319 research outputs found
Data on the number and frequency of scientific literature citations for established medulloblastoma cell lines
No full textThis article collates information about the number of scientific articles mentioning each of the established medulloblastoma cell lines, derived through a systematic search of Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar in 2016. The data for each cell line have been presented as raw number of citations, percentage share of the total citations for each search engine and as an average percentage between the three search engines. In order to correct for the time since each cell line has been in use, the raw citation data have also been divided by the number of years since the derivation of each cell line. This is a supporting article for a review of in vitro models of medulloblastoma published in “in vitro models of medulloblastoma: choosing the right tool for the job” (D.P. Ivanov, D.A. Walker, B. Coyle, A.M. Grabowska, 2016) [1]
Rewitalizacja tożsamości regionalnej
No full textAutorka w artykule podejmuje problematykę rewitalizacji regionów i tożsamości regionalnej po 1989 roku w Polsce. Wskazuje na potrzebę prowadzenia edukacji regionalnej rozumianej jako projekt „nakierowany na człowieka”, w toku którego będzie on miał możliwość poznawania i kształtowania siebie, budowania swojej tożsamości. Autorka podkreśla znaczenie zakorzenienia w „małej ojczyźnie”, stanowiącego bazę dla wielowymiarowej tożsamości. The author of the article raises the issue of the revitalization of regions
and regional identity in Poland after 1989. She points to the need for providing
regional education understood as a project “aimed at a person”. In the
course of this project, the person will have the opportunity to cognize and shape
themselves, build their identity. The author stresses the importance of the process
of taking root in the “little homeland” as a basis for multidimensional identity.Bauman Z., 1997: Glokalizacja, czyli komu globalizacja, a komu lokalizacja. „Studia Socjologiczne”, nr 3.Brzezińska A. I., 2006: Dzieciństwo i dorastanie: korzenie tożsamości osobistej i społecznej. W: Edukacja regionalna. Red. A. W. Brzezińska, A. Hulewska, J. Słomska, 2006: Warszawa.Giddens A., 2007: Nowoczesność i tożsamość. „Ja” i społeczeństwo w epoce późnej nowoczesności. Warszawa.Gordon M., 1964: Assimilation In American Life. The Role of Race, Religion, and National Origin. New York. Za: J. Nikitorowicz, 2000: Młodzież pogranicza kulturowego Polski, Białorusi i Ukrainy wobec integracji europejskiej. Białystok.Grabowska B., 2006: Tożsamość narodowa młodzieży na pograniczu cieszyńskim w sytuacji zmiany społecznej. W: Z teorii i praktyki edukacji międzykulturowej. Red. T. Lewowicki, E. Ogrodzka-Mazur. Cieszyn-Warszawa.Grabowska B., 2013: Poczucie tożsamości młodzieży uczącej się w szkołach z polskim językiem nauczania na Białorusi, Ukrainie i w Republice Czeskiej. Katowice – Toruń.Huntington S. P., 2003: Zderzenie cywilizacji i nowy kształt ładu społecznego. Warszawa.Jerschina J., Sołdra-Gwiżdż T., 1988: Rola szkoły w kształtowaniu świadomości narodowej młodzieży w warunkach pogranicza kulturowego. „Kultura i Społeczeństwo”, nr 4, cz. 1 oraz 1989, nr 1, cz. 2.Kossak-Główczewski K., 1996: Edukacja regionalna a regionalizacja nauczania jako odmiany racjonalności (pytania o szansę dekolonizacji poprzez edukację. W: Społeczności pogranicza – wielokulturowość – edukacja. Red. T. Lewowicki, B. Grabowska. Cieszyn.Kossak-Główczewski K., Frankiewicz W., 1996: Edukacja regionalna i alternatywna. Założenia i program pierwszego Podyplomowego Studium Edukacji Regionalnej i Alternatywnej w Uniwersytecie Gdańskim. W: Społeczności pogranicza – wielokulturowość – edukacja. Red. T. Lewowicki, B. Grabowska. Cieszyn.Koter M., 1993; Region polityczny - geneza, ewolucja i morfologia. W: Region, regionalizm - pojęcia i rzeczywistość. Zbiór studiów. Red. K. Handke. Warszawa.Nikitorowicz J., 2000: Młodzież pogranicza kulturowego Polski, Białorusi i Ukrainy wobec integracji europejskiej. Białystok.Nikitorowicz J., 2001: Wielopłaszczyznowa i ustawicznie kreująca się tożsamość w społeczeństwie wielokulturowym a edukacja międzykulturowa. W: Kultury tradycyjne a kultura globalna, konteksty edukacji międzykulturowej. Red. J. Nikitorowicz, M. Sobecki, D. Misiejuk. Białystok.Nikitorowicz J., 2005: Kreowanie tożsamości dziecka. Gdańsk.Nikitorowicz J., 2006: Edukacja regionalna na pograniczach. W: Edukacja regionalna. Red. A. W. Brzezińska, A. Hulewska, J. Słomska. Warszawa.Ogrodzka-Mazur E., 2000: Regionalizm w procesie edukacji szkolnej. W: Szkoła na pograniczach. Red. T. Lewowicki, A. Szczurek-Boruta. Katowice.Petrykowski P. P., 2003: Edukacja regionalna. Problemy podstawowe i otwarte, Toruń.Sakson A., 1998: Specyfika procesów społeczno-kulturowych społeczeństw postmigracyjnych. W: Tożsamość społeczeństwa Warmii i Mazur. Red. B. Domaga, A. Sakson. Olsztyn.
Sołdra-Gwiżdż T., 1992: Szkoła jako instytucja wpływająca na kształt więzi regionalnych. Opole.
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Świątkiewicz W., 1994: Region i regionalizm w perspektywie antropocentrycznego paradygmatu kultury. W: Regionalizm polski u progu XXI wieku. Red. S. Bednarek i in. Ciechanów.
Tajfel, 1982: Introduction. W: Social Identity and Intergroup Relations. Red. H. Tajfel. Cambridge 1982, s. 2. Za: R.Szczurek-Boruta A., Grabowska B., 2009; Dynamika kształtowania się tożsamości młodzieży – ku tożsamości wzbogaconej. W: Poczucie tożsamości i stosunek młodzieży do wybranych kwestii społecznych – studium z pogranicza polsko-czeskiego. Red. T. Lewowicki, E. Ogrodzka-Mazur, A. Szczurek-Boruta. Cieszyn – Warszawa – Toruń.Szwed, 2003: Tożsamość a obcość kulturowa. Studium empiryczne na temat związków pomiędzy tożsamością społeczno-kulturalną a stosunkiem do obcych. Lublin
Polish feminism between East and West: the formation of the Polish women’s movement identity
No full textBy focusing on the unique forces that shape women’s movements in the post-communist context, this dissertation asks if the established geopolitical and theoretical frameworks, based on dichotomies between East and West, South and North can be utilized outside these locations. Or is a new framework necessary to fully understand the specific processes that are at work in the ambiguous “Second” World location? Chapter One, traces the individual and collective trajectories of Polish women’s movement to the 19th century anti-partition mobilizations, the Second World War, the 1968 students’ liberation movement, the “Solidarity” labor union, and the 1990s Polish debate on abortion. Chapter Two identifies two elements as crucial for the unique development of transnational activism in the context of CEE: 1) its trajectory (“late” arrival into the international feminist space) and 2) the domination and critique of the EU “gender mainstreaming” paradigm within gender social justice discourses. Chapter Three recognizes the 1990s “abortion debate” became in impulse for the feminisms to move beyond the borders of the conservative nation state and bring the question of women’s sexual rights into the supranational political spaces and became a momentum for the emergence of versatile, vibrant mobilizations for gender and sexual justice in Poland and (e.g. European Court of Justice decision in the case of Alicja Tysiac against the Polish state). Chapter Four argues that secularism that had become, a necessary feminist response to violent and oppressive discourses that act to restrict women’s sexualities and rights, has also hindered feminist connectivity with religious women. In Poland a purification of the sexuality, emergence of the “political Catholicism” and “secular feminism” produced the subaltern, traveling identities of Catholic feminists. Chapter Five examines re-appropriation of the Anti-Semitic language of civic strangeness, historically represented by Polish Jews to the experience of sexual minorities. In conclusion this dissertation delineates two factors as decisive for current positionality of the “Second” world in the transnational feminist theory and practice: the rejection of Marxism as representing the colonial practices from the East (Russia, Soviet Union), the priotization of the supranational engagements with the European Union and Western Europe rather then Third World.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-309)by Magdalena Grabowsk
A talk with John Grabowska, NPS filmmaker
No full textJohn discusses Yellowstone National Park and the making of his film "Land to Life".Fish & Wildlife Service—National Conservation Training Center
Conservation and Community Public Lecture Series
Speaking with John Grabowska
Speakers:
Mark Madison
John Grabowska
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Mark: Hi. Today’s Thursday, August 27th, 2009, and we’re doing a podcast with National Park Service filmmaker John Grabowska. John’s here premiering his new film, Yellowstone: Land to Life. Welcome, John. Good to have you out here.
John: Thank you. Good to be here.
Mark: Why don’t you tell us just a little bit about the film?
John: It’s a geology film, but we don’t want that to scare anybody. We didn’t use a lot of scientific, technical terms, but we did want to make the connection between the geology of Yellowstone—which, after all, was the reason the park was established, and it is one of the most fascinating geological places on earth to go. But we wanted to demonstrate the connection between the geology of Yellowstone and how it has affected not only the wildlife of Yellowstone, but the evolution of the wildlife, the plants as well as the animals. So making that connection was the primary thrust of the film.
Mark: You probably had to go to Yellowstone and scout out a number of locations.
John: Yeah, I had to.
Mark: That was a very, very tough part of your job. The second toughest job you’d ever love. You were a former Peace Corps volunteer too. But if somebody were to got o Yellowstone, what were some of the more spectacular geological places they should go to? Perhaps some that are off the beaten track or less well known?
John: Well interestingly enough one of the most heavily visited spots, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, most people don’t think of as a thermal area, although there are a few thermals that you can see. But the Yellowstone River goes over the falls 308 feet. You can go out to Artist’s Point. It’s incredibly scenic. You can take wonderful pictures, and everybody likes to see the colors and the jagged shapes of the canyon.
What is little known is that what you’re actually seeing there, eroded away by the river, is the underground of a thermal field that is now, obviously, no longer spitting geysers up into the air. So, there are, and that’s just one of thousands of examples. Yellowstone is the kind of place, unfortunately, most people only spend a day and a half to two days there. You could spend a month there, a year there, and you’re always learning something new, something fascinating, from the history, the human history of the place, as well as the big wow! The geyser fields, Old Faithful, the waterfalls, the wildlife. So it’s, as well as the microbial life in the hot springs, in those huge microbial mats around the hot springs.
That’s another thing that most people don’t know, that DNA testing, which is so common in crime labs now, came from a discovery at Yellowstone, where the microbes. I don’t exactly understand all of the science, but someone from I think the University of Wisconsin was doing research there, and tracked polymer rays, the thermaphiles that are living being that are in scalding acidic water, and was able to use that, that eventually resulted in DNA testing. So that’s the kind of thing. The earthquakes. It’s being shaken by earthquakes, not constantly, but frequently. It’s a giant volcano. It, you can see the predator, prey relationship, just the dramatic changes in riparian flora that have come about due to the introduction of an apex predator, the grew wolf. So, Yellowstone, the richness of subject matter at Yellowstone is endless.
Mark: Truth be told, a podcast doesn’t really do justice to the visual flair of this beautiful 20 minute film. Where are some of the places people could watch the film if they wanted to see it?
John: Well, the best place is in Yellowstone itself. So that you can see the film and then go outside and have an immediate personal experience with the park itself. And it is shown. Its primary venue is Canyon, the name of this little village that has a visitor’s center and lodging and is as close as a developed area as you can get to the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and Lower Falls. So in the Canyon Visitor’s Center, which was recently renovated, there’s a very large exhibit hall with outstanding scientific exhibits to examine in detail as well as broadly the geology of Yellowstone. There’s a theatre there, 250, 300 seat theatre. Superb theatre. Wonderful acoustics. It’s shown in high definition, 5.1 surround sound. So, that’s the ideal thing, is to go across the country, and go to Yellowstone and experience it there.
The park is also streaming it on their website, so that’s another method of outreach. But also, it is going to be broadcast nationally as a primetime special by PBS September 8th of this year, and then will be rebroadcast frequently at 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. and 8 p.m.
Mark: Pledge week.
John: Exactly. When I see it’s on at 2 in the morning, I think, oh, they’re aiming at the young mother with a colicky baby demographic.
But it’s what’s called an Evergreen show. The science is not so of the moment that it’s going to change. It’s a broad, big look at the geology, so the show will be as fresh 5 or 8 years from now as it is today. And on PBS it will still be seen 5 to 8 years from now. So it will probably reach in the first year of broadcast, as many, more people than would see it in the park. So, we definitely want to serve those visitors who come to the park. Give them a wonderful experience. Provide context and inspiration. But we also want to reach the people who, because of time constraints or financial constraints may not get to Yellowstone but can still get to some of the park’s interpretive programming.
Mark: Last question. You actually have a very interesting job. You are a filmmaker for the National Parks Service. What do you do exactly? I think a lot of people might not even know the Parks Service has a film unit. You’ve been doing this since 1981?
John: I have. And I’m also a planner. I work at a Service Center, the Harpers Ferry Center, about 90 miles outside of DC. And parks across the country will come to the Harpers Ferry Center, and whether they’re looking for a map, a brochure, museum exhibits, or a film, there is a cadre of experts there who can assist the park. Much of what we do is we work with them hiring a firm, sometimes geographically located, sometimes with a certain subject matter expertise, to work with that park and provide a film. And in those cases, I am their advocate. I work as an executive producer, write the scope and specs, and oversee the production of that film.
In other cases, there are some parks who have seen what I do and want the kind of film that I produce, and they come and ask for me specifically. So a lot of what I do is planning consultation with parks, serving as an advocate for them when they get a film, and in some cases, make the film specifically on that subject matter.
Mark: And what are some of the films you’ve made previous to the Yellowstone film?
John: I’ve executive produced films from New Bedford Whaling to Yosemite, and I’ve made films myself from Wrangell--St. Elias National Park Preserve in Alaska, the largest national park you’ve never heard of. At 13 million acres, it’s larger than Switzerland with higher mountains, to an interesting interagency film that covered everything from National Parks in New Mexico to State Park Land to BLM and Forest Service. So on the high desert of North Carolina, the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The Ribbon of Sand. That film has been on PBS as well. And then this Yellowstone film is the most recent one that I’ve completed.
Mark: Well John. Thank you very much for your time. We’re going to be showing John’s film tonight at 7 p.m. in his home town of Shepherdstown at the National Conservation Training Center, and hopefully we’ll have you back when your next film is done.
John: Looking forward to it.
[audio end
The libraries’ role in reading habits development – selected issues
No full textCelem autorki artykułu jest zwrócenie uwagi na znaczenie motywacji czytelniczej w procesie lekturowym. Przeanalizowane zostały publikacje związane z czytelnictwem i motywowaniem, dostępne badania czytelnicze oraz dokumenty dotyczące działalności bibliotek. Zjawiska czytelnicze omówione zostały z perspektywy psychologicznej. Podjęto próbę ukazania roli biblioteki w motywowaniu do czytania. Omówiono zarówno czynniki, które mogą temu służyć, jak i zagrożenia. Wskazano wybrane formy pracy wykorzystywane przez bibliotekarzy, mające wpływ na kształtowanie postaw czytelniczych.The article focuses on the importance of motivation in the reading process. The author analyses publications on readership and motivation, available studies and documents concerning the activities of libraries. Reading phenomena is be discussed from a psychological perspective. She also presents the role of the library in the reading encouragement, discusses the factors either facilitating or threatening this process. Selected activities of libraries influencing attitudes toward reading are characterized. Despite the decline in readership, or maybe just because of that, it is very important to undertake activities
supporting pro-reading attitudes.Udostępnienie publikacji Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego finansowane w ramach projektu „Doskonałość naukowa kluczem do doskonałości kształcenia”. Projekt realizowany jest ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego Wiedza Edukacja Rozwój; nr umowy: POWER.03.05.00-00-Z092/17-00
Edward August Landié, author of Polish coursebooks for French language teaching, and Samuel Orgelbrand, his publisher
No full textThe article presents Edward Landié (1788-1853), author of popular coursebooks for French language teaching, and its publisher, Samuel Orgelbrand (1810-1868), who highly contributed to the development of the book market in the Kingdom of Poland, in the years 1840-1868. Landié was of French origin and Orgelbrand – of a Jewish one. Both started their activities in Warsaw in the years 1829-1930. E. Landié reached the high position of the Warsaw French language teacher and became an outstanding author of coursebooks. S. Orgelbrand managed an outstanding Warsaw publishing house. Their cooperation is an example of a significant contribution of different environments into the development of education and culture not only in Warsaw but the whole trapped Poland
The Exercise of Power in a Closed Institution - Case of a Swedish Immigration Detention Centre.
No full textThe aim of this sociological study is to explore and to understand mechanisms of power being embedded in daily procedures of detention establishment with the focus on the case officers’ work tasks. In the study the emic approach is being used in order to understand from within power at detention. Observations, field notes, interviews and written documents constitute the empirical material being collected. Observations took place during the five month long working experience as an officer at a Swedish immigration detention centre. In connection with observations field notes were taken. In-depth interviews with seven case officers were conducted. Moreover, written documents originating from the Swedish Migration Agency were obtained. In order to analyze the findings, theoretical framework consisting of Foucault’s concept of power and Weber’s ideas on bureaucracy are being applied. As result of the analysis, the following themes are specified. Firstly, visibility is stressed and emphasis is put on the physical environment and daily routines. Next, double role of civil servants is being underlined and specifically their contradictory function as bureaucrats and social workers. Lastly, interaction between the staff and detainees is being highlighted, and the meaning of interaction for maintaining security at detention and striving to achieve higher numbers of co-operation with the Swedish Migration Agency. Results of the study confirm the knowledge generated by the previous research and point at the “subtle manner” of power implementation at detention. The architectural purpose of detention aims at exposing detainees to the objectifying gaze of the officers. Techniques of power, often described as tools by detention officers, are being embedded in daily routines. Control is also being exercised through various administrative implements. The everyday interaction between the staff and detainees is being influenced by the rationality of the government. Developing relations is aiming to achieve the governmental means such as the increased amount of voluntary returns. Here, bureaucracy is being employed in order to enforce the governmental means in an efficient and organized way.The author, Ewa Grabowska, investigates in her sociological study mechanisms of power at a Swedish immigration detention centre. In the research, the perspective of detention officers is being emphasized. The empirical material consists of interviews with detention officers and field notes taken in connection with observations as well as of written documents originating from the Swedish Migration Agency. The author looks at the gathered material through the lens of Foucault’s and Weber’s theories on power. The results show that power at detention is being embedded in various ways. The architecture of detention facility aims at making detainees visible. During daily routines, detainees become constantly observed and controlled by the staff. Detention officers develop various strategies in order to cope with their assignments that encompass both the administrative and social tasks. Interaction between the officers and detainees plays an important role at immigration detention since power is being intertwined with conversations. As result of daily conversations, safety and co-operation with the Swedish Migration Agency are being increased. It is to be stated in the study that power at detention is not easily delineated since it is embedded in various tools used by detention officers in their everyday work. Bureaucracy is to be seen as an efficient way of implementing the governmental goals. Power being exercised at detention is thus to be understood as influenced by the government
City Supplement
No full textThe main issue of this project is waste and how we can better deal with it. We have to make clear at this point that being myself an architect the whole project has been approached through an architectural point of view. I firmly believe that there is a clear and clean way of solving it. So, When waste can be a problem? Everything that is brought into existence plays a role in the production of waste as a side effect. Everything that prospers and lives exceeds the waste and whatever dies or is not used anymore, becomes a waste. So to say, waste are the traces of every life and existence on earth, and this is inevitable. Therefore, we have to see waste as natural. In the nature as the ecosystem the waste from one process are always reused into another one as a ready product to process. Waste is a problem only among humans. And it becomes a problem only when pollution appears...And pollution appears only when there is too much waste on a given area and natural decay cannot take place. Let’s have a look on our system. Our system is more wasteful than any other before. We focus on the quantity of products and not on the quality or sustainability of production process. We forget that everything we use is highly processed due to the achievements of production, and impossible to degrade it in a short term of time. Planned Obsolescence and highly processed goods. Economize in the terminology means... that our economy from a practical and theoretical standpoint, is wrong in the term of dealing with the waste. It does not take into account that resources are not infinite and recycling is on the very low level. It is more down-cycling. The largest centers of economy and production are big cities in developed countries. These are the accelerators of economical growth and in reverse its biggest outcome/result/product. Moreover there exactly is where the problem begins. We do not usually see the waste since municipalities collect the trash to the down-cycling centers or exceed those into land fields or even ship them to developing countries. Where the waste become a visible problem, but in reality it is only a result of the global economy. Therefore, the project has to be settled in a city that belongs to a developed country. I chose to deal architecturally with the Municipal Solid waste among a variety of different types. That way we can show how to solve in the tangible way the small part of the whole pending problem, from the beginning till the end, while being accurate with technological possibilities and capacities of our times. Because the current problems have to be solved now, not later, through architecture which its function is to be a city supplement, i.e. the part that completes and encloses the city metabolism in the field of domestic waste. In order to create such a supplement, a vast research has been made in the technologies of recycling, fields of science and additional functions that are necessary to connect to create such a project. A team of scientists, researchers, architects and designers is needed. Interdisciplinary function will provide the best performance. The overriding function of the building becomes a Research Institute for investigating new technologies in waste recycling, building prototypes from recycled materials that will be used in a city as a decentralized units for waste recycling inside the city as well as architectural elements created from recycled materials that can be used in the design of future buildings, that are sustainable and collect, create and save water and energy.Explore LabArchitectureArchitectur
Le traducteur vu par son auteur
No full textThe Translator as seen by the AuthorThe article is an attempt to answer the question of how the writer sees the work and role of the translator. The research tool was a survey comprising eight open questions which the present author presented to five Polish literary writers: Marek Krajewski, Olga Tokarczuk, Przemysław Wojcieszek, Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk and Zyta Rudzka. The article contains a synthesis of their replies to questions concerning the emotions generated by the fact they are translated, their vision of the translator’s work, its creative/reproductive nature, copyright on the translated text, responsibility for the success/failure of the translated work, the role of the author and the translator as intercultural mediators.The Translator as seen by the AuthorThe article is an attempt to answer the question of how the writer sees the work and role of the translator. The research tool was a survey comprising eight open questions which the present author presented to five Polish literary writers: Marek Krajewski, Olga Tokarczuk, Przemysław Wojcieszek, Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk and Zyta Rudzka. The article contains a synthesis of their replies to questions concerning the emotions generated by the fact they are translated, their vision of the translator’s work, its creative/reproductive nature, copyright on the translated text, responsibility for the success/failure of the translated work, the role of the author and the translator as intercultural mediators
Vector boson production in p+Pb and Pb+Pb collisions measured with ATLAS at the LHC
No full textElectroweak boson production processes (W, Z and photon) provide access to the earliest moments of heavy ion collisions. Furthermore, because they do not undergo strong interactions, they are sensitive to the initial-state geometry of the collision and potentially the details of the nuclear parton distribution functions (PDF). ATLAS results on vector boson yields have demonstrated binary collision scaling in Pb+Pb collisions. In p+Pb collisions, the measurement of vector bosons provides possible constraints on the nuclear PDF and insights into the details of the initial collision geometry. We report on the latest results of vector boson production in p+Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN)=5.02 TeV and Pb+Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN)=2.76 TeV. In p+Pb collisions, production yields and lepton charge asymmetry of W bosons are presented as a function of pseudorapidity of the charged lepton and centrality. Photon and Z yields are presented differentially as a function of transverse momentum, rapidity and centrality. The vector boson yields are compared to calculations incorporating different PDF sets, as well as different centrality calculations
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