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  • The Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Cost in public works contracts

    Publication

    An important goal, implemented by EU countries under the Europe 2020 strategy, is sustainable development, which includes supporting economy that effectively uses natural and environmentally friendly resources. Solutions in this area are also promoted in tender proceedings in the area of public procurement. The LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) and LCC (Life Cycle Cost) analysis are indicated as the basis for decision-making by awarding...

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  • Public Works Management & Policy

    Journals

    ISSN: 1087-724X , eISSN: 1552-7549

  • Risk sharing in the construction work contracts

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    By signing a contract for construction works each of the parties assumes a specific scope of responsibility. In practice, there are numerous examples of contractual provisions that violate the parties’ safety and the balance of fair and even distribution of risk. Asymmetry in risk allocation in construction contracts and its consequences is the most common cause of disputes between the parties. The article presents the issue of...

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  • Application of Text Analytics in Public Service Co-Creation: Literature Review and Research Framework

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    - Year 2023

    The public sector faces several challenges, such as a number of external and internal demands for change, citizens' dissatisfaction and frustration with public sector organizations, that need to be addressed. An alternative to the traditional top-down development of public services is co-creation of public services. Co-creation promotes collaboration between stakeholders with the aim to create better public services and achieve...

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  • Justyna Martyniuk-Pęczek dr hab. inż. arch.

    Justyna Martyniuk-Peczek, Ph.D., D.Sc. Associate Professor Department of Urban Design and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture Gdansk University of Technology                 My academic and research activity has been concentrated around one specialty — urban planning, however it involves an interdisciplinary reference to other fields, such as lighting and the science of management. In terms of quantity, my academic work...

  • The life cycle cost of a building from the point of view of environmental criteria of selecting the most beneficial offer in the area of competitive tendering

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    The article analyses environmental and ecological criteria of selecting the most beneficial offer in the aspect of LCC. Construction works contracts and the potential method of defining the above criteria, among others, is pondered on (for example by the recommendation of a material, which is supposed to be used, a ban on substances that are harmful for human health as well for the environment). In the relation to the above, it...

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  • The influence of historical conditions on time and cost of construction project

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    - Year 2018

    Conducting construction works in a building or in an area entered in the historic register is associated with the contracting authority's risk of incurring higher than planned costs of works, as well as delays in their implementation. In many cases, these deviations are completely independent of contracting authority and contractor. The aim of this article is to indicate the reasons for cost and time changes in the construction...

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  • IMPROVING STUDENT SKILLS WITH ENGAGING IN HERITAGE PROTECTION PROJECTS. CASE STUDY OF ARCHITECTURAL INVENTORY WORKS AT WISŁOUJŚCIE FORTRESS, POLAND (2017)

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    - Year 2019

    Today's educational offer at universities contains a lot of theoretical and general knowledge, which becomes less understandable and less suitable for students of the new generation. Student's educational needs aimed at increasing the practical experience necessary for future professional life. Heritage conservation projects are a good opportunity to implement project-based learning methods. Such projects can be scientific and...

  • Jacek Krenz dr hab. inż. arch.

    Jacek Krenz, born in 1948 in Poznań, Poland, is an academic architect and painter. He is a professor at Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, taught also at University of Fine Arts in Poznań – both in Poland – and at Universidade da Beira Interior in Covilhã, Portugal. Charter member of The Polish Watercolour Society.  He is a co-founder of the Wdzydze Artists’ Village in Kaszuby, Poland, where he works in his...

  • Mariusz Franciszek Kaszubowski dr

    Biogram Mariusz Kaszubowski works as Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics and Econometrics, Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology. He is teaching descriptive and mathematical statistics, as well social statistics and insurance statistics. He is lecturer of statistics in at postgraduate studies „Lean Six Sigma Black Belt”.   He is a graduate of two majors: Management (specializing Insurance...

  • Public art in the era of urban transformations. A case study of Eduardo Paolozzi’s artistic output in Edinburgh and in London

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    - Przestrzeń i Forma - Year 2020

    Urban space dedicated to cultural life, entertainment or business is currently exposed to dynamic urbanistic transformations. Monumental works of art within the boundaries of cities, for years embedded in the urban landscape and awareness of viewers, are moved to other places or even destroyed. Decisions about a change of their location and context, which are fundamental aspects for the impression made by a given work of art, cause...

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  • THE ART OF VIRTUAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON REAL CITY SPACE

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    - Year 2016

    The paper investigates the impact of the new genres of contemporary public art based on the virtual information exchange in real spaces of the cities. On the basis of theoretical approaches, trans-disciplinary surveys and case studies, the paper focuses on the art that not only relies on the technological support but also refers to the new public sphere, where people are co-creators of the art object giving their personal input...

  • Jan Cudzik dr inż. arch.

    Jan Cudzik (Ph.D. Eng. Arch.) is an assistant professor at the Department of Urban Architecture and Waterside Spaces at the Faculty of Architecture of the Gdańsk University of Technology and the head of the Laboratory of Digital Technologies and Materials of the Future. He is researching kinematic architecture, digital techniques in architectural design, digital fabrication, and forms of artificial intelligence in architecture...

  • Borders of Digital Art in the Context of the Information Society

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    The article shows the relationship between the development of information technologies, the characteristics of the information society and digital art. The broad possibilities of the digital world related to recording, storing and processing data (cyber text, big data, smart services) and the creation of virtual worlds are pointed out. The influence of the development of information technologies on the character of the works of...

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  • Maria Jastrzębska dr hab.

    Maria Jastrzębska is an employee of the Department of Finance.  She is the author of over 170 publications, including 8 monographs - Financial Management of Municipalities. Theoretical aspects; Budgetary policy of local government units; Debt management of local government units; Finances of local government units; Risk management in the activity of local government units with special consideration of catastrophic risk (co-author...

  • Rewitalizacja historycznego zespołu pałacowo-parkowego w Lokalnym Programie Rewitalizacji Wejherowa (2008-2015). Revitalisation of the Historic Palace and Park in the Local Revitalisation Program of Wejherowo (2008-2015)

    W latach 1990. po upadku komunizmu w Polsce, przestrzeń publiczna w Wejherowie - podobnie jak i w innych miastach Polski była w dużym stopniu zdegradowana. W 2008 roku władze miasta Wejherowa opracowały i zatwierdziły "lokalny program rewitalizacji na lata 2008-2015", który dotyczył głównie centrum miasta. Miał on być w dużym stopniu finansowany przez Unię Europejską..Jedną z najbardziej eksponowanych przestrzeni publicznych, które...

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  • Sésame, ouvre-toi: internationalisme phraséologique à contenu universel

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    - Studia Linguistica - Year 2023

    Phraseological units, characterised by their opaque meaning, are the subject of multiple theoretical works. The following article adds to this discussion by providing another interesting example. It analyses the case of the Arabic phraseological unit ‘open sesame’ from the “Ali Baba and the Forty Thievesˮ folk tale, permeating into French, Italian, Polish, Turkish and Japanese – languages distant both linguistically and culturally....

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  • Architektura współczesnego muzeum i jej znaczenie dla tożsamości krajobrazu miasta = The Architecture of Contemporary Museum and its Significance for the Identity of the Urban Landscape

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    Artykuł dotyczy architektury współczesnych muzeów, które pod koniec XX w. przeszły znaczący rozwój jako instytucje publiczne. Oprócz specyficznych wymagań technicznych, funkcjonalnych, estetycznych i kulturowych, ich charakterystyczną cechą jest wzrastające zapotrzebowanie na przestrzeń dodatkową służącą edukacji, odpoczynkowi, rozrywce i strefie komercyjnej (handlu i usług). Atrakcyjna przestrzeń publiczna zapewnia dostęp do wszystkich...

  • Criteria for evaluation and selection of the best offer for the Contract Engineer service

    The purpose of the legal regulations regarding public procurement in EU countries is to ensure effective funds' spending. When assessing and selecting the best offer, the contracting entities have at their disposal many different criteria, including non-price criteria. Their proper selection and application is necessary to ensure the high quality of the ordered product, delivery or service. Making an order for intellectual services,...

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  • THE ARCHITECTURE OF DAYLIGHT IN THE DISCOURSE ABOUT THE AESTHETICS OF SUSTAINABILITY

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    The need to create ecological and energy efficient architecture is evident today. In the contemporary discourse on architecture more and more attention is dedicated to the aesthetics that expresses the idea of sustainability. The article is a voice in this debate, concentrating on the architecture that features daylight. Solar light comes from the natural environment and brings some substantial benefits for the architectural space,...

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  • The Origins of the Concept of Ideology

    The concept of "ideology" as, firstly, a term that points at non-epistemological conditioning of cognitive processes, and, secondly, as a term which aimed at disclosing the ancillary role of given ideas in regard to specific political interests of certain groups, has long history. Since Francis Bacon's theory of idols modern philosophy endavoured to create a comprehensive classification of systematic cognitive errors which divert...

  • Analysing the Residential Market Using Self-Organizing Map

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    - Year 2022

    Although the residential property market has strong connections with various sectors, such as construction, logistics, and investment, it works through different dynamics than other markets; thus, it can be analysed from various perspectives. Researchers and investors are mostly interested in price trends, the impact of external factors on residential property prices, and price prediction. When analysing price trends, it is beneficial...

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  • Justyna Borucka dr inż. arch.

    Justyna Borucka is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Gdańsk University of Technology, Coordinator of Erasmus Programme and International Cooperation and since 2016 a Vice-Dean for Development. She is also board member of Polish Architects Association (SARP o.Wybrzeże). Her research focused on theory of architecture and strategies for urban renewal with the special impact of interdisciplinary relationships...

  • Determining the Seasonal Variability of the Territorial Sea Baseline in Poland (2018–2020) Using Integrated USV/GNSS/SBES Measurements

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    • M. Specht
    • C. Specht
    • A. Stateczny
    • Ł. Marchel
    • O. Lewicka
    • M. Paliszewska-Mojsiuk
    • M. Wiśniewska

    - ENERGIES - Year 2021

    The Territorial Sea Baseline (TSB) allows coastal states to define the maritime boundaries, such as: contiguous zone, continental shelf, exclusive economic zone and territorial sea. Their delimitations determine what rights (jurisdiction and sovereignty) a given coastal state is entitled to. For many years, the problem of delimiting baseline was considered in two aspects: legal (lack of clear-cut regulations and different interpretations)...

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  • PUBLIC SPEAKING

    e-Learning Courses
    • U. Kamińska
    • J. Wielgus

  • Public relations w społeczeństwie

    Publication

    - Year 2020

    W artykule stawiam tezę – powtarzając za „„Standardami profesjonalnych public relations”- o konieczności wysuwania na plan pierwszy - we wszelkich działaniach w obszarze public relations - ich zgodności z wartościami i normami etycznymi, ponieważ wszelkie działania public relations są nie tylko realizowane w przestrzeni społecznej, ale mają istotny wpływ na kształt, kondycję społeczeństwa, również na budowę demokracji i społeczeństwa...

  • Standardy Profesjonalnego Public Relations

    Publication
    • J. Barlik
    • E. Hope
    • J. Olędzki
    • K. Wojcik

    - Year 2020

    " Standardy przedstawiają wartości i pryncypia uzasadniające konieczność dokonywania odpowiednich wyborów. Public relations ma godzić interesy zleceniodawców, przedstawicieli mediów i różnych grup społeczeństwa, a przy tym pozostawać w zgodzie z normami etycznymi i odwoływać się do takich wartości jak szacunek, godność, rzetelność, uczciwość, prawda, wiarygodność, niezależność, lojalność i zaufanie. Opracowanie "Standardów profesjonalnego...

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  • Virtual designs and reconstructions of amber works: Amber craftsman simulator

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    This paper presents the concept of visualization of amber works in a virtual reality cave. It describes problems encountered during the acquisition, modeling and rendering of geometrical objects distinguished by heterogeneous transparency.

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  • Universal and contextualized public services: Digital public service innovation framework

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    - GOVERNMENT INFORMATION QUARTERLY - Year 2016

    In view of the rising social and economic inequalities, public service delivery should be both universal, i.e. independent of the recipients' social or economic status, and contextualized, i.e. able to compensate for different local needs and conditions. Reconciling both properties requires various forms of innovations, chief among them innovations in digital public services. Building upon the four-stage model underpinning the...

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  • Etyczność działań w public relations - między amoralizmem a kazuistyką

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    Artykuł jest refleksją filozoficzną dotyczącą problemów moralnych public relations i dziennikarstwa. Autorka stawia w nim tezę, że dziennikarze i specjaliści public relations – wykonując profesje, których fundamentem jest informacja, komunikacja i zaufanie społeczne - współcześnie bardzo wiele swoich działań wyłączają ze sfery tych, które mogłyby być oceniane z punktu widzenia moralności. Uznają też, że ocenie etycznej można...

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  • Rafał Janowicz dr hab. inż. arch.

    Rafał Janowicz since 2011, he is an associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Gdańsk University of Technology, at the Department of Technical Fundamentals of Architectural Design. He has graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Gdańsk University of Technology in 2001, with the major in Architecture and Urban Design, and two years later from the Faculty of Management and Economics with the major in Management...

  • Public Spaces - Coexistence and Participation

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    The paper is an attempt to answer two questions: (1) how to develop positive social relations and citizenship among residents of cities in Poland and (2) howsuitable shaping of public space affects the activation and integration of local residents.The specificity of the post-war process of urbanization in Poland - a country traditionally agricultural - was its political dimension (forced 'nationalisation' of agriculture and industrialization...

  • Public relations w działalności szkoły

    Publication

    - Year 2005

    Treść rozdziału X książki, przygotowanej pod redakcją Ewy Hope, "Public relations instytucji użyteczności publicznej" obejmuje zagadnienia związane z potrzebami współczesnej szkoły w zakresie przekazu informacji i komunikowania się z zewnętrznym otoczeniem szkoły - środowiskiem społecznym. Praktyka życia codziennego szkoły, placówki oświatowej pokazuje jak celowym zbiegiem kierowniczym jest stosowanie działań public relations....

  • Public relations w służbie demokracji

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    - Year 2008

    Artykuł pokazuje, jak realizowanie zasad demokracji jest warunkowane stosowaniem narzędzi public relations. Wolność wypowiedzi, możliwość współdecydowania o przyszłości społeczeństwa, udział w wyborach to działania charakterystyczne dla krajów demokratycznych, a urzeczywistnianie ich jest możliwe dzięki i poprzez profesjonalne PR. Historia demokracji pokazuje również, że prowadzenie działań PR jest możliwe tylko w ustroju...

  • Identification of Public Service Logic (PSL) and Public Service Motivation (PSM) elements in Open Government Data (OGD) initiatives

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    • F. Ishengoma
    • S. Deo
    • R. Gouvêa
    • G. C. Wiedenhöft
    • R. Matheus
    • C. H. Alexopoulos
    • N. Rizun
    • S. Saxena

    - Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries - Year 2023

    While previous research on Open Government Data (OGD) has primarily focused on reuse and adoption, this study aims to explore the implications of the Public Service Logic (PSL) and Public Service Motivation (PSM) dimensions in the context of OGD initiatives. This study is contextualized in Tanzania wherein the OGD initiatives are at an evolving stage. For the present study, the perspectives of the 15 public officials involved in...

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  • The reception of Adam Smith´s works in Poland from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries

    Publication

    - Year 2002

    Omówiono recepcję twórczości Adama Smitha w Polsce od końca XVIII w. do cza-sów najnowszych. Oprócz krótkiego wprowadzenia historycznego przedstawiono recepcję dwóch dzieł A. Smitha: ''Bogactwa narodów'' oraz ''Teorii uczuć moral-nych''. Praca zawiera liczne przypisy i odsyłacze do źródeł, a także Appendix: Early editions of the Adam Smithłs Works in Warsaw and Gdańsk [Wczesne edycje dzieł Adama Smitha w bibliotekach polskich...

  • Public relations - czy to się sprawdzi?

    Publication

    - Year 2004

    Książka jest analizą najczęstrzych problemów związanych z prowadzeniem działań public relations, ilustrowaną rysunkami Zbigniewa Jujki. Książka zawiera też słownki PR.

  • Looking for New Ideas of Public Space – Public Space Projects in Gdansk Reinforced by Art Activities

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    - Year 2012

    Revitalization of public open spaces is a complex enterprise in Poland in terms of the art, cultural andinformation aspects of this process. Simultaneously the public space should play an important role whenbuilding the quality of revitalization programs and the quality of city development. The new art and culturalactivities are the revitalization tools, which are also the good examples of bottom up ideas helping to start aprocess...

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  • Digital Public Service Innovation: Framework Proposal

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    - Year 2016

    This paper proposes the Digital Public Service Innovation Framework that extends the "standard" provision of digital public services according to the emerging, enhanced, transactional and connected stages underpinning the United Nations Global e-Government Survey, with seven example "innovations" in digital public service delivery -- transparent, participatory, anticipatory, personalized, co-created, context-aware and context-smart....

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  • Promocja biblioteki i public relations

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    - Year 2019

    W artykule omówiono problematykę promocji, kreowania wizerunku i public relations bibliotek. W opracowaniu przedstawiono organizowanie działalności promocyjnej na przykładzie pracy zespołu ds. promocji Biblioteki Politechniki Gdańskiej.

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  • Public relations - refleksje prawie filozoficzne

    Publication

    - Year 2005

    Artykuł podejmuje próbę całościowej analizy zjawiska tak bardzo rozpowszechnionego w ostatnich latach w Polsce, nazywanego potocznie czarnym public relations. W artykule przedstawiono nie tylko różne znaczenia tego pojęcia, sytuacje, w których ten rodzaj działalności jest najczęściej stosowany, ale też stosowane na świecie nazwy dla tego rodzaju działań.Artykuł podejmuje próbę całościowej analizy zjawiska tak bardzo rozpowszechnionego...

  • Assessing the Risk in Urban Public Transport for Epidemiologic Factors

    Pandemics have presented new challenges for public transport organisers and operators. New diseases (e.g., influenza H1N1, severe acute respiratory syndrome—SARS, as well as, more recently, SARS-CoV-2) increase the need for new protection measures to prevent epidemic outbreaks in public transport infrastructure. The authors’ goal is to present a set of actions in the area of public transport that are adjusted to different levels...

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  • Travel Time of Public Transport Vehicles Estimation

    Effective prediction of speed is central to advanced traveler information and transportation management systems. The speed of public transport vehicles is affected by many external factors including traffic volume, organization and infrastructure. The literature presents methods for estimating travel time on sections of a transport network and vehicle arrival at stops, often making use of the AVL (automatic vehicle location). The...

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  • Public relations w organizacji - Nowy

    e-Learning Courses
    • E. Hope

  • PHONEME DISTORTION IN PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS

    Publication

    - Year 2015

    The quality of voice messages in speech reinforcement and public address systems is often poor. The sound engineering projects of such systems take care of sound intensity and possible reverberation phenomena in public space without, however, considering the influence of acoustic interference related to the number and distribution of loudspeakers. This paper presents the results of measurements and numerical simulations of the...

  • Public relations jako funkcja zarządzania.

    Publication

    - Year 2004

    Artykuł w książce.Artykuł pokazuje ważną rolę działań public relations w każdym przedsiębiorstwie/organizacji, sytuując te działania w sferze zarządzania. artykułm pokazuje strategiczną funkcję działań PR, jako prac związanych z kreowaniem - komunikowaniem dobrej reputacji, opinii.

  • Distinctive facades of commercial buildings and the quality of public space,

    Publication

    Mutual relations between the retail center and public spaces of the city are varied. They depend on the type and size of the commercial structure. Other ones are for multifunctional shopping centers and other for high streets. In megastores and shopping malls the essential for their functioning is their interior and entrance, which is sometimes the only place of interpenetration of the commercial structure with the surrounding...

  • Cointegration and how it works for structural health monitoring

    Publication

    - Measurement - Year 2023

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  • It is not OK but it works – unproductive entrepreneurship, the case of Poland

    The concept of unproductive entrepreneurs was introduced to science by Baumol, who pointed out the differences in business output between countries. Unproductive behaviour of entrepreneurs is often a consequence of ineffective institutions used by entrepreneurs for rent seeking. The aim of this article is to examine subjective norms (S.N.) and attitudes regarding specified types of unproductive entrepreneurship, which in many cases...

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  • Solar-wind system for lightning of public areas

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    - Year 2011

    Solar-wind system was developed for illumination of public large areas. The energy of this system becomes from renewable sources. Furthermore, they are relatively inexpensive, and the production of pollutants or greenhouse gases are reduced.