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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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  • Application of dispersive liquid - liquid microextraction for determination of pesticides from various chemical groups in water samples

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    • M. Tankiewicz

    - Year 2012

    Pesticides are a global risk because they move with the wind, rain and sea currents from other regions, which makes getting to places which were never used before. Their presence was detected in all types of water circulating in the ecosystem, which is an easy source of exposure to life and health of all living organisms. Currently, it is considered one of the most dangerous and toxic pollutants, which fate and function is still...

  • Comparability of Raman Spectroscopic Configurations: A Large Scale Cross-Laboratory Study

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    • S. Guo
    • C. Beleites
    • U. Neugebauer
    • S. Abalde-Cela
    • N. K. Afseth
    • F. Alsamad
    • S. Anand
    • C. Araujo-Andrade
    • S. Aškrabić
    • E. Avci... and 76 others

    - ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY - Year 2020

    The variable configuration of Raman spectroscopic platforms is one of the major obstacles in establishing Raman spectroscopy as a valuable physicochemical method within real-world scenarios such as clinical diagnostics. For such real world applications like diagnostic classification, the models should ideally be usable to predict data from different setups. Whether it is done by training a rugged model with data from many setups...

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  • Summary = Podsumowanie

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    - Year 2007

    Publikacja "Public Space - the European City Determinant" jest wynikiem seminarium naukowego, które odbyło się na Politechnice Gdańskiej jako część warsztatów architektonicznych "E-pavilion". Doktoranci zostali poproszeni o wygłoszenie referatów, związanych z ich pracami badawczymi, na temat "Przestrzeń publiczna - determinanta miasta europejskiego". Przedsięwzięcie to miało na celu wieloaspektową analizę jakości przestrzeni publicznej...

  • Problems of Railway Noise—A Case Study

    Under Directive 2002/49/EC relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise, all European countries are obliged to model their environmental noise levels in heavily populated areas. Some countries have their own national method, to predict noise but most have not created one yet. The recommendation for countries that do not have their own model is to use an interim method....

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  • Education at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Gdańsk University of Technology

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    Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is one of the largest departments of the Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT), currently educating about 3 000 student. Lectures are conducted in five Chairs, which include 18 Divisions. In 2000 GUT introduced the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS). Each student should get during one academic year 60 ECTS points. Obtaining a diploma of BEng requires the acquisition of no less...

  • Education at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Gdańsk University of Technology

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    Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is one of the largest departments of the Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT), currently educating about 3 000 student. Lectures are conducted in five Chairs, which include 18 Divisions. In 2000 GUT introduced the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS). Each student should get during one academic year 60 ECTS points. Obtaining a diploma of BEng requires the acquisition of no less...

  • Koszty eksploatacyjne sprężarek chłodniczych

    Wielkością charakteryzującą efektywność sprężarki przy uwzględnieniu jej pracy przy zmiennych parametrach otoczenia jest europejski wskaźnik sezonowej efektywności energetycznej ESEER (European Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio). Wskaźnik ten obliczany jest z uwzględnieniem zmiany temperatury otoczenia, zapotrzebowania wydajności chłodniczej oraz czasu pracy sprężarek w ciągu roku. W artykule przedstawiono przykład doboru sprężarek...

  • The content of high-intensity sweeteners in different categories of foods available on the Polish market

    The objective of this study was to measure the concentrations of nine high-intensity sweeteners (acesulfame-K, aspartame, alitame, cyclamate, dulcin, neohesperidin DC, neotame, saccharin and sucralose) in different categories of food available on the Polish market. Over 170 samples of different brands of beverages, yoghurts, fruit preparations, vegetable preserves and fish products were analysed using an analytical procedure based...

  • Problems of Railway Noise-A Case Study

    Under Directive 2002/49/EC relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise, all European countries are obliged to model their environmental noise levels in heavily populated areas. Some countries have their own national method, to predict noise but most have not created one yet. The recommendation for countries that do not have their own model is to use an interim method. The Dutch SRM II scheme is suggested for...

  • 4D Models in World Wide Web

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    - Year 2018

    The paper presents some results of research curried out within the framework of the European project named "Cultural Heritage Through Time" (CHT2). One of the main project aims were to develop a methodology for sharing multi-temporal information via the Internet (webGIS) for remote analysis of structures and landscapes over time. Reported in this paper results are focused on testing two technologies (Hexagon and Esri) for online...

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  • The ancient formula of master-apprentice relevance in contemporary architecture education.

    The universalization of the methodology for determining the quality of European higher education exposes the aspect of supporting the student in the education process, which takes the form of tutoring or supervising - a modern form of ancient master-apprentice relationship. The 'master' in architectural education has lawful building qualification and is a member in national architect association - a sine qua non with respect to...

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  • Investigation of some magnetospheric phenomena of geomagnetic storm on March 17, 2013 based on observations from GNSS and NOAA-15 satellite

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    - Year 2017

    Substantial variations of magnetospheric electron fluxes of low and intermediate energies at an altitude of ~ 800 km at different phases of the geomagnetic storm were investigated. The ionosphere and plasmasphere response was analyzed using TEC variation maps over the Central Europe. A concept of the connection of TEC variations above the Central Europe and spatially inhomogeneous fluxes of energetic particles is being proposed.

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  • ZASPA NOVA - połączeni dziedzictwem blokowisk/ connected by the heritage of housing estates

    Wizje nowe Zaspy – Zaspa Nova – prezentują koncepcje architektoniczne dla wybranych, kluczowych stref osiedla. Węzeł komunikacyjny, wnętrze urbanistyczne między blokami i obszar rekreacyjny powiązany funkcjonalnie z ogródkami działkowymi zyskały w propozycjach europejskich studentów architektury nowy kształt i wyraz przestrzenny.

  • 4D Reconstruction and Visualisation of Krakow Fortress

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    • E. G. Głowienka
    • K. Michałowska
    • P. Opaliński
    • B. Hejmanowska
    • S. Mikrut
    • P. Kramarczyk
    • A. Struś

    - Year 2017

    The specific aim of the European project named "Cultural Heritage Through Time" (CHT2) and reported in this paper is to fully integrate the fourth dimension (4D) into Cultural Heritage studies for analysing structures and landscapes over time. Krakow-the Fortress City (Poland) is the one of four case studies of the CHT2, which are used for the time varying reconstruction, analysis, visualization, and preservation. The goal of...

  • Sustainable monument preservation in architectural education

    The aim of this article is both to present the need for changes in architectural and conservation education in a modern, rapidly changing world, as well as to outline solutions to this problem. In the modern world, the field of objects that one intends to protect is expanding. It is necessary to adapt the architectural education to these changes. Due to the current pace of social, political...

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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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  • Voltage control in a power system with renewable sources of energy

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    - Year 2019

    Intensive development of distributed generation in power systems, caused by the European Union energy policy, gives possibility for improving safety in power delivery as well as optimizing the costs of the systems functioning. In this context, distributed generation can be used for voltage control in power systems – it can be performed by the control of reactive power of each source of energy or a group of energy sources. This...

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  • Political Parties in the Digital World

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    - Year 2017

    The aim of this report is to outline how digital technologies and digital media are redefining the way political parties fulfill their role as collective platforms for political participation of citizens, e.g. in relation to the parties’ decision-making processes, communication strategies, funding mechanisms, membership, information sharing, etc. and to highlight the existing international standards and good practices in this area....

  • "Srebrni przedsiębiorcy" w świetle badań europejskich

    Artykuł poświęcony jest przedsiębiorczości ludzi w wieku dojrzałym. Stanowi próbę przybliżenia tej tematyki głównie poprzez pryzmat teorii i dotychczas przeprowadzonych badań empirycznych, głównie europejskich. Szczególnie dużo miejsca poświęcono w nim motywacjom „srebrnych przedsiębiorców”, dokonano również podziału tej populacji na różne profile, wynikające z czynników jakie miały wpływ na ich decyzje przedsiębiorcze.

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  • MODELOWANIE WYBRANYCH MIAR BEZPIECZEŃSTWA RUCHU NA DŁUGICH ODCINKACH DRÓG

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    - Year 2016

    Każdego roku w wypadkach drogowych na świecie życie traci prawie 1,3 mln osób, co oznacza prawie niemal 3 tys. ofiar dziennie,. Tyle samo zabitych w ruchu drogowym odnotowujemy rocznie w Polsce. Ekonomiczne straty w wyniku tych wypadków wynoszą ok. 2% światowego PKB. W roku 2010 Organizacja Narodów Zjednoczonych (ONZ) przyjęła rezolucję pt. „Dekada działań na rzecz bezpieczeństwa ruchu drogowego na lata 2011 – 2020” rozpoczynającą...

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  • Gaz ziemny podstawowym nośnikiem energii pierwotnej w XXI wieku

    Przedstawiono światowe zasoby gazu ziemnego wg stanu na 1 stycznia 2005 roku. Omówiono w sposób szczegółopwy produkcję i zużycie gazu ziemnego w różnych rejonach świata (Ameryka Północna, Europa Zachodnia, Europa Wschodnia, Unia Europejska, Wspólnota Niepodleglych Państw). Podano informacje na temat produkcji, importu i zużycia gazu ziemnego w Polsce.

  • Improved RSS-Based DoA Estimation Accuracy in Low-Profile ESPAR Antenna Using SVM Approach

    In this paper, we have shown how the overall performance of direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation using lowprofile electronically steerable parasitic array radiator (ESPAR) antenna, which has been proposed for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, can significantly be improved when support vector machine (SVM) approach is applied. Because the SVM-based DoA estimation method used herein relies solely...

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  • Sztokholm : Europejska Zielona Stolica 2010 : tytuł dla miasta przyjaznego środowisku naturalnemu

    Tytuł "The European Green Capital Award" (EGCA) jest co roku przyznawana miastu europejskiemu, które przoduje w promocji rozwiązań urbanistycznych przyjaznych środowisku naturalnemu. Tytuł "Zielonej Stolicy Europy 2010" przyznano stolicy Szwecji - Sztokholmowi. W ocenie ekspertów miasto Sztokholm zostało uhonorowane tytułem za długoterminową wizję ochrony środowiska. Eksperci podkreślają fakt, że około 95% populacji tego miasta...

  • Governmental supported space internship programmes in new ESA member states - Polish perspective

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    - Year 2018

    Over last 10 years ve new countries - Czech Republic, Romania, Poland, Hungary and Estonia - have joined the European Space Agency. These countries are currently experiencing a considerable increase of space activities aiming to take part in the European and Global space market. New companies, start-ups and consortiums have been created alongside oces of foreign entities have opened their premises in these countries. All of them...

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  • Pealizacija inicjatiw wostocznogo partnerstwa w Azerbajdżane

    Azerbaijan established political relations with the EU during the implementation of TACIS Programme projects and signed the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement with the EU in 1996. It joined the European Neighbourhood Policy in 2004 and the Eastern Partnership programme in 2009. Despite the sceptical attitude taken by Azerbaijan's government towards the Eastern Partnership initiative, the EU earmarked further funds for Azerbaijan for 2011 – 2014 as part of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument. During the third Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius in November 2013, Azerbaijan signed only an agreement concerning visa facilitations and readmission. However, it also undertook certain measures as part of the five Eastern Partnership initiatives. In the framework of the Integrated Border Management Programme, Azerbaijan implemented projects connected with improving the access of resettled people to the judicial system, creation of electronic border control systems, social protection, increasing public awareness to eliminate domestic violence, improving assimilation of asylum - seekers and immigrants, and supporting occupational health organisations. Activities aimed at supporting SMEs included training for entrepreneurs, promotional conferences and loans to the SME sector. Recommendations of the initiative promoting the creation of regional electrical and renewable energy markets were implemented by Azerbaijan in the form of 33 projects as part of the INOGATE Programme. With respect to environmental management, Azerbaijan developed a digital regional atlas of natural disasters, and with respect to natural disaster mitigation it planned population protection measures. Azerbaijan was ranked last but one in the evaluation presented in the annual report prepared by the EU. The transformation process in this country has been slow and illusory in certain aspects. Nevertheless, the EU has continued its Eastern Partnership initiative activities, allocating between EUR 252,000 and 308,000 for transformations in Azerbaijan

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  • Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans: implementation process and indicators to evaluate effects on physical activity

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    - EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH - Year 2022

    Background: Active mobility and public transport increase physical activity (PA) levels. With varying intensity and effectiveness, European cities implement Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) to spur transport-related PA. Therefore, we aim to examine drivers and barriers to SUMP implementation and assess its influence on PA across European cities. Methods: We screened policy reports to gain insights into SUMP implementation...

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  • Functional safety and managing competence

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    - Year 2007

    Są nowe wyzwania związane z badaniami, edukacją i szkoleniem w obszarach bezpieczeństwa i ochrony systemów i sieci krytycznych. W rozdziale podkreśla się, że kompetencje specjalistów powinny być kształtowane w zintegrowanych procesach edukacji i szkolenia. Dlatego uzasadnione jest, aby opracować w Europie standardy i programy kształcenia na bazie odpowiednich prac badawczych i najlepszych doświadczeń z praktyki przemysłowej w celu...

  • 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...

  • INTERLABORATORY COMPARISON OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC EMISSION MEASUREMENTS USING FAR AND GTEM TEST SITES UP TO 1 GHz

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    - Prace Instytutu Elektrotechniki - Year 2015

    Electromagnetic emission limiting is one of the basic requirements in the European Directive 2014/30/EU (EMC Directive). Manufacturers often use alternative methods of measurements to make preliminary verification of emission. This paper presents and analyzes problem with comparison between measurements in different test sites: FAR (Fully Anechoic Room) and GTEM (Gigahertz Transverse Electromagnetic cell). FAR is assumed as the...

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  • Water related esthetics - the phenomenon of new structure in the post industrial shipyard areas

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    - Year 2014

    Direction of the main movements that are made in the European cities determines not only structural but also an esthetic changes. Paper follows the topic of visual diversity of post industrial waterfront cities and it’s relation to the local identity and cultural changes that are provided. Reshaping of the cities continuously proceed. Are those changes related with industrial shipyard districts only economical and spatial or also...

  • Living and working beneath the sea – next approach

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    The idea of living beneath the sea is very new if compared with millennia of shipping activity. In fact, ocean surface was considered mainly as medium suitable for transport of persons and goods as well as aggression and robbery. More practical attempts to live “on” the water surface are limited to well protected internal waters. The presented concept of “an underwater-above water accommodation, especially for residential purposes”...

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  • Can Grand Design Doctrines Go Well with Locally Reinvented Urbanisms? Notes from Polish Cities in Transition

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    - Year 2014

    The text explores how New Urbanism ideas, a comprehensive global design doctrine, transgress into the context of Polish planning practice. New Urbanism is considered through the perspective of the decentralization of a discussion on a planning policy and a modernization of a State, resulting form its post-Socialist urban change. In the text, New Urbanism is understood as a neotraditionalist movement i.e. drawing from the pre-modernist...

  • Current Status, Barriers and Development Perspectives for Circular Bioeconomy in Polish South Baltic Area

    The following article presents the current legal situation in Poland as well as in the European Union. Data on biomass production in the Polish South Baltic area were analyzed, along with an indication of the key sectors for the development of bioeconomy. Presentation of the current state of biomass management was made and areas necessary for development were indicated to facilitate the sustainable management of biomass and waste...

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  • Contemporary architecture within the context of architectural education

    Analysed in this article are the diploma projects of students of architecture in European countries. The aim was to examine how students approach an important issue related to sustainable development, i.e. the integration of newly designed architecture into the existing historical, cultural and natural context. The rational use and protection of the environment requires the skilful shaping of urbanised space. Many changes in the...

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  • Wdrożenie nowych regulacji prawnych w ochronie powietrza atmosferycznego w Polsce

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    - Year 2013

    W artykule przedstawiono zmiany prawne wynikające z przystosowania dyrektyw 2008/50/WE i 2004/107/WE do prawodawstwa polskiego. Nowe regulacje odnoszące się do ochrony powietrza stanowią jedynie rozbudowanie i modyfikację istniejacych dotychczas przepisów. W ratykule podano istotne informacje wynikajace z decyzji Komisji Europejslkiej 2011/850/UE

  • Mechanizmy mocowe na rynkach energii elektrycznej

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    W artykule scharakteryzowano rozliczenia mocowe związane z dostawą energii elektrycznej. Opisano najważniejsze mechanizmy mocowe, skupiając się głównie na rozwiązaniach stosowanych w krajach europejskich. Na tym tle przedstawiono zasady funkcjonowania rynku mocy w Polsce. Omówiono wyniki pierwszych aukcji krajowych. Wskazano na możliwy wpływ funkcjonowania rynku mocy na rynek energii elektrycznej.

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  • Financial Consequences of the Introduction of the Fit For 55 on the Example of Poland

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    - Year 2023

    In Europe and in Poland, there is a growing conviction that climate action is a necessity. When creating long-term strategies or making current decisions, companies are increasingly taking into account issues related to sustainable development and reducing CO2 emissions. Following the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, countries around the world pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 so that the average temperature...

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  • Rynek mocy jako nowy mechanizm rozliczeń w systemie elektroenergetycznym

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    - Rynek Energii - Year 2019

    W artykule opisano rozliczenia w systemie elektroenergetycznym uzależnione od mocy, związane z gwarancją dostawy energii elektrycznej do systemu. Przedstawiono najważniejsze rynkowe mechanizmy mocowe, skupiając się głównie na rozwiązaniach stosowanych w krajach europejskich. Przedstawiono najważniejsze zasady funkcjonowania rynku mocy w Polsce oraz omówiono wyniki pierwszych aukcji na lata 2021-2023.

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  • Comparative Analysis of Contemporary Regeneration of Waterfronts in Port Cities

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    - Year 2014

    The paper includes comparative analysis of the selected waterfront case studies in cities around Europe and North America.

  • Family business experience and the probability of starting a venture: gender differences in Poland

    The aim of this study is to analyse whether the experience of working in a family member’s business is related differently to the assessed probabilities of men and women starting their own new venture in the future. The research is conducted on a sample of 334 Polish undergraduate students. Poland is an efficiency-driven European economy with a substantial gender gap in entrepreneurship. The results obtained indicate that the relationship...

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  • Logistics of Transnational Corporations as the Basis of Cooperation Between Ukraine and EU (for Poland Example)

    The article describes the scientific and theoretical basis for the organization of logistics management of modern international corporations, owning by assets in mining and metallurgical business in Ukraine and Poland; it had been analyzed the influence of transfer pricing mechanism as one of the main factors affecting on the efficiency of the organization of supply chain of resources (Ukrainian semi-finished goods) to ensure uninterrupted...

  • Propagation Loss and Interference Analysis for 5G Systems in the Context of C-ITS System Implementation

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    - Year 2019

    The article presents the concept of implementing subsequent phases of services for the C-ITS system (the Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems), based on the European Parliament resolution of March 2018. Next, the 5G systems, in the context of their possible cooperation with C-ITS systems, were discussed. Numerical propagation analysis was performed for V2V and V2I type communication based on two different propagation models....

  • Modeling, simulation, and validation of a TB41 crash test of the H2/W5/B concrete vehicle restraint system

    The paper addresses numerical simulations of a concrete vehicle restraint system. The model is described in detail. The advanced material law of the continuous surface cap model was used to analyze the damage locations in concrete barrier segments. The results were validated against the TB41 full-scale crash test. The test was conducted in compliance with European standard EN 1317, and the validation was performed in accordance...

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  • Kształcenie ustawiczne – trendy w krajach regionu Morza Bałtyckiego

    Kwestie kształcenia ustawicznego i dostosowania kwalifikacji do potrzeb rynku pracy są przedmiotem dyskusji zarówno na szczeblu europejskim, jak i poszczególnych krajów. Działania administracji powinny zmierzać w kierunku określenia zapotrzebowania na określone umiejętności oraz aktywizacji społeczeństwa poprzez realizację idei uczenia się przez całe życie. Doświadczenia krajów skandynawskich dostarczają wielu przykładów dobrych...

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  • DoA Estimation Using Reconfigurable Antennas in Millimiter-Wave Frequency 5G Systems

    To achieve low latency and high throughputs, future 5G systems will have to utilize complex antenna systems able to provide beamforming and direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation capabilities. Most of the concepts available in the literature rely on analog or digital beamforming, which is well developed and can be used both at a base station and in a user terminal. However, in applications, in which...

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  • CROWDFUNDING OF RESEARCH PROJECTS IN POLAND

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    Crowdfunding recently became a very popular way of funding, which allows funding almost everything, from minor personal projects to expensive commercial ones, as long as we can find investors. It may also be a new opportunity for entrepreneurial researchers, who may attract capital investment in companies that are promised to own developed technologies. Social financing of science is well suited to reduce some of the biggest problems...

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  • GVC and wage dispersion. Firm-level evidence from employee-employer database

    Research background: Wage inequalities are still part of an interesting policy-oriented research area. Given the developments in international trade models (heterogeneity of firms) and increasing availability of micro-level data, more and more attention is paid to wage differences observed within and be-tween firms. Purpose of the article: The aim of the paper is to address the research gap concerning limited cross-country evidence...

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  • Place attachment, place identity and aesthetic appraisal of urban landscape

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    As the aesthetic of the Polish cities became a topic of wider discussions, it is important to detect the potentialrole of human-place relations. Two studies (N = 185 & N = 196) were conducted to explore the relationship betweenplace attachment, place identity and appraisal of urban landscape. Satisfaction with urban aesthetic was predicted by twodimensions of place attachment (place inherited and place...

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  • Do new EU members have any chance of earning as much as Westerns do?

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    - Year 2009

    This article examines the wage dispersion in the European Union in the last ten years (1996-2006). The research is motivated by the fact that New Members States (NMS) expected that wage convergence would occurred after their accession to the EU. At the same time Old Member States (OMS) have been increasingly concerned with the possibility that the EU enlargement could influence their local labor markets and wages through new channels...