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Słowa i słówka

Author(s): Stanisław Dubisz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 02/2014

Na wiek XXI przypada ważna rocznica w dziejach uniwersytetów – mija tysiąc lat od powstania pierwszych tego typu uczelni, tj. Uniwersytetu Bolońskiego (Universitá degli studi), którego początki przypadają na przełom XI i XII w. (od 1088 r.), oraz Uniwersytetu Paryskiego (Université de Paris, La Sorbonne), ukształtowanego w XII w. (od 1136 r.). Po nich powstały takie uczelnie, jak: Uniwersytet w Oksfordzie (Oxford University, 1170 r.), Uniwersytet w Cambridge (Cambridge University, 1208–1209 r.), Uniwersytet Padewski (Universitá degli studi di Padova, 1222 r.).

Construction of multi-state life tables for critical illness insurance – influence of age and sex on the incidence of health inequalities

Construction of multi-state life tables for critical illness insurance – influence of age and sex on the incidence of health inequalities

Author(s): Joanna Dębicka,Beata Zmyślona / Language(s): English / Issue: 14/2016

Keywords: multi-state life tables; health insurance; inequalities in health; mortality rate; fatality rate; incidence rate; lung cancer; unhealthy behaviours

The aim of the paper is twofold. The first one is to present the multi-state life tables associated with the insurance against the risk for lung cancer. Probabilistic structure of the model regarding incidence and mortality rates of lung cancer takes into account many factors such as a patient’s health condition (mild and critical), the probability of remaining in mild state of health and the probability of state of health deterioration. The lifetime in a critical state is analyzed in detail. The probability of death of a patient is also analysed according to the health condition. The analysis of the influence of inequalities in health caused by gender, biological sex and age on the probabilistic structure pose the second aim of paper.

What and How Do We Get to Know Throughout Pictures – Third Edition

Co i jak poznajemy przez obrazy – edycja trzecia

Author(s): Krzysztof Rojek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 19/2016

Sprawozdanie z ogólnopolskiej konferencji naukowej pt. W 100-lecie bitwy pod Kostiuchnówką. Marszałek Józef Piłsudski – Droga do Niepodległej, Bełchatów, 27–28 października 2016 roku

Sprawozdanie z ogólnopolskiej konferencji naukowej pt. W 100-lecie bitwy pod Kostiuchnówką. Marszałek Józef Piłsudski – Droga do Niepodległej, Bełchatów, 27–28 października 2016 roku

Author(s): Przemysław Waingertner / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2016

Report from international conference ECREA „Preconference: Dealing with the Local: Media, Proximity and Community”, Prague, November 8, 2016

Sprawozdanie z międzynarodowej konferencji naukowej ECREA – „Preconference: Dealing with the Local: Media, Proximity and Community, Praga, 8 listopada 2016

Author(s): Krzysztof Kowalik / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2017

Critical Legal Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 5-7 September 2013

Critical Legal Conference, Belfast, Irlandia Północna, 5-7.09.2013 r.

Author(s): Rafał Mańko,Jakub Łakomy / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2014

History of mathematics: some thoughts about the general situation

History of mathematics: some thoughts about the general situation

Author(s): Oscar Sheynin / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2018

24. Scientific Statistical Seminar “Marburg−Wrocław"

24. Scientific Statistical Seminar “Marburg−Wrocław"

Author(s): Joanna Dębicka,Stanisław Heilpern,Agnieszka Marciniuk / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2018

What Kind of University Do We Want?

Jakiego chcemy uniwersytetu?

Author(s): Jerzy Marian Brzeziński / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2020

Keywords: university; mission of the university; entrepreneurial universities; academic culture vs. corporate culture; autonomy; freedom; democracy; tradition; formation mission;

Brzeziński examines the threats for the classic concept of university rooted in the reform of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin introduced by Wilhelm von Humboldt (1812). The canon of values linked to “academic culture” is being supplanted by a set of values (or, rather, anti-values) characteristic of “corporate culture” (with the underlying approach expressed in B. R. Clark’s book: Entrepreneurial universities). Universities should carry out three missions: aiming for the truth (scientific research), delivering knowledge (teaching), and undertaking formation work (education). What is essential for the university is not just to focus on scientific achievements and knowledge transfer but also to shape new elites for a democratic, free, open, and creative civic society.

Inverted gamma vs. log-normal innovations in MSF- SBEKK models in the forecasting of selected Polish exchange rates

Odwrócone gamma a logarytmiczno-normalne innowacje w modelach MSF-SBEKK w prognozowaniu wybranych polskich kursów walutowych

Author(s): Anna Pajor / Language(s): English / Issue: 18/2020

Keywords: stochastic volatility model; forecasting; predictive Bayes factor; energy score; log-predictive score

The aim of the paper is to compare the forecasting potentials of two classes of Multiplicative Stochastic Factor – scalar BEKK (MSF-SBEKK) models which differ in the type of latent process. In the first class, the innovations of a first order autoregressive structure for the natural logarithm of latent variables are log-normal, whereas in the second class the innovations are inverted gamma distributed. The comparison of the models’ forecasting abilities by means of the predictive Bayes factor as well as the log predictive score and energy score were performed based on the Polish exchange rates. The author considered one- to ten-step-ahead predictions during the period beginning from 3 September 2019 and ending on 2 September 2020, which covers the time of the crisis caused by COVID-19. The author concluded that for most of the forecast horizons, the considered log-normal innovations outperformed the inverted gamma ones.

Family as an Area of Education Towards Interculturality

Rodzina przestrzenią edukacji do międzykulturowości

Author(s): Anna Śniegulska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 48/2019

Keywords: intercultural education; family; family education; tolerance; intercultural dialogue;

RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The article is primarily aimed at a theoretical reflection on the issue of education towards interculturality which is currently a part of a widely developed trend in educational thought and practice. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The research problem of this study has the form of the following question: what role can nowadays be attributed to a family in terms of education towards interculturality? The research method was the selective analysis of scientific literature in the field of family pedagogy and intercultural education. THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: The article identifies the sources of the necessity of education towards interculturality, subsequently it presents the basic notions, such as multiculturality and interculturality. They are followed by the reflection on a family as a fundamental educational environment where the process of the shaping of human’s attitudes takes place. The attention is drawn to the family contexts and areas of education towards interculturality. RESEARCH RESULTS: Family as a primary environment of human existence has an educational potential which is impossible to overestimate. Due to the shaping of prosocial attitudes, transmission of moral values, building openness to diversity, inculcating the principles of properly understood tolerance, family has an opportunity to become an environment for the development of a human who will strive for participation in both universal and national culture. CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS: The carried out analysis primarily allows for emphasising that cultural diversity of societies sets new goals and tasks for education. They also regard family education since thanks to educational processes taking place in a family the religious, national and regional identity of a human is shaped. A basic recommendation is the postulate for the family assistance in terms of fulfilling its attributed functions and tasks.

How to Deceive the System? Janusz Zajdel’s koalang

Jak oszukać system? O koalangu Janusza Zajdla

Author(s): Dariusz Rott / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2021

Keywords: Janusz A. Zajdel; Paradyzja (Paradise, the World in Orbit); koalang; social fiction

In his article, the author recalls Paradyzja (Paradise, the World in Orbit) by Janusz Zajdel, one of the most important social fiction novels – a literary trend popular in the 1980s in Poland. Zajdel is considered the pioneer of social fiction. His works are characterized by deep social reflection and emphasis put on the role of semantic-allusion language which allowed the inhabitants of an artificial world, called Paradyzja, to engage in free exchange of opinions and a game with their authorities to expose manipulations and lies of the system. This very unique language, called koalang (acronym from correlation–allusion language), is subject to multi-aspect analysis.

"Afazja dziecięca, niedokształcenie mowy o typie afazji, alalia i alalia prolongata oraz SLI/DLD – w kręgu badań i terminologii", Łódź, 22 maja 2021 roku (sprawozdanie z konferencji naukowej)

"Afazja dziecięca, niedokształcenie mowy o typie afazji, alalia i alalia prolongata oraz SLI/DLD – w kręgu badań i terminologii", Łódź, 22 maja 2021 roku (sprawozdanie z konferencji naukowej)

Author(s): Ewelina Zając,Renata Gliwa-Patyńska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 5/2021

Tourist function as an element of the competitiveness of Szczyrk (Poland) during the COVID-19 pandemic

Funkcja turystyczna jako element konkurencyjności miasta Szczyrk w czasie pandemii COVID-19

Author(s): Martyna Cader,Julia Gorzelany / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2021

Keywords: competitiveness; COVID-19 pandemic crisis; development of Szczyrk; tourism;

The aim of the article was to evaluate the tourist function as a competitive factor of Szczyrk (Poland). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the tourism sector was also investigated. In order to achieve the goal, an analysis of Polish and foreign literature was carried out, including statistical data. The considerations were supplemented with own research, in which the author’s questionnaire and expert interviews were used. The research was of a pilot nature and was carried out in Szczyrk and its vicinity. The main conclusion of the article is: the tourist function has a significant impact on the competitiveness of Szczyrk, at the same time the current epidemiological situation in the world shows that due to unforeseen events, the tourism industry may be endangered. Thus, it poses a real threat to Szczyrk, which may turn from a competitive town into an unattractive tourist destination in one day.

John Paul II on the mission of the university. Book review

Jan Paweł II o misji uniwersytetu. Recenzja książki

Author(s): Joanna Nowińska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2(21)/2019

Dialectology towards language changes in the Polishvillage. How could a new look like?

Dialektologia wobec zmian językowych na polskiej wsi. Jak mogłoby wyglądać nowe spojrzenie?

Author(s): Maciej Rak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 16/2021

Keywords: dialectology; sociolinguistics; Polish dialects; linguistic situation in the Polish village

The article concerns the linguistic situation in the Polish village and the need for a new approach in dialectological research. In the 21st century, Polish dialectology becomes a de facto subdiscipline of sociolinguistics. The disintegration of the dialects means that there is a need for new descriptive research in the area that was part of Poland before 1945. In the western and northern territories (until 1945 belonged to Germany), it seems justified to conduct sociolinguistic research taking into account the communicative communities.

The pledge of allegiance to the Polish People's Republic and its government made in April 1953 by the clergy of Wrocław Voivodeship in the eyes of the apparatus of repression

Ślubowanie duchowieństwa w województwie wrocławskim na wierność Polskiej Rzeczpospolitej Ludowej i Jej Rządowi w kwietniu 1953 r. oczami aparatu represji

Author(s): Robert Klementowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2021

Keywords: Catholic Church; security apparatus; the pledge of 1953; repressions; clergy

Modern historiography on the Polish history after 1945 has reached the point when it can move from basic research utilizing the previously classified archives to generalizing reflections. It means that individual events and processes must be considered within a broader context – including the activities of the repressive state apparatus of the communist Poland against religious circles. The Decree of February 9, 1953 on appointments of clergy to church positions was a legal act crowning a broad array of actions aiming at subjugation of the Catholic Church to the communist authorities by forcing the clergy to makea pledge of allegiance to the state, and by gaining influence on filling church positions. This problem is presented through a reconstruction of the realization of the act of making the pledge – on the example of Lower Silesia and from the point of view of the political police. The pledge action was for the security apparatus not only another task within the scope of its responsibilities, but also an opportunity to build up its own position in the power structures of a totalitarian state. In the current study, lists of priests allowed and not allowed to make the pledge were reconstructed; the author describes the selection process of the clergy members, how did the involved priests react and – in the end – what meaning the whole operation had for the security apparatus. Each institution (here: the security apparatus and the Catholic Church) functions on many planes and the consequences of its activities can be divided into short- and long-term. Therefore, the subject of the analysis can be described either in the context of goals set and achieved at that time, or in light of the way in which the considered events are seen in a longer perspective, from the point of view of history and collective memory – for example, in the context of a stereotypical view that repressions against the Catholic Church were unusually harsh when compared to the whole society.

Sacralisation of political discourse during the Polish–German struggle for Upper Silesia after World War I (1918–1922)

Sakralizacja dyskursu politycznego w okresie polsko-niemieckiej rywalizacji o Górny Śląsk po I wojnie światowej (1918–1922)

Author(s): Mariusz ks. Trąba / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2018

Keywords: Upper Silesia; Silesian Uprisings; Upper Silesian plebiscite 1920; sacralisation; Poland; 20th century; history of the Catholic Church; religion; politics

The Polish–German political and armed struggle for Upper Silesia in the years 1918–1922 took place in the complicated cultural space of this region. One of the aspects of this space was religion, hence the parties to the conflict often resorted to arguments related to the past and future of the faith in Upper Silesia. They also included political narration in the form of symbols, ideas, concepts, and cultural patterns derived from religious tradition. The diversity of religious references appearing in political discourse was enormous. Among the motifs employed were: the continual invocation of God as the master of the world’s fate, images of Our Lady, both of Częstochowa and Piekary, figures of saints, a form of prayer or 10 commandments that served to convey political and social information, biblical symbols, or attempts to portray the Silesian uprisings and plebiscite as a moral or sacred problem (“holy uprising”, “holy plebiscite”). All of them testify to the vitality of religious ideas in Upper Silesian society of the day. Religious references performed a myriad of social functions – they connected, mobilized, persuaded, and explained reality. The intensity of the Upper Silesian conflict and its radicalisation, which went as far as the use of violence; unfortunately, that led to the sacralisation of political discourse often remaining merely a persuasive phenomenon.

The ballast of the past. Around student suggestions

Balast przeszłości. Wokół uczniowskich sugestii

Author(s): Sandra Kaszubowska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 31/2022

Keywords: didactics of classical literature; student reception; survey; tradition

The subject of reflection in the article is the reception of classical literature at school. In order to investigate it, the author conducted an anonymous survey in primary and secondary schools in Gdańsk, Wejherowo and Wiślinka. The collected material contradicts the stereotypical belief that young people associate the discourse of the past only with backwardness and limitation. It turns out that they perceive the coexistence of the past with the present and are far from monopolizing their reading with literature embedded solely in the current socio-cultural situation. In this context, the author presents publications that enliven the reading experience and are a counterweight to conventional lesson content, often reducing masterpieces of the past to obvious theses and top-down issues.

The role of metaphor in mediation – conceptualizations of the theory of restorative justice

Rola metafory w mediacji – konceptualizacje teorii sprawiedliwości naprawczej

Author(s): Wojciech Leder / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2022

Keywords: mediation in criminal cases; restorative justice; conceptual metaphor

The objective of the present study is to look at the philosophy of punishment in a new way, namely, through the prism of the restorative justice metaphors. Cognitive or conceptual metaphors – by employing categorization and referring abstract concepts and notions to concrete experience – allows for the various theories of justice to be viewed as modes of reasoning rather than as sets of legal propositions. The most universal metaphors of justice are: “justice as equality”, and the counterparts of George Lakoff’s morality metaphors of “strict father” and “nurturant parent”, which partially correspond to, respectively, retributive and restorative justice concepts. Finally, the very process of mediation consists in the mediator consciously deploying so-called transformative metaphors that affect the reasoning of mediating parties, thereby influencing their vision of the conflict.