Ukrainian Theme in London

Employee involvement in Ukrainian companies

This paper examines the hypothesis that the introduction of Western quality standards has brought some development of employee involvement in Ukrainian manufacturing and service companies and analyses the consequences for managements’ use of the institutions of employee representation. The subject is pursued through eight case studies, four in a test and four in a control group. Quality develop...

Political patronage in Ukrainian banking∗

This paper empirically investigates the link between political patronage and bank performance for Ukraine during 2003Q3–2005Q2. We find significant differences between politically affiliated and non-affiliated banks. The data suggest that affiliated banks have significantly lower interest rate margins and increase their capitalization. Furthermore, we show that the level of activity of affiliat...

Modeling Derivational Morphology in Ukrainian

We report on a study applying compositional distributional semantic models (CDSMs) to a set of Ukrainian derivational patterns. Ukrainian is an interesting language as it is morphologically rich, and low-resource. Our study aims at resolving inconsistent results from previous studies which employed CDSMs for derivation; we provide evidence for a cross-lingual advantage of CBOW over NMF represen...

Ukrainian Regionalism Intensification: forces behind

"Beastly sights": the treatment of animals as a moral theme in representations of London, c. 1820-1850.

During the first half of the nineteenth century London grew at a phenomenal rate. It nearly trebled its population, and the built-up area spread so far that in Engels's words, writing of the mid-1840s, `a man may wander for hours together without reaching the beginning of the end, without meeting the slightest hint which could lead to the inference that there is open country within reach.' Yet ...