Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork Swedo-Russian musical collaborations, this article explores the link between popular music and conspicuous consumption of Russia’s wealthy elite. Presenting two specific cases, one following a Russian millionaire’s wife’s efforts to become pop star other exploring Russian’s pursuit patronage for emerging artists, describes how became means rich elite no...

This study aims to find and explain the motivation for transactional communication between political elite agrarian community in 2015 Pilkada North Konawe Regency. Data collection techniques through interview instruments, shadowing by following elite, participatory observation, Focus Group Discussion (FGD), documentation studies.The results showed that society was: (1) Political Interest Motiva...

This study was designed to define the most important factors to predict freestyle performance times in 135 elite master swimmers by prediction models which include age, anthropometric and strength variables. To cross validate these equations found for Elite swimmers, we used a group composed by 126 lower technical level age and experience matched master swimmers. Results demonstrated that age, ...

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The article discusses the relationship between political parties and the state in Estonia. The analysis focuses on the development of a legal framework for political parties, different trends in public party financing, and the circulation of people between political and administrative elites. Elite circulation is examined by looking at the movement of people from political to bureaucratic posit...

In der Chirurgie spielte Training schon immer eine wichtige Rolle. Mit der Einführung minimal-invasiver Verfahren ist der Bedarf deutlich gestiegen. Neben dem Tiermodell konnte der Anwender bisher nur auf Boxoder virtuelle Trainer zurückgreifen. ELITE (endoskopisch-laparoskopische interdisziplinäre Trainingseinheit) ist ein neues voll-synthetisches ex-vivo Trainingsmodell, mit dem die unterschi...