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  • Lithuania inland waterways links to Western Europe inland waterways network

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    • V. Paulauskas
    • B. PLAčIENE
    • R. BARZDžIUKAS
    • A. Maniachin
    • V. Lukauskas
    • D. Paulauskas
    • M. Wójcik

    - Year 2008

    Lithuania Inland waterways now mainly are used for transportation and tourism within Lithuania tertitory. In the same time difficulties crossing Kaliningrad region and direct Lithuania inland Waterways Buks with Western Europe inland waterway system nowadays are impossible, depending on Russia inland Waterways regulation. New ideas and possibilities of linking Lithuania inland Waterways witki Western Europe inland waterways system...

  • State of the Art of Automated Buses

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

    - Sustainability - Year 2018

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

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  • The analysis of the conditions for best practices’ transfer

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    One of the tasks of the Project Partners was identifying best practices in strengthening the economic activity of women and older people in the context of developing the competitiveness and innovation of SMEs, as well as determining the possibilities and conditions of their transfer. Transfer in this case is understood as the implementation of selected and described solutions in enterprises and public organizations from all the...

  • Magdalena Olczyk dr hab.

    Magdalena Olczyk, a PhD and a DSc in Economics, works as a assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics in Gdansk University of Technology. Her research and academic teaching focus on international economics, in particular, on issues related to international competitiveness. She authored and co-authored over 5 books and 60 articles related to competitiveness, international trade and structural changes

  • Jarosław Przewłócki prof. dr hab. inż.

    Jarosław Przewłócki jest profesorem na Wydziale Architektury Politechniki Gdańskiej, zastępca kierownika Katedry Technicznych Podstaw Projektowania Architektonicznego. Podstawowym kierunkiem jego działalności naukowej są badania zjawisk losowych i zastosowanie metod probabilistycznych oraz teorii niezawodności w budownictwie, a w szczególności w geotechnice. Autor i współautor około stu publikacji naukowych, w tym szeregu książek...

  • Biomass of macrophytobentos in the Puck Bay in 2010-2018

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    The database contains data on qualitative composition and biomass of macrophytobenthos (flower plants and macroalgae) in samples collected in the Puck Bay area (Gulf of Gdańsk, southern Baltic Sea) at 20 stations between 2010-2018. The database contains information on sampling sites (region, geographical coordinates, depth), sample characteristics (date,...

  • Poczucie zadowolenia z pracy - czy wiek ma znaczenie?

    W artykule podjęto tematykę satysfakcji z pracy. Dokonano przeglądu podstawowych aspektów tego zjawiska: sposobów definiowania, znaczenia z punktu widzenia przedsiębiorstwa oraz czynników wpływających na występowanie lub niewystępowanie zadowolenia z pracy. Celem głównym była próba odpowiedzi na pytanie, czy charakterystyki demograficzne pracownika – a konkretnie jego wiek – mają znaczenie dla odczuwania zadowolenia z pracy. Dla...

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  • Seafloor Characterisation Using Underwater Acoustic Devices

    The problem of seafloor characterisation is important in the context of management as well as investigation and protection of the marine environment. In the first part of the paper, a review of underwater acoustic technology and methodology used in seafloor characterisation is presented. It consists of the techniques based on the use of singlebeam echosounders and seismic sources, along with those developed for the use of sidescan...

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  • Effects of liquid phase modification on the values of surface tension of trickling liquid

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    Dataset presents the values of surface tension of trickling liquid sampled from three running biotrickling filters.

  • Wdrażanie metod zarządzania wiekiem w organizacjach publicznych na przykładzie Urzędu Miejskiego w Kilonii

    Artykuł przed­stawia dzi­ała­nia pod­jęte w ramach pro­jektu „Best Agers Light­houses – Strate­gic Age Man­age­ment For SME in The Baltic Sea Region” w celu wypra­cow­a­nia i wdroże­nia metod zarządza­nia wiekiem w Urzędzie Miejskim w Kilo­nii (Rathaus Kiel). Opisano sek­wencję dzi­ałań pode­j­mowanych w ramach pro­cesu wdraża­nia inter­wencji. Przeanal­i­zowano wyniki wywiadu pogłębionego przeprowad­zonego wśród kierown­ików w...

  • Ageing Workforce – a Challenge for Organizations

    Ageing and its consequences are most frequently analysed in macroscale. If the analyses apply to enterprises, they usually cover working conditions or motivations of the seniors’ choice between continuing employment and retirement. The article discusses slightly different themes, namely the awareness of demographic changes, their consequences for the organization and the new professional role of older people in the new demographic...

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  • Piotr Samól dr hab. inż. arch.

    Piotr Samól is an associate professor (profesor uczelni) in the Department of History, Theory and Monument Preservation at Gdansk University of Technology. He graduated in architecture (M.Sc. Eng.)  and history (B.A.). His researches are focused on the architectural and urban history of Gdansk and Baltic Sea region. He defended his doctoral thesis (scientifc field: architecture and urban planning) on the architecture of Dominican...

  • Risking It All or Here Comes the Flood

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    - Year 2018

    The professional reality is interdisciplinary! When city transformation and evolution starts, what are the tools for successful strategies for urban interventions? How does digital planning for digital fabrication processes look like? How dedicated are the new professionals? And how does this all influence the future of bridge design? More than 60 students representing various disciplines of built environment and working together...

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  • Szymon Kowalski mgr inż. arch.

    Research assistant in architectural studies of medieval and modern architecture in the Baltic Sea region. Scientifically, studies the possibilities of implementing virtual reality technology in the context of the conservation of architectural monuments and its impact on the theory of conservation, as well as the solutions for increasing the learning capabilities of architecture students.

  • The Eastern Battery in Świnoujście, Poland - history and architecture of a Prussian coastal fort from the 19th century

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    - Year 2018

    The article describes the history, architecture and development of the Eastern Battery (also known as the Gerhard Fort) – one of three remaining coastal forts in Świnoujście (former Swinemünde) located in northern Poland, by the Baltic Sea. The research is mostly based on historical cartographic material and architectural plans verified during field studies. This data served to create a digital model – one of the results of the...

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  • Tomasz Szymański dr inż. arch.

    Tomasz Szymanski (Ph.D.) is an architect and an assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Gdansk. Graduated at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Gdansk. Studies completed with a diploma with honors. Research Interests Dr. Tomasz Szymanski are centered around the issue of industrial heritage, re-use, adaptation and revitalization of industrial buildings and objects...

  • Cyanobacterial and Algal Strains in the Culture Collection of Baltic Algae (CCBA)

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    - Year 2022

    The dataset titled Microalgal strains from “Culture Collection of Baltic Algae (CCBA)” is a representation of cyanobacterial and microalgal cultures isolated from the Baltic Sea. It is a unique catalogue of strains of the dominant and rare species found in the Baltic phytoplankton and microphytobenthos assemblages. The main purpose of the collection is to extend the knowledge on the Baltic microbial communities by providing...

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  • Low-Temperature Requirements for Bitumen in Central East European Road Construction

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    - Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering - Year 2019

    The paper presents the proposition of special assessment of lowtemperature requirements for bitumens in the region of Central and Eastern Europe where there is a moderate transitional area from sea to the continental type of climate. The results of the research program conducted on the road neat bitumens, Styrene-Butadiene-Styrene polymer and polymer-rubber modified bitumen, and multigrade bitumen types were presented and discussed....

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  • The origins of the brick architecture in Pomerania

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    - Year 2016

    Traditionally, brick is one of the most popular building materials on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea. Although the origins of brick architecture have been the subject of numerous research studies, their results were focused on the Kingdom of Denmark, merchant-towns and the State of the Teutonic Order. Most scholars claimed that Pomeranian architecture had not been as developed as that in the neighbouring countries. Moreover,...

  • On the acoustic backscattering by Baltic herring and sprat

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    - HYDROACOUSTICS - Year 2010

    Accurate abundance estimate of Baltic clupeids, herring and sprat, is required for theirsustainable exploitation. The understanding the sound backscattering of individual fish isimportant for employing the acoustical techniques, which are widely used in the estimation.The previous studies demonstrated that the improvement of the understanding is critical forthe Baltic herring and sprat. It was the main...

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  • Study of swimbladder morphometry of Baltic herring and sprat (development of measurement methodology)

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    - HYDROACOUSTICS - Year 2011

    Effective management of Baltic clupeids, which are valuable commercially and ecologically,requires the biomass control. The acoustical techniques are recognized as effective in fishstock assessment. The study of Baltic herring and sprat individual backscatteringcharacteristics is required for the accurate biomass estimation using acoustical techniques.The previous measurements demonstrated significant...

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  • Andrzej Chybicki dr inż.

    A graduate of the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics at the Gdańsk University of Technology, PhD in technical sciences in the field of IT specializing in distributed data processing in IT . Aimed at exploiting the achievements and knowledge in the field of industrial research. He cooperated with a number of companies including OpeGieka Elbląg, Reson Inc., Powel Sp. z o. o., Wasat, Better Solutions, the European...

  • Effects of liquid phase modification on the performance of biotrickling filters

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    Dataset presents the effects of liquid phase modification on the biotrickling filtration (BTF) performance of air polluted with toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene and styrene.

  • SPECTRAL DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF A STATIONARY JACK-UP PLATFORM

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    The paper refers to the dynamic short-term response analysis of the Baltic steel drilling platform (see Fig.2) in a random sea-state represented by one-dimensional wave spectrum proposed by Striekalov and Massel and it is recommended for the Baltic Sea area. The Baltic drilling platform is a jack-up type platform for the exploration and exploitation of oil under the Baltic Sea. The analysis presented deals with the stationary...

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  • Frequency of neoplasia in the baltic clam Limecola balthica from the Gulf of Gdańsk between 1999-2002

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    The presented dataset contains data describing the frequency of neoplasia in one of the most common bivalve species inhabiting the Baltic Sea, the baltic clam Limecola balthica. The frequency of neoplasia was assessed at various locations of the Gulf of Gdańsk between years 1999 - 2002. The dataset contains information describing the sampling areas...

  • Chęć kontynuowania pracy po osiągnięciu wieku emerytalnego w wybranych państwach Regionu Morza Bałtyckiego

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    - Year 2014

    Artykuł odnosi się do problematyki starzenia się społeczeństwa europejskiego i, jako konsekwencji tego, pogłębiania się deficytu zasobów ludzkich na ryku pracy. Najczęściej proponowane działania, które mogłoby przeciwdziałać temu zjawisku to zarządzanie wiekiem w przedsiębiorstwach, promowanie kontynuowania pracy po osiągnięciu wieku emerytalnego czy legislacyjne zmiany w zakresie podwyższenia wieku emerytalnego. W artykule przedstawiono...

  • 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...

  • Impact of Microphytobenthos Photosynthesis on the Characteristics of the Echo Signal from Baltic Sandy Sediments

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    - Archives of Acoustics - Year 2015

    The understanding the influence of biological processes on the characteristics of the signals backscattered by the sea floor is crucial in the development of the hydroacoustical benthic habitat classification techniques. The impact of the microphytobenthos photosynthesis on the acoustical backscattering properties of the Atlantic sandy sediments was previously demonstrated by Holliday et al. (2004) and Wildman and Huettel (2012). To...

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  • Backscattering properties of southern Baltic herring

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    - HYDROACOUSTICS - Year 2012

    Reliable TS(L) relationship is required to improve acoustic algorithms of abundanceestimation of Baltic herring. The relationships, empirically obtained in different parts of theBaltic Sea, produce up to 8 dB – difference in the herring TS. In order to develop an accurateTS(L) relationship, it is important to analyze factors controlling the TS variability. Thepossible impact of the regional difference...

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  • The state of the art in the field of decrease the pollution in the South Baltic area

    Various form of human activity such as maritime transports, industrial activities, busy traffic, intensive farming and animal husbandry can have negative impact on natural marine environment. Baltic Sea catchment area is characterized by the high river water flux and wastewater treatment plants discharges. Additionally, the limited shallow connection to the North Sea results in little water exchange and residence time of approximately...

  • Assessing groundwater vulnerability to sea water intrusion in the coastline of the inner Puck Bay using GALDIT method

    In this research, GALDIT method was used to assess seawater intrusion in the coastal aquifer of the inner Puck Bay (Southern Baltic Sea). The impact of potential sea-level rise on groundwater vulnerability for years 2081-2100 was also considered. The study area was categorized into three classes of vulnerability: low, moderate and high. The most vulnerable area is the Hel Peninsula with northern part of the Kashubian Coastland....

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  • Assessing groundwater vulnerability to sea water intrusion in the coastline of the inner Puck Bay using GALDIT method

    In this research, GALDIT method was used to assess seawater intrusion in the coastal aquifer of the inner Puck Bay (Southern Baltic Sea). The impact of potential sea-level rise on groundwater vulnerability for years 2081-2100 was also considered. The study area was categorized into three classes of vulnerability: low, moderate and high. The most vulnerable area is the Hel Peninsula with northern part of the Kashubian Coastland....

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  • Vertical Temperature Stratification of the Gulf of Gdansk Water

    The Baltic Sea is characterized by variable hydroacoustic conditions, which depend on hydrological conditions throughout the year. The temperature of the water is the factor that has the greatest impact on the changes in the speed of the sound in this basin. Even at a small depth, we can observe a large temperature gradient affecting the accuracy of the conducted research using hydroacoustic devices. A characteristic feature of...

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  • MSP for port areas – To what extent should we interfere with governance of ports’ waters? Case study of Polish seaports

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    • E. Czermański
    • M. Matczak
    • A. Oniszczuk-Jastrząbek
    • K. Krośnicka
    • J. Witkowska

    - MARINE POLICY - Year 2024

    The EU MSP Directive imposed the requirement to develop plans for all water areas under the jurisdiction of an EU country by the end of March 2021. Poland is the only country in the Baltic Sea Region whose maritime administration has decided to elaborate detailed maritime spatial plans for port waters. The aim of the paper is to draw conclusions from the work carried out so far on the MSP for Polish port water areas. For this purpose,...

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  • Propagation of Ship-Generated Noise in Shallow Sea

    Contamination of sea environment by noise and any energy radiated to water constitutes today a problem to which more and more attention is paid, in view, a.o., of consequences of an impact of these factors onto marine fauna. European Union has introduced a directive by which EU countries are made responsible to undertake efforts aimed at reaching a good envirenmental status of European seas by 2020. A main source of underwater...

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  • The study of acoustic climate of the Southern Baltic

    This paper presents the statistical characteristics of seawater properties, which are necessary for predicting the propagation of acoustic waves in selected areas of the Baltic Sea. The statistics were elaborated based on long-term measurements of vertical distributions of sound speed, temperature, and salinity, and the nonlinearity parameter B/A. Nonlinear properties of the environment are considered, in connection...

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  • Searching of the buried objects in the sea bottom by means of noninvasive methods

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    - Year 2012

    Searching of objects on the seabed or under its surface currently is a challenge for a number of researchers interested in the sea bottom. The problem relates to the objects on the depths of up to several tens of meters from the surface of the seabed. Finding the objects is the subject of interest for a wide group of users starting from archaeologists, and ending on groups interested in marine safety, as well as in military application...

  • Occurrence of Cyanobacteria in the Gulf of Gdańsk (2008–2009)

    Blooms of cyanobacteria develop each summer in the Baltic Sea. Collecting complete data on this phenomenon is helpful in understanding the changes taking place in the Baltic Sea and forecasting the occurrence of these phenomena in the future. This dataset includes unpublished information about the occurrence of cyanobacteria in the Gulf of Gdańsk (Southern Baltic) in 2008 and 2009. The presented data combines basic physic-ochemical...

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  • MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS OF A FLOOD WAVE PROPAGATION ON THE KACZA RIVER IN GDYNIA IN NORTHERN POLAND

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    Kacza river is located in northern Poland in the neighborhood of the Gulf of Gdansk and the Baltic Sea. A Kacza having length of 15 km and catchment area of 53 km2 collects the water into the Gulf mostly from inhabited and forested areas within the administrative boundaries of the city of Gdynia. On the 14th and 15th of July 2016 in northern Poland on the large area of Tri-City agglomeration (Gdynia, Gdansk and Sopot) total daily...

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  • Hybrid constructed wetlands for the National Parks in Poland - a case study, requirements, dimensioning, preliminary results

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    • K. Jóźwiakowski
    • M. Gajewska
    • M. Marzec
    • M. Gizińska-Górna
    • A. Pytka
    • A. Kowalczyk-Juśko
    • B. Sosnowska
    • S. Baran
    • A. Malik
    • R. Kufel

    - Year 2016

    Water and wastewater management, especially in rural areas, greatly affects loads of nutrients discharged to the Baltic Sea. In Poland, this management is unbalanced because of the dispersed development and in many locations con struction of sewerage system is uneconomic or even impossible. For this reason, a significant part of sewage from single-family houses in rural areas must be discharged into domestic sewage systems. The...

  • Poverty and social exclusion in the transition Baltic States during the implementation of the European Union Lisbon Strategy - comparative analysis

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    - Year 2014

    The problem of poverty and social exclusion in the Baltic States generates serious social, economic and political consequences. The scope of the analysis includes primarily the scale and structure of poverty and social exclusion in the Baltic Region in the years 2004-2010 in the context of the Lisbon Strategy of the European Union. The results show that during the transition and implementation of the Lisbon Strategy, the problem...

  • Effects of CO2 and utilization of spent trickling liquid towards plant growth

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    Dataset presents the results of biomass yield for Phaseolus vulgaris pot cultures watered with diluted trickling liquid from biotrickling filtration experiments with or without additional CO2 in air by means of introducting post-biofilter air to the plant culture.

  • Remote command and control capabilities for data acquisition systems provided by delay-tolerant network mechanisms

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    The paper presents an assessment of a remote device reconfiguration service employing a Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) mechanisms. This service has been implemented as a part of a communication appliance dedicated to marine data transfer in off-shore and open sea areas. The service has been successfully deployed and validation test have been completed. The practical use-case has been defined as remote access to the equipment operating...

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  • Bringing Bathymetry LiDAR to Coastal Zone Assessment: A Case Study in the Southern Baltic

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    - Remote Sensing - Year 2020

    One of the major tasks in environmental protection is monitoring the coast for negative impacts due to climate change and anthropopressure. Remote sensing techniques are often used in studies of impact assessment. Topographic and bathymetric procedures are treated as separate measurement methods, while methods that combine coastal zone analysis with underwater impacts are rarely used in geotechnical analyses. This study presents...

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  • Degradation of Polycaptolactone Modified with TPS or CaCO3 in Biotic/Abiotic Sewater

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    • A. Guzman-Sielicka
    • H. Janik
    • P. Sielicki

    - JOURNAL OF POLYMERS AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Year 2012

    The polymer degradation process in two types of water sourced from the Baltic Sea was investigated. Polycaprolactone modified with thermoplastic starch(PCL/TPS>85%) or calcium carbonate (60% PCL/40% CaCO3)and PCL alone were incubated for 28 weeks in sea water with and without microrganisms. The experimental results indicated that in each of the experiments degradation occured. The process was more effective in sea water with microorganisms.Modification...

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  • Piotr Konieczka prof. dr hab. inż.

  • Seaweed utilization issues in biogas production

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    Macroalgae can be seen as a renewable feedstock for the production of biofuels in many coastal areas around the World and especially in Baltic Sea region where the eutrophication is particularly troublesome. The investigation of anaerobic digestion technologies for extracting inexhaustible bioenergy from seaweed was conducted in many research institutions mainly in laboratory scale. Although seaweeds seem to have a great potential...

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  • Structural analysis as a supporting method for the research of the medieval brick architecture

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    Chronology of brick historical buildings might be established much more precisely than the chronology of stone ones due to the architectural and metrical analysis of bricks, mortars and brickworks. Comparison of historical sources allows to reconstruct the previous stages of constructing monuments. Causations between transformations and developments of monuments are usually interpreted as the results of artistic or ideological...

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  • SPECTRAL RESPONSE OF STATIONARY JACK-UP PLATFORMS LOADED BY SEA WAVES AND WIND USING PERTURBATION METHOD

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    - Polish Maritime Research - Year 2021

    The paper addresses non-linear vibrations of offshore jack-up drilling platforms loaded by sea waves and wind in their stationary condition using the perturbation method. Non-linearity of dynamic equations of motion for fixed offshore platforms yields from two factors. The first is load excitation generating non-linear velocity coupling in a dynamic system. This coupling is inherent in the modified Morison equation, involving the...

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  • Environmemtal Degradation of Ramie Fibre Reinforced Biocomposites

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    • K. Krasowska
    • J. Brzeska
    • M. Rutkowska
    • H. Janik
    • S. Sreekala Meyyarappallil
    • K. Goda
    • T. Sabu

    - POLISH JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES - Year 2010

    The estimation of environmental degradibility of different fibre reinforced biocomposites in Baltic sea and in compost with activated sludge under natural conditions is the subject of this paper. Two types of biocomposites, ramie fibre/ecoflex and ramie fibre/cellulose nanofibre reinforced corn starch resin, were studied.It was demonstrated that the biocomposites with natural fibre of ramie were degraded in compost faster than...

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