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  • Sławomir Jerzy Ambroziak dr hab. inż.

    Sławomir J. Ambroziak was born in Poland, in 1982. He received the M.Sc., Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in radio communication from Gdańsk University of Technology (Gdańsk Tech), Poland, in 2008, 2013, and 2020 respectively. Since 2008 he is with the Department of Radiocommunication Systems and Networks of the Gdańsk Tech: 2008-2013 as Research Assistant, 2013-2020 as Assistant Professor, and since 2020 as Associate Professor. He is...

  • Piotr Krajewski dr

    Piotr Krajewski is a librarian at the Library of Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT) and a PhD student at the Medical University of Gdańsk. His research interests focus on the standardization of the e-resources usage data and Open Access publishing, especially the role of institutional repositories in the development of the OA initiative and the phenomenon of “predatory publishers”. He works at Scientific and Technical Information...

  • Smart Cities Concept - Readiness of City Halls as a Measure of Reaching a Smart City Perception

    Publication

    The article presents a proposal for a new approach to the assessment of Smart Cities: testing the readiness of city halls to a Smart City. The approach is the result of two-year studies involving ten major city halls. Readiness is compared with the previously used Smart City assessment methods: rankings or ISO standards. The relationship between readiness and organization maturity was also presented. The key role of city halls...

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  • Is it all about networking? Building a sustainable value of a small enterprise in Polish context

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    - Year 2010

    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,...

  • 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,...

  • Komitet Chemii Analitycznej PAN i jego działalność : Historia i dzień dzisiejszy

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    - Nauka - Year 2012

    In the contemporary society analytical chemistry as a scientific discipline and its practical application, termed often ;analysis'', has many important aims, and its role still increases. The Committee, formed in 1955 as a Commission, during several decades has coordinated and supported the activity of Polish analytical chemists on the national and international fields. Its present role includes organization of conferences and...

  • Evaluation of Readiness of IT Organizations to Agile Transformation Based on Case-Based Reasoning

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    - Year 2017

    Nowadays many of IT organization decides to change the way of delivering from classic, waterfall approach to agile. This transition is called “agile transformation” (AT). The problem of this process is that part of companies started AT without any analysis. This causes that many of transitions fails and organizations must return to old methods of delivering. Cost of return is significant and number of projects with violated project...

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  • Dilemmas associated with the implementation of quality management systems in Polish smaller health care units

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    - Year 2014

    The article presents the considerations and recommendations for the implementation of the process-oriented quality management systems (QMS) in small health care units. As an example, the unit providing services for children with disabilities (therapy and rehabilitation) localized in northern part of Poland have been selected. The essential elements of the implementation of the quality system, taking into account the objectives...

  • ECONOMIC MEASURES AGAINST A PANDEMICS

    The appropriate level of treatment during periods of increasing workload in the health care system or a particular hospital is ensured either by changing the organization of the system and the principles of use of resources such as space, staff and consumables or their redistribution, or by financial resources such resources are increased or replenished. This article contributes to improve the concept of resource allocation as...

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  • Underdiagnosis of Major Depressive Episodes in Hemodialysis Patients: The Need for Screening and Patient Education.

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    • W. Orzechowski
    • W. Buczek
    • J. E. Szczerba
    • R. Gellert
    • A. Rydzewski
    • B. Fiderkiewicz
    • P. Żebrowski
    • D. Daniewska
    • A. Kokoszka

    - Journal of Clinical Medicine - Year 2021

    This article aims to identify the reasons why patients with major depressive episode (MDE) do not seek treatment for their mental disorder. 89 out of 208 persons screened were diagnosed with major depressive episode using the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview. 85 individuals with untreated depression filled out the following questionnaires: Beck Depression Inventory, List of Explanations of Well-Being (LEWB), Brief...

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  • Beyond quid pro quo: good soldiers and characteristics of their helping behaviours

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    - Personnel Review - Year 2020

    Purpose – Good soldiers are people who engage in citizenship behaviours “to do good” instead of “to look good”. The purpose of this article is to explore the motivations behind and the specific characteristics of behaviours of the good soldiers in the context of work using social exchange theory (SET) as a theoretical framework. Design/methodology/approach – 47 dyadic interviews with 94 individuals from three organisations...

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  • Art Workshop III

    e-Learning Courses
    • E. Urwanowicz

    The influence of light on form and space. Drawing and painting studies of light and shadow based on the observation of a single object and interior (or architectural space) are a pretext to show the variability of light and its influence on the perception of form, color, space and building a mood. An important element of the task is to express the value and color differences within the same matter depending on the type of light,...

  • Sustainability of Cluster Organizations as Open Innovation Intermediaries

    Publication

    The purpose of the paper is to identify the most important open innovation practices used by cluster organizations (COs). To reflect these practices, the paper uses the concept of the trajectory of relationship development in COs, applied in the Interizon cluster organization. Additionally, this paper introduces the potential sustainability-related implications of open innovation adoption in cluster organizations. An in-depth direct...

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  • Molecular Strategy for Survival at a Critical High Temperature in Eschierichia coli

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    • M. Murata
    • H. Fujimoto
    • K. Nishimura
    • K. Charoensuk
    • H. Nagamitsu
    • S. Raina
    • T. Kosaka
    • T. Oshima
    • N. Ogasawara
    • M. Yamada

    - PLOS ONE - Year 2011

    The molecular mechanism supporting survival at a critical high temperature (CHT) in Escherichia coli was investigated. Genome-wide screening with a single-gene knockout library provided a list of genes indispensable for growth at 47°C, called thermotolerant genes. Genes for which expression was affected by exposure to CHT were identified by DNA chip analysis. Unexpectedly, the former contents did not overlap with the latter except...

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  • Spatial planning on regional level

    Publication

    Polish spatial planning results from typical for countries of Central and Eastern Europe transition . They have undergone the transformation from decentralized management system based on the dominance of state to the system of representative democracy, based on self-government administration; also territorial on regional level.

  • Investigation of long-range dependencies in the stochastic part of daily GPS solutions

    Publication

    - SURVEY REVIEW - Year 2016

    The long-range dependence (LRD) of the stochastic part of GPS-derived topocentric coordinates change (North, East, Up) results with relatively high autocorrelation values with a focus on self-similarity. One of the reasons for such self-similarity in the GPS time series are noises that are commonly recognised to prevail in the form of the flicker noise model. To prove the self-similarity of the stochastic part of GPS time series...

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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.

  • Wireless Systems of Threats Monitoring

    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.

  • 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.

  • Periodic points of latitudinal maps of the $m$-dimensional sphere

    Publication

    Let f be a smooth self-map of the m-dimensional sphere Sm. Under the assumption that f preserves latitudinal foliations with the fibres S1, we estimate from below the number of fixed points of the iterates of f. The paper generalizes the results obtained by Pugh and Shub and by Misiurewicz.

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  • Minimal parameter implicit solvent model for ab initioelectronic-structure calculations

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    - EPL-EUROPHYS LETT - Year 2011

    Abstract - We present an implicit solvent model for ab initio electronic-structure calculations which is fully self-consistent and is based on direct solution of the nonhomogeneous Poisson equation. The solute cavity is naturally defined in terms of an isosurface of the electronic density according to the formula of Fattebert and Gygi (J. Comput. Chem., 23 (2002) 662). While this model depends on only two parameters, we demonstrate...

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  • Evaluating the Internal and External Usability of Mobile Technologies in Facilitating Knowledge Transfer

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    - Year 2021

    A worker’s performance and productivity depend on a variety of factors including knowledge, to be essential for self-effectiveness and self-efficacy. In the literature, knowledge transfer is argued to enhance the quality of work, and therefore, its value. When addressing this issue, the latest studies have considered and evaluated the use of mobile technologies, which are evidenced to improve a worker’s capacity and skills. However,...

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  • Optimal Placement of Phasor Measurement Unit in Power System using Meta-Heuristic Algorithms

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    - Electrotehnica, Electronica, Automatica - Year 2019

    The phasor measurement units (PMUs) play an important and vital role in power system monitoring and controlling, since they provide the power system phasors stamped with a common real time reference through a global positioning system (GPS). Indeed, from economical point of view it is not possible to set PMUs in all system buses due to the high cost and the requirement of more complex communication...

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  • Application of the Optimization Methods to the Search of Marine Propulsion Shafting Global Equilibrium in Running Condition

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    - Polish Maritime Research - Year 2019

    Full film hydrodynamic lubrication of marine propulsion shafting journal bearings in running condition is discussed. Considerable computational difficulties in non-linear determining the quasi-static equilibrium of the shafting are highlighted. The approach using two optimization methods (the particle swarm method and the interior point method) in combination with the specially developed relaxation technique is proposed to overcome...

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  • Computer-aided reconstruction of the railway track axis geometrical shape

    In the paper a method of the railway track axis geometrical shape identification in a horizontal plane, directly from the continuous satellite measurements, is presented. In this method, an algorithm for the design of railway track sections located in the horizontal arc is used. The algorithm uses an analytical description of the layout by means of suitable mathematical formulas. The design procedure has a universal character and...

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  • Application of virtual gate for counting people participating in large public events

    The concept and practical application of the developed algorithm forpeople counting in crowded scene is presented. The aim of the work is to estimatethe number of people passing towards entrances of a large sport hall. Thedetails of implemented the Virtual Gate algorithm are presented. The video signalfrom the camera installed in the building constituted the input for the algorithm.The most challenging problem was the unpredicted...

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  • The Reference Model of Tools Adaptation in the Perspective of Technological Agile Transformaton in IT Organizations

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    • C. Orłowski
    • B. Chrabski
    • A. Ziółkowski
    • T. Deręgowski
    • M. Kurzawski

    - Year 2016

    The scientific aim of the presented paper is the analysis of agile transformation processes in IT organizations in technological perspective of such transformation. The phenomenon of agile transformation becomes a complex challenge for an IT organization, since it has not been analysed in detail so far. There is not any research on the readiness of IT organizations for the realization of agile transformation processes, and such...

  • Hybrid Approach in Project Management - Mixing Capability Maturity Model Integration with Agile Practices

    Publication

    This paper introduces an idea of hybrid approach in managing software development projects. The main goal of this research is to prove that it is possible to design consistent method for managing software development projects which is based on different corporate standards and methods. Authors also want to show that this new hybrid approach is beneficial for IT organization, triggers synergy effects and brings software development...

  • Depth Determination Accuracy of the Modified Prony Method in a Swath Mapping Application

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    - Year 2018

    This article presents the performance of the modified Prony method in a swath mapping application. Depth determination accuracy is assessed by processing raw signal acquired by an EdgeTech 6205 swath bathymetry system over flat seafloor. An updated version of the method, proposed previously by the authors, is used to determine the number of signal echoes. The number of signal echoes is essential for performing the low-rank approximation...

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  • Results from tests on bolted connection components for evaluation of friction coefficient in various contact conditions

    Publication

    The main purpose of the work was the analysis and evaluation of the self-locking quality of a bolted joint covered with Xylan 1070 coating, with comparison to the classic bolts lubricated with Molykote compound during assembly. The second part of the work was the verification of the compliance of the bolts and nuts used in the installation with the ASME B1.1 norm.

  • Projektowanie układów geometrycznych toru z zastosowaniem optymalizacji wielokryterialnej

    Publication

    W pracy przedstawiono metodę projektowania odcinków trasy kolejowej położonych w łuku, dostosowaną do techniki mobilnych pomiarów satelitarnych. Rozwiązanie problemu projektowego wykorzystuje zapis matematyczny i polega na wyznaczeniu uniwersalnych równań opisujących całość układu geometrycznego. Odbywa się to sekwencyjnie, obejmując kolejne fragmenty tegoż układu. Procedura projektowania ma charakter uniwersalny, gdyż w ogólnym...

  • Karolina Krośnicka dr hab. inż. arch.

    Karolina A. Krośnicka, Ph.D., D.Sc., Eng. Arch., is associated professor at Department of Urban Design and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Gdańsk University of Technology (Poland).  For many years (1998 – 2016) she was employed at the Department of Transport and Logistics at the Faculty of Navigation at Gdynia Maritime University (Gdynia, Poland), where she was mostly involved in issues connected with seaports and port...

  • Instrumenty promocji w procesie zarządzania organizacją

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    - MARKETING I RYNEK - Year 2016

    W artykule podjęto temat dotyczący roli instrumentów promocji w procesie zarządzania organizacją, odnosząc się do uwarunkowań publicznej uczelni wyższej. Artykuł podzielono na dwie części. W pierwszej, przedstawiono krótką charakterystykę istoty zarządzania organizacją oraz form promocji organizacji. W drugiej części przedstawiono wyniki badania ankietowego, które zostało przeprowadzone wśród studentów Akademii Techniczno-Humanistycznej...

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  • Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Health Behaviours and Literacy of Future Healthcare Professionals

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    • J. Domaradzki
    • E. Chawłowska
    • R. Staszewski
    • A. Zawiejska
    • B. Giernaś

    - Healthcare - Year 2022

    Our everyday behaviours in life can positively and negatively impact our health, thus cumulatively shaping our lifestyles as more or less healthy. These behaviours are often determined by our knowledge, literacy, motivations and socioeconomic backgrounds. The authors aimed to assess health behaviours and explore variables that may affect persons studying to become future healthcare professionals in Poland. This study was conducted...

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  • Anterior subcutaneous transposition and simple decompression of the ulnar nerve at the elbow – the postoperative improvement in DASH score, VAS score and sonographic findings

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    Introduction. Although a lot of studies have described long- term outcomes after surgical treatment of cubital tunnel syndrome, and the usefulness of sonography in diagnosing of this disorder, few studies have evaluated patients self-reporting outcomes or sonographic findings after surgery. Aim. We assessed patients self-reporting instruments and sonographic findings in patients with the cubital tunnel syndrome before and after...

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  • E-cohousing

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    - Year 2010

    Cohousing, one of the attempts to create housing community, has been successfully practised for many years in many countries. Cohousing creates social bonds. It's a self-creating movement in which everything relies on the community engaged. Oriented ecological cohousing (e-cohousing) teaches responsibility for oneself, the others and the environment.

  • Experience marketing in the service of the “secular religion” of big tech

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    - Year 2021

    The article proposes an interpretation of the meaning of experience marketing as a tool in the process of sacralisation of products, and in a broader context – the so-called secular religion accompanying some contemporary big tech organizations. The article is of theoretical nature and the authors have intended to explain how big tech corporations, in line with the concept of experience marketing (digital platforms, in particular),...

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  • Mobile satellite measurements on the Pomeranian Metropolitan Railway

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    - Przegląd Komunikacyjny - Year 2016

    This paper presents the process of organization and execution of the mobile satellite measurements conducted on the tracks of the Pomeranian Metropolitan Railway before officially entry the line into operation. These measurements allowed for the accurate identification of the actual geometric shape of the line. In the paper the issues of both design and construction phase of this railway line has been described. Moreover, the geodetic...

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  • Positive Management of Universities: A Model of Motivation to Strive for Scientific Excellence

    Objective: The aim of the article is to conceptualise a model of work motivation in the management of universities striving for scientific excellence. Research Design & Methods: The most relevant for our aim is the self-determina tion theory that is applied to the work and organisational domain. We used a nar rative literature review. Findings: The proposed model is derived from the self-determination theory. It includes three...

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  • Graphene field-effect transistor application for flow sensing

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    - EPJ Web of Conferences - Year 2017

    Microflow sensors offer great potential for applications in microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip systems. However, thermal-based sensors, which are commonly used in modern flow sensing technology, are mainly made of materials with positive temperature coefficients (PTC) and suffer from a self-heating effect and slow response time. Therefore, the design of novel devices and careful selection of materials are required to improve the overall...

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  • An advanced Thermal-FSI approach to flow heating/cooling

    Actually, two-way thermal-energy exchange between working fluid and solid material of a casing is a leading problem for modern – semi automatic – design techniques. Many questions should be solved, especially, the turbulent mode of thermal energy transport both in fluid and solid, should be re-examined and reformulated from the primary principles. In the present paper, a group of researchers from Energy Conversion Department of...

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  • Own or public? Later livelihoods of Ukrainian war migrant households in Poland

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    - INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION - Year 2024

    This paper presents empirical research on the livelihood resources of Ukrainian households that fled to Poland due to the Russian invasion and reside there long term. Using a nationwide sample of these households and an accurate econometric framework, we investigate the factors influencing the role of income from work, other private resources and public assistance in covering their living costs in exile. Our findings confirm the...

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  • Morse inequalities via Conley index theory

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    The relation known as the Morse inequalities can be extended to a more general setting of flows on a locally compact metric spaces (Conley index) as well as dynamical systems on Hilbert spaces (LS-index). This paper is a discourse around this extension. Except the part concerning the LS-index the material is self-contained and has a character of a survey.

  • Multipath Complex Root Tracing

    The problem of multipath root tracing is being addressed in this communication. The self-adaptive complex root tracing algorithm, which was previously utilized for the investigation of various propagation and radiation problems, is analyzed here for the cases when the traced characteristic bifurcates. A procedure of multiroute detection is proposed and demonstrated on the coaxially loaded cylindrical waveguide example.

  • The set of 22 sessions of 14-channel eeg signals recorded during watching pictures

    Open Research Data
    open access

    The data were collected in order to perform research on the possibility of controlling the content displayed on the monitor screen using human emotional states extracted from EEG signals. The dataset contains recordings of 14-channel EEG signals collected from 10 persons within 22 sessions, during which 45 different random photos taken from the ImageNet...

  • How can the work environment be redesigned to enhance the well-being of individuals with autism?

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    Purpose – This article examines the opportunities to create optimal conditions for individuals with autism, to work successfully within the contemporary workplace and improve their well-being. These opportunities arise from digital technology (DT) development, enabling the work environment to be remodeled by providing new possibilities and ways of working. The author discusses both technology-based as well as non-technological accommodations...

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  • Systematic Assessment of Product Quality

    The article describes an innovative metrizable idea for systemic assessments of product quality within the baking industry. Complex product quality analysis requires the employment of metrizability criteria for factors that impact the quality of the product, and these are called determinants. Therefore, such analysis is only possible with the use of systems engineering. A system represents the potential of a manufacturing process,...

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  • Optimizing the process of railway geometrical layout designing with multi-criteria assessment method

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    The paper presents the main assumptions of the Multi-criteria assessment method used in process of upgrading the railway geometrical layout. The advantages of metaheuristic search were described. The criteria influencing the investment were defined. The fitness function used in the analysis was described. The example of using the optimization algorithm with the help of self developed computer software was described.

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  • Selective Harmonic Elimination PWM For a Cascaded Multi-level Inverter

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    - Year 2020

    This paper deals with the selective harmonic elimination pulse width modulation (SHE-PWM) technique. This technique is used for the elimination of selected dominant low order harmonics in the multi-level inverter output voltage. The presence of these harmonics is the essential drawback of such kind of inverters; especially when it is used for the control of different AC drivers. The SHE-PWM is based...

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  • Modelling of pipes conveying flowing liquid

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    - Year 2010

    The paper introduces the method of modal reduction of system which consists of pipe with flowing liquid. The concept of hybrid model is proposed. The system model consists of two parts, the modal model and the finite elements model. The modal model represents linear, self-adjoined part of the system, while simple lumped technique is applied for modelling of Coriolis phenomena.