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  • Morphology control through the synthesis of metal-organic frameworks

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    - ADVANCES IN COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE - Year 2023

    Designable morphology and predictable properties are the most challenging goals in material engineering. Features such as shape, size, porosity, agglomeration ratio significantly affect the final properties of metal- organic frameworks (MOFs) and can be regulated throughout synthesis parameters but require a deep under- standing of the mechanisms of MOFs formation. Herein, we systematically summarize the effects of the indi- vidual...

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  • Performance Analysis of the OpenCL Environment on Mobile Platforms

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    Today’s smartphones have more and more features that so far were only assigned to personal computers. Every year these devices are composed of better and more efficient components. Everything indicates that modern smartphones are replacing ordinary computers in various activities. High computing power is required for tasks such as image processing, speech recognition and object detection. This paper analyses the performance of...

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  • From Knowledge based Vision Systems to Cognitive Vision Systems: A Review

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    - Year 2018

    Computer vision research and applications have their origins in 1960s. Limitations in computational resources inherent of that time, among other reasons, caused research to move away from artificial intelligence and generic recognition goals to accomplish simple tasks for constrained scenarios. In the past decades, the development in machine learning techniques has contributed to noteworthy progress in vision systems. However,...

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  • MOOCs in SP4CE - case studies (Strategic Partnership for Creativity and Entrepreneurship)

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    - Year 2016

    SP4CE stands for Strategic Partnership for Creativity and Entrepreneurship project which has been funded with support from the European Commission under the ERASMUS+ Programme in the period 1st September 2014 - 31st August 2017. The main purpose of SP4CE project is to design innovative e-learning tools for collaboration between students, enterprises and teachers. It concentrates on identifying users’ needs and supports the development...

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  • Engineering education for smart grid systems in the quasi-industrial environment of the LINTE^2 laboratory

    Smart grid systems are revolutionising the electric power sector, integrating advanced technologies to enhance efficiency, reliability and sustainability. It is important for higher education to equip the prospective smart grid professional with the competencies enabling them to navigate through the related complexities and drive innovation. To achieve this, interdisciplinary education programmes are necessary, addressing inter...

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  • WebCT - platforma i tłumaczenie.

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    - Year 2004

    W artykule przedstawiono doświadczenia Centrum Edukacji Niestacjonarnej i Międzywydziałowego Koła Naukowego Studentów Politechniki Gdańskiej DEC@TUG w tłumaczeniu i implementacji platform LMS (ang. Learning Management System). Krótko scharakteryzowano funkcjonalność platform BSCW I Moodle, których interfejsy zostały przetłumaczone przez członków Koła DEC@TUG w latach 2000-2003. Opisano główne funkcje platformy WebCT, takie jak...

  • BETWEEN IDEA AND INTERPRETATION - DESIGN PROCESS AUGMENTATION

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    - Year 2018

    The following paper investigates the idea of reducing the human digital intervention to a minimum during the advanced design process. Augmenting the outcome attributes beyond the designer's capabilities by computational design methods, data collection, data computing and digital fabrication, altogether imitating the human design process. The primary technical goal of the research was verification of restrictions and abilities used...

  • Problems of reinforcement designing for plates

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    Przedstawiono problem projektowania zbrojenia nietrajektorialnego płyt w aspekcie ich odkształcalności. Na podstawie niektórych wyników badań doświadczalnych, przeprowadzonych na żelbetowych płytach skręcanych, zweryfikowano procedury wymiarowania. Analiza wykazuje, że pomimo formalnego zapewnienia nośności przekroju płyt nietrajektorialnie zbrojonych, ich odkształcalność znacznie wzrasta. Aby zapewnić im sztywność na poziomie...

  • Creating a radiological database for automatic liver segmentation using artificial intelligence.

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    - EJSO-EUR J SURG ONC - Year 2022

    Imaging in medicine is an irreplaceable stage in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The subsequent therapeutic effect depends on the quality of the imaging tests performed. In recent years we have been observing the evolution of 2D to 3D imaging for many medical fields, including oncological surgery. The aim of the study is to present a method of selection of radiological imaging tests for learning neural networks.

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  • PROJEKTOWANIE WIELOWYMIAROWEGO REGULATORA BACKSTEPPING W UKŁADZIE DYNAMICZNEGO POZYCJONOWANIA STATKU

    W komercyjnych systemach dynamicznego pozycjonowania statku, pomimo znacznego wzrostu poziomu automatyzacji, wykorzystywane jest nadal sterowanie typu PID. Poprawę jakości procesu pozycjonowania może umożliwić wykorzystanie bardziej efektywnych algorytmów, oferujących zaawansowane nieliniowe techniki sterowania. W artykule przedstawiono zagadnienie projektowania regulatora pozycji i kursu dla układu dynamicznego pozycjonowania...

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  • "Numeryczna symulacja pracy gazowego kotła wodnego raz ocena jego wpływu na środowisko"

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    - Year 2013

    Ilość dostarczanego powietrza oraz rozkład jego koncentracji w komorze paleniskowej mają istotny wpływ na prawidłowość przebiegu procesu spalania. Uzyskanie jednorodnego rozkładu jest praktycznie niemożliwe, dlatego powietrze dostarczane jest w nadmiarze. Konieczne jest jednak dobranie takiej wartości współczynnika nadmiaru powietrza, która pozwoli ograniczyć stratę wylotową, utrzymując przy tym wartości emisji na możliwie niskim...

  • "Numeryczna symulacja pracy gazowego kotła wodnego oraz ocena jego wpływu na środowisko"

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    - Year 2013

    Ilość dostarczanego powietrza oraz rozkład jego koncentracji w komorze paleniskowej mają istotny wpływ na prawidłowość przebiegu procesu spalania. Uzyskanie jednorodnego rozkładu jest praktycznie niemożliwe, dlatego powietrze dostarczane jest w nadmiarze. Konieczne jest jednak dobranie takiej wartości współczynnika nadmiaru powietrza, która pozwoli ograniczyć stratę wylotową, utrzymując przy tym wartości emisji na możliwie niskim...

  • Numeryczna symulacja pracy gazowego kotła wodnego oraz ocena jego wpływu na środowisko

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    - Mechanik - Year 2013

    Ilość dostarczanego powietrza oraz rozkład jego koncentracji w komorze paleniskowej mają istotny wpływ na prawidłowość przebiegu procesu spalania. Uzyskanie jednorodnego rozkładu jest praktycznie niemożliwe, dlatego powietrze dostarczane jest w nadmiarze. Konieczne jest jednak dobranie takiej wartości współczynnika nadmiaru powietrza, która pozwoli ograniczyć stratę wylotową, utrzymując przy tym wartości emisji na możliwie niskim...

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  • Decisional DNA for modeling and reuse of experiential clinical assessments in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment

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    • E. Sanchez
    • W. Peng
    • C. Toro
    • C. Sanin
    • M. Grana
    • E. Szczerbicki
    • E. Carrasco
    • F. Guijarro
    • L. Brualla

    - NEUROCOMPUTING - Year 2014

    Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) are active knowledge resources that use patient data to generate case specific advice. The fast pace of change of clinical knowledge imposes to CDSS the continuous update of the domain knowledge and decision criteria. Traditional approaches require costly tedious manual maintenance of the CDSS knowledge bases and repositories. Often, such an effort cannot be assumed by medical teams, hence...

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  • Dynamic Positioning System with Vectorial Backstepping Controller

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    - Year 2013

    The problem of synthesis a dynamic positioning system for low frequency model of surface vessel was considered in this paper. The recursive vectorial backstepping control design was used to keep a fixed position and heading in presence of wave disturbances. The passive observer was introduced to smooth the measurements and to estimate the velocities needed for the control algorithm. Some parameters of observer were optimized off-line...

  • t-SNE Highlights Phylogenetic and Temporal Patterns of SARS-CoV-2 Spike and Nucleocapsid Protein Evolution

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    • G. Tamazian
    • A. Komissarov
    • D. Kobak
    • D. Polyakov
    • E. Andronov
    • S. Nechaev
    • S. Kryzhevich
    • Y. Porozov
    • E. Stepanov

    - Year 2022

    We propose applying t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding to protein sequences of SARS-CoV-2 to construct, visualize and study the evolutionary space of the coronavirus. The basic idea is to explore the COVID-19 evolution space by using modern manifold learning techniques applied to evolutionary distances between variants. Evolutionary distances have been calculated based on the structures of the nucleocapsid and spike proteins.

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  • Szkolenie elektroniczne narzędziem budowy kapitału ludzkiego.

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    - Year 2004

    Autorka ukazuje proces szkoleń pracowników począwszy od tradycyjnego do bardziej nowoczesnego typu e-learning. W nowoczesnych przedsiębiorstwach odchodzxi sie od typowego, tradycyjnego szkolenia na rzecz bardziej efektywnych,tańszych i skutecznych czyli elektronicznych. W artykule pokazane są zalety i korzyści szkoleń elektronicznych w przygotowaniu pracowników do efektywnej pracy.

  • Propagation of Acoustic Disturbances in Shallow Sea

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    - Year 2013

    Propagation of acoustic waves in shallow sea differs fundamentally from the same phenomenon occurring in deep sea in view of non-negligible distance from the sea bottom in the first case, where presence of two regions limiting the water layer results in the acoustic pressure distribution induced by a harmonic source has an interferential nature as a result of multi-path propagation of the acoustic signal. These interferential properties...

  • Robustness in Compressed Neural Networks for Object Detection

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    - Year 2021

    Model compression techniques allow to significantly reduce the computational cost associated with data processing by deep neural networks with only a minor decrease in average accuracy. Simultaneously, reducing the model size may have a large effect on noisy cases or objects belonging to less frequent classes. It is a crucial problem from the perspective of the models' safety, especially for object detection in the autonomous driving...

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  • Vertical Temperature Stratification of the Gulf of Gdansk Water

    The Baltic Sea is characterized by variable hydroacoustic conditions, which depend on hydrological conditions throughout the year. The temperature of the water is the factor that has the greatest impact on the changes in the speed of the sound in this basin. Even at a small depth, we can observe a large temperature gradient affecting the accuracy of the conducted research using hydroacoustic devices. A characteristic feature of...

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  • Robust Object Detection with Multi-input Multi-output Faster R-CNN

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    - Year 2022

    Recent years have seen impressive progress in visual recognition on many benchmarks, however, generalization to the out-of-distribution setting remains a significant challenge. A state-of-the-art method for robust visual recognition is model ensembling. However, recently it was shown that similarly competitive results could be achieved with a much smaller cost, by using multi-input multi-output architecture (MIMO). In this work,...

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  • Metal dusting phenomena of 501 AISI furnace tubes in refinery fractional distillation unit

    The purpose of this investigation was to conduct the failure analysis of 501 AISI furnace tubes places before distillation column in fractional distillation unit. The investigated furnace tubes were planned to work for ten years however after just two years of exploitation <30% of the material left. The observed corrosion process had the intense and complex character. The well-adhered shiny black deposits and deep, round pits were...

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  • Robust Object Detection with Multi-input Multi-output Faster R-CNN

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    - Year 2022

    Recent years have seen impressive progress in visual recognition on many benchmarks, however, generalization to the out-of-distribution setting remains a significant challenge. A state-of-the-art method for robust visual recognition is model ensembling. However, recently it was shown that similarly competitive results could be achieved with a much smaller cost, by using multi-input multi-output architecture (MIMO). In this work,...

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  • BP-EVD: Forward Block-Output Propagation for Efficient Video Denoising

    Denoising 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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  • ePBL – czyli nauka poprzez realizację projektu w środowisku wirtualnym

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    Kształcenie inżynierów stanowi niezwykle istotny element systemu edukacyjnego każdego nowoczesnego państwa, ponieważ to właśnie dobrze przygotowana kadra inżynierska decyduje o tempie rozwoju i poziomie infrastruktury danego kraju. Wykorzystanie najnowszych technologii w procesie edukacyjnym jest naturalną konsekwencją „informatyzacji” życia. Pokolenia dorastające w świecie wszechobecnych komputerów, urządzeń mobilnych i cyfrowej...

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  • Knowledge pills in Education and Training: A Literature Review

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    • E. Bolisani
    • E. Scarso
    • M. Zięba
    • S. Durst
    • A. Zbuchea
    • A. Lis
    • T. C. Kassaneh

    - Year 2022

    Object and purpose: Knowledge pills (KPs) are a technique for transferring knowledge through short factual batches of content. In education and vocational training, they can help learners acquire specific pieces of knowledge in a few minutes, through a “microteaching” approach where learners can be involved in active and interactive exercises, quizzes, and games. Thanks to the advancements of multimedia platforms, they can contain...

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  • Porównanie systemu Ilias i Moodle - przypadek użycia.

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    W artykule przedstawiono koncepcję wykorzystania darmowych systemów LMS (ang. Learning Management System) jako narzędzi wspomagających prowadzenie zajęć metodą tradycyjną F2F (ang. Face to Face). Omówiono eksperyment przeprowadzony przez dwie uczelnie trójmiejskie: Akademię Morską i Politechnikę Gdańską. Celem eksperymentu było porównanie systemu Ilias (wersja 2.4.4) z systemem Moodle (wersja 1.2).

  • Opracowanie technologii spawania naprawczego szyn poddźwigowych A120 oraz badania nieniszczące jakości szyn w DCT w Porcie Północnym

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    - Year 2017

    Ekspertyza dotyczy realizacji zlecenia związanego z naprawą spoin szyn poddźwigowych na terenie terminalu kontenerowego - Deep Water Terminal (DCT) w Porcie Północnym w Gdańsku. W ramach opracowania: 1. Wykonano badania ultradźwiękowe (UT) i magnetyczno-proszkowe (MT) spoin czołowych szyn poddźwigowych typu A120, według schematu dostarczonego przez firmę SKANSKA S.A. 2. Wykonano analizę wyników badań...

  • Wpływ rodzaju zanieczyszczenia powierzchni odlewu ze staliwa LH14 na jakość napoin wykonanych elektrodą otuloną

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    Napawanie jest szeroko stosowaną metodą naprawiania powierzchni. Pozwala między innymi na uzupełnienie miejsc, w których uprzednio wystąpiły wżery korozyjne. Techniki napawania wykorzystywane są również do przywracania pierwotnego kształtu zużytych części. W pracy wykonano badania napoin wykonanych elektrodami otulonymi na czołowych powierzchniach cylindrycznych próbek ze staliwa LH14. Proces wykonywano dwoma rodzajami elektrod:...

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  • Jak wykraść złoto smokowi? - uczenie ze wzmocnieniem w świecie Wumpusa

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    - Year 2021

    Niniejszy rozdział zawiera łagodne wprowadzenie do problematyki uczenia ze wzmocnieniem, w którym podstawy teoretyczne wyjaśniane są na przykładzie przewodnim, jakim jest zagadnienie nauczenia agenta poruszania się w świecie potwora o imieniu Wumpus (ang. Wumpus world), klasycznym środowisku do testowania logicznego rozumowania agentów (problem nietrywialny dla algorytmów uczenia ze wzmocnieniem). Przedstawiona jest główna idea...

  • A new multi-process collaborative architecture for time series classification

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    - KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS - Year 2021

    Time series classification (TSC) is the problem of categorizing time series data by using machine learning techniques. Its applications vary from cybersecurity and health care to remote sensing and human activity recognition. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-process collaborative architecture for TSC. The propositioned method amalgamates multi-head convolutional neural networks and capsule mechanism. In addition to the discovery...

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  • How high-tech solutions support the fight against IUU and ghost fishing: a review of innovative approaches, methods, and trends

    Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated fishing is a major threat to human food supply and marine ecosystem health. Not only is it a cause of significant economic loss but also its effects have serious long-term environmental implications, such as overfishing and ocean pollution. The beginning of the fight against this problem dates since the early 2000s. From that time, a number of approaches and methods have been developed and reported....

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  • Are Pair Trading Strategies Profitable During COVID-19 Period?

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    • M. K. Sohail
    • A. Raheman
    • J. Iqbal
    • M. I. Sindhu
    • A. Staar
    • M. Mushafiq
    • H. Afzal

    - Journal of Information & Knowledge Management - Year 2022

    Pair trading strategy is a well-known profitable strategy in stock, forex, and commodity markets. As most of the world stock markets declined during COVID-19 period, therefore this study is going to observe whether this strategy is still profitable after COVID-19 pandemic. One of the powerful algorithms of DBSCAN under the umbrella of unsupervised machine learning is applied and three clusters were formed by using market and accounting...

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  • Scalable Maintenance of Address Mapping and Autodetecion in Environments Where Agents are Uncapable of Self-Registration

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    - Year 2013

    When working with multi-agent systems it is often desirable to manage the agent set. The existing methods of central monitoring stems from two different fields of application. The first has its roots in in computer network monitoring, the other in mutli-agent simulation environments. Both approaches are not general enough to cater for loosely controlled environments, where the total agent population is not known and often fluctuating,...

  • Data Partitioning and Task Management in the Clustered Server Layer of the Volunteer-based Computation System

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    - Year 2012

    While the typical volunteer-based distributed computing system focus on the computing performance, the Comcute system was designed especially to keep alive in the emergency situations. This means that designers had to take into account not only performance, but the safety of calculations as well. Quadruple-layered architecture was proposed to separate the untrusted components from the core of the system. The main layer (W) consists...

  • Towards semantic-rich word embeddings

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    - Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems - Year 2019

    In recent years, word embeddings have been shown to improve the performance in NLP tasks such as syntactic parsing or sentiment analysis. While useful, they are problematic in representing ambiguous words with multiple meanings, since they keep a single representation for each word in the vocabulary. Constructing separate embeddings for meanings of ambiguous words could be useful for solving the Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD)...

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  • Emotion recognition and its application in software engineering

    In this paper a novel application of multimodal emotion recognition algorithms in software engineering is described. Several application scenarios are proposed concerning program usability testing and software process improvement. Also a set of emotional states relevant in that application area is identified. The multimodal emotion recognition method that integrates video and depth channels, physiological signals and input devices...

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  • Możliwości wykorzystania technologii zarządzania prawami autorskimi w systemach zdalnego nauczania

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    - Year 2005

    W referacie przedstawiono istniejące koncepcje zabezpieczania danych multimedialnych oraz opisano zasady działania systemów DRM (Digital Rights Management) zarządzania prawami autorskimi, mającymi na celu zapewnienie twórcy utworu w postaci elektronicznej sprawowania kontroli nad zdalną kopią utworu, zwłaszcza jego nieautoryzowanego rozpowszechniania. W pracy wskazano konieczność i możliwości wykorzystania DRM w systemach e-learning.

  • Przegląd metod szybkiego prototypowania algorytmów uczenia maszynowego w FPGA

    W artykule opisano możliwe do wykorzystania otwarte narzędzia wspomagające szybkie prototypowanie algorytmów uczenia maszynowego (ML) i sztucznej inteligencji (AI) przy użyciu współczesnych platform FPGA. Przedstawiono przykład szybkiej ścieżki przy realizacji toru wideo wraz z implementacją przykładowego algorytmu prze-twarzania w trybie na żywo.

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  • Endohedral gallide cluster superconductors and superconductivity in ReGa5

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    • W. Xie
    • H. Luo
    • B. Phelan
    • T. Klimczuk
    • F. Cevallos
    • R. J. Cava

    - PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - Year 2015

    We present transition metal-embedded (T@Gan) endohedral Ga clusters as a favorable structural motif for superconductivity and develop empirical, molecule-based, electron counting rules that govern the hierarchical architectures that the clusters assume in binary phases. Among the binary T@Gan endohedral cluster systems, Mo8Ga41, Mo6Ga31, Rh2Ga9, and Ir2 Ga9 are all previously known superconductors. The well-known exotic superconductor...

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  • Bacterial community succession in an Arctic lake–stream system (Brattegg Valley, SW Spitsbergen)

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    - BOREAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH - Year 2016

    The factors affecting prokaryotic and virus structure dynamics and bacterial commu-nity composition (BCC) in aquatic habitats along a ca. 1500 m of the Brattegg Valley lake–stream system (SW Spitsbergen) composed of three postglacial lakes created by Brattegg Glacier meltwater were examined. A high number of small-volume prokaryotic cells were found in the recently-formed, deep, upper,...

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  • Preparation and characterization of TiO2 nanostructures for catalytic CO2 photoconversion

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    - Solid State Phenomena - Year 2012

    The titanium dioxide target (99.7%) of 1 cm in dia was ablated in vacuum by laser pulses(6 ns) at 266 nm and at repetition rate of 10 Hz. During deposition the laser fluence between 1 and 3.5 J/cm2 and the O2 pressure from the range of 10-2 - 1 Pa were applied. The thin TiO2 films were deposited on glass substrate (1 × 1 cm2) heated up to 500 °C. The chemical composition of the film and samples produced by annealing were investigated...

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  • Damage of a post-tensioned concrete bridge – Unwanted cracks of the girders

    The cracking of a post-tensioned T-beam superstructure, which was built using the incremental launching method, is analyzed in the paper. The problem is studied in detail, as specific damage was observed in the form of longitudinal cracks, especially in the mid-height zone of the girder at the interface of two assembly sections. The paper is a case study. A detailed inspection is done and non-destructive testing results of the...

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  • Distortion of speech signals in the listening area: its mechanism and measurements

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    - Year 2014

    The paper deals with a problem of the influence of the number and distribution of loudspeakers in speech reinforcement systems on the quality of publicly addressed voice messages, namely on speech intelligibility in the listening area. Linear superposition of time-shifted broadband waves of a same form and slightly different magnitudes that reach a listener from numerous coherent sources, is accompanied by interference effects...

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  • Text Mining Algorithms for Extracting Brand Knowledge; The fashion Industry Case

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    - Year 2018

    Brand knowledge is determined by customer knowledge. The opportunity to develop brands based on customer knowledge management has never been greater. Social media as a set of leading communication platforms enable peer to peer interplays between customers and brands. A large stream of such interactions is a great source of information which, when thoroughly analyzed, can become a source of innovation and lead to competitive advantage....

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  • The Processing Procedure for the Interpretation of Microseismic Signal Acquired from a Surface Array During Hydraulic Fracturing in Pomerania Region in Poland

    Hydraulic fracturing is a procedure of injecting high pressure fluid into the wellbore in order to break shell rock and facilitate gas flow. It is a very costly procedure and, if not conducted properly, it may lead to environmental pollution. To avoid costs associated with pumping fluid outside the perspective (gas rich) zone and improve one’s knowledge about the reservoir rock, microseismic monitoring can be applied. The method...

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  • Application of soil nailing technique for protection and preservation historical buildings

    Soil nailing is one of the recent in situ techniques used for soil improvement and in stabilizing slopes. The process of soil nailing consists of reinforcing the natural ground with relatively small steel bars or metal rods, grouted in the pre-drilled holes. This method has a wide range of applications for stabilizing deep excavations and steep slopes. Soil nailing has recently become a very common method of slope stabilisation...

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  • Coherent-wave Monte Carlo method for simulating light propagation in tissue

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    Simulating propagation and scattering of coherent light in turbid media, such as biological tissues, is a complex problem. Numerical methods for solving Helmholtz or wave equation (e.g. finite-difference or finite-element methods) require large amount of computer memory and long computation time. This makes them impractical for simulating laser beam propagation into deep layers of tissue. Other group of methods, based on radiative...

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  • Process Control of Biogas Purification Using Electronic Nose

    Nowadays, biogas produced from landfills and wastewater treatment plants or lignocellulosic biomass is important sustainable and affordable source of energy. Impurities from biogas stream can cause a serious odor problem, especially for residents of areas immediately adjacent to production plants. Therefore, biogas pre-treatment is necessary to protect engines that convert biogas into energy and in order to increase the specific...

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  • Betaine and L-carnitine ester bromides: Synthesis and comparative study of their thermal behaviour and surface activity

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    • A. Mero
    • A. Mezzetta
    • J. Nowicki
    • J. Łuczak
    • L. Guazzelli

    - JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS - Year 2021

    Six esters of both betaine and L-carnitine bromides, featuring alkyl groups ranging from C8 to C18 in length, have been synthesized. The thermal behaviour of these twelve bio-based salts has been analyzed and compared by thermal gravimetric analysis and differential scanning calorimetry. The L-carnitine alkyl ester bromides melted below 100 C and can hence be considered ionic liquids (ILs) with full rights. Conversely, the betaine...

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