Application of ColdFusion technology in large educational services

The development in Internet Technologies created new possibilities and prospects in education. With the idea of large educational service in secondary schools there arose the necessity of choosing the most suitable Internet Technology. The analysis of various technologies resulted in the choice of ColdFusion which proved to be the best for the realization of this project. ColdFusion technology displays several characteristics: the independence from widely used operating system platform, the possibility of implementation of many databases standards and combining many programming standards of Internet services. ColdFusion is supported by CFML language which permits quick generation of Java bytecode across language, implementation XML structures and organization of large structures of Internet services

Plant figurations : a vital study in rhetorical address following Theodor W. Adorno

In this dissertation, I ask the question: how is (and is not) the plant both subject and object of human rhetoric? In taking up the question, I explore an array of texts, artifacts, and encounters revealing “the plant” addressed as a vital object of subjective experience and as a subject of objective reflection. Following what Diane Davis and Michelle Ballif call “extrahuman rhetorical relations,” I demonstrate an orientation of struggle that holds the question open at its limit, by approaching iterations of “the plant” caught in motion. I apply a method drawn from Frankfurt School scholar Theodor W. Adorno’s invitation to apply negative dialectics—or immanent criticism—to everyday sites of personal encounter and interdisciplinary texts. I understand the dialectic features of human-plant relations in three chapters or figures studies. First, I examine the concept of “natural history” revealed in a site-specific experience at Red Rock State Park in California. Second, I look at the historic and contemporary texts that name a parasitic liana known as the Sipo-Matador. Third, I hear the sounding of European trees emanating through a vinyl copy of the 2012 art-album Years by Bartholomäus Traubeck. Approaching these figures in affirmative and negative modes, I argue that keeping the dialectic in motion instantiates a critical process—a reflection on reflective capacity—across multiple renderings of representation and structure. Writing and reading is an essential part of this process. In understanding thinking as a movement of mediation—a dramatic journey joining the dialectic across theoretical abstraction and lived reality—I reveal a multidimensional orientation to rhetorical criticism suited to hear the plant, addressed. My approach, I argue, keeps Adorno and the plant—both subjects and objects of this dissertation—close enough to touch while at bay enough to remain mysterious. I trace a malignant structure surrounding my encounter between the human and the plant—the Enlightenment in its dominating iterations—in relief as much as I hope to leave open creative reflection and vital critique.Communication Studie

Okołoplebiscytowa Kolęda śląska Henryka Zbierzchowskiego jako przykład propagandowego wykorzystania semantyki kolęd do walki propolskiej w okresie konstytuowania się granic II Rzeczypospolitej

In connection with the actions of the Great War and Poland’s regaining of independence, a series of updated carols was created, leading to the development of this species variety. The development of this form of artistic expression was also used in connection with the preparations for the plebiscite. The project was carried out in the Upper Silesian Voivodship. An example is the Silesian carol by Henryk Zbierzchowski published in “Szczutek” in Lviv in January 1921. It was introduced to the text of the Korfanty carol and thus assigned a sacred role of putting Silesia in order. It was not the only text of the carol updated by the same author because around 1919 he published a whole collection of such works, calling them “poetic variants” of carols.W związku z działaniami Wielkiej Wojny i odzyskaniem przez Polskę niepodległości, powstała seria kolęd aktualizowanych. Rozwój tej formy wyrazu artystycznego wykorzystano również w związku z przygotowaniami do plebiscytu górnośląskiego. Przykładem jest Kolęda śląska Henryka Zbierzchowskiego, opublikowana na łamach lwowskiego czasopisma „Szczutek” w styczniu 1921 r. Poprzez wprowadzenie Wojciecha Korfantego do tekstu kolędy jej autor przypisał mu w ten sposób wręcz sakralną rolę w porządkowaniu Śląska. Nie był to jedyny tekst kolędy aktualizowanej przez tego autora. Około 1919 r. wydał on cały zbiorek tego typu utworów, nazywając je mianem „wariantów poetyckich” kolęd

Wdrożenie narzędzi wspomagających zarządzanie projektami w firmach IT

The article presents the evaluation of tools to support IT project management. The research was carried out using the diagnostic survey method on the assessment of the implementation of tools to support IT project management.Artykuł prezentuje ocenę narzędzi do wspomagania zarządzania projektem informatycznym. Badania przeprowadzono za pomocą metody sondażu diagnostycznego na temat oceny wdrażania narzędzi do wspomagania zarządzania projektem informatycznym

A need for eye lens dosimetry in nuclear medicine

Background: Changing the individual dose limit for the lens of the eye from a value of 150 mSv per year to a level of 20 mSv (averaged over defined periods of five years or 50 mSv in a single year) means that issues related to routine eye lens dosimetry become interesting from the point of view of radiation protection. This could mean that the dosimeter designed to measure the doses at the level of the eye lens may become the next dosimeter routinely worn by nuclear medicine workers occupationally exposed to ionising radiation. The dosimeters currently used in nuclear medicine are the personal dosimeter and the ring dosimeter. Will this also be the case for nuclear medicine employees? In this interdisciplinary branch of medicine, the factors that cause the highest risk of radiation exposure of personnel are the process of manual handling, i.e. the process of preparing a radiopharmaceutical called labelling. Most of the radiopharmaceuticals used in nuclear medicine are labelled manually. In Poland, the exception from this rule is when radiopharmaceuticals are produced for the needs of positron emission tomography (PET), which are labelled using automatic processes. Manual procedures also include the process of radiopharmaceutical injection to the patients. The aim of the work was to assess the exposure of eye lenses of workers in nuclear medicine, as well as of the personnel in centers that produce radiopharmaceuticals for PET diagnostics, from the viewpoint of advisability of routine eye lens exposure monitoring, taking into account changes in the dose limit for the lens of the eye. Methods: The results of own measurements of the personal dose equivalent Hp(3), carried out in five nuclear medicine departments in Poland, as well as in two centers producing radiopharmaceuticals for PET, were subject to analysis. The analysis includes two most frequently used radionuclides for diagnostic purposes, namely 99mTc, 18F and the less frequently used 68Ga, in addition to 131I, which is used for therapeutic purposes. Dosimetric measurements were made using thermoluminescent detectors of domestic manufacture. Results & Conclusions: Estimated analysis of the annual exposure makes it possible to indicate cases where the maximum annual value of personal dose equivalent, in terms of Hp(3), exceeds threefold the new limit value specified at 20 mSv/year

The consequences of introducing IT systems for decision-making processes in healthcare institutions

Introduction:The measures currently being implemented in the field of healthcare systems are being directed towards minimising the costs incurred by healthcare institutions, while improving the quality of health services provided to patients. It seems essential to make use of various types of instruments supporting the process of making rational management decisions. IT systems constitute an effective tool, creating databases which are significant in supporting management functions in healthcare institutions. In particular, these tools, due to their automatic search and synthesis of information, play a major role in making rational management decisions in the shortest possible time.   Aim: The aim of the study was the diagnosis of management decision-making in the therapeutic entity, for possible implementation tools in the form of an information system, which could accelerate and support the rational process of making those decisions. In addition, work was to evaluate the role of management decisions and the implications of the information system on the process of rational decision-making in the management entity therapeutic. Material and Methods:The case study method allowed us to show the practical applications and benefits resulting from the application system to support rational decision-making management, in particular in terms of reducing costs and improving the organization of health services offered. The results and conclusions:Presented system generates a database to support rational decision-making process in the field of management, minimize their costs while improving the organization of health services. Ability to use various functions of the system allows for multi-segment analysis, thanks to the specially chosen and condensed information, both in the form of text and graphics over any time horizon. Benefits of the implications of the system is the speed and efficiency of the whole process of treatment, as well as the reduction of administrative tasks of medical staff, which increases the time for the patient

On the use of ethanol for evaluating microporosity of activated carbons prepared from Polish lignite

Microporous activated carbons prepared by KOH chemical activation or steam activation from lignite were characterised by adsorption of N2 at 77 K and CO2 at 298 K. Subsequently, the adsorption of ethanol was carried out and complemented by adsorption of benzene and cyclohexane. The isotherm analysis included application of the αs method using ethanol reference data obtained here by also studying non-porous carbon blacks. The work confirmed that ethanol is an experimentally convenient adsorptive to use and leads to results in overall agreement with those obtained using other probe molecules. Of particular interest was the observation that ethanol can gain access to the whole microporosity even in the case of samples containing constricted micropore entrances. It was also possible to show that certain furnace carbon blacks contain intrinsic microporosity which is more difficult to unambiguously detect by adsorption of N2 at 77 K. On the other hand, the results also suggested that the exact shape of the ethanol adsorption isotherm on a nonporous surface is more sensitive to the nature of the surface than has previously been found with other adsorptives

The Twin-Arginine Pathway for Protein Secretion

About 20 to 30% of proteins synthesized in the bacterial cytoplasm are destined for extracytoplasmic locations ( 1 ). They pass the cytoplasmic membrane using specialized transport systems, involving gated pores, energy, and signal peptides to direct protein export. Two major protein export systems are known, namely, the general secretory (Sec) pathway and the twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway ( Fig. 1 ). Most proteins use the Sec pathway, common to all domains of life. The Tat pathway, the focus of this review, is more exclusive. For example, it has only ∼30 native substrates in the Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli, and it is not universally conserved ( 2 )

Technological elites, the meritocracy, and postracial myths in Silicon Valley

Entre as modernas elites tecnológicas digitais, os mitos da meritocracia e da façanha intelectual são usados como marcadores de raça e gênero por uma supremacia branca masculina que consolida recursos de forma desproporcional em relação a pessoas não brancas, principalmente negros, latinos e indígenas. Os investimentos em mitos meritocráticos suprimem os questionamentos de racismo e discriminação, mesmo quando os produtos das elites digitais são infundidos com marcadores de raça, classe e gênero. As lutas históricas por inclusão social, política e econômica de negros, mulheres e outras classes desprotegidas têm implicado no reconhecimento da exclusão sistêmica, do trabalho forçado e da privação de direitos estruturais, além de compromissos com políticas públicas dos EUA, como as ações afirmativas, que foram igualmente fundamentais para reformas políticas voltadas para participação e oportunidades econômicas. A ascensão da tecnocracia digital tem sido, em muitos aspectos, antitética a esses esforços no sentido de reconhecer raça e gênero como fatores cruciais para inclusão e oportunidades tecnocráticas. Este artigo explora algumas das formas pelas quais os discursos das elites tecnocráticas do Vale do Silício reforçam os investimentos no pós racialismo como um pretexto para a re-consolidação do capital em oposição às políticas públicas que prometem acabar com práticas discriminatórias no mundo do trabalho. Por meio de uma análise cuidadosa do surgimento de empresas de tecnologias digitais e de uma discussão sobre como as elites tecnológicas trabalham para mascarar tudo, como inscrições algorítmicas e genéticas de raça incorporadas em seus produtos, mostramos como as elites digitais omitem a sua responsabilidade por suas reinscrições pós raciais de (in)visibilidades raciais. A partir do uso de análise histórica e crítica do discurso, o artigo revela como os mitos de uma meritocracia digital baseados em um “daltonismo racial” tecnocrático emergem como chave para a manutenção de exclusões de gênero e raça.Palavras-chave: Tecnologia. Raça. Gênero.Among modern digital technology elites, myths of meritocracy and intellectual prowess are used as racial and gender markers of white male supremacy that disproportionately consolidate resources away from people of color, particularly African Americans, Latino/as and Native Americans. Investments in meritocratic myths suppress interrogations of racism and discrimination even as the products of digital elites are infused with racial, class, and gender markers. Longstanding struggles for social, political, and economic inclusion for African Americans, women, and other legally protected classes have been predicated upon the recognition of systemic exclusion, forced labor, and structural disenfranchisement, and commitments to US public policies like affirmative action have, likewise, been fundamental to political reforms geared to economic opportunity and participation. The rise of the digital technocracy has, in many ways, been antithetical to these sustained efforts to recognize race and gender as salient factors structuring technocratic opportunity and inclusion. This paper explores some of the ways in which discourses of Silicon Valley technocratic elites bolster investments in post-racialism as a pretext for re-consolidations of capital, in opposition to public policy commitments to end discriminatory labor practices. Through a careful analysis of the rise of digital technology companies, and a discussion of how technology elites work to mask everything from algorithmic to genetic inscriptions of race embedded in their products, we show how digital elites elide responsibility for their post-racial re-inscriptions of racial visibilities (and invisibilities). Using historical and critical discourse analysis, the paper reveals how myths of a digital meritocracy premised on a technocratic colorblindness emerge key to perpetuating gender and racial exclusions.Keywords: Technology. Race. Gender

Narrow- minded- museum space. Preliminary results of the origins of museums in Janów Lubelski

Tadeusz Seweryn - the long term director of Cracow Ethnographic Museum has gained his rank in Janów Lubelski, the place, where two months after regaining the independence by Poland, the new museum came into being. The museum warehouse and exhibition room was created in ordinary living room. The exhibits were stuffed in every corner of the room. As long as the founder was staying there, the exhibits were constantly complemented, yet, when he left it, it changed into one without heating and all the things gathered there and the museum itself – previously the pride of the town – became the burden of local government. The museum space became unchanged for the next years, yet , the fact of not connecting it to life space (supervision, responsibility and interest) led to silent consent that common wealth is the individual wealth - the individualists who have access to it