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  • Speaker Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Network with Minimal Training Data for Smart Home Solutions

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    - Year 2018

    With the technology advancements in smart home sector, voice control and automation are key components that can make a real difference in people's lives. The voice recognition technology market continues to involve rapidly as almost all smart home devices are providing speaker recognition capability today. However, most of them provide cloud-based solutions or use very deep Neural Networks for speaker recognition task, which are...

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  • Towards Digital Anti-Corruption Typology for Public Service Delivery

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    - Year 2019

    Digital anti-corruption refers to a family of digital technology tools that are used to fight corruption. Many such tools have not performed well in practice due to their non-alignment with forms of corruption they are supposed to fight against and persistence of corruption-enabling conditions. The aim of this paper is to contribute to filling this gap by offering a typology of digital anti-corruption in public service delivery...

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  • Low-cost multi-objective optimization and experimental validation of UWB MIMO antenna

    Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to validate methodologies for expedited multi-objective designoptimization of complex antenna structures both numerically and experimentally.Design/methodology/approach–The task of identifying the best possible trade-offs between theantenna size and its electrical performance is formulated as multi-objective optimization problem.Algorithmic frameworks are described for finding Pareto-optimal...

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  • Toolchain Modeling: Comprehensive Engineering Plans for Industry 4.0

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    - Year 2020

    The fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) elevates the complexity and autonomy of industrial systems and engineering environments to levels not seen before. The novel challenges involve not only the software running on the partaking autonomous devices, but also architectural considerations and the technological infrastructure around the entire engineering process. In this paper, complementing the trends in industrial systems...

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  • Green Polymer Nanocomposites for Skin Tissue Engineering

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    - ACS Applied Bio Materials - Year 2022

    Fabrication of an appropriate skin scaffold needs to meet several standards related to the mechanical and biological properties. Fully natural/green scaffolds with acceptable biodegradability, biocompatibility, and physiological properties quite often suffer from poor mechanical properties. Therefore, for appropriate skin tissue engineering and to mimic the real functions, we need to use synthetic polymers and/or additives as complements...

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  • Swarm Algorithms in Modern Engineering Optimization Problems

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    Complexity of today engineering problems is constantly increasing. Scientists no longer are facing issues, for which simple, mathematical programming methods are sufficient. Issues like autonomic vehicle navigation or classification are considered to be challenging, and although there exist valid means to solve them, in some cases there still is some place for improvement. With emergence of a new type of optimization techniques...

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  • Effect of Microplastics Pollution on Hydrogen Production from Biomass: A Comprehensive Review

    Hydrogen production from biomass and organic wastes is considered as a potential alternative energy source and is known as a clean and CO2-free fuel energy carrier. H2 is considered very promising among the other energy sources; therefore, the effective conversion of biomass and organic solid waste to this secondary energy source is urgently sought. As a result, it is of importance to assess the impact of the existence of microplastics...

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  • Selected problems of decision making modelling in power engineering

    The paper presents the selected problems of decision making modelling in power engineering specially investment risk evaluation methods. The proposed model can be used in the range programming the development and investing process in power engineering. Decision making problems in power engineering and the evaluation of investment effectiveness in particular are closely related to modelling which relatively accurately reflects...

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  • Introducing concurrent engineering to space and satellite technology undergraduate course

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    - Year 2018

    In recent decade concurrent engineering has become a de facto leading methodology of work in space, aeronautics and sometimes even automotive industry. It has been used in designing ESA space missions for 20 years now, with rst Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) built in ESTEC in 1998. Still, it has not become a universal standard in engineering, and universities are specically reluctant to adopt it into their curricula. As a result,...

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  • DWDM Network Laboratory Solution for Telecommunication Education Engineering

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    Development of network architectures in the field of optical telecommunications technologies is an indicator of changes in telecommunication education engineering. Conducting didactic classes requires hardware infrastructure and research in terms of teaching needs. In the paper we present DWDM network laboratory solution for telecommunication education engineering on the basis of the ADVA Optical Networking equipment. We have to...

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  • Business Process Management education in Poland: A manifesto for academic teaching

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    • P. Sliż
    • J. Berniak-Woźny
    • E. Brzychczy
    • R. Gabryelczyk
    • K. Gdowska
    • M. Grzesiak
    • A. Napieraj
    • M. Podobińska-Staniec
    • N. R. Potoczek
    • M. Szelągowski... and 2 others

    - e-mentor - Year 2024

    This paper critically assesses Business Process Management (BPM) education in Poland and provides evidence-based recommendations for improvement. Through a survey of 44 BPM educators, the study evaluates BPM lifecycle coverage, IT tool utilization, and incorporation of the Six Core Elements of BPM. The findings reveal a focus on process modeling and analysis, identifying gaps in the way the entire BPM lifecycle is addressed. Despite...

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  • Blue applicability grade index (BAGI) and software: a new tool for the evaluation of method practicality

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    - GREEN CHEMISTRY - Year 2023

    In this work, blue applicability grade index (BAGI) is proposed as a new metric tool for evaluating the practicality of an analytical method. BAGI can be considered complementary to the well-established green metrics, and it is mainly focused on the practical aspects of White Analytical Chemistry. This tool evaluates ten main attributes including the type of analysis, the number of analytes that are simultaneously determined, the...

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  • Medical Image Dataset Annotation Service (MIDAS)

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    - Year 2020

    MIDAS (Medical Image Dataset Annotation Service) is a custom-tailored tool for creating and managing datasets either for deep learning, as well as machine learning or any form of statistical research. The aim of the project is to provide one-fit-all platform for creating medical image datasets that could easily blend in hospital's workflow. In our work, we focus on the importance of medical data anonimization, discussing the...

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  • Automated Parameter Determination for Horizontal Curves for the Purposes of Road Safety Models with the Use of the Global Positioning System

    This paper presents the results of research conducted to develop an automated system capable of determining parameters for horizontal curves. The system presented in this article could calculate the actual course of a road by means of a two-stage positioning of recorded points along the road. In the first stage, measurements were taken with a Real-Time Network (RTN) receiver installed in a research vehicle. In the second stage,...

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  • Solid phase microextraction: state of the art, opportunities and applications

    Solid phase microextraction is one of the most popular green techniques used for sample preparations in analytical chemistry. It is a simple, rapid, sensitive, and solvent-free technique. Since SPME was first introduced in the early 1990s, there has been an intensification of research in order to elaborate new methodical solutions in many research facilities around the world, which could increase the use of this technique. More...

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  • Computationally-efficient design optimisation of antennas by accelerated gradient search with sensitivity and design change monitoring

    Electromagnetic (EM) simulation tools are of primary importance in the design of contemporary antennas. The necessity of accurate performance evaluation of complex structures is a reason why the final tuning of antenna dimensions, aimed at improvement of electrical and field characteristics, needs to be based on EM analysis. Design automation is highly desirable and can be achieved by coupling EM solvers with numerical optimisation...

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  • A review on fungal-based biopesticides and biofertilizers production

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    - ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY - Year 2024

    The escalating use of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides to boost crop production has led to the depletion of natural resources, contamination of water sources, and environmental crises. In response, the scientific community is exploring eco-friendly alternatives, such as fungal-based biofertilizers and biopesticides, which have proven effectiveness in enhancing plant health and growth while sustainably managing plant diseases...

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  • Selected aspects of logistics management of the production process in an enterprise

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    - Year 2016

    The following article presents selected aspects of management of production logistics process in enterprise. Companies treat this part of business as a way to empower market position. In the first part author explained the idea of process. The next part describes the definition of logistics production management, which is crucial for manufacturing enterprises. However, author described lots of tools related to production management...

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  • Virtual Engineering Factory: Creating Experience Base for Industry 4.0

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    - CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS - Year 2016

    ABSTRACT In recent times, traditional manufacturing is upgrading and adopting Industry 4.0, which supports computerization of manufacturing by round-the-clock connection and communica- tion of engineering objects. Consequently, Decisional DNA- based knowledge representation of manufacturing objects, processes, and system is achieved by virtual engineering objects (VEO), virtual engineering processes (VEP), and virtual engineering...

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  • Methods of liquid biofuels production - the bioethanol example.

    Ethanol is used in chemical and food industry, mainly either in the synthesis or as a solvent. The newest application of ethanol is as a fuel. This alcohol, produced on an industrial scale from crop waste, is widely known under the name bioethanol. It could be used as a fuel by itself or in a mixture with gasoline. Today, there are several technologies for bioethanol production known. The relatively simple method of obtaining bioethanol...

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  • The use of can in automation test bench to test the engine cooling system

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    - Journal of KONES - Year 2010

    W publikacji opisano zasady rejestracji danych pomiarowych w hamowni silnikowej do badań układów chłodzenia silników samochodowych. Założeniami projektu stanowiska było użycie standardu przesyłu danych typu CAN. Opracowano metodę dużej gęstości zapisu przesyłanych danych.

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  • Numerical solutions for large deformation problems in geotechnical engineering

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    - Year 2014

    The problem of large deformations often occurs in geotechnical engineering. Numerical modeling of such issues is usually complex and tricky. The chosen solution has to implicate soil-soil and soil-structure interactions. In this paper, a review of the most popular numerical methods for large deformation problems is presented. The Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian (CEL) method, the Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method, the Smoothed...

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  • Scientific research in the Department of Machine Design and Automotive Engineering

    Short descriptions of various research subjects taken up at the Department of Machine Design and Automotive Engineering are included in the paper. The subjects cover a wide range of bearing systems and tribology research and the research on tires and road surfaces. A third field of activity is biomedical engineering – with the attempts to improve methods of modelling biological materials in FEM calculations. The Department has...

  • Devices for the production of reference gas mixtures

    For many years there has been growing demand for gaseous reference materials, which is connected with development in many fields of science and technology. As a result, new methodological and instrumental solutions appear that can be used for this purpose. Appropriate quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) must be used to make sure that measurement data are a reliable source of information. Reference materials are a significant...

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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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  • Environmental Degradation of Engineering Materials & Materials Engineering and Technologies

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  • On the Importance of Resilience Engineering for Networked Systems in a Changing World

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    • D. Hutchison
    • D. Pezaros
    • J. Rak
    • P. Smith

    - IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE - Year 2023

    Resilience is featured increasingly often in the media, usually applied to society when faced, for example, with disasters such as flooding and the enormous challenges that the Covid-19 pandemic posed. There are now many resilience-related discussion groups worldwide, and some standards initiatives devoted in particular to city resilience. However, there is relatively little explicit interest in resilience engineering for communication...

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  • Virtual Engineering Objects: Effective Way of Knowledge Representation and Decision Making

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    - Year 2015

    This paper presents a knowledge representation case study by constructing Decisional DNA of engineering objects. Decisional DNA, as a knowledge representation structure not only offers great possibilities on gathering explicit knowledge of formal decision events but also it is a powerful tool for decision-making process. The concept of Virtual engineering Object (VEO), which is a knowledge and experience representation of engineering...

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  • METHODS OF TEACHING NOISE PROTECTION AT ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

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    Noise strongly influences both our health and behavior in everyday life and as employees or employers. The lost of hearing and other effects of noise on humans result not only in a significant decrease in the quality of life or work efficiency but have also have economic consequences. As noise can be preventable in part by the Environmental Engineers, but it is necessary to introduce them noise issues during their education process....

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  • Spatial Modelling in Environmental Analysis and Civil Engineering

    As can be seen, Spatial Modelling in Environmental Analysis and Civil Engineering applies to a multitude of applications. In an attempt to bring the topic closer to potential readers, the special issue referred to security methods, optimization of calculations, conducting measurements and empirical tests. Each article has made an original contribution to the development of practical science that can be replicated by researchers...

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  • Student Perspectives on the 2017 ESA Concurrent Engineering Challenge

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    • K. Doerksen
    • T. van‘t Klooster
    • W. Ferguson
    • S. Pepper
    • D. van Paridon
    • R. Amorim
    • R. Chotalal
    • K. Ciechowska
    • A. Dąbrowski
    • V. Kunbrger... and 4 others

    - Year 2018

    In September 2017, the first ESA Academy’s Concurrent Engineering Challenge (CEC) was held, giving 88 Master’s and PhD-level students from twelve ESA Member and Associate States a powerful platform to experience system engineering in an intense, fast paced, and real-world environment. Within four days, teams of physics and engineering students in Concurrent Design Facilities (CDF) located in Politecnico di Torino, Universidad Polit´ecnica...

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  • Bridging the gap between architectural and environmental engineering education in the context of climate change

    Indicated in this article is the urgent need to adjust architectural education to the challenges triggered by climate change. Although reports on the future scenarios for cities are alarming, documents that set criteria for architectural education do not indicate competencies related to climate change adaptation and mitigation, mainly by avoiding environmental engineering considerations. An immediate answer to this problem could...

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  • Human Factors in Nuclear Power Engineering in Polish Conditions

    Publication

    - Acta Energetica - Year 2014

    The paper “Human factors in nuclear power engineering in polish conditions” focuses on analysis of dynamics of preparing polish society to build fi rst nuclear power plant in XXI century in Poland. Authors compare experience from constructing nuclear power plant Sizewell B (Great Britain) and Sizewell C, which is in preparation phase with polish nuclear power program. Paper includes aspects e.g. of creating nuclear safety culture and...

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  • Human factors in nuclear power engineering in Polish conditions

    The paper “Human factors in nuclear power engineering in polish conditions” focuses on analysis of dynamics of preparing polish society to build first nuclear power plant in XXI century in Poland. Authors compare experience from constructing nuclear power plant Sizewell B (Great Britain) and Sizewell C, which is in preparation phase with polish nuclear power program. Paper includes aspects e.g. of creating nuclear safety culture...

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  • Smart Innovation Engineering: Toward Intelligent Industries of the Future

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    - CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS - Year 2018

    Knowledge-based Engineering Systems are founded upon integration of knowledge into computer systems and are one of the core requirements for the future Industry 4.0. This paper presents a system called Smart Innovation Engineering (SIE) capable of facilitating product innovation process semi-automatically. It enhances decision-making processes by using the explicit knowledge of formal decision events. The SIE system carries the...

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  • Rapeseed oil methyl ester production in an individual household

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    - Year 2010

    Fatty acid methyl esters, commonly known as biodiesel, are a cheap and environmental-friendly fuel substitute for diesel engines. Aside from industrial production, individual biodiesel manufacturing is also and important method of fulfilling the requirements of EU Parliament directive no. 2003/30/WE about supporting the use of renewable fuels in transport. Individual FAME production guarantees easy access to the main raw material...

  • Hydrogen Production via Biomethane Reforming in DBD Reactor

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    - Year 2012

    Production of hydrogen from CH4:CO2 (70%:30%) mixture simulating dry biogas in a DBD reactor supplied with AC of 1.0-2.0 kHz or nanosecond negative pulses is presented. We have found that hydrogen production and methane conversion degree increase linearly with discharge power in the range of up to 50 W. Nanosecond voltage pulses are much more efficient in hydrogen production than sine AC voltage

  • Psychological inspirations in empirical software engineering.

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    - Year 2004

    Software development is people-intensive activity. Incorporation of human factors in empirical studies of software engineering can bring many benefits for both researchers and practitioners. Psychological inspirations can facilitate this task. In this paper, such incorporation is presented in the contexts of the objectives and problems in empirical studies, applicability of the results in the business context of software enterprise,...

  • Klasyfikacja sygnału EKG przy użyciu konwolucyjnych sieci neuronowych

    Automation and improvement of diagnostic process is a vital element of medicine development and patient’s condition self-control. For a long time different ECG signal classification methods exist and are successfully applied, nevertheless their accuracy is not always satisfying enough. The lack of identification of an existing abnormality, which is very similar to a normal heartbeat is the biggest issue - for example premature...

  • Klasyfikacja sygnału EKG przy użyciu konwolucyjnych sieci neuronowych

    Automation and improvement of diagnostic process is a vital element of medicine development and patient’s condition self-control. For a long time different ECG signal classification methods exist and are successfully applied, nevertheless their accuracy is not always satisfying enough. The lack of identification of an existing abnormality, which is very similar to a normal heartbeat is the biggest issue - for example premature...

  • Green aspects, developments and perspectives of liquid phase microextraction techniques

    Determination of analytes at trace levels in complex samples (e.g. biological or contaminated water or soils) are often required for the environmental assessment and monitoring as well as for scientific research in the field of environmental pollution. A limited number of analytical techniques are sensitive enough for the direct determination of trace components in samples and, because of that, a preliminary step of the analyte...

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  • Artificial Intelligence Aided Architectural Design

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    Tools and methods used by architects always had an impact on the way building were designed. With the change in design methods and new approaches towards creation process, they became more than ever before crucial elements of the creation process. The automation of architects work has started with computational functions that were introduced to traditional computer-aided design tools. Nowadays architects tend to use specified tools...

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  • Application possibilities of LBN for civil engineering issues

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    Bayesian Networks (BN) are efficient to represent knowledge and for the reasoning in uncertainty. However the classic BN requires manual definition of the network structure by an expert, who also defines the values entered into the conditional probability tables. In practice, it can be time-consuming, hence the article proposes the use of Learning Bayesian Networks (LBN). The aim of the study is not only to present LBN, which can...

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  • Virtual Engineering Objects (VEO): Designing, Developing and Testing Models

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    - Year 2014

    In this article, the development and implementation of the concept of Virtual Engineering Object (VEO) is described. A VEO is a computerized real world representation of an engineering object. VEO will act as a living representation of the object capable of adding, storing, improving and sharing knowledge through experience, in a way similar to an expert of that object. In this paper, it is shown through test models how the concept...

  • The Impact of Lexicon Adaptation on the Emotion Mining From Software Engineering Artifacts

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    - IEEE Access - Year 2020

    Sentiment analysis and emotion mining techniques are increasingly being used in the field of software engineering. However, the experiments conducted so far have not yielded high accuracy results. Researchers indicate a lack of adaptation of the methods of emotion mining to the specific context of the domain as the main cause of this situation. The article describes research aimed at examining whether the adaptation of the lexicon...

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  • Utilization of shale cuttings in production of lightweight aggregates

    The development of technologies for unconventional hydrocarbon exploration requires designing procedures to manage drilling waste that are consistent with the waste management hierarchy. In view of this, the possibility to apply shale drill cuttings as a prospective additive (replacing bentonite) to fly ash used for the production of lightweight aggregates (LWAs) was investigated. Moreover, a facile, waste-free method of LWAs production...

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  • Comparative review of piezoelectric biomaterials approach for bone tissue engineering

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    • A. Samadi
    • M. A. Salati
    • A. Safari
    • M. Jouyandeh
    • M. Barani
    • N. P. Singh Chauhan
    • E. G. Golab
    • P. Zarrintaj
    • S. Kar
    • F. Seidi... and 2 others

    - JOURNAL OF BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE-POLYMER EDITION - Year 2022

    Bone as a minerals’ reservoir and rigid tissue of the body generating red and white blood cells supports various organs. Although the self-regeneration property of bone, it cannot regenerate spontaneously in severe damages and still remains as a challenging issue. Tissue engineering offers several techniques for regenerating damaged bones, where various biomaterials are examined to fabricate scaffolds for bone repair. Piezoelectric...

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  • Factors determining selection of production planning and control system

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    - Year 2013

    The article contains a comparative characteristics of selected systems of production planning and control, such as: MRP, kanban/JiT, DBR/TOC. The results of the performed analyses served as a basis for determining key market factors related to production planning and control functions, which determine the choice of an appropriate system.

  • Geo-engineering computer simulation seems attractive but is it the real world?

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    Correct formulation of the differential equation system for equilibriom conditions of subsoil, especially in terms of controlled numerical calculation, is discussed. The problem of solution stability is also considered. The solution of problems, which are ill-posed, have no practical value in the majority of cases and is this way the engineering prognosis can lead to real disaster. The object of this paper is quite relevant if...

  • APPLICATION OF APRIORI ALGORITHM IN THE LAMINATION PROCESS IN YACHT PRODUCTION

    The article specifies the dependence of defects occurring in the lamination process in the production of yachts. Despite great knowledge about their genesis, they cannot be completely eliminated. Authentic data obtained through cooperation with one of the Polish yacht shipyards during the years 2013–2017 were used for the analysis. To perform a simulation, the sample size was observed in 1450 samples, consisting of 6 models of...

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