Along with the development of medicine, increasingly significant role has been played by the laboratory diagnostics. For over ten years the profession of the medical laboratory specialist has been regarded in Poland as the autonomous medical profession and has enjoyed a status of one of public trust. The process of education of medical laboratory specialists consists of a five-year degree in la...

The Byzantine Empire has existed longer than all the empires that were on Earth — more 1000 years. She created «Byzantine Commonwealth» of countries (D. D. Obolensky’s term), stretching from South Baltic to Mediterranean and Adriatic Sea Caucasus Mountains. Commonwealth had religious cultural unity, a close political culture similar tragic fate. All them fell victim foreign conquest, Mongols Ot...

In the institutionalized life course transition from work to retirement is that culturally defines beginning of later life. However, there no universal way experiencing or understanding retirees’ social roles. Especially in context post-communist, liquid modern reality Poland. The role retiree, defined as a set rules and expectations generated for individuals occupying particular positions stru...

Broadly speaking, the lack of a framework for organizing, preserving, and making research data available for the long term has resulted in valuable datasets becoming lost or discarded. The approach of the Distributed Data Curation Center of the Purdue University Libraries has been to integrate librarians and the principles of library and archival sciences with domain sciences, computer and info...

I love going to graduation ceremonies and am always quick to volunteer when the university needs faculty representatives to fill one role or another. I love the energy of the graduates and their families celebrating these successful educational efforts. I also like meeting a random cross-section of the faculty from all over campus while we wait in the back room, eat snacks, and get dressed in o...

The subject of the article is artistic embodiment postmodern principles constellation (Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno) and nonselection (Douwe Fokkema) in works prose by Slavic writers. novels Croatian, Polish, Ukrainian authors — Dubravka Ugrešić’s “Museum Unconditional Surrender”, Olga Tokarchuk’s “Flights”, Oksana Zabuzhko’s Abandoned Secrets” are analyzed within comparative approach. novel...

Abstract Time and being can be seen as a space. A modern-day diary is way of exploring that space or state being. Outlining shaping it requires word, image imagination. The question framed cultural-philosophically, the mode writing poetic essayism. Otherwise, creative untangling differentiation poetics lived not possible. After all, goal to combine science art weave them into same reflective fa...

In the pre-modern world, people mostly lived in small communities, and work was accomplished individually or by a small group of people. There were few occasions that called for coordinated effort by a sizeable group. In such instances, the coordination was secured by generating a rhythm. Peasants pulling a heavy load, seamen unfurling sails and soldiers marching into battle coordinated their a...

With respect to biology, the histories of philosophy, religion, and science in essence have been the histories of mankind’s attempts to understand why organic systems work as well as they do. Paradoxically, such understanding might seem at face value to have spiraled downward ever since Darwin and Mendel in the sense that we have many more unanswered questions today than we did in bygone times ...

This article attempts to verify some aspects of the research hypothesis which implies that normative orientations Byzanine orthodox theological thought (in ideologies, mentalities, discourses) contained traditions and constructions were in odds with tendency see communities ethnic type people whom we used qualify as Russians Ruthenians. In East European Orthodox medieval Christian identity grou...