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Characteristics of patients with abdominal and/or pelvic injury reporting to Emergency Departments
No full textA fool's errand? : quantifying democratic fragility
No full textThe chapter reviews selected democracy indices, as well as rankings of phenomena closely related to the stability of democratic regimes. It outlines the main controversies surrounding efforts to measure the condition of democratic regimes across the world and current trends in quantitative studies, along with considerations regarding the applicability of datasets to a project focused on the state of democratic fragility. The review of data provided in selected democratic rankings serves to outline a fragility map based on quantifiable indicators that reflect the features of democratic institutions, political elites and civil society, as well as a broad range of unfavourable conditions affecting democratic systems. In the final section, the ratings assigned in the indices to the states analysed in the chapters of the second part of the book are briefly outlined. This will allow us to highlight the limitations and shortfalls of quantitative assessments of democracy and the necessity to extend them through qualitative analysis
2-strong uniqueness of a best approximation and of minimal projections in complex polytope norms and their duals
No full textWe study a property of 2-strong uniqueness of a best approximation in a class of finite-dimensional complex normed spaces, for which the unit ball is an absolutely convex hull of finite number of points and in its dual class. We prove that, contrary to the real case, these two classes do not coincide but are in fact disjoint. We provide several examples of situations in these two classes, where a uniqueness of an element of a best approximation in a given subspace implies its 2-strong uniqueness. In particular, such a property holds for approximation in an arbitrary subspace of the complex space, but not of the complex space. However, this is true in general under an additional assumption that a subspace has a real basis and an ambient complex normed space is generated by real vectors or functionals. We apply our results and related methods to establish some results concerned with 2-strongly unique minimal projections in complex normed spaces, proving among other things, that a minimal projection onto a two-dimensional subspace of an arbitrary three-dimensional complex normed space is 2-strongly unique, if its norm is greater than 1
Gardening forking paths : the figure of the rambunctious garden and relational ethics of attentiveness and care
No full textThis chapter aims to study how and to what effect the ages-old notion of nature is being imaginatively redefined by selected works of the 21st-century U.S. literature in response to the complex uncertainty elicited by the advent of the new geological epoch of the Anthropocene, brought on by the rapidly unfolding anthropogenic ecological breakdown. In so doing, it regards such uncertainty as an opening of ethical possibility and examines what better ways of relating and relating to the world beyond the human may emerge out of the newly volatile idea of nature set into motion by the ongoing reckoning with what Lynn Keller defines as the “self-conscious Anthropocene,” at once a vertiginous realisation and a radical reorganisation of the planetary interrelations. Drawing on Emma Marris’s theorisation of the epoch’s uncertain natures as “rambunctious gardens,” the ongoing redefinition of the human-nature interrelatedness is situated in the inherently fluctuating figure of the garden, simultaneously natural and cultural, and the practices of attentiveness and care that are commonly associated both with the process of gardening and the more-than-human relational ethics. Weaving together four highly variegated texts centred around gardens and gardening (David Searcy’s 2001 novel Ordinary Horror, Robin Wall Kimmerer’s 2013 treatise Braiding Sweetgrass, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s 2013 poetry collection Hello, the Roses, and Camille T. Dungy’s 2023 memoir Soil), the chapter elaborates on how attending to the elusive reconfigurations of the concept of nature in the Anthropocene may help us become reconciled to the world’s irresolvable uncertainty and develop an ethic of tending its contingently forking paths towards a better future of coexistence and co-creation
Synthesis of antiviral drug tecovirimat and its key maleimide intermediates using organocatalytic mumm rearrangement at ambient conditions
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Circulating endothelial dysfunction biomarkers in patients with active ulcerative colitis : association with disease severity
No full textVital tradition
No full textAutor koncentruje się na opisie religijności ludowej. Interpretuje zarówno zachowania tradycyjnej wsi jak i współczesne praktyki na terenie wielkiego miasta - Krakowa. Prezentując swój wywód rozpatruje najpierw wieloznaczność terminu "religijność ludowa", zwłaszcza w kontekście gdy dawny "lud" przeszedł już do historii. Następnie autor rozwodzi się na temat magicznych pokładów tej formacji religijnej. Przechodzi do jej odświętnego charakteru. Wreszcie ukazuje, jak doniosłą rolę odgrywały w niej kobiety. Pewnym podsumowaniem całości są wspomnienia autora poczynione podczas tak zwanych wigilii krakowskich, gdzie także religijność ludowa się wyrażała.The author focuses on describing folk religiosity. He interprets both traditional rural behavior and contemporary practices in the large city of Krakow. In presenting his argument, he first considers the ambiguity of the term “folk religiosity,” especially in a context where the former “folk” has already become history. The author then elaborates on the magical aspects of this religious formation. He moves on to its festive character. He shows how important a role women played in it. The author's memories of the so-called Krakow Christmas Eve celebrations, where folk religiosity was also expressed, serve as a summary of the whole
