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Adapting to the expectations of educational institutions can be difficult for any students, but it is particularly difficult for disadvantaged, first-generation college students with a minority ethnic background. Our case study, employing a social network perspective, examines the role of small peer-communities in the academic adjustment of underrepresented minority students, namely Roma young people in Hungary. Using a social network approach, the study aims to evaluate what the exact role of 'colleges for advanced studies' communities is in the everyday life of Roma students, characteristically first-generation intellectuals, and how such communities contribute to academic adjustment. Furthermore, this study examines the main dilemmas concerning the operation of such colleges for advanced studies. The results show that institutions with fewer students and those operating in separate buildings (spatial segregation) provide an opportunity for much stronger connections and more interactions for the students. However, the analysis also showed that the predominance of RCASN ties may hinder the formation of host connections, and this way hampers the stronger bonding to the university.

Potential differences among developed and emerging countries regarding the battery electric vehicles (BEVs) adoption are highlighted in the literature. However, most studiesfocus onfactors influencing BEV penetration in mature markets. In this paper, we explore the spatial adoption of electric vehicles and its determinants using data from Hungary, an emerging country. We show that spatial heterogeneities in the adoption rates of BEVs are important. Without taking these heterogeneities into account, only thefast chargers exhibit significant positive effects on BEV registration rate. We show that other local conditions, such as income and urbanization are also important factors explaining the new BEV registration rate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study was to investigate long-term sports injuries, their prevalence, general identification of and consultation about injuries, and the knowledge among Hungarian athletes related to injury prevention. A questionnaire was designed to survey athletes regarding these topics. Olympic medal winners, nationally selected athletes, and amateur athletes were surveyed, and altogether 502 completed questionnaires were obtained. The data was analyzed with the Chi-square test for dichotomous variables and the Kruskal-Wallis H-test for questions with the Likert scale to try the statistical power of the hypotheses. The results of our analysis show that athletes suffer injuries regardless of their level of play, and that athletes regard their sports to be moderately dangerous. Most athletes would compete despite the risk of permanent injury; they compete with injuries mostly of their own volition; and they will risk potential injuries or long-term health damage to gain exceptional outcomes. Success is the first and foremost desire of athletes, and the risk of injuries or even long-term health damage does not play an important role in the value system of Hungarian athletes. Sport managers and officers of sport federations must be made aware that the first line of prevention of sport injuries is comprehensive medical consultation with proper medical coverage.

For a long time, tourism statistics were the only reliable source of information on tourism mobility. Tourism statistics are inadequate for the analysis of tourist mobility within state borders and across Schengen Borders without using registered accommodations. Big data offers the opportunity to gain a better understanding of tourism movements, for example, same-day tourist flows in metropolitan areas. Here, we introduce the concept of the satellite traveller to more effectively investigate the nature of tourism between the large city and its surroundings. As tourists communicate via cellular devices, the use of mobile phones offers an opportunity for researchers to explore the mobility pattern of tourists. In this article, we discuss the specificities of mobility in Hungary by SIM card users registered in foreign countries. The analysis is based on the Telekom database. We seek to answer the question to what extent the information from the satellite tourists' mobile phone use can help to understand their movements and to identify frequented places less commonly accounted for in tourism statistics. The most important findings of our investigation are (1) the confirmation of former knowledge about spatial characteristics of same-day tourist flows in the Budapest Metropolitan Region, (2) the insight that far away settlements are also visited by satellite travellers, and (3) the methodological limitations of mobile phone cellular data for tourism mobility analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Adapting to the expectations of educational institutions can be difficult for any students, but it is particularly difficult for disadvantaged, first-generation college students with a minority ethnic background. Our case study, employing a social network perspective, examines the role of small peer-communities in the academic adjustment of underrepresented minority students, namely Roma young people in Hungary. Using a social network approach, the study aims to evaluate what the exact role of 'colleges for advanced studies' communities is in the everyday life of Roma students, characteristically first-generation intellectuals, and how such communities contribute to academic adjustment. Furthermore, this study examines the main dilemmas concerning the operation of such colleges for advanced studies. The results show that institutions with fewer students and those operating in separate buildings (spatial segregation) provide an opportunity for much stronger connections and more interactions for the students. However, the analysis also showed that the predominance of RCASN ties may hinder the formation of host connections, and this way hampers the stronger bonding to the university. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A városok politikai gazdaságtani szempontú elemzésére egyre több magyar példa áll rendelkezésre a szakirodalomban. Ezek túlnyomó része azonban ritkán lép ki a központi város teréből és szolgál magyarázattal a szuburbán vagy az urbanizálódó rurális térségek átalakulásáról. Tanulmányom a nagyvárosi perem gazdasági térszerkezetének vizsgálatára vállalkozik, értelmezi a periferikus tér urbanizációs folyamatait és következtetéseket von le a tértermelés peremvidéki jellegzetességeiről. Az urbanizációs folyamatok kapcsán vizsgálom azt, hogy a városi perem gazdaságszerkezete visszatükrözi-e az érett kapitalista várostérségekben jellemző specializálódást, illetve a gazdasági tevékenységek övezetes elrendeződését. Ehhez statisztikai adatokat, valamint egy geokódolt cégadatbázist használok, amely a várostérség 56 települését és 1312 cégét fogja át. Eredményeim szerint sem az ágazati, sem a funkcionális specializáció jeleit nem figyelhetjük meg a periférián. Ezek alapján a budapesti metropolisztér a globális értéktermelés és -elosztás köreibe kevéssé integrált városi gazdaságnak tűnik, amely kevés speciális szolgáltatást és terméket képes nyújtani a külpiacok számára. A cégadatok térképi megjelenítése a cégek eltérő koncentrációját mutatja a településszerkezeten belül: egyes települések képesek vállalkozói zónákba tömöríteni a periférián megtelepedő cégeket, míg mások nem képesek szabályozni a spontán telephelyválasztást. Az egyes helyek eltérő módon kezelik a neoliberalizációs folyamat rájuk nehezedő nyomását, más és más módon sajátítják el a neoliberális átalakulást. Ebből arra következtethetünk, hogy – a társadalom helyi viszonyain túl – az állam és a tőke viszonyában helyi eltérések lehetnek. Feltételezésem szerint a vállalkozások koncentrált vagy széttagolt letelepülése a helyi állam és a befektetői tőke településenként eltérő kapcsolataira utal, ami a tér alakításának mechanizmusait is módosítja. Ezek feltárásához interjúkat készítettem a periféria egy településcsoportjában. A beszélgetések segítettek feltárni azokat az ellenőrzési mechanizmusokat, amelyeket az állam a tér termelése felett gyakorol.

Analysis on trends and factors that are influencing visitor attendances in museums is not a straightforward task to do. The importance of these examinations stems from the fact that museums, as part of cultural tourism, have a significant social and economic impact on the regions that they represent. Guided by this idea, the aim of this paper is to identify the main elements that may affect the success of museums in general and to highlight and examine specifically one element that is likely to have an impact on the development of visitor numbers. The paper will analyze issues such as: features that can be taken into account when organizing exhibitions, museum popularity and popular exhibitions and the possible examination on whether the number of days that an exhibition lasts has an influence on the total number of attendances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Studies highlight the fact that museums are studied either from the point of view of preserving the exhibits or as units which boost tourist flow. Today's museum managers have to choose the exhibits and decide what they express on the one hand, on the other hand they have to cater to the visitors' expectations as well. It is a general belief that it is worth keeping up with the trends if an institution does not want to isolate itself from the society. In this case the main problem might be that the emphasis is put on entertainment, and due to this fact museums can lose their integrity, their original mission, which is to collect, preserve and study the artifacts. Since lately the role of the museums has changed, this has become a question that needs to be answered, so the main aim of our study is to analyze to what extent can the balance between these different pivots be kept. Whether to cater to the consumers' needs with catching up to the latest trends or to keep the original mission of the museums is the question on the one hand, on the other hand to what extent does closing up to the trends affect the number of visitors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In her interviews and essays, Ulitskaya has often alluded to the great effect that Pasternak's poetry, and especially Doctor Zhivago, has had on her. In one of the episodes of her novel The Big Green Tent, she describes a first encounter with Pasternak's novel; the teacher of literature who plays a decisive role in the lives of the main characters reads a manuscript copy of the novel and describes it as a worthy continuation of 19th-century Russian prose. The parallels between the novels The Big Green Tent and Doctor Zhivago have already been the subject of scholarly attention but the connection between Jacob's Ladder and the Pasternak novel has not been studied so far. In this study, I examine this connection: on the one hand, at the level of macrostructures, the chronotope, the patterns of the heroes' fates and the principal thematic elements, and on the other hand, at the level of certain microstructures. The latter are linked to the present-day plot of Ulitskaya's novel and, more specifically, Nora's life. Nora reads the correspondence and notes that her grandfather left for her as well as the KGB documents about Yakov Osetsky towards the end of her life (and the plot itself). As a result of this, she wishes to write the novel that her grandfather Yakov could not due to the historical situation. The process of Nora's confrontation with the past and her becoming a writer are coded in Ulitskaya's text by two of the poems of the Zhivago cycle Winter Night and August and also in the related episodes of Pasternak's novel. All of these have biographical relevance and present creation as a fundamental element of life, which is closely linked to love and death as well as metaphysical experience. The symbolic parallel of this in Zhivago's August is the transfiguration of Jesus and "the light without a flame" that blinds the disciples. This symbolism appears in Jacob's Ladder on two levels: first, in the stage set that Nora creates for King Lear, and second, as a concomitant of her confrontation with the past and her becoming a writer. It is in this way that the fundamental elements of Pasternak's life and poetry play a crucial role at the level of microstructures: they provide the context and symbolism of the central question of Ulitskaya's novel, the nature of "the essence" of the human. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]