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  polish.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Polish immigrants and their descendants who have been in America for generations maintain their ethnic heritage by promoting and attending Polish parades, dancing the polka, eating ethnic foods, and actively maintaining the Polish language.
The Polish language was influenced by the countries surrounding Poland and by the Latin of eleventh and twelfth century kings.
Risk factors for newer Polish immigrants are connected with their employment in industries and the climate of Poland, which is similar to that of the northeastern region of the United States, with short summers and long harsh winters.
www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~efhayes/polish.htm   (10645 words)

  
 Norman Davies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From 1971, Davies taught Polish history at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) of the University of London, where he was professor from 1985 to 1996.
In 2000, Davies's Polish publishers Znak published a collection of his essays and articles under the title Smok wawelski nad Tamizą ("The Wawel Dragon on the Thames") which is not available in English.
Davies holds a number of honorary titles and memberships, including honorary doctorates from the universities of Lublin and Gdańsk, memberships in the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU) and the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europea [1], and fellowships of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society [2].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norman_Davies   (1034 words)

  
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Polish deputies in the diet strongly resisted the new legislation, but were outflanked by an official clampdown initiated in December 1821, which enforced pre-censorship and the confiscation of imported journals.
The Polish insurrectionaries abolished the Censorship Committee as contrary to the constitution in December 1830.
Subsequent Polish pressure on central government brought further concessions, specifically the raising of Polish to equality with German as a language of administration (1869), and the reinstatement of Polish as the principal language of instruction at the revitalized Jagiellonian University in Cracow (1870).
www.arts.gla.ac.uk /Slavonic/staff/Polcen19c.html   (3038 words)

  
 Poland - EDUCATION
The education of Polish society was a goal of rulers as early as the twelfth century, when monks were brought from France and Silesia to teach agricultural methods to Polish peasants.
Academies specialize in medicine, fine arts, economics, agriculture, sports, or theology; thirty-four academies were in operation in 1990.
Polish postgraduate studies programs, which culminate in doctoral degrees, suffer from lack of material support, low salaries, and low demand for individuals with advanced degrees in the job market.
countrystudies.us /poland/42.htm   (2365 words)

  
 Children With Learning Disabilities - AACAP Facts For Families # 16   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It is believed that learning disabilities are caused by a difficulty with the nervous system that affects receiving, processing, or communicating information.
Some children with learning disabilities are also hyperactive; unable to sit still, easily distracted, and have a short attention span.
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) represents over 7,000 child and adolescent psychiatrists who are physicians with at least five years of additional training beyond medical school in general (adult) and child and adolescent psychiatry.
www.aacap.org /publications/factsfam/ld.htm   (717 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Polish Literature
At this period, too, the Jesuit Skarga, the purest embodiment of Polish patriotism in literature, preached and wrote, calling upon all Poles to save their country, though that country was then so powerful that his cry of alarm was like the voice of a prophet.
His inspired utterances, the truth and wisdom of his judgments in matters of learning, proceeded from his love for God, for the Church, and -- though he well knew her faults and blamed them with much severity -- for his country too.
While Austria granted autonomy to her Polish subjects, Russia attempted by a long and ferocious persecution to stamp out every vestige of national life, and in Prussian Poland, under Bismarck's rule, even the Catechism was taught in German.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/12196a.htm   (5020 words)

  
 Learn Polish: The Cracovia Academy of Polish Language in Krakow (Cracow). Polish Language Courses in Poland. Polish ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Learn Polish: The Cracovia Academy of Polish Language in Krakow (Cracow).
Polish language courses at the Cracovia Academy of Polish Language and Culture.
Thus, programs of Polish language study from 2 to 18 weeks duration during the summer and from 2 to 10 weeks during winter are possible.
www.polishsummer.com /polish_language_programs.htm   (1074 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Norman Davies
Jagiellonian University (Polish: Uniwersytet Jagielloński) is a university in Krakow, Poland.
The Polish-Soviet War — in Polish, often called the Bolshevik War (Wojna bolszewicka) — was the war (February 1919 – March 1921) that determined the borders between the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic and the Second Polish Republic.
The British Academy is the United Kingdoms national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Norman-Davies   (2600 words)

  
 Learn How To Speak - Polish
Learning activities in most units are: cultural notes, dialogues, exercises and drills, additional vocabulary, and language notes.
Learning the local language can be the difference between frustration and relaxation on a vacation.
Polish is a member of the West Slavic group of languages, spoken by 40 million people, chiefly in Poland, and also in nearby parts of the republics of the former USSR.
www.learn-how-to-speak-polish.com   (898 words)

  
 Re-ordering Europe’s Eastern Frontier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1869, an Imperial decree established Polish as the language of the bureaucracy and of the courts within Galician provincial boundaries and, in 1870-1871, Polish was restored as the official language of instruction in the crownland’s two universities in Cracow and L'viv (Lwów).
Added to the former Polish Kingdom were the former Prussian provinces of Posen (Poznan) and parts of West Prussia; the city of Gdansk/Danzig was granted the status of an independent city-state, while plebiscites were scheduled for parts of East Prussia and Upper Silesia to determine the areas’ national status, German or Polish.
On the Polish side of the border, between October 1944 and September 1946, 497,680 Ukrainians registered for patriation, settling primarily in the Ternopil’, Ivano-Frankivsk and L'viv oblasts (Kordan 1997).
www.colorado.edu /IBS/PEC/johno/pub/galician.html   (8813 words)

  
 Polish Academy of Sciences
From the very beginning, [the Polish Academy of Sciences] has functioned as a learned society acting through an elected corporation of top scholars and research organizations, via its numerous scientific establishments.
Janiszewski had made the case for Polish mathematics concentrating on its areas of strength when he wrote his report at the end of World War I. In 1936 a committee was set up by the Polish Academy of Learning to look at the way forward for Polish science.
In 1972 the International Stefan Banach Centre was established as part of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Societies/Polish_Academy.html   (601 words)

  
 Polish Mathematical Society
The Polish Mathematical Society began its existence in Krakow as the Mathematical Society in 1917.
A mathematics committee was formed jointly with the Polish Mathematical Society, and Kuratowski became its secretary.
In the post war period Kuratowski took on the role of leader in rebuilding Polish mathematics and, through the Polish Mathematical Society, of which he was president for eight years immediately following the war, he set about arguing for the implementation of the recommendations of their 1937 report.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Societies/Polish.html   (852 words)

  
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When Kuratowski was nine years old the policy of Russian schooling was softened, but although Polish language schools were allowed, a student could not proceed from such a secondary school to university without taking the Russian examinations as an external candidate.
Kuratowski was appointed the Director of the Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1949.
The Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the Hungarian Academy, the Austrian Academy, the Academy of the German Democratic Republic, the Academy of Sciences of Argentina, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Academy of Arts and Letters of Palermo, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh all elected him to membership.
www.angelfire.com /scifi2/rsolecki/kazimierz_kuratowski.html   (1327 words)

  
 Distance Learning Course: Polish Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
My distance learning initiative focuses on the Polish language and attempts to teach individuals the basics and beyond of this language without the hassles of time constraints or expensive classes.
Elementary Polish: This course is a beginner's class designed to introduce the DL student to the basic concepts and structure of the Polish language.
Intermediate Polish I: This course, continuing on the previous one, will further development one's understanding of the structure of the Polish language by introducing the student to the various cases of the language, i.e.
www.american.edu /TED/etown/distance/learnpolish.htm   (1047 words)

  
 Academy email bulletin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In a ceremony on Thursday, 6 May the British Academy renewed its Agreement on academic cooperation with the Polish Academy of Sciences, during a visit by a delegation led by the President of the Polish Academy, Professor Andrzej Legocki.
The Polish Academy of Sciences is the premier research institution in Poland, with over 70 research institutes in all disciplines from the natural science to the humanities.
The British Academy, established by Royal Charter in 1902, is the national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.
www.britac.ac.uk /news/bulletin/bulletin-pas.html   (398 words)

  
 To Polish Academy of Sciences
In his Message to Archbishop Kowalczyk, apostolic Nuncio in Poland, the Holy Father warned against the risk of research that is based solely on economic interests to the detriment of the dignity of the human person.
I am pleased to learn that you will be present at the International Conference to be held at Warsaw on 5 - 6 April 2002 on the theme: “Conflict of Interest and its Significance in Science and Medicine”, and I ask you kindly to convey my heartfelt best wishes to the organizers and participants.
It is in virtue of this broad vision of commitment to the truth and the common good that medical research and learning have written pages of genuine advancement, deserving of humanity’s recognition and gratitude.
www.ewtn.com /library/PAPALDOC/JP2KOWLC.HTM   (1364 words)

  
 Kazimierz Kuratowski, Mathematician
One of the first moves after the Russian withdrawal was the re-founding of the University of Warsaw and it began operating as a Polish university in November 1915.
In 1936 a committee was set up by the Polish Academy of Learning to look at the ways to move forward Polish science.
Kuratowski was appointed the Director of the Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1949, a position he held for 19 years.
polishwashington.com /prominent-poles/Kazimierz.Kuratowski.htm   (1255 words)

  
 Carnegie Foundation - Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL)
A $5,000 grant from the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) was used to support the authors workshop held at Auburn University in April 2000.
The scholarship of teaching and learning in sociology took a great leap forward with an ASA conference on the topic last July and continuing through products during the course of this year and next.
Pat Hutchings is an invited representative of the Carnegie Teaching Academy at the convention, speaking at a pre-conference and serving as a discussant on several panels.
www.carnegiefoundation.org /CASTL/highered/reports.htm   (6121 words)

  
 Zwoje (The Scrolls) 3 (36), 2003
It is a pleasure now to have the Polish edition thanks to the initiative of Michael Heller and the publishing house, BIBLOS, who promoted it, and especially to Tadeusz Sierotowicz who translated it [1].
The Galileo Commission was constituted on behalf of John Paul II by a letter of the Cardinal Secretary of State of 3 July 1981 to the members of the Commission.
This Polish edition also incorporates Fantoli's additional research published in a French edition in 2001, but his treatment there of the Galileo Commission's conclusions is not complete.
www.zwoje-scrolls.com /zwoje36/text05p.htm   (1697 words)

  
 Warsaw Voice - Top Class
The School was established thanks to the efforts of the Atena Academic Association, which groups many professors from Warsaw University and the Polish Academy of Sciences.
The next year, the School had 6,000 students and over 1,100 academic lecturers, including 235 professors and assistant professors and a number of members of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) and the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU).
The WSH is an active member of the Conference of Polish University Rectors, the European University Association and the Compostela Group of Universities.
www.warsawvoice.pl /view/3489   (1111 words)

  
 Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington, D.C.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He was the author of basic reference works on the religious theatre of the Middle Ages, the theatre of the Renaissance and Baroque, the publisher of the 'Anthology of Old Polish Drama' and a researcher of Polish-Italian and Polish-French cultural ties.
In the documentary realm, one of Professor Lewański's main achievements was the inventory and microfilming of historic dramatic and theatrical manuscripts that had survived war-time destruction.
The project's emissaries have been Jolanta Buszko, a Polish actress residing in France, and Anna Lisiecka, a journalist associated with Polish Radio 1.
www.polandembassy.org /News/Biuletyny_culture/Culture2003/p2003-24-220.htm   (1028 words)

  
 Kuratowski   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
From the very first lecture I was enchanted by the clarity, logic, and polish of his exposition and the material he presented.
He was to spend the rest of his career at the University of Warsaw although he became involved in mathematical activities which saw him travelling world-wide.
He was still extremely active in research, however, and while spending a month at Princeton in 1936 he wrote a joint paper with von Neumann.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /%7Ehistory/Mathematicians/Kuratowski.html   (2155 words)

  
 Art For Autism Artwork & Bidding
Malczewski was hired in 1884-85 as a draftsman by Count Karol Lanckoronski to participate in the archaeological expedition to Asia Minor via Trieste, the Albanian coastline, and Athens.
At the beginning of his career, he painted realistic/naturalistic compositions in dark, almost monochromatic colors illustrating the plight of Polish deportees to Siberia after the 1863 uprising.
He participated in numerous exhibitions in Poland as well as abroad: the 1891 (gold medal) and 1896 exhibitions in Berlin, the 1897 and 1900 (silver medal) exhibitions at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in 1893 at the World’s Fair in Chicago, as well as in Rome, Venice, Vienna and numerous exhibitions in Munich.
www.artforautism.com /pages/lot14.htm   (354 words)

  
 Diaries and Shorthand Reports of Debates
From the 1880s onwards, the Old Polish diaries began to be printed, largely owing to the Polish Academy of Learning and the Warsaw Scientific Society.
In the Senate, the Minutes' Editorial Unit is part of the Senate Proceedings Office, and in the Sejm the Shorthand Report Department belongs to the Sejm Sittings Secretariat.
Senate proceedings are documented in three ways: they are written down in shorthand, recorded on tape, and filmed by Polish Television for their own uses.
www.senat.gov.pl /k4eng/historia/noty/nota18e.htm   (848 words)

  
 Six Sigma - Polish Six Sigma Academy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A Six Sigma organization is a "Learning Organization" That means an organization that is constantly gaining new information and insights from its customer, external environment, and processes, using that knowledge to respond with new ideas, products, services and improvements, and then measuring the results and learning still more.
Training we've delivered to Six Sigma "Black Belts" for example, has included a wide array of topics ranging from project management, change management, and consensus and team building, to the tools and techniques of measurement and process analysis.
Where you should place the emphasis, in your company's Six Sigma training, is on the skills and methods your people most need to fulfill their roles in the early phases of the effort, and plan continued learning that will both reinforce early knowledge and add more advanced knowledge later on.
www.polishsixsigmaacademy.com /offer.php?category=1   (159 words)

  
 C.S. Dept 1986 Publications
S.K.M. Wong and W. Ziarko, "Algorithm for Inductive Learning", Bulletin, Polish Academy of Sciences, vol.
S.K.M. Wong and W. Ziarko, "On Learning and Evaluation of Decision Rules in the Context of Rough Sets", Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (Knoxville, 1986), 308-324.
Ziarko, W. P., On learning and evaluation of decision rules in the context of rough sets (with Wong, S.K.M.).
www.cs.uregina.ca /Research/publications/pubs1986.html   (756 words)

  
 Warsaw Voice - These Dinosaurs Should Be Made Extinct
There's an idea to merge the academy and the Cracow University of Technology, but it likely won't be carried out.
What may happen, though, is that the schools located near the future conference center-like Jagiellonian University and the Academy of Economics-may set up interdisciplinary departments.
And in general, Cracow is the seat of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU) and a huge number of scientific associations and social organizations.
www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/12911   (1738 words)

  
 CCAAL abstracts
When designing a parser for Polish, we do not see any need to take other languages into account; UG is of no use for this purpose.
The results are expected to help understand the situation of Polish teachers of foreign languages, and prepare a training programme which should encourage them to apply computers in their teaching practice.
This implementation is at the moment unidirectional, i.e., it analyses ("parses") sentences of Polish giving as output HPSG structures corresponding to those sentences, but it does not generate sentences on the basis of corresponding HPSG structures.
elex.amu.edu.pl /~sobkow/ccaalabs.htm   (6191 words)

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