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Nowadays we live in an unfavorable multicultural reality that generates a number of difficult situations that society must constantly get used to. This reality requires constant adaptation to it, causing various attitudes and behaviors. The main good for the entire society is the acquisition of appropriate skills and dispositions, so that the everyday world becomes possible to carry out everyday tasks. In search of the positive patterns of behavior and conditions for the desired changes, art becomes helpful, the value and potential of which can contribute to modeling reality and social attitudes. Performing its social and educational functions, art significantly revitalizes social space, it just needs to be given a chance to do so. The aim of the research was an attempt to show the possibility of changes in the life of an individual, his/her attitudes, and in the social space under the influence of the presence of art. In the adopted orientation of qualitative research, such methods of data acquisition as free- -targeted interviews and analysis of the content of the subject literature were used. An important method was also the opinion of artists/experts. The results of the research were presented in the form of the respondents’ statements, which show that the respondents mostly perceive the social and educational functions of art and are able to locate them in the space of social change. By fulfilling its artistic and, above all, social and educational functions, it allows for changes in the everyday functioning of a person, the implementation of his/her attitudes, and the perception of the need to shape social reality through positive own activity. Art is conducive to building social awareness, which contributes to compensating the area of social life. Reaching the recipient, not only allows them to become interested in it but also awakens their sensitivity and willingness to introduce the proposed solutions into everyday social life. It has an integrating and revitalizing function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents research findings that show how the dimensions of personal identity and human beliefs, emotions and values change in the context of individual or social events. The study tried to find an answer to the research question: What is the relationship between the dimension of personal identity and the social and individual experiences? The study involved 142 people, including 82 women and 60 men. The Dimensions of Identity Development Scale (DIDS) by Luyckx et al., in the Polish adaptation of Brzezinski and Piotrowski, was used to measure identity dimensions. The study was conducted in Poland. The thesis was that a single event has a greater impact on personal identity change than a social event. It has been shown that the quantity of social change influences the changes within the dimension of personal identity Ruminate Exploration more strongly, while the perception of an individual event by its nature has more influence on personal identity than the social event, especially in the dimension Identification with Obligation. The results may be relevant to clinical practice to understand the impact of different life events on a person’s development or regression with respect to his or her long-term decisions and goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wzory rozprowadzenia drugorzędnej mineralizacji i kwestia tektonicznej kontroli mineralizacji powinny zostać rozpoznane w celu identyfikacji cech formowania się metali naturalnych w pokrywach lawowych z neoproterozoiku (Wołyń, Ukraina). Metoda klasyfikacji zmian pozwoliła na stworzenie mapy pęknięć w strukturach sedymentacyjnych w Ratnie w najniższym potoku w celu określenia intensywności pękania skał w strefie uskoku w Czartorysku. W celu ustalenia cech rozprowadzania mineralizacji metali naturalnych w neoproterozoicznych bazaltach przeprowadzono badania mineralogiczne, petrograficzne i geochemiczne. Analiza chemiczna skał wulkanicznych z miedzią, srebrem i złotem została wykorzystana do stworzenia schematów rozprowadzania metali w najniższym potoku bazaltu w strukturach sedymentacyjnych w Ratnie. Dzięki temu dowiadujemy się, że skały wulkaniczne w strefie uskoku w Czartorysku przeszły wiele zmian. Neoproterozoiczne pokrywy lawowe przeszły zmiany w sposób nierównomierny i charakteryzują się podwyższoną koncentracją metali szlachetnych. Regionalne zmiany przybierają formę palagonitu, chlorytu, zeolitów, chalcedonów i analcymów. Wykazano, że kształtowanie nasyconej mineralizacji metali naturalnych (miedź, srebro, nikiel, chrom) jest związane z regionalnymi zmianami w potoku bazaltu w Ratnie. W strefach o podwyższonym pękaniu i brekcji występują kwarc niskotemperaturowy, karbonity i siarczki rozprowadzane miejscowo. Miejsca ostatniej mineralizacji metali (złoto, srebro, ołów) również są miejscowe i związane ze strefami brekcji. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the changes in the number, quality structure as well as in personnel structure of microbiological laboratories in Poland in 2007-2013. The legal background of the above changes was also analysed, indicating that the issues concerning the operation of laboratories have been adopted relatively late compared to other healthcare institutions. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the number of the laboratories changes, and their number per capita in the different provinces is significantly different. These differences are also found in the number of staff per capita. At the same time an increased interest in the pro-quality activities was identified - an increasing number of laboratories have quality certificates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background. The complexity of a contemporary organizations' operational environment requires searching for the best ways for them to function in the existing conditions. The search is reflected in organization architecture, ie. in the prepared plans for building and development of the organization, the nature and range of changes, and also in the methods of management. Research aims. This article attempts to determine the nature and types of organization architecture and its impact on the activity's efficiency. Method. The present dissertation was elaborated on the basis of the subject literature and the author's own considerations. Fundamental methods used in the paper are analysis and synthesis as well as induction, deduction and abduction. Key findings. The conducted considerations resulted, inter, in a conclusion that the organization architecture should be based on a system approach taking into account each area of an organization's activity, from the business type and scale (e.g., production volume), through its financing and sales, to operational effectiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background. The complexity of a contemporary organizations' operational environment requires searching for the best ways for them to function in the existing conditions. The search is reflected in organization architecture, ie. in the prepared plans for building and development of the organization, the nature and range of changes, and also in the methods of management. Research aims. This article attempts to determine the nature and types of organization architecture and its impact on the activity's efficiency. Method. The present dissertation was elaborated on the basis of the subject literature and the author's own considerations. Fundamental methods used in the paper are analysis and synthesis as well as induction, deduction and abduction. Key findings. The conducted considerations resulted, inter alia, in a conclusion that the organization architecture should be based on a system approach taking into account each area of an organization's activity, from the business type and scale (e.g., production volume), through its financing and sales, to operational effectiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the study was to characterize the changes that have occurred in the use of land and its productivity in the postwar period. Area of agricultural land decreases and accordingly there is no increase in quality of it. Under the influence of economic, social and trade conditions, changes in the structure of land use occur. Land fulfills multiple functions and has specific properties that do not have other factors of agricultural production. We use different ways to assess the quality of the land for farming purposes, and each one gives us a different picture quality. Despite the statutory protection order of agricultural land, the change for non-agricultural use happens and this applies to all quality classes. A slow increase in the productivity of land showed in yield expressed per 1 ha and 1 citizen of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the study was: to present the contemporary scene of the agrarian structure, changes of family farms in the 1996-2010 period, the specific characteristics of these households, changes in number and size in two periods, 1996-2003 and 2003-2010, the differentiation of the farms in terms of labor and education of households' leaders (2010), types of farming (2007 and 2010), non-agricultural activities (2010). Results: varied pace of change in the number and area of farms in each period and area groups, differentiation of types of farms in terms of agricultural and market linkages, production level, development of organic farms. The second period (CAP) is characterized by a higher growth rate of the number and area of farms than the first period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Beskid Niski is the region of Polish Carpathians, where the most significant changes in population took place. The depopulation started during the Second World War and continued until 1947, when the Lemkos were displaced from the region, which caused the abandonment of their farms and began the renaturalization process. Those changes as well as political and economic changes in Poland since 1990 are the factors which influenced pattern of the forest-field boundary in the discussed area. The author's research was carried out in the Pasma Magurskie region, which is in the central part of Beskid Niski Mts in Outer Western Carpathians (Fig. 1). The study area included also the Magura National Park. The main tectonic unit here is the Magura Nappe. The relief of Pasma Magurskie was formed by fluvial and denudation processes. As for altitudinal zonation, two vertical zones are distinguished here - the foothill vertical zone where original Tilio-Carpinetum betuli was transformed into agricultural fields, and lower forest vertical zone covered with Dentarioglandulosae-Fagetum. As a consequence of depopulation set-tlement density is low here in comparison with other parts of Polish Carpathians. The author's aim was to investigate changes in the geometry of forest-field boundary and its altitude between 1978 and 2004 in the Pasma Magurskie. Additionally, changes in the forest area were examined. The research was based on the map overlapping technique. Data derived from digitized topo-graphic maps made in the 1978-1980 period and orthophotos of 2003-2004 years were compared and changes were analyzed. The total forest area in the region increased from 69,4% in 1980 to 73,2% in 2004 (tab. 1). At the same time the altitude of forest-field boundary lowered by c. 18 m. Also the values of metrics concerning fragmentation of forest patches increased conside-rably (tab. 4). It means that the process of reforestation, which through temporal fragmentation leads to the merger of landscape, is continued. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]