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  • Facial emotion recognition using depth data

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    - Year 2015

    In this paper an original approach is presented for facial expression and emotion recognition based only on depth channel from Microsoft Kinect sensor. The emotional user model contains nine emotions including the neutral one. The proposed recognition algorithm uses local movements detection within the face area in order to recognize actual facial expression. This approach has been validated on Facial Expressions and Emotions Database...

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  • Electronic Noses in Medical Diagnostics

    Electronic nose technology is being developed in order to identify aromas in a way parallel to the biologic olfaction. When applied to the field of medicine, such device should be able to identify and discriminate between different diseases. In recent years this kind of approach finds application in medical diagnostics, and especially in disease screening. Despite the fact that devices utilizing chemical sensor arrays are not routinely...

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  • THE UNSUSTAINABILITY OF PUBLIC-SECTOR ORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS: A CASE STUDY OF VOLUNTARY COURT NETWORKS

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    - Zeszyty Naukowe. Organizacja i Zarządzanie / Politechnika Śląska - Year 2020

    Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the problem of sustainability of public-sector 12 organizational networks on the example of common courts and what it implies for further 13 research. Methodology: The study used qualitative research tools in the form of structured 14 interviews. Interviews were conducted with 36 presidents and directors of common courts. 15 After conducting and transcribing each interview, their...

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  • The searchlight problem for road networks

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    - THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE - Year 2015

    We consider the problem of searching for a mobile intruder hiding in a road network given as the union of two or more lines, or two or more line segments, in the plane. Some of the intersections of the road network are occupied by stationary guards equipped with a number of searchlights, each of which can emit a single ray of light in any direction along the lines (or line segments) it is on. The goal is to detect the intruder,...

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  • Verification of the Analytical Traffic Model of a Multidomain IMS/NGN Using the Simulation Model

    In this paper we verify the previously proposed analytical traffic model of a multidomain Next Generation Network (NGN), which is standardized for delivering multimedia services based on the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). For this reason a proper simulation model used, in which not theoretical queuing system models but the operation of real network elements and standardized call scenarios are accurately implemented. Consequently,...

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  • Call processing performance in multidomain IMS/NGN architecture

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    The Next Generation Network (NGN) architecture, which bases on the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) concept, is a proposition of a telecommunication network dedicated to the needs of the modern information society. The main goal of NGN is to provide Quality of Service (QoS), for which proper network design and dimensioning are necessary. This also requires appropriate traffic models, which should be efficient and not excessively complicated...

  • Optimization of Wireless Networks for Resilience to Adverse Weather Conditions

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    • M. Pióro
    • E. Fitzgerald
    • I. Kalesnikau
    • D. Nace
    • J. Rak

    - Year 2020

    In this chapter, we consider how adverse weather conditions such as rain or fog affect the performance of wireless networks, and how to optimize these networks so as to make them robust to these conditions. We first show how to analyze the weather conditions in order to make them useful for network optimization modelling. Using an example realistic network, we show how to optimize two types of wireless networks: free-space optical...

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  • New Complementary Resonator for Permittivity- and Thickness-Based Dielectric Characterization

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    - SENSORS - Year 2023

    The design of high-performance complementary meta-resonators for microwave sensors featur-ing high sensitivity and consistent evaluation of dielectric materials is challenging. This paper presents the design and implementation of a novel complementary resonator with high sensi-tivity for dielectric substrate characterization based on permittivity and thickness. A comple-mentary crossed arrow resonator (CCAR) is proposed and integrated...

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  • Light box for investigation of characteristics of optoelectronics detectors

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    In this paper, a light box for investigation of characteristics of optoelectronic detectors is described. The light box consists of an illumination device, an optical power sensor and a mechanical enclosure. The illumination device is based on four types of high-power light emitting diodes (LED): white light, red, green and blue. The illumination level can be varied for each LED independently by the driver and is measured by optical...

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  • An Automated Method for Biometric Handwritten Signature Authentication Employing Neural Networks

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    Handwriting biometrics applications in e-Security and e-Health are addressed in the course of the conducted research. An automated graphomotor analysis method for the dynamic electronic representation of the handwritten signature authentication was researched. The developed algorithms are based on dynamic analysis of electronically handwritten signatures employing neural networks. The signatures were acquired with the use of the...

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  • Position Estimation in Mixed Indoor-Outdoor Environment Using Signals of Opportunity and Deep Learning Approach

    To improve the user's localization estimation in indoor and outdoor environment a novel radiolocalization system using deep learning dedicated to work both in indoor and outdoor environment is proposed. It is based on the radio signatures using radio signals of opportunity from LTE an WiFi networks. The measurements of channel state estimators from LTE network and from WiFi network are taken by using the developed application....

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  • Downlink Capacity-Coverage Trade-off Estimation Based on Measurement of WCDMA/FDD Interface Load

    The method of capacity-coverage trade-off determination by using of universal load characteristics and normalized coverage curves for the WCDMA/FDD radio interface has been presented. The practical applications of discussed method for UMTS radio network planning process and network exploitation has been mentioned.

  • Ship Resistance Prediction with Artificial Neural Networks

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    - Year 2015

    The paper is dedicated to a new method of ship’s resistance prediction using Artificial Neural Network (ANN). In the initial stage selected ships parameters are prepared to be used as a training and validation sets. Next step is to verify several network structures and to determine parameters with the highest influence on the result resistance. Finally, other parameters expected to impact the resistance are proposed. The research utilizes...

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  • Toward Fast Calculation of Communication Paths for Resilient Routing

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    - NETWORKS - Year 2017

    Utilization of alternate communication paths is a common technique to provide protection of transmission against failures of network nodes/links. However, a noticeable delay is encountered when calculating the relevant sets of disjoint paths using the available algorithms (e.g., using Bhandari’s approach). This, in turn, may have a serious impact on the ability of a network to serve dynamic demands...

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  • Enhancing Availability for Critical Services

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    • T. Gomes
    • L. Martins
    • R. Girão-Silva
    • D. Tipper
    • A. Pašić
    • B. Vass
    • L. Garrote
    • U. J. Nunes
    • M. Zachariasen
    • J. Rak

    - Year 2020

    Traditional approaches to provide classes of resilient service take the physical network availability as an input and then deploy redundancy and restoration techniques at various layers, often without full knowledge of mappings between layers. This makes it hard (and often inefficient) to ensure the high availability required by critical services which are typically a small fraction of the total traffic. Here, the innovative technique...

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  • Efficiency of gas mixtures detection by resistive gas sensors

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    - Year 2014

    Resistive gas sensors are very popular and are commonly used to detect various gases and their mixtures. Theeir main disadvantage is very limited selectivity. Practical use of gas sensors in environenmental applications requires determination of concentration of a few mixed gases at the same time. We would like to present recent results of gas detection improvement by utilizing a single gas sensor and additional measurements to...

  • Elektrochemiczny czujnik na bazie cieczy jonowej do oznaczania par benzaldehydu

    W pracy przedstawiono prototypowy, laboratoryjny, elektrochemiczny czujnik do oznaczania par benzaldehydu w argonie. Cieczą jonową testowaną jako elektrolit i środowisko reakcji redox była: bis(trifluorometylosulfonylo)imidek 1-butylo,3-metyloimidazolinowy ([BMIM][Tf2N]). W pomiarach użyto komercyjnych elektrod firm: DropSens Co. i BVT Technologies. Walidacji poddano dwa parametry metrologiczne czujnika: granicę wykrywalności i...

  • Fiber-optic Fabry-Pérot sensors – modeling versus measurements results

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    This paper describes how parameters of investigated substances and the fiber-optic Fabry-Pérot sensing interferometer affect the spectrum of the optical radiation at the output of the sensor. First, the modeling of the operation of the sensing interferometer was conducted. Most important parameters and effects that were taken into account are: dependences of the refractive indices of the core and the cladding, as well the mode...

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  • Gdansk Bay sea bed sounding and classification of its results

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    The main goal of this paper is to describe the results of sounding the Gdansk Bay sea bed by using a SES-2000 Standard parametric sub-bottom profiler. Quality of data obtained during trials depends inter alia on a proper location of transducer array to reduce influence of pitch, roll and heave motions as well as ship self noise (resulting from bubbles due to propeller and flow around hull, vibration generated by main engine and...

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  • Selective monitoring of noise emitted by vehicles involved in road traffic

    An acoustic intensity probe was developed measures the sound intensity in three orthogonal directions, making possible to calculate the azimuth and elevation angles, describing the sound source position. The acoustic sensor is made in the form of a cube with a side of 10 mm, on the inner surfaces of which the digital MEMS microphones are mounted. The algorithm works in two stages. The first stage is based on the analysis of sound...

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  • On instabilities and post-buckling of piezomagnetic and flexomagnetic nanostructures

    We focus on the mechanical strength of piezomagnetic beam-like nanosize sensors during post-buckling. An effective flexomagnetic property is also taken into account. The modelled sensor is selected to be a Euler-Bernoulli type beam. Long-range interactions between atoms result in a mathematical model based on the nonlocal strain gradient elasticity approach (NSGT). Due to possible large deformations within a post-buckling phenomenon,...

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  • Selectivity of amperometric gas sensors in multicomponent gas mixtures

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    In recent years smog and poor air quality became a growing environmental problem. There is a need to continuously monitor the quality of air. The lack of selectivity is one of the most important problems limiting the use of gas sensors for this purpose. In this study, a selectivity of the six amperometric gas sensors is being investigated. Calibration of sensors has been performed in order to find a correlation between concentration...

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  • Exploring Neural Networks for Musical Instrument Identification in Polyphonic Audio

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    - IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS - Year 2024

    The purpose of this paper is to introduce neural network-based methods that surpass state-of-the-art (SOTA) models, either by training faster or having simpler architecture, while maintaining comparable effectiveness in musical instrument identification in polyphonic music. Several approaches are presented, including two authors’ proposals, i.e., spiking neural networks (SNN) and a modular deep learning model named FMCNN (Fully...

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  • The realization of ASON/GMPLS control plane

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    ASON (Automatic Switched Optical Network) is a concept of optical network recommended in G.8080/Y.1304 by ITU-T. Control Plane of this network could be based on GMPLS (Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching) protocols like RSVP-TE, OSPF-TE, LMP. This solution is named ASON/GMPLS. In this chapter we present the control plane problems and proposes ASON/GMPLS network realization that are tested on testbed consists of three and...

  • Disaster-resilient communication networks: Principles and best practices

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    • A. Mauthe
    • D. Hutchison
    • E. Cetinkaya
    • I. Ganchev
    • J. Rak
    • J. P. Sterbenz
    • M. Gunkelk
    • P. Smith
    • T. Gomes

    - Year 2016

    Communication network failures that are caused by disasters, such as hurricanes, arthquakes and cyber-attacks, can have significant economic and societal impact. To address this problem, the research community has been investigating approaches to network resilience for several years. However, aside from well-established techniques, many of these solutions have not found their way into operational...

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  • CREATIVE PLACEMAKING IN POLAND. CAN ART BECOME AN EFFECTIVE TOOL OF URBAN REGENERATION?!

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    - Year 2018

    The main aim of the paper is to examine the role of creative placemaking in shaping the urban environment in Polish cities. It also focuses on challenges and obstacles that creative placemaking projects encounter in Polish realities. Creative placemaking is a “micro-development” strategy (Johnson 2009) that focuses on cultural participation, com¬munity engagement and highlights the social role of arts and culture. Artistic interventions...

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  • Management Information Base module for electrical power system configuration and use

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    - Year 2012

    Internet standards describe a virtual information store, termed the Management Information Base (MIB), which is made available through Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). No standard MIB exists to date for monitoring power lines in facilities over IP network. This paper defines a subset of the MIB for power system monitoring.

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  • Future research directions in design of reliable communication systems

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    • J. Rak
    • M. Pickavet
    • K. S. Trivedi
    • J. A. Lopez
    • A. M. C. A. Koster
    • J. P. Sterbenz
    • E. Çetinkaya
    • T. Gomes
    • M. Gunkel
    • K. Walkowiak
    • D. Staessens

    - TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Year 2015

    In this position paper on reliable networks, we discuss new trends in the design of reliable communication systems. We focus on a wide range of research directions including protection against software failures as well as failures of communication systems equipment. In particular, we outline future research trends in software failure mitigation, reliability of wireless communications, robust optimization and network design, multilevel...

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  • Quality Parameters in IMS/NGN Networks

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    - Year 2019

    The Next Generation Network (NGN) architecture, including elements of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) concept, is a proposition of a telecommunication network dedicated to the needs of current and future information society. The main goal of NGN is to provide Quality of Service (QoS), for which proper network design is necessary with respect to among others standardized call processing performance parameters, including expected...

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  • Investigation of Weigh-in-Motion Measurement Accuracy on the Basis of Steering Axle Load Spectra

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    - SENSORS - Year 2019

    Weigh-in-motion systems are installed in pavements or on bridges to identify and reduce the number of overloaded vehicles and minimise their adverse eect on road infrastructure. Moreover, the collected trac data are used to obtain axle load characteristics, which are very useful in road infrastructure design. Practical application of data from weigh-in-motion has become more common recently, which calls for adequate attention to...

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  • Time window based features extraction from temperature modulated gas sensors for prediction of ammonia concentration

    Electronic gas recognition systems, in literature commonly referred as electronic noses, enable the recognition of a type and a concentration of various volatile compounds. Typical electronic gas-analyzing device consists of four main elements, namely, gas delivery subsystem, an array of gas sensors, data acquisition and power supply circuits and data analysis software. The commercially available metal-oxide TGS sensors are widely...

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  • Metaheuristic algorithms for optimization of resilient overlay computing systems

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    • K. Walkowiak
    • W. Charewicz
    • M. Donajski
    • J. Rak

    - Logic journal of the IGPL - Year 2014

    The idea of distributed computing systems has been gaining much interest in recent years owing to the growing amount of data to be processed for both industrial and academic purposes. However, similar to other systems, also distributed computing systems are vulnerable to failures. Due to strict QoS requirements, survivability guarantees are necessary for provisioning of uninterrupted service. In this article, we focus on reliability...

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  • Cost-Efficient Optical Fronthaul Architectures for 5G and Future 6G Networks

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    - Year 2022

    Fifth-generation and Beyond (5GB) wireless networks have introduced new centralized architectures such as cloud radio access network (CRAN), which necessitate extremely high-capacity low latency Fronthaul (FH). CRAN has many advantageous features in terms of cost reduction, performance enhancement, ease of deployment, and centralization of network management. Nevertheless, designing and deploying a cost-efficient FH is still a...

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  • eFRADIR: An Enhanced FRAmework for DIsaster Resilience

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    • A. Pasic
    • R. Girao-Silva
    • F. Mogyorosi
    • B. Vass
    • T. Gomes
    • P. Babarczi
    • P. Revisnyei
    • J. Tapolcai
    • J. Rak

    - IEEE Access - Year 2021

    This paper focuses on how to increase the availability of a backbone network with minimal cost. In particular, the new framework focuses on resilience against natural disasters and is an evolution of the FRADIR/FRADIR-II framework. It targets three different directions, namely: network planning, failure modeling, and survivable routing. The steady state network planning is tackled by upgrading a sub-network (a set of links termed...

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  • Neural Architecture Search for Skin Lesion Classification

    Deep neural networks have achieved great success in many domains. However, successful deployment of such systems is determined by proper manual selection of the neural architecture. This is a tedious and time-consuming process that requires expert knowledge. Different tasks need very different architectures to obtain satisfactory results. The group of methods called the neural architecture search (NAS) helps to find effective architecture...

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  • EFFICIENCY OF GAS MIXTURES DETECTION BY RESISTIVE GAS SENSORS

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    - Year 2014

    Resistive gas sensors are very popular and are commonly used to detect various gases and their mixtures. Their main disadvantage is very limited selectivity. Practical use of gas sensors in environmental applications (e.g., in sewage systems to protect workers, in air conditioning systems to monitor atmosphere quality) requires determination of concentration of a few mixed gases at the same time. We would like to present recent...

  • Design of a Cellular Dual-Band Sticker Antenna for Thickness-Independent 3D-Printed Substrates

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    Additive manufacturing technology provides high flexibility in designing custom enclosures for prototype devices such as nodes of distributed sensor networks. Although integration of components is desired from the perspective of sensor mobility, it might negatively affect the performance of radio-connectivity due to couplings between the antenna and system peripherals, as well as other unaccounted effects of the 3D printed enclosure....

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  • Acoustic imaging of selected areas of Gdansk Bay with the aid of parametric echosounder and side-scan sonar

    The article presents and analyses the data recorded during sounding of the Gdansk Bay seabed with the aid of a parametric echosounder and a side-scan sonar. The accuracy of seabed structure examination, as a condition for obtaining valuable results, requires correct configuration of echolocation devices and proper calibration of peripheral devices, such as the survey unit geographical position sensor – GPS, the navigation unit,...

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  • In Situ Verification of Numerical Model of Water Hammer in Slurries

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    This paper presents a numerical model of transient flow in a pressure slurry pipeline network with verification based on in situ measurements. The model, primarily verified in laboratory conditions, has been extended and applied to the case of a large and complex slurry pipeline network in Poland. In the model, the equivalent density concept was applied. In situ experiments were performed for various unsteady flow episodes, caused by...

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  • The Analysis and Solutions to the Problems of IPv6 Configuration Migration of Small Networks

    The paper analyzes the problems of IPv4 to IPv6 migration processes and indicates the areas in which migration can be done without expensive replacement of hardware, software and organizational changes. This paper presents the migration tools developed for the SOHO network administrators. The tools provide theoretical knowledge and practical advices on migrating to IPv6 and enable automation of the migration process. The article...

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  • Extending touch-less interaction with smart glasses by implementing EMG module

    In this paper we propose to use temporal muscle contraction to perform certain actions. Method: The set of muscle contractions corresponding to one of three actions including “single-click”, “double-click” “click-n-hold” and “non-action” were recorded. After recording certain amount of signals, the set of five parameters was calculated. These parameters served as an input matrix for the neural network. Two-layer feedforward neural...

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  • Analysis of Denoising Autoencoder Properties Through Misspelling Correction Task

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    The paper analyzes some properties of denoising autoencoders using the problem of misspellings correction as an exemplary task. We evaluate the capacity of the network in its classical feed-forward form. We also propose a modification to the output layer of the net, which we called multi-softmax. Experiments show that the model trained with this output layer outperforms traditional network both in learning time and accuracy. We...

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  • Społeczno-gospodarcza aktywizacja małych miast w powiecie braniewskim = SOCIO-ECONOMIC ACTIVATION OF TOWNS IN BRANIEWO DISTRICT

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    - Year 2014

    Streszczenie Okres ponad 20. lat działalności lokalnych samorządów w Polsce okazał się niewystarczający dla przeprowadzenia w małych miastach niezbędnych zmian społecznych, gospodarczych i przestrzennych. W tym czasie z trudem wzrastał poziom obywatelskiej świadomości, lokalnego partnerstwa i aktywności w życiu publicznym. Społeczności miały możliwość angażowania się w miejscowe działania i współdecydowania o sprawach rozwoju gospodarczego,...

  • Improving voltage levels in low-voltage networks with distributed generation – case study

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    - Year 2018

    The use of distributed generation in low-voltage networks may cause the voltage variation in them, within the wide range. In unfavourable circumstances, the voltage may reach unacceptable values. The paper presents the effect of distributed generation on voltage levels in a selected low-voltage rural distribution network in Poland. An analysis of possible methods for improving voltage levels in this network is conducted. The most...

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  • Operation, Administration, Maintenance in Carrier Grade Ethernet

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    - Year 2010

    OAM (Operation, Administration and Maintenance) plays a crucial role in carrier networks. OAM functionality ensures that network operators and service providers can maintain the quality of the services they offer. One of its major tasks is the detection of anomalies in the network before they become a problem. This enables network operators and service providers to deliver services that come up to a predetermined level of quality...

  • Activity coordination of capacitor banks and power transformer controllers in order to reduce power losses in the MV grid

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    One of the main issues related to the optimization of the MV (middle voltage) network is to reduce losses of active and reactive power. Lower losses of active and reactive power give not only economic advantage, but also improvement of energy quality. The object of regulation that can be used for these purposes are transformer with On-Load Tap Changer and capacitor's banks. This paper presents results of analysis of the possibility...

  • Impedance-based sensing of the interlayer adhesion loss in organic coating systems.

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    - Year 2005

    Zmienne parametry środowiska takie jak: temperatura,wilgotność i promieniowanie UV powodują degradację własności ochronnych powłok organicznych. Stosując sensor w postaci elektrod wykonanych z prądoprzewodzącego tuszu umieszczonych pomiędzy warstwami zestawu oraz technikę spektroskopii impedancyjnej stwierdzono możliwość monitorowania utraty adhezji międzywarstwowej.

  • Gas chromatography-olfactometry (GC-O), electronic noses (e-noses) and electronic tongues (e-tongues) for in vivo food flavour measurement

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    The capter revies two types of artificial olfaction instrumentation, i.e. gas-chromatography-olfactometry (GC-O) and chemical sensor technologies (electronic nose and tongue), combined with multivariate data processing methods as promising approaches for rapid analysis of food. The chapter also includes examples of specific applications for the detection of food flavour and volatile components.

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  • Optoelektroniczne sensory fluorescencyjne dla monitoringu zanieczyszczeń środowiska

    w pracy zaproponowano i opisano optoelektroniczny fluorescencyjny sensor do pomiaru stężenia kobaltu w wodzie. opisano zasadę działania tego typu sensorów. zaproponowano konfigurację laboratoryjnego stanowiska pomiarowego i przeprowadzono dobór niektórych jego komponentów. przedstawiono także etapy dalszych prac badawczych nad konstrukcją sensora.

  • A Test-Bed Analysis of Simultaneous PMIPv6 Handover in 802.11 WLANs Environment

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    - Year 2013

    Providing mobility in access networks is a challenge that we have to deal with. Due to networks’ convergence and migration to all-IP networks, mobility management at the network layer is required. However, there is a need for cooperation mechanisms between the network layer and lower layers to support multimedia services and make handover more efficient. This paper presents experimental research on simultaneous handover performance...

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