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Cointegration and how it works for structural health monitoring
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Monitoring of Rubber Belt Material Performance and Damage
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The ear as a location for wearable vital signs monitoring
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The variability of macrophyte metrics used in river monitoring
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Jakość powietrza wewnętrznego analityka i monitoring
PublicationJakość powietrza wewnętrznego jest istotnym parametrem wpływającym na dobresamopoczucie i zdrowie człowieka. Kluczowego charakteru nabiera jego nieus-tanna kontrola i oznaczanie zawartości zanieczyszczeń, występującym w nim naróżnych poziomach stężeń. Do oceny jakości powietrza wewnętrznego wykorzys-tywana jest technika dozymetrii pasywnej. Przedstawiono podsumowanie donie-sień literaturowych na temat dozymetrów pasywnych stosowanych...
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Uniform corrosion monitoring of carbon steel in concrete.
PublicationW przypadku korozji prętów zbrojeniowych w żelbecie zaobserwowane zostały obszary wzmożonego zaatakowania. Pomiar prądowego i napięciowego szumu elektrochemicznego umożliwia wyznaczenie szybkości korozji ogólnej a zmiany parametrów statystycznych przebiegów szumowych umożliwiają detekcję występowania przestrzennych rejonów intensyfikacji korozji. Przedstawione rezultaty, oparte na wykorzystaniu odpowiedniego układu zastępczego,...
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Application of electrochemical noise technique in corrosion monitoring
PublicationTechnika szumu elektrochemicznego od ponad 20 lat stanowi przedmiot intensywnych badań mających na celu jej praktyczne zastosowanie w monitorowaniu korozji. U podstaw omawianej metody leży odpowiednia analiza rejestrowanych symultanicznie przebiegów prądowych i potencjałowych. W zależności od użytej techniki obróbki danych uzyskane mogą być informacje dotyczące ilościowych (szybkość) i jakościowych (rodzaj zaatakowania) cech procesu...
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Active monitoring as cognitive control of grinders design
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Hierarchical approach to security monitoring and risk evaluation
PublicationPrzedstawiono problemy bezpieczeństwa sieciowego z uwzględnieiem metod szacowania i oceny bezpieczeństwa w skali lokalnej i globalnej. Podano przykłady analizy 3 systemów wraz z wnioskami oraz sugestie dotyczące trendów przyszłościowych.
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A six-ring probe for monitoring conductivity changes
Publicationstreszczenie: W pracy przedstawiono konstrukcję sondy szściopierścieniowej do monitorowania zmian immitancji. Zdefiniowano czułość sondy i przedstawiono jej rozkład dla przypadków izotropowych i anizotropowych. Teoretyczne symulacje za pomocą metody elementów skończonych zostały zweryfikowane eksperymentalnie, za pomocą specjalnie skonstruowanego zestawu pomiarowego. Zamieszczono przykładowe pomiary in vivo.
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Concept of the container monitoring system in Polish harbours
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono koncepcję architektury systemu monitoringu ładunków kontenerowych dla potrzeb polskich portów kontenerowych w Gdańsku i Gdyni. Opisano zasadę budowy inteligentnego modułu kontenerowego, stanowiącego nierozerwalny element opisywanego systemu.
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Augmented Reality for Privacy-Sensitive Visual Monitoring
PublicationThe paper presents a method for video anonymization and replacing real human silhouettes with virtual 3D figures rendered on the screen. Video stream is processed to detect and to track objects, whereas anonymization stage employs fast blurring method. Substitute 3D figures are animated accordingly to behavior of detected persons. Their location, movement speed, direction, and person height are taken into account during the animation...
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MONITORING KONSTRUKCJI Z ZASTOSOWANIEM NIWELACJI HYDROSTATYCZNEJ
PublicationCelem artykułu jest przedstawienie zastosowania różnych typów systemów niwelacji hydrostatycznej. Systemy te stanowią główny moduł pomiarowy urządzeń służących do ciągłej diagnostyki obiektów budowlanych, całych dzielnic lub wielkogabarytowych urządzeń. Zaletą systemów hydrostatycznych jest ich duża dokładność, niezawodność i relatywnie niska cena. W pracy przedstawione zostały zastosowania zautomatyzowanych modułów niwelacji hydrostatycznej...
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Temperature Measurements in Monitoring of Large Thrust Bearings
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono krytyczną ocenę popularnego systemu diagnostyki dużych łożysk wzdłużnych (np. łożysk nośnych hydrogeneratorów), w którym stosowany jest jednopunktowy pomiar temperatury w klockach łożyskowych. Stwierdzono, że taki układ pomiarowy nie pozwala na bezpieczną eksploatację łożysk, ponieważ posiada bardzo duże opóźnienie czasowe, nie daje informacji o lokalnych zagrożeniach, nie pozwala racjonalnie ustalić poziomów...
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noise map validation by continuous noise monitoring
PublicationArtykuł dotyczy porównania dwóch rodzajów oceny hałasu w aglomeracjigdańskiej. Pierwsza ocena została przygotowana na podstawie prognozy hałasu w oparciu o mapy stworzone metodami obliczeniowymi w roku 2007. Druga ocena bazuje na rzeczywistych danych pomiarowych zarejestrowanych przez system ciągłego monitoringu działającego w aglomeracji od 2008 roku. W artykule zaprezentowano i przeprowadzono analizy występujących różnic pomiędzy...
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Monitoring of the Process of System Information Broadcasting in Time
PublicationOne of the problems of quantum physics is how a measurement turns quantum, noncopyable data, towards copyable classical knowledge. We use the quantum state discrimination in a central system model to show how its evolution leads to the broadcasting of the information, and how orthogonalization and decoherence factors allow us to monitor the distance of the state in question to the one perfectly broadcasting information, in any...
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Multimodal Platform for Continuous Monitoring of the Elderly and Disabled
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MONITORING OF PERMANENT GPS STATIONS AT THE SUDETY MOUNTAINS
PublicationThe aim of this paper is to show time-dependent baseline variation between GPS stations situated in South-East Poland. This study was based on daily data analysis of selected GPS stations: WROC, GOPE, MOPI, KRAW and KATO. The start date of the analysis is linked at every station with the beginning of its operation and the closing date of the operation is in 2006. The multiresolution signal decomposition method has been used to...
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An application of acoustic sensors for the monitoring of road traffic
PublicationAssessment of road traffic parameters for the developed intelligent speed limit setting decision system constitutes the subject addressed in the paper. Current traffic conditions providing vital data source for the calculation of the locally fitted speed limits are assessed employing an economical embedded platform placed at the roadside. The use of the developed platform employing a low-powered processing unit with a set of microphones,...
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The Proposition of an Automated Honing Cell with Advanced Monitoring
PublicationHoning of holes allows for small shape deviation and a low value of a roughness profile parameter, e.g., Ra parameter. The honing process heats the workpiece and raises its temperature. The increase in temperature causes thermal deformations of the honed holes. The article proposes the construction of a honing cell, containing in addition to CNC honing machine: thermographic camera, sound intensity meter, and software for collecting...
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DETERMINATION OF VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS IN RELATIVE MONITORING NETWORKS
PublicationThe problem of determining displacements of objects is an important and current issue, in particular in terms of operational safety. This is a requirement that covers geodetic, periodic control measurements in order to determine horizontal and vertical displacements. The paper is focused on the analysis of vertical displacements. Geodetic measurements and their interpretation allow to reduce the risk of possible structural catastrophes....
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Molecular mobility of water protons under interaction with chemically modified starches. DSC and HMR-relaxation investigations
PublicationThe change of water protons mobility in the system chemically modified starches – water were investigated by DSC and NMR-relaxation methods. The amount of unfrozen water at subzero temperature as well as additional unfrozen water which appears after gelatinization have lower values for chemically modified starches in comparison with the native starch. The proton spin-spin relaxation time Т2 for chemically modified starch samples,...
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Water uptake in protective organic coatings and its reflection in measured coating impedance
PublicationWater uptake in commercially available epoxy coating on mild steel using impedance spectroscopy and gravimetry was studied. The water content in the coating was determined using the Brasher-Kingsbury equation and various methods of coating capacitance calculation used in the literature. The obtained results were compared with reference gravimetric data. An overestimation of values obtained from impedance data in relation to gravimetric...
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A Comparison of Simplified Two-dimensional Flow Models Exemplified by Water Flow in a Cavern
PublicationThe paper shows the results of a comparison of simplified models describing a two-dimensional water flow in the example of a water flow through a straight channel sector with a cavern. The following models were tested: the two-dimensional potential flow model, the Stokes model and the Navier-Stokes model. In order to solve the first two, the boundary element method was employed, whereas to solve the Navier-Stokes equations, the...
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Integrating modelling, simulation and data management tools to create a planning support system for the improvement of air quality by urban planning solutions
PublicationThe urbanization pressure requires urban planners, designers, and policy makers to be more responsive to the challenges related to improving the quality of the urban environment and the living conditions of the inhabitants. One of the many environmental issues that need to be taken into account is urban air pollution. As the process of urban ventilation and air pollution dis-persion is significantly affected by the urban layout,...
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Calculating the Partition Coefficients of Organic Solvents in Octanol/Water and Octanol/Air
PublicationPartition coefficients define how a solute is distributed between two immiscible phases at equilibrium. The experimental estimation of partition coefficients in a complex system can be an expensive, difficult, and time-consuming process. Here a computational strategy to predict the distributions of a set of solutes in two relevant phase equilibria is presented. The octanol/water and octanol/air partition coefficients are predicted...
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A review on hydrophobic electrospun nanofibers-based materials and membranes for water treatment: Challenges, outlook, and stability
PublicationMembrane technology is well recognized as a dependable means of supplementing the availability of potable water through processes such as water purification and desalination. Electrospun nanofiber membranes have garnered significant attention because of their advantageous features, including a greater specific surface area, increased porosity, reduced thickness, and popularity. Consequently, ENMs have emerged as an up-and-coming...
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Closer look into the structures of tetrabutylammonium bromide–glycerol-based deep eutectic solvents and their mixtures with water
PublicationIn recent years, deep eutectic solvents (DES) and it’s mixture with water have become more and more attention as green solvents used in chemistry. However, there are only a few theoretical studies on the mechanisms of pure DES and DES-water complex formation. Therefore, the structural properties of tetrabutylammonium bromide–glycerol-based deep eutectic solvents and their mixtures with water have been investigated by means of Molecular...
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Ongoing progress on novel nanocomposite membranes for the separation of heavy metals from contaminated water
PublicationMembranes, as the primary separation element of membrane-based processes, have greatly attracted the attention of researchers in several water treatment applications, including wastewater treatment, water purification, water disinfection, toxic and non-toxic chemical molecules, heavy metals, among others. Today, the removal of heavy metals from water has become challenging, in which chemical engineers are approaching new materials...
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Secure access control and information protection mechanisms in radio system for monitoring and acquisition of data from traffic enforcement cameras
PublicationThe study presents the architecture of the Radio System for Monitoring and Acquisition of Data from Traffic Enforcement Cameras (in short: RSMAD), particularly concerning access control and protection of confidential data. RSMAD security structure will be discussed in relation to network security issues. Additionally, the paper presents the results of the work associated with the modelling of potential threats to system security.
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Leaf wettability and plant surface water storage for common wetland species of the Biebrza peatlands (northeast Poland)
PublicationWetlands play a crucial role in buffering the effects of climate change. At the same time, they are one of the most endangered ecosystems on the globe. The knowledge of the water cycle and energy exchange is crucial for the practical preservation and exploiting their capabilities. Leaf wettability is an important parameter characterising the plant's ability to retain water on its surface, and is linked to the ecosystems' hydrological...
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Ti-Fe2O3/In2O3 as photoactive material: The role of the substrate in photoelectrochemical water oxidation
PublicationThe layers of Ti-Fe2O3/In2O3 were prepared on the different substrates using hydrothermal method: Ti/TiO2 nanotubes, Ti foil, FTO and FTO/TiO2. Materials were characterized using scanning electron microscopy, XRD, Raman, UV-Vis, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and tested as photoanodes for water oxidation under illumination. The formation of heterojunction on the TiO2 nanotubes increases photocurrent of water oxidation at...
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A 0.5 V Nanowatt Biquadratic Low-Pass Filter with Tunable Quality Factor for Electronic Cochlea Applications
PublicationA novel implementation of an analogue low-power, second-order, low-pass filter with tunable quality factor (Q) is presented and discussed. The filter feature is a relatively simple, buffer-based, circuit network consisting of eleven transistors operating in a subthreshold region. Q tuning is accomplished by injecting direct current into a network node, which changes the output resistance of the transistors and, as a result, modifies...
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Effect of package type on selected parameters of nutritional quality of chill-stored white sauerkraut
PublicationBrassica vegetables, including white cabbage, both fresh and sour (Brassica oleracea L. var. capitata L.), contain a lot of valuable metabolites which are effective in chemoprevention of cancer as documented by numerous studies. This work investigates the effect of different packaging types; low density polyethylene (PE-LD) and metalized polyethylene terephthalate (PET met/PE) with polyethylene bags on selected quality parameters in...
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Amyloid fibril formation in the presence of water structure-affecting solutes
PublicationThe impact of the differently hydrated non-electrolytes (protein structure destabilizers) on the fibrillation of hen egg white lysozyme (HEWL) was investigated. Two isomeric urea derivatives i.e. butylurea (BU) and N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylurea (TMU) were chosen as a tested compounds. The obtained results show that butylurea exerts greater impact on HEWL and its fibrillation than tetramethylurea. Both substances decrease the time of...
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Kontrola i zapewnienie jakości wyników pomiarów analitycznych =Quality control and quality assurance (QC/QA) of analytical results
PublicationWyniki, które winny być źródłem informacji analitycznej, są uzyskiwane w następstwie przeprowadzanych pomiarów. Na tym etapie stosuje się odpowiednie "narzędzia analityczne", które stanowią metodyki analityczne i urządzenia kontrolno-pomiarowe. "Narzędzia" muszą być właściwie przygotowane do pracy, tak aby uzyskiwane wyniki były miarodajne, czyli aby odzwierciedlały w sposób dokładny (jednocześnie precyzyjny i poprawny) rzeczywistą...
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Review of the determination of modern used pesticides in water samples
PublicationThe increasingly widespread application of pesticides causes that larger amounts of them are entering the environment. Their presence in sources of drinking water, essential to life, is a particular danger. For these reasons it is important to monitor and analyse pesticide residues in the environment. The analysis of environmental samples for the presence of pesticides is very difficult. Firstly, the processes involved in sample...
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Water-mediated long-range interactions between the internal vibrations of remote proteins
PublicationIt is generally acknowledged that the mobility of protein atoms and the mobility of water molecules in the solvation layer are connected. In this article, we answer the question whether a similar interdependence exists between the motions of atoms of proteins separated by the hydration layers of variable thickness. The system consisted of a kinesin catalytic domain and a tubulin dimer. It was studied using molecular dynamics simulations....
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Improvement of S355G10+N steel weldability in water environment by Temper Bead Welding
PublicationThe normalized S355G10 + N steel was chosen for testing, it is used in a variety of applications including the building of offshore structures, which may require repairs in water environment. The main aim of the work was to check susceptibility to cold cracking for fillet welds – Controlled Thermal Severity (CTS) tests and butt welds – Tekken tests and in the next step evaluation of effectiveness of Temper Bead Welding (TBW) application...
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Multi-Aspect Quality Assessment Of Mobile Image Classifiers For Companion Applications In The Publishing Sector
PublicationThe paper presents the problem of quality assessment of image classifiers used in mobile phones for complimentary companion applications. The advantages of using this kind of applications have been described and a Narrator on Demand (NoD) functionality has been described as one of the examples, where the application plays an audio file related to a book page that is physically in front of the phone's camera. For such a NoD application,...
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ARCHITECTURE IN BRANDING AND OVERBRANDING PROCESS. HOW GLOBALIZATION INFLUENCED ARCHITECTURE QUALITY.
PublicationGlobalization is unification. In the field of architecture and in the social structure alike, the globalization leads to a blending of economies and cultures that produces uniformly branded public space as a response to universal assumptions of integration and correlation. While branding consists in creating a recognizable and outstanding image a strong contradiction exists between both of these approaches. As a result, regional...
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WATER LUBRICATED MAIN SHAFT BEARINGS - MODERN SOLUTION FOR HYDROPOWER INDUSTRY - Experimental and theoretical studies
PublicationWater-lubricated bearings are finding increasingly wide use in various branches of industry. As such, they may also be encountered in hydro power industry. They are also increasingly frequently employed in bearing systems of marine shaft propulsions and water pumps [1]. This rising popularity is due to a number of reasons [2]. First of all, their simple construction has direct impact on the level of pricing which is usually quite...
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Superhydrophobic sponges based on green deep eutectic solvents for spill oil removal from water
PublicationThe paper described a new method for crude oil-water separation by means of superhydrophobic melamine sponges impregnated by deep eutectic solvents (MS-DES). Due to the numerous potential of two-component DES formation, simple and quick screening of 156 non-ionic deep eutectic solvents using COSMO-RS (Conductor-like Screening Model for Real Solvents) computational model was used. DES which were characterized by high solubility...
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Implementation of Hierarchical Control of Drinking Water Supply System
PublicationThe paper presents the outline of the didactical project of a complex computer controlled system realized by the first degree students of the Automatics and Robotics on the Faculty of Electrical and Control Engineering (FoEaCE) in Gdansk University of Technology (GUT). The synthesis, implementation and analysis of a multilayer hierarchical control system for drinking water supply system (DWSS) are main topics of that project. The...
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Biogeochemia selenu i jego monitoring w materiałach biologicznych pochodzenia ludzkiego = Selenium biochemistry and its monitoring in biological samples
PublicationNa przestrzeni ostatnich kilkudziesięciu lat selen stał się przedmiotem intensywnych badań naukowych w wielu dyscyplinach nauki. Najczęściej poruszanymi zagadnieniami są aspekty związane z biochemią, geologią, toksykologią, wykorzystaniem przemysłowym selenu oraz jego wpływem na organizmy żywe. Powodem szczególnego zainteresowania tym pierwiastkiem jest niewielka różnica pomiędzy jego poziomem niezbędnym a toksycznym oraz szereg...
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The risk assessment of adverse events of nursing activities as the element of quality management in healhcare
PublicationThe purpose of the paper is to present MedCARVER+Shock method and Pareto analysis and its usability for the risk assessment of adverse events of nursing activities. 888 activities carried out by all 190 nurses working at the District Hospital X located in Poland were taken into account. During the research the qualitative approach was used. As the result sixteen groups of nursing activities causing the highest risk of adverse events...
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Using water sources extent during inundation as a reliable predictor for vegetation zonation in a natural wetland floodplain
PublicationDistinctive zones of inundation water during floods were shown to originate from different sources in some major floodplains around the world. Recent research showed that the zonation of water in rivers and floodplains is related to vegetation patterns. In spite of this, water source zones were not used for vegetation modeling due to difficulties in their delineation. In this study, we used simulation results of a fully-coupled...
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Instrumental techniques used for assessment of food quality
PublicationW artykule scharakteryzowano dwie techniki instrumentalne stosowane w ocenie jakości produktów spożywczych, tj. chromatografię gazową w połączeniu z detekcją olfaktometryczną oraz nos elektroniczny. Opisano zasady działania obu technik oraz typowe procedury analityczne stosowane w ocenie zapachu. Ponadto, podano przykłady praktycznego zastosowania obu technik, włącznie z tymi, które wykorzystano w pracowni autorów.
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Quality testing methods of foil-based capacitors
PublicationKondensatory foliowe są powszechnie stosowanymi elementami pasywnymi w ukłądach zasilania. Dotychczasowe metody oceny ich jakości są długotrwałe oraz zużywają energię. W pracy przedstawiono propozycje szeregu nowych, bardziej efektywnych metod, które mogą być z sukcesem stosowane podczas ich produkcji.
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Paterns of employment quality upgrading in the European Union
PublicationArtykuł przedstawia zmiany jakościowe w strukturze zatrudnienia krajów UE w latach 1970-2005 (goapodarki UE15) oraz 1995-2005 (Nowe Kraje Członkowskie). Analizę oparto o klasyfikację sektorów ze względu na ich poziom technologiczny oraz intensywność wykorzystania umiejętności siły roboczej.