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Łukasz Sienkiewicz dr hab.
PeopleGraduate of the Warsaw School of Economics, habilitated doctor in the field of social sciences in the discipline of management and quality science. University Associate professor at the Department of Entrepreneurship of the Faculty of Management and Economics of the Gdańsk University of Technology and coordinator of the Center for Economic, Social and Technological Transformation (C-TEST). Chairman of the Board of the Institute...
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Logistical Aspects of Energy Conversion Efficiency in Marine Steam Power Plants in Off-Design Conditions
PublicationThe paper presents logistical aspects of energy conversion efficiency in off-design conditions. The main part of the article is based on results of thermodynamic calculation for large propulsion steam turbine under partial loads. Calculations are made on extended mathematical model of two proposed steam turbine thermodynamic cycles using Stodola’s cone law. The conclusion based on calculation re-sults contains importance of off-design...
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Multiple Group Membership and Collective Action Intention
PublicationDatasets from two studies conducted in Poland on the relation between identity fusion, group identification, multiple group membership, perceived injustice, and collective action intention. The presented studies, in the context of protests against attempts to restrict abortion law, were conducted to examine the link between belonging to multiple groups, group efficacy & identification, perceived injustice and collective...
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Revenues to the state budget from the sale of shares in state-owned banks in 1994-2000
Open Research DataOn June 14, 1996, a special law was passed on the merger and grouping of certain banks in the form of joint-stock companies. Pursuant to these regulations, the PeKaO S.A. banking group was established, which was the only entity of this type established in this way. Additionally, by the end of 1996, four out of nine regional banks were sold, i.e. Wielkopolski...
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Application of shifted Chebyshev polynomial-based Rayleigh–Ritz method and Navier’s technique for vibration analysis of a functionally graded porous beam embedded in Kerr foundation
PublicationPresent study is dealt with the applicability of shifted Chebyshev polynomial based Rayleigh-Ritz method and Navier’s technique on free vibration of Functionally Graded (FG) beam with uniformly distributed porosity along the thickness of the beam. The material properties such as Young’s modulus, mass density, and Poisson’s ratio are also considered to vary along the thickness of the FG beam as per the power-law exponent model....
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Marita Mcphillips dr inż.
PeopleI conduct research on inter-organizational and inter-team cooperation, in particular on open innovation. I take part in international projects/teams. I teach classes in the fields of entrepreneurship, intellectual property rights and qualitative research.
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Minimum drag shape bodies moving in inviscid fluid - revisited
PublicationThis paper presents the classic approach to minimum drag shape body problem, moving at hypersonic speeds, leading to famous power law shapes with value of the exponent of 3/4. Two- and three-dimensional cases are considered. Furthermore, an exact pseudo solution is given and its uselessness is discussed. Two new solutions are introduced, namely an approximate solution due to form of the functional and solution by means of optimisation...
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Control of induction machine supplied by a current source inverter using the multi-scalar transformation and backstepping approach
PublicationThe paper describes the voltage control technique of squire-cage induction machines supplied by a current source inverter. The control system is based on new transformation of the electric drive system (machine and inverter) state variables to the multi-scalar variables form. The backstepping approach is used to obtain the feedback control law. The control system contains the structure of the observer...
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Impedance Studies of Phosphate-iron Glasses Containing Niobium and Titanium
PublicationThe ac and dc conductivity in phosphate-iron-niobate glasses with addition of titanium oxide was investigated as a function of temperature and frequency with the use of impedance spectroscopy. The topography and microstructure of glasses were investigated by the means of X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and confocal microscopy methods. The obtained results show that all samples are amorphous but they...
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Invariant Measures for Uncountable Random Interval Homeomorphisms
PublicationA necessary and sufficient condition for the iterated function system { f (·, ω) | ω ∈ } with probability P to have exactly one invariant measure μ∗ with μ∗((0, 1)) = 1 is given. The main novelty lies in the fact that we only require the transformations f (·, ω) to be increasing homeomorphims, without any smoothness condition, nei- ther we impose conditions on the cardinality of . In particular, positive Lyapunov exponents conditions...
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Consideration of the safety of bungee jumping in relation to mechanical properties of the instalation based on a jump accident in Gdynia
PublicationThis paper considers a bungee jumping accident that took place in July 2019 in Gdynia, Poland. The authors conducted an investigation to determine the cause of the bungee rope failure. It was based on mechanical tests concerning the strength of the rope as well as the calculation of the force induced in the rope during the jump. Based on the theoretical and experimental results, the rope safety factor was estimated. It appeared...
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SEMANTIC ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS FOR KNOWLEDGE WORKERS SUPPORT
PublicationThe paper examines various aspects of text analysis application for knowledge worker’s activity realization. Conclusions are drawn about the relevance and importance of processing the non-structured textual information in order to increase knowledge worker’s efficiency, as well as their awareness in different branches of science. The paper considers the existing algorithms of texts semantic analysis as the sphere of documents topical...
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Pilot- scale plant for material recycling of whole waste tires
PublicationContinously growing demad for all kinds of vehicles and general tendency to regular exchange of tires are causing growth of scrap tires which need management. A risings of large quantities of used rubber products, especially used tires has been increasing every year in Poland, in 2006 it was 160 thousand. The waste management and recycling of used tires become a major environmental problem. It is worth noticing that tires which...
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Comparison of experimental and numerical results on metallic plates subjected to explosions
PublicationA comparative study of dynamic response including damage and rupture processes of thin metallic plates subjected to shockwave impulses - explosions is presented. The results of the finite element numerical analysis are related to experiments. Due to high strain rate during explosions the elasto-viscoplastic Chaboches constitutive law including damage effects has been applied. For the assumed model proper material parameters identification...
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Hybrid constructed wetlands for the National Parks in Poland - a case study, requirements, dimensioning, preliminary results
PublicationWater and wastewater management, especially in rural areas, greatly affects loads of nutrients discharged to the Baltic Sea. In Poland, this management is unbalanced because of the dispersed development and in many locations con struction of sewerage system is uneconomic or even impossible. For this reason, a significant part of sewage from single-family houses in rural areas must be discharged into domestic sewage systems. The...
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Europe, between Mandatory and Voluntary Approach to CSR: Some New Evidence from the Polish Listed Companies
PublicationThis paper aims to explore the relationship between corporate governance rules and application of CSR practices into operations of the top 30 companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Since in Poland, so far, there is no obligation to follow any specific CSR standards or to make disclosures of non-financial, social and environmental information, this is still a fully voluntary approach. At the moment, only some of the companies...
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Portable raman spectrometer for maritime security applications
PublicationThe fast identification of explosives, narcotics and other chemicals carried on board of ships or transported in containers to the harbors is an important problem of maritime security. Raman spectroscopy is widely used for fast identification of various chemicals. Continuous progress in the field of photonics has resulted in commercial availability of low-power compact Raman spectrometers which can be integrated into portable systems....
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Different design aspects of an Organic Rankine Cycle turbine for electricity production using a geothermal binary power plant
PublicationIn recent years, pressure has been growing to increase the share of renewable energy sources in electricity generation, which may offer opportunities for the development of geothermal energy in regions that have been so far considered unprofitable in this respect. One such country currently undergoing an energy transition is Poland in which low-temperature geothermal resources are currently used for district heating and recreation...
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Implementation of Hermite-Ritz method and Navier’s Technique for Vibration of Functionally Graded Porous Nanobeam Embedded in Winkler-Pasternak Elastic Foundation Using bi-Helmholtz type of nonlocal elasticity
PublicationPresent study is devoted to investigating the vibration characteristics of Functionally Graded (FG) porous nanobeam embedded in an elastic substrate of Winkler-Pasternak type. Classical beam theory (CBT) or Euler-Bernoulli beam theory (EBT) has been incorporated to address the displacement of the FG nanobeam. Bi-Helmholtz type of nonlocal elasticity is being used to capture the small scale effect of the FG nanobeam. Further, the...
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Current situation in Polish nuclear medicine and Polish example of model Nuclear Medicine Centre meeting European Union requirements
PublicationNuclear medicine is currently a well-established part of medicine. It is applied in many fields of clinical medicine and science like endocrinology, oncology, cardiology, molecular medicine and engineering, radiopharmacy, physics and information science. Due to its increasing importance and application, several regulation and supervision bodies have been founded to ensure safe usage of radiation and to improve diagnostic and therapeutic...
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Meeting Modernisms in Gdynia
PublicationThe paper focused on the architectural heritage of the city of Gdynia, in Poland, built in 1920s and 1930s. The city was established (founded) on the seaside of the Baltic Sea as the only port of Poland – a country that regained independence after Versailles Treaty. The history of the city, built from scratch is outstanding in Europe. Modernist architecture of the city is represented by buildings built for different purposes: housing,...
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Peculiarities of measurement uncertainty evaluation at calibrating a ring gauge
PublicationExample S13 from EA-4/02 M:2013 “Calibration of a ring gauge with a nominal diameter of 90 mm” is analyzed. The report uses the kurtosis method and the law of propagation of expanded uncertainty developed by the authors to the expanded uncertainty evaluation. It is shown that the introduction of a coaxiality correction for the ring gauge and the measuring axis of the comparator leads to the need to estimate its standard measurement...
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Dynamically positioned ship steering making use of backstepping method and artificial neural networks
PublicationThe article discusses the issue of designing a dynamic ship positioning system making use of the adaptive vectorial backstepping method and RBF type arti cial neural networks. In the article, the backstepping controller is used to determine control laws and neural network weight adaptation laws. e arti cial neural network is applied at each time instant to approximate nonlinear functions containing parametric uncertainties....
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Mariusz Zaborowski dr
PeopleMariusz Zaborowski is an assistant professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship at the Faculty of Management and Economics of the Gdańsk University of Technology. In 2016, he obtained a doctoral degree in economics in the field of management sciences. His interests focus on the issues of entrepreneurs on the public procurement market, the issues of barriers to public procurement, and the organization of public procurement and...
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Magdalena Licznerska mgr
PeopleMagdalena Licznerska jest asystentem w Katedrze Przedsiębiorczości na Wydziale Zarządzania i Ekonomii Politechniki Gdańskiej, gdzie prowadzi zajęcia z zarządzania małą firmą i podstaw ekonomii. Jej badania koncentrują się na przedsiębiorczości kobiet, kobietach w firmach rodzinnych oraz społeczno-kognitywnym spojrzeniu na przedsiębiorczość. Przygotowuje pracę doktorską na temat roli kontekstu w kształtowaniu indywidualnej orientacji...
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Gendered Self-Views Across 62 Countries: A Test of Competing Models
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Estimating the uncertainty of the liquid mass flow using the orifice plate
PublicationThe article presents estimation of measurement uncertainty of a liquid mass flow using the orifice plate. This subject is essential because of the widespread use of this type of flow meters, which renders not only the quantitative estimation but also qualitative results of this type so those measurements are important. To achieve this goal, the authors of the paper propose to use the theory of uncertainty. The article shows the...
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Novel adaptive flux observer for wide speed range sensorless control of induction motor
PublicationA new adaptive flux observer of induction motor is presented in the paper. The Lyapunov theory is utilized for derivation of the adaptation law of rotor flux angular speed, which acts as unknown parameter in an augmented induction motor model. In the field weakening region, where stray fluxes are comparable with rotor flux magnitude, the air-gap flux stabilization is proposed. An air-gap flux multiscalar model is derived for stator...
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M-integral for finite anti-plane shear of a nonlinear elastic matrix with rigid inclusions
PublicationThe path-independent M-integral plays an important role in analysis of solids with inhomogeneities. However, the available applications are almost limited to linear-elastic or physically non-linear power law type materials under the assumption of infinitesimal strains. In this paper we formulate the M-integral for a class of hyperelastic solids undergoing finite anti-plane shear deformation. As an application we consider the problem...
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Rotor-Flux Vector based Observer of Interior Permanent Synchronous Machine
PublicationThe sensorless control system of the interior permanent magnet machine is considered in this paper. The control system is based on classical linear controllers. In the machine, there occurs non-sinusoidal distribution of rotor flux together with the slot harmonics, which are treated as the control system disturbances. In this case, the classical observer structure in the (d-q) is unstable for the low range of rotor speed resulting...
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Correlation between charge density waves and antiferromagnetism in Nd1−xGdxNiC2 solid solutions
PublicationWe report a study on the evolution of a charge density wave and antiferromagnetism in the series of the polycrystalline solid solution Nd1−xGdxNiC2 (0 _ x _ 1) by means of magnetic and transport properties measurements. The experimental results reveal the violation of the de Gennes law and a strong correlation between the Peierls, Néel, and Curie-Weiss temperatures, which strongly suggests a cooperative interaction between the...
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Detailed results of shaping personnel risk factors in enterprise C
Open Research DataThe data presents the shape of all the researched personnel risk factors in the C enterprise (which was tested by the author). Further considerations should be started with the presentation of the synthesis of the obtained results, which is presented in this research data.
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Optimization of the femtosecond laser impulse for excitation and the spin-orbit-mediated dissociation in the NaRb molecule
Open Research DataHigh accuracy ab initio potential energy curves (1tSigma+, 2sSigma+, 1tPi), electronic transition dipole moment function (1tSigma+ - 1tPi), and spin-orbit coupling (2sSigma+ - 1tPi) have been calculated for the NaRb molecule. The time-dependent excitation and dissociation processes in the polar alkali diatomic NaRb molecule and the quantum properties...
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Political Parties in the Digital World
PublicationThe aim of this report is to outline how digital technologies and digital media are redefining the way political parties fulfill their role as collective platforms for political participation of citizens, e.g. in relation to the parties’ decision-making processes, communication strategies, funding mechanisms, membership, information sharing, etc. and to highlight the existing international standards and good practices in this area....
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Impact of interface heterogeneity on joint fracture
PublicationThe effects of heterogeneities (weak zones in particular) inadhesive joints and their importance on overall fracture propertiesare relatively unknown, but doubtlessly they may be crucial inmany applications. Using a model heterogeneous adhesive bond,represented by a given mixture of regions of strong and weakadhesion, we have studied the influence of interface variabilityon overall fracture energy (global energy release rate)....
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Price convergence in the European Union and in the new member states
PublicationThis paper examines price dispersion in the European Union (EU15) and in three New Member States (Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic) between 1995 and 2006. The analysis utilizes both disaggregate and aggregate price data, including the prices of 157 products and two indices constructed using two different weighting procedures. For each category of goods the price dispersion is lower in EU15 than EU15 plus 3 NMS. Sigma convergence...
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Recent Advances in Development of Waste-Based Polymer Materials: A Review
PublicationLimited petroleum sources, suitable law regulations, and higher awareness within society has caused sustainable development of manufacturing and recycling of polymer blends and composites to be gaining increasing attention. This work aims to report recent advances in the manufacturing of environmentally friendly and low-cost polymer materials based on post-production and postconsumer wastes. Sustainable development of three groups...
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Wdrożenie nowych regulacji prawnych w ochronie powietrza atmosferycznego w Polsce
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono zmiany prawne wynikające z przystosowania dyrektyw 2008/50/WE i 2004/107/WE do prawodawstwa polskiego. Nowe regulacje odnoszące się do ochrony powietrza stanowią jedynie rozbudowanie i modyfikację istniejacych dotychczas przepisów. W ratykule podano istotne informacje wynikajace z decyzji Komisji Europejslkiej 2011/850/UE
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High-temperature heat pumps – potential technology for heat recovery and production of process heat
PublicationIn the paper, the high temperature vapour compressor based heat pump with a selection of working fluids, both perspective and ecological ones, is considered. Such system is not yet commercially available on the market and in author’s opinion it has significant potential for various applications. In the presented analysis it was assumed that the heat source has a temperature of 50oC and the temperature lift is 60, 80 and 100K respectively....
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Property revenues (PRs) and expenditures of local government units (LGUs) in Poland
PublicationPRs are new category of local government revenues, which was introduced by changing the law on public finances at the end of 2006 and which took effect in 2007. By principle, these revenues should be converted into property expenditures. Their formalisation did not only allow assessing their absolute size but also a comparison with the longer existing property expenditures. Both categories were subject of analysis in this article....
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A current-controlled FET
PublicationA novel semiconductor device, viz., Horizontally-Split-Drain Current-Controlled Field-Effect Transistor (HSDCCFET) with two control electrodes is proposed in this works. For the sake of brevity, the device can be called a CCFET. Operating principle of the proposed transistor is based on one of the galvanomagnetic phenomena, the Biot-Savart-Laplace law and a Gradual Channel Detachment Effect (GCDE). The transistor is dedicated...
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Thermoplastic Elastomers Filled With GTR
PublicationIn recent years, searching for new and cost-effective methods of recycling waste tires has been a subject of research in many laboratories worldwide. This is due to regulations in the law and environmental factors, which have both stimulated industry to re-use high quality rubber found in ground tire rubber (GTR). One of the most promising solutions in this area seems to be thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) filled with GTR, which...
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Modeling, simulation, and validation of a TB41 crash test of the H2/W5/B concrete vehicle restraint system
PublicationThe paper addresses numerical simulations of a concrete vehicle restraint system. The model is described in detail. The advanced material law of the continuous surface cap model was used to analyze the damage locations in concrete barrier segments. The results were validated against the TB41 full-scale crash test. The test was conducted in compliance with European standard EN 1317, and the validation was performed in accordance...
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Metoda TrustCritic oceny wiarygodności sklepów internetowych
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono metodę oceny wiarygodności sklepów internetowych TrustCritic. Powszechnie występujące nadużycia w handlu elektronicznym sprawiają, że zaufanie do przedsiębiorcy staje się kluczowym czynnikiem decyzji konsumentów. Przedsiębiorca narażony jest na niezgodność z prawem, utratę wizerunku i klientów. Artykuł omawia problematykę nadużyć w sferze e-biznesu oraz proponuje wielokryterialny model oceny sklepu internetowego,...
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Investigation of noises in the EPN weekly time series
PublicationThe constantly growing needs of permanent stati ons’ velocities users cause their stability level to increase. To this research we included more than 150 stations located across Europe operating within the EUREF Permanent Network (EPN) w ith weekly changes in the ITRF2005 reference frame. The obvious long-range dependencies in the stochastic part of GPS time series were p roven by Ljung-Box...
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Pedestrian Safety in Road Traffic in Poland
PublicationEvery third road accident in Poland involves a pedestrian as a participant or, most of the time, a casualty. Pedestrian accidents are usually the result of complex situations and the outcome of a number of factors related to driver and pedestrian behaviour and road infrastructure. Safety depends largely on how well the traffic condition is perceived and on visibility in traffic. The paper presents the results of analyses of methodologies...
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CSR – A FASHION OR REAL COMMITMENT? THE CASE OF POLISH LISTED COMPANIES
PublicationThis article, without claiming to be the ultimate reference, aims at assessing the social commitment of the large and solid financially, listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), Polish companies, on the eve of the implementation of the EU directive on disclosure of non-financial and diversity information (2014/95/EU). The selected companies seem perfect to form a vanguard of CSR in Poland, but the results of the analysis indicate...
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Travelling Architecture: Vanishing heritage of Gypsy caravans in Poland
PublicationThe wandering Gypsy/Roma groups began arriving in the territory of Poland in the fifteenth century. Leading a nomadic life, they did not develop any form of a built house until the nineteenth century, until the first wooden caravans appeared. In the twentieth century, the architecture of Gypsy caravans began to thrive. They developed into several different forms of meticulously decorated wooden mobile houses. At the same time however,...
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The potential of Web-GIS and geovisual analytics in the context of marine cadastre
PublicationThe importance of the marine environment to human existence makes it imperative that information models represent the multidimensional nature of reality as closely as possible in order to facilitate good governance. Information regarding jurisdiction, as well as the effects of formal law and community interests on the marine environment (e.g. nature and spatial extents as well as rights, responsibilities, restrictions etc.) would...
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CONCRETE MIX DESIGN USING ABRAMS AND BOLOMEY METHODS
PublicationOne way to reduce the consumption of cement is to optimize its use. Many known methods of concrete design, based on the Abrams law and the Bolomey method. Therefore, the authors chose those methods for analysis. The concrete composition with the assumed strength class, calculated by any method differs significantly. This applies especially to the cement content, as its content in the composition of concrete varies from 20 to 50%....