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  • Iwona Kochańska dr hab. inż.

    Iwona Kochańska is a graduate of Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology. She received M.Sc. degree in Automation Control and Robotics, specializing in the mobile objects control. In 2012 she received Ph.D. degree in hydroacoustics. In the same year she started working as an assistant professor in the Department of Marine Electronic Systems. The main area of interest is hydroacoustis, ...

  • Monitoring Steel Bolted Joints during a Monotonic Tensile Test Using Linear and Nonlinear Lamb Wave Methods: A Feasibility Study

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    - Metals - Year 2018

    The structural integrity of steel bolted joints may be compromised due to excessive loading. Therefore, condition assessment and the detection of potential defects before they cause a failure have become a major issue. The paper is focused on the condition monitoring of a bolted lap joint subjected to progressive degradation in a tensile test. The inspection used Lamb waves propagated through the overlap area. Wave propagation...

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  • Regeneration Project of Market Places GOSPOSTRATEG – “Polanki” Market in Gdańsk-Oliwa Pilot Project Monitoring Dataset

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    - Year 2022

    The dataset entitled Monitoring of activities carried out as part of prototyping and implementation of the pilot project in the area of the “Polanki” market and its direct neighbourhood, in the Gdańsk-Oliwa district, step1; stage from July 2020 year contains tabular monitoring lists (quantitative and qualitative documentation report in the form of tables) of activities carried out as part of the prototyping and implementation of...

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  • OCENA EFEKTYWNOŚCI DZIAŁALNOŚCI BADAWCZO-ROZWOJOWEJ W KRAJACH OECD

    Działalność badawczo-rozwojowa jest istotną częścią polityki innowacyjnej. Ocenę tej działalności w krajach OECD przeprowadzono wykorzystując metodę DEA. Uwzględniono nakłady: poziom wykształcenia, współpracę nauki z biznesem i poziom wykorzystywania wiedzy w firmach oraz rezultaty: liczba publikacji, patentów i doktoratów oraz eksport sektorów wysokich technologii i indeks Hirsha. Zwrócono uwagę na problem zerowych wag oraz przesunięcia...

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  • Wpływ termoplastycznych kompozycji napełnianych miałem gumowym na wybrane właściwości asfaltu drogowego

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    Dynamiczny rozwój transportu samochodowego zmusza do wykonywania nawierzchni drogowych z materiałów o wysokiej wytrzymałości oraz odporności na odkształcenia trwałe, co znacznie wydłuża żywotność nawierzchni. Polskie przedsiębiorstwo BISEK Sp. z o.o. z Wrocławia we współpracy z Politechniką Wrocławską, jako pierwsze wykorzystało miał gumowy do modyfikacji asfaltów metodą mokrą. W chwili obecnej firma Lotos Asfalt Sp. z o.o. wprowadziła...

  • Michał Czubenko dr inż.

    Michał Czubenko is a distinguished 2009 graduate of the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications, and Informatics at Gdańsk University of Technology, specializing in the discipline of automatic control and robotics. Currently, he serves as an adjunct in the Department of Robotics and Decision Systems at the same institution. In 2012, he embarked on a three-month internship at Kingston University London, broadening his horizons...

  • Identification of Shift in Sowing and Harvesting Dates of Rice Crop (L. Oryza sativa) through Remote Sensing Techniques: A Case Study of Larkana District

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    - Sustainability - Year 2020

    The present study aimed to determine the impact of climate variability on rice crops in terms of sowing and harvesting dates and crop period. The identification of sowing and harvesting dates were spotted by mask identification, variations in land surface temperature (LST) on a temporal scale in the respective months, and a field-level social inquiry. The study was conducted during a time period (1994–2017), in which geo-referenced...

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  • Economic vitality of Polish suburbs

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    - GSTF Journal of Engineering Technology - Year 2016

    Since 1989, Poland has been undergoing major political, social and economic transformations. The effects of these changes are visible on several levels, including the field of urban planning, where they manifested themselves as the birth of the suburbanization process. In the field of economics, it could be noticed that since 1989, the SME sector has been awakening very dynamically. Correlation of the parallel development of these...

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  • Programy komputerowe a style uczenia się

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    W artykule podjęto tematykę uczenia się obsługi programów komputerowych w kontekście różnych stylów uczenia się użytkowników. Badania są przeprowadzone na styku użytkownik - program komputerowy; z jednej strony występuje człowiek z jego własnościami psychologicznymi, z drugiej zaś program komputerowy ze cechami wynikającymi z jego budowy i działania. Analizy empiryczne przeprowadzono na przykładzie nauki obsługi programu graficznego...

  • The Efficiency of Polish Stock Market: Ordinal Patterns Approach

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    Zunino et al. analyzed the problem of discrimination of developed and emergent markets by the use of ordinal patterns methods: number of forbidden patterns and ordinal pattern probability distribution as a basis for entropy and statistical measure of complexity. In this paper we apply the same methodology for the analysis of Polish stock market (index WIG). The results indicate that Polish market belongs neither to developed, nor...

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  • Design of septic tanks placed on cohesive soils

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    The paper presents a short review of literature with regard to design and erection of the reinforced concrete and concrete tanks. The authors investigated the underground septic tank with of 10 m3 capacity placed on cohesive soils. The authors compared the values of internal forces for soils in drained and undrained conditions with different geotechnical parameters: loamy sand of liquidity index IL = 0.1 and IL = 0.7 and clay with...

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  • Multisensor System for the Protection of Critical Infrastructure of Seaport

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    • M. Kastek
    • R. Dulski
    • M. Życzkowski
    • M. Szustakowski
    • P. Trzaskawka
    • W. Ciurapiński
    • P. Markowski
    • M. Karol
    • G. Grelowska
    • I. Gloza... and 2 others

    - Year 2013

    There are many separated infrastructural objects within a harbor area that may be considered “critical”, such as gas and oil terminals or anchored naval vessels. Those objects require special protection, including security systems capable of monitoring both surface and underwater areas, because an intrusion into the protected area may be attempted using small surface vehicles (boats, kayaks, rafts, floating devices with weapons...

  • Grzegorz Zieliński dr inż.

    Author of over 100 scientific publications (both in Polish and English) in the field of service management, entity improvement, including medical entities. Scientific and research interests include areas related to the maturity and excellence of enterprises in various aspects of their activities. He participated in research projects of the National Science Center and projects implemented by international consortia under the European...

  • Video DATA - Traffic generation modeling for discount shops - Rakoczego Street

    Open Research Data
    open access - series: Video DATA - Traffic generation modeling for discount shops

    The data includes video traffic data (vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists) registered at 21 Rakoczego street in Gdansk. The data covers the day 01.10.2020 at 6:00-10:00. The video camera was installed niearby the parking area belonging to the discount store Lidl. The data obtained was used in analysis, providing information about the modal split and the...

  • Fighting Administrative Corruption with Digital Government in Sub-Saharan Africa

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    - Year 2019

    Administrative corruption is a pervasive problem and a major threat to economic and social development around the world, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa which lags behind other regions in various development indicators and is seen as one of the most corrupt regions globally. This paper examines a hypothesis that digital government – the use of digital technology to transform public administration organizations and their relationships...

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  • The chemistry, properties and performance of flame-retardant rubber composites: Collecting, analyzing, categorizing, machine learning modeling, and visualizing

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    - COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - Year 2024

    Rubbers combine the flexibility with mechanical strength, supporting myriad applications, but suffer from inherent flammability. Formulation and production of flame-retardant rubber composites (FRRCs) have intensively been practiced over years, but not comprehensively reviewed. This necessity has outlined collecting, analyzing, screening, classifying, and interpreting the literature with the aim of classifying the FRRCs. We quantified...

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  • Effect of the ex situ physical and in situ chemical modification of bacterial nanocellulose on mechanical properties in the context of its potential applications in heart valve design

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    - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES - Year 2024

    Bacterial nanocellulose (BNC) is a promising material for heart valve prostheses. However, its low strength properties limit its applicability in cardiovascular surgery. To overcome these limitations, the mechanical properties of BNC can be improved through modifications. The aim of the research was to investigate the extent to which the mechanical properties of BNC can be altered by modifying its structure during its production...

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  • Rheology of potato starch chemically modified with microwave-assisted reactions

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    - LWT-FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - Year 2013

    Native potato starch was sulfated, selenated, borated, silicated and zincatated by means of microwave-assisted reactions with varying doses of relevant reagents. Resulting products were characterized involving rheological behavior of pastes, their weight-average molecular weight (Mw), and radius of gyration (Rg). Most of the pastes showed shear-thinning behavior, with the flow behavior index (n) below unity. The pastes of starch...

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  • Modeling of Cardiac Component of Subarachnoid Space Changes in Apnoea Resulting as a Function of Blood Pressure and Blood Flow Parameters - Two Mechanizm of Regulation

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    - Year 2017

    Experiments were performed in a group of 19 healthy, non-smoking volunteers. The experiment consisted of three apnoeas, sequentially: 30 s apnoea, 60 s apnoea and maximal, that could be done, apnoea. The breath-hold was separated for 5 minutes rest. The following parameters were measured and obtained for further analysis: blood parameters, artery diameter of the internal carotid artery, end-tidal CO2 in expired air, the cardiac...

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  • Real-time isothermal DNA amplification monitoring in picoliter volumes using an optical fiber sensor

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    • M. Janik
    • S. V. Hamidi
    • M. Koba
    • J. Perreault
    • R. Walsh
    • W. J. Bock
    • M. Śmietana

    - LAB ON A CHIP - Year 2021

    Rolling circle amplification (RCA) of DNA can be considered as a great alternative to the gold standard polymerase chain reaction (PCR), especially during this pandemic period, where rapid, sensitive, and reliable test results for hundreds of thousands of samples are required daily. This work presents the first research to date on direct, real-time and label-free isothermal DNA amplification monitoring using a microcavity in-line...

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  • Probabilistic analysis of settlements under a pile foundation of a road bridge pylon

    The paper addresses the reliability change of a road bridge pile foundation due to the unpredictable increase of settlements in time. The analysis is based on the Rędziński Bridge in Wrocław, Poland, its design assumptions, and monitoring results. The bridge foundation rests on a multi-layered subsoil assumed random. The Finite Element model of the subgrade is generated in ZSoil® software. To simplify the probabilistic approach,...

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  • Field measurements

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    The article presents the scope and methodologies used in the course of geodetic measurements accompanying archaeological excavations in the area of the Wisłoujście Fortress in Gdańsk

  • Artificial intelligence for software development — the present and the challenges for the future

    Since the time when first CASE (Computer-Aided Software Engineering) methods and tools were developed, little has been done in the area of automated creation of code. CASE tools support a software engineer in creation the system structure, in defining interfaces and relationships between software modules and, after the code has been written, in performing testing tasks on different levels of detail. Writing code is still the task...

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  • Pipelined Two-Operand Modular Adders

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    Pipelined two-operand modular adder (TOMA) is one of basic components used in digital signal processing (DSP) systems that use the residue number system (RNS). Such modular adders are used in binary/residue and residue/binary converters, residue multipliers and scalers as well as within residue processing channels. The structure of pipelined TOMAs is usually obtained by inserting an appropriate number of pipeline register layers within...

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  • The validation process of truss model with joint eccentricities

    Nowadays, due to the technological reasons in modern lightweight steel trusses, fabricated from cold-formed sections, positive eccentricities appear in the truss nodes, to induce additional forces truss chords. In order to account for the real load-carrying capacity of truss node area the steel structure research was conducted in scale 1:1. As a result of experimental research, the forms of deformation and strains of the walls...

  • METHOD OF ROUTING SHIPS SAILING IN DEDICATED ENVIRONMENT

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    The method for determining the suboptimal route of sailing vessels operating in a restricted area of the sea are proposed in the paper. The dynamics of the environment including weather conditions and speed characteristics of ships sailing are considered. As optimiza-tion criterion, measure sailing time T, and the number of maneuvers performed ω, are taken into account. An heuristic algorithm, and the appropriate application routing...

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  • Law regulation in Poland related to biofuels

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    The situation in the area of using biofuels in transport mostly the law aspects was presented and discussed. In Poland there are various legal issues with biofuel production, examination and use. These include among the others: quality inspection, production costs and market prices of biofuels, forms of public and legal service for biofuel producers or programs of biofuels promotion. In order to popularise biofuels it is significant...

  • Dynamic risk assessment in autonomous vehicles motion planning

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    - Year 2008

    Arguing that an autonomous mobile system is sufficiently safe to operate in presence of other vehicles and objects is an important element in development of such systems. Traditional approach to assure safety is to distinguish between safe and unsafe area and prevent the autonomous vehicle from entering the unsafe area. The paper presents a model of autonomous vehicle control system which uses risk assessment...

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  • Studies on the Presence and Spatial Distribution of Anthropogenic Pollution in the Glacial Basin of Scott Glacier in the Face of Climate Change (Fiord Bellsund, Spitsbergen)

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    - AIP Conference Proceedings - Year 2014

    The study area covered the NW part of the Wedel Jarlsberg Land (SW part of the Svalbard Archipelago). The primary study object was the catchment of the Scott Glacier in the vicinity of the Research Station of of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin – Calypsobyen. The Scott River catchment (of glacial hydrological regime) has an area of approximately 10 km2, 40% of which is occupied by the valley Scott Glacier in the phase...

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  • Multimedia distributed system for visualization of ongoing and archival events for BG

    The paper presents concept of the distributed system designed to gather and provide the information about vehicles, vessels and airplanes present within the area of operations of the Border Guard supplemented with related multimedia. The part of the system related to the map data gathering, distribution and visualization has been already implemented in the preceding project. The presented system is the expansion of the previous...

  • Urban Project IV. Summer semester - ERASMUS

    e-Learning Courses
    • Ł. Pancewicz

    Course Urban Project IV (AI_MK_28/1) SHAPING A NEW DISTRICT – WHITE RIVER (POL. BIAŁA RZEKA) IN THE CITY OF RUMIA The subject of the exercises is to design the spatial layout of the new district in the area of ​​the so-called Small Tricity. The task of the group will be to develop initial design guidelines - layout and character of buildings, primar building parameters, service program. The planned construction of the new SKM...

  • Krystian Zawadzki dr hab. inż.

    Krystian Zawadzki is associate professor in the Department of Finance at the Faculty of Management and Economics of the Gdańsk University of Technology; member of the Polish Olympic Academy at the Polish Olympic Committee; coordinator of the Stock Exchange School (Warsaw Stock Exchange) in Gdańsk; Head of postgraduate studies "Capital Investments and Personal Finance Management"; member of the audit committee of the sports club...

  • Paweł Filipkowski dr inż.

    Paweł Filipkowski Ph.D. Biotechnology Department of Chemistry, Technology and Biotechnology of Food Faculty of Chemistry Gdansk University of Technology Narutowicza 11/12 80-233 Gdansk, Poland Tel: +48 58 3472456 e-mail: pawel.filipkowskiATpg.edu.pl   Current position: Assistant Professor/Senior Lecturer*(from Jan.2019) of Biotechnology, Department of Chemistry, Technology and Biotechnology of Food, Gdansk University of Technology. Education: Eng....

  • URBANIZATION OF METROPOLITAN AREAS – THE IMPORTANCE OF NEW SPATIAL DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS

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    Nowadays, a rapid development of metropolises is connected with the pressure on urbanizing, which leads to a sharp increase in developed areas as well as urbanized areas. As this trend becomes more dynamic, cities sprawl beyond their administrative boundaries, causing spatial disintegration and hindering sustainable development of a given area. Increased dispersion of residential area results in extensive and chaotic spatial development,...

  • Flooding Extent Mapping for Synthetic Aperture Radar Time Series Using River Gauge Observations

    The flooding extent area in a river valley is related to river gauge observations such as discharge and water elevations. The higher the water elevations, or discharge, the larger the flooding area. Flooding extent maps are often derived from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images using thresholding methods. The thresholding methods vary in complexity and number of required parameters. We proposed a simple thresholding method that...

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  • Janusz Kozak prof. dr hab. inż.

    Janusz     KOZAK  Born   04.07.1953 Puck, Poland  Intermediate school”   Technikum Budowy Okrętów „Conradinum” Gdansk, 1973.  Graduated on Faculty of Shipbuilding of Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland, 1978.  Employed: From 1978 - Gdynia Shipyard 1978 as designer, from 1980 as a specialist in Chair of Technology in Faculty of Shipbuilding of Gdańsk University of Technology, 1993 as assistant, PhD (1993), “Method for assessment...

  • IN VITRO PROPAGATION OF RHODODENDRON TOMENTOSUM - AN ENDANGERED ESSENTIAL OIL BEARING PLANT FROM PEATLAND

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    - ACTA BIOLOGICA CRACOVIENSIA SERIES BOTANICA - Year 2016

    Rhododendron tomentosum Harmaja (formerly Ledum palustre L.) is a medicinal peat bog plant native to northern Europe, Asia and North America. This plant has a distinctive aroma thanks to the presence of essential oil, to which it also owes its anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antimicrobial and insecticidal properties. However, in Europe R. tomentosum is classified as an endangered species, mainly due to degradation of peatlands. In...

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  • CaZnO-based nanoghosts for the detection of ssDNA, pCRISPR and recombinant SARS-CoV-2 spike antigen and targeted delivery of doxorubicin

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    • N. Rabiee
    • O. Akhavan
    • Y. Fatahi
    • A. M. Ghadiri
    • M. Kiani
    • P. Makvandi
    • M. Rabiee
    • M. H. Nicknam
    • M. Saeb
    • R. S. Varma... and 4 others

    - CHEMOSPHERE - Year 2022

    Overexpression of proteins/antigens and other gene-related sequences in the bodies could lead to significant mutations and refractory diseases. Detection and identification of assorted trace concentrations of such proteins/antigens and/or gene-related sequences remain challenging, affecting different pathogens and making viruses stronger. Correspondingly, coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) mutations/alterations and spread could lead to overexpression...

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  • Towards Scalable Simulation of Federated Learning

    Federated learning (FL) allows to train models on decentralized data while maintaining data privacy, which unlocks the availability of large and diverse datasets for many practical applications. The ongoing development of aggregation algorithms, distribution architectures and software implementations aims for enabling federated setups employing thousands of distributed devices, selected from millions. Since the availability of...

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  • Synthesis and antiproliferative activity of new mycophenolic acid conjugates with adenosine derivatives

    New conjugates of mycophenolic acid (MPA) and adenosine derivatives were synthesized and assessed as potential immunosuppressants on Jurkat cell line and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from healthy donors. As compared to MPA, all compounds were found to be more active against Jurkat cell line. The antiproliferative activities were compared with MPA and adenosine, in both 2′,3′-O-isopropylidene protected and free hydroxyl...

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  • Ab-initio study of electrical and optical properties of allylamine

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    - Year 2018

    The Density functional theory is one of most promising methodology in fast and accurate calculations of electrical and optical properties from the atomic basis. In this paper, we calculate electrical and optical properties of allylamine (2-propen 1- amine) in terms of accuracy and speed of calculations obtained by selection of DFT-1/2 method with ultrasoft Vanderbilt pseudopotentials. Comparison of density of states between...

  • Ab-initio study of electrical and optical properties of allylamine

    The Density functional theory is one of most promising methodology in fast and accurate calculations of electrical and optical properties from the atomic basis. In this paper, we calculate electrical and optical properties of allylamine (2-propen 1- amine) in terms of accuracy and speed of calculations obtained by selection of DFT-1/2 method with ultrasoft Vanderbilt pseudopotentials. Comparison of density of states between molecule...

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  • Indykatory dla modelu społeczeństwa informacyjnego.

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    - Year 2004

    W dobie postępującej informatyzacji, w czasach nazywanych często trzecią rewolucją technologiczną, synonimem ich jest społeczeństwo informacyjne IS (Information Society). Najpopularniejszy obecnie sposób, służący do szeregowania społeczeństw według ich stopnia rozwoju, jest oparty na HDI (Human Development Index). HDI jest wyliczany jako kombinacja trzech wyznaczników: longevity, knowledge, and a decent standard of living. Postanowiono,...

  • Optical properties of boron-doped nanocrystalline diamond films studied by spectroscopic ellipsometry

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    The optical properties of boron-doped nanocrystalline diamond films, coated using Microwave Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition (μPE CVD) system, were analyzed by spectroscopic ellipsometry. Diamond films were deposited on silicon substrates. The ellipsometry data (refractive index (n(λ)), extinction coefficient (k(λ)) were modeled using dedicated software. Evolution of the optical structure with boron doping was observed...

  • Vibroflotation Control of Sandy Soils using DMT and CPTU

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    - Year 2015

    Vibroflotation is a typical improvement method for the cohesionless deposits of high thickness. The compaction method was applied to densify sandy deposits in Gdynia Port. Compaction control was verified with CPTU and DMT tests. Some examples of interpretation of soundings in pre-treated and compacted sands are shown. The classification diagrams are given for pre-treated and compacted sand. The stress history of the deposits is...

  • Characterization of Corrosion-Induced Fracture in Reinforced Concrete Beams Using Electrical Potential, Ultrasound and Low-Frequency Vibration

    The paper deals with the non-destructive experimental testing of the reinforced concrete beams under progressive corrosion. A series of experiments using electrical potential, ultrasound and low-frequency vibrations techniques are reported. Electrical potential and natural frequencies were used to characterise and monitor the corrosion process at its initial state. The P-wave velocity measurements were proved to be effective in...

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  • Influence of statistical errors on damage detection based on structuralflexibility and mode shape curvature

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    Damage detection procedures based on measured natural frequencies and building structure mode shapes are discussed in this paper. Modal curvature and structural flexibility approaches are tested. Attention is paid to the modal identification errors that influence damage detection. This problem is studied using a computer simulation of a simple supported beam. For practical cases, the peak picking methodand its statistical errors...

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  • The Impact of Concentration on Secors' Output Level in the European Union (1997-2005)

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    - Year 2010

    This paper examines the impact of concentration on growthof selected 43 sectors within ten European countries over the period of time 1997-2005. We apply system GMM estimator to the extendedversion of production function, including as explanatory variablesindustry specific measures of concentration. We found the relationbetween output and concentration measured by the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) to be non-monotonic having...

  • PROCESSING, MECHANICAL AND THERMAL PROPERTIES OF RECYCLED LOW-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE STREAMS

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    - Year 2020

    The recycling of plastics is currently one of the most significant industrial challenges. Due to the enormous amounts of plastic wastes generated by various industry branches, it is essential to look for the potential methods of their utilization. Nevertheless, for the efficient application of recycled materials it is crucial to analyze their performance. Therefore, in presented paper we investigated the processing (melt flow index),...

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  • Software Agents for Computer Network Security

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    - Year 2012

    The chapter presents applications of multi-agent technology for design and implementation of agent-based systems intended to cooperatively solve several critical tasks in the area of computer network security. These systems are Agent-based Generator of Computer Attacks (AGCA), Multi-agent Intrusion Detection and Protection System (MIDPS), Agent-based Environment for Simulation of DDoS Attacks and Defense (AESAD) and Mobile Agent...

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