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Evaluation of Asphalt Mixture Low-Temperature Performance in Bending Beam Creep Test
PublicationLow-temperature cracking is one of the most common road pavement distress types in Poland. While bitumen performance can be evaluated in detail using bending beam rheometer (BBR) or dynamic shear rheometer (DSR) tests, none of the normalized test methods gives a comprehensive representation of low-temperature performance of the asphalt mixtures. This article presents the Bending Beam Creep test performed at temperatures from −20...
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Performance evaluation and model-based optimization of the mainstream deammonification in an integrated fixed-film activated sludge reactor
PublicationThis study aimed to model and optimize mainstream deammonification in an integrated fixed-film activated sludge (IFAS) pilot plant under natural seasonal temperature variations. The effect of gradually decreasing temperature on the performance was evaluated during a winter season and a transition period to summer conditions, and the correlation of the performance parameters was investigated using principal component analysis (PCA)....
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Tyre dynamic radius determination
PublicationW artykule opisano stanowisko wykorzystywane do badania oporu toczenia opon samochodowych znajdujące się w Katedrze Konstrukcji Maszyn i Pojazdów Wydziału Mechanicznego Politechniki Gdańskiej. Przedstawiono wyniki badań promienia dynamicznego opony Michelin 165/80R13 83T z bieżnikiem CLASSIC przeprowadzone z wykorzystaniem tego stanowiska na nawierzchni Safety Walk 80. Badania przeprowadzono zmieniając: prędkość jazdy, obciążenie...
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Active dynamic thermography in cardiosurgery
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On dynamic equations with deviating arguments
PublicationPraca dotyczy istnienia rozwiązań równań dynamicznych z odchylonymi argumentami. Podane zostały warunki dostateczne na istnienie rozwiązania. Dwa przykłady ilustrują otrzymane wyniki.
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Dynamic characteristics of interaperitoneal perfusion.
PublicationPrzedstawiono wyniki badań laboratoryjnych perfuzyjnego przepływu przez model jamy brzusznej człowieka. Szczególną uwagę zwrócono na techniczne aspekty modelu oraz wyników badań. Omówiono technikę pomiarową oraz przeanalizowano rezultaty pod kątem teorii przepływów przez zbiorniki i reaktory.
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Active dynamic thermography in mammography.
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono zaproponowany numeryczny model termiczny piersi z nowotworem umiejscowionym na różnych głębokościach. Przedstawione są wyniki symulacji modelu dla różnych warunków zewnętrznego pobudzenia termicznego powierzchni piersi. Pokazano również wyniki przykładowego badania termograficznego piersi z nowotworem.
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Dynamic thermography in diagnostics of onychomycosis.
PublicationW pracy zaprezentowano wyniki badań grzybicy paznokci przy użyciu termografii dynamicznej. Przedstawione wyniki badań pokazują, że metoda ta może okazać się skuteczna przy określaniu stanu mikrokrążenia w tkance pod paznokciem, co pozwoliłoby określić stopień zaawansowania choroby grzybiczej, a więc także umożliwiałoby ocenę postępów leczenia tej przypadłości.
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Dynamic ranking of cloud providers
PublicationThe paper focuses on how to create an effective dynamic ranking service for IaaS,PaaS and SaaS cloud providers. It considers building of a quality model for thispurpose along with definition of quality measurement procedures. The paper discussesseveral techniques known from already existing price comparison engines that couldbe modified and adopted for comparison of cloud providers. Furthermore, a tech-nique for filtering measured...
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The Dynamic Model of Magnetic Hysteresis
PublicationThis paper presents the scalar dynamic magnetic hysteresis model based on the Preisach theory. The important role in this theory played hysteresis operator states. The changes of these operators` states are not immediate in the dynamic model but they are a function of time and parameter k representing the magnetic properties of the material. In this paper the transient state of the hysteresis operator is defined by the nonlinear...
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Selected Features of Dynamic Voting
PublicationIn multi-agent systems composed of autonomous agents with local knowledge, it is often desirable to aggregate their knowledge in order to make an educated decision. One of the methods of agreeing to a common decision is voting. A new history-based dynamic weight protocol allows for identification of the agents which contribute to the correct system decision. The main advantage of this approach, compared to static weighted system...
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Dynamic charging of electric buses
PublicationDespite the continuous development of electrochemical battery technology and the multitude of electric buses on offer, it is still not possible to exploit electric buses in urban transport on an all-day basis without the necessity of charging them. It is therefore necessary to build point-to-point contact charging stations or induction charging stations at the terminals. This results in substantial financial outlays connected with...
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Comprehensive Investigation of Stoichiometry–Structure–Performance Relationships in Flexible Polyurethane Foams
PublicationPolyurethane (PU) foams are versatile materials with a broad application range. Their performance is driven by the stoichiometry of polymerization reaction, which has been investigated in several works. However, the analysis was often limited only to selected properties and compared samples differing in apparent density, significantly influencing their performance. In the bigger picture, there is still a lack of comprehensive studies...
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Performance evaluation of Unified Memory with prefetching and oversubscription for selected parallel CUDA applications on NVIDIA Pascal and Volta GPUs
PublicationThe paper presents assessment of Unified Memory performance with data prefetching and memory oversubscription. Several versions of code are used with: standard memory management, standard Unified Memory and optimized Unified Memory with programmer-assisted data prefetching. Evaluation of execution times is provided for four applications: Sobel and image rotation filters, stream image processing and computational fluid dynamic simulation,...
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Performance Characteristics of a Micro-turbine, International
Publication. In the paper a design of a multi-stage micro-turbine with partial admission of all the stages is described in detail and the results of particular experimental investigations and numerical calculations are shown, followed by conclusions. The co-generative micro-power plant with the HFE7100 as a working medium was designed and built for experimental investigations. The values of the main cycle parameters were as follows:- heat...
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Energy-Aware Scheduling for High-Performance Computing Systems: A Survey
PublicationHigh-performance computing (HPC), according to its name, is traditionally oriented toward performance, especially the execution time and scalability of the computations. However, due to the high cost and environmental issues, energy consumption has already become a very important factor that needs to be considered. The paper presents a survey of energy-aware scheduling methods used in a modern HPC environment, starting with the...
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Improvement of Performance Level of Steel Moment-Resisting Frames Using Tuned Mass Damper System
PublicationIn this paper, parameters of the tuned mass dampers are optimized to improve the performance level of steel structures during earthquakes. In this regard, a six-story steel frame is modeled using a concentrated plasticity method. Then, the optimum parameters of the Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) are determined by minimizing the maximum drift ratio of the stories. The performance level of the structure is also forced to be located in a...
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Enhanced interfacial and mechanical performance of styrene-butadiene rubber/silica composites compatibilized by soybean oil derived silanized plasticization
PublicationSilanized plasticizer (SP) was chemically derived and synthesized from soybean oil (SBO) co-vulcanized with bis-(3-(triethoxysilyl)-propyl) tetrasulfide (TESPT) by using the sulfur-accelerated curing system. SP extended styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR)/silica composites have been studied for their improved filler dispersion through coupling interaction at the SBR/silica interface. The effect of SP on cross-link density, thermal,...
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Differential analysis of dynamic immittance spectra
PublicationThis work presents a new approach to the analysis of immittance spectrograms of systems characterised by non-stationarity. The possibility of linking the evolution of the immittance response with changes in the parameters describing the system is achieved by introducing a spectrum in differential form. By using the above procedure, it becomes possible to separate elements with a dependence (or lack thereof) from an independent...
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Dynamic Content Internationalization in Web Applications
PublicationThis paper shows a concept for providing dynamic internationalization to web applications. Presented work is based on the Java Web Platform but described concepts can be successfully implemented on other platforms. It shows how textual data being part of web pages static and dynamic content can be localized dynamically during application runtime. All concepts presented were or are still being developed in an existing conference...
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Dynamic analysis of a satellite with feexible link
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono model przestrzenny satelity złożonego z dowolnej liczby podatnych ramion. Układ taki jest przykładem otwartego łańcucha kinematycznego o strukturze drzewa. Do dyskretyzacji członków podatnych zastosowano modyfikację metody sztywnych elementów skończonych. Równania ruchu wyprowadzono z równań Lagrange'a II rodzaju, stosując do opisu ruchu ciał współrzędne złączowe oraz przekształcenia jednorodne. W symulacjach...
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Dynamic Analysis of Enterprise Business Scenarios
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono system wspomagający projektowanie i poprawęscenariuszy procesów biznesowych. Scenariusze są wykonywane oraz monitorowane w środowisku SOA. Zaproponowany system oferuje dynamiczne gromadzenie i ocenianie metryk scenariuszy. Na podstawie wyników analizy wydajność, jakość oraz użyteczność scenariuszy są ulepszane. Dzięki elastycznemu API, system obsługuje dowolną rozszerzalną technologię wykonania scenariuszy...
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Monitoring of metal structures with the dynamic methods
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The modyfication of the dynamic characteristics of vibratory conveyor
PublicationThe vibratory conveyors are used in the industry for continuous transportation of loose substances on distance up to 20meters. These conveyors are often suspended on expensive and massive frames, which are softly vibroisolated from the ground. As a result, they transfer significant dynamic forces on the ground. In case of 5 - 20 meter-long devices, the biggest construction problems are proper vibrations of the panel caused by bilateral...
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Detection methods of dynamic spammer's behavior
PublicationPoczta elektroniczna ze względu na swoją naturę jest bardzo podatna na zjawisko spamu. Oddzielanie spamu od dobrych wiadomości jest zadaniem żmudnym i pracochłonnym. Dlatego jest rzeczą istotną opracowanie skutecznej metody walki ze spamem uwzględniającej nie tylko aktualne metody działania spamerów, ale również wzięcie pod uwagę dynamicznych aspektów zmieniających się stale ich zachowań.Artykuł opisuje metodę klasyfikacji wiadomości...
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Fractional Order Models of Dynamic Systems
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Dynamic soil improvement by hybrid technologies
PublicationHybrid method of subsoil improvement for road embankment foundation is described. This method is composed of two wellknown methods: dynamic replacement (DR) and microblasting (DDC) one (Deep Dynamic Compaction). The method was used for both the strengthening of the fully saturated organic subsoil as well as for acceleration of the consolidation of the organic layers. The practice ensures the expected results. A proper example on...
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The consideration to the dynamic systems parameter identification
PublicationIn this paper, a concept for continuous-time dynamic systems parameter identification using modulating function approach is presented. It refers to linear as well as selected non-linear systems. It shows the possibility of direct application without converting differential equation. In particular cases direct application can decrease the amount of computation in non-linear system identification, which generally requires Fourier...
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SIMPLIFIED DYNAMIC MODEL OF ROTATING BEAM
PublicationIn the paper a hybrid model of rotating beam is presented. It was obtained by using two methods: modal decomposition and spatial discretization. Reduced modal model was built for the system without the load related to inertia forces that occur during beam rotation. This inertia load was next modeled by using the method of simply spatial discretization and combined with reduced modal model. This approach allows to obtain accurate...
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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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Active Dynamic Thermography in Medical Diagnostics
PublicationThis is an overview of active thermal imaging methods in medical diagnostics using external thermal stimulation. In this chapter, several clinical cases diagnosed using the active dynamic thermography method, ADT, are presented. Features of this technology are discussed and main advantages underlined. Applications in skin burn diagnostics and quantitative evaluation leading to modern classification of burned patients for further...
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GENERAL DYNAMIC PROJECTING OF MAXWELL EQUATIONS
PublicationA complete – system of Maxwell equations is splitting into independent subsystems by means of a special dynamic projecting technique. The technique relies upon a direct link between field components that determine correspondent subspaces. The explicit form of links and corresponding subspace evolution equations are obtained in conditions of certain symmetry, it is illustrated by examples of spherical and quasi-one-dimensional waves.
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Dynamic F-free Coloring of Graphs
PublicationA problem of graph F-free coloring consists in partitioning the vertex set of a graph such that none of the resulting sets induces a graph containing a fixed graph F as an induced subgraph. In this paper we consider dynamic F-free coloring in which, similarly as in online coloring, the graph to be colored is not known in advance; it is gradually revealed to the coloring algorithm that has to color each vertex upon request as well...
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Footbridges. Dynamic Design – Selected Problems
PublicationModern footbridges create challenge in esthetic and structural design. Breaking the proven canons is a recipe for architectural success. However esthetic form has to be also a functional pedestrian bridge. Therefore a good FEM modeling is a key element in engineering part of design. The paper presents selected problems related to the modeling of the dynamic construction of footbridges. Several basic dynamic problems concerning...
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Investigating the effects of structural pounding on the seismic performance of adjacent RC and steel MRFs
PublicationAn insufficient separation distance between adjacent buildings is the main reason for structural pounding during severe earthquakes. The lateral load resistance system, fundamental natural period, mass, and stiffness are important factors having the influence on collisions between two adjacent structures. In this study, 3-, 5- and 9-story adjacent reinforced concrete and steel Moment Resisting Frames (MRFs) were considered to investigate...
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Adaptive dynamic control allocation for dynamic positioning of marine vessel based on backstepping method and sequential quadratic programming
PublicationIt is generally assumed in dynamic positioning of over-actuated marine vessels that the control effectiveness matrix (input matrix) is known and constant, or, in case of fault information, it is estimated by the fault detection and diagnosis system. The purpose of the study is to develop the adaptive dynamic positioning control system for an over-actuated marine vessel in the presence of uncertainties and with emphasis on limited...
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Study on the Influence of an Axial Distance Between Rotors on a Performance of a Small Counter-Rotating Wind Turbine
PublicationIn this paper, results of the investigation on the performance of a small counter-rotating wind turbinehas been presented. Computational Fluid Dynamics methodshave been used forwind turbine simulations. Rotors representation were introduced into computational domain by means of Actuator Line Model. Influence of an axial distance of CRWTrotorshas been investigated. In all studied configurations rotors were counter-rotating...
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Unprecedented Adhesive Performance of Propylene-Based Hydroxyl Functionalized Terpolymers
PublicationThe synthesis of hydroxyl functionalized propylene-based terpolymers and their performance as hot melt adhesives were investigated. The products comprise uniformly distributed butyl and 4-hydroxyl-butyl branches along the polypropylene backbone. Despite the low hydroxyl-functionality level of ≤ 0.5 mol%, hydroxyl functionalized terpolymers show formidable adhesion to aluminum and steel providing an adhesive strength exceeding 16...
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Poly(ε-Caprolactone)/Brewers’ Spent Grain Composites—The Impact of Filler Treatment on the Mechanical Performance
PublicationWaste lignocellulose materials, such as brewers’ spent grain, can be considered very promising sources of fillers for the manufacturing of natural fiber composites. Nevertheless, due to the chemical structure differences between polymer matrices and brewers’ spent grain, filler treatment should be included. The presented work aimed to investigate the impact of fillers’ reactive extrusion on the chemical structure and the poly(ε-caprolactone)/brewers’...
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Adaptive dynamic control allocation for over-actuated dynamic positioning system based on backstepping method in case of thruster faults
PublicationThe objective of the research considered in this paper is dynamic positioning of a nonlinear over-actuated marine vessel in the presence of limited information about thruster forces. First, the adaptive backstepping method is used to estimate the input matrix which will compensate partial loss of actuator effectiveness in the presence of actuator dynamics. Then, the adaptive commanded virtual forces and moment are allocated into...
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HILS for the Design of Three-Wheeled Mobile Platform Motion Surveillance System with a Use of Energy Performance Index
PublicationCurrent tendency in mechatronic design requires the use of comprehensive development of an environment, which gives the possibility to prototype, design, simulate and integrate with dedicated hardware. The paper discusses the Hardware-In-the-Loop Simulations (HILS) mechatronic technique, used during the design of the surveillance system based on energy performance index. The presented test configuration (physical controller – emulated...
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Performance Analysis of Machine Learning Methods with Class Imbalance Problem in Android Malware Detection
PublicationDue to the exponential rise of mobile technology, a slew of new mobile security concerns has surfaced recently. To address the hazards connected with malware, many approaches have been developed. Signature-based detection is the most widely used approach for detecting Android malware. This approach has the disadvantage of being unable to identify unknown malware. As a result of this issue, machine learning (ML) for detecting malware...
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Economic benefits of dynamic charging of electric buses
PublicationDiesel engines buses are still the most used type of buses. Electric buses provide promising green alternatives and a lot of advantages, but their main disadvantages are limited travel range and long charging time. This article is a presentation of innovative solution for charging of electric busses - Dynamic Charging (IMC). The modern IMC system in Solingen was presented. At the end of the article, a proposal was made to introduce...
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Dynamic Bankruptcy Prediction Models for European Enterprises
PublicationThis manuscript is devoted to the issue of forecasting corporate bankruptcy. Determining a firm’s bankruptcy risk is one of the most interesting topics for investors and decision-makers. The aim of the paper is to develop and to evaluate dynamic bankruptcy prediction models for European enterprises. To conduct this objective, four forecasting models are developed with the use of four different methods—fuzzy sets, recurrent and...
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Dynamic Response of the Suspended on a Single Cable Footbridge
PublicationThe article presents numerical simulations, dynamic in situ load tests and a structural health monitoring (SHM) system installed in a suspended on a single cable footbridge. Numerical simulations performed prior to construction indicated the possibility of structural dynamics problems, finally confirmed in the course of dynamic test loading. In the dynamic load course the bridge deck developed vibrations displaying accelerations...
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An Evaluation Engine for Dynamic Ranking of Cloud Providers
PublicationThe paper focuses on creation of an effective dynamic ranking service for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS cloud providers. It considers building a quality model for this purpose along with definition of quality measure- ment procedures. The paper discusses several techniques known from already existing price comparison engines that could be modified and adopted for comparison of cloud providers. A technique for filtering measured data is proposed,...
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The influence of carbon dioxide on dynamic thermography results
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Simulation model for evaluation of QOS dynamic routing
PublicationCurrent informational networks use a large variety of technologies to support data exchange. Most of them are focused on IP protocol and include mechanisms which by definition should supply demanded QoS. One of those mechanisms is efficient path calculation - routing. Traffic offered to the network can change very rapidly in short term. Routing should support such traffic changes and all the time calculate valid paths in terms...
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Implementation of Active Dynamic Thermography in medical diagnostics
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono wyniki badań wdrożeniowych Aktywnej Termografii Dynamicznej w diagnostyce wybranych chorób.
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Static and dynamic analysis of thin-walled frames
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono model ramy zbudowanej z elementów cienkościennych o przekrojach otwartych stosowany w analizie statycznej i dynamicznej za pomocą metody elemntów skończonych. Model składa się z elementów opisanych teorią prętów cienkościennych o przekrojach nieodkształcalnych oraz superelementów węzłowych. Proponowany model pozwala na ujęcie w analizie efektów bimomentowych oraz deformacji konstrukcji w miejscach lokalizacji...