The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture : Pop Goth

This interdisciplinary collection brings together world leaders in Gothic Studies, offering new readings on popular Gothic cultural productions from the last decade. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: contemporary High Street Goth/ic fashion, Gothic performance and art festivals, Gothic popular fiction from Twilight to Shadow of the Wind, Goth/ic popular music, Goth/ic on TV and film, new trends like Steampunk, well-known icons Batman and Lady Gaga, and theorizations of popular Gothic monsters (from zombies and vampires to werewolves and ghosts) in an age of terror/ism.

Marcadores pragmáticos en las traducciones rusas de la novela de P.G. Wodehouse "Right Ho, Jeeves"

Este trabajo se enfoca en la traslación de los marcadores pragmáticos en las traducciones rusas de "Right Ho, Jeeves" de P.G. Wodehouse. Aún siendo vacíos semánticamente y opcionales gramaticalmente, estas unidades son indispensables desde el punto de vista pragmático ya que desempeñan muchas funciones en los ámbitos textual e interpersonal. Como son multifuncionales y polisémicos, las equivalencias dadas en los diccionarios bilingües no alcanzan todas las situaciones comunicativas en que se utilizan. Son buenos indicadores que permiten observar la transferencia tanto de las peculiaridades discursivas como del retrato de la relación interpersonal de los protagonistas, dos componentes clave del humor de la novela analizada. El grado de conservación de la carga pragmática y del nivel de formalidad repecute en la construcción del caracter del personaje y en este caso en la representación de la pareja del señor y su criado — un constructo literario que varía según la cultura.

Recent patterns in gastric cancer: a global overview.

Until the mid-1990s, gastric cancer has been the first cause of cancer death worldwide, although rates had been declining for several decades and gastric cancer has become a relatively rare cancer in North America and in most Northern and Western Europe, but not in Eastern Europe, Russia and selected areas of Central and South America or East Asia. We analyzed gastric cancer mortality in Europe and other areas of the world from 1980 to 2005 using joinpoint regression analysis, and provided updated site-specific incidence rates from 51 selected registries. Over the last decade, the annual percent change (APC) in mortality rate was around -3, -4% for the major European countries. The APC were similar for the Republic of Korea (APC = -4.3%), Australia (-3.7%), the USA (-3.6%), Japan (-3.5%), Ukraine (-3%) and the Russian Federation (-2.8%). In Latin America, the decline was less marked, but constant with APC around -1.6% in Chile and Brazil, -2.3% in Argentina and Mexico and -2.6% in Colombia. Cancers in the fundus and pylorus are more common in high incidence and mortality areas and have been declining more than cardia gastric cancer. Steady downward trends persist in gastric cancer mortality worldwide even in middle aged population, and hence further appreciable declines are likely in the near future.

Trends in motor vehicle crash mortality in Europe, 1980-2007.

Recent trends (1980-2007) in mortality from road traffic crashes in European countries, and, for comparative purposes, in the USA and Japan were reviewed. Data came from the World Health Organisation database. Age-standardised rates, at all ages and at 15-24, 25-64, >=65 years, were computed. Joinpoint regression analyses to evaluate significant changes in trends were performed. In the European Union as a whole rates declined from 20.2 in 1987 to 13.5/100,000 in 2007 in men, and from 6.3 to 3.7/100,000 in women; European Union rates remained lower than USA, but higher than Japanese ones. In 2007, the highest male rates were in Lithuania (36.7/100,000), the Russian Federation (35.2), Ukraine (29.8), and Latvia (28.5), and the lowest ones in the Netherlands (6.2) and Sweden (6.9); the highest female rates were in the Russian Federation (11.3), Lithuania (9.7), Belarus, Latvia, and Ukraine (around 8), and the lowest ones in Switzerland (1.7), the UK, and Nordic countries (around 2). Mortality from motor vehicle crashes declined in northern and western European countries and - though to a lesser extent - in southern European countries, too. Mortality trends were also favourable in the Czech Republic and Poland since the mid 1990's, whereas they were still upwards in Romania and the Russian Federation. No trend was observed in Hungary and Ukraine. Trends were consistent in various age groups considered. Thus, additional urgent and integrated intervention is required to prevent avoidable deaths from motor vehicle crashes, particularly in selected central and eastern European countries.

Maahanmuuttajaoppilaat erityiskouluissa

Immigrant Pupils in Special Education Schools The study focused on the opinions of immigrant pupils in the 1st–9th grades of basic education in four special education schools of the City of Turku and in need of special support about the following: 1. Their difficulties in going to school in general education before the transfer to a special education school. 2. Their opinions about the transfer process to special education and the changes in their school practice after being transferred to a special education school. 3. Their experiences about their school and coping in special education school. The study strengthened the idea that immigrant pupils need positive special treatment, linguistic support, individual guidance, small teaching groups and operating models that promote well-being on their integration and education path. The central educational idea of inclusive education is based on deconstructing the power structures concerning gender, ethnicity and “race” and approval of differences in the pupils. Shifting the emphasis from the pupil to working on the learning environment has resulted in special education no longer being primarily separate special education tied to a certain place, but directing the teaching more towards individuality. The central dimension of intercultural competence of a teacher working in a multicultural class seems to be the attitudes and approaches to a different pupil; the teacher must be interculturally sensitive when facing children and young people from a foreign culture. Education and teaching affect every sector of the pupil’s well-being. Learning and learning results have a connection with teaching, education and well-being. Every sector is important for the going to school and integration of an immigrant pupil in need of special support. The basis of the study is the equality of opportunities and the humanistic idea of the human being in the Finnish education policy. The immigrant pupils selected for the study represented the following language groups: Arabian, Albanian, Somali, Russian and Vietnamese. In the four special education schools, the number of immigrant pupils belonging to these language groups (2004) totalled 104. A total of 89 pupils i.e. 86% answered the questionnaire, which is sufficient considering the generalisation of the study. Although this is basically a quantitative study, the interviewing method was used in part of the study, because the questionnaires were in Finnish and consequently, it was difficult for some immigrant pupils to understand them. Understanding the questions was also affected by the fact that the age distribution in the study was very wide (7–18). According to the results of the study, the immigrants felt that the biggest drawbacks in general education were their inability to speak Finnish and lack of concentration. The actual process of being transferred to a special education class remained unclear for immigrant pupils, and they could do very little about the transfer themselves. The results show that immigrant pupils coped well in special education school; they felt that their learning ability and concentration improved in the small groups of the special education school. They considered the individual support given in the special education schools to be useful. The lower-grade immigrant pupils had a more positive attitude towards special education school than the upper-grade immigrant pupils. In all the special education schools the immigrant pupils experienced that they were in a good position in the class; girls felt this even a little more strongly than boys. The teacher-pupil-relationship was felt to be good. School bullying being so common was a negative feature experienced by immigrant pupils, who were often targets or bullies themselves. Immigrant pupils believed in their success at school and in the opportunities offered by special education schools. Generally they were of the opinion that pupils are not labelled by special school; however, upper-grade immigrant pupils were more hesitant than lower-grade immigrant pupils. This study aimed at bringing out the immigrant pupils’ own opinions. Teaching immigrant pupils in special education schools has not been very much studied in Finland, which made the topic new and even more challenging.

Development of Rouble Exchange Rate in Russia

This 45th volume deals with the development of the Russian rouble, which suffered a severe depreciation crisis in 1998. In the aftermath of this event, a strong investment boom started in Russia. The new devalued rouble exchange rate gave price competitiveness to local industry. In addition to that, increasing export prices of Russian oil and natural gas deliveries have contributed to economic growth lately. Amid this boom period, inflationary pressure has remained high. Price increases have been higher than in the EU, Russia’s main trading partner. However, rouble/euro exchange rate has remained nominally rather stable in the current decade. This means, that rouble appreciates against euro in real terms, which is weakening Russia’s international competitiveness.

The evolution ofRussian power industry from monopoly to market operation

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Distributed Energy Production in the North-West Region of Russia

The energy system of Russia is the world's fourth largest measured by installed power. The largest are that of the the United States of America, China and Japan. After 1990, the electricity consumption decreased as a result of the Russian industry crisis. The vivid economic growth during the latest few years explains the new increase in the demand for energy resources within the State. In 2005 the consumption of electricity achieved the maximum level of 1990 and continues to growth. In the 1980's, the renewal of power facilities was already very slow and practically stopped in the 1990's. At present, the energy system can be very much characterized as outdated, inefficient and uneconomic because of the old equipment, non-effective structure and large losses in the transmission lines. The aim of Russia's energy reform, which was started in 2001, is to achieve a market based energy policy by 2011. This would thus remove the significantly state-controlled monopoly in Russia's energy policy. The reform will stimulateto decrease losses, improve the energy system and employ energy-saving technologies. The Russian energy system today is still based on the use of fossil fuels, and it almost totally ignores the efficient use of renewable sources such as wind, solar, small hydro and biomass, despite of their significant resources in Russia. The main target of this project is to consider opportunities to apply renewable energy production in the North-West Federal Region of Russia to partly solve the above mentioned problems in the energy system.

Convergence withEU environmental legislation in Russia and Kyoto Protocol effects on certain power plants in Russia

Venäjällä uudistetaan sähkömarkkinoita. Uudistamisella pyritään vapauttamaan sähkömarkkinat ja lisäämään kilpailua energiasektorilla. Sähkömarkkinoiden vapauttamisen tarkoitus on energiasektorin hyötysuhteen nostaminen ja investointien houkutteleminen sektorille. Venäjä on ratifioinut Kioton protokollan, mikä energiasektorin kannalta on tärkeää, koska protokollan yhteistoteutusmekanismin kautta saadaan houkuteltua investointeja sektorille. Venäjän sähkömarkkinoiden vapauttamisen pitkäaikainen tähtäin on Venäjän ja Euroopan sähkömarkkinoiden integroituminen, joka tarkoittaa myös ympäristölainsäädännönyhtenäistämistä. Tämä tutkimus on osa Fortum Oyj:n tarjoamaa teknistä katselmusta Venäjällä toimivalle sähköyhtiölle, TGC-9:lle. Tässä työssä keskitytään TGC-9:n omistamien energiatuotantolaitoksien happamoitumista aiheuttaviin ilmapäästöihin ja pölypäästöihin. Tutkimuksessa pyritään myös löytämään Kioton protokollan yhteistoteutusmekanismi hyödyntämiskohteita. NOx -päästöt tulevat olemaan suurin haaste TGC-9:lle, jos ympäristöstandardit yhdenmukaistetaan. Yhteistoteutusmekanismin hyödyntämiskohteita löydettiin neljä: koksaamokaasun hyödyntäminen, maakaasun korvaaminen kuoren poltolla ja kaksi tapausta liittyen laitoksien hyötysuhteen nostamiseen.

Logistiikkayrityksen sijoittuminen Venäjälle - Venäjän logistiikkasektori ja potentiaaliset sijoittumiskohteet

Venäjän voimakas talouskasvu on lisännyt merkittävästi myös logistiikkapalveluiden kysyntää maassa. Suuren pinta-alan, markkinapotentiaalin ja Euroopan ja Aasian välisen maantieteellisen sijainnin tarjoaman merkittävän kauttakulkupotentiaalin ansiosta Venäjä on erityisen kiinnostava investointikohde logistiikkayrityksille. Talouskasvu ei ole kuitenkaan jakautunut tasaisesti ja tämän vuoksi investoijan onkin syytä tarkoin selvittää minne Venäjän sisällä sijoittua. Tässä työssä on kartoitettu Venäjän logistiikkasektoria ja liikenneinfrastruktuuria sekä tarkasteltu kilpailutilannetta tavoitteena löytää logistiikkayrityksellekeskeisimmät sijaintikohteet Venäjällä. Moskova ja Pietari on rajattu tutkimuksen ulkopuolelle. Alan kirjallisuuteen ja aiheesta aiemmin laadittuihin tutkimuksiin perehtymällä on selvitetty yritysten sijaintipaikanvalinnalle asettamat tärkeimmät kriteerit. Logistiikkayrityksille toimivalla infrastruktuurilla on luonnollisesti oleellinen merkitys sijaintipaikkaa valittaessa, riittävän suuren markkinapotentiaalin ollessa toinen erittäin merkittävä kriteeri. Kirjallisuustarkastelun pohjalta potentiaalisiksi kohteiksi logistiikkayritykselle valikoitui 22 kaupunkia eri puolilta Venäjää. Monikriteerianalyysiin perustuvan pisteytysmenetelmän avulla toteutetussa potentiaalisten kohteiden luokittelussa kiinnostavimmiksi sijoittumiskohteiksi kohosivat Etelä-Venäjällä, Mustanmeren rannikolla sijaitsevat merkittävät satamakaupungit. Kehittyneen infrastruktuurin, merkittävän markkinapotentiaalin sekä suotuisten taloudellisten toimintaedellytysten ansiosta tarjoavat nämä erityisen merkittävän investointipotentiaalin logistiikkayrityksille.

Investment Determinants and Future Shape of Russia's Power Generation

The reformation of power sector is still in the process of development. The present day situation in Russian electricity power market ischaracterized as transitional period: competitive electricity market is forming, new companies are being created and the power of government regulation is decreasing. The main aim of the reformation is to attract much-needed private investments to the power sector. The electricity consumption increases very rapidly and power sector has to cope with high demand. The goal of this master's thesis is to analyze the nowadays situation in Russian power sector, such as generation structure, condition of electricity networks, electricity price formation for end-users, shape of fuel sector and investments risks and attraction.The final result of this work is creation of scenario of Russian power sector future shape and analysis of the present day situation.

Managing Subsidiary Integration During Corporate Expansion in Russia

Kansallisten rajojen yli laajentuvat yritykset kohtaavat kasvavia paineita yhtenäistää eri yksiköiden toimintatapoja, prosesseja ja järjestelmiä. Hyvin toteutettuna organisaation sisäinen integrointi voi johtaa tytäryritysten tuottavuuden parantumiseen ja strategisiin mittakaavaetuihin, kun taas huonosti toteutettuna integrointi voi johtaa lisääntyviin konflikteihin ja emoyhtiön kontrollin katoamiseen. Integroinnin kannalta Venäjälle perustettavat tytäryritykset asettavat suuria haasteita. Kasvava ja kehittyvä kansantalous on jatkuvassa muutoksessa kohti edistyneempiä ja tuottavampia toimintamalleja, mutta toisaalta yritystoiminnantaustalla vaikuttaa edelleenkin Neuvostoajan perinnöt, jotka muokkaavat yritysten johtamisrakenteita ja prosesseja. Nämä taustavaikuttajat vaikeuttavat kansainvälisen yrityksen yhtenäistämistä, mutta toisaalta tarjoavat suuria mahdollisuuksia yrityksille, jotka oppivat elämään Venäjän markkinoiden ehdoilla. Tämä tutkimus käyttää apunaan konstruktiivista tutkimustyötä ratkoakseenYIT:n Venäjälle perustettavien yritysten integrointiin liittyviä ongelmia ja mahdollisuuksia. Työn lopputuloksena syntyy oppimiseen pohjautuva integraatiostrategia ja tätä strategiaa tukeva integroinnin johtamisjärjestelmä.

Kansainvälisten yhtiöiden yritysostot Venäjän elintarviketeollisuudessa

Tässä työssä tutkittiin Venäjän elintarviketeollisuuteen vuosina 1992 - 2004 investoineitakansainvälisiä yhtiöitä, niiden käyttämiä investointitapoja ja yritysostojen motiiveja. Viime vuosina Venäjän bruttokansantuote kasvoi yli 4 % vuodessa. Venäjän ostovoima kasvoi talouden mukana. Venäjän elintarviketeollisuudella on vieläkin kasvupotentiaalia. Paikallinen elintarvikevalmistus on varteenotettava vaihtoehto, jota kannattaa harkita. Vuosina 1992 - 2004 meijeri- ja virvoitusjuomateollisuudessa uusien tehtaiden rakentajia oli enemmän kuin tehtaiden ostajia. Panimoteollisuudessa oli enemmän yritysostojen käyttäjiä kuin uuden tehtaan rakentajia. Konditoriateollisuudessa ja kaikilla tutkituilla sektoreilla yhteensä yritysostojen käyttäjiä oli saman verran kuin uusien tehtaiden rakentajia. Tärkeimmät ulkoiset syyt yritysostoihin Venäjällä olivat markkinoiden koko, hallituspolitiikka ja säädökset, ostettavan kohdeyrityksen tuotemerkki ja kohdeyrityksen markkinaosuus. Tärkeimmät sisäiset syyt yritysostoihin olivat ulkomaan markkinoiden rooli strategiassa, tuotteen sopeuttamisen tarve ja yrityksen omat vapaat resurssit.