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ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Description

The „Academia” magazine was founded on the initiative of Professor Andrzej B. Legocki, a President of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2003 – 2006. In the beginning it was published only in English as a reply to the growing demand for a current information on the Polish Academy of Sciences` activities, expressed by foreign scientists and Poles living abroad and interested in Polish science.

Since 2005 the magazine is published both in Polish and English.

The „Academia” is an exceptional - on the Polish market - scientific magazine for the general public, propagating achievements of Polish scientists here and abroad. Authors of articles in „Academia” explain their subject in a way that is accessible not only for all sorts of academics but also for students, pupils and all other readers interested in scientific topics for the general public.

ISSN

1731-7401

Publishers

Polish Academy of Sciences

Editorial Staff

Jolanta Iwańczuk (Editor-in-Chief, Earth Sciences)

Daniel Sax (Editor, English-Language Version)

Marcin Pietras (Biological & Agricultural Sciences)

Justyna Orłowska (Journalist)

Andrzej Figatowski (Graphic Designer)

Anna Bielec (Project Coordinator)

Scientific Council

Marek Konarzewski, President of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Chairman)

Dariusz Jemielniak (Deputy Chairman)

Andrzej Buko

Katarzyna Czarnecka

Patrycja Dołowy

Paweł Golik

Janusz Jurczak

Tomasz Kapitaniak

Marek Krawczyk

Krzysztof Nowak

Anna Zawadzka

Publisher:

Polish Academy of Sciences

Communication and Science Information Department

Defilad sq. 1,

00-901 Warsaw, Poland

e-mail: academia@pan.pl

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Content

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 1 (45) 2015 Structure

1 Contents

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 1 (45) 2015 Structure

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2 Editorial

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 1 (45) 2015 Structure | 3

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3 Lego-Style Configurations

Paweł Golik

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 1 (45) 2015 Structure | 4-7

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Abstract

Prof. Paweł Golik talks about reading and interpreting genomes. He studies the role of nuclear encoding of proteins involved in RNA metabolism in mitochondria, and using yeast genomes in the modelling of human disorders in which nuclear control of mitochondrial genome expression is disrupted.

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Paweł Golik

4 Rural Revolution

Maria Halamska

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 1 (45) 2015 Structure | 8-10

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Farmers are no longer the dominant group in rural Poland; their numbers have been decreasing over the last twenty years. They are gradually being displaced by representatives of the middle class.

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Maria Halamska

5 Howlin' Wolf

Robert W. Mysłajek

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 1 (45) 2015 Structure | 11-13

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The term "structure" is quite commonly encountered on the pages of ecology textbooks. It is especially popular in descriptions of populations in relation to their spatial, age, sex and genetic organization, and of course social structures, which describe interactions and links between individuals, and group configuration.

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Robert W. Mysłajek

6 The New Happiness

Joanna Mizielińska

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 1 (45) 2015 Structure | 14-17

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Joanna Mizielińska

7 A River of Curiosities

Jurand Wojewoda

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 1 (45) 2015 Structure | 18-21

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Its history began more than 10 million years ago, back in the Tertiary period. Its geographic position and structure already attracted settlers back in the middle Paleolithic. What is so special about the Odra (Oder), Poland's number-two river? How turbulent is its story?

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Jurand Wojewoda

8 Gold Against Bacteria

Marcin Fialkowski

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 1 (45) 2015 Structure | 22-25

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According to the most recent report from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, one in eighteen patients in European hospitals has experienced at least one illness as a result of infection while receiving treatment. That's a total of 3.2 million of people per year. The pathogens are usually bacteria picked up from surgical tools and hospital equipment. At the PAS Institute of Physical Chemistry, we have devised a method of functionalizing surfaces with an antibacterial coating which is harmless to human cells.

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Marcin Fialkowski

9 Climate Data Locked Away in Fossils

Hubert Wierzbowski

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 1 (45) 2015 Structure | 26-28

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They lived around 200 million years ago, and they resembled today's squids and cuttlefishes. Belemnites can reveal a wealth of fascinating information about climate in past geological eras.

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Hubert Wierzbowski

10 Heavy, Heavier... Heaviest?

Janusz Skalski

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 1 (45) 2015 Structure | 29-31

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The heaviest element known today has the atomic number of 118. Can still heavier atomic nuclei exist? Where do the boundaries of the periodic table of elements lie?

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Janusz Skalski

11 Thread-Spinning Hands

Anna Bębenek

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 1 (45) 2015 Structure | 32-34

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Accurate replication of nucleic acids (RNA and DNA) is a key process for cells. This intricate, precise job is handled by polymerases, whose specific structure allows them to build new nucleic acid strands using a single-strand matrix.

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Anna Bębenek

12 The Cogs That Make Life Tick

Marcin Nawotny

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 1 (45) 2015 Structure | 35-37

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Marcin Nawotny

13 What "Upper Class"?

Krzysztof Jasiecki

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 1 (45) 2015 Structure | 38-39

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The economic and political transformation of the 1990s enabled certain people and groups to make a leap up into higher rungs in the social structure, amassing wealth and influence on a previously unimagined scale. But do they comprise a hornogenous "upper class"?

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Krzysztof Jasiecki

14 The Logic of Structure

Henryk Domański

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 1 (45) 2015 Structure | 40-44

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Henryk Domański

15 Inland Amber

Jacek Kasiński

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 1 (45) 2015 Structure | 45-47

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"Baltic amber;' the commonly-used name for succinate, is somewhat misleading - as this variety of amber in fact has no inherent connection with the Baltic sea. Poland's largest deposits of such amber actually occur in the country's southeast, in the area north of the town of Lublin. What will it take for those deposits to be harnessed?

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Jacek Kasiński

16 UAV Antarctic Survey

Anna Zmarz , Małgorzata Korczak-Abshire , Katarzyna J. Chwedorzewska

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 1 (45) 2015 Structure | 48-49

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How can we make the most of Antarctica's marine resources without damaging the delicate balance of the ecosystem? The answer may lie in an interdisciplinary monitoring system using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and geoinformatic tools.

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