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  • Airfoil Design Under Uncertainty Using Non-Intrusive Polynomial Chaos Theory and Utility Functions

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    - Procedia Computer Science - Year 2017

    Fast and accurate airfoil design under uncertainty using non-intrusive polynomial chaos (NIPC) expansions and utility functions is proposed. The NIPC expansions provide a means to efficiently and accurately compute statistical information for a given set of input variables with associated probability distribution. Utility functions provide a way to rigorously formulate the design problem. In this work, these two methods are integrated...

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  • Focus on Misinformation: Improving Medical Experts’ Efficiency of Misinformation Detection

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    - Year 2021

    Fighting medical disinformation in the era of the global pandemic is an increasingly important problem. As of today, automatic systems for assessing the credibility of medical information do not offer sufficient precision to be used without human supervision, and the involvement of medical expert annotators is required. Thus, our work aims to optimize the utilization of medical experts’ time. We use the dataset of sentences taken...

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  • Redesign of the Research Platform for Monitoring, Control and Security of Critical Infrastructure Systems

    Critical Infrastructure Systems (CISs) play a key role in modern societies. Their sustainable operation depends heavily on the performance of dedicated structures and algorithms targeting monitoring, control and security aspects. In previous work a Research Platform (RP) for the design and simulation of such systems was presented. This works updates the information on the RP through the description of major hardware and software...

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  • ANALYSIS OF THE PUNCHING FAILURE MECHANISM IN WORKING PLATFORMS

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    - Year 2013

    Paper presents an analysis of the shear failure mechanism which occurs from the punching of a working platform layer in relation to its thickness, grain size arrangement and mechanical properties, taking into consideration the interaction with soft subgrade. The study is based on the observations of performance of natural scale structures (Streefkerk) and the results of model investigations numerically represented with the use...

  • Anti-plane waves in an elastic thin strip with surface energy

    We consider anti-plane motions of an elastic plate taking into account surface energy within the linear Gurtin–Murdoch surface elasticity. Two boundary-value problems are considered that describe complete shear dynamics of a plate with free faces or with free and clamped faces, respectively. These problems correspond to anti-plane dynamics of an elastic film perfectly or non-perfectly attached to a rigid substrate. Detailed analysis...

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  • COMMENTS ON EXISTING ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS TO THE WAVE-INDUCED CYCLIC RESPONSE OF A POROUS SEABED OF INFINITE THICKNESS

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    This paper deals with the wave-induced cyclic response of a porous seabed (by means of oscillating parameters: pore-fluid pressure, soil displacement components, effective normal stress and shear stress components) due to a surface sinusoidal water-wave propagating over a seabed of infinite thickness. The main existing analytical solutions to the governing problem are critically discussed, pointing out their meaningful errors and...

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  • ARTIFICIAL MODEL IN THE ASSESSMENT OF THE ALGORITHM OF OBJECTS RECORDED BY LASER SCANNING SHAPE DETECTION (ALS/TLS)

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    - Year 2015

    Brief description of the study and used methods. Brief description of the study and used As part of the preparatory work aimed to create the application solution allowing for the automation of searching objects in data, obtained in the scanning process using ALS (Airborne Laser Scanning) or TLS (Terrestrial Laser Scanning), the authors prepared a artificial (synthetic, theoretical) model of space, used for the verification of operation...

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  • Preliminary study on icebreaking operation on the Middle and Lower Odra River

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    - Year 2018

    The Odra-Vistula Flood Management Project (OVFMP) is implemented with the assistance of international financial institutions, including the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Council of Europe Development Bank, as well as with the support of funding from the Cohesion Fund and the state budget. Aside from others, the objective of the OVFMP is to increase flood protection for people living in selected areas...

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  • Preparation and Characterization of Diamond-like Carbon Coatings for Biomedical Applications—A Review

    Diamond-like carbon (DLC) films are generally used in biomedical applications, mainly because of their tribological and chemical properties that prevent the release of substrate ions, extend the life cycle of the material, and promote cell growth. The unique properties of the coating depend on the ratio of the sp3/sp2 phases, where the sp2 phase provides coatings with a low coefficient of friction and good electrical conductivity,...

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  • ALLYING SYSTEM THINKING AND SET OF EXPERIENCE KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURE

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    The approach of system thinking is completely different from traditional forms of analysis. Even the ancient meaning of word analysis is “a breaking up”. Set of Experience Knowledge Structure is an atomic record of decision event that can be grouped together and form some form of decision DNA of an organization. The question that this paper is trying to answer in how those concepts can be merged.

  • Comparative 3D DEM simulations of sand–structure interfaces with similarly shaped clumps versus spheres with contact moments.

    Three-dimensional simulations of a monotonic quasi-static interface behaviour between initially dense cohesionless sand and a rigid wall of different roughness during tests in a parallelly guided direct shear test under constant normal stress are presented. Numerical modelling was carried out by the discrete element method (DEM) using clumps in the form of convex non-symmetric irregularly shaped grains. The clumps had an aspect...

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  • THE POSSIBILITY OF USE OF LASER-MODIFIED Ti6Al4V ALLOY IN FRICTION PAIRS IN ENDOPROSTHESES

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    - ARCHIVES OF METALLURGY AND MATERIALS - Year 2015

    The purpose of this paper is to show results of laser treatment at cryogenic conditions of the Ti6Al4V alloy used for orthopedic applications. That modification process ought to bring beneficial changes of microstructure and residual stresses in the surface layer. The paper presents the abrasive wear of the base and laser remelted material in association with ceramics Al2O3. Despite the surface cracking after laser treatment the...

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  • Photogrammetric and computerized report on site model in feasibility study of navigability channel on vistula spit

    In the report the authors present a course of geodesic and geo-computerized works upon realization of feasibility study of navigability channel on Vistula Spit. A procedure of acquiring verification and modeling of data for requirements of a numeric model of a bottom and site has been presented with construction of original software for 3D visualization of the Vistula Spit area. The activities described in the report can be...

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  • Lung perfusion parameters in the diagnosis of diabetic pulmonary microangiopathy

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    - Year 2015

    This paper presents the role of perfusion computed tomography (pCT) in the diagnosis of diabetic pulmonary microangiopathy. Our previous works have shown that perfusion parameters are useful in the diagnosis of diabetic pulmonary microangiopathy. In this article we focus on conditions that are necessary for such the diagnosis and introduce method of classification no microangiopathy vs. microangiopathy based on logistic regression....

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  • Properties and interpretation of Instantaneous Complex Frequency

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    - POLISH JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES - Year 2011

    The concept of Instantaneous Complex Frequency (ICF) was first defined by Lindon and developed mainly in works of two authors S. Hahn and M. Rojewski. Although it is not widely used in signal analysis, ICF was already used as a complex signal representation in the verification of handwritten signatures, pitch estimation, symbol timing recovery in PSK receiver and in detection of anomalies in data transmission. It should be noted,...

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  • Evaluation of bearing and journal damage in MAN 9L40-54 engines installed on M/V STENA SCANDINAVICA ferry

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    - Year 2018

    The following report was requested by Remontowa Shiprepair Yard (RSY) S.A. in Gdansk ´ (contract no. 4/2018/EX/U, dated 13.02.2018) and prepared based on the materials received from RSY, two on-board inspections and the participation of the contractors in three conferences with RSY representativesi. The goal of the analysis performed by the experts of Gdansk University of Technology was ´ to determine the character of the bearing...

  • Direct design of Controlled Modulus Columns (CMC) based on in-situ testing

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    - Year 2023

    In this paper, the serviceability limit state and bearing capacity of tension screw displacement piles were analyzed using the results of static pile load tests, carried out on the test plot near the Elbląg city, and field, and laboratory tests. The paper presents the methodology of determining the pile load-settlement curve using different types of t-z transfer functions. The new method of constructing the pile load-settlement...

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  • Programming Geometry as a Creative Play with Architectural Form

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    In the twenty-first century "programming" is the key word that opens unprecedented opportunities for design and materialization of geometrically complex architectural objects. From the digital designer perspective programming geometry can be seen as a creative play with a form and a process of generation/exploration as well as the possibility of applying the computing power as a co-designer in the process of finding solutions for...

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  • Flexoelectricity and apparent piezoelectricity of a pantographic micro-bar

    We discuss a homogenized model of a pantographic bar considering flexoelectricity. A pantographic bar consists of relatively stiff small bars connected by small soft flexoelectric pivots. As a result, an elongation of the bar relates almost to the torsion of pivots. Taking into account their flexoelectric properties we find the corresponding electric polarization. As a results, the homogenized pantographic bar demonstrates piezoelectric...

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  • Information technology assessment using a functional prototype of the agent based system

    In the paper authors present the progress of works related with the agent-based system serving the purpose of information technology assessment. Currently this is a prototype including agents, the knowledge base and the ontology; the domain incorporated by the assessment-enterprise managing technologies with special attention paid to technologies directed to IT projects. In this paper, besides indication of expected functionalities...

  • Engineer's graphic workshop. Historical review.

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    The paper introduces the history of development of graphic engineering workshop within European culture. The fundamentals of scientific approach to this subject are dated back to the XVIII century. Owning to Gaspard Monge's works descriptive geometry rose to the rank of branch of mathematics. As the time passes we observe the endeavors aiming at accelerating and automating the process of engineering drawing. Since the XX century...

  • Security Requirements and Controls for Incident Information Sharing in the Polish Power System

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    Among the strategies of protecting information assets of the power system, sharing of information about current cybersecurity incidents between energy operators appears to be a prerequisite. Exchange of information leads to the effective detection of attacks and exploited vulnerabilities as well as the identification of countermeasures. This paper presents the results of continuation of our works on developing a secure and efficient...

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  • Study of displacements of a bridge abutment using FEM

    Steel sheet piles are often used to support excavations for bridge foundations. When they are left in place in the permanent works, they have the potential to increase foundation bearing capacity and reduce displacements; but their presence is not usually taken into account in foundation design. In this article, the results of finite element analysis of a typical abutment foundation, with and without cover of sheet piles, are presented...

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  • Indirect control over subordinate units

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    Developing a game universe usually involves creation of various units which can be both, encountered by a player or controlled by him. There is a number of works considering autonomous behaviours of units wandering around the game world. When it comes to the units controlled by the player, they often are lack of autonomy and are strictly controlled by the player. This paper presents a concept of units behaviour depending on their...

  • INDIRECT CONTROL OVER SUBORDINATE UNITS

    Developing a game universe usually involves creation of various units which can be both, encountered by a player or controlled by him. There is a number of works considering autonomous behaviors of units wandering around the game world. When it comes to the units controlled by the player, they are often deprived of autonomy and are strictly controlled by the player. This paper presents a concept of units behavior depending on their...

  • Research of the changeability of the vessels traffic intensity of inland waterways – case study for Lower Vistula

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    - Year 2018

    The article presents an analysis of the changeability of traffic intensity of inland waterway vessels in the Vistula Delta. The concept of traffic intensity was defined, traffic flows and disturbances were identified in the studied area. The characteristics of the inland waterway traffic model are presented. The results of the analysis indicate the need to carry out modernization of inland waterways for the needs of inland waterway...

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  • Barcelona. Akwarela 46x21cm

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    - Year 2015

    Międzynarodowa Wystawa Akwareli. Prace 150 artystów z Polski, Niemiec, Włoch, Hiszpanii i Ukrainy.

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  • Wavelet transform-based approach to defect identification in railway carbon contact strips.

    Pantographs of electric rail vehicles are fitted with carbon contact strips, which slide along the contact wire of catenary to provide constant electrical contact. Contact strips are exposed to wear and damages. Using damaged contact strips significantly increases the risk of catenary rupture. Therefore, their technical condition has to be inspected frequently. In previous work a 3D laser scanning system was proposed for recording...

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  • Thermal and technological aspects of double face grinding of C45 carbon steel

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    • M. Deja
    • L. Lichtschlag
    • E. Uhlmann

    - Journal of Manufacturing Processes - Year 2021

    In grinding, the contact zone temperature is a decisive factor influencing the achievable surface quality and the grinding tool wear. In contrast to other grinding processes, only few information regarding double face grinding with planetary kinematics when processing steel is known up to date. Since the successive substitution of in-dustrial double-sided lapping processes by double-sided grinding, it has become necessary to the...

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  • The Influence of Gas Mixture in the Glow-Discharge Nitriding Process of Austenitic Stainless Steel on Characteristic of Nitrided Cases

    Austenitic stainless steels characterize with excellent corrosion resistance, although low mechanical properties. In many cases that limits their exploitation in industrial applications. Moreover, austenitic stainless steel is susceptible to local corrosion in the presence of halide ions. In present works, it was emphasized that the nitriding of austenitic stainless steels gives some potential abilities to obtain beneficial effect...

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  • Wpływ modernizacji linii kolejowych na poprawę wybranych parametrów techniczno - eksploatacyjnych

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    - Przegląd Komunikacyjny - Year 2015

    W artykule przedstawiono pojęcie jakości robót inwestycyjnych poszczególnych elementów infrastruktury kolejowej oraz metody jej oceny. Skupiono uwagę na jakości początkowej nawierzchni kolejowej po pracach modernizacyjnych na sieci Polskich Linii Kolejowych. Wskazano błędy oraz najczęstsze problemy techniczne występujące w trakcie trwania robót oraz po ich zakończeniu na poszczególnych etapach odbiorów. Opisano wpływ jakości początkowej...

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  • Metody wyszukiwania informacji w bazach multimedialnych

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    - Year 2005

    W referacie przedstawiono przegląd zagadnień związanych z wyszukiwaniem informacji zawartych w bazach multimedialnych. Przegląd ten został oparty o zrealizowany projekt badawczy pt.: "Nowe metody wyszukiwania informacji multimedialnej w sieciach telekomunikacyjnych". Eksperymenty badawcze prowadzone w ramach projektu obejmowały wdrożenie wybranych metod sztucznej inteligencji do celów akwizycji i rozpoznawania obiektów muzycznych...

  • How Swiss Watchmaking Brands are Communicating Made in Switzerland

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    - Year 2023

    Country-of-origin indications, also called “made in” labeling [35], are utilized in marketing strategies by companies to distinguish themselves from others, trying to associate their products with positive characteristics [9]. Swiss watchmaking companies have an iconic status that is essential to their reputation - mainly due to their high quality, precision, innovation, and craftsmanship [7]. They are also using country-of-origin...

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  • Paintings

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    - Year 2023

    The painting as a curtain (...) A contradiction is therefore what constitutes a painting, and ambiguity is its right. As a young artist, I intuitively defined the work of art as a boundary. Over the years that intuition changed into a conviction that the particular form of art which is painting at the same time reveals and hides; it exists at this intersection of functions as a see-through curtain. We don’t know why there are some...

  • Globalisation and world economic poverty: The significance of hidden dimensions

    The aim of our research is to examine how individual dimensions of globalization affect economic poverty in the World. for this, regression models are estimated with FGT0 or FGT1 poverty measures as dependent variables and KOF indices of globalization as despendent variables. The poverty indices are estimated for 119 countries' income didtributions assuming log-normality and using Gini estimates from the WID2 database and GDP/capita...

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  • Virtual spring damper method for nonholonomic robotic swarm self-organization and leader following

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    - CONTINUUM MECHANICS AND THERMODYNAMICS - Year 2018

    In this paper, we demonstrate a method for self-organization and leader following of nonholonomic robotic swarm based on spring damper mesh. By self-organization of swarm robots we mean the emergence of order in a swarm as the result of interactions among the single robots. In other words the self-organization of swarm robots mimics some natural behavior of social animals like ants among others. The dynamics of two-wheel robot...

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  • Large thermo-elastic displacement and stability FEM analysis of multilayered plates and shells

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    The paper concerns the load capacity analysis of thermally loaded multilayered plates and shells. The multilayered body is treated as an equivalent single layer whose kinematics is consistent with first order shear deformation theory. The authors focus on the thermo-elastic stability problem of the thin-walled structures. The equilibrium paths are traced with the use of Riks-Wempner-Ramm algorithm. By making use of the Tsai-Wu...

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  • New approaches to cutting resistance estimation of wood cutting process with circular-saw blades

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    - Year 2013

    Theoretical and experimental determination of values of cutting resistance belongs to the basic and simultaneously the most developed field of mechanics of this process. Energetic effects of wood sawing process are mainly calculated on the basis of the specific cutting resistance which, in wood cutting, is a function on a lot of factors. In this paper new method for calculation of cutting resistance is described. The latter method...

  • Rheology of liquid crystalline polymers

    Liquid crystallinity was invented in the 19th century. It was sometimes called the fourth state of matter because of the ability of macromolecules to generate liquid crystal phases. The main classification divided liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs) into lyotropic and thermotropic types. Interpretation of the rheological behavior of LCP is more complicated than for other polymers. Ordinary polymers are characterized by a normal...

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  • Large Hydrodynamic Thrust Bearings and Their Application in Hydrogenerators

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    Large hydrodynamic thrust bearings are the bearings which, due to hydrodynamic lubrication, allow large axial load to be transferred from a moving part (shaft) to the stationary part via a thin layer of the lubricant (usually oil), thus providing extremely low friction and practically no wear. Hydrogenerators with vertical shafts are the most important application of large thrust bearings. Main design and scientific problems of...

  • Influence of Flat Lapping Kinematics on Machinability of Ceramics

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    New tools for flat grinding of ceramics are presented in the paper. Electroplated CBN tools (B64 and B107) were used in a modified single-disc lapping machine configuration. The results from experiments, such as the material removal rate and surface roughness parameters are presented and analyzed. Numerical simulations, based on the model for the shape error and tool wear estimation in machining with flat lapping kinematics, are...

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  • Fatigue life prediction of notched components under size effect using strain energy reformulated critical distance theory

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    • Z. Shuai
    • S. Zhu
    • J. He
    • D. Liao
    • J. A. Correia
    • W. Macek
    • R. Branco
    • Q. Wang

    - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE - Year 2023

    Notch and size effects show significant impact on the fatigue performance of engineering components, which deserves special attention. In this work, a strain energy reformulated critical distance theory was developed for fatigue life prediction of notched components under size effect. Experimental data of different notched specimens manufactured from GH4169, TC4, TC11 alloys and low carbon steel En3B were used for model validation...

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  • MAlSim - Mobile Agent Malware Simulator

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    - Year 2008

    One of the problems related to the simulation of attacks against critical infrastructures is the lack of adequate tools for the simulation of malicious software (malware). Malware attacks are the most frequent in the Internet and they pose a serious threat against critical networked infrastructures. To address this issue we developed Mobile Agent Malware Simulator (MAISim). The framework uses the technology of mobile agents and...

  • Critical Remarks on Landauer’s principle of erasure– dissipation: Including notes on Maxwell demons and Szilard engines

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    • L. B. Kish
    • C. G. Granqvist
    • S. P. Khatri
    • J. Smulko

    - Year 2015

    We briefly address Landauer’s Principle and some related issues in thermal demons. We show that an error-free Turing computer works in the zero-entropy limit, which proves Landauer’s derivation incorrect. To have a physical logic gate, memory or information-engine, a few essential components necessary for the operation of these devices are often neglected, such as various aspects of control, damping and the fluctuation–dissipation...

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  • Project Team Management Supported by an Agent-Based Model

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    This work is a continuation of a series of works about research into the use of multi-agent systems to support IT project management. Previous studies have shown the possibility of using a multi-agent in order to optimize management decisions concerning the selection of methods for project implementation. It was noted that the project manager's decisions are influenced by three fundamental parameters: the entropy of the project,...

  • Electron energy-loss spectroscopy of excited states of the pyridine molecules

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    Electron energy-loss spectra of the pyridine, C5H5N, molecules in the gas phase have been measured to investigate electronic excitation in the energy range 3.5–10 eV. The applied wide range of residual electron energy and the scattering angle range from 10 ◦ to 180 ◦ enabled to differentiate between optically-allowed and -forbidden transitions. These measurements have allowed vertical excitation energies of the triplet excited...

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  • ANFIS-Based NPC Population Control in Video Games

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    - Year 2021

    Modern computer games aim at providing rich, vivid worlds. The aim is to encourage the player to explore and interact with the in-game world. To describe the complex relations between in-game NPCs and their surrounding fuzzy logic is used. The paper presents ANFIS based population control in the video game. We present an approach allowing stabilizing the number of NPCs in-game by providing a certain amount of food to the environment....

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  • Modele budowy wartości dla klienta - charakterystyka i rozwinięcie

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    Rozwój form realizacji biznesu umożliwił zbadanie nowych obiektów związanych z generowaniem wartości dla klienta i przedsiębiorstwa. W pracy scharakteryzowano logiki tworzenia wartości będące podstawą modeli łańcucha wartości, sklepu wartości, sieci wartości oraz chmury wartości. Zaproponowano także wprowadzenie nowego składnika do struktury tych modeli w postaci węzła wartości.

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  • Computational analysis of power-law fluids for convective heat transfer in permeable enclosures using Darcy effects

    Natural convection is a complex environmental phenomenon that typically occurs in engineering settings in porous structures. Shear thinning or shear thickening fuids are characteristics of power-law fuids, which are non-Newtonian in nature and fnd wide-ranging uses in various industrial processes. Non-Newtonian fuid fow in porous media is a difcult problem with important consequences for energy systems and heat transfer. In this...

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  • Fluid structure interaction study of non-Newtonian Casson fluid in a bifurcated channel having stenosis with elastic walls

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    - Scientific Reports - Year 2022

    Fluid–structure interaction (FSI) gained a huge attention of scientists and researchers due to its applications in biomedical and mechanical engineering. One of the most important applications of FSI is to study the elastic wall behavior of stenotic arteries. Blood is the suspension of various cells characterized by shear thinning, yield stress, and viscoelastic qualities that can be assessed by using non-Newtonian models. In this...

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