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The article is devoted to the analysis of the project known as «the Social museum» developed by the prominent Russian academician F.I. Shmit. Through examination of an unpublished manuscript of this project from the archive fund of F.I. Shmit we can give a specific example of new ideas regarding the forms and purposes of museums. These ideas developed in a new culture, and connected the museum to other institutions of memory such as archives and libraries.
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The article is devoted to the creation and functioning of the museum collection of the History and Philology Faculty of the Bestuzhev Courses, connected with the educational and scientific activities of the girl-students. The author analyzes archival and published sources on the history of the educational institution. The problem of staging seminars on the history of art is considered from the practical point of view, as they allowed scientists in pre-revolutionary Russia to acquire the necessary vocational training for the first graduated women.
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The article analyzes the measurement methods of elections and electoral systems. The most цоммон coefficients of disproportionality are presented: The Rae index, the Loosemore – Hanby index, and the Gallagher Least Squares index. Mentioned are also some quantitative methods for evaluation of party systems: The Taagepera – Shugart advantage ratio, the Rae fractionalization index and the Laakso & Taagepera effective number of parties. In the conclusion part the author discusse some typical difficulties in measuring elections and electoral systems in the more distant past: problems concerning an existence of uncontested mandates, regional-based coalitions for parliamentary elections, members of parliament by appointment etc.
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Some of the basic hypotheses about the prime numbers are considered, which determine their important properties for Mathematics.
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It is considered a geometric relation between the roots of a polynomial and the roots of its derivative, when all roots of the polynomial are in three non-collinear points. This relation is realized through the focuses of a special ellipse, which is determined by the multiplicities of the polynomial roots.
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There are many factors influencing a food product selection, even if the most known is health benefits. This study describes the effect size of nine factors such as health, mood, convenience, sensory quality, ingredients, price, energetic value, familiarity and ethical aspects. The most important aspect of each factor was also determinated. A questionnaire was applied on a sample of 95 persons aged between 16 and more than 60 years. The summary statistics and the correlation (r>0,2) were applied using Data Analysis pacgake. The results showed that health benefits and the ingredients have the greatest influence, while the convenience and the energetic value were considered as beeing less important in food choice. The well-being, the taste, the natural ingredients, the good price ratio, the low fat content, the eco-friendly package, the fact that the food product can be bought from shops near their house and people ate it before have a strong contribution in food selection. So, it is important to take all these factors into account when we talk about food aducation and food practices.
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Both society as a whole and each of its members have to be prepared for the changes caused by continuous evolvement of knowledge. Alongside with the traditional forms of education, distance education represents the chance people of all ages have to learn in order to have a better chance to adapt to the ever-changing society.
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One planned to present a quantitative description of the Polish literature which is thematically associated with the problems of the computerisation of libraries in Poland; to define the dynamics of its growth across the span of the last fifty years and to identify – and to provide a quantitative description thereof – of the particular problems which were the subject of the publication until the end of 2017. One applied a bibliometrical method, and the source of data for the bibliometrical analyses was constituted by the “Polish Bibliological Bibliography” (PBB). The study enabled one to determine the time when the bibliological and informatological literature saw the emergence of the first publications which are thematically associated with the problems of the automatisation of libraries and how the dynamics of the growth of the literature in this field occurred in the years 1970–2009. As far as the particular problems are concerned, one indicated only the publications devoted to online catalogues, digital libraries and the Internet in library science. The study also facilitated the identification of factors which hindered or even precluded bibliometrical analyses – the latter were necessary for the obtaining of reliable results. The work was enhanced by the elements of the analysis of the “Polish Bibliological Bibliography” in terms of its utility as a source for bibliometrical research in the problems which are discussed.
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Warsaw Archbishop Vincent Teofil Chosciak-Popiel left numerous traces of contact with the reading in the correspondence from the years 1846–1853 and in the memoirs published for the period from 1862 to 1875. That is, until taking the bishopric of the Kujawy and Kalisz. Also the notary act of Julian Samkowski preserved inventory of bishop’s private library, which included 2198 works in 4170 volumes and it was written at the time of sale of the library in 1880 to Konstanty Popiel. Multifaceted material will be used to analyze personal commitment to book of this significant person in the 19th and early 20th century.
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W dniach 6–8 czerwca 2017 r. odbyła się Konferencja Naukowa Biblioteki Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego „Biblioteka w chmurze czy chmury nad biblioteką”. Obrady poświęcono tematyce związanej z przystosowaniem bibliotek do procesu postępującej informatyzacji oraz zbudowania nowego modelu ich tożsamości i spójnego wizerunku. Patronat honorowy nad konferencją objęli: Marszałek Województwa Łódzkiego Witold Stępień, Prezydent Miasta Łodzi Hanna Zdanowska oraz JM Rektor Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego prof. dr hab. Antoni Różalski. W konferencji wzięło udział 80 osób, podczas pięciu sesji wygłoszono 23 referaty.
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Digital storytelling is an engaging learning environment that gained worldwide popularity over the last years. It offers a rich cross-curricular learning environment within which children design, create and present their own stories and develop many skills including literacy, presentation and communication skills as well as inquiry-based learning and digital skills. In this paper we present a new way of digital storytelling, a form of dramatized storytelling inspired by the rich tradition of Shadow Theater. This form of storytelling showcases an engaging way of renovating cultural heritage with the use of digital technologies. It combines a number of digital tools for the production of the digital stories covering all five phases of film making: scenario development, preproduction, production, post-production and distribution. eShadow can be used (a) to create digital shad-ow puppets, and (b) to set up, perform and record the scenes of the digital story (production phase). This way, digital story creation is wrapped around engaging learning scenarios, playful improvisations and creative learning. eShadow has been extensively used to support cross-curricular learning mainly in Greek schools. It is extended to support marionette-like interactions to promote its use in countries with relevant storytelling cultures.
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The paper presents the key challenges that we faced in the creation of the serious educational game “The Thracians”. We had to choose the most appropriate architectural environment and methodology to apply in all stages. The selection of historical facts, archaeological and artistic artefacts for the Thracian civilization was based on Thracians lifestyle, beliefs and traditions that will provoke students interests and wish to play the game.
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The recent decade had brought about massive growth in the Web and Web data - pictures, documents, videos and more. What worked well for years with relational databases is not well suited for the unstructured massive amounts of data and applications that are part of the Web, such as social networks. As a result, new types of database have emerged, including NoSQL (“not only SQL”) databases. Graph data-bases are one type of NoSQL database.
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The term „grey literature“ is used for documents disseminated through non-traditional channels. As a general rule, these documents are accessible outside the book publishing and distribution system. In recent years, this kind of literature is in high demand, in so far that the "grey documents" often contain most up-to-date information. They are stored in institutional electronic archives – repositories. In the report is introduced the most popular electronic archive - Open Grey and the repositories of the Balkan countries, incl. Bulgaria.
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Conservation of historic painting requires comprehensive and correct information to be analyzed during the diagnostic and decision making process in a systematic and rational approach. This paper aims to contribute for the setting of an optimal working process tailored for digital image processing of historic painting research documentation, to be used also in other interdisciplinary areas. To the end it integrates the purely algebraic approach with expediencies derived from the specific scientific background of multidimensional and multimodal images of different types (MMI). Following key tasks have been addressed: 1)Presentation involving non algebraic methods whose main advantages are the functionality to the objectives of the scientific study, the relatively reduced computational complexity and the possibility of parallel processing of MMI; 2) Simulation of new digital expedients based on developed methods by using test databases containing different types of MMIs; 3) MMI analysis based on non-algebraic intelligent segmentation methods that expand the possibilities for proper detection, recognition and evaluation of the changes in the surveyed objects; 4) MMI processing based on adaptive interpolation, which is of small computational complexity and provides high quality interpolated areas (objects) in 2,5D, facilitating the decision-making process on the basis of the relevant information. The effectiveness of the proposed approaches in terms of scientific functionality, accuracy of the diagnosis, and low computational complexity is demonstrated with examples of applications to typical real data in the respective subject area.
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The report examines the issue of serious educational games in the field of military and historical heritage. The world-wide research experience in the field of serious educational games has been studied. The uses of games in the learning process and the impact effects of information and communication based teaching methods on learners have been examined. The factors and the contribution of the games to improve the interest and the activity of the students and to get better results from the training are analyzed. The report presents a specific model of a serious game in the field of military-historical heritage.
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The presented project aims to provide practical solutions for ceramic and paper artifacts, based on new antifungal recipes, in order to reduce the impact of bio-degradation of cultural heritage artifacts. The developed recipes, specific for each type of support material (ceramic and paper), will be based on the use of soft nanomaterials, applicable in the form of xerogels or spraying. The recipes will take into consideration the interaction between the developed materials and the support materials.
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The following article presents the first steps towards the digitalization of the museum collection with artefacts, found over a period of 65 years in the archaeological site Aquae Calidae in the district Burgas Mineral Baths. The text includes representation of the data model and platform structure, which will offer further look into the process of digitizing movable cultural heritage and the compatibility with Bulgarian legislation.
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The paper draws current state of Bulgarian Open access (OA) activities and discussion points for the Ninth National Information Day: Open Science, Open Data, and Open Access
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