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  • Corrosion Study of Ceria Protective Layer Deposited by Spray Pyrolysis on Steel Interconnects

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    - Year 2017

    Single fuel cells and electrolysis cells are assembled into stacks using interconnects in order to increase power and gas production capacity. The most common choice for the interconnect material is stainless steel. It has good electrical and mechanical properties and is also cost effective. One of the problems when using steel is the formation of a thermally grown oxide scale during use which has a lower electrical conductivity...

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  • The New Chinese Civil Code and its contribution to Sustainable Development

    The first civil code of the People’s Republic of China in the history was adopted by the 13th National People’s Congress in Beijing on 28 May 2020 and will enter into effect on 1 January 2021. The new civil code puts much more emphasis on the sustainable development and protection of the environment and because of that, the Chinese private law has begun to respond to ecological problems as well. The...

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  • Application of Diversity Combining with RLS Adaptive Filtering in Data Transmission in a Hydroacoustic Channel

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    - SENSORS - Year 2020

    When transmitting data in a hydroacoustic channel under difficult propagation conditions, one of the problems is intersymbol interference (ISI) caused mainly by the effect of multipath propagation. This phenomenon leads to a decrease in transmission parameters, and sometimes completely prevents it. Therefore, we have made an attempt to use diversity combining with Recursive Least Squares (RLS) adaptive filtering to improve the...

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  • Modeling and analysis of the effectiveness of the guard systemswith dynamic graphs

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    - Year 2011

    In the following paper it will be presented a new model for analysis (in polynomial time) of the effectiveness of the guard systems. Therewill be presented its practical applications in problems such as searching for the weakest points of the system, planning guards' paths or cameras deployment, switching image from multiple cameras on several monitors, or interception of the intruder. This model is based on describing the guarded...

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  • Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in hospitality and tourism

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    • J. Murphy
    • N. Kalbaska
    • L. Cantoni
    • L. Horton-Tognazzini
    • P. Ryan
    • A. Williams

    - Year 2018

    The tourism industry, interesting and challenging, faces structural human resource problems such as skills shortages and staff turnover, seasonality and a high percentage of small to medium enterprises whose employees have limited time for training or education. Large tourism enterprises often span countries and continents, such as hotel chains, airlines, cruise companies and car rentals, where the employees need similar training...

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  • DESIGN THINKING ORIENTED METHODOLOGY IN GROUP PROJECT AS A STEP IN THE CDIO APPROACH

    Recently much scientific research and industrial work is conducted in multidisciplinary teams, where cooperation between specialists from different areas of expertise is required in order to successfully address the challenging goals. Moreover, in start-up small companies the lack of supporting departments calls for additional multidisciplinary, economic and networking skills known as T-shaped personality. Recognizing these shortcomings...

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  • Remote sensing in laboratory diagnostics of reinforced concrete elements – current development and vision for the future

    Continuous emergence of new concrete types and kinds of reinforcement, as well as technological solutions in the field of structural engineering have made great demand for diagnostic tests of reinforced concrete elements. New challenges and problems facing people require new more efficient tools for laboratory diagnostics than those commonly used. Remote sensing may be the answer to this demand. In this paper the author describes...

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  • Tryton Supercomputer Capabilities for Analysis of Massive Data Streams

    The recently deployed supercomputer Tryton, located in the Academic Computer Center of Gdansk University of Technology, provides great means for massive parallel processing. Moreover, the status of the Center as one of the main network nodes in the PIONIER network enables the fast and reliable transfer of data produced by miscellaneous devices scattered in the area of the whole country. The typical examples of such data are streams...

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  • Two Stage SVM and kNN Text Documents Classifier

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    - Year 2015

    The paper presents an approach to the large scale text documents classification problem in parallel environments. A two stage classifier is proposed, based on a combination of k-nearest neighbors and support vector machines classification methods. The details of the classifier and the parallelisation of classification, learning and prediction phases are described. The classifier makes use of our method named one-vs-near. It is...

  • Dynamical objectivity in quantum Brownian motion

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    Classical objectivity as a property of quantum states —a view proposed to explain the observer-independent character of our world from quantum theory, is an important step in bridging the quantum-classical gap. It was recently derived in terms of spectrum broadcast structures for small objects embedded in noisy photon-like environments. However, two fundamental problems have arisen: a description of objective motion and applicability...

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  • Playing the Sprint Retrospective: A Replication Study

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    - Year 2020

    The Sprint Retrospective is a vehicle for continuous process improvement. Even though it is a well established agile practice, running effective retrospective meetings is challenging. There have been a lot of identified problems that commonly occur during these meetings. To address them, Przybyłek & Kotecka [20] successfully revitalized retrospective meetings by adopting collaborative games, which represent a powerful tool in improving...

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  • The Effects of Roadside Hazards on Road Accident Severity

    The risk of becoming involved in an accident emerges when elements of the transport system do not operate properly (man – vehicle – road – roadside). The road, its traffic layout andsafety equipment have a critical impact on road user safety. This gives infrastructural work a priority in road safety strategies and programmes. Run-off-road accidents continue to be one of the biggest problems of road safety with consequences including...

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  • Applying agiile practices to the development of safety-critical software

    Development of safety critical software is subjected to numerous restrictions and recommendations. To meet these requirements classical software development models (e.g. V-model) are usually applied. Agile methodologies, although rapidly increasing their popularity, were generally regarded as unsuitable for such projects. However, they offer potential benefits which provide a strong incentive to incorporate them into safety-critical...

  • Locally Adaptive Cooperative Kalman Smoothing and Its Application to Identification of Nonstationary Stochastic Systems

    One of the central problems of the stochastic approximation theory is the proper adjustment of the smoothing algorithm to the unknown, and possibly time-varying, rate and mode of variation of the estimated signals/parameters. In this paper we propose a novel locally adaptive parallel estimation scheme which can be used to solve the problem of fixed-interval Kalman smoothing in the presence of model uncertainty. The proposed solution...

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  • Synchronized six-step voltage generation in high-speed PMSM drive

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    Synchronized voltage generation has already been considered in the context of pulse width modulation (PWM). References prove that synchronized PWM substantially decreases subharmonics in inverter output voltage when operating with low switching-to-fundamental frequency ratio. This paper identifies problems of unsynchronized voltage generation in electric drives under six-step inverter operation. Guidelines for the synchronization...

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  • Evolutionary sets of safe ship trajectories with speed reduction manoeuvres within traffic separation schemes

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    In the previous paper the author presented the evolutionary ship trajectory planning method designed to support Traffic Separation Schemes (TSS). This time the extensions of this method are described which allow to combine evolutionary trajectory planning with speed reduction manoeuvres. On TSS regions with higher than usual density of traffic and smaller distances between ships, the course alterations alone are not always sufficient...

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  • Remote sensing in laboratory diagnostics of reinforced concrete elements – current development and vision for the future

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    - Year 2015

    Continuous emergence of new concrete types and kinds of reinforcement, as well as technological solutions in the field of structural engineering have made great demand for diagnostic tests of reinforced concrete elements. New challenges and problems facing people require new more efficient tools for laboratory diagnostics than those commonly used. Remote sensing may be the answer to this demand. In this paper the author describes...

  • O kształtowaniu stalowych, wieloprzęsłowych mostów drogowych

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    - Year 2016

    W referacie autor przedstawił główne trendy i swoje własne uwagi odnośnie koncepcyjnego projektowania wieloprzęsłowych mostów stalowych. Bazując na zakończonych projektach autor przedstawił teoretyczne i techniczne problemy które wystąpiły podczas projektowania bądź budowy wybranych obiektów mostowych.

  • CROWDFUNDING OF RESEARCH PROJECTS IN POLAND

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    Crowdfunding recently became a very popular way of funding, which allows funding almost everything, from minor personal projects to expensive commercial ones, as long as we can find investors. It may also be a new opportunity for entrepreneurial researchers, who may attract capital investment in companies that are promised to own developed technologies. Social financing of science is well suited to reduce some of the biggest problems...

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  • Shaping the new planning curricula in the post-socialistic context lessons from Poland and Russia

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    Planning education is the issue widely discussed during various conferences and seminars, especially ones grouping the representatives of universities offering professional education in this field. But to large extend this discourse is dominated by the realities and specifics of the highly- developed countries, which is also reflected in the structure of the organizations of universities offering these. At the same time planning...

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  • Knowledge engineer – more than only technical position. The concept of knowledge engineering education at the Faculty of Management and Economics

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    - Year 2014

    Organizational learning means an effective knowledge management. Management is nothing more than the constant decision-making. Therefore organizational learning must be seen through the prism of decisions taken at all levels. Unfortunately decisions are never taken within comfortable conditions. Decision maker suffers from a lack of any support. There is often a problem with human resources having right skills, sometimes they do...

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  • Global defensive sets in graphs

    In the paper we study a new problem of finding a minimum global defensive set in a graph which is a generalization of the global alliance problem. For a given graph G and a subset S of a vertex set of G, we define for every subset X of S the predicate SEC ( X ) = true if and only if | N [ X ] ∩ S | ≥ | N [ X ] \ S | holds, where N [ X ] is a closed neighbourhood of X in graph G. A set S is a defensive alliance if and only if for...

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  • Applications of Tensor Analysis in Continuum Mechanics

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    - Year 2018

    A tensor field is a tensor-valued function of position in space. The use of tensor fields allows us to present physical laws in a clear, compact form. A byproduct is a set of simple and clear rules for the representation of vector differential operators such as gradient, divergence, and Laplacian in curvilinear coordinate systems. The tensorial nature of a quantity permits us to formulate transformation rules for its components...

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  • INFLUENCE OF THE HULL SHAPE ON THE ENERGY DEMAND OF A SMALL INLAND VESSEL WITH HYBRID PROPULSION

    Recently, there has been a significant development of ecological propulsion systems, which is in line with the general trend of environmentally friendly “green shipping”. The main aim is to build a safe, low-energy passenger ship with a highly efficient, emission-free propulsion system. This can be achieved in a variety of ways. The article presents the main problems encountered by designers and constructors already at the stage...

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  • Inline Microwave Filters With N+1 Transmission Zeros Generated by Frequency-Variant Couplings: Coupling-Matrix-Based Synthesis and Design

    A general coupling-matrix-based synthesis methodology for inline Nth-order microwave bandpass filters (BPFs) with frequency-variant reactive-type couplings that generate N+1 transmission zeros (TZs) is presented in this brief. The proposed approach exploits the formulation of the synthesis problem as three inverse nonlinear eigenvalue problems (INEVPs) so that the coupling matrix is built from their sets of eigenvalues. For this...

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  • Modeling the Structure, Dynamics, and Transformations of Proteins with the UNRES Force Field

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    • A. K. Sieradzan
    • C. Czaplewski
    • P. Krupa
    • M. Mozolewska
    • A. S. Karczyńska
    • A. G. Lipska
    • E. Lubecka
    • E. Gołaś
    • T. Wirecki
    • M. Makowski... and 2 others

    - Year 2022

    The physics-based united-residue (UNRES) model of proteins ( www.unres.pl ) has been designed to carry out large-scale simulations of protein folding. The force field has been derived and parameterized based on the principles of statistical-mechanics, which makes it independent of structural databases and applicable to treat nonstandard situations such as, proteins that contain D-amino-acid residues. Powered by Langevin dynamics...

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  • Voltage profiles improvement in a power network with PV energy sources – results of a voltage regulator implementation

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    • A. Szultka
    • S. Szultka
    • S. Czapp
    • R. Karolak
    • M. Andrzejewski
    • J. Kapitaniak
    • M. Kulling
    • J. Bonk

    - ENERGIES - Year 2022

    The constant increase in the number of photovoltaic (PV) energy sources in distribution networks is the cause of serious voltage problems. The networks built at least a dozen years ago are not provided for the installation of a large number of micro-sources. It happens that the previously properly functioning power networks are not able to provide to consumers power with the required parameters, after installing many PV sources....

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  • Laplace domain BEM for anisotropic transient elastodynamics

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    - MATHEMATICS AND MECHANICS OF SOLIDS - Year 2022

    In this paper, we describe Laplace domain boundary element method (BEM) for transient dynamic problems of three-dimensional finite homogeneous anisotropic linearly elastic solids. The employed boundary integral equations for displacements are regularized using the static traction fundamental solution. Modified integral expressions for the dynamic parts of anisotropic fundamental solutions and their first derivatives are obtained....

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  • Metal-Organic Frameworks-Based Sensors for the Detection of Toxins in Food: A Critical Mini-Review on the Applications and Mechanisms

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    • X. Xuan
    • M. Wang
    • S. Manickam
    • G. Boczkaj
    • J. Y. Yoon
    • X. Sun

    - Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology - Year 2022

    Using scientific technologies to detect toxins in food is significant to prevent food safety problems and protect people’s health. Recently, the rise of sensors has made rapid, efficient, and safe detection of food toxins possible. One of the key factors impacting the sensor’s performance is the nanomaterials employed. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), with high specific surface area, tunable composition, porous structure, and flexible...

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  • Biomimetic torene shells

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    - MATHEMATICS AND MECHANICS OF SOLIDS - Year 2023

    The genome inside the eukaryotic cells is guarded by a unique shell structure, called the nuclear envelope (NE), made of lipid membranes. This structure has an ultra torus topology with thousands of torus-shaped holes that imparts the structure a high flexural stiffness. Inspired from this biological design, here we present a novel ‘‘torene’’ architecture to design lightweight shell structures with ultra-stiffness for engineering...

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  • Study on Strategy in University Laboratory Class Teaching

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    - Year 2021

    Laboratory teaching is a critical way to ensure the effective input of techniques in engineering learning. Laboratory teaching not only contributes to improving course quality but also helps enrich comprehensive engineering application ability. However, there are some typical problems in current university laboratory teaching, such as rigid and isolated course design, outdated contents and materials, and not encouraging innovation...

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  • Linear Pantographic Sheets: Existence and Uniqueness of Weak Solutions

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    - JOURNAL OF ELASTICITY - Year 2018

    we address the well-posedness of the planar linearized equilibrium problem for homogenized pantographic lattices. To do so: (i) we introduce a class of subsets of anisotropic Sobolev’s space as the most suitable energy space E relative to assigned boundary conditions; (ii) we prove that the considered strain energy density is coercive and positive definite in E ; (iii) we prove that the set of placements for which the strain...

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  • How can analysts use multicriteria decision analysis?

    Proper decision making in multifacitated situation is very challenging task. It is especially difficult if there are many alternatives and criteria that are often contradictory. Analytical chemistry and related sciences involve many situations where decisions on complex problems are made. The support tools may be the use of MCDA (Multi-criteria Decision Analysis) algorithms. They formalize the decision process, make it transparent...

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  • Recent total cross section measurements in electron scattering from molecules

    The grand-total cross sections (TCSs) for electron scattering from a range of molecules, measured over the period 2009-2019 in various laboratories, with the use of different electron transmission systems, are reviewed. Where necessary, the presented TCS data are also compared to earlier results. Collection of investigated molecular targets (biomolecules, biofuels, molecules of technological application,hydrocarbons) reflects their...

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  • Geographical and chronological knowledge in teaching the history of architecture

    The subject of this article is the analysis of examination results from the course, the History of Polish Architecture. These Bachelor studies present the political, economic and cultural issues of medieval and early modern architecture, and their changes over time. Basic knowledge of the administrative division and historical regions is needed for a proper understanding of the regional diversity of cultural heritage monuments...

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  • Maritime Communications Network Development Using Virtualised Network Slicing of 5G Network

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    - Nase More - Year 2020

    The paper presents the review on perspectives of maritime systems development at the context of 5G systems implementation and their main properties. Firstly, 5G systems requirements and principles are discussed, which can be important for maritime applications. Secondly, the problems of network softwarisation, virtualisation and slicing, and possible types of services for potential implementation in 5G marine applications are described....

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  • Simplified method of water cooled exhaust system design.

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    - Journal of Polish CIMEEAC - Year 2016

    The water cooled exhaust systems are not often used onboard ships. Prime goal is to lower temperature of exhaust gas from main propulsion and auxiliary engines to the defined limit. The design of such systems require detailed analysis of propulsion system operational parameters to meet designer expectations. The paper outlines the cooled exhaust system design problems in specific application. The simplified method of evaluation...

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  • Numerical Modeling of Cone Penetration Test in Slightly Overconsolidated Clay with Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Formulation

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    In this paper the results of the cone penetration test (CPT) modeling with the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) formulation provided by Abaqus software package have been presented. The study compares the cone resistance and sleeve friction obtained in numerical analysis with values measured in soundings performed in the uniform layer of clayey soil in the Koszalin area. The clay layer was found to be slightly overconsolidated...

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  • VARIANT DESIGNING IN the PRELIMINARY SMALL SHIP DESIGN PROCESS

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    Ship designing is a complex process, as the ship itself is a complex, technical multi-level object which operates in the air/water boundary environment and is exposed to the action of many different external and internal factors resulting from the adopted technical solutions, type of operation, and environmental conditions. A traditional ship design process consists of a series of subsequent multistage iterations, which gradually...

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  • Detection of some volatile degradation products released during photoexposition of ranitidine in a solid state

    Ranitidine (RAN) is on top of the list of prescribed drugs, due to its popularity as a selective H2-receptor antagonist, which efficiently decreases the amount of acid produced in the stomach. RAN is not stable both in a solid state and in a solution, which creates manufacturing problems, requires appropriate storage conditions, and results in a short drug shelf-life. The aim of this work was to study the emission of volatile...

  • Towards automating repairs of IT systems

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    - Year 2009

    This paper presents formal description of working principles of the repair library, being the essential component of the Repair Management Framework (RMF), which aims at automating the process of repairing IT systems, and consists also of the Repair Management Model (RMM) and the Repair Management System (RMS). RMM introduces two mathematical models (model of monitoring and model of repair processes), general enough to cover the...

  • Human-computer interaction approach applied to the multimedia system of polysensory integration

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    - Year 2009

    In the paper an approach of utilizing an interaction between the human and computer in a therapy of dyslexia and other sensory disorders is presented. Bakker's neuropsychological concept of dyslexia along with therapy methods are reviewed in the context of the Multimedia System of Polysensory Integration, proposed at the Multimedia Systems Department of Gdansk Univ. of Technology. The system is presented along with the training...

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  • Supporting Management Decisions with Intelligent Mechanisms of Obtaining and Processing Knowledge

    This paper is a summary of the authors' work on a model of support for decision processes in organisation management. Key decisions in organisations are often made without sufficient knowledge and by people lacking the proper qualifications and experience. Without full support in decision processes, true threats to organisations are created. Therefore, to support decision processes in numerous organisations, apart from experts...

  • Preliminary designing method of external pressure vessels for sea subsurface aplications

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    This paper describes a unique engineering method intended for the preliminary designing of marine subsurface buoy mooring systems. The solved designing problem consists in determining geometrical parameters and selecting structural materials for a vessel of a buoyancy necessary to contain measuring instruments of a given mass, as well as its maximum dimensions and operational submersion depth. The assumed variability range of...

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  • Integrated controller for ultra high frequency technique laboratory

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    Department of Microwave and Antenna Engineering decided to modernize the laboratory of Ultra High Frequency Techniques. The main change was to replace measurement of the field distribution inside rectangular waveguides by analysing the fields around striplines. This involved the need to overcome several technical and conceptual problems. Precise positioning of the probe and reading the field distribution near the stripline is important...

  • Good practices in requirements, project and risk managment in educational IT projects

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    - Year 2012

    One can find many learning aids and simulations of physical phenomena on the market - provided as a standalone application or as part of an educational package. However, only a few of them allow for the building of interactive experiments: experiments similar to those that should be conducted in physics laboratories at schools. Gdańsk University of Technology decided to fill this market niche by designing and constructing a set...

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  • Agent System for Managing Distributed Mobile Interactive Documents in Knowledge-Based Organizations

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    - Year 2012

    The MIND architecture of distributed mobile interactive document is a new processing model defined to facilitate obtaining a proper solution in knowledge processes carried out by knowledge-based organizations. Such organizations have an established structure that defines document templates and knowledge process. The aim of the MIND architecture is to change the static document to mobile agents, which are designed to implement the...

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  • Implementation of FDTD-Compatible Green's Function on Graphics Processing Unit

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    In this letter, implementation of the finite-difference time domain (FDTD)-compatible Green's function on a graphics processing unit (GPU) is presented. Recently, closed-form expression for this discrete Green's function (DGF) was derived, which facilitates its applications in the FDTD simulations of radiation and scattering problems. Unfortunately, implementation of the new DGF formula in software requires a multiple precision...

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  • Landfill leachate treatment at a pilot plant using hydrophyte systems

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    Constructed wetlands can provide an effective and economical solution to landfill leachate treatment. In the article the performance of a CW for leachate treatment, consisting of two horizontal flow constructed wetlands (HF-CW) beds, working at the municipal landfill in Gdansk-Szadolki in the period 2004-2005 is being discussed. The plant has been operating since 2001. Clogging problems and surface flow occurred in the system...

  • Comparison of reproduction strategies in genetic algorithm approach to graph searching

    genetic algorithms (ga) are a well-known tool used to obtain approximate solutions to optimization problems. successful application of genetic algorithm in solving given problem is largely dependant on selecting appropriate genetic operators. selection, mutation and crossover techniques play a fundamental role in both time needed to obtain results and their accuracy. in this paper we focus on applying genetic algorithms in calculating...