cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Καπνιστικές συνήθειες και εξάρτηση από την νικοτίνη ψυχιατρικών ασθενών: το παράδειγμα του ψυχιατρικού τμήματος του Γενικού Νοσοκομείου Αργολίδας.
Creators: name: Πλιάκα, Θεοδώρα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Εξάρτηση (Ψυχολογία)
subject: Κάπνισμα
subject: Ψυχικά ασθενείς -- Ελλάδα -- Περιπτωσιολογικές μελέτες
subject: Ψυχολογία, Παθολογική -- Ελλάδα -- Περιπτωσιολογικές μελέτες
subject: Κάπνισμα
subject: Ψυχική ασθένεια
subject: Εξάρτηση από τη νικοτίνη
subject: Διακοπή
subject: Smoking
subject: Mental illness
subject: Nicotine addiction
subject: Smoking cessation

description: Αριθμός Εισαγωγής: 013309 cd
description: Εισαγωγή: Οι ψυχικές διαταραχές αποτελούν ζήτημα βαρύνουσας σημασίας για την δημόσια υγεία. Ο επιπολασμός του καπνίσματος στους ψυχικά ασθενείς είναι μεγαλύτερος από τα αντίστοιχα επίπεδα του γενικού πληθυσμού ενώ το κάπνισμα θεωρείται παράγοντας κινδύνου για τις περισσότερες ψυχικές διαταραχές. Σκοπός: Κύριος σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας είναι η διερεύνηση των καπνιστικών συνηθειών ασθενών που νοσηλεύονται ή επισκέπτονται το ψυχιατρικό τμήμα του Γενικού Νοσοκομείου Αργολίδας. Υλικό και μέθοδος: Έγινε χρήση ερωτηματολογίου όπου καταγράφηκαν οι στάσεις, οι απόψεις και οι αντιλήψεις που σχετίζονται με το κάπνισμα και μετρήθηκε η εξάρτηση από την νικοτίνη ενώ ταυτόχρονα καταγράφηκαν δημογραφικά και κλινικά χαρακτηριστικά των ασθενών. Τα δεδομένα που συλλέχθηκαν αναλύθηκαν με την χρήση του στατιστικού πακέτου SPSS 25. Αποτελέσματα: Η έρευνα κατέγραψε ποσοστό καπνιστών 98,3% ανάμεσα στους ψυχικά ασθενείς που συμμετείχαν, με το 87,9% αυτών να είναι πολύ ή μέτρια εξαρτημένο από την νικοτίνη. Το 44,7% των ασθενών δήλωσε την πρόθεση του να διακόψει το κάπνισμα ενώ το 73,7% ανέφερε ότι έχει προσπαθήσει στο παρελθόν να διακόψει. Εντυπωσιακό εύρημα αποτελεί ωστόσο η αντίληψη του 48,7% των ψυχικά ασθενών ότι το κάπνισμα δεν είναι πολύ επικίνδυνο για την υγεία τους. Το 53,7% των ασθενών θεωρεί ότι θα χρειαζόταν βοήθεια για την διακοπή του καπνίσματος με την συμβουλευτική (38,7%) και τα υποκατάστατα καπνίσματος (35,5%) να αποτελούν τα πιθανότερα βοηθήματα ενώ θεωρούν ένα περιβάλλον με καπνό και άλλα άτομα που καπνίζουν ως εμπόδιο στην προσπάθεια διακοπής του καπνίσματος. Συμπεράσματα: Η έρευνα επιβεβαιώνει τον υψηλό επιπολασμό του καπνίσματος στους ψυχικά ασθενείς. Το φύλο καθορίζει μια σειρά στάσεων, απόψεων και αντιλήψεων σχετικά με το κάπνισμα. Τέλος η εξάρτηση από την νικοτίνη μπορεί να προβλεφθεί ικανοποιητικά από παράγοντες όπως η φαρμακευτική αγωγή, η αντίληψη για την επικινδυνότητα του τσιγάρου και η κατανάλωση καφέ.
Impact of ε-martensite on the fracture resistance of high-Mn steels1
Creators: name: Lai, Qingquan
name: Chang, Shuai
name: Wei, Yuntao
name: Wu, Shangshu
name: Jacques, Pascal
name: Pardoen, Thomas
name: Fan, Guohua
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: The formation of ε-martensite is generally considered as detrimental to cracking resistance. The essential work of fracture (EWF) of high-Mn steels with ε-martensite has been determined in the near plane-stress regime. The analysis of the thickness dependence of EWF shows that an alloy with more ε-martensite involves a higher work of material separation and a lower contribution from crack-tip necking. Therefore, the presence of ε-martensite leads to a lower cracking resistance at large thickness, but to an enhanced fracture toughness at small thickness. The beneficial effect of ε-martensite to the work of fracture is explained by an increased strength without any reduction of void spacing, and related to the ε-martensite/austenite plastic co-deformation and to microcrack blunting and crack branching. The key finding of the study is thus that the best compromise depends on the structural application which imposes the strength and stiffness requirements, hence the thickness.
Number of days with thunderstorm in the area of Bydgoszcz in the years 1971-2010 using the example of the Bydgoszcz-Airport weather station
Creators: name: Łaszyca, Edward Zbigniew
Publisher: name: Geography and Tourism
Year: 2021

description: The paper analyses the occurrence of thunderstorms in Bydgoszcz in the multi-annual period 1971–2010 based on data from the Bydgoszcz-Airport weather station – ref. EPBY according to ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization). The article examines variations in monthly, seasonal and annual mean values of weather elements. The calculation pertaining to selected elements of descriptive statistics involved regression analysis. Based on the linear function the author determines the direction and trends of changes of the analysed elements in time. Analysis of this data leads to the conclusion that the number of thunderstorms in the examined forty-year period declined, but also a decrease in the frequency of this phenomenon was observed in Bydgoszcz. The highest number of storms in the examined multi-year period in the whole year (29) and in the warm half-year (28) was recorded in 1973 and in 1997, and the lowest in 2003 (only 6). The studies indicate a significant downward trend in the number of storms occurring in the multi-annual period 1971-2010.
description: Geography and Tourism, Tom 2 Nr 9 (2021): Geography and Tourism
Supplementary Figures 1-5, Table S1 from Reversible bacteriophage resistance by shedding the bacterial cell wall
Creators: name: Ongenae, Veronique
name: Mabrouk, Adam Sidi
name: Crooijmans, Marjolein
name: Rozen, Daniel
name: Briegel, Ariane
name: Claessen, Dennis
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Phages are highly abundant in the environment and pose a major threat for bacteria. Therefore, bacteria have evolved sophisticated defense systems to withstand phage attacks. Here, we describe a previously unknown mechanism by which mono- and diderm bacteria survive infection with diverse lytic phages. Phage exposure leads to a rapid and near-complete conversion of walled cells to a cell wall-deficient state, which remains viable in osmoprotective conditions and can revert to the walled state. While shedding the cell wall dramatically reduces the number of progeny phages produced by the host, it does not always preclude phage infection. Altogether, these results show that the formation of cell wall-deficient cells prevents complete eradication of the bacterial population and suggest that cell wall deficiency may potentially limit the efficacy of phage therapy, especially in highly osmotic environments or when used together with antibiotics that target the cell wall.
Is there an effect of dynamic strain aging on dislocation evolution?
Creators: name: Shang, Xuekun
name: Peng, Xiuxing
name: Liang, Zhiyuan
name: He, Binbin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Herein, we explore the effect of dynamic strain aging (DSA) on dislocation evolution using nanoindentation and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). DSA is primarily manifested as serrations on the load-displacement curves at lower strain rates (10−2 and 10−3 s−1), whereas these serrations are substantially less at higher strain rate (10−1 and 100 s−1). Interestingly, despite variations in strain rates and DSA occurrence, detailed TEM observations beneath the indentations reveal no discernible differences in dislocation density and substructure. The present study indicates that although DSA can increase the gliding resistance of dislocations, it does not affect the evolution of dislocation.
Low-alloy content Ti-Mo-based alloys with large superelasticity and narrow stress hysteresis for potential biomedical applications
Creators: name: Li, Shuanglei
name: Wang, Xu
name: Nam, Tae-Hyun
name: Yang, Junha
name: Yeom, Jong-Taek
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: In most Ni-free Ti-Nb- and Ti-Zr-based superelastic alloys, large amounts of high-cost and rare elements such as Nb, Ta, Hf and/or Zr are contained, increasing the cost and fabrication difficulty of the alloy. Here, new low-alloy content Ti-Mo-Zr-Sn-Al alloys are developed with large room temperature superelasticity and narrow stress hysteresis for potential biomedical applications. A good combined performance of yield stress (477 MPa) and small stress hysteresis (117 MPa) is achieved at room temperature in Ti-8Mo-6Zr-6Sn-5Al (wt%) alloy showing a recovery strain of 4.4%, which has not been obtained in previously reported Ni-free Ti-Nb, Ti-Zr and Ti-Mo-based superelastic alloy.
Fostering Collaborative and Integrated Enterprise Architecture Modelling
Creators: name: Matthes, Florian
name: Neubert, Christian
name: Schneider, Alexander W.
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) is a challenging task in modern enterprises. Tools supporting EA management activities are based on extensive models either created by enterprise architects or built-in. However, these models cannot be adapted according to specific data acquisition needs by persons having the architectural knowledge on the instance level. In this article, we describe how Hybrid Wikis empower these information carriers and enterprise architects to collaboratively and incrementally develop and manage a model in a bottom-up fashion by using wiki pages enriched with types and attributes. We visualise these emergent models by using UML-like class diagrams. Our approach is evaluated in a case study in a global operating bank participating in our Wiki4EAM community, a community of German enterprise architects applying Hybrid Wikis in different EA management contexts.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 8, No 1 (2013)
Goal Driven Architecture Development using LEAP
Creators: name: Clark, Tony
name: Barn, Balbir
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: Methods for goal driven system engineering exist and propose a number of categories of goals including behavioural, formal, informal and non-functional. This article goes further than existing goal driven approaches by linking goals directly to the semantics of an architectural modelling language called LEAP with an operational semantics. The behavioural goals are expressed using a Linear Temporal Logic and the non-functional goals are expressed as functions over meta-properties of the model. The meta-properties are supported using an encoding represented using Java reflection. The article describes the LEAP approach using a simple case study written in the LEAP language supported by the LEAP toolset.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 8, No 1 (2013)
Rapid Prototyping for Domain-specific Languages - From Stakeholder Analyses to Modelling Tools
Creators: name: Kurhmann, Marco
name: Kalus, Georg
name: Knapp, Alexander
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: Today, modelling is a widely acisecepted technique in Software Engineering (SE). Many problems can be expressed using general-purpose modelling languages such as the UML. For more specific problems, the definition of a specialised domain-specific language (DSL) may be required. The definition of a domainspecific language is a time-consuming task that requires knowledge in (modelling) language design, deep understanding of the domain and, to be useful and usable, user assistance and tool support. In this paper, we present an approach to derive a domain-specific language from the description of instances of the domain under consideration: Stakeholders describe model instances from which the metamodel (the DSL) and a suitable modelling tool are derived automatically. We describe a tool that we used to experiment with this approach, its current state and the future work.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 8, No 1 (2013)
IRRIGATOR-MELIORATOR KADRLAR TAYYORLASHDA RIVOJLANGAN MAMLAKATLAR TAJRIBASI ASOSIDA YANGI YOʻNALISHLARNI JORIY ETILISHI
Creators: name: Maxmudova, Zulfiya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada irrigator-meliorator kadrlar tayyorlash tizimini takomillashtirishda rivojlangan mamlakatlar tajribasini joriy etish masalalari koʻrib chiqiladi. Sugʻorish tizimlarini tashkil etish, suv resurslaridan oqilona foydalanish, amaliy laboratoriyalar bazasini kuchaytirish, masofaviy ta’limni rivojlantirish hamda xalqaro ilmiy hamkorlikni mustahkamlash orqali yuqori malakali kadrlar tayyorlash mexanizmlari ochib beriladi. Shuningdek, mahalliy sharoitdan kelib chiqib yangi yoʻnalishlarni tatbiq etish imkoniyatlari, muammolari va ularni hal etish choralari tahlil qilinadi.
Public-private partnerships : analysis of government implementation units
Creators: name: Abdel Aziz, Ahmed M.
name: Elmahdy, Amr
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: In the international Public-private partnerships (PPP) market, there is a common use of PPP units for the initiation and management of PPPs. The common examples include Partnerships BC, Partnerships UK, and Partnerships Victoria. A PPP unit could be a policy unit, implementation unit, or both. In the United States PPPs have been implemented through the same offices that manage the conventional design-bid-build projects. Content analysis and a case study approach have been used in this research to examine the use of PPP units in the United States. The analysis shows that PPP transportation projects are delivered in the PPP-enabled states through the internal resources of the departments of transportation without centralized government office. Around fourteen states have internal PPP offices that provide partial/full policy formulation/guidance, coordination, and promotion. Only five states have expanded the functions to the real PPP procurement management work, and that those states are also the leading states in PPP implementation. Having a unit that carries only policy guidance might not be as effective as a unit that does both PPP policy and procurement management. Without centralized units, the implementation of PPP would not be effectively streamlined and implemented in government. The analysis also shows that Florida and Texas are expanding their PPP toward more public facilities and infrastructure; this signifies that the more a state became familiar with PPP, the more it used it for the delivery of projects. The research provides insights to public agencies on the use of PPP units.
Insights into hydrodynamics of spinning fluids reactor
Creators: name: Dargacz, Adam
name: Aranowski, Robert
Publisher: name: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2017
Subjects: hydrodynamics
spinning fluids reactor
pressure field distribution
separation
flotation

description: Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing; ISSN 2084-4735
Thermal conditions of freeze-thaw processes on the cliff face in winter 2019-2020 on the Jeziorsko Reservoir, central Poland
Creators: name: Kaczmarek, Halina
Publisher: name: Geography and Tourism
Year: 2021

description: The thermal conditions of freeze-thaw processes acting on the active cliff face of the Jeziorsko Reservoir were recognised based on temperatures of surface sediments measured directly on the monitored cliff face and data from the Kalisz weather station forming part of the network of the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management –National Research Institute (IMWM-NRI) in Warsaw, Poland. In the period from 15.01 to 04.05.2020, directly on the cliff face, 77 freeze-thaw cycles were recorded over 41 freeze-thaw days (FTD), which, on average, corresponds to two cycles per day. Concurrently, in the same period only 33 FTD were recorded in the instrument shelter, which is 20% less. In addition, the outcomes corroborate the view reported in literature; namely, that on the northern hemisphere vertical cliff faces exhibiting western exposure are advantaged in terms of the development of freeze-thaw processes.
description: Geography and Tourism, Tom 2 Nr 9 (2021): Geography and Tourism
Photon attenuation properties of concretes containing magnetite and limonite ores
Creators: name: Gur, Aycan
name: Artig, Birol
name: Cakir, Tahir
Publisher: name: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2017
Subjects: magnetite
limonite
cement
radiation shielding
WinXCom

description: Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing; ISSN 2084-4735
Tea tourism - preliminary study on familiarity with and interest in tea tourism
Creators: name: Topczyńska, Aleksandra
name: Gonia, Alicja
Publisher: name: Geography and Tourism
Year: 2021

description: The paper tackles the idea of tea tourism which is motivated by an interest of tourists in the history, traditions and consumption of tea. This paper aims to determine the level of familiarity with and interest in tea tourism among respondents. The field in question is considered a niche form of culinary tourism, and thus, this work constitutes a pilot study. The research accounts for 215 correctly completed survey forms conducted among the customers of one of tea houses in Toruń, as well as members of a Facebook community who consider themselves gourmets and enthusiasts of drinking and celebrating tea. The study material was collected using a diagnostic survey method via the internet. The results of the surveys showed the respondents were interested in the idea of tea tourism. Respondents have never been offered tea tourism on the Polish market; however, they are willing to take part in a tea tourism event. They know many varieties of tea, have heard about ritual tea brewing, but they are not familiar with many attractions related to tea tourism. The obtained results, although preliminary in nature, may imply the plausibility of introducing and disseminating the idea of tea tourism among tea enthusiasts, and indicate a need for further research in this field.
description: Geography and Tourism, Tom 2 Nr 9 (2021): Geography and Tourism
Attractiveness of peripheral areas’ geographical environment for tourism and recreation vs the issue of holistic phenomenon measurement. Krajna case study (Poland)
Creators: name: Kozłowska-Adamczak, Monika
Publisher: name: Geography and Tourism
Year: 2021

description: Owing to the location of Krajna in the north-western part of the country, in the historical border area of northern Wielkopolska and Pomorze (and especially its being far away from large cities), it is considered a peripheral region as per Christaller’s theory. By virtue of such circumstances, Krajna exhibits rich and almost pristine environmental potential, together with well-preserved cultural capacity. The study aims to draw attention to the fact that nowadays the objective aspect of indexation should not be the only factor taken into consideration when assessing the usefulness of assets (tourism resources) for the development of tourism in a given area. Thus, the author performs calculations and data analysis using a two-stage research approach, which involves: 1) qualitative analysis of the results of a survey pertaining to the most prominent environment elements of the geographical region as indicated by tourists and local authorities, and 2) comparison and assessment (by means of a simple bonitation method) of tourists’ subjective opinions regarding top-graded elements of the geographic environment that are deemed to affect tourist attractiveness of the region. The analysis shows that the qualitative aspect of assessment in particular plays a major role in the analyses of region’s tourist attractiveness (especially in the case of peripheral regions). Although a given region may objectively demonstrate a higher degree of peripherality, this does not necessarily cause a decrease in perceived tourist attractiveness of environmental assets displayed by a geographic region as such but may in fact enhance those qualities from the subjective standpoint of tourists and local authorities. Said aspect is related to the determination of social perception on geographical environment elements. As such, it should be examined from both the perspective of “guests” (i.e. visitors) and “hosts”, here the local government representatives of the research area. The results of conducted studies have a viable impact on the shaping and development of the region’s tourist area. This, in turn, leads to a full (synthetic) measurement and assessment in terms of the attractiveness of the area’s geographical environment for the development of tourism and recreation.
description: Geography and Tourism, Tom 2 Nr 9 (2021): Geography and Tourism
A simulation framework for ex-ante analysis of safety and productivity in construction projects
Creators: name: Baniassadi, Farshid
name: Alvanchi, Amin
name: Mostafavi, Ali
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Safety hazards are one of the major challenges facing construction industry across the globe. Despite a growing literature on assessment of construction safety, the majority of the existing studies are descriptive in nature, do not capture the specific conditions of construction operations and provide one-size-fits-all strategies for enhancing the safety of construction projects. On the other hand, productivity improvement is also a main concern in construction projects. However, the research effort addressing both safety and productivity improvement concerns is still missed in the construction industry. Among different tools used for construction project planning and productivity improvement, discrete event simulation is a well-known tool which has been widely used for analyzing and improving complex construction operations. In this research, for the first time, we are proposing a simulation based framework which concurrently follows safety and productivity improvement in construction projects.
Tourist routes as a tourism product stimulating the development of tourism in Poland
Creators: name: Glapa, Zuzanna
name: Jezierska-Thöle, Aleksandra
name: Goraj, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Geography and Tourism
Year: 2021

description: Tourist routes combine cultural and natural heritage and are an inseparable element of tourism space and cultural landscape. In Poland the significance of tourist trails as a tourism product contributing to the development of the tourism economy has increased. The primary aim of this paper was to design a tourist trail combining natural and anthropogenic values. The research was conducted in the commune of Kcynia located in Kuyavian-Pomeranian voivodeship and consists of a town and 54 villages. The work makes use of the valorisation method, Wejchert’s impression curve. The results show that the Kcynia commune has sufficient natural and cultural values for developing tourism, but its tourism potential is not fully utilised in comparison with that of other communes. First of all, it lacks a well-developed tourism infrastructure. The proposed tourist routes would – in a relatively inexpensive and non-invasive way – enhance the potential and interest of the commune and improve the income of its inhabitants. In addition, it would raise interest in tourism and leisure tourism.
description: Geography and Tourism, Tom 2 Nr 9 (2021): Geography and Tourism
Tourism, leisure and zoos - an outline of the problem on the example of Poland
Creators: name: Kapera, Izabela
name: Kapera, Artur
Publisher: name: Geography and Tourism
Year: 2021

description: Despite often polarized opinions, zoological gardens are among the most frequently visited tourist attractions in the world and there is no indication that they will cease to exist in the coming years. This article presents the zoological gardens from the point of view of tourismand leisure in the light of opinions expressed by visitors in Poland. The aim of this study is to examine what role zoological gardens play in tourism and how they are perceived by visitors to these places in Poland. There are 25 zoological gardens in the country, and they are visited by a total of around 4 million people every year. Attendance in the largest of them reaches over 1.6 million visitors. In the research proceedingsthe opinionsof visitors to Polish zooswere analysed. For that purpose data from the online services Tripadvisor and Google Maps have been gathered. The results show that visitors generally judge the visited places well, and in their opinions they refer mainly to organizational issues, prices and service, rarely paying attention to animal welfare and only occasionally to issues concerning the realization of the educational or conservation function.
description: Geography and Tourism, Tom 2 Nr 9 (2021): Geography and Tourism
Esports as a new trend in the tourism industry
Creators: name: Masłowski, Patryk
name: Karasiewicz, Tomasz
Publisher: name: Geography and Tourism
Year: 2021

description: Tourists participating in the so-called sports tourism mostly benefit from general tourist infrastructure – accommodation, food services, transport, tourist information, sports and leisure facilities available to all tourists – regardless of the motivation underlying their stay. Thanks to global sports events a new form of sports-related tourism has been established, which has its maximum representation in major events such as the Olympic Games and the World or European Championships. Esports is undoubtedly one of the most rapidly developing industries in today’s world, both in terms of business and as sports. This article sets out to present forms and current trends in sports tourism. Subsequently, it focuses on esports and provides basic information about this form of leisure, indicates similarities between cybersport and traditional sport, and offers examples of electronic sports events, including the top event in the city of Katowice, which appears to be the Polish capital of esports. In addition, the article offers an insight into how the cybersports industry reacted to SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic. Furthermore, the authors analyse legal aspects of electronic sports in Poland and other countries and, finally, present and discuss the results of survey research pertaining to the impact of esports on tourism.
description: Geography and Tourism, Tom 1 Nr 9 (2021): Geography and Tourism
Occupancy of tourist accommodation establishments in Poland – comparison of 2019, the period of COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent months of 2020
Creators: name: Nocoń, Marek
name: Sondel, Krzysztof
name: Mróz, Bartłomiej
name: Jurzak, Lucyna
Publisher: name: Geography and Tourism
Year: 2021

description: The paper aims to present changes in terms of the use of tourist accommodation establishments in Poland in 2020 as compared to the year preceding the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. The authors focus primarily on the desk research method, analysing in detail the news releases presented by Statistics Poland (Central Statistical Office) in relation to the subject of the article. The authors obtained answers to the posed research questions. The main conclusion of the article is that the use of tourist accommodation facilities in Poland decreased drastically after the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, which was most noticeable in voivodeships featuring high density of accommodation facilities.
description: Geography and Tourism, Tom 1 Nr 9 (2021): Geography and Tourism
Workshop on Security in Business Processes - A workshop report
Creators: name: Accorsi, Rafael
name: Matulevičius, Raimundas
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: The Workshop on Security in Business Processes (SBP’12) was organised in conjunction with the 10th international conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2012). Over 25 attended the workshop to present and discuss 11 papers, the insights they offered and the issues they raised. During one-day workshop, a number of important and emerging issues towards the security in business processes. These were the perspectives of secure business processes, security and compliance, security and Internet services, and engineering secure business processes.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 8, No 1 (2013)
Foehn wind as a factor affecting the air quality in the town of Zakopane
Creators: name: Druet, Paweł
name: Wiśniewski, Paweł
Publisher: name: Geography and Tourism
Year: 2021

description: Zakopane, the largest town in the Tatra County, located at the foot of the northern slope of the Tatra Mountains, i.e. the highest mountains in Poland, is characterised by the frequent occurrence of high atmospheric air pollutant concentrations, and the resulting poor aerosanitary conditions, particularly in winter months. The aim of this study is to demonstrate the relationship between the occurrence of a foehn-type wind, which is called halny in the area of the Tatra Mountains and the Podhale region, and changes in concentrations of pollutants found in the atmospheric air in Zakopane, based on the example of PM2.5 and PM10 particulate matter. The concentrations of the analysed substances in the town of Zakopane were compared on the days when foehn wind occurred on the Kasprowy Wierch peak and on the days when the foehn wind did not occur on the above-mentioned peak. The study initially showed the existence of a relationship between halny velocity on the Kasprowy Wierch peak (1987 m a.s.l) and its effects on the air quality in the town of Zakopane. Decreases in concentrations of PM2.5 and PM10 particulate matter were noted on the days when foehn wind velocity on the Kasprowy Wierch peak was equal to or exceeded 20 m·s−1.
description: Geography and Tourism, Tom 1 Nr 9 (2021): Geography and Tourism
Recreational use of an artificial water reservoir in case of the Piechcin Diving Base
Creators: name: Cichowska, Jolanta Barbara
name: Mreła, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: Geography and Tourism
Year: 2021

description: The paper aims to present divers’ opinions about the recreational use of the water reservoir in Piechcin with regards to four complex research areas. The study was conducted at the Diving Base in Piechcin located in the Żnin district, the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. The statistical data (divers’ opinions) were obtained employing a direct interview method via a questionnaire. The data were analysed with statistical methods, and the results were verified by applying fuzzy logic relations. The research shows that the owner has adapted and developed a post-mining excavation for divers, allowing for the safe practicing of qualified tourism. The technical and organizational conditions were assessed in two groups of respondents, namely those who expect some changes at the Base, and those who believe that further improvements are unnecessary.
description: Geography and Tourism, Tom 1 Nr 9 (2021): Geography and Tourism
A Maturity Model for Enterprise Data Quality Management
Creators: name: Ofner, Martin
name: Otto, Boris
name: Österle, Hubert
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: Enterprises need high-quality data in order to meet a number of strategic business requirements. Permanent maintenance and sustainable improvement of data quality can be achieved by an enterprise-wide approach only. The paper presents a Maturity Model for Enterprise Data Quality Management (Enterprise DQM), which aims at supporting enterprises in their effort to deliberately design and establish organisation-wide data quality management. The model design process, which covered a period of five years, included several iterations of multiple design and evaluation cycles and intensive collaboration with practitioners. The Maturity Model is a hierarchical model comprising, on its most detailed level, 30 practices and 56 measures that can be used as concrete assessment elements during an appraisal. Besides being used for determining the level of maturity of Enterprise DQM in organisations, the results of the paper contribute to the ongoing discussion in the information systems (IS) community about maturity model design in general.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 8, No 2 (2013)
Development of a cost normalization procedure for National Health Care Facility Benchmarking
Creators: name: Sharma, Vivek
name: Yun, Sungmin
name: Oliveira, Daniel P.
name: Mulva, Stephen P.
name: Caldas, Carlos H.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This paper presents a cost normalization framework for the National Health Care Facilities Benchmarking program developed by Construction Industry Institute (CII). Since 2009, The CII has been engaged in developing this benchmarking program with government and industry participants. In the effort, the methodology and process were developed to measure health care capital project performance in terms of cost, schedule, change, space, and best practice. Hospitals are complex building systems that are becoming more challenging with ever changing codes and regulations. Reliable comparison of hospitals built in different regions requires unique normalization approach tailored specifically for health care facilities. A single cost index had not achieved the desired results; therefore a combination of indices was employed to normalize various factors for proper benchmarking. In addition to location, time and currency, space was included for proper benchmarking and performance assessment. This paper covers the issues and challenges of normalizing the costs and spaces associated with health care capital projects, and present a practical example on how cost normalization is applied to a health care capital project. Challenges and considerations which are associated with cost indices applicable to cost normalization are also discussed. This study contributes to a better understanding of cost normalization amongst health care capital projects.
Illegal wildlife products as tourist souvenirs – an outline of the problem from the perspective of Poland
Creators: name: Kapera, Izabela
name: Kapera, Artur
Publisher: name: Geography and Tourism
Year: 2021

description: The article aims to outline the problem of transporting illegal plant and animal souvenirs by tourists and to analyse the issue from the perspective of Poland. Tourists’ interest in buying wildlife souvenirs is varied, ranging from live animals and plants to food products, leather and wooden goods, and medicines. Travellers buying illegal souvenirs of plant and animal origin often unwittingly contribute to the extinction of the most endangered plant and animal species. The number of CITES specimens seized in Poland annually is approximately 134 between 2009 and 2018 on average. In 2018 alone, nearly 14 thousand specimens were confiscated. These confiscations were largely directed towards Ukraine. However, despite the fact that the problem is acknowledged in the country, and legal regulations have been introduced to counteract it, the tourism sector seems to be oblivious to the problem, and the subject does not appear in the scope of activities pursued by organizations related to the development and promotion of tourism. So far it has rarely been mentioned in the scientific literature, including the field of tourism. The authors hope that the presented analyses will draw attention to the problem and lead to the implementation of more sustainable practices In Polish tourism.
description: Geography and Tourism, Tom 1 Nr 9 (2021): Geography and Tourism
Bridging the Gap from a Multi-View Modelling Method to the Design of a Multi-View Modelling Tool
Creators: name: Bork, Domenik
name: Sinz, Elmar J.
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: Effectiveness of comprehensive modelling methods considerably benefits by the availability of appropriate tool support. However, there is a significant semantic gap between a multi-view modelling method and the design of a corresponding modelling tool. The paper at hand contributes to bridge that gap by means of explicitly focusing the early steps in the design process of a modelling tool. The approach presented here comprises three steps: Starting with (1) a modelling scenario, which centres the human modeller, (2) a multi-view modelling principle and use cases of the tool are derived and (3) the conceptual design of a multi-view modelling tool is specified. The approach is introduced in an abstract manner before it is applied to a concrete scenario. This scenario is outlined for the Semantic Object Model (SOM) business process modelling method, depicting a straight way to the design of an appropriate multi-view modelling tool.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 8, No 2 (2013)
Developing Graphical Model Editors for Meta-Modelling Tools - Requirements, Conceptualisation, and Implementation
Creators: name: Dietrich, Hanns-Alexander
name: Breuker, Dominic
name: Steinhorst, Matthias
name: Delfmann, Patrick
name: Becker, Jörg
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: Meta-modelling tools have been proposed to facilitate the development and adoption of domain-specific modelling languages (DSMLs). These languages specify a set of domain-specific concepts and assign diagrammatic representations to them. A considerable amount of work has been done to develop metamodelling tools ensuring syntactical correctness of models created with DSMLs. However, little has been published about the challenges of developing a graphical model editor for meta-modelling tools. Specifying how conceptual elements of a DSML are to be represented graphically is often cumbersome. Moreover, tools are sometimes too inflexible to handle advanced features beyond displaying static icons. Furthermore, graphical representations must be kept consistent in case of reuse in multiple, potentially integrated DSMLs. This paper’s aim is to carve out a set of requirements for graphical model editors as used in meta-modelling tools. We present a conceptual model considering these requirements. Furthermore, we discuss an exemplary software implementation of a model editor.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 8, No 2 (2013)
Weight of diagnostic characteristics in the assess ment of tourism potential of rural areas according to Siedlce inhabitants
Creators: name: Godlewska, Agnieszka
name: Ciepiela, Grażyna Anna
name: Soroka, Andrzej
Publisher: name: Geography and Tourism
Year: 2021

description: The presented work is an attempt to determine the importance of individual diagnostic characteristics conditioning rural tourism development by calculating their weights. The research was conducted in 2020 and involved the inhabitants of the city of Siedlce. The research method comprised a diagnostic survey. The authors’ research tool of choice was a questionnaire. The research pertained to an assessment of characteristics reflecting the tourism potential of rural areas in Poland. Evaluation of attitudes was based on a 10-grade Likert scale. The resulting point scores were used to calculate weights of characteristics affecting tourism development in rural areas. The characteristics representing structural resources which had the greatest impact on rural tourism development included: presence of natural water bodies in the commune, number of historic sites,number of food and beverage serving establishments, convenient road access to the commune’s administrative centre, and distance between the locality and the nearest town whose population exceeds 20 thousand inhabitants. Considering functional resources, indicators which may enhance an area’s attractiveness to tourists include commune’s ability to obtain EU funds and their expenses on tourism and entrepreneurship.
description: Geography and Tourism, Tom 1 Nr 9 (2021): Geography and Tourism
Management of the National Parks in the context of cooperation with the local stakeholders
Creators: name: Walas, Bartłomiej
name: Łabaj, Marek
name: Mróz, Bartłomiej
name: Košek, Magdalena
Publisher: name: Geography and Tourism
Year: 2021

description: When searching for an optimal model for managing National Parks in Poland, especially in view of the planned modification of the law, it is necessary to assess attitudes and expectations between local stakeholder groups. Surveys conducted in 2020 made it possible to collect the opinions of representatives of the parks’ surroundings and their employees on the subject of relations between parks and the socio-economic environment. The obtained results positively verified the hypothesis that nature protection policy requires changes to the management of the National Parks through effective legal and financial instruments, including those generating consensus of benefits for the local economy and stakeholders, while maintaining the objectives of environmental protection.
description: Geography and Tourism, Tom 1 Nr 9 (2021): Geography and Tourism
Integrating IT Portfolio Management with Enterprise Architecture Management
Creators: name: Simon, Daniel
name: Fischbach, Kai
name: Schoder, Detlef
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: The management of information technology (IT) as a business has become a crucial factor in today’s complex and dynamic environments. Many firms thus have implemented IT portfolio and enterprise architecture (EA) management practices, and academic research has paid increasing attention to these concepts. However, their integration seems poorly substantiated; this article therefore seeks to answer two main questions: (1) What are differences and common characteristics of IT portfolio and EA management, and in what way can they be integrated? and (2) what factors and types might describe an integrated process design of EA management and project portfolio management in particular? To answer these questions, this study synthesises previous research and surveys EA practitioners to propose an EA management process map, as well as three descriptive factors and four clusters, which provide an integrated process design with project portfolio management. The interrelations with organisational aspects and software tool support are also explored. This article thereby clarifies and systematises the subject area while also offering advice for researchers and practitioners.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 8, No 2 (2013)
Energy loss modeling of water main breaks : a hybrid system dynamics-agent based modeling approach
Creators: name: Zamenian, Hamed
name: Abraham, Dulcy M.
name: Faust, Kasey
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: According to the United States Government Accountability Office Energy-Water Nexus Report, the water pipeline infrastructure system is nearing the end of its service life. Up to 50 percent of water is lost, as evidenced by the 240,000 water main breaks that occur each year, estimated by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Water loss in the distribution system leads to additional expenditures for extracting water from natural resources, treatment, pumping, and transporting water into the distribution pipeline network system. Minimizing water losses has the potential to curb the increase in operating costs throughout the distribution system. This paper describes a conceptual System of Systems (SoS) framework for estimating the energy footprint resulting from water main breaks that considers the full cycle of providing drinking water to customers. The paper focuses on the interactions between the water loss in the distribution system and the energy-intensive operational components of the water infrastructure. This paper contributes to the body of knowledge and practice by developing a methodology to quantify the impact of water main breaks on energy consumption and by creating a tool that assists the water utilities as decision-makers in their assessment of the effects of water main breaks on the satisfaction of customers and the revenue loss of water utilities.
Second Workshop on Security in Business Processes - A workshop report
Creators: name: Accorcsi, Rafael
name: Matulevičius, Raimundas
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: The second workshop on Security in Business Processes (SBP’13) was organised in conjunction with the 11th international conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2013). Over 20 participants attended the workshop to present and discuss 6 papers, the insights they offered and the issues they raised. During the half-day workshop, a number of important and emerging issues in this area were discussed from the perspectives of formal methods and security modelling and importance of security properties and requirements in the business processes.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 8, No 2 (2013)
Individual natural environment features and landscape and tourist values of the Cephalantero rubrae-Fagetum habitat on Wolin Island
Creators: name: Czyryca, Paweł
name: Tylkowski, Jacek
name: Winowski, Marcin
name: Hojan, Marcin
Publisher: name: Geography and Tourism
Year: 2021

description: The cliffed coast in Wolin National Park is especially valued in terms of biogeography. The coastal area is highly valuable not only in view of the abiotic advantages offered by the natural environment but also due to the presence of valuable plant associations. A coastal orchid beech forest – the Cephalanthero rubrae-Fagetum habitat – is a site that is unique in Poland, in Europe and in the whole world. This plant association is found only on the cliffed coast of Wolin Island in Poland in specific hydrometeorological, morphodynamic and soil conditions. The main aim of this study was a qualitative and quantitative description of the Cephalanthero rubra-Fagetum site, including determining its present range and species composition. In addition, the studied cliffed coast area was evaluated in terms of its visual attractiveness based on the aspects of geodiversity and biodiversity of landscape. Field studies corroborated the outstanding landscape values determining the attractiveness of the study area to tourists. The cliffed coast section, Grodno-Biała Góra, features unique environmental characteristics that are absent from the remaining part of the coastal area of the Baltic. A peculiar characteristic of geodiversity in that zone is the presence of the highest seashore in Poland where natural hydrodynamic and geomorphological processes occur free of human interference. This is the only part of the seashore featuring a unique soil, the so-called cliff naspa, on which orchid birch forests grow. This biodiverse plant community comprised 113 species of vascular plants among which 7 species of Orchidaceae were identified. The landscape values of the studied area of the Wolin National Park are further enhanced by two attractive tourist hiking trails and a vantage point on top of Gosań hill.
description: Geography and Tourism, Tom 1 Nr 9 (2021): Geography and Tourism