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  • Special Issue: Recent Advances in Corrosion Science

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    - Materials - Year 2020

    The dynamic development of the global industry and growing demand for new material technologies generates constantly increasing problems regarding premature material degradation and the requirement to determine corrosion mechanisms and to develop new protection/evaluation approaches. This Special Issue, “Recent Advances in Corrosion Science”, brings together fourteen articles and one review, providing a snapshot of the recent activity...

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  • BADANIE I ANALIZA WYBRANYCH PARAMETRÓW UŻYTKOWYCH NAZIEMNEGO SYSTEMU RADIOLOKALIZACYJNEGO AEGIR

    Mimo olbrzymiej popularności radionawigacyjnych systemów satelitarnych GNSS (Global Navigation Satelite System), naziemne systemy radiolokalizacyjne są cały czas rozwijane. W artykule przedstawiono wyniki analizy wybranych parametrów użytkowych systemu AEGIR, który powstał w ramach projektu badawczo-rozwojowego numer O R00 0049 06 w latach 2009-2011.

  • Iranian future healthcare professionals’ knowledge and opinions about rare diseases: cross‑sectional study

    Background: Rare diseases are a new global health priority, requiring evidence-based estimates of the global prevalenceof diseases to inform public policymakers and provide a serious challenge to the healthcare system that must not be ignored. The purpose of this study is to investigate Iranian future healthcare professionals’ knowledge and opinions about rare diseases.Results: A total of 6838 students responded...

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  • On the crack front curvature in bonded joints

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    - THEORETICAL AND APPLIED FRACTURE MECHANICS - Year 2012

    Standard tests of adhesively bonded specimens are likely to produce heterogeneous stress distribution along the crack front and its vicinity. High separation rate mode I dominated fracture test is performed.Observation of post mortem fractured surfaces with an optical microscope reveals characteristic features of mixed mode I/III fracture near the sides of the specimen but not in the middle. At first, finite elements calculations...

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  • Anaerobic consortia mediate Mn(IV)-dependent anaerobic oxidation of methane

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    - CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL - Year 2023

    Manganese-dependent anaerobic oxidation of methane (Mn-AOM) is a major methane sink and vital to mitigating global warming. However, it is difficult for microorganisms to mediate electron transfer between the hardly dissolved CH4 and insoluble Mn(IV) minerals, leading to poor understanding of species mediating Mn-AOM. This study successfully enriched an anaerobic consortium mediating AOM driven by Mn-dependent respiratory growth,...

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  • An approach to improve the time efficiency of disjoint paths calculation

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    - Year 2015

    Failures of network elements can be appropriately dealt with by utilization of alternate disjoint paths to provide redirection of flows affected by failures of the respective working paths. Known approaches can be broadly divided by decision on backup paths installation into proactive and reactive mechanisms, as well as based on the scope of recovery actions into local and global rerouting. There are several important scenarios...

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  • 3D Vision System for a Robotic Arm Based on Equal Baseline Camera Array

    This paper presents a lightweight 3D vision system called Equal Baseline Camera Array (EBCA). EBCA can work in different light conditions and it can be applied for measuring large range of distances. The system is a useful alternative to other known distance measuring devices such as structured-light 3D scanners, time-of-flight cameras, Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) devices and structure from motion techniques. EBCA can be...

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  • Abilities, Motivations, and Opportunities of Furloughed Employees in the Context of Covid-19: Preliminary Evidence From the UK

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    - Frontiers in Psychology - Year 2021

    The Covid-19 global pandemic is a crisis like no other, forcing governments to implement prolonged national lockdowns in an effort to limit the spread of the disease. As organizations aim to adapt and remain operational, employers can suspend or reduce work activity for events related to Covid-19 and claim government support to subsidize employee wages. In this way, some employees are placed on furlough (i.e., temporary unemployment)...

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  • Homoclinic orbits for a class of singular second order Hamiltonian systems in ℝ3

    We consider a conservative second order Hamiltonian system \ddot{q}+ ∇V(q)=0 in R3 with a potential V having a global maximum at the origin and a line l ∩ {0} = ∅ as a set of singular points. Under a certain compactness condition on V at infinity and a strong force condition at singular points we study, by the use of variational methods and geometrical arguments, the existence of homoclinic solutions of the system.

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  • Efficient Complex Root Tracing Algorithm for Propagation and Radiation Problems

    An efficient complex root tracing algorithm for propagation and radiation problems is presented. The proposed approach is based on a discretization of Cauchy’s Argument Principle and its generalization to the C × R space. Moreover, an engagement of the tracing process with a global root finding algorithm recently presented in the literature is performed. In order to confirm a validity and efficiency of the proposed technique, a...

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  • Alternative Energy: Photovoltaic Solar Cells

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    Solar radiation is a fuel for photovoltaic cells and modules, which are a source of electric energy. Viable solar technologies that have been developed in the past are starting to be adopted on a broader and more meaningful global scale across different sectors with ever-increasing market penetration. In this entry, a brief overview of the material properties relevant to solar cell operation, the structure of the solar cell, and electrical...

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  • Towards High-Value Datasets Determination for Data-Driven Development: A Systematic Literature Review

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    - Year 2023

    Open government data (OGD) is seen as a political and socio-economic phenomenon that promises to promote civic engagement and stimulate public sector innovations in various areas of public life. To bring the expected benefits, data must be reused and transformed into value-added products or services. This, in turn, sets another precondition for data that are expected to not only be available and comply with open data principles,...

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  • ChatGPT Application vis-a-vis Open Government Data (OGD): Capabilities, Public Values, Issues and a Research Agenda

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    • E. Loukis
    • S. Saxena
    • N. Rizun
    • M. I. Maratsi
    • M. Ali
    • C. H. Alexopoulos

    - Year 2023

    As a novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) application, ChatGPT holds pertinence not only for the academic, medicine, law, computing or other sectors, but also for the public sector-case in point being the Open Government Data (OGD) initiative. However, though there has been some limited (as this topic is quite new) research concerning the capabilities ChatGPT in these sectors, there has been no research about the capabilities it...

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  • CDIO IN GDANSK: PEOPLE-ORIENTED STRATEGY

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    The CDIO system implementation in Poland meets problems and Gdansk University of Technology (GUT) is still a single higher education institution in Poland accepted as the member of CDIO Initiative. The paper detects and characterizes the existing problems to be solved. In particular, the different groups of people are considered as supporters or fighters against CDIO idea, their attitudes being considered and applied strategy demonstrated. The...

  • Do personality traits influence the user’s behavioral intention to adopt and use Open Government Data (OGD)? An empirical investigation

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    • N. Rizun
    • C. H. Alexopoulos
    • S. Saxena
    • F. Kleiman
    • R. Matheus

    - TELEMATICS AND INFORMATICS - Year 2024

    The academic interest in the Open Government Data (OGD) domain has been burgeoning over the years. Conceding that the prime focus of an OGD initiative is its further re-use for value creation and innovation by stakeholders, the present study seeks to underscore the role of HEXACO personality traits on behavioral intention (BI) to adopt and use OGD in developing countries' context. We investigate the direct, indirect, and moderating...

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  • Analiza przestrzenna sprzedaży paliw

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    Ze względu na zmieniające się warunki i niepewność ekonomiczną gospodarowania, przeprowadzane badania dotyczące popytu na paliwa płynne dotyczą głównie zmian popytu w czasie, rzadziej w przestrzeni. Jednak rozwój narzędzi ekonometrycznych, który dokonał się w latach dziewięćdziesiątych, umożliwił nie tylko badania zmian popytu wynikające ze związków przyczynowo-skutkowych zachodzących w czasie, ale również w przestrzeni oraz w...

  • ARCHITECTURE IN BRANDING AND OVERBRANDING PROCESS. HOW GLOBALIZATION INFLUENCED ARCHITECTURE QUALITY.

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    - Year 2014

    Globalization is unification. In the field of architecture and in the social structure alike, the globalization leads to a blending of economies and cultures that produces uniformly branded public space as a response to universal assumptions of integration and correlation. While branding consists in creating a recognizable and outstanding image a strong contradiction exists between both of these approaches. As a result, regional...

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  • Two families of infinitely many homoclinics for singular strong force Hamiltonian systems

    We are concerned with a planar autonomous Hamiltonian system with a potential possessing a single well of infinite depth at a point X and a unique strict global maximum 0 at a point A. Under a strong force condition around the singularity X, via minimization of an action integral and using a shadowing chain lemma together with simple geometrical arguments, we prove the existence of infinitely many geometrically distinct homoclinic...

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  • Reception of GNSS Signals Under Jamming Conditions

    The article focuses on performance of Global Navigation Satellite System receivers in environment where intentional interference is present. First part is a general description of GNSS systems. Secondly, types of positioning service disturbances are specified. In the third part authors present a scheme of measurement stand which is used to evaluate the influence of interference on reception of navigation signals. Next, research...

  • Wykorzystanie Data Envelopment Analysis do porównania polityki wiekowej w krajach Unii Europejskiej

    Celem artykułu jest zbudowanie modelu, bazującego na Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), pozwalającego na porównanie działań związanych z polityką wiekową w krajach Unii Europejskiej. Zastosowano model z ograniczeniami na wagi, pozwalający na stworzenie rankingu i określenie kierunków kształtowania polityki wiekowej. Wykorzystano dane pochodzące z bazy danych Global AgeWatch Index 2013.

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  • Changing patterns in export of goods versus international competitiveness. A comparative analysis for Central-East European countries in the period 2000-2011.

    This paper discusses the existing links between changing patterns in the export of goods, broken down by technology-intensity, versus intrenational competitiveness. The study covers nine Central-East European (CEE) economies: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and the Slovak Republic, in the time span 2000-2011. We examine the hypothesis of a strong, positive and statistically significant...

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  • Smart sustainable cities : Reconnaissance Study

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    - Year 2016

    The global urban population is expected to grow by 63 percent between 2014 and 2050 – compared to an overall global population growth of 32 percent during the same period. Megacities with over 20-million inhabitants will see the fastest increase in population – and at least 13 new megacities are expected by 2030, in addition to the 28 existing today. The fastest growing urban centres contain around one-million inhabitants, and...

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  • Evaluation of time-efficiency of disjoint paths calculation schemes

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    - Year 2015

    The concept of alternate paths has been shown in the literature to provide fast response of a network to failures of its elements (nodes/links) affecting flows along the primary communication paths. Various approaches have been proposed to reduce the time necessary to redirect the respective flows onto the alternate paths. In this paper, we focus on another important objective, that so far has not received much attention, i.e.,...

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  • Review of International Standards and Policy Guidelines for Smart Sustainable Cities

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    - Year 2021

    Smart cities are often criticized for preoccupation with technology, for ignoring the negative effects of technology, for irrelevance to the needs of the poor, and for ubiquitous data collection creating perfect conditions for surveillance societies and autocratic states. In response, cities pursue smartness and sustainability simultaneously, becoming global (by participation in global digital networks) and local (by addressing...

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  • A strategy for GPS data processing in a precise local network during high solar activity

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    - GPS SOLUTIONS - Year 2003

    This paper presents the analyses connected with reduction of errors from ionospheric refraction using GPS data from local satellite networks. This is particularly essential during rising solar activity. The Bernese GPS Software v. 4.2 was used, as an analytical tool. The test data included measurements from a geodynamic network SUDETES situated in the Sudety Mountains across the border between the Czech Republic and Poland. A local...

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  • STUDY OF SEASONAL ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES OF SEA WATER IN SELECTED WATERS OF THE SOUTHERN BALTIC

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    Climate Research of the globe is a current task, in particular to confirm the general hypothesis of global warming associated with an increase in average temperature. The sea acoustic climate is derived from the concept of climate and refers to the conditions of propagation of acoustic waves in a particular basin. In this paper, the results of systematic measurements of temperature, salinity and velocity distributions of sound...

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  • Historical crane on the redesigned original trestle bridge as a memorial of Gdansk Shipyard

    The paper includes selected aspects of the study, whose goal is to hold the historical crane 642-24 in its current location after the modification of trestle bridge static scheme. The scope of the paper includes the assessment of current technical condition of the object, a presentation of FEM analyses, a description of the assumed load cases, results of the static calculations, checking the effort of construction elements, global...

  • Promocja zasobów Pomorskiej Biblioteki Cyfrowej na przykładzie XVIII-wiecznego rękopisu

    Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie sposobu udostępniania i promocji zbiorów rękopiśmiennych na przykładzie XVIII-wiecznego rękopisu Christiana Gabriela Fishera dostępnego w Pomorskiej Bibliotece Cyfrowej (dalej: PBC). Rękopis ten stał się inspiracją do podjęcia współpracy Biblioteki Politechniki Gdańskiej oraz Instytutu Kultury Miejskiej w Gdańsku. Dzięki wspólnej inicjatywie rozpoczęto prace nad transkrypcją niemieckiego tekstu...

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  • MOST Wiedzy jako narzędzie promocji otwartych zasobów nauki

    Rośnie znaczenie wiedzy zgromadzonej w różnego rodzaju systemach, w tym w kursach on-line. Połączenie systemów je przetwarzających z Internetem w znaczącym stopniu usprawniło rozprzestrzenianie informacji i zwiększyło jej dostępność. Coraz szersze uznanie zyskują ruchy Otwartego Dostępu (ang. Open Access). Politechnika Gdańska w ramach projektu Multidyscyplinarny Otwarty System Transferu Wiedzy – MOST Wiedzy buduje platformę o...

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  • Koncepcja międzynarodowej konkurencyjności makrootoczenia przedsiębiorstw

    Celem badań przedstawionych w niniejszym artykule jest opracowanie koncepcji konkurencyjności międzynarodowej (IC) krajów, której podstawą jest makroekonomiczne otoczenie przedsiębiorstw. Motywem podjęcia tych badań były poważne wady metodologii pomiaru IC gospodarek stosowanej przez Światowe Forum Ekonomiczne (WEF). WEF rekomenduje Globalny Indeks Konkurencyjności (GCI) jako globalną miarę produktywności kraju. WEF utrzymuje,...

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  • Wireless Systems of Threats Monitoring

    The concept of wireless system of threats monitoring with self-organizing network of multipurpose data transfer nodes are presented. Two practical applications of this system are also presented. The first of these is the Global Wireless Monitoring System for Containers, and the second is the Mobile Monitoring System for Gas Air Pollution Measurements. Presented practical applications of the wireless threats monitoring system is...

  • Systemic analysis of a manufacturing process based on a small scale bakery

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    - Quality and Quantity - Year 2023

    The main aim of the article is to present two new innovative concepts of reliability of a functioning manufacturing system in the process of making bread in small-scale bakeries. Reliability is understood as one of the representations of an operator acting on specifc streams in time to - t. One of these represents the global reliability of a system as a function of parallel action of all the streams of the system in time to to...

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  • Cost-Efficient Globalized Parameter Optimization of Microwave Components through Response-Feature Surrogates and Nature-Inspired Metaheuristics

    Design of contemporary microwave devices predominantly utilizes computational models, including both circuit simulators, and full-wave electromagnetic (EM) evaluation. The latter constitutes the sole generic way of rendering accurate assessment of the system outputs that considers phenomena such as cross-coupling or radiation and dielectric losses. Consequently, for reliability reasons, the final tuning of microwave device parameters...

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  • A critical review on electrospun membranes containing 2D materials for seawater desalination

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    Electrospun nanofibers are a cutting-edge class of membranes which have been applied in several molecular separations. These membranes can be well designed and tailored due to the versatility of the electrospinning process. Eminently, electrospun membranes, once implemented in membrane processes, are an alternative in removing salts and some other minerals from water, so-called desalination, for producing drinking water. Such membranes...

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  • The culture of excellence and its dimensions in higher education

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    - The TQM Journal - Year 2024

    Purpose To recognize the existing state of knowledge on a culture of excellence (CoE) in higher education institutions (HEIs) and to define the CoE in HEI and the dimensions that make up that culture. A subsidiary goal is to propose a qualitative tool to measure CoE maturity. Design/methodology/approach The study was based on the qualitative method, the preferred reporting system of systematic reviews and meta-analysis (PRISMA)....

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  • Robot-Based Intervention for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Literature Review

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    • K. D. Bartl-Pokorny
    • P. Uluer
    • D. E. Barkana
    • A. Baird
    • H. Kose
    • T. Zorcec
    • B. Robins
    • B. Schuller
    • A. Landowska
    • M. Pykała

    - IEEE Access - Year 2021

    Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have deficits in the socio-communicative domain and frequently face severe difficulties in the recognition and expression of emotions. Existing literature suggested that children with ASD benefit from robot-based interventions. However, studies varied considerably in participant characteristics, applied robots, and trained skills. Here, we reviewed robot-based interventions targeting...

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  • Nanofiltration-Assisted Concentration Processes of Phenolic Fractions and Carotenoids from Natural Food Matrices

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    In new food formulations, carotenoids and phenolic compounds are likely to be the most sought after food ingredients according to their bioactivity, nutraceutical, nutritional value, and compatibility properties once incorporated into food formulations. Such solutes are naturally present in many plant-based sources, and some portions are directly consumed when enriching food products and formulations; however, some portions, which...

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  • Time for temporariness! Temporary architecture - whim or necessity?

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    - Year 2016

    What are the qualities of temporary architectural objects that make them helpful instruments for evolving the image of contemporary urban space? Six hypotheses provide rationales for why current temporary architecture seems to be a remedy for dysfunctional city structures. The research was limited to the temporary architectural objects constructed in open-air city zones, including the architecture of events. The temporary objects'...

  • Diagnosis of Damage in a Steel Tank Model by Shaking Table Harmonic Tests

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    Diagnosis of damage in civil engineering structures has recently become an important issue in the safety assessment procedure. Among a number of different approaches, a method of measuring the changes in natural frequencies is one of the most effective indicators of global damage. It has been successfully applied to relatively small. structures, however, the tests on large structures are very difficult and the practical application...

  • Changes of Conformation in Albumin with Temperature by Molecular Dynamics Simulations

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    • P. Weber
    • P. Bełdowski
    • K. Domino
    • D. Ledziński
    • A. Gadomski

    - ENTROPY - Year 2020

    This work presents the analysis of the conformation of albumin in the temperature range of 300K – 312K, i.e., in the physiological range. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we calculate values of the backbone and dihedral angles for this molecule. We analyze the global dynamic properties of albumin treated as a chain. In this range of temperature, we study parameters of the molecule and the conformational entropy derived from...

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  • An Optimal Power Point Tracking Algorithm in a Solar PV Generation System

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    - Acta Energetica - Year 2019

    The non-linearity in I-V characteristics of a PV panel requires to be operated at knee point to extract maximum power. In order to operate the panel at optimal point, maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm is employed in the control structure. The main objective of MPP tracking is to keep the operation at knee point of I-V characteristics under varying condition of temperature and solar insolation. Under non uniform solar...

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  • Diagnostic Models and Estimators for LDI in Transmission Pipelines

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    This article considers and compares four analytical models of the pipeline flow process for leak detection and location tasks. The synthesis of these models is briefly outlined. Next, the methodology for generating data and diagnosing pipes is described, as well as experimental settings, assumptions and implemented scenarios. Finally, the quality of model-based diagnostic estimators has been evaluated for their bias, standard deviations...

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  • Evaluation of the Macro- and Micro-Economic Factors Affecting the Financial Energy of Households

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    - ENERGIES - Year 2021

    This paper is an evaluation of the common macro-economic, micro-economic, and social factors affecting households’ financial situations. Moreover, the author’s objective was to develop a fuzzy logic model for forecasting fluctuations in the number of nonperforming consumer loans in a country using the example of Poland. This study represents one of the first attempts in the global literature to develop such a forecasting model...

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  • Specification of private art galleries used in the central part of old town Belgrade

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    In Belgrade, since the late 1990s, private art galleries have appeared that indirectly create the image of the city through the propagation of art, take part in the education process of the residents and undertake criticism of local and global events. The article is an answer to the following questions: [1] why and how do the bottom-up art oriented places appear in Belgrade, [2] how do they function, and (3) what is their architectural...

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  • Alternative Energy: Photovoltaic Modules and Systems

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    Use of solar energy does not contribute to global warming. The light-to-current conversion (photovoltaic conversion) takes place within solar cells, which in most cases are made of silicon. Solar module consists of many solar cells, which are electrically connected and placed between glass or Tedlar® and framed by an aluminium frame. A number of solar modules and other components form photovoltaic systems. In this entry, a brief...

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  • MEAN SHIFT BASED SEGMENTATION FOR BLEEDING REGIONS IN ENDOSCOPIC VIDEOS

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    With a set of 38 manually marked bleeding regions form endoscopic videos, the authors attempted to find an optimal image segmentation method for reproducing doctor’s markup. Mean shift segmentation combined with HSV histogram segmentation were used as a segmentation method, which was then optimized by tuning the parameters of the method using global optimization algorithm. A target function for measuring the quality of segmentation was...

  • Crowdsourcing and Volunteer Computing as Distributed Approach for Problem Solving

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    In this paper, a combination between volunteer computing and crowdsourcing is presented. Two paradigms of the web computing are described, analyzed and compared in detail: grid computing and volunteer computing. Characteristics of BOINC and its contribution to global Internet processing are shown with the stress put onto applications the system can facilitate and problems it can solve. An alternative instance of a grid computing...

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  • A Method for Optimising the Blade Profile in Kaplan Turbine

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    - Year 2011

    This paper introduces a method of blade profile optimisation for Kaplan-type turbines, based on modelling the interaction between rotor and stator blades. Rotor and stator blade geometry is described mathematically by means of a midline curve and thickness distribution. Genetic algorithms are then used to find a global optimum that minimises the loss coefficient. This allows for variety of possible blade shapes and configurations....

  • Pier of the future- investigation of green and blue strategies as tools for modernization of Gdynia's public waterfront

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    Between rising water levels and global migration to cities, architects and designers need to critically reimagine the relationship between coastal landscapes and public space. Cities are facing entirely new risks and environmental conditions. Resiliency, infrastructure, and ecology are increasingly common terms, reflecting the growing demand to address the spatial and formal challenges faced by cities worldwide. Rethinking boundaries...

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  • The change of mechanical properties of selected wood species after drying process under various conditions

    The result of mechanical properties change of selected wood species after drying process under various parameters are presented. The global elasticity modulus and bending strength for steam dried, air-steam mixture dried and air dried samples as reference were measured. It allowed to reveal the effect of wood stream, air-steam mixture and their temperature on mechanical properties of wood. It has been recognized that steam and...