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The central server of the Border Guard's distributed multimedia system for monitoring and visualisation of ongoing and archival events
PublicationThe paper presents the architecture and functionalities of the central server (CENTER) of the distributed system for the Polish Border Guard (BG) for monitoring maritime areas. The overall system has been extended to incorporate, apart from map data, also different multimedia elements such as video from cameras or audio from telephone connections operated by BG units. This requires new system elements: Archive Servers for storing...
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Mapping of concentration of BTEX in atmospheric air in the area of Tricity Agglomeration = Mapowanie poziomów zanieczyszczeń związków z grupy BTEX w powietrzu atmosferycznym na terenie Aglomeracji Trójmiejskiej
PublicationUzyskanie informacji o poziomie zanieczyszczeń powietrza atmosferycznego przez związki z grupy BTEX na terenie aglomeracji Trójmiejskiej i Tczewa, pozwoli na ocenę i prognozowanie stanu środowiska w celu wyjaśnienia zmian zachodzących w środowisku w wyniku działalności człowieka. Sporządzenie map poziomu zanieczyszczeń powietrza atmosferycznego posłuży do opisu przestrzennego rozkładu zanieczyszczeń oraz szacowania poziomu zanieczyszczeń...
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Skośna kryza segmentowa do pomiaru przepływającego strumienia płynu
PublicationPrzedstawiono prototypową skośną kryzę segmentową, którą cechuje to, że w zwężkowym układzie pomiaru strumienia objętości wykorzystano pochyloną płaszczyznę kryzy segmentowej. Płyn napierając na kryzę spływa po jej powierzchni. Przyjęto kąt napływu α między płaszczyzną kryzy segmentowej a kierunkiem przepływu (osią rurociągu) mniejszy od kąta prostego. Wyniki symulacji numerycznych oraz badań przepływowych przez zwężkowy przepływomierz...
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Zastosowanie środków teleinformatycznych do diagnostyki zagrożeń hałasowych i chorób słuchu. Część II - Multimedialny system monitorowania hałasu.
PublicationOpisano koncepcję i implementację multimedialnego systemu powszechnego monitorowania hałasu. Celem opisywanego projektu jest przede wszystkim poprawa profilaktyki zdrowotnej w zakresie szumów usznych i dolegliwości psychosomatycznych, które dotyczą populacji przebywającej na obszarach zagrożonych hałasem. Opracowany system pozwala na pomiar hałasu i transmisję danych do serwera, który umożliwia ich analizę i wizualizację, m.in....
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Application of Headspace Solid-phase Microextraction with Poly(1-vinyl-3- Hexylimidazolium Chloride) Polymeric Ionic Liquid Coating using GC - MS to Determine Volatile Fatty Acids in Dairy Wastewater
PublicationVolatile fatty acids were determined in this study using headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) with a poly(1-vinyl-3-hexylimidazolium chloride) polymeric ionic liquid coated fiber followed by gas chromatography - mass spectrometry. Experimental parameters such as extraction time and temperature, sample volume as well as desorption time and temperature were optimized. Detection limits of the method were in the range of...
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The study of acoustic climate of the Southern Baltic
PublicationThis paper presents the statistical characteristics of seawater properties, which are necessary for predicting the propagation of acoustic waves in selected areas of the Baltic Sea. The statistics were elaborated based on long-term measurements of vertical distributions of sound speed, temperature, and salinity, and the nonlinearity parameter B/A. Nonlinear properties of the environment are considered, in connection...
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Augmenting digital documents with negotiation capability
PublicationActive digital documents are not only capable of performing various operations using their internal functionality and external services, accessible in the environment in which they operate, but can also migrate on their own over a network of mobile devices that provide dynamically changing execution contexts. They may imply conflicts between preferences of the active document and the device the former wishes to execute on. In the...
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Evaluation of Temperature Influence on Electrochemical Processes Occurring in a Lithium-Ion Supercapacitor with the Use of Dynamic Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy
PublicationIn order to obtain the full impedance characteristics of a lithium-ion capacitor as a function of temperature, the authors proposed the use of dynamic electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. Impedance tests were carried out under wide range of dynamic temperature changes for lithium-ion supercapacitors. Significant differences in electrochemical processes were observed as a result of working temperature. Moreover, the quality of...
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Estimators of covariance matrices in Msplit(q) estimation
PublicationThis paper proposes methods for the determination of covariance matrices of Msplit(q) estimators. The solutions presented here allow Msplit(q) estimation to be supplemented by the operations from the domain of accuracy analysis (especially that concerning estimators of parameters). Theoretical forms of covariance matrices of Msplit(q) estimators were established using the empirical influence functions and the equivalent covariance...
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GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF MUSIC SET BASED ON MOOD OF MUSIC. GRAFICZNA PREZENTACJA ZBIORU MUZYCZNEGO OPARTA NA ANOTACJI NASTROJU MUZYKI
PublicationOne of the features for music recommendation, which is useful and intuitive for music listen-ers, is “mood”. The paper presents an approach to graphical representation of mood of music pieces. Subjective evaluation based on listening tests is performed for assigning mood labels of 150 pieces of music and placing them on the 2D mood plane. As a result, a map of songs is created, where music excerpts with similar mood are organized...
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Zastosowanie algorytmu ewolucyjnego do projektowania i optymalizacji kombinacyjnych układów cyfrowych w oparciu o bramki wielowejściowe.
PublicationW artykule zaprezentowano możliwość projektowania i optymalizacji kombinacyjnych układów cyfrowych z bramkami wielowejściowymi (o liczbie wejść większej niż dwa). Do projektowania i optymalizacji tych układów wykorzystano utworzony algorytm MLCEA. Celem algorytmu jest zaprojektowanie takiego ukłądu, który spełnia zadaną tabelę prawdy oraz składa się z możliwie jak najmniejszej liczby bramek. Do badań wybrano cztery układy testowe...
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Anterior subcutaneous transposition and simple decompression of the ulnar nerve at the elbow – the postoperative improvement in DASH score, VAS score and sonographic findings
PublicationIntroduction. Although a lot of studies have described long- term outcomes after surgical treatment of cubital tunnel syndrome, and the usefulness of sonography in diagnosing of this disorder, few studies have evaluated patients self-reporting outcomes or sonographic findings after surgery. Aim. We assessed patients self-reporting instruments and sonographic findings in patients with the cubital tunnel syndrome before and after...
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Cascade Object Detection and Remote Sensing Object Detection Method Based on Trainable Activation Function
PublicationObject detection is an important process in surveillance system to locate objects and it is considered as major application in computer vision. The Convolution Neural Network (CNN) based models have been developed by many researchers for object detection to achieve higher performance. However, existing models have some limitations such as overfitting problem and lower efficiency in small object detection. Object detection in remote...
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User -friendly E-learning Platform: a Case Study of a Design Thinking Approach Use
PublicationE-learning systems are very popular means to support the teaching process today. These systems are mainly used by universities as well as by commercial training centres. We analysed several popular e-learning platforms used in Polish universities and find them very unfriendly for the users. For this reason, the authors began the work on the creation of a new system that would be not only useful, but also usable for students, teachers...
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Complexity analysis of the Pawlak’s flowgraph extension for re-identification in multi-camera surveillance system
PublicationThe idea of Pawlak’s flowgraph turned out to be a useful and convenient container for a knowledge of objects’ behaviour and movements within the area observed with a multi-camera surveillance system. Utilization of the flowgraph for modelling behaviour admittedly requires certain extensions and enhancements, but it allows for combining many rules into a one data structure and for obtaining parameters describing how objects tend...
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Old Problems - New Solutions: Conversion of Capitals as a Tool for Shaping the Competitive Position in the Economic Field
PublicationThe acts and operations any social actor effectuates in each of the logically distinguished spheres of reality are conditioned by many factors, among which a reliable analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of an agent should be considered of utmost importance. The concept of capitals presented in this article divides the quantity of resources available to all acting agents into four main categories (which allows for determining...
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Quaternion encryption methods for multimedia transmission, a survey of existing approaches
PublicationIn this paper we review quaternion encryption methods for multimedia transmission. We explain their weak and strong properties as well as suggest possible modifications. Our main focus is an algorithm QFC presented in paper by Dzwonkowski et al. (2015). All encryption methods, presented in this paper, use special properties of quaternions to perform rotations of data sequences in 3D space. Each method uses a common key generation...
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Identification of Emotions Based on Human Facial Expressions Using a Color-Space Approach
PublicationHCI technology improves human-computer interaction. Such communication can be carried out with the use of emotions that are visible on the human face since birth. In this paper the Emotion system for detecting and recognizing facial expressions, developed in the MSc work, is presented. The system recognizes emotion from webcam video in real time. It is based on color segmentation and morphological operations. The system uses a...
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Old Problems - New Solutions: Conversion of Capitals as a Tool for Shaping the Competitive Position in the Economic Field
PublicationThe acts and operations any social actor effectuates in each of the logically distinguished spheres of reality are conditioned by many factors, among which a reliable analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of an agent should be considered of utmost importance. The concept of capitals presented in this article divides the quantity of resources available to all acting agents into four main categories (which allows for determining...
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Initial Considerations
PublicationChemical processes have made use of a wide number of volatile organic solvents due to their efficiency in countless unit operations. The increasing knowledge on the environmental, health, and safety hazards associated to their use has significantly contributed to the search for greener alternatives. The primary purpose of this book is to provide an overview of alternative solvents with reduced issues that have successfully replaced...
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Polyarmonic model of synchronous generator for analysis of autonomous power generation systems
PublicationAbstract: This paper presents the polyharmonic modelling of synchronous generator (SG) in machine variables. The simple geometry and windings physical layout has been used for inductance calculations of a salient-pole SG. The main advantage of this model is the ease of describing an autonomous power generation system (APGS) in terms of its topology and thus providing effective analysis at the static and dynamic states, both for...
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UWB-Based Indoor Navigation in a Flexible Manufacturing System Using a Custom Quadrotor UAV
PublicationA novel solution for indoor navigation of a transportation drone in flexible manufacturing is presented in this paper. To address the challenges of accurate and robust drone navigation in occluded environments, an ultra-wideband (UWB) navigation system has been integrated with a commercially available open source control platform. The system offers high accuracy (± 20 mm), low power consumption, resistance to electronic interference,...
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Online urban acoustic noise monitoring system
PublicationConcepts and implementation of the Online Urban Noise Monitoring System are presented. Principles of proposed solution used for dynamic acoustical maps creating are discussed. The architecture of the system and the data acquisition scheme are described. The concept of noise mapping, based on noise source model and propagation simulations, was developed and employed in the system. Dynamic estimation of noise source parameters utilized...
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Modeling SPMD Application Execution Time
PublicationParallel applications in a Single Process Multiple Data paradigm assume splitting huge amounts of data to multiple processors working in parallel at small data packets. As the individual data packets are not independent, the processors must interact with each other to exchange results of the calculations with their adjacent partners and take these results into account in their own computations. An example of SPMD is geometric parallelism...
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Three-dimensional Web Geographic Information System using web-based technologies
PublicationWeb-based Geographic Information Systems offer a way of delivering geographic information to devices with small computational power, such as smartphones. In recent years, the rapid development of the Web Graphics Library (WebGL) made it possible to create rich interactive applications running inside a web browser and displaying three-dimensional objects using hardware acceleration. This paper presents a three-dimensional Web-GIS...
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Current Status, Barriers and Development Perspectives for Circular Bioeconomy in Polish South Baltic Area
PublicationThe following article presents the current legal situation in Poland as well as in the European Union. Data on biomass production in the Polish South Baltic area were analyzed, along with an indication of the key sectors for the development of bioeconomy. Presentation of the current state of biomass management was made and areas necessary for development were indicated to facilitate the sustainable management of biomass and waste...
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Music Mood Visualization Using Self-Organizing Maps
PublicationDue to an increasing amount of music being made available in digital form in the Internet, an automatic organization of music is sought. The paper presents an approach to graphical representation of mood of songs based on Self-Organizing Maps. Parameters describing mood of music are proposed and calculated and then analyzed employing correlation with mood dimensions based on the Multidimensional Scaling. A map is created in which...
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Multiresidue Methods for Determination of Currently Used Pesticides in Fruits and Vegetables Using QuECHERS Technique
PublicationApplied all over the world, pesticides are some of the most common pollutants of the environment because of their stability, mobility, their consequent long-term adverse effects on living organisms in general and human health in particular. For these reasons it is essential to monitor and analyse pesticide residues in the fruits and vegetables. The analysis of food samples for the presence of pesticides causes a lot of difficulties...
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Automatic Analysis of Trajectories of Moving Objects
PublicationOngoing monitoring is essential to providing security and safety of maritime and air operations. This paper presents the research in the area of automatic analysis of movement of unrestricted vehicles like ships and air-planes. The analysis is aimed at extraction of trajectory information, and the results can be used to identify anomalous behaviour in archived and real-time data. In this paper we focus on data acquired using the...
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Narzędzia treningu twórczości jako pomoc w kształceniu projektantów
PublicationKreatywność rozwijać. Na tym założeniu opiera się międzynarodowy program edukacyjny Odyssey of the Mind (Odyseja Umysłu). W programie zespoły młodych osób pracują metodą projektową, wykorzystując różnorodne techniki treningu twórczości, nad rozwiązaniem abstrakcyjnego problemu rozbieżnego. Część absolwentów programu wybiera kierunki kreatywne jako naturalną kontynuację procesu edukacji. Elementy treningu twórczości można wykorzystać...
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Combinatorial scheme of finding minimal number of periodic points for smooth self-maps of simply connected manifolds
PublicationLet M be a closed smooth connected and simply connected manifold of dimension m at least 3, and let r be a fixed natural number. The topological invariant D^m_r [f], defined by the authors in [Forum Math. 21 (2009), 491-509], is equal to the minimal number of r-periodic points in the smooth homotopy class of f, a given self-map of M. In this paper, we present a general combinatorial scheme of computing D^m_r [f] for arbitrary dimension...
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Analysis of High Resolution Clouds of Points as a Source of Biometric Data
PublicationThe article presents the analysis devoted to human face data obtained by means of precise photographic scanners. Collected point clouds were used to make high precision meshes of human face. The essence of these studies is the comparison of relative features as well as the comparison of absolute models which require as precisely as possible matching of face models. The article focuses on the analysis of various parts of the human...
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Influence of water salinity on corrosion risk - the case of the southern Baltic Sea coast.
PublicationWater corrosivity in Gdansk Bay, Poland, the southern part of the Baltic Sea, was investigated. The analysed region is heavily industrialized, and the coastline is very diverse. Twenty-seven test points along the coastline were selected. Water parameters such as salinity, total dissolved solids content, resistivity, conductivity, oxygenation, pH and corrosion rate were determined. The results of the investigation are presented....
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Dynamic Semantic Visual Information Management
PublicationDominant Internet search engines use keywords and therefore are not suited for exploration of new domains of knowledge, when the user does not know specific vocabulary. Browsing through articles in a large encyclopedia, each presenting a small fragment of knowledge, it is hard to map the whole domain, see relevant concepts and their relations. In Wikipedia for example some highly relevant articles are not linked with each other....
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Ontologie w systemach informatycznych
PublicationZakres monografii obejmuje wybór majważniejszych zagadnień inżynierii wiedzy opartej na podejściu ontologicznym. Omawiane są ramy Minsky'ego, sieci semantyczne, standardy RDF, OWL i SPARQL. Prezentowane są też podstawy teoretyczne nowoczesnych technologii semantycznych, w szczególności rozstrzygalny fragment logiki pierwszego rzędu zwany logiką opisową (ang. Description Logics, DL). Omawia sie algorytmy wnioskowania z ontologii...
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Ocena ryzyka na sieci dróg krajowych w Polsce - program EURORAP
PublicationEuropejski Atlas BRD jest narzędziem ułatwiającym: klasyfikację dróg z uwzględnieniem ryzyka, porównanie stopnia ryzyka na sieci dróg poszczególnych krajów, województw, wybór działań poprawiających stan bezpieczeństwa ruchu na drogach, szerokie komunikowanie o ryzyku na drogach za pomocą map, stron internetowych itp.Zaprezentowane wyniki oceny ryzyka na drogach krajowych są przydatne: kierowcom planującym bezpieczna podróż po kraju,...
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Floodplain inundation Mapping using SAR Scattering Coefficient Thresholding and Observed Discharge Data
PublicationInundation area time series are important for wetlands monitoring and hydrological model validation. This study is conducted in Biebrza floodplain, which is a natural wetland with complex inundation generation processes. In order to map 2014-2018 series of inundation in the floodplain we test our automatic thresholding method on Sentinel 1 data. The threshold value is optimized using correlation of the inundation area with observed...
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Ocena efektywności monitoringu obiektów inżynierskich za pomocą sieci Bayesa
PublicationW swojej pracy autorzy zaproponowali zastosowanie sieci Bayesa do projektowania monitoringu i podejmowania decyzji w działaniach eksploatacyjnych. Ponadto pokazano dwie metody oceny wartości informacji diagnostycznych. Pierwszą z nich jest wartość oczekiwana EVSI (ang. Expected Value of Sample Information), która stanowi podstawę do wyboru spośród alternatywnych obserwacji symptomów zmiennej diagnostycznej. Natomiast drugą metodą...
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Immunoanalityka – użyteczne podejście analityczne w badaniach środowiska
PublicationWażnym krokiem w rozwoju bezpośrednich metodyk analitycznych było opracowanie technik immunoanalitycznych. Początkowo znalazły one zastosowanie praktyczne w analityce medycznej a później także w analityce środowiskowej. Dzięki temu możliwe jest ilościowe oznaczenie stosunkowo szerokiego spektrum ksenobiotyków w próbkach charakteryzujących się złożonym składem matrycy bez praco- i czasochłonnego etapu przygotowania tych próbek do...
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Knowledge Sharing in the COVID-19 Era of Remote Teaching: What Can Academia Learn from Business?
PublicationPurpose: The aim of this paper is to investigate how universities may benefit from experiences of businesses that were also forced to use remote forms of business operations. Methodology: The paper uses in-depth interviews to explore the possibilities of knowledge sharing improvements at the university-level teaching, based on the experiences elicited in the business sector. The theoretical sampling was used to find informants...
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A Fast Method of Separation of the Noisy Background from the Head-Cross Section in the Sequence of MRI Scans
PublicationThe paper presents a new method of removing the noisy background from the sequence of magnetic resonance imaging (MRl) scans. The sequence of scans is required in order to monitor a passage of a contrast agent through the brain tissue. The scans contain the noisy head-cross data and also the noisy background data. The latter has to be removed and excluded from a further analysis. It is achieved by applying some basic morphological...
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EFFICIENT LINE DETECTION METHOD BASED ON 2D CONVOLUTION FILTER
PublicationThe article proposes an efficient line detection method using a 2D convolution filter. The proposed method was compared with the Hough transform, the most popular method of straight lines detection. The developed method is suitable for local detection of straight lines with a slope from -45˚ to 45˚. Also, it can be used for curve detection which shape is approximated with the short straight sections. The new method is characterized...
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Benchmarking overlapping communication and computations with multiple streams for modern GPUs
PublicationThe paper presents benchmarking a multi-stream application processing a set of input data arrays. Tests have been performed and execution times measured for various numbers of streams and various compute intensities measured as the ratio of kernel compute time and data transfer time. As such, the application and benchmarking is representative of frequently used operations such as vector weighted sum, matrix multiplication etc....
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A Novel Approach to the Assessment of Cough Incidence
PublicationIn this paper we consider the problem of identication of cough events in patients suffering from chronic respiratory diseases. The information about frequency of cough events is necessary to medical treatment. The proposed approach is based on bidirectional processing of a measured vibration signal - cough events are localized by combining the results of forward-time and backward-time analysis. The signal is at rst transformed...
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Stereo image visualization for a VISROBOT system
PublicationThe article describes a novel approach to robotic vision in mobile robot systems. The system implements a Visrobot system which implements a generic idea of using mobile robots for exploring an indoor environment. The task of such a robot is to visualize a stereo image properly for an operator. The system uses different stereo baseline values. Variable baseline can result in increasing depth resolution for distant objects. We assume...
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From Creative Thinking Techniques to Innovative Design Solutions - The Educators' Perspective
PublicationThe article presents a structure and basic tasks of a new original academic course, which was inaugurated in 2015 at the Faculty of Architecture in Gdańsk University of Technology and organized for the first year students of Spatial Planning.The title of the course was ‘Garden Cities and the Gardens in the Cities. A Course with Elements of Training Creativity’. The aim of the course was to encourage the participants to develop...
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Integration and Visualization of the Results of Hydrodynamic Models in the Maritime Network-Centric GIS of Gulf of Gdansk
PublicationEnsuring of security in the coastal area makes on a seaside countries research in the field of infrastructure spatial information of environmental data. The paper presents the results of work on the construction of this infrastructure by integrating electronic navigational chart with ortophotomaps of coastal areas as well as numerical data from weather and hydrodynamic models. Paper focuses on a problems associated with creating...
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Ecotoxicity and chemical sediment data classification by the useof self-organising maps
PublicationArtykuł dotyczy przedstawiania nowej interpretacji szacowania jakości osadów. To oryginalne podejście bada powiązania między parametrami ekotoksyczności (ostrej i chronicznej) i składnikami chemicznymi (zanieczyszczenia takie jak polichlorowane bifenyle, pestycydy, wielopierścieniowe węglowodory aromatyczne, metale ciężkie) próbek osadów Jeziora Turawskiego (Polska) poprzez zastosowanie samoorganizujących się map (SOM) wobec badanego...
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Zastosowanie modelowania źródła hałasu kolejowego dla polskich pociągów
PublicationCelem referatu jest zaprezentowanie wyników implementacji modelu prognozowania źródłowego hałasu kolejowego zawartego w projektach HARMONOISE/IMAGINE, opartego na danych referencyjnych tego modelu. Wyniki prognozowania porównano z wynikami pomiarów przeprowadzonych w warunkach rzeczywistych i na tej podstawie wyznaczono wartości błędów pomiędzy obliczeniami a wartościami pomiarowymi. W modelu przyjęto takie same warunki atmosferyczne,...
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Investigation of the road noise source employing an automatic noise monitoring station
PublicationThe paper presents a pilot investigation of noise source models in two selected localizations in the context of future dynamic noise map creation. The experiments were carried out using the automatic noise monitoring station engineered at the Multimedia Systems Departmentof the Gda´nsk University of Technology. The results of the noise measurements employing monitoring stations and its comparison to the reference values are depicted....