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Sediment-quality assessment by intelligent data analysis
PublicationCoraz powszechniej do oceny jakości próbek środowiskowych osadów wykorzystuje się analizy chemometryczne. Ich głównym zadaniem jest znalezienie zależności pomiędzy wynikami analiz chemicznych oraz oszacowanymi parametrami toksyczności.Zastosowanie chemometrii w ocenie jakości próbek środowiskowych umożliwiłoby zredukowanie kosztów biomonitoringu prowadzonego na badanym obszarze poprzez optymalizację procedury badawczej.
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Computational Techniques Application in Environmental Exposure Assessment
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Modelling and uncertainty in system analysis for safety assessment.
PublicationArtykuł obejmuje zagadnienia związane z modelowaniem i reprezentacją niepewności i ilościowych oszacowaniach ryzyka. Problem jest istotny w praktyce, ponieważ wystęopujhą wymagania przeprowadzenia ocen niepewności miar probabilistycznych i ryzyka. Dyskutuje się potencjalne żródła niepewności i dokonuje sie przeglądu podstaw teoretycznych reprezentacji niepewności. W modelowaniu systemów zawierających nieprecyzyjnie zdefiniowane...
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Automatic system of constructions corrosion risk assessment
PublicationPrzedstawiony został system pomiaru szybkości korozji pracujący w przemysłowej instalacji wodnej. Mierzone wartości szybkości korozji przesyłane są za pomocą telefonii komórkowej (GPRS) co umożliwia obserwację wyników on-line. Zastosowanie tego rodzaju systemu pozwala na wykonywanie pomiarów korozyjnych umożliwiających kontrolę instalacji w sposób ciągły.
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Assessment of radial run-out of circular saw.
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono ocenę bicia promieniowego pił tarczowych na podstawie analizy zróżnicowania przekrojów warstw skrawanych przez poszczególne ostrza piły
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Internet-based automatic hearing assessment system
PublicationCelem referatu jest prezentacja systemu przesiewowego badania słuchu w oparciu o Internet. Wady słuchu stanowią jedną z najszybciej postępujących chorób we współczesnym społeczeństwie. W tym kontekście ważne staje się umożliwienie przeprowadzania masowych testów wykrywających ubytki słuchu. Przedstawiona aplikacja zawiera audiometryczny test tonalny, test ilustrowany dla dzieci oraz test rozumienia mowy w szumie. Po zakończeniu...
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Usefulness of the voltamperometric method for assessment of the purity of soil
PublicationThis paper presents a voltammetric analysis of soil. It shows that the voltammetry is a useful method for the assessment of soil contaminated with heavy metal ions. There are two major problems with voltammetry analysis: the diffusion coefficient and the measurement system. The paper contains a short literature study of mathematical equations and a study of differences between soil and water measurements. Suggestions of the solution...
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Customer Assessment of Brand Valuation and Social Media
PublicationThe research problem engaged in this article is to determine whether contemporary consumers are able to assess brand equity in the overabundance of brands and products with similar features and qualities. The author argues that in the existing circumstances when differences between brands become insignificant the consumer is not capable of assessing their equity adequately. In order to verify the thesis the author has accepted...
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Numerical methods for the assessment of bridge safety barriers
PublicationThe paper presents a numerical study of the bus crash test for bridge safety barriers. The analysis is conducted with the use of explicit code LS-DYNA. The problem of hourglass effect in shell elements is discussed. The simulations of bus impact against the barrier show that the analyzed barrier withstands the impact forces and restrains the bus trajectory to the bridge road.
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Assessment of port facilities security in crisis management
PublicationZ punktu widzenia transportu międzynarodowego oraz przemysłowego charakteru systemu portowego, bezpieczeństwo obiektów portowych stanowi ważny element zarówno w zarządzaniu strategicznym portów morskich, jak również element ogólnej koncepcji zarządzania kryzysowego w ujęciu lokalnym, regionalnym, krajowym i międzynarodowym. W celu zapewnienia bezpieczeństwa portów morskich, muszą być prowadzone działania w celu przygotowania administracji...
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Wave propagation in damage assessment of ground anchors
PublicationThe inspection possibilities of ground anchors are limited to destructive test such as pull-out test. Guided wave propagation gives an opportunity to develop an inspection system dedicated to determine the condition of inspected element without violation of their integrity. In this paper the experimental study on wave propagation in laboratory models of ground anchors are presented. Experiments were conducted for different bonding...
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Laboratory assessment of permeability of sand and biopolymer mixtures
PublicationLaboratory assessment of permeability of sand and biopolymer mixtures. This research presents a method of creating seepage barriers in a sandy soil using biopolymer additives (biosubstance), which consist of polysaccharides and water. Polysaccharides strongly interact with water to produce a viscous suspension. The paper aims to investigate the infl uence of a biosubstance employed in a highly permeable sandy soil. Amount of the...
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Analytical tools for functional assessment of architectural layouts
PublicationFunctional layout of the building, understood as a layout or set of the facility rooms (or groups of rooms) with a system of internal communication, creates an environment and a place of mutual relations between the occupants of the object. Achieving optimal (from the occupants’ point of view) spatial arrangement is possible through activities that often go beyond the stage of architectural design. Adopted in the architectural...
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Electronic Noses for Indoor Air Quality Assessment
PublicationThis chapter presents a proposal of the use of electronic noses in the monitoring of indoor air quality. The main focus is put on the detailed characteristics of today’s indoor air quality control methods, the types of pollution in the air, and the development of electronic noses for air testing. Currently, scientists seek methodological and structural solutions that would enable real-time online indoor air control. It has been...
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Standards on Cyber Security Assessment of Smart Grid
PublicationSecurity evaluation of communication systems in smart grid poses a great challenge to the developers and operators. In recent years many new smart grid standards were proposed, which paradoxically results in the difficulty in finding a relevant publication in this plethora of literature. This paper presents the results of a systematic analysis which aimed at addressing this issue by identifying standards that present sound security...
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Security Assessment of a Turbo-Gas Power Plant
PublicationCritical infrastructures are exposed to new threats due to the large number of vulnerabilities and architectural weaknesses introduced by the extensive use of information and communication technologies. This paper presents the results of an exhaustive security assessment for a turbo-gas power plant.
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ASSESSMENT OF WEAR OF THE BANDSAW TEETH IN INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS
PublicationA methodology for measuring bandsaw tooth wear is presented in this paper. This type of measurement is proposed as an alternative way of determining tooth wear in industrial conditions. The method is based on determining the KE value, i.e., the distance of the radius of the rounded cutting edge of the tooth and the intersection of the surface of the back and the surface of the face of the cutting wedge of the bandsaw tooth....
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Review of Sustainability Assessment Tools for Buildings and Cities
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Smartphones as tools for equitable food quality assessment
PublicationBackground: The ubiquity of smartphones equipped with an array of sophisticated sensors, ample processing power, network connectivity and a convenient interface makes them a promising tool for non-invasive, portable food quality assessment. Combined with the recent developments in the areas of IoT, deep learning algorithms and cloud computing, they present an opportunity for advancing wide-spread, equitable and sustainable food...
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Assessment of Trajectories of Non-bankrupt and Bankrupt Enterprises
PublicationThe aim of this study is to show how long-term trajectories of enterprises can be used to increase the forecasting horizon of bankruptcy prediction models. The author used seven popular forecasting models (two from Europe, two from Asia, two from North America and one from Latin America). These models (five multivariate discriminant analysis models and two logit models) were used to develop 17-year trajectories separately for non-bankrupt...
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Safety and Functionality Assessment of Tram Loops in Wrocław
PublicationThe article presents the implementation of the ISFTL method proposed by the authors consisting in an indicator assessment of the safety and functionality of tram loops. Five tram loops located in Wrocław were analyzed. Each of these loops has different characteristics. The components of each assessment are described in detail and further directions for improving the proposed assessment are indicated.
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The Indicators Assessment of Safety and Functionality of Tram Loops
PublicationThe new requirements set for tram loops mean that all stakeholders' expectations regarding their safety and functionality change. This creates a need for new tools for tram loop assessment, which are important interchanges, especially for people living outside the city limits or on their outskirts. The aim of the authors ’research is to create a indicators for assessing the safety and functionality of tram loops. Therefore, the...
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Review of Cybersecurity Assessment Methods: Applicability Perspective
PublicationCybersecurity assessments are crucial in building the assurance that vital cyberassets are effectively protected from threats. Multiple assessment methods have been proposed during the decades of the cybersecurity field. However, a systematic literature search described in this paper reveals that their reviews are practically missing. Thus, the primary objective of this research was to fulfil this gap by comprehensively identifying...
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Towards an Understanding of the Stability Assessment of Floating Buildings
PublicationOne of the most important aspects of the design of floating facilities such as ships, floating offshore structures or floating houses is stability. Its impact on both general safety and operational aspects renders it a fundamental consideration already in preliminary design stages. Usually, the concept of sufficient stability of floating buildings is associated with the ability to keep an allowed heel angle and residual freeboard,...
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Risk assessment for tram traffic on tramway bridges
PublicationMiejski transport szynowy wielu miastach stanowi istotny element systemu transportowego i jest przestrzennie rozwijającym się systemem zapewniającym mieszkańcom codzienną obsługę transportową. Bezpieczeństwo pasażerów transportu szynowego i użytkowników dróg jest jednym z najważniejszych czynników, który należy uwzględnić w trakcie projektowania infrastruktury oraz w ocenie operacyjnej systemu miejskiego transportu tramwajowego....
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Quality assessment of low voltage surge arresters
PublicationUsers expect reliable operation of the surge arrester during overvoltages, which may originate from a switching process or a lightning discharge. The necessary conditions to guarantee these expectations are: appropriate construction of the surge arrester, its production being maintained in accordance with technical standards, and a positive results of the type test (as well routine and acceptance tests). The recipient, especially...
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Assessment of Road Restraint Systems in Polish Conditions
PublicationKey to understanding the needs and tools of road infrastructure management is identifying the hazards and their sources involved in having no or faulty road restraint systems. Clarity is also needed on why the systems are wrongly designed, constructed, built and operated. To ensure that the problem is adequately understood, research and site observations were conducted and...
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Electrostatic self-assembly approach in the deposition of bio-functional chitosan-based layers enriched with caffeic acid on Ti-6Al-7Nb alloys by alternate immersion
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Controllable Synthesis of 3D Hollow-Carbon-Spheres/Graphene-Flake Hybrid Nanostructures from Polymer Nanocomposite by Self-Assembly and Feasibility for Lithium-Ion Batteries
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An unusual four-nuclear Pb(II)-pyrrole-2-carboxylato polymer: The effect of the lone pair and non-covalent interactions on the supramolecular assembly and fluorescence properties
PublicationThe reaction of Pb(NO3)2 with 1H-pyrrole-2-carboxylic acid (2prCOOH) leads to the formation of a new four-nuclear Pb(II) polymer, [Pb4(2prCOO)8(H2O)]n, which has been characterized by CHN, FT-IR, TG, PL and single-crystal X-ray diffraction methods. In view of the primary Pb–O bonds, Pb1 and Pb3 show hemidirected pentagonal pyramidal geometries, while Pb2 and Pb4 display hemidirected octahedral geometries. The topology of the strongest...
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LanroNET, a non-interventional, prospective study to assess the resource utilization and cost of lanreotide autogel 120 mg in Polish patients with neuroendocrine tumors – results of interim analysis
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A model of fuel combustion process in the marine reciprocating engine work space taking into account load and wear of crankshaft-piston assembly and the theory of semi-Markov processes
PublicationThe ar ticle analyses the operation of reciprocal internal combu stion engines, with mar ine engines u sed a s an example. The analysis takes into account types of energy conversion in the work spaces (cylinders) of these engines, loads of their crankshaft-piston assemblies, and types of fuel combustion which can take place in these spaces during engine operation. It is highlighted that the analysed time-dependent loads of marine...
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Use of Near Infrared Transillumination/Back Scattering Sounding (NIR-T/BSS) to assess effects of elevated intracranial pressure on width of subarachnoid space and celebrovascular pulsation in animals
PublicationW pracy dokonano ocenę zmiany szerokości przestrzeni podpajęczynówkowej i tętnienia naczyń mózgowych w czasie chwilowego zwiększenia ciśnienia śródczaszkowego u królików doświadczalnych. Badania zostały przeprowadzone przy wykorzystaniu metody transiluminacji w bliskiej podczerwieni z rozpraszaniem zwrotnym NIRT-BSS.
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Energy Transition in Poland—Assessment of the Renewable Energy Sector
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On a systematic perspective on risk for formal safety assessment (FSA)
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Daphnia magna model in the toxicity assessment of pharmaceuticals: A review
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The Assessment of Maternal and Fetal Intima-Media Thickness in Perinatology
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Assessment of risks connected with economic activity in the SME sector
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DSC coupled with PCA as a tool for butter authenticity assessment
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Assessment of DPPC Liposome Disruption by Embedded Tocopheryl Malonate
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Functional safety and security assessment of the control and protection systems
PublicationW artykule zostały poruszone kluczowe aspekty integracji podejścia bezpieczeństwa funkcjonalnego ''safety'' i ochrony informacji ''security'' w rozproszonych systemach sterowania i zabezpieczeniowych. Próba integracji zagadnień ''safety'' @ ''security'' została zilustrowana na przykładzie systemu monitoringu i zabezpieczeń pracującego w obiekcie podwyższonego ryzyka.
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A probabilistic concept of load assessment of self-ignition engines
PublicationPrzedstawiono propozycję probabilistycznej interpretacji obciążenia silników spalinowych o zapłonie samoczynnym. Zaproponowano probabilistyczny opis obciążenia tych silników z uwzględnieniem znanych parametrów (wskaźników) ich pracy. Wykazano, że obciążenie tego rodzaju silników, rozpatrywane w dowolnej chwili, może być uważane za zmienną losową. Zwrócono uwagę, że obciążenie to może być uważane za zmienną losową wielowymiarową....
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A novel architecture for e-learning knowledge assessment systems
PublicationAbstract. In this paper we propose a novel e-learning system, dedicated strictly to knowledge assessment tasks. In its functioning it utilizes web-based technologies, but its design differs radically from currently popular e-learning solutions which rely mostly on thin-client architecture. Our research proved that such architecture,while well suited for didactic content distribution systems is ill-suited for knowledge assessment...
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Methodological issues of security vulnerability analysis and risk assessment
PublicationArtykuł przedstawia wybrane aspekty metodyczne związane z zarządzaniem bezpieczeństwem i ochroną instalacji podwyższonego ryzyka. Podkreślono, że występują instalacje podwyższonego ryzyka, które wymagają specjalnej uwagi w zarządzaniu bezpieczeństwem. Zaproponowano metodykę opartą na wiedzy do zintegrowanej analizy LOPA (warstw zabezpieczeń) i ROPA (pierścieni zabezpieczeń). Nadrzędnym celem jest opracowanie metod i narzędzi wspomagających...
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A novel architecture for e-learning knowledge assessment systems
PublicationIn this paper we propose a novel e-learning system, dedicated strictly to knowledge assessment tasks. In its functioning it utilizes web-based technologies, but its design differs radically from currently popular e-learning solutions which rely mostly on thin-client architecture. Our research proved that such architecture, while well suited for didactic content distribution systems is ill-suited for knowledge assessment products....
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Openess and Transparency of Fiscal Reporting in Poland – Assessment and Recommendation
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Manager competency assessment model in the conditions of industry 4.0
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Contribution of landfill fires to air pollution – An assessment methodology
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Risk assessment of biocides in roof paint. Part 1
PublicationSzereg pokryć dachowych, jak farby dachowe, zawiera w swoim składzie biocydy. Dotychczas nie wiadomo do jakiego stopnia biocydy wymywane są z farb dachowych, a ponadto jakie ich stężenie może występować w systemach zbierających wodę deszczową. Zbadano podatność na wymywanie biocydów z różnych niemieckich farb dachowych oraz oszacowano ich stężenie w zebranej wodzie deszczowej
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Expert assessment of arguments: a method and its experimental evaluation
PublicationArgument structures are commonly used to develop and present cases for safety, security and other properties. Such argument structures tend to grow excessively. To deal with this problem, appropriate methods of their assessment are required. Two objectives are of particular interest: (1) systematic and explicit assessment of the compelling power of an argument, and (2) communication of the result of such an assessment to relevant...