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Information about the best topics in pediatric anesthesia discussed at the 7th European Congress of Pediatric Anesthesia Founding Congress of the European Society for Pediatric Anesthesiology in Warsaw, Poland on September 10-13, 2009 is presented. The topic which received the first prize was focused on the use of ultrasound for the verification of needle placement in caudal block. The topic in second place was focused on the management for the complications of long term central venous access.

The article provides an overview of the Second International Conference of Mining and Underground Museums (ICMUM) held in Poland. The conference focused on the preservation and adaptive reuse of mining sites, as well as the challenges faced by mining heritage globally. It covered topics such as mining history associations, European mining museum networks, UNESCO World Heritage sites, European salt mines and museums, and the Guido Coal Mine in Zabrze. The article emphasizes the significance of mining in human history and the cultural landscapes of mining sites. It also highlights the innovative approaches taken by museums and organizations to engage the public and preserve mining history. [Extracted from the article]

The problem of interaction between man and nature throughout history is, relatively, rarely addressed by classical historiography. The session entitled Man and Nature: Between destruction and creation, organized and chaired by Prof. Tadeusz Janicki (Faculty of History, UAM, Poznań, Poland) and Prof. Dariusz J. Gwiazdowicz (Department of Forest Protection, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poland) on 24 August 2022 as part of the XXIII International Congress of Historical Sciences Poznań 2022, was an attempt to change this tendency and broaden the existing research perspective. The papers delivered during the occassion were the starting point for the preparation of a special issue of the journal Studia Historiae Oeconomicae (SHO), the primary purpose of which is interdisciplinary reflection by specialists from various scientific disciplines on the problem of destruction of natural landscapes and creation of cultural landscapes, along with other issues concerning the interaction between humans and the natural environment from prehistoric times to the present. This special issue of SHO consists of seven articles on diverse topics, analysing human interactions with nature through different historical periods, meanwhile taking into account their economic, civil, social and climatic conditions. The result is a multifaceted mosaic of topics that constitutes an original and interdisciplinary analysis of man's relationship with nature, which may be a source of inspiration for readers and perhaps further research in this field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the paper is to analyse the involvement of the local and regional authorities within the Conference on the Future of Europe. The former, being closer to the citizens, could play important role in reaching "every corner of the European Union" and helping the citizens to articulate their ideas about the European integration. Therefore, the activity of the subnational level could contribute to the final success of the Conference (or failure - in case of lack of any actions). The analysis is based on the author's own empirical study conducted among the Polish territorial self-government units after the closure of the Conference. The local and regional authorities were asked if they informed the citizens about the Conference, organised events regarding this enterprise or took part in the events organised by other entities. The results show very low level of the activity, even among the territorial self-government units that are present at the European level. The conclusions regard both to the Polish circumstances as well as to the general performance of the Conference. In the first case, they unveil the unwritten practice among the Polish territorial self-government units on their involvement in the European affairs. Regarding the second point, the results indicate that the Conference did not manage to exceed the "European bubble". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a calendar of events from July 2006 to July 2007. The 21st International Workshop on Statistical Modelling IWSM 2006 will be held at the National University of Ireland in Galway on July 2-7. The 2006 International Conference on Design of Experiments and its Applications will be held at Nankai University in Tianjin, China on July 9-13. Tthe XXVI European Meeting of Statisticians will be held in Torun, Poland on July 24-28.

Introduction: The increasing prevalence of overweight, defined as excessive body weight, among different population groups is one of the most serious public health problems that Poland has to face. The aim of this paper was to review the recent data regarding the nutritional status of subpopulations of children, adolescents and adults in Poland. Material and methods: The search was conducted using PubMed, Google Scholar, and Web of Sciences databases, as well as official websites of the Polish Ministry of Health, the National Institute of Public Health NIH - National Research Institute and the World Health Organization. Scientific publications in English and Polish, published between January 2020 and September 2023, were used as sources of information. Results: The prevalence of overweight among children, adolescents and adults in Poland is relatively high. However, it should be noted that most studies were observational, the methods used for data collection varied (self-reported vs. measured), and BMI was a tool to measure body weight status. The prevalence of overweight among the paediatric population varies from 11% to 45%. Among adults, the prevalence of overweight exceeds 62% for men and 43% for women. The prevalence of higher-than-normal body mass increases with age. The COVID-19 pandemic increased the risk of abnormal body weight among both paediatric and adult populations. Conclusions: Early prevention is essential in dealing with excessive body weight and the adverse health outcomes that may result therefrom. To address the weight gain problem across different populations, comprehensive and family-based obesity prevention programmes should be implemented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the biological research conducted which focuses on ageing, diseases affecting older people and treatment developed at the European Summit on Age Related Disease held in Wroclaw, Poland on September 11-13, 2008. It reveals that failure of organs and tissues are the common diseases affecting older people and a multidisciplinary and integrated approach is essential in the diagnosis and treatment of age-related diseases. In addition, the different treatment available for the prevention of diseases among older people is also discussed.

The article presents the meeting schedule for The Institute of Management Science (TIMS). The 13th International meeting will take place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from September 6-8, 1966. Warsaw, Poland, will host the European Section meeting from September 2-7, 1966. The American meeting is scheduled for April 5-7, 1967 in Boston, Massachusetts. Detailed meeting information is provided.

The article focuses on the 9th European Conference on Creativity and Innovation, held on September 4-8, 2005 in Lodz, Poland. The European academics and practitioners in creativity and innovation met during the conference organized by the European Association for Creativity and Innovation. The theme was Transformation, building the new out of the remains of the old. The conference featured only a few keynotes and majority of activities in parallel theme groups and paper presentations.

Information about the third Future Engineering conference on projects in manufacturing technologies held in Starachowice, Poland in September 2016 is presented. Topics include the interdependence between the Foresight discipline related to futures studies and the ability to create innovations in companies, the reliance of companies on future-oriented information in forming their innovation strategies, and the benefits of the discipline for regional authorities.

The article presents information about the 26th General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, that will be organized from August 27-September 2, 2000 in Cracow, Poland. A maximum of 6 papers will be discussed in each session of the conference. Additional accepted papers will be Contributed Papers and will be distributed, but not discussed in the main session. Session Organizers have the option to arrange an evening session for the Contributed Papers or the Author of the Contributed Paper may apply to the Contributed Papers Session Organizer for approval to present the paper in the Contributed Papers Session on Friday afternoon.

The postscript reports on the conference and comments on what the papers and audience participation tell us about the state of the field and Poland’s struggle to come to terms with its past. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The paper summarizes the proceedings of the January 2008 conference entitled The Role of the NUKAT Union Catalog in Shaping the Society of Knowledge in Poland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several papers of Working Group 12 (WG12) discussed at the Seventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME 7) held February 9-13, 2011 at Rzeszów in Poland is presented. Topics include the influence of other related fields when searching for theoretical constructs and the development of a questionnaire for determining pre-service teachers. Another paper focuses on the identity of Portuguese mathematics educators from 1981-1990.

The article offers information on the 7th Polish-Japanese Joint Seminar on Micro and Nano Analysis which was held from September 7-10, 2008, Warsaw, Poland. The seminar was organized by the Institute of Electron Technology (ITE) under the cooperative advice of researchers and scientists from Japan. The seminar produced presentations on global nanotechnology and bio-medical sciences. The author acknowledges Professor Makoto Shiojiri, the honorary Chairman of the seminar.

This article presents information on the annual National Conference of Departments of Accounting that was held at the University of Gdansk, Poland on 21-23 September 1994. Professors Lech Bednarski and Wieslaw Lewczynski were both responsible for this meeting of academics from all the universities and academies of economics from all over the Poland. During the conference there were plenary sessions and two parallel sessions devoted to economic analysis, auditing and accountancy, in which over forty papers were presented. They illustrated the achievements in research of Polish universities and presented some examples of research done in co-operation with foreign universities. All the papers were published in the form of a book, which was sponsored by the Association of Chartered Accountants in Poland. In addition to Polish academics, there Wieslaw Lewczynski introduced the goals of the conference and discussed the program. He divided all the works into two groups theoretical papers presenting the achievements of departments in extending the knowledge in accountancy and auditing, and those in which authors tried to examine and evaluate individually some particular subject.

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised global concerns about the impact of misinformation on health behavior and outcomes. New technologies and social media have provided tools to disseminate health information on an unprecedented scale, but they can also be used to spread unfounded claims and erroneous information. Recent studies have shown how misinformation can influence preventive health behaviors and impact some groups more than others. The past several decades of experience with tobacco control provides some useful lessons in addressing misinformation. Even after the 1964 report of the Surgeon General which concluded that smoking was a cause of lung cancer, public beliefs about the harms of smoking were slow to change. For several decades, the tobacco industry actively promoted misleading claims about the science of smoking and health. Studies of tobacco prevention programs have demonstrated how attention is needed not only to the information content conveyed but also how it is communicated. The experience of tobacco control over the past several decades provides useful lessons in effective communication and combating misinformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Epidemiology is a unique science that identifies the incidence and distribution of diseases and their risk factors. An example of response to this need is the "Prospective Epidemiological Study of Urban and Rural Populations" (PURE), conducted in 27 countries around the world, including Poland, which is a unique multi-year cohort study of more than 150,000 people. The purpose of the PURE study is a prospective, multilevel observation of the development of chronic non-communicable diseases and their risk factors. The Polish cohort includes 2036 people from urban and rural areas with a rate response of 88.2% over 15 years. The main research focus of the analyses of the data collected in the Polish PURE cohort during the multiyear follow-up period was on the incidence and determinants of chronic non-communicable diseases. The results of the PURE study help in understanding the development of cardiovascular diseases and provide a unique opportunity for research and respond to the need to create guidelines, recommendations, and health policies in line with evidence-based medicine. Its results are compelling evidence pointing to the need to continue to create, develop, and maintain regional and global observational cohorts over many years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the staging of a conference entitled "Plant Genetic Resources in Protection of Biodiversity" in Poland in October 2003. Key issues discussed include the program of the conference, its keynote speakers and the range of issues relevant to biodiversity research and the utilization, protection and collection of genetic resources in plants that were discussed during the event.

Information about several papers discussed at the Seventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME 7) held February 9-13, 2011 in Poland is presented. Topics include the epistemology of mathematics in science departments, an approach to trace university mathematicians' discourse, and the shifting profile of students in an Irish institution who take service mathematics courses. The individual character of pre-service secondary mathematics teachers is tackled.

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium sponsored by the Polish Chapter of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) on Groundwater vulnerability assessment and mapping is presented. The program focused on several topics including vulnerability assessment methods and uncertainty, and design, uses and limitations of vulnerability maps in a GIS format with special emphasis on karst aquifers. Two excursions were also included with a post-conference tour to salt mines and national parks.

The 5th anniversary edition of RNDM 2013 International Workshop on Reliable Networks Design and Modeling was organized on September 10-12, 2013 in Almaty, Kazakhstan by Prof. Jacek Rak from Gdansk University of Technology, Poland in co-operation with Prof. Hussein Mouftah from Ottawa University, Canada, and Prof. WenDe Zhong from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Surgical treatment is a standard procedure in cases of otosclerosis and other conditions connected with stapes immobilized in the oval window niche. The most often applied treatment is stapedotomy, meaning the replacement of the immobilized stapes by a prosthesis. The properly conducted operation provides stabile hearing improvement. Aim: The paper aims to present failures after stapedotomy operations, audiometric indications for the future operation, and postoperative changes occurring within the middle and inner ear in comparison to the hearing and balance examinations' results. Material: The authors of the paper conducted a retrospective analysis of the reoperation cases after prior stapedectomies and stapedotomies performed in our clinic and in other clinics. The authors present causes of the airbone gap occurring postoperatively, as well as other difficult conditions after repeated operation. The authors discuss indications for reoperations and possibilities of the middle ear reconstructions. Results: Treatment is assessed based on the long term followup of the patients, otoscopic examination and results of pure tone audiometry and analysis of intraoperative assessments. Conclusions: Correctly performed operation with properly chosen prosthesis allows obtaining hearing improvement with closure of the air-bone gap. Reoperation is always a great challenge for the surgeon, and it requires experience and skills to reconstruct the middle ear. Proper assessment of the patient's condition before next operation allows lower the surgical risk and helps to choose surgical tactics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on several meetings on non-destructive testing (NDT) from 2016-2017 including the 26th Indian National Seminar & International Exhibition of the Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing (ISNT), the 13th Conference on Quantitative Infrared Thermography (QIRT) in Poland, and the First World Congress on Condition Monitoring in England.

Objectives: Real-world data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE) are gaining increasing attention in medicine and medical devices, e.g. as part of post-market surveillance activities. A foundational real-world metric is the average daily time a user is wearing his hearing device, aka Time on Air (ToA). With modern hearing devices, such as CIs, data-logs are collected automatically in the background as part of normal device use. Harvesting them is an efficient way to generate a representative set of user benefit data by describing and qualifying typical profiles. At current such data generation mostly relies on resource and time intensive clinical investigations or surveys with Health Care Professionals (HCP). Moreover, literature (Holder 2020, Schvartz-Leyzac 2019, Busch 2017) shows that receiving good benefit from a cochlear implant (CI) system correlates with the user's average daily Time on Air (ToA). This work reports on an analysis of a large set of usage data of cochlear implant listeners. Material: The Cochlear Link databases served as a basis for this data mining exercise. Cochlear Link is an infrastructure that allows to replicate clinical CI fitting software (Custom Sound) databases in a secure cloud. In February 2020, an anonymized snapshot was harvested for this analysis, containing data from over 600 clinics, 40,000 CI users and up to 5 years of CI usage. Methods: Our paper discusses the methodology used for mining a large pool of data-logs with the aim to describe and qualify typical ToA profiles. The available data pool was sliced in different dimensions to show ToA effects based on user factors (i.e., user age, implant tenure) and device factors (i.e., implant and sound processor types). Qualitative comparisons of ToA profiles of different user groups were performed to gain an understanding of the overall data set. Provided the sound environment detection feature of modern hearing devices, further differentiation of ToA profiles into underlying sound profiles were available. Results and conclusions: From this work we conclude that ToA is an interesting parameter that should be subject to further research in relation to user benefit/performance. Good benefit from a hearing device tends to be associated with good usage, aka higher ToA. In contrary, poor usage (low ToA) might be a precursor to non-usage, underlining the value of ToA as a clinical quality metric. Given the retrospective nature of this study, the causality between ToA and user benefit/ performance could not be determined. By sharing these insights, we intend to promote further research into this topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several papers discussed at the Seventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME 7) held February 9-13, 2011 at Rzeszów in Poland is presented. The papers focus on the mathematics learning and education for children aged 3 to 7. Other issues include the exploratory activity on natural numbers in Grade 2 in Italy and children's written and oral mathematical solutions to arithmetic problems.

The authors reflect on the papers submitted at the 13th International European Power Electronics and Drives-Power Electronics and Motion Control (EPE-PEMC) conference held in Poznan, Poland on September 1-3, 2008. They note the topics discussed at the conference like power converters and semiconductor devices and packaging. They also acknowledge the support provided by some professionals including professors Viliam Fedak and Lech M. Grzesiak for the selection process of the papers from 500 specialists.

The article discusses the highlights of the Second Academy of International Business Central and Eastern Europe Chapter (AIB-CEE) Annual Conference titled "International Business and Research in the CEE Region. Why Is It Worth Doing? that took place on September 17-19, 2015 at the Warsaw School of Economics in Poland. Topics addressed include the purpose of the AIB-CEE, the two panels consisting the Central European Business Forum, and a list of keynote speakers.

This paper is an account of the conference titled Kanade, di goldene medine? Perspectives on Canadian-Jewish Literature and Culture / Perspectives sur la littérature et la culture juives canadiennes, which took place in Łódź in April, 2014 as a result of collaboration between the University of Łódź and Concordia University (Montreal). As a venue for discussing Canadian Jewish identity and its links with Poland, the conference supported a dialogue between Canadians, Polish Canadianists, and European scholars from further afield. Established and young scholars attended from Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Czech Republic, and Canada, in addition to many Polish participants. The presence of scholars such as Goldie Morgentaler or Sherry Simon as well as curator Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett contributed to an examination of both past and present Canadian and Polish Jewish life and led to an examination of Polish and Canadian literature and history from a highly personal perspective. Conference-goers took advantage of the opportunity to get to know Łódź, via walking tours and a visit to the Łódź Jewish community's Lauder-funded centre on Narutowicza. The paper aims, as well, to investigate how the history of Jewish Łódź is conveyed in the novels of Joseph Roth and Chava Rosenfarb. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highlights the 5th ICCEES World Congress in Warsaw, Poland. Discussion on linguistic minorities under the transition from communism to post-communism; Perspective on minority languages; Insights on the ratification of the treaty concerning the minorities.

An introduction is presented which discusses reports within the issue which are publications of selected talks and papers from the International Conference on Research and Applications of Plasmas held in Warsaw, Poland in September 2015.

Information about several papers discussed at the Seventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME 7) held February 9-13, 2011 in Poland on the theoretical approaches in research in mathematics education is presented. Topics include the onto-semiotic approach (OSA), the social dimensions of mathematics, and classroom activities from institutional and participant perspectives. The essential issue of the functionality of theoretical frameworks is also tackled.

Information about several topics discussed at the 11th Lithuanian-German-Polish colloquium at the Poznan University of Technology in Kolobrzeg, Poland is presented. Topics included planning instruments in construction management. The conference featured various speakers including professors J. Jasiszak, E. Zavadskas and B. Reichelt.

The authors reflect on the periodical's two main themes, the transformation and spaces for creativity. They present an overview of the themes congresses including the "9th European Conference on Creativity and Innovation" held in September 2005 in Lodz, Poland and the meeting of the first Creativity and Innovation Management Community in Oxford in March 2005.

This article presents information on the 15th International Conference on Microwaves, Radar, and Wireless Communications (MIKON'04) which was held from 17-19 May, 2004, in Warsaw, Poland, where 234 papers from 32 countries were presented. It is worth pointing out that the success of last year's conference should be perceived in the light of MIKON's 35-year-long history. It began in 1969 as a microwave solid-state technology conference and, in 1983, it was transformed into and renamed as a microwave conference. Over the years, MIKON has been continuously modified and expanded.

Information is presented on the XII Polish Drying Symposium (PDS2009) held in Lodz, Poland, during September 14-16, 2009. Most of the sessions involved in-depth discussions of drying technologies. Papers discussed at the event had the themes including "Drying of Agricultural and Food Products," "Fundamentals and Simulation of Drying," and "Superheated Steam Drying."

The article offers information on several international scientific events including "Current Issues of Sustainable Development - Governance and Institutional Change" in Opole Poland from April 19 to 21, 2009, "Economic Science for Rural Development 2009" in Latvia from April 23 to 24, 2009, and "Economic Challenges of the 21st Century: Poland-European Union-The World" in Miedzyzdroje, Poland from June 8 to 10, 2009.

It was proved in Forti and Schwaiger (C R Math Acad Sci Soc R Can 11(6):215–220, 1989), Schwaiger (Aequ Math 35:120–121, 1988) and with different methods in Schwaiger (Developments in functional equations and related topics. Selected papers based on the presentations at the 16th international conference on functional equations and inequalities, ICFEI, Bȩdlewo, Poland, May 17–23, 2015, Springer, Cham, pp 275–295, 2017) that under the assumption that every function defined on suitable abelian semigroups with values in a normed space such that the norm of its Cauchy difference is bounded by a constant (function) is close to some additive function, i.e., the norm of the difference between the given function and that additive function is also bounded by a constant, the normed space must necessarily be complete. By Schwaiger (Ann Math Sil 34:151–163, 2020) this is also true in the non-archimedean case. Here we discuss the situation when the bound is a suitable non-constant function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highlights the conference on 'Gender-Theater-Cinema' at the University of Lodz in Poland. Concentration on the role of women theater entrepreneurs; Constructions of gender in British drama; Developments and debates in gender film theory and practice.

The objective of this paper is to summarize the outcomes of the Euroguidelines in Central and Eastern Europe (ECEE) conference held in Warsaw in February 2016. The main aim of this conference was to facilitate a discussion on European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) guidelines implementation across the region and neighbouring countries and to present the current obstacles in benchmarking HIV care in Europe. Methods During a 2-day meeting, there were country-based presentations using a predefined template so as to make the data comparable and focus the discussion. Areas covered were country epidemiology, surveillance, national strategy for treatment and prevention, standards of care, access to care and treatment availability. Each participant filled in a questionnaire investigating HIV guidelines usage per country. Results In total, 16 Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and neighbouring countries were represented at the conference: Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia and Turkey. EACS guidelines version 7.1 were used in 14 (87%) countries. In 11 (69%) countries, national guidelines were available, of which eight had been recently updated. Half of the countries declared that they use World Health Organization (WHO) and Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) guidelines, over one-third the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) HIV testing guidelines and one in five the International Antiviral Society USA (IAS-USA) Panel guidelines from 2012. Conclusions Participants declared their will to promote the widespread use of EACS guidelines for HIV infection in the CEE region and neighbouring countries by signing the Warsaw Declaration. They also emphasized the need to increase publishing of data from national cohorts in that region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides information on the 30th Conference ‘Classification and Data Analysis Methodology and Practice' of the Classification and Data Analysis Section of the Polish Statistical Association, organized by the Department of Statistics of the Poznań University of Economics and Business, in Poland, on 8 to 10 September 2021. It mentions that the conference encompassed both theoretical aspects and practical applications across diverse fields such as marketing, spatial data analysis, etc.

The article offers information on the 18th International Papermaking Conference & Exhibition to be held in Lodz, Poland on September 23-25, 2014.

The article presents information about the "Fourth World Congress of Rural Sociology" that will be held in Torun, Poland from August 9-13, 1976. The participants of the Congress may be members of International Rural Sociological Association and regional societies, non-associated rural sociologists, representatives of related disciplines, students of rural sociology and invited guests. The general theme of the Congress determined by the Program Committee is "Integrated Development of Human and Natural Resources: The Contribution of Rural Sociology." There was special concern that people interested in particular topics would have the opportunity to meet and exchange their experiences and ideas. To achieve this objective, each participant will select two non-competing seminars to attend for three sessions each, at which papers, research and policy issues will be discussed.