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  • Perspektywy rozowju elastycznych systemów produkcyjnych nowej generacji

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    - Year 2007

    Niniejszy artykuł pokazuje zmainy paradygmatu projektowania i eksploatacji elastycznych systemów produkcyjnych, na przykładzie róznych modeli systemów nowej generacji NGMS (next Genaeration Manufacturing System). Dokonano analizy prównawczej wybranych rozwiazań w przedmiotowym obszarze, formułując prognozy rozwojowe w oparciu o zaproponowane megatrendy rozwojowe: miniaturyzacji, sieciowości (networking), (microfactory) oraz wskazano...

  • Centers of Excellence - initial conception

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    In literature, the most basic definition of centers of excellence is " CoE is a team of people that promote collaboration and use best practices around a specific focus area to drive business result". More broadly, center of excellence is defined as " a premier organization providing an exceptional product or service in an assigned sphere of expertise and within a specific field of technology, business, or government, consistent...

  • Logistics aspects in the group of health care accreditation standards associated with patient nutrition

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    - Logistyka - Year 2014

    Medical services are currently one of the more popular branches of the service sector, both in Poland and worldwide. Along with direct impact on human health and life, they have influence on the necessity of constant search for forms of their improvement. Actions taken for improvement of health services quality are implemented with diversity, both as an obligatory action imposed in all medical services units, as well as, actions...

  • A Novel Multicast Architecture of Programmable Networks

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    - Year 2015

    In the paper a multicast architecture for programmable networks based on separation of group management and network control tasks is proposed. Thanks to this separation, services which want to make use of multicast communications no longer have to implement low-level network functionalities and their operation is greatly simplified. Abstracting service’s view of the network into a fully connected cloud enables us to transparently...

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  • LOCAL E-MARKETING AND PHARAMACY SELECTION PROCESS AMONG CURRENT AND PROSPECTIVE CONSUMERS

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    - Year 2016

    WORK OBJECTIVES:  To examine whether and to what extent a company's presence in Google Search mobile results, and Google Maps service search results, affects pharmacies' acquisition of new consumers   RESEARCH QUESTIONS: Does the presence of pharmacies in Google MyBusiness increase the number of their customers ? Is the increase in the...

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  • Effective Decision-Making in Supply Chain Management

    Proper decision-making in Supply Chain Management (SCM) is crucial for an appropriately functioning mechanisms. The paper presents how IT technologies can impact on an organization and process realization. Especially Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) standard and the Cloud Computing (CC) paradigms are taken into account. A general model of decision-making is proposed and based on a specific practical example is analyzed using...

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  • Resilience of 5G Mobile Communication Systems to Massive Disruptions

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    - Year 2020

    This chapter discusses vital techniques to enhance the resilience of 5G systems. It starts with dependability assessment of 5G networks. Next, it describes (a) the frequency fallback technique to improve availability and survivability of 5G services, (b) segment interleaving scheme to enhance communications resilience between base stations and the remaining part of the network and (c) multi-operator protection to address the resilience...

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  • Application of Barkhausen effect in the impact assessment of welding to internal stress distribution in steel

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    - Year 2016

    The paper presents identification method of internal stresses in plane steel elements in the chase of deliverance and welding assembly. The assessment was made by means of a non-destructive experimental method based on measurements incorporating local external magnetic field and the measurement of induced voltage, including Barkhausen noise. This method allows a degradation assessment due to internal and external actions, causing...

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  • Application of Barkhausen effect in the impact assessment of welding to internal stress distribution in steel

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    - Year 2016

    The paper presents identification method of internal stresses in plane steel elements in the chase of deliverance and welding assembly. The assessment was made by means of a non-destructive experimental method based on measurements incorporating local external magnetic field and the measurement of induced voltage, including Barkhausen noise. This method allows a degradation assessment due to internal and external actions, causing...

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  • Global Value Chains and Wages: International Evidence from Linked Worker-Industry Data

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    Using a rich dataset on over 110,000 workers from nine European countries and the USA we study the wage response to industry dependence on foreign value added. We estimate a Mincerian wage model augmented with an input-output interindustry linkages measure accounting for task heterogeneity across workers. Low and mediumeducated workers and those performing routine tasks experience (little) wage decline due to major dependency of...

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  • Effect of Overloaded Vehicles on Whole Life Cycle Cost of Flexible Pavements

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    - Year 2018

    The phenomenon of vehicle overloading—illegal exceeding of maximum legal weight of vehicles, is a serious problem both in developing and developed countries around the world. Overloaded vehicles occur less frequently in comparison to properly loaded vehicles but due to their greater potential to cause damage they significantly contribute to distress of pavement structure. As studies show, the number of overloaded vehicles increases...

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  • Knowledge‐Intensive Business Services (KIBS) and Their Role in the Knowledge‐Based Economy

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    - Year 2013

    The importance of the knowledge‐intensive business services sector for the development of the economy is growing. In the 80s and 90s this sector became the fastest growing sector in the OECD countries (OECD, 2001). Many publications stress its close relationship to the levels of innovation and performance of the whole economy (e.g. Hipp, 1999; Tomlinson, 1999; Aslesen and Isaksen, 2007). It is an increasingly common belief that...

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  • What fosters firm-level labour productivity in Eastern European and Central Asian countries?

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    This study examines labour productivity performance and its determinants in Eastern European and Central Asian (EECA) firms using micro-level data. We find significant differences in labour productivity among members of the European Union in Eastern Europe and other Eastern European and Central Asian countries. We also confirm the important impact of foreign ownership, exporter status, and highly skilled workers on productivity...

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  • Key logistics processes in project management based on organisation of an international training session-case study

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    Improvement of processes, including the logistics processes forms one of the essential aspects of modern business entities functioning. Search for the solutions allowing for quicker and less costly method of realisation of particular activities in highly significant, especially in the conditions of a dynamically changing environment in which the organisations have to function. It is a natural field occuring principally both in...

  • Orientation effects on the fracture behaviour of additively manufactured stainless steel 316L subjected to high cyclic fatigue

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    - THEORETICAL AND APPLIED FRACTURE MECHANICS - Year 2024

    In this paper, stainless steel 316L (SS316L) bars were additively manufactured (AM) in three orientations (Z – vertical, XY – horizontal, ZX45 – midway between vertical and horizontal) by using the Laser Powder Bed Fusion Melting (LPBF-M) method. The AM specimens were subjected to load control fatigue testing under full tension and compression (R = -1) at stress amplitudes ±350, ±400 and ±450 MPa. The XY and ZX45 printing orientations...

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  • Testing Watermark Robustness against Application of Audio Restoration Algorithms

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    The purpose of this study was to test to what extent watermarks embedded in distorted audio signals are immune to audio restoration algorithm performing. Several restoration routines such as noise reduction, spectrum expansion, clipping or clicks reduction were applied in the online website system. The online service was extended with some copyright protection mechanisms proposed by the authors. They contain low-level music features...

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  • REINFORCED CONCRETE SUPPORTING CONSTRUCTION OF THE STADIUM COVER FOR EURO 2012 IN GDAŃSK

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    - Year 2014

    In the article structural issues that connected with the reinforced concrete supporting construction of the stadium roofing for EURO 2012 in Gdańsk were described. In the first part of the article the concept of stadium foundation were described. In the second the static - strength analysis for two variants fastening together individual foundation elements were made. The two assumed geometrically different concept of foundation...

  • Enhancing Security of Advanced Metering Infrastructure by Introducing Threshold Attendance Protocol

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    The industry pushes towards smart grid systems in order to resolve current limitations of the unidirectional legacy power grid infrastructure. By introducing Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) as an integral part of the smart grid solution, the utility company obtains an invaluable tool to optimize its network, lower the operational costs, and improve quality of service. Unfortunately, introducing two-way communication poses...

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  • Big Data and the Internet of Things in Edge Computing for Smart City

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    - Year 2019

    Requests expressing collective human expectations and outcomes from city service tasks can be partially satisfied by processing Big Data provided to a city cloud via the Internet of Things. To improve the efficiency of the city clouds an edge computing has been introduced regarding Big Data mining. This intelligent and efficient distributed system can be developed for citizens that are supposed to be informed and educated by the...

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  • The paradigm change of flexible production systems desing

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    - Year 2007

    Niniejszy artykuł pokazuje zmiany paradygmatu projektowania i eksploatacji elastycznych systemów produkcyjnych, na przykładzie różnych modeli systemów nowej generacji NGMS (Next Generation Manufacturing System). Dokonano analizy porównawczej wybranych rozwiązań w przedmiotowym obszarze, formułując prognozy rozwojowe w oparciu o zaproponowane megatrendy rozwojowe: miniaturyzacji, sieciowości (networking), mobilności, i wirtualizacji....

  • Markov Model of Disease Development and Recovery

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    - Year 2016

    Markov models are commonly used to simulate diseases and allow modeling of multiple health states and outcomes. Starting with the well known Le Bras multistate model (cascading failure model) with time-independent transitions we will see how simple Markov mortality models may be pressed into the service of survival and event history analysis. We will focus on more complex models which will be able to take into account remission,...

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  • Practical Approach to IP Scheduled Throughput Measurements in Dual Connectivity Systems

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    IP scheduled throughput defined according to 3GPP TS 36.314 reflects user throughput regardless of traffic characteristics, and therefore has become one of the most important indicators for monitoring Quality of Service (QoS) of the end user in Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN). However, networks built on a distributed architecture make the above definition impossible to be applied directly due to the...

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  • Driving the Image of an Electricity Supplier through Marketing Activities

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    - Forum Scientiae Oeconomia - Year 2023

    The aim of this study is to determine how marketing actions undertaken within the marketing mix by electricity providers influence their image. Referring to the Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR) theory, research hypotheses were formulated, and a regression model was constructed, assuming positive impacts of selected marketing actions of electricity providers on their image. A quantitative approach was employed to test the research...

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  • Implementation of IMS/NGN Transport Stratum Based on the SDN Concept

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    - SENSORS - Year 2023

    The paper presents the development and verification of software and a testbed aiming to demonstrate the ability of two telecommunication network concepts—Next Generation Network (NGN) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)—to cooperate. The proposed architecture includes components of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) in its service stratum and of the SDN (controller and programmable switches) in its transport stratum, providing...

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  • Long-Term GNSS Tropospheric Parameters for the Tropics (2001-2018) Derived from Selected IGS Stations

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    - Year 2022

    This paper describes dataset “Tropospheric parameters derived from selected IGS stations in the tropics for the years 2001-2018” contains GNSS-derived zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD), a posteriori corrected zenith wet delay (ZWD), and precipitable water vapour (PWV) time series. These troposphere-related data were estimated for the Jan 2001 – Dec 2018 period for 43 International GNSS Service (IGS) stations located across the global...

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  • Credibility of Threats to Jam Anonymous Traffic Remapping Attacks in Ad Hoc WLANs

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    - IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS - Year 2017

    In ad hoc networks, selfish stations can pursue a better quality of service (QoS) by performing traffic remapping attacks (TRAs), i.e., by falsely assigning their traffic to a higher priority class, which can hurt honest stations’ QoS. To discourage the attackers, honest stations can announce their dissatisfaction with the perceived QoS. If such a threat fails, a costly data frame jamming defense can be launched. We analyze the...

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  • Implementacja warstwy danych i sterowania dla Równoległego Internetu IPv6 QoS

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    • P. Wiśniewski
    • H. Tarasiuk
    • M. Rawski
    • I. Olszewski
    • Ł. Ogrodowczyk
    • S. Hanczewski
    • A. Kaliszan
    • A. Brachman
    • K. Gierłowski

    - Przegląd Telekomunikacyjny + Wiadomości Telekomunikacyjne - Year 2012

    W artykule przedstawiono aspekty związane z implementacją węzłów Równoległego Internetu (RI) IPv6 QoS na platformach umożliwiających wirtualizację. RI IPv6 QoS jest oparty na architekturze DiffServ i NGN. W sieci IP wyróżniamy węzły brzegowe oraz szkieletowe, które wyposażone są w mechanizmy Quality of Service (QoS) wspierające gwarancje QoS dla przekazu pakietów w sieci. Implementacja węzłów IPv6 QoS w środowisku umożliwiającym...

  • Composite as a Material of the Future in the Era of Green Deal Implementation Strategies

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    - Processes - Year 2021

    Composite materials have become synonymous with modernity, desired in nearly every aspect of our daily lives, from simple everyday objects to sanitary facilities, pipelines, the construction of modern sewer networks, their renovation, water supply, and storage reservoirs, to complex structures—automotive, planes, and space science. Composites have seen a considerable rise in attention owing to their characteristics, durability,...

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  • Influence of Toll Collection Method on Motorways on Traffic Safety and Efficiency

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    The paper presents the results of the effectiveness analysis for various forms of toll collection on motorway gates and their impact on safety and efficiency of traffic. The results from field tests that were performed on the A1 motorway in Rusocin were used for the analysis. The research included the analysis of the video image of driver behaviour on the way to the toll booths and at toll booths. The PTV VISSIM tool was used to...

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  • Cargo ships heat demand - operational experiment

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    The paper presents the results of an experiment conducted on two cargo ships – a 5300 TEU container with a steam heating system and a 7500 dwt general cargo ship with a thermal oil system. On both ships research has been carried out using specially designed measuring equipment. After gathering data about flow velocity and temperatures (steam/ cooling water/ thermal oil/ seawater/ outside air), calculations have been done, resulting...

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  • Knowledge management in SMEs – selected issues.

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    - Year 2014

    The success of a small or medium-size enterprise might be dependent on the way in which this company manages its knowledge. With limited access to other resources like land, capital or labor force, the access to knowledge and its effective application might become a source of competitive advantage for an SME. It is confirmed that organizations, which successfully implement the concept of knowledge management might achieve better...

  • Messmethoden zur beurteilung der qualität von VoIP-verbindungen

    Praca jest poświęcona tematyce QoS (Quality of Service) w sieciach IP. Na początku pracy opisano i porównano standaryzowane metody oceny jakości połączeń telefonicznych, tzn. MOS, PAMS, PSQM, PESQ, 3SQM, E-Modell. Następnie przedstawiono nowy efektywny system pomiarowy TraceView®:VoIP. Przy jego użyciu jest możliwy objektywny pomiar jakości usługi VoIP (Voice over IP) w sieciach IP. System ten umożliwia również dokonanie w...

  • “Don’t call it work”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of volunteer firefighting in young adults based on the volunteer process model

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    The number of people engaging in volunteer firefighting is on the decline. It is important to understand what factors on a personal and social level and from the three stages of the volunteer process model: antecedents, experiences and consequences, might be linked to starting and sustaining such engagement. To address this problem, a qualitative, interview-based study was performed on a sample of 10 volunteer firefighters from...

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  • Ubiquity of client access in heterogeneous access environment

    With popularization of mobile computing and diverse offer of mobile devices providing functionality comparable to stationary computers, the necessity of providing network access for such users cannot be disputed. The requirement is further reinforced by emergence of general purpose mobile operating systems which provide their full functionality only with network connectivity available and popular XaaS (Anything as a Service) approach....

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  • Energy efficient beam control for 5G antennas

    The rapid development of 5G and beyond systems demands improvement in communication speed, latency and safety to maintain the required quality of service. This paper presents an overview of different concepts of energy-efficient antenna systems, which offer beam-shaping and beam-steering functionalities, that enhance connectivity performance and can be used in 5G applications. Different designs for 5.9 GHz, 39 GHz and 60 GHz frequency...

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  • Shaping the New Vistula Spit Channel: Political, Economic, and Environmental Aspects

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    In September 2022, the new shipping channel in Poland was opened for service. It connects the Port of Elbląg and the Gdańsk Bay in Poland, cutting through the Vistula Spit and the Vistula Lagoon. It was intended to enable direct access to the Baltic Sea from the Port of Elbląg without crossing Russian territory. Originally conceptualized decades ago, it has taken its final shape only recently. Its construction was associated with...

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  • Modeling of Accidental Bunker Oil Spills as a Result of Ship's Bunker Tanks Rupture - a Case Study

    AIS (Automatic Identification System) data analysis is used to define ship domain for grounding scenarios. The domain has been divided into two areas as inner and outer domains. Inner domain has clear border, which is based on ship dynamic characteristics. Violation of inner domain makes the grounding accident unavoidable. Outer domain area is defined with AIS data analyzing. Outer domain shows the situation of own ship in compare...

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  • A fair distribution scheme for joint fingerprinting and decryption methods= Sprawiedliwy schemat dystrybucji dla metod łącznego osadzania odcisku palca oraz deszyfracji

    The paper addresses the fairness of the security provided by digital fingerprinting methods. It was noted that the digital fingerprinting techniques are designed primarily to protect service providers against the actions of malicious users, while honest users remain vulnerable to acts of malicious providers. The paper describes the customer's rights problem and the unbinding problem, which also apply to joint fingerprinting and...

  • Asynchronous Wide Area Multilateration System

    A new method for a location service in the wide area multilateration (WAM) system is outlined. This method, which is called asynchronous WAM (AWAM), enables calculation of the geographical position of an aircraft without knowledge of relative time differences (RTDs) between measuring ground stations (sensors). The AWAM method is based on the measurement of round trip times (RTTs) between the aircraft and the serving ground station,...

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  • New approach for determining the QoS of MP3-coded voice signals in IP networks

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    Present-day IP transport platforms being what they are, it will never be possible to rule out conflicts between the available services. The logical consequence of this assertion is the inevitable conclusion that the quality of service (QoS) must always be quantifiable no matter what. This paper focuses on one method to determine QoS. It defines an innovative, simple model that can evaluate the QoS of MP3-coded voice data transported...

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  • HOW TO ASSESS THE MATURITY OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES TO LEAN SIX SIGMA PROJECTS

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    This article describes the considerations for the implementation of the Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodology in small and medium-sized enterprises. Pilot research was conducted in Polish and French SMEs (nine Polish and nine French enterprises from the service and production sectors) referring to the context of the implementation and application of the Lean Six Sigma concept. The studies led to the identification of the motives, needs,...

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  • Fake VIP Attacks and Their Mitigation via Double-Blind Reputation

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    - Year 2017

    In a generic setting subsuming communication networks, resource sharing systems, and multi-agent communities, a client generates objects of various classes carrying class-dependent signatures, to which a server assigns class-dependent service quality. A Fake VIP attack consists in false declaration of a high class, with an awareness that detection of object signature at the server side is costly and so invoked reluctantly. We show...

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  • The Influence of the Aircraft Operating Fluids on the Mechanical Parameters of the Airport Surface Concrete

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    - Materials - Year 2020

    The authors of the article assessed the impact of operating fluids used to service aircraft on changing mechanical parameters of cement concrete intended for airport pavement. The research concerned concrete designed with the use of CEM I 42.5N LH NA low-alkali cement, broken granite aggregate, fine washed aggregate, and admixtures. The analysis included the assessment of changes in dierences in endurance parameters over various...

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  • Attempt to a Video-Transmission Capability in MV Mine Cable Network Using BPL-PLC Technology

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    • G. Debita
    • P. Falkowski-Gilski
    • M. Habrych
    • B. Miedziński
    • G. Wiśniewski
    • P. Jedlikowski
    • B. Polnik

    - Year 2020

    This article presents and discusses the attempt to transmit video content using the BPL-PLC (Broadband over Power Line - Power Line Communication) technology. It includes simulation results of a specially developed digital transmitter and receiver, dedicated to a given predefined 6 kV mining power cable. The effect of two different transmission modes (2-7 MHz and 3-7.5 MHz) and two types of coupling (capacitive-inductive and induction-inductive),...

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  • Probabilistic Methods in Reliability Assessment of Engineering Lightweight Structures

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    - Year 2018

    The paper considers the probability-based analysis of structural safety measures. Two different numerical examples of representative lightweight structures are considered – a submerged truss tower supporting an offshore platform, and an overhead power line support truss tower. On the basis of these examples, the importance of a motivated selection of analysis method and a proper choice of the number of important variables is shown....

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  • INTERNAL DETERMINANTS OF FIRMS’ INNOVATIVENESS

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    This article presents an analysis of the determinants of a firm’s innovativeness deriving from its internal potential and characteristics. The analysis is based on research carried out on 1355 firms that applied for public subsidies from the Innovative Economy Operational Program in 2014. The methods applied are logit regression, comparative analysis and literature review. The analysis is structured ac- cording to Bielski’s model...

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  • Message Inter-Arrival and Inter-Departure Time Distributions in IMS/NGN Architecture

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    - Year 2012

    Currently is it assumed that requirements of the information society for delivering multimedia services will be satisfied by the Next Generation Network (NGN) architecture, which includes elements of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solution. In order to guarantee Quality of Service (QoS), NGN has to be appropriately designed and dimensioned. Therefore, proper traffic models should be proposed and applied. This requires determination...

  • Implementacja płaszczyzny danych i płaszczyzny sterowania dla Równoległego Internetu IPv6 QoS

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    • P. Wiśniewski
    • H. Tarasiuk
    • M. Rawski
    • I. Olszewski
    • Ł. Ogrodowczyk
    • S. Hanczewski
    • A. Kaliszan
    • A. Brachman
    • K. Gierłowski

    - Year 2013

    W artykule przedstawiono aspekty związane z implementacją węzłów Równoległego Internetu (RI) IPv6 QoS na platformach umożliwiających wirtualizację. RI IPv6 QoS jest oparty na architekturze DiffServ i NGN. Zgodnie z architekturą DiffServ, w sieci IP wyróżniamy węzły brzegowe oraz szkieletowe, które wyposażone są w mechanizmy Quality of Service (QoS) wspierające gwarancje QoS dla przekazu pakie¬tów w sieci. Implementacja węzłów IPv6...

  • Rozproszony system akwizycji, prezentacji i analizy informacji przestrzennej

    W artykule przedstawiono skalowalny system prezentacji danych przestrzennych pochodzących z różnych źródeł, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem specyfikacji Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). System został zaimplementowany w technologii .NET i pracuje w środowisku rozproszonym w oparciu o Web Service. Aplikacja zrealizowana jest w formie apletu .NET, dzięki czemu można ją w prosty sposób osadzić w dokumencie HTML i umieścić na serwerze...

  • Evaluation of ASON/GMPLS Connection Control Servers Performance

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    Performance aspects have always been very important in telecommunications, especially in control elements. That problem also regards ASON/GMLPS network, which is one of the propositions for Next Generation Network (NGN) transport stratum. In this paper we investigate performance of ASON/GMPLS Connection Control Servers (CCSs) in laboratory testbed, which architecture and operation are also described. In order to evaluate the performance...