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  • DETERMINATION OF THE CITY CENTRE. STUDY FOR THE TROJMIASTO AGGLOMERATION

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    - Year 2014

    Determination of the centre of the city or agglomeration or generally the geographic area is a task which is often undertaken as part of the promotional actions realized by local authorities or directly by inhabitants. Nowadays, especially due to the development and availability of positioning technology and satellite imaging, this job is undertaken within the framework of general didactic tasks and group projects during the study...

  • INFLUENCE OF A VERTEX REMOVING ON THE CONNECTED DOMINATION NUMBER – APPLICATION TO AD-HOC WIRELESS NETWORKS

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    - Year 2015

    A minimum connected dominating set (MCDS) can be used as virtual backbone in ad-hoc wireless networks for efficient routing and broadcasting tasks. To find the MCDS is an NP- complete problem even in unit disk graphs. Many suboptimal algorithms are reported in the literature to find the MCDS using local information instead to use global network knowledge, achieving an important reduction in complexity. Since a wireless network...

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  • Systematics of intelligent transport systems services

    Recent years have seen a more intensified deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in Polish cities. Work is also underway on the implementation of ITS on the national roads within the National Traffic Management System (KSZR). The research project RID-4D (part of Road Innovations), is designed to fill the gap, which is the lack of systematics of ITS services in Poland. The paper presents a proposal of ITS services systematics,...

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  • Akaike's final prediction error criterion revisited

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    When local identification of a nonstationary ARX system is carried out, two important decisions must be taken. First, one should decide upon the number of estimated parameters, i.e., on the model order. Second, one should choose the appropriate estimation bandwidth, related to the (effective) number of input-output data samples that will be used for identification/ tracking purposes. Failure to make the right decisions results...

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  • Texture Features for the Detection of Playback Attacks: Towards a Robust Solution

    This paper describes the new version of a method that is capable of protecting automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems from playback attacks. The presented approach uses computer vision techniques, such as the texture feature extraction based on Local Ternary Patterns (LTP), to identify spoofed recordings. Our goal is to make the algorithm independent from the contents of the training set as much as possible; we look for the...

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  • MIEJSKIE PROJEKTY OŚWIETLENIOWE W KONTEKŚCIE REWITALIZACJI

    Urban Lighting in the Context of Regeneration Processes. The article presents how multi-layered urban lighting projects fi t into the programs of integrated activities to improve the living conditions of the local community, the surrounding space, and its economic relations. The role of the electric lighting in revealing the night image of the city, its promotion and public spaces transformations off ering new impressions to city...

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  • Flow Analysis of a Kaplan Turbine

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    - Year 2017

    This monograph is a guide to a method of experimental and numerical flow investigations for Kaplan - type turbines. The numerical calculations were compared with the test results of the model Kaplan turbine. The tests were carried out on the model test rig in the Gdańsk University of Technology. The turbine has been thoroughly experimentally investigated, resulting in the identification of optimum setting combination of the stator...

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  • Examining Impact of Speed Recommendation Algorithm Operating in Autonomous Road Signs on Minimum Distance between Vehicles

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    - Remote Sensing - Year 2022

    An approach to a new kind of recommendation system design that suggests safe speed on the road is presented. Real data obtained on roads were used for the simulations. As part of a project related to autonomous road sign development, a number of measurements were carried out on both local roads and expressways. A speed recommendation model was created based on gathered traffic data employing the traffic simulator. Depending on...

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  • EFFICIENT LINE DETECTION METHOD BASED ON 2D CONVOLUTION FILTER

    The article proposes an efficient line detection method using a 2D convolution filter. The proposed method was compared with the Hough transform, the most popular method of straight lines detection. The developed method is suitable for local detection of straight lines with a slope from -45˚ to 45˚. Also, it can be used for curve detection which shape is approximated with the short straight sections. The new method is characterized...

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  • Maximum transportation growth in energy and solute particles in Prandtl martial across a vertical 3D-heated surface: Simulations achieved using by finite element approach

    The goal of this study is to determine the maximum energy and solute particles' transportation growth in a 3D-heated region of Prandtl martial through a dynamic magnetic field. The effects of this field on the properties of solvent molecules and heat conduction are studied. A correctly stated functional method and a finite element approach are comparable to a certain type of differential equations. In order demonstrate the effects...

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  • Karhunen-Loeve-based approach to tracking of rapidly fading wireless communication channels

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    When parameters of wireless communication channels vary at a fast rate, simple estimation algorithms, such as weighted least squares (WLS) or least mean squares (LMS) algorithms, cannot estimate them with the accuracy needed to secure the reliable operation of the underlying communication systems. In cases like this, the local basis function (LBF) estimation technique can be used instead, significantly increasing the achievable...

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  • Ocena kształtu geometrycznego torów tramwajowych na podstawie pomiarów satelitarnych

    W pracy przedstawiono ocenę możliwości wykorzystania dwusystemowych fazowych odbiorników GNSS (GPS/Glonass) dla realizacji pomiaru inwentaryzacyjnego linii tramwajowych. Opisano przebieg pomiarów przeprowadzonych na terenie Gdańska i uzyskane wyniki. Wykazano, że dla obszarów miejskich zastosowanie rozwiązań GNSS w oparciu o lokalną stację referencyjną może być alternatywnym podejściem względem pomiarów opartych o sieć ASG-EUPOS...

  • URBAN MENTORING JAKO NOWA TECHNIKA WPRÓŁPRACY W PROCESIE PLANOWANIA PARTCYPACYJNEGO

    W 25 lat od powrotu demokracji opierającej się o neoliberalny paradygmat rozwoju kraju, Polska przyjęła Krajową Politykę Miejską 2030. Wraz z ustawą o rewitalizacji w nowoczesny sposób określa ona pole współpracy władz samorządowych i administracji z mieszkańcami, przejście do drugiej fazy rozwoju społeczeństwa demokratycznego – mieszkańców współgospodarzy przestrzeni miast. Powolna ewolucja tej relacji, silnie obarczonej dziedzictwem...

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  • Cykl życia wyrobu a ochrona środowiska

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    - Year 2005

    W nienijszym rozdziale poruszono zagadnienia zwiazane z ochrona srodowiska- przedsatwiono genezę i rozwój koncepcji zarządzania środowiskiem. Przedstawiona została rózwnież problematyka wzajemnych oddziaływań przedsiebiorstwa i jego produktów na środowisko naturalne w aspekcie zarządzania środowiskowego i metody LCA(Life Cycle Assessment). Omówiono również zagadnienie związane z Zadsadą Przedłuzonej odpowiedzialności Producenta...

  • Low-dimensional bound entanglement with one-way distillable cryptographic key

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    - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY - Year 2008

    In this paper, we provide a class of bound entangled states that have positive distillable secure key rate. The smallest state of this kind is 4 circle times 4, which shows that peculiar security contained in bound entangled states does not need high-dimensional systems. We show that for these states a positive key rate can be obtained by one-way Devetak-Winter (DW) protocol. Subsequently, the volume of bound entangled key-distillable...

  • Heuristic scheduling algorithms for uniform load of computer system

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    - Year 2006

    W pracy zaprezentowano opracowany heurystyczny algorytm szeregowania zadań UNILO (ang. UNIform LOad - jednakowe obciążenie), umożliwiający redukcję całkowitego zapotrzebowania na moc obliczeniową systemu komputerowego bez pogarszania jego wydajności. Algorytm ten realizuje takie przydzielenie zadań obliczeniowych do poszczególnych jednostek (procesorów), aby zapewnić ich jednakowe obciążenie. Opracowany algorytm został zweryfikowany...

  • Historical records of organic pollutants in sediment cores

    Analyses of sediment core samples are primary sources of historical pollution trends in aquatic systems. Determining organic compounds, such as POPs, in the dated sediments enables the estimation of their temporal concentration changes and the identification of the contaminant origin in local regions. Wars, large-scale fires, economical transitions, and bans on certain chemicals are reflected in the sediment organic compound concentrations....

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  • Failure of austenitic stainless steel tubes during steam generator operation

    The article presents the failure process of austenitic stainless steels used in power devices, such as heat exchangers, steam generators, in terms of local corrosion: pitting, stress and intergranular corrosion, paying particular attention to welded joints area. The effect of steel chemical composition, microstructure, welding process and work environment was analyzed. The second part of the article presents the results of the...

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  • Source-related Wavefields in Fluids and Dielectrics: A new way of Thinking about Medium Dynamics

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    - HYDROACOUSTICS - Year 2013

    Acoustic and electromagnetic wave phenomena may seem to have a proper formal representation in field theory dating from the 19th century, founded on the mathematics of complex functions. This paper shows, however, that when replacing the classical spectrum-domain approach related to the assumption of harmonic timeform of signals, with a time-domain approach imposingnorestrictionastotheclassoftimeevolutionofsourceandfieldsignals,...

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  • Experimental research on evolutionary path planning algorithm with fitness function scaling for collision scenarios

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    - Year 2011

    This article presents typical ship collision scenarios, simulated using the evolutionary path planning system and analyses the impact of the fitness function scaling on the quality of the solution. The function scaling decreases the selective pressure, which facilitates leaving the local optimum in the calculation process and further exploration of the solution space. The performed investigations have proved that the use of scaling...

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  • Wykorzystanie fazy transformaty STFT do oceny jakości spektrogramu

    W niniejszej publikacji przedstawiono koncepcję oceny jakości spektrogramu, wykorzystując często marginalizowaną fazę transformaty STFT (ang. Short-term Fourier transform). Spektrograf traktowany jest jako bank filtrów demultipleksujących sygnał. Dla każdego w ten sposób odfiltrowanego sygnału składowego obliczana jest kanałowa pulsacja chwilowa (ang. channel instantaneous frequency) oraz lokalne opóźnienie grupowe (ang. local...

  • Experimental investigations and simulations of the microturbine unit with permanent magnet generator

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    - ENERGY - Year 2018

    In dispersed power generation, low power devices are used for local combined generating of heat end electric power. There are developing concepts of micropower plants with electric generators driven by steam or gas microturbines. The paper presents the results of an experimental investigations of the microturbine set consists of the turbine with partial admission, permanent magnet generator and three phase AC-to-DC rectifier. The...

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  • Using concentrated spectrogram for analysis of audio acoustic signals

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    The paper presents results of time-frequency analysis of audio acoustic signals using the method of Concentrated Spectrograph also known as ''Cross-spectral method'' or ''Reassignment method''. Presented algorithm involves signal's local group delay and channelized instantaneous frequency to relevantly redistribute all Short-time Fourier transform lines in time-frequency plain. The main intention of the paper is to compare various...

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  • Size Reduction of Microwave Couplers by EM-Driven Optimization

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    - Year 2015

    This work addresses simulation-driven design optimization of compact microwave couplers that explicitly aims at circuit footprint area reduction. The penalty function approach allows us to minimize the area of the circuit while ensuring a proper power division between the output ports and providing a sufficient bandwidth with respect to return loss and isolation around the operating frequency. Computational cost of the optimization...

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  • Thin-walled cross section shape influence on steel member resistance.

    This work describes why trending thin-walled technology is achieving popularity in steel construction sector. A purpose of this article is to present the influence of the cold-formed element cross-section shape on an axial compression and a bending moment resistance. The authors have considered four different shapes assuming constant section area and thickness. Calculations were based on three different steel grades taking into...

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  • Abundance and biomass of bacteria in two Arctic glacial fjords

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    - Polish Polar Research - Year 2005

    Total numbers and biomass of bacterioplankton in water in two glacial fjords off west Spitsbergen have been studied. Samples were collected from different water depth layers - from the surface to 80-90 m. Total bacterial number (TBN), biomass and morphological structure were determined by the acridine orange direct count method. The highest values of TBN and biomass in the water column were found on stations situated adjacent...

  • Assessment of Alterations in Settlement Patterns of Agricultural Landscape in the Example of Kashubia in Poland

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    - Sustainability - Year 2024

    Traditional agricultural landscapes are heavily exposed to change due to their relatively low agricultural productivity. However, they represent cultural values of great importance in maintaining the resilience of the environment and society. Although their cultural potential is important for sustainable development, it is still insufficiently recognized. The article fills this gap by examining old farmstead buildings as a distinguishing...

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  • Solid road environment and its hazards

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    - MATEC Web of Conferences - Year 2017

    Accidents that involve vehicles departing the road tend to have very high severity, as they often result in the vehicle hitting a permanent obstacle (which can be a ree, a pole, facility pillar, front wall of a culvert or a barrier). In recent years, this type of accident caused approx. 19% of all road deaths in Poland. A particularly high risk can be observed on roads located in northern and western...

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  • SEWAGE SYSTEM CONCEPT FOR KAMIEŃ VILLAGE IN THE COMMUNE OF SZEMUD

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    - Year 2020

    The aim of this thesis is to solve a disturbing problem, which is illegal sewage discharge, without any previous treatment in a village Kamień, Szemud commune, Poland, by developing a multivariate sewerage system concept. The introduction submits the theory concerning the division of sewer systems as well as the wastewater treatment’s level. Moreover, there is also the problem of rural sanitation presented and main locality –...

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  • Fuzzy Multi-Regional Fractional PID controller for Pressurized Water nuclear Reactor

    The paper presents the methodology for the synthesis of a Fuzzy Multi-Regional Fractional Order PID controller (FMR-FOPID) used to control the average thermal power of a PWR nuclear reactor in the load following mode. The controller utilizes a set of FOPID controllers and the fuzzy logic Takagi-Sugeno reasoning system. The proposed methodology is based on two optimization parts. The first part is devoted to finding the optimal...

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  • Performance of organic coatings upon cyclic mechanical load

    A number of engineering structures fail due to the fatigue damage resulting from cyclic mechanical stress. However, as far as organic coatings are concerned this degradation factor remains underestimated. In the paper the authors propose a methodology combining global electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and local atomic force microscopy measurements for evaluation of coating resistance to an impact of repetitive mechanical stress. Typical...

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  • Natural ventilation performance of family building in cold climate during windy days

    Adequately designed natural ventilation is the cheapest and easiest way to effectively remove indoor pollutants and keep the fresh air inside a building. A prediction of performance and effectiveness of ventilation in order to determine the design of a ventilation system can provide real and long term cost savings. The paper presents results of performance (air change rate ACH) and effectiveness (CO2 concentration in the breathing...

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  • On Wrinkling in Sandwich Panels with an Orthotropic Core

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    - Materials - Year 2021

    This paper deals with the local loss of stability (wrinkling) problem of a thin facing of a sandwich panel. Classical solutions to the problem of facing instability resting on a homogeneous and isotropic substructure (a core) are compared. The relations between strain energy components associated with different forms of core deformations are discussed. Next, a new solution for the orthotropic core is presented in detail, which...

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  • High gain/bandwidth off‑chip antenna loaded with metamaterial unit‑cell impedance matching circuit for sub‑terahertz near‑field electronic systems

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    • M. Alibakhshikenari
    • B. S. Virdee
    • D. Mariyanayagam
    • V. Vadala
    • M. Naser-moghadasi
    • C. H. See
    • I. Dayoub
    • S. Aissa
    • P. Livreri
    • S. N. Burokur... and 4 others

    - Scientific Reports - Year 2022

    An innovative off-chip antenna (OCA) is presented that exhibits high gain and efficiency performance at the terahertz (THz) band and has a wide operational bandwidth. The proposed OCA is implemented on stacked silicon layers and consists of an open circuit meandering line. It is shown that by loading the antenna with an array of subwavelength circular dielectric slots and terminating it with a metamaterial unit cell, its impedance...

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  • Why the Solvation Water around Proteins Is More Dense than Bulk Water

    The main aim of this work is to propose a rational explanation of the commonly observed phenomenon of increasing water density within solvation shell of proteins. We have observed that the geometry of the water–water hydrogen bond network within solvation layer differs from the one in bulk water, and it is the result of interactions of water molecules with protein surface. Altered geometry of the network reflects changes in the...

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  • ARCHITECTURE IN BRANDING AND OVERBRANDING PROCESS. HOW GLOBALIZATION INFLUENCED ARCHITECTURE QUALITY.

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    - Year 2014

    Globalization is unification. In the field of architecture and in the social structure alike, the globalization leads to a blending of economies and cultures that produces uniformly branded public space as a response to universal assumptions of integration and correlation. While branding consists in creating a recognizable and outstanding image a strong contradiction exists between both of these approaches. As a result, regional...

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  • Why the solvation water around proteins is more dense than bulk water

    The main aim of this work is to propose a rational explanation of commonly observed phenomenon of increasing water density within solvation shell of proteins. We have observed that geometry of the water-water hydrogen bond network within solvation layer differs from the one in bulk water and it is the effect of interactions of water molecules with protein surface. Altered geometry of the network reflects changes in the structure...

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  • Technical solutions and benefits of introducing rain gardens – Gdańsk case study

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    Nowadays, Nature-Based Solutions (NBSs) are developing as innovative multifunctional tools to maximize urban ecosystem services such as storm water preservation, reduction of runoff and flood protection, groundwater pollution prevention, biodiversity enhancement, and microclimate control. Gdańsk is one of the first Polish cities to widely introduce rain gardens (one example of an NBS) in different areas such as parks, city center,...

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  • Nonlocal Models of Plates and Shells with Applications in Micro- and Nanomechanics

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    - Year 2022

    Nowadays, the use of small-scale structures in micro/nanomachines has become more and more widespread. The most important applications of such small-sized parts are in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) as well as nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS) as actuators, sensors, energy harvesters. For example, nanosensors are nanoscale devices that measure physical quantities and convert these to signals that can be detected and...

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  • Bezpieczeństwo elektroenergetyczne dla pokoleń

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    • W. Kamrat
    • M. Bartosik
    • M. Każmierkowski
    • L. Włodzmierz
    • P. Maciej
    • T. Peryt
    • T. Skoczkowski
    • S. Andrzej
    • S. Adam

    - Przegląd Elektrotechniczny - Year 2016

    W artykule przeanalizowano źródła energii pierwotnej, ich wystarczalnośći dywersyfikację w skali lokalnej i globalnej, problem dekarbonizacji polskiej elektroenergetyki na tle europejskiej polityki klimatycznej, osiągalność źródeł gazu jako efektywnego paliwa dla energetyki, polski program energetyki jądrowej, bezpieczeństwo zasilania elektrycznych systemów trakcyjnych jako strategicznej alternatywy...

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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...

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

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

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  • Cost-efficient simulation-driven design of compact impedance matching transformers

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    In this paper, an algorithmic framework for cost-efficient design optimization of miniaturized impedance matching transformers has been presented. Our approach exploits a bottom-up design that involves translating the overall design specifications for the circuit at hand to its elementary building blocks (here, compact microstrip resonant cells, CMRCs), as well as fast surrogate-assisted optimization of the cells followed by simulation-based...

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  • Evaluation of adhesive forces and the specific surface energy of zirconia stabilized by yttria with alumina additions ceramic by AFM method

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    - Year 2016

    The adhesive forces and the specific surface energy of ceramic material surfaces are very important for further tribological and biomedical applications of ceramics. Partially stabilized zirconia (zirconium oxide) is popular for manufacturing various medical products. ZrO2 stabilized by Y2O3 with additions of 5 wt% alumina was produced by slip casting method with a subsequent sintering. Structure and chemical composition of ceramic...

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  • Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling of the regenerative MRL/MpJ mouse and two normal strains

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    - EPIGENOMICS-UK - Year 2017

    Aims We aimed to identify the pivotal differences in the DNA methylation profiles between the regeneration capable MRL/MpJ mouse and reference mouse strains. Materials and Methods Global DNA methylation profiling was performed in ear pinnae, bone marrow, spleen, liver, heart from uninjured adult females of the MRL/MpJ and C57BL/6J and BALB/c. Results and conclusion A number of differentially methylated regions distinguishing between...

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  • Quantum-correlation breaking channels, broadcasting scenarios, and finite Markov chains

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    - PHYSICAL REVIEW A - Year 2012

    One of the classical results concerning quantum channels is the characterization of entanglementbreakingchannels [M. Horodecki et al., Rev. Math. Phys 15, 629 (2003)]. We address the questionwhether there exists a similar characterization on the level of quantum correlations which may gobeyond entanglement. The answer is fully affirmative in the case of breaking quantum correlationsdown to the, so called, QC (Quantum-Classical)...

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  • Integrated safety and security analysis of hazardous plants and systems of critical infrastructure

    This article addresses an integrated safety and security analysis approach of hazardous industrial plants and systems of critical infrastructure. Nowadays due to new hazards that emerge there are opinions among experts that these issues require an integrated approach in life cycle, from the design concept, through the design and operation of the plant, to its decommissioning. It is proposed to start from an interesting methodology...

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  • How Specific Can We Be with k-NN Classifier?

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    This paper discusses the possibility of designing a two stage classifier for large-scale hierarchical and multilabel text classification task, that will be a compromise between two common approaches to this task. First of it is called big-bang, where there is only one classifier that aims to do all the job at once. Top-down approach is the second popular option, in which at each node of categories’ hierarchy, there is a flat classifier...

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  • Measures of region failure survivability for wireless mesh networks

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    - WIRELESS NETWORKS - Year 2015

    Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are considered as a promising alternative to wired local, or metropolitan area networks. However, owing to their exposure to various disruptive events, including natural disasters, or human threats, many WMN network elements located close to the failure epicentre are frequently in danger of a simultaneous failure, referred to as a region failure. Therefore, network survivability, being the ability...

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