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- 2023-02-01
Financial and Economic Stability of Energy Sector Enterprises as a Condition for Poland’s Energy Security - Legal and Economic Aspects
The energy security of each country is one of the main factors of its proper functioning. Currently, in the era of problems related to energy security resulting from, among other things, the war in Ukraine, this topic is particularly important. This article presents issues related to Poland’s energy security, understood as the financial and economic stability of enterprises operating in the energy industry. This stability is considered in two aspects: macroeconomic, where the focus is mainly on the aspect of state intervention in market processes; and microeconomic, where factors determining the financial security of energy enterprises were identified, including internal and external factors affecting the functioning of these entities. In order to achieve the assumed research goals, the analysis of the indicated problems was based on non-reactive research, consisting in the assessment of the available information. It included studies of normative acts, official statistical data, industry reports and analyses, as well as data obtained in the form of a public information request. Two basic research methods were used in the work—dogmatic–legal and comparative analyses. The identification of factors affecting the security of companies in the sector was carried out on the basis of data on the entire energy sector in Poland for the years 2015–2021 on a semi-annual basis. Vector-autoregressive models were used for the analysis. As a result of the analyses, it was established that market failures and public safety are the premises justifying the public financing of enterprises in the electricity generation, transmission, distribution and trade sectors. At the same time, the conducted research showed that the level of financial security of energy enterprises in Poland was affected by the ratio of the value of goods and materials sold to net sales revenue, as well as the level of EBIT (earnings before deducting interest and taxes) margin, and among external factors, the level of GDP (gross domestic product), CPI (consumer price index) and Crude Oil were important.Otwarty dostępArtykułyJournal article - 2025-03-31
Projektowanie uwzględniające mieszkańca/użytkownika. O (po)pandemicznej szansie na projektowanie mieszkań lepiej dostosowanych do wykonywania w nich pracy
Pandemia stała się w pewnym sensie polowym testem (nie)funkcjonalności zamieszkiwanych przestrzeni. Niespodziewany lockdown(y) 2020 r. wymagał szybkiej adaptacji do nowej sytuacji, w której praca i dom połączyły się najpełniej od czasów sprzed rewolucji przemysłowej. Doświadczenie to wpłynęło na większą świadomość własnych potrzeb mieszkańców/użytkowników, a tym samym ujawniło dwa procesy, które analizujemy jako źródło szans na lepsze projektowanie: jest to z jednej strony wymuszona refleksyjność użytkowników przestrzeni, niezbędna dla projektowania uwzględniającego rzeczywiste potrzeby, z drugiej – ukierunkowany na mieszkanie sieciowy (cyfrowy) ekshibicjonizm. Celem badań było zrozumienie, jakie znaczenie mają dwa procesy – wymuszona refleksyjność użytkowników przestrzeni i cyfrowy ekshibicjonizm – dla przestrzeni domowej, w szczególności w odniesieniu do pracy w domu i relacji projektanta/architekta z użytkownikiem w procesie projektowania mieszkania. Analizie poddano wybrane polskie badania doświadczeń zamieszkiwania podczas pandemii w 2020 r. Dobór badań zastanych nie miał charakteru wyczerpującego ani pełnego, lecz służył zilustrowaniu dwóch kluczowych procesów. Pandemia przyczyniła się do upowszechnienia wymuszonej refleksyjności użytkowników oraz cyfrowego ekshibicjonizmu. Doświadczenie pandemii pozwoliło potwierdzić diagnozowany od dekad, wciąż niezadowalający stan relacji między projektantem/architektem a użytkownikiem mieszkania. Istotnym i ważnym wnioskiem jest to, że łącznie doświadczenia pandemii i procesy urefleksyjniania i sieciowego ekshibicjonizmu stanowią unikalną dla projektantów szansę lepszego poznania potrzeb i codzienności użytkowników, a dzięki temu polepszenia jakości powstających projektów, które mogą trafniej odpowiadać na potrzeby użytkowników/mieszkańców – być bardziej funkcjonalne i bardziej elastyczne. Niestety wciąż jest to (zaledwie) szansa na lepsze projektowanie, a nie bodziec rzeczywistych zmian.Otwarty dostępArtykułyJournal article - 2025-11-06
Creolizing Kurosawa: Malcochon, Japonisme, and the Relational Aesthetics of Global Modernism
Herbertson, GavinThis article reframes global modernism through Édouard Glissant’s relational poetics, using Derek Walcott’s play Malcochon (1959) as a case study in transmedial and transcultural exchange. Written as a deliberate imitation of Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashomon (1950), Malcochon draws on the conventions of Japanese cinema, Noh and Kabuki theatre, Euro-American modernist poetics, and Caribbean folk performance. In tracing the diverse influences that animate the play, the article expands on Shu-mei Shih’s argument that East–West modernist exchange was often mediated through Japan, repositioning her triangular model within a broader, multidirectional, transhistorical web of relations rooted in Glissant’s concept of totalité-monde. This remodelling involves demonstrating how a seemingly unrelated cultural geography – the Caribbean – serves as the fourth of many further nodes in a global, recursive network. Walcott’s play ultimately emerges as an emblem of relationality, a concept reconceived for global modernism not only as a spatial or diagnostic heuristic, but as a generative compositional force.Otwarty dostępArtykułyJournal article - 2025-10-30
From Source to Sea: Reading Omeros (1990) and Ione (1957) through Caribbean Tidalectics
Herbertson, GavinThis interdisciplinary article offers an “alter/native” approach to dominant Caribbean literary historiography by challenging its foundational teleological narrative—one that casts Derek Walcott’s Omeros (1990) as the apex of a linear poetic ascent. In place of this progressivist arc, the article reads Omeros through the regional logic of “tidalectics”: a sea-shaped model of historical return and layered time, first named by Kamau Brathwaite, whose conceptual currents move through the work of major Caribbean thinkers, including Édouard Glissant, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, and Walcott himself. It proposes that Omeros does not descend from a singular classical lineage but arises from a tidal network of textual relations, one in which Walcott’s early, underexamined play Ione (1957) circulates with as much generative force as its Homeric intertexts. Drawing on archival and journalistic materials—from The Daily Gleaner and Public Opinion to Federal Theatre Company programming—the article reframes Ione not as a failed precursor but as a copresent current within an oceanic aesthetic system. By restoring this overlooked work to critical visibility, it both advocates and enacts a text-centered praxis grounded in Caribbean epistemologies and attuned to the recursive rhythms of the region’s literary and cultural production.Otwarty dostępArtykułyJournal article - 2025
Perspective: Counselling Simulator - A gamified tool for the development and consolidation of risk assessment skills in trainee counsellors
Conn, CharlottePatel, AashiyaTuluceanu, Ana-CristinaGranda-Salazar, MishellGavin, JacobMercer, DanielWilliams, AndrewPurpose: Risk is a core element of counselling. The training of risk detection, assessment and management is therefore essential to ensuring effective and ethical practice. Design/methodology/approach: The gamification of education and training aims to strengthen engagement with serious material and enhance learning and consolidation by using a motivating medium. This showcase presents “Perspective: Counselling Simulator”, a gamified tool for developing and assessing risk-assessment skills in trainee counsellors in the UK. Findings: We present a showcase of the game and its development, plans for further validation and evaluation. Originality: To our knowledge, “Perspective: Counselling Simulator” is the first of its kind as a gamified education and training tool for risk-assessment in counselling. Practical implications: Following ongoing evaluation, the game is intended to be a scalable and accessible tool for trainee counsellors to develop knowledge and self-efficacy in relation to a vital professional skill.Otwarty dostępArtykułyJournal article