On 7 February 2022, Professor Yi Lijun passed away in Beijing. She was the most outstanding Chinese Polish scholar, and known as ambassador of literature China. closely linked with University Gdańsk. In 2007, she received an honorary doctorate from University, a member Academic Council Centre for East Asian Studies at Gdańskand scholarly bi-annual journal Gdańsk Studies. born on 4 December 1934...

BACKGROUND Vibrio parahaemolyticus is an important human pathogen which can cause gastroenteritis when consumed in raw or partially-cooked seafood. The pathogenesis of V. parahaemolyticus is based on the presence of virulence factors: the thermostable direct hemolysin (TDH) and TDH-related hemolysin (TRH), encoded by the tdh and trh genes, respectively. OBJECTIVES The present study aimed to e...

Let {Yi;-oc < i < c~} be a doubly infinite sequence of identically distributed and (b-mixing random variables, (ai; ~ < i < oc} an absolutely summable sequence of real numbers. In this paper, we prove the complete convergence of {Ek=xn ~io~=_¢xz ai+kYi/nt/,; n>~ 1} under some suitable conditions. AMS classification: 60G50; 60F15

The effects of chromium methionine supplementation on performance and serummetaboliteswere evaluated in broiler chickens.Two experiments were conducted at22 oC, thermoneutral, (TN) and33±2 oC, heat stressed (HS) conditions. Two hundred and eighty eight male broiler chicks (Ross 308) were allocated to four treatments in a completely randomized design. Treatments with 0 (control), 200, 400 or 800...

In this study, a novel approach is proposed for modeling speech parameter variations between neutral and stressed conditions and employed in a technique for stressed speech synthesis and recognition. The proposed method consists of modeling the variations in pitch contour, voiced speech duration, and average spectral structure using hidden Markov models (HMM’s). While HMM’s have traditionally b...

Let X be a metric space, {xi}i∈N a sequence of points in X (thought of as a sequence of centers), and {di}i∈N a sequence of scaling factors such that di → ∞, and an ultrafilter ω. I’m not going to get into the details of ultrafilters here, but the main property of an ultrafilter is that it lets you define the ultralimit limω ai of any bounded sequence ai. Ultralimits use the axiom of choice to ...

In most studies regarding the improving or therapeutical effects induced by enriched environment (EE), EE was performed after the stress treatment or in patients with certain diseases. In the current study, the effects of chronic restraint stress (6h/day) in mice living in an enriched environment or standard environment (SE) were tested. Mice were randomly divided into 4 groups: non-stressed or...

Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs) are responsible for considerable morbidity and mortality worldwide. Documentation of respiratory specimens can help for an appropriate clinical management with a significant effect on the disease progress in patient, the antimicrobial therapy used and the risk of secondary spread of infection. Here, we compared the performances of four commercial multiplex ki...