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Recruitment process and selection of employees during the pandemic in Śląskie Voivodeship | Research of Angelika M. Pabian, PhD

| dr Angelika M Pabian | The state of epidemic threat due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic announced in March 2020 has greatly influenced the Polish labour market Implemented regulations changed the style and conditions of

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Upper Silesia plebiscite – an intensive course in Polish identity

| Maria Sztuka | The Palm Sunday of 20 March 2021 became the most important date in the 20th century history of Upper Silesia The plebiscite that was to decide about the fate of over 1 million people, outline the borders and determine whether the Upper Silesia should belong to Poland or

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Where are our data?

| Agnieszka Niewdana | The first and second decades of the 21st century are a time of significant IT advance Computers have become faster and their ability to store and process a wide variety of information is huge But where is this information? We do not wonder about this question so often

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Ready for aggression | Dr Magdalena Bolek-Kochanowska‘s research

| Małgorzata Kłoskowicz | Can contemporary cultural patterns of femininity and masculinity influence the predisposition to aggressive behaviour?  Why sometimes an impulse is enough to react with violence, eg, to slam a door, to humiliate another person, or even to beat them? Can such behaviours be influenced by our self-esteem or our

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Patents accelerating breeding of new barley varieties

|Małgorzata Kłoskowicz| Scientists from the University of Silesia in Katowice have developed two solutions that will help in accelerating the process of obtaining new barley varieties by several years Years of research have resulted in a new method of isolating and initiating in vitro culture of microspores using an earlier developmental stage of spring barley “The

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„No Limits” | China – a giant with feet of terracotta?

| Dr Tomasz Okraska | One of the most interesting differences in the perception of China by the Chinese themselves and by Westerners is related to language issues The meaning of the terms ‘Central State’ or ‘Middle Kingdom,’ which are used at times with regard to this country, is largly not really

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„No Limits” | In the Search for Chemical Water Contamination

| Agnieszka Niewdana | Humans have a huge influence on the quality of water in the environment; by introducing various chemicals into it as well as by interfering with its natural circulation The sources of contamination are not only urbanization, mining, excessive and sometimes inappropriate use of various chemicals, mainly in agriculture,

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„No Limits” | Letting the Traces Speak

| Alicja Menżyk | The conviction that the traces revealed during the examination of a suspect or the site of the incident carry a huge information load, a testimony of the committed deeds, is one of the pillars of modern forensic science Traces speak, do not succumb to emotion and prejudice, and

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