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... Study Region Poland (representative sample of 146 flow gauges free of major human modifications, located in 12 major river basins) Study Focus The objective was to present trends in selected river flood indicators (magnitude, frequency and timing) in Poland, using the annual maximum daily flow and peak-overthreshold approaches. Two periods (1956–2019 and 1981–2019) were analyzed. The first period ...
Poland, etc ; lifestyle; qualitative analysis; villages; Show all 4 Subjects
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... This article aims to explore the (im)mobility patterns of 92 young university graduates living in 10 selected rural municipalities in Poland interviewed within a qualitative study. This is achieved by dividing them into stayers, returnees and newcomers, and looking at their motivations to live in the countryside, plans about their future places of residence as well as their integration into rural ...
... The article covers the results of the study of a historical wooden holiday architectural ensemble called Świdermajer, located on the outskirts of Warsaw in Poland. The fashion for traveling and resting within natural surroundings emerged in the 19th century, contributing to the popularization of a new model of spending free time. It had an impact on the development of a new type of architecture, i ...
Poland, etc ; European Union; bacteriophages; phage therapy; Show all 4 Subjects
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... The year 2020 marked 15 years of the Phage Therapy Unit in Poland, the inception of which took place just one year after Poland’s accession to the European Union (2004). At first sight, it is hard to find any connection between these two events, but in fact joining the European Union entailed the need to adapt the regulatory provisions concerning experimental treatment in humans to those that were ...
... Accurate house price indexes allow governments and planners to make more effective decisions with regard to land use policy. We compare different ways of computing house price indexes for Warsaw over the period 2006–2018 using a detailed micro-level dataset of 101,182 transactions. We find that when a hedonic approach is used, the resulting index is reasonably robust to the choice of method. More ...
Poland, etc ; Cretaceous period; Miozoa; palynology; rivers; Show all 5 Subjects
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... In this article, the most representative dinoflagellate cyst genera and species recognised in the rich palynomorph assemblages of the upper Campanian–lowermost Maastrichtian succession of the Middle Vistula River section (central Poland) are treated taxonomically: in particular, six genera and 16 species are considered. Oligosphaeridium araneum sp. nov., which possesses processes with relatively l ...
Poland, etc ; land policy; landscapes; sustainable development; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Two general arguments have triggered the need for tools enabling planners a careful consideration of complicated landscape conditions in planning and design decisions. The first one is the need to implement sustainable development rules, including landscape heritage protection while the urban transformation is taking place. The second one is the lack of comprehensive landscape planning tools respo ...
Poland, etc ; biomass; chlorophyll; floodplains; macrophytes; phytoplankton; rivers; Show all 7 Subjects
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... In the years 2007–2015, phytoplankton of six floodplain lakes of the Lower Vistula were studied. During this period, river levels were recorded ranging from normal to both extremely high and extremely low. The research attempted to answer two questions: (i) Do the distributions of phytoplankton communities differ between different types of floodplain lakes? (ii) How are the phytoplankton in floodp ...
Poland, etc ; algorithms; cost effectiveness; data collection; lidar; vegetation; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The recent popularization of airborne lidar scanners has provided a steady source of point cloud datasets containing the altitudes of bare earth surface and vegetation features as well as man-made structures. In contrast to terrestrial lidar, which produces dense point clouds of small areas, airborne laser sensors usually deliver sparse datasets that cover large municipalities. The latter are very ...
Poland, etc ; biodegradability; education; glass; humans; pollution; research; wastes; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Cemetery waste (CW) constitutes one of the streams of municipal waste (MW). Based on the available data, it can be said that it accounts for about 1% of the mass of MW being generated in Poland. CW management should be carried out selectively. It is estimated that the level of CW selective collection is lower than the average level achieved for MW. This paper presents some solutions concerning the ...
Poland, etc ; Pleistocene epoch; case studies; ice; landforms; lithology; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Genesis of crevasse-fill forms was clearly explained and ascribed to surging ice based on research made particularly in contemporary-glaciated areas of high latitudes. Nonetheless, the understanding and explanation of their formation is still not conclusive for Pleistocene glacigenic forms developing in crevasses what makes differences in their interpretation visible in glacial geomorphology of th ...
Poland, etc ; glaciers; ice; inventories; lidar; snowmelt; Denmark; Germany; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Glacial curvilineations (GCLs) are enigmatic landforms recently discovered in the southern peripheral area of the last Scandinavian Ice Sheet (SIS). They consist of multiple parallel, winding ridges several metres high and up to several kilometers long, systematically arranged in groups of common geomorphic appearance. GCLs create spectacular landscapes whose origin generates much controversy. Exp ...
Poland, etc ; adults; celiac disease; gluten; pain; questionnaires; retrospective studies; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The diagnosis of celiac disease (CD) may be delayed due to non-specific clinical symptoms. The aim of the study was to evaluate the clinical manifestation and diagnostic process of CD in Polish children and adults. Methods: The members of the Polish Coeliac Society (n = 2500) were asked to complete a questionnaire on socio-demographic factors, clinical and diagnostic aspects of CD. The analysis wa ...
Poland, etc ; Russia; data collection; databases; geotextiles; pollution; rivers; Lithuania; Show all 8 Subjects
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... The database gives information on the contamination of the shore of the South-Eastern Baltic with the debris of geosynthetic materials for the period 2018–2020. This new type of coastal pollution enters the natural environment due to the destruction of coastal protection structures and construction activities. The database contains sections: (1) a list of types of geosynthetic material residues, t ...
Poland, etc ; climatic zones; meat consumption; meat science; models; Slovakia; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The current study examines the determinants of the intention to reduce meat consumption for pro-environmental reasons. The research model includes variables from the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and the Norm Activation Model (NAM). The research was conducted in Poland and Slovakia, which are similar in terms of economic, social, and cultural conditions, located next to each other in the same c ...
Poland, etc ; case studies; geodesy; markets; public transportation; spatial data; Show all 6 Subjects
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... This study aims to determine the magnitude and nature of the impact of public urban transport accessibility on the value of residential properties in Poznań. The study was based on 2561 residential transactions completed within the study area in 2020. The input data obtained from the Board of Geodesy and Municipal Cadastre “GEOPOZ” were analysed statistically and spatially. The main part of both t ...
Poland, etc ; agricultural machinery and equipment; agronomy; automation; farms; models; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Kaplan–Meier analyses can be used in many disciplines, e.g., agricultural engineering. Agricultural machinery and vehicles can be regarded as objects that ‘die’ because, like living creatures, they failed, although after repair they can be used until scrapped. This article presents an example of using the Kaplan–Meier estimator to plot the reliability function curves of five different models of Ze ...
Poland, etc ; Thrips tabaci; agronomy; antibiotics; cultivars; onions; pests; sucrose; vegetation; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Thrips tabaci Lind. is a global pest and also represents a serious threat to onion production in Poland. In 2 years (2015–2016) of field studies, 8 onion cultivars were evaluated to characterize the resistance to onion thrips and to determine if any biochemical and anatomical features of onion plants are associated with antixenotic and/or antibiotic mechanisms of resistance. Additionally, the infl ...
Małgorzata Kot; Natalia Gryczewska; Marcin Szymanek; Magdalena Moskal del-Hoyo; Marcin Szeliga; Claudio Berto; Michał Wojenka; Magdalena Krajcarz; Maciej T. Krajcarz; Krzysztof Wertz; Stanisław Fedorowicz; Elżbieta Jaskulska; Hanna Pilcicka-Ciura
Poland, etc ; Holocene epoch; Jurassic period; carbon radioisotopes; children; humans; occupations; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Although multiple Mesolithic cave sites have been recognised in Europe, the use of such sites by Early Holocene hunter gatherers was extremely scarce north of the Carpathians. Single Mesolithic artefacts have been found thus far only in six cave sites in Poland. The rich Early Mesolithic assemblage found in Bramka Rockshelter in southern Poland seems to be quite extraordinary in such a context. Th ...
Poland, etc ; case studies; energy; geographic information systems; infrastructure; spatial data; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Energy storage is essential for the successful transformation of the existing power system to one based on variable renewable energy sources. The portfolio of existing possible storage technologies at a given location within the power system is often severely constrained by a multitude of factors. Therefore, there is a need to explore the potential of thus-far neglected and uncharted territories. ...