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  • Collocations et représentation féminine dans les oeuvres de Colette : Une analyse linguistique et littéraire

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    Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette played a significant role in the development of French literature. Her novels vividly depict independent and self-aware women, thereby reflecting the author herself. Colette’s works have captured the attention of researchers and have been the subject of numerous studies. In this proposed research, an interdisciplinary approach combining literary and linguistic perspectives is adopted to explore Colette’s...

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  • Key success factors for small design offices in the bidding process

    Competition in the design office market is high, therefore it is important to be aware of the conditions determining the competitive advantage, thus increasing the bidding effectiveness. For this reason, the aim of the article is to identify key success factors (KSF) increasing successful bidding of a small design office. The factors were identified and then analysed based on a literature review, expert interviews and using Group...

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  • Environmentally Oriented Models and Methods for the Evaluation of Drug x Drug Interaction Effects

    This detailed review compares known and widely used methods for drug interaction estimation, some of which now have historical significance. Pharmaceutical application has been noted as far back as several thousand years ago. Relatively late in the 20th century, however, researchers became aware that their fate and metabolism, which still remain a great challenge for environmental analysts and risk assessors. For the patient’s...

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  • Application tool for IP QoS network design

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    - Year 2010

    Despite the fact that differentiated-service-aware network implementation has been a widely discussed topic for quite some time, network design still proofs nontrivial. Well developed software could put an end to network designer's problems. This chapter describes work, which has been aimed at creating a comprehensive network design tool, offering a fair range of functionality and high reliability. The presented tool is able to...

  • Improving the Survivability of Carrier Networks to Large-Scale Disasters

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    • A. de Sousa
    • J. Rak
    • F. Barbosa
    • D. Santos
    • D. Mehta

    - Year 2020

    This chapter is dedicated to the description of methods aiming to improve the survivability of carrier networks to large-scale disasters. First, a disaster classification and associated risk analysis is described, and the disaster-aware submarine fibre-optic cable deployment is addressed aiming to minimize the expected costs in case of natural disasters. Then, the chapter addresses the improvement of the network connectivity resilience...

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  • Performance and Power-Aware Modeling of MPI Applications for Cluster Computing

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    - Year 2016

    The paper presents modeling of performance and power consumption when running parallel applications on modern cluster-based systems. The model includes basic so-called blocks representing either computations or communication. The latter includes both point-to-point and collective communication. Real measurements were performed using MPI applications and routines run on three different clusters with both Infiniband and Gigabit Ethernet...

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  • Autonomous Vehicle Navigation in Dense Urban Area in Global Positioning Context

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    Autonoumous vehicle services are likely to be adopted in dense urban area. Some research prove that autonomous transport might be capable of improving the transport needs of few times and as a consequence sustainability, congestion and safety may be improved. The world, hopefully is close to a transport revolution age. These studies are perhaps exaggerated, over-optimistic and far fro fully operational. The paper takes into account...

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  • Limitations of Emotion Recognition in Software User Experience Evaluation Context

    This paper concerns how an affective-behavioural- cognitive approach applies to the evaluation of the software user experience. Although it may seem that affect recognition solutions are accurate in determining the user experience, there are several challenges in practice. This paper aims to explore the limitations of the automatic affect recognition applied in the usability context as well as...

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  • Skills mismatch in the context of technological change

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    - Year 2022

    The main purpose of this dissertation is to assess the perception asymmetry of smart skills and formal education in ICT based economy. In other words, the goal of this research is to assess perceptions of smart skills and competences in the context of technological change from the perspectives of employers and students in Poland. Determining the fore-mentioned relationship gives insight into the hypothetical perception asymmetry...

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  • Convergence or divergence in the European Union

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    - Year 2007

    The disparities in economic prosperity revealed both from inter-country and inter-region perspective are one of the main problem in the modern economy. They consist of the dispersion in the real values such as incomes, GDP or productivity, but also nominal values such as prices and costs. The European Union is aware of this problem hence the role of the regional and structural policy aiming enhancing the cohesion between member...

  • Statistical analysis and robust design of circularly polarized antennas using sequential approximate optimization

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    In the paper, reliable yield estimation and tolerance-aware design optimization of circular polarization (CP) antennas is discussed. We exploit auxiliary kriging interpolation models established in the vicinity of the nominal design in order to speed up the process of statistical analysis of the antenna structure at hand. Sequential approximate optimization is then applied to carry out robust design of the antenna, here, oriented...

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  • Automatic Detection and Monitoring of Cyanobacterial Blooms in the Context of the Marine Cadastre

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    - Year 2018

    In the wake of the European and global spatial data infrastructures (SDI) it is important to build information systems which use and serve thematic data in compliance with the INSPIRE Directive. In the context of hydrographic data, the Directive requires EU member states to collect and share information on maritime areas divided into regions and sub-regions, as well as coastal zone management areas. These data are part of recently...

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  • Words context analysis for improvement of information retrieval

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    - Year 2012

    In the article we present an approach to improvement of retrieval informationfrom large text collections using words context vectors. The vectorshave been created analyzing English Wikipedia with Hyperspace Analogue to Language model of words similarity. For test phrases we evaluate retrieval with direct user queries as well as retrieval with context vectors of these queries. The results indicate that the proposed method can not...

  • Modelling the context of use for Intranet portals design

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    - Year 2007

    Intranet portals in contemporary enterprises affect the way how people work, communicate and build relationships within teams and organizations. Developing high usability in Intranet projects requires analysing context of use and including many additional organizational and cultural factors, normally not present in regular software projects. A modelling framework presented in this paper is useful for analysing context of use for...

  • Koncepcja analizy stanów emocjonalnych użytkowników w kontekście systemów zabezpieczeń transportowych

    Autorzy, przywołując własne i światowe badania nad rozpoznawaniem emocji ludzkich z obrazu twarzy, wskazują na możliwość zastosowania algorytmów komputerowych i ich implementacji w komputerach osobistych (i innych urządzeniach personalnych wyposażonych w dostatecznie silny procesor obliczeniowy). Zastosowanie takiego rozwiązania może poprawić bezpieczeństwo użytkowania urządzeń, maszyn i pojazdów, których operatorzy muszą gwarantować...

  • Social networks as a context for small business? A new look at an enterprise in the context of a smallness and newness liability syndrome

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    - Year 2011

    In this paper we aim to propose and outline key ingredients to a small enterprise success, emerging from the social capital of small business owner-managers and their business networks. We employ resource based view of an organization as well as an embeddedness perspective along with new approach transaction costs to outline the pillars of an advantage of a small business entity. The analysis of survey data leads us to conclusion,...

  • Entangled rendezvous: a possible application of Bell non-locality for mobile agents on networks

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    Rendezvous is an old problem of assuring that two or more parties, initially separated, not knowing the position of each other, and not allowed to communicate, are striving to meet without pre-agreement on the meeting point. This problem has been extensively studied in classical computer science and has vivid importance to modern and future applications. Quantum non-locality, like Bell inequality violation, has shown that in many...

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  • COMPOSITE FOOTBRIDGE - SYNERGY EFFECT IN COOPERATION BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES AND INDUSTRY

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    Paper presents conditions of science and industry cooperation in Poland (restrictions, barriers, good practice). A key role in initiation of collaboration between units has financial support. What is also important, it is much easier to create innovative solutions on the base of combining the potential of individuals. That is why many countries all over the world look for innovative solutions using budget funds to support grants...

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  • Contemporary architecture within the context of architectural education

    Analysed in this article are the diploma projects of students of architecture in European countries. The aim was to examine how students approach an important issue related to sustainable development, i.e. the integration of newly designed architecture into the existing historical, cultural and natural context. The rational use and protection of the environment requires the skilful shaping of urbanised space. Many changes in the...

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  • A method for ice-aware maritime route optimization

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    • R. Guinness
    • J. Saarimaki
    • L. Ruotsalainen
    • H. Kuusniemi
    • F. Goerlandt
    • J. Montewka
    • R. Berglund
    • V. Kotovirta

    - Year 2014

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  • Trust Models for Community- Aware Identity Managment. [....]

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    - Year 2006

    Artykuł przedstawia możliwości budowania zaufania pomiędzy członkami społecznych sieci współpracujacych w Internecie. Przedstawiono system informatyczne wykorzystującyna współczesą wiedzę z zakresu psychologi społecznej, umozliwiajacy tworzenie sieci społecznych w internecie.

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  • Towards a Framework for Context Awareness Based on Textual Process Data

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    - Year 2023

    Context awareness is critical for the successful execution of processes. In the abundance of business process management (BPM) research, frameworks exclusively devoted to extracting context from textual process data are scarce. With the deluge of textual data and its increasing value for organizations, it be-comes essential to employ relevant text analytics techniques to increase the awareness of business process (BP) workers,...

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  • Wisdom in the context of globalization and civilization

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    - Year 2019

    The book seeks to answer the question - what is wisdom and how should it be used in everyday life? A model of wisdom is presented in which wisdom describes three attributes: knowledge, qualifications (skills) and inspirations leading to consciously controlled processes of correct assessment of the situation and the correct choice of solution options in the context of the art of living. For each attribute, we can specify a set of...

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  • Improving the regulation of the derivatives market as an objective prerequisite for sustainable development of the global financial system

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    - E3S Web of Conferences - Year 2021

    The development of financial markets is characterized by the emergence of new financial instruments, in particular derivatives, the risk level analysis of which is complicated. Counterparties are not always fully aware of and do not adequately assess the potential risks of derivatives, which may lead to large financial losses and sometimes bankruptcies. The purpose of the study is to generalize approaches to regulating derivative...

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  • A Review of Emotion Recognition Methods Based on Data Acquired via Smartphone Sensors

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    In recent years, emotion recognition algorithms have achieved high efficiency, allowing the development of various affective and affect-aware applications. This advancement has taken place mainly in the environment of personal computers offering the appropriate hardware and sufficient power to process complex data from video, audio, and other channels. However, the increase in computing and communication capabilities of smartphones,...

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  • Chitosan-based electrospun nanofibers for encapsulating food bioactive ingredients: A review

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    - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES - Year 2023

    Today, society has been more aware of healthy food products and related items containing bioactive compounds, which potentially contribute to human health. Unfortunately, the long-term stability and bioactivity of biologically active compounds against environmental factors compromise their target and effective action. In this way, lab-designed vehicles, such as nanoparticles and nanofibers, provide enough properties for their preservation...

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  • Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis of Urinary Extracellular Vesicle Proteins as a New Challenge in Laboratory Medicine

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    • K. Sałaga-zaleska
    • A. Kuchta
    • B. Bzoma
    • G. Chyła-Danił
    • A. Safianowska
    • A. Płoska
    • L. Kalinowski
    • A. Dębska-ślizień
    • M. Jankowski

    - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES - Year 2023

    Urinary extracellular vesicle (uEV) proteins may be used as specific markers of kidney damage in various pathophysiological conditions. The nanoparticle-tracking analysis (NTA) appears to be the most useful method for the analysis of uEVs due to its ability to analyze particles below 300 nm. The NTA method has been used to measure the size and concentration of uEVs and also allows for a deeper analysis of uEVs based on their protein...

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  • Disaster-Resilient Routing Schemes for Regional Failures

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    • T. Gomes
    • D. Santos
    • R. Girão-Silva
    • L. Martins
    • B. Nedic
    • M. Gunkel
    • B. Vass
    • J. Tapolcai
    • J. Rak

    - Year 2020

    Large-scale natural disasters can have a profound effect on the telecommunication services in the affected geographical area. Hence, it is important to develop routing approaches that may help in circumventing damaged regional areas of a network. This prompted the development of geographically diverse routing schemes and also of disaster-risk aware routing schemes. A minimum-cost geodiverse routing, where a minimum geographical...

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  • Performance/energy aware optimization of parallel applications on GPUs under power capping

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    In the paper we present an approach and results from application of the modern power capping mechanism available for NVIDIA GPUs to the bench- marks such as NAS Parallel Benchmarks BT, SP and LU as well as cublasgemm- benchmark which are widely used for assessment of high performance computing systems’ performance. Specifically, depending on the benchmarks, various power cap configurations are best for desired trade-off of performance...

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  • Towards Emotion Acquisition in IT Usability Evaluation Context

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    - Year 2015

    The paper concerns extension of IT usability studies with automatic analysis of the emotional state of a user. Affect recognition methods and emotion representation models are reviewed and evaluated for applicability in usability testing procedures. Accuracy of emotion recognition, susceptibility to disturbances, independence on human will and interference with usability testing procedures are...

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  • Enriching the Context: Methods of Improving the Non-contextual Assessment of Sentence Credibility

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    - Year 2019

    This paper presents several methods of automatic context enrichment of sentences that need to be evaluated, tagged or fact-checked by human judges. We have created a corpus of medical Web articles. Sentences from this corpus have been fact-checked by medical experts in two modes: contextually (reading the entire article and evaluating sentence by sentence) and without context (evaluating sentences from all articles in random order)....

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  • PROPERTIES OF PARAMETRIC ALGORITHMIC DESIGN OF RESIDENTIAL HOUSES IN URBAN CONTEXT

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    - Year 2016

    Design explorations of architectural avant-garde resulted in the development of digital techniques that allow solving very complex and demanding contemporary design challenges. In the architectural discourse the new design workshop seems to be symbolized mainly by the projects of sports facilities, cultural, administrative or multifunctional high-rise buildings. However for the quality of society life is more important to exploit...

  • Neuroeconomy and Neuromarketing: The Study of the Consumer Behaviour in the COVID-19 Context

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    - Frontiers in Psychology - Year 2022

    To address the study of consumer behavior in the post-COVID-19 era, the present Research Topic brings together a set of papers that attempt to study how different factors triggered by the pandemic have achieved a significant effect on consumers' behavioral intentions. These papers examine different subtopics related to food, health products, collaborative economy and, of course, neuroscience. Globally, the objectives of this special...

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  • Substrate noise-aware floorplanning for mixed-signal SOCs.

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    - Year 2004

    Opisano nową metodę projektowania systemów na chipie z uwzglednieniem minimalizacji szumu podłożowego. Optymalizacje rozmieszczenia bloków układowych na chipie uzyskuje się dzieki wykorzystaniu algorytmu ewolucyjnego minimalizującego funkcję celu uwzględniającą poziom szumu podłożowego.

  • Context Search Algorithm for Lexical Knowledge Acquisition

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    - CONTROL AND CYBERNETICS - Year 2012

    A Context Search algorithm used for lexical knowledge acquisition is presented. Knowledge representation based on psycholinguistic theories of cognitive processes allows for implementation of a computational model of semantic memory in the form of semantic network. A knowledge acquisition using supervised dialog templates have been performed in a word game designed to guess the concept a human user is thinking about. The game,...

  • Functional safety in the context of risk appraisal criteria and cost-benefit analysis

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    - Year 2007

    Rozdział przedstawia aktualne zagadnienia dotyczące analizy kosztów i efektów rozwiązań związanych z bezpieczeństwem na przykładzie systemów elektrycznych, elektronicznych i programowalnych elektronicznych (E/E/PE) pełniących funkcje sterowania i zabezpieczeń w obiektach podwyższonego ryzyka. Podkreśla się znaczenie kryteriów związanych z bezpieczeństwem, takich jak tolerowalność ryzyka (TOR) w kontekście analizy kosztów i efektów...

  • High-Power Jamming Attack Mitigation Techniques in Spectrally-Spatially Flexible Optical Networks

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    • G. Savva
    • K. Manousakis
    • J. Rak
    • I. Tomkos
    • G. Ellinas

    - IEEE Access - Year 2021

    This work presents efficient connection provisioning techniques mitigating high-power jamming attacks in spectrally-spatially flexible optical networks (SS-FONs) utilizing multicore fibers. High-power jamming attacks are modeled based on their impact on the lightpaths’ quality of transmission (QoT) through inter-core crosstalk. Based on a desired threshold on a lightpath’s QoT, the modulation format used, the length of the path,...

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  • Application of the IMO standard manoeuvres procedure for pod-driven ships

    International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in the resolution MSC.137(76) Standards for Ship manoeuvrability presents the manoeuvring criteria that has to be satisfied by majority of seagoing ships. Together with the criteria, procedures for carrying out the manoeuvring tests are also presented. They however do not correspond directly to ships with non-conventional steering-propulsion devices, like pod drives. IMO is aware of this...

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  • Perspectives of Transport Systems Development in the Light of Radio Communication Systems Evolution Towards 5G

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    - Year 2017

    In the paper conditions of development and implementation of transport systems with reference to the development of radio communication networks towards 5G are presented. First, general properties of next generation systems are mentioned and their architecture. Moreover, planned characteristics of B4G and 5G systems are depicted which can significantly contribute to the promotion and development of transport systems. In particular...

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  • Community Road Safety Strategies in the Context of Sustainable Mobility

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    - Year 2018

    The paper presents an overview on the road safety strategies and action plans implemented in the framework of the “SOL - Save our lives: Comprehensive road safety strategy for Central Europe” project. It contains summarization of learned knowledge regarding the efficiency of measures applied and highlights examples of good practices. The purpose of the paper is to provide recommendations for effective and successful planning, formulation...

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  • Innowacja urbanistyczna w kontekście kształtowania środowiska mieszkaniowego

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  • Exploring the relationship between investment choices, cognitive abilities risk attitudes and financial literacy

    Purpose The main purpose of this study is to investigate the investment choices' relationship with cognitive abilities, risk aversion, risky investment intentions, subjective financial literacy and objective financial literacy. Design/methodology/approach To examine the relationship, two investment choices were given to 256 subjects from Pakistan. Questionnaire had total 20 questions for measuring five variables. To review this...

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  • THE PROTECTIVE MEASURES AGAINST SARS-COV-2 INFECTION IN THE SEAFOOD COMPANY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE EMPLOYEES

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    Purpose: To identify and discuss the protective measures implemented to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection among employees. Design/methodology/approach: The four-stage course of research. Case study and structured interviews with all employees, directly and indirectly, involved in food processing. Research questions: (R1) What measures have been taken to prevent the risk of infection among employees? (R2) What activities and responsibilities...

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  • All-gather Algorithms Resilient to Imbalanced Process Arrival Patterns

    Two novel algorithms for the all-gather operation resilient to imbalanced process arrival patterns (PATs) are presented. The first one, Background Disseminated Ring (BDR), is based on the regular parallel ring algorithm often supplied in MPI implementations and exploits an auxiliary background thread for early data exchange from faster processes to accelerate the performed all-gather operation. The other algorithm, Background Sorted...

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  • Towards New Mappings between Emotion Representation Models

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    There are several models for representing emotions in affect-aware applications, and available emotion recognition solutions provide results using diverse emotion models. As multimodal fusion is beneficial in terms of both accuracy and reliability of emotion recognition, one of the challenges is mapping between the models of affect representation. This paper addresses this issue by: proposing a procedure to elaborate new mappings,...

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  • Deep eutectic solvents – Ideal solution for clean air or hidden danger?

    The industrial sector is one of the fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gases, due to its excessive energy consumption to meet the rapidly growing demand for energy-intensive products. The use of deep eutectic solvents (DESs) has been studied extensively in order to cope with these harmful gases, but their usage can be an issue in respect to ecological reasons. Do deep eutectic solvents harm the atmosphere? Yes, these solvents...

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  • Exploring the influence of personal factors on physiological responses to mental imagery in sport

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    - Scientific Reports - Year 2023

    Imagery is a well-known technique in mental training which improves performance efficiency and influences physiological arousal. One of the biomarkers indicating the amount of physiological arousal is skin conductance level (SCL). The aim of our study is to understand how individual differences in personality (e.g. neuroticism), general imagery and situational sport anxiety are linked to arousal measuring with SCL in situational...

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  • Emergent approach to Knowledge Management by Small Companies: multiple case-study research

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    - Journal of Knowledge Management - Year 2016

    Purpose: The aim of this paper is to examine knowledge management approach followed by small companies on the example of firms from the knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) sector. Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on the results of a qualitative survey involving 12 owners and managers of small companies operating in the KIBS sector. The survey uses the case study method. Findings: The findings confirm that...

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  • The community involvement of courts: an action research study in the context of the Polish justice system

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    - Social Responsibility Journal - Year 2022

    Purpose – As a rule, common courts are hermetic organizations, separated from their stakeholders by procedures based on legal provisions. For these reasons, they are often perceived as unreliable and non-transparent, and as such, they do not inspire trust among stakeholders. The authors posit that the court’s community involvement may lead to the increased accountability and legitimacy of courts, which should in turn result in...

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  • Borders of Digital Art in the Context of the Information Society

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    The article shows the relationship between the development of information technologies, the characteristics of the information society and digital art. The broad possibilities of the digital world related to recording, storing and processing data (cyber text, big data, smart services) and the creation of virtual worlds are pointed out. The influence of the development of information technologies on the character of the works of...

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