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Extortion racketeering in the EU: vulnerability factors

Изнудването и рекета в ЕС: фактори за уязвимост

Author(s): Atanas Rusev,Lorella Garofalo,Elena Sciandra,Andrea Gimenez-Salinas,Carmen Jorda,Manuel de Juan Espinosa / Language(s): Bulgarian

Extortion racketeering has been long pointed out as the defining activity of organised crime. Although in recent years this crime has not been among the top listed organised crime threats in the strategic EU policy documents, it still remains ever present in European countries. The seriousness of the phenomenon has been recognised at the EU level and the crime has been listed in a number of EU legal acts in the field of police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters. The report Extortion Racketeering in the EU: A six country study of vulnerability factors analyses extortion racketeering forms and practices in six EU member states. The analysis disentangles the risk and the vulnerability factors for enterprises in two business sectors – agriculture and hospitality – as well as in the Chinese communities. Drawing on the results of the analysis, the report suggests new policies for tackling extortion racketeering in the EU. This report has been produced with the joint efforts of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Instituto de Ciencias Forenses y de la Seguridad – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Transcrime – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano and Vitosha Research and with the support of Guardia Civil in Spain.

MIGRANTS’ CAREER PATHS WITHOUT BORDERS

MIGRANTÓW ŚCIEŻKI ZAWODOWE BEZ GRANIC

Author(s): Izabela Grabowska-Lusińska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: migration; migration paths; borders

Świat późnej nowoczesności to świat, w którym tradycyjne modele życia społecznego – wypracowane i stosowane dotychczas – się wyczerpują.   W tym kontekście warto odciąć się od tradycyjnego, linearnego myślenia  o przebiegu życia zawodowego i spojrzeć na to zjawisko z innej, nowej perspektywy: z perspektywy uwzględniającej powiązania między strukturą i podmiotowym sprawstwem (agency).  Monografia zgłębia znaczenie migracji w życiu zawodowym człowieka. Empiryczną podstawę prezentowanego tomu stanowią wyniki badań   prowadzonych przez blisko dwie dekady w Ośrodku Badań nad Migracjami Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Pracę można jednocześnie traktować jako najlepszą w polskiej dotychczasowej literaturze syntezę rozważań teoretycznych, stosowanych metod i wreszcie wyników badawczych dotyczących migracji. Migracja traktowana jest w pracy i jako zjawisko społeczne, o określonych uwarunkowaniach, przebiegu, zamierzonych i niezamierzonych konsekwencjach oraz jako zjawisko indywidualne, będącym istotnym składnikiem ludzkich losów, owych tytułowych „ścieżek zawodowych”, a nawet szerzej całych ścieżek biograficznych migrantów. (z recenzji prof. dr. hab. Marka Ziółkowskiego)

Philosophy and Values III

Filozofia i wartości. Tom III

Author(s): Bogusław Wolniewicz / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: philosophy; philosophy of values; Ehrenfels; Elzenberg; Kotarbiński; Suszko; Wałęsa; Wittgenstein

A large part of this volume consists of articles, which the author considers to be journalistic – essays, interviews, letters. He refers in them to current issues, events and situations from the turn of the 20th century. The author argues that philosophy – as a “logically digested” way of thinking – has universal applications and is accessible to everyone.

The spatial dimension of the careers of managers and entrepreneurs. A sociological analysis

Przestrzenny wymiar karier menedżerów i przedsiębiorców. Analiza socjologiczna

Author(s): Waldemar Dymarczyk / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: career, spatial dimension of careers;manager;entrepreneur’s image;sociological analysis;business in Poland;entrepreneur

The spatial dimension of the careers of business people has been reconstructed in this publication. These are the people who are particularly predisposed to design space in which they then achieve both their private and professional goals. Changes they create in their work environment and beyond affect not only them or their closest ones but also members of the organization they work at as well as partners, competitors and co-operators. This monograph presents various interconnected yet qualitatively differentiable stages in their perception of space and actions taken towards it: from treating space as a resource, through managing it, up to controlling it. The effectiveness of the control is linked with the career-construction model – prevalent among, and typical of, people playing key organizational roles – which is based on an intentional, pragmatic management of the career path and life plan. The book’s target audience are both theoreticians and practitioners of organization management as well as all readers interested in the interpretative paradigm and qualitative research methods, particularly the grounded theory approach.

Sociology of the Internet

Socjologia internetu

Author(s): Dariusz Jemielniak / Language(s): Polish

Ponieważ z Internetu korzystają miliardy osób, mamy współcześnie możliwość śledzenia siły wpływu nawet bardzo drobnych czynników, których normalnie nie dałoby się dostrzec – z racji zbyt małych prób. Możemy na przykład na podstawie zmienionych wzorców komunikacji on-line dość skutecznie estymować, że ktoś jest bezrobotny. Można też zaobserwować godzinne zmiany w nastroju populacji, porównywać reakcje na ból głowy czy alkohol w różnych kulturach na podstawie samej tylko analizy publicznych tweetów. Nawet surowe dane, jeśli opierają się na bardzo dużych próbach, mogą stanowić ciekawy punkt wyjścia do dalszych badań. Przykładowo jeden z najpopularniejszych serwisów pornograficznych na świecie i 22. pod względem popularności serwis w ogóle, Pornhub, publikuje co roku raport na temat wykorzystania witryny.[Fragment książki]Nie ulega wątpliwości, że Internet – sieć sieci – ma ogromne znaczenie dla większości współczesnych zjawisk społecznych i jest obecnie w wielu dyscyplinach nauki jedną z najważniejszych przestrzeni badawczych. Pilne staje się więc nie tylko systematyczne, rzetelne przeanalizowanie sposobów korzystania z sieci, ale i społeczności, jakie się w niej tworzą, czy wytworów kultury sieciowej. Socjologia Internetu prof. Dariusza Jemielniaka znakomicie odpowiada na tę potrzebę.dr Dominik BatorskiPraca jest gęstym w myśli studium o socjologii Internetu. Jest zarazem pracą ogromnie erudycyjną, ale ta erudycyjność nie jest celem samym w sobie, lecz funkcją wyjaśniania bardzo złożonej materii […]. Autor wplata do narracji własne doświadczenia badawcze, wskazuje na ważne, interesujące obszary wymagające dalszych badań […], oferuje porady metodyczne, informuje o ryzyku, przestrzega przed pułapkami […], kreśli najważniejsze wymogi etyczne. z recenzji wydawniczej dr. hab., prof. Uniwersytetu SWPS Kazimierza KrzysztofkaKsiążka jest ważnym przyczynkiem do rozwoju wiedzy o komunikacji i zjawiskach występujących w Internecie i oddziałujących poprzez Internet. Praca dostarcza cennej wiedzy o metodach badawczych Internetu i fenomenów tam funkcjonujących. Jest niezbędną lekturą dla badaczy Internetu i osób zainteresowanych naukowym podejściem do jego rozumienia.z recenzji wydawniczej prof. dr. hab. Krzysztofa KoneckiegoProf. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak jest kierownikiem katedry MINDS (Management in Networked and Digital Societies) Akademii Leona Koźmińskiego. Prowadził badania na Wydziale Socjologii Uniwersytetu Kalifornijskiego w Berkeley, a także na Cornell University oraz w centrum Labor and Worklife Uniwersytetu Harvarda. Przez trzy lata pracował też na Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society tej uczelni, obecnie związany z Center for Collective Intelligence MIT. Autor m.in. Życia wirtualnych dzikich (2013), wyd. ang.: Common Knowledge? An etnography of Wikipedia (2014), Collaborative Society (2019, współautorka A. Przegalińska). Laureat licznych nagród naukowych, w tym Dorothy Lee Award za wybitne osiągnięcia naukowe w dziedzinie ekologii kultury (2015) i Nagrody Naukowej Prezesa PAN (2016).

Metacollage. On the Canon of Metaphorical Thinking

Metakolaż. O kanonie myślenia metaforycznego

Author(s): Dorota Rybarkiewicz / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: metaphorical thinking; cognitive process; metaphor; metaphorology; metacollage

The author explains the construct of meta-collage by discussing the hybrid concept of metaphor and ways of metaphorical thinking in philosophy, science and ideology. A multi-themed description of various metaphors performing the function of mental models reveals their similarity to a sheet of glass. We look through it, discovering the world, but we do not know if it is transparent or just translucent, scratched or maybe covered with textural marks and colours superimposed on what we are trying to discern beyond it. Metaphors create cognitive categories that are a source of interpretation for incoming data. Their double role puts us against the question about the truth of cognition based on this mechanism and the scope of cognitive uncertainty where the mind can be led astray. The author gives many examples of reaching such limits of cognition and tries to explore issues related to the role of this mechanism in thinking, also of the scientific kind, as well as to its impact on cognition and its assessment. The book will not only help the reader find their way around metacollage: by dint of stimulating ratiocination, it can also contribute to improving the cognitive process and to increasing the chances for a better interpretation of the changing reality.

Romania in 1989-2019. A Difficult Road to Democracy

Romania in 1989-2019. A Difficult Road to Democracy

Author(s): Jerzy Juchnowski,Rafał Juchnowski,Małgorzata Łakota-Micker / Language(s): English

Keywords: Romania; political system; cultural system; revolution; revolt; coup;

The book takes a new look at the latest political history of Romania. It combines the analyses of the political and cultural systems of society. The monograph discusses the nature of the Romanian transformation after 1989 in the light of the great political and social processes of the 20th century. The authors attempted to catch the specificity of Romanian society, which stands at the crossroads between Ottoman and Eastern Orthodox Church legacy and contemporary democratic standards.

Clinical Neuropsychology Studies. For the 45th anniversary of Professor Danuta Kądzielawa's professional career

Studia z neuropsychologii klinicznej. Na 45-lecie pracy zawodowej Profesor Danuty Kądzielawy

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: neuropsychology; neuropsychological diagnosis; neuropsychological therapy

Jubilee publication for professor Danuta Kądzielawa. It opens with texts describing the Jubilarian's life and career, as well as presenting her achievements. A large part of the volume consists of articles written by the most eminent Polish specialists, devoted to the selected issues in the field of neuropsychological diagnosis and therapy, including studies of adults with brain injuries and children with developmental dysfunctions.

КОНТИНЕНТ / CONTINENT East-West-Forum – Issue 1980 / 12

KONTINENT / КОНТИНЕНТ – Ost-West-Forum – Ausgabe 1980 / 12

Author(s): Sh. An-Sḳi,Stanisław Barańczak,Avîgdôr Dāgān,Anatolij Gladilin,Vasilj Grossman,Gustaw Herling-Grudziński,Markéta Procházková,Zbigniew Stypułkowski,Antanas Terleckas,Witold Wirpsza,Aleksandr Aleksandrovič Zinovʹev / Language(s): German

Gustaw Herling-Grudziński - The Seven Deaths of Maxim Gorkij // Stanislaw Barańczak - Facade and Secret Annex. On the cultural situation in Poland // Alexander Zinoviev - remarks on ideology / On the social status of Marxism / On Soviet philosophy // Wassilij Grossman - The last day of the trip. From the novel "For the Just Cause" // Markéta Procházková - Poems // Witold Wirpsza - The Duel // Anatolij Gladilin - Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra // Avigdor Dagan: The Cock Call. Fragment from the novel of the same name // An-sky - The encounter. A Jewish legend // An-sky - Letters // Zbigniew Stypułkowski - The »Invitation« to Moscow // Antanas Terleckas - Reflections on the relationship between Lithuanians and Jews - Writing of the »Charter 77« // Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Save Igor Ogurzow // Obituary for Alexandra Lvovna Tolstoy

КОНТИНЕНТ / CONTINENT East-West-Forum – Issue 1981 / 16

KONTINENT / КОНТИНЕНТ – Ost-West-Forum – Ausgabe 1981 / 16

Author(s): German Naumovič Andreev,Avîgdôr Dāgān,Rose N. Ettinger,Jurij Galʹperin,Semen Hlusman,Jurij Nikolajewitsch Iwanow,Aleksandr Moiseevič Pjatigorskij,Andrey Valentinovich Sakharov,Ulrich Schacht,Lydia Schatunowskaja,Danylo Schumuk,Semjon Čertok,Julia Wosnessenskaja / Language(s): German

Andrei Sakharov — Troubled times. Analyzes and calls // Alexander Pjatigorskij — Philosophy on the ruins of the revolution // German Andrejew — Notes on the tradition of Russian liberalism // Rose Ettinger — About S.A. An-sky // Lydia Shatunowskaja — The house on the embankment // Semjon Glusman — The angel on the cornice // Avigdor Dagan — The storks by R. // Jurij Galperin — In this life // Ulrich Schacht- Simple recommendation. Poetry // Julia Voznesenskaya — poems // Bulgarian poetry. Introduced and translated by Sophia Pravy // Semjon Tschertok — The camps were conceived by Frenkel // Alexander Schutkin — How I became a dissident. With an introduction by Viktor Nekipelow // Danylo Schumuk — Das Wort — my only weapon. Open letter // Moscow Helsinki Group — To the CSCE follow-up conference in Madrid // Jurij Ivanov & Boris Turbin — Our magazine

Polish and Bulgarian firmonyms from the visual communication perspective

Polskie i bułgarskie firmonimy w perspektywie komunikacyjno-wizualnej

Author(s): Patryk Borowiak / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Design; return to things; onomastics; firmonyms; proper names

This innovative publication on Polish and Bulgarian chrematonymy presents the way firmonyms functioned on signboards - visual carriers of information and advertising - in Polish and Bulgarian cities (e.g. Warsaw, Sofia, Poznań, Plovdiv) in 2016-2019. The author is particularly interested in signboards with the names of gastronomic establishments, which constitute both an extremely numerous, diverse and distinctive element of the urban landscape. The choice of names was based equally on professional competence and the research interests of the author, who analysed not only the firmonyms as such but also their design, drawing attention to the fact that the name and the medium on which it is presented condition and complement each other. The author also highlights the importance of the different alphabets in Polish and Bulgarian names, which affects the way the content of firmonyms is received. The book also presents similarities and differences in the creation and design of signboards (certain trends in Poland and Bulgaria are presented), as well as differences in how they are perceived by viewers.

Zofia Kossak-Szczucka. The Service

Zofia Kossak-Szczucka. Służba

Author(s): Dariusz Kulesza / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Zofia Kossak;Polish concentration camp literature;Polish Christian literature;Literature of the People’s Republic of Poland;Historical novel

Zofia Kossak defined herself as a Catholic writer. In her opinion, Catholicism was the most effective in saving the temporal world. She also identified with literature that was in service of this salvation. The Catholic writing of Kossak was determined by family, Poland, and faith. The family was the centre of the world, where the writer experienced the initiation in life and history (The Blaze). Zofia Kossak described family in terms of what holds it together and saves (Ku swoim, Towards one’s own). In the last years of her life, she recognised family as a community that creates and is created by history (Dziedzictwo, The Heritage). Poland was described by Kossak as a land that had been heroically recovered, that was national and permanent. This also applied to regions, particularly Silesia (Nieznany kraj, The Unknown Land). However, the most important was Poland that was martyrologically (co)experienced, the country of war and occupation, concentration camps (Z otchłani, From the Abyss), Poland that was raised by her (Protest!). However, nothing was as valuable in the life and works of Zofia Kossak as faith. It was described by her starting from various forms of blessed madness (Szaleńcy Boży, The Madmen of God) through the uncompromising historical and historiosophical verification (Angels in the Dust) to existential source of Abraham’s truth (The Covenant). When looking for the position to place Kossak in Polish literature, the easiest way is to start with her historical novels that bring such antithetic contexts as the works of Sienkiewicz and Parnicki. Yet none of her texts, even those that were referenced and discussed here should be read without a confrontation with Christian literature, determined by such names as Kochanowski, Sęp-Szarzyński, and Norwid.

The Inception of a New Media. Video Games in the Polish Hobby Press at the End of 20th Century

Narodziny medium. Gry wideo w polskiej prasie hobbystycznej końca XX wieku

Author(s): Dominika Staszenko-Chojnacka / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: video games; video game history; habitus; gamer identity; computerization

This book describes the phenomenon of creating gamer’s identity in Poland and specific gamer’s habitus which started forming itself in the second half of the 1980s through the articles published in computer magazines. Until the fall of the communist regime video games in Poland had been on the sidelines. The situation began to change after 1989 when access to computers, games and software was much easier than it used to be. As a result, there was a need for magazines devoted only to games. Publication includes description of how journals from the 1990s created players discourse and what consequences it had. It contains an analysis of specific writing style and language used by editors who created terms and names of genres later used by gamers. In this context it is worth mentioning that in that time specific types of articles emerged. Among them were reviews and walkthrough, which allowed practice of ‘reading’ games, that’s why people without access to new interactive medium learned about it through magazines. The first chapter presents the methodology of the research, using the concept of habitus, field and cultural capital by Pierre Bourdieu, as well as analyzes carried out by Graeme Kirkpatrick and Jaakko Suominen, who described how British and Finnish magazines influenced the formation of a specific discourse on video games. The relationship between the content of video game magazines and their influence on the development of the broadly understood game culture was also discussed. This book also includes a commentary on the differences between the gaming press published in Western Europe and Polish magazines created during the political transformation. It also focuses on issue of stereotypes connected with games and gamers, who formed some kind of subculture.

Data analysis in the maritime domain

Data analysis in the maritime domain

Author(s): Milena Stróżyna,Witold Abramowicz,Krzysztof Węcel,Dominik Filipiak,Jacek Małyszko / Language(s): English

Keywords: logistics;transport;maritime transport;supply chains;data analysis;risk assessment;global economies;big data;HANSA system;

The book delivers a rich set of foundations, state-of-the-art knowledge, new approaches and methods for the purpose of anomalies detection, maritime traffic analysis as well as risk and reliability assessment. It addresses relevant research problems at the intersection of maritime transport in global economies, reliability and risk assessment, and information systems and data processing. The book provides a theoretical overview of available maritime data sources and approaches for maritime data analysis, as well as a set of novel tools and methods for maritime data retrieval, fusion, and analysis. The proposed methods are evaluated on real-life AIS data, covering the entire world and more than 200 thousands of vessels, illustrating how they may be used for anomaly detection and risk assessment. The primary audience of the book are researchers from the fields of computer science and maritime transport as well as logistics service providers, shipping companies and port authorities companies that need support in managing security, safety, and risk of maritime transport services in global economies by making use of large-scale data processing.

National Myths in Greece

National Myths in Greece

Author(s): Hercules Millas / Language(s): English

Keywords: national myths; Greece; national psyche; modern Greek;

The national myths and the efforts to refute them are reliable sources in obtaining a holistic picture of a modern society. My starting point, which was to present the national myths in Modern Greece, turned into questioning “our human capacity” to live in a world distant from myths.A myth may mean from a “false story” to a “philosophical metaphor” and form a “lie” to a “unifying social story”. Myths are so widespread that one suspects that they constitute the norm of human existence.The whole endeavour is related to the construction of modern social identities and to the national perceptions vis-à-vis the self and the Other. The case of Greece illuminates drives that may be encountered in all present-day societies. One may read this book as a guide to get in acquaintance the Greeks, as well.

Master Jan Hus, teacher and colleague: Recommendation speeches of M. Jan Hus

Mistr Jan Hus, učitel a kolega: Promoční promluvy M. Jana Husa

Author(s): Jana Nechutová,Lucie Mazalová,Petra Mutlová,Libor Švanda,Helena Krmíčková / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Jan Hus; recommendation speeches; Czech translations;

This book contains annotated Czech translations of 14 recommendation speeches (graduation speeches) delivered by M. Jan Hus at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Prague between 1398 and 1410. The translations are preceded by four studies on the transmission of the manuscripts, the speeches’ argumentative structure, and the curriculum at the Faculty of Arts in Prague at the time, with a special focus on philosophy and grammar.

The Izanagi Motive in Haruki Murakami's Novels

Izanagiovský motiv v románech Haruki Murakamiho

Author(s): Tomáš Jurkovič / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Japanese literature; Haruki Murakami; novels;

Japanese writer Haruki Murakami is sometimes considered to be an entirely Western-literature-inspired author of “non-Japanese” texts. Such an assessment, however, needs to be rejected upon analysing Murakami’s fiction. The present study offers guidance into the colourful world of Murakami’s novels in chronological order. It presents them together in what we could call a meta-story, starting from the very beginning of Murakami’s writing and its sources of inspiration, and ending with Murakami’s first victory in dealing with his most important subject as an author – the dark sides of modern Japanese history.

Improving Public Sector Efficiency in Times of Public Finance Crisis

Možnosti zvyšování efektivnosti veřejného sektoru v podmínkách krize veřejných financí II

Author(s): Ivan Malý,Juraj Nemec,Veronika Krůtilová,Pavol Čižmárik,Ladislav Pompura / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Czech health care; co-payments; health services; taxation; fiscal imbalances;

This publication is the summary of results of free selected PhD theses prepared by students from ESF MU, dealing with two very actual topics: – the analysis of impact from introducing health care fees in the Czech Republic (Krutilova), – efficiency of taxation – administrative and compliance costs (Pompura, Cizmarik).

Support for immigrant children’s school adaptation: Insights into Czech and Norwegian practices

Podpora školní adaptace dětí-cizinců: Náhled do české a norské praxe

Author(s): Klára Záleská / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Immigrant children; School environment for immigrant children; multi-culturality; school adaptation; equal educational opportunities;

This publication deals with the topic of adaptation of immigrant children to school, from Czech and Norwegian perspectives. The ambition of the monograph is to inspire and provide feedback to educational policymakers, teachers, and researchers, as well as to reveal in more detail the practices of one more experienced state in supporting the school adaptation of immigrant children. The author divides the text into two parts. Firstly, she looks at the topic from the theoretical perspective and in the context of existing pedagogical research. In the second part, the author presents her research survey, which looks at the topic from the perspective of three levels: state, region, and school. The survey was conceived as a qualitative comparative study based on content analysis of case studies at Czech and Norwegian primary schools. The main result is the creation of a model to support the school adaptation of immigrant children. Among other things, it points to the need to strengthen support for cooperation between the school and immigrant parents in the Czech and Norwegian environments. It also points to the regional level as a critical link mediating communication of information, knowledge, and needs between the state and school levels in the field of support for foreign children. The regional level, especially in the Czech environment, proves to be insufficiently represented in the whole process under current conditions. These and other findings prompt reflections on the importance of both so-called symbolic policy and substantive policy in the field of support for school adaptation of immigrant children, and their specific implementation in the Czech and Norwegian environments. The publication also discusses the current state of assimilation and multicultural tendencies in Czechia and Norway.

The Epilinguistic Approach of Local Teenagers towards the Linguistic Situation in Quebec

Approche épilinguistique des adolescents québécois sur la situation linguistique au Québec

Author(s): Petra Klapuchová / Language(s): French

Keywords: Epilinguistic Approach; Quebec; contemporary language situation; use of anglicisms; speech;

The main topic of this book is the empirical verification of generally widespread assumptions concerning the attitudes of young people towards the language situation in Quebec. The study, based on quantitative and qualitative research conducted throughout the province (in Gatineau, Montreal, Quebec, and Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier), analyzes data from 683 questionnaires and more than seven hours of recorded interviews. The explanatory factors considered in the analysis were age (the average age of respondents was 14.8 years), sex, and residence. The respondents were divided into three language groups to discover if monolingualism, bilingualism, or multilingualism influences the variation in their opinions.