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Characterization of volatile compounds, structural, thermal and physico-mechanical properties of cross-linked polyethylene foams degraded thermo-mechanically at variable times
PublicationWaste cross-linked polyethylene foam (wXLPE) was thermo-mechanically degraded at variable time using internal batch mixer. The progress of wXLPE degradation has been investigated by using a simultaneous thermogravimetric/differential scanning calorimetry analyzer coupled with Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, swelling measurements, tensile tests and scanning electron microscopy. Volatile organic compounds generated during...
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The development of an underwater telephone for digital communication purposes
PublicationThe underwater telephone HTL-10 has been designed to provide voice and data communication between helicopter and submarines using acoustic waves. It works in a half-duplex mode and uses analogue power-efficient modulation in the form of a single side-band, suppressed carrier, in a wide range of frequencies. It generates the transmitted signal, and processes the received signals. It is implemented with the use of digital signal...
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An IoT-Based Computational Framework for Healthcare Monitoring in Mobile Environments
PublicationThe new Internet of Things paradigm allows for small devices with sensing, processing and communication capabilities to be designed, which enable the development of sensors, embedded devices and other ‘things’ ready to understand the environment. In this paper, a distributed framework based on the internet of things paradigm is proposed for monitoring human biomedical signals in activities involving physical exertion. The main...
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Objectivization of Audio-Visual Correlation analysis
PublicationSimultaneous perception of audio and visual stimuli often causes the concealment or misrepresentation of information actually contained in these stimuli. Such effects are called the ''image proximity effect'' or the ''ventriloquism effect'' in literature. Until recently, most research carried out to understand their nature was based on subjective assessments. The Authors of this paper propose a methodology based on both subjective...
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On the Role of Polarimetric Decomposition and Speckle Filtering Methods for C-Band SAR Wetland Classification Purposes
PublicationPrevious wetlands studies have thoroughly verified the usefulness of data from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors in various acquisition modes. However, the effect of the processing parameters in wetland classification remains poorly explored. In this study, we investigated the influence of speckle filters and decomposition methods with different combinations of filter and decomposition windows sizes on classification accuracy....
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Comparison of induction motor bearing diagnostic test results through vibration and stator current measurement
PublicationThe paper discusses results of tests performed by authors, related to the angine bearings diagnostic using vibration and stator current measurements. The paper contains the description of an automatic measurement system, developed for measurement of those harmonics and processing that to obtain bearing diagnostic information. System was tested on objects with intentionally made defects in bearings, results of this test was also...
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BIG PROBLEMS WITH BIG DATA
PublicationThe article presents an overview of the most important issues related to the phenomenon called big data. The characteristics of big data concerning the data itself and the data sources are presented. Then, the big data life cycle concept is formulated. The next sections focus on two big data technologies: MapReduce for big data processing and NoSQL databases for big data storage.
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Non-intrusive infrared-free eye tracking method
PublicationIn the paper a technique of eye tracking based on visible light is presented. The approach described does not require an additional hardware equipment used in the infrared eye tracking system. First, examples of existing eye tracking techniques were presented. Then, the proposed algorithm of image processing and the process of determining the eye position are described. The engineered eye tracking application was tested and the...
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Fast clutter cancellation for noise radars via waveform design
PublicationCanceling clutter is an important, but very expensive part of signal processing in noise radars. It is shown that considerable improvements can be made to a simple least squares canceler if minor constraints are imposed onto noise waveform. Using a combination of FPGA and CPU, the proposed scheme is capable of canceling both stationary clutter and moving targets in real-time, even for high sampling rates.
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User Trust Levels and Their Impact on System Security and Usability
PublicationA multilateral trust between a user and a system is considered. First of all we concentrate on user trust levels associated with the context-oriented CoRBAC model. Consequently, there were computed user profiles on the basis of its implementation in the information processing system “My GUT”. Furthermore, analysis of these profiles and the impact of user trust levels on system security and usability have been discussed.
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Implementation of discrete convolution using polynomial residue representation
PublicationConvolution is one of the main algorithms performed in the digital signal processing. The algorithm is similar to polynomial multiplication and very intensive computationally. This paper presents a new convolution algorithm based on the Polynomial Residue Number System (PRNS). The use of the PRNS allows to decompose the computation problem and thereby reduce the number of multiplications. The algorithm has been implemented in Xilinx...
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Portable raman spectrometer with two excitation wavelengths
PublicationSelected problems of development of a portable Raman spectrometer having small size, reduced power consumption and robust construction are shown. The device dedicated for semiskilled personnel uses two lasers: 785nm and 355nm. Results of preliminary tests are presented. Also data processing procedures as well as problems referred to Raman signals acquisition through packages and influence of interfering signals are discussed.
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Process of Medical Dataset Construction for Machine Learning-Multifield Study and Guidelines
PublicationThe acquisition of high-quality data and annotations is essential for the training of efficient machine learning algorithms, while being an expensive and time-consuming process. Although the process of data processing and training and testing of machine learning models is well studied and considered in the literature, the actual procedures of obtaining data and their annotations in collaboration with physicians are in most cases...
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Application of Reverse Engineering Technology in Part Design for Shipbuilding Industry
PublicationIn the shipbuilding industry, it is difficult to create CAD models of existing or prototype parts, especially with many freeform surfaces. The paper presents the creation of the CAD 3D model of a shipbuilding component with the application of the reverse engineering technology. Based on the data obtained from the digitization process, the component is reconstructed in point cloud processing programs and the CAD model is created....
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Occurrence of Surface Active Agents in the Environment
PublicationDue to the specific structure of surfactants molecules they are applied in different areas of human activity (industry, household). After using and discharging from wastewater treatment plants as effluent stream, surface active agents (SAAs) are emitted to various elements of the environment (atmosphere, waters, and solid phases), where they can undergo numerous physic-chemical processes (e.g., sorption, degradation) and freely...
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High-temperature Co-electrolysis of CO2/H2O and direct methanation over Co-impregnated SOEC. Bimetallic synergy between Co and Ni
PublicationTo study the synergy between the transition metals for enhancing the electrochemical and chemical activity, a series of SOECs were modified with a small amount of Co ions, namely 1.8, 3.6, and 5.4 wt% in the reduced state. The addition of βCD into the precursor solution allowed for extremely fine dispersion of Co species across the Ni-YSZ cermet structure. The sample containing 3.6 wt% Co reached an outstanding over 2.5-times-higher...
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Effect of selected ammonia escape inhibitors on carbon dioxide capture and utilization via calcium carbonate precipitation
PublicationCarbon dioxide was used to precipitate CaCO3 with CaCl2 solution in the presence of NH3 as a CO2 absorption promoter. Compounds that were previously indicated as inhibitors of ammonia escape during CO2 absorption were also added to the reaction mixture. Inorganic salts, i.e. ZnCl2, CuCl2, CoCl2, and organic substances, i.e. glycerol, ethylene glycol and triethanolamine were tested inhibitors in this work. A model post-distillation...
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Removal of Siloxanes from Model Biogas by Means of Deep Eutectic Solvents in Absorption Process
PublicationThe paper presents the screening of 20 deep eutectic solvents (DESs) composed of tetrapropylammonium bromide (TPABr) and glycols in various molar ratios, and 6 conventional solvents as absorbents for removal of siloxanes from model biogas stream. The screening was achieved using the conductor-like screening model for real solvents (COSMO-RS) based on the comparison of siloxane solubility in DESs. For the DES which was characterized...
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Utilisation of waste heat from the power plant by use of the ORC aided with bleed steam and extra source of heat
PublicationUtilization of waste heat recovered from the exhaust gases of the power generation unit by means of ORC (organic Rankine cycles) installation is considered. The waste heat is available in the form of a stream of hot water having temperature of 90 stC in the amount of 200 MWt. To increase evaporation temperaturę of ORC working fluid the heat of steam from the extraction points from the low-pressure part of steam turbine is used....
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Seasonal changes of the concentrations of mineral forms of nitrogen and phosphorus in watercourses in the agricultural catchment area (Bay of Puck, Baltic Sea, Poland)
PublicationThe Baltic Region countries are obliged to meet the stringent limits of N and P discharge set by HELCOM for 2021. Area sources of pollution, including agriculture, are considered the main contributors of biogenic compounds. The Bay of Puck as an inner part of the Baltic Sea is particularly sensitive to eutrophication caused by nutrient in flow from agricultural lands. Rivers and streams inflowing to the Bay of Puck transport nitrogen...
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On the compression of multibeam sonar raw bathymetry data
PublicationMultibeam sonars are widely used in applications like high resolution bathymetry measurements or underwater object imaging. One of the significant problems in multibeam sensing of the marine environment is large amount of data which must be transmitted from the sonar processing unit to an operator station using a limited bit rate channel. For instance, such a situation would be in the case when the multibeam sonar was mounted on...
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A memory efficient and fast sparse matrix vector product on a Gpu
PublicationThis paper proposes a new sparse matrix storage format which allows an efficient implementation of a sparse matrix vector product on a Fermi Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). Unlike previous formats it has both low memory footprint and good throughput. The new format, which we call Sliced ELLR-T has been designed specifically for accelerating the iterative solution of a large sparse and complex-valued system of linear equations arising...
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Green Approaches in Rubber Recycling Technologies: Present Status and Future Perspective
PublicationAs a consequence of massive production and consumption of rubbers, rubber blends, and rubber composites for myriad applications, elastomeric products have enormously accumulated and become an environmental threat. The disposal and burning of rubber wastes have been banned because of environmental and economic reasons. By contrast, a great deal of attention has been directed toward strategies enabling recycling and reuse of rubbers....
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Acceleration of Electromagnetic Simulations on Reconfigurable FPGA Card
PublicationIn this contribution, the hardware acceleration of electromagnetic simulations on the reconfigurable field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) card is presented. In the developed implementation of scientific computations, the matrix-assembly phase of the method of moments (MoM) is accelerated on the Xilinx Alveo U200 card. The computational method involves discretization of the frequency-domain mixed potential integral equation using...
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Mesophilic and thermophilic dark fermentation course analysis using sensor matrices and chromatographic techniques
PublicationProduction of biofuels from biomass is expected to benefit the society and the environment. At present, bio waste residues processing includes hydrolysis, dark fermentation, photofermentation, pyrolysis, gasification, and chemical synthesis. As the composition and the chemical structure of organic substances affect the efficiency of mentioned processes, it is believed that the glucose concentration is a crucial parameter for the...
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Using wavelet techniques for multibeam sonar bathymetry data compression
PublicationMultibeam sonars are widely used in applications like high resolution bathymetry measurements or underwater object imaging. One of the significant problems in multibeam sensing of the marine environment is large amount of data which must be transmitted from the sonar processing unit to an operator station using a limited bit rate channel. For instance, such a situation would be in the case when the multibeam sonar was mounted on...
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Transfer learning in imagined speech EEG-based BCIs
PublicationThe Brain–Computer Interfaces (BCI) based on electroencephalograms (EEG) are systems which aim is to provide a communication channel to any person with a computer, initially it was proposed to aid people with disabilities, but actually wider applications have been proposed. These devices allow to send messages or to control devices using the brain signals. There are different neuro-paradigms which evoke brain signals of interest...
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Global Optimization for Recovery of Clipped Signals Corrupted With Poisson-Gaussian Noise
PublicationWe study a variational formulation for reconstructing nonlinearly distorted signals corrupted with a Poisson-Gaussian noise. In this situation, the data fidelity term consists of a sum of a weighted least squares term and a logarithmic one. Both of them are precomposed by a nonlinearity, modelling a clipping effect, which is assumed to be rational. A regularization term, being a piecewise rational approximation of the ℓ0 function...
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BP-EVD: Forward Block-Output Propagation for Efficient Video Denoising
PublicationDenoising videos in real-time is critical in many applications, including robotics and medicine, where varying light conditions, miniaturized sensors, and optics can substantially compromise image quality. This work proposes the first video denoising method based on a deep neural network that achieves state-of-the-art performance on dynamic scenes while running in real-time on VGA video resolution with no frame latency. The backbone...
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Potential application of ionic liquids in aluminium production - economical and ecological assessment
PublicationTechnologia wytwarzania aluminium stosowana na skale przemysłową oparta jest na elektrodepozycji w ciekłym kriolicie i nosi nazwę procesu Hall-Heroult'a. Technologia ta wymaga wysokich nakładów energii elektrycznej, charakteryzuje się ponadto, szeroko udokumentowanym, negatywnym wpływem na środowisko naturalne. Produkcja aluminium możliwa jest również metodą alternatywną poprzez elektrodepozycję a mieszaniny cieczy jonowych w temperaturze...
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Changes in rheological properties during anaerobic digestion of activated sludge
PublicationWykonane pomiary właściwości reologicznych osadwo nadmiernych poddawanych procesowi dezintegracji mechanicznej wskazują na znaczny spadek lepkości sięgający 60%. Wraz ze stopniem dezintegracji rosły również właściwości pseudoplastyczne oraz malała granica płynięcia. Podobnie istotne zmiany właściwosci reologicznych nastepowały w osadach poddawanych fermentacji metanowej.
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Efficiency of deep bed filtration in treatment of swimming pool water
PublicationPrzebadano efektywność filtracji wody w filtrach ze złożem żwirowo-piaskowym w instalacji basenu rehabilitacyjnego. Obok analizy instrumentalnej wody, w badaniach uwzględniono rozkład wielkości cząstek i analizę termiczną osadu zgromadzonego w złożu piaskowym filtrów wgłębnych i usuwanego podczas płukania.
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Photocatalytic activity and surface properties of carbon-doped titanium dioxide
PublicationTiO2 domieszkowany węglem otrzymano poprzez hydrolizę izopropanolanu tytanu(IV) i kalcynację w 350ºC w atmosferze powietrza przez 2h. Przeprowadzone badania wykazały, że fenol (0.21 mM) jest efektywnie degradowany w fazie wodnej, w obecności otrzymanego fotokatalizatora oraz światła z zakresu widzialnego (λ>400 nm). Pole powierzchni właściwej otrzymanego C-TiO2 wynosiło około 127 m2/g, fotokatalizator absorbuje światło z zakresu...
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An investigation on wetting of porous materials
PublicationPośrednie metody oceny zdolności zwilŜania drobnych cząstek lub materiałów porowatych wymagają wyboru cieczy odniesienia, dla której kąt zwilŜania jest równy zeru. W badaniach własnych zastosowanometodę wzniesienia kapilarnego oraz metodę flotacji filmowej dla układów mikrokulki szklane-woda i mikrokulki szklane-dekan. Uzyskane dane dla cieczy odniesienia i dla cieczy badanej wprowadzano dozmodyfikowanego równania Washburn'a i...
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Transport of lead across polymer inclusion membrane with p-tert-butylkalix[4]arene derivative
PublicationOpisane zostały ułatwienia w transporcie jonów ołowiu (II) przez polimerową membranę inkluzyjną (PIMs),która składała się z trój octanu celulozy jako polimerowego suportu, eteru o-nitrofenylooktylu jako plastyfikatora i 25,26,27,28, tetra-(N-hydroksy-N-metylokarbonylo metoksy)-p-tert-butylokaliks[4]arenu jako nośnika jonów. Polimerowa membrana inkluzyjna została scharakteryzowana przy pomocy mikroskopu sił atomowych (AFM). Otrzymane...
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Photoconductivity and laser operated piezoelectricity the Ag-Ga-Ge-(S,Se) crystals and solid solutions
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Effect of Na doping on photoluminescence and laser stimulated nonlinear optical features of ZnO nanostructures
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Enhancement of the efficiency of the third harmonic generation process in ZnO:F thin films probed by photoluminescence and Raman spectroscopy
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Improved third harmonic nonlinear optical process upon e-beam irradiation in Cl: ZnO thin films
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Enhancement of defects induced optical nonlinearity in Al: ZnO thin films by electron beam
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Toward Wide-Band High-Resolution Analog-to-Digital Converters Using Hybrid Filter Bank Architecture
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Damage identification by wavelet analysis
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Growth Enhancement of Radish Seed Induced by Low-Temperature Argon Plasma
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Tracking analysis of a generalized adaptive notch filter
PublicationUogólniony adaptacyjny filtr wycinający służy do identyfikacji obiektów zmieniających się w sposób pseudookresowy. W pracy przedstawiono analizę własności śledzących takiego filtru a także omówiono zasady jego strojenia.
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Generalized adaptive notch filter with a self-optimization capability
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono samonastrajalny wariant tzw. uogólnionego adaptacyjnego filtru wycinającego. Automatycznym strojeniem objęte są dwa współczynniki wzmocnienia adaptacji, odpowiedzialne za śledzenie amplitud i częstotliwości parametrów identyfikowanego obiektu.
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Damage identification by wavelet analysis
PublicationW pracy omówiono metodę identyfikacji rodzaju nieciagłości w 1 wymiarowych elementach konstrukcji wykorzystującą pomiar propagacji fali sprężystej i jej analizę metodą transformacji falkowej.
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Research and applications of active bearings: A state-of-the-art review
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Structure and properties of the Ti+Ti(C,N) coatings obtained in the PVD process on sintered high speed steel
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Properties of vacuum sintered duplex stainless steels
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Corrosion resistance of sintered duplex stainless steels in the salt fog spray test
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