Search results for "polis"

Group Metropolis Sampling

2017

Monte Carlo (MC) methods are widely used for Bayesian inference and optimization in statistics, signal processing and machine learning. Two well-known class of MC methods are the Importance Sampling (IS) techniques and the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms. In this work, we introduce the Group Importance Sampling (GIS) framework where different sets of weighted samples are properly summarized with one summary particle and one summary weight. GIS facilitates the design of novel efficient MC techniques. For instance, we present the Group Metropolis Sampling (GMS) algorithm which produces a Markov chain of sets of weighted samples. GMS in general outperforms other multiple try schemes…

Performing transnational family with the affordances of mobile apps : a case study of Polish mothers living in Finland

2020

Affordances provided by digital technologies and mobile apps (WhatsApp, Skype, Messenger) help in maintaining familyhood. These mobile apps enable the creation of in-app family groups. They also afford image sharing, which is used for phatic purposes. Digital connectivity provides the illusions of togetherness and belonging, and allows for performing family in a transnational context (emotional transnationalism). However, it also generates the feelings of guilt through infrequent communication. In the auto-driven visual elicitation interviews, the study looks at family constellations and technologically mediated communication from the perspective of five Polish mothers living in Finland. Ap…

Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski, czyli polska dusza w literaturze angielskiej

2016

Joseph Conrad wniósł do literatury angielskiej prawdziwie polską duszę i fantazję. Ostatni z polskich romantyków, jak sam siebie nazwał, wprowadził do światowej literatury polskie dylematy, rozterki i wątpliwości, a także tęsknoty i pragnienia. Conrad przeniósł polskie doświadczenie na poziom uniwersalny i takim owo doświadczenie również uczynił. Rozmaite relacje współczesnych ukazują, jak niejednokrotnie trudno było odnaleźć się Polakowi w anglosaskiej rzeczywistości, i z jakimi przeciwnościami musiał się zmierzyć.

Comunità possibili ed etica della convivenza.

2005

Impacts of COVID-19 and pandemic control measures on public transport ridership in European urban areas – The cases of Vienna, Innsbruck, Oslo, and A…

2021

The study uses the case of two regions with small and medium sized cities (Agder in Norway and the greater Innsbruck area in Austria) and two European capitals, Vienna and Oslo, to showcase the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public transport ridership in northern and central Europe. The comprehensive timeline of actions taken by governments and public transport providers in Austria and Norway, and their impact on public transport ridership in the first and second waves of the pandemic form the basis of a descriptive study. Comparing the data, a strong negative impact on the public transport patronage in the first wave of the pandemic was found, despite a comparable low number of cases p…

Palermo, un'idea di cui è giunto il tempo

2023

Palermo, città cosmopolita per natura, raccontata e immaginata in un libro che la propone come laboratorio permanente della direzione che possono prendere le città del sud globale. Un libro che racconta Palermo come un'idea che deve diventare pensiero collettivo per farsi azione e generare evoluzione. Dieci mosse sorreggono strategie creative e di rigenerazione urbana che ambiscono a diventare la piattaforma per un dibattito pubblico, spingendo ad agire come costruttori di cattedrali: con visione politica lungimirante e intervento tempestivo. Il libro condivide un'idea urbanistica necessaria, atta a generare un progetto di città capace di sconfiggere bruttezza, degrado, povertà e criminalit…

La cultura : Nuevos territorios, nuevos usos

1998

Podría trartarse de un artículo escrito para ser publicado en "Larousse Enciclopedia" en una edición de 1998-1999. Se desconoce si finalmente se incluyó en esta u otra publicación. Una versión actualizada del artículo se recoge en: Contrastes, nº 45, pp. 15-23. Valencia, Julio-Septiembre 2006.

Virtual proximity and transnational familyhood : a case study of the digital communication practices of Poles living in Finland

2020

The article presents a study of five Polish multicultural and multilingual families in Finland, and their engagement in digitally mediated family communication. Explored through an ethnographic inquiry into the in-app communication practices of Polish migrant mothers and children, the study contributes to the body of research at the intersection of new media and communication, transnational family and migration studies, and family multilingualism. Building on the concept of virtual proximity, which refers to the emotional closeness between individuals afforded by digital technologies and mobile communication, the study identifies four thematic patterns in participants’ practices in digital …

Beetwen Berlin and Moscow: Polish Western Thought in the Twenty-Year Interwar Period

2020

The article was submitted on 27.02.2020. This article is not primarily focused on presenting arguments and views held by Polish political groups with reference to the territorial shape of the Polish state after the First World War. Instead, its aim is to draw attention to actions taken by these groups towards the defence of Polish western lands. One of the key problems of Poland’s foreign policy after 1918 was the question of relations with its neighbours, chiefly Germany and Russia (and the Soviet Union). For many years, the most serious problem faced by post-Versailles Europe was that of the Germans striving to revise the legal order, to break their political isolation, and return to the …

Polish highlander jokes and their targets

2017

The aim of the paper is to identify the characteristic features of jokes about Polish highlanders and analyse them to isolate the comic script of a highlander. This group of jokes is treated as a good illustration of Christie Davies’s ethnic jokes theory concerning canny versus stupid and centre versus periphery oppositions, as well as mind over matter. A particular type of reasoning and the use of regional dialect are distinctive features of the joke targets that make it possible to perceive these jokes as a culturally specific phenomenon. The head shepherd (called baca) is the key character of the cycle. He is a very down-to-earth person, who is proud of his practical wisdom and has a ver…