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IT Business Standards as an Ontology Domain
PublicationThe aim of this paper is to report a selection of Semantic Web aspects pertaining to ontology development activities in the domain of the IT business standard (TOGAF 9) such as formulating competency questions, conceptualization of the domain, resolution of the source knowledge deficiency and applying common design patterns in the OWL formalization. Authors also try to determine target groups that may benefit from such ontology...
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Micro-Raman spectroscopy in the studies of multiphase separated polyurethanes. [online] W: [Proc.] UTECH Europe 2003 . The International Polyurethane Industry Conference and Exhibition. 25/26/27 March 2003, The Hague, Netherlands. London: Crain Communications Ltd. Dostępny w World Wide Web: http://UTECH-2003.com + wydruk.**2003 [s. 123-130 bibliogr. 41 poz.]Mikro-Ramanowska spektroskopia w badaniach poliuretanów wykazujących separację wielofazową.
PublicationPrzedmiotem badań były trzy próbki poliuretanowe o zawartości 30% segmentówsztywnych otrzymanych z politlenku propylenu, diizocyjanianu difenylometanui butanodiolu. Próbki te wykazują morfologię wielofazową, w której można wy-różnić globule i sferolity rozproszone w matrycy polimerowej.Za pomocą spek-troskopii mikro-Ramana przeprowadzono mikroanalizę chemiczną wszystkich ele-mentów morfologicznych. Stwierdzono odmienny skład...
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Cross-domain applications of multimodal human-computer interfaces
PublicationDeveloped multimodal interfaces for education applications and for disabled people are presented, including interactive electronic whiteboard based on video image analysis, application for controlling computers with mouth gestures and audio interface for speech stretching for hearing impaired and stuttering people and intelligent pen allowing for diagnosing and ameliorating developmental dyslexia. The eye-gaze tracking system named...
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Efficiency limit of excitonic photovoltaic cells under phosphor-based white LED illumination
PublicationThe limit of energy conversion of excitonic photovoltaic cells working under white light illumination generated by phosphor-based LED is analysed using the modified Giebink approach. Particularly, the impact of the optical energy gap and energy loss associated with the excitons dissociation at the heterojunction interface on power conversion efficiency of the device are discussed. From the results of our study it follows that the...
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Glass-ceramic joining of Fe22Cr porous alloy to Crofer22APU: interfacial issues and mechanical properties
PublicationThis work deals with the joining of porous Fe22Cr ferritic stainless steel to a dense Crofer22APU plate by using a silica-based, Ba-containing glass-ceramic. The chemical and interfacial stability and the mechanical properties of the joints were evaluated before and after thermal ageing at 700 ◦C for 500hrs. The sintering behaviour of the glass was assessed by using heating stage microscopy (HSM) to study the influence of a porous...
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HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE OF DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM OF WHEELED TRACTORS = Hardwer i softwer systemu diagnostycznego ciągników kołowych
PublicationPodstawowym elementem systemu diagnostycznego jest komputer pokładowy Fujitsu FUTURO S100 z chłodzeniem pasywnym w wykonaniu odpornym na drgania i wstrząsy, z pamięcią Compact Flesh 16Gb. Do komputera dołączony jest monitor dotykowy NVOX LCD 10" VGA/FVAT. Oprogramowanie komputera obejmujesystem operacyjny Windows XP-2000, driver konwertera USB/DeviceNet oraz opracowany program diagnostyczny. Komputer połączony jest łączem USB z...
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Ideological and Practical Model of Metaontology
PublicationRozwój inicjatywy Semantic Web spowodował rozwój różnych języków definiowania wiedzy i manipulowania nią. W ramach tych języków istotnym elementem jest zaprojektowanie rozkazów terminologicznych. W artykule przedstawiono sposób realizacji zapytań terminologicznych w języku KQL (Knowledge Query Language), służącym do dostępu do systemu zarządzania wiedzą RKaSeA.
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Application of Regression Line to Obtain Specified Number of Points in Reduced Large Datasets
PublicationModern measurement techniques like scanning technology or sonar measurements, provide large datasets, which are a reliable source of information about measured object, however such datasets are sometimes difficult to develop. Therefore, the algorithms for reducing the number of such sets are incorporated into their processing. In the reduction algorithms based on the...
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System Loss Model for Body Area Networks in Room Scenarios
PublicationThis paper presents an analysis of system loss in Body Area Networks for room scenarios, based on a wideband measurement campaign at 5.8 GHz. The measurements were performed with a fixed antenna transmitting vertically and horizontally polarised signals, while the user wears dualpolarised antennas. The average system losses in co- and crosspolarised channels are 41.4 and 42.6 dB for vertically polarised transmitted signals and...
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Effects of social media communication on brand equity and brand purchase intention
PublicationThe author studied the effect of two different social media communication on brand equity and brand purchase intention. A total of 504 data sets were generated through a standardized online-survey and analysed with structural equation modeling. The results of the empirical study showed that both firm-created and user-generated social media communication influenced brand equity, consequently impacting brand purchase intention. This...
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Facial emotion recognition using depth data
PublicationIn this paper an original approach is presented for facial expression and emotion recognition based only on depth channel from Microsoft Kinect sensor. The emotional user model contains nine emotions including the neutral one. The proposed recognition algorithm uses local movements detection within the face area in order to recognize actual facial expression. This approach has been validated on Facial Expressions and Emotions Database...
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Wideband Channel Measurements for Polarised Indoor Off-Body Communications
PublicationThis paper presents the initial results of wideband channel measurements for polarised off-body communication at 5.8 GHz, in an indoor environment. Channel Impulse Response measurements were performed simultaneously for two orthogonal polarisations of the wearable antenna, and repeated for vertical and horizontal orientations of the off-body one. Four types of measurement scenarios were considered in order to investigate the influence...
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Variable length sliding models for banking clients face biometry
PublicationAn experiment was organized in 100 bank branches to acquire biometric samples from nearly 5000 clients including face images. A procedure for creating face verification models based on continuously expanding database of biometric samples is proposed, implemented, and tested. The presented model applies to circumstances where it is possible to collect and to take into account new biometric samples after each positive verification...
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Design thinking (DT) for the design and planning education of engineer-architects
PublicationEngineers are facing new challenges connected with globalisation, digitisation and the increased complexity of the design process. This calls for new, more interdisciplinary and user-oriented approaches to problem- solving. In this article, the authors analyse design thinking (DT) as a method to support the education of engineers specialising in architecture and urban planning. Identified in this study are the opportunities this...
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Analysis of Properties of an Active Linear Gesture Sensor
PublicationBasic gesture sensors can play a significant role as input units in mobile smart devices. However, they have to handle a wide variety of gestures while preserving the advantages of basic sensors. In this paper a user-determined approach to the design of a sparse optical gesture sensor is proposed. The statistical research on a study group of individuals includes the measurement of user-related parameters like the speed of a performed...
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Energy Efficiency Study of Audio-video Content Consumption on Selected Android Mobile Terminals
PublicationMobile devices are widely used by billions of users worldwide. Thanks to their main advantage, which is portability, they should be fully operational as long as possible, without the need to recharge or connect them to external power sources. This paper describes a study, carried out on four different mobile devices, with different hardware and software parameters, running the Android operating system. The research campaign involved...
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Cognitive memory for intelligent systems of decision-making, based on human psychology
PublicationA model of memory, which allows to expand the functionality of autonomous decision-making systems for robotic and human-system-interface purposes, is discussed. The model provides functions and features which make the prospective robotic and interfacing systems more human-like as well as more efficient in solving interactive issues.
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Cognitive memory for intelligent systems of decision-making, based on human psychology
PublicationA model of memory, which allows to expand the functionality of autonomous decision-making systems for robotic and human-system-interface purposes, is discussed. The model provides functions and features which make the prospective robotic and interfacing systems more human-like as well as more efficient in solving interactive issues.
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Data on LEGO sets release dates and worldwide retail prices combined with aftermarket transaction prices in Poland between June 2018 and June 2023
PublicationThe dataset contains LEGO bricks sets item count and pricing history for AI-based set pricing prediction. The data spans the timeframe from June 2018 to June 2023. The data was obtained from three sources: Brickset.com (LEGO sets retail prices, release dates, and IDs), Lego.com official web page (ID number of each set that was released by Lego, its retail prices, the current status of the set) and promoklocki.pl web page (the retail...
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Loosely-Tied Distributed Architecture for Highly Scalable E-Learning System
PublicationVast majority of modern e-learning products are based on client-server architecture and utilization of web-based technologies (WBT). Such approach permits easy creation of e-learning systems that do not require a complex, operating system dependant client software. Unfortunately there are also drawbacks of such solution. Because of the majority of mechanisms are located on the server, its usage levels trend to build up quickly...
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Bio-inspired Decisional DNA in Machinas and other Man-made Systems: The Way Forward
PublicationArtificial bio-inspired intelligent techniques and systems supporting smart, knowledge-based solutions of real world problems which are currently researched very extensively by research teams around the world, have enormous potential to enhance automation of decision making and problem solving for a number of diverse areas including design, manufacturing, Information Technology (IT), social communities of practice, and economics...
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Luminance Distribution Measurements in CAVE-Type Virtual Reality Systems
PublicationIn this article, the immerse 3D visualization lab just opened at the Gdańsk University of Technology is presented. The effect of user “immersion,” it such virtual reality systems, is largely dependent on the optical properties of projected images. Luminance distribution of screens was measured and the luminance uniformity was determined and discussed.
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The effect of social media communication on consumer perceptions of brands
PublicationResearchers and brand managers have limited understanding of the effects social media communication has on how consumers perceive brands. We investigated 504 Facebook users in order to observe the impact of firm-created and user-generated (UG) social media communication on brand equity (BE), brand attitude (BA) and purchase intention (PI) by using a standardized online survey throughout Poland. To test the conceptual model, we...
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Text-mining Similarity Approximation Operators for Opinion Mining in BI tools
PublicationThe concept of the Text-mining Similarity Approximation Operators for Opinion Mining as extensions to Natural Language Interface Database is defined. The new operators: “keywords of” dimension; subsetting operator “about C is q”; aggregation operator “by similar C” are proposed. These operators are based on the Latent Semantic Analysis and Social Network Analysis
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Parallel immune system for graph coloring
PublicationThis paper presents a parallel artificial immune system designed forgraph coloring. The algorithm is based on the clonal selection principle. Each processor operates on its own pool of antibodies and amigration mechanism is used to allow processors to exchange information. Experimental results show that migration improves the performance of the algorithm. The experiments were performed using a high performance cluster on a set...
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Zgred - Zgred Graph Editor
PublicationThe paper presents a graph editor that was developed as a supplementary tool for the Koala graph library. We discuss its requirements, design choices and main ideas behind the implementation. The later part of the paper is meant to be a brief user manual, as we go through the functionality provided by the editor
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The Decisional DNA-Based Smart Bike for Internet of Things
PublicationIn this paper, we introduce a novel application of the Internet of Things, the Decisional DNAbased Smart Bike. The Decisional DNA is a domain-independent, flexible and standard knowledge representation structure; it allows its domains to acquire and store experiential knowledge and formal decision events in an explicit way. By using Decisional DNA, the sensor-equipped bicycle is able to learn its user’s weight, riding habits, etc....
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Changing by light - how the lighting of intelligent spaces can influence the urban image
PublicationIn the article light will be presented as a tool in the process of transforming the urban space. The reason for this use of light is the commercial aspect of space that forces it to be still competitive and profitable. Such a need gives rise to many innovative solutions in the city space, which allow transmitting information in order to attract human attention, and sometimes make it even possible to involve the user in the interaction...
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Linux scheduler improvement for time demanding network applications, running on Communication Platform Systems
PublicationCommunication Platform Systems as ex. ATCA standard blades located in standardized chassis provides high level communication services between system peripherals. Each ATCA blade brings dedicated functionality to the system but can as well exist as separated host responsible for servicing set of task. According to platform philosophy these parts of system can be quite independent against another solutions provided by competitors....
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Mobility’s Influence on System Loss in Off-Body BAN Scenarios
PublicationIn this paper, a measurement campaign for off body communications in an indoor environment is investigated for a set of on-body antennas. The channel impulse response was measured with the user approaching and departing from an off-body fixed antenna using two user dynamics, standing at fixed positions and walking. The processing of the measurement data allowed to evaluate system loss statistics. Different antenna configurations...
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Symulacja napędów przekształtnikowych z zastosowaniem pakietu TCAD 7.
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono nowe możliwości symulatora układów i napędów energoelektronicznych TCad 7. Wskazano na udoskonalenia najnowszej wersji symulatora związane szczególnie z pracą wielookienkową, upełnieniem biblioteki elementów oraz wykorzystaniem definiowanych przez użytkownika bloków sterowaniatypu USER.
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Acceleration of the discrete Green's function computations
PublicationResults of the acceleration of the 3-D discrete Green's function (DGF) computations on the multicore processor are presented. The code was developed in the multiple precision arithmetic with use of the OpenMP parallel programming interface. As a result, the speedup factor of three orders of magnitude compared to the previous implementation was obtained thus applicability of the DGF in FDTD simulations was significantly improved.
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Knowledge mangement: towards smart it suport system
PublicationW pracy zaprezentowano problematykę wykorzystania wiedzy w projektowaniu systemów inteligentnych. wydaje się, bowiem, że przy realizacji przedsięwzięcia zarządzanie wiedzą w procesach analizy wymagań ma kluczowe znaczenie dla sukcesu przedsięwzięcia. Omówiono metody pozyskiwania i przetwarzania wiedzy na potrzeby semantic web, scharakteryzowano to podejście, a także wykazano jego przydatność dla systemów informatycznych wspomagających...
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Marketing w Internecie
PublicationOpracowanie poświęcono marketingowi w Internecie. Struktura treści obejmuje genezę powstania Internetu, jego rozwój na świecie i w Polsce oraz omówienie najpopularniejszych usług internetowych wykorzystywanych w marketingu - poczta elektroniczna, grupy dyskusyjne oraz World Wide Web. Szczególną uwagę zwrócono także na problem sukcesu firmowej witryny internetowej, mierzony przez pryzmat satysfakcji jej użytkownika - klienta.
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Zintegrowane środowiska projektowania aplikacji internetowych.
PublicationZintegrowane środowiska, umożliwiające analizę, projektowanie i implementację aplikacji, stanowią wymarzone narzędzie pracy każdego inżyniera oprogramowania. Opisano próby dostarczenia takiego środowiska w postaci Borland Delphi 5.0 oraz w postaci Rational XDE - środowiska projektowania w UML przeznaczonego do integracji z istniejącymi środowiskami implementacji, takimi jak Microsoft Visual Studio.NET i IBM Web Sphere...
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Reprezentacja map procesów biznesowych Rummlera-Brache'a w języku PMDL na potrzeby agentów monitorujących proces wytwórczy.
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono zastosowanie technologii Web Farming do procesów zarządzania projektami informatycznymi w firmie komputerowej. Proces wytwórczy definiowany jest w formie hierarchicznego zbioru procesów biznesowych opisywanych zgodnie z formalizmemzaproponowanym przez Rummlera-Brache'a. Zbiór ten odwzorowany jest na zapis w języku PMDL, z którego generowany jest kod agentów monitorujących proces wytwórczy.
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Application of Knowledge Views = Zastosowanie widoków na bazę wiedzy
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono koncepcję widoków na bazę wiedzy i jej zastosowanie w inżynierii systemów. Praca ma na celu przybliżenie inżynierii wiedzy i technologii Semantic Web inżynierowi oprogramowania oraz programiście. Cel ten osiągany jest poprzez upodobnienie baz wiedzy do relacyjnych lub obiektowych baz danych oraz poprzez stosowanie wzorców znanych w inżynierii oprogramowania.
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Enterprise Gamification - Learning as a Side Effect of Competition
PublicationGmification in companies can be used for driving desired employees behaviour that are advantageous to their development and performance improvement. This paper presents tools acquired from online social networking services and game mechanisms to encourage managers to compete by providing extended statistics and user profiles features in e-learning system.
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THE PROBLEM OF THE CALCULATION OF THE FREQUENCY OF DIAGNOSTIC EXAMINATIONS BASED ON DEVICE’S PROPER OPERATION TIME
PublicationThe paper presents the proposal to apply the normal distribution to solve the problem of the frequency of diagnostic tests. Particular emphasis is placed on simplicity of the method. This method may be useful for the average user technical system. The method reduces the number of assumptions to a minimum. The results do not raise of serious doubts but they require verification of course.
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Creative sprints: an unplanned broad agile evaluation and redesign process.
PublicationWe report how a request for routine usability work rapidly evolved into a novel agile process for evaluation and redesign. This process is described and then analysed to identify reasons for success. This analysis supports realistic knowledge transfer between User Experience professionals by outlining how similar future processes could succeed.
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Changes in Functional and Spatial Layouts of Polish Single-Family Houses
PublicationArticle presents the evolution of functional and spatial layouts of single-family houses in Poland, with particular emphasis on the functions of a contemporary house. Singlefamily housing constitutes a significant part of the construction market in Poland. The way of forming functions in single-family buildings in the historical cycle has characteristic features resulting from the culture of the society in a given period. The functional...
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Boundary conditions for non-residential buildings from the user’s perspective: literature review
PublicationBackground and objective: This paper aims to review the boundary conditions (B/C) in specific categories (energy, building use, and lighting) within non-residential buildings to pave the way to a better understanding of users’ requirements and needs of the built environment. For this paper, B/C are understood as unique preconditions, specific characteristics for use, determining specific features of buildings, enabling an accurate...
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Język KQL jako realizacja idei języka SQL dla bazy wiedzy
PublicationW ramach inicjatywy semantic web rozwijane są systemy wnioskowania z wiedzy. Ciągle otwartym problemem są również języki dostępu do takich systemów. W artykule zaproponowano nowy język dostępu do zmodularyzowanych baz wiedzy, o cechach umożliwiających jego kompleksowe wykorzystanie w systemach zarządzania wiedzą, w sposób analogiczny do wykorzystania języka sql w systemach relacyjnych baz danych.
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KQL as Application of SQL Rationale for Knowledge Bases
PublicationW ramach inicjatywy Semantic Web rozwijane są systemy wnioskowania z wiedzy. Ciągle otwartym problemem są również języki dostępu do takich systemów. W artykule zaproponowano nowy język dostępu do zmodularyzowanych baz wiedzy, o cechach umożliwiających jego kompleksowe wykorzystaniew systemach zarządzania wiedzą, w sposób analogiczny do wykorzystania języka SQL w systemach relacyjnych baz danych.
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Big Data Paradigm Developed in Volunteer Grid System with Genetic Programming Scheduler
PublicationArtificial intelligence techniques are capable to handle a large amount of information collected over the web. In this paper, big data paradigm has been studied in volunteer and grid system called Comcute that is optimized by a genetic programming scheduler. This scheduler can optimize load balancing and resource cost. Genetic programming optimizer has been applied for finding the Pareto solu-tions. Finally, some results from numerical...
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Collaborative approach to WordNet and Wikipedia integration
PublicationIn this article we present a collaborative approach tocreating mappings between WordNet and Wikipedia. Wikipediaarticles have been first matched with WordNet synsets in anautomatic way. Then such associations have been evaluated andcomplemented in a collaborative way using a web application.We describe algorithms used for creating automatic mappingsas well as a system for their collaborative development. Theoutcome enables further...
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Automatyczna adaptacja usług sieciowych do usług systemu Be-esyCluster na potrzeby realizacji rozproszonych scenariuszy
PublicationRozdział przedstawia adaptację tradycyjnych usług sieciowych (ang. Web Services) do usług platformy BeesyCluster. Pozwalato na ich wykorzystanie w module zarządzania rozproszonymi scenariuszami usług, w tym: modelowaniu scenariuszy, automatycznym doborzeusług oraz wykonaniu. Przedstawiono także rozszerzenia opisu usług związane ze strumieniowym przetwarzaniem danych, ograniczeniami na dane, wyszukiwaniem zasobów do wykonania usług...
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Introduction to the RSC Advances themed collection on nano and microscale modifications of biomaterials
PublicationThe dramatically increasing development of novel biomaterials, their manufacturing techniques, and surface modications, as well as their application in in vivo tests and clinical trials, is evident. It is interesting to note in what a relatively short time the well-known long-term implants have become medical standard: titanium dental implants started in 1965, and total hip arthroplasty (not very successful) was rst attempted...
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Investigation of thin perovskite layers between cathode and doped ceria used as buffer layer in solid oxide fuel cells
PublicationIn this paper, thin perovskite layers between cathode material of solid oxide fuel cells and gadolinia-doped ceria buffer layer are investigated. Thin layers made of LaNi0.6Fe0.4O3-δ (LNF), La0.6Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8O3-δ (LSCF), or SrTi0.65Fe0.35O3-δ (STF) were symmetrically deposited by spin coating method from metallo-organic polymer precursors on a Ce0.8Gd0.2O2-δ (CGO) substrate. Porous and about 40-μm-thick LNF cathodes were deposited...
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Analytical model with non-adiabatic effects for pressure drop and heat transfer during boiling and condensation flows in conventional channels and minichannels
PublicationIn the paper a method developed earlier by authors is applied to calculations of pressure drop and heat transfer coefficient for boiling flow and condensation flow with account of non- adiabatic effects for some recent data collected from literature. The first effect, the modification of interface shear stresses in annular flow pattern is considered through incorporation of the so called "blowing parameter". The mechanism of...