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Objectives 1. identification of the core of the title process and its comparison with known types of patterns of improving management, 2. elaboration on the proposals and topics that enrich knowledge about the processes of HRM improvement, including the problem of institutional isomorphism. Material and methods Literature studies allowed us to identify patterns of organizational improvement change. The subject of empirical research was the content of Polish-language offers posted on websites for consulting companies improving Human Resources Management. The analysis was conducted based on content analysis guidelines. The obtained analysis results were compared with theoretical patterns of changes. In this way, the features of the examined core were identified. Results The identified core of dissemination consists of four phases and three processes with different logic. The interaction of processes can create inconsistency in the entire solution. The dominance of behaviors securing and facilitating HRM operations over other types of managerial behaviors was found. There are no methods of dealing with this asymmetry in the offers. Conclusions The inconsistencies between the core processes of pattern dissemination should encourage practitioners to determine their level of acceptance of the heterogeneity of patterns. For this, it is necessary to develop practical competencies in managing contradictions. Future research should provide a more complete understanding of the specificity of different sources of patterns, the nature of operations performed on patterns, and the identification of inconsistencies in the processes of pattern dissemination. It is also valuable to draw attention to the specific forces of institutional isomorphism that shape the similarity of patterns and ways of disseminating them

Uznanie dwuwartościowej logiki za wzór poprawnego rozumowania przyczyniło się do upowszechnienia binarnego modelu w porządkowaniu i analizie danych w różnych dziedzinach nauki. W naukach społecznych utrwalił tę tendencję zwłaszcza Claude Lévi-Strauss. Ujmowanie w schemacie binarnym objęło także tożsamość, analogicznie do jej definicji stosowanej w dwuwartościowej logice, prowadząc do konstatacji, że tożsamość opiera się na różnicy, czyli opozycji. Analiza wielu danych wskazuje na zawodność takiego podejścia. Tożsamość kształtuje się i jest konstruowana nie w binarnym przeciwstawieniu, lecz w czerpaniu z szerokiego spektrum możliwości i wariantów. Znacznie użyteczniejszy i trafniejszy w charakterystyce tożsamości, zarówno indywidualnej, jak i zbiorowej, jest więc jej spektralny model.

Introduction: In recent years in many countries, including Poland, there has been recorded a strong increase in the number of cases of disorders, diagnosed as gender dysphoria, among adolescents and preadolescents. This is not only a serious medical and psychotherapeutic problem, but also a pedagogical challenge. Research Aim: Research aim is to recognize and analyse needs and challenges generated for educators and preceptors by gender dysphoria that occurs in their preadolescent and adolescent pupils. Evidence-based Facts: There are not many evidence-based facts about gender dysphoria in Poland, but there are some of them in other countries, particularly in the USA. Their results can be used to anticipate the challenges faced by Polish educators. Summary: This disorder is in many cases temporary and transient, but very dangerous, because suicides, self harms and other kinds of behavioral disturbance among children and young people with this syndrome are several times more frequent than in the entire population. A main pedagogical challenge is to help them get through this growth phase and avoid discrimination by their peers. However, neither preparation for the transition nor providing assistance in bringing about the transition are pedagogical tasks.

Exod 19:3–8 and the description of Israel’s identity as a chosen nation bound by a covenant with YHWH (Exod 19:5–6: special possession, kingdom of priests, holy nation) have much in common both with statements known from deuteronomistic and priestly texts as well as from the so-called School of Holiness. This multiplicity of thematic, conceptual and linguistic connections makes the source classification and dating of this text quite difficult. The only consensus today is that it was written at the earliest just after the Babylonian exile. In this paper, the description of Israel’s identity in Exod 19:5–6 is linked to the priestly concept of the portable sanctuary, in which the specific location of the sanctuary (the sanctuary in the desert) is no longer important and not only the king or the priests are responsible for it, but the entire nation. This vocation is to be realized by the nation’s attitude of faithfulness to God (Exod 19:5a) in everyday life. In this way, sacred space in Israel goes beyond the walls of the temple and even Jerusalem (as according to Ezechiel), nor is it any longer limited to selected moments (visit to the sanctuary), but encompasses the entire life of the nation in all its aspects

A city in itself is a multicultural structure. This concerns specially cities founded or developed during intensive industrialization, connected to rapid growth of population. In spite of standardizing urbanization processes and the ideological doctrine imposed by the communist regime, the society of Nowa Huta has also been revealing attributes of multiculturality typical of urban immigration centers. However, it represents its specific variation resulting from the time and place where it was located and has been developing.

Rdz 3,(14-)16-19 w tradycyjnej interpretacji rozumiane jest jako opis wyroku za złamanie Bożego zakazu. Wypowiedzi zawarte w tych wierszach najczęściej rozumiane są więc jako kara nałożona na węża (w. 14-15), kobietę (w. 16) i mężczyznę (ww. 17-19). W artykule podjęta jest jednak i analizowana sugestia, aby wypowiedzi te interpretować najpierw wyłącznie jako etiologię rzeczywistości społecznej aktualnej w czasach autor biblijnego, a potem także jako opis sytuacji dotyczący całej ludzkości (w obu wypadkach kobiet i mężczyzn), a nie samej kobiety (cierpienie z powodu licznych ciąż), czy samego tylko mężczyzny (ciężka praca na roli i śmierć).

The paper examines the beginnings of biblical monotheism. The author indicates the period of the Babylonian exile as the moment of the emergence of this idea in Israel. Psalm 82 is interpreted here as a testimony to the monotheistic transformation. The author advocates a literal understanding of the content of the psalm, as an image of the judgement over pagan gods, which ended in their condemnation to death. The reason for this dethronement of the entire pantheon is the permanent inability of the gods to ensure justice on earth. According to the psalmist, it is a feature of the only true God, which is the God of Israel, called upon to take power over the whole earth.

Review of the book: Andreas Schüle, Die Urgeschichte (Genesis 1-11). 2. erweiterte und aktualisierte Auflage (Züricher Bibelkommentare 1.1; Zürich: Theologische Verlag Zürich 2020). S. 176. 35 EUR. ISBN 978-3-290-17527-6

The article concerns passports required for travels, issued in period from the Seym constitution from December 15th 1789 until the end of the Republic. Passports were issued by civil and military public order commissions, municipal chanceries, city administration and manor administration. The article was based on records of commissions from Lublin, Łuków and Chełm, and is an initial insight into this problem. The article comprises information on the content of passports and their form, as well as manners of production and use.

W artykule omówione zostały dwa opisy stworzenia człowieka (Rdz 1; 2–3). Akcent w analizie tych wypowiedzi położony jest na fakt, że w obu opisach podkreśla się, iż człowiek został stworzony jako mężczyzna i kobieta. Dwupłciowa natura człowieka akcentowana jest w nich zarówno w wymiarze biologicznym i religijnym (tak Rdz 1,26-28), jak i społecznym (tak Rdz 2,18-25). Obie płcie są sobie równe w każdym z tych aspektów. Człowiek w całej pełni realizuje swoje powołanie do życia i współpracy z Bogiem dopiero jako mężczyzna i kobieta. Jego zdolność do nawiązywania relacji wyraża się najpełniej w obrębie płciowego zróżnicowania własnego gatunku. Zachodzi to w wymiarze biolo­gicznym (płodność umożliwiająca poddanie sobie ziemi) oraz intelektualnym i duchowym (kobieta jako „odpowiednia pomoc”).

The objective of the article is to present the current state of discussion on the first literary version of the series about Abraham and its sources or roots. The current state of research suggests that the starting point of the literary version of the narrative about this patriarch may have been a kind of tradition associated with the local shrine in Mamre, near Hebron. The other theory describes the idea of the promise of a descendant in return for the extraordinary and extended hospitality towards God. More importantly, this tradition may have been connected with Abraham from the very beginning, but it does not necessarily have to have been. The first version of a longer narrative about Abraham was the cycle of Abraham – Lot – Sodom (Gen 18*–19*). An introduction to the cycle (Gen 13:5-13) was written, already including the content of the two chapters mentioned above. According to the original version of the cycle, Abraham is not yet closely related to Lot, but he is an autochthonous character. Obviously, the goal of the series remains the ethnogenesis of the inhabitants of Judah in relation to the neighbouring peoples (the Moabites and Ammonites). Moreover, the latter clearly form a negative contrast here – both ethnically and civilisationally. This version of the narrative can be dated back to the end of the 7th century before Christ. The subsequent extensions or enlargements were initially associated with the combining of the characters of Abraham and Jacob. Such a combination could have been achieved, amongst others, by identifying the descendant promised to Abraham with Isaac. The priestly tradition internationalised Abraham even more and thus made him a pilgrim who had come from Ur of the Chaldeans.

Biological threats go beyond infectious disease epidemics. A biological threat should be construed as the effects of deployment of biological warfare or the occurrence of biological events of natural origin, which can have significant impact on the breach of security in the military, social, ecological and biological context. Biological factors are often recognized as an important and increasingly appreciated problem of widely understood public health. Epidemiological data indicates that, worldwide, at least several hundred million people are exposed to them. A fallacious conviction prevails that biological factors generally affect health care workers who are exposed to them as part of their daily professional routine. However, we rarely realize that biological factors affect us as part of many types of work, also in public spaces. Exposure to biological factors in the workplace and out of work has become increasingly frequent, leading to many adverse health effects. Health care authorities should be sensitive to the emergence of disease foci caused by biological factors (bioterrorism), which requires their quick reaction. It is also important to guarantee the security of personnel in all employment areas where contact with these factors is expected. It is estimated that the frequency of use of weapons of mass destruction is directly proportional to the availability of these means and their production costs, as well as their production capacity. These are the main reasons that indicate that a growing number of terrorist organizations can start using them. The purpose of the study is to present the current knowledge on the preparedness of government bodies (administration and health care) to fight biological threats of various origin.

Recenzja książki: Marc Van De Mieroop, Hammurabi, król Babilonu (tłum. Fabian Tryl) (Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie 2016). Ss. 243. PLN 39.90. ISBN 978-83-7976-435-8.

Obecnie, wieś Szarowola położona jest w gminie Tomaszów Lubelski, w północnej części powiatu tomaszowskiego, w województwie lubelskim. Lokowana została w 1579 r. na gruntach wsi Rogóźna, w miejscu zwanym Porebrody, przez popa Kunata. W okresie staropolskim administracyjnie związana była z powiatem i województwem bełskim. Po I rozbiorze Polski znalazła się w monarchii Habsburgów, w okresie napoleońskim w Księstwie Warszawskim, a po Kongresie Wiedeńskim w zależnym od Rosji Królestwie Polskim. Pierwotnie funkcjonowała tam parafia prawosławna, a po zawarciu unii brzeskiej, unicka. Jako samodzielna jednostka kościelna przetrwała do końca XVIII wieku, kiedy została przez władze austriackie zdegradowana do miana cerkwi filialnej i włączona do parafii w Łosińcu, w której funkcjonowała do likwidacji unii. Przez pierwszy okres funkcjonowania parafia w Szarowoli organizacyjnie przynależna była do dekanatu tyszowieckiego, a pod koniec XVII w. do nowoutworzonej protopopi tomaszowskiej. Analizując protokoły powizytacyjne biskupów chełmskich, przedstawiono wygląd świątyni parafialnej i jej wyposażenie, a także zmiany jakie zachodziły w tym zakresie w badanym okresie. Ustalono, ze parochowi do utrzymania służyły grunty orne i łąki, dzięki którym prowadził gospodarstwo, a ponadto różnorodne opłaty od wiernych. Duchowny miał do swojej dyspozycji niewielką plebanię wraz z zabudowaniami gospodarczymi. W miarę możliwości określono beneficjum cerkiewne i pokazano zachodzące w nim zmiany w badanym okresie. Na koniec zwrócono uwagę na liczbę wiernych oraz odtworzono liczbę duszpasterzy pracujących w tej parafii.

The principal postulate of environmental ethics is to include animals, or even all living entities, in the moral universe. However, questions include: Does this equally concern rats, mice, mosquitoes, bugs, parasites and other creatures which are dangerous for people’s health and life? If not, what are the criteria for selecting protected living beings and unprotected ones? Aren’t such criteria anthropocentric, and contrary to the biocentric assumptions of environmental ethics? Do the differences between the assumptions of environmental ethics and human ethics affect the particular rules of these two kinds of ethics, demanding different kinds of behaviour (towards human and towards nonhuman beings)? How should we appraise people who respect one kind of ethics, but break the other? Could we recognize those who live and act accordingly to the ethics of respect for nature, but don’t respect human rights, as ethically good? And do animals have rights in the same way as human beings? Are they the same rights, or different rights? And if they are different, should they nonetheless have ethical sources and foundations? These are some of the main dilemmas of environmental ethics which are considered in this article.

Cultural Relativism and Research on Intercultural Relations The article discusses various versions of relativism – descriptive, linguistic and axiological. Author assumes the attitude toward specific questions regarding above types of relativism in terms of their utility to study intercultural relations. Author criticizes both multiculturalism and axiological relativism as isolationist positions. He presents arguments in favor of overcoming the linguistic diversity and diffusionist vision of cultures.

U podstaw dominujących w etyce środowiskowej, jej biocentrycznych odmian leży deklaracja dokonania moralnej ekstensji, czyli rozszerzenia zakresu obowiązywalności norm i nakazów etycznych na istoty żywe inne niż ludzkie. Jeśli miałoby to oznaczać objęcie biosfery identycznymi powinnościami etycznymi jak obowiązujące w antroposferze, to deklaracja ta nie przez wszystkie biocentryczne odmiany etyki środowiskowej jest realizowana konsekwentnie. W ich obrębie wytworzyły się bowiem odmienne, rozbieżne, a często przeciwstawne etyce humanistycznej systemy aksjonormatywne. Stawia to podmiot moralny, którym we wszystkich tych systemach jest istota ludzka, wobec sprzecznych wymagań i zobowiązań etycznych. Kwestią problematyczną pozostaje możliwość kształtowania dwoistego czy wręcz rozdwojonego sumienia moralnego, mogącego sprostać tak rozbieżnym postulatom i powinnościom.

This article concerns widely perceived ecological education being provided among country youth by People’s Universities, their homeland is Denmark and M. F. S. Grundvig is concerned to be their father. He observed English educational system and the way of education with the usage of boarding schools and then he transmitted it to Denmark, where at the end of the 18th c. and at the beginning of the 19th century the role of peasants, who reached for power and had their own farms, increased, therefore, there was a necessity to create an integrated educational system for those people. Thiss way of educating was then carried to Poland by Ignacy Solarz and his wife Zofia Solarzowa - that took place in the mid-20th century. A special tribute of these educational institutions was reaching those country groups of people who were hungry for knowledge and social advance. People’s Universities had and have ecological education established in their educational programme. However, this education concerns integrated, harmonic and balanced development of the human being, since, if ecology means the knowledge about the environment, it is the human being that should be the most important, that should be the subject. In this system of educating one is not only concerned in gaining the knowledge, but also in ability to pass the gained knowledge, expressing one’s opinions, ability to make relations with people and with the world. This system is about the most integrated development of a student’s personality, the ecological education must not limit itself just to care about the nature, but it should also take into consideration the human’s psychology, environment in which one was brought up and also the values with which one was fed. That is why this widely taken ecology should not omit religious, cultural and patriotic values. And People’s Universities draw their attention to this kind of values.

Niniejszy artykuł jest próbę ukazania refleksji chrześcijańskiego Wschodu na temat natury, ziemi i świata jako manifestacji stwórczej woli Boga. Świat według tej nauki nie jest zwykłą emanacją Boskości ani też uporządkowaniem istniejącej wcześniej materii przez jakiegoś demiurga, jak uważali filozofowie greccy. Świat jawi się tutaj jako coś zupełnie nowego, stworzonego „z niczego” (ex nihilo). Jest on chciany i kochany przez Boga. Bóg przez świat wyraża się i nadaje wszystkim bytom, jawiącym się naszym oczom jako tylko materialne, również głęboki sens i znaczenie duchowe. Bóg przez świat wyraża się w sposób zrozumiały dla człowieka. Szczególne zadanie spoczywa więc na człowieku, który powinien odkrywać ten sens i to znaczenie obecne w bytach stworzonych, aby mogła nastąpić komunikacja między nim a Bogiem. Człowiek jako „kapłan i stróż wszechświata” dzięki duchowemu patrzeniu, dzięki „ognistym oczom” przenikającym głębię istot i rzeczy, ma za zadanie to znaczenie odkrywać i objawiać. Sens, znaczenie (logoi) tego wszystkiego, co istnieje ma swój fundament i spełnienie jedynie w Najwyższym Logosie Bożym.

This article speaks of the relation between man and the rest of the created world. This is a subject that is being taken up more and more frequently by ecologists, by philosophers and theologians. Man is in relation to the universe above all because of their common beginning. For everything, human beings included came into being "from nothing" (ex nihilo). Secondly: all of creation, even if to a different degree, is subject to the laws of limitations. Thirdly: all of the universe, which means also a man living in it, is called development and liberation from the burdening of evil, in order to participate in the freedom and glory of the children of God (cfr. R om 8:21). The subject of the relation of man with the rest of the created world was dear to the Fathers of the Church, especially in the East. The heritage of the Eastern Church Fathers has been taken up mainly by Orthodox theologians. But there are also Catholic theologians that take up the subject of the relation between man and the universe. Here one should name above all K. Rahner, H.U. von Balthasar and, among Polish theologians: W. Hryniewicz. Among the contemporary Orthodox theologians that speak of the relation between man and the universe, we find O. Clément. For him, relations with God the Creator and Savior are of importance. Upon these relations depend on other ones: with other people and with the universe. If one does not take this into consideration, one's knowledge of the man himself would be incomplete. Relations between man and the universe can be twofold: man can remain on the outside of the reality which shows itself to his eyes or he can be inserted into this reality, which he shall observe as an organic all-embracing unity. Visible nature, as O. Clément writes, is a book rich in content, which speaks of life on Earth and after death. It is only necessary to know how to make use of this book. Man created in the "image and likeness" of God is marked by divinity and participates in the divine intellect and, by means of his body, is in relation to the material world. He concentrates in himself what is spiritual and what is material. All of the created universe can participate in divine "energies" only through man, who is "priest and caretaker" of the universe. It is the duty of man to read the first revelation (that is the world) and to "realize the ontological glorification of all things". But man, because of original sin, has led to a true cosmic catastrophe, to a darkening of the modality of paradise and to the appearance of a new way of universal existence, marked by sin. The man also ceased to understand the true world, the way God created it and sustains it in His glory. Creation, just as Rs Creator, does not thrust itself upon man, who sees the universe through the prism of his fall which in such a manner obscures and covers it, that he becomes more and more obdurate to the action of God.

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Aim. The main aim of the study was to assess the incidence of metabolic syndrome and its individual components in patients subject to a confinement measure, treated with antipsychotics in mono -- or polytherapy. Additional objectives included the analysis of associations between the occurrence of metabolic syndrome and patients' age, psychiatric diagnosis, overweight or obesity, and the presence of addictions to psychoactive substances. Method. The study involved 61 patients of the Department of Forensic Psychiatry, including 9 women and 52 men, subject to a confinement measure from September 2019 to August 2021. All parameters of metabolic syndrome and BMI were measured twice, at the beginning of the stay at the Department and after six months of treatment with atypical antipsychotics. Appropriate statistical comparative analyses were then performed. Results. There was no relationship between the occurrence of metabolic syndrome and the age of the subjects, medical diagnosis, addiction to psychoactive substances, including smoking. It has not been confirmed that the chronic use of atypical antipsychotics with parallel prophylactic and health-promoting effects in conditions of confinement leads to the development of metabolic syndrome and worsens its symptoms, apart from a marked increase in waist circumference and an increase in BMI. Conclusions. Systematic measurements of BMI and waist circumference during treatment with atypical antipsychotics may be accurate tools in assessing the risk of metabolic syndrome. Long-term confinement hospitalizations should include psychoeducational interventions aimed at minimizing metabolic complications of pharmacotherapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2024, we observe the fortieth anniversary of the publication, where, for the first time, the term of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) was used. Presently, SAD is regarded as a special category of mood disorder. In the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-V), the seasonality makes a specifier, "with seasonal pattern", both for recurrent depression or Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), and for Bipolar Disorder (BD). The most spectacular phenomenon among SAD is winter depression. Its symptomatology is mostly similar to atypical depression, characterized by excessive sleepiness and carbohydrate craving. SAD can pertain up to one fifth of persons with MDD or BD and is more frequent in women. SAD can be considered as an extreme expression of the central nervous system (CNS) changes related to circannual rhythm of lighting. The seasonal changes of the CNS function apply to the secretion of melatonin, the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. In the circadian and circannual processes, a significant role is played by so-called "clock genes". SAD may be a legacy of Homo neanderthalensis. In winter depression, the therapeutic effect is obtained by an exposition to bright light (bright light therapy -- BLT) as well as to blue light or using the method of dawn simulation. The therapeutic effect of phototherapy has also been ascertained in non-seasonal depression. As a counterpoint to this mechanism, promising trials have been undertaken in manic states by light restriction using blue light blocking glasses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The text offers excerpts from Janusz Sławiński’s handwritten notes from the time when he was composing the book /Koncepcja języka poetyckiego Awangardy Krakowskiej / (The Poetic Language of the Krakow Avant-Garde). These and other hitherto unpublished archival notes will be included in the volume /Wokół awangardy /(On the Avant-Garde) prepared by Beata Śniecikowska as the first volume of Janusz Sławiński’s /Pisma zebrane/ (Collected Writings) edited by Agnieszka Kluba. The book will soon be published by Wydawnictwo IBL PAN. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The appearance of the so-called hapax legomena in a given biblical book is always a great mystery, which raises a justified question about the purpose of their use by the inspired author. This is even more important because the biblical authors develop their own styles and ways of expressing thoughts using more or less clear terms and sentence syntax. The adverb ἀνδρωδῶς0 raises similar questions about its place in the First Book of the Maccabees. The article tries to find an answer to the possible purpose of its use by the hagiographer. Therefore, the following issues are considered. Firstly, is the theology of the book itself sufficient to explain the place of the adverb in this text? Secondly, is it necessary to refer to other books of the Septuagint? Thirdly, should the semantic meaning of the discussed adverb be clarified by reference to the texts of ancient Greek literature in which it appears? It seems that it is in its meaning, discovered in the course of the analysis, that the answer to the purpose of the record made by the hagiographer should be sought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research objective of the article is a comparative analysis of the proposal from the European Parliament dated November 22, 2023 and the Franco-German working group of September 18 of the same year regarding the European Union treaty reform. The author puts forward a research hypothesis grounded in the assumption that the initiative to convene a new Intergovernmental Conference is both premature and relies on a tactical approach akin to that of Germany and France during the Convention on the Future of Europe (2002-2003) and the Intergovernmental Conference (2003-2004), suggesting that the prospective enlargement of the EU with possibly nine new member states will necessitate significant reforms. Based on this claim, the author formulates two research questions. Firstly, which proposals from the European Parliament and the Franco-German working group for amending the EU treaties were the most extreme, and why? And secondly, which EU member states were likely to gain the most from these changes, and why? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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