73 research outputs found
"Warda dell’egiziano Sonallah Ibrahim: storia di una guerrigliera"
No full textThe study focuses on the novel Warda published in 2000 by Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim. The female protagonist is a freedom fighter who narrates her experience in her diary. Dedicated to the movements of the Arab left, this historical novel covers two periods: one goes from 1957, shortly after the Suez War, until 1975, when the Dhofar insurrection ends; the other is the year following the 1990-1991 Gulf crisis. Warda is a partisan of the Dhofar guerrilla warfare, one of the lesser known conflicts of the twentieth century, which the author illustrates without neglecting the most important war events in the Arab world and internationally, not failing to refer to the Palestinian tragedy. The work describes the post-Cold War era, marked by globalization and US unipolarity, in the context of which the Middle Eastern peace process initiated at the Madrid conference in autumn 1991
The pattern of the letter as a tool for education and upbringing of children and youth in the XIX century (based on the letter-writing manuals by Józef Chociszewski)
No full textThe article analyzes the XIX century collection of letter patterns prepared by Józef Chociszewski for children and youths: Listownik dla młodzieży zawierający wzory listów z dodatkiem powinszowań, łamigłówek, wierszyków, powiastek i nauki grzeczności dla młodzieży (Bytom 1900). Letters included in this publication were examined in terms of the author’s use of their species traits (at the structural, pragmatic, cognitive and stylistic level) for youth education.The pattern of the letter by Chociszewski is not only a collection of examples of kids’ and youths’ correspondence, but above all a tool for various aspects of education and upbringing of young Poles during the partitions. The author tried to develop general language skills in his readers and encourage the use of the Polish language, presenting a very wide selection of lexis, formulas and stylistic means for reproduction in various communication situations. He taught them ”language savoir-vivre”. A clear educational purpose were also: a selection of the content of fictitious letters, selection of the authors of authentic letters and the rich system of values characteristic in the Polish Catholic family presented in the letters. In this way, J. Chociszewski aimed to show the Polish culture in the letter-writing manuals and to shape Polish national consciousness.W artykule poddano analizie XIX-wieczny zbiór wzorów listów przygotowany przez Józefa Chociszewskiego dla dzieci i młodzieży: Listownik dla młodzieży zawierający wzory listów z dodatkiem powinszowań, łamigłówek, wierszyków, powiastek i nauki grzeczności dla młodzieży (Bytom 1900). Przyjrzano się zamieszczonym w tej publikacji tekstom listów pod kątem wykorzystania przez autora ich cech gatunkowych (na płaszczyźnie strukturalnej, pragmatycznej, poznawczej i stylistycznej) dla edukacji młodzieży. Listownik Chociszewskiego to nie tylko zbiór przykładów korespondencji dziecięco-młodzieżowej, ale przede wszystkim narzędzie służące różnym aspektom edukacji i wychowania młodych Polaków w czasie zaborów. Autor starał się rozwijać u swoich czytelników ogólną kompetencję językową i zachęcić do używania języka polskiego, przedstawiając bardzo bogaty wybór leksyki, formuł i środków stylistycznych do odtwarzania w różnych sytuacjach komunikacyjnych. Uczył ich przy tym językowego savoir-vivre’u. Wyraźny cel edukacyjno-wychowawczy miały także: dobór treści listów fikcyjnych i wybór autorów listów autentycznych oraz przedstawiony w nich bogaty system wartości charakterystycznych dla polskiej katolickiej rodziny. Chociszewski dążył w ten sposób do ukazania w listowniku polskiej kultury i do kształtowania polskiej świadomości narodowej
Consumer Protection Mechanisms from Information Pollution in the Digital Environment
No full textInformation has shown to be the weapon on which global economic institutions depend, namely with the intensification of competition and the rapid technological development that the world is nowadays witnessing in light of the digital information revolution. Thus, lots of negative aspects came into sight from the use of such digital revolution on the consumer, most notably the information pollution as regards various products, the issue of which will be addressed in our present study, as we aim to shed light on the information pollution in the digital environment and its impact on the consumer behaviour, together with identifying the causes and risks thereof. In closing, we will bring to mind the mechanisms and the ways to protect the consumer from such type of pollution. We conducted a field study that included a sample of 305 interrogated individuals for consolidation purpose of the obtained results
Sound Design for Our Town
No full textThis document is a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts degree in theatre. It is a detailed account of the author, Anna Warda Alex\u27s artistic process in developing the sound design for Minnesota State University, Mankato\u27s production of Our Town in the fall of 2014. The thesis documents the designer\u27s process from the pre-production analysis through the designer\u27s afterthoughts on the design in five chapters: a pre-production analysis, an historical and critical perspective, a process and rehearsal journal, a post-production analysis and a process development. Appendices and works cited are included
Contribution du Transport en Commun au Développement Durable du Tourisme Littoral : Cas du Transport Ferroviaire en Algérie = Contribution of Collective Transportation to Sustainable Development of Coastal Tourism : The Case of Rail Transport in Algeria = مساهمة النقل الجماعي في التنمية المستدامة السياحية الساحلية : دراسة حالة النقل السككي في الجزائر
No full textEconomic analyses of maize storage innovations in southern Benin
No full textKey words: Storage innovations, maize, information sources, farmers’ perceptions, adoption and modification, treatment effects, sample selection bias, correction function approach, technology abandonment, cross-sectional and panel data, Benin. Maize is a staple food and an important source of income for farmers in southern Benin. It is stored at village level in traditional storage structures and treated with conservation products. To improve control pest damage in stored maize, improved wooden granaries and a new product, Sofagrain®, were introduced in 1992. On-farm trials indicated that after six months of storage, the losses were reduced from 30% to only 5% for maize treated with Sofagrain® stored in an improved wooden granary. Although the effectiveness of storage innovations against pests is well documented, little is known about the socioeconomic aspects of promotion of these innovations in southern Benin. Using appropriate econometric models, this study investigates the perceptions of farmers regarding the characteristics of storage innovations and the causal effect of participation in extension on their formation, the adoption of storage innovations and effect of sources of information on the determinants of adoption, the impact of adopting storage innovation on schooling expenditure and the factors that affect the abandonment of storage innovations. First, the empirical results show that the effectiveness against pests and the length of the storage are the most important preferred characteristics and are provided by the storage innovation. Second, farmer’s participation in an extension program on these storage technologies has an important effect on the probability that positive perceptions of the quality of effectiveness against insects are provided by the improved wooden granary and the Sofagrain®. Third, there are differences in adoption and modification decisions between farmers who are informed by extension agents and those informed by other farmers. Fourth, adoption of a storage innovation increases the schooling expenditure of adopters. Finally, the study highlights the effect of road conditions, availability of family labor and availability of the protection measure Sofagrain® on the probability of abandonment of storage innovations. <br/
The semantics of the garden in the descriptive poem Alexander’s Cottage by Stiepan Dzunkowsky
No full textThe article is devoted to the semantics of the garden described by a Russian author of the second half of the eighteenth century − Stepan Dzunkowsky in a poem entitled Alexander’s Cottage (1793). The garden described in his work was erected on the basis of an earlier narrative − Tales of Tsarevitch Chlorine, whose author was Catherine II. Dzunkowski in his poem combined in an original way the themes of the fairytale by Catherine II with descriptive and didactic reflections typical for a panegyrical ode. A poetic description of the landscaped garden of Alexander’s cottage reflected a new concept of descriptive poem in which architecture and its description dominate impressions, moods and thoughts of walking across the garden. «Reading» the garden, and not just admiring it was possible for those who knew the «alphabet», i.e. the content of the fable of Tsarina and an elementary knowledge of antiquity.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
The image of Lodz in selected literary works of the Russian-language press of Lodz
No full textW artykule omówiono obraz Łodzi, jaki został przedstawiony w dwóch parodystycznych poematach rosyjskiego autora N.G. Kuzmicza: Mój wujek i Demon, które ukazały się w rosyjskojęzycznej gazecie łódzkiej „Łodzinskij Listok” w ostatnich latach XIX wieku. Oba te utwory są remake’ami rosyjskiej dziewiętnastowiecznej klasyki – dwóch poematów znakomitych rosyjskich romantyków: Aleksandra Puszkina Eugeniusz Oniegin i Michała Lermontowa Demon. Autor osadza znanych z wybitnych dzieł, wybranych przez niego pierwszoplanowych i epizodycznych bohaterów w rozwijającej się, przemysłowej Łodzi końca XIX stulecia. W artykule zastosowane zostały następujące metody badawcze: analityczna, konfrontatywna, kulturowo-historyczna, intertekstualna. W wyniku przeprowadzonych badań przedstawiono obraz rozwijającego się przemysłowego miasta – Łodzi i ludzi tworzących jej elity finansowe. Wykorzystanie przez Kuzmicza utworów klasyków rosyjskich pozwoliło uwypuklić różnice pomiędzy romantycznymi bohaterami i konsumpcjonizmem wykreowanych przez niego postaci typowych dla ówczesnej Łodzi. Omówione w artykule utwory łączące rosyjską klasykę z obrazem rozwijającej się Łodzi przełomu wieków są niewątpliwie ciekawymi przykładami „tekstu łódzkiego”, napisanymi przez rosyjskojęzycznego mieszkańca tego wielokulturowego miasta w końcu dziewiętnastego stulecia.This article discusses the image of Lodz as depicted in two parodic poems by the Russian author N.G. Kuzmich: My Uncle and Demon, which appeared in the Russian-language Lodz newspaper „Lodzinskiy Listok” in the last years of the 19th century. Both of these works are remakes of Russian 19th century classics – two poems by the great Russian Romantics: Alexander Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin and Mikhail Lermontov’s Demon. The author sets the prominent characters he has chosen from his eminent works, the leading and episodic characters, in the developing, industrial Lodz of the late 19th century. The following research methods were used in this article: analytical, confrontational, cultural-historical, intertextual. As a result of the research, a picture of a developing industrial city – Lodz – and the people forming its financial elite is presented. Kuzmich’s use of the works of Russian classics allowed him to highlight the differences between the romantic heroes and the consumerism of the characters he created, typical of Lodz at the time. The works discussed in this article, which combine Russian classics with the image of a developing turn-of-the-century Lodz, are undoubtedly interesting examples of a ‘Lodz text’, written by a Russian-speaking resident of this multicultural city at the end of the nineteenth century
Are EU spatial ex ante coexistence regulations proportional?
No full textThe EU is currently struggling to implement coherent coexistence regulations on genetically modified (GM) and non-GM crops in all member states. While it stresses that any approach needs to be “proportionate to the aim of achieving coexistence”, very few studies have actually attempted to assess whether the proposed spatial ex ante coexistence regulations (SEACERs) satisfy this proportionality condition. In this article, we define proportionality as a functional relationship which is weakly increasing in the incentives for coexistence. We propose a spatial framework based on an existing landscape and introduce the new concept of shadow factor as a measure for the opportunity costs induced by SEACERs. This enables comparing the proportionality of (i) rigid SEACERs which are based on large isolation distances imposed on GM farmers versus (ii) flexible SEACERs based on pollen barrier agreements between neighboring farmers. Our theoretical and empirical findings argue for flexibility as rigid SEACERs violate the proportionality condition and, hence, are not consistent with the objectives of the EU.policy analysis, GIS, shadow factor, Agricultural and Food Policy, Crop Production/Industries,
Economics of spatial coexistence of genetically modified and conventional crops: Oilseed rape in Central France
No full textEurope is currently struggling to implement coherent coexistence regulations on genetically modified (GM) and non-GM crops in all EU Member States. We conduct simulations with the software ArcView® on a GIS dataset of a hypothetical case of GM herbicide tolerant oilseed rape cultivation in Central France. Our findings show that rigid coexistence rules, such as large distance requirements, may impose a severe burden on GM crop production in Europe. These rules are not proportional to the farmers’ basic incentives for coexistence and hence not consistent with the objectives of the European Commission. More alarming, we show that in densely planted areas a domino-effect may occur. This effect raises coexistence costs and even adds to the non-proportionality of rigid coexistence regulations. Instead, we show that flexible measures would be preferable since they are proportional to the incentives for coexistence and, hence, less counterproductive for European agriculture.regulation, GIS modelling, domino-effect, Crop Production/Industries,
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