Від ідентичності до різниці – уваги про поняття ідентичності в найновшій історії польської мови (Od identyczności do różnicy – uwagi o pojęciu tożsamości w najnowszej historii polszczyzny) (From Identity to the Difference. Some Remarks on the Concept of Identity in the Newest History of the Polish Language)

Стаття присвячена формування в польській мові поняття, що репрезентоване словом «ідентичність», а також виявленню семантичних змін, яким було піддано згадані вираження. З цією метою було проаналізовано матеріал, виокремлений із лексикографічних розробок загальної польської мови, а також корпусних мовних даних (тобто ChronoPress та Національного Корпусу Польської Мови з пошуковиком PELCRA). Представлено етимологію проаналізованих одиниць, а також їх значеннєві перетворення зі спеціальним виділенням періодів 1945–1954 рр. та 1988–2010 рр. (The paper concerns the formation history of the identity concept represented by the Polish word “tożsamość” (‘identity’) and shows the changes that in the analysed words were observed. To this end lexical material was excerpted from the dictionaries of the general Polish and from two corpora (i.e. ChronoPress and the National Corpus of Polish with the search engine PELCRA). Moreover, the origins of studied words were presented as well as semantic changes, especially two periods 1945–1954 and 1988–2010 were compared.

Blood pressure reduction and recovery of stunned myocardium in the hypertrophied hypertensive heart

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'Attract & Kill' - ein innovatives Konzept zur biologischen Bekämpfung von bodenlebenden Schädlingen

Soil dwelling pest species are difficult to control because of their cryptic life style and their unpredictable distribution belowground. The efficacy of biological control agents is limited, mainly because of low rhizosphere competence. Here we propose to use a strategy where pest are attracted to killing agents instead of bringing killing agents to the pest. We developed capsules emitting carbon-dioxide which are combined with an specific isolate of an entomopathogenic fungus or Neem. The principle of an attract & kill strategy takes advantage of the behaviour of soil dwelling larvae which use CO2 for locating their host plants. Components used for the production of the capsules are just contain biologically derived substances and therefore do not pose any specific problems for use in organic production systems

Point-of-care assessment of platelet reactivity in the emergency department may facilitate rapid rule-out of acute coronary syndromes: a prospective cohort pilot feasibility study

Objective: Accurate, efficient and cost-effective disposition of patients presenting to emergency departments (EDs) with symptoms suggestive of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) is a growing priority. Platelet activation is an early feature in the pathogenesis of ACS; thus, we sought to obtain an insight into whether point-of-care testing of platelet function: (1) may assist in the rule-out of ACS; (2) may provide additional predictive value in identifying patients with non-cardiac symptoms versus ACS-positive patients and (3) is logistically feasible in the ED. Design: Prospective cohort feasibility study. Setting: Two urban tertiary care sites, one located in the USA and the second in Argentina. Participants: 509 adult patients presenting with symptoms of ACS. Main outcome measures Platelet reactivity was quantified using the Platelet Function Analyzer-100, with closure time (seconds required for blood, aspirated under high shear, to occlude a 150 µm aperture) serving as the primary endpoint. Closure times were categorised as ‘normal’ or ‘prolonged’, defined objectively as the 90th centile of the distribution for all participants enrolled in the study. Diagnosis of ACS was made using the standard criteria. The use of antiplatelet agents was not an exclusion criterion. Results: Closure times for the study population ranged from 47 to 300 s, with a 90th centile value of 138 s. The proportion of patients with closure times ≥138 s was significantly higher in patients with non-cardiac symptoms (41/330; 12.4%) versus the ACS-positive cohort (2/105 (1.9%); p=0.0006). The specificity of ‘prolonged’ closure times (≥138 s) for a diagnosis of non-cardiac symptoms was 98.1%, with a positive predictive value of 95.4%. Multivariate analysis revealed that the closure time provided incremental, independent predictive value in the rule-out of ACS. Conclusions: Point-of-care assessment of platelet reactivity is feasible in the ED and may facilitate the rapid rule-out of ACS in patients with prolonged closure times

Lingwistycznie o dyskursie (dyskursach), czyli uwag kilka po lekturze książki "Dyskurs i jego odmiany" pod redakcją Bożeny Witosz, Katarzyny Sujkowskiej-Sobisz i Ewy Ficek (Katowice 2016, 368 s.) [recenzja]

"Kategoria dyskursu zdominowała wiele przestrzeni badawczych współczesnej humanistyki. W pracach językoznawczych zorientowanych polonistycznie początkowo sięgano po nią niechętnie (nieśmiało?), bo centralne miejsce w studiach nad tekstem zajmowały przecież takie kategorie, jak: tekst, styl, gatunek. Jednak dyskurs, mimo swej wieloznaczności i niedookreśloności terminologicznej1, jest dziś jednym z ważniejszych pojęć lingwistyki." (fragm.

Poznawczy aspekt gatunku - o ślepcu, niedowidzącym i jednookim (na przykładzie epigramatu i gatunków pokrewnych)

The aim of the article is to present the 17th-century conceptualizations of man having problems with the sight, that is a blind, hard of hearing and one-eyed man in an epigram and similar genres. An overview of literary presentations of people who lost the ability to see (well) in a literal and metaphorical sense introduced on the basis of textual realizations of a widely understood epigram, helped to find out how blindness was understood and which features were ascribed to people deprived of the ability to see. The analyses showed that apart from the feature of not understanding one’s own position and old age, hard of hearing people are given the attribute of inventiveness, the love is identified with blindness and biblical orders of plucking out one’s eyes are presented comically, which is typical of a genre standard. However, a special attention is paid to the character of a one-eyed man, once presented as a trustworthy servant, and some other time as a social curiosity

Pytając o zmianę językową : językoznawstwo historyczne a socjolingwistyka

Joanna Przyklenk in her article devoted to the relations between historical linguistics and sociolinguistics focuses on three main issues. Firstly, she presents several ideas that are common to both disciplines. Secondly, the strong link between historical and social attitude in linguistics is considered in the shape of historical sociolinguistics, subdiscipline whose beginnings are dated back to 1980s in the West. In the paper its roots, theoretical background and the current state of research are discussed. Thirdly, the author takes an attempt to characterize the contemporary Polish studies, trying to describe these works in the context of the foregoing periodizations of the Polish studies on language history. Detecting an inspiration in historical sociolinguistics for Polish-oriented investigation, she points out these areas of diachronic enquiry that thanks to socio-lingual view could develop historical linguistics itself