Kształtowanie polityki integracyjnej wobec imigrantów z Białorusi oraz potencjał ich zaangażowania społeczno-politycznego na przykładzie Wrocławia

Recent political events in Belarus have caused a large wave of migration from this country. Immigrants come to Poland seeking help and escaping from the cruel repression of the autocratic regime of Alyaxandr Lukashenka. This article aims to answer what role non-governmental organisations play in the policy of integrating immigrants from Belarus in Poland. Do immigrants from Belarus contribute to the activities of non-governmental organisations in Poland? This article highlights the problem of an active response of Polish society to the Belarusian socio-political crisis. It also analyses the activity of non-governmental organisations aimed at supporting immigrants from Belarus. It is based on source research, in-depth interviews with non-governmental organisations’ activists and surveys of immigrants from Belarus. The author uses the integration policy approach to examine the activities of non-governmental organisations aimed at promoting the interests of the immigration community from Belarus and analyses its expectations. The main goals of this article are to demonstrate the phenomenon of social movement among foreigners from Belarus and to show a number of integration problems of Belarusian immigrants in Poland.

Optimization of data integration using schema matching of linguistic-based and constraint-based in the university database

University requires the integration of data from one system with other systems as needed. This is because there are still many processes to input the same data but with different information systems. The application of data integration generally has several obstacles, one of which is due to the diversity of databases used by each information system. Schema matching is one method that can be used to overcome data integration problems caused by database diversity. The schema matching method used in this research is linguistic and constraint. The results of the matching scheme are used as material for optimizing data integration at the database level. The optimization process shows a change in the number of tables and attributes in the database that is a decrease in the number of tables by 13 tables and 492 attributes. The changes were caused by some tables and attributes were omitted and normalized. This research shows that after optimization, data integration becomes better because the data was connected and used by other systems has increased by 46.67% from the previous amount. This causes the same data entry on different systems can be reduced and also data inconsistencies caused by duplication of data on different systems can be minimized.

Optimization of data integration using schema matching of linguistic-based and constraint-based in the university database

University requires the integration of data from one system with other systems as needed. This is because there are still many processes to input the same data but with different information systems. The application of data integration generally has several obstacles, one of which is due to the diversity of databases used by each information system. Schema matching is one method that can be used to overcome data integration problems caused by database diversity. The schema matching method used in this research is linguistic and constraint. The results of the matching scheme are used as material for optimizing data integration at the database level. The optimization process shows a change in the number of tables and attributes in the database that is a decrease in the number of tables by 13 tables and 492 attributes. The changes were caused by some tables and attributes were omitted and normalized. This research shows that after optimization, data integration becomes better because the data was connected and used by other systems has increased by 46.67% from the previous amount. This causes the same data entry on different systems can be reduced and also data inconsistencies caused by duplication of data on different systems can be minimized.

Transitioning from Military to Civilian Society: Trials and Tribulations of Integration Process

The Armed Forces require young and physically strong soldiers to win wars. Therefore, about 60000 soldiers from the Indian Armed Forces retire every year, called Ex-Servicemen (ESM) or Veterans. The government has initiated measures including training courses, reservations in government jobs and self-employment schemes for resettlement of ESM. The objectives of the study were to: Investigate the resettlement and integration problems of the ESM, identify and examine ‘Enablers’ and ‘Barriers’ in the process and study and explore the ‘Quality of Life’ as perceived by ESM. The research was confined to the ESM comprising personnel below officer rank belonging to all three wings of the Indian Armed Forces. The survey was conducted online. An online survey software was used to design and share the and record responses. We found that a majority of Ex-Servicemen retire before they turn forty, and a significant minority could not get jobs and resettle. Employment emerged as crucial for resettlement and integration. Higher education, merit and networking, and job reservation helped in obtaining employment. However, government departments did not implement job reservation rules faithfully. Ex-servicemen lacked civilian job skills, and employers did not recognise their military skills. ESM considered government resettling agencies as powerless, ineffective and of little use.

FLINT: Flows for the Internet of Things

New protocols and technologies are continuously competing in the Internet of Things. This has resulted in a fragmented landscape that complicates the integration of different solutions. Standardization efforts try to avoid this problem, however within a certain ecosystem, multiple standards still require integration to enable trans-sector innovation. Moreover, existing devices require transformations to fit in an ecosystem. In this paper, we discuss several integration problems in the field of Low Power Wide Area Networks in the context of the Port of the Future and propose a new distributed platform architecture, called FLINT. FLINT is a framework to program flexible and configurable flows on a per device basis. A flow is constructed from fine-grained components, called adapters. Due to the modularity of an adapter, users can easily integrate existing software. We evaluated FLINT based on five levels of interoperability and show that FLINT can be used to interconnect non-interoperable systems and protocols on every level. We have also implemented FLINT in a container based environment and demonstrated that a basic configuration has a 99% forwarding rate of 17.500 513-byte packets per second, showing that the architecture can deliver good performance.

Building the Semantic Layer of the Józef Piłsudski Digital Archive With an Ontology-Based Approach

Using semantic web technologies is becoming an efficient way to overcome metadata storage and data integration problems in digital archives, thus enhancing the accuracy of the search process and leading to the retrieval of more relevant results. In this paper, the results of the implementation of the semantic layer of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America digital archive are presented. In order to represent and integrate data about the archival collections housed by the institute, the authors developed arkivo, an ontology that accommodates the archival description of records but also provides a reference schema for publishing linked data. The authors describe the application of arkivo to the digitized archival collections of the institute, with emphasis on how these resources have been linked to external datasets in the linked data cloud. They also show the results of an experiment focused on the query answering task involving a state-of-the-art triple store system. The dataset related to the Piłsudski Institute archival collections has been made available for ontology benchmarking purposes.

EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION DURING THE PANDEMIC: INTEGRATION PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

The article aims to assess the results of the development of the Eurasian Economic Union, including in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. The theoretical and methodological foundation of the study of integration is based on studying the activity of various regional associations from the viewpoint of the integration levels and ultimate goals. Depending on the set goals, it is possible to predict and strategically calculate the consequences and possible benefits of economic integration. Using statistical analysis tools, the authors analyzed the key economic indicators affecting the development of the EAEU. Official data of international structures (World Bank, U.N., EAEU), government agencies, various reports and reviews were also used in the work. The studied indicators are presented in the article in tables and graphs, created by the authors for the purpose of visualizing the relevant processes. Logical reasoning is used to describe the results obtained. The article assesses the consequences of the pandemic for global trade and analyzes further ways of developing the world political process. Today, many countries face similar problems due to the pandemic, and take unprecedented measures in order to address them. Most countries have restricted the export of essential goods, such as medical supplies and food. Global economic ties aimed at liberalizing trade have been called into question, since each state is forced to ensure its own national security in the face of the pandemic. In this respect, the question of strength and stability of the globalization processes are in a changing world? Certain event scenarios are considered in the conclusion of the article, one of which is a transition to a policy of protectionism and import substitution.

Sprachwechsel in der neuesten litauischen Migrations- und Mobilitätsliteratur

Language Change in the Most Recent Lithuanian Literature of Migration and Mobility. When discussing literary multilingualism within the Lithuanian literary scene, researchers usually refer to different groups of authors. Some were born and socialised abroad immediately after the Second World War, some left Lithuania after 1990, but producing their texts in different linguistic contexts all of them write consistently in one language, English or Lithuanian. In the most recent Lithuanian migration and mobility literature, however, one can observe examples of intra-textual bilingualism or multilingualism, which illustrate the integration problems of Lithuanian (labour) migrants into foreign societies on the one hand and the development of multiple global identities on the other. The paper examines these spreading tendencies focusing on the exemplary novel Stasys Šaltoka (2017) by Gabija Grušaitė and discussing the structure and functions of the intra-textual code-switching. The creative use of language directed against conventional linguistic purism shows that the young generation of Lithuanian authors tends to break language and cultural borders. The authors Unė Kaunaitė, Gabija Grušaitė and others show that the playful use of multilingualism can be subversive, ironic, but at the same time can highlight the problems of language dominance and thus political, social and cultural exclusion, express group mentality, identity changes, etc. The way that Lithuanian literature deals with multilingualism, expressed explicitly or implicitly, reveals the extent to which certain literary texts can be described as transcultural, in line with the current tone of European and global migration and mobility literature.