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A unified approach to the mass and charge transport modeling based on the Nernst-Planck flux formula - application to lithium-ion battery charging and to corrosion of reinforced concrete processes
(Data obrony: 2020-10-02) Demelash, Feleke
Wydział Inżynierii Materiałowej i Ceramiki
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Apartment Rental Market in Border Cities of Poland and Ukraine
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2024) Hełdak, Maria; Kucher, Lesia
This article is a contribution to the research that addresses the levels of apartment rental costs in Poland and Ukraine. The city of Rzeszów in Poland and Lviv in Ukraine – voivodeship capital cities that are located about 100 km from the Polish-Ukrainian border – were selected for the analysis. The purpose of the research is to compare the rental costs of apartments and to determine the correlation between the average rental rate and location of an apartment in the city as well as its floor, area, and residential standard. The experimental part of the article presents research results based on analyzing more than 300 apartment rental offers in the Rzeszów and Lviv housing market at the turn of 2022–2023. The possibility of renting an apartment results from the financial capacity of potential tenants, which is unavailable to people with low incomes, hence, the study also analyzed market rental rates in the context of the minimum wage in Poland and Ukraine in 2022.
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Benefit tourism - a new concept of the phenomenon an terminology issues
(2012) Różycki, Paweł; Kąkol, Katarzyna
Benefit tourism is a disputable term. This follows from the fact that the definition of tourism even by UNWTO somehow excludes activities whose aim is to gain financial profit from tourist activities. In the fast changing world we are forced to pose a question whether tourism should still be considered as a relatively narrow concept. While leaving their country for work people also get to know the culture of a visited place since they go sightseeing and, most importantly, they mingle with the natives, and through this they get to know the visited country better. Traditional tourism, especially for those unprepared, does not give a chance to experience the real aspects of the visited country. In commercialized tourism a tourist often gets a distorted picture of the region he/she is visiting. Therefore, a proper preparation (education) together with a right attitude of a person leaving his/her country for work, may be a chance to get to know a different culture, gain a new experience and make a network of contacts. Despite numerous dysfunctions resulting from e.g. separation from a family, the phenomenon has also positive aspects because except from getting to know different regions of the world an economical aim is also accomplished and owing to it, people interested in tourism may either in the future or during weekends pursue their tourist hobbies.
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Consumer tricks and strategies among Polish migrants in Belfast, Northern Ireland
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2020) Kempny, Marta
This paper examines practices and strategies of consumption among Polish migrants in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Bridging theoretical perspectives on postmodernism, transnationalism and consumer society, the author discusses extent to which consumerism among Polish migrants can be seen as their way of integration with the local community in Northern Ireland. Focusing on conspicuous and inconspicuous consumption, this article explores the reasons why migrants take on the local consumption practices. Furthermore it examines migrants' attempts to increase their social status, and display wealth through their engagement in consumer culture. Next, differences in Polish and local consumption patterns are teased out. Following this, the author links consumerism among Polish migrants to their embeddedness in local, transnational and global spheres. This research adopts 30 in-depth interviews.
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Deformation bands – migration pathways or barriers for hydrocarbons in sedimentary rocks – mini review
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2023) Solecki, Marek
A mini review of the topic of deformation bands is presented in the paper. The concept of deformation bands is defined and their impact on the flow of fluids in porous sedimentary rocks is determined. Deformation bands are mm-thick low-displacement deformation zones which have intensified cohesion and lower permeability compared with ordinary fractures. This term was introduced in 1968 in material science, ten years later it appeared in the geological context. This microstructures can occur as barriers or migration pathways for hydrocarbons. Their role depends mainly on microstructural features, and they are also considered in reservoir modeling. The occurrence of deformation bands in Poland is also outlined and discussed - they have been described in Western Outer Carpathians (Magura and Silesia nappes).
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Emancypacja religijna a percepcja roli kobiety w sytacji migracyjnej na przykładzie polskich migrantek w Islandii
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2016) Koralewska, Inga
According to my research, not only migrants’ understanding of religiosity changes in migratory situation, but also the understanding of their agency in this process. Migrants position themselves as active agents and individually define their religiosity anew. As was stated, their new religiosity is individual and not institutional. There are certain grounds for supposing, that migratory experience plays a vital role in the process of religious emancipation. Goal of the paper is to answer the question whether migratory situation, apart from being a source of religiosity change, contributes also to change in attitudes towards gender roles in society. The answer is based on qualitative research conducted in years 2012–2015 in Iceland.
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Geospatial analysis of the impact of flood and drought hazards on crop land and its relationship with human migration at the district level in Uttar Pradesh, India
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2021) Islam, Zubairul; Singh, Sudhir Kumar
The main objective was to explore the connection between flood and drought hazards and their impact on crop land and human migration. The Flood and Drought effect on Cropland Index (FDCI), hot spot analysis and the Global Regression Analysis method was applied for the identification of the relationship between human migration and flood and drought hazards. The spatial pattern and hot and cold spots of FDCI, spatial autocorrelation and Getis-OrdGi* statistic techniques were used respectively. The FDCI was taken as an explanatory variable and human migration was taken as a dependent variable in the environment of the geographically weighted regression (GWR) model which was applied to measure the impact of flood and drought hazards on human migration. FDCI suggests a z-score of 4.9, which shows that the impact of flood and drought frequency on crop land is highly clustered. In the case of the hot spots analysis, out of seventy districts in Uttar Pradesh twenty-one were classified as hot spot and eight were classified as cold spots with a confidence level of 90 to 99%. Hot spot indicate maximum and cold spots show minimum impact of flood and drought hazards on crop land. The impact of flood and drought hazards on human migration show that there are fourteen districts where migration out is far more than predicted while there are ten districts where migration out is far lower.
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Metody podnoszenia rozdzielczości zapisu sejsmicznego
(Data obrony: 2017-04-04) Kochan, Maciej
Wydział Geologii, Geofizyki i Ochrony Środowiska
Celem pracy jest przedstawienie, porównanie, oraz ocena efektywności różnych metod podnoszenia rozdzielczości pionowej i poziomej zapisu sejsmicznego. W pracy przedstawione zostaną kolejne etapy przetwarzania wykonane w systemie SeisSpace, na danych ze zdjęcia sejsmicznego ZIELIN3D, w tym różne typy dekonwolucji i migracji.
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Ocena parametrów migracji związków azotowych przez strefę aeracji na podstawie badań lizymetrycznych
(Data obrony: 2010-11-09) Drabik, Joanna
Wydział Geologii, Geofizyki i Ochrony Środowiska
This publication assesses basic informations about migration of nitrogen compounds in lysimeter. The initial results of water modeling and chemistry transformation during infiltration process in 4 lysimeters station are presented. The research station is localized in Krakow at AGH area. The lysimeters have been filled with the consolidated medium sands from Bukowno sand pit (A, I), Bolesław (II) and Cholerzyn (III). The results of basic hydrogeological parameters (the porosity coefficient - n, the storage coefficient - ?, the hydraulic conductivity - k, the Cation Echange Capacity - CEC) are presented. The vertical flow velocity in lysimeters - physical model of vadose zone - has been estimated by MODFLOW-SURFACT. The main transformations of the rain water chemistry during infiltration process have been illustrated and discussed.
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On the evolution of migrating population with two competing species
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2013) Magdoń-Maksymowicz, Maria; Maksymowicz, Andrzej
A computer experiment study of population evolution and its dynamics is presented for two competing species (A and B) which share two habitats (1 and 2) of a limited environmental capacity. The Penna model of biological aging, based on the concept of defective mutation accumulation, was adopted for migrating population. In this paper, we assume and concentrate on the case when only one species (A) is mobile. For isolated habitats and for any initial population, we get at equilibrium spatial population distribution (A, B) in which A occupies location »1« only, while B-species is the ultimate winner in »2«. This is achieved by suitable choice of model parameters so habitat »1« is more attractive for species »A« while location »2« is more advantageous to »B«. However, population distribution begins to differ when migration between habitats is allowed. Initially stable distribution (A, B), becomes (A, A&B) with a mixed stationary population in location »2«. For a higher migration rate, initial (A, B) distribution goes to (A, A) distribution, in which A species is dominant also in a less friendly habitat »2«. However, a further increase in migration rate brings sequence (A, B) $\to$ (B, B). In short, for sufficiently high mobility of A-species, they eliminate themselves. Other scenarios not discussed here were also studied. They offer a rich variety of different sequences of population distribution regarding their size as well as other characteristics.
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Polacy wśród śniegów Północy - zjawisko polskiej migracji do Nowegii na przestrzeni dwustu lat
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2011) Sokół-Rudowska, Monika
Migration of Polish citizens in recent times is a very current issue. In my article I want to explain this highly sophisticated phenomenon on the example of Polish migration to Norway. The scope of my research includes the last two hundred years, during which it has been possible to observe a few different, in the genesis, waves of migration – the nineteenth century (the Polish insurgents and the Polish Jews), WWII (soldiers and forced laborers), and both the political from 1980’s and the largest, economic migration after the Polish accession to the European Union in 2004. The main issue the article focuses on is the style and quality of life of the Poles, who voluntarily or forced by the circumstances, settled in Norway. The article also focuses on cultural confrontation, which automatically followed that migration, often accompanied by acculturation, contrculturation, transculturation or cultural integration. Among other subjects raised in the article there are also the reasons causing the present high migratory activity of the Poles, the largest group of foreigners living in Norway today.
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Significance of pressure solution structures analysis for fluid flow studies – examples from Struga-1 well (Zechstein Main Dolomite; W Poland): first results
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2015) Górka, Joanna; Świerczewska, Anna; Krzyżak, Artur Tadeusz
The internal structure and composition of pressure solution structures are factors that may influence petroleum generation and migration (Hofmann & Leythaeuser 1995).
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(Trans)national intergenerational care contract. Attitudes and practises of transnational families towards elderly care
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2014) Krzyżowski, Łukasz
In this article I am focused on the functioning of the transnational intergenerational care system. This is dynamic, as it is bound up with the life cycle of the transnational family, and on the one hand, denotes practices associated with any assistance parents provide to their migrant children and on the other - in the event of elderly people being faced with health and basic living problems - with the phenomenon of migrants caring for their parents in old age. The transnational system of care also incorporates the involvement (or lack of involvement, as far as this triggers consequences that are of relevance here) of relatively immobile people, for example the siblings of migrants who provide (or not, as the case may be) domestic support for their elderly parents. In this article I adopt the thesis that migrants who function in different care regimes change not only their own but also their parents' attitudes towards elderly care.
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Trans-locality among Kurds – the case of Turkey
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2020) Kaczorowski, Karol
The article aims at presenting trans-local aspects of Kurdish society and especially trans-local ties maintained by Kurds in Turkey, particularly in Istanbul. Inspired by transnational theories in migration and diaspora studies, the author proposes a categorization of Kurdish migration waves and waves of internal migration in Turkey. Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted with Kurds in Istanbul, the paper depicts ways of maintaining ties with the country’s Kurdish regions and types of social organizing around their culture and perceived needs. The paper also offers insights into contemporary Kurdish migration in Turkey, leading to the conclusion that although trans-locality has often been forced on Kurds, the socio-political situation in 2002–2015 led to the emergence of a new, trans-local, socially active Kurdish elite in Turkey.
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Transnarodowość w przestrzeni domowej polskich rodzin migracyjnych w Norwegii
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2017) Ślusarczyk, Magdalena; Pustułka, Paula
An already complex notion of home requires inclusion of a wide array of factors that determine what home is and is not. Understanding home necessitates crossing multiple nation-state borders and cultural boundaries, while also featuring negotiations within family traditions. In the article, we examine at which moment migrants create a home, and we outline determinants of geographic/material and emotional/spiritual facets of said home. We seek to show where home is equated more with house/building, locating it vis-à-vis an emotionally meaningful home as a safe haven and a place where migrants »feel at home«. We depict how various »homes« overlap in the sending and receiving countries. As such, home is understood here as a safe place, but also as a persistent symbol of ideas and values originating from the country of origin, as well as elements added, expanded and transformed through a migratory experience. By focusing on narratives pertaining to home in general, as well as specific practices linked to ways of celebrating and culinary practices that occur at home, we see home as a family identity project.
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Us among them - a study of the contemporary Polish emigration to Norway
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2013) Sokół-Rudowska, Monika
A significant increase in migration from Poland has been observed since Poland joined the European Union in 2004. It has mainly been labour migration to richer countries of Western Europe. The rate of migration has exceeded the expectations of both politicians and experts. Statistics now show that about 2 million citizens have left Poland since that moment (Główny Urząd Statystyczny 2011). One of the top countries which Poles choose as a target for migration is Norway. Not only do the majority of Polish immigrants lack basic skills in Norwegian, but they also lack basic skills in English. The communication problems with people who don't belong to us. those who use the same language, is one of the most important factors that contributes to the creation of closed Polish ethnic enclaves. These communities try to rebuild their own identity in new countries based on the traditions and cultural codes brought from Poland, and us-them as opposite values. In this case us designates those members of a Polish minority in Norway, who follow norms accepted by the group, while Norwegians here represent them. A confrontation with the antagonists certifies one's own ideas and values. It is worth noticing that not all Polish migrants live within their ethnic groups. Poland is a rather culturally homogeneous country. This is a factor which facilitates finding one's own ethnic group in a foreign land and thereafter establishing one's place in it. Living abroad, however, changes one's identity due to foreign influence. The identity of them changes similarly, depending on the situation. After a preliminary categorization of all the Poles as us, gradual divisions and categorizations take place within the Polish immigrant community. A significant number of Poles, usually less educated, often deliberately choose to isolate themselves from the culture of the host country. They use it as a method of retaining their own culture. Families and friends are brought from Poland in order to reproduce the lost local homeland.
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Wpływ melanży tektonicznych na migrację węglowodorów w południowo-zachodnim obrzeżeniu centralnej depresji karpackiej
(Data obrony: 2018-05-22) Sydorczak, Paweł
Wydział Geologii, Geofizyki i Ochrony Środowiska
Praca stanowi syntezę wiedzy na temat melanży tektonicznych występujących w części strefy przeddukielskiej (Karpaty zewnętrzne), petrografii skał z odsłonięć melanży oraz migrujących przez nie płynów. Opróbowane skały to głównie arenity o zmiennej zawartości kwarcu (65,5 - 95,6%) oraz litoklastów (1,96 - 18%). Ponadto występują w nich skalenie, glaukonit, miki i minerały izotropowe. Widoczny jest wpływ oddziaływania tektoniki na strukturę i teksturę skał. Próby charakteryzują się obecnością licznych szczelin wypełnionych materiałem żyłowym - głównie kalcytem, ale także kwarcem i materią organiczną. Charakterystyka materii organicznej wykazała występowanie w żyłach głównie pirobituminów, a obliczone średnie wartości refleksyjności wynoszą 0,73 - 1,39%. Połączenie badań laboratoryjnych i kartograficznych z badaniami geofizycznymi może doprowadzić do wydzielenia perspektywicznej strefy poszukiwawczej w rejonie badań lub w obszarach sąsiadujących.
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Zjawisko dyfuzji w gruntach spoistych - podstawy teoretyczne
(Data obrony: 2017-01-26) Potępa, Agnieszka
Wydział Geologii, Geofizyki i Ochrony Środowiska
Celem pracy jest przedstawienie zagadnień teoretycznych związanych z dyfuzją, między innymi prawa Ficka, bez przeprowadzania badań laboratoryjnych. Zostanie określona rola dyfuzji, a także dokonana charakteryzacja czynników, które decydują o prędkości jej zachodzenia. Zjawisko dyfuzji polega na przenikaniu cząsteczek jednej substancji do drugiej, w celu wyrównywania stężeń. W gruntach spoistych jest jednym z procesów, które odpowiadają za migrację roztworów zaraz obok filtracji. Nazywany jest transportem adwekcyjno-dyfuzyjnym. Migracja roztworów poprzez dyfuzję przeważa nad adwekcją w przypadku gruntów spoistych. Spowodowane jest to bardzo niską przepuszczalnością hydrauliczną gruntów spoistych np. iłów. Dyfuzja jest zatem ważnym procesem zachodzącym w gruntach spoistych. Odpowiednie poznanie przebiegu procesu wraz z parametrami, pozwala na oszacowanie prędkości z jaką będzie zachodzić, co jest między innymi korzystne dla celów ochrony środowiska.
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Znaczenie granic jako ograniczeń przestrzennych i wyznaczników tożsamości
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2012) Siwek, Ewelina
The study presents an historical outline of boundaries in views: not only as physical and political barriers, but principally social, economic and imaginative. It is an attempt to understand the role of borders for the migrants. The problem is described on the basis of literature: Key Island written by Margaret Szejnert and A short guide to the crossing of borders, written by Gazmed Kapllani. The first book shows true stories about migrants, who had arrived at Ellis Island and tried a chance at the seaside of United States of America. The second contains a real experience of author, who is a traveler, but first of all a refugee. Travelers and migrants are examples of groups, which are constantly overcoming boundaries - especially cultural barriers, which make it difficult to cohabitate with existing population. For this reason, the articles address a problem of migration in the context of border crossing.