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The paper is devoted to the birth of the Philomath myth, namely the shaping of cultural memory about imprisonment, investigation and following it deportation from Lithuania to exile into Russia of a group of Vilnius interns, students and professors in 1823 and 1824. The author of the paper focuses on announcing and first accounts of so-called Philomath and Filaret trial, the associations to which, traditionally, an anonymous brochure published during the Polish November Insurrection Nowosilcow w Wilnie w roku szkolnym 1823/24 (Novosilcov in Vilnius in the Schoolyear 1823/24, 1831) by, as was later proven, Joachim Lelewel, and Adam Mickiewicz's Dziady (Forefathers' Eve) part III (1832) belonged. As based on those autobiographical accounts, and also on the regained manuscript of Nowosilcow w Wilnie, the author formulates a thesis about the existence of pre-Mickiewicz, nameless, collective memory about the Philomaths strengthened, and also substantially changed by the issuing of Dziady part III. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper surveys and critically evaluates the literature on the use of advanced methods to assess the financial effectiveness of insurance entities. The paper presents methodological assumptions for Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) using the CCR (Charnes-Cooper-Rhodes) and BCC (Banker-Charnes-Cooper) models. The usefulness of these methods for assessing the financial efficiency of insurance companies was also shown on the example of entities conducting insurance activities in Nigeria, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Serbia, Poland and Slovakia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the methodological assumptions for the linear mixed model and shows its usefulness in research on the factors determining the efficiency of investment funds. The aim of the study was to identify and evaluate the factors determining the efficiency of commodity funds in Poland using a linear mixed model. The Sharpe ratio was adopted as the fund's efficiency criterion. The subjective scope of the research covered all funds in Poland which at the end of December 2019 declared their investment portfolio exposure to commodity markets. The time scope of the study was 5 years, and annual data were used for the analysis. Based on the use of a linear mixed model, it was shown that there is a statistically significant negative relationship between the effectiveness of the studied funds and their operating time. This means that commodity funds that have been operating on the market for a shorter period of time achieve better investment results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the methodological assumptions of a logistic regression model and presents an example of the use of this type of models to assess the factors determining investment decisions of agricultural enterprises. The aim of the study was to identify and evaluate the factors influencing the decisions of agricultural enterprises in Central Pomerania with respect to tangible investments using the logistic regression model. The results of the research proved that the probability of making tangible investments by agricultural enterprises in Central Pomerania is influenced by financial factors: the structure of the use of capital expenditure (x 1 , x 4); use of traditional sources of financing (x 5 , x 6 , x 8); use of alternative sources of financing (x 13); variable combining the use of traditional and alternative sources of financing (x 14), as well as non-financial factors: characteristics of the enterprise (x 17) and behavioral aspects (x 18). It was also established that financial factors have a greater impact on the development of tangible investments in agricultural enterprises in Central Pomerania than non-financial factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]