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Controlling a team of unmanned underwater vehicles performing water region search tasks
Authors: Zak Andrzej 
Published: July 2013

Abstract
The article discusses a problem of performing a mission and controlling a team of unmanned underwater vehicles which perform a task of water region search. The team of underwater vehicles has been modelled as a multi-agent system, which made it possible to use the mechanism of multi-agent systems for controlling the team of cooperating underwater vehicles, with each vehicle being treated as an individual agent. Solutions to cooperation problems in multi-agent systems were proposed, including the presentation of the system structure and the data exchange method. Issues relating to cooperation actions in the team of underwater vehicles were described and solved using the theory of games and the vector quality index. The process of negotiations between the vehicles was modelled as the multiplayer cooperative game, which secured successful realisation of the task performed by the team of vehicles with respect to time, which represents the economic aspect of the task. The optimal solution was selected based on the vector quality index, which provided opportunities for minimisation of costs having the form of energy used by the entire team, and maximisation of profits in the form of time needed for completing the water region search task. The proposed method for dividing the action space in the water region search tasks performed by the team of underwater vehicles consists in assigning to each of cooperating underwater vehicles a task the realisation of which contributes to the realisation of the globally defined task. Finally, the results of water region search tasks performed by a team of cooperating underwater vehicles are presented and discussed taking into account possible vehicle failures happening during task realisation.
The influence of organic polymer on properties of mineral concentrates
Authors: Popek Marzenna 
Published: July 2013

AbstractTransport of mineral concentrates is associated with high risk of liquefaction of the cargoes. This type of goods containing water may liquefy and shift dangerously across the cargo compartments. Therefore, it is rational to limit the moisture content of the cargoes which may liquefy. To prevent sliding and shifting of ore concentrates in storage biodegradable materials composed of starch are added to the mineral concentrates. The influence of adding starch materials to the mineral concentrates on its parameters determining ability for safe shipment was assessed on the basis of determination of the following parameters: permeability, cohesion and internal friction angle of concentrates.
A New Approach to Innovation and its Application to the Countries of the European Union
Authors: Agüeros Manuel , Casares-Hontañón Pedro , Coto-Millán Pablo , De Castro Pablo , Pesquera Miguel Ángel 
Published: July 2013

Abstract
This research provides a new theoretical approach to innovation. Innovation relies on collaborative relationships between universities, private companies and public administration. This theoretical approach offers an opportunity for scientific discovery in an environment of collaboration. Innovative ideas are not self-contained items; they are more like ecosystems and networks. The article also provides data processed in recent years (2003-2009) for the European Union states, providing relevant empirical evidence on the relationship between human capital, relational capital, technological capital and innovation. In the econometric and statistical modelling, the countries of the Europe of the Fifteen (EU-15) will be considered.
Federal Revenue Sharing, Marginalisation and Sub-National Inter-Regional Inequality in Human Capital Development in South-Eastern and Southern Nigeria
Authors: Ingwe Richard , Ukwayi Joseph K. , Utam Edward U. 
Published: July 2013

Abstract
Regional development planning/management responds to needs for preventing inequality among regions within nations characterised by multi-culturality and variation among regions, through the planning/management of appropriate programmes and policies. This paper examines inequality in the development of two of Nigeria’s states in the geographical South-East and the political South-South. Among other issues, historical conflicts among various ethno-cultural groups constituting Nigeria and culminating in violence (e.g. the 1967-1970 civil war fought against the programme of Ibo (a socio-cultural group) seceding from Nigeria’s federation to found Biafra) are reviewed. Despite Nigeria’s tragic civil war, inequality persists. We examine inequality resulting from systematic implementation of policies/programmes of Nigeria’s federal government institutions that marginalise Cross River State. Using the methods of comparative analysis and a descriptive case study, we show the consequences of marginalisation policies implemented by the federal government alone or in collaboration with (i.e. in support of) Akwa Ibom State for the development of human capital in Cross River State. The specific acts of marginalisation referred to here include: the ceding of the Bakassi Peninsula - a part of Cross River State - to the Republic of Cameroon in 2005, and more recently (2009) another ceding of 76 oil wells, hitherto the property of Cross River State, to Akwa Ibom State. We argue that, strengthened by marginalising/polarising policies (higher revenue allocation based on derivation principle of oil production), Akwa Ibom’s ongoing implementation of free education policy promises to facilitate its achievement of millennium development goals in basic education by 2015, beyond which it might reach disproportionately higher levels of tertiary educational attainment by 2024 and after. By contrast, the contrived dwindling of oil revenue accruing to Cross River State deprives it of funding for competitive human capital development programme(s). We recommend that Cross River State employs serious monitoring of marginalising schemes against its people considering recent traumatising experience, and plan/implement human capital development programmes aimed to improve its competitiveness under the context of intra-regional inequality.
Dwelling or Living in a Block of Flats. Towards the Polish Geography of Home
Authors: Klima Ewa 
Published: July 2013

Abstract
This article consists of two parts. The first includes a review of Polish and mainly English-language publications in geography related to the theme of home and the flat. The second part presents the results of a study of ‘homes in a block of flats’. It is primarily an attempt to identify opportunities that studying homes offers the contemporary cultural geographer. One of the aims is to pinpoint differences between the Polish and English output in this field, and to prove that such studies in our country are justified. The results clearly indicate the universal character of the notion of home and help to lift the spell of a hostile space off a block of flats. In more general categories related to the geographical understanding of space, it should be added that, as respondents indicate, this is a space which is neither homogeneous nor monotonous.
Methods for Determining the Impact of the Temporal Trend in the Valuation of Land Property
Authors: Maleta Monika 
Published: July 2013

Abstract
The presented case study is to provide various methods of determining the impact of the time trend on the changes in transaction prices of undeveloped land properties. The basis for each property valuation is an analysis of the local market, where the valued property is located. This analysis lies in the implementation of activities related to determining the trend of changes in the prices of real estate and their update on the valuation date, as well as in determining the impact of the various attributes of a property on the formation of a unit transaction price. The valuer making a valuation of a property is required to take into account the changes in price which occur as a result of the passage of time. The price adjustment is done properly if all the changes in price during a certain period of time are taken into consideration. In order to determine the trend of transaction prices, one can use:
- a method of comparing property prices by similar pairs,
- linear and nonlinear additive models,
- nonlinear multiplicative models (e.g., in the form of a multiplicative exponential function, power).
The choice of the right method of updating transaction prices depends on the sample size adopted for the analysis of the real estate market. It is also crucial to select the right representative real estate database that best reflects the tested reality.
A practical and theoretical research method of the time trend was developed using undeveloped land property price data. An analysis of determining the impact of time on real estate prices has been presented using each of the above mentioned mathematical models.
The object of the study was the local market of undeveloped land properties, including sale and purchase transactions conducted in Stoczek Łukowski. A merit analysis of the methods used and a comparison of the obtained results have also been provided.
Merger and Division - A Case Study
Authors: Kwartnik-Pruc Anita 
Published: July 2013

Abstract
Administrative proceedings regarding the approval of a draft property division are governed by the provisions of the Real Estate Management Act. On 22 September 2004, under the provisions of the Act of 28 November 2003 amending the Real Estate Management Act as well as some other acts (Journal of Laws No. 141, item. 1492), the text of the Real Estate Management Act was supplemented with article 98 b, which states that “the owners or perpetual users of the properties shaped in a way that hinders their rational development may submit a joint application on their merger and re-division into parcels of land, if they are entitled to uniform rights to those properties”.
This provision introduces detailed regulations regarding the necessary conditions for a merger and division: a commitment to carry out an exchange procedure in the form of a notarial deed, uniformity of the rights to the property, a conditional decision to approve the merger and division, and the need to convey the rights to the property within the date specified in the decision. Municipalities encourage this type of activity, that is conducting local mergers and divisions, because it does not engage them directly. The municipality does not finance these proceedings and there is no obligation to build the necessary technical infrastructure, as is the case in the event of a merger and division of a property. Problems with the implementation of merger and division procedures contained in the example analyzed in this article prompted the author to a deeper analysis of the regulations of article 98b of the Act on Real Estate Management, which revealed them to be insufficient. The legislature assumed that a property is created as a result of a merger, which will then be divided into plots of land. However, a merger implemented in such a way, at an intermediate stage, results in the emergence of a plot of land labeled as one record parcel, the individual parts of which belong to different entities and are disclosed in different land and mortgage registers. The plot is recorded both in the mortgage register and in the land registry. Based on the analysis of a specific case, practical problems were presented, regarding determining the content of the regulation and the decision issued during administrative proceedings, associated with the formulation of a notarial deed of the obligation to carry out the exchange procedure and the exchange itself as well as the disclosure of the merger and division in land and mortgage registers. Sources of the problems were identified and supplementation of insufficient legal regulations was proposed.
Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the Real Estate Market Using Geographic Information Systems
Authors: Cichociński Piotr , Dąbrowski Janusz 
Published: July 2013

Abstract
The paper proposes the use of geographic information system tools for the analysis of spatial and temporal aspects of the real estate market. In particular, it focuses on the graphical presentation of the spatial distribution of price and its variability over time. The possibility of presenting an image of the spatial distribution of prices in the form of a 3D model is studied. A topographic surface is proposed as an alternative to traditional methods of spatial interpolation. Visual verification and numerical comparison have shown its superiority over other previously used methods.
The best method of presenting four-dimensional data - the variation in time of the spatial distribution of house prices - was sought. The possibility of taking time into account as one of the attributes of the analyzed and presented objects, available in advanced GIS software, was used for this purpose. The undertaken activities were based on formal guidelines for the registration of time set out in the ISO 19100 series of standards dedicated to geographic information.
Potential sources of data for this kind of analysis were identified and their availability was examined. The paper also presents how to build a spatial database on the basis of the available information, which is a starting material for further analysis.
The carried out research demonstrated the benefits of the spatial approach to trends of changes in real estate prices, which can be used, among others, for mass appraisal.
Mobility and distribution of barium and strontium in profiles of podzolic soils
Authors: Jeske Agnieszka 
Published: July 2013

Abstract
The study was aimed at determining the content, distribution and mobility of barium and strontium in various forest podzol soils. Samples with a wide range of chemical and physical properties were collected from typical uncontaminated soils of south-western Poland. The total metal content in the analyzed soils was considered as the geochemical background thanks to the natural features of the study site. Sequential chemical extraction procedure were used to provide information on the mobility and bioavailability of the studied metals in the soil. Fractions of Ba and Sr were determined using the five-step procedure of Tessier et al. (1979). The results show that heavy metals were generally represented by the exchangeable fraction (F1 . barium) and the residual fraction (F5 . strontium) with the average values at 53 and 69%, respectively. The mobility of barium in all soil profiles was very high, ranging within 52.54% and indicating a generally high availability and mobility. Relatively very low levels of the trace elements were found in the fraction bound to organic matter (F4: 3.8%). Very low levels of strontium were found also in the fraction bound to carbonates (F2: 2.3%). Humic-eluvial, illuvial and sideric horizons were enriched in the fractions of barium and strontium bound to iron and manganese oxides (F3).
The influence of anthropogenically increased pH on the content and the mobility of nickel in arable soils in the surroundings of “Małogoszcz” cement plant
Authors: Jaworska Hanna , Bartkowiak Agata , Różański Szymon 
Published: July 2013

Abstract
The aim of the conducted research was the evaluation of the influence of increased pH on the content and mobility of nickel in arable soils in the surroundings of Małogoszcz Cement Plant. The physico-chemical properties of the investigated soils were determined by the methods commonly used in soil laboratories. The total content of Ni was determined after mineralization in the mixture of HF and HClO4 acids, and the content of forms available for plants, after the extraction with DTPA solution, using ASA method. The investigated soils are characterized as loamy sands or sands (PTG 2008). These soils have the content of C-organic in the range of 10.3.24.2 g·kg-1 in the surface horizons and 8.3.20.3 g·kg-1 in the subsurface horizons. The pH values allow to classify these soils as alkaline. In all of the investigated soils calcium carbonate occurs. The values of total content of nickel were in the range of 1.47.2.82 mg·kg-1 in surface horizons and 1.80.2.45 mg·kg-1 in subsurface horizons, which allows to classify these soils as soil with natural nickel content. The content of Ni-DTPA were in the range of 0.06.0.26 mg·kg.1. The sequential analysis of the obtained results indicates on significant statistically positive correlation between the total content of Ni and C-organic, which has the value of 0.648143 and between the content of Ni-DTPA and the content of fraction with Ø<0.002 mm, with the value of 0.581113 on p=0.05.
Uptake of heavy metals by darnel multifloral (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) at diverse soil reaction and organic matter content
Authors: Kwiatkowska-Malina Jolanta , Maciejewska Alina 
Published: July 2013

Abstract
Organic matter takes part in all soil processes and influences the physical, chemical and biological properties of soil. The paper presents the analysis of heavy metal contents (Zn, Pb, Cd) in soil and biomass of darnel multifloral (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) cultivated at diverse conditions of soil reaction and organic matter content. A brown coal preparation (Rekulter) was applied as the source of organic matter in autumn 1999 to the studied soil, which was contaminated with cadmium, lead and zinc. The limiting influence of Rekulter on the uptake of heavy metals by darnel multifloral (two cuts of the test plant) was the highest in the case when the largest dose was applied to soil with the highest pH (about 6.0). Bioaccumulation indexes (BI) for Cd, Pb, Zn indicate the mobility and bioavailability of Cd, Pb and Zn in soils. The BI for particular heavy metals were generally low, with the lowest in the case when the largest dose of Rekulter was applied to all cuts of the test plant
Norwidowska etyka twórcy i jej odbicie w dyskusji nad paradygmatem romantyzmu. Dwie interpretacje / Cyprian Kamil Norwid’s Idea of the Moral Character of the Artist and its Impact on Debates About the Romantic Paradigm: Two Interpretations
Authors: Stelmaszczyk Barbara 
Published: July 2013

Summary
This article joins the current debate about the challenges faced by contemporary literary theory by drawing attention to aporias that open up for historians of literature. A case in point is Cyprian Kamil Norwid’s idea of the role of the artist and the function of art and the misrepresented, distorted account of his views that dominate the history of the reception of his work. The article distinguishes two interpretations of the Romantic tradition which coincide with two phases in the reception of Romanticism. The first of them was given shape by the Young Poland movement in the late 19th and early 20th century (most notably by Stanisław Brzozowski), while the other (represented by Agata Bielik-Robson) is a product of our own time, ie. the early 21st century. They are discussed in turn. A critical reappraisal of Young Poland’s understanding of Romanticism is complemented by an examination of Brzozowski’s approach, which is distinctly his own. A hundred years later, Brzozowski is given a key role in Agata Bielik-Robson’s review of the Polish Romantic tradition, and yet her take on it is markedly different from his.
Zygmunt Krasiński wobec sztuk pięknych / Zygmunt Krasiński and the Fine Arts
Authors: Płaszczewska Olga 
Published: July 2013

Summary
This is an attempt at examining Zygmunt Krasiński’s opinions and preferences with regard to the fine arts, a theme many critics believed to be missing from his writings. While putting things right, this article looks at the issues involved in his artistic choices, for example, what works or artists attracted his attention, in general, and to the point of him actually drawing on them in his own work or provoking him to some response (critical, approving, emotional, etc.). Furthermore, the article tries to explore the reasons and circumstances which may account for Krasiński’s interest in a given painting, print, or sculpture. It may have been the work’s theme as in the case of his ekphrasis of Ary Scheffer’s Dante and Virgil Encountering the Shades of Francesca and Paolo Di Rimini, where literary tradition provided the impulse, or the mode of its execution, or the personal ties with its author, or, finally, some other factors, like a current vogue or simply Krasiński’s individual sensitivity. The ultimate aim of all these inquiries is to outline Krasiński’s relationship with the arts (beaux arts) in the context of the aesthetic preferences of the epoch.
Change and Continuity
Authors: Sciabarra Chris Matthew 
Published: July 2013

Abstract
With this issue, The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies begins a collaboration with the Pennsylvania State University Press, which will manage all aspects of design, production, distribution, and subscription fulfillment. In embarking on this new arrangement, the journal unveils a new look, but retains its commitment to introducing new writers to the ever-expanding world of Rand studies.
Little Prime Movers
Authors: Stockton Will 
Published: July 2013

AbstractThis essay accounts for the adolescent popularity of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged by arguing that both novels indirectly appropriate the mid-twentieth-century figure of the rebel. By denying their “prime movers” much of a childhood, however, both novels heroize rebels who never suffer the dilemma that defines the adolescent according to Erik H. Erikson: the struggle between identity and role confusion. Following Erikson and Julia Kristeva, this essay reads Rand's prime movers as figures of a post-Oedipal fantasy of self-reconciliation and career-oriented drive—figures who invite their reader into the fantasy of a life lived without adolescence's defining identity crisis.
An End to Over and Against
Authors: Campbell Robert L. 
Published: July 2013

AbstractTwo complementary biographies of Ayn Rand were published in 2009: Goddess of the Market, by Jennifer Burns, and Ayn Rand and the World She Made, by Anne Heller. Burns focuses on Rand's influence on American political thought, while Heller's concern is Rand the screenwriter, novelist, and author of her personal mythos. Both books are meticulously researched and well written; neither author espouses Rand's philosophy or agrees with her politics. Such books establish that Rand's ideas have become part of American culture and are no longer set over and against it.
Copolymerization of Isoprene and Nonconjugated α,ω‐Dienes by Half‐Sandwich Scandium Catalysts with and without a Coordinative Side Arm
Authors: Guo Fang , Nishiura Masayoshi , Li Yang , Hou Zhaomin 
Published: July 2013

AbstractA series of half‐sandwich scandium–dialkyl complexes that bear various auxiliary ligands have been examined for the copolymerization of isoprene (IP) with nonconjugated α,ω‐dienes such as 1,5‐hexadiene (HD) and 1,6‐heptadiene (HPD). Significant ligand influence on the catalytic activity and selectivity has been observed. The thf‐coordinated complex [(C5Me4SiMe3)Sc(CH2SiMe3)2(thf)] (2) and the methoxy side arm containing the half‐sandwich complex [(C5Me4C6H4OMe‐o)Sc(CH2SiMe3)2] (3), in combination with an equivalent of [Ph3C][B(C6F5)4], can serve as excellent catalysts for the random cyclocopolymerizations of IP with HD and HPD. The resulting random HD–IP copolymers contain five‐membered‐ring methylene‐1,3‐cyclopentane (MCP), 3,4‐polyisoprene (3,4‐IP), and 1,4‐polyisoprene (1,4‐IP) units with controllable HD incorporation in a range of 17–82 mol %. The random HPD–IP copolymers possess six‐membered‐ring methylene‐1,3‐cyclohexane (MCH), 1,4‐IP, and 3,4‐IP units with HPD incorporation in a range of 11–55 mol %. By use of a catalyst that bears a phosphine oxide group [{C5Me4SiMe2CH2P(O)Ph2}Sc(CH2SiMe3)2] (5), the alternating copolymerizations of IP with HD and HPD have been achieved for the first time in which HD and HPD are completely cyclized to the MCP and MCH units, respectively. More remarkably, in the alternating copolymerization of HPD and IP by 5, the regio‐ and stereospecific cis‐MCH selectivity reached as high as 99 %. The microstructures and compositions of these copolymers showed significant influences on their mechanical properties.