Marek Cierpiał-Wolan

Rzeszów University · Department of Statistics and Econometrics

This article proposes a new systemic approach for estimating a country level of carbon dioxide emissions through an optimal release of power law-related entropy during economic production process. In the proposed entropy-based metric, energy input plays a leading role. This paper presents a review of existing literature about techniques to estimate...

The aim of this study was to assess the association of long-term exposure to particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter, PM2.5, PM10, NO2 and SO2 as well as CO, with lung adenocarcinoma (AD) in south-east Poland for the years from 2004 to 2014. The study group consisted of 4296 patients with lung adenocarcinoma and the level of selected pollutant...

Increasing biogas production in the Three Seas Initiative countries (3SI) is a good way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to increase energy self-sufficiency by replacing some of the fossil energy sources. An assessment of the biogas production potential carried out for the 3SI at the NUTS 1 and NUTS 2 level shows that the potential of this en...

Air pollution is closely associated with the development of respiratory illness. The aim of the present study was to assess the relationship between long-term exposure to PM2.5, PM10, NO2, and SO2 pollution and the incidence of lung cancer in the squamous subtype in south-eastern Poland from the years 2004 to 2014. We collected data of 4237 patient...

Biogas production within cooperatives and energy clusters that include both food businesses and biogas plants seems to be a good way to both improve financial health and increase energy self-sufficiency. The paper assesses the financial health of more than 2100 food businesses operating during the period of 2014–2020; the analysis was based on data...

The purpose of this study is to shed light on the nexus between electricity supply and economic growth in South Asian countries during 1990-2018. The study employs Pedroni's panel cointegration test as well as Dumitrescu and Hurlin's (DH) causality test for panel data. The empirical results confirm a long-term relationship between electricity suppl...

Biogas production in Poland and Ukraine seems to be a good way to both reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy self-sufficiency by supplementing conventional energy sources. The aim of the research was to assess the potential of biogas production and the possibility of increasing it at the regional level of both studied countries and wa...

In many countries, energy security is treated as a priority for the coming decades, and at the same time energy production from the vast majority conventional energy sources does not meet environmental protection criteria. Hence, the need to use renewable energy sources (RES), which can largely satisfy energy needs. The aim of the study was to iden...

Energy obtained from renewable sources is an important element of the sustainable development strategy of the European Union and its member states. The aim of this research is, therefore, to assess the potential and use of renewable energy sources and their effectiveness from the regional perspective in Poland. The research covered the years 2012 a...

Most for-profit organisations must constantly improve their business strategies and approaches to remain competitive. Many of them choose to embark on Lean or Six Sigma journeys with the intention of maximising productivity and increasing sales. Despite a significant progress in the development of the Big 3 Improvement Methodologies (Lean, Six Sigm...

The business environment dynamics is governed by a high degree of uncertainty and risk; consequently, in a majority of cases investors face serious difficulties when making business decisions. Additionally, when detailed statistical information relating to industry is missing, any decisions may become a matter of highly risky conjectures. The prese...

The values of the natural environment in the subject literature are commonly indicated as an asset conducive to development shaping the competitiveness of areas with such values. The paper attempts to assess the use of endogenous potential of such areas in shaping the multifunctional, sustainable development of rural areas that have such qualities....

The two‐fold purpose of this study was to explore the financial capability of low‐income consumers from rural regions of Poland, using Xiao's financial capability index, while accounting for their poverty status, demographic and financial characteristics. To test the relevant hypothesis of the study, a micro database of low‐income consumers was use...

Laryngeal cancer is the most common cancer of the head and neck. The main predisposing factor is exposure to cigarette smoke, alcohol, occupational factors and HPV infections. An analysis of the incidence of laryngeal cancer in Poland shows that since the beginning of the 1990s the incidence in females has been increasing, while in Podkarpackie Voi...

Aim of the study To present the changes in the incidence of cancers of the head and neck organs in south-eastern Poland and in the whole country in the years 1990-2012. Material and methods A retrospective analysis the incidence of cancers of the head and neck organs in south-eastern Poland in the years 1990–2012. Statistical methods used for canc...

Owing to the Poland's accession to the Schengen area, the movement of people through the Polish border with Member States of the European Union was greatly facilitated on the one hand, but some additional requirements were also introduced for foreigners from the Eastern border on the other. An agreement on rules of local border traffic was signed w...

The 60th World Congress of Statistics, organized by the International Institute of Statistics gathered numerous statisticians and was an opportunity to present the latest plans and achievements in the field of statistics. Extensive problems of the Congress related both to scientific issues, methodological, and practical aspects of statistical offic...

In the modern world the issue of innovation is the basis of economic development, it affects the competitiveness of businesses, how they build their values and operate on the market. Linking all these elements will allow one to properly determine the innovation potential and to introduce solutions that will lead the innovation process towards posit...

The article highlights the need to broaden the analysis of the quality of the survey results, taking into account the negative impact of certain operations of so-called editing input data, such as checking their accuracy and correction of errors. In the conclusions it underlines the need to extend the programs for academic lectures in statistics fo...

Transborder areas are studied from a variety of angles, such as local development or migration, and recently also well-being, to mention a few. However, question about their exceptionality as a spatial context for individual well being and community well-being (gminas), and how they relate to each other, remains still among relatively less recogniz...

Paradoxically, recent years have seen a dramatic increase in integration as well as disintegration processes in contemporary world. Dynamics and interdependence of socioeconomic phenomena are becoming especially evident in the case of transborder areas. Here we can observe different kinds of asymmetries of potentials between countries and regions-t...

This publication presents the results of research in the field of transborder economics and transborder statistics, of Polish research institutes, universities and regional statistical offices, cooperating with their counterparts that were involved in research of transborder processes that have been “exploded” in the transborder regions of Poland a...

The 59th World Statistics Congress organized by the International Statistical Institute, which is one of the oldest scientific organization in the world, allowed to present achievements of statistics representatives from many countries and in various areas of research, as well as to exchange information on the direction of future activities. The Co...

The article presents published by the Central Statistical Office (since 2013), quick estimates of quarterly GDP prepared on the basis of a limited set of information available within a short time after the end of the test period (which complements the still published standard preliminary quarterly estimates of GDP and its components). The projects...

Dynamics and interdependence of socio-economic phenomena in the contemporary world require the appropriate instruments to be developed to monitor them. This becomes especially evident in the case of transborder areas, which are differentiated in terms of the socio-economic potentials, on the one hand, along with a growing gap in the data system for...

Dynamics and interdependence of socioeconomic phenomena in the contemporary world require the appropriate instruments to be developed to monitor them. This becomes especially evident in the case of transborder areas, which are differentiated in terms of the socioeconomic potentials, on the one hand, along with a growing gap in the data system for t...

A region as a unit which provides circumstances for entrepreneurship to start and develop on a larger scale should be subject to in-depth analysis as its results can show more universal phenomena and as such as may be projected onto whole economy. In particular , competitive scope of enterprises in a region with the focus on innovation activity, kn...

Non-institutional trans-border economic activities and transactions to a large extent avoid (by their very nature) statistical observations. This compels us to confine ourselves to indirect and incomplete information, and to deal with consequences of such a situation for analysis and evaluation at the measurement and data collection stages. The pur...

Due to globalisation the economy is becoming a blurred system in many cases. On the one hand we can observe integration processes, with the extended Schengen zone as the most recognizable one in Europe, on the other, disintegration tendencies are visible, such as tightening of rules on crossing the border. Integration and disintegration processes c...

The processes of integration in Europe cause the need for more and more information concerning transborder areas, thereby growing interest in regional statistics. The reason for this is mainly changes of functions of the borders caused by globalization process. The need for using the results of transborder surveys on the micro-mezo-macroeconomic le...

This paper presents the issue of ability of the Polish official statistics information system to adapt to dynamically changing economy. The main focus was both on internal changes of the organisation and public statistics relation with environment, that is government and self-government institutions, business and the media. It has been shown that d...

A growing interest in regional statistics, especially in cross-border cooperation, can be observed in the last years. The reason for this is mainly changes of functions of the borders caused by globalization process. The need for using the results of surveys of cross-border areas on the micro-mezo-macroeconomic level gives rise to establishing a co...

The aim of this study is to present three regions of the European Union i.e., Basse- Normandie in France, Lazio in Italy and Podkarpacie in Poland, where existing derelict industrial lands demand multifarious political, social and economic approaches needed to create new conditions that stimulate people, businesses, local governments and various in...