This work was undertaken to describe the basic elements of the Polish healthcare system and to examine possibilities for adoption of solutions existing in healthcare systems of other countries of the European Union. Healthcare systems were analyzed as to their model features and general directions of reform. Current problems, as well as attempts and concepts for reform of the Polish healthcare ...

Documents written in languages other than English sometimes include parenthetical English translations, usually for technical and scienti c terminology. Techniques had been developed for extracting such translations (as well as transliterations) from large Chinese text corpora. This paper presents methods for mining parenthetical translation in Polish texts. The main di erence between translati...

Classical ergodic theory deals with measure (or measure class) preserving actions of locally compact groups on Lebesgue spaces. An important tool in this setting is a theorem of Mackey which provides spatial models for Boolean G-actions. We show that in full generality this theorem does not hold for actions of Polish groups. In particular there is no Borel model for the Polish automorphism grou...

The present study probes perception of place distinctions among Polish sibilants using an AX discrimination task, and compares results of thirteen Polish-and ten English-speaking subjects. Besides providing information on the relative discriminability of the sibilants, the perceptual study is designed to investigate the claim that a particular kind of diachronic change which has taken place in ...

Various methods aim at overcoming the shortage of NLP resources, especially for resource-poor languages. We present a cross-lingual projection account that aims at inducing an annotated treebank to be used for parser induction for Polish. Our approach builds on Hwa et al.’s projection method [7] that we adapt to the LFG framework. The goal of the experiment is the induction of an LFG f-structur...

We apply nonparametric panel data kernel regression to investigate production risk, output price uncertainty, and risk attitudes of Polish dairy farms based on a firm-level unbalanced panel data set that covers the period 2004–2010. We compare different model specifications and different approaches for obtaining firm-specific measures of risk attitudes. We found that Polish dairy farmers are ri...

We present a method of the structural collocations extraction for an inflective language (Polish) based on the process divided into two phases: extraction and filtering of the pairs of wordforms reduced to baseforms and structural annotation of the extracted collocations with lexico-syntactic patterns. The parameters of the patterns are specified manually but their instances are generated and t...

The Bonn Open Synthesis System (BOSS) is open-source software for unit selection speech synthesis that has been used for the generation of high-quality German and Dutch speech. This article presents ongoing research and development aimed at adapting BOSS to the Polish language. In the first section, the origins and workings of the unit selection method for speech synthesis are explained. Sectio...

The cases of nine Polish patients with diagnosed cystic echinococcosis (CE) were examined. A total of nine isolates obtained postoperatively were investigated using PCR and sequencing. The mitochondrial region of nad1 gene was amplified. This PCR and sequencing analysis revealed the presence of Echinococcus canadensis G7 in seven patients and E. granulosus G1 in two patients. These data demonst...

This paper presents the current results of an ongoing research project on corpus distribution of prepositions and pronouns within Polish preposition-pronoun contractions. The goal of the project is to provide a quantitative description of Polish preposition-pronoun contractions taking into consideration morphosyntactic properties of their components. It is expected that the results will provide...