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  • Dynamic Response of the Suspended on a Single Cable Footbridge

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    The article presents numerical simulations, dynamic in situ load tests and a structural health monitoring (SHM) system installed in a suspended on a single cable footbridge. Numerical simulations performed prior to construction indicated the possibility of structural dynamics problems, finally confirmed in the course of dynamic test loading. In the dynamic load course the bridge deck developed vibrations displaying accelerations...

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  • Study on the prevalence of mobile phone use by car drivers – the case of Poland

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    : Distracted driving is a significant factor affecting road safety and it can occur as a result of using mobile phones while driving. The aim of the current research is to present the prevalence of mobile phone use by Polish car drivers, based on the roadside and online survey. The field study showed that 11.6% of 1867 drivers were using mobile phones while being in motion and 26.1% of 203 drivers when stopped in front of traffic...

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  • Molecular Design Using Selected Concentration Effects in Optically Activated Fluorescent Matrices

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    - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES - Year 2024

    Molecular physics plays a pivotal role in various fields, including medicine, pharmaceuticals, and broader industrial applications. This study aims to enhance the methods for producing specific optically active materials with distinct spectroscopic properties at the molecular level, which are crucial for these sectors, while prioritizing human safety in both production and application. Forensic science, a significant socio-economic...

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  • Influence of a Lighting Column in the Working Width of a W-Beam Barrier on TB51 Crash Test

    Road equipment, such as, e.g., road safety barriers and lighting columns, are subject to certification according to the EN1317 standard to be allowed for use on European roads. In engineering practice, due to the terrain conditions, there are cases where other road equipment is installed within the working width of road safety barriers. Such situations are not considered during the certification process. Hence, the aim of this...

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  • Koncepcja analizy stanów emocjonalnych użytkowników w kontekście systemów zabezpieczeń transportowych

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

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  • Zagrożenia bezpieczeństwa protokołów komunikacji morskiej, lotniczej i lądowej

    W artykule przedstawiono przykładowe zagrożenia wykorzystujące słabości wybranych protokołów komunikacji morskiej, lotniczej i lądowej. Wskazano, jakie czynności należy podjąć, żeby się przed nimi ustrzec (przynajmniej częściowo). Opisano również kierunek, w jakim powinny być rozwijane analizowane protokoły, aby zwiększyć bezpieczeństwo osób je używających.

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  • Analiza symulacyjna wybranych algorytmów dostarczania paczek wiadomości w sieci DTN na Bałtyku

    Jedną z dróg zwiększania bezpieczeństwa żeglugi morskiej jest zapewnienie powszechnej dostępności usług e-nawigacji na obszarach morskich pozbawionych dostępu do Internetu. W artykule opisano wyniki symulacji wybranych algorytmów przekazywania wiadomości usług niewrażliwych na opóźnienia w znacznej odległości od lądu, w sieci o nieciągłej i sporadycznej łączności.

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  • Agile Development of Critical Software - Can It be Justified?

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    The paper introduces the problem of application of agile practices in critical software development projects. It summarizes the present state of research and identifies the need for having a ready-to-use model of being agile while still meeting the required assurance levels which could be particularly useful for small and medium sized safety-critical software companies. Then the objective and scope of a research aiming at delivering...

  • Modal analysis of cylindrical steel tanks

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    Cylindrical steel tanks are very popular structures used for storage of products of chemical and petroleum industries. Their safety and reliability is crucial because any failure could have serious consequences. The aim of present paper is to show the results of the first phase of investigation of seismic behaviour such structures. Modal analysis using Finite Element Method (FEM) for three models of real tanks used in Poland has...

  • Standards Conformity Framework in comparison with contemporary methods supporting standards application

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    - Year 2008

    Achieving and assessing conformity with standards and compliance with various sets of requirements generates significant costs for contemporary economies. Great deal of this is spent on fulfilment of safety and security requirements. However, standards application is not supported sufficiently by the tools available on the market. Therefore, Standards Conformity Framework (SCF) containing methods and tools which provide support...

  • Application of dynamic time warping and cepstrograms to text-dependent speaker verification

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    - Year 2009

    This work provides a description of an automatic speaker verification (ASV) system. In particular, it documents the evolution of all individual stages of the proposed ASV system design from the phase of preprocessing to an operational decision making system. The aim of this research was to achieve the system of the best safety and ease of use in view of users. The objective estimation of this target has been accomplished by assessing...

  • LLA : A New Anypath Routing Scheme Providing Long Path Lifetime in VANETs

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    Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) are a promising solution to improve the road traffic safety, reduce the environmental pollution, or simply provide the on-board infotainment services. However, these actions are often not possible due to high mobility of vehicles causing frequent failures of VANET links. In this paper, we focus on anypath routing to improve the reliability of multihop VANET communications. In particular, the paper...

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  • Initial Considerations

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    - Year 2017

    Chemical processes have made use of a wide number of volatile organic solvents due to their efficiency in countless unit operations. The increasing knowledge on the environmental, health, and safety hazards associated to their use has significantly contributed to the search for greener alternatives. The primary purpose of this book is to provide an overview of alternative solvents with reduced issues that have successfully replaced...

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  • The effect of current delay angle on tripping of residual current devices

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    - Year 2017

    Power electronics converters applied in domestic or similar installations may utilize current delay (phase) angle control to change the level of transferred power. Due to application of such types of converters, earth fault current in the installation may be strongly distorted. The current distortion level depends on a value of current delay angle. This delay angle also influences the tripping threshold of residual current devices....

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  • State of the Art of Automated Buses

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    • J. Ainsalu
    • V. Arffman
    • M. Bellone
    • M. Ellner
    • T. Haapamäki
    • N. Haavisto
    • E. Josefson
    • A. Ismailogullari
    • E. Pilli-sihvola
    • O. Madland... and 13 others

    - Sustainability - Year 2018

    Urban transportation in the next few decades will shift worldwide towards electrification and automation, with the final aim of increasing energy efficiency and safety for passengers. Such a big change requires strong collaboration and efforts among public administration, research and stakeholders in developing, testing and promoting these technologies in the public transportation. Working in this direction, this work provides...

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  • Resonant DC link inverters for AC motor drive systems – critical evaluation

    In this survey paper, resonant and quasiresonant DC link inverters are reexamined for AC motor drive applications. Critical evaluation of representative topologies is based on simulation and waveform analysis to characterize current/voltage stress of components, control timing constraints and feasibility. A special concern over inverter common-mode voltage and voltage gradient du/dt limitation capacity is discussed for motor bearing...

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  • UWB-Based Indoor Navigation in a Flexible Manufacturing System Using a Custom Quadrotor UAV

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    • P. Savvakis
    • G. Vosniakos
    • E. Stathatos
    • A. Debar-monclair
    • M. Chodnicki
    • P. Benardos

    - Year 2023

    A novel solution for indoor navigation of a transportation drone in flexible manufacturing is presented in this paper. To address the challenges of accurate and robust drone navigation in occluded environments, an ultra-wideband (UWB) navigation system has been integrated with a commercially available open source control platform. The system offers high accuracy (± 20 mm), low power consumption, resistance to electronic interference,...

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  • Risk criteria for sea-going ships arising from the operation of the main engines' crankshaft - conecting rod - piston systems

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    In the article the risk criterion for sea-going ships arising from the operation of the main engines' crankshaft - connecting rod - piston systems is proposed. These criterion is based on the procedures recommended in the Formal Safety Assessment method developed under the auspices of International Maritime Organization (IMO). First of all the collective risk criterion for ship has been proposed. In the next step, the share of...

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  • Analysis of the Suitability of Selected Data Tranmission Systems in RSMAD

    This paper analyses the suitability of the selected radio communication systems currently used for data transmission, or usable in the future, in Radio System for Monitoring and Acquisition of Data from Traffic Enforcement Cameras (in short RSMAD). The paper also presents the advantages and disadvantages of each systems, paying particular attention to features that directly affect the suitability of the solution in the RSMAD system....

  • Experimental determination of dynamic properties of cylindrical steel tank model filled with liquid

    In technical branches, such as chemical or petroleum industries, cylindrical steel tanks are essential structures used for storage of liquid products. Any failure might have disastrous consequences, therefore their safety and reliability is essential. The aim of the present paper is to show the results of the experimental study which has been conducted on a scaled model of a real tank used in Poland. The investigation was carried...

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  • Voltage control in a power system with renewable sources of energy

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    - Year 2019

    Intensive development of distributed generation in power systems, caused by the European Union energy policy, gives possibility for improving safety in power delivery as well as optimizing the costs of the systems functioning. In this context, distributed generation can be used for voltage control in power systems – it can be performed by the control of reactive power of each source of energy or a group of energy sources. This...

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  • Examining the Impact of Distance Between VSL Road Signs on Vehicle Speed Variance

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    - IEEE Access - Year 2023

    Variable speed limit (VSL) is an intelligent transportation system (ITS) solution for traffic management. The speed limits can be changed dynamically to adapt to traffic conditions such as visibility and traffic volume, curvature, and grip coefficient of the road surface. The VSL traffic sign location problem and attempts to solve it using computer simulation are presented in this paper. Experiments on a selected road segment,...

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  • Automatic Analysis of Trajectories of Moving Objects

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    Ongoing monitoring is essential to providing security and safety of maritime and air operations. This paper presents the research in the area of automatic analysis of movement of unrestricted vehicles like ships and air-planes. The analysis is aimed at extraction of trajectory information, and the results can be used to identify anomalous behaviour in archived and real-time data. In this paper we focus on data acquired using the...

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  • Smoking: Traditional

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    Smoking, drying, and salting belong to the oldest methods of food preservation. Meat hung by the fire was preserved by a combination of drying and smoking. Often the raw material was first pickled in brine. In different regions of the world various procedures have been developed, best suited for treating meats and fish for specific purposes. Smoking extended the shelf life and imparted very desirable, new sensory properties to...

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  • The guidelines and principles for planning and design of road restraint systems

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    - MATEC Web of Conferences - Year 2017

    The project RID 3A Road Safety Equipment (RoSE) implemented by the Gdansk University of Technology within the RID programme, aims to conduct a comprehensive study and analyses of different vehicle containment systems (PN-EN 1317) and types of support structures (PN-EN 12767) and their performance. Within the project an analysis will be conducted of available research reports...

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  • Weryfikacja poziomu nienaruszalności funkcji związanych z bezpieczeństwem

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    - Year 2015

    Funkcje związane z bezpieczeństwem są realizowane przez systemy sterowania i zabezpieczeń zawierające elementy elektryczne, elektroniczne i programowalne elektroniczne (E/E/PE). Systemy te należą do środków pozwalających na zmniejszenie ryzyka pochodzącego od instalacji technicznej i procesu. Właściwe zaprojektowanie systemu E/E/PE realizującego funkcje związane z bezpieczeństwem jest problematyczne. Zagadnienia weryfikacji poziomów...

  • Application of Barkhausen effect in the impact assessment of welding to internal stress distribution in steel

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    - Year 2016

    The paper presents identification method of internal stresses in plane steel elements in the chase of deliverance and welding assembly. The assessment was made by means of a non-destructive experimental method based on measurements incorporating local external magnetic field and the measurement of induced voltage, including Barkhausen noise. This method allows a degradation assessment due to internal and external actions, causing...

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  • Application of Barkhausen effect in the impact assessment of welding to internal stress distribution in steel

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    - Year 2016

    The paper presents identification method of internal stresses in plane steel elements in the chase of deliverance and welding assembly. The assessment was made by means of a non-destructive experimental method based on measurements incorporating local external magnetic field and the measurement of induced voltage, including Barkhausen noise. This method allows a degradation assessment due to internal and external actions, causing...

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  • Reliability Analysis of Sea Cliff Slope Stability by Point Estimate Method

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    - Year 2019

    The paper presents a reliability analysis of a sea cliff slope. The cliff, located in Jastrzębia Góra, is characterised by a complicated geological structure. Although currently stable, it is in fact close to the limit state. The objective of this paper is to present the point estimate method (PEM) of determining the mean value and standard deviation of the safety factor of the slope. Assuming its normal distribution, these statistical...

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  • Emotion monitoring system for drivers

    This article describes a new approach to the issue of building a driver monitoring system. Actual systems focus, for example, on tracking eyelid and eyebrow movements that result from fatigue. We propose a different approach based on monitoring the state of emotions. Such a system assumes that by using the emotion model based on our own concept, referred to as the reverse Plutchik’s paraboloid of emotions, the recognition of emotions...

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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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  • Reliability Analysis of Sea Cliff Slope Stability by Point Estimate Method

    The paper presents a reliability analysis of a sea cliff slope. The cliff, located in Jastrzębia Góra, is characterised by a complicated geological structure. Although currently stable, it is in fact close to the limit state. The objective of this paper is to present the point estimate method (PEM) of determining the mean value and standard deviation of the safety factor of the slope. Assuming its normal distribution, these statistical...

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  • Protection System Design of Induction Motor for Industries

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    - Year 2022

    The fundamental and durable structures of induction motor, as well as their low manufacturing cost, make them popular components in a wide range of current applications. Providing a safety net for employees is a must-have for businesses. This project’s motivation for improvement is to provide industrial motors, lift motors, pumps, and so on with safety. An induction motor’s primary goal is to protect it from problems, such as...

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  • Protection System Design of Induction Motor for Industries

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    - Modelling and Simulation in Engineering - Year 2022

    The fundamental and durable structures of induction motor, as well as their low manufacturing cost, make them popular components in a wide range of current applications. Providing a safety net for employees is a must-have for businesses. This project’s motivation for improvement is to provide industrial motors, lift motors, pumps, and so on with safety. An induction motor’s primary goal is to protect it from problems, such as...

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  • Risks to Older People in Road Traffic

    he article looks at road traffic risks and main trends from the perspective of older road users (drivers, cyclists, pedestrians). With a longer time to react, poor eyesight and hearing, impaired mobility, ill health and medication, older road users are put at risk. A comprehensive and pro-active strategy is needed to deal with these risk factors and meet the safety and mobility needs...

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  • Performance of Passive and Active Balancing Systems of Lithium Batteries in Onerous Mine Environment

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    • W. Kurpiel
    • P. Deja
    • B. Polnik
    • M. Skóra
    • B. Miedziński
    • M. Habrych
    • G. Debita
    • M. Zamłyńska
    • P. Falkowski-Gilski

    - ENERGIES - Year 2021

    To use lithium-iron-phosphate battery packs in the supply systems of any electric mining equipment and/or machines, the required conditions of work safety must be met. This applies in particular to coal mines endangered by fire and/or explosion. To meet the spark-safety conditions, the cells (together with the battery management system—BMS) must be isolated from the influence of the environment, and therefore placed in special...

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  • Stanowisko badawcze "Pomiary emisji zaburzeń przewodzonych"

    Pomiary emisji zaburzeń przewodzonych w świetle dyrektywy EMC 2004/108/WE, dotyczącej kompatybilności elektromagnetycznej urządzeń.

  • Rafał Janowicz dr hab. inż. arch.

    Rafał Janowicz since 2011, he is an associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Gdańsk University of Technology, at the Department of Technical Fundamentals of Architectural Design. He has graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Gdańsk University of Technology in 2001, with the major in Architecture and Urban Design, and two years later from the Faculty of Management and Economics with the major in Management...

  • Expert assessment of arguments: a method and its experimental evaluation

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    - Year 2008

    Argument structures are commonly used to develop and present cases for safety, security and other properties. Such argument structures tend to grow excessively. To deal with this problem, appropriate methods of their assessment are required. Two objectives are of particular interest: (1) systematic and explicit assessment of the compelling power of an argument, and (2) communication of the result of such an assessment to relevant...

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  • Structural Health Monitoring System for Suspension Footbridge

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    The article presents the structural health monitoring (SHM) system installed in a footbridge in Radom. The main reason for the need for fitting of such a system was failed acceptance tests of the bridge. While under a dynamic load consisting of a group of 12 pedestrians jumping on the bridge, the bridge developed vibration during which acceleration of the deck of up to 4.5 m/s2 was recorded. Such behavior of the footbridge causes...

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  • TOTAL SHIP OPERABILITY – REVIEW, CONCEPT AND CRITERIA

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    - Polish Maritime Research - Year 2017

    The ship operability can be understood and analysed in different manners, and its quality is described using different indexes by different authors. Practically, there is no general and widely accepted description of total ship operability in the literature, nor in the rules of classification societies, which would include both seakeeping and manoeuvrability characteristics of a ship, and simultaneously take into account all ship...

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  • TOXICOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF FOOD PACKAGES EXTRACTS

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    In the scientific literature related to the widely understood issue of packaging materials designed to have contact with food (Food Contact Materials – FCM) there is much information on raw materials used for their production, their physiochemical properties, types and parameters. There is also a great number of publications on the management and disposal of used packaging. Unfortunately, not much attention is given to the matters...

  • Construction solutions for historical object foundations in the context of changing their functional use

    Properly executed renovation and adaptation of a grade listed property not only ensures its constructional safety, but may also highlight the object’s historical value. Taking into consideration various factors, such as divergence of interests, or technical and legal determinants, it is safe to say that the renovation and adaptation of grade listed properties for new purposes is a complex process. The authors of the paper wish...

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  • Analysis of free‐air anomalies on the seaway of the Gulf of Gdańsk. A case study

    In this paper, we present an attempt to determine the accuracy of shipborne gravimetry for the needs of geoid determination. The shipborne gravity campaign, described in this article, is the beginning of a series of gravimetry measurements in the Polish Exclusive Economy Zone. The campaign was conducted in the area where the accuracy of geoid determination is crucial for the safety of navigation on numerous intersecting ships routes....

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  • System for monitoring road slippery based on CCTV cameras and convolutional neural networks

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    The slipperiness of the surface is essential for road safety. The growing number of CCTV cameras opens the possibility of using them to automatically detect the slippery surface and inform road users about it. This paper presents a system of developed intelligent road signs, including a detector based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and the transferlearning method employed to the processing of images acquired with video...

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  • Effect of microwave and convection heating on selected nutrients of human milk

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    The aim of this study was to determine the influence of the microwave heating method (MWH) on selected determinants of the nutritional value of human milk (HM) and compare to the effect exerted by the standard convection heating (CH) method, including holder pasteurization (HoP). It was showed that using MWH under conditions assumed to ensure microbiological safety, changes in the level of the nutrients were not observed. In these...

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  • Multi-objective Weather Routing with Customised Criteria and Constraints

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    The paper presents a weather routing algorithm utilising a multi-objective optimisation with constraints, namely the Multi-objective Evolutionary Weather Routing Algorithm (MEWRA). In the proposed approach weather route recommendations can be made simultaneously e.g. for passage time, fuel consumption and safety of passage by means of Pareto optimisation. The sets of criteria and constraints in the optimisation process are fully...

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  • Controling w zarządzaniu bezpieczeństwem pracy

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    - Year 2005

    W artykule przedstawiono możliwość wykorzystania controllingu do badania zagrożeń w procesie pracy. Dla oceny rozwiązań usprawniających wprowadzono pojęcie oszczędności zasobu typu praca i typu materiał, zużywanych w procesie realizacji zadań wytwórczych. Artykuł podkreśla możliwość osiągania efektów ekonomicznych (ograniczenia kosztów) w wyniku poprawy warunków pracy.CONTROLLING IN WORK SAFETY MANAGEMENTThe article presents the...

  • Stateczność czołowego obwałowania nasypu przeciwpowodziowego Jeziora Druzno

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    Przedstawiono analizę stateczności czołowego obwałowania przeciwpowodziowego Jeziora Druzno w miejscowości Nowe Dolno. Obliczenia przeprowadzono zarówno w naprężeniach całkowitych jak i efektywnych uproszczoną metodą Bishopa oraz metodą Felleniusa-Peterssona. Uzyskano wysokie wartości minimalnego wskaźnika stateczności, zapewniające znaczny zapas stateczności nasypu podczas długotrwałych piętrzeń wody w jeziorze. Mogłoby to wskazywać...

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  • Instalacje fotowoltaiczne w budownictwie wielorodzinnym

    Artykuł opisuje wpływ instalacji fotowoltaicznych na bezpieczeństwo eksploatacji budynków wielorodzinnych. W oparciu o projekty rzeczywistych obiektów przeprowadzono analizę zwiększenia ryzyka strat odgromowych, zmiany obciążenia konstrukcji dachu i wzrostu zagrożenia pożarowego na skutek montażu systemu fotowoltaicznego. Przeprowadzone obliczenia wskazują na konieczność kompleksowego podejścia do projektowania instalacji fotowoltaicznych....

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