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ICT and Productivity Growth in Transition Economies: Two-Phase Convergence and Structural Reforms
No full textThis paper investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) as a driver of improved productivity performance of Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries and Russia (CEER) relative to the EU-15 and the U.S. during the 1990s. The paper investigates how, and to what extent, ICT contributed to a narrowing in the productivity gap. Although investment in ICT capital has strongly increased, total factor productivity (TFP) growth has made the largest contribution to convergence during the 1990s. In a few CEER countries, notably the Czech Republic and Hungary, ICT production contributed more to productivity growth than the EU-15 average. Spillovers from a productive use of ICT in both CEER countries and the EU-15 are still considerably lower than in the U.S.. The paper argues that the convergence process between CEER countries and the EU-15 is characterized by two phases. In the first “restructuring” phase, convergence has been driven by enterprise restructuring in manufacturing, which was facilitated by rapid ICT investment in new plants, and by growth in ICT production in particular through FDI. In the second “expansionary” phase the sustained convergence has to rely more on productivity growth in sectors that make intensive use of ICT, in particular the service sector. While the first phase is dependent largely on openness and basic fundamental reforms, the second phase requires deeper structural reforms focused on product and labor market flexibility, business re-organization and investment in human capital and ICT skills.productivity, economic growth, convergence, ICT, Eastern Europe
The Impact of ICT on Growth in Transition Economies
No full textThe paper analyzes the multi-channel contribution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to output and labour productivity growth in eight transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), i.e. Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia between 1995-2001. The impact of ICT on growth in the new five EU member countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia) was higher than the average for the former EU-15. Hence, ICT - through both the capital deepening and TFP growth in ICT-producing sector - contributed to convergence of the level of income between those countries and the EU-15. This was however not the case for Bulgaria, Romania, and Russia, where ICT contribution to growth was lower than in the EU- 15. ICT thus led to income deconvergence. Future growth prospects of the CEE countries, including Russia, will largely depend on further ICT investments and an ability to ensure their productive use on a macro, industry and micro level. The paper speculates that ICT capital will have a significant contribution to long-term growth in Poland, taken as a proxy for other CEE countries, on the level of 15% of the projected average annual GDP growth of 4% until 2025. This projection does not however take into account the potential for emergence of new applications of ICT, which could stimulate further increases in aggregate productivity. Neither does it measure the possible contribution from TFP growth in ICT sector and from the spillover effects of ICT production and use. The paper argues that the potential of ICT will not however be realized without changes in business models and an increase in the quality of human capital and ICT skills. On the macrolevel, as indicated by the New Economy Indicator, ICT will not benefit CEE countries without them making consistent progress in economic, institutional and regulatory environment.productivity, ICT, Eastern Europe
The Potential of ICT for the Development and Economic Restructuring of the New EU Member States and Candidate Countries
No full textICT could help the New Member States catch up with EU-15 in economic terms. The report documents the potential of ICT for improved productivity performance in the Central and Eastern Europe countries (CEE) at the macro and industry level, in relation to the EU-15 and the US.productivity, information and communication technologies, convergence, Eastern Europe
Processed measurement data of acceleration of MR fluid-filled cushion gripper on UR3e robot
No full textThe dataset is a supplement to the article that will soon be submitted for review. DESCRIPTION:The dataset consists of Absolute Orientation Sensor (BNO055) measurements during the transportation of an object by a UR3e robot. The trajectory of the robot's movement includes lifting the object to a height of about 200 mm, horizontal displacement for a distance of 400 mm, and lowering by 200 mm. The transfer procedure begins with the closing of the jaws and ends with their opening. The procedure is analogous to the one outlined in the following dataset:Białek, Marcin, 2023, "Processed measurement data on grip forces during object transportation by a robot using gripper with a MR fluid-filled cushions", https://doi.org/10.18150/B2KCKC, RepOD.The experiment was conducted for three values of acceleration and velocity of the robot joints. For each such configuration, 5 handling tests were carried out.LICENSE:The data are under Creative Commons License CC BY. It is though recommended to manipulate along with the author to fully understand the outcomes. If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact: marcin.bialek@put.poznan.plThis research was funded by the National Science Centre, Poland, grant number: 2021/41/N/ST8/02619. https://ror.org/03ha2q922FILE:"dataset.csv" - processed measurement data obtained during the experiment.For proper interpretation, please refer to the images provided in readme files.COLUMNS: - R_Speed[deg/s] - robot joint movement velocity;- R_Acc[deg/s^2] - robot joint movement acceleration;- SAMPLE[-] - sample number. For each object configuration, acceleration and speed, 5 trials were conducted;- TIME[s] - the measurement time at which the force was recorded;- Linear_X[m/s^2] - X axis of linear acceleration data (acceleration minus gravity)- Linear_Y[m/s^2] - Y axis of linear acceleration data (acceleration minus gravity)- Linear_Z[m/s^2] - Z axis of linear acceleration data (acceleration minus gravity)- Orient_X[deg] - X axis orientation data based on a 360° sphere- Orient_Y[deg] - Y axis orientation data based on a 360° sphere- Orient_Z[deg] - Z axis orientation data based on a 360° sphere- Accl_X[m/s^2] - X axis of acceleration (gravity + linear motion)- Accl_Y[m/s^2] - Y axis of acceleration (gravity + linear motion)- Accl_Z[m/s^2] - Z axis of acceleration (gravity + linear motion)</p
Autoethnography, Storytelling, and Life as Lived: A Conversation Between Marcin Kafar and Carolyn Ellis
No full textThis conversation takes place in Warsaw. Carolyn Ellis has come to Poland to accompany Jerry
Rawicki, a Warsaw Ghetto survivor, on his first trip back to Poland since the Holocaust. There
she arranged to meet Marcin Kafar, a scholar in Poland who has spent time with her at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. During this visit, Marcin assists Carolyn with video
recording Jerry’s experiences as they visit Holocaust sites, and Jerry remembers and reflects on
his experience. Afterwards, Marcin converses with Carolyn about autoethnography, storytelling,
and the importance of life in the context of searching for ethos by academics
Does ICT Investment Matter for Growth and Labor Productivity in Transition Economies?
No full textFollowing up on a previous paper by the same author on the contribution of ICT capital to growth and labor productivity in Poland 1995-2000, this paper extends the study to eight transition economies: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia. The paper shows that the contribution of investment in IT hardware, software and telecommunication equipment to output growth and labor productivity between 1995 and 2000 in most countries featured in the study was much higher than what might be expected on the basis of the level of their GDP per capita. This may suggest that the transition economies – through the use of ICT - are benefiting from the technological leapfrogging to increase the growth rates in output and labor productivity and hence accelerate the process of catching-up. The relatively large contribution of ICT capital to output growth and labor productivity is due to an extraordinary acceleration in real ICT investments, which were growing between 1995 and 2000 at an average rate of more than 20% a year for almost all countries in the study. Large investments in ICT seem to have been induced by (i) falling prices of ICT products and services, which encouraged companies to substitute ICT for non-ICT capital and (ii) an opportunity for higher-than-normal returns on ICT investments due to a large pent-up demand for ICT infrastructure, a legacy of decapitalization and technological gap existing before 1989.economic growth, post-communist countries, information technology, growth accounting
PLoS Open Peer Review Corpus
No full textPLoS Open Peer Review CorpusSection for Logic & Cognitive Science, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of ScienceGenerated by Ksawery Jasieński under supervision of Marcin Miłkowski (2022)Public Library of Science (PLoS) journals are committed to open peer review idea, but these are voluntary. They are not available for download in a single package, but they are contained in their huge data dump.The data set contains all available peer reviews as of 16 June 2022 (138 papers with reviews). In addition, the corpus contains metadata about particular reviews, author responses, decision letters and paper metadata in the JSON format. The JSON schema files are available in the schema subdirectory in files with self-explanatory names.The original files were not enriched with any linguistic annotation or converted to any format (these are predominantly PDF, TXT, and DOCX files, as uploaded through the MDPI editorial system by reviewers).Additionally, we are making the filter code available, in the review_crawler directory. For PLoS reviews, plos_crawler.py should be used (more notes in the subdirectory).The files are being made available under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).</p
MDPI Open Peer Review Corpus
No full textMDPI Open Peer Review CorpusSection for Logic & Cognitive Science, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of ScienceGenerated by Ksawery Jasieński under supervision of Marcin Miłkowski (2022)MDPI is committed to open peer review idea, but these are voluntary. They are not available for download in a single package, so they must be crawled from their website.The data set contains all available peer reviews as of 16 June 2022 (123 papers with reviews). In addition, the corpus contains metadata about particular reviews, author responses and paper metadata in the JSON format. The JSON schema files are available in the schema subdirectory in files with self-explanatory names.The original files were not enriched with any linguistic annotation or converted to any format (these are predominantly PDF, TXT, and DOCX files, as uploaded through the MDPI editorial system by reviewers).Additionally, we are making the crawler code available, in the review_crawler directory. For MDPI reviews, mdpi_crawler.py should be used (more notes in the subdirectory).The files are being made available under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).</p
eLife Open Peer Review Corpus
No full texteLife Open Peer Review CorpusSection for Logic & Cognitive Science, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of ScienceGenerated by Ksawery Jasieński under supervision of Marcin Miłkowski (2022)eLife is committed to open peer review idea. Reviews are not available for download in a single package, so they must be extracted from their complete data set, which is several gigabytes large.The data set contains all available peer reviews as of 24 July 2022 (10853 papers with reviews or at least decision letters that omit minor comments). As stated by eLife:“In the interests of transparency, eLife includes the editorial decision letter and accompanying author responses. A lightly edited version of the letter sent to the authors after peer review is shown, indicating the most substantive concerns; minor comments are not usually included.”In addition, the corpus contains metadata about particular reviews (the filename contains ‘r’ and a numerical id before ‘.xml’), author responses (the filename then contains ‘a’ and a number before the ‘.xml’ suffix) and paper metadata in the JSON format. The JSON schema files are available in the schema subdirectory in files with self-explanatory names.The original files were not enriched with any linguistic annotation or converted (these are in XML format, as used by eLife).Additionally, we are making the crawler code available, in the review_crawler directory. For eLife reviews, elife_crawler.py should be used (more notes in the subdirectory).The files are being made available under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).</p
Marcin Świetlicki : poeta (nie)religijny
No full textThe subject of this article is the issue of religiousness in the poetry of Marcin Świetlicki. The works by the author of Niskie pobudki (Low Motives) are entangled in a space of tran¬scendence by (among others) utilizing biblical themes — Cain and Abel, the creation of the world, Christmas, Jesus Christ, salvation — which accompany the author of Pieśń profana (The Profaner’s Song) ever since his first book, published in 1992. These result in the impression of religiousness of the poet’s works. However’ most common dogmas of Christian faith (since this is the only faith the poet refers to), as well as notions of the almighty, all-powerful, mer¬ciful God-the-Father or God the Creator are contradicted in this poetry. The author endues everyday, common things with holiness and divinity, while reducing the existence of God only to humans (thereby, to himself as well) and space available to them
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