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E-sport – zajęcie godne polecenia czy bezpieczna przystań dla uzależnionych graczy komputerowych
2021
Przedmiotem artykułu jest zjawisko uprawiania e-sportu przez młodych ludzi. Zawarto w nim omówienie istoty rywalizacji elektronicznej, wskazując jednocześnie specyfikę gier komputerowych, wykorzystywanych podczas tego typu aktywności. Ponadto przedstawiono rozważania na temat czynników i mechanizmów angażujących w rozgrywkę e-sportową. Wymieniono potencjalne negatywne następstwa pozostawania w wirtualnym świecie – takie jak: oderwanie od rzeczywistości, halucynacje, zachowania kryminalne, otyłość i różnego rodzaju choroby. Głównym celem opracowania było znalezienie odpowiedzi na pytanie – Jakie negatywne konsekwencje niesie ze sobą uprawianie e-sportu? Szczególny akcent położono na ryzyko u…
Nanodevices by DNA based gold nanostructures
2017
In this thesis DNA based structures were utilized to create gold nanostructures for nanosensing and nanoelectronic applications. In the past, both of these fields have been dominated by the conventional lithography methods, e.g., electron beam lithography and UV-lithography, but more recently scaling down the components by these techniques has become increasingly more complex and costly. Especially in the micro- and nanoelectronics, the increase in the component density and thus computational power would require fabrication of sub-10-nm components, which is challenging for the top-down approaches. Aforementioned developments have led researchers to seek alternative methods to fabricate these…
The Forecasts of the Witches: the State of Exception in Planning Practices
2015
Agamben argues that the state of exception is not a special kind of law, but it is a zone of anomie, where all legal determinations are deactivated (Agamben, 2005: 50). Conditions of exception do not just occur when a hegemonic power poses itself above the law; they also occur when laws are made in order to exercise control and subjection. Agamben’s state of exception theory describes those contexts where the circumvention of laws and suspension of norms do occur, having as result the production and reproduction of spatial areas as zones which are characterized by a void of law. These phenomena can be found not just in the case of occupying or hegemonic powers, but also in the Western Europ…
Parasite-induced aggression and impaired contest ability in a fish host
2010
Abstract Background Success of trophically transmitted parasites depends to a great extent on their ability to manipulate their intermediate hosts in a way that makes them easier prey for target hosts. Parasite-induced behavioural changes are the most spectacular and diverse examples of manipulation. Most of the studies have been focused on individual behaviour of hosts including fish. We suggest that agonistic interactions and territoriality in fish hosts may affect their vulnerability to predators and thus the transmission efficiency of trophically transmitted parasites. The parasite Diplostomum spathaceum (Trematoda) and juvenile rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, were used to study whe…
The effect of heat treatment on the morphology and mobility of Au nanoparticles
2020
This work was supported by The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) of France and the French Embassy Program. The authors are also grateful for partial support by COST Action CA15216, the Estonian Science Foundation (grants PUT1689 and PUT1372), the Estonian Centre of Excellence in Zero Energy and Resource Efficient Smart Buildings and Districts, ZEBE, grant 2014-2020.4.01.15.0016 and Latvian Science Council grant lzp-2018/2-0083.
Manipulation and control in couple relationships. A study of young women.
2016
The term gaslighting refers to a typology of psychological abuse that is expressed through acts of manipulation, which tend to control a partner’s mental and affective state. The aim of the present study was to assess the presence of gaslighting behaviour as sustained by a group of young women in their relational experiences as a couple. Moreover, the associations between frequency of gaslighting behaviour and specific maladaptive personality traits, were evaluated. One hundred women, aged from 19 to 30 years (M=22,5; ds=3,14) participated in this research study. Manipulation and/or control behaviour were evaluated by administrating 25 descriptions of three typologies of gaslighter (glamour…
MANIPULATION OF OBJECTS AS INTEGRATION ACTIVITY
2016
The visual disability assumes, in the processes of teaching and learning, a particular connotation for the specificity that over the years the vision in the overall structure of knowledge has had. The whole western tradition on the knowledge stood on a "oculocentric" vision of knowledge. The view has always been considered the “sense for excellence". An educational activity, therefore, that emphasizes and promotes strategies of inclusion / integration of students with visual impairment is significant and essential to the whole class group. We present here an experimentation with primary school children: in a closed bag, there are objects of everyday life: every time a child extracts an obje…
La manipulation par la définition et les exemples : le discours lexicographique de l'ex-RDA
2012
Manuscrit de 9 pages; International audience; S'inscrivant dans le cadre de la méta-lexicographie historique et analytique, l'article s'attache à montrer, sur la base d'un choix représentatif de dictionnaires de l'ex-RDA, dans quelle mesure l'idéologisation de la langue, voulue par le régime socialiste, a pénétré la rédaction des dictionnaires. A partir d'exemples, tant au niveau de la macro- que de la micro-structure, l'accent est mis sur les phénomènes de circulation de discours tels qu'ils se donnent à lire dans les œuvres analysées.
Guaranteed error bounds for linear algebra problems and a class of Picard-Lindelöf iteration methods
2012
This study focuses on iteration methods based on the Banach fixed point theorem and a posteriori error estimates of Ostrowski. Their application for systems of linear simultaneous equations, bounded linear operators, as well as integral and differential equations is considered. The study presents a new version of the Picard–Lindelöf method for ordinary differential equations (ODEs) supplied with guaranteed and explicitly computable upper bounds of the approximation error. The estimates derived in the thesis take into account interpolation and integration errors and, therefore, provide objective information on the accuracy of computed approximations.
Are you a Good Employee or Simply a Good Guy? Infl?uence Costs and Contract Design.
2012
We develop a principal-agent model with a moral hazard problem in which the principal has access to a hard signal (the level of output) and a soft signal (the supervision signal) about the agent?s level of effort. We show that the agent?'s ability to manipulate the soft signal increases the cost of implementing the effcient equilibrium, leading to wage compression when the infl?uence cost is privately incurred by the agent. When manipulation activities negatively affect the agent?s productivity through the level of output, the design of infl?uence-free contracts that deter manipulation may lead to high-powered incentives. This result implies that high-productivity workers face incentive sch…