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Evolution of polish E-commerce - main trends and perspectives
No full textThe aim of this paper is to present main phases of Polish e-commerce development and to show its major trends. The author also tries to predict future directions of its development. The whole e-commerce process of development is divided into five phases. The first part of the paper presents the beginnings of Polish e-commerce. Then the following stages of development are discussed with presentation of some key figures e.g. percentage of individuals who ordered goods or services over the Internet. E-auctions phenomenon is analyzed and it’s influence on market is shown. WEB 2.0 philosophy in e-commerce is shortly described. Internet price comparison services are another occurrence which is analysed and specialization versus diversification of offer in Internet shops is discussed. The author shows the examples of Polish e-shops which changed their range of assortment. The last part of the paper shows future perspectives of Polish e-commerce and discusses probable ways of development into internationalization.e-commerce, Internet shop, Internet market
Morton M. Smith important dates prepared November 1, 2002, Stan Smith (703) 289-1230
No full textChronology of Morton M. Smith's professional career, prepared by Stan Smith, from various sources. Also includes a list of the people Smith worked with, as well as a collection of anecdotes about Smith, as told by the people who knew him.Morton M. Smith
Important Dates
Prepared November 1, 2002
Stan Smith (703) 289-1230
1949 – Made a member of Louisiana Nu Chapter of Xi Sigma Pi (National
Forestry/Natural Resource Honor Society)
1949 – Made a member of Louisiana Chapter of Alpha Zeta (Professional Fraternity of
Agriculture)
1950 – B.S. (Forestry) from Louisiana State University
1951 – M.S. (Game Management) from Louisiana State University
1951 (July) to 1953 (July) – Assistant Waterfowl Study Leader, Louisiana Fisheries &
Wildlife Commission. Supervisor was Richard Yancey. Based in Ferriday, LA. Served
as assistant to Yancey on Waterfowl Research Project 17-R and 29-R under Pittman
Robertson Section. Work consisted of research and surveys of Louisiana waterfowl
populations. Duties required 200 hours flight time per year as an observer. Work
conducted statewide.
1953 (April 23) – Notification of Assignment Upon Entry into Active Military Service
(“Having accepted a commission as a second lieutenant in the Air Force Reserve through
the Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Program, you are being ordered into
active military service and assigned to 1912th Airways and Air Communication Service
Squadron, Olmstead Air Force Base, Pennsylvania.” /s/ Samuel E. Barger, Major, USAF,
Acting Air Adj Gen.).
1953 (July 3) – Entered Active Duty. Served as a personnel officer, primarily at Scott
Field, Illinois. Served as Squadron Personnel Officer and Adjutant for two years.
Responsible for all administrative phases of squadron operation, including records,
personnel assignments and squadron maintenance.
1954 (March 4) – Promoted to first lieutenant.
1955 (July) – Honorable discharge from USAF.
1955 (July) to 1957 (July) – Biologist II, Louisiana Wildlife & Fisheries Commission.
Supervisor was John Newsom. Based in Alexandria, LA. Responsible for wildlife
management and development practices carried on in the Commission’s District III under
various Pittman Robertson projects. Also was responsible for fish and game work in
District III.
1957 (July) to 1962 (December) – Biologist II, Louisiana Wildlife & Fisheries
Commission. Supervisor was Robert Murray (Research Supervisor). Returned to
research as a Waterfowl Study Leader. Responsible for all research under Pittman
Robertson Project W29R. Duties required travel statewide. One phase of work required
250 hours of flight time/year as an observer.
Late 1950’s – Conducted aerial surveys (along with fellow Louisiana biologist Clark
Hoffpauir) in the aftermath of Hurricane Audrey indicating a sudden population jump in
certain species wintering in Louisiana. (Source: Flyways: Pioneering Waterfowl
Management in North America, Arthur S. Hawkins, et al., Editors, U.S. Government
Printing Office, May 1984, page 448.)
Late 1950’s to Early 1960’s – Participated in annual workshops of technical committees
of the flyway councils to discuss agency contributions to waterfowl management
programs of the flyway. (Source: Flyways, at page 382, pictured attending meeting of
Mississippi Flyway waterfowl technicians held at Louisiana’s Rockefeller Refuge.)
Early 1960’s – Flew aerial transect surveys over inland and coastal marshes with other
state waterfowl biologists. (Source: Flyways, at page 446.)
1962 (January 4) – Career-Conditional Appointment as Wildlife Biologist
(Management/Airplane Pilot) for Bureau’s Division of Wildlife, Branch of Management
and Enforcement, Atlanta, Georgia (Pos. No. 4-3213-1).
1964 – Contributor, U.S. Department of the Interior’s Waterfowl Tomorrow (U.S.
Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1964); “Ducks in Dixie” with John L.
Sincock, and John J. Lynch (at page 99-106).
1967 – Attended meeting of management biologists at Northern Prairie Wildlife Research
Center. (Source: Flyways, at picture at page 260, caption at page 261.)
~1968 (January) – Appointed Assistant Branch Chief, Division of Management and
Enforcement’s Branch of Management, and reassigned from Atlanta to Washington, D.C.
1968 (February) to 1969 (September) – Citation for Outstanding Performance for, among
other things, “field administration and supervision of summer waterfowl surveys and
banding program in the United States and Canada.”
1970 (April 13) – Special Achievement Award “for Superior Service” to the Bureau’s
Division of Management and Enforcement.
1971 (February) – Cited for a Quality Performance Award for “continuing high level
performance” with the Bureau’s Division of Management and Enforcement.
~mid-1970’s-1980’s – At Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, supervising Branch of
Surveys. (Source: Letter, dated March 9, 1990 from Thomas J. Dwyer, Chief, Office of
Migratory Bird Management, on the occasion of retirement.)1
1 I have not yet located Dad’s personnel files for the year ~1972-1990. They would probably provide more
details about specific work assignments than I have been able to provide here.
1990 (May 1) – Retirement. Retired as Assistant Director – [Refuges] & Wildlife, Office
of Migratory Bird Management, Washington, D.C. (Branch Chief, Surveys and
Operations)
Logged 7,000+ hours as a pilot for FWS. (Source: Interview with Mark Madison, FWS
Historian, conducted March 29, 1999.)
Worked with (among others):
Vern Stotts
Don Frickie
William Vogel
Patricia Holt
Keith A. Morehouse
Ken Gamble
Jim Bartonek
Jerry Serie
Skip Ladd
David E. Sharp
Harvey K. Nelson
David L. Hall
Gene Wood
Henry Reeves
John P. Rogers
George Brakhage
Dick Pospahala
Bob Blohm
Brad Bortner
Sean Kelly
Arthur Brazda
Dick Bauer
Jerome Stoudt
Arthur S. Hawkins
Jerry Pospichal
Douglas S. Benning
Bill Larned
Robert L. Jessen
K. Duane Norman
Fred Roetker
Vic Hamer
H. W. Heusmann
Matthew C. Perry
Leon Kirkland
Fairfax H. Settle
Bob Trost
John Tautin
Bruce Conant
Frank Bowers
Judy Bladen
Jim Bredy
Sam Carney
Liz Cummings
Dave Dolton
Mike Elkins
Greg Essinger
Fred Fiehrer
Ken Gamble
Paul Geissler
Jim Goldsberry
Mary Lou Hill
Larry Jahn
Kathy Klimkiewicz
Phil Koscheka
Fant Martin
Harvey Miller
Barbara Moore
Jim Nichols
Al Novara
Pete Poulous
Jim Price
Ron Reynolds
Bunny Siran
Bob Smith
Rollie Sparrowe
Tom Taylor
Roy Tomlinson
Dave Trauger
Jim Voelzer
Ken Williams
Dr. Fred Glover
Kahler Martinson
Ross Hanson
Dick Yancey
Jake Chamberlain
C. Lostetter
W. Crissey
J. Smith
G. Jensen
D. Purinton
D. Combs
K. Baer
Harry Hansen
A Weinrich
R. Mackay
K. Vermeer
K. Norman
E. Wellein
R. Buller
R. Slattery
P. Smith
R. Martinson
Don Smith
Maury Lundy
David Anderson
Anecdotes (Source: Morton M. Smith Retirement File, 1990)
• [Author not named]: “I really believe Mort’s favorite air-machine was the
DeHavilland ‘Speedster’ or Beaver. Seriously, when it came to multiple use or being
capable of handling many tasks, it was by far the best bush craft I ever flew. It had
one unredeeming feature however – it was slower than the second coming of the ‘Big
Man’ – in fact, it was the only aircraft I knew of that a tailwind wouldn’t help. I had
several affectionate adjectives for the machine and I used to relate to Mort about the
‘Speedster’s’ inability to develop much forward motion. I believe he took this
bitching with a grain of salt – until he drove it himself for awhile. Finally, after a
long summer, he called and said I was probably right; ‘it probably wouldn’t go much
over 100 miles per hour coming straight down.’”
• Vern Stotts: Some of his greatest thoughts and lessons for me were:
a. “I could hit these seaducks more often if they tasted better,” meant that with
practice one can rationalize anything.
b. When he said, “We can get this 206 off the water in less than 1 minute when
everyone is down to their high school weight,” it translated into don’t stuff rocks
in your personal kit to take home as souvenirs.
c. After a clapper rail hunting trip to the Eastern Short of Virginia, he remarked,
“We should shoot these critters only with a singleshot, 4-10 pistol fired with the
left hand after a cross-draw”, meaning that modern equipment can take away the
thrill of a full bag.
d. And, finally, after a perfect 2-point landing, he stressed that, “We can be happy
that we didn’t do it the other way around and land with our wheels down on the
water”, teaching me the hows, whys, whens, and beauty of a personal checklist.
• Bob Blohm: Of course, Mort, your red station wagon was legendary at the [Patuxent
Wildlife Research] center and how many Monday lunchtime discussions focused on
your weekend activities with your son to prepare the vehicle for the next week’s
drive. And, your love of doughnuts (particularly stale ones, at least 3-4 weeks old)
and old hunting clothes (the more holes and dangling threads, the better) is known far
and wide.
• Art Hawkins: After you joined the FWS Airforce it was fun getting together with
you, Don Smith, Maury Lundy and others to compare notes. You were unique among
most of the pilots listed above in that you were completely interchangeable between
ground and air duty. In fact, on days when you couldn’t fly, for one reason or
another, you joined the guys in the trenches, of your own free will. … One thing for
sure, I never worked with anyone I’ve enjoyed working with more, whether in the
Louisiana marshes or on the Canadian Prairies, whether at wing bees or Tech
meetings. Your cheerful attitude and dedication to duty made the job easier.
• John Tautin: I still recall my first months with FWS in 1974 and being assigned to a
duck banding station in Alberta. My first flight in FWS aircraft was when you flew
me from Saskatoon to Brooks to meet up with the banding crew. We (you) had to
make a tough landing in a crosswind on sod. It went well, and I still recall being
impressed and thinking that this pilot has the right stuff. I went on to learn that the
other pilots, our flyway biologists, were also fine biologists and good, safe pilots.
You deserve a lot of credit for that, having been in charge of that operation. Being in
charge as Branch Chief, Surveys and Operations, is how I most often think of you.
You have been one of the best managers I have seen, fair and honest with people,
managing to get the job done well with limited resources, and firm and decisive when
need be on issues and problems. I learned a lot from you that helps me now that I am
in charge of [the Bird Banding Laboratory]
Edukacja filmowa w Polsce – zarys historyczny i stan badań
No full textW artykule przedstawiono zarys historyczny edukacji filmowej w Polsce oraz stan badań na temat ewolucji edukacji filmowej oraz form kształcenia i doskonalenia nauczycieli pracujących z filmem. Edukacja filmowa w Polsce jako przedmiot zainteresowania przeżywała swoje „złote lata” w latach 60. i 70.: wówczas pojawiło się najwięcej opracowań (a także tłumaczeń) dotyczących edukacji i kultury filmowej. Ten wysyp publikacji związany był z ogólnoświatową tendencją włączania treści filmowych do programów szkolnych, czy to w postaci odrębnego przedmiotu nauczania, czy też w obszarach kilku przedmiotów czemu towarzyszyły – znane i cytowane także w polskich opracowaniach – raporty UNESCO9 i materiały z konferencji przez nią organizowanych.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
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Stan i perspektywy rozwoju e-administracji publicznej w województwie podkarpackim
No full textThe paper presents the situation and perspectives for development of e-government in Podkarpackie voivodship. In empirical studies, some aspects of e-government functioning of local self- -government entities are rated. Providing of documents for geodetic and cartographic services are investigated as well as adapting of local self-government entities websites to international standards. The results show that the level of implementation of geodetic and cartographic e-services in Podkarpackie voivodship is varied. Most of the Internet portals do not satisfy the WCAG 2.0 standard and their its quality is disappointing.
W pracy przedstawiono stan i perspektywy rozwoju e-administracji publicznej województwa podkarpackiego. W badaniach empirycznych oceniono wybrane aspekty funkcjonowania e-administracji jednostek samorządu terytorialnego. Zbadano stan udostępniania dokumentów i usług geodezyjnych i kartograficznych oraz dostosowanie stron internetowych jednostek samorządowych województwa podkarpackiego do międzynarodowych standardów. Wyniki badań pokazują, że w województwie podkarpackim jednostki samorządu terytorialnego wykazują zróżnicowany poziom realizacji e-usług w zakresie geodezji i kartografii. Większość portali internetowych nie spełnia standardu WCAG 2.0, a jego jakość jest niewystarczająca
PENERAPAN PENUGASAN KELOMPOK UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KERJA SAMA MAHASISWA D1 PAJAK POLITEKNIK KEUANGAN NEGARA STAN BALAI DIKLAT KEUANGAN MEDAN
No full textSynergy is one of the values of the Ministry of Finance that should be internalized by students of PKN-STAN. Cooperation is the key element in creating synergies. Based on the author's observation, collaboration levels of college students in Diploma Program I of Tax still need to be improved. Students tend to learn individually rather than in a group, so the collaboration is not formed as a team. It needs a great effort from the lecturers to improve student collaboration during lectures, so that students learn from each other and cooperate in solving various problems of learning. The main purpose of this research is to improve cooperation among students using work-in-group learning methods in the Capita Selecta Personality Development subject.The method used is Classroom Action Research using three cycles. The subjects of the research are three classes at the Diploma I Tax Program  in the first semester on Regional Finance Education and Training Office of Medan. The research design is that every class was classified into five groups with each group consists of five to six students. During the learning process, author made observations about this collaboration. The observation results of each cycle is used as a reaction for the next cycle that can be used to enhance the cooperation of college students in accordance with the set targets. Data were analyzed descriptively and quantitatively. The results showed that the collaboration of college students increased during the lecture by applying team work learning methods. In the first cycle, the average of student collaboration is 2.69, showing lack of cooperation among students, in second cycle the result score is 4.13, which means they are able to work together, and in third cycle is 4.15 which means able to cooperate
A thorough review of MCMC software : comparison between JAGS, Stan and NIMBLE
No full textLAUREA MAGISTRALEIn questa tesi, ho confrontato tre software, JAGS, Stan e NIMBLE per la simulazione da distribuzioni a posteriori di un modello bayesiano, tramite algoritmi di tipo MCMC. Il confronto è stato effettuato tramite l'analisi di diversi modelli quali modelli coniugati, modelli lineari e lineari a effetti misti, modelli lineari generalizzati, modelli "accelerated failure time" e modelli mistura, sempre utilizzando dati simulati. I dati sono stati simulati dalla verosimigliaza del modello stesso. Il confronto è stato effettuato con diversa numerosità del campione, diversa dimensionalità dello spazio dei parametetri e, ove necessario, diverso numero di gruppi nel caso di dati raggruppati. Molti modelli sono stati analizzati fissando diverse distribuzioni a priori dei parametri. Per ogni simulazione effettuata, abbiamo monitorato l'efficienza del campionamento e quindi le performance dei software. Inoltre, abbiamo analizzato la capacità di eseguire il campionamento di catene multiple in parallelo, confrontando anche la quantità di memoria richiesta dai software.The aim of this work is to compare three software for Bayesian computation: JAGS, Stan and NIMBLE. These software, starting from the specification of the model, are able to automatically build a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm to sample from the posterior distributions of the parameters. To make the comparison, we fit different models, such as conjugate models, linear and mixed-effects models, generalized linear models, accelerated failure time models and mixture models on simulated data sets. In generating the data, we vary the sample sizes, the dimension of the parameter space and, when needed, the number of groups for grouped data. Many models were analyzed under different choices of priors. For every choice of model and data set, we monitor the efficiency of the sampling of the different software and hence their performance. We also compare the ability to parallelize execution and memory requirement of each software
A note on ultimately-periodic finite interval temporal logic model checking
No full textIn this paper, we deal with the ultimately-periodic finite interval temporal logic model checking problem. The problem has been shown to be in PTIME for full Halpern and Shoham's interval temporal logic (HS for short) over finite models, as well as for the HS fragment featuring a modality for Allen relation meets and metric constraints over non-sparse ultimately-periodic (finite) models, that is, over ultimately-periodic models whose representation is polynomial in their size. Here, we generalize the latter result to the case of sparse ultimately-periodic models
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
Code-switching in contesto italiano L2: una famiglia croata e due famiglie romene a confronto
No full textThis work examines the code-switching phenomena in one Croatian-Italian and two Romanian-Italian bilingual families. The analysis is based on two sub-corpora, one for each language combination, and it focuses on the frequent and numerically comparable code-switching phenomena which are dichotomously divided according to their predominant function, namely participant related vs. discourse related. The various functions covered in the two sub-corpora are linked to interactional strategies connected both to participants, such as contrast, comment, specification, repetition, etc., and to discourse, e.g. to negotiate the language of the conversation when the constellation of the participants changes. We therefore highlight the enormous functional potential of bilingual speech as an interactional and conversational strategy, also in the light of former considerations regarding code-switching phenomena between Italian and Italian dialects
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