English Teaching for Public Administration Students

This article is devoted to English teaching for public administration students in Russia at the International Market Institute, Samara region. The significance of this issue comes from the accepted new ＂Strategy of Innovative Development of the Russian Federation for the Period up to 2020＂, which emphasizes the necessity for the public servant to have a command of foreign language relevant working materials. Important outcomes are for Russian students The article reveals original working techniques, creation of given as results for successful transition to academic mobility     

Rapid separation and characterization of cocaine and cocaine cutting agents by differential mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry

Forensic drug laboratories are inundated with cases requiring time-consuming GC- or LC-based chromatographic separations of submitted samples. High-throughput analytical methods would be of great practical utility within forensic drug analysis. Recently developed ion-mobility-based separation methods combined with mass spectrometry can often be used without chromatography, suppress chemical interferents of similar mass, and operate in seconds. We have evaluated differential mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry (DMS-MS) for performance on adulterated cocaine mixtures. The DMS interface is only a few centimeters in length, operates in seconds, and can be adapted to any MS system using atmospheric pressure ionization. Drug cutting agents, typical targets such as cocaine, and drug metabolites are rapidly separated by the DMS ion prefilter. Tests demonstrated characterization of complex mixtures, such as isolation of levamisole, an adulterant with alarming side effects, from a 13-component mixture. DMS-MS holds great potential for the analysis of drug samples submitted for forensic analysis.     

转型期我国阶级阶层关系调研报告

伴随着改革开放,我国社会成员的分化成为不争之实。目前,考量社会成员之间的分化主要基于经济利益分化。虽然分化过程显失公平,但社会成员在政治认同和价值认同方面却保持了较高的一致性。在阶级阶层关系中,干群关系、新老阶层关系值得关注。因此,需要倚重以党和政府为主导形成的合力,着力解决收入分配等问题,破解干群矛盾,促进阶级阶层关系的和谐,逐步形成与经济社会现代化相辅相成的现代化的社会结构。     

民工潮与城乡收入差距

农村劳动者到城镇打工,他们将自己获得的收入寄回家乡,提高了当地农村居民的家庭收入,但这并没有缩小城乡收入差距,相反我国城乡收入分配差距呈逐渐拉大之势。这里有复杂的原因。从目前来看,我国农村劳动力流向城镇对缩小城乡收入差距没有多大帮助,要有效缩小我国城乡收入差距还应结合消除不合理的行业进入壁垒,发展农村经济等措施。     

Looking for the state and finding god: conceptions of security among low-income Cairenes

This article analyses how low-income individuals in Cairo, Egypt interpret the aspects of security and insecurity that affect their daily lives. Particular attention is paid to crime and failing transportation infrastructure during Mohammed Morsi’s presidency, 2012–2013. Primarily, I show how religion is both a tool and coping mechanism to help combat chronic periods of insecurity. Participants invoke religion to force officials to perform their duties and to perform them honestly. Secondly, religion is called upon as a final form of mental and spiritual relief against injustice and the trials of daily urban life. This paper seeks to make an intervention into security studies by showing how Egyptians defend themselves through personal and communal understandings of religion in distinction to security practices enacted by the state and other national and international organizations.     

Moving to Location Affordability? Housing Choice Vouchers and Residential Relocation in the Portland,Oregon, Region

Abstract

Location affordability measures a household’s combined cost of housing and transportation. Low-income households have the most to gain from housing with lower transportation costs. This research analyzes whether Housing Choice Voucher Program households—participants in a program designed to provide low-income households with a greater degree of housing choice—are able to choose housing that lowers their transportation costs in a metropolitan region with a compact, vital urban core. A mixed-methods approach is used to investigate the differences in location affordability and efficiency among 2,026 voucher recipients who moved within the Portland, Oregon, region during 2012–2013. Location mattered to movers, but in some unexpected ways. Urban movers relocated to less location efficient areas, whereas suburban movers’ location efficiency remained stable. In tight housing markets, voucher holders may be edged out of location-efficient neighborhoods and thus incur increased transportation costs.     

Why Place Really Matters: A Qualitative Approach to Housing Preferences and Neighborhood Effects

The idea that a person’s neighborhood or zip code can predict his or her life outcomes has motivated a host of housing policies aimed at redressing racial segregation and breaking up areas of concentrated poverty. This article critically examines underlying assumptions about high-poverty neighborhoods that motivate those policies. Using ethnographic methods, I present the location preferences of residents living in a low-income neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio, and show the ways in which their perceptions of their neighborhood run counter to common portrayals. This analysis provides clues as to why the underlying logic of dispersal and mobility may be flawed. I conclude that place matters very much to people living in this neighborhood, just not in the way commonly implied by dispersal and mobility policy advocates. The implication is that stability, rather than mobility, ought to be the focus of more housing discussions.     

Crossing borders in North America after 9/11: ‘regular’ travellers’ narratives of securitisations and contestations

This article is part of a larger project on ordinary border crossings and state practices in North America. The changing border governmentalities in the region focusing on securitising their borders against potential terrorist threats and the increased emphasis on the managing of population flows have led to a reduced mobility for certain travellers as opposed to others. The construction of potentially safe and ‘un-safe’ subjects through profiling on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, religion and socioeconomic background and the increasing use of biometrics have impacted upon travellers’ mobilities. In the North American context, the Mexican state has undergone significant modernisation in terms of its border control capacities, thus enhancing not only its capacity as a buffer state, but also its performative sovereignty, and is therefore an interesting case to study. This article aims to analyse how these transformations in border governmentalities have affected the mobility of ‘ordinary’ travellers, and how they have developed coping strategies and resistances towards the potential curbing of their respective mobilities.     

中国公众的获得感——指标构建、时空变迁和宏观机制

利用中国综合社会调查(CGSS)城乡居民十年近8万人的大样本,以个人幸福感、阶层流动感和阶层自我定位三大指标为外显变量,通过潜类分析方法构建起群众获得感的HMS模型和五级指标。结合省级统计年鉴数据,以动态面板模型探讨省域获得感的宏观影响机制。研究发现,在2005—2015年间,(1)我国超过一半的公众具有中高或高度获得感,但仍有三分之一群体获得感为中低或低度;(2)各省群众获得感随时间呈现较为一致的平缓上升趋势,但存在较大空间差异;(3)在省域层面,收入、健康和安全等民生指标对获得感有显著的支撑作用,但GDP增长指标和市场化、城镇化等转型指标,以及部分社会发展指标,尚未能起到应有的拉升效用,值得引起重视。     

关于建立“流动农民工”社会保障管理模式的思考

由于对＂流动农民工＂的概念没有明确的界定,因而针对＂流动农民工＂而建立的社会保障管理模式尤为匮乏。现阶段,急需建立适合＂流动农民工＂特点的社会保障管理模式,以保障其基本权益和享受公平的待遇。本文在明确认识＂流动农民工＂的特点并分析＂流动农民工＂社保权益缺失问题的基础上,提出了建立＂流动农民工＂社会保障管理模式的建议。