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Effect of aeration of antibiotic-loaded bone cement on its properties and bactericidal effectiveness
PublicationBACKGROUND: Antibiotic-loaded bone cements are now widely used in medicine. They are able to locally deliver antibiotic particles and they allow treat or protect against infection. It is assumed that the bactericidal effectiveness of bioactive bone cements depend on the parameters of its production. Hence, the aim of this study was to check the effect of aeration of bone cement before mixing the components on its properties as...
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Novel nitrogen precursors for electrochemically driven doping of titania nanotubes exhibiting enhanced photoactivity
PublicationNitrogen doped titania nanotubes were successfully sensitized by electrochemical method, i.e. as-anodized titania was immersed in different amine (diethyleneamine-DETA, triethyleneamine-TEA, ethylenediamine-EDA) and urea (U) solution and a constant potential was applied. The highly ordered morphology of fabricated N-TiO2 was investigated by using scanning electron microscopy. Spectroscopic techniques, i.e. UV-Vis spectroscopy,...
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Carbon nanoarchitectures as high-performance electrodes for the electrochemical oxidation of landfill leachate
PublicationNanomaterials and assemblies of the aforementioned into complex architectures constitute an opportunity to design efficient and selective solutions to wide spread and emerging environmental issues. The limited disposal of organic matter in modern landfills generates extremely concentrated leachates characterised by high concentrations of refractory compounds. Conventional biochemical treatment methods are unsuitable, while advanced...
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Activation of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor (mGlu2) and Muscarinic Receptors (M1, M4, and M5), Alone or in Combination, and Its Impact on the Acquisition and Retention of Learning in the Morris Water Maze, NMDA Expression and cGMP Synthesis
PublicationThe Morris water maze (MWM) is regarded as one of the most popular tests for detecting spatial memory in rodents. Long-term potentiation and cGMP synthesis seem to be among the crucial factors involved in this type of learning. Muscarinic (M1, M4, and M5 receptors) and metabotropic glutamate (mGlu) receptors are important targets in the search for antipsychotic drugs with the potency to treat cognitive disabilities associated with...
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Numerical Modelling of Structures with Uncertainties
PublicationThe nature of environmental interactions, as well as large dimensions and complex structure of marine offshore objects, make designing, building and operation of these objects a great challenge. This is the reason why a vast majority of investment cases of this type include structural analysis, performed using scaled laboratory models and complemented by extended computer simulations. The present paper focuses on FEM modelling...
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Możliwości ograniczenia zużycia energii napędowej urządzeń przez optymalizację doboru wymienników ciepła, właściwą konfigurację i kontrolę przepływu płynów roboczych
PublicationArtykuł poświęcony możliwości ograniczenia zużycia energii napędowej urządzeń na drodze optymalizacji doboru wymienników ciepła, właściwej konfiguracji i kontroli przepływu płynów roboczych. Przedstawiono w nim ocenę zużycia energii w systemach energetycznych o największej energochłonności w realiach Polski. Zwrócono uwagę na możliwość wykorzystania wymienników ciepła o wysokiej efektywności dla zmniejszenia oporu przenoszenia...
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MONITORING OF PERMANENT GPS STATIONS AT THE SUDETY MOUNTAINS
PublicationThe aim of this paper is to show time-dependent baseline variation between GPS stations situated in South-East Poland. This study was based on daily data analysis of selected GPS stations: WROC, GOPE, MOPI, KRAW and KATO. The start date of the analysis is linked at every station with the beginning of its operation and the closing date of the operation is in 2006. The multiresolution signal decomposition method has been used to...
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Synthesis and application of tetrazole di and triamide derivatives in ion-selective membrane electrodes
PublicationA number of tetrazole diamides and triamides have been synthesized and applied as ion carries in ion-selective membrane electrodes. Their selectivity and sensitivity were studied towards alkali, alkaline earth, transition and heavy metal cations. it was found that membranes doped with 3 and 2-nitrophenyl octyl ether exhibit an almost theoretial Nernstian response for NH+ over relatively wide concentration range. Elestrodes with...
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Test Design Patterns for Embedded Systems,
PublicationTest suites for embedded systems are typically created from scratch using dif- ferent, often inadequate methods. In consequence, industry branches dealing with software-intensive embedded systems have to cope with quality problems, even though test processes are particularly time-consuming and costly. Based on an evolving model-based testing methodology we introduce test design patterns for simplifying and accelerating...
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DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS AS A DECISION SUPPORT TOOL IN MEDICAL PROBLEMS – MALIGNANT MELANOMA CASE STUDY
PublicationThe paper presents utilization of one of the latest tool from the group of Machine learning techniques, namely Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), in process of decision making in selected medical problems. After the survey of the most successful applications of CNN in solving medical problems, the paper focuses on the very difficult problem of automatic analyses of the skin lesions. The authors propose the CNN structure...
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Smart Innovation Management in Product Life Cycle
PublicationThe present paper proposes a framework for smart innovation management of the product using a Smart Knowledge Management System comprising Set of Experience Knowledge Structure (SOEKS) and Decisional DNA. This proposed system will allow the entrepreneurs and organizations to perform the innovation process technically and quickly as this framework will store knowledge as well as experiences of the past innovations done in various...
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Public relations w działalności szkoły
PublicationTreść rozdziału X książki, przygotowanej pod redakcją Ewy Hope, "Public relations instytucji użyteczności publicznej" obejmuje zagadnienia związane z potrzebami współczesnej szkoły w zakresie przekazu informacji i komunikowania się z zewnętrznym otoczeniem szkoły - środowiskiem społecznym. Praktyka życia codziennego szkoły, placówki oświatowej pokazuje jak celowym zbiegiem kierowniczym jest stosowanie działań public relations....
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O MNIEJ LUB BARDZIEJ SŁODKIM CUKRZE, CZYLI KILKA UWAG O ODPOWIEDZIALNOŚCI SPOŁECZNEJ FIRM RODZINNYCH I PRZEDSIĘBIORSTW SPOŁECZNYCH
PublicationW artykule, przyjmując za punkt wyjścia teorię interesariuszy Freemana, autorki podjęły się refleksji na temat specyfiki odpowiedzialności społecznej firm rodzinnych i przedsiębiorstw społecznych. Przedsiębiorstwa społeczne, uznawane są powszechnie za ucieleśnienie pełnej, wręcz doskonałej formy odpowiedzialności społecznej. Z kolei przedsiębiorstwa rodzinne, charakteryzują się szczególną paletą interesariuszy oraz specyficznymi...
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Krytyczne działania i czynniki sukcesu wdrażania projektów informatycznych
PublicationCelem niniejszego artykułu jest określenie, jakie działania powinny podjąć organizacje gospodarcze, aby zidentyfikowane krytyczne czynniki sukcesu projektów informatycznych, pozwalające na zwiększenie prawdopodobieństwa pomyślnego zakończenia przedsięwzięcia, zmaterializowały się. Na potrzeby niniejszego artykułu przeprowadzono badania własne. Jako metodę wybrano analizę przypadków. Badanie przeprowadzono w organizacji, która prowadziła...
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Wrażliwość probabilistyczna stanów granicznych konstrukcji - metoda Monte Carlo
PublicationPraca ukazuje zastosowanie metody symulacyjnej Monte Carlo w analizie losowej konstrukcji inżynierskich. Systematyka metod losowych obejmuje ich trzy poziomy, z zaznaczeniem poziomu trzeciego, o dowolnych typach zmiennych losowych – zmiennych podstawowych problemu. Ukazano przykład modelowana losowego obciążenia wiatrem na podstawie 10-letnich pomiarów prędkości wiatru, wykazując zgodność zbioru danych z rozkładem ekstremów Gumbela....
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Easy recipes for cooperative smoothing
PublicationIn this paper we suggest how several competing signal smoothers, differing in design parameters, or even in design principles, can be combined together to yield a better and more reliable smoothing algorithm. The proposed heuristic, but statistically well motivated, fusion mechanism allows one to combine practically all kinds of smoothers, from simple local averaging or order statistic filters, to parametric smoothers designed...
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Comparison of experimental and numerical results on metallic plates subjected to explosions
PublicationA comparative study of dynamic response including damage and rupture processes of thin metallic plates subjected to shockwave impulses - explosions is presented. The results of the finite element numerical analysis are related to experiments. Due to high strain rate during explosions the elasto-viscoplastic Chaboches constitutive law including damage effects has been applied. For the assumed model proper material parameters identification...
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Probabilistic sensitivity of the limit states of structures using Monte Carlom simulation
PublicationThe paper presents the concept of probabilistic sensitivity of structural limit states with respect to given design variables. A general idea is presented, illustrated by a simple case solved in an analytical way. More general approach is presented for the engineering structures, in this case a dedicated Monte Carlo simulation procedure is involved as part of the methodology. Illustration of the engineering case is done, by means...
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Exact-match Based Wikipedia-WordNet Integration
PublicationAbility to link between WordNet synsets and Wikipedia articles allows usage of those resources by computers during natural language processing. A lot of work was done in this field, however most of the approaches focus on similarity between Wikipedia articles and WordNet synsets rather than creation of perfect matches. In this paper we proposed a set of methods for automatic perfect matching generation. The proposed methods were...
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Knowledge risks inherent in business sustainability
PublicationSince the connection between business sustainability and knowledge risks has not been established in the literature so far, this paper provides a conceptual framework to demonstrate the possible impact of various knowledge risks on business sustainability and offers potential ways to manage and overcome these risks. The aim of this conceptual paper is to address two main questions: What are the potential effects of knowledge risks...
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Activated persulfate and peroxymonosulfate based advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for antibiotics degradation – A review
PublicationSulfate radical AOPs (SR-AOP) were successfully utilized in degradation of antibiotics in water and wastewater treatment. The review discusses details on SR-AOPs mechanisms and applications for antibiotics degradation. The progress in this field was discussed, highlighting the most promising developments and remaining challenges. The applicability of SR-AOPs was summarized revealing the most susceptible and persistent to oxidation...
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The influence of stainless steels microstructure evolution on the mechanical properties of pressure installation elements
PublicationIn this paper results of FEM analysis performed for pipe and 90o elbow, made of super duplex stainless steel, after precipitation of sigma phase (),were presented. Heat treatment conditions simulate accidental overheating that can occur in nuclear installations after cooling circulation fails. For initial and modified microstructure tensile test was performed and numerical description of work hardening curves was done. Verification...
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The influence of stainless steels microstructure evolution on the mechanical properties of pressure installation elements
PublicationIn this paper results of FEM analysis performed for pipe and 90o elbow, made of super duplex stainless steel, after precipitation of sigma phase (s), were presented. Heat treatment conditions simulate accidental overheating that can occur in nuclear installations after cooling circulation fails. For initial and modified microstructure tensile test was performed and numerical description of work hardening curves was done. Verification...
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TOWARD A FUZZY MODEL OF POLISH INTERNET MORTGAGE MARKET
PublicationThis article presents our continuing efforts to develop a model of the Internet-based mortgage market in Poland. It sums up modeling research done over the last 4 years, also showing the stages and the process of building and verifying the proposed model consisting of three submodels. The submodels are described for three market situations; that is, a stable market, financial crisis, and economic boom. The proposed model variables...
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Roof over PGE Arena in Gdansk. Review of structure and monitoring system
PublicationThis paper presents general structural assumptions of the steel construction designed for a newfootball stadium to be built for UEFA Championship 2012 in the city of Gdańsk. The superstructureis founded directly on the modified abutment. The facade and the roof are collected from 82 steelgirders made of tube profiles. The girders are braced by circular beams and X tension rods. All thiscreates a quasi - dome covered by polycarbonate...
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Design and modeling of the piezoelectric motor based on three resonance actuators
PublicationThis paper describes a piezoelectric motor which combines advantages from two existing piezoelectric motors topologies. The research work presents the design, simulations and measurements of the piezoelectric motor with three rotation-mode actuators. The aim of the project was to obtain the high speed piezoelectric motor. Other advantages of this conception are blocking torque, short response times, the ability to work in a hostile...
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Nilpotent singularities and chaos: Tritrophic food chains
PublicationLocal bifurcation theory is used to prove the existence of chaotic dynamics in two well-known models of tritrophic food chains. To the best of our knowledge, the simplest technique to guarantee the emergence of strange attractors in a given family of vector fields consists of finding a 3-dimensional nilpotent singularity of codimension 3 and verifying some generic algebraic conditions. We provide the essential background regarding...
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Benchmarking Scalability and Security Configuration Impact for A Distributed Sensors-Server IOT Use Case
PublicationInternet of Things has been getting more and more attention and found numerous practical applications. Especially important in this context are performance, security and ability to cope with failures. Especially crucial is to find good trade-off between these. In this article we present results of practical tests with multiple clients representing sensors sending notifications to an IoT middleware – DeviceHive. We investigate performance...
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High Signal Resolution Pulse Oximetry as a Prognostic Indicator of Radiotherapy Toxicity: A Pilot Study
PublicationIntroduction: Radiotherapy plays a prominent role in the multidisciplinary treatment of cancers. Despite new irradiation techniques, radiation-induced cardiotoxicity remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Therefore, prognostic indicators of radiotherapy toxicity are essential. This study aimed to investigate the influence of applied radiotherapy on the pulse wave recording and thereby on...
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Multicultural coastal cities: what are the differences in culture of urban planning management. Comparison analysis of Gdańsk and Gdynia
PublicationThe goal of this book chapter is the analysis of the multiculturalism of the seaside cities (Gdansk and Gdynia). We define multiculturalism by ethnic aspects, as concentration of multiple nationalities and ethnic groups over the given area and non ethnic aspects, as occurrence of multiple symbols, signs or cultures. We sense multiculturalism of the cities through the cultural and social properties of the citizens and urban architecture....
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Fine-Tuning the Photocatalytic Activity of the Anatase {1 0 1} Facet through Dopant-Controlled Reduction of the Spontaneously Present Donor State Density
PublicationThe present study highlights the importance of the net density of charge carriers at the ground state on photocatalytic activity of the faceted particles, which can be seen as a highly underexplored problem. To investigate it in detail, we have systematically doped {1 0 1} enclosed anatase nanoparticles with Gd3+ ions to manipulate the charge carrier concentration. Furthermore, control experiments using an analogical Nb5+ doped...
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Influence of windsurfing fin stiffness distribution on the lift-drag characteristics
PublicationThis article addresses the problem of determining the hydromechanical loads generated by flexible hydrofoils. The research was done on the example of the composite windsurfing fin for the RS:X monotype class. Despite the assumption of fins identity, everyday practice showed that variations of mechanical properties occur and strongly affect their performance. Therefore, we decided to study the differences between the windsurfing...
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Current advances in membrane processing of wines: A comprehensive review
PublicationBackground Membrane-based operations, especially pressure-driven membrane operations, are today well-established procedures for various applications in the wine industry thanks to their intrinsic properties and undoubted advantages over traditional methods. Emerging membrane processes, such as pervaporation, electrodialysis and osmotic distillation, forward osmosis, membrane contactors, offer new and interesting perspectives to...
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DNA repair is responsible for the presence of oxidatively damaged DNA lesions in urine
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Knowledge work and knowledge workers in knowledge-based economy - theoretical considerations
PublicationIt is often claimed that an organization is as good as people working in it and that talented workers are the driving force of an organization. To cope with the growing requirements of knowledge-based economy, organizations need a special type of workers - knowledge workers. This is especially important in organizations building their competitive advantage on innovations and the application of information and communication technologies...
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Low-coherence photonic method of electrochemical processes monitoring
PublicationWe present an advanced multimodality characterization platform for simultaneous optical and electrochemical measurements of ferrocyanides. Specifcally, we combined a fber-optic Fabry– Perot interferometer with a three-electrode electrochemical setup to demonstrate a proof-ofprinciple of this hybrid characterization approach, and obtained feasibility data in its monitoring of electrochemical reactions in a boron-doped diamond flm...
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Magnetic and capacitive couplings influence on power losses in double circuit high voltage overhead transmission line
PublicationPurpose – The paper aims to discuss problems of power and energy losses in a double-circuit overhead transmission line. It was observed from energymeters’ readings, that in such a line, active power losses can be measured as “negative”. The “negative” active power losses appear when the active power injected to the circuit is lower than the active power received at the circuit end. The purpose of this paper is to explain this phenomenon. Theoretical...
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Set of Experience Knowledge Structure (SOEKS) and Decisional DNA (DDNA): Past, Present and Future
PublicationThis article reviews research work on set of experience knowledge structure (SOEKS)-decisional DNA (DDNA) done in the past, ongoing, and planned for the future. Firstly, the concept of the knowledge representation technique of SOEKS-DDNA is discussed, and then an attempt is made to organize the past research related with it in chronological order. This work focuses on the review on SOEKS-DDNA, its application in different domains,...
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The impact of end-user participation in IT projects on product usability
PublicationMany companies implementing new IT projects encounter numerous problems with ensuring good final product usability. The strong market competition they experience often results in necessity of undertaking difficult decisions with regard to cost minimization. This may force cuts in usability expertise and consulting, most often by limiting end-user participation in the project. However, it may also result in serious consequences...
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Analysis of the possibility of determining the general characteristics using the operational data of a vehicle engine
PublicationThe paper presents an analysis of the possibility of determining the general characteristics using the operational data of an engine of refuse collection vehicle. Data acquisition was done by reading information from the CAN network using FMS standard (Fleet Management System), which is widely used in heavy duty vehicles since year 2002. The paper presents the analysis of the expected measurement uncertainties resulting from the...
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On noncausal identification of nonstationary stochastic systems
PublicationIn this paper we consider the problem of noncausal identification of nonstationary,linear stochastic systems, i.e., identification based on prerecorded input/output data. We show how several competing weighted least squares parameter smoothers, differing in memory settings, can be combined together to yield a better and more reliable smoothing algorithm. The resulting parallel estimation scheme automatically adjusts its smoothing...
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Are deep eutectic solvents useful in chromatography? A short review
PublicationA literature update has been done concerning Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES) use in chromatography applications. The literature survey was based on the period from 2010 till 2020 and manuscripts reported in the data bases Web of Science and Scopus. The use of DES as mobile phase and mobile phase additives, stationary phases and solid phase modifiers and the use of DES as reaction solvents for chromatography use, were evaluated. Emphasis...
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Hierarchical 2-step neural-based LEGO bricks detection and labeling
PublicationLEGO bricks are extremely popular and allow the creation of almost any type of construction due to multiple shapes available. LEGO building requires however proper brick arrangement, usually done by shape. With over 3700 different LEGO parts this can be troublesome. In this paper, we propose a solution for object detection and annotation on images. The solution is designed as a part of an automated LEGO bricks arrangement. The...
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Impact of thermal loading into the structural performance of ships: A review
PublicationThe presented study reviews the recent advances done regarding the impact of thermal loading on the structural performance of ships. Firstly, the studies related to the mechanical and thermal properties of typical materials used in shipbuilding are outlined. Secondly, a brief introduction to the heat transfer analysis, Finite Element modelling and thermal stresses is provided. Finally, the review of papers dealing with the structural...
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Particle swarm optimization algorithms for autonomous robots with deterministic leaders using space filling movements
PublicationIn this work the swarm behavior principles of Craig W. Reynolds are combined with deterministic traits. This is done by using leaders with motions based on space filling curves like Peano and Hilbert. Our goal is to evaluate how the swarm of agents works with this approach, supposing the entire swarm will better explore the entire space. Therefore, we examine different combinations of Peano and Hilbert with the already known swarm...
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Criteria for assessment of pine wood surfaces after planing
PublicationThe arise of defects in raw material as well as a machined part in most cases causes need to qualify the final product (wooden frames) as a scrap part or an additional work activity must be done. In the paper selected results of the effect of the material defects on the surface quality of the elements after planing and painting are presented. The materials under production were glulam elements of pine wood. Research experiments...
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Postulates for measures of genuine multipartite correlations
PublicationA lot of research has been done on multipartite correlations. However, it seems strange thatthere is no denition of so called genuine multipartite correlations. In this paper we propose threereasonable postulates which each measure or indicator of genuine multipartite correlations (or gen-uine multipartite entanglement) should satisfy. We also introduce degree of correlations which givespartial characterization of multipartite...
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SIMULATION MODEL OF ASON/GMPLS ARCHITECTURE
PublicationGrowing demands of information society concerned with sophisticated applications could be satisfied by ASON/GMPLS architecture comprehended as Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON) with Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS). The ASON/GMPLS proposition represents the future direction of Next Generation Network (NGN) architecture. Therefore considerable work has to be done to examine this solution. In this aspect...
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Synthesis and characterisation of starch cuprate
PublicationThe cupration of granular potato starch with ammonium tetrachlorocuprate(II) was performed by a 20 min lasting microwave-assisted process and by 40 min convectional heating. In both cases the degree of esterification (DE) did not exceed 0.0064. A higher dose of cuprate had a positive effect on DE, regardless of whether the microwave irradiation or the convectional heating was applied, and on the thermal stability of the starch...
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GeoSPAR Project. Validation and selection methods of geoinformation analysis using GIS for ranking and forecasting of terrorist threats and criminal events
PublicationThe paper presents the description of work activities which have already been done within the first two stages – WorkPackage 1 and WorkPackage 2 - of the GeoSPAR Project. In such a context the general conceptual design of the GIS system and associate web service was presented and analysed. In addition, the operational and technical requirements for the GeoSPAR system have been specified and discussed; with special emphasis on system...