610 research outputs found
Business in an international ambient- CineStar
No full textTato diplomová práce je věnována velice důležitému a aktuálnímu tématu současné doby, jedná se o vstup zahraniční firmy na ruský trh. Práce je rozdělena do dvou částí. V části první se autorka věnuje teoretickému přístupu k problematice. Ve druhé části je pozornost věnována aktivitám společnosti CineStar na českém trhu. V předposlední kapitole se autorka již věnovala volbě vstupu na trh, jednalo se o výzkum následujících způsobů vstupu: investice na zelené louce, podnikání s partnerem, franchsising a fúze. V poslední kapitole se autorka již věnovala ostatní problematice -- jednalo se o marketing a management. Tato část práce měla sloužit jako forma návrhů pro ostatní firmy, které chtějí podnikat na ruském trhu. Cílem práce je popsat vstup společnosti CineStar na ruský trh se zaměřením na volbu vstupu. Ústřední výzkumná otázka byla následující: společnosti CineStar se opravdu vyplatí vstupovat na ruský trh. Autorka ve své práci pracovala jak s ruskými, tak i s českými zdroji.This thesis is dedicated to currently a very important and topical theme; it is an entering of foreign company into the Russian market. The work is divided into two parts. In the first, the author deals with the theoretical approach to the issue. In the second part of the work the author describes activities of CineStar on the Czech market. After that the author is explaining the choice of market entry, it was the following ways: greenfield investment, business with a partner, franchising and merger. In the last chapter the author explaining other issues - it was a marketing and management. This part should serve as a form of proposals for other companies that are thinking about doing business in the Russian market. The aim of this thesis is to describe the entry of CineStar into the Russian market with a focus on the choice of entering. The central research question was following: CineStar company is really worth to enter the Russian market. The author worked in her work with Russian and Czech resources
Asymblepharus alaicus subsp. yakovlevae EREMCHENKO 1983
No full textAsymblepharus alaicus yakovlevae EREMCHENKO (1983: 40) Paratypes: ZISP 10542.1 - 3, 3 specimens, “downstream of Ayu-Tur River” [Ayutor River, South Kazakhstan Province, Kazakhstan, 42.14 N 70.62 E]. Leg: N. A. Zarudny, VI.1907. Present name: Asymblepharus alaicus yakovlevae Eremchenko (1983) fide Eremchenko and Szczerbak, 1986. Remarks: The original description of this subspecies was based not only on Zarudny’s materials.Published as part of Ananjeva, Natalia B., Milto, Konstantin D., Barabanov, Andrei V. & Golynsky, Evgeny A., 2020, An annotated type catalogue of amphibians and reptiles collected by Nikolay A Zarudny in Iran and Middle Asia, pp. 101-128 in Zootaxa 4722 (2) on page 119, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4722.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/360581
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No full textThe seemingly limitless diversity of proteins in nature arose from only a few thousand domain prototypes, but the origin of these themselves has remained unclear. We are pursuing the hypothesis that they arose by fusion and accretion from an ancestral set of peptides active as co-factors in RNA-dependent replication and catalysis. Should this be true, contemporary domains may still contain vestiges of such peptides, which could be reconstructed by a comparative approach in the same way in which ancient vocabularies have been reconstructed by the comparative study of modern languages. To test this, we compared domains representative of known folds and identified 40 fragments whose similarity is indicative of common descent, yet which occur in domains currently not thought to be homologous. These fragments are widespread in the most ancient folds and enriched for iron-sulfur- and nucleic acid-binding. We propose that they represent the observable remnants of a primordial RNA-peptide world
Anyuta Grischenko & Gordon & Melnik 2018, n. gen.
No full textAnyuta n. gen. Type species. Anyuta anastema n. sp. Etymology. Named for Anna A. Novokshonova, the younger daughter of the first author. Gender feminine. Diagnosis. As for family.Published as part of Grischenko, Andrei V., Gordon, Dennis P. & Melnik, Viacheslav P., 2018, Bryozoa (Cyclostomata and Ctenostomata) from polymetallic nodules in the Russian exploration area, Clarion - Clipperton Fracture Zone, eastern Pacific Ocean-taxon novelty and implications of mining, pp. 1-91 in Zootaxa 4484 (1) on page 59, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4484.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/143784
Human Capital and Regional Development
No full textWe investigate the determinants of regional development using a newly constructed database of 1569 sub-national regions from 110 countries covering 74 percent of the world’s surface and 96 percent of its GDP. We combine the cross-regional analysis of geographic, institutional, cultural, and human capital determinants of regional development with an examination of productivity in several thousand establishments located in these regions. To organize the discussion, we present a new model of regional development that introduces into a standard migration framework elements of both the Lucas (1978) model of the allocation of talent between entrepreneurship and work, and the Lucas (1988) model of human capital externalities. The evidence points to the paramount importance of human capital in accounting for regional differences in development, but also suggests from model estimation and calibration that entrepreneurial inputs and human capital externalities are essential for understanding the data.
The new comparative economics
No full textIn recent years, comparative economics experienced a revival, with a new focus on comparing capitalist economies. The theme of the new research is that institutions exert a profound influence on economic development. The authors argue that, to understand capitalist institutions, one needs to understand the basic tradeoff between the costs of disorder and those of dictatorship. They then apply this logic to study the structure of efficient institutions, the consequences of colonial transplantation, and the politics of institutional choice.Labor Policies,Decentralization,National Governance,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,National Governance,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Governance Indicators,Banks&Banking Reform
Glossolalia of Andrei Bely (under the prism of comparative study)
No full textAutorka sa v štúdii zaoberá experimentálnou básnickou poémou ruského symbolistického spisovateľa Andreja Belého (1880–1934) Glossolália z roku 1917. Dielo odráža vplyv antropozofie, ktorej básnik, stúpenec R. Steinera, nadlho prepadol. Zameral sa na eurytmiu, ktorá vyjadruje vnútorné zvuky vonkajškovo-telesne, a tiež na Steinerovu kozmogóniu. Originálne umelecké spracovanie obsiahlo široký medziliterárny a medzikultúrny kontext (Biblia v steinerovskom výklade, Kabala, Kniha stvorenia, Aurora J. Böhmeho atď.). V štúdii sa rozoberajú podoby reflexie Belého die¬la u ruských literárnych odborníkov, ale i v českej vede (D. Kšicová), pričom podstatnú odozvu Glossolália zaznamenala v priestore západnej slavistiky. Pod prizmou komparatívneho skúmania autorka dospieva k interpretácii diela ako jedného z európskych projektov hľadania univerzálneho (slovami U. Eca dokonalého) jazyka.The experimental long poem Glossolália (1917) by the Russian symbolist author Andrei Bely (1880–1934) reflects the great influence of anthroposophy on the poet, a follower of Rudolf Steiner. The poet focuses on eurythmy, which expresses interior sounds through the body, and also Steiner’s cosmogony. This original artistic work encompasses a wide inter-literary and inter-cultural context (The Bible in Steiner’s interpretation, Kabala, The Book of Genesis, Aurora by J. Böhme, etc.). The article analyses the forms of reflection on Bely\u27s work by Russian as well as Czech literary scholars (Danuše Kšicová), while a considerable response to Glossolália can be found also among Western Slavicists. Through the prism of comparative analysis the article interprets the work as one of the European projects of searching for the universal (in the words of Umberto Eco ideal) language
Does strict employment protection discourage job creation? Evidence from Croatia
No full textEmployment protection legislation in Croatia is among the most strict in Europe. Firing is difficult and costly, and flexible forms of employment are limited. Is this apparent rigidity reflected-as one would expect based on standard economic theory-in low labor market dynamics? Is job creation low and hiring limited? Is the job security of insiders achieved at the cost of outsiders not being able to enter thelabor market? The author attempts to answer these questions by examining job flows. If the employment protection legislation is binding, then job and worker turnover should be low. He shows that this is indeed the case. Hiring is limited and the average job tenure is very long in Croatia. Job destruction is low, however job creation is still lower. The result is accumulation of unemployment, in large part due to new labor market entrants not being able to find a job. The high degree of job protection also seems to strengthen the bargaining position of insiders and results in relatively high wages. So, wages in Croatia are higher than among its competitors, even after adjusting for productivity. These high labor costs are likely to contribute to limited job creation in existing firms, but also are likely to discourage the entry of-and thus job creation in-new firms. The author presents evidence that firm growth has been indeed limited in Croatia, contributing to the low employment level. The author examines other potential causes of high unemployment in Croatia (the unemployment benefit system, labor taxation, the wage structure, and skill and spatial mismatches). He argues that they do not play a substantial part in accounting for poor labor market outcomes in Croatia. The author concludes that the stringent employment protection legislation is the key labor market institution behind low job creation and high unemployment. Based on this he recommends specific measures aimed at liberalizing the labor market to foster job creation and employment.Labor Management and Relations,Labor Policies,Labor Markets,Environmental Economics&Policies,Trade Finance and Investment,Labor Markets,Labor Management and Relations,Labor Standards,Banks&Banking Reform,Environmental Economics&Policies
Andrei Siniavskii. A hero of his time?
No full textThis thesis is an artistic biography of Andrei Siniavskii (1925-1997) as a
writer in and of his time, showing how this subtle and complex author found his
way in a society polarised into heroes and villains, patriots and traitors; how he
progresses from identification with the value system and ideology of his time to
reaction against it, his dissidence expressed in literary terms.
Beyond this, I hope to show how he moves to a new conception of the writer
in the fusion of his creative and critical selves that is dominated neither by the
voice of the collective ‘we’, nor by the voice of the individual ‘I’ but which
leaves space in the text for engagement by the reader. Individual readers,
passing manuscripts from hand to hand or reciting texts orally had assured the
continuity of the Russian literary tradition during the long bleak years when
literature seemed to mark time under the strictures of Soviet ideology and
Socialist Realist aesthetics. Siniavskii’s work is motivated by the passionate
belief that the way forward for Russian literature lay in this same spark
generated between individual reader and text.
My thesis is organised chronologically and is based on a close reading of
Siniavskii’s work. It explores the way his art does not simply reflect the
circumstances of his life and times but is actively shaped by an intricate
commerce between the two. I intend to show how Siniavskii’s distancing
himself, first ideologically then physically, from the Soviet system is
counterbalanced by his creative reintegration with Russia through literature
Mitrager noordami Helsdingen 1985
No full textMitrager noordami Helsdingen, 1985 Remarks: This species was described from specimens of both sexes from Central Java Province, Indonesia, as the type species of the genus Mitrager Helsdingen, 1985 (Helsdingen, 1985a). In its somatic and genitalic characters the genus is very similar to Oedothorax Bertkau, in Förster & Bertkau, 1883. This similarity is based on the same chaeto- and trichobothriotaxy, highly modified male carapace, the male palp conformation, notably by the shape of the embolus and the presence of a convector (named “lamella” by the author of the original description) in the embolic division. The epigyne structure also is very similar to that of Oedothorax representatives. The species is known only from the Dijeng Plateau (2580 m a.s.l.), Central Java Province, Indonesia (Helsdingen, 1985a). Range: Javanese.Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2020, On linyphiid spiders from Java, Indonesia, with the description of three new genera and four new species (Araneae: Linyphiidae), pp. 63-74 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 127 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.35929/RSZ.0006, http://zenodo.org/record/574351
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