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ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Description

The „Academia” magazine was founded on the initiative of Professor Andrzej B. Legocki, a President of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2003 – 2006. In the beginning it was published only in English as a reply to the growing demand for a current information on the Polish Academy of Sciences` activities, expressed by foreign scientists and Poles living abroad and interested in Polish science.

Since 2005 the magazine is published both in Polish and English.

The „Academia” is an exceptional - on the Polish market - scientific magazine for the general public, propagating achievements of Polish scientists here and abroad. Authors of articles in „Academia” explain their subject in a way that is accessible not only for all sorts of academics but also for students, pupils and all other readers interested in scientific topics for the general public.

ISSN
1731-7401
Publishers
Polish Academy of Sciences

Editorial Staff

Jolanta Iwańczuk (Editor-in-Chief, Earth Sciences)

Daniel Sax (Editor, English-Language Version)

Marcin Pietras (Biological & Agricultural Sciences)

Justyna Orłowska (Journalist)

Andrzej Figatowski (Graphic Designer)

Anna Bielec (Project Coordinator)


Scientific Council

Marek Konarzewski, President of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Chairman)

Dariusz Jemielniak (Deputy Chairman)

Andrzej Buko

Katarzyna Czarnecka

Patrycja Dołowy

Paweł Golik

Janusz Jurczak

Tomasz Kapitaniak

Marek Krawczyk

Krzysztof Nowak

Anna Zawadzka

Publisher:


Polish Academy of Sciences

Communication and Science Information Department

Defilad sq. 1,

00-901 Warsaw, Poland

e-mail: academia@pan.pl



The journal content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)
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ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2004 | Nr 4 (4) 2004 Cityscape

1 Contents
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2004 | Nr 4 (4) 2004 Cityscape
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2 Editorial
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2004 | Nr 4 (4) 2004 Cityscape | 3
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3 Actors on the Urban Stage
Marek S. Szczepański
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2004 | Nr 4 (4) 2004 Cityscape | 4-7
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Abstract

The shape of the city and its spatial arrangement depend upon the key actors on the urban stage. In the pre-1989 era this meant the Communist party and the professional groups that were encompassed in the institutions of real socialism. In today's Poland the party has been replaced by the market.
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Marek S. Szczepański
4 The Urban Moths
Grażyna Winiarska
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2004 | Nr 4 (4) 2004 Cityscape | 8-11
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Abstract

Cities offer animals new sources of food, new habitats (sometimes completely different form their natural ones) and niches that can be settled in without facing competition or a large number of predators.
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Grażyna Winiarska
5 CITizens and Countrysiders
Alicja Szklarska , Halina Kołodziej , Sławomir Kozieł
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2004 | Nr 4 (4) 2004 Cityscape | 12-15
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Abstract

Biological parameters of the human body can tell the story of an individual's level of education and place of residence.
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Alicja Szklarska
Halina Kołodziej
Sławomir Kozieł
6 Civilized Slavs
Henryk Samsonowicz
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2004 | Nr 4 (4) 2004 Cityscape | 16-20
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Abstract

In the 9th-11th centuries, Poland was characterized by a process whereby Slavic society was adapted into a civilization founded on Mediterranean culture, resulting in the emergence of a new, open society. Two kinds of social bonds came to coexist: on the one hand there were tribal community bonds founded mainly on territorial and family unity, while on the other there were new bonds based upon the institutions of the state.
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Henryk Samsonowicz
7 That Heavy Metal
Robert Bachliński
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2004 | Nr 4 (4) 2004 Cityscape | 21-23
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Abstract

The urban environment is strongly exposed to pollution, mainly from industry and road traffic. Good pollution control can only be guaranteed when the exact sources and concentrations of toxic substances are known. When there are many polluters in a relatively small area, isotopes may help to "fingerprint" them.
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Robert Bachliński
8 Bank for Plants
Jerzy T. Puchalski
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2004 | Nr 4 (4) 2004 Cityscape
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Prior to the mid-1980's, the term "bank" referred almost exclusively to financial institutions. The advent of the "biodiversity" concept, however, has led to the appearance of so-called "gene banks".
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Jerzy T. Puchalski
9 The Year of Gombrowicz
Jerzy Jarzębski
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2004 | Nr 4 (4) 2004 Cityscape | 26-27
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Abstract

The year 2004 has been named the "Year of Gombrowicz" in commemoration of the author's 100th birthday. Scholars both in Poland and abroad are taking a new look at his output and originality (or "authenticity," as the author himself might have preferred).
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Jerzy Jarzębski
10 Chemically-Generated Letters
Andrzej L. Kawczyński
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2004 | Nr 4 (4) 2004 Cityscape | 28-29
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Abstract

One of the most fascinating problems in contemporary science is the generation of shapes and patterns in biological systems.
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Andrzej L. Kawczyński
11 The Woman in the City Space
Marta Leśniakowska
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2004 | Nr 4 (4) 2004 Cityscape | 30-31
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Abstract

Modernism in pre-WWII architecture ossified rather than abolished the division of the city space into a public area, as the domain of men, and a private area assigned to women. Even female architects' involvement in designing new modernistic housing estates did not change this situation, as the example of Polish design demonstrates.
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Marta Leśniakowska
12 Drunk as a Rat
Wojciech Kostowski
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2004 | Nr 4 (4) 2004 Cityscape | 32-33
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Abstract

Laboratory animals selectively bred for their preference to alcohol can make a substantial contribution to our understanding of human alcoholism.
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Wojciech Kostowski
13 Seeing Mathematical Formulas
Włodzimierz Wysocki
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2004 | Nr 4 (4) 2004 Cityscape | 34-35
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Abstract

New software makes it possible for the blind to access scientific information written in mathematical notation.
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Włodzimierz Wysocki
14 Guide to a Lost City
Barbara Engelking-Boni , Jacek Leociak
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2004 | Nr 4 (4) 2004 Cityscape | 36-37
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Abstract

Part of the center of contemporary Warsaw was at one time the Warsaw Ghetto, a closed district where Polish Jews were forced by the Nazis to live from October 1940 to May 1943. This part of the city no longer exists in its prewar form.
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Barbara Engelking-Boni
Jacek Leociak
15 Alternative States of Protein Matter
Wojciech Dzwolak
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2004 | Nr 4 (4) 2004 Cityscape | 38-39
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Abstract

High-pressure physics in quest of the mechanisms of protein non-native self-assembly: from hardboiled eggs to prions.
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Wojciech Dzwolak
16 Metropolis Warsaw
Bogdan Jałowiecki
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2004 | Nr 4 (4) 2004 Cityscape | 40-41
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Abstract

Since 1989, some of Poland's cities have experienced an investment boom. Taking Warsaw as an example, we can observe what impact direct foreign investments have had on the social space of the city and on processes of metropolization.
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Bogdan Jałowiecki
17 Taking Responsibility
Jadwiga Staniszkis
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2004 | Nr 4 (4) 2004 Cityscape | 42-44
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Jadwiga Staniszkis
18 Continuing Hirszfeld's Legacy
Michał Zimecki
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2004 | Nr 4 (4) 2004 Cityscape | 46-47
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Abstract

In recognition of the quality of research the European Commission awarded our Institute the status of a Center of Excellence.
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Michał Zimecki
19 Basic Science of Physics
Hanna Przybylińska
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2004 | Nr 4 (4) 2004 Cityscape | 48-49
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Abstract

For more than 50 years, the staff at the Institute of Physics have been researching matter and radiation, seeking new phenomena, materials, and applications.
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Hanna Przybylińska
20 Can Ethics be a Science?
Jacek Hołówka
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2004 | Nr 4 (4) 2004 Cityscape | 50
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Jacek Hołówka

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