{"title":"A Problem in Genetic Counseling","authors":"","doi":"10.24425/academiapas.2023.147022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/academiapas.2023.147022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":486787,"journal":{"name":"ACADEMIA - The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences","volume":"168 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135944782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rescuing Books","authors":"","doi":"10.24425/academiapas.2023.147030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/academiapas.2023.147030","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout history, people have preserved textual information using a range of materials, including pieces of slate, clay tablets, papyrus, parchment, and eventually paper. From the seventeenth century onward, the latter established itself as the predominant medium for manuscripts and all forms of printed documents. The demand for paper was huge, and grew rapidly at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rapid economic development and growing bureaucracy led to a burgeoning need for an affordable writing and printing Teresa Urszula Szmigielska, PhD","PeriodicalId":486787,"journal":{"name":"ACADEMIA - The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135944784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Baltic Sea: Joint Action Is Key","authors":"","doi":"10.24425/academiapas.2023.147025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/academiapas.2023.147025","url":null,"abstract":"The Baltic Sea boasts one of the world’s most unique ecosystems. For the inhabitants of the countries bordering on the sea – the Baltic countries – it is also an important part of the natural environment, the culture of their countries, and the entire maritime sector (tourism, transportation, inBlanka Pajda, MSc studied oceanography from the University of Gdańsk with a specialization in marine and atmospheric chemistry. She is currently a PhD candidate at the International Environmental Doctoral School of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a member of the Laboratory of Pollution in Polar Regions at the PAS Institute of Oceanology. Her doctoral research focuses on heavy metal pollution of the Arctic marine environment. blanka@iopan.pl DOI: 10.24425/academiaPAS.2023.147025","PeriodicalId":486787,"journal":{"name":"ACADEMIA - The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135944785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does One Straw Really Matter?","authors":"","doi":"10.24425/academiapas.2023.147026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/academiapas.2023.147026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":486787,"journal":{"name":"ACADEMIA - The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135944798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Invisible to the Eye","authors":"","doi":"10.24425/academiapas.2023.147015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/academiapas.2023.147015","url":null,"abstract":"human activity might cause permanent damage to the environment was not widely recognized. Little heed was then paid to the environmental risks posed by the operations of industrial plants, or by the large quantities of harmful waste they generated. This began to change in the mid-1970s, when the first provisions were enacted to regulate the activities of industrial plants, in terms of both environmental hazards and waste management. In Poland, such processes began in an organized manner with the enactment of the Environmental Protection Law in 2001. However, the lack of concern for the environment in the early stages of industrial development has left behind a devastating aftermath: more than 340,000 DMITRIY KANDINSKIY/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM","PeriodicalId":486787,"journal":{"name":"ACADEMIA - The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences","volume":"7 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135944786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Importance of Clean Air","authors":"","doi":"10.24425/academiapas.2023.147019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/academiapas.2023.147019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":486787,"journal":{"name":"ACADEMIA - The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences","volume":"47 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135944799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"History Inscribed in Bones","authors":"","doi":"10.24425/academiapas.2023.147023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/academiapas.2023.147023","url":null,"abstract":"t h e m a g a z i n e o f t h e p a s 2/78/2023 History Inscribed in Bones Anna Juras, PhD, ME is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Human Biology and Evolution, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She is a biotechnologist and anthropologist by training, and her research concerns the study of ancient human DNA. She is interested in the origin of historical and prehistoric populations in Central Europe and their migrations from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages. anna.juras@amu.edu.pl DOI: 10.24425/academiaPAS.2023.147023","PeriodicalId":486787,"journal":{"name":"ACADEMIA - The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135944811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Traces of Medieval Mining and Smelting","authors":"","doi":"10.24425/academiapas.2023.147027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/academiapas.2023.147027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":486787,"journal":{"name":"ACADEMIA - The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135944783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Light and Noise Pollution","authors":"","doi":"10.24425/academiapas.2023.147018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/academiapas.2023.147018","url":null,"abstract":"Many studies show that environmental noise is harmful to humans and animals. Also, excess artificial light has a destructive effect on ecosystems.","PeriodicalId":486787,"journal":{"name":"ACADEMIA - The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135688840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(Im)mortal Photographs","authors":"","doi":"10.24425/academiapas.2023.147033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/academiapas.2023.147033","url":null,"abstract":"The Kórnik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences houses magnificent historic collections, which include numerous old photographs. Most of these are silver prints on paper substrates. The dominant photographic technique used by nineteenth-century photographers was albumen prints (the “printing-out paper” technique, POP), while silver-gelatin prints (the “developing-out paper” technique, DOP) were predominant among twentieth-century photographers. For years, the Kórnik Library has been making efforts to protect its collections through continuous cooperation with conservators – including with our team from the Department of Conservation and Restoration of Paper and Leather at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Photographs are a type of historical object that is extremely sensitive to a variety of destructive factors. These first and foremost include excessive daily fluctuations in humidity and temperature, biological factors (insects, microorganisms), improper use and storage, and air pollutants. From a conservator’s point of view, “air pollutants” are understood as any undesirable solid, liquid, or gaseous substances that may have a negative effect on the durability and permanence of a historical object. Objects created on paper substrates may be harmed by various chemicals present in the air: acidic oxides, volatile organic compounds – VOCs (especially acidic VOCs), substances that accelerate the oxidation process (peroxides, ozone), and hydrogen sulfide. Many of these were the subject of research we carried out between 2011 and 2016, where indicator tubes were used to draw in air Tomasz Kozielec, PhD, DSc","PeriodicalId":486787,"journal":{"name":"ACADEMIA - The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences","volume":"30 20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135739111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}