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  • Simulation of the Dynamics of Renewable Energy Sources with Energy Storage Systems

    The intermittency of renewable energy sources (RES) constitutes a challenge for effective power system control. Fossil-fuel-based units offering ancillary power services to meet the short-term power imbalance are a financial and environmental burden for the society. Energy storage systems (ESS) can be the solution in view of the electricity market development and growing environmental concern. The major questions are, in what circumstances...

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  • Polyurethanes as a Potential Medical-Grade Filament for Use in Fused Deposition Modeling 3D Printers – a Brief Review

    The possibility of using 3D printing technology (3DP) in medical field is a kind of revolution in health care. This has contributed to a rapid growth in demand for 3D printers, whose systems and materials are adapted to strict medical requirements. In this paper, we report a brief review of polyurethanes as a potential medical-grade filament for use in Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3D printer technology. The advantages of polyurethanes...

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  • Global value chains, wages, employment and labour production in China: A regional approach

    In this study we analyse the relationship of trade and global value chains (GVCs) to the labour market in 31 Chinese provinces for 25 sectors, by means of a system of structural equations. We firstly distinguish between provincial value chains (PVCs) and interprovincial value chains (PRVCs) in order to outline their distribution and evolution over time. Then, we investigate to what extent participation in GVCs, PVCs and PRVCs –...

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  • Banking concentration in the Baltic and Western Balkan states — selected issues

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    Research background: In a rapidly changing economic environment companies deepen their cooperation, which entails in all sectors of the economy. The progressive increase in market concentration, especially in the banking sector, is caused by various reasons. Purpose of the article: The purpose of this article is to compare the tendencies within market structures in few countries which origin from similar political systems and...

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  • Good practices in requirements, project and risk managment in educational IT projects

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    - Year 2012

    One can find many learning aids and simulations of physical phenomena on the market - provided as a standalone application or as part of an educational package. However, only a few of them allow for the building of interactive experiments: experiments similar to those that should be conducted in physics laboratories at schools. Gdańsk University of Technology decided to fill this market niche by designing and constructing a set...

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  • Exploring Stock Traders’ Cognitive Biases: Research Design and Simulator Framework

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    - Year 2023

    Cognitive bias is a phenomenon that has been extensively studied in stock trading and many other fields. This paper presents a framework for a Mobile Stock Trading Simulator (MSTS) that facilitates automatic investment in stocks with minimal human influence, by investigating the behavioral patterns and cognitive errors of stock market investors. The paper aims to determine whether investors’ investment strategies can be improved...

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  • Employment structure in individual enterprises in Poland in 2010-2014

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    It is worth mentioning the role of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in the labor market. The above-mentioned entities employ in total nearly 70% of all employees who work in the corporate sector. Micro enterprises play a decisive role in this respect, accounting for nearly 40% of all employees.Comparing the data contained in the table below...

  • Creating IT competence centers

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    - Year 2012

    This article indicates the need for supporting University Competence Centers. They are specialized centers, which aim to support teaching and development of newest software technologies, educating students, PhD Students and scientific workers also raising competetitiveness of the university at higher education market.

  • Knowledge Management

    e-Learning Courses
    • W. Kucharska

    Brand knowledge, customer knowledge, relations knowledge, market knowledge, „know how” etc., are intangible assets with great value to the organization today, and to leave these assets unmanaged would seem to be foolish in the extreme. The aim of the course is to explain: who/ why/ how to manage knowledge effectively. Welcome & GOOD LUCK :) Wioleta Kucharska

  • Polish FDI in Central Asian Countries

    Since gaining independence, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan gradually opened their markets to foreign investors. Before Poland’s accession to the European Union, the activities of Polish investors in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan were based on bilateral treaties concluded by Poland with those countries. Later, except Turkmenistan, they were governed by the partnership...

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  • Implementation of the Concept of Flexicurity in the Selected Countries of Central Eastern Europe

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    The CEE countries have to create their own flexicurity policies which would take into account the employment policy guidelines, cultural traditions and socio-economic development. The aim of this article is to examine and evaluate the implementation of the flexicurity concept on the basis of the adopted set of composite indicators. The study covers 9 countries of the CEE region, and the research period covers the years 2007 and 2013....

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  • Professional activity and women entrepreneurship in Poland – Europe 2020 Strategy perspective

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    - Year 2013

    The level of economic activity of women in Poland is the lowest among Baltic Sea Region countries. The analysis of Europe 2020 targets, shows that at least 3 of the 5 main objectives relate, more or less, to women (e.g. participation in labor market). The objective concerning social inclusion assumes the increase in the employment rate of men and women (aged 20-64) in Poland up to 71%. To achieve this goal, support programs to...

  • New Product Creativity Dimensions and Performance

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    - Year 2021

    A new product’s meaningfulness and novelty are recognized as two distinct and important dimensions. Thus, researchers started to investigate their impact on new product performance. However, researchers’ reports on the impact of novelty on performance are still mixed, and several issues need to be solved. One of these problems is comparing how strongly each of these dimensions affects the new product performance. The other is to...

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  • A synthetic result of the development of personnel risk factors in the A, B, C, D enterprise

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    The data below presents the shape of all the researched personnel risk factors in the A, B, C, D enterprise (which were 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.

  • Factors determining selection of production planning and control system

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    - Year 2013

    The article contains a comparative characteristics of selected systems of production planning and control, such as: MRP, kanban/JiT, DBR/TOC. The results of the performed analyses served as a basis for determining key market factors related to production planning and control functions, which determine the choice of an appropriate system.

  • Banking stability during the economic transformation process in selected countries of the Western Balkans

    Economic transformation is still an ongoing process in many European countries. Despite common economic roots, the current economic situations are developing differently in different countries. This article will consider the process of economic transformation in terms of the banking sector. It aims to assess the level of banking stability throughout the transformation process in the Western Balkan region, and to assess the determinates...

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  • IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DIPLOMAS AND GROUP PROJECTS DURING ENGINEERING STUDIES IN COOPERATION WITH EMPLOYERS

    The quality of education is one of the most important factors determining the job opportunity for graduates. The authors present the possibility of carrying out the diplomas in cooperation with employers and institutions interested in employment of students who graduated Gdansk University of Technology, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and University of Warmia and Mazury, Faculty of Geodesy and Land Management (major:...

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  • The effect of environmental turbulence on cyber security risk management and organizational resilience

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    - COMPUTERS & SECURITY - Year 2024

    Even though there is a plethora of research on the role of environmental turbulence in organizational performance in general, little attention has been paid to the effect of environmental turbulence on cyber security risk management and further - organizational resilience. Drawing on the resource-based view and contingency theory, this study investigates how technological and market turbulence influence organizational cyber security...

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  • Quality of Cryptocurrency Mining on Previous Generation NVIDIA GTX GPUs

    Currently, there is a lot of previous generation NVIDIA GTX graphical processing units (GPUs) available on the market, which were ousted from by next-gen RTX units. Due to this fact, numerous fully-operational devices remain underused, which are available at an affordable price. First, this paper presents an analysis of the cryptocurrency market. Next, in this context, the results of research on the performance of NVIDIA graphics...

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  • IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DIPLOMAS AND GROUP PROJECTS DURING ENGINEERING STUDIES IN COOPERATION WITH EMPLOYERS

    The quality of education is one of most important factors determining the job opportunity for graduates. The authors present the possibility of carrying out the diplomas in cooperation with employers and institutions interested in employment of students who graduated Gdansk University of Technology, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and University of Warmia and Mazury, Faculty of Geodesy and Land Management (major:...

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  • Theory vs. practice. Searching for a path of practical education

    The introduction of a three-tier model of higher education (the Bologna model) has led to considerable changes in the 1st- and 2nd-tier technical courses at universities. At present, a student with a bachelor’s degree can be employed in his / her profession after completing only 7 semesters of study. A search is under way for methods of combining theoretical knowledge taught at universities with practical knowledge gained afterwards....

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  • Co-Living or a “Sandpit” for Future Entrepreneurs. First Experience from Poland.

    Nowadays, the Western world seems saturated with the myriad of enhancements for entrepreneurship development. Also, in Eastern European countries we observe a growing number of initiatives at different organizational levels, aiming at accompanying potential future entrepreneurs in their efforts. Meanwhile, there is one novelty, never before offered on the Polish market – the first co- -living space, launched in Gdañsk. Therefore,...

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  • Development of banking sectors in Kosovo and Montenegro in the years 2000 - 2010

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    The article presents main aspects of development of banking markets in two Balkan countries - Kosovo and Montenegro. Both of them are charaterised by similar recent history, both in political and economical fields. Their financial sectors have had to be built almost from scretch. The author describes stages of development of competition in the banking sectors, using the following ratios: performace, structure, liquidity. The data...

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  • The risk of corporate bankruptcy - the conceptual model

    This article concerns the assessment of different types of risks influencing the corporate bankruptcy risk. The author has developed conceptual model that explains the causes and the trajectories of the collapse of enterprises. In the analyses such factors as demographic, financial, market, political and operational factors influencing the risk of failure were taken into account.

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  • EU Enlargement and Labour Demand in the New Member States

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    - Intereconomics - Year 2010

    Research to date on labour market responses to EU integration has tended to concentrate on the labour markets of the 'old' EU members. But what effects has the integration of trade had on wages in the new member states? The following article attempts to answer this question using and empirical model of conditional labour demand.

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  • Commercial function as a treat to the monument - 25 years of experience in the commercialization of monuments in Gdansk, Poland

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    The principles of the market economy adopted in Poland in the nineties have significantly touched the resources of immovable monuments. As a result, monuments have become a product of culture subject to the rules of the free market; and state ownership, patronage and decision-making practice has now been replaced by private interest. Practical monument use has also changed with the shift in ownership of objects after privatization...

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  • Self-assessment of competencies of students and graduates participating in didactic projects – Case study

    Aim/purpose: the aim of this article is to examine the opinions of students and graduates of the faculty of economics of a technical university as regards their selfassessment of their preparation for entering the modern labour market. All the respondents participated during their studies in didactic projects aimed at improving their competencies taking into account the expectations of potential employers. Design/methodology/approach:...

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  • Small Polymeric Toys Placed in Child-Dedicated Chocolate Food Products—Do They Contain Harmful Chemicals? Examination of Quality by Example of Selected VOCs and SVOCs

    This study was focused on child-dedicated chocolate food products that contain a plastic package with a small toy inside (also known as chocolate eggs). Three types of these products that are commercially available on the Polish market, with different prices, chocolate composition, and main types of polymers used in the toy manufacturing process, were investigated. The polymers were identified using Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR)...

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  • Methods of Artificial Intelligence for Prediction and Prevention Crisis Situations in Banking Systems

    In this paper, a support vector machine has been studied due to prediction of bank crisis. To prevent outcomes of crisis situations, artificial neural networks have been characterized as applied to stock market investments, as well as to test the credibility of the bank's customers. Finally, some numerical experiments have been presented.

  • The Comparison of the Crypto- and Fiat Currencies’ Exchange Rate Volatility in The Years 2015–2017

    The article describes the issues related to exchange rate volatility of crypto- and fiat currencies. The first part presents the issue of exchange rate volatility as well as methods of its evaluation and criteria of the conducted research. In the next part the author presented the essence of currencies and the main currency i.e. fiat money in the global economy in terms of the volume of transactions on the FOREX market. Then the...

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  • A commercial of the shelf components for a unmanned air vehicle photogrammetry

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    A photogrammetry from a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can be understood as a new measurement tool. Is introduces a low-cost alternatives for a traditional aerial photogrammetry. A commercial off-the-shelf products (COTS), that are commercially available for a costumers, are the standard manufactures products, not custom. COTS products are available in the commercial market and can be bought and used under government contract. That...

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  • Design thinking qualifications framework – standardizing the innovative approach to entrepreneurial education delivery to engineering students

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    - Year 2014

    Highly competitive labor market stimulates increasing expectations towards fresh university alumni. It is not enough to be an expert - well educated and often experienced - in chosen discipline. High variability of the business environment, continuous change, number of risks, together with higher work demand than supply, shape clear employers’ expectations: entrepreneurial employees are wanted. On this ground a need for entrepreneurial...

  • Are you a Strategic Thinker? Summer 21/22 - Nowy

    e-Learning Courses
    • M. Mcphillips
    • K. Flisikowski

    The course explores strategic management choices along with the role of innovation in creating sustainable competitive advantage. It introduces frameworks and tools of strategic management (e.g. how to analyze organizations in their industry context and how to design and execute a coherent strategy). Concepts such as value creation, product diversification, clustering and open innovation will be explored to understand how entrepreneurs...

  • Are you a Strategic Thinker? Summer 22/23

    e-Learning Courses
    • M. McPhillips
    • K. Flisikowski

    The course explores strategic management choices along with the role of innovation in creating sustainable competitive advantage. It introduces frameworks and tools of strategic management (e.g. how to analyze organizations in their industry context and how to design and execute a coherent strategy). Concepts such as value creation, product diversification, clustering and open innovation will be explored to understand how entrepreneurs...

  • Are you a Strategic Thinker? WINTER 23/24

    e-Learning Courses
    • M. McPhillips

    The course explores strategic management choices along with the role of innovation in creating sustainable competitive advantage. It introduces frameworks and tools of strategic management (e.g. how to analyze organizations in their industry context and how to design and execute a coherent strategy). Concepts such as value creation, product diversification, clustering and open innovation will be explored to understand how entrepreneurs...

  • Are you a Strategic Thinker? WINTER 24

    e-Learning Courses
    • M. McPhillips

    The course explores strategic management choices along with the role of innovation in creating sustainable competitive advantage. It introduces frameworks and tools of strategic management (e.g. how to analyze organizations in their industry context and how to design and execute a coherent strategy). Concepts such as value creation, product diversification, clustering and open innovation will be explored to understand how entrepreneurs...

  • Are you a Strategic Thinker? SUMMER 23/24

    e-Learning Courses
    • M. McPhillips

    The course explores strategic management choices along with the role of innovation in creating sustainable competitive advantage. It introduces frameworks and tools of strategic management (e.g. how to analyze organizations in their industry context and how to design and execute a coherent strategy). Concepts such as value creation, product diversification, clustering and open innovation will be explored to understand how entrepreneurs...

  • Integration and Dependency in Software Lifecycle Based on Jazz Platform

    Publication
    • B. Chrabski

    - Year 2011

    Software delivery organizations are being asked to meet goals that seem mutually exclusive. Teams are asked to increase product quality, accelerate time to market, and meet increasing mandates from regulatory bodies. As software solutions and software development environments become rapidly more complex. Many business drivers compound these challlenges.

  • Stages of development of payment cards in Poland

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    An important stage in the development of the Polish card market was the commencement of the card and check center of Bank Pekao SA in 1992, which became a professional technical background for the widespread issuance of bank cards. At the same year PolCard SA, became the first agent in the country, launched its own terminals for payment intermediation...

  • The Efficiency of Public and Private Higher Education Institutions in Poland

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    Changes introduced to Poland’s education system in 2011 and 2014 amid efforts to adjust it to the needs of the labour market had an effect on the country’s institutions of higher learning. This paper provides an analysis of the efficiency of public and private Polish universities and examines the impact of selected factors in the years that followed. To estimate this efficiency, a Banker, Charnes and Cooper (BCC) model of the...

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  • Method for Assessing Rail Transport Competitiveness in Poland and the United Kingdom

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    - Year 2015

    Both in Poland and United Kingdom, as well as worldwide, railways have to compete with other modes of transport, and the rail industry seeks for possibilities of achieving a competitive advantage over them. Thus, there is a need for methods for assessment of rail transport competitiveness and detection of areas for improvement. This paper presents a method developed for the Polish regional transport market and verified according...

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  • Experimental economics in business education: Using simple games to achieve multifaceted effects

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    - Year 2014

    Economics differs from other sciences not only because of its normative part, but also because of very limited use of experiments. In this way, economics is often perceived as being methodologically more similar to astronomy or meteorology rather than physics or chemistry. Over last decades, however, experimental economics has been significantly developed. This chapter presents some of the possibilities for academic teachers to...

  • Innovative management of IT projects with the use of the agent-based approach on the basis of intelligent agents

    Publication

    - Year 2014

    Project management is one of the major challenges for the modern economy. Dynamic changes in the structures of organizations which form the core of the economy imply changes in both management processes and structures. One element of these changes is a new approach to the manufacturing of modern and rapidly changing products (due to changing market requirements). As part of these changes, traditional organizational structures are...

  • Cybersecurity in the Electricity Sector

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    - Year 2019

    This book offers a systematic explanation of cybersecurity protection of electricity supply facilities, including discussion of related costs, relevant standards, and recent solutions. The author explains the current state of cybersecurity in the electricity market, and cybersecurity standards that apply in that sector. He then offers a systematic approach to cybersecurity management, including new methods of cybersecurity assessment,...

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  • Yuxin Lu Dr

    Research interests: Gravity Model of Trade; Global Value Chains; Economic Growth; Labor Market; Income Inequalities.

  • Revenues to the state budget from the sale of shares in state-owned banks in 1994-2000

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    On 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...

  • Number of commercial banks at the end of the year, excluding banks that are not operating, bankrupt or liquidated, and banks in organization in 1993-2004

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    Polish banks were gradually transformed from enterprises with a predominance of Polish private capital into banks with a majority share of private foreign capital. In 1993, there were 48 banks with a majority of Polish private capital, and in 2006 there were 7 of them. In 1993, the shares of 10 banks in Poland were owned by private foreign capital,...

  • Employees’ self-expansion, work conditions, work engagement and productive behaviours: study 1&2

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    In the following studies conducted in Poland, we examined the importance of workplace self-expansion and found that it is a significant mediator between job resources (e.g. compensation and benefits, job tasks) and work engagement (Study 1) as well as task-oriented engagement (Study 2). At the same time, our findings prove that job demands (e.g. role...

  • Stanisław Galla dr inż.

    Stanisław Galla was born in 1970 in Gdańsk. He graduated from the Secondary Technical School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in Gdansk (1990). He studied at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Gdansk University of Technology (graduated in 1996). His PhD thesis entitled "Methodology for increasing the accuracy of low frequency measurements of periodic disturbance indicators in low voltage networks" was defended in...

  • Towards Cognitive and Perceptive Video Systems

    Publication
    • T. Akgun
    • C. Attwood
    • A. Cavallaro
    • C. Fabre
    • F. Poiesi
    • P. Szczuko

    - Year 2014

    In this chapter we cover research and development issues related to smart cameras. We discuss challenges, new technologies and algorithms, applications and the evaluation of today’s technologies. We will cover problems related to software, hardware, communication, embedded and distributed systems, multi-modal sensors, privacy and security. We also discuss future trends and market expectations from the customer’s point of view.

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