 3, pp. 155–175.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article addresses the issue of innovation project valuation in the presence of embedded real options. It provides a review of real options analysis schemes present in the literature. We show that different authors propose similar sequences of stages of real options valuation, but devote much less attention to planning of real options execution and developing rules of switching between stages. Based on this comparison an innovation project analysis algorithm with embedded real options is proposed. The specific features of this algorithm are as follows: it augments real options valuation with the analysis of conditions of their implementation; development of plan of real options implementation management and design of ties system between different stages of the algorithm. We use a hypothetical example to show the work of the proposed algorithm.
Refs 26. Figs 4.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: innovations

value: innovation projects

value: investments

value: innovations management

value: real options

value: R&D investment project analysis

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Razmanova, Svetlana V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Razmanova S. V. Analysis of the Effectiveness of Transnational Mergers and Acquisitions in Emerging Capital Markets. St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies, 2016, issue 3, pp. 20–37.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The aim of this work is to analyze the impact of M&A transactions in the oil and gas industry between the Russian and foreign companies. The subject of research is the relationship between the announcement of the forthcoming integration of the transaction and the performance of the acquirer. The study focuses on the impact of the announcement of the national and transnational M&A deals and on the change of market value of shares of the acquiring company in the oil and gas sector. The methodological basis of the study selected the market approach in the short term. An analysis of the target and absorbing the oil and gas companies is supplemented by the assessment of R&D intensity, which takes into account the dynamics of the registered patents and the certificates for useful models. In this work author calculates and analyses the indicators: cumulative abnormal return and the number of transitioning intellectual property for oil and gas companies, which involved in M&A transactions in the Northwest region of the Russian Federation in the period from 1999 to 2015. This analysis of effectiveness of mergers and acquisitions oil and gas companies in the Northwest region revealed that the domestic assets, which were previously owned by foreign companies, now come under the control of Russian enterprises. The results of this research will contribute to the study of the effectiveness of M&A transactions in the oil and gas industry and can find an application in the Antimonopoly activities of the Federal Antimonopoly service of the Russian Federation.
Refs 33. Tables 3.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies;Issue 3

dc.subject

value: mergers and acquisitions

value: transnational transactions

value: capital markets

value: the acquiring company

value: the target company

value: research and development

value: cumulative abnormal return

value: intellectual property

value: patent

value: intangible assets

value: intellectual capital


dc.contributor.author

value: Dmitriev, Anton L.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Dmitriev A. L. V. S. Woytinsky and Mathematical School in Political Economy: First Steps (To the 110th Anniversary of the Publication of the Book “Market and Prices”). St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies, 2016, issue 3, pp. 95–108.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The publication introduces unknown archival materials related to the writing of the book by Vladimir Savelyevich Woytinsky (1885–1960) “Market and prices” (1906). The name of V. S. Woytinsky, graduate of the Saint Petersburg University, is well-known in the world. He was one of the pioneers in the formation of economic and mathematical sciences in the Russian political economy. Published materials allow us to understand some aspects of the appearance of the book, and the impact that B. V. Reitz has had on the author.
Refs 30.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: mathematical direction

value: history of economic thought

value: psychological school

value: theory of value and price

value: V. S. Woytinsky

value: neoclassical direction

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Benson, Isabel N.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Benson I. N. The Impact of Institutional Environment on Wealth and Economic Development: Cross-Country Comparisons. St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies, 2016, issue 3, pp. 38–55.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This paper analyses hypotheses about the impact of the quality of the institutional environment for economic development and wealth. Qualitative and quantitative characteristics of that dependence are also considered in this paper.
International indices, ratings and ranking of countries according to parameters of quality of the institutional environment are used as indicators of the quality of the institutional environment. Consistency of the different rating grades are considered in this paper and an integrated index of institutional quality are produced. On the basis of this integrated index there were found correlations between institutional settings, level of welfare and economic growth.
Results show statistically significant connections between wealth and the quality of the institutional environment. Connection between the institutional environment and economic growth is more complicated.
Refs 20. Figs 3. Tables 3.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies;Issue 3

dc.subject

value: institutions

value: institutional environment

value: the quality indexes of the institutional environment

value: economic growth