Wild boar population at the Vistula Spit – management of the species in forested and urban areas

Bobek, B., Frąckowiak, W., Furtek, J., Merta, D., Orłowska, L

Pulsar shadow as the origin of double notches in radio pulse profiles

We present the model of eclipsing a rotating, spatially extended source of directional emission by a central absorber, and apply it to the pulsar magnetosphere. The model assumes the radially extended inward radio emission along the local direction of the magnetic field, and the pulsar as the absorber. The geometry of the magnetic field lines of the rotating dipole is favourable for the double eclipse events, which we identify with the double notches observed in pulse profiles of nearby pulsars. For pulsars with large dipole inclinations 70 <~ alpha <~ 110 deg the double notches are predicted to occur within a narrow phase range of 20 to 30 deg before the main radio peak. Application of the model to PSR B0950+08 establishes it as a nearly orthogonal rotator (alpha =~ 75 deg, beta =~ -10 deg) with many pulse components naturally interpreted in terms of the inward radio emission from a large range of altitudes. The inward components include the intermittently strong, leading component of the main pulse, which would traditionally have been interpeted as a conal emission in the outward direction. The model also identifies the magnetic field lines along which the radially extended inward radio emission occurs in B0950+08. These have a narrow range of the footprint parameter s close to 1.1 (closed field line region, near the last open field lines). We describe directional characteristics of inward emission from the radially extended region and compare them with characteristics of extended outward emission. Our work shows that pulse profiles of at least some pulsars may be a superposition of both inward and outward emission.Comment: 28 pages, 13 figures, accepted by ApJ, high-quality figures are available from http://www.ncac.torun.pl/~michalf/inward1_figs

Affective interpersonal touch in close relationships: A cross-cultural perspective

Interpersonal touch behavior differs across cultures, yet no study to date has systematically tested for cultural variation in affective touch, nor examined the factors that might account for this variability. Here, over 14,000 individuals from 45 countries were asked whether they embraced, stroked, kissed, or hugged their partner, friends, and youngest child during the week preceding the study. We then examined a range of hypothesized individual-level factors (sex, age, parasitic history, conservatism, religiosity, and preferred interpersonal distance) and cultural-level factors (regional temperature, parasite stress, regional conservatism, collectivism, and religiosity) in predicting these affective-touching behaviors. Our results indicate that affective touch was most prevalent in relationships with partners and children, and its diversity was relatively higher in warmer, less conservative, and religious countries, and among younger, female, and liberal people. This research allows for a broad and integrated view of the bases of cross-cultural variability in affective touch.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

Application of butane-2,3-diacetals in the synthesis of optically active natural products

Butanodiacetale (BDA) są stabilnymi, optycznie czynnymi blokami budulcowymi wykorzystywanymi w syntezie produktów naturalnych. Otrzymać je można na drodze syntezy z tanich substratów: D-mannitolu, kwasu L-askorbinowego, L-winianu dimetylowego, oraz D-winianu dimetylowego. Usztywniona struktura butanodiacetali daje możliwość zastosowania ich w syntezie asymetrycznej. Przedstawiono przegląd literaturowy dotyczący syntezy butanodiacetali oraz ich zastosowania do syntezy małocząsteczkowych i wielkocząsteczkowych naturalnych związków optycznie czynnych.Butane diacetals (BDAs) are stable, optically active building blocks used in the synthesis of natural products. They can be synthesized from cheap substrates such as: D-mannitol, L-ascorbic acid, dimethyl L-tartrate and dimethyl D-tartrate. The rigid structure of butane diacetals makes possible their application in asymmetric synthesis. The article presents literature review on synthesis of butane diacetals and their application in the synthesis of natural small and large optically active compounds

Fluorescence anisotropy of cyanobacterial phycobilisomes oriented in polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) films

Polarized absorption (at 296 and 85 K), fluorescence, and photoacoustic (at 296 and 85 K) spectra of antenna complexes-phycobilisomes isolated from cyanobacteriaTolypothrix tenuis andOscillatoria and embedded in isotropic and anisotropic polyvinyl alcohol films-were measured. From the sets of polarized components of emission, the anisotropy of fluorescence for the pools of differently oriented molecules was calculated. On the basis of polarized photoacoustic and emission spectra, the competition between the process of thermal deactivation of excitation and excitation energy transfer in a chain of excitation donor and acceptor chromophores of phycobilisomes is discussed

Threats to feminist identity and reactions to gender based discrimination

The aim of this research was to examine conditions that modify feminists’support for women as targets of gender discrimination. In an experimental study we tested a hypothesis that threatened feminist identity will lead to greater differentiation between feminists and conservative women as victims of discrimination and, in turn, a decrease in support for non-feminist victims. The study was conducted among 96 young Polish female professionals and graduate students from Gender Studies programs in Warsaw who self-identified as feminists (Mage=22.23). Participants were presented with a case of workplace gender discrimination. Threat to feminist identity and worldview of the discrimination victim (feminist vs. conservative) were varied between research conditions. Results indicate that identity threat caused feminists to show conditional reactions to discrimination. Under identity threat, feminists perceived the situation as less discriminatory when the target held conservative views on gender relations than when the target was presented as feminist. This effect was not observed under conditions of no threat. Moreover, feminists showed an increase in compassion for the victim when she was portrayed as a feminist compared to when she was portrayed as conservative. Implications for the feminist movement are discussed