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Existing research on the contestation of the liberal order predominantly focuses on the corrosive effects of exogenous spoilers or the peculiarities of anti-liberal politics in domestic contexts. Yet, we know little about how the internal evolution of orders affects their long-term viability. As a first step towards developing an endogenous theory of international order transformation, this article draws inspiration from norm translation theory and develops the concept of the consolidation dilemma as a trade-off between rigidity and resilience in the evolution of international normative orders. This article argues that the process of order consolidation can paradoxically result in the decline of its overall resilience by undermining the constructive ambiguity needed to maintain a broader appeal. Applying this framework to the illustrative cases of Poland and Hungary, the article shows that challenges to the European liberal order did not materialise in the 1990s because its potential resisters were included within the thin liberal order of the time. Over time, however, Europe's liberal order underwent an endogenous transformation from a thin to a thick order with more clarity, institutionalisation, and value enforcement. This internal transformation narrowed down its support base and compromised its overall resilience to withstand endogenous and exogenous shocks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Along with changes in customer expectations, the process of ordering a house, especially one built with the most modern technology from prefabricated HQ 40-foot shipping containers, should take place in an atmosphere of free-flowing, customer-friendly conversation. Therefore, it is important that the company producing such a solution has a tool supporting such offers and orders when producing personalized solutions. This article provides an original approach to the automatic processing of orders based on an example of orders for residential shipping containers, natural language processing and so-called premises developed. Our solution overcomes the usage of records of the conversations between the customer and the retailer, in order to precisely predict the variant required for the house ordered, also when providing optimal house recommendations and when supporting manufacturers throughout product design and production. The newly proposed approach examines such recorded conversations in the sale of residential shipping containers and the rationale developed, and then offers the automatic placement of an order. Moreover, the practical significance of the solution, thus proposed, was emphasized thanks to verification by a real residential ship container manufacturing company in Poland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The humanitarian crisis that we have witnessed here in Poland since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has stirred up a discussion on how to reach out to people who have fled their homeland and how to provide assistance through cultural institutions. The phenomenon of migration is not new, but the recent conflict escalation in Ukraine and the resulting influx of vulnerable people in large numbers in a short period of time have been a catalyst for many initiatives. This is a new situation for Poland; as the country was not prepared for it on many levels, including competence training for the outreach workers. After the initial efforts of providing relief we are at the crossroads and we need to ask some fundamental questions. How can we, as a cultural institution contribute towards international audiences participating in our cultural scene and, ultimately, fostering their integration into our society? What do museums need to do in order for these processes to be initiated at all? How can museums and cultural institutions assist in initiating and supporting these processes? What experiences does the Museum of Warsaw have in working with an international audience? The author of the text analyzes attitudes, programs and current initiatives based on her own experience of working in a cultural institution as well as looks at them from the perspective of initiators and partners of such processes at the Museum of Warsaw. The article will also address the course of such process. The author, looking for inspiration at the institutions with more experience in this type of activities, completed an internship at the Framer Framed organization in Amsterdam (as part of the Erasmus+ program). The Amsterdam perspective will also be discussed in the article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction/background: A number of places have some difficulty implementing their brands due to the fact that there is no coherent framework within which they could expect some measurable results or monitor the process, and most importantly, they are totally incapable of controlling the return on investment in branding. Aim of the paper: The article puts forward a model which, irrespective of the size of the place and the extent to which the brand has been developed, introduces order into the process of brand building, indicating the point at which a brand is and optimizing the way for a brand to become an asset and a part of the equity. Materials and methods: The model is based on miscellaneous experiences comprising case studies, observations and results analysis of more than 15 place branding projects that were undertaken in Poland over the last 10 years. The project of building the brand of the city of Lublin has been based on this very model. Results and conclusions: Any local government that has at its disposal limited financial, human or any other resources can successfully use this model owing to its flexibility, clarity and simplicity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim/purpose – The purpose of the paper is to improve understanding of the process activities that Poland-based and UK-based prosumers engage in for current and future knowledge sharing with enterprises. It explores the Poland-based and UK-based prosumer differences and similarities in terms of their engagement with enterprise products and service offerings. Design/methodology/approach – The reported outcomes result from a survey that yielded 171 prosumers responses from the United Kingdom and 783 from Poland. The APQC framework is used as a means to establish the product versus service activities that appear to influence prosumers most in their knowledge sharing. Findings – The findings show that Poland-based prosumers currently share knowledge marginally more than their counterparts in the UK. However, Poland based prosumers are more willing, in fact twice as likely, to share knowledge in the future in relation to product offerings including (P3) materials from which products were made, followed closely by (P6) ease and intuitiveness of product use, (P4) designing package or graphic elements of the product and (S4) establishing new channels of sale. Research implications/limitations – In particular, the results reveal that both the Poland- based and UK-based prosumers want to engage with enterprises in sharing knowledge related to the ordering process, handling complaints and customer services. Originality/value/contribution – This finding is relevant to any enterprises that may like to engage prosumers in providing feedback about their specific product and service offerings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study deals with the analysis of temporal gravity variations in central Poland, deduced from multiple sources and covering the period from 2002–2016. The gravity data sets used comprise GRACE monthly solutions, GLDAS land surface models and absolute gravimeter measurements from the FG-5 gravimeter located in Józefosław, Poland. All data are corrected using standard processing methods in order to include the same gravity effects. After removing the annual and semi-annual components from all data using least-squares spectral analysis and seasonal-trend decomposition, the deseasoned time series are derived and examined for signatures of extreme hydrological events. The signatures of several severe drought and flood conditions affecting Poland and central Europe are identified. A complementary correlation analysis is performed to assess the level of agreement between different data sources. A higher correlation is shown when the analysis is restricted in the 2009–2012 period that includes the 2010 extreme flood and 2011 increased precipitation events, both affecting Poland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The number of patients suffering from chronic diseases, including oncology, has been systematically increasing in recent years. There is a shortage of doctors and nurses in Poland, and the actions taken within the healthcare system, they focus primarily on securing typically medical needs. Staff in medical facilities are often unable to fully meet the needs of patients. For the treatment to be effective, it must be carried out with the participation of a patient who should experience the greatest comfort and sense of security during therapy. The patient should also have full knowledge about his condition and receive information enabling him to find himself in the health care system. Modern medical care should also include non-medical aspects of patient support. Numerous publications indicate the importance of comprehensive healthcare. It is not possible to build an optimal model of care for a chronically ill patient without strengthening medical staff. The experience of people who, since 2015, have been coordinating oncological treatment as part of their duties, indicates that treatment coordination must be formalized and assigned to a specific person should belong to the duties of this professional category in order to deprive this process of signs of randomness. Therefore, it becomes necessary, firstly, to model and define this function precisely, and secondly, to begin the systematic and comprehensive education of future coordinators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors’ intention was to make an in-depth analysis of Szczecin’s city space, with particular emphasis on places created as symbolic spaces of memory, in order to reveal the processes that these areas have been subject to during the last decades. An analysis of the postmodern urban transformation of Szczecin covers objects (monuments, architecture objects, urban systems) which were the heritage of the Polish People’s Republic as well as contemporary, unrealized and realized architectural and artistic projects. The research area also includes artistic events initiated in the city space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper considers technical and economic possibilities to provide geothermal heat to individual recipients using a mobile thermal storage system (M-TES) in Polish conditions. The heat availability, temperature and heat cost influence the choice of location—Bańska Niżna, near Zakopane in the southern part of the Poland. The indirect contact energy storage container was selected with phase change material characterized by a melting temperature of 70 °C and a heat storage capacity of 250 kJ/kg, in the amount of 800 kg. The economic profitability of the M-TES system (with a price per warehouse of 6000 EUR, i.e., a total of 12,000 EUR—two containers are needed) can be achieved for a heat demand of 5000 kWh/year with the price of a replaced heat source at the level of 0.21 EUR/kWh and a distance between the charging station and building (heat recipient) of 0.5 km. For the heat demand of 15,000 kWh/year, the price for the replaced heat reached EUR 0.11/kWh, and the same distance. In turn, for a demand of 25,000 kWh/year, the price of the replaced heat source reached 0.085 EUR/kWh. The distance significantly affected the economic profitability of the M-TES system—for the analyzed case, a distance around 3–4 km from the heat source should be considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In our research, we are using the old, but good quality data from large-scale international experiments performed in Poland in the last twenty years. That data has been previously interpreted in 2D dimension manner along profiles. Moreover, only basic filtering has been used as a pre-processing. Our idea is to interpret this data to get the three-dimensional model of the whole crust and the upper mantle. Now it is technically possible because better computers with high performance and new software with parallelization have appeared recently. For this, we are using TOMO3D parallel code. We also propose to use pre-processing methods well-known and widely used in the seismic imaging to enhance signal and verify observed traveltimes of individual phases. However, standard industrial methods are difficult to apply to crustal scale data, because this data is sparse and irregular. Consequently, we use an approximation in the form of simple linear moveout, to avoid the regularization problem, and coherent flat signal enhancement. For better visibility of refraction waves on long offsets, we use AGC and f-k filtering. The manual trace editing procedure has also been done as the first step, that has a significant impact on the final result. We present our results, both synthetic and based on the real data, along 2D profiles and preliminary analysis in 3D. We generate our synthetic velocity models using the ray-tracing approach (SEIS83) and manually pick the phases to ensure high accuracy. During tomographic inversion of the synthetic dataset as the starting model, we use the 1D linear vertical velocity gradient. Additionally, we are testing our velocity models by the Finite Difference modelling (SOFI2D) and comparing obtained wavefields with observations. Our final goal is to recognize the velocity in the upper mantle after verifying the traveltimes and including 3D effects. This research was funded by National Science Centre, Poland (NCN) Grant UMO-2015/19/B/ST10/01833. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]