We survey different strategies in the transition process, and investigate their role in growth prospects. Openness, exchange rate regimes and approaches to trade and capital market liberalisation are examined. Their role in facilitating the diffusion of new products and processes to transition economies is discussed. Policies toward openness and integration have an effect on the ability of econ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the health performance of Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa--the countries known as BRICS--has kept in step with their economic development. METHODS Reductions in age- and sex-specific mortality seen in each BRICS country between 1990 and 2011 were measured. These results were compared with those of the best-performing countries in th...

The paper describes the first stage of a project on creating an electronic dictionary with numerical estimates of the degree of abstractness and concreteness of Russian words. Our approach is to integrate data obtained from several different sources: text corpora, psycholinguistic experiments, published dictionaries, markers of abstractness (certain suffixes) and a translation of a similar dict...

This article deals with the analysis of the semantic content of the anonymous Russian-speaking forum 2ch.hk, different verbal means of expressing of the emotional state of aggression are revealed for this site, and aggression is classified by its directions. The lexis of different Russian-and Englishspeaking anonymous forums (2ch.hk and iichan.hk, 4chan.org) and public community “MDK” of the Ru...

Industrial policy is the most important part of state global economy policy. One of its primary goals is to create advantageous economic-organizing conditions providing economy with stabilization and industrial production development. Long-term and purposeful industry policy research is particularly important for the Russian Federation, where industry always played a significant part in formati...

“The study has been supported by EU (Marie Curie FP7 project #269140), Academy of Finland (grant #288151 and #265015), EPSRC (grant EP/M029042/1), and Russian Science Foundation (grant no. 14-22-00136). P.G.K. thanks Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (Grant No. 14.Z50.31.0009). Authors are grateful to Amin Abdolvand for valuable comments on the manuscript. The data for...

Mr. V.I. Zinchenko (Deputy Governor for Research, Innovation Policy and Education, Tomsk Region) greeted the workshop participants and noted that the workshop was taking place concurrently with a Siberian Innovation Forum that addressed how Siberian regions could achieve a greater links between their science establishments and local industry. He emphasized the need to encourage the greater part...

This paper promotes the hypothesis that central grammatical categories must be analysed as pragmatic rather than semantic entities, in order to explain their seemingly redundant typological distribution. A case is made of the relatively complex English past tense system versus the single Russian past tense, and it is shown how the distinctions within the former system can be analysed in terms o...

From the 'Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London, UK; 1RCCS Maggiore Hospital, Milan, Italy; Beth Israel Hospital, Boston USA; Universitv Hospital Leiden, The Netherlands; Research Centre of Medical Genetics, Moscow, The Russian Federation; WHO, Switzerland; Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, India; University of Lund, Malmö, Sweden; 'Institute of Clinical Genetics, Mosc...