HRABIA MAURYCY AUGUST BENIOWSKI (1746–1786) – POLAK, WĘGIER, SŁOWAK CZY KOSMOPOLITA?

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Early repolarisation syndrome (ERS) appears in 2–7% of general population, mainly seen in young men, athletes and blacks. Recent publications change the benign character of ERS. It was suggested that ERS can be associated with sudden cardiac death, idiopathic ventricular fibrillation. This article described history and evolution of ERS.

Polish: Prosodic Aspects of "Czy" Questions

The paper addresses the problem of the intonation of interrogative sentences with the "yes-no"question word “czy..”. The final aim of the analysis is to modify a diphone synthesis program for man-machine dialogue in Polish, which is to be applied in vocal servers. Thus the task requires determining all of the prosodic cues accompanying this kind of sentences and selecting those which allow such...

[Maurycy Urstein: forgotten Polish contributor to German psychiatry].

Polish psychiatrist Maurycy Urstein (1872-1940) is nowadays almost forgotten. He is not mentioned in the history of Polish psychiatry which only partially may be explained by the fact that his most essential works were published in German language. His scientific oeuvre contains dozens of publications, including four monographs on catatonia. Urstein was an ardent advocate of the autointoxicatio...

and Ben Polak Introduction to judgment aggregation

This introduces the symposium on judgment aggregation. The theory of judgment aggregation asks how several individuals’judgments on some logically connected propositions can be aggregated into consistent collective judgments. The aim of this introduction is to show how ideas from the familiar theory of preference aggregation can be extended to this more general case. We …rst translate a proof o...

14th Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference; November 7–8, 2013