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The Landscape as a Silent Witness of a Fragile Memory in Paweł Pawlikowski’s 2013 Film Ida

2022

This article focuses on Paweł Pawlikowski’s 2013 film Ida, analysing how the formal and aesthetic aspects question silent witnesses about the difficult past using pictures as a useful testifier. In the context of Poland’s national memory, its current political discourse and the Polish-Jewish relations during World War II, Ida offers a significant contribution. The process of scrutinising this difficult past becomes a journey, a troublesome event when a remembrance must be constructed and experienced. The film journey offers a possibility to get back to this period of time and encourages us to pose certain questions: how do sites of memory remain with us through cinematographic or photograph…

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicle and a stand-alone renewable energy-based refuelling station

2007

Polityczność feminatywów

2022

The article takes a diachronic look at feminatives in the Polish language from the sixteenth century to the present day. The authors recall the history of female forms in the language. Referring to pre-war journalism, discussions in the journal Poradnik Językowy [The Linguistic Guide] and the propaganda lexis of communist Poland, they prove that female forms are not foreign to the Polish language. They create a comprehensive list of reasons why feminatives have disappeared from Polish, taking account of both intra-linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. The authors refer to examples from contemporary media and public discourse to show gender asymmetry in the language and the mechanisms of …

Classification of SD-OCT Volumes with LBP: Application to DME Detection

2015

International audience; This paper addresses the problem of automatic classification of Spectral Domain OCT (SD-OCT) data for automatic identification of patients with Diabetic Macular Edema (DME) versus normal subjects. Our method is based on Local Binary Patterns (LBP) features to describe the texture of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images and we compare different LBP features extraction approaches to compute a single signature for the whole OCT volume. Experimental results with two datasets of respectively 32 and 30 OCT volumes show that regardless of using low or high level representations, features derived from LBP texture have highly discriminative power. Moreover, the experimen…

The functional significance of colour polymorphism in the European common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis)

2021

Colour polymorphisms, the coexistence of two or more colour morphs of a species within a population, have long fascinated evolutionary biologists interested in the mechanisms generating and maintaining phenotypic variation in nature. The functional significance of colour polymorphisms (i.e. their adaptive value) is often linked to the selective mechanisms responsible for their maintenance over time. In lizards, the hypothesis that colour morphs may reflect alternative reproductive strategies involving differential sociosexual behaviour and/or alternative reproductive strategies has come to dominate the field. Wall lizards (family Lacertidae, genus Podarcis), with several geographically dist…

Alternative energy scenarios for small islands: A case study from Salina Island (Aeolian Islands, Southern Italy)

2012

Abstract The Aeolian archipelago is made up of seven main islands situated in the Tyrrhenian sea (Sicily Italy). They represent a suitable scenario for the development of a sustainable energy production system, that could easily be reproduced on other Mediterranean Islands. The fact that these islands depend on the mainland for energy supplies and the high cost of bringing fuel in tanker boats are factors that should strongly encourage the use of renewable energy source technologies. Taking into account the European Commission guidelines, this paper sets out to evaluate potential energy production using photovoltaic and small scale wind power, in order to verify their contribution to overal…

Il diritto ad una buona amministrazione e gli strumenti alternativi di risoluzione delle controversie

2019

Attraverso il prisma della giurisprudenza della Corte di Giustizia, il saggio è volto a verificare se gli strumenti disciplinati nell'ordinamento interno che realizzano forme alternative di risoluzione delle controversie (reclamo, mediazione, accertamento con adesione e conciliazione giudiziale) costituiscono altrettanti strumenti di possibile declinazione del diritto di partecipazione e, più in generale, del diritto ad una buona amministrazione. Trough the case law of the Court of Justice, the study verifies whether domestic institutions that are alternative dispute resolution remedies (complaint, mediation, tax assessment agreement, judicial conciliation settlement) realize the right to p…

Participation for just governance of food-system transition

2022

Sustainability transitions governance needs to be inclusive and participatory and the question of justice is crucial for making effective and acceptable changes possible. But how do we ensure adequate participation in governance processes and enable reconciliation between competing goals in relation to sustainability transitions? Transition management highlights the need for participatory and reflexive governance processes to enable sustainability transitions. However, due to participant selection and limitations in chosen approaches, deliberative and participatory forums may have difficulties ensuring justice and legitimacy. A systemic and practice-oriented perspective on deliberation poin…

The extent and causes of interspecific reproductive interactions in damselflies

2015

The development of otrapuse.lv mobile application

2016

Šis dokuments ir LU Datorikas fakultātes kvalifikācijas darba ietvaros izstrādātās sistēmas „Otrapuse.lv mobilā lietotne“ tehniskā dokumentācija. Sistēmas mērķis ir nodrošināt “iOS” un “Android” lietotājiem ērtāk izmantot “otrapuse.lv” iepazīšanās portāla piedāvātos pakalpojumus uz mobīlajām ierīcēm. Lietotne ļauj meklēt lietotājus pēc vairākiem kritērijiem un ar tiem mijiedarboties, kā arī izveidot un rediģēt savu “otrapuse.lv” portāla kontu. Izmantojot šo lietotni lietotāji iegūs visas priekšrocības kas ir pieejamas mobīlo ierīču lietotājiem, kā momentānas paziņojumu saņemšana par darbībām ar lietotāja kontu. Jaunā “Otrapuse.lv” sistēma ir paredzēta kā atjauninājums esošajai mobīlajai lie…