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"HAYMAKING ON RAJAC" - Tourist event analysis according to gender and age structure

Author(s): Jovana Brankov,Željko Bjeljac,Ivan B. Popović / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2009

This work, using previous researches of socio-demographic influences upon tourist market, studies habits and behavior of tourists (visitors) on tourist event Haymakingon Rajac mountain, as well as the use of advertising means for the purposes of gaining new information. The poll was conducted among 352 people selected by chance whereas the data analysis was carried out according to gender and aging structure. The aim of this research is to determine if there is a significant difference in the number or motives of traveling, choice of transport means, the amount of funds intended for staying and the way of spending money, as well as in using different means of tourist propaganda.

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"MAPE STEREOTIPA" KAO DUHOVITO-OPAKI PROIZVOD:FOLKLORIZACIJA I KOMERCIJALIZACIJA ETNIČKIH PREDRASUDA U INTERNET PROSTORU

Author(s): Dragana Antonijević,Ana Banić Grubišić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 1/2013

"Maps of stereotypes", whether they are made for commercial purposes created by Bulgarian designer Yanko Tsvetkov or have been created by anonymous authors, has become extremely popular in Cyberspace in the last two years. They are transmitted via e-mail communication or via social networks and the web pages which host this kind of maps attracts millions of visitors. Their intended humor has it vicious side: in the form of joke they provide folklorized prejudices about nations and states, and at the same time they cemented them as fixed images, ethnic labels and essentialized notions in consciousness and conception of the numerous Internet audience. From the multicultural perspective and its necessity for negotiating the diversity of identities who are supposedly susceptible of change, these stereotypical maps by utilizing cleverly constructed notions express the complete opposition: the characteristics of the people and of the state of a particular historical and political period are essencialized, offering as a "truth" the point of view of the sender without the possibility of the message recipient to respond in other ways than to press the "like button" or to show "silent" revolt or, even, by creating the "contra-map" with similar humorous and vicious content. In this paper we will examine the phenomenon of so called maps of stereotypes and ascribed notions of Serbia within political and geographical territory of former Yugoslavia and the Balkans.

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"Municipal settlements of Ukraine" database and its possible application spheres

Author(s): Glibchuk Petro Volodymyrovych / Language(s): English / Issue: 34/2016

With the development of geoinformation technologies and geoinformation mapping the sphere of activity of professional geographers and cartographers has been enriched by a wide application of databases (DB). They enable geographical information to be put in order in a user-friendly system. The article considers the methodological aspects of the organizations and creation of such a system - the "Municipal settlements of Ukraine" databases. The basic stages and databases forming the principles which the author designated during the creation of this specific database are highlighted. The DB structure is revealed - the list of the data included in every table is given. The ways of DB applications are determined; they consist in using DB for the creation of various cartographic studies and reference books about the municipal settlements in Ukraine. The prospects of DB development and perfection are considered.

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20. godina rada društva

Author(s): Hamdo Tabaković / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian,Serbian / Issue: 3/1977

Speleološko društvo Bosne i Hercegovina osnovano je 5. aprila 1956. godine u Sarajevu. Prateće društvo bila je Speleološka sekcija pri Geografskom društvu BiH, koja je formirana 12. oktobra 1954. godine i djelovala je sve do osnivanja Speleološkog društva.

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A Defining Moment - Transnational Nursing Education

Author(s): Nirmala Arunasalam / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2017

A DEFINING MOMENT, Transnational Nursing Education by Dr Nirmala ARUNASALAM is a competent and accessible text focusing on nurse education. Recommended for teaching and learning as well as pedagogical courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It is a must have and a must read in a world of “pseudo factum knowledge” where social and human oriented professions and scientific disciplines such as nursing are getting little attention. The depth of the background for this study, and the intimate self-reflection Dr Arunasalam provides for this monograph greatly enhances the quality of the study. This book is an insightful exploration of an example of transnational higher education which identified some key questions that need to be asked about such programmes.

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Aktywność społeczna mieszkańców gmin województwa lubelskiego, w których realizowano prace scaleniowe gruntów rolnych – studium przypadku

Author(s): Małgorzata Dudzińska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2016

Agricultural land consolidation affects the development of rural areas. He FAO [2008] classifies land consolidation impacts at three levels: first, there is the micro-level, where land consolidation aims focus on changing the farm structure. Secondly, there is the meso-level, where land consolidation has broader aims for changing rural communities by improving infrastructure, the natural environment, management of natural resources, landscape and, consequently, the spatial distribution of economic activities. Finally, there is the macro-level, where the focus is on changes which can positively affect the whole country, by reducing the disparities between rural and urban areas. According to Dacko [2006], the main goal of land consolidation should be to improve the quality of rural life, and not only to increase agricultural production. Land consolidation measures should be initiated to revive the countryside by encouraging continuous economic and political development of the local community, while protecting and rationally managing natural resources. He local community should participate democratically in land consolidation and in defining new forms of land use that make the most of the local potential. Therefore, the passage of time has brought about changes to the wider perception of consolidation work – not only in the strictly technical and economic aspects but in the social and environmental ones. One of the social benefits resulting from the implementation of consolidation work is the active involvement of the local community in the issues related to the formation of spatial conditions and enhancing the inhabitants’ social activity. In view of the above, the aim of the paper is to investigate the level of social activity of inhabitants in the communes in which agricultural land consolidation has been implemented. He study employed an analysis and synthesis of the literature as well as spatial and statistical research. He area under study included communes of Lubelskie voivodship.

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An Unknown Census of the Population of Przemyśl from mid-1918

Author(s): Zdzisław Budzyński,Jolanta Kamińska-Kwak / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

The main source for this article is a population census carried out in Przemyśl in 1918, previously unused in any scientific research. Using a survey method, it encompassed single households; only some of the material exists to this day, a larger part stored in the Sanok Archive, and a smaller in the National Archive in Przemyśl. The census combined the elements of the earlier “State of Souls” (status animarum) in relation to households and the more modern type of Austrian survey to which new categories were added; its original form enables new methods for analyzing the local population of that area. The circumstances in which the census was carried out are unknown; we can assume that it was conducted by the local magistrate, due to food shortages and mass migration of the population (including the military) to the city. The surviving 1,163 cards enable us to pinpoint personal data from the respondents, such as sex, age, religion and nationality, place of birth and address, and in some cases social status and profession.

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Analiza czasu trwania postępowania w sprawie o rozgraniczenie nieruchomości

Author(s): Agnieszka Bieda,Agnieszka Pęska-Siwik,Agnieszka Szałajko / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2016

Real estate delimitation is a difficult and complicated administrative procedure designed to determine the course of borders. This procedure due to its multistage character and complexity is usually extended in time. The purpose of this article is to present the duration problem of the real estate delimitation. Individual stages of the delimitation with their duration has been indicated. The authors also pointed out to the regulations on which depends the time of performed demarcations. The analysis was conducted based on the documentation of real estate boundaries conducted in the municipality of Liszki, Lesser Poland region, in the years 1989.2013, which was gathered in the County Documentation Centre of Geodesy and Cartography in Krakow.

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Analiza liczby wydanych decyzji o warunkach zabudowy i zagospodarowania terenu we wsiach strefy podmiejskiej Olsztyna

Author(s): Sławomir Sobotka / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2015

This paper presents the results of a study for PhD thesis entitled: Spatial Development Within Olsztyn Suburban Area Against The Background Of Changes To Agricultural Landscape. The spatial range of the study covered 6 communes situated within Olsztyn suburban area. In order to address spatial changes, Decisions on building and land development conditions issued in the years 2004.2010 were analysed. Under the Act on spatial planning and development [Journal of Laws of 2003 No 80, item 717, as amended], the Decision on building and land development conditions has become an important instrument in spatial planning. In many villages or communes (mainly in communes of Purda and Jonkowo) located within Olsztyn suburban area, it has become the predominant means in land development. In the years 2004.2010, a total of 5308 Decisions on building and land development conditions were issued. The number of decisions issued indicated an increasing trend in the years 2004.2009. Most decisions (55 %) issued in the years 2004.2008 concerned the construction of single family houses. With the increase in the distance from the administrative boundaries of Olsztyn, the issue of Decisions on building and land development conditions for the construction of technical infrastructure is becoming predominant in villages.

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Analiza rozwoju Sieradza na podstawie interpretacji zdjęć lotniczych i waloryzacji przestrzeni z wykorzystaniem elementów teorii zbiorów rozmytych

Author(s): Mariola Matuszewska,Krzysztof Będkowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2019

The spread of cities poses a serious urbanisation and natural challenge and significantly affects the quality of life of the inhabitants. The aim of the study was to examine the possibility of analysing the spread of the city of Sieradz based on the interpretation of multi-temporal aerial imagery from the years 1959, 1996 and 2015, and the topographical object database. There are 22 land cover classes that are attributed with coefficients determining their degree of belonging to the urban use of space. The area of the city is divided into hexagonal primary fields (1 ha) and the proportion of different forms of land use is determined and the M indicator calculated, which determines to what extent each primary field belongs to the urban way of space use. The primary fields were than classified into three zones: urban (0.5 < M ≤ 1.0), transitional (0.3 ≤ M ≤ 0.5) or rural (0 ≤ M < 0.3). Maps of the increment of this indicator in the test periods were made also. In the city there were consistently predominant areas with a rural nature of space use, because Sieradz has a large share of farmland, grassy vegetation, woodland and trees, orchards, plantations and gardens. Over time, however, the city area of typical urban use is increasing, which is mainly in the central and eastern part of the city and is clearly approaching its southern border, confirming the expansion of urban development to peripheral areas. By the year 1996 the growth of the M indicator took place mainly in the central part of the city, and in the next period revealed the clear “islands” of this growth quite distant from the centre. During the period 1959–1996 in Sieradz an early stage of the development of urban sprawl is noticeable – mainly progressive construction near the railway. However, in later years, the increase in accessibility to car transport was the cause of a deeping phenomenon of “urban sprawl” into the peripheral areas, causing a lively development of the suburbs. Studies have shown that urban sprawl also applies to mid-sized cities and confirms the suitability of archive aerial imagery and studies made using fuzzy sets theory to analyse the urban sprawl. The method used is relatively simple to use and can be fully automated.

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Analiza stanu planistycznego miasta Torunia

Author(s): Krystyna Kurowska,Agata Kogut / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2015

Spatial planning is a main tool with which you can protect and shape the space in a rational way. The space planning refers to a real space, which is subjected to the processes of planning. Instrument of spatial planning and zoning are documents of planning. In order to identify the planning state of the city of Torun were subjected to a detailed analysis of the existing local zoning plans and plans that are under development, as well as decisions on land development conditions and land development issued after 2003. In order to determine the request of spatial planning assessment also examines building permits issued disaggregated by individual housing estates. On the basis of this analysis, the state planning of the city of Torun has been rated as good and developing in the desired direction.

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Analysis of the Relationship of Productivity between the Public Sector and the INTERSTAT

Author(s): Marcela Mitrita,Ovidiu Buzoianu,Amelia Diaconu,Ionut Victor Ratezanu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Scientific progress embodies and depends on open communication, a common discourse that has roots in rationality, collaboration, as well as an easy and regular flow and efficient information exchange. These ideals can be considered hypocritical by elite power and can be displayed or emphasized in many other ways, but they are even involved in the idea of science, but they are based on the phenomenon called globalization and its practical outcomes. Business, banking and commerce depend on the flow of information and are facilitated by new communication technologies. The hardware of these technologies tends to be systemic and integrated - computerized, televised, cable, satellite, laser, optical fiber and microchip technology combining to create a vast network of communications and interactive information that can potentiate any people on earth have access to any other person, and each time they make each byte the availability of information for each set of eyes in search.

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ANTROPOGENETSKA STRUKTURA OTOČNIH POPULACIJA ISTOČNOG JADRANA

Author(s): Maja Bakran,Branka Janićijević / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 12+13/1994

The anthropogenetic structure of six island/peninsular populations - Brač, Hvar, Korčula, Pelješac, Silba and Olib - of the Eastern Adriatic, Croatia, is analyzed on the basis of the study of four different erythrocyte antigen systems/groups and two erythrocyte isoenzyme systems. Average sample size was 555 individuals. Allele frequencies and genetic distances values were computed. The obtained results point to the fact that all of the populations in question have preserved their separate characteristics in the course of their (micro) evolution to the present day, which is especially noticeable for the island populations of Korčula and Olib, as these populations distinguish themselves from the other studied populations with a greater degree of isolation.

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Atmosfera hipermarketu społecznego. Architektura w powieściach Michela Houellebecqa

Author(s): Andrzej Leśniak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2019

The article concerns the use of architecture in the novels of Michel Houellebecq. The aim of the article is to analyse the role played by the architectural and urbanistic motifs in Map and Territory and What-ever – two of the most important of the writer’s novels. According to the author of the article those motifs are not merely the background of the story or ideas presented in the novels, but they play an active role in creat-ing the most vital elements of the works’ atmosphere: the feeling of exhaustion and mischievousness of mod-ernist ideals and the mood of civilisational decay.

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Can Smog Make Us Unhappy? Effects of Perceived and Objective Air Quality on Subjective Well-being

Author(s): Jakub Rok / Language(s): English,Polish / Issue: 80/2020

The study aims to explore the interrelation of perceived air pollution and objective air pollution in the context of various subjective wellbeing (SWB) measures. An original survey data is used, and matched with exogenous levels of PM2.5 pollution in one of Warsaw’s city districts, to capture the short-term exposure and immediate SWB assessments. The log-linear analysis and the Two-Stage Conditional Maximum Likelihood estimations have found both the perceived and objective air pollution to have a negative effect on reported life satisfaction. Using the instrumental variable approach, the hypothesis of endogeneity of perceived pollution to SWB is rejected.

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Centre-periphery Cleavage in Ukraine

Author(s): Valeriu Deciu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Once the former USSR collapsed, countries like Ukraine have construed their own collective identity aiming to differentiate them from internal and external “others” in a nation building process. New territorial boundaries have been established over the mental ones, founding myths and heroes have been recovered or reinstated. This process looked successful for a while until a census unveiled a center-periphery cleavage formation. Meanwhile, Kiev’s centralizing policy had to face upheaval in the eastern part, and conflict is ongoing. Scholars have speculated mostly over ethnic and historical factors as well as Russia’s active involvement as main reasons for the shift in identity self-referencing of Donbas region’s inhabitants. This paper aims at examining this center-periphery cleavage formation from another standpoint: an internal political struggle between two regional clans that are still controlling the resources and hence hold political power in the so-called Donbas region from Eastern Ukraine. Without minimizing the influence of historical and ethnic factors, we posit that many eastern Ukrainians’ choice for identity self-referencing had shifted when their region started to decrease in terms of economic and political power on the central level. And the Donbas clans losing the central power control over fighting each other is along with historical and ethnic factors one of the main reasons for that.

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Changes and correlations in land-use structure within the administrative boundaries of a town – a case study

Author(s): Patrycja Szarek-Iwaniuk / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Urban areas continuously evolve. The main drivers of spatial change in towns and cities are urbanization processes. The aim of this study was to analyze changes in the process of urban development spanning a period of 30 years and to analyze the correlations between the distribution of various land-use types. The results were compared with the land use balance made in the 1970s. In the present study, the distribution of different land use categories in urban space was mapped with very high accuracy. The results of this study validate that areas with specific functions tend to coexist, whereas other areas exist separately in different parts of the town. Active urbanization processes were observed in the analyzed town. Developed and urbanized areas (mainly with residential functions) were significantly expanded in the analyzed period. The spatial and functional structure of the analyzed town and its development potential within the administrative boundaries are influenced by the geographic location, which significantly obstructs further expansion of developed areas. The proposed methodology can be used to improve land management in urban areas and can be implemented in other spatial units.

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Changes in the landscape of rural areas located close to city – case study of Olsztyn

Author(s): Aleksandra Tataruch,Elżbieta Zysk,Mai Do Thi Tuyet / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2019

Transformations in suburban areas are consequences of a developing city. The main reason for the changes of rural areas located close to city is the increasing population rate and spatial changes. The purpose of study is to show the demographic and spatial changes that are influencing the landscape of rural areas located close to city Olsztyn. The subject of the analysis were the changes occurring in suburban municipalities: Stawiguda and Dywity. This study focuses on selected population processes and the analysis of the instruments of spatial planning that are affecting the spread of the buildings and the changes in the rural landscape.

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Chosen statistical methods for the detection of outliers in real estate market analysis

Author(s): Beata Śpiewak / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

The paper contains the comparison of mechanism of two separately constructed statistical methods for the detection of outliers in real estate market analysis. For this purpose, databases with various types of real estate from local markets were created. Then the estimation of parameters of functional models describing dependencies prevailing on the examined markets was carried out. Subsequently, statistical tools called Baarda method and model residue analysis were used to detect outliers in the collected datasets. The last stage was a comparison of the obtained results of the parameters' estimation of the analyzed models and the measures of their quality, before and after the removal of outliers.The obtained results indicate that algorithms of chosen statistical methods, detecting outliers, allow to eliminate a smaller number of them, at the same time obtaining an improvement of the parameters of the functional model and its adjustment to the analyzed dataset. This gives the premise for the development of criteria for the selection of statistical methods that look for gross errors in the analyzed databases, among others, depending on functional model used, type of property and number of properties.

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Chronos, kairos i choros. Dyskretne echo przestrzenne rachub czasowych

Author(s): Mikołaj Madurowicz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2020

Just as time itself closely intertwines with space, so do mental and practical articulations of time constitute close context for intellectual spatial discourse. The considerations herein firstly outline the traditional geographical understanding of chorology as well as general comprehension of chronology. Secondly, calculations of time in selected civilizations and cultures are presented (African, Indian, Andean, Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Islamic). Thirdly, the concepts of temporality by R. Ingarden (including the idea of real time) and by K. Pomian (chronometry, chronology, chronography, chronosophy) are introduced. The final point of the study includes the proposal of working interpretation of chorometry, chorology, chorography and chorosophy in the urban contest, and the indicative identification of urban space of time (topochronometry, topochronology, topochronography, topochronosophy).

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