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  • Structural insights, biocatalytic characteristics, and application prospects of lignin-modifying enzymes for sustainable biotechnology

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    • A. Kumar Singh
    • H. M. N. Iqbal
    • N. Cardullo
    • V. Muccilli
    • J. Fernández-Lucas
    • J. Ejbye Schmidt
    • T. Jesionowski
    • M. Bilal

    - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES - Year 2023

    Lignin modifying enzymes (LMEs) have gained widespread recognition in depolymerization of lignin polymers by oxidative cleavage. LMEs are a robust class of biocatalysts that include lignin peroxidase (LiP), manganese peroxidase (MnP), versatile peroxidase (VP), laccase (LAC), and dye-decolorizing peroxidase (DyP). Members of the LMEs family act on phenolic, non-phenolic substrates and have been widely researched for valorization...

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  • Contemporary and Conventional Passive Methods of Intensifying Convective Heat Transfer—A Review

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    The ever-increasing demand for effective heat dissipation and temperature control in industrial and everyday applications highlights a critical research problem. The need for development is not only in terms of providing thermal comfort to humans but also forms the basis for the efficient operation of machines and equipment. Cooling of industrial machinery and household electronic equipment is a crucial element in any manufacturing...

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  • Ground tire rubber functionalization as a promising approach for the production of sustainable adsorbents of environmental pollutants

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    Waste tires management and further utilization are currently one of the biggest concerns regarding the environment and human health protection. At present, shredding, grinding, or pulverization of waste tires are the most popular options for industrial recycling. Although many solutions for ground tire rubber (GTR) applications were checked and verified so far, their further implementation at an industrial scale is still very limited....

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  • Food analysis using artificial senses.

    Nowadays, consumers are paying great attention to the characteristics of food such as smell, taste, and appearance. This motivates scientists to imitate human senses using devices known as electronic senses. These include electronic noses, electronic tongues, and computer vision. Thanks to the utilization of various sensors and methods of signal analysis, artificial senses are widely applied in food analysis for process monitoring...

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  • EU-Turkey Customs Union and Bilateral Foreign Direct Investment Flows

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    - Year 2016

    Main aim of this text is presentation of the effects of customs union between the European Union and turkey on bilateral FDI flows in light of the theory of linkages between economic integration and FDI flows. First section of the text is a survey of main theoretical links between economic integration and FDI flows. Second section focuses on the history and scope of the customs union. Third and fourth sections are empirical and...

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  • HISTORIA ROZWOJU LAMP I OPRAW OŚWIETLENIOWYCH SŁUŻĄCYCH DO OŚWIETLANIA WNĘTRZ MIESZKALNYCH. CZĘŚĆ PIERWSZA

    This paper reflects on the history of decorative luminaire design. The development of the new sources of light within residential environment has been changing the luminaire design. Residential dwellings have been lit by a lot of light sources through the centuries form a point lamps like candle or incandescent lamps to linear florescent lamps and LED strips. A development of SSL technology introduced an idea of lit surfaces. Energy...

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  • Green Chemistry in Higher Education: State of the Art, Challenges, and Future Trends

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    - CHEMSUSCHEM - Year 2018

    Nowadays, there is increasing interest in global sustainability, and thus, university students would like to know how human actions affect the health status of our planet. This is mainly due to their basic knowledge of problems such as global warming and greenhouse gases. Students would like to gain knowledge on how to safeguard the earth for future generations. This must involve changes in education programs at interested institutions...

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  • Re-use of the 20th century aviation infrastructure.=Adaptacje XX-wiecznej infrastruktury lotniskowej

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    This article explores issues related to the adaptation of former aviation infrastructure. For research purposes, several adaptations of former airports and airplane hangars are selected and presented. Those examples show the importance of this infrastructure in today's urbanized landscape, as well as in history, and thus the social and cultural values it brings. The benefits of the redevelopment of former airport sites are also...

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  • Development of banking sectors in Kosovo and Montenegro in the years 2000 - 2010

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    The article presents main aspects of development of banking markets in two Balkan countries - Kosovo and Montenegro. Both of them are charaterised by similar recent history, both in political and economical fields. Their financial sectors have had to be built almost from scretch. The author describes stages of development of competition in the banking sectors, using the following ratios: performace, structure, liquidity. The data...

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  • Fractographic-fractal dimension correlation with crack initiation and fatigue life for notched aluminium alloys under bending load

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    • W. Macek
    • D. Rozumek
    • S. Faszynka
    • R. Branco
    • S. Zhu
    • R. Masoudi Nejad

    - ENGINEERING FAILURE ANALYSIS - Year 2023

    In this study, fatigue fracture surfaces of aluminium alloy 2017-T4 notched specimens were investigated under cyclic bending to find an alternative failure loading index.. The surface topographies were measured on the entire fracture area with an optical profilometer for different loading conditions. Fatigue crack initiation life Ni and total fatigue life Nf were examined using standard surface topography parameters (such as, root...

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  • Diagnostics of zno varistors by means of nondestructive testing

    Standard industrial testing of high-voltage varistors for surge arresters demands application of high voltages and intensive currents. Nondestructive methods for varistor quality and endurance evaluation have been proposed and described. They rely on the application of resonant ultrasound spectroscopy, electro-ultrasonic spectroscopy, noise measurement and nonlinearity testing at voltages lower than continuous operating range....

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  • Parameter and delay estimation of linear continuous-time systems

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    In this paper the problem of on-line identification of non-stationary delay systems is considered. Dynamics of supervised industrial processes is described by ordinary differential equations. Discrete-time mechanization of their continuous-time representations is based on dedicated finite-horizon integrating filters. Least-squares and instrumental variable procedures implemented in recursive forms are applied for simultaneous identification...

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  • Improvement of radiotracers experiments in mass transfer processes

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    - EPJ Web of Conferences - Year 2017

    The greatest part of industrial mass transfer is based on continuous transportation of different substances throughout especially constructed installations. In that kind of practice, a flow of such mass in each part determines the process unit and can be described by the residence time distribution (RTD) of the substance inside this unit. This parameter may be evaluated by the properly arranged tracer experiment. It is worthwhile...

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  • Analytics of airport runoff water samples

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    - Year 2011

    The everyday activities at airports, such as aircraft and ground vehicle washing, cleaning, de/anti-icing operations, fuelling, and fuel combustion, removing weeds are the main sources of airport industrial wastes. Runoff waters from airport areas constitute a serious environmental problem as they contribute to air, water, and soil pollution. The paper supplies general information on the technologies for treating airport runoff...

  • Pulse-Width Modulation of Power Electronic DC–AC Converter

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    - Year 2021

    The Second Edition of High Performance Control of AC Drives with Matlab®/Simulink delivers an updated and thorough overview of topics central to the understanding of AC motor drive systems. The book includes new material on medium voltage drives, covering state-of-the-art technologies and challenges in the industrial drive system, as well as their components, and control, current source inverter-based drives, PWM techniques for...

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  • Bridging challenges of clinical decision support systems with a semantic approach. A case study on breast cancer

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    - PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS - Year 2013

    The integration of Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) in nowadays clinical environments has not been fully achieved yet. Although numerous approaches and technologies have been proposed since 1960, there are still open gaps that need to be bridged. In this work we present advances from the established state of the art, overcoming some of the most notorious reported difficulties in: (i) automating CDSS, (ii) clinical workflow...

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  • Preferences of the Facade Composition in the Context of Its Regularity and Irregularity

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    Abstract: The aim of this study is to determine the preferences of Polish society towards building facades depending on the degree of the composition regularity of the facade elements. The subject matter is inspired by the authors’ observations in relation to the current architectural trends. The purposefulness of the conducted research results from several issues. Firstly, the reports of psychology and neurosciences clearly indicate...

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  • Government in the metaverse: Requirements and suitability for providing digital public services

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    • M. Lnenicka
    • N. Rizun
    • C. H. Alexopoulos
    • M. Janssen

    - TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE - Year 2024

    Digital government comprises all means to enable governments to interact with their constituents digitally. The metaverse provides a virtual reality environment where various activities can be carried out without physically visiting the places of interest, including the public authorities. Yet, how governments can use the metaverse is unknown. This paper aims to extend the understanding of the metaverse architecture requirements...

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  • Persistences: analysis of the image of Gdańsk and its cultural identity through survey processes and digital architectural representation

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    - Year 2023

    The aim of the research was to analyse the historical legacy/heritage of the city of Gdańsk in order to characterise the narrative tools which can be used to promote the cultural identity of the urban landscape. The main focus was on the city's defence system - a cultural route that is spatially limited to a relatively small area, but temporally spanning almost a millennium. The fortifications demarcate a spatial boundary, limiting...

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  • Analiza wpływu transmisji danych na jakość działania rozproszonych systemów sterowania

    W artykule przedstawiono zagadnienia związane z transmisją danych w rozproszonych systemach sterowania. Opisano cechy charakterystyczne przemysłowych sieci i protokołów informatycznych. Utworzono model rozproszonego systemu sterowania poziomem cieczy w zbiorniku, w którym komunikacja oparta została na protokole Modbus RTU. Na podstawie zmian parametrów transmisji danych wykazano, że poprawna komunikacja pomiędzy elementami systemu...

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  • Advanced surveillance and operational communication system employing mobile terminals

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    Distributed surveillance and operational communications system based on XMPP protocol is presented. Its architecture and assumptions leading to the depicted design are shown. Features of XMPP protocol are portrayed with the emphasis on those most important in the context of the application. Real-time multimedia transmission with the use of Jingle/XMPP extension is discussed. The use of PDA-class computers as mobile terminals is...

  • Design of M2M Communications Interfaces in Transport Systems

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    - Year 2016

    In the paper the principle of M2M communications in transport systems is presented. The concept of M2M system architecture is considered. Characteristics of M2M communications for example data transmission, monitoring and other services for transport applications are presented. The problem of communications interfaces design for M2M applications is analysed. Next, the proposal of M2M communication interface for transport applications...

  • Executing Multiple Simulations in the MERPSYS Environment

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    - Year 2016

    The chapter investigates the steps necessary to perform a simulation instance in the MERPSYS environment and discusses potential limitations in case when vast numbers of simulations are required. An extended architecture is proposed which includes a JMS-based simulation queue and multiple distributed simulators, overcoming the potential bottlenecks. The chapter introduces also methods for preparing suites of multiple simulations...

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  • A system automating repairs of IT systems

    This paper presents two problems that are important nowadays: the problem of IT systems monitoring and the problem of repairing them. It shows the developed solution, aimed to automate the existing industrial repair process and to integrate it with the existing monitoring solutions and mechanisms. Described solution is a part of a bigger whole, called the Repair Management Framework (RMF). This paper presents also briefly a case...

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  • Parameter and delay estimation of linear continuous-time systems

    In this paper the problem of on-line identification of non-stationary delay systems is considered. Dynamics of supervised industrial processes is usually described by ordinary differential equations. Discrete-time mechanization of their continuous-time representations is based on dedicated finite-horizon integrating filters. Least-squares and instrumental variable procedures implemented in recursive forms are applied for simultaneous...

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  • On–line Parameter and Delay Estimation of Continuous–Time Dynamic Systems

    The problem of on-line identification of non-stationary delay systems is considered. The dynamics of supervised industrial processes are usually modeled by ordinary differential equations. Discrete-time mechanizations of continuous-time process models are implemented with the use of dedicated finite-horizon integrating filters. Least-squares and instrumental variable procedures mechanized in recursive forms are applied for simultaneous...

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  • 3D modelling of liquid fuels base infrastructure for the purpose of visualization and geometrical analysis

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    - Year 2015

    The paper presents the methodology for obtaining a 3D model of the tank for liquid fuels on the basis of the terrestrial laser scanning and its processing for the analysis of tanks geometry. The development process indicates the possibility to obtain the reliable results useful for the evaluation of the tank side surfaces geometry (shells). The result of the development is a 3D model of the tank, taking into account the individual...

  • Thermal Energy Development in Magnetohydrodynamic Flow Utilizing Titanium Dioxide, Copper Oxide and Aluminum Oxide Nanoparticles: Thermal Dispersion and Heat Generating Formularization

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    The main aim of this article heat transfer in thermal engineering deals with the production, use, transformation, and transfer of thermal energy. Engineering and industrial fields including food packaging, the production of food additives, electronic cooling, microturbines, etc. heavily rely on heat transmission. Due to its intriguing potential in industries like the production of polymers, paper, crystal glass, etc., scientists...

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  • Feature extraction in detection and recognition of graphical objects

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    - Year 2022

    Detection and recognition of graphic objects in images are of great and growing importance in many areas, such as medical and industrial diagnostics, control systems in automation and robotics, or various types of security systems, including biometric security systems related to the recognition of the face or iris of the eye. In addition, there are all systems that facilitate the personal life of the blind people, visually impaired...

  • Improvement of subsoil and railway substructure by explosive means.

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    Quick and effective method of subsoil and railway substructure improvement by using explosive means (registered trade name: microblasting) allowes design and construct railways on lowered bearing soils (i.e. wetlands, marshlands, industrial by-products, municipal wastes, degraded antropogenic embankments). It is usefull and recommendable technology to construct new railways, modernization or maintenance and repairing of old ones...

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  • Sztuka w blokowisku

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    - Year 2016

    Artykuł poświęcony jest sztuce pojawiającej się w przestrzeni polskich blokowisk. Przybliżone zostaje zjawisko powstawania murali oraz mozaik na osiedlach mieszkaniowych. Pojawia się wyjaśnienie czym dokładnie są te techniki plastyczne, gdzie pojawiły się po raz pierwszy, ich krótka historia na terenach Polski oraz przykłady niedawno powstałych i obecnie tworzonych prac. Poruszona zostaje również kwestia finansowania, odbioru przez...

  • Przedwojenne wydawnictwa Stowarzyszenia Elektryków Polskich w bibliotekach i bibliotekach cyfrowych

    Artykuł przedstawia krótką historię piśmiennictwa z dziedziny elektrotechniki. Po 1918 r. obserwuje się wzrost liczby publikacji, a wraz z rozwojem nauki zwiększa się obszar tematyczny literatury fachowej. Ogromną zasługę w tym rozwoju miało Stowarzyszenie Elektryków Polskich. W artykule pokazano sposoby wyszukiwania wydawnictw przedwojennych SEP, ich dostępność w bibliotekach, także cyfrowych. Przedstawia w jaki sposób zwiększyć...

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  • Procesualne kryteria oceny zrównoważonego projektowania architektonicznego

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    - Year 2005

    importance of participation in sustainable design is constantly increasing, as sustainable design becomes a basic idea in architecture. thus mentioning of sustainable design process criteria is authorized. they consist of three following levels: 1) participation in design, 2) participation design, 3) participation design based on the consensus. there is differentia specifica of participation in participatory design because of...

  • Remote Monitoring System for Impedance Spectroscopy using Wireless Sensor Network

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    - Year 2012

    The architecture of a miniaturized impedanceanalyser with wireless communication module for remoteImpedance Spectroscopy (IS) of anticorrosion coatings ondifficult-to-reach objects (e.g. on the steel construction ofthe bridge) is described in this paper. Some practical aspectsof implementation of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) arealso discussed. A low scale, middle range, WSN networkcomposed of a Base Station (BS) with a Personal...

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  • Mobile Offloading Framework: Solution for Optimizing Mobile Applications Using Cloud Computing

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    Number of mobile devices and applications is growing rapidly in recent years. Capabilities and performance of these devices can be tremendously extended with the integration of cloud computing. However, multiple challenges regarding implementation of these type of mobile applications are known, like differences in architecture, optimization and operating system support. This paper summarizes issues with mobile cloud computing and...

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  • Design Elements of Affect Aware Video Games

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    - Year 2015

    In this paper issues of design and development process of affect-aware video games are presented. Several important design aspects of such games are pointed out. A concept of a middleware framework is proposed that separates the development of affect-aware video games from emotion recognition algorithms and support from input sensors. Finally, two prototype affect-aware video games are presented that conform to the presented architecture...

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  • Detection of the Oocyte Orientation for the ICSI Method Automation

    Automation or even computer assistance of the popular infertility treatment method: ICSI (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection) would speed up the whole process and improve the control of the results. This paper introduces a preliminary research for automatic spermatozoon injection into the oocyte cytoplasm. Here, the method for detection a correct orientation of the polar body of the oocyte is presented. Proposed method uses deep...

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  • Scalable Measurement System for Multiple Impedance Gas Sensors

    Author proposes scalable architecture of the measurement system for gas sensor with impedance dependance of the gas concentration. The main part of the system is a single-board impedance analyser. The number of analysers working in parallel can be configured according to specific application. The system is controlled by a single computer which organises the measurement cycle and store the acquired measurement data. The system is...

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  • Towards hardware built-in support for computer system safety

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    - Year 2005

    Artykuł omawia dostępne technologie wirtualizacji zasobów pamięci i systemów I/O w systemach komputerowych takie jak Execute Disable Bit (EDB) capability i Virtual Machine Architecture (VMA). Nastepnie wprowadza założenia na rozszerzenie tych technologii w celu uzyskania funkcjonalności Safe Call Execution dzieki technologii Execution Disabling Policies (EDP). Wprowadzono również założenia na funkcjonalność Memory Virtualization...

  • Business continuity management framework for Industry 4.0 companies regarding dependability and security of the ICT and ICS/SCADA system

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    - Year 2021

    This chapter addresses a business continuity management (BCM) framework for the Industry 4.0 companies including the organizational and technical solutions, regarding the dependability and security of the information and telecommunication technology (ICT), and the industrial control system (ICS) / supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. These technologies and systems play nowadays important roles in modern advanced...

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  • Buzz-based honeybee colony fingerprint

    Non-intrusive remote monitoring has its applications in a variety of areas. For industrial surveillance case, devices are capable of detecting anomalies that may threaten machine operation. Similarly, agricultural monitoring devices are used to supervise livestock or provide higher yields. Modern IoT devices are often coupled with Machine Learning models, which provide valuable insights into device operation. However, the data...

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  • WAYS TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT OF A CARDBOARD AND PAPER MILL

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    - ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRESS - Year 2023

    The results of research on physical and chemical methods for the preliminary treatment of wastewater of a cardboard and paper factory in Khmelnytskyi region of Ukraine are presented. At the cardboard and paper factory, wastewater is treated at a sewage treatment plant, which includes sand traps, primary radial sedimentation tanks, aeration tanks with activated sludge regenerators, secondary radial sedimentation tanks, and bioponds....

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  • Collaborative development model and strategies of multi-energy industry clusters: Multi-indicators analysis affecting the development of coastal energy clusters

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    - ENERGY - Year 2024

    The paper explores Coastal Energy-Based Industrial Clusters (EBICs) and their role in advancing energy efficiency and sustainability through collaborative innovation. Economic growth theory and energy sustainability have been introduced into industrial clusters to illustrate indicators that have a greater impact on the development of EBICs. This paper proposes an EBICs development model based on the Cobb-Douglas function, in which...

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  • Prussian Star Forts in the 18th Century

    Tekst omawia grupę tzw. ''fortów gwiaździstych'', charakterystycznych budowli obronnych, budowanych w pruskich twierdzach w XVIII w.

  • Redefiniowanie przestrzeni medycznej = Redefining healthcare space

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    - Year 2015

    Szpital jest obiektem publicznym, budynkiem-miastem, jego architektura nakierowana jest na realizację procesu leczenia i zdrowienia, a jednocześnie formuje przestrzenne ramy mikrokosmosu interakcji społecznych rozgrywających się pomiędzy pacjentami i personelem, gośćmi i „mieszkańcami”. Współcześnie w podejściu do rozumienia czym jest szpital - a zatem również do kształtowania architektury obiektów medycznych - można zauważyć dwa...

  • Thermal Images Analysis Methods using Deep Learning Techniques for the Needs of Remote Medical Diagnostics

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    - Year 2020

    Remote medical diagnostic solutions have recently gained more importance due to global demographic shifts and play a key role in evaluation of health status during epidemic. Contactless estimation of vital signs with image processing techniques is especially important since it allows for obtaining health status without the use of additional sensors. Thermography enables us to reveal additional details, imperceptible in images acquired...

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  • Machine Learning Techniques in Concrete Mix Design

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    Concrete mix design is a complex and multistage process in which we try to find the best composition of ingredients to create good performing concrete. In contemporary literature, as well as in state-of-the-art corporate practice, there are some methods of concrete mix design, from which the most popular are methods derived from The Three Equation Method. One of the most important features of concrete is compressive strength, which...

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  • Daylight evaluation for multi-family housing in Poland

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    - Year 2019

    This PhD dissertation focuses on methods of daylight appraisal useful in the design of the contemporary multifamily housing. The theoretical part of the thesis offers a review of daylight indicators, evaluations methods and tools within the built environment. It covers a review of daylight recommendations found in building standards and other normative documents affecting the design of the residential spaces. A pilot work survey...

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  • Rural Building in Opole Silesia During the Period of the Frederician Colonization

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    - Year 2023

    The aim of the article is to present the rural construction in the Opole countryside (Poland) during the “Frederician colonization”. Showing socio-economic areas of Opole villages, differing from each other, the differences of which resulted from the environmental conditions influencing the processes of enfranchisement and industrialization. These processes at the turn of the 17th and 19th centuries influenced the image of the...

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  • Architectural Symbols of a City – Case Study

    The identity of a city is understood as a collection of individual features, which give the city its individual character and distinguish it from other places; it undoubtedly constitutes a cultural value, which should be cherished. In the case of Sopot – a spa located on the Bay of Gdansk, the mosaic of its geographical location, landscape values, urban layout and historic architecture has created a unique image of a seaside resort....

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