Krystyna Cieślik
Biographic Data
| ID | 200810 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Krystyna Cieślik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Krystyna |
| FAMILY NAME | Cieślik |
| SIGNATURE | CIEŚLIK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8240-0117 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Dismal Harvest: The Uneven Landscapes of AI in Agriculture
In this intervention, I examine artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture through a political ecology lens, analysing how promises of productivity, efficiency, and sustainability take shape across uneven postcolonial landscapes. Building on feminist and critical agrarian perspectives, I focus on the material relations of farming to show that AI in agriculture, often portrayed as immaterial, relies on deeply material infrastructures—sensors, dat…
ICT and Rural Development in the Global South: By Willem van Eekelen Routledge, 2024
“Technology—no matter how well designed—is only a magnifier of human intent and capacity,” writes Kentaro Toyama, “It is not a substitute.” This insight is a crucial lens through which to read ICT
The Experiences of Iranian Middle and Lower Class Living in Inflationary Conditions
One of the most important economic problems in Iran is inflation. The aim of this study was to explore the social consequences of inflation in the lives of middle-class and lower-class people. Some of the questions addressed in this study are: how do participants experience inflation? How do they make a living? What problems are they facing? what are the consequences of inflation for participants? We used a constructivist qualitative approach and…
Assessment of the Impact of Increased Physical Activity on Body Mass and Adipose Tissue Reduction in Overweight and Obese Children
(1) Background: Within the last 30 years, growing rates of child overweight and obesity have been observed as a very concerning phenomenon in most countries worldwide. The research aim was to assess what effect increased physical activity has on reducing body mass and adipose tissue in children between 10 and 11 years of age as well as to answer the question of whether physical activity could be considered as a factor in preventing child overweig…
A user-centred design framework for disaster risk visualisation
Visualisations are powerful communication tools that have the potential to help societies assess and manage natural hazard and disaster risks. However, the diversity of risk management contexts and user characteristics is a challenge to develop understandable and useable visualisations. We conducted a systematic literature review to understand the current state developing disaster risk visualisations following design best practices and accounting…
Investigating project sustainability: Technology as a development object in a community-based project in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan
The imperative of project sustainability has become explicit policy within development. This is especially true for technology transfer: ‘development objects’ are to be used by prospective beneficiaries long after the project’s closure. We argue that the link between project sustainability, technology and ‘success’ requires deeper scrutiny. We investigate a community-based project in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan, which included the transfer of smartphones, …
Offline contexts of online jobs: Platform drivers, decent work, and informality in Lagos, Nigeria
Datafication, Power and Control in Development: A Historical Perspective on the Perils and Longevity of Data
The collection, processing, storage and circulation of data are fundamental element of contemporary societies. While the positivistic literature on ‘data revolution’ finds it essential for improving development delivery, critical data studies stress the threats of datafication. In this article, we demonstrate that datafication has been happening continuously through history, driven by political and economic pressures. We use historical examples t…
Young people not in Employment, Education or Training (Neet) in Sub-Saharan Africa: Sustainable Development Target 8.6 missed and reset
Sustainable Development Goal 8, Target 8.6, represents a direct commitment to improving the dramatic labour market situation of young people by substantially reducing the proportion of young people Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) by 2020. This deadline has now passed, and while progress has been made in most EU countries, the situation of young people categorized as NEET in Sub-Saharan Africa has worsened over the past ten years. …
The role of ICT in collective management of public bads: The case of potato late blight in Ethiopia
What is the role of Information and Communication Technology in the collective management of public bads? We study epidemics of late blight in potato as a collective action challenge in Oromia, Ethiopia. As a highly infectious, air-borne disease, potato late blight represents a public bad: it is non-excludable and non-rival. Managing public bads is a major policy challenge in Ethiopia due to structural inefficiencies and resource constraints to f…
Sexual dimorphism of lumbar lordosis and lumbar spine mobility during the period of progressive development
In the development process of the studied spondylometric parameters, dimorphic diversity can be observed essentially only in adolescence. In general, in the whole studied period of ontogenetic development, the greater range of lumbar spine mobility is found in females. Minor sexual dimorphism is also evident in the dynamics of development and in the stage of development of the majority of examined characteristics in individual age ranges in relat…
From present to future development pathways in fragile mountain landscapes
Mountains are dynamic landscapes that are home to rich natural and human heritage. However, climatic variability, globalisation and increasing ecomomic integration are making these landscapes more fragile with implications for present and future development. Using a pathways lens, we examine development trajectories in mountains and relate these to environmental and social-economic change currently taking place. We analyse and compare pathways in…
Project Narratives: Investigating Participatory Conservation in the Peruvian Andes
This article shares findings from a participatory assessment study of a community-based environmental monitoring project in the Peruvian Andes. The objective of the project was to generate evidence to support sustainable livelihoods through participatory knowledge generation. With the use of narrative framing, the study retrospectively reconstructs the project's trajectory as perceived by the three stakeholder groups: the community, the researche…
The quandaries of social entrepreneurship studies – a discursive review of the discipline
The aim of this paper is to investigate the ways in which social entrepreneurship knowledge is both propelled and hindered by the socioeconomic circumstances. We examine the existing body of research and identify different conceptualizations and main schools of thought. We then demonstrate how the process of constructing academic representation is shaped by the prevalent public discourses. Our analysis leads to the differentiation between social …
Risky Business? Rural Entrepreneurship in Subsistence Markets: Evidence from Burundi
Ecosensitivity and genetic polymorphism of somatic traits in the perinatal development of twins
Moral Economy Meets Social Enterprise Community-Based Green Energy Project in Rural Burundi
Analysis of the validity of assumptions underlying a research on the heritability of quantitative traits
INTRODUCTION: Heritability is a statistical measure, expressing the proportion of phenotypic variance that is explained by the genetic variance. Heritability of a given trait can vary in time and may differ between populations, which is inter alia associated with interactions and correlations between genotype and environment or population-specific differences. Therefore, heritability measures are modulated by both genetic and environmental factor…
Heritability estimates for somatic traits determined perinatally with the twin method
Relationship between type and weight of placenta and neonate birth weight in twin pregnancy
The relationship between the type and size of placenta and the development of twin fetuses is still discussed in perinatology. The objective of this paper is to answer the question whether the final weight and size of placenta is a limiting factor for fetal growth in twin pregnancy. The study material consisted of 1,261 pairs of fetuses from monochorionic (MC) and dichorionic (DC) twin pregnancies, born by cesarean section between pregnancy weeks…
Matczyne czynniki zagrożenia a wewnątrzmaciczne opóźnienie rozwoju
This paper is a part of a research which aims to compare the level of foetuses growth according to the influence of maternal factors of threat
Próba określenia wpływu czynnika wieku matki na rozwój cech somatycznych płodu
The attempt at stating the influence of mother's age on the development of the somatic traits of a fetus was made on the material composed of 1800 fetuses in the age of 20-40 weeks. By means of the variance analysis the correlation between 7 somatic traits o f a fetus and the age of a mother, was examined
Standards of morphological development in fetuses and newborns as a method of defining fetal age
Whenever the calendar age of the studied fetal material is not known we are bound to reconstruct it by replacing it with the developmental age. In this paper some common developmental standards used in the determination of fetal age are reviewed. The standards, as found in the relevant literature, are tested against a control group for their accuracy in predicting fetal age. The results indicate considerable discrepancy among the various standard…
Z badań nad wpływem czynników pozagenetycznych na rozwój płodu oraz ich udziału w przyczynach urodzeń martwych
TRYING TO DESCRIBE THE INFLUENCE OF PARAGENEnC FACTORS ON THE FETUS \nDEVELOPMENT. Fragment of investigations on the problem of selection influence revealing its factors, the \nrange and type of influence that shape fetus development of human being
Próba konstrukcji standardów rozwoju morfologicznego płodów i noworodków
The main aim of the present work was to construct reference data for estimating age of fetuses on grounds of their morphology (size). At the same time reliability of morphological estimates of fetal age was checked. Standards given in the present paper encompass ages from 20th to 42nd week of fetal life. They are based on observations of 1575 fetuses delivered alive. Chronological age of fetuses and newborns was ascertained as a menstrual age. In…
Moral Economy Meets Social Enterprise Community-Based Green Energy Project in Rural Burundi
Young people not in Employment, Education or Training (Neet) in Sub-Saharan Africa: Sustainable Development Target 8.6 missed and reset
Sustainable Development Goal 8, Target 8.6, represents a direct commitment to improving the dramatic labour market situation of young people by substantially reducing the proportion of young people Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) by 2020. This deadline has now passed, and while progress has been made in most EU countries, the situation of young people categorized as NEET in Sub-Saharan Africa has worsened over the past ten years. …
Datafication, Power and Control in Development: A Historical Perspective on the Perils and Longevity of Data
The collection, processing, storage and circulation of data are fundamental element of contemporary societies. While the positivistic literature on ‘data revolution’ finds it essential for improving development delivery, critical data studies stress the threats of datafication. In this article, we demonstrate that datafication has been happening continuously through history, driven by political and economic pressures. We use historical examples t…
Próba konstrukcji standardów rozwoju morfologicznego płodów i noworodków
The main aim of the present work was to construct reference data for estimating age of fetuses on grounds of their morphology (size). At the same time reliability of morphological estimates of fetal age was checked. Standards given in the present paper encompass ages from 20th to 42nd week of fetal life. They are based on observations of 1575 fetuses delivered alive. Chronological age of fetuses and newborns was ascertained as a menstrual age. In…
The Dismal Harvest: The Uneven Landscapes of AI in Agriculture
In this intervention, I examine artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture through a political ecology lens, analysing how promises of productivity, efficiency, and sustainability take shape across uneven postcolonial landscapes. Building on feminist and critical agrarian perspectives, I focus on the material relations of farming to show that AI in agriculture, often portrayed as immaterial, relies on deeply material infrastructures—sensors, dat…
Próba określenia wpływu czynnika wieku matki na rozwój cech somatycznych płodu
The attempt at stating the influence of mother's age on the development of the somatic traits of a fetus was made on the material composed of 1800 fetuses in the age of 20-40 weeks. By means of the variance analysis the correlation between 7 somatic traits o f a fetus and the age of a mother, was examined
The role of ICT in collective management of public bads: The case of potato late blight in Ethiopia
What is the role of Information and Communication Technology in the collective management of public bads? We study epidemics of late blight in potato as a collective action challenge in Oromia, Ethiopia. As a highly infectious, air-borne disease, potato late blight represents a public bad: it is non-excludable and non-rival. Managing public bads is a major policy challenge in Ethiopia due to structural inefficiencies and resource constraints to f…
Risky Business? Rural Entrepreneurship in Subsistence Markets: Evidence from Burundi
Matczyne czynniki zagrożenia a wewnątrzmaciczne opóźnienie rozwoju
This paper is a part of a research which aims to compare the level of foetuses growth according to the influence of maternal factors of threat
Z badań nad wpływem czynników pozagenetycznych na rozwój płodu oraz ich udziału w przyczynach urodzeń martwych
TRYING TO DESCRIBE THE INFLUENCE OF PARAGENEnC FACTORS ON THE FETUS \nDEVELOPMENT. Fragment of investigations on the problem of selection influence revealing its factors, the \nrange and type of influence that shape fetus development of human being
Próba konstrukcji standardów rozwoju morfologicznego płodów i noworodków
The main aim of the present work was to construct reference data for estimating age of fetuses on grounds of their morphology (size). At the same time reliability of morphological estimates of fetal age was checked. Standards given in the present paper encompass ages from 20th to 42nd week of fetal life. They are based on observations of 1575 fetuses delivered alive. Chronological age of fetuses and newborns was ascertained as a menstrual age. In…
Z badań nad wpływem czynników pozagenetycznych na rozwój płodu oraz ich udziału w przyczynach urodzeń martwych
TRYING TO DESCRIBE THE INFLUENCE OF PARAGENEnC FACTORS ON THE FETUS \nDEVELOPMENT. Fragment of investigations on the problem of selection influence revealing its factors, the \nrange and type of influence that shape fetus development of human being
Standards of morphological development in fetuses and newborns as a method of defining fetal age
Whenever the calendar age of the studied fetal material is not known we are bound to reconstruct it by replacing it with the developmental age. In this paper some common developmental standards used in the determination of fetal age are reviewed. The standards, as found in the relevant literature, are tested against a control group for their accuracy in predicting fetal age. The results indicate considerable discrepancy among the various standard…
Próba określenia wpływu czynnika wieku matki na rozwój cech somatycznych płodu
The attempt at stating the influence of mother's age on the development of the somatic traits of a fetus was made on the material composed of 1800 fetuses in the age of 20-40 weeks. By means of the variance analysis the correlation between 7 somatic traits o f a fetus and the age of a mother, was examined
Matczyne czynniki zagrożenia a wewnątrzmaciczne opóźnienie rozwoju
This paper is a part of a research which aims to compare the level of foetuses growth according to the influence of maternal factors of threat
Relationship between type and weight of placenta and neonate birth weight in twin pregnancy
The relationship between the type and size of placenta and the development of twin fetuses is still discussed in perinatology. The objective of this paper is to answer the question whether the final weight and size of placenta is a limiting factor for fetal growth in twin pregnancy. The study material consisted of 1,261 pairs of fetuses from monochorionic (MC) and dichorionic (DC) twin pregnancies, born by cesarean section between pregnancy weeks…
Heritability estimates for somatic traits determined perinatally with the twin method
Ecosensitivity and genetic polymorphism of somatic traits in the perinatal development of twins
Moral Economy Meets Social Enterprise Community-Based Green Energy Project in Rural Burundi
Analysis of the validity of assumptions underlying a research on the heritability of quantitative traits
INTRODUCTION: Heritability is a statistical measure, expressing the proportion of phenotypic variance that is explained by the genetic variance. Heritability of a given trait can vary in time and may differ between populations, which is inter alia associated with interactions and correlations between genotype and environment or population-specific differences. Therefore, heritability measures are modulated by both genetic and environmental factor…
Risky Business? Rural Entrepreneurship in Subsistence Markets: Evidence from Burundi
The quandaries of social entrepreneurship studies – a discursive review of the discipline
The aim of this paper is to investigate the ways in which social entrepreneurship knowledge is both propelled and hindered by the socioeconomic circumstances. We examine the existing body of research and identify different conceptualizations and main schools of thought. We then demonstrate how the process of constructing academic representation is shaped by the prevalent public discourses. Our analysis leads to the differentiation between social …
From present to future development pathways in fragile mountain landscapes
Mountains are dynamic landscapes that are home to rich natural and human heritage. However, climatic variability, globalisation and increasing ecomomic integration are making these landscapes more fragile with implications for present and future development. Using a pathways lens, we examine development trajectories in mountains and relate these to environmental and social-economic change currently taking place. We analyse and compare pathways in…
Project Narratives: Investigating Participatory Conservation in the Peruvian Andes
This article shares findings from a participatory assessment study of a community-based environmental monitoring project in the Peruvian Andes. The objective of the project was to generate evidence to support sustainable livelihoods through participatory knowledge generation. With the use of narrative framing, the study retrospectively reconstructs the project's trajectory as perceived by the three stakeholder groups: the community, the researche…
Young people not in Employment, Education or Training (Neet) in Sub-Saharan Africa: Sustainable Development Target 8.6 missed and reset
Sustainable Development Goal 8, Target 8.6, represents a direct commitment to improving the dramatic labour market situation of young people by substantially reducing the proportion of young people Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) by 2020. This deadline has now passed, and while progress has been made in most EU countries, the situation of young people categorized as NEET in Sub-Saharan Africa has worsened over the past ten years. …
The role of ICT in collective management of public bads: The case of potato late blight in Ethiopia
What is the role of Information and Communication Technology in the collective management of public bads? We study epidemics of late blight in potato as a collective action challenge in Oromia, Ethiopia. As a highly infectious, air-borne disease, potato late blight represents a public bad: it is non-excludable and non-rival. Managing public bads is a major policy challenge in Ethiopia due to structural inefficiencies and resource constraints to f…
Sexual dimorphism of lumbar lordosis and lumbar spine mobility during the period of progressive development
In the development process of the studied spondylometric parameters, dimorphic diversity can be observed essentially only in adolescence. In general, in the whole studied period of ontogenetic development, the greater range of lumbar spine mobility is found in females. Minor sexual dimorphism is also evident in the dynamics of development and in the stage of development of the majority of examined characteristics in individual age ranges in relat…
A user-centred design framework for disaster risk visualisation
Visualisations are powerful communication tools that have the potential to help societies assess and manage natural hazard and disaster risks. However, the diversity of risk management contexts and user characteristics is a challenge to develop understandable and useable visualisations. We conducted a systematic literature review to understand the current state developing disaster risk visualisations following design best practices and accounting…
Investigating project sustainability: Technology as a development object in a community-based project in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan
The imperative of project sustainability has become explicit policy within development. This is especially true for technology transfer: ‘development objects’ are to be used by prospective beneficiaries long after the project’s closure. We argue that the link between project sustainability, technology and ‘success’ requires deeper scrutiny. We investigate a community-based project in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan, which included the transfer of smartphones, …
Offline contexts of online jobs: Platform drivers, decent work, and informality in Lagos, Nigeria
Datafication, Power and Control in Development: A Historical Perspective on the Perils and Longevity of Data
The collection, processing, storage and circulation of data are fundamental element of contemporary societies. While the positivistic literature on ‘data revolution’ finds it essential for improving development delivery, critical data studies stress the threats of datafication. In this article, we demonstrate that datafication has been happening continuously through history, driven by political and economic pressures. We use historical examples t…
Assessment of the Impact of Increased Physical Activity on Body Mass and Adipose Tissue Reduction in Overweight and Obese Children
(1) Background: Within the last 30 years, growing rates of child overweight and obesity have been observed as a very concerning phenomenon in most countries worldwide. The research aim was to assess what effect increased physical activity has on reducing body mass and adipose tissue in children between 10 and 11 years of age as well as to answer the question of whether physical activity could be considered as a factor in preventing child overweig…
The Experiences of Iranian Middle and Lower Class Living in Inflationary Conditions
One of the most important economic problems in Iran is inflation. The aim of this study was to explore the social consequences of inflation in the lives of middle-class and lower-class people. Some of the questions addressed in this study are: how do participants experience inflation? How do they make a living? What problems are they facing? what are the consequences of inflation for participants? We used a constructivist qualitative approach and…
The Dismal Harvest: The Uneven Landscapes of AI in Agriculture
In this intervention, I examine artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture through a political ecology lens, analysing how promises of productivity, efficiency, and sustainability take shape across uneven postcolonial landscapes. Building on feminist and critical agrarian perspectives, I focus on the material relations of farming to show that AI in agriculture, often portrayed as immaterial, relies on deeply material infrastructures—sensors, dat…
ICT and Rural Development in the Global South: By Willem van Eekelen Routledge, 2024
“Technology—no matter how well designed—is only a magnifier of human intent and capacity,” writes Kentaro Toyama, “It is not a substitute.” This insight is a crucial lens through which to read ICT
Economics (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Biology (8 works) · Business (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy (4 works)