Geospatial Technology Competency Model – Geography Academic Competencies

The main goal of this paper is to present a wider view of challenges and opportunities encountered by university teachers in terms of programs, including accountability, articulation, geography curriculum design and assessment, and general education itself. What is more, it also provides the reader with the role of university initiatives in completing and promoting the Geospatial Technology Competency Model with regard to the development of geography academic competencies. Said model identifies the foundational, industry-wide, and industry sector-specific expertise that distinguishes, and binds together, successful geospatial professionals. Another aspect raised in this article pertains to the contents of this very model, the process which prompted its development, its possible uses, along with evaluation of how geography-ori-ented higher education curricula are aligned with the current workforce needs

Aktywność turystyczno-wypoczynkowa Polaków będących na emigracji w Londynie w latach 2004-2008

The central concern of this PhD thesis is tourist activity of Polish immigrants living in London between 2004 and 2008. The United Kingdom was a consistently popular migration destination for Poles after Poland joined the EU in 2004. According to the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) there was a very high degree of concentration of Polish immigrants to the UK and London in the entire period, 2004-2008. However, the available data regarding demographic and socio-economic profile of Polish immigrants living in London is poor. This analysis focuses on Poles living in London and provides new evidence of their tourist behavior. There is weak conceptualization of the relationship between tourism and migration in Polish literature. Research on tourist activity of immigrants suffers from a lack of comprehensive and reliable data. The research aims to shape thinking about how we understand the changes of tourist behavior model, provide new evidence for immigrants’ type of tourism preferences, decisions to travel and their choices of destination. The author hopes that the analyses will contribute to a better understanding of processes determining immigrants’ tourist behaviour. In response to the research question, the present work formulates the following main five hypotheses: 1.The Polish immigrants’ tourist behavior model is different from the general population of the British and Polish; 2.The Poles travel propensity will modify with the length of stay. The length of time in the UK will determine the changes of immigrants’ tourist behavior. The tourism preferences of Poles in London will be similar to the host community; 3.Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) is the main type of tourism preferred by Polish immigrants in London. There is a tendency to believe that, the longer period of residences in the host country the more types of tourism will appear; 4.The demographic, socioeconomic, geographic factors determines the level of travel propensity of immigrants; 5.Demographic, socioeconomic, geographic, determinants and motives effect immigrants’ decisions to travel and their choices of destination. To achieve these objectives, the thesis is divided into a number of parts, as follows: Part One sets the context by offering some definitions of key terms, introducing the basic concepts of general tourist behavior and activity, study method, and briefly travel preferences of Polish and British population. Part Two concentrates on the characteristics of respondents. It does discuss some of the primary characteristics, which make the study of immigrants’ tourist behavior a particularly complex subject. Part Three looks at the leisure behavior of the Polish immigrants. Since tourism and leisure have been regarded as two separate areas of research and study, there has been relatively little exchange of theories between them (Jansen-Verbeke and Dietvorst, 1987). However, a growing number of researchers have begun to draw tentative relationship between leisure and tourism. In chapter three of the thesis we looked at how respondents spent their leisure time outdoors in London. The fourth and fifth parts of thesis concentrate on the factors that influence tourist activity. We also looked at the characteristics of tourists and their trips, social profiles, trip distances, modes of transport and types of accommodation, the duration, purpose and frequency of visits Tourist behavior is a fascinating but difficult subject to research. The Polish immigrants were influenced in their decisions to travel by many determinants. The author, in the fifth part of thesis, has tried to select determinants that affect the Polish immigrants’ level of travel propensity and choices of destination. Each chapter features conclusions and discussions points. At the end, the author presented a conclusion about immigrants’ tourism behavior. It was provided with full information about the Polish immigrants, their place of stay, work and leisure time preferences

Tętnicze przeszczepy allogeniczne w leczeniu chorych z zakażonymi protezami naczyniowymi - propozycja nowego sposobu konserwacji allograftów

Background. The aim of this work was to evaluate the efficacy of treating patients with infected vascular prosthesis using allografts preserved by the method of cold ischemia. A proposal of a new way to preserve allografts is also presented. Material and methods. Arterial allografts preserved by means of cold ischemia (4°C for 7 days) have been introduced in treating patients with infected vascular prosthesis in the Department of Vascular Surgery and Transplantology of the Medical University in Bialystok since May 2002. Until now, 13 patients have been treated by this method. The time elapsed from the first symptom of the infection ranged from 3 months to 6 years. The surgical procedures included the removal of infected prosthesis and simultaneous implantation of arterial allograft. Results. A complete recovery was obtained in nine patients. Four patients had to be operated again. A complication of allograft thrombosis was observed in two patients, one patient showed dehiscence of the distal anastomosis, and, in another patient the peripheral allograft wall was interrupted in the site of collateral vessels ligation. Four patients died during the early postoperative period. Conclusion. The use of arterial allografts is a successful way of treating vascular prosthesis infections. It is profitable to preserve arterial allografts in cold ischemia for the prolonged time of 7 days as the initial preparation for deep freeze.Wstęp. Celem pracy była ocena skuteczności leczenia chorych z zakażeniem protez naczyniowych przy użyciu allograftów konserwowanych metodą zimnego niedokrwienia. Przedstawiono w niej również propozycję nowego sposobu konserwacji allograftów. Materiał i metody. Od maja 2002 r. w Klinice Chirurgii Naczyń i Transplantacji Akademii Medycznej w Białymstoku wprowadzono metodę leczenia chorych z zakażeniem protez naczyniowych przy użyciu tętniczych allograftów konserwowanych metodą zimnego niedokrwienia (4°C przez 7 dni). Dotychczas leczono tym sposobem 13 chorych. Czas od pierwotnej operacji do wystąpienia objawów zakażenia wynosił od 3 miesięcy do 6 lat. Operacje naprawcze polegały na usunięciu zakażonej protezy i zastąpienie jej allograftem tętniczym. Wyniki. Całkowite wyleczenie uzyskano u 9 operowanych chorych; 4 pacjentów wymagało reoperacji. W 2 przypadkach doszło do zakrzepicy allograftu, u 1 chorego wystąpiło rozejście się dystalnego zespolenia, u 1 osoby wystąpiło przerwanie ściany w obwodowej części allograftu w miejscu odejścia podwiązanej bocznicy. We wczesnym okresie pooperacyjnym zmarło 4 chorych. Wnioski. Zastosowanie allogenicznych przeszczepów tętniczych stanowi skuteczną metodę leczenia chorych z zakażeniami protez naczyniowych. Korzystne jest zastosowanie wydłużonego do 7 dni czasu konserwacji allograftów tętniczych metodą zimnego niedokrwienia jako wstępnego przygotowania do późniejszego ich przechowywania w stanie zamrożenia

Mechanical thrombectomy in acute stroke – Five years of experience in Poland

Objectives Mechanical thrombectomy (MT) is not reimbursed by the Polish public health system. We present a description of 5 years of experience with MT in acute stroke in Comprehensive Stroke Centers (CSCs) in Poland. Methods and results We retrospectively analyzed the results of a structured questionnaire from 23 out of 25 identified CSCs and 22 data sets that include 61 clinical, radiological and outcome measures. Results Most of the CSCs (74%) were founded at University Hospitals and most (65.2%) work round the clock. In 78.3% of them, the working teams are composed of neurologists and neuro-radiologists. All CSCs perform CT and angio-CT before MT. In total 586 patients were subjected to MT and data from 531 of them were analyzed. Mean time laps from stroke onset to groin puncture was 250±99min. 90.3% of the studied patients had MT within 6h from stroke onset; 59.3% of them were treated with IV rt-PA prior to MT; 15.1% had IA rt-PA during MT and 4.7% – emergent stenting of a large vessel. M1 of MCA was occluded in 47.8% of cases. The Solitaire device was used in 53% of cases. Successful recanalization (TICI2b–TICI3) was achieved in 64.6% of cases and 53.4% of patients did not experience hemorrhagic transformation. Clinical improvement on discharge was noticed in 53.7% of cases, futile recanalization – in 30.7%, mRS of 0–2 – in 31.4% and mRS of 6 in 22% of cases. Conclusion Our results can help harmonize standards for MT in Poland according to international guidelines

Peter Mohyła’s Leiturgiarion from 1629 and 1639. Comparative study

Roman Andrzej Płoński, OlsztynThe present publishing tradition in principle does not use the qualification the Leiturgiarion in tytular of liturgical books. Only Orthodox Church in Romania is except here. Polish editions of this books however appear here very curiously. The Orthodox Church in Poland did not continating tradition editing the Leiturgiarion (according to Peter Mohyla’s Leiturgiarion) and also the Sluzhebnik (according to present of Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian contemporary editions). Fact this is interesting surely both for alone orthodox, as also the totality of Polish publishing market and the represented by him traditions. We have however to deal with separate editions of individual texts of services in concrete languages (church-slavonic, polish). Archieratikon is edition about summary character surely, edited in Warsaw in 1944 year. It was only edition compilation – parallel edition of texts of Liturgy (the Mass) by St. John the Chryzostom and St. Basil the Great, as one text with parallel proper columns every form of service, edited at Warsaw in 1924 year we can with regard recognise for linking to edition extradition vanetian – gorazdan – mohylian with regard on formula of given book. All edited text of orthodox Liturgy (the Mass) have the monothematic character. They are editions of only one, closely definite form of this [email protected]

Mechanical thrombectomy in acute stroke : five years of experience in Poland

Objectives: Mechanical thrombectomy (MT) is not reimbursed by the Polish public health system. We present a description of 5 years of experience with MT in acute stroke in Comprehensive Stroke Centers (CSCs) in Poland. Methods and results: We retrospectively analyzed the results of a structured questionnaire from 23 out of 25 identified CSCs and 22 data sets that include 61 clinical, radiological and outcome measures. Results: Most of the CSCs (74%) were founded at University Hospitals and most (65.2%) work round the clock. In 78.3% of them, the working teams are composed of neurologists and neuro-radiologists. All CSCs perform CT and angio-CT before MT. In total 586 patients were subjected to MT and data from 531 of them were analyzed. Mean time laps from stroke onset to groin puncture was 250 99 min. 90.3% of the studied patients had MT within 6 h from stroke onset; 59.3% of them were treated with IV rt-PA prior to MT; 15.1% had IA rt-PA during MT and 4.7% - emergent stenting of a large vessel. M1 of MCA was occluded in 47.8% of cases. The Solitaire device was used in 53% of cases. Successful recanalization (TICI2b–TICI3) was achieved in 64.6% of cases and 53.4% of patients did not experience hemorrhagic transformation. Clinical improvement on discharge was noticed in 53.7% of cases, futile recanalization - in 30.7%, mRS of 0–2 - in 31.4% and mRS of 6 in 22% of cases. Conclusion: Our results can help harmonize standards for MT in Poland according to international guideline