The impact of the migration processes on the low cost airlines’ routs between EU countries and Poland after its accession to the EU, and on the territorial cohesion of Polish regions.

After the accession of Poland to the European Union in 2004 we could observe two phenomena: huge emigration of Poles to the old member states of the EU (mainly to United Kingdom and Ireland) and on the second hand a very dynamic increase in the number of flight destinations from regional airports served by low cost carriers (what meant also increase in the number of passengers). The aim of this article is to answer the question, whether directions of the emigration after accession of Poland to the European Union had a significant impact on the routes of low cost airlines in Poland. Whether we can say, that the migration forced LCCs to establish new flights and connections in a particular direction or not? And if yes - to what extent. What is happening when emigrants are coming back to Poland. If there are significant relation between movement of migrants and number of flights of low cost carriers from Polish airports? Finally, can we say, that growing emigration and growing number of LCCs flights helped to improve territorial cohesion of Polish regions with the core of Europe? What is the scale of this improvement and what is the mechanism of this? What kind of policy can regional authorities introduce in this area to strengthen territorial cohesion of Polish regions with the rest of Europe? To answer all these questions authors want to compare and analyze statistics of migration and original data concerning number and destination of LCCs flights from Polish regional airports. To answer questions stated above statistical methods will be used.

The impact of the migration processes on the low cost airlines' routs between EU countries and Poland after its accession to the EU, and on the territorial cohesion of Polish regions.

After the accession of Poland to the European Union in 2004 we could observe two phenomena: huge emigration of Poles to the old member states of the EU (mainly to United Kingdom and Ireland) and on the second hand a very dynamic increase in the number of flight destinations from regional airports served by low cost carriers (what meant also increase in the number of passengers). The aim of this article is to answer the question, whether directions of the emigration after accession of Poland to the European Union had a significant impact on the routes of low cost airlines in Poland. Whether we can say, that the migration forced LCCs to establish new flights and connections in a particular direction or not? And if yes - to what extent. What is happening when emigrants are coming back to Poland. If there are significant relation between movement of migrants and number of flights of low cost carriers from Polish airports? Finally, can we say, that growing emigration and growing number of LCCs flights helped to improve territorial cohesion of Polish regions with the core of Europe? What is the scale of this improvement and what is the mechanism of this? What kind of policy can regional authorities introduce in this area to strengthen territorial cohesion of Polish regions with the rest of Europe? To answer all these questions authors want to compare and analyze statistics of migration and original data concerning number and destination of LCCs flights from Polish regional airports. To answer questions stated above statistical methods will be used

Evidence to impact: A community knowledge mobilisation evaluation framework

Many strategies guide knowledge-sharing to enhance uptake of evidence-based programs in practice, though few have been designed specifically for community settings. We highlight the importance of understanding and evaluating knowledge mobilisation in community settings and present a framework for evaluating knowledge mobilisation that captures short-term knowledge use as it relates to community stakeholders’ goals. To examine the utility of this framework, we applied it to the Pan-Canadian knowledge mobilisation activities of Better Beginnings, Better Futures, a community, university and government collaboration to support child development to its full capabilities. Participants included 31 community stakeholders who had attended a Better Beginnings workshop in one of six Canadian provinces and territories. Qualitative phone interviews were conducted to examine the extent to which knowledge mobilisation activities met participants’ learning needs, and how participants had applied the knowledge gained. Findings demonstrate that most participants had used the information, although the ways information was used varied greatly based on the community context. This application of the knowledge mobilisation framework shows it is useful for capturing diverse forms of short-term knowledge use in community settings. Lessons learned through the evaluation were used to refine the framework. The implications of this framework for academic researchers engaged in undertaking and evaluating community knowledge mobilisation are discussed

The Third-party Model: Enhancing Volunteering through Governments, Corporations and Educational Institutes

Volunteering is perceived as important for creating social capital and civil society, and therefore has become a fundamental part of social policies across most Western countries. In this article, we examine the involvement of governments, corporations and educational institutes in encouraging volunteering, and pinpoint their role in developing volunteering circles. Based on essential concepts presented here (volunteerability and recruitability), we develop the third-party model, and show how third parties get involved. We identify new ways in which these parties can enhance volunteering, and discuss their impact on volunteerability and recruitability. The potential negative impacts of volunteerism and ways in which these can be ameliorated are also acknowledged. Finally, issues that arise due to such involvement are also discussed, thereby offering an important contribution to social policy research in the area of volunteerism

Entre lapsus corporis et performance : fonctions des gestes somatiques dans l’expression des émotions dans la littérature altimédiévale

La littérature des premiers siècles médiévaux (vi-viiie siècle) attache peu d’attention aux émotions, et a fortiori aux gestes somatiques qui les traduisent. Cependant, malgré leur relative rareté dans les textes, ces derniers n’en jouent pas moins un rôle capital dans la fabrique des relations sociales et dans les négociations de pouvoir. C’est la triple fonction de ces gestes proprement émotionnels qui sera examinée ici. Certains, tels que le rougissement, sont des lapsus corporis qui, échappant à toute maîtrise, viennent révéler une intériorité inavouable. D’autres encore, ritualisés et normés, relèvent de la « performance émotionnelle » dans le sens goffmanien du terme. En dernier lieu, certains sourires ou larmes possèdent une dimension performative. Ils ont alors la capacité d’affecter les liens sociaux et d’instaurer de nouveaux rapports de force entre les interlocuteurs.Early medieval literature shows little interest in emotions, let alone in the somatic signs translating them. Nevertheless, despite their relative scarcity in the texts, these somatic gestures do play a major part in the making of social relationships and in power negotiations. This article will examine their threefold function. Some of them, escaping control, such as blushing, are lapsus corporis, revealing a shameful inwardness. Others, ritualized and normative, are similar to emotional performance in the Goffmanian tradition. At last, certain smiles or tears possess a performative effect changing social relationships and establishing a new balance of power between speakers

Les hontes mérovingiennes : essai de méthodologie et cas de figure

Longtemps ignorée, voire occultée, la honte médiévale, et plus particulièrement les hontes mérovingiennes, n’ont pas encore fait l’objet d’une étude systématique. Cette carence n’étonnera pas. Sentiment caché et polymorphe par essence, la honte ne se laisse pas aisément décrypter. Eu égard à cette difficulté, une mise au point méthodologique s’impose. Partant d’une critique de l’approche linguistique, qui consiste à rechercher et étudier les mots exprimant la notion de honte, cet article présente un premier travail de réflexion méthodologique fondé sur quelques cas de figure. Diverses méthodes, telles l’introspection et la contextualisation par le biais de la notion de script émotionnel, susceptibles à la fois de détecter la honte lorsqu’elle est tue ou de lui donner un sens lorsque les termes l’exprimant sont trop imprécis, seront expérimentées dans le contexte du corpus mérovingien.Long ignored, even hidden, medieval shame, and “Merovingian shames” in particular, have not yet been systematically examined. This lack of interest is not surprising. Usually veil, polymorphous by nature, shame is not easily decipherable. With regard to this difficulty, a methodological discussion is needed. Beginning with a critical assertion of the traditional lexical approach, which consists in searching for and analyzing emotion words, this article constitutes an attempt to provide a methodological framework, applied here to a number of case studies. Several methods, such as introspection and contextualization by means of emotional scripts, liable to detect shame when it is not actually expressed or to make sense of it when it is too vague, will be experimented in the Merovingian corpus

Extraction of Visual Information to Predict Crowdfunding Success

Researchers have increasingly turned to crowdfunding platforms to gain insights into entrepreneurial activity and dynamics. While previous studies have explored various factors influencing crowdfunding success, such as technology, communication, and marketing strategies, the role of visual elements that can be automatically extracted from images has received less attention. This is surprising, considering that crowdfunding platforms emphasize the importance of attention-grabbing and high-resolution images, and previous research has shown that image characteristics can significantly impact product evaluations. Indeed, a comprehensive review of empirical articles (n = 202) that utilized Kickstarter data, focusing on the incorporation of visual information in their analyses. Our findings reveal that only 29.70% controlled for the number of images, and less than 12% considered any image details. In this manuscript, we review the literature on image processing and its relevance to the business domain, highlighting two types of visual variables: visual counts (number of pictures and number of videos) and image details. Building upon previous work that discussed the role of color, composition and figure-ground relationships, we introduce visual scene elements that have not yet been explored in crowdfunding, including the number of faces, the number of concepts depicted, and the ease of identifying those concepts. To demonstrate the predictive value of visual counts and image details, we analyze Kickstarter data. Our results highlight that visual count features are two of the top three predictors of success. Our results also show that simple image detail features such as color matter a lot, and our proposed measures of visual scene elements can also be useful. We supplement our article with R and Python codes that help authors extract image details (https://osf.io/ujnzp/).Comment: 32 pages, 5 figure