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A multi-dimensional approach to understanding spatial differences of public service costs in Central Europe is at the heart of the study. It has become especially challenging to identify the linkages to demographic, eco...

The village of Załęcze Wielkie, located in the south-eastern part of the Wieluń district, was one of the villages of Kamionkowo dominium, which belonged to the chapter of the Gniezno archbishopric. As a result of the ...

The usage of information as a weapon in the foreign and domestic policies of Russia is not a new phenomenon. Still, the sophistication and intensity of it grow with each passing year. Recently the EU and USA have realize...

Abstract Expressionism can be seen as a valid expression of the crisis of ‘Modern Man’ and, as a result, it assumed a central role in the cultural debate of its time. Within this crisis can be situated a new form o...

Since its inception at the end of the XX century, VaR risk measure has gained massive popularity. It is synthetic, easy in interpretation and offers comparability of risk levels reported by different institutions. Howeve...

Legislative changes in Poland in 2011 introduced an obligation of the third party liability insurance of subjects performing healing activity. At the time of the introduction of the Act it was difficult to assess the cos...

This paper investigates empirically the links between the specific solutions of corporate governance in portfolio companies of private equity funds and the duration of divestment process after the first listing of compan...

The popular clustering procedures applied in administrative units clustering (regions, districts, municipalities) frequently result in distinguishing incoherent groups, which is difficult to accept by the analyses addre...

The main aim of the article was to analyse the changes in the Polish population structure observed since the political transformation and expected in the next few years. The analysis focused also on the spatial different...

Communes as the smallest units of local government in Poland are responsible for social assistance. The growing number of older people can affect the level of care expenses, including these that are spent for care in soc...

Przedmiotem uwagi w artykule uczyniliśmy poczucie sensu z wykonywanej pracy. Nie kwestionując wniosków wyłaniających się z badań psychologicznych, postanowiliśmy spojrzeć na nie z innej perspektywy i wskaza...

Przedmiotem analizy jest fenomen oglądalności transmisji posiedzeń X kadencji Sejmu wśród osób wkraczających w dorosłość. Analiza dotyczy okresu pierwszych miesięcy po inauguracji. Celem artykułu jest prób...

Heterotopia is the space of otherness, a counter-space. A very specific type of heterotopia is a human’s body, especially in its illness and sickness. Hysteria, the disease which can imitate many other diseases, is he...

Typology is one of the fundamental archaeological methods that helps to organise large amounts of data and facilitates their handling. It is also used in castellology, where it categorises castles into various types, for...

I will discuss the connection between Linos and Orphics as it is outlined in the Description of Greece. Pausanias writes that Linos propagated in his songs the genealogy of the first deities of the Greek pantheon. Accor...

In this paper we present a novel approach for construction of a leading indicator for household demand for debt, i.e. consumer credit demand index. In order to derive the proper set of indicators we first present a theor...

In statistical literature there exist many tests to reveal the independence of two qualitative variables in two‑way contingency tables (CTs), in particular in 2×2 CTs. In this paper four independence tests were compar...

We treat financial markets as complex networks. It is commonplace to create a filtered graph (usually a Minimally Spanning Tree) based on an empirical correlation matrix. In our previous studies we have extended this sta...

Discussions on how to prevent negative economic consequences of ageing of societies have resulted in the reforms that should prolong labour market participation and postpone retirement of longer living generations. Pensi...

The study examines relics of leather shoes uncovered during the exploration of modern (18th–19th century) burials in the crypts of the church in Radzyń Podlaski, Eastern Poland. The shoes were found alongside the rema...

Barndorff‑Nielsen and Shephard (2001) proposed a class of stochastic volatility models in which the volatility process is the Ornstein‑Uhlenbeck process driven by a Levy process without gaussian component. Parameter ...

As technology advances, there is a growing number of potential data sources that can provide an alternative to traditional surveys. An example of this is the real time search popularity data made available through Google...

In the paper chosen statistical methods concerning analysis of random variable distributions are presented. Investigating modality of distribution is one of the most interesting and important stages in random variable an...

The research presented in this article focuses on the urban region of Novosibirsk, which is one of the most industrialized part of Siberia and the Asian part of Russian Federation. To show relationships between the city ...