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Application of the fluid–structure interaction technique for the analysis of hydrodynamic lubrication problems
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Characterization of PLZT Thin Films for Fast Electro-Optical Sampling Circuits
PublicationW artykule omówiono technologię wytwarzania cienkich warstw wybranych kompozycji ceramik ołowiowo-lantanowo-cyrkonowo-tytanowych, nazywanych ceramikami PLZT. Przedstawiono wyniki badań jakości warstw za pomocą techniki XRD. wyniki pomiaru grubości warstw, ich względnej przenikalności dielektrycznej i współczynnika załamania. Omówiono kierunki dalszych prac.
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Sequential treatment of landfill leachate by electrocoagulation/aeration, PMS/ZVI/UV and electro-Fenton: Performance, biodegradability and toxicity studies
PublicationThis study presents a systematic study on sequential treatment of highly resistant landfill leachate by electrocoagulation (EC)/aeration, sulfate radical advanced oxidation process (SR-AOP) and electro-Fenton (EF). In case of SR-AOP, peroxymonosulfate (PMS) catalyzed by zero valent iron (ZVI) and ultraviolet irradiation (UV) system was developed. Treatment process was optimized in respect to COD removal. Analysis of results revealed...
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Active feedback noise control in the presence of impulsive disturbances
PublicationThe problem of active feedback control of a narrowband acoustic noise in the presence of impulsive disturbances is considered. It is shown that, when integrated with appropriately designed outlier detector, the proposed earlier feedback control algorithm called SONIC is capable of isolating and rejecting noise pulses. According to our tests this guarantees stable and reliable operation of the closed-loop noise cancelling...
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Theoretical analysis and experimental tests of tilting pad journal bearings with shoes made of polymer material and low-boiling liquid lubrication
PublicationSelecting the appropriate bearing system for the rotor requires a good knowledge of the available solutions and the operating conditions of the machine. For newly designed machinery operating in adverse conditions, selecting bearings that ensure correct and long-lasting operation can be extremely challenging. Difficulties in- crease when the machine’s operating parameters are beyond the technical capabilities of available technical solutions....
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Active IR-Thermal Imaging in Medicine
PublicationIn this paper we summarize results of several research projects devoted to development of new diagnostic methods and procedures based on quantitative infrared thermography in medical applications. First, basics of active dynamic thermography are presented. Described are both, instrumentation and software comprising measurement procedures including collection of series of IR-images after external excitation, data treatment with...
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Electro-mechanical shear buckling of piezoelectric nanoplate using modified couple stress theory based on simplified first order shear deformation theory
PublicationThis paper studies the electro-mechanical shear buckling analysis of piezoelectric nanoplate using modified couple stress theory with various boundary conditions.In order to be taken electric effects into account, an external electric voltage is applied on the piezoelectric nanoplate. The simplified first order shear deformation theory (S-FSDT) has been employed and the governing differential equations have been obtained using...
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Robust algorithm for active feedback control of narrowband noise
PublicationThe problem of active control of narrowband acoustic noise is considered. It is shown that the proposed earlier feedback control algorithm called SONIC (self-optimizing narrowband interference canceller), based on minimization of the L2-norm performance measure, can be re-derived using the L1 approach. The resulting robust SONIC algorithm is more robust to heavy-tailed measurement noise, such as the αlpha-stable noise, than the...
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Determination of the active ingredient in pharmaceutical gel formulation by NIR spectroscopy
PublicationPharmaceuticals of their intended must be thoroughly controlled. The traditional analytical methods are very costly and time consuming. NIR spectroscopy allows to analyze pharmaceutical materials very quickly and with very low costs. First pharmaceutical applications of the NIR spectroscopy appeared with some incuriosity in the late 1960s. Application of NIR in the contemporary pharmaceutical industry is very large. The most common...
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A Note on Knowledge Management Education: Towards Implementing Active Learning Methods
PublicationKnowledge Management as an area of education is still a big challenge for teachers and practitioners. Nevertheless, there are several useful teaching methods in active education, especially oriented towards courses where innovation and delivering dynamic knowledge are critical. The goal of the paper is to present and discuss criteria relevant in the selection of active educational methods supporting knowledge management courses....
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Functionalized Peptide Fibrils as a Scaffold for Active Substances in Wound Healing
PublicationTechnological developments in the field of biologically active peptide applications in medicine have increased the need for new methods for peptide delivery. The disadvantage of peptides as drugs is their low biological stability. Recently, great attention has been paid to self-assembling peptides that can form fibrils. Such a formulation makes bioactive peptides more resistant to enzymatic degradation and druggable. Peptide fibrils...
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INDUSTRIAL LUBRICATION AND TRIBOLOGY
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Journal of Active and Passive Electronic Devices
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Comparisson between impulsive and periodic non-newtonian lubrication of human hip joint
PublicationOpis smarowania powierzchni sferycznych stawu biodrowego człowieka przedstawiono w aspektach hydromechaniki, przy pomocy równań zachowania pędu i ciągłości strugi dla osiowo niesymetrycznego przepływu cieczy lepkosprężystej z wykorzystaniem związków konstytutywnych Rivlina Ericksena we współrzędnych sferycznych.
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Problems of Active Dynamic Thermography Measurement Standardization in Medicine
PublicationReliability of thermographic diagnostics in medicine is an important practical problem. In the field of static thermography, a great deal of effort has been made to define the conditions for thermographic measurements, which is now the golden standard for such research. In recent years, there are more and more reports on dynamic tests with external stimulation, such as Active Dynamic Thermography, Thermographic Signal Reconstruction...
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Wear forms of heterogeneous electro-rheological fluids working in a hydraulic clutch system
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Electro-optical system for the automated selection of dental implants according to their colour matching
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Simultaneous opto-electrochemical monitoring of carbamazepine and its electro-oxidation by-products in wastewater
PublicationThe growing human impact on aquatic environments, due to the extensive use of pharmaceuticals and the release of persistent pollutants, makes it necessary to implement new widespread methods for the characterisation and quantification of such contaminants and relative degradation products. Carbamazepine, 5H-dibenzo[b,f]azepine-5-carboxamide, (CBZ) is a widely used anti-epileptic drug, characterised by its limited removal by conventional...
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Design and evaluation of a base module of active power electronic transformer
PublicationThis paper presents an active power electronic transformer (APET) based on modular structure. The proposed three phase APET consists of at least three base modules (BM). The input/output stage of the BM is based on half-bridge sub modules. The isolation stage includes a medium frequency transformer and is realized as a dual half-bridge. The paper describes construction process and explains the control strategy. The theoretical...
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Semi complex navigation with an active optical gesture sensor
PublicationThis paper presents the methods of diversified touchless interactions between a user and a mobile platform utilizing the optical gesture sensor. The sensor uses 8 photodiodes to measure the reflected light in the active mode (using embedded LEDs) or it measures shadows caused by fingers in the passive mode. Several algorithms were implemented: automatic mode switching, adaptive illumination level compensation, resolution improvements...
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Compensation of Dead Time Effects for Shunt Active Power Filters
PublicationThe paper presents a comprehensive approach to the compensation of the grid current distortion for shunt active power filter systems. Four different sources of current distortion are addressed: imperfect grid synchronization caused by the distortion in the grid voltages, time delays in the estimation of compensating currents and grid voltages, fluctuations of the dc bus voltage, and the distortion of inverter output voltages due...
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Rehabilitation device supporting active and passive upper limb exercises
PublicationThis article presents a mechatronic solution for rehabilitation devices supporting active and passive exercises in persons with motor dysfunctions of the upper limbs in the area of the elbow and shoulder joints. A planar positioner integrated with original software and a control system, served as the basis for creating the present solution. Bellman’s programming method was applied to optimize the motion trajectory of the planar...
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Finite-difference time-domain analyses of active cloaking for electrically-large objects
PublicationInvisibility cloaking devices constitute a unique and potentially disruptive technology, but only if they can work over broad bandwidths for electrically-large objects. So far, the only known scheme that allows for broadband scattering cancellation from an electrically-large object is based on an active implementation where electric and magnetic sources are deployed over a surface surrounding the object, but whose ‘switching on’...
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The number of active enterprises in Poland in 1997-2014
Open Research DataAfter Poland joined the group of countries associated in the European Union and through participation in numerous economic and political organizations (including the World Trade Organization, OECD), as well as the commencement of trade exchange with virtually all countries of the world, Polish entrepreneurs and managers struggle with completely problems...
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Removal of Pharmaceutically Active Compounds in Sequencing Batch Reactor
PublicationIn recent years, considerable attention was paid to the presence of organic micro-pollutants such as Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) in the aquatic environment due to their negative impact on public health and aquatic ecosystems. Numerous papers have pointed out API presence as common constituents of effluents from Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs). This is the result of various efficiencies of API removal by conventional...
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Active management of equipment cooling in hoteling data centers
PublicationHoteling data centers are designated for housing computing and storage units of many, usually small customers, as opposed to traditional data centers supporting own computing and storage resources of a bigger company. One of the services to be provided to consumer’s equipment is cooling. Cooling in data centers is prevalently achieved by circulating air in computer room. Efficient cooling requires delivering cold air from central...
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Impact resistance of plain and twill fabric in GFRP measured by active thermography
PublicationThis paper discusses the impact resistance of glass-fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) composites depending on the type of reinforcement – plain or twill weave. The values of impact energy were: 3J, 10J and 15J. Specimens featuring twill weave transferred higher force during the impact as compared with plain weave specimens. It was observed that an increase of impact energy was accompanied by an increase of the disproportion in...
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Standing Waves in a Rectangular Resonator Containing Acoustically Active Gases
PublicationThe distribution of perturbations of pressure and velocity in a rectangular resonator is considered. A resonator contains a gas where thermodynamic processes take place, such as exothermic chemical reaction or excitation of vibrational degrees of a molecule’s freedom. These processes make the gas acoustically active under some conditions. We conclude that the incident and reflected compounds of a sound beam do not interact in the...
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Sensorless predictive control of three-phase parallel active filter
PublicationThe paper presents the control system of parallel active power filter (APF) with predictive reference current calculation and model based predictive current control. The novel estimator and predictor of grid emf is proposed for AC voltage sensorless operation of APF, regardless of distortion of this voltage. Proposed control system provides control of APF current with high precision and dynamics limited only by filter circuit parameters....
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Linearized CMOS OTA using Active-Error Feedforward technique.
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono koncepcję układową operacyjnego wzmacniacza transkonduktancyjnego CMOS OTA oraz metodę linearyzacji jego charakterystyki przejściowej typu ''active-error feedforward''. Badania symulacyjne przy pomocy programu SPICE wykazały, że linearyzowany układ jest dostosowany do pracy z napięciem zasilania ± 1,25 V i dla sygnału harmonicznego o częstotliwości 1MHz (0,8 Vp-p) zapewnia poziom zniekształceń harmonicznych...
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Quantitative Active Dynamic Thermal IR-Imaging and Thermal Tomography in Medical Diagnostic
PublicationPrinciples of Active dynamic thermal (ADT) IR-imaging and Thermal Tomography are described in details. Basic medical applications of this new modality are also discussed.
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Cold-Active beta-Galactosidases: Sources, Biochemical Properties and Their Biotechnological Potential
Publicationbeta-D-Galactosidases have been studied extensively in terms of their application to a variety of industrial technologies. To date, considerable research efforts have been devoted to characterization of new cold-active beta-D-galactosidases which were isolated directly from selected species of bacteria and yeasts, as well as with the use of metagenomic approaches. This chapter will provide a review of current research towards cold-active...
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Multiple-channel frequency-adaptive active vibration control using SONIC
PublicationSONIC (self-optimizing narrowband interference canceller) is an acronym of a new approach to rejection of sinusoidal disturbances acting at the output of a discretetime stable linear plant with unknown and possibly timevarying dynamics. The paper presents two frequency-adaptive extensions of the multivariate SONIC algorithm. The efficacy of the proposed solutions is tested using our laboratory-scale active vibration control plant.
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Bio and slide biobearings, their lubrication by non-newtonian fluids and application in non-conventional systems. Vol. 1, Principles of human joint lubrication with non-newtonian liquids for deformable bone and cartilage in magnetic field
PublicationW monografii przedstawiono zasady smarowania stawów człowieka o odkształcalnych chrząstkach i powierzchniach kostnych w polach indukcji magnetycznej. Uwzględnione zostały nienewtonowskie, lepkosprężyste właściwości cieczy synowialnych jako czynnika smarującego. Monografia prezentuje rozkłady wartości ciśnienia i nośności stawów człowieka w warunkach niestacjonarnego smarowania dla drgań o różnych amplitudach i częstotliwościach...
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Estimation of the amplitude of the signal for the active optical gesture sensor with sparse detectors
PublicationIn this paper we deal with the problem of precise gesture recognition for the active optical proximity sensor with sparse 8 photodiodes. We particularly focus on developing the method of estimating the real, usually not observable, maximum signal value representing maximum intensity of light reflected from an obstacle present in the front of the sensor. Different configurations of the fingers were used as an obstacle. The Monte Carlo...
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Obliczeniowa dynamika płynów w analizie zagadnień smarowaniahydrodynamicznego = CFD in analysis of hydrodynamic lubrication
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono wybrane problemy związane z wykorzystaniem obliczeniowej dynamiki płynów (ang. CFD - Computational Fluid Dynamics)do obliczeń łożysk hydrodynamicznych. Omówione zostało zagadnienie przyjmowania rodzaju przepływu w analizie łożyska oraz przyjmowania warunków brzegowych dotyczących wymiany ciepła oraz problem zbieżności obliczeń.
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Bio and slide bearings, their lubrication by non-Newtonian oils and applications in non-conventional systems
PublicationProject MTK-CT-2005-2008-517226Praca opisuje główne kierunki badawcze projektu europejskiego ToK, którego autor jest koordynatorem z ramienia Politechniki Gdańskiej.
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Synthesis, structural, electronic and linear electro-optical features of new quaternary Ag2Ga2SiS6 compound
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The products of electro- and photochemical oxidation of 2-hydroxyacridinone, the reference compound of antitumor imidazoacridinone derivatives
PublicationBadano reakcje elektrochemicznego utleniania 2-hydroksyakrydonu, związku modelowego aktywnych przeciwnowotworowo pochodnych imidazoakrydonu. Do badań zastosowano metody woltamperometrii cyklicznej, metodę spektroelektrochemiczną oraz elektrolizę przy kontrolowanym potencjale. Badano też reakcje fotochemicznego utleniania. Badania prowadzono w ramach szerszego problemu poznania przemian aktywacji metabolicznej pochodnych hydroksyakrydonu...
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Comparison of properties of the new electro-mechanical model and circumferential model of the inductive-dynamic drive
PublicationThe article presents a new electromechanical model of inductive-dynamic drive. The model is implemented in two environments: Maxwell for analyzing electrodynamic phenomena including moving of the disc and Ansys which allows for stress analysis on the basis of the volume forces imported from Maxwell. Additionally, a model validation by comparing with the existing circumferential model was carried out.
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Tailoring Electro/Optical Properties of Transparent Boron-Doped Carbon Nanowalls Grown on Quartz
PublicationCarbon nanowalls (CNWs) have attracted much attention for numerous applications in electrical devices because of their peculiar structural characteristics. However, it is possible to set synthesis parameters to vary the electrical and optical properties of such CNWs. In this paper, we demonstrate the direct growth of highly transparent boron-doped nanowalls (B-CNWs) on optical grade fused quartz. The effect of growth temperature...
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Experimental test results of the 150kVA 18-pulse diode rectifier with series active power filter
PublicationThe paper presents the control system and selected results of experimental tests of the ac/dc power converter consisting of 18-pulse diode rectifier on the basis of coupled reactors and a serial active power filter. Three configurations of the 150kVA converter were tested experimentally and compared: 18-pulse diode rectifier with and without additional grid reactor and the rectifier integrated with the active power filter. The...
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Comprehensive compensation of grid current distortion by shunt active power filters
PublicationThe paper presents a comprehensive approach to the compensation of grid current distortion in shunt active power filter systems. Four sources of current distortion are addressed: imperfect grid synchronization caused by the distortion in the grid voltages, time delays in the evaluation of grid voltages and computation of compensating currents, fluctuations of the dc bus voltage, and the distortion of inverter output voltages due...
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Unsupervised machine-learning classification of electrophysiologically active electrodes during human cognitive task performance
PublicationIdentification of active electrodes that record task-relevant neurophysiological activity is needed for clinical and industrial applications as well as for investigating brain functions. We developed an unsupervised, fully automated approach to classify active electrodes showing event-related intracranial EEG (iEEG) responses from 115 patients performing a free recall verbal memory task. Our approach employed new interpretable...
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Active dynamic thermography in cardiosurgery
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Active dynamic thermography in mammography.
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono zaproponowany numeryczny model termiczny piersi z nowotworem umiejscowionym na różnych głębokościach. Przedstawione są wyniki symulacji modelu dla różnych warunków zewnętrznego pobudzenia termicznego powierzchni piersi. Pokazano również wyniki przykładowego badania termograficznego piersi z nowotworem.
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Active shape models in practice
PublicationAutorzy wykonali uniwersalny system lokalizacji obiektów zawierający implementację aktywnych modeli kształtu, a przeprowadzone z użyciem tego systemu eksperymenty wykazały powżne wady badanej metody. W pracy przedstawiono zaobserwowane w praktyce problemy związane ze stosowaniem metody aktywnych modeli kształtu (ASM).
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Active Power Quality Controllers
PublicationDynamic Static Synchronous Compensator is the most important controller for distribution networks and probably in SEEN. It has been widely used since the 1990s to regulate system voltage precisely, improve voltage profile, reduce voltage harmonics, reduce transient voltage disturbances and load compensation. Rather than using conventional capacitors and inductors combined with fast switches, the D-STATCOM uses a power-electronics...
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The impact of the distribution network reconfiguration on active power losses: Selected issues of UPGRID project realization
PublicationThe dynamic development of smart grids allows the use of remote controllable switches to change the configuration of the distribution network. The paper discusses the impact of the distribution system reconfiguration on active power losses, taking into account the typical daily load profiles. Based on modified IEEE 33-bus test distribution system the article presents the method of selection the appropriate sensitivity factor and...
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Active Dynamic Thermography imaging of wound healing processes in cardio surgery
PublicationThe surgery is a branch of medicine, that is integrally connected to wounds. Despite using sterile tools and compliance with aseptic rolls, some of the surgery wounds become infected. In clinical practice there is a lack of cheap, objective methods and tools for quantitative definition and estimation of the surgery wound healing progress. This paper presents preliminary results of Active Dynamic Thermography (ADT) parametric imaging...