Housing Consumption and the Cost of Remote Work

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 29-45

Author(s):

Elena V. ANDRIANOVA ◽

Egor I. ELYSHEV

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Information Society ◽

Legal Status ◽

Russian Language ◽

Performance Rating ◽

Remote Work ◽

Highly Qualified ◽

Self Employment ◽

Innovative Potential ◽

The Cost

Nowadays, the issue of self-employment is extremely urgent and it requires attention as its significance and prevalence will only grow. The Russian self-employed are mostly concentrated in traditional kinds of business and occupied with low-skilled activities, and cannot demonstrate an outstanding level of innovative potential. Nevertheless, thanks to the active development of information society, its digitalization and the wide spread of the Internet, the number of highly qualified self-employed professionals, engaged mainly in intellectual work, who stand out from the general pool of the self-employed, is growing rapidly in our country. In their job, they actively use technology and work mainly through Internet-based remote work websites. Considering marked differentiation within the pool of self-employed, in order to concretize the portrait of an online freelancer, we conducted a content analysis of personal pages of freelancers in the “Best Performers” category of FL.ru website, which is the largest Russian-language remote work website. The method consisted of a mass observation of the presented profiles. The results made it possible to describe the socio-demographic characteristics of freelancers, make conclusions about the professional composition of the “Best Performers”, identify the most popular specializations and determine average rating of online freelancers. The article reviews performance rating of the freelancers, reveals the average number of years of work in the field of freelancing, characterizes the content of personal profiles, analyzes information about the cost of services, reveals the availability of information about the legal status of the “Best Performers”. The data obtained are useful and relevant in the light of the growth of the segment of online freelancers in Russia and the processes of institutionalization of self-employment nationwide.

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Attractiveness of the Russian regions for migrants with higher education

Regional'nye issledovaniya ◽

10.5922/10.5922/1994-5280-2020-1-4 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 39-52

Author(s):

S.P. Zemtsov ◽

V.M. Kidyaeva

Keyword(s):

Institutional Environment ◽

Rental Housing ◽

Remote Work ◽

Highly Qualified ◽

Long Run ◽

Qualified Personnel ◽

Bioclimatic Conditions ◽

Knowledge Intensive ◽

The Cost ◽

Favorable Conditions

Attracting and preserving human capital is one of the key tasks of regional development. It is believed that only Moscow successfully solves it. But in times of crisis, Moscow’s share of the number of migrants arriving decreases, including due to a drop in the ratio of income to the cost of living in the capital. As a result of the pandemic and expanding opportunities for remote work, some professionals will think about moving to less densely populated, but comfortable cities. We study the factors that contribute to the attraction of highly qualified personnel. Econometric calculations have confirmed the importance of the presence or proximity of a large labor market, a high quality of life, a favor- able institutional environment, and comfortable bioclimatic conditions. Based on the identified factors, an index of attractiveness of regions is proposed; Among the leaders in 2018: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Moscow Region, Tatarstan, Krasnodar Territory, Samara, Voronezh Regions. In the top 10 regions in 2011-2018. accounted for more than 40% of all attracted highly qualified personnel. Regions that will be able to attract professionals in the post-crisis period to develop digital technologies and related knowledge-intensive sectors of the economy will benefit in the long run. This will require measures to develop the rental housing market, improve the urban environment, and create favorable conditions for entrepreneurs and investors.

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The IBM-PC in electron microscopy

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100165525 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 54 ◽

pp. 612-613

Author(s):

James F. Mancuso

Keyword(s):

Head Start ◽

Image Acquisition ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Financial Applications ◽

Number Of Factors ◽

Instrument Control ◽

The Cost ◽

Training And Support ◽

Control Image ◽

Ibm Pc

IBM PC compatible computers are widely used in microscopy for applications ranging from control to image acquisition and analysis. The choice of IBM-PC based systems over competing computer platforms can be based on technical merit alone or on a number of factors relating to economics, availability of peripherals, management dictum, or simple personal preference.IBM-PC got a strong “head start” by first dominating clerical, document processing and financial applications. The use of these computers spilled into the laboratory where the DOS based IBM-PC replaced mini-computers. Compared to minicomputer, the PC provided a more for cost-effective platform for applications in numerical analysis, engineering and design, instrument control, image acquisition and image processing. In addition, the sitewide use of a common PC platform could reduce the cost of training and support services relative to cases where many different computer platforms were used. This could be especially true for the microscopists who must use computers in both the laboratory and the office.

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New Feasible Concepts of Aberration Correction for Realizing High-Resolution Electron Microscopes

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100179762 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 202-203

Author(s):

H. Rose

Keyword(s):

Spherical Aberration ◽

Wave Length ◽

Electron Wave ◽

Optical Lens ◽

Resolution Electron ◽

Rotationally Symmetric ◽

Electron Microscopes ◽

The Cost ◽

Imaging Performance ◽

Acceleration Voltage

The imaging performance of the light optical lens systems has reached such a degree of perfection that nowadays numerical apertures of about 1 can be utilized. Compared to this state of development the objective lenses of electron microscopes are rather poor allowing at most usable apertures somewhat smaller than 10-2 . This severe shortcoming is due to the unavoidable axial chromatic and spherical aberration of rotationally symmetric electron lenses employed so far in all electron microscopes.The resolution of such electron microscopes can only be improved by increasing the accelerating voltage which shortens the electron wave length. Unfortunately, this procedure is rather ineffective because the achievable gain in resolution is only proportional to λ1/4 for a fixed magnetic field strength determined by the magnetic saturation of the pole pieces. Moreover, increasing the acceleration voltage results in deleterious knock-on processes and in extreme difficulties to stabilize the high voltage. Last not least the cost increase exponentially with voltage.

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