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An international comparison of asthma, wheeze, and breathing medication use among children
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Digesting anomalies in emerging European markets: A comparison of factor pricing models
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A Comparison Study of Strategies for Combining Classifiers from Distributed Data Sources
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Experimental verification and comparison of mode shape-based damage detection methods
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono wynik badań eksperymentalnych dotyczących oceny dokładności znanych z literatury metod detekcji uszkodzeń konstrukcji wykorzystujących zmiany jej parametrów modalnych. Pomiary wykonano wykorzystując skaner laserowy firmy Polytec. Omówiono sposoby poprawy jakości uzyskiwanych wyników, oraz zaproponowano własną metodę detekcji uszkodzeń wykorzystującą pomiar postaci i częstości drgań własnych konstrukcji.
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Comparison of s-factor according to SOLAS and SEM for ro-pax vessels
PublicationPokazano różnice pomiędzy mnożnikami s dla promów pasażerskich, obliczonych wg konwencji SOLAS oraz metody statycznej równoważności (SEM). Obliczenia wykonane dla promu ''Polonia'' i statku prostopadłościennego wskazują na cztery wnioski. 1) W wypadku małej stateczności, mnożniki s wg SOLAS są zdecydowanie mniejsze od s wg SEM, 2) im mniejsza stateczność, tym większe różnice między nimi, 3) konwencja SOLAS niedoszacowuje rzeczywiste...
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Comparison of different extraction techniques of polychlorinated biphenyls from sediments samples.
PublicationIn this work, problems that may occur during determination of trace levels of polychlorinated biphenyls in sediment samples are described. Main error sources are connected with extraction of analytes prior to final determination. During model studies, polychlorinated biphenyls have been extracted from sedimentreference material (METRANAL 2) with the use of different solvents (dichloromethane, hexsane, and toluene); the process...
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Comparison of Vacuum Sintered and Selective Laser Melted Steel AISI 316L
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The real alternative? A comparison of German real estate returns with bonds and stocks
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Comparison of Aging Simulation to Real Aging of Silicone Self-adhesives Tapes
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Comparison of LaCl3:Ce and NaI(Tl) scintillators in γ-ray spectrometry
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Comparison of Selected Reduction Methods of Bathymetric Data Obtained by Multibeam Echosounder
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Comparison of the geophysical excitations of polar motion from the period: 1980.0–2009.0
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Comparison of Acoustic and Visual Voice Activity Detection for Noisy Speech Recognition
PublicationThe problem of accurate differentiating between the speaker utterance and the noise parts in a speech signal is considered. The influence of utilizing a voice activity detection in speech signals on the accuracy of the automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is presented. The examined methods of voice activity detection are based on acoustic and visual modalities. The problem of detecting the voice activity in clean and noisy...
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Comparison of natural frequencies of a circular saw blade obtained empirically and with FEM
PublicationThe knowledge of the natural frequencies’ values of circular saw blades is necessary to determine the minimal critical rotational speed in which they can work with required stability. Moreover, testing the circular saw blades with more complicated shapes, e.g. which have additional holes inside blades for cleaning knifes or additional indirect teeth in gullets, reveals some kind of problematic properties of these saw blades. The...
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Trade in value added of countries involved in TTIP: EU-USA comparison
PublicationThe aim of this paper is to present key facts concerning trade in the value added of those countries participating in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). In particular, we describe how involvement in global production networks (GPN) varies across EU countries with respect to the United States.
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The safety issue of roadside advertising – comparison of polish and abu dhabi regulations
PublicationIn Poland a large number of advertisements are located by the roadside. These ads do not support road traffic management and unlike the road marking system are not subject to any regulations. The advertiser’s goal is to communicate a message to as many recipients as possible. Drivers with different individual abilities, such as attention focusing, eye accommodation, speed of information processing, can be distracted, blinded or...
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Evaluation of Thermal Stresses in Asphalt Layers in Comparison with TSRST Test Results
PublicationThe paper presents the results of calculations and laboratory determination of thermal stresses at low temperatures. The modified Hills and Brien's method was used to calculate the thermal stresses in asphalt layers of pavements and the results were compared against the values obtained at a laboratory with the Thermal Stress Restrained Specimen Test (TSRST) method. The laboratory investigations were conducted using plain grade...
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Comparison of single microjet cooling with water, ethanol and HFE7100 as test fluids
PublicationThe paper presents the investigation of a single microjet cooling forming an thin liquid film on the impingement surface of specially designed rig. The basis of microjet technology is to produce laminar jets, which when impinging the surface have a very high kinetic energy at the stagnation point. Applied technology of jet production can result with the size of jets ranging from 20 to 500μm in breadth and 20 to 100μm in width....
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Comparison of cadmium adsorption process on barley straw in batch and flow reactors
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Comparison of the UEScope videolaryngoscope with the Macintosh laryngoscope during simulated cardiopulmonary resuscitation
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The Numerical Comparison of Heat Transfer in a Coated and Fixed Bed of an Adsorption Chiller
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A comparison of tribological properties of nanolubricants containing carbon nanotori and additional additives
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Comparison of a tribological model and real component test methods for lubricated contacts
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What about the multidrug resistance in fungi? - comparison of voriconazole and ''old'' azoles.
PublicationPorównano wyniki oznaczeń aktywności przeciwgrzybowej voriconazolu- nowego leku przeciwgrzybowego z pierścieniem azolowym, z lekami poprzedniej generacji. Zaobserwowano znaczny spadek aktywności biologicznej voriconazolu (podobnie jak starszych leków, takich jak fluconazol czy ketoconazol) względem komórek wielolekoopornych, co stanowi przesłankę, że nowy lek jest substratem dla głównych pomp kształtujących zjawisko wielolekooporności...
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IT- enabled comparison of environmental noise levels and noise-evoked hearing impairments.
Publication[Abstrakt] Tematem pracy jest telemetryczny system monitorowania hałasu, opracowany w katedrze Systemów Multimedialnych Politechniki Gdańskiej, przeznaczony do zdalnego monitorowania poziomów hałasu środowiskowego. Oprócz ogólnej charakterystyki systemu zaprezentowano również szereg szczegółów implementacyjnych. Przedstawiono m.in. mobilne urządzenie pomiarowe, oprogramowanie do pomiarów hałasu, dźwiękowy interfejs USB wyposażony...
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IT- Enabled Comparison of Environmental Noise Levels and Noise-Evoked Hearing Impairments.
PublicationTematem pracy jest telemetryczny system monitorowania hałasu, opracowany w katedrze Systemów Multimedialnych Politechniki Gdańskiej, przeznaczony do zdalnego monitorowania poziomów hałasu środowiskowego. Oprócz ogólnej charakterystyki systemu zaprezentowano również szereg szczegółów implementacyjnych. Przedstawiono m.in. mobilne urządzenie pomiarowe, oprogramowanie do pomiarów hałasu, dźwiękowy interfejs USB wyposażony w mikrofon...
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Comparison of effectiveness of musical sound separation algorithms employing neural networks.
PublicationNiniejszy referat przedstawia kilka algorytmów służących do separacji dźwięków instrumentów muzycznych. Zaproponowane podejście do dekompozycji miksów dźwiękowych opiera się na założeniu, że wysokość dźwięków w miksie jest znana, tzn. wejściem dla algorytmów jest przebieg zmian wysokości dźwięków składowych miksu. Proces estymacji fazy i amplitudy składowych harmonicznych wykorzystuje dopasowywanie zespolonych przebiegów harmonicznych...
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Comparison of the Ability of Neural Network Model and Humans to Detect a Cloned Voice
PublicationThe vulnerability of the speaker identity verification system to attacks using voice cloning was examined. The research project assumed creating a model for verifying the speaker’s identity based on voice biometrics and then testing its resistance to potential attacks using voice cloning. The Deep Speaker Neural Speaker Embedding System was trained, and the Real-Time Voice Cloning system was employed based on the SV2TTS, Tacotron,...
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Real and Virtual Instruments in Machine Learning – Training and Comparison of Classification Results
PublicationThe continuous growth of the computing power of processors, as well as the fact that computational clusters can be created from combined machines, allows for increasing the complexity of algorithms that can be trained. The process, however, requires expanding the basis of the training sets. One of the main obstacles in music classification is the lack of high-quality, real-life recording database for every instrument with a variety...
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Comparison of Properties of the Hybrid and Bilayer MWCNTs—Hydroxyapatite Coatings on Ti Alloy
PublicationCarbon nanotubes are proposed for reinforcement of the hydroxyapatite coatings to improve their adhesion, resistance to mechanical loads, biocompatibility, bioactivity, corrosion resistance, and antibacterial protection. So far, research has shown that all these properties are highly susceptible to the composition and microstructure of coatings. The present research is aimed at studies of multi-wall carbon nanotubes in three different...
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Review and comparison of smoothing algorithms for one-dimensional data noise reduction
PublicationThe paper considers the choice of parameters of smoothing algorithms for data denoising. The impact of the window size on smoothing accuracy was analyzed. The parameters of denoising filters were selected with respect to the meansquare error between the computed linear regression and the noisy signal. Finally, we have compared mean, median, SavitzkyGolay, Kalman and Gaussian filter algorithms for the data from the digital sensor....
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Kinetics of pollutants removal in hybrid treatment wetlands – Case study comparison
PublicationRecent years have seen an increasing interest in hybrid constructed wetland (HCW) systems for domestic sewage treatment. This paper is focused on kinetics of removal of the main pollutants occurring in wastewater i.e. organics expressed as chemical oxygen demand, biochemical oxygen demand and total nitrogen. The purpose of the article is to compare different HCW configurations in terms of mass removal rates (MRR) and removal rate...
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Comparison of Two Methods for the Determination of Selected Pesticides in Honey and Honeybee Samples
PublicationDeveloped and validated analytical methods for the determination of a wide spectrum of pesticide residues in honey and honeybee samples after the modification of QuEChERS extraction in combination with gas chromatography–tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS) and liquid chromatography–tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) were discussed and compared. The developed methods were evaluated regarding the utilized equipment...
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Comment on "Quantitative comparison of analysis methods for spectroscopic optical coherence tomography"
PublicationIn a recent paper by Bosschaart et al. [Biomed. Opt. Express 4, 2570 (2013)] various algorithms of time-frequency signal analysis have been tested for their performance in blood analysis with spectroscopic optical coherence tomography sOCT). The measurement of hemoglobin concentration and oxygen saturation based on blood absorption spectra have been considered. Short time Fourier transform (STFT) was found as the best method for...
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COMPARISON OF THE ABRASION RESISTANCE OF THE SELECTED BIOMATERIALS FOR FRICTION COMPONENTS IN ORTHOPEDIC ENDOPROSTHESES
PublicationRosnące z każdym rokiem zapotrzebowanie na endoprotezy stawów ortopedycznych przy jednoczesnym dążeniu do zwiększenia ich trwałości i wyeliminowania negatywnych skutków ubocznych produktów zużycia, które mogą wywoływać proces zapalny w tkankach determinuje potrzebę poszukiwania nowych biomateriałów, bądź metody modyfikacji ich powierzchni. Nadrzędnym celem prowadzonych przez nas badań było oszacowanie intensywności zużycia ściernego...
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Three solvers for MIMO noise radar clutter cancellation - a performance comparison
PublicationThe problem of canceling strong clutter echos in a MIMO noise radar is considered. Execution times of three algorithms is compared. The first solution is a standard Least Squares approach employing Cholesky decomposition of the transmitted signal sample autocorrelation matrix. The second approach is based on careful waveform design which guarantees that the signal sample autocorrelation matrix has Toeplitz structure. This enables...
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Comparison of antimicrobial activity of selected, commercially available wound dressing materials
PublicationOBJECTIVE: The aim of our study was to examine the antimicrobial potential of eight selected, commercially available wound dressings containing different antimicrobial agents: silver, chlorhexidine acetate, povidone-iodine, and manuka honey. METHOD: The materials were tested against four reference strains of bacteria: Staphylococcus aureus (PCM 2051), Staphylococcus epidermidis (PCM 2118), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (ATCC 27853),...
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Comparison of nitrogen and VFA removal pathways in autotrophic and organotrophic anammox reactors
PublicationOrganotrophic anammox is a promising process for treating both nitrogen and organic containing wastewater than that of the traditional autotrophic anammox for sole nitrogen removal. However pathways of nitrogen removal particularly at metagenomic level in both processes are still unknown. Here we report, metabolic pathways of nitrogen removal in two lab-scale sequencing batch reactors (SBR), one autotrophic and another organotrophic...
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Productivity effects of trade in natural resources—comparison with mechanisms of technological specialisation
PublicationThis paper compares two alternative growth paths, assessing the effects on productivity of specialisation in natural resources (NR) and in technologically advanced products. The empirical analysis exploits product-level export data for 109 developing and 51 developed economies over the period 1996–2018. We document two distinct types of specialisation, based on exports either of natural resources or of technological products, and...
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Comparison of various flow maldistribution quantification methods in mini heat exchangers
PublicationThe aim of study is to compare various flow maldistribution quantification methods, using velocity, mass flow rate, pressure, and temperature. An experimentally validated numerical study has been prepared and a heat exchanger with 34 semi-circular channels with a diameter of 3.1 mm has been tested. The minichannels were heated from the bottom with a heat flux of 50, 60, 70, and 80 kW/m2. The cases for various inlet velocities of...
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Tensile validation tests with failure criteria comparison for various GFRP laminates
PublicationThe paper studies the mechanical properties of glass fibre reinforced polymers (GFRP) with various types and orientation of reinforcement. Analyzed specimens manufactured in the infusion process are made of polymer vinyl ester resin reinforced with glass fibres. Several samples were examined containing different plies and various fibres orientation [0, 90] or [+45, –45]. To assess the mechanical parameters of laminates, a series...
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Comparison of GC–MS and MEKC methods for caffeine determination in preworkout supplements
PublicationIn this study, GC–MS- and MEKC-based methods for determination of caffeine (CAF) in preworkout supplements were developed and validated. The proposed protocols utilized minimal sample preparation (simple dilution and syringe filtration). The developed methods achieved satisfactory validation parameters, i.e. good linearity (R2 0.9988 and R2 0.9985 for GC–MS- and MEKC-based method, respectively), satisfactory intraand interaccuracy...
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Comparison of the measurement techniques employed for evaluation of ambient air odour quality
PublicationThe paper presents the results of investigation on ambient air odour quality in a vicinity of the industrial sewage treatment plant being a part of the crude oil processing plant. The investigation was performed during spring-winter season using a prototype of electronic nose and the Nasal Ranger field olfactometers. The prototype was equipped with a set of six semiconductor sensors by FIGARO Co. and one PID-type sensor. The field...
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COMPARISON OF INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE MEASURES USING THE EXAMPLE OF SELECTED STOCK EXCHANGES
PublicationIn the following paper, the main objective is to examine whether the selection of the performance measure influences the evaluation of individual investments and the performance rankings generated on that basis. This study presents the values of 16 performance indicators along with their detailed descriptions. All calculations were made using the R program, and the source code can be found at the end of the article. Nine selected...
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Comparison of physical performances of the ventilation systems in low-energy residential houses.
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono wyniki doświadczeń pomiaru efektywności różnych systemów wentylacyjnych w energooszczędnych budynkach mieszkalnych na terenie Niemiec. Porównano 4 różne systemy wentylacyjne. Dodatkowo wykonano ankiety wśród mieszkańców na temat opinii o systemach wentylacyjnych.
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Characterization of 1,3-alternate calix[4]arene-silica bonded stationary phases and their comparison to selected commercial columns by using principal component analysis
PublicationTwelve calix[4]arene stationary phases in 1,3-alternate conformation, synthesized in the authors laboratory, were characterized in terms of their surface coverage, hydrophobic selectivity, aromatic selectivity, shape selectivity, hydrogen bonding capacity and ion-exchange capacity. The set of tests commonly used for evaluation of commercially available stationary phases was applied to assess fundamental chromatographic properties...
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Application of electronic nose based on fast GC for comparison of aroma profiles of homemade cherry "Nalewka" made with addition of different amount of sugar
PublicationNalewka is a traditional Polish homemade spirit beverage and there are many different recepies for the production of nalewkas. However, it is not knownwhat amount of sugar can have influence of their aroma profiles. There is little information on the comparison of aroma profiles of Polish cherry nalewkas made with addition of different amount of sugar. For this purpose electronic nose based on fast GC has been used. Electronic...
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Application of electronic nose based on fast GC for comparison of aroma profiles of homemade cherry "Nalewka" made with addition of different amount of sugar
PublicationNalewka is a traditional Polish homemade spirit beverage and there are many different recepies for the production of nalewkas. However, it is not knownwhat amount of sugar can have influence of their aroma profiles. There is little information on the comparison of aroma profiles of Polish cherry nalewkas made with addition of different amount of sugar. For this purpose electronic nose based on fast GC has been used. Electronic...
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Advanced oxidation processes for recalcitrant compounds removal comparison with biofiltration by Corbicula fluminea
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Comparison of Algorithms for Profile-Based Alignment of Low Resolution MALDI-ToF Spectra
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