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ABSTRACT In icon painting, chalk whiting is key to creating a gesso ground, providing a smooth, absorbent surface for paint. Calcareous nannofossils, tiny marine skeletons found in chalk, are an ideal tool for analyzing the origin of an icon's chalk ground, often the only reliable information about where the icon came from.
Mariusz Kędzierski, Mirosław P. Kruk
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Slavia as a Comparative Model. Reflections on a Recent History of Slavic Literatures
The present essay aims to assess the very possibility of tracing a comparative history of Slavic cultures, by highlighting those elements that are potentially common to all these literary traditions. Starting from the examination of Marcello Garzaniti’s
Guido Carpi
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Adama Stanisława Krasińskiego zapomniany Słownik synonimów polskich i jego poprzednicy
On Adam Stanisław Krasiński’s forgotten Słownik synonimów polskich and its predecessors The paper consists of two parts. The first one covers characteristics of dictionaries (dated from XVIth to XIXth century), groups of synonyms regarding mainly the ...
Lucyna Agnieszka Jankowiak +1 more
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Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics
Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
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Światowa slawistyka w Warszawie. Sprawozdanie z konferencji
World Slavic studies in Warsaw. Conference report The text is a report from the international conference, ‘The Identity of the Slavs past and present: language, culture, literature in young Slavists’ research’ (May 2014).
Anna Jawor, Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska
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Multi‐Material 3D Printing of Soft Dielectric Actuators With Optimized Electrodes
Multi‐material fused filament fabrication is applied to fully 3D print dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs). Selected 3D printing parameters are varied to optimize the electrode yielding DEAs, which are able to undergo a maximum displacement of 91% with respect to the free length of the actuator.
Ivan Raguž +5 more
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Processing sentences is modulated by the grammatical aspect of the predicate. Previous studies have indicated that the English progressive and Farsi imperfective are associated with a stronger mental activation of the components or circumstances of the ...
Christina Clasmeier, Jan Patrick Zeller
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About meanings as a rule not included in dictionaries
About meanings as a rule not included in dictionaries The article discusses the problem of ambiguity of the exponents of logical existential quantification occurring in the verbal group of Bulgarian, Polish and Russian sentences: Bulg. отвреме навреме,
Violetta Koseska-Toszewa, Maksim Duszkin
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Niekonwencjonalne historie instytucji slawistycznych
Unconventional (hi)stories of Slavic institutions The text is a short account of the international interdisciplinary conference „Unconventional (hi)stories of Slavic institutions” which was organized by Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy
Ewelina Drzewiecka +1 more
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Editorial
Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, Anna Zawadzka
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