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Ireland has become one of the main destination countries for Polish migrants after Poland’s EU accession in 2004. While much of the literature on Polish migration to Ireland post-2004 focuses on its labour-market element, in this paper we analyse the political participation of Polish migrants. We utilise data from a survey conducted by the Centre of Migration Research (University of Warsaw) with Polish migrants in Ireland which documents low levels of political engagement as measured by voting turnout in Polish presidential and parliamentary elections as well as the Irish local elections and elections to the European Parliament. A lack of knowledge about political participation rights or how to engage in voting is one explanation for the low levels of voting, especially in Irish local and European parliamentiary elections. Another explanation may be the attitude that migrants have towards the political system and how they can influence it. Polish migrants predominantly report that they have no or little influence on politics in Poland and have relatively less trust in the authorities and politicians there (compared to Ireland). The key individual-level characteristic affecting Polish migrant respondents’ electoral participation in Ireland is their (lack of) voting habit formed before migration.
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Justyna Salamońska
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Magdalena Lesińska
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Weronika Kloc-Nowak
1
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  1. Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland
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Immigration is one of the most contentious fields of contemporary European urban policy. While the devel-opment of urban segregation is well documented in traditional immigration countries with population reg-ister data, there is a lack of detailed research on population dynamics in many countries and cities across Europe. This article examines ethnic residential segregation in Czechia in the period after the economic crisis of 2008. Special attention is paid to the trajectories of individual cities and their position in the urban hier-archy. Longitudinal population register data are used and segregation indicators of unevenness and expo-sure are computed for the largest cities using a detailed spatial grid. The results show a broad picture of decreasing segregation despite the continuously growing number of immigrants in the country. While the economic crisis temporarily halted immigration, the spatial patterns of immigrant dissimilarity did not change and more-established immigration gateway cities experienced an increase in spatial isolation. In the conclusion, the article calls for further discussion on ethnic residential segregation in post-socialist cities.
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Martin Šimon
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Ivana Křížková
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Adam Klsák
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  1. Department of Local and Regional Studies, Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czechia
  2. Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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Italy is one of the most important destination countries for Romanians. At the same time, the Italian care sector relies mainly on migrant labour, most of whom are Romanian women. Historically, Italy is considered one of the landmark countries for the southern or Mediterranean welfare state, characterised by its fragmented labour market, underdeveloped social protection system, informal economy and unpaid care work, usually done by the women in the family. Italy has one of the highest rates in Europe of both the elderly population and life expectancy at birth. In the last 20 years, the care work was gradually redistributed to migrant care workers, most of them women from former socialist countries, who often live in the household where they work. Migration from Eastern Europe, particularly Romania, has been facilitated, on the one hand, by rising unemployment and low-paid job opportunities in migrants’ countries of origin in the context of the deindustrialisation of state industry and, on the other, by the Italian elderly public-support system which is based on cash benefits granted to the family which can be redistributed to employ migrant care workers. In this paper we analyse three specific types of care work migration from Romania to Italy and the main challenges which they face, taking into account the specifics of the work and the type of migration chosen. The methodology is qualitative, based on 20 semi-structured online interviews with Romanian care workers and two interviews with stakeholders.
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Sebastian Țoc
1 2
Dinu Guțu
1

  1. National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Romania
  2. Research Institute for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy, Romania
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The security of asylum-seekers in the context of conditions of reception has not been frequently researched. This article aims to fill this gap by arguing that asylum-seekers in Poland are stuck in a grey zone between being secure and being securitised by the host society, with little opportunity to use their own agency. The basis for my study is the theory of the Welsh School of Critical Security Studies which focuses on understand-ing security through emancipation. The methodology contains a structural analysis of the reception system through the lenses of the agency–structure relationship and a legal and institutional study, as well as an in-depth examination of security practices combined with a reconstruction critique. The results show that the Polish reception system is a structure which is highly asymmetrical in relations of power, especially in the fundamental case of setting a security agenda. This thus constitutes a substantial constraint on migrants’ agency – with some potential for emancipation, however. In conclusion, the research points out the discrep-ancy between elements of the reception system driven by principles of liberal democracy and the nation-state and calls for a more inclusive, empowering and participatory security provision within the reception system in Poland.
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Mateusz Krępa
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  1. Doctoral School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland
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This article analyses the strategies of adaptation used by highly skilled Latvian migrants to make the best of their situation abroad. As empirical data, 26 semi-structured in-depth interviews with highly skilled Latvian nationals in finances, management, IT and the health sector are analysed. The study reveals how migrants negotiate the value of their cultural capital in the new country’s labour market. Different adaptation strategies are typical for the pre-migration phase, the phase of transition and initial settlement and of establishment in the host country. The main conclusion of the study is that pre-migration cultural capital (education, work experience, language knowledge and general and specific skills) is important but not sufficient to be successful in new country’s labour market – in the UK, Germany, Norway and the USA. The labour-market outcomes are a result of the interplay between migrants’ individual resources and decisions on extensive investments in country-specific human capital and structural constraints – such as typical recruitment patterns in a particular occupation and host country.
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Inese Šūpule
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  1. Institute of Sociology and Philosophy, University of Latvia, Latvia
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The welfare aspects of intra-European migration remain an important and controversial topic of academic and political debates. These discussions touch upon the classical ‘welfare magnet’ or ‘welfare tourism’ hypothesis. Transcending the politicised concept of ‘benefit tourism’, our paper examines how welfare-state considerations in relation to migration decisions vary across the life course. Relying on micro-level qualitative research focusing on Spanish intra-EU movers, the paper probes deeper into how individuals perceive welfare systems, analysing the subtle and nuanced meanings of different aspects of the welfare for their migration decisions. We focus more specifically on welfare provisions in terms of health care, compulsory education, child support and other care responsibilities, unemployment and pensions and retirement. Our research indicates that, in studies on the migration–welfare nexus, it is necessary to move beyond the current narrow focus on the welfare magnet hypothesis and to examine how diverse welfare arrangements continuously and dynamically set the context for migration decisions at various stages of an individual’s life. The results of our research show how features of the Spanish welfare system, in comparison to those of potential destination countries, might act as both a trigger and/or a barrier to migration. As such, we get a ‘thicker description’ of the role which welfare might play in shaping individuals’ eventual migratory aspirations and decisions.
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Katarzyna Andrejuk
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Marie Godin
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Dominique Jolivet
3 4
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Sónia Pereira
5
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Christof Van Mol
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  1. Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
  2. University of Oxford, the UK
  3. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  4. University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
  5. IGOT, University of Lisbon, Portugal
  6. Tilburg University, The Netherlands
  7. Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute / UG / KNAW
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In the period 1950* 2020, international migration in Europe changed significantly. One of the most char-- acteristic features was the change in net migration from negative to positive. At the beginning of the twenty first century, Poland belonged to the minority of countrie s in this respect that is, it experienced strong emigration but only minor immigration. However, migration in Poland has also been changing. In the second decade of this century, the outflow of people has weakened, the inflow of migrants has increased an d the migration balance has become positive. I analyse these phenomena from the theoretical perspective of the migration transition that was experienced in the second half of the twentieth century by most countries in Western, Northern and Southern Europe. I attempt to answer the question of whether the latest migration phenomena prove that this transition is also occurring in Poland. In conclusion, I argue that the available toKeywords: migra date evidence provides an affirmative answer to this question.
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Marek Okólski
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  1. Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland
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A handful of studies have used Facebook’s advertisement platform – Facebook Ads Manager – to recruit migrants to online surveys. The main challenge facing migration scholars in designing effective advertisements has been to identify and accurately target migrants on Facebook. Researchers have used proxies, such as users’ previous residence abroad, language(s) or interests, to infer their migration status. Despite some progress, there remains a need to better document and reflect critically on the accuracy of targeting migrants using such proxies. Contrary to studies which relied on users’ previous residence abroad, this study used migrants’ language (Polish) to target and recruit survey participants from among Polish migrants in Norway, Sweden and the UK. Focusing on a single migrant group across three countries, the goal of this article is to assess the accuracy of a targeting strategy which relied primarily on users’ command of a language as an indicator of their migration background. Comparing the results against official migration statistics and the results reported in similar studies, the article provides a compelling case for researchers to prioritise users’ language, rather than previous residence abroad, as the proxy for migration background for migrants whose language, such as Polish, is confined to the borders of a single nation state.
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Oleksandr Ryndyk
1 2
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  1. Centre for Intercultural Communication, VID Specialized University, Norway
  2. Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway
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The article offers a new perspective on contemporary and past migration processes in the post-Soviet area by testing the usefulness of the concept of a migration cycle for the Russian case. By adopting the longue durée approach, we attempt to assess the advancement of Russia’s migration cycle, arguing at the same time that it constitutes an interesting, yet not an obvious case with which to test the utility of the concept. We postulate that, in tracking Russia’s migration trajectories in pre-1991 times, it is im-portant to account for both the flows between Russia as the-then state entity (i.e. the Tsarist Empire, later the Soviet Union) and foreign countries and the flows between Russia as the core of the empire and its eastern and southern peripheries. Our analyses show that while – taking into account statistical consid-erations – Russia has undoubtedly already undergone the migration transition, it has not yet reached the stage of a mature immigration country. We also contend that migration transition for Russia occurred internally – within the-then state borders – and revealed itself with its transformation from a Soviet re-public into a federative state.
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Zuzanna Brunarska
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Mikhail Denisenko
2
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  1. Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland
  2. Vishnevsky Institute of Demography, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
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The Schengen area tends to be commonly misconstrued in the public perception as being ‘border-free’, defined by the unrestrained mobility of people, goods and capital. In reality the so-called ‘internal borders’ are still marked by a fervour of activities, conducted by the various national state agencies created for the purpose of territorial protection. Identity and migration checks – which often strikingly resemble pre-Schengen border checks – special crime-prevention tasks and transnational operations of police-type forces, detention and the unrelenting transfers of asylum-seekers and forced returns of illegalised mi-grants (also of EU nationals) are only a few among the many responsibilities of the various border-guard formations. This paper, based on data from fieldwork with the street-level Polish Border Guards working in the Intra-Schengen border region on the Polish–German border, analyses the impact of different levels of institutional discretion: official, local and individual, with a particular focus on the officers’ behaviour and decision-making and on the role of discretion within the policy implementation of a specific proce-dure. Analysing the phenomenon of the forced returns (deportations) of EU nationals within the Schengen area, this paper exposes the nature of the little-known practice of cross-border transfers. It focuses on the phenomenon of a forced return of Polish citizens from Germany, specifically on the micro-level moment of transfer of custody between the German Federal Police (Bundespolizei) into the hands of the Polish Border Guards (Straż Graniczna) on the Polish–German border, looking at the procedural variations and the decision-making of the officers, especially in the context of its street-level echelon and its practical contribution to the concept of deportability.
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Maryla Klajn
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  1. Leiden University, the Netherlands
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In early 2021, over 5 million European Union (EU) citizens had applied for settled status to secure their right to continue to live, work and study in the United Kingdom (UK) after the country’s withdrawal from the EU (Brexit). In 2018, the Home Office launched a Statement of Intent to implement an application process for EU citizens through its EU Settlement Scheme. In the period leading up to Brexit, the UK gov-ernment assured EU migrants that their existing rights under EU law would remain essentially un-changed and that applying for settled status would be smooth, transparent and simple. However, the application process has resulted in some long-term residents failing to obtain settled status, despite providing the required information. Based on qualitative in-depth interviews with 20 EU migrants living in two major metropolitan areas in Northern England, this article discusses the significant barriers which EU citizens face in the application process. This situation particularly affects the most vulnerable EU mi-grants with limited English-language skills and/or low literacy levels as well as those who are digitally excluded. The study contributes to the growing body of research on the consequences of Brexit for vulner-able EU migrants in the UK, focusing specifically on Central and Eastern European migrants.
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Sanna Elfving
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Aleksandra Marcinkowska
1
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  1. University of Bradford, the UK
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This contribution examines the legal powers that Dutch authorities have to restrict the right to free move-ment of mobile but ‘unwanted’ EU citizens, including measures that seek to expel and ban EU citizens from re-entering the Netherlands. The article defines ‘unwanted’ EU citizens as mobile EU citizens in re-spect of whom national authorities seek to take measures to restrict their right of residence, either on the grounds of their being an unreasonable burden on the Dutch social assistance system or in respect of public policy and public security. We analyse the relevant EU legal rules, their interpretation by the Court of Justice of the EU and their national implementation and application in order to show the legal con-straints faced by national authorities when seeking to restrict EU mobility. This legal study is supple-mented by a discussion of existing data on the number of EU citizens expelled or removed from the Netherlands. Our analysis suggests that, due to the legal protection enjoyed by mobile EU citizens against measures restricting their residence rights, the Dutch authorities encourage voluntary departure as a pragmatic solution to the presence of ‘unwanted’ EU citizens.
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Sandra Mantu
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Paul Minderhoud
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Carolus Grütters
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  1. Centre for Migration Law, Radboud University, the Netherlands
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Poland is the leading country in pursuing its own citizens under the European Arrest Warrant (EAW), with the number of EAWs issued between 2005 and 2013 representing one third of the warrants issued by all EU countries (although some serious inconsistencies between Polish and Eurostat sta-tistical data can be observed). The data show that Poland overuses this instrument by issuing EAWs in minor cases, sometimes even for petty crimes. However, even though this phenomenon is so wide-spread, it has attracted very little academic interest thus far. This paper fills that gap. The authors scrutinise the topic against its legal, theoretical and statistical backdrop. Based on their findings, a theoretical perspective is drawn up to consider what the term ‘justice’ actually means and which activities of the criminal justice system could be called ‘just’ and which go beyond this term. The main question to answer is: Should every crime be pursued (even a petty one) and every person face pun-ishment – even after years have passed and a successful and law-abiding life has been building in another country? Or should some restrictions be introduced to the law to prevent the abuse of justice?
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Witold Klaus
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Justyna Włodarczyk-Madejska
1
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Dominik Wzorek
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  1. Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
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Pre-Brexit media discourse in the UK focused extensively on the end of free movement, the governance of European mobility, and its relationship with state sovereignty. This article, methodologically anchored in Critical Discourse Analysis, discusses how the potential post-Brexit deportee, namely the ‘Vile Eastern Eu-ropean’, is depicted by the leading pro-Leave British press. The Vile Eastern European is juxtaposed with a minority of hard-working and tax-paying migrants from the continent, as well as with unjustly deported Windrush and Commonwealth migrants. As the newspapers explain, the UK has not been able to deport the Vile Eastern European because of the EU free movement rights. The press links the UK’s inability to remove the unwanted citizens of EU countries with its lack of sovereignty, suggesting that only new im-migration regulations will permit this deportation and make the UK sovereign again. The article con-cludes that the media discourse reproduces and co-produces the UK ideology of deportability that has been the basis for the EU Settlement Scheme and new immigration regulations.
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Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna
1 2
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Aleksandra Galasińska
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  1. Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland
  2. University of Wolverhampton, UK
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In contrast to the apparently stringent EU legal regime, the deportation of EU nationals is a law enforcement device widely normalised in many European countries. Concerning deportation prac-tices, the allegedly critical divide between EU citizens and third-country nationals does not seem to make much sense in practice for some – Eastern European – national groups. Initially, this paper explores the scope and scale of this increasingly salient component of the EU deportation system, by drawing on data supplied by national databases. Additionally, it examines why and how the depor-tation of EU nationals has gained traction across the European borderscape, a phenomenon that has much to do with rampant xeno-racist attitudes, widespread concerns over so-called ‘criminal aliens’ and, last but not at all least, the street-level management of poor populations and low-profile public order issues. Finally, this paper scrutinises the strength of institutional inertias in the management of enduringly subordinated – and racialised – Eastern European populations.
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José A. Brandariz
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  1. University of A Coruna, Spain

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Witold Klaus
1
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Agnieszka Martynowicz
2
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  1. Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
  2. Department of Law and Criminology, Edge Hill University, UK
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Time-of-use (TOU) electricity pricing has been applied in many countries around the world

to encourage manufacturers to reduce their electricity consumption from peak periods to

off-peak periods. This paper investigates a new model of Optimizing Electricity costs during

Integrated Scheduling of Jobs and Stochastic Preventive Maintenance under time of-use

(TOU) electricity pricing scheme in unrelated parallel machine, in which the electricity price

varies throughout a day. The problem lies in assigning a group of jobs, the flexible intervals

of preventive maintenance to a set of unrelated parallel machines and then scheduling of jobs

and flexible preventive maintenance on each separate machine so as to minimize the total

electricity cost. We build an improved continuous-time mixed-integer linear programming

(MILP) model for the problem. To the best of our knowledge, no papers considering both

production scheduling and Stochastic Preventive Maintenance under time of-use (TOU) electricity

pricing scheme with minimization total Electricity costs in unrelated parallel machine.

To evaluate the performance of this model, computational experiments are presented, and

numerical results are given using the software CPLEX and MATLAB with then discussed.

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Sadiqi Assia
El Abbassi Ikram
El Barkany Abdellah
Darcherif Moumen
El Biyaali Ahmed
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Current fast development requires continuous improvement of employees’ skills and knowledge.

Therefore, companies are looking for the best way for improving the employees’ qualifications

and understanding of new concepts and tools which have to be implemented in

manufacturing areas. One method employs gamification for this purpose. The aim of this

paper is to present how gamification can increase the acquisition of knowledge concerning

lean manufacturing concept implementation. Gamification is an active learning approach for

people who will understand the subject easier by ‘feeling’ and ‘touching’ personally the analysed

problems. The research utilized a questionnaire which assessed the game participants’

engagement level. The assessment focused specifically on the participants’ motivation, cognitive

processing and social aspects. The participants were also examined before and after the

game in order to assess the increase of their understanding of different lean manufacturing

topics and tools. Five different games with different groups of participants were played. The

results confirmed the hypothesis that gamification has a positive impact on the knowledge

acquisition as well as on motivation, cognitive processing and social aspects. Finally, various

insights on how to better design, conduct and utilize gamification in the similar technical

context are presented.

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Dorota Stadnicka
Ahmed Deif
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Abstract

Results of scientific researches show the trend of active using nitrides and borides of transition

metals and their combination in developing protective materials. While single elements

nitrides have been well studied, their multilayer modifications and combinations require

more detailed study. Physical-mechanical properties and structural-phase state of multilayer

coating according to the deposition conditions is an important task for the study.

It will be the analysis of physical-mechanical and electrical properties of coatings based on

refractory metals nitrides, their structure and phase composition and surface morphology

depending on the parameters of condensation. It was established the structure and behavior

of nano scale coatings based on refractory metals nitrides (Ti, Zr) depending on the size

of nano grains, texture, stress occurring in coatings.

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Anton Panda
Konstiantyn Dyadyura
Tatyana Hovorun
Oleksandr Pylypenko
Marina Dunaeva
Iveta Pandova
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Abstract

In this article we present an industrial application of our mathematical model that integrates

planning and scheduling. Our main objective is to concretize our model and compare the

reel results with the theoretical ones. Our application is realized on a conditioning line of

pharmaceutical products at the ECAM EPMI production laboratory. For this reason and to

save time, we used Witness simulation tool. It gives an overall idea of how the line works,

the Makespan of each simulation and it highlights areas for improvement. We looked for

the best resulting sequence which corresponds to the minest Makespan and total production

cost. Then this sequence is applied on the conditioning line of pharmaceutical products for

simulation. On the other hand, we program our mathematical model with the parameters of

the conditioning line under python in version 3.6 and we adopt a simulation/optimization

coupling approach to verify our model.

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Authors and Affiliations

Zineb Ibn Majdoub Hassani
Abdellah El Barkany
Ikram El Abbassi
Abdelouahhab Jabri
Abdel Moumen Darcherif
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Abstract

Maintenance of process plants requires application of good maintenance practice due to

a great level of complexity. From a plant maintenance point of view, the most significant activity

is turnaround, an activity carried out through project task with long planning process

period and very short execution period, which makes it one of the most complex projects

of maintenance in general. It is exactly this kind of maintenance that is based on multidisciplinarity

which has to be implemented through the system of quality management on all

levels of maintenance management. This paper defines the most significant factors determining

the process of turnaround projects quality management and its efficiency. Such relation

is observed through moderating influence of complexity on process management efficiency

in the turnaround project. The empirical research was conducted based on the survey of

turnaround project participants in five refineries in Croatia, Italy, Slovakia and Hungary.

For exploring the influence of research variables testing of the target relation is carried out

by applying logistical regression. Research results confirm the significance of complexity as

variable that significantly contributes to the project performance through the moderating

influence on success of the project, as well as the influence of an efficient management on

a plant turnaround project key results. Beside theoretical indications, practical implications

that arise from this research study mainly refers to management process of the industrial

plant maintenance project.

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Authors and Affiliations

Marko Fabic
Dusko Pavletic
Graciela Sterpin Valic
Maja Markovic
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Abstract

Studies linking the use of lean practices to company performance have been increasing as

markets are becoming more competitive and companies are eager for reducing waste and

therefore implementing the Lean Management (LM) philosophy to improve performance.

However, results from these studies have found various and different impacts and some light

is needed. Extant literature was reviewed and, to achieve the research objective, a metaanalysis

of correlations was carried out. The obtained results suggest a positive relationship

between some lean practices and performance measures. Furthermore, the presence of moderators

influencing the relationship between lean practices and performance outcomes is

highlighted in our results. To our best knowledge, this is the first research that proposes

a comparison of results from primary studies on Lean implementation, by analysing the

linear relationship between lean practices and enterprise performance. It fills this gap and

therefore represents an important contribution.

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Authors and Affiliations

Telma I.G. Goncalves
Paulo S.A. Sousa
Maria R.A. Moreira

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