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Effects Of Chemical Mutagenic Agent In Phytoconstituents On Gardenia Jasminoids, Ellis, Through Tissue Clture Technique
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ECONOMIC GROWTH AND FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION – VERIFYING THE U-FEMINIZATION HYPOTHESIS. NEW EVIDENCE FOR 162 COUNTRIES OVER THE PERIOD 1990-2012.
PublicationThe paper contributes by providing new insights into relationship between female labor force and economic growth in 162 world countries over the period 1990-2012. It is anticipated uncovering U-shaped relationship between female labor force participation and economic growth. The analysis is run in two different perspectives – first the relationship is examined for sample encompassing 162 countries; and second – the evidence is...
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Polish experience with cold in-place recycling
PublicationDeep cold in-place recycling using cement and asphalt emulsion has been used for reconstruction of existing roads since the beginning of the 1990s. This paper describes the first Polish requirements for mineral-cement-emulsion mixtures. As requirements stated for the strength of the mineral-cement-emulsion mixtures were quite high, most of the mixtures were designed using high amount of cement and aggregate added for the improvement...
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SILICA AEROGEL TOWARDS ANODES FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES
PublicationAn increasing demand for electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices stimulates progress in research on electrode and electrolyte materials. In the field of electrodes materials, silicon is the one of the most promising anode materials for Li-ion batteries. However silicon has the drastic volume variation (around 3 times lower on extraction) during insertion and extraction of lithium ions. As an alternative, nanocomposites...
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Quantification of Compatibility Between Polymeric Excipients and Atenolol Using Principal Component Analysis and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis
PublicationAn important challenge to overcome in the solid dosage forms technology is the selection of the most biopharmaceutically efficient polymeric excipients. The excipients can be selected, among others, by compatibility studies since incompatibilities between ingredients of the drug formulations adversely affect their bioavailability, stability, efficacy, and safety. Therefore, new, fast, and reliable methods for detecting incompatibility...
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The Meeting Centre Support Programme: International Evaluation of a Dyadic Intervention in Dementia
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Mental Health Consequences of SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on Long-Term Care Facility Social Care Provider in Poland
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Tumor infiltrating lymphocyte signature is associated with single nucleotide polymorphisms and predicts survival in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients
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Missing Puzzle Pieces in Dementia Research: HCN Channels and Theta Oscillations
PublicationIncreasing evidence indicates a role of hyperpolarization activated cation (HCN) channels in controlling the resting membrane potential, pacemaker activity, memory formation, sleep, and arousal. Their disfunction may be associated with the development of epilepsy and age-related memory decline. Neuronal hyperexcitability involved in epileptogenesis and EEG desynchronization occur in the course of dementia in human Alzheimer’s Disease...
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Modelling of joining route segments of differential curvature
PublicationThe paper presents a new general method of modelling route segments curvature using differential equations. The method enables joining of route segments of different curvature. Transitional curves of linear and nonlinear curvatures have been identified in the case of joining two circular arcs by S-shaped and C-oval transitions. The obtained S-shaped curves have been compared to the cubic C-Bezier curves and to the Pythagorean hodograph...
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Theoretical Model of Acoustic Wave Propagation in Shallow Water
PublicationThe work is devoted to the propagation of low frequency waves in a shallow sea. As a source of acoustic waves, underwater disturbances generated by ships were adopted. A specific feature of the propagation of acoustic waves in shallow water is the proximity of boundaries of the limiting media characterised by different impedance properties, which affects the acoustic field coming from a source situated in the water layer “ deformed”...
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Multibeam data processing for 3D object shape reconstruction
PublicationThe technology of hydroacoustic scanning offers an efficient and widely-used source of geospatial information regarding underwater environments, providing measurement data which usually have the structure of irregular groups of points known as point clouds. Since this data model has known disadvantages, a different form of representation based on representing surfaces with simple geometric structures, such as edges and facets,...
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Analysis and interpretation of radiometric signals in a liquid-gas bubble flow
PublicationThe article presents the analysis of signals from a radiometric system consisting of two scintillation probes and two gamma radiation sealed sources. Calculations and interpretation were carried out for the bubble flow of the water-air mixture in the horizontal pipeline. The analysis of the obtained signals was done in time and frequency domain. In the frequency domain, a range of usable frequencies was identified, which were associated...
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1D portable optical coherence tomography system
Publication—Imaging methods are an expanding branch of technology, which involves data acquisition and analysis of images for research and diagnostics. This paper has been devoted to the description of the optical design for a one-dimensional, portable optical coherence tomography (OCT) system. The Mach-Zehnder interferometer has been designed in the presented study. The description of the construction and applied hardware solutions have...
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Obliczanie fundamentów płytowo-palowych.
PublicationPrzedstawiono inżynierską metodę obliczania fundamentów płytowo-palowych. Wyniki obliczeń osiadań porównano z rzeczywistymi pomiarami osiadań dla dwóch dużych zbiorników posadowionych na fundamentach płytowo-palowych.
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Opinia naukowo-techniczna dotycząca nośności pali wierconych fi 1500 mm wykonanych pod podpory wiaduktu C-4 na podstawie badań statycznych. Budowa Północnego Obejścia Krakowa w ciągu Drogi Krajowej nr 94 na odcinku Węzeł Radzikowskiego - Węzeł Modlnica.
PublicationOpinia dotycząca nośności pali wierconych o średnicy 1500 mm wykonanych pod podpory wiaduktu C-4 w ciągu Drogi Krajowej nr 94 na odcinku Węzeł Radzikowskiego - Węzeł Modlnica na podstawie próbnych obciążeń statycznych.
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Optimizing the computation of a parallel 3D finite difference algorithm for graphics processing units
PublicationThis paper explores the possibilities of using a graphics processing unit for complex 3D finite difference computation via MUSTA‐FORCE and WENO algorithms. We propose a novel algorithm based on the new properties of CUDA surface memory optimized for 2D spatial locality and compare it with 3D stencil computations carried out via shared memory, which is currently considered to be the best approach. A case study was performed for...
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Enhancing Customer Engagement in Social Media with AI – a Higher Education case study
PublicationPurpose. The study aims to demonstrate the importance of artificial intelligence (AI) and examples of tools based on it in the process of enhancing (building, measuring, and managing) customer engagement (CE) in social media in the higher education industry. CE is one of the current essential non-financial indicators of company performance in Digital Marketing strategy. The article presents a decision support system (DSS) based...
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Bending Moment Control and Weight Optimization in Space Structures by Adding Extra Members in the Optimal Locations
PublicationThis paper investigates the reduction of bending moment in critical members by adding some extra members in the optimum location. Instead of enlarging the size of members to resist the moment, eight additional members are added in the optimum location to reduce the bending moment in the critical members. The total weight of the proposed structure with extra members is less than that of the original structure that resists the induced...
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ADAPTATION OF ENGINEERING FEA-BASED ALGORITHMS TO LCF FAILURE AND MATERIAL DATA PREDICTION IN OFFSHORE DESIGN
PublicationThere is an ever growing industrial demand for quantitative assessment of fatigue endurance of critical structural details. Although FEA-based calculations have become a standard in engineering design, problems involving the Low-To-Medium cycle range (101-104) remain challenging. This paper presents an attempt to optimally choose material data, meshing density and other algorithm settings in the context of recent design of the...
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Competence of General Practitioners in Giving Advice about Changes in Lifestyle to Hypertensive Patients
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Simulating coherent light propagation in a random scattering materials using the perturbation expansion
PublicationMultiple scattering of a coherent light plays important role in the optical metrology. Probably the most important phenomenon caused by multiple scattering are the speckle patterns present in every optical imaging method based on coherent or partially coherent light illumination. In many cases the speckle patterns are considered as an undesired noise. However, they were found useful in various subsurface imaging methods such as...
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Comparison between measured and calculated underwater pressure of merchant ship
PublicationFrom 2012 The Polish Naval Academy take part in an international research project SIRAMIS, carried out in the framework of the European Defence Agency. The objective of this project is to improve the understanding of ship signature interaction with multi influence sensors in relevant and realistic scenario's. This paper describes selected results of the comparison results of sea trials and model calculations of the hydrodynamic...
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Non-invasive investigation of a submerged medieval harbour, a case study from Puck Lagoon
PublicationThis study presents an innovative approach to underwater archaeological prospection using non-invasive methods of seabed exploration. The research focuses on the Puck medieval harbour, a cultural heritage site, and utilises acoustic and optical underwater remote-sensing technology. The primary objectives include optimising the use of Airborne Laser Bathymetry in underwater archaeology, enhancing the filtration process for mapping...
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Optimizing Construction Engineering Management Using Metaheuristic Methods and Bayesian Networks
PublicationThe construction of buildings invariably involves time and costs, and disruptions impact ongoing construction projects. Crisis situations in management strategies, structural confusion, and finan-cial miscalculations often arise due to misguided decision-making. This article proposes a method that combines the learning of Bayesian Networks and heuristic techniques to optimize deci-sion-making processes in construction scheduling....
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Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Cities. The City of Gdansk as an Example
PublicationThe article is aimed to answer the question how, depending on the historical heritage, the collective memory, the physical space of the city and their images were shaped, through the politics of memory. All known cultures and languages distinguish the ‘self’ and the ‘other’, ‘us’ and ‘them’. Neither do we know cities which wish to differ in some particular way, although they can have numerous identities. Their multitude and diversity...
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New Complementary Resonator for Permittivity- and Thickness-Based Dielectric Characterization
PublicationThe design of high-performance complementary meta-resonators for microwave sensors featur-ing high sensitivity and consistent evaluation of dielectric materials is challenging. This paper presents the design and implementation of a novel complementary resonator with high sensi-tivity for dielectric substrate characterization based on permittivity and thickness. A comple-mentary crossed arrow resonator (CCAR) is proposed and integrated...
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Expedited Geometry Scaling of Compact Microwave Passives by Means of Inverse Surrogate Modeling
PublicationIn this paper, the problem of geometry scaling of compact microwave structures is investigated. As opposed to conventional structures (i.e., constructed using uniform transmission lines), re-design of miniaturized circuits (e.g., implemented with artificial transmission lines, ATSs) for different operating frequencies is far from being straightforward due to considerable cross-couplings between the circuit components. Here, we...
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New LED photoreactor with modulated UV–vis light source for efficient degradation of toluene over WO3/TiO2 photocatalyst
PublicationThe efficiencies of prepared WO3/TiO2 photocatalysts with varying amounts of WO3 were evaluated for gas-phase photocatalytic degradation of toluene. The obtained results revealed that the best photocatalytic properties were characteristic for samples calcined at 500ºC, which can be associated with high crystalline phase content (> 97%) and favourable BET surface area. The photocatalytic degradation tests were performed in two photoreactors...
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MOST PODWIESZONY kreowanie przestrzeni i konsekwencje konstrukcyjne
PublicationProjektowanie i budowa - wyzwania dla projektantów i wykonawców mostów. Mosty podwieszone i wiszące ich estetyka i konsekwencje strukturalne. Artykuł dotyczy aspektów estetycznych i konstrukcyjnych zaprojektowanych pylonów dla mostów podwieszonych lub wiszących. Autor zwraca uwagę na fakt, że niezwykłe rozwiązanie konstrukcyjne zastosowane do kładki lub małego wiaduktu może działać prawidłowo dzięki zjawiskom efektu skali. Nadzwyczajne...
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Selected aspects of two-phase flow studies using different visualization techniques in minichannels
PublicationThe subject of the study is to present the possibility of the use of visualization techniques in the researches on two-phase flows, carried out by the authors for many years. These works included as follows: heat transfer during the flow boiling, boiling crises and condensation in flow. The issue of the heat transfer intensification during the flow boiling through the channels of small diameters was analyzed. All this work focused...
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The correlation between the MRI-evaluated ectopic fat accumulation and the incidence of diabetes mellitus and hypertension depends on body mass index and waist circumference ratio.
PublicationThe widespread presence of overweight and obesity increases with every decade, and the number of people with body mass index (BMI) >30 kg/m2 has doubled in the last 30 years. The aim of the study is to assess the correlation between MRI-evaluated ectopic fat accumulation in pancreas, skeletal muscles and liver and the incidence of type 2 diabetes and hypertension, depending on BMI and waist circumference ratio. This prospective...
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Temperature distribution of supercapacitors prepared by various technologies
PublicationSupercapacitors, also known by different names such as electrostatic double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) or ultra-capacitors, are electrical storage devices still in development. These devices require fast and reliable methods of assessing their state-of-health. Thermographic imaging is a method which can be applied with this aim due to its popularity, and the high negative impact of overheating on a supercapacitor’s parameters. Moreover,...
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MRI assessment of ectopic fat accumulation in pancreas, liver and skeletal muscle in patients with obesity, overweight and normal BMI in correlation with the presence of central obesity and metabolic syndrome
PublicationPurpose: Obesity, defined as a body mass index (BMI) exceeding 30 kg/m2, is a serious health problem, which can be called an epidemic on a global scale and is one of the most important causes of preventable death. The aim of this study was to assess ectopic fat accumulation in pancreas, liver and skeletal muscle in patients with obesity, overweight and normal BMI in correlation with metabolic syndrome (MetS). Patients and methods:...
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Investigation of electrocatalytic gas sensor properties in presence of chlorine
PublicationProperties of sensor based on Nasicon with two round shaped platinum electrodes are investigated. Influence of different chlorine concentrations on the sensor response is presented. Measurements in different temperatures have been performed in order to determine optimal sensor working temperature.
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Superconductivity in the niobium-rich compound Nb5Se4
PublicationThe niobium rich selenide compound Nb5Se4 was synthesized at ambient pressure by high-temperature solid–state reaction in a sealed Ta tube. Resistivity and heat capacity measurements reveal that this compound is superconducting, with a Tc = 1.85K. The electronic contribution to the specific heat γ and the Debye temperature are found to be 18.1 mJmol−1K−2 and 298 K respectively. The calculated electron-phonon coupling constant λep...
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Management of low-temperature heat source by ORC aided by additional heat source
PublicationIn the paper presented is a concept to utilize waste heat from the power plant with the aid of the low-temperature ORC cycle. The ORC system is heated from two heat sources, the first one being the flow rate of waste heat obtained from the exhaust gases. Subsequently, the working fluid in the cycle is additionally heated by the condensing steam from the low pressure turbine extraction points increasing in such way the level of...
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(2R)-N-{3-[Bis(methylsulfanyl)methyleneamino]-propionoyl}bornane-10,2-sultam
PublicationW strukturze związku tytułowego występują słabe oddziaływania C-H...S oraz C-H...O.
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Linking of adjacent three-storey buildings for mitigation of structural pounding during earthquakes
PublicationThe reports after major earthquakes indicate that the earthquake-induced pounding between insufficiently separated buildings may lead to significant damage or even total collapse of structures. An intensive study has recently been carried out on mitigation of pounding hazards so as to minimize the structural damages or prevent collisions at all. The aim of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness of the method when two adjacent...
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Earthquake-Induced Structural Pounding
PublicationEarthquake-induced structural pounding between insufficiently separated build-ings, or bridge segments, has been repeatedly observed during ground motions. The reports after earthquakes indicate that it may lead to some local damage in the case of moderate seismic events or may result in considerable destruction or even collapse of colliding structures during severe ground motions. Pounding in build-ings is usually caused by the...
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Modified linear viscoelastic model of earthquake-induced structural pounding
PublicationIn recent times, earthquake-induced structural pounding has been intensively studied through the use of different impact force models. The numerical results obtained from the previous studies indicate that the linear viscoelastic model is relatively simple and accurate in modeling pounding-involved behavior of structures during earthquakes. The only shortcoming of the model is a negative value of the pounding force occurring just...
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Pounding-involved response of isolated and non-isolated buildings under earthquake excitation
PublicationCelem artykułu jest dokładna analiza zachowania się kolidujących ze sobą dwóch budynków z wibroizolacją i bez wibroizolacji poddanych obciążeniom dynamicznym podczas trzęsień ziemi. W analizie rozważno przypadki kiedy oba budynki mają wibroizolację, kiedy tylko jeden budynek ma wibroizolację oraz kiedy żaden z budynków nie ma wibroizolacji. Wyniki badań pokazują, iż budynki z wibroizolacją są bardziej podatne na zderzenia podczas...
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Inelastic damage-involved response of colliding buildings during earthquakes
PublicationW artykule poddano analizie nieliniowe zachowanie się kolidujących ze sobą budynków powodujące ich uszkodzenie podczas trzęsień ziemi. Analiza dotyczy zderzeń pomiędzy dwoma sąsiednimi budynkami czterokondygnacyjnymi. Badania pokazują, iż zastosowanie nieliniowego modelu numerycznego zachowania się obu budowli podczas trzęsień ziemi ma duże znaczenia dla dokładności wyników.
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Elastic and inelastic multi-storey buildings under earthquake excitation with the effect of pounding
PublicationW artykule przeprowadzono analizę różnic w liniowym i nieliniowym zachowaniu się budynków wielokondygnacyjnych podczas trzęsień ziemi z uwzględnieniem efektu zderzeń pomiędzy nimi. Analizę numeryczną przeprowadzono dla różnych wartości ekstremalnych przyspieszeń gruntu. Wyniki pokazują, iż zaimplementowanie nieliniowego modelu zachowania się budowli jest bardzo istotne w celu uzyskania dokładnej odpowiedzi konstrukcji.
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Linear viscoelastic modelling of damage-involved structural pounding during earthquakes
PublicationDamage-involved structural pounding during earthquakes has been recently intensively studied using different impact force models. The results of the previous studies indicate that the linear viscoelastic model is relatively simple yet accurate in modelling pounding-involved behaviour of structures during earthquakes. The only shortcoming of the model is a negative value of the pounding force occurring just before separation, which...
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Nonisothermal cure kinetics of epoxy/MnxFe3-xO4 nanocomposites
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Corrigendum to “Nonisothermal cure kinetics of epoxy/MnxFe3-xO4 nanocomposites” [Prog. Org. Coat. 140C (2020) 105505]
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Badania statyczne i dynamiczne pali wierconych. Przebudowa drogi krajowej nr 7 na obwodnicy Grójca.
PublicationPraca obejmowała wykonanie 4 opinii dotyczących nośności pali wierconych o średnicy 600 mm, 1000 mm i 1500 pod podpory obiektów w ciągu obwodnicy Grójca na podstawie badań statyczny i dynamicznych. W ramach umowy wykonano 5 obciążeń statycznych.
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Opinia naukowo-techniczna Analiza posadowienia obiektu MA‐09 w związku ze zmianą fundamentowania z pali wielkośrednicowych na pale prefabrykowane
PublicationPrzeanalizowano projekt zamienny posadowienia na palach prefabrykowanych obiektu mostowego MA-09 przez Wisłę wzdłuż drogi S7 w Kiezmarku. Na podstawie przeprowadzonych analiz stwierdzono, że zaproponowane zamienne rozwiązanie posadowienia podpór mostu jest możliwe do zastosowania i zapewni bezpieczeństwo posadowienia obiektu.
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Ekspertyza techniczna dotycząca przyczyn zawilgocenia ścian Katedry w Kwidzynie oraz wpływu zabudowy dwóch kwartałów mieszkalno-usługowych przy Katedrze realizowanych w latach 2010-2011 oraz 2018-2020 na stan zawilgocenia murów Katedry
PublicationPrzedmiotem opracowania jest ekspertyza dotycząca przyczyn zawilgocenia ścian Katedry pw. św. Jana Ewangelisty w Kwidzynie oraz wpływu zabudowy dwóch kwartałów mieszkalno-usługowych przy katedrze, zrealizowanych w latach 2010-2011 oraz 2018-2020 na stan zawilgocenia murów budynku katedry. Ekspertyza swoim zakresem obejmuje ocenę zawilgocenia murów oraz ścian na zewnątrz oraz wewnątrz katedry, jak również wskazuje potencjalne przyczyny...