The aim of the article is to answer the following questions: what is cultural diplomacy? What tools and instruments does it use? And eventually, whether the EU adopts a cultural diplomacy strategy and what role the issues of cross-cultural communication serve in it? Milton C. Cummings defines cultural diplomacy as “the exchange of ideas, information, values, systems, traditions, beliefs, and other aspects of culture, with the intention of fostering mutual understanding”. We assume that the cultural diplomacy of the European Union is an important element of shaping the relations between the EU and the rest of the world, so it serves a role in creating the EU image and in fulfilling its political interests. Our research hypothesis is: cultural diplomacy is an instrument for reconstruction of the European Community and may play a part in creating a bridge connecting the EU with the world. The research methods used in this article consisted primarily in collection and observation of facts, which was based on the analysis of sources: official EU documents: declarations, communications, reports, or parliamentary debates. Other useful sources were expert opinions, reports of institutions and of companies which carried out communication activities on behalf of the European Commission and the Committee of Regions.
Cities create a transcultural sphere and a platform for transcultural dialogue.Cities play an important cultural-creative role and they try to become policy player onat the international level. The aim of this study is to evaluate the actions taken in cities from two perspectives. On the one hand how the multicultural (multi-lingual and multi-religious) cityscape is shaped, how the city is governed in order to create a space termed as a ‘meeting place’. On the other hand how these undertakings affect the image of the city on the international stage and how they contribute to the city diplomacy strategy.
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The requirements for lightweight cement slurries besides to density are the thickening time, rheological parameters and compressive strength of the cement. The minimum compressive strength of the cement allowing for start work in the hole after the cementing casing is 3.5 MPa, while 14 MPa allows for correct interpretation by geophysics. The article presents the results of tests on light cement slurries in the density range from 1.46 g/cm3 to 1.61 g/cm3, whose minimum compressive strength 3.5 MPa was achieved after 12 hours from the end of the cementing process and exceeds value of 14 MPa after 48 hours WOC.
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Przedstawiono wyniki oceny aktywności fotodynamicznej oktajodowej magnezowej soli 1,4,8,11,15,18,22,25-oktakis[2-(4-N-metylomorfolin-4-ium-4-ilo)etoksy]ftalocyjaniny wobec biofilmu Pseudomonas aeruginosa wytworzonego na powierzchni różnych materiałów. Stwierdzono, że oceniana ftalocyjanina aktywowana światłem zmniejszała biofilm P. aeruginosa na wszystkich badanych powierzchniach. Badany związek wykazywał działanie fototoksyczne wobec wszystkich użytych szczepów, które charakteryzowały się różną zdolnością tworzenia biofilmu. Wyniki badań wskazują, że badaną ftalocyjaninę można uznać za potencjalny czynnik przeciwko biofilmom P. aeruginosa.
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Doses of a bacterial suspension (200 μL, d. 1.10⁷ colony forming units in 1 mL) were deposited on substrates (stainless steel, glass, plastic) and incubated on them at 36°C for 24 h to produce biofilms. The biofilms were immersed in solns. of the title compound for 20 min and exposed after bathing to light beam (wavelength 735 nm, power d. 3 mW/cm², 20 min). The use of light-activated title compd. resulted in significant redn. of living cells populations on all tested substrates. The biggest changes were obsd. on the glass substrate.
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