121 research outputs found
A real-time service system in the cloud
No full textRecently, we have witnessed unprecedented use of cloud computing and its services. It is influencing the way software is built, as well as company' resources such as servers, workstations or generally hardware are used. This paper aims to examine the benefits of cloud usage to support real-time service systems, using the Salesforce platform. First, we explore the meaning and the role of cloud computing for the real-time service systems efficient functioning. Then, we build a service management platform for the Polish Billiards and Snooker Association (PBSA), based on a real-time system located in the cloud. This way, PBSA managers are able to complete their tasks in this system on-demand. Moreover, it is set up as a private cloud to grant access only to the snooker organization employees.Poniszewska-Maranda, A (reprint author), Lodz Univ Technol TUL, Inst Informat Technol, Lodz, Poland. [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Family in Africa – (Not) a Safe Haven from Human Trafficking
No full textInstytucja rodziny nie zawsze jest miejscem, w którym ofiara handlu ludźmi otrzyma pomoc, schronienie i wsparcie. Zmiany cywilizacyjne spowodowały, że instytucja rodziny w Afryce (zwłaszcza w Afryce Wschodniej) często przyczynia się do sprzedaży jej członków. Autor przytacza przykłady najczęstszych aktów sprzedania ofiar do pracy niewolniczej przy aktywnym udziale rodziny w Afryce Wschodniej.In this paper, the author argues that due to several changes in our society, families (especially in East Africa) have started playing a negative role in the process of human trafficking. Therefore, families are no longer protecting its members when exposed to trafficking but rather becoming an impediment to successful counter-trafficking action. The author presents scenarios where families not only do not support victims but actively participate in trafficking them
Building the past, forgetting the future: Is Poland a historical knowledge based society?
No full textThe article attempts to analyze the public debate in a present day Poland focused on the country's recent history and memory (or memories). The author believes that among other lines dividing Polish society, the cultural line separating opposing “communities of memory” is of special importance. The political and public life of the country is facing a paradox: the media and several political leaders view the past as the last potential platform for a national unity and a source of commonly shared values and ideas. They treat the past as the support for gaining publicity and political capital. But this past orientation causes further division and conflict since, instead of a single past, participants in the public discourse view several competing pasts. The author proposes two ideal types of historical narratives in Poland: national and civic. Turning points, the pantheon of heroes, and modes of narration are sometimes mirror images of one another. Since recently the “national” paradigm is prevalent the author believes that the new European identity (or plurality of collective identities) of Poland can be successfully built only on a civic, not a national, platform of historical narrative.
Kurti praeitį, pamiršti ateitį: ar Lenkijos visuomenė grindžiama istoriniu pažinimu?
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Straipsnyje apmąstoma nūdienėje Lenkijoje vykstanti viešoji šalies istorijos ir atminties (atminčių) diskusija. Autoriaus manymu, šiandienėje lenkiškoje kultūroje atsiranda itin svarbus „atminties bendruomenių“ fenomenas. Šalies politiniame ir viešajame gyvenime iškilo tam tikras paradoksas: paskiri žiniasklaidos ir politikos atstovai praeitį supranta kaip vienintelį galimą tautinės vienybės ir tautinių vertybių pamatą ir šaltinį. Senosios tradicijos čia traktuojamos kaip galimybė siekti viešumo ir politinio kapitalo. Ši pozicija iš esmės prieštarauja kitai, kuri viešajame diskurse praeitį traktuoja kaip daugybę tarpusavyje besivaržančių praeičių. Straipsnio autorius skiria du idealius istorinių naratyvų šiuolaikinėje Lenkijoje tipus – tautinį ir pilietinį. Herojų panteonas ir tam tikri naracijos būdai neretai gali būti suprantami kaip vieni kitų veidrodiniai atspindžiai. Dabartinė „tautinė“ paradigma yra itin plačiai paplitusi, todėl, autoriaus manymu, naujojo Lenkijos europietiškojo tapatumo (ar kolektyvių tapatybių daugumos) pamatu gali tapti ne tautinis, o pilietinis istorinis naratyvas.
Reikšminiai žodžiai: pilietinis švietimas, kolektyvinė atmintis, istorinė politika, socialinė atmintis, tautą formuojantis viešasis diskursas.
First Published Online: 14 Oct 201
Cohort profile The ESC EURObservational Research Programme Atrial Fibrillation III (AF III) Registry
No full textThe European Society of Cardiology (ESC) EURObservational Research Programme (EORP)-Atrial Fibrillation (AF) III Registry aims to identify contemporary patterns in AF management in clinical practice, assess their compliance with the 2016 ESC AF Guidelines, identify major gaps in guideline implementation, characterize the clinical practice settings associated with good versus poor guideline implementation and assess and compare the 1-year outcome of guideline-adherent versus guideline non-adherent management strategies.AIMS: The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) EURObservational Research Programme (EORP)-Atrial Fibrillation (AF) III Registry aims to identify contemporary patterns in AF management in clinical practice, assess their compliance with the 2016 ESC AF Guidelines, identify major gaps in guideline implementation, characterize the clinical practice settings associated with good vs. poor guideline implementation and assess and compare the 1-year outcome of guideline-adherent vs. guideline non-adherent management strategies. METHODS AND RESULTS: Consecutive adult AF patients (n = 8306) were enrolled between 1 July 2018 and 15 July 2019, and individual patient data were prospectively collected across 192 centres and 31 participating countries during the 3-month enrolment period per centre. The Registry collected baseline and 1-year follow-up data in the eight main domains: patient demographic/enrolment setting, AF diagnosis/characterization, diagnostic assessment, stroke prevention treatments, arrhythmia-directed therapies, integrated AF management, major outcomes (death, non-fatal stroke or systemic embolic event, and non-fatal bleeding event), and the quality of life questionnaire. CONCLUSION: The EORP-AF III Registry is an international, prospective registry of care and outcomes of patients treated for AF, which will provide insights into the contemporary patterns in AF management, ESC AF Guidelines implementation in routine practice and barriers to optimal management of this highly prevalent arrhythmia
Resynchronization or Dyssynchronization—Successful Treatment with Biventricular Stimulation of a Child with Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy without Dyssynchrony
No full textLong-term outcome of catheter ablation and other form of therapy for electrical storm in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators
No full textRodzina w Afryce − (nie)bezpieczne schronienie przed handlem ludźmi
No full textIn this paper, the author argues that due to several changes in our society, families (especially in East Africa) have started playing a negative role in the process of human trafficking. Therefore, families are no longer protecting its members when exposed to trafficking but rather becoming an impediment to successful counter-trafficking action. The author presents scenarios where families not only do not support victims but actively participate in trafficking them.Instytucja rodziny nie zawsze jest miejscem, w którym ofiara handlu ludźmi otrzyma pomoc, schronienie i wsparcie. Zmiany cywilizacyjne spowodowały, że instytucja rodziny w Afryce (zwłaszcza w Afryce Wschodniej) często przyczynia się do sprzedaży jej członków. Autor przytacza przykłady najczęstszych aktów sprzedania ofiar do pracy niewolniczej przy aktywnym udziale rodziny w Afryce Wschodniej
The Beginning of British Post-war Belarusian Studies
No full textThe initial period of British Belarusian studies was significantly different from the process of
formation of research on Belarus in the United States. There was no intervention of special
services; the state and political establishment of the kingdom showed no interest in Belarusian
issues. In such a situation, the first works on Belarusian history in the UK were prepared by
representatives of the insignificant Belarusian emigrant diaspora. The inspirer and organizer,
as well as the author of historical publications, was the president of the Belarusian Central
Rada, appointed to this post at the end of 1943 by the Nazis in occupied Minsk, Radoslaw Ostrowski.
Radoslaw Ostrowski’s collaborationist track record is considerable. This includes the
creation of civil administration bodies in Minsk, Briansk, Smolensk, Mogilev; the formation
of Belarusian military units to fight partisans; cooperation with the CIA in post-war Germany
with projects to prepare an anti-Soviet underground in Belarus, and more. Ostrowski considered
the “Bolshevik Moscow” to be the “mortal enemy” of Belarus, which, in his assessment,
did not want to see the Belarusian people free at any time. That was the reason for an explicitly
anti-Russian attitude in all the London publications prepared by Radoslaw Ostrowski and his
son Viktor, who was arrested in the fall of 1939 in Vilnius by the NKVD and sentenced to
8 years of camps, joined the army of General Anders, which at the end of the war was transferred
to England and demobilized here.The article was prepared with the support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project
No. 20-59-00001/20 “Modern foreign historical Belarusian studies: Тhe evolution of methodological approaches
and assessments”
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