Vast research has sought to better understand the origins and development of rape myth beliefs given the problematic influence of such misconceptions throughout global societies and criminal justice pathways. The current research aims to build on this body of literature by examining the contribution that psychopathic personality traits (affective responsiveness, cognitive responsiveness, interpersonal manipulation, egocentricity) and emotional intelligence may have upon rape myth beliefs. Furthermore, this study will investigate the extent to which sociodemographic characteristics (age, gender, ethnicity, education), and prior experience of sexual victimisation, contribute to variance in rape myth acceptance scores. In total 251 participants (M Age = 31.66) completed an online, self-report questionnaire which included contemporary measures of psychopathy and rape myth acceptance, never previously tested in combination. Results of a hierarchical multiple regression analysis indicate that egocentricity, age, and gender were significantly associated with rape myth beliefs. Emotional intelligence, as well as affective and interpersonal traits of psychopathy, were not directly related with rape mythology. Findings are interpreted alongside previous research, where we suggest there is an urgent need for larger, nationally representative samples, systematically recruited from the general population to help clarify uncertainty in existing literature emerging from small-scale opportunistic datasets.

The paper presents an analysis of the behaviour of bent reinforced concrete beams strengthened with CFRP laminates fixed with adhesive before and after unloading, and more importantly, an analysis of the work of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with pre-stressed CFRP laminates fixed with adhesive. The analyses were based on a moment-curvature model prepared by the author for reinforced concrete beams strengthened under load with pre-stressed CFRP laminates. The model was used to determine the effect of compression with CFRP laminates and their mechanical properties on the effectiveness of strengthening the reinforced concrete beams analysed in this study.

In the paper, I present the views of Alina Motycka, a Polish philosopher of science who died in 2018. I place Motycka’s scholar activity in a historical context, relative to two traditions of the philosophy of science—its historical version signed by Thomas Kuhn, and the tradition of logical reconstruction of science which in the second half of the twentieth century was revived by the thought of Karl Popper. I believe that this historical situation forms the context in which Motycka shaped her view of the philosophy of science and, because of such a particular context, she has participated in it with her own problematizations. So, what constitutes the originality of her way? Two issues come to the fore here. The first is the reconstruction of the fundamental problem of the philosophy of science, which, according to Motycka, is the question of confronting two scientific theories, of which the earlier (T1) is replaced by a later and competitive one (T2). Motycka shows the inability of the epistemology of the second half of the 20th century to adequately capture this relationship. The reason for this is the lack of intellectual means to problematize the situation T1–T2. The second area of the author's interest is the issue of creativity in science. She was inspired by the theories of Carl G. Jung. In this context, it is of interest to use the philosophy of science of terms such as archetype and myth.

Wyniki wieloletnich badań sejsmicznych przeprowadzonych na obszarze kopalni siarki Osiek pozwoliły na określenie zależności ilościowych pomiędzy amplitudą sygnału sejsmicznego rejestrowanego od stropu złoża a parametrami złoża takimi jak porowatość i procentowa zawartość siarki. W prezentowanym artykule omówiono podstawowe zależności ilościowe pomiędzy tymi parametrami oraz metodologię wykorzystania tych związków dla potrzeb wstępnego szacowania zasobów. Ze wstępnym szacowaniem zasobów wiąże się problem poprawnej estymacji zawartości siarki oraz dokładnego określenia miąższości złoża. Autorzy przedstawiają sposób estymacji zawartości siarki oparty na bogatej statystyce właściwości złoża uzyskanej na podstawie danych geofizyki otworowej. Wskazują też, że decydującym parametrem wpływającym na ocenę zasobności jest dokładne poprowadzenie granicy spągu złoża, a to jest możliwe jedynie na podstawie poprawnego dowiązania zapisu sejsmicznego do danych geofizyki otworowej. Przedstawiono także metodykę prowadzenia badań polowych i przetwarzania danych sejsmicznych w aspekcie odwzorowania rzeczywistych amplitud sygnału rejestrowanego od stropu złoża. Problem odwzorowania poprawnych wartości amplitud ma tu bowiem kapitalne znaczenie dla określenia realnych związków pomiędzy właściwościami złoża a dynamiką zapisu sejsmicznego. Autorzy wskazują, że podstawowa, zaobserwowana zależność wiąże amplitudę sygnału odbitego od stropu złoża ze średnią porowatością złoża. Dla potrzeb ilościowej oceny porowatości rejestrowane amplitudy sygnału muszą być kalibrowane do wartości współczynnika odbicia na stropie złoża. Właściwa kalibracja możliwa jest poprzez skorelowanie danych sejsmicznych z danymi otworowymi, takimi jak gęstość ośrodka i prędkość propagacji fali podłużnej P. Dzięki stwierdzonym w danym otworze wartości tych parametrów wyliczana jest wartość współczynnika odbicia (refleksyjności), a następnie wartości amplitud sygnału sejsmicznego są skalowane do wartości refleksyjności. Uzyskiwane wyniki szacowania zasobności autorzy przedstawiają na przykładzie rezultatów uzyskanych wzdłuż wybranego refleksyjnego profilu sejsmicznego wykonanego na terenie kopalni siarki w Osieku.

Of late, the science of Remote Sensing has been gaining a lot of interest and attention due to its wide variety of applications. Remotely sensed data can be used in various fields such as medicine, agriculture, engineering, weather forecasting, military tactics, disaster management etc. only to name a few. This article presents a study of the two categories of sensors namely optical and microwave which are used for remotely sensing the occurrence of disasters such as earthquakes, floods, landslides, avalanches, tropical cyclones and suspicious movements. The remotely sensed data acquired either through satellites or through ground based- synthetic aperture radar systems could be used to avert or mitigate a disaster or to perform a post-disaster analysis.

The results of shielding effectiveness (SE) measurements of textile materials containing metal by the free-space transmission technique (FSTT) in the 1-26.5 GHz frequency range are presented in the paper. It is shown that experimental data processing using time-domain gating (TDG) makes it possible to effectively remove diffracted and reflected components from the desired signal. The comparison with the results obtained by other techniques, namely modified FSTT with TDG and coaxial line probe technique (ASTM D4935-99) is given. The comparison shows that the proposed technique gives more reasonable results while the measurement set-up is simpler in realization.

In April 2022, a celebration was held at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in honour of Prof. Jerzy Danielewicz, a brilliant Hellenist of international renown and one of the most prolific translators of Greek literature into Polish, on the golden jubilee of his doctorate. An account of this event is followed by the speech Prof. Danielewicz delivered on that occasion, in which he points to his place in the community of Classicists in Poznań across time.

Decision-making processes, including the ones related to ill-structured problems, are of considerable significance in the area of construction projects. Computer-aided inference under such conditions requires the employment of specific methods and tools (non-algorithmic ones), the best recognized and successfully used in practice represented by expert systems. The knowledge indispensable for such systems to perform inference is most frequently acquired directly from experts (through a dialogue: a domain expert - a knowledge engineer) and from various source documents. Little is known, however, about the possibility of automating knowledge acquisition in this area and as a result, in practice it is scarcely ever used. lt has to be noted that in numerous areas of management more and more attention is paid to the issue of acquiring knowledge from available data. What is known and successfully employed in the practice of aiding the decision-making is the different methods and tools. The paper attempts to select methods for knowledge discovery in data and presents possible ways of representing the acquired knowledge as well as sample tools (including programming ones), allowing for the use of this knowledge in the area under consideration.