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  • Designing world closures for knowledge-based system engineering

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    - Year 2005

    Wraz z rozwojem komponentów opartych na wiedzy przed inżynierami oprogramowania postawione zostały nowe zadania. Jednym z nich jest zintegrowanie tych komponentów z innymi standarodowymi komponentami. Zrealizowanie tego zadania wymagało zdefiniowania języka komunikacji pomiędzy różnymi komponentami w celu wymiany informacji. W artykule omówiono problem wymiany informacji pomiędzy komponentami opartymi na wiedzy i komponentami opartymi...

  • On the Importance of Resilience Engineering for Networked Systems in a Changing World

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    • D. Hutchison
    • D. Pezaros
    • J. Rak
    • P. Smith

    - IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE - Year 2023

    Resilience is featured increasingly often in the media, usually applied to society when faced, for example, with disasters such as flooding and the enormous challenges that the Covid-19 pandemic posed. There are now many resilience-related discussion groups worldwide, and some standards initiatives devoted in particular to city resilience. However, there is relatively little explicit interest in resilience engineering for communication...

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  • A non-uniform real-time speech time-scale stretching method

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    An algorithm for non-uniform real-time speech stretching is presented. It provides a combination of typical SOLA algorithm (Synchronous Overlap and Add ) with the vowels, consonants and silence detectors. Based on the information about the content and the estimated value of the rate of speech (ROS), the algorithm adapts the scaling factor value. The ability of real-time speech stretching and the resultant quality of voice were...

  • Multiresidue Methods for Determination of Currently Used Pesticides in Fruits and Vegetables Using QuECHERS Technique

    Applied all over the world, pesticides are some of the most common pollutants of the environment because of their stability, mobility, their consequent long-term adverse effects on living organisms in general and human health in particular. For these reasons it is essential to monitor and analyse pesticide residues in the fruits and vegetables. The analysis of food samples for the presence of pesticides causes a lot of difficulties...

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  • Smoking: Traditional

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    Smoking, drying, and salting belong to the oldest methods of food preservation. Meat hung by the fire was preserved by a combination of drying and smoking. Often the raw material was first pickled in brine. In different regions of the world various procedures have been developed, best suited for treating meats and fish for specific purposes. Smoking extended the shelf life and imparted very desirable, new sensory properties to...

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  • Runoff Water

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    - Year 2013

    This entry summarizes the current state of knowledge on the role of atmospheric pollutants' transport to the surface and transformations of wet deposition on contact with various surfaces. Runoff waters are one of the forms in which precipitation reaches the groundwater and surface water. They are formed when rain or melting snow washes the surfaces of roofs, highways, agricultural areas, or tree canopies. Pollutants present in...

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  • IMPACT OF THE FINANCING STRUCTURE ON EFFICIENCY OF HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS IN THE FORMER EASTERN BLOC COUNTRIES

    Out-of-pocket expenditures are a significant barrier in accessing health services. This paper aims to analyse the structure of financing system in the context of the performance indicators of healthcare systems. The study was conducted for the 28 countries of the former Eastern bloc in the years 2000 and 2013, based on data from the World Health Organization. In the DEA-CCR input-oriented model, inputs are the percentage share...

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  • Recent developmentsinthesynthesisand biological activityofacridine/acridoneanalogues

    Many people in the world struggle with cancer or bacterial, parasitic, viral, Alzheimer's and other diseases. Therefore, many scientists seek new, more effective, more selective and less toxic drugs. Acridine/acridone derivatives constitute a class of compounds with a broad spectrum of biological activity and are of great interest to scientists. Todate, many acridine/acridone analogues have been obtained,which, inter alia, exhibit...

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  • DESIGN AND STRENGTH CALCULATIONS OF THE TRIPOD SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR OFFSHORE POWER PLANT

    The support structure being the object of the analysis presented in the article is Tripod. According to the adopted assumptions, it is a foundation gravitationally set in the water region of 60 m in depth, not fixed to the seabed, which can be used for installing a 7MW wind turbine. Due to the lack of substantial information on designing and strength calculations of such types of structures in the world literature, authors have...

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  • Can Web Search Queries Predict Prices Change on the Real Estate Market?

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    This study aims to explore whether the intensity of internet searches, according to the Google Trends search volume index (SVI), is a predictor of changes in real estate prices. The motivation of this study is the possibility to extend the understanding of the extra predictive power of Google search engine query volume of future housing price change (shift direction) by (i) the introduction of a research approach that combines...

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  • Chemical modifications of natural oils and examples of their usage for polyurethane synthesis

    Natural oils have been used in the production of plastics for a long time. However, the number of studies dedicated to polyurethane research has shown an increase only recently. Usually, petrochemical components are used in polyurethane synthesis. Nowadays, there have been attemptsmade to replace polyols in polyurethanes with the modified oils and other natural raw materials. It is a promising and important scenario because the...

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  • The Role and Effectiveness of the MBT Installation in Poland Based on Selected Examples

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    - Civil and Environmental Engineering Reports - Year 2019

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  • The landscape transformations of post-industrial areas based on selected examples

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    • P. Szumigała
    • P. Urbański

    - Studia i Prace WNEiZ - Year 2016

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  • Electric Power Quality in Isolated Systems - Requirements and Examples of Analysis.

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    - Year 2007

    W arytukule przedstawiono wymagania normalizacyjne jakoci energii dla okretowych systemów zasilajacych pracujšcych w układzie z izolowanym punktem zerowym.Wymagania systemowe: Windows 95 lub nowsze; napęd CD-ROM. - Tytuł z etykiety na dysku.

  • Examples of retrofit of structures on seismic areas by friction pendulum system.

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    - Year 2004

    Zastosowanie łożysk wahadłowych, w których dyssypacja energii następuje na skutek tarcia, to jedna z najbardziej obiecujących metod wzmacniania odporności sejsmicznej budowli. Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie przykładów zastosowania tej metody do różnych typów konstrukcji budowlanych narażonych na wstrząsy sejsmiczne.

  • Real-time hybrid model of a wind turbine with doubly fed induction generator

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    - Year 2019

    In recent years renewable sources have been dominating power system. The share of wind power in energy production increases year by year, which meets the need to protect the environment. Possibility of conducting, not only computer simulation, but also laboratory studies of wind turbine operation and impact on the power system and other power devices in laboratory conditions would be very useful. This article presents a method...

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  • Environmental Risk Assessment of WWII Shipwreck pollution

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    The pollution of the sea is a global problem that has arisen as a consequence of the industrialization of the world and the intense transportation of crude oil and the products of its refinement. As sailing vessels were replaced by motor propelled ships towards the end of the 19th century, a new source of sea water pollution came into being. Every emergency involving a tanker carrying crude oil and its products is a potential source...

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  • Edible dragonflies and damselflies (order Odonata) as human food – A comprehensive review

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    • S. A. Siddiqui
    • K. Asante
    • N. Ngah
    • Y. Saraswati
    • Y. Wu
    • M. Lahan
    • O. Aidoo
    • I. Fernando
    • S. Povetkin
    • R. Castro Munoz

    - Journal of Insects as Food and Feed - Year 2024

    The rapid growth of the human population leads to a big concern about the food y and demand worldwide. However, due to the reduction in global arable land area, humans need to find alternative food sources to fulfil their needs. Consequently, edible insects have been identified as a promising solution to ameliorate food security and increase global nutrition. Among more than 2,100 identified edible insect species, dragonflies and...

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  • Rough Set-Based Classification of EEG Signals Related to Real and Imagery Motion

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    - Year 2016

    A rough set-based approach to classification of EEG signals registered while subjects were performing real and imagery motions is presented in the paper. The appropriate subset of EEG channels is selected, the recordings are segmented, and features are extracted, based on time-frequency decomposition of the signal. Rough set classifier is trained in several scenarios, comparing accuracy of classification for real and imagery motion....

  • Traffic Modeling in IMS-based NGN Networks

    In the modern world the need for accurate and quickly delivered information is becoming more and more essential. In order to fulfill these requirements, next generation telecommunication networks should be fast introduced and correctly dimensioned. For this reason proper traffic models must be identified, which is the subject of this paper. In the paper standardization of IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) concept and IMS-based NGN...

  • Comparative study of selected fluids for use in supercritical Organic Ranking Cycles

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    - Archives of Thermodynamics - Year 2009

    In view of increasing interest in improving energy efficiency of energy conversion devices, there is an increasing requirement of combined production of heat and electricity as well as demand for increased implementation of renewable energy resources. The micro cogenerative units utilizing the Organic Rankine Cycle are focusing the attention of many research centres around the world. In the present paper calculations of ORC cycles...

  • The role of investments in economic development

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    - Year 2009

    In the modern world, one may observe diversification of economies of given countries. Many of them, considered to be less developed,are aspiring to diminish the gap between them and well developed countries, one of such countries is Poland, which is trying hard to boots its competitive position in the worldwide market and achieve the constant and well-balanced development. It can be attained by building knowledge economy. Therefore,...

  • Inlet air fogging of marine gas turbine in power output loss compensation

    The use of inlet air fogging installation to boost the power for gas turbine engines is widely applied in the power generation sector. The application of fogging to mechanical drive is rarely considered in the literature [1]. This paper will cover some considerations relating to its application to gas turbines in ship drive. There is an important evaporative cooling potential throughout the world when the dynamic data is evaluated,...

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  • CFD analysis of fluid flow through the labyrinth seal

    Steam and gas turbines are some of the fundamental means of power generation. The energy efficiency of the turbines, however, is not satisfactory. Ever since the start-up of the first turbine in the world, engineers have been striving for their increased efficiency. Multiple solutions to the problem of steam loss in an operating turbine are available. The use of seals is one of them. Empirical methods or numerical calculations...

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  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Shell Footbridge for Its Design Validation

    The paper presents the structural health monitoring system of the composite bridge for pedestrians and cyclists. The footbridge was designed and manufactured within the FOBRIDGE project. It is the first bridge in the world, which is classified as a consistent single element structural girder, made of sandwich shells, entirely produced in a single cycle. The developed structural health monitoring system, supported design process,...

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  • Hydro Lubricants: Water-based lubricants for hydropower applications

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    • W. Litwin
    • V. Balasubramaniam
    • E. von Hoersten
    • S. Martin
    • K. Marius

    - Year 2018

    Several different base oil types exist in the market including mineral and synthetic oils (e.g. polyalphaolefins, ester, polyglycol, etc.) and are currently widely in use. Although synthetic oils have drawn great attention over the past few decades in terms of their tribological benefits, mineral oils are still widely used in hydropower applications due primarily to their low cost and easy miscibility with other oils. However,...

  • Intercultural Challenges in Virtual Teams

    : Virtual teams are usually geographically dispersed and consist of members from different countries and cultures. They influences internal communication processes and can cause personal conflicts, misunderstandings or lack of trust. Intercultural diversity is also significant for goal setting and team effectiveness. The aim of this article is to check if virtual team members appreciate the cultural diversity or rather suffer from lack...

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  • Internationalization and Quality Assurance in Higher Education

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    - Management - Year 2022

    Internationalization is an inevitable phenomenon among all contemporary higher education institutions (HEIs) in a globalizing world. It is the driving force for development and progress. In course of the last 30 years, it became an inevitable element of HE management. However, it carries along a number of risks, pitfalls, and organizational challenges. To hedge those, quality assurance (QA) is called to the stage. HEIs therefore...

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  • Global value chains and labour markets – simultaneous analysis of wages and employment

    This study examines the overall effect of global value chains (GVCs) on wages and labour demand. It exploits the World Input–Output Database to measure GVC involvement via recently developed participation indices (using both backward and forward linkages) and the relative GVC position using three-stage least squares regression. We find that the relative GVC position is negatively correlated with wages and employment and that the...

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  • Has EGNOS its own place in maritime navigation?

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    - Year 2015

    GNSS (in fact it usually means GPS) is at the moment the fundamental means of positioning for any variants of navigation. However some attributes of it can be not sufficient for every users or in some tasks, so there are any cases when this system needs support. From the mariner point of view pure GPS properties perfectly fulfils expectations of sailors at the open sea, however there are lot of cases, when accuracy of the system...

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  • Combined environmental testing device for picosatellites

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    - Year 2021

    As access to space conditions becomes more available, both technically and economically, scientists’ interest in launching finer and more sophisticated experiments grows. To be qualified for launch, such experiments need to be carefully tested prior to the event. The tests should represent actual launch conditions as closely and in a detailed manner. Typical tests for payload include: vibration tests, thermal and vacuum tests,...

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  • Audio Content and Crowdsourcing: A Subjective Quality Evaluation of Radio Programs Streamed Online

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    - Year 2023

    Radio broadcasting has been present in our lives for over 100 years. The transmission of speech and music signals accompanies us from an early age. Broadcasts provide the latest information from home and abroad. They also shape musical tastes and allow many artists to share their creativity. Modern distribution involves transmission over a number of terrestrial systems. The most popular are analog FM (Frequency Modulation) and...

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  • Using LSTM networks to predict engine condition on large scale data processing framework

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    - Year 2017

    As the Internet of Things technology is developing rapidly, companies have an ability to observe the health of engine components and constructed systems through collecting signals from sensors. According to output of IoT sensors, companies can build systems to predict the conditions of components. Practically the components are required to be maintained or replaced before the end of life in performing their assigned task. Predicting...

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  • Al-Kindi’s “The Real One”: Considerations of a mathematician or of a metaphysician?

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    - Year 2021

    The aim of the article is to analyze Al-Kindi’s concept of the True (Essential) One and certain additional issues, also taking into account the influence on his position from both classical philosophy and source texts of Islam. In the opening part of the article, Al-Kindi’s innovative approach to the application of mathematics in research in other areas of knowledge is discussed. In the next part,...

  • Cross-Platform Real-Time Nuclear Reactor Basic Principle Simulator

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    Abstract—In the paper several approaches to building the real-time basic principle simulators of nuclear reactor processes are presented and their characteristics are analyzed. The characteristics of developed simulators for MATLAB/Simulink including their limitations, and the idea of a cross-platform simulator independent of specific hardware or software are presented. Mathematical models of selected nuclear reactor’s processes...

  • Multiple sound sources localization in real time using acoustic vector sensor

    Method and preliminary results of multiple sound sources localization in real time using the acoustic vector sensor were presented in this study. Direction of arrival (DOA) for considered source was determined based on sound intensity method supported by Fourier analysis. Obtained spectrum components for considered signal allowed to determine the DOA value for the particular frequency independently. The accuracy of the developed...

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  • Low cost real time UAV stereo photogrammetry modelling technique – accuracy considerations

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    The paper presents accuracy considerations regarding three 3D modelling techniques. The tested new consumer type stereo camera (ZED 3D Stereolabs) has been implemented info an aerial mapping system, on board micro air vehicle MAV) and tested object has been mapped using a real-time photogrammetry with original real-time software application. The evaluated results has been compared with model gained with a state of art unmanned...

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  • CIT income tax from legal persons / corporations on account of income from renting real estate

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    The following data contains analysis of the tax burden on investments, purchase of real estate and obtaining income from its rental.In the case of earning income from the rental of real estate, in most countries of the EU, the entrepreneur may be subject to taxation of income with Personal Income Tax (PIT) or corporate / Corporate Income Tax (CIT)....

  • Real Time Operating Systems - Seminar 2021/22L

    e-Learning Courses
    • M. Pazio

  • Real time operating systems Seminars 2020-2021

    e-Learning Courses
    • M. Pazio

    RTOS seminary classes.

  • Prediction of Processor Utilization for Real-Time Multimedia Stream Processing Tasks

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    Utilization of MPUs in a computing cluster node for multimedia stream processing is considered. Non-linear increase of processor utilization is described and a related class of algorithms for multimedia real-time processing tasks is defined. For such conditions, experiments measuring the processor utilization and output data loss were proposed and their results presented. A new formula for prediction of utilization was proposed...

  • FPGA-Based Implementation of Real Time Optical Flow Algorithm and Its Applications for Digital Image Stabilization

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    - Year 2010

    An efficient simplification procedure of the optical flow (OF) algorithm as well as its hardware implementation using the field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology is presented. The modified algorithm is based on block matching of subsets of successive frames, and exploits one-dimensional representation of subsets as well as the adaptive adjustments of their sizes. Also, an l1-norm-based correlation function requiring no...

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  • Transformation of the Perpetual Usufruct Right Into the Ownership of a Real Property Estate

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    - Year 2016

    In addition to the ownership, there is in Poland the so-called perpetual usufruct right, which is an intermediate form between ownership and limited property rights. It allows for long-term use of the land which is not our ownership. Makes it possible to mortgage a property, is transferable and inheritable. The article describes the legal regulations governing the establishment and functioning of the perpetual usufruct, and the...

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  • Performance Measurements of Real Time Video Transmission from Car Patrol

    The HSUPA technology application to video streaming from moving vehicle to the central server is presented in the paper. A dedicated software for transmission control in case of non public IP address is employed. Quality of video streaming in urban area was measured. Several car routes were investigated in the area of the Polish Tricity. Measurements pointed out that the real time streaming quality during vehicle movement is sufficient...

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  • Application of gas chromatography to the analysis of spirit-based alcoholic beverages

    Spirit-based beverages are alcoholic drinks, which production processes are dependent on the type and origin of raw materials. The composition of this complex matrix is difficult to analyze and scientists commonly choose a gas chromatography techniques for this reason. With a wide selection of extraction methods and detectors it is possible to provide qualitative and quantitative analysis for many chemical compounds with a various...

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  • Dynamical objectivity in quantum Brownian motion

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    Classical objectivity as a property of quantum states —a view proposed to explain the observer-independent character of our world from quantum theory, is an important step in bridging the quantum-classical gap. It was recently derived in terms of spectrum broadcast structures for small objects embedded in noisy photon-like environments. However, two fundamental problems have arisen: a description of objective motion and applicability...

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  • Quantum origins of objectivity

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    - PHYSICAL REVIEW A - Year 2015

    In spite of all of its successes, quantum mechanics leaves us with a central problem: How does nature create a bridge from fragile quanta to the objective world of everyday experience? Here we find that a basic structure within quantum mechanics that leads to the perceived objectivity is a so-called spectrum broadcast structure. We uncover this based on minimal assumptions, without referring to any dynamical details or a concrete...

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  • To i-vote or not to i-vote: Drivers and barriers to the implementation of internet voting

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    - Year 2021

    This paper investigates the drivers and barriers of internet voting and the implications of a global pandemic for the development of the respective technology. In contrast to the expected uptake in the early 2000s of internet voting, the technology is still rather seldomly used in election systems around the world. The paper at hand explores the different forces that drive or impede internet voting adoption from a political, social,...

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  • Selfie and Personal Branding Phenomena in the Context of the Network Economy. A Literature Review

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    - Handel Wewnętrzny - Year 2017

    Self-taken pictures called “selfies” shared in social media have become a worldwide phenomenon. This is due to the increased need of human being to share to other people their daily lives and to build their own personal brand in the networked world. Despite that, the subject of personal branding has not been sufficiently discussed in academic marketing literature over the past decade. The objective of the study is to present the...

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  • Gdańsk: a City of Solidarity and Freedom

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    - disP - Year 2020

    Only a few cities can claim that they have changed Europe and indeed the World. Gdańsk is privileged to be one of them. It is not a “caprice of history” that the Solidarity movement which, in the end, got the iron curtain torn, was born in this particular place. It is a logical consequence of ten centuries of the collective wisdom of the people that built Gdańsk and the region of Pomerania. The tragic assassination of the Mayor...

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