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The article offers the author's insights on the study concerning the use of lifelong learning for social integration. She says that the respondents believe that the educational activity was effective. She states that the lifelong learning aims to improve competence, skills, and knowledge. She adds that the problems which hinder the success of aid activity was include the programme centralisation, lack of cooperation between institutions, and the nature of rural labour market.

The paper presents the procedure of introducing Eurocode 7 into the design practice in Poland. In the paper, currently used design methods have been compared with new ones, which soon will be used simultaneously with the introduction of Eurocodes. In order to enable the comparison, numerical analysis has been performed on two simple example cases presented by the committee ERTC-10 "Evaluation of Eurocode 7". This gave the authors an opportunity to assess and compare properly different design approaches - up-to-date and new, now being introduced. Final conclusions and issues giving rise to further discussion have been presented at the end of the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the influence of the engineering works on buildings in the vicinity of deep excavations, two large Warsaw underground stations were constantly monitored. The results of measurements of the displacements of diaphragm walls are presented. Assessment of displacements was carried out on the basis of high-precision land surveying of fixed points positioned on diaphragm walls. The conclusions concerning maximum horizontal displacement of diaphragm walls as well as evaluation of real value of soils parameters based on the results of measurements have been presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]