Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae – One Hundred Years of Evolution in Form and Content (1923–2022)

The article outlines the achievements of Polish professors who specialized in the treatment of internal diseases. The analysis concerns the scientists who held professorial chairs between 1918 and 1939. The findings were presented in the context of university medical departments. In Poland, in the interwar period, a total of 13 professors held chairs of internal medicine: Zdzisław Gorecki, Władysław Antoni Gluziński, Aleksander Januszkiewicz, Walery Jaworski, Wincenty Jezierski, Jerzy Latkowski, Jan Henryk Lubieniecki, Witold Orłowski, Zenon Orłowski, Roman Rencki, Kazimierz Rzętkowski, Tadeusz Tempka, and Edward Żebrowski. Some of them had been awarded their chairs before 1918. Most of them were successful researchers. Professors Antoni Gluziński and Witold Orłowski were particularly recognized in the scientific world. Gluziński held chairs at Jagiellonian University and then at the University of Warsaw. Orłowski worked at Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv and then moved to the University of Warsaw. In the interwar period, Polish departments of medicine were one of the largest when compared with other departments. Consequently, internal medicine units (assigned to such chairs) were the largest within the departments of medicine in terms of the staff employed. For this reason, most universities decided to divide such units into 2 independent ones.In the years 1918-1939, the field of internal medicine hadflourished in Warsaw, Kraków, Poznań, Lviv, and Vilnius; however, the outbreak of World War II wouldchange this forever. After 1945, Lviv and Vilnius were no longer within the territory of Poland, and Polishprofessors based in those cities moved to join professorial staff at Polish universities.

Over a hundred years ago, Jan Stanislaw Bystron became the head of the Department of Ethnology at the University of Poznan (original name Wszechnica Piastowska). He has left a huge collection of books and articles as his scientific achievements, which still inspire new generations of ethnologists and social researchers. His most intense scientific activity was during the inter-war period, in which first as a professor at the University of Poznan, and then at the Jagiellonian University and the University of Warsaw, he co-formed the foundations of ethnological sciences in Poland. This article focuses on two main areas: institutional (vision of ethnology as academic science) and issues of cultural heritage. The presented text does not refer to the entire academic output of Bystron, but above all concentrates on the years 1919-1925 – the period when he managed the Department of Ethnography in Poznan. For Bystron it was a time of intensive scientific work and the beginning of formulating many research ideas that evolved later. Ethnology, in the understanding of Bystron, has made a kind of reorientation in the approach to the problems of the nation, folk, regionalism, language phenomena and history (for example Polish folk history). Many threads are also considered pioneering and sometimes controversial today. His theory of culture is also a pretext for reflection on the contemporary dilemmas of native ethnology, such as: the disciplinary identity, the boundaries between sciences, the role of cultural capital and knowledge transfers.

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It is with great pleasure that we present to you this fascinating collection of 35 articles, essays and memoirs dedicated to Professor Ewdoksia Papuci‑Władyka, one of the most eminent Polish classical archaeologists, long-standing head of the Department of Classical Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University and Visiting Professor at the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw. Professor Papuci-Władyka is widely known and highly respected in the archaeological community, in Poland, and around the world. The presented collection of texts and entries in the Tabula Gratulatoria attests to this. During her prolific career Professor Papuci-Władyka has been setting directions and trends in Polish research on classical civilisations by initiating new projects and excavations at important sites such as Koshary in Ukraine, Halasarna on the Greek island of Kos, and Nea Pafos in Cyprus. Working in Cyprus, she has developed a unique project combining the potential of the best Polish universities – the Jagiellonian University and the University of Warsaw – with contributions from other universities, thus creating one of the most active Polish expeditions in the Mediterranean basin. Her efforts in this area culminated in the first archaeological excavation in Greece to be led by Jagiellonian University.

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THE International Society of Protistologists (ISOP) met online from 26-30 July, 2021. The Program and Abstract book for this is available here (File S1). An in-person international meeting was not possible due to the continued COVID-19 pandemic. The meeting therefore took place using the society's Zoom license, which is available for use by ISOP members for other online protist meetings.

People in Motion: Introduction to Transnational Movements and Transwar Connections in the Anthropological and Genetic Study of Human Populations

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If we compare the standard deviations of nominal prices and wages in different subperiods, as documented in Table 4.6 and Figs. 4.5 and 4.7, we find a striking similarity. Not only is the relative ranking preserved—volatility being highest in the inter-war period and lowest in the post-war period—but the percentage standard deviation in wages is very close to the percentage standard deviation in prices in each subperiod. This finding is robust across filtering methods. Looking at the relative standard deviations, however, we find a much weaker pattern. Indeed, the typical pattern across filtering methods is that the relative standard deviations are about the same in the post-war and inter-war period, but lower in the pre-war period. (Note, however, that the reference series for prices is GDP, while for wages it is manufacturing production.) Next, look at the correlation coefficients in Table 4.7 and Figs. 4.11 and 4.13. Both prices and wages seem to have weak cyclical patterns in the more volatile pre-war and inter-war periods. But in the post-war period prices and wages are both clearly lagging the cycle: upturns seem to have a pronounced effect on prices and wages, but only with a lag of one or two years. (The longer lag is evident from the correlation coefficients between inflation and real GDP.) Furthermore, the moving correlation coefficients in Figs. 4.11 and 4.13 suggest that the tendency for lagged responses becomes more pronounced over the post-war period itself. These broad facts are again robust with respect to how we filter out the cyclical component. We may add to this observation the fact that neither prices nor wages have a trend in the first two subperiods, while they both have a steady upward trend in the post-war period. These upward trends plus the lag in the response of prices and wages to cyclical fluctuations may give weak support to the common claim that prices and wages have become more ‘sticky ‘ in the post-war period.

The article presents an outline of the history of institution called University Public Lectures, which functioned at the University of Warsaw during the interwar period, starting from the year 1922. The task of the institution was to organise, on a regular basis, open lectures in order to reach a wide audience from outside the academic community. The large number of lecturers recruited from among the most eminent professors of the University of Warsaw, specialising in various fields of academic research, ensured the high substantive level of the organised lectures. The organisation of the lectures constituted one of the ways in which the University of Warsaw was carrying out its task of promoting scientific knowledge and presenting the results of the most recent scientific research to the general public. Due to the aim of the lectures, their subject matter was quite diverse and often centered around the recent problems of the Polish community and state. Although the idea of open lectures was not novel at the time, University Public Lectures contributed to the adult education provided by the University of Warsaw.

A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Change in America

Event Abstract Back to Event Activities of the Polish Node of INCF Daniel Wójcik1*, Lech Borkowski2, Piotr Durka3, Jan Karbowski4, Maciej Nowak5 and Andrzej Wróbel1 1 Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Department of Neurophysiology, Poland 2 Adam Mickiewicz University, Department of Physics, Poland 3 University of Warsaw, Department of Physics, Poland 4 Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Poland 5 Jagiellonian University, Mark Kac Complex Systems Research Centre, Poland By the Polish INCF node we denote the people engaged in neuroinformatics related activity supporting Polish membership in the INCF. Node activities involve research, education, workshops, infrastructure building. Education. Two new BSc courses have been created in Poland in the fall of 2009. - “Neuroinformatics” is a complete BSc program prepared from a scratch in the Physics Department of the Warsaw University. It received 66 applications, 20 students were admitted into the program. Complete description of the program is available at: http://www.neuroinformatyka.pl/ - “Cognitivistics” is a complete interdisciplinary BSc program in the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun with neuroinformatics components. It received 160 applications with 75 students admitted into the program. Complete description of the program (in Polish) is available at: http://www.kognitywistyka.umk.pl/ - Two other MSc programs, “Neurocognitivistics”, neuroscience based psychology course in the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS), has some neuroinformatics components, as well as the program in “Neurophysiology” offered in the Biology Department of the Jagiellonian University, http://neuro.iz.uj.edu.pl/. A course "Introduction to Neurodynamics and Neuroinformatics" for MSc students at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of Warsaw University is offered. Activities – national. - A workshop “Neuroscience meets theoretical physics” was organized in September 2008 by the Center of Complex Systems of Jagiellonian University http://www.fais.uj.edu.pl/neurobio/ - Short hands-on course “Introduction to nervous system modeling with Neuron” was organized at the Nencki Institute of the Experimental Biology under auspices of the Polish Neuroscience Society (14-15 April 2009). http://www.neuroinf.pl/warsztaty_neuron - A symposium on modern data analysis methods in electrophysiology was organized during the 9th International Congress of the Polish Neuroscience Society, 2009. Activities – international. - Two Polish-Norwegian Neuroinformatics workshops were organized by the Polish and Norwegian INCF nodes, supported by a grant from the Polish-Norwegian Research Fund and the Nencki Institute. The first one “Modeling of extracellular field potentials” took place on 15-16 January 2009 in Ski, Norway: http://compneuro.umb.no/lfpworkshop/LFP_workshop The Second Polish-Norwegian Neuroinformatics Workshop “How to model neurons and neural systems? Integrating biophysics, morphology, and connectivity” took place on 14-15 January 2010 in Warsaw, Poland: http://www.neuroinf.pl/NIWorkshop2010 - Advanced Scientific Programming in Python Winter School was organized by G-Node and the Physics Department, University of Warsaw, which took place 8-12 February, 2010: http://escher.fuw.edu.pl/pythonschool/ - The node is taking steps to move the yearly Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience to Bêdlewo, Poland, for the period of 2011-2013. A number of international research collaborations, often supported by joint grants, has been established between members of the Node and groups in other countries, in particular Germany, Netherlands, Norway, and USA. Conference: Neuroinformatics 2010 , Kobe, Japan, 30 Aug - 1 Sep, 2010. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: General neuroinformatics Citation: Wójcik D, Borkowski L, Durka P, Karbowski J, Nowak M and Wróbel A (2010). Activities of the Polish Node of INCF. Front. Neurosci. Conference Abstract: Neuroinformatics 2010 . doi: 10.3389/conf.fnins.2010.13.00057 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. 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The purpose of the article is to examine the premises and extent of the dissemination of business budgeting using publications in interwar Poland (1918–1939) and to indicate Polish authors’ sources of knowledge on this issue. The article also seeks to investigate whether budgeting was promoted and introduced in Poland to propel development in a nation that was reawakening as a country after more than 120 years of partitions. The dissemination of budgeting is considered in connection with the idea of rationalisation, which originated in the United States, and the scientific management movement in Europe that it influenced. The article shows Poles promoting business budgeting and their actions following the theory of progress in order to increase the prosperity of a country that was rebuilding a unified economic organism and national identity. The article contributes to the history of scientific management and accounting as it brings new elements by examining the non-Western interwar environment.

The Sodality movement has been initiated in the 16th c. and it was around then that the first sodality organizations were created in Poland. The Sodality of Our Lady for Women Students and Female Participants of Higher Courses in Krakow was founded in 1906; it co-created the Krakow sodality movement in the interwar period together with the Sodality Movement of the Academicians at the Jagiellonian University, the Sodality Movement of the Academicians of the Academy of Mining and the Sodality Movement of the Students of the Higher Commercial College in Krakow. In 1925 the Sodality of Our Lady for Women Students and Female Participants of Higher Courses in Krakow became transformed into the Sodality of Our Lady for Women Academicians and when the ruling concerning academic associations was introduced in 1933, the organization had changed its name into: Sodality of Our Lady for Women Students of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. The latter organization had laid special emphasis on religious instruction and spiritual formation of its female members, which is a characteristic feature of all sodality movements. But apart from the activity which was focused on the spiritual sphere, the Sodality movement also provided assistance in the strictly material sphere both to sodality members and persons from outside the organization – among others, to children, those in need of material aid or the sick who were undergoing treatment in St. Lazarus or St. Ludwig Hospitals in Krakow.

A Digital History of Anglophone Demography and Global Population Control, 1915–1984