ing away from differences in voicing and manner, Polish has the three sibilant series shown below. Note that we will use ‘postalveolar’ as a general term for alveolopalatals, retroflexes, and also palatoalveolars like [S]. (4) Polish sibilant contrasts Dental/Alveolar Alveolopalatal Retroflex s ̨ ß The Polish alveolopalatals arose historically from a palatalized dental series that once existed i...

I was born in the Polish city of Lwów on September 9, 1921. After high school, I enrolled in the School of Chemistry of Politechnica Lwowska (PL, or Lwów Polytechnic, or Lwów Institute of Technology) just before the WWII, but by the time my classes got underway, World War II has started and the Stalin’s Soviet Army did occupy Lwów. In 1939–1941, Stalin was the admirer and ally of Hitler. Togeth...

INTRODUCTION The Quality of Life Assessment of Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults (QoL-AGHDA) was developed simultaneously in five languages (English, Swedish, German, Italian and Spanish) to measure quality of life (QoL) in adult patients with Growth Hormone (GH) deficiency. The aim of the project was to produce a validated Polish version of the QoL-AGHDA that was conceptually equivalent to t...

The objective of the study was to estimate the heterozygosity and phylogenetic relationship between horse breeds in Poland, according to erythrocyte antigens and protein polymorphisms. The study included 15 434 horses: Polish Coldblood, Małopolski, Wielkopolski, Hucul, Polish Konik, Biłgorajski, Felin Pony, and ponies of Shetland origin. A total of 14 loci were studied: seven blood groups and s...

Tobacco smoking is a major avoidable single cause of premature mortality in Poland. Almost one in three Polish males do not live to 65 years of age, and almost half of this premature mortality can be traced back to the much higher smoking prevalence in Poland than in Western Europe--every third Polish male and every fourth Polish female smokes daily. However, the current health situation in Pol...

OBJECTIVES Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is a common complication of diabetes and not only an important factor of mortality among patients with diabetes but also decreases the quality of life. The short form of Diabetic Foot Ulcer Scale (DFS-SF) provides comprehensive measurement of the impact of diabetic foot ulcers on patients' health related quality of life (HRQoL). The purpose of this study was...

If G is a Polish group, then the category of Polish G-spaces and continuous G-mappings has a universal object. §0. Preface It is known from [2] that 0.1. Theorem (de Vries). Let G be a separable locally compact metric group. Then the category of continuous G-maps and separable complete metric G-spaces has a universal object. In other words, there is a separable complete metric space X on which ...

This paper presents the first step to project POS tags and dependencies from English and French to Polish in aligned corpora. Both the English and French parts of the corpus are analysed with a POS tagger and a robust parser. The English/Polish bi-text and the French/Polish bi-text are then aligned at the word level with the GIZA++ package. The intersection of IBM-4 Viterbi alignments for both ...

This paper presents the first step to project POS tags and dependencies from English and French to Polish in aligned corpora. Both the English and French parts of the corpus are analysed with a POS tagger and a robust parser. The English/Polish bi-text and the French/Polish bi-text are then aligned at the word level with the GIZA++ package. The intersection of IBM-4 Viterbi alignments for both ...

The aim of this study was the assessment of the genetic variance of Derzy's disease (GPV) strains isolated from cases occurring in Poland. The nucleotide and predicted aminoacid sequences of VP2 and VP3 surface proteins of the Polish GPV strains were compared with other strains previously isolated in Hungary, France, Germany, China and Taiwan. The observed genetic variance of the aminoacid sequ...