Department of Engineering Sciences, The Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, P.O. Box 534, SE-751 21 Uppsala, Sweden Gdansk University of Technology, WETiI, ul. G. Narutowicza 11/12, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128, U.S.A. Research Group of Laser Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, University of Szege...

Elsebeth Schröder, Roman Fasel, and Adam Kiejna Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University, SE-41296 Göteborg, Sweden Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA), nanotech@surfaces Laboratory, Feuerwerkerstrasse 39, CH-3602 Thun, Switzerland Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Wrocław, Plac M. Borna 9, PL-50-204...

Oxygen consumption, heart rate, and thermal tolerance were measured in week-old embryos of Heermann's gull ( h r u s heermanni). Heart rate and oxygen consumption are temperature independent between 30 and 40 C and average 120 beats/min and 1.87 cm3 Ot/(egg-h). Below 30 C, these rate processes become strongly temperature dependent, and the heart stops beating when cooled to 7-13 C. The beat rec...

The article investigates the role of bank capital in financing reproduction processes and increase of economic growth indicators, considers the essence of the concept of “bank capitalization”, determines the structure and main sources of bank capital increase. Taking into account the fact that Ukraine and Poland have similar vectors of economic development, the current practices of increasing t...

the aim of the current investigation was to evaluate the sedentary lifestyle of the polish population and its link with prolonged sitting in light of individual and environmental factors.the sample consisted of 1505 polish people between 18 and 64 years old. the computer-assisted telephone interview (cati) survey was conducted with the polish version of international physical activity questionn...

OBJECTIVES The goal of the article is to present the changes in morbidity and costs of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in Poland in the 2008-2012 period, depending on the province of residence of the patients based on data reported to the public payer - the National Health Fund. MATERIAL AND METHODS Based on the ICD-10 code and the patient's personal identity number, the number of patients...

BACKGROUND Comprehensive epidemiologic data for multiple sclerosis (MS) in Poland are limited. The aim of this cross-sectional population-based study was to determine the incidence and prevalence of MS in the Swietokrzyskie Region (central Poland). METHODS This study identified MS cases every year between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2014. The study area population on the prevalence day (De...

We study frequency-dependent seed predation (FDP) in a model of competing annual plant species in a variable environment. The combination of a variable environment and competition leads to the storage-effect coexistence mechanism (SE), which is a leading hypothesis for coexistence of desert annual plants. However, seed predation in such systems demands attention to coexistence mechanisms associ...