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ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2008 | Nr 1 (17) 2008 Challenges

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Treating a genetic disease? An easy task! Just replace the faulty gene with a correct one. Unfortunately, that idea is very difficult in practice.
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Alicja Józkowicz
Józef Dulak
Stanisław Szala
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The stereotype of a Polish peasant riding a pitiful horse-drawn wagon still lingers in the minds of many Poles. Is that what rural Poland really looks like today? How has EU accession changed farmers' attitudes and awareness?
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Barbara Fedyszak-Radziejowska
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As followers of Christianity and Islam make up nearly half of the Earth's population, the relations between these two major religious systems and two civilizations are crucial for our world and its future.
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Jerzy Zdanowski
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One fifth of Europe's population suffers from allergic reactions to a specific type of food. The prevalence of such hypersensitivity has stimulated a very intensive search for technologies yielding food products that are safe for such allergy sufferers to consume.
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Barbara Wróblewska
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Water masses that differ in temperature and salinity come into contact along turbulent fronts and form vast eddies. The ocean is just as complex a medium as the atmosphere, and the two are inextricably intertwined.
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Czesław Druet
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To be able to sensibly discuss European unification, we first need to recognize the extant frontiers and divisions. One of the fundamental tasks for sociologists should be to study and understand the essence of these borders and borderlands.
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Joanna Kurczewska
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Restoring historic buildings to their former splendour using materials similar or identical to those used in the past poses a great challenge to the conservation community.
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Roman Kozłowski
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Vast numbers of species are still waiting to be discovered. Although nothing can replace the work of classical taxonomists, biologists now want to speed up and simplify the identification of species by creating catalogs of genetic barcodes.
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Wiesław Bogdanowicz
Agnieszka Draber-Mońko
Tadeusz Malewski
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Innovation offers a way to narrow the development gap. While innovativeness chiefly manifests itself on the company level, successful innovation requires both conducive measures in many socioeconomic domains and a change of attitudes among entrepreneurs, investors, and public administration.
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Tadeusz Baczko
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The ongoing changes occurring within society are a difficult topic for study. One needs to posit a research thesis carefully and then to be very patient: emerging trends only become visible in the longer term.
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Anna Ziomkiewicz-Wichary
Sławomir Kozieł
Alicja Szklarska
Anna Lipowicz
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In 1904, the Swedish mathematician Helge von Koch first described a geometrical extraordinary figure with a "self-similar" edge, which he dubbed a "snowflake:' Nowadays such "self-similar" but "rough" sets are called fractals, well-known for their exceptional beauty, and are a subject of intense research.
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Feliks Przytycki
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The Institute of Art is Poland's sole interdisciplinary research unit, lacking a university counterpart, that pursues research and documentation work in the humanities within two specific domains: the study and history of art.
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Marta Leśniakowska

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