Potential of city break clubbing tourism in Wrocław

Over the last decade Polish cities have become popular destinations of the foreign clubbing tourism. Interest of foreign tourists, however, is not reflected in the interest of scientists, because clubbing tourism-related issues have not been extensively studied in the literature regarding Polish cities. In this paper the authors have tried to fill this gap by analysing the potential of city break clubbing tourism in Wrocław, the city which has been selected the European Capital of Culture 2016. As part of the analysis, the following elements affecting the development of this type of tourism were examined: transport accessibility, clubbing infrastructure (discos, nightclubs and pubs), and other factors (accommodation facilities and selected tourist attractions). The transport accessibility data include only regular direct flights carried by low-cost carriers (LCC) in 2014 (number of connections, frequency of flights and ticket prices), as this type of transportation is crucial for city break tourism

Towards a Versatile Problem Diagnosis Infrastructure for LargeWireless Sensor Networks

In this position paper, we address the issue of durable maintenance of a wireless sensor network, which will be crucial if the vision of large, long-lived sensornets is to become reality. Durable maintenance requires tools for diagnosing and fixing occurring problems, which can range from internode connectivity losses, to time synchronization problems, to software bugs. While there are solutions for fixing problems, an appropriate diagnostic infrastructure is essentially still lacking. We argue that diagnosing a sensornet application requires the ability to dynamically and temporarily extend the application on a selected group of nodes with virtually any functionality. We motivate this claim based on deployment experiences to date and propose a highly nonintrusive solution to dynamically extending a running application on a resource-constrained sensor node

Teacher Self-Improvement: A Promising Approach to Professional Development and School Improvement

Teacher self-improvement is a promising approach to explore as schools plan to meet the professional development needs of their staff. In this article we focus on: 1) the basic concept of teacher self-improvement, 2) the relationship between teacher self-improvement and teacher evaluation, 3) the categories of information which can be examined during the self-improvement process, 4) some strategies for teacher self-assessment, 5), the process of planning a teacher self-improvement program, and 6) the role of self-improvement in facilitating school improvement

Using Teacher Self-Assessment to Identify Staff Development Needs

The article discusses the study which applies the Johari Window model during the teacher self-assessment process to identify the development needs of teachers in the United States. Staff development programs are successful when the outcomes being fostered are relevant to the teachers\u27 needs

Transcriptional regulation of metastatic [Id]entity by KLF17

A new player identified in the regulation of epithelial-to-mesenchyme transition, cell invasiveness and metastasis

Erozja tajemnicy. Przemiany religijności w późnych wiekach średnich na przykładzie filozofii Williama Ockhama

Researchers have pointed to various origins of the historical processes of secularisation. Within this article, I assume that the nominalist philosophical-religious thought of William Ockham constituted such a possible origin. This thinker developed a social philosophy critical of the excessive political power of the papacy in the final centuries of the Middle Ages. In this way, Ockham pushed forward the philosophical and political thought of his time. According to the earlier medieval thought, it was the ecclesiastic power that would determine who should rule in a given society. Ockham did significantly reduce the intellectual prerogatives of the ecclesiastic power to control the emerging secular society based on monarchic-national principles. This did not mean that Ockham was personally a non-believer; in fact, on the basis of his metaphysics, he considered God to be an omnipotent being capable of bending at will the laws underlying reality. This, however, led him to the conclusion that God is essentially unknowable, which, in turn, pushed Ockham to some form of intellectual scepticism and a pronounced limitation of the capacities of theology in juxtaposition to the secularizing philosophy. Ockham did thus inspire the processes of secularisation on multiple planes: cultural as well as institutional, and this is what supports the main thesis of this paper

Feasibility Studies in the Product Development Process

AbstractThe term “feasibility study” is often used in context of product development processes. Feasibility studies focus on five subjects: technical, economic, legal, operational and scheduling feasibility studies. The best known field is the economic one. While in economy science there is a standard-proceeding of a “feasibility study”, in a technical context the term is used in different ways as shown by various research work. Thus, this paper aims to point out the relation of technical feasibility studies (TFS) and product development in context of the integrated product de- velopment model (iPeM).The analysis of role and proceeding of feasibility study bases on three aspects: literature research and definition of terms, analyses of selected documented examples of technical feasibility studies resulting in a classification in iPeM and the matching of the classifications concerning the role of technical feasibility study in product development.The results of research give a closer look at the various definitions and descriptions of the term. Thereby, the research focusses on the economic just as the technical feasibility. Whereas DIN69901-2 defines a standard for the evaluation of feasibility in context of project management, no consistent definition for technical feasibility studies is found. Thus, a consistent understanding of the aims of a technical feasibility study is compiled. In addition, examples of technical feasibility studies in product development processes will be analyzed regarding in which steps evaluations of technical feasibility are be done. Result of the classification of the identified activities of the examples to activities of product development and problem solving, is a graphical representation in iPeM. The third aspect is the matching of the iPeM-classifications. Using the gained understanding of “technical feasibility study” it is possible to conclude at which specific points in product development feasibility stud- ies are done. These aspects concerning the role and aims of technical feasibility studies are underlying for further works

Koncepcja „wojny kultur” w twórczości Oriany Fallaci i Agnieszki Kołakowskiej

Artykuł jest próbą porównawczej i interdyscyplinarnej analizy (z perspektywy filozofii, kulturoznawstwa i nauk społecznych) twórczości dwóch pisarek – Oriany Fallaci i Agnieszki Kołakowskiej. Obie autorki uprawiają konserwatywny typ publicystyki, nastawionej konfrontacyjnie względem innych ideologii. Tezą szczególną, jaka się pojawia w ich podobnej twórczości literacko-politycznej jest koncepcja „wojny kultur”, czyli idea konfrontacji między kulturą zachodnią a cywilizacją islamską. Inną charakterystyczną myślą dla twórczości obu autorek jest krytyczny opis kondycji aksjologicznej kultury zachodniej. Celem artykułu jest, po pierwsze, udowodnienie bliźniaczego podobieństwa twórczości obu autorek, po drugie krytyczna analiza poglądów obu intelektualistek.This article is an attempt to comparative and interdisciplinary analysis ( from the perspective of philosophy , cultural studies and social sciences ) works of two writers - Oriana Fallaci and Agnieszka Kołakowska. Both authors make conservative type of journalism , confrontational towards other ideologies. The special thesis, which appears similar in their political and literary creativity is the concept of " culture war " or the idea of ​​a confrontation between Western culture and Islamic civilization. Another characteristic of the creative mind of both authors is critical description of the condition of Western culture axiological. The purpose of this article is, first, to prove the twin similarity of the two authors of the work , and secondly a critical analysis of the views of the two intellectuals

The Age of Advancing PocketQube Technology

The PocketQube Standard (5cm cube) is a quickly advancing technology branch which can trace it origins back to the CubeSat standard. The community has grown from a handful of builders to in excess of 25 with most of the developments coming from Europe. Alba has pioneered standardized deployers called AlbaPods, capable of launching 6p and 96p worth of up mass. 9 PocketQubes are scheduled to launch in 2019 on two separate Alba Launch Clusters, offering the community an outlet to get to orbit regularly for the first time. In addition, Alba has developed the most advanced PocketQube in its class, Unicorn-2. Unicorn-2 can generate 20 watt peak, 10-15w OAP, 200kb/s downlink and 5 degrees pointing on a full ADCS