Contextualizing capitalism in academia: How capitalist and feudalist organizing principles reinforce each other at Polish universities

The reciprocal link between multiculturalism and perspective-taking: How ideological and self-regulatory approaches to managing diversity reinforce each other☆

'Academic Capitalism': Universities' Consultancy Agendas

Recent debate in Higher Education (HE) has attempted to identify the legitimate components at the core of academic scholarship. Teaching and research, are recognized activities of modern academia; although their nexus is at times questioned. This paper seeks to understand the role of a rising academic activity, academic consultancy, and to portray its impact onto HE. A two-stage research design...

QCD : how we can help each other

A brief summary is given of the outstanding issues in experimental work on the strong interaction at collider experiments. I focus particularly on those areas where more than one collider can address the same issue. (Some figures in this article are in colour only in the electronic version; see www.iop.org)

Deploying University Study-oriented System at Polish Universities

University Study-Oriented System (USOS) is an integrated student management information system for academic structures and student affairs at Polish universities. The system has been produced in-house at the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Mechanics of Warsaw University for 17 Polish universities — participants of the New Educational Tools Tempus JEP project. The results of the pro...

Constipation and LUTS - how do they affect each other?

CONTEXT Urinary bladder and rectum share a common embryological origin. Their autonomic and somatic innervations have close similarities. Moreover, the close proximity of these two organ systems could suggest that dysfunction in one may influence, also mechanically, the function of the other. Therefore, it is not surprising that defecation problems and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) occur ...