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30 lat minęło... Księga jubileuszowa Stowarzyszenia Absolwentów Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika 1995–2025, 331 s.
(Stowarzyszenie Absolwentów Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2025-08-27) Grabowska-Pieńkosz, Dorota, red.; Streich, Wojciech
Publikacja „30 lat minęło...” to księga jubileuszowa podsumowująca działalność Stowarzyszenia Absolwentów UMK w latach 1995–2025. Zawiera historię powstania organizacji, opis jej struktury, wywiady i wspomnienia osób zaangażowanych w jej rozwój, kronikę wydarzeń oraz unikalne materiały archiwalne. To kompendium wiedzy o 30 latach pracy na rzecz integracji społeczności absolwentów i promocji Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika.
Eye tracking and exploring AI potential in describing and generating images: a contribution to research on generative art
(Wydawnictwo SIGMA-NOT, 2025-03) Osińska, Veslava; Szalach, Adam; Piotrowski, Dominik Mirosław; Martinez, Jesus Casal
Over the past few years, AI development has impacted fields like computer vision, image description, and generation. The article explored AI's capability to create descriptions and generate images, comparing these with human perception. Images were examined using eye tracking in a VR art gallery and on a desktop. The study involved expert and AI descriptions of BITSCOPE project images, followed by AI-generated images based on those descriptions, focusing on gaze plot metrics.
W ciągu ostatnich kilku lat rozwój sztucznej inteligencji (SI) przyczynił się do postępów w takich dziedzinach jak widzenie komputerowe, opisywanie i generowanie obrazów. Analizy skupiły się na zdolności SI do tworzenia opisów i generowania obrazów, porównując je z ludzką percepcją. Obrazy były badane za pomocą śledzenia ruchu gałek ocznych w galerii sztuki VR oraz w środowisku stacjonarnym. Badanie obejmowało opisy obrazów projektu BITSCOPE dokonane przez eksperta i SI, a następnie generowane przez SI obrazy na podstawie tych opisów, koncentrując się na metrykach śledzenia wzroku.
The Landscape of Community Archives in Poland and Its Contextual Environment
(Society of American Archivists, 2025-08-26) Wiśniewska-Drewniak, Magdalena
Community archives, especially in roughly the last ten years, are becoming an increasingly recognized element of cultural heritage in Poland. This is evidenced, among other things, by growing interest from academics and mainstream cultural institutions, including the state archival administration. Further evidence is the establishment in 2020 of an institution funded by the Ministry of Culture called the Center for Community Archives in Warsaw, which aims to support grassroots archives. Although the phenomenon of community archives exists in many countries around the world, the literature focuses in particular on countries from the Anglophone world, especially the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The purpose of this article is to expand the scholarship by describing the contemporary landscape of community archives in Poland. Since the landscape of community archives (regardless of location) is complex and susceptible to a variety of contexts, this description of the phenomenon is presented based on six categories (impact factors) developed during comparative studies of community archives in the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Poland. These contextual conditions, which are also essential parts of the results section describing the contemporary reality of community archives in Poland, are terminologies and definitions of “community archive”; typologies and characteristics of community archives; recent history and social structure of the place; archives’ relations with external partners; funding and support; and legal environment and national archival and heritage system.
Thermal conditions on the coast of Labrador during the late 19th/early 20th century
(European Society for Environmental History, 2025-08-19) Singh, Garima; Przybylak, Rajmund; Wyszyński, Przemysław; Araźny, Andrzej; Chmist, Konrad
The late 19th/early 20th-century Moravian missionary observations offer an exclusive perspective on the climate of the Labrador
coast, providing essential data on air temperature, air pressure, cloud cover, precipitation and wind patterns and short descriptions of
the weather from observations made three or five times a day. This study focuses on the analysis of air temperature conditions in
Labrador's coastal region using invaluable instrumental meteorological observations, which were carried out by Moravian missionaries on behalf of the Deutsche Seewarte. These data records are sourced from Deutscher Wetterdienst (Germany). Long continuous series of sub-daily temperature series (from 7 to 36 years) are available for six stations: Rama (1882–90), Hebron (1882–1918), Okak (1883–89), Nain (1882–1913), Zoar (1882–94) and Hoffenthal (1882–98). The sub-daily data will be used to calculate mean daily air temperature (MDAT) using the simple arithmetic mean. Such calculated MDATs will be corrected to the real mean. The corrected MDAT data will be used to calculate standard climate statistics (monthly, seasonal and yearly means, day-to-day temperature variability, thermal seasons, etc.) as well as to calculate indices such as growing degree days (GDDs), air thawing index (ATI), positive degree days (PDDs) and air freezing index (AFI) degree days.The ther mal conditions of the study period in the coastal part of Labrador will be compared to present-day ones. The analysis improves the knowledge about the region's climate variability during the early instrumental period.
Changes in bioclimatic conditions on the coast of the Labrador Peninsula in the late 19th/early 20th century
(European Society for Environmental History, 2025-08-19) Chmist, Konrad; Araźny, Andrzej; Przybylak, Rajmund; Wyszyński, Przemysław; Singh, Garima
The contemporary warming that we are observing on Earth is most intense in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic. Until the mid-20th century,
human impact on the Arctic environment and climate was small, so it is extremely important to understand these past conditions as
best as possible in order to better understand current and future changes. To date, there has been little work analysing the climate of
the Labrador coast dating back to the late 19th/early 20th century. In the case of bioclimatic studies, there are even fewer such works.
The main aim of this paper is to fill this gap. Changes in bioclimatic conditions in the northeastern part of the Labrador Peninsula were
estimated based on meteorological observations (air temperature, atmospheric pressure and wind speed) taken from six stations:
Hebron, Hoffenthal, Nain, Okak, Rama and Zoar. They were carried out three times a day (8:00, 14:00 and 20:00) by Moravian
missionaries on behalf of Deutsche Seewarte and in accordance with its standardised guidelines. Based on these meteorological
data, the following bioclimatic indices were performed and analysed: Wind Chill Temperature (WCT), Insulation Predicted (Iclp) and
atmospheric pressure stimulus. Bioclimatic conditions in the historical period were compared with the conditions occurring in the
modern period on the Labrador Peninsula.