Applying Advanced ICT Technologies and Augmented Reality To Generate Future Events On The Example of Organisation and Education in Sports Methodological Assumptions

The article follows up on two research and implementation grants. One focused on the application of mobile ICT systems to improve communication efficiency within the structure of the AZS-AWF Wroc?aw sports club (e-AZS platform). The other was devoted to the application of the technology of augmented reality to prototype educational trainers as seen on the example of judo. The two projects are to result in the development of original software improving the systems of sports organisation and education. It is assumed that linearity of events means that present effects have their causes solely in events from the past. While this is true, we cannot reject a thesis whereby present events may also result from events located in the future. Weather forecast will never change the weather, but forecasts of stock market trends can and do influence current stock prices in a significant way (after [1]). Thus, one of the new paradigms we can put forward is the thesis saying that future events generated in the information field may be the cause of what is yet to happen. The authors adopt this new paradigm as they explore the areas of sports education and organisation focusing on the specific examples of the sports training process and the organisational system of sports clubs. Using advanced IT technologies, they have described and explained the methodological basis of the adopted paradigm in the form of a prototype trainer to be used in martial arts including judo and the e-ASZ platform, a tool used in the AZS-AWF Wroc?aw sports club to organise training activities.Hence, the paper describes the application of advanced information and communications technologies (ICT) to manage the organisational aspect of the sports club as well as augmented reality as a technology to create a new reality through augmenting its real (augmented reality), virtual (augmented virtuality) and medial (augmented mediality) aspects (research in 2013-2016 and 2015-2017 by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, supervised by dr hab. Wojciech B. Cieslinski prof. at AWF Wroclaw grant numbers: 0014/RS2/2013/52, and dr hab. Kazimierz Witkowski 0011/RS3/2015/53)

Extreme thermal phenomena in the Sudets in the period of contemporary climatic changes

Praca zawiera charakterystykę ekstremalnych wartości temperatury powietrza, jakie wystąpiły w Sudetach w latach 1951–2007. Analiza danych z czterech stacji referencyjnych potwierdziła postępujące współcześnie ocieplenie w całym profilu wysokościowym Sudetów(203–1603 m n.p.m.). Wykazano istnienie zwyżkowych trendów temperatury niemal we wszystkich miesiącach, jednak nie w każdym przypadku były one istotne statystycznie. Najsilniejsze tempo przyrostu temperatury maksymalnej wystąpiło w maju (0,6°C/10 lat). Za istotny przejaw współczesnego ocieplenia uznać też należy spadkową tendencję liczby dni mroźnych (Tmax<0°C) i bardzo mroźnych (Tmax<-10°C) w całym profilu hipsometrycznym oraz wzrostową liczby dni gorących (Tmax≥25°C) i upalnych (Tmax≥30°C) w niższych położeniach. Na przełomie XX i XXI wieku wystąpiły u podnóża Sudetów, nienotowane wcześniej, tzw. dni szczególnie upalne, z temperaturą maksymalną ponad 35°C. Współczesne ocieplenie klimatu w strefie szczytowej Sudetów (na Śnieżce) kształtuje się w przebiegu wielu wskaźników termicznych odmiennie aniżeli w niższych położeniach.The study characterizes extreme values of air temperature, which occurred in the Sudetes during the period 1951–2007. Analysis of data obtained from four reference stations confirmed warming progressing in our times in the entire height profile of the Sudetes (203–1603 m above sea level). The author presented upward trends of temperature almost in all months, however, not all of them were of statistical importance. The greatest increase in the maximum temperature was recorded in May (0.6ºC/10 years). Another significant sign of current warming is also the downward trend in the number of frosty days (Tmax<0ºC) and of very frosty ones ((Tmax<-10ºC) in the entire hypsometric profile, and a growing number of warm days (Tmax≥25ºC) and of hot ones (Tmax≥30ºC) in areas located in lower parts. At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, stations located at the foot of the Sudetes recorded the so-called particularly hot days, which had not been recorded before, with the maximum temperature exceeding 35ºC. Contemporary warming of climate in the highest part of the Sudetes (on Śnieżka) differs in terms of various thermal indicators from that in lower parts