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Optimum number of actuators to minimize the cross-sectional area of prestressable cable and truss structures
PublicationThis paper describes a new computational method for determining the optimum number of actuators to design the optimal and economic cross-sectional area of pin-jointed assemblies based on the conventional force method. The most active members are selected to be prestressed to redistribute stress in the whole structure, resulting in regulating the internal force of bars that face high stress. Reducing stress in critical members allows...
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Incomplete Cross-Bonding in the MV Line. Experience from the Operation of MV Single Cable Lines
PublicationCable lines are one of the basic components of power systems. Medium and high voltage cables mainly comprise a metallic sheath, which is concentric to the main core conductor. There are several operating schemes of such cable lines, which differ in the place of earthing of sheaths and the possible use of the sheaths and/or conductors crossing. The sheaths cross-bonding is typically done in two places of one cable line section,...
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Seasonality in the cross section of factor premia
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Cross-validation for triplets of HRV and BPV indices based on ordinal patterns in differentiating OSA patients from healthy controls
Open Research DataResults of cross-validation for triplets of HRV and BPV indices based on ordinal patterns, as described in the paper “Differentiating patients with obstructive sleep apnea from healthy controls based on heart rate–blood pressure coupling quantified by entropy-based indices” by P. Pilarczyk, G. Graff, J.M. Amigó, K. Tessmer, K. Narkiewicz, B. Graff.
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Changing Attitudes in Cross Cultural Diversity through International Senior Capstone Projects
PublicationIn this global world, today’s engineer is likely to have to work in global international teams with colleagues from other nationalities. The challenge for many engineering curricula is how to include, in a realistic way, this global dimension and increase the student’s awareness of the issues that are encountered. In the Purdue University Engineering Technology program, an international capstone project was created to increase...
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Trust in the source of received information as a factor related to public perception of shale gas drilling
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Perception of Self-Efficacy and Health-Related Behavior in Context of Taekwon-Do Sport Camps
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Attributional and attentional patterns in the perception of ambiguous harmful encounters involving peer and authority figures
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Perception-based data processing in acoustics. Applications to music information retrieval and psychophysiology of hearing.
PublicationTematyka książki obejmuje w pierwszej kolejności opis mechanizmów kognitywnych leżących u podstaw percepcji muzyki. Przedstawione zostały również zagadnienia automatycznego rozpoznawania dźwięków instrumentów muzycznych i muzyki, zastosowanie nowych metod z dziedziny sztucznej inteligencji w szeroko rozumianej inżynierii dźwięku oraz komputerowych metod badania słuchu.
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Smart Cities Concept - Readiness of City Halls as a Measure of Reaching a Smart City Perception
PublicationThe article presents a proposal for a new approach to the assessment of Smart Cities: testing the readiness of city halls to a Smart City. The approach is the result of two-year studies involving ten major city halls. Readiness is compared with the previously used Smart City assessment methods: rankings or ISO standards. The relationship between readiness and organization maturity was also presented. The key role of city halls...
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Fabrication of the cross-linked PVA/TiO2/C nanocomposite membrane for alkaline direct methanol fuel cells
PublicationA crosslinked Poly(vinyl alcohol) based composite membrane was developed through a phase inversion process for use in alkaline direct methanol fuel cells (ADMFCs). The titanium dioxide (TiO2) and carbon nanoparticles (NPs) have been incorporated into the PVA polymer matrix to improve the mechanical and thermal properties. The membrane samples were further modified with maleic acid, a carboxylic acid acting as the cross-linker,...
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APPLICATION OF BINARY-ENCOUNTER-BETHE METHOD TO ELECTRON-IMPACT IONIZATION CROSS SECTION CALCULATIONS FOR BIOLOGICALLY RELEVANT MOLECULES
PublicationElectron-impact cross sections for platinum chemotherapeutic compounds, purine and pyrimidine molecules calculated using binary-encounterBethe model are presented as examples of possible applications of that method.
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Highly-Compact Dual-Band Bandpass Waveguide Filter Based on Cross-Shaped Frequency-Dependent Coupling
PublicationThis work reports the design of an original class of highly-compact dual-band bandpass filter based on dual-mode waveguide resonators inter-coupled through a novel type of frequency-dependent coupling (FDC). The devised FDC consists of a cross-shaped metallic structure placed in the broad wall of a rectangular waveguide. This FDC produces two additional poles and three extra transmission zeros (TZs). Specifically, each pole is...
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An Analysis of Scattering from Ferrite Post of Arbitrary Convex Cross Section with the Use of Field Matching Method
PublicationA problem of electromagnetic wave scattering from ferrite post is presented. The post is assumed to be located in closed areas as waveguide junction, or in open area illuminated by a plane wave. The object is of arbitrary convex cross section and the method of analysis is semi-analytical, based on the direct field matching technique.
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Distortional buckling of composite thin-walled columns of a box-type cross section with diaphragms
PublicationDistortional buckling of axially compressed columns of box-like composite cross sections with andwithout internal diaphragms is investigated in the framework of one-dimensional theory. The channel membersare composed of unidirectional fibre-reinforced laminate. Two approaches to the member orthotropic materialare applied: homogenization based on the theory of mixture and periodicity cells, and homogenization basedon the Voigt–Reuss...
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Vibration surveillance in the hybrid system on example of milling flexible details and considering assurance of modal subsystem.
PublicationPraca dotyczy nadzorowania drgań dużych mechanicznych układów niestacjonarnych modelowanych dyskretnie, za pomocą sterowania optymalnego przy energetycznym wskaźniku jakości. W układzie drgającym wyodrębniono podukład modalny, podukład strukturalny oraz podukład łączący. Dynamikę układu sterowanego opisano we współrzędnych hybrydowych, przez co uzyskano znacznie mniejszy rząd niż w przypadku modelu strukturalnego. Zdefiniowano...
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Modification of the structural model of manipulator's carrying system for a use of modal control at energy performance index.
PublicationW pracy rozważa się drgania niestacjonarnego układu nośnego manipulatora IRb-6 modelowanego dyskretnie metodą sztywnych elementów skończonych. Z uwagi na gwałtowne ruchy (start, zatrzymanie) poszczególnych członów manipulatora, jest to problem o dużym znaczeniu praktycznym. Jednym ze sposobów nadzorowania tych drgań jest wykorzystanie sterowania modalnego przy energetycznym wskaźniku jakości. Uwzględnia on zmianę w czasie względem...
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A frequency-domain surveillance of the robot's structural vibration with a use of modal control at energy performance index
PublicationRozważano drgania niestacjonarnego układu nośnego robota IRb-6. W celu nadzorowania drgań zastosowano algorytm sterowania modalnego przy energetycznym wskaźniku jakości w dziedzinie częstotliwości. Podejście takie umożliwia wykorzystanie elementów projektowania mechatronicznego do nadzorowania drgań, którego celem jest minimalizacja amplitudy drgań końcówek manipulacyjnych, a w konsekwencji - poprawa dokładności i powtarzalności...
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Isolation and structure of a covalent cross-link adduct between mitomycin C and DNA
PublicationA DNA cross-link adduct of the antitumor agent mitomycin C (MC) to DNA has been isolated and characterized; the results provide direct proof for bifunctional alkylation of DNA by MC. Exposure of MC to Micrococcus luteus DNA under reductive conditions and subsequent nuclease digestion yielded adducts formed between MC and deoxyguanosine residues. In addition to the two known monoadducts, a bisadduct was obtained. Reductive MC activation...
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Time-of-flight electron scattering from molecular hydrogen: Benchmark cross sections for excitation of the X1Σ+g→b3Σ+u transition
PublicationThe electron impact X1Σ+g to b3Σ+u transition in molecular hydrogen is one of the most important dissociation pathways to forming atomic hydrogen atoms, and is of great importance in modeling astrophysical and industrial plasmas where molecular hydrogen is a substantial constituent. Recently it has been found that the convergent close-coupling (CCC) cross sections of Zammit et al. [Phys. Rev. A 95, 022708 (2017)] are up to a factor...
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An Analysis of Periodic Arrangements of Cylindrical Objects of Arbitrary Convex Cross Sections with the Use of Field Matching Method
PublicationA problem of electromagnetic wave scattering from multilayered frequency selective surfaces is presented. Each surface is composed of periodically arranged cylindrical posts of arbitrary convex cross-section. The method of analysis is based on the direct field matching technique for a single cell, and the transmission matrix method with the lattice sums technique for periodic arrangement of scatterers.
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Cross-layer mDNS/ARP integration for IEEE 802.11s Wireless mesh Network
PublicationPopularization of mobile computing devices created a need for robust, efficient and ubiquitous methods of communication and network access. At the same time, evolution and standardization of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) technologies made them an attractive solution for building of complex network systems. Moreover, growing maturity of WLAN standards such as IEEE 802.11 allows for introduction of WLAN architectures other than...
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Burnout as a State: Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Relationship Between Exhaustion and Disengagement in a 10-Day Study
PublicationBackground: Burnout has been traditionally seen as a chronic and stable state in response to prolonged stress. However, measures of momentary burnout are not well established, even though the within-person approach suggests that the symptoms of burnout may vary from day to day for the same employee. The aim of this study is to examine the daily inter- and intra-personal variability of the symptoms of burnout and the cross-lagged relationship...
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Burnout as a State: Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Relationship Between Exhaustion and Disengagement in a 10-Day Study [Response to Letter]
PublicationWe are writing in response to the Letter to the Editor by Block, Bair, and Carillo regarding our study, which took a multilevel approach to examine cross-lagged and co-existing relationships between exhaustion and disengagement, measured daily for ten consecutive working days using the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI). We assessed the job burnout symptoms using only eight items, all of them worded negatively. Following Block,...
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Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
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Influence of rhamnolipids and ionic cross-linking conditions on the mechanical properties of alginate hydrogels as a model bacterial biofilm
PublicationThe literature indicates the existence of a relationship between rhamnolipids and bacterial biofilm, as well as the ability of selected bacteria to produce rhamnolipids and alginate. However, the influence of biosurfactant molecules on the mechanical properties of biofilms are still not fully understood. The aim of this research is to determine the effect of rhamnolipids concentration, CaCl2 concentration, and ionic cross-linking...
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Rheology of Variable Viscosity‐Based Mixed Convective Inclined Magnetized Cross Nanofluid with Varying Thermal Conductivity
PublicationCross nanofluid possesses an extraordinary quality among the various fluidic models to explore the key characteristics of flowing fluid during very low and very high shear rates and its viscosity models depend upon shear rate. The current study establishes the numerical treatment regarding variable viscosity‐based mixed convective inclined magnetized Cross nanofluid with var‐ ying thermal conductivities over the moving permeable...
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Is participation in music festivals a self-expansion opportunity? Identity, self-perception, and the importance of music’s functions
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Public Perception of the Risks Associated with Infectious Diseases in Poland: Ebola and Influenza and Their Impact on the Attitude to Vaccination
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Perception and determinants of agricultural technology adoption in North Shoa Zone, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia
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Odour Perception Using a Sniffing Team at a Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Plant: A Case Study
PublicationThe monitoring of odour intensity, generated by a landfill area, is a difficult activity since it is a multi-source problem with discontinuous odour emissions. A modified sniffing team method is described here and applied to determine the main odour sources in a landfill located in Pomerania, Poland. Four consecutive test sessions were performed during the following months: August, December, April, and June. It was found that the...
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Microstructure of cross-sections of samples after laser treatment for the article entitled "Mechanical and corrosive properties of Ti13Nb13Zr alloy subjected to laser treatment with MWCNTs coatings"
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Surrogate-Assisted Design of Checkerboard Metasurface for Broadband Radar Cross-Section Reduction
PublicationMetasurfaces have been extensively exploited in stealth applications to reduce radar cross section (RCS). They rely on the manipulation of backward scattering of electromagnetic (EM) waves into various oblique angles. However, arbitrary control of the scattering properties poses a significant challenge as a design task. Yet it is a principal requirement for making RCS reduction possible. This article introduces a surrogate-based...
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A Fast Method of Separation of the Noisy Background from the Head-Cross Section in the Sequence of MRI Scans
PublicationThe paper presents a new method of removing the noisy background from the sequence of magnetic resonance imaging (MRl) scans. The sequence of scans is required in order to monitor a passage of a contrast agent through the brain tissue. The scans contain the noisy head-cross data and also the noisy background data. The latter has to be removed and excluded from a further analysis. It is achieved by applying some basic morphological...
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Dynamics of productivity in higher education. Cross-European evidence based on bootstrapped Malmquist indices
PublicationThis study presents patterns of productivity change in a large set of 266 public higher education institutions (HEIs) from 7 European countries across the time period 2001-2005. We adopt consistent bootstrap estimation procedures to obtain confidence intervals for Malmquist indices of HEI productivity and their components. Consequently, we are able to assess statistical significance of the changes in HEIs' productivity, efficiency...
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A Cross-Team Collaborative Evaluation of a CRM System
PublicationThis paper presents an analysis of an usability evaluation a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) performed by a team composed of external usability experts jointly with a CRM staff. The evaluation process differed from a classical scheme known from former projects, including some new elements resulting from a specific context of this study. These novel elements resulted in reshaping the role of the CRM system and considering...
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Measurements of differential cross sections in the backscattering region
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono przegląd technik eksperymentalnych umożliwiających detekcję elektronów rozproszonych w przedziale dużych kątów rozproszenia, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem techniki lokalnego pola magnetycznego. Przedstawione zostały wyniki pomiarów i obliczeń teoretycznych różniczkowych przekrojów czynnych dla dużych kątów rozproszenia elektronów na atomach gazów szlachetnych i małych molekuł.
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Swelling effects in cross-linked polymers by thermogravimetry
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Pure cross-anisotropy for geotechnical elastic potentials
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Quality investing and the cross-section of country returns
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Liquidity and the cross-section of international stock returns
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The cross section of international government bond returns
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Concentration in ICTs sector - cross country analysis
PublicationIn the chapter below, the author present inequalities in sector of new information and communication technologies. Having in mind inequalities we can also discuss concentration issues, and the concentration itself is a problem to which the author refers on first place. The paper is organized as following: first basic measures of concentration are defined, after we can read a discussion referring to concentration in ICTs sector...
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Detection of Delamination in Laminate Wind Turbine Blades Using One-Dimensional Wavelet Analysis of Modal Responses
PublicationThis paper demonstrates the effectiveness of a nondestructive diagnostic technique used to determine the location and size of delamination in laminated coatings of wind turbine blades. This is realized based on results of numerical and experimental investigations obtained by the use of the finite element method (FEM) and laser scanning vibrometry (LSV). The proposed method is based on the one-dimensional continuous wavelet transform...
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Span's low damped vibrations and vibration's damping by modal disparity inducted by cable stays temporal addition
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono problem obecności słabo tłumionych drgań przęseł mostów wraz z metodą ich aktywnego tłumienia. Badania przeprowadzono korzystając z analizy numerycznej. Analizowany mechanizm zamodelowano korzystając z metody elementów skończonych. W praco przedstawiono zwarty opis wykorzystanej metody. Następnie, zbudowano dwa alternatywne modele, różniące się liczbą odciągów usztywniających przęsło. Wyznaczono postaci i...
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Updating Finite Element Model of a Wind Turbine Blade Section Using Experimental Modal Analysis Results
PublicationThis paper presents selected results and aspects of themultidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research oriented for the experimental and numerical study of the structural dynamics of a bend-twist coupled full scale section of awind turbine blade structure.Themain goal of the conducted research is to validate finite elementmodel of themodified wind turbine blade section mounted in the flexible support structure accordingly to the...
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TOTAL CROSS SECTION MEASUREMENTS FOR ELECTRON SCATTERING ON METHYL FORMATE (HCOOCH3) MOLECULE: METHYLATION EFFECT
PublicationWe present the absolute total cross section (TCS) for electron scattering from the methyl formate (HCOOCH3) molecule measured in the 10-300 eV energy range, with electrostatic electron spectrometer working in the linear transmission mode. Comparison of TCS for the HCOOCH3 molecule with that measured earlier for the formic acid (HCOOH) compound manifests the methylation effect i.e. the response of the electron scattering dynamics...
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The influence of a change in the meniscus cross-sectional shape on the medio-lateral translation of the knee joint and meniscal extrusion
PublicationObjective The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of a change in the meniscus cross sectional shape on its position and on the biomechanics of a knee joint. Methods One main finite element model of a left knee joint was created on the basis of MRI images. The model consisted of bones, articular cartilages, menisci and ligaments. Eight variants of this model with an increased or decreased meniscus height were then...
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Job-related emotions and job burnout among civil servants: examining the shape of the relationship in cross-sectional and longitudinal models
PublicationWstęp: Związek pozytywności, czyli proporcji między pozytywnymi a negatywnymi emocjami, z wypaleniem zawodowym może przybierać kształt krzywoliniowy. Ponadto z perspektywy teoretycznej jest to relacja przyczynowo - skutkowa, w której pozytywność jest proksymalnym, a wypalenie – dystalnym wymiarem dobrostanu zawodowego. Dotychczasowe badania były jednak prowadzone najczęściej w planie poprzecznym i testowały relacje prostoliniowe....
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Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication
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