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Slowdown on Uzbek stretch of new pipeline is a painful setback for Turkmenistan.
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High in the Caucasus mountains, the Enguri hydropower plant is a rare example of cooperation between the two hostile sides.
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Lukashenka suspends “parasite law,” but orders civil servants to make sure all of their relatives have a job.
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If deal passes muster in the member states, it could lift the threat of massive fines on the Russian energy giant.
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A intelligent organization is the one, the activity philosophy of which is based on knowledge management. This term was popularized in the 1990s due to growing development of ICT, dynamically changing economic surroundings and the growth in market competition. This paper discusses how to deploy advanced ICT-solutions in the framework of enterprise information systems in intelligence organizations.
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Cloud computing is a computing model that is very multiple recipients. A year ago, it aroused fears most of all from the point of safety. However, raising awareness of cloud computing has convinced many users to its use in different areas of our operations. Individuals use cloud computing for many years via e-mail. Many institutions in the public administration is beginning to understand the concept of cloud computing. However, you may notice the lack of the concept of how comprehensively implement cloud computing in this sector. The paper will be presented model of cloud computing in the public administration.
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The progress of civilization, undoubtedly contributed to the development of information and communication techniques. Thanks to the new terms and conditions have been created for communication of citizens with the State, increasing opportunities for participation by citizens in public life of the country. Currently, the Poles still in limited use of e-government solutions because of their imperfection. Thus, every effort should be made to the presentation of the desired content more comprehensible and transparent, and thus prevent the discouragement, the digital divide and the information society.
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This article focuses on public electronic communication of local government units in social media. The author performed research on official social profiles of urban communes in Lublin voivodship on Facebook. In the introduction she presents terms and research methods. Further the activity of cities on Facebook is tested and later she analyzes certain profiles structurally by the prism of effective public communication (informing and marketing). Finally, the posts and communication of offices are analyzed.
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IT development in the area of economy, which has been proceeding dynamically in recent years, includes more and more sectors. The data gathered is not only citizens’ personal data but also financial and medical data as well as data concerning one’s lifestyle, tastes, etc. The condition of IT system security, however, is unsatisfactory. The aim of the study is to present current problems connected with making digital data registers and ICT systems indispensable for the execution of services in public administration and health care sectors.
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European Union Structural Funds have had important support for the development of e-government in Poland within the financial perspective for 2007–2013. The result of projects funded under the 7th priority axis, was to provide citizens and businesses to public e-services. In the 2007–2013 financial perspective in the field of e-government identified a lot of barriers that make e-government services are not commonly used in Poland.
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Simulation modelling performs a prognostic function through model research and the shaping of the future. Thorough insight into the analysed system and exploring its characteristics for the selection of optimal tools of analysis is an extremely significant process that precedes the stage of the simulation itself. For modelling and transaction simulation, the problem concerning the optimal range of the kernel function used for exploring the spatial activity of a property market should be addressed first. A probability function is the basis for the subsequent phase of research, which allows one to answer the question of whether the transaction density in a given year can be reflected in the transactions of the following year and subsequent years, and whether transaction distribution is correlated, in any way, with the transaction density in the previous year. The final results of the work are maps of the dynamics of transactions on the market and of the simulated transaction density.
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The paper examines the development of Polish information society as well as the information society of selected countries in the period from 2005 to 2015 (Luxembourg, Poland, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece). The theory of the construction of a full-factor multivariate GARCH model and its estimation method are discussed. The aim of the studies discussed in the paper is an analysis of the interrelations between the information society of Poland and selected EU countries. The multivariate GARCH models showing mutual relative interrelations within the dynamics of empirical distributions, particularly within the dynamics of the expected values and variances, will be presented.
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The given article tries to define the specific form of human capital – human capital network. The article underlines the role of human capital in modern economy. Moreover, the article explains the notion of a knowledge worker. The article shows that human capital network is a concept which is the combination of a modern knowledge worker with requests of a modern market which is highly dominated by many kinds of network relationships and by modern technologies. The main goal of the article is to identify the notion of human capital network.
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The paper presents a generic model of a platform intended for the exchange of threat-related data between the participants of the NSS of RP. The system proposed will allow the use of modern IT methods and tools so as to provide an all-inclusive support to decision-making processes associated with the identification and evaluation of threats to national security. The main purpose of analyses performed within the system will be to investigate the impact of a number of factors (circumstances, events) on national security in the broadest meaning of the term.ICT technologies have a major role in modern process of economy transformation. Implemented changes spread many possibilities to companies such a new form of relations between employee and employer. Research shows that there are some jobs markets where evolution can be difficult also because of employers
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The paper presents a generic model of a platform intended for the exchange of threat-related data between the participants of the NSS of RP. The system proposed will allow the use of modern IT methods and tools so as to provide an all-inclusive support to decision-making processes associated with the identification and evaluation of threats to national security. The main purpose of analyses performed within the system will be to investigate the impact of a number of factors (circumstances, events) on national security in the broadest meaning of the term.
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All activities designed to conceal the true source of illegal income obtained from criminal activities and give them the legal origin of birthmarks is called money laundering. Money laundering is the legalization of profits gained from criminal activity. The aim of this article is an attempt to indicate that the funds derived from money laundering are a threat to the economic system of the country. The funds derived from the committed economic crimes, give rise to huge capital, which serves, among others, to acquire part of the legal economy for the funds obtained from the suspicious transactions.
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In the article, the essentials methodological problems of the researches regarding the information society are presented, the perception of the current information society as the “system of systems” included. Also the complexity of the societal structure as the process steerable to some extend only, and the net of multifaceted relations(feedbacks) are described. The methodological barriers and the general model of the researches on the development of the information society are formulated.
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The financial perspective for 2014–2020 opened another chance to support the development of the information society. The draft operational program Digital Poland as particularly important goals provides for strengthening the foundations of digital development of the country, on the basis of broad access to high speed internet access, efficient and user-friendly e-public services and ever increasing level of digital literacy of society. In the context of the so-formulated goals extremely important is the identification of needs that in the coming future will shape the labor market. The paper is devoted diagnosis of the situation on the labor market and to identify issues and trends important to the social security for which is based on job security. The emerging situation is of strategic importance for predicting labor market trends are particularly relevant in the context of demographic change and thus the future of the country.
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Pace of changes civilization and the rapid development of information and communication technology (especially the Internet and mobile devices), has an essential influence on the younger generation that often can not do without modern means of communication in everyday life. The article indicates the potential and threats posed by modern means of communication – smartphones.
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Using panel modelling and firm-level data for 222 US listed companies I investigate how changes in monetary policy approximated by the three-month US LIBOR interest rate and its combined effect with firm-specific characteristics influenced firms’ financing decisions and their liability structure during the period 2005−2014. Reported findings suggest that despite the Zero Lower Bound on the Federal Funds Rate, the three-month US LIBOR has retained its impact on firm total debt, long-term bank debt and short-term trade credit. Monetary policy changes were found to have affected firm’s liability structure, especially through parameters such as size, collateral and profitability.
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