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Wyniki wyszukiwania dla: BRAND PERFORMANCE, CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY, CORPORATE REPUTATION, CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR), CSR CULTURE, CSR PRACTICE, EMPLOYEE BRAND COMMITMENT, JOB SATISFACTION, PROJECT MANAGEMENT, STAKEHOLDER PRESSURE, SUSTAINABILITY

  • Technological and Media Platforms: Redefinition of Meanings as Symbolic Power over the Discourse

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2020

    Redefining the meanings of such social terms as “likes” and “friends” on Facebook is a popular practice. In terms of consistency, the (auto)-redefinition of the term “platform” is itself particularly important from a media management perspective. The article proposes to consider the redefinition of meanings as a form of wielding non-transparent power over discourse. From this perspective, redefining a meaning is a form of holding...

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  • A Concept of Using Knowledge Models to Secure Intellectual Capital in Enterprise

    Publikacja

    Without a doubt, knowledge has become the most important resource for all companies in the world. Knowledge extended of our own observations and practice is being called experience. With the increase of knowledge and gained experience, the individual becomes more and more valuable employee in terms of business. The above mentioned knowledge can be gained only by self-improvement, which requires time and other necessary elements...

  • Krytyczne działania i czynniki sukcesu wdrażania projektów informatycznych

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2015

    Celem niniejszego artykułu jest określenie, jakie działania powinny podjąć organizacje gospodarcze, aby zidentyfikowane krytyczne czynniki sukcesu projektów informatycznych, pozwalające na zwiększenie prawdopodobieństwa pomyślnego zakończenia przedsięwzięcia, zmaterializowały się. Na potrzeby niniejszego artykułu przeprowadzono badania własne. Jako metodę wybrano analizę przypadków. Badanie przeprowadzono w organizacji, która prowadziła...

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  • Co-operation with local stakeholders: a crucial element of urban design

    In this article,the authors endeavour to illustratethe evolution of the role of local stakeholder in teaching urban planning by example of selected experiences in the Faculty of Architecture atGdańsk University of Technology(FA-GUT), Gdańsk, Poland. The timeframe covers the period from the political breakthrough in 1989 to the present. The background is composed of the social, economic and legal changes that have...

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  • PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION IN ORGANISATIONS OF REPETITIVE ACTIVITIES

    The study presents the implementation of projects in organisations that achieve business objec-tives through the implementation of repetitive actions. Projects in these organisations are, on the one hand, treated as marginal activities, while the results of these projects have significant impact on the delivery of main processes, e.g. through the introduction of new products. Human capital and solutions in this field bear impact...

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  • The luminescence study ofNaK2Li[Li3SiO4]4:Eu coumpounds.

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    Narrowband green phosphors with high quantum efficiency are required for backlighting white light-emitting diode (WLED) devices. Materials from the A[Li3SiO4]4:Eu2+ family have recently been proposed as having superior properties to industry-standard β-SiAlON green phosphors. Here, we show that a cheap, easily synthesized host NaK2Li[Li3SiO4]4 (NKLLSO)...

  • Social Learning in Cluster Organizations and Accumulation of Technological Capability

    Publikacja

    - Inzinerine Ekonomika-Engineering Economics - Rok 2022

    The purpose of the paper is to present how members of cluster organizations perceive their role in the accumulation of technological capability through social learning. The paper presents the results of a qualitative study of four cluster organizations. The theoretical foundation of the study are the communities of practice and the organizational inertia theories. The study indicates that the dynamics of technological capability...

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  • ‘The Urban Walk Architecture Talk’— Bridging Socially Engaged Art, Urban Processes and Cultural Development

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2019

    “Urban Walk—Architecture Talk” is a project based on an elective seminar under the same title organized at the Faculty of Architecture of Gdańsk University of Technology. It aims at getting familiar with the topic of multi-layer and multi-sensory reception of public space, mainly by recognizing the needs of its users. Additionally, it deals with the consequences of such perception and the use of space in order to build more complete...

  • Analyzing content of tasks in Business Process Management. Blending task execution and organization perspectives

    Publikacja

    - COMPUTERS IN INDUSTRY - Rok 2021

    An efficient organization, management, and execution of tasks are central for the successful functioning of any organization. This topic was on the research agenda already in the early 1950s and keeps attracting the scientific community's attention today. Continuous advances and penetration of technologies in organizations are expected to increase task variety and complexity. This creates a constant demand for new methods to analyze,...

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  • Application of multi-criteria methods to compare different solutions of supplying buildings in electricity from photovoltaic systems

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2016

    Nowadays, the technologies of electricity generation in distributed systems are usually associated with Renewable Energy Sources (RES). The choice of the construction site depends mainly on the availability of the power system. However, energy planning, especially in case of RES, is a complex process involving multiple and often conflicting objectives. The complexity of the selection of the electricity system is typically addressed...

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  • Lighting conditions in home office and occupant’s perception: Exploring drivers of satisfaction

    Publikacja

    - ENERGY AND BUILDINGS - Rok 2022

    This paper depicts lighting home office conditions within different countries and continents, emphasizing the user’s satisfaction with the visual environment. The scope of this article is to investigate the drivers of participants’ satisfaction with the lighting conditions at the home office. The study was developed by a team of international experts working together on Subtask A: User perspective and requirements, Task 61 IEA...

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  • Agile Media Management Approach – an analysis

    This article studies media management and demonstrates a fresh perspective on the new approach based on agile methodologies of project management. The analysis sequentially presents a literature overview of media and its management, the characteristics of media projects, agile project management, an analysis of agile approaches and media management along with the proposal of a...

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  • Wiktoria Wojnicz dr hab. inż.

    DSc in Mechanics (in the field of Biomechanics)  - Lodz Univeristy of Technology, 2019  PhD in Mechanics (in the field of Biomechanics)  - Lodz Univeristy of Technology, 2009 (with distinction)   Publikacje z listy MNiSW (2009 - ) Wojnicz W., Wittbrodt E., Analysis of muscles' behaviour. Part I. The computational model of muscle. Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics, Vol. 11, No.4, 2009, p. 15-21 Wojnicz W., Wittbrodt E., Analysis...

  • Nowe wyzwania, nowe rozwiązania. Jak przedsiębiorstwo branży IT odnajduje się w erze VUCA?

    Publikacja

    Zmienność, niepewność, złożoność i niejednoznaczność, określane akronimem VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) towarzyszą funkcjonowaniu każdego przedsiębiorstwa. Jak wykorzystać te nieodłączne cechy otoczenia przedsiębiorstw jako szanse dla ich rozwoju to wy-zwania stojące przed nimi, a zarazem pytanie badawcze artykułu. Celem artykułu jest wykazanie, na przykładzie przedsiębiorstwa branży IT, że analiza zmienności,...

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  • Pawel Polaczyk dr inż.

    Osoby

    Dr. Pawel Polaczyk is a scholar in civil engineering and a civil engineering practitioner in pavement engineering. Dr. Polaczyk is originally from Warsaw, Poland, where he received his B.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Transportation from Warsaw University of Technology. His Master`s and Doctorate degrees in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Geotechnology and Materials Engineering are from the University...

  • Night in a big city. Light festivals as a creative medium used at night and their impact on the authority, significance and prestige of a city

    Publikacja

    Cities in times of global urbanization, are looking for completely new marketing methods, one such tool is the creative use of artificial light after dark, in the form of light festivals. This paper aims to introduce the historical development of the phenomenon and contemporary as well as contemporary illuminations / projects of illuminations of Fete des Lumieres festival in Lyon, Luminale in Frankfurt or on a smaller scale Lights...

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  • Pronouncement of embedded agency in the field of social entrepreneurship

    Publikacja

    The paper provides insights into how social entrepreneurship and the institutional theory framework can be combined. The author situates the social entrepreneurship phenomenon here, and embarks on the traditional structure vs agency debate from social sciences, sociology of organizations in particular. The concept of embedded agency is referred to and employed to explain the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship. In this paper,...

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  • Attitudes towards Collaboration in Multicultural Teams in the opinion of Polish and Chinese Students

    The main goal of this paper is to present results of research that addresses the issue of attitudes towards working in both multicultural and single culture teams among Polish and Chinese students. The relationship between those attitudes and factors that includes individual experiences of research participants as well as characteristics of team tasks was analyzed. The research was conducted with students of one Polish and one...

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  • Wireless Networks as an Infrastructure for Mission-Critical Business Applications

    Publikacja

    Despite the dynamic growth of wireless network systems, their pres-ence in business-support infrastructure has been limited. In the article we provide an overview of generic corporate network architecture and examine usefulness of available wireless network solutions in such systems. Following this overview we analyze new wireless network architecture which currently undergoes standardization process - wireless mesh. It can result...

  • Experience-Driven Model of Decision-Making Processes in Project Teams

    This article presents a model of decision-making processes in project teams. Project teams constitute a specific type of organization appointed to implement a project. Decisions made by project teams result from the methods of project management and best management practices. The authors have undertaken the task of formalizing these processes using the classical method of constructing decision trees. It has been established that...

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  • Quiet Quitting and its Link With Knowledge Risks in Organizations – Theoretical Insights

    Publikacja

    Purpose: Quiet quitting has become a widely publicized concept, driven by social media in the United States and other countries in 2022. It is a term used to describe the phenomenon by which employees do the least amount of their work, just enough to meet the requirements of one’s job description (Mahand and Caldwell, 2023). The trend is spreading quickly among young workers. It can potentially harm individuals, job performance,...

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  • Resourcing in social enterprise – content analysis of 'good practices' profiled in 'Atlas of social economy' in Poland

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2015

    The aim of this paper is to analyze and show what processes accompany resource mobilization among social enterprises. For this, the author uses a sample of 25 ‘good practice’ examples selected and presented in ‘Atlas of social economy’ in Poland, in the most popular and well-established knowledge base web portal on social economy and social enterprise in Poland. The author makes an attempt at deconstructing the profiles of the...

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  • INBETS+ Innowacyjny model transferu biznesu dla MSP w RMB +

    Projekty

    Kierownik projektu: dr inż. Marzena Grzesiak   Program finansujący: Europejska Współpraca Terytorialna

    Projekt realizowany w Katedra Zarządzania zgodnie z porozumieniem #016 z dnia 2021-03-17

  • Systematic Assessment of Product Quality

    The article describes an innovative metrizable idea for systemic assessments of product quality within the baking industry. Complex product quality analysis requires the employment of metrizability criteria for factors that impact the quality of the product, and these are called determinants. Therefore, such analysis is only possible with the use of systems engineering. A system represents the potential of a manufacturing process,...

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  • Adopting Collaborative Games into Agile Requirements Engineering

    Publikacja

    In agile software development, where great emphasis is put on effective informal communication involving diverse stakeholders, success depends on human and social factors. Not surprisingly, the Agile Manifesto advocates principles and values such as “individuals and interactions over processes and tools”, “focus on the customer”, “collaborate regularly”, “communicate face-to-face within the team” and “have regular team introspection”....

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  • Fake News: Possibility of Identification in Post-Truth Media Ecology System

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2019

    Information comes as basic good which affects social well-being. A modern society and a modern state – its administration, education, culture, national economy and armed forces – cannot function efficiently without a rationally developed field of information. The quality of the functioning of that system depends on a specific feature of information, that is namely: its reliability which makes it possible for us to evaluate accuracy,...

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  • Farzin Kazemi Ph.D. Student at Gdansk University of Technology

    Osoby

    His main research areas are seismic performance assessment of structures and seismic hazard analysis in earthquake engineering. He performed a comprehensive study on the effect of pounding phenomenon and ‎proposed modification factors to modify the seismic collapse capacity of ‎structures or predict the seismic collapse capacity of structures which were ‎retrofitted with linear and nonlinear Fluid Viscous Dampers (FVDs).‎ His current...

  • Use of Daylight and Aesthetic Image of Glass Facades in Contemporary Buildings

    Publikacja

    The paper deals with the architecture of contemporary buildings in respect to their aesthetic image created by the use of natural light. Sustainability is regarded as a principle of contemporary architecture, where daylighting is an important factor as it affects energy consumption and environmental quality of the space inside a building. Environmental awareness of architecture, however, involves a much wider and more holistic...

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  • Elgold intermediate: raw texts

    Dane Badawcze

    The dataset contains raw texts scrapped from various internet sources which were used for creating the Elgold dataset.

  • Andrzej Chybicki dr inż.

    Z wykształcenia informatyk, absolwent Wydziału Elektroniki, Telekomunikacji i Informatyki Politechniki Gdańskiej, doktor nauk technicznych w dziedzinie informatyka specjalizujący się w przetwarzaniau danych przestrzennych w rozproszonych systemach informatycznych. Ukierunkowany na wykorzystywanie osiągnięć i wiedzy zakresu prowadzonych badań w przemyśle. Współpracował z szeregiem podmiotów przemysłu informatycznego, geodezyjnego...

  • Elektroniczne instrumenty komunikacji marketingowej w marketingu usług medycznych

    Nie ma wątpliwości, że wielu polskich świadczeniodawców usług zdrowotnych korzysta z Internetu do komunikowania się z pacjentami. Jednocześnie chcą oni stworzyć wizerunek marki jako bardziej nowoczesnej i atrakcyjnej. Elektroniczna komunikacja marketingowa (szczególnie serwisy informacyjne, serwisy społecznościowe, blogi, fora, microblogi, wyszukiwarki, marketing mobilny) ma coraz większe znaczenie w marketingu usług medycznych,...

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  • MULTI-CRITERIA INVESTMENT DECISION SUPPORT MODEL USING FUZZY ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (F-AHP) METHOD FOR POWER INDUSTRY

    In this paper, the comparative analysis of two wind farm construction projects was presented. This particular type of analysis is commonly applied before purchasing investment project being in a planning phase by a company interested in its development. Conduction of this type of analysis is prompted by the necessity to take into consideration the requirements of Polish legislation. Comparison of wind farm construction projects...

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  • DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF TILTED WALLS IN ACCORDANCE WITH CODES' PROVISIONS ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MUSEUM OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN GDAŃSK

    Publikacja

    The purpose of this article was to introduce the design and construction of tiled walls in accordance to codes' restrictions. The construction of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk was chosen to be an example of its successful use in practice. Theoretical knowledge was based on PN-EN 1992-1-1:2008 and fib Model Code for Concrete Structures 2010. Although codes' recommendations seem curt, practice prove structural advance....

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  • Nanofiltration in the food industry

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2020

    Nanofiltration (NF), as a pressure-driven membrane process, has been widely demonstrated to have great potential for food processing applications. There are several advantages of this membrane process over traditional methods that makes NF suitable for food processing, such as the low thermal damage to the product, higher aroma retention, lower energy consumption, and low maintenance costs. In this chapter, according to the recent...

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  • Dynamic Bankruptcy Prediction Models for European Enterprises

    This manuscript is devoted to the issue of forecasting corporate bankruptcy. Determining a firm’s bankruptcy risk is one of the most interesting topics for investors and decision-makers. The aim of the paper is to develop and to evaluate dynamic bankruptcy prediction models for European enterprises. To conduct this objective, four forecasting models are developed with the use of four different methods—fuzzy sets, recurrent and...

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  • Building Information Modelling as an opportunity and risk for stakeholders involved in construction investment process

    The requirements to apply Building Information Modelling (BIM) in public investments worldwide are currently very high. Significant interest (sometimes formulated also as a requirement) in BIM technology can be observed also among private investors. Design technology that applies BIM is supported by many private investors due to its numerous advantages. A growing group of construction designers (steel, concrete and reinforced concrete...

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  • Jacek Krenz dr hab. inż. arch.

    Ur. 11 maja 1948 w Poznaniu – polski architekt, malarz, profesor Wydziału Architektury Politechniki Gdańskiej, Wydziału Architektury, Inżynierii i Sztuki Sopockiej Szkoły Wyższej, W latach 70. członek Grupy Kadyńskiej, skupiającej plastyków i architektów związanych z Międzynarodowymi Plenerami "Ceramika dla architektury" w Kadynach. W roku 1980 uzyskał stopień doktora, a w 1997 – doktora habilitowanego. Prowadzi badania na temat...

  • In Search of Naval Beauty. Historical Study of Ship Architecture

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2018

    Designing ships is no mean achievement. In the old days, constructors focused on making their ships visually appealing, while paying scant regard to the living conditions of the crew. Such an approach reflected the state of the art in ship building at the time as well as the social order prevalent in those days. A breakthrough came no earlier than at the turn of the 19th / 20th centuries. The industrial revolution brought along...

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  • Tools for road infrastructure safety management in Poland

    The objective of road safety infrastructure management is to ensure that when roads are planned, designed, built and used road risks can be systematically identified, assessed, removed and mitigated. There are a number of approaches to road safety management. European Union Directive 2008/96/EC requires EU member states to use four basic tools of road safety infrastructure management. An overview of the methods in these countries...

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  • DEFORMATIONS OF INNOVATIVE COLD-FORMED GEB SECTIONS

    Publikacja

    Permanent urban growth of the world of today world implies demanding challenges for the steel construction industry. Nowadays, one of the most important issues is the cost optimization of steel structures. Since the weight of building materials is a major component of the total cost, engineers and designers try to reduce structural weight, without compromising durability and sustainability of a steel structure. Therefore, light...

  • Optimized 5-hour multiplex PCR test for the detection of tinea unguium: performance in a routine PCR laboratory

    Publikacja
    • A. Brillowska-Dabrowska
    • S. S. Nielsen
    • H. V. Nielsen
    • M. C. Arendrup

    - MEDICAL MYCOLOGY - Rok 2010

    We recently reported the development of a 5-hour multiplex PCR test for the detection of tinea unguium and the optimization of this test by the inclusion of an inhibition control. Here we report the performance of this procedure as used in a routine clinical laboratory as compared to conventional microscopy and culture-based techniques performed in a mycology reference laboratory. We found in processing 109 samples that 22 (20.2%)...

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  • From evil demiurge to caring hero: Images of geneticists in the movies

    Publikacja

    Although images of science and scientists depicted in popular culture have been criticized as an exaggeration and fear mongering, the cinema is an important resource that influences individuals’ beliefs about science. Because popular depictions of science play a crucial role in constructing the public’s ‘scientific imaginary’ they constitute an inherent dimension of the social understanding of science and are as important for...

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  • Towards a process based management system for oil port infrastructure in context of insurance

    This article addresses selected methodological aspects of a process based management system based on analysis of hazards and threats and risk evaluation for an oil port infrastructure in context of insurance. The oil port terminal is regarded as important system of the critical infrastructure that require careful system oriented approach to deal with integrated aspects of environmental, safety and security management to reduce...

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  • Parametric analysis of Istanbul's Ring Road viaduct for three levels of seismic load

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2015

    The paper presents a parametric analysis of the Istanbul's ring road viaduct that is currently under construction within the Northern Marmara Highway project. The structure, due to its location on seismic prone areas is exposed to seismic loads of different strengths and different return periods. The study is focused on concrete bridge supports that are design to work in nonlinear range. The parametric study, conducted in MATLAB...

  • THE ONLINE APPLICATION AND E-LEARNING IN THE COMPETENCE-BASED MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ORGANIZATIONS

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2014

    The integration of effective management of work-related processes and utilization of human resources potential leads to the development of organization. The purpose of this paper was to examine how the principles of competences-based management can be introduced to enhance organization’s effectiveness in human resources management. A model of assessment and development of competences-based management, embracing an online application...

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  • The EU Tyre Noise Label: The problem with measuring the noise level of only a few of all tyre variants

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2022

    The STEER project, described in another Inter-Noise 2022 paper, has evaluated the performance of the noise label of the European tyre label. The major finding was that uncertainties of the tyre/road noise measurements were higher than should be accepted. One of the worst uncertainty sources was found to be the common practice to measure only some tyres of all sizes or variants within a tyre line, to save money. Generally, only...

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  • Data from terrestrial laser scanning: The Forge in the district of Gdańsk Orunia

    Dane Badawcze
    open access

    Within the frames of the use of terrestrial laser scanning we find numerous examples of registration of building facilities, including also historical and valuable in their culture. Data were acquired using a Leica Geosystems C10 laser scanner. Data embrace blacksmith forges a historic building located in Gdańsk Orunia, 10 Goscinna Street. Scanning...

  • Branża IT – wyzwania związane z zarządzaniem kapitałem ludzkim

    Artykuł dotyczy procesów zarządzania kapitałem ludzkim w firmach IT, w których największe wyzwania wiążą się z dwoma obszarami: zatrudniania i zatrzymywania specjalistów IT w organizacji. Działy HR prześcigają się w stosowaniu coraz to nowszych rozwiązań, aby pozyskać oraz motywować kompetentnych informatyków do pracy na rzecz firmy. Głównym celem artykułu jest prezentacja działań dotyczących rekrutacji oraz motywowania pracowników...

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  • “Project-factor-decision”. Decisive factors in IT projects and their impact on its success

    The aim of this article is to indicate the need for a deepening, systematizing and codifying of the theoretical and practical knowledge on IT project management, in the area of management decision-making processes. The scope of decisions made by managers is constantly on the increase. Project managers make decisions not only within the classic triangle of constraints, which consists of a schedule, a budget and the project scope,...

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  • Forest management

    Kursy Online
    • S. Klisz

    The last ice age ended in Scandinavia about 15 000 years ago. The land was gradually occupied by present tree species. Human settlement followed the vegetation. The first forest uses were hunting and gathering. Animal husbandry and forest grazing came later. Shifting cultivation was a wide spread form of agriculture, especially in Sweden and Finland. Wood was first used for domestic purposes and for construction, In the 18th century,...