We examine the dynamics of VOT in Polish stops under lexical stress and focus. We elicit real Polish words containing voiced and voiceless stop+/a/ syllables in primary, secondary and unstressed, as well as focus positions. We also correlate VOT with speech rate estimated on the basis of equisyllabic word length. Our results show that the relationships between prosody and VOT are consistent wit...

In the paper we are analyzing the Polish ART market. It can be noticed that the lack of legal regulation has resulted in many discrepancies among the policies adopted by various ART agencies. The social acceptance of ART procedures available mostly in private clinics led to growing commercialization of the Polish ART market. Additionally, the language of gift and altruistic rhetoric that are ov...

Contributors: Jacek Rysz10 (member of the Executive Committee of the Polish Lipid Association [PoLA], reviewer appointed by PoLA), Agnieszka Jankowska-Zduńczyk11 (National Consultant for Family Medicine, reviewer appointed by the College of Family Physicians in Poland [CFPiP]), Piotr Hoffman12 (President of the Polish Cardiac Society [PCS], reviewer appointed by PCS), Agnieszka Mastalerz-Migas1...

We prove that in Polish, abelian, non-locally-compact groups the family of Haar null sets of Christensen does not fulfil the countable chain condition, that is, there exists an uncountable family of pairwise disjoint universally measurable sets which are not Haar null. (Dougherty, answering an old question of Christensen, showed earlier that this was the case for some Polish, abelian, non-local...

BACKGROUND Single visit scale and polish is frequently carried out in dental practices however there is little evidence to support (or refute) its clinical effectiveness. The purpose of this research was to compare patient-reported outcomes between groups receiving a scale and polish at 6-, 12-, and 24-month intervals. Outcomes recorded included participants' subjective assessment of their oral...

We investigate powerspace constructions on topological spaces, with a particular focus on the category of quasi-Polish spaces. We show that the upper and lower powerspaces commute on all quasi-Polish spaces, and show more generally that this commutativity is equivalent to the topological property of consonance. We then investigate powerspace constructions on the open set lattices of quasi-Polis...

We present preliminary results of a quantitative, contrastive study of the structural and semantic relations that arise between German compound nouns (GCNs) and their Polish equivalents. The main premise has been to use only automatic tools for the collection of the data as well as for the analysis of the collected parallel pairs. We show that interesting linguistic insights can be obtained des...

Oftentimes, when one asks about the most famous Polish figure, people’s first response would easily be “Chopin.” Indeed, to many, he is the symbol for Polish nationalism. Exiled in Paris during the Russian incursion on his home soil during the 1830s, Chopin composed a large body of work that is closely related to his Polish roots: 58 mazurkas and 18 polonaises, among the more than 200 pieces he...

An auction platform is a dynamic environment where a rich variety of social effects can be observed. Most of those effects remain unnoticed or even hidden to ordinary users. The in-depth studies of such effects should allow us to identify and understand the key factors influencing users’ behaviour. The material collected from the biggest Polish auction house has been analyzed. NLP algorithms we...

INTRODUCTION The paper presents the methods of cultural adaptation of the Newcastle Satisfaction with Nursing Scale (NSNS) to the conditions in Polish hospitals. MATERIAL AND METHODS The process of cultural adaptation of the research tool took into consideration an analysis of different equivalence levels, the translation procedure and the estimation of psychometric parameters. The Polish ver...