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  • Zielone stolice Europy

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    - Year 2009

    Podsumowanie nowej inicjatywy Unii Europejskiej - ''Zielone Stolice Europy'' (European Green Capital), polegającej na wyróżnieniu miast -liderów we wdrażaniu kompleksowej polityki ochrony środowiska.

  • Design of Public Spaces with Green Elements, Erasmus, semestr VI

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    • A. Wróblewska
    • A. Kurkowska
    • P. Duch-Żebrowska
    • M. Koperska-Kośmicka

  • Modeling Volunteer Based Systems

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    - Year 2016

    There are two main approaches to processing tasks requiring high amounts of computational power. One approach is using clusters of mostly identical hardware, placed in dedicated locations [1, 2, 3]. The other approach is outsourcing computing resources from large numbers of volunteers connected to the Internet [7]. This chapter presents an application of a mathematical model of the volunteer computing presented in Volume 1 of this...

  • The health impact of urban parks along waterways

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    - Year 2014

    Well designed parks along waterways could promote health and well-being of local inhabitants. The way the human settlements meet water bodies can influence the habits of local population. How people spend their time have significant impact on their health. For example, a team of Japanese scientists has proven that a well designed walk-able green spaces are crucial for the longevity of elderly citizens (Takano T. et al, 2002). Nature...

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  • COLOUR SYMBOLISM IN FINANCE

    Colour symbolism plays an important role in everyday life and science. The subject is interdisciplinary and receives significant attention in the literature. It is increasingly entering the field of economics and finance. The authors are the first to research the connotations and symbolism of colours in finance. The following research aims to: identify and determine the meaning of col-ours in connection with the word “finance”,...

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  • Evaluation of the Greenness of Analytical Procedures

    This contributions introduces the need to develop the methods to evaluate analytical procedures in the light of green analytical chemistry. Green chemistry metrics are not applicable in analytical chemistry because they refer to the mass of product and no product with mass is generated during analytical determination. Analytical greenness evaluations are based on scoring - such as NEMI or Eco-scale or comparative analysis as it...

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  • Nuclear Power

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    • A. Kaczmarek-Kacprzak

    Nuclear Power is a course for student II degree in full-time studies at Chemistry Faculty, majoring in Green Technology and Monitoring.

  • Scoring ofsolventsusedinanalyticallaboratoriesbytheirtoxicological and exposurehazards

    Green analyticalchemistry,althoughawellrecognisedconcept,stilllacksreliableenvironmentalimpact assessment procedures.Thisarticledescribesscoringofsolvents,frequentlyusedinanalyticallabora- tories, withCHEMS-1model.Themodelusestoxicologicalandexposuredatatocalculatehazardvalues relatedtotheutilisationofsolvents. The originalmodelwasmodified toincorporatehazardsrelatedtothevolatilityofchemicals.The scoring ofhazardvaluesshowedthatpolarsolventsarelesshazardous.Thescoringresultswereapplied to...

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  • Data obtained by computation for X-ray imaging of grating without magnification using oriented Gaussian beams

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    The propagation of X-ray waves through an optical system consisting of grating and X-ray refractive lenses is considered. In this approach, the propagating wave is represented as a superposition of the oriented Gaussian beams. The direction of wave propagation in each Gaussian beam is consistent with the local propagation direction of the X-ray wavefront.

  • Data obtained by computation for X-ray imaging of grating with magnification factor equal 2 using oriented Gaussian beams

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    The propagation of X-ray waves through an optical system consisting of grating and X-ray refractive lenses is considered. In this approach, the propagating wave is represented as a superposition of the oriented Gaussian beams. The direction of wave propagation in each Gaussian beam is consistent with the local propagation direction of the X-ray wavefront.

  • Data obtained by computation for X-ray imaging of grating with magnification factor equal 4 using oriented Gaussian beams

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    The propagation of X-ray waves through an optical system consisting of grating and X-ray refractive lenses is considered. In this approach, the propagating wave is represented as a superposition of the oriented Gaussian beams. The direction of wave propagation in each Gaussian beam is consistent with the local propagation direction of the X-ray wavefront.

  • Data obtained by computation for X-ray imaging of grating with magnification factor equal 8 using oriented Gaussian beams

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    The propagation of X-ray waves through an optical system consisting of grating and X-ray refractive lenses is considered. In this approach, the propagating wave is represented as a superposition of the oriented Gaussian beams. The direction of wave propagation in each Gaussian beam is consistent with the local propagation direction of the X-ray wavefront.

  • Polyisocyanates from Sustainable Resources

    Isocyanates, next to polyols, constitute the major components essential for polyurethane (PU) production. They have a significant impact on physicochemical, mechanical, and thermal properties of PU materials. They also have an impact on those materials’ purposes, forms, textures, and other features. The available and used isocyanates are of a petrochemical origin. With the development of a trend toward green chemistry in the science...

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  • Application of deep eutectic solvents in analytical sample pretreatment (update 2017–2022). Part A: Liquid phase microextraction

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    - MICROCHEMICAL JOURNAL - Year 2023

    Sustainable development in all branches of human activity has become an unequivocal necessity in the last two decades, and green chemistry goes hand in hand with it. Various ways have been proposed in analytical chemistry to meet the current requirements of green chemistry. One such approach is the research of new reagents and solvents for analytical purposes. Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) began being investigated and used in analytical...

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  • Application of deep eutectic solvents in bioanalysis

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    - TRAC-TRENDS IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY - Year 2022

    The application of deep eutectic solvents (DESs) is sharply surging as a green alternative to conventional solvents due to their unique properties in terms of simplicity of preparation, designability and low cost. A great deal of attention has been paid to the application of these green solvents in analytical chemistry in recent years, and a lot of interesting work has been reported. This review summarizes the most relevant applications...

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  • Katarzyna Kubiszewska dr

    Katarzyna Kubiszewska has taught finance and banking at the Department of Finance since 2008. In his scientific work, he is interested in the transformation of banking systems in the Central and Eastern European region, but also in the financing of the cultural sector. The publications concern the field of social sciences in the discipline of economics and finance. Since 2019, he has been collaborating with journals such as Economic...

  • Physics I - 2021/2022

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    • J. Szmytkowski

    LECTURE "Physics I - 2021/2022" Kierunek:  Green Technology and Monitoring Wydział Chemiczny stopień I, semestr 1

  • Estimating Regions of Absolute Stability with the Use of Piecewise Linear Lyapunov Functions

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    • Z. Starosolski
    • J. Polańska
    • M. Groen
    • A. Polański
    • J. Polanska

    - EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CONTROL - Year 2004

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  • Thermoplastic starch nanocomposites using cellulose-rich Chrysopogon zizanioides nanofibers

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    • M. Dominic C.D.
    • D. dos Santos Rosa
    • P. H. Camani
    • A. S. Kumar
    • N. K.v.
    • P. S. Begum
    • D. Dinakaran
    • E. John
    • D. Baby
    • M. M. Thomas... and 3 others

    - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES - Year 2021

    Green thermoplastic starch (TPS) nanocomposite films aided by cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) from Chrysopogon zizanioides roots were developed and characterized. When compared to other lignocellulosic fibers, Chrysopogon zizanioides roots revealed exceptionally high cellulose content (~48%). CNFs were separated using an environmentally friendly acid isolation technique that included three stages: (i) alkali treatment; (ii) bleaching;...

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  • Flow cytometry analysis of caspase 3/7 activation in A549, H460 and U2OS cells after exposure to TXT2 and TXT4

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    The data contains flow cytometry analysis of caspase 3/7 activation in A549, H460 and U2OS cells after exposure to equitoxic concentrations of TXT2 and TXT4. DMSO and MTX were used as positive and negative controls, respectively. Caspase 3/7 activity was detected using CellEvent™ Caspase-3/7 Green Flow Cytometry Assay Kit (#C10427, Thermo Fisher Scientific)....

  • Targ Węglowy as the keystone of two ring road complexes of Gdańsk city centre

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    - Year 2014

    The urban structure of Gdansk city centre is determined by two ring road complexes. The first of them, the Gdansk Ring, has been created as a result of a city defortification at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and has been destroyed in the end of World War Two with the rest of Gdansk. The second, the Main Town Green Belt, has been formed in place of the medieval fortification system of the city’s most important historical...

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  • Synthesis, Structure and Properties of Poly(ester-Urethane-Urea)s Synthesized Using Biobased Diamine

    Modern polymer science and technology is focused on the development of partial or fully green polymers. This focus is related to green chemistry trends, which propose using natural and renewable resources as monomers in the synthesis of polymers. In this study, biobased diamine was used as a chain extender of ester-urethane prepolymer. Obtained poly(ester-urethane-urea) contains 16 wt% of biobased diamine. There is mention of an...

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  • Cyanobacterial blooms in the Gulf of Gdańsk - photo archvive

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    Cyanobacterial blooms are recorded in the Gulf of Gdańsk every summer. The dataset contains 20 photographs of the blooms of these microorganisms taken between 2004 and 2012. In addition to the photos, the dataset also contains a file with supporting information, such as the coordinates of the point where the photo was taken, the salinity and temperature...

  • Miniaturized solid phase microextratcion

    Without any doubt analytical laboratories have an essential role in environmental protection due to the fact that they takes an active part in the monitoring pollutants present in air, water or soil. From the other side, the analytical activity is involved in the generation of toxic waste what is associated with the use of not eco-friendly reagents and solvents. For these reasons, green analytical chemistry (GAC) was introduced...

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  • Advanced nanomaterials and metal-organic frameworks for catalytic bio-diesel production from microalgal lipids – A review

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    - JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Year 2024

    Increasing energy demands require exploring renewable, eco-friendly (green), and cost-effective energy resources. Among various sources of biodiesel, microalgal lipids are an excellent resource, owing to their high abundance in microalgal biomass. Transesterification catalyzed by advanced materials, especially nanomaterials and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), is a revolutionary process for overcoming the energy crisis. This review...

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  • Is it possible to create a unified urban greenery management system (UGMS) on a national scale? The concept for EU Member State of Poland

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    - ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY - Year 2023

    Motives: Currently developed urban greenery management systems (UGMS) are limited in scope and profiled towards solving particular issues. Moreover, due to the lack of common standards and solutions, UGMS implementation requires considerable financial effort, which is only feasible for wealthy urban centres. There is a need for universal, cost-effective technological solutions which could constitute a common urban green infrastructure...

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  • Network-assisted processing of advanced IoT applications: challenges and proof-of-concept application

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    • H. Mora
    • F. A. Pujol
    • T. Ramírez
    • A. Jimeno-Morenilla
    • J. Szymański

    - Cluster Computing-The Journal of Networks Software Tools and Applications - Year 2024

    Recent advances in the area of the Internet of Things shows that devices are usually resource-constrained. To enable advanced applications on these devices, it is necessary to enhance their performance by leveraging external computing resources available in the network. This work presents a study of computational platforms to increase the performance of these devices based on the Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) paradigm. The main...

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  • Sustainable Waste Management for Implementation of a Circular Economy Model in a Port

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    - Procedia Computer Science - Year 2023

    The manuscript presents the management of waste from marine vessels and cargo handling companies in a selected European Union port. The main objective of the paper is to analyse and evaluate the existing waste management model in the port of Szczecin in the context of circular economy. The expert research carried out is aimed, inter alia, at identifying which of the solutions currently in use need to be improved from an environmental...

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  • Use of Bi-Temporal ALS Point Clouds for Tree Removal Detection on Private Property in Racibórz, Poland

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    - Remote Sensing - Year 2021

    Trees growing on private property have become an essential part of urban green policies. In many places, restrictions are imposed on tree removal on private property. However, monitoring compliance of these regulations appears difficult due to a lack of reference data and public administration capacity. We assessed the impact of the temporary suspension of mandatory permits on tree removal, which was in force in 2017 in Poland,...

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  • AGREE—Analytical GREEnness Metric Approach and Software

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    - ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY - Year 2020

    Green analytical chemistry focuses on making analytical procedures more environmentally benign and safer to humans. The amounts and toxicity of reagents, generated waste, energy requirements, the number of procedural steps, miniaturization, and automation are just a few of the multitude of criteria considered when assessing an analytical methodology’s greenness. The use of greenness assessment criteria requires dedicated tools. We...

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  • Polysaccharides in fabrication of membranes: A review

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    - CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS - Year 2022

    Sustainability concerns have motivated and directed a great deal of interest over the past decade towards the development of green technologies. Polysaccharides are green polymers, which experienced growing demand to substitute chemically synthetic polymers. Different types of polysaccharides i.e. cellulose-, starch-, chitin- alginate-, and chitosan-based carbohydrate polymers have been applied in the fabrication of separation...

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  • Green Technologies II sem. - Egzamin z języka angielskiego B2 – 20.06.2022

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    • M. Gackowska-Janeczko
    • U. Kamińska
    • I. Mokwa-Tarnowska
    • J. Wielgus
    • E. Wawoczna

  • Green Technologies II sem. - Egzamin z języka angielskiego C1 – 20.06.2022

    e-Learning Courses
    • M. Gackowska-Janeczko
    • U. Kamińska
    • I. Mokwa-Tarnowska
    • J. Wielgus
    • E. Wawoczna

  • Use of hop cone extract obtained under supercritical CO2 conditions for producing antibacterial all-purpose cleaners

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    • T. Wasilewski
    • D. Czerwonka
    • U. Piotrowska
    • A. Seweryn
    • Z. Nizioł-Łukaszewska
    • M. Sobczak

    - Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews - Year 2018

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  • Improving the prediction of biochar production from various biomass sources through the implementation of eXplainable machine learning approaches

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    • V. G. Nguyen
    • P. Sharma
    • Ü. Ağbulut
    • H. S. Le
    • D. N. Cao
    • M. Dzida
    • S. M. Osman
    • H. C. Le
    • V. D. Tran

    - International Journal of Green Energy - Year 2024

    Examining the game-changing possibilities of explainable machine learning techniques, this study explores the fast-growing area of biochar production prediction. The paper demonstrates how recent advances in sensitivity analysis methodology, optimization of training hyperparameters, and state-of-the-art ensemble techniques have greatly simplified and enhanced the forecasting of biochar output and composition from various biomass...

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  • Ab initio chemical kinetics of Isopropyl acetate oxidation with OH radicals

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    • M. A. Abdel-Rahman
    • M. F. Shibl
    • A. Shiroudi
    • M. A. M. Mahmoud

    - Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews - Year 2023

    Global reactivity descriptors of isopropyl acetate (IPA) and thermo-kinetic aspects of its oxidation via OH radicals have been studied. Transition state theory (TST) was utilized to estimate the bimolecular rate constants. Ten oxidation pathways have been investigated, and all of them are exothermic. The potential energy diagram has been sketched using different pre- and post-reactive complexes for all reaction pathways. Rate coefficient...

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  • Research, theories and practical experience of therapeutic landscapes as a tool for urban open space design

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    - Year 2013

    This paper reviews the research on therapeutic landscapes and discusses the design of urban parks and open green space. Firstly, the most relevant research on therapeutic landscapes is reviewed. Secondly, the practical experience of healing and therapeutic gardens is discussed. Finally, the conclusions leading to future use of therapeutic landscape concept in urban open space design are presented.

  • Towards an efficient multi-stage Riemann solver for nuclear physics simulations

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    • S. Cygert
    • J. Porter-Sobieraj
    • D. Kikoła
    • J. Sikorski
    • M. Słodkowski

    - Year 2013

    Relativistic numerical hydrodynamics is an important tool in high energy nuclear science. However, such simulations are extremely demanding in terms of computing power. This paper focuses on improving the speed of solving the Riemann problem with the MUSTA-FORCE algorithm by employing the CUDA parallel programming model. We also propose a new approach to 3D finite difference algorithms, which employ a GPU that uses surface memory....

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  • Theory of Rural Architecture - EXAM

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    • P. Duch-Żebrowska

    The series of lectures touching upon the history of rural architecture and regarding the composition of landscape designs. The lectures were designed to give students of architecture the tools to work with the nature and strengthen the presence of green spaces in their future designs. The exam is prepared to check what skills and competencies have been gained during the course.  

  • Raman spectra for pyrolized natural compounds

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    The presented data showcases the results of Raman spectroscopy analysis conducted on pyrolyzed natural compounds both with and without the inclusion of graphene. The study delved into four specific compounds: methylcellulose with lysine (ML), methylcellulose with lysine-graphene composite (MLG), algae (A), and algae-graphene composite (AG). Raman spectra...

  • Ultrasound assisted extraction

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    The use of green and sustainable extraction techniques is very popular topic in the multidisciplinary area of chemistry, biology and technology. There is no doubt that extraction constitutes a very important step of analytical procedures of separation, detection, identification and determination of wide spectrum analytes from samples characterized by complex and very often nonhomogeneous composition of matrix. Traditional techniques...

  • Application of TOPSIS for Selection and Assessment of Analytical Procedures for Ibuprofen Determination in Wastewater

    This paper describes the possible implementation of the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) as green analytical chemistry metrics tools. TOPSIS is one of the multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) tools that is applied in the selection of the best alternative from many possible. In this case we have applied it to assess the nineteen analytical procedures for ibuprofen determination in wastewater...

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  • Selected issues related to the toxicity of ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents—a review

    Green Chemistry plays a more and more important role in implementing rules of sustainable development to prevent environmental pollution caused by technological processes, while simultaneously increasing the production yield. Ionic liquids (ILs) and deep eutectic solvents (DESs) constitute a very broad group of substances. Apart from many imperfections, ILs and DESs have been the most promising discoveries in the world of Green...

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  • ENERGY EFFICIENT SMALL INLAND PASSENGER SHUTTLE FERRY WITH HYBRID PROPULSION - CONCEPT DESIGN, CALCULATIONS AND MODEL TESTS

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    In recent years, there has been a significant development in “green” and energy efficient propulsion systems, which fits into the general trend of environmentally friendly “green shipping”. The pursued goal is to construct a safe passenger ship that is low in energy demand and equipped with a highly energy efficient, emission-free propulsion system. The paper presents main problems encountered by designers of a small, hybrid-powered...

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  • Some Optimization Methods for Simulations in Volunteer and Grid Systems

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    In this chapter, some optimization methods have been presented for improving performance of simulations in the volunteer and grid computing system called Comcute. Some issues related to the cloud computing can be solved by presented approaches as well as the Comcute platform can be used to simulate execution of expensive and energy consuming long-term tasks in the cloud environment. In particular, evolutionary algorithms as well...

  • Pre‐exascale HPC approaches for molecular dynamics simulations. Covid‐19 research: A use case

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    • M. Wieczór
    • V. Genna
    • J. Aranda
    • R. M. Badia
    • J. L. Gelpí
    • V. Gapsys
    • B. L. de Groot
    • E. Lindahl
    • M. Municoy
    • A. Hospital
    • M. Orozco

    - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Computational Molecular Science - Year 2023

    Exascale computing has been a dream for ages and is close to becoming a reality that will impact how molecular simulations are being performed, as well as the quantity and quality of the information derived for them. We review how the biomolecular simulations field is anticipating these new architectures, making emphasis on recent work from groups in the BioExcel Center of Excellence for High Performance Computing. We exemplified...

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  • Multicriteria decision analysis in ranking of analytical procedures for aldrin determination in water

    The study presents the possibility of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) application when choosing analytical procedures with low environmental impact. A type of MCDA, Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluations (PROMETHEE), was chosen as versatile tool that meets all the analytical chemists – decision makers requirements. Twenty five analytical procedures for aldrin determination in water samples (as...

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  • Mateusz Brodowski

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    Mateusz Brodowski received his engineer degree in 2019 at the of Chemical Technology with a specialization in Anti-Corrosion Protection Technologies, in his engineer thesis he examined the effectiveness of green corrosion inhibitors. He finished a Master's degree in the field of Mechatronics, realizing the work of creating software for data acquisition from the electrochemical measurement system. Since 2019, he has been working...

  • Mykola Lukianov mgr

    Mykola Lukianov received a B.Sc. and M.Sc degree in Electronics and Communications from the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” in 2018 and 2020 respectively. He is currently a PhD student at the Gdansk University of Technology, Poland and a researcher group member in project SMARTGYsum “Research and Training Network for Smart and Green Energy Systems and Business Models”. His research...

  • Blanka Tundys dr hab.

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    Blanka Tundys is an Associate Professor at University of Szczecin, Poland. Her research interests span green supply chain, sustainable supply chain, close loop chain, eco-innovation, city logistics, logistics, transport systems, city economics, strategy in logistics, transportation, performance measurement in logistics and supply chain, efficiency in logistics, circular economy, smart city, risk management in the supply chain,...