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This paper examines the role of social proximity (nonprofit) organizations in the process of professional innovation that involved a transfer of human service technologies from Western Europe and the United States to Poland during the 1989 political–economic reform. To explain that role, the paper introduces a theoretical model that posits the existence of elective affinity between the social proximity form and occupational interests of service providers. As the existing system of professions is no longer sufficient to legitimate expert services and curb competition among different types of providers, the social proximity form bestows social legitimacy on novel or controversial types of services, and is thus instrumental in marketing those services. The proposed model is supported by quantitative data and in-depth interviews. Theoretical implications are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the research conducted by researchers at the University of Warsaw's Geobotanical Station and the Polish Academy of Sciences' Mammal Research Institute regarding the Biatowieza woodlands between Poland and Belarus. It is considered is one of the best-preserved forests in the region. Researchers study the vicinity to get an idea of how things once were. The forest spreads over some 146,000 hectares in Poland and Belarus, wherein various parts of the vicinity are managed in various ways. It is a place where grey wolves hunt red deer, woodpeckers hunt for beetles in 500-year-old oaks, young boar splash through alder bogs blooming with yellow irises. They prefer to study species in conditions where they were adapted.

The article offers information on the upcoming congresses of the European Society of Neuroradiology (ESNR) including ESNR Congresses which will be on September 13 to 16, 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland, ESNR 32 Congress and 16th Advanced Course which will be on September 20 to 23, 2007 and ESNR 33 Congress and 17th Advanced Course which will be held in Cracow, Poland on September 2008.

Shares the author's experience at the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Poland. Travel of the author to Warsaw; Opportunity of working with a leading team of researchers; Life as a student.

Discusses the efforts of a group of professionals engaged in life sciences to develop the Polish Federation of Biotechnology. Support for proposed initiatives affecting local biotechnologists; Proposal for establishment of incubators and more academic-industry interaction.