Hyperbolic bodies for sale : the figurative representations of prostitutes in Tennessee Williams’s early works

The article examines representations of prostitutes in the early works of Tennessee Williams. The characters of hustlers in two of his two short stories, "In Memory of an Aristocrat" (1940) and "One Arm" (1942-45) as well as one short drama, "Hello from Bertha" (1941), are discussed as representatives of Williams’s employment of the hyperbolic figuration. In the case of each of the three examined characters, Choiński discusses the excessive and contrastive elements of descriptions which allow Williams to investigate the grotesqueness of human physicality on sal

The Opening Ceremony of the Radiopharmaceuticals Production and Research Centre at the Heavy Ion Laboratory of the University of Warsaw, May 15, 2012 Followed by an International Conference PETRAD2012

Two important events happened at the Heavy Ion Laboratoryof the University of Warsaw in May this year. First, on May 15 thenew Radiopharmaceuticals Production and Research Centre(RPRC) was inaugurated by the Rector Elect, Prof. Marcin Pałys.The construction of this Centre, located on the premises of theLaboratory, was supported by grants from the Ministry of Sciences,International Atomic Energy Agency, Ministry of Health and EuropeanStructural Funds

Long-term water temperature fluctuations in coastal rivers (Southern Baltic) in Poland

The paper presents water temperature fluctuations in coastal rivers (Rega, Parsęta, Słupia, Łupawa, Łeba) located in the area of Southern Baltic Sea in Poland. Based on the available detailed data on daily values of the analysed characteristic in the years 1971-2015, tendencies of changes in the period were determined. In all of the five cases, the mean annual temperature showed an increasing tendency. The value of water warming in particular rivers was approximate, and ranged from 0.26°C∙dec-1 to 0.31°C∙dec-1. At the monthly scale, the highest increase was recorded in April, and amounted to 0.46°C∙dec-1 on the average. Water temperature fluctuations were particularly determined by climatic changes, and strongly correlated with air temperature. Local factors characteristic for coastal rivers, i.e. presence of infrastructure of small water power plants and predominance of groundwater alimentation, had secondary effect on changes in the thermal regime of the analysed rivers

Reconstruction of the primary bottom of a unique crater lake in the “Meteoryt Morasko Reserve” (Poland)

There are a total of several million lakes in the world, which includes only approximately 30 crater lakes. Due to this extreme global rarity, they are the subject of research in many scientific disciplines. In spite of the widespread interest in them, however, many issues still require detailed investigation. In the case of the Morasko crater lake (Poland), hydrological research has been weakly developed so far. The undertaken analysis, which employed a complex research procedure involving the use of georadar, geological corings and bathymetric measurements, aimed to determine the primary bottom of the lake, and further to determine the scale and rate of its evolution. The modern water level suggests that the lake basin is currently approximately 55% filled in with organic matter, and the rate of its sedimentation in the deepest place can be estimated at approximately 0.8 mm·y-1