Potencjał transferu wiedzy z uczelni wyższych do gospodarki turystycznej w Polsce – ocena na podstawie projektów badawczych finansowanych przez Narodowe Centrum Nauki

Transfer wiedzy z uczelni do podmiotów otoczenia społeczno-gospodarczego staje się obecnie coraz istotniejszym zadaniem w ramach misji uczelni. Wyzwanie to dotyczy także jednostek naukowych i naukowców prowadzących badania nad turystyką. W artykule przeprowadzono ocenę potencjału tego transferu, który można rozumieć jako zdolność do zaangażowania się we współpracę z podmiotami otoczenia. Wykorzystano w tym celu jedną z miar, tj. siłę naukową, mierzoną liczbą i tematyką projektów badawczych finansowanych przez Narodowe Centrum Nauki. Wyniki badania wskazują na relatywnie niską zdolność badaczy zajmujących się turystyką do pozyskiwania grantów badawczych. Jednak tematyka grantów i jej zróżnicowanie stanowią o istotnym potencjale transferu wiedzy.Projekt badawczy „Transfer wiedzy z uczelni wyższych do przedsiębiorstw – uwarunkowania i znaczenie dla innowacyjności gospodarki turystycznej” (UMO-2014/15/D/HS4/01217) sfinansowany ze środków Narodowego Centrum Nauki

The potential of knowledge transfer from universities to the tourism industry in Poland: assessment on the basis of research projects financed by the National Science Centre

Knowledge transfer from universities to the socio-economic environment is becoming increasingly important. This challenge also applies to researchers in the field of tourism. The article examines the potential of knowledge transfer, understood as a university’s ability to engage in cooperation with external stakeholders. The aim of this work is to identify this potential on the basis of the number and subjects of research projects qualified for funding by the National Science Center in Poland. According to this study, the number of research grants dedicated to tourism is insufficient. Taking into account the projects, an assessment of knowledge transfer potential is favourable due to the broad scope and relevance of the research.A research project “Knowledge transfer from universities to companies: the determinants and the impact on innovativeness in the tourism industry” financed by the National Science Centre, Poland (decision no. DEC-2014/15/D/HS4/01217)

Physical Activity of Tourism and Recreation Students in Terms of Accessibility to Open Areas

The aim of the article is to present the factors which affect the choice of place of recreation, as well as indicate the preferred forms of physical activity taken up there. The authors also discussed the relationship between distance from open areas and frequency of visits. Moreover, they evaluated current knowledge about the role of the natural environment as a physical recreation space. The research was conducted among a group of 305 physically active individuals (students of the Academy of Physical Education and Sport in Gdańsk), using questionnaires. The respondents defined the role of location in comparison to other motivational factors for a range of physical activities (recreation). They also spoke about their preferred forms of physical activity in the natural environment, compared to the roles of natural and human environments with regard to physical activity. They also provided an answer to the question whether an open area which does not provide respondents with an opportunity to undertake their favoured recreation would remain of interest. The study results demonstrate the unquestionable importance of having access to attractive natural surroundings with respect to physical activity. This allows a relation to be made between leisure in the natural environment and an improvement in the health of the physically active

A Needle in the Haystack: Higgs Boson Searches in the ATLAS Experiment

A preliminary combination of Standard Model Higgs searches with the ATLAS experiment, in a dataset collected at energy sqrt(s) = 7 TeV at the LHC in year 2011, is presented. The paper refers to the status of Higgs boson searches as from March 2012, before the Higgs discovery at LHC. The Higgs boson mass ranges from 112.7 GeV to 115.5 GeV, 131 GeV to 237 GeV and 251 GeV to 468 GeV are excluded at the 95 % confidence level. An excess of events is observed for a Higgs boson mass hypothesis close to 126 GeV. This successful analysis was possible due to the excellent performance of the GRID distributed computing system, in which two Polish sites ACK Cyfronet from Krakow and PSNC from Poznan have participated. The ATLAS analysis chain and the usage of grid for ATLAS data processing are described in this paper

A scientific note on DNA fragmentation rates in sperm collected from drones and spermathecae of queens of different age, with possible implications on the scattered brood phenomenon

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Uwarunkowania postaw wobec pracy w gospodarce turystycznej w kontekście kreowania kapitału klienta

The success of contemporary tourism organizations depends on their employees, who are ready to contribute to building customer capital, which is the main source of enterprise value growth. According to the service profit chain, employees who are satisfied with their work environment tend to stay with the employer and are more productive, and their attitudes and behaviors are conducive to delivery of high quality services. External service value enhances customer satisfaction, which leads to long-term relationships and, consequently, improves profitability of business. The purpose of the paper is to examine relationships among internal service quality, job satisfaction, work engagement and loyalty toward employer. The study was conducted with a group of 768 operational employees in the tourism industry. Research revealed that the degree to which the needs of individuals are fulfilled by rewards in the work environment is linked to work engagement and turnover intentions and that these relationships are mediated by job satisfaction. Identified relations demonstrate the importance of internal service quality improvement in the tourism industry

Zdolność do absorpcji wiedzy w przedsiębiorstwach turystycznych – identyfikacja znaczenia i możliwości pomiaru

The knowledge-based view suggests that the extent of knowledge transfer from knowledge generators to knowledge recipients may depend on recipients’ absorptive capacity ie. “ability of a firm to recognize the value of new, external information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends” [Cohen and Levinthal 1990, p. 128]. The lack or insufficiency of absorptive capacity in a firm hinders the ability to recognize the potential of new ideas arising from interaction with other external knowledge generators. The purpose of this article is to identify the importance of the absorptive capacity in tourism industry, as well as methods of its conceptualization and operationalization. The results include systematization of existing research dedicated to absorptive capacity in tourism and propositions of further studies on this subject

Organisational determinants of Employer Image: A case of the Tourism Industry in Poland

Growing recognition of the importance of the customer-employee interaction in the tourism service delivery has led to the need to increase efforts to attract and retain qualified and committed personnel. The objective of the paper is to analyze the dimensions of the company employment image in the tourism industry and to identify organizational factors which influence the perception of the tourism organization attractiveness as a workplace by potential employees. The study was conducted on the group of 351 undergraduates and graduates enrolled in tourism and hospitality studies in Poznan. Research revealed that students do not believe that careers in tourism will offer them values they expect. It was also found that tourism company employment image is affected by company size, level of internationalization, chain affiliation, ownership type, and type of services offered

Characterization of exceptionally thermostable single-stranded DNA-binding proteins from Thermotoga maritima and Thermotoga neapolitana

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in SSBs because they find numerous applications in diverse molecular biology and analytical methods.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We report the characterization of single-stranded DNA binding proteins (SSBs) from the thermophilic bacteria <it>Thermotoga maritima </it>(<it>Tma</it>SSB) and <it>Thermotoga neapolitana </it>(<it>Tne</it>SSB). They are the smallest known bacterial SSB proteins, consisting of 141 and 142 amino acid residues with a calculated molecular mass of 16.30 and 16.58 kDa, respectively. The similarity between amino acid sequences of these proteins is very high: 90% identity and 95% similarity. Surprisingly, both <it>Tma</it>SSB and <it>Tne</it>SSB possess a quite low sequence similarity to <it>Escherichia coli </it>SSB (36 and 35% identity, 55 and 56% similarity, respectively). They are functional as homotetramers containing one single-stranded DNA binding domain (OB-fold) in each monomer. Agarose mobility assays indicated that the ssDNA-binding site for both proteins is salt independent, and fluorescence spectroscopy resulted in a size of 68 ± 2 nucleotides. The half-lives of <it>Tma</it>SSB and <it>Tne</it>SSB were 10 h and 12 h at 100°C, respectively. When analysed by differential scanning microcalorimetry (DSC) the melting temperature (<it>T</it>_m) was 109.3°C and 112.5°C for <it>Tma</it>SSB and <it>Tne</it>SSB, respectively.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The results showed that <it>Tma</it>SSB and <it>Tne</it>SSB are the most thermostable SSB proteins identified to date, offering an attractive alternative to <it>Taq</it>SSB and <it>Tth</it>SSB in molecular biology applications, especially with using high temperature e. g. polymerase chain reaction (PCR).</p