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Hunting for the Magnesium(I) Species: Formation, Structure, andReactivity of some Donor-Free Grignard Compounds
PublicationMagnesium bromide radicals have to be prepared as high-temperature molecules and trapped as a metastable solution because a seemingly simple reduction of donor-free Grignard compounds failed. However, the essential role of magnesium(I) species during the formation of Grignard compounds could be demonstrated experimentally.
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Folding‐upon‐repair DNA nanoswitches for monitoring DNA repair enzymes activity
PublicationWe demonstrate here a new class of DNA‐based nanoswitches that, upon enzymatic repair, could undergo a conformational change mechanism leading to a change in fluorescent signal. Such folding‐upon‐repair DNA nanoswitches are synthetic DNA sequences containing O6‐methyl‐guanine (O6‐MeG) nucleobases and labelled with a fluorophore/quencher optical pair. The nanoswitches are rationally designed so that only upon enzymatic demethylation...
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Topochemical, Single‐Crystal‐to‐Single‐Crystal [2+2] Photocycloadditions Driven by Chalcogen‐Bonding Interactions
PublicationThe face-to-face association of (E)-1,2-di(4-pyridyl)ethylene (bpen) molecules into rectangular motifs stabilized for the first time by chalcogen bonding (ChB) interactions is shown to provide photoreactive systems leading to cyclobutane formation through single-crystal-to-single-crystal [2+2] photodimerizations. The chelating chalcogen bond donors are based on original aromatic, ortho-substituted bis(selenocyanato)benzene derivatives...
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Ln2(SeO3)2(SO4)(H2O)2 (Ln=Sm, Dy, Yb): A Mixed‐Ligand Pathway to New Lanthanide(III) Multifunctional Materials Featuring Nonlinear Optical and Magnetic Anisotropy Properties
PublicationBottom-up assembly of optically nonlinear and magnetically anisotropic lanthanide materials involving precisely placed spin carriers and optimized metal-ligand coordination offers a potential route to developing electronic architectures for coherent radiation generation and spin-based technologies, but the chemical design historically has been extremely hard to achieve. To address this, we developed a worthwhile avenue for creating...
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Wpływ systemu logistycznego miasta na kształtowanie budynków wielofunkcyjnych
PublicationCelem artykułu jest przedstawienie wpływu systemu logistycznego miasta na kształtowanie przestrzeni zurbanizowanej poprzez projektowanie budynków wielofunkcyjnych. Przedstawione zostały tendencje rozwoju miast, oraz ich charakter kształtowania w zakresie funkcji. Wykazane zostały związki miejskiego systemu logistycznego z budynkami wielofunkcyjnymi. Zilustrowany został schemat zintegrowanej miejskiej sieci logistycznej, której...
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Zintegrowany napęd hydrauliczny w systemie wodowania łodzi ratunkowych
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono opis i schemat napędu i sterowania hydraulicznego innowacyjnego systemu ewakuacji ludzi z dużego statku pasażerskiego. System ten zlokalizowany na rufie statku obejmuje wyciągi łańcuchowe z zamocowanymi na nich dużymi łodziami ratunkowymi oraz pochylnię z rolkami, a także furto rampę rufową, stanowiącą po jej otwarciu przedłużenie pochylni, po której łodzie zjeżdżają do wody.
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Resonance Frequency Calculation of Spherical Microstrip Structure Using Hybrid Technique
PublicationIn this paper the spherical microstrip structure is considered. The structure is composed of a metallic patch with an arbitrary shape placed on a dielectric coated metallic sphere. In the analysis the hybrid technique is utilized. In this approach the finite-difference technique is applied in a cavity model to determine the current basis functions on the patch. Next, using method of moments, the resonance frequency of the structure...
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Reverberation divergence in VR applications
PublicationThe aim of this project was to investigate the correlation between virtual reality (VR) imagery and ambisonic sound. With the increasing popularity of VR applications, understanding how sound is perceived in virtual environments is crucial for enhancing the immersiveness of the experience. By examining the relationship between visual scenes and sound scenes, this research attempts to explore how the interaction between vision and...
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NUMERYCZNE MODELOWANIE HYDRODYNAMIKI JAKO NARZĘDZIE WSPOMAGANIA PROJEKTOWANIA REKREACYJNYCH I SPORTOWYCH OBIEKTÓW WODNYCH
PublicationW artykule opisano zastosowanie obliczeń numerycznych w procesie projektowania, analizy działania oraz oceny bezpieczeństwa użytkowania wodnych obiektów rekreacyjnych i sportowych. Użytkownicy aquaparków, sportowcy, a szczególnie kibice, oczekują wyjątkowych doznań na obiektach wodnych z jednoczesną gwarancją bezpieczeństwa. Na te kwestie duży wpływ ma hydrodynamika przepływu. Aby właściwie dobrać parametry geometryczne i hydrauliczne...
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A Model Modification for a Microturbine Set with Partial Admission Stages
PublicationThe vapour microturbine set’s mathematical model has been updated to consider the partial admission of turbine stages. Experimental data from two distinct microturbine sets were used to verify the model. The model of the microturbine set was tested under varying operating conditions. Examples of a comparison between the experimental results and simulations are presented and analysed. It has been shown that, when simulating the...
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Accurate electrothermal modelling of high frequency DC-DC converters with discrete IGBTs in PLECS software
PublicationIn the paper, a novel, improved method of the IGBT junction temperature computations in the PLECS simulation software is presented. The developed method aims at accuracy of the junction temperature computations in PLECS by utilising a more sophisticated model of transistor losses, and by taking into account variability of transistor thermal resistance as a function of its temperature. A detailed description of the proposed method,...
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Facial data registration facility for biometric protection of electronic documents
PublicationIn modern world, information is crucial, and its leakage may lead to serious losses. Documents as the main medium of information must be therefore highly protected. Nowadays, the most common way of protecting data is using passwords, however it seems inconvenient to type complex passwords, when it is needed many times a day. For that reason a significant research has been conducted on biometric authentication...
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Immunogenic and protective activity of recombinant chimeric Toxoplasma gondii proteins
PublicationToxoplasmosis, one of the most common parasitic invasions worldwide, may pose a great threat for individuals with weakened immune system. The parasite also causes considerable economic losses due to infection of livestock. To date there is no efficient immunoprophylaxis for humans and animals, which would provide long-lasting protection against T. gondii invasion. Chimeric proteins, containing several selected fragments of parasite...
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Damage Development on the Surface of Nickel Coating in the Initial Period of Erosion
PublicationThe common occurrence of the phenomenon of cavitation in many industries and the multitude of factors affecting the resistance to cavitation erosion of used materials contribute to the search for methods and appropriate parameters of coating application that are able to minimize the effects of erosion. To determine the validity of the developed application parameters and the method used, cavitation studies and microscopic observations...
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Noncentrosymmetric Triangular Magnet CaMnTeO6: Strong Quantum Fluctuations and Role of s0 versus s2 Electronic States in Competing Exchange Interactions
PublicationNoncentrosymmetric triangular magnets offer a unique platform for realizing strong quantum fluctuations. However, designing these quantum materials remains an open challenge attributable to a knowledge gap in the tunability of competing exchange interactions at the atomic level. Here, a new noncentrosymmetric triangular S = 3/2 magnet CaMnTeO6 is created based on careful chemical and physical considerations. The model material...
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Exergy analysis and thermodynamic optimization of a bioenergy with carbon capture and storage gas power plant using Monte Carlo simulation of sewage sludge composition
PublicationAn exergy analysis is performed on the negative CO2 emission gas power plant (nCO2PP), which integrates the fuel preparation, power generation and carbon capture process sections. The cycle is modeled in Aspen Plus coupled with REFPROP, combining deterministic and Monte Carlo stochastic approaches, the latter being a novelty in this work. In all cases studied, the simulations maintain the complex thermodynamic relationships. Exergy...
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Synthesis, structural characterization, and thermal properties of Ca‐ and La‐doped soda‐lime glasses by laser melting
PublicationLaser melting techniques have been used in the preparation of unconventional glass compositions with high melting temperatures. Thus, we wanted to test the feasibility of using a CO2 laser in the preparation of nitrogen-rich oxynitride glasses and nitride silicate glasses. Melting from oxides and metallic raw materials, we wanted to study first glass formation and possible evaporation losses of the glass components. Two glass series...
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Zastosowanie technologii holonowych w środowisku chmurowym przedsiębiorstwa
PublicationCelem artykułu jest wskazanie możliwości stosowania technologii holonowych dla implementacji chmurowego przetwarzania danych (cloud computing, CC) oraz chmurowego wytwarzania (cloud manufacturing, CM) w przedsiębiorstwie wirtualnym. Przyjęto następujący schemat wywodu: wyszczególnienie cech wspólnych oraz wyróżniających, występujących pomiędzy chmurą obliczeniową a wytwarzaniem chmurowym przedsiębiorstwa wirtualnego, a następnie...
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Certyfikat jakości EHEDG w produkcji żywności.
PublicationPrzedstawiono: aspekty projektowania linii technologicznej; zagadnienia uwzględniane w Dyrektywach UE i Dokumentach EHEDG; obszary współdziałania i oszacowania zagrożeń mikrobiologicznych; fazy przygotowania i weryfikacji oceny jakości; współzależność technologii, producenta wyposażenia i producenta żywnośći; schemat diagnozowania urządzeń. Zwrócono uwagę na okoliczności uzyskania certyfikatu jakości w produkcji żywności stwierdzając,...
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Macromodels in the frequency domain analysis of microwave resonators.
PublicationW artykule zaprezentowana jest technika włączania makromodeli do metod siatkowych sformułowanych w dziedzinie częstotliwości.W odróżnieniu do poprzednich, nowy schemat nie wprowadza zależności częstotliwościowej do macierzy systemowej i dzięki temu może być użyta w analizie rezonatorów. Testy numeryczne pokazują wzrost dokładności obliczeń w szerokim zakresie częstotliwości, przy czym właściwości zbieżności iteracyjnego algorytmu...
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Propulsion system with a hydraulic transmision for a low draught inland vessel
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono założenia i uwarunkowania techniczne oraz projekt koncepcyjny dwóch wariantów układu napędowego statku śródlądowego o małym zanurzeniu. Oba warianty dotyczą systemu Diesel-hydraulicznego, przy czym pierwszy - z tradycyjną, poziomą linią wałów i śrubami stałymi w wychylnych dyszach Korta, a drugi - z pędnikami azymutalnymi. Projekt zawiera schemat systemu napędowego oraz wizualizację rozmieszczenia podstawowych...
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General construction of noiseless networks detecting entanglement with the help of linear maps
PublicationW pracy zaprezentowano ogólny schemat konstrukcji bezszumowych sieci pozwalających wykrywać splątanie przy pomocy odwzorowań liniowych. Pokazano jak zastosować metodę do detekcji splątania nieznanego stanu bez jego wcześniejszej rekonstrukcji. W szczególności pokazano, że zawsze istnieje bezszumowa sieć pozwalająca wykrywać splątanie przy użyciu dodatnich, ale nie kompletnie dodatnich odwzorowań. Zaprezentowano także uogólnienie...
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Problemy bezpieczeństwa informacji w środowisku przetwarzania wszechobecnego
PublicationPrzetwarzanie wszechobecne jest dziedziną informatyki, któracoraz szerzej zaczyna pojawiać się w życiu przeciętnego człowieka, ułatwiając mu wykonywanie codziennych czynności. Przedstawiono pryncypia mechanizmów bezpieczeństwa, które należy bra pod uwagę przy implementacji tego typu systemu. Pokrótce opisano ideę przetwarzania wszechobecnego oraz aplikacji agentowych. Omówiono najważniejsze mechanizmy zabezpieczeń komunikacji...
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Advances in macromodeling technique
PublicationThe paper discuses recent advances in the finite differencetime domain method employing macromodels. New techniquesfor creating irregularly shaped macromodels, grouping ofmacromodels and advanced macromodel cloning are introduced.The last technique is particularly important for efficient analysisof the structures based on Photonic Crystals (PhC). The methodallows one to shorten considerably the preprocessing time, theRAM usage...
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Uniwersalny system bezprzewodowy do monitorowania zagrożeń bezpieczeństwa
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono budowę i działanie bezprzewodowego systemu monitorowania zagrożeń bezpieczeństwa, opartego na koncepcji samoorganizującej się sieci uniwersalnych węzłów telekomunikacyjnych(UWT). Na wstępie opisano schemat funkcjonalny systemu, uwzględniając szczególnie wynikające z niego zadania oraz budowę UWT. Następnie na wybranym przykładzie scharakteryzowano pracę samoorganizującejsię sieci UWT - sieci ad-hoc. W końcowej...
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Smooth Orthogonal Projections on Riemannian Manifold
PublicationWe construct a decomposition of the identity operator on a Riemannian manifold M as a sum of smooth orthogonal projections subordinate to an open cover of M. This extends a decomposition on the real line by smooth orthogonal projection due to Coifman and Meyer (C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, S´er. I Math., 312(3), 259–261 1991) and Auscher, Weiss, Wickerhauser (1992), and a similar decomposition when M is the sphere by Bownik and Dziedziul (Const....
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RESIDUE ANALYSIS OF ETU AND PTU BY LC/MS
PublicationDithiocarbamates (DTCs) are important organosulfur compounds, which act as inhibitors of metal dependant and sulphydryl enzymes and have a serious consequence on biological systems. They possess variety of applications in agriculture as fungicides, as well as, in the rubber industry as vulcanization accelerators and antioxidants. In this way, DTCs are the main group of fungicides used to control approximately 400 pathogens of more...
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Characterization of single-stranded DNA-binding proteins from the psychrophilic bacteria Desulfotalea psychrophila, Flavobacterium psychrophilum, Psychrobacter arcticus, Psychrobacter cryohalolentis, Psychromonas ingrahamii, Psychroflexus torquis, and Photobacterium profundum
PublicationBackground: Single-stranded DNA-binding proteins (SSBs) play essential roles in DNA replication, recombination and repair in Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in SSBs, since they find numerous applications in diverse molecular biology and analytical methods. Results: We report the characterization of single-stranded DNA-binding proteins from the psychrophilic bacteria Desulfotalea...
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Fabrication of polyurethane and polyurethane based composite fibers by the electrospinning technique for soft tissue engineering of cardiovascular system
PublicationElectrospinning is the unique technique, which provides forming of polymeric scaffolds for soft tissue engineering, which include tissue scaffolds for soft tissues of cardiovascular system. Such artificial soft tissues of cardiovascular system may possess mechanical properties comparable to native vascular tissues. Electrospinning technique gives the opportu nity to form fibres with nm- to μm-scale in diameter. The arrangement...
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Testing the Wide-Sense Stationarity of Bandpass Signals for Underwater Acoustic Communications
PublicationThe Underwater Acoustic Communication (UAC) systems work in communication channels characterized by a large variety of multipath propagation conditions that can additionally change over time. Designing a reliable communication system requires knowledge of the transmission parameters of the channel. There is a need for the development of adaptive signaling schemes that would dynamically optimize the signal parameters of the physical...
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Poly(ferrocenylsilane-block-methacrylates) via sequential anionic and atom transfer radical polymerization.
PublicationArtykuł przedstawia sposób otrzymywania kopolimerów blokowych poli(ferrocenylosilanów) (PFS) i poli(metakrylanu metylu) (PMMA). W pierwszej kolejności syntezowany jest anionowo blok PFS, który po odpowiedniej terminacji służy jako makroinicjator dla syntezy bloku PMMA. Synteza ta jest realizowana przy użyciu polimeryzacji rodnikowej z przeniesieniem atomu (ATRP), katalizowanej przez kompleksy rutenu. Otrzymane w ten sposób kopolimery...
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Theoretical and Architectural Framework for Contextual Knowledge Bases
PublicationThe paper presents the approach aimed at building modularized knowledge bases in a systematic, context-aware way. The paper focuses on logical modeling of such knowledge bases, including an underlying SIM metamodel. The architecture of a comprehensive set of tools for knowledge-base systems engineering is presented. The tools enable an engineer to design, create and edit a knowledge base schema according to a novel context approach...
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Towards Healthcare Cloud Computing
PublicationIn this paper we present construction of a software platform for supporting medical research teams, in the area of impedance cardiography, called IPMed. Using the platform, research tasks will be performed by the teams through computer-supported cooperative work. The platform enables secure medical data storing, access to the data for research group members, cooperative analysis of medical data and provide analysis supporting tools...
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Frequency and time domain characteristics of digital control of electric vehicle in-wheel drives
PublicationIn-wheel electric drives are promising as actuators in active safety systems of electric and hybrid vehicles. This new function requires dedicated control algorithms, making it essential to deliver models that reflect better the wheel-torque control dynamics of electric drives. The timing of digital control events, whose importance is stressed in current research, still lacks an analytical description allowing for modeling its...
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Billiard in a rotating half-plane
PublicationThe main objective of this research is to study the properties of a billiard system in an unbounded domain with moving boundary. We consider a system consisting of an infinite rod (a straight line) and a ball (a massless point) on the plane. The rod rotates uniformly around one of its points and experiences elastic collisions with the ball. We define a mathematical model for the dynamics of such a system and write down asymptotic...
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Electromodulation of fluorescence in hole-transporting materials for organic light-emitting diodes. Part II: Straburst amines
PublicationPraca jest kontynuacją artykułu, który został opublikowany wChem. Phys. vol. 256 (2000) s. 351-362. Zaobserwowano silne wygaszenie fluorescencji w dendrymerach aminowych zbudowanych na bazie trifenyloaminy. Efekt ten został przypisany rozpadowi stanów emitujących światło pod działaniem silnego pola elektrycznego.
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Approximation Strategies for Generalized Binary Search in Weighted Trees
PublicationWe consider the following generalization of the binary search problem. A search strategy is required to locate an unknown target node t in a given tree T. Upon querying a node v of the tree, the strategy receives as a reply an indication of the connected component of T\{v} containing the target t. The cost of querying each node is given by a known non-negative weight function, and the considered objective is to minimize the total...
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Reliable data-driven modeling of high-frequency structures by means of nested kriging with enhanced design of experiments
PublicationData-driven (or approximation) surrogate models have been gaining popularity in many areas of engineering and science, including high-frequency electronics. They are attractive as a way of alleviating the difficulties pertinent to high computational cost of evaluating full-wave electromagnetic (EM) simulation models of microwave, antenna, and integrated photonic components and devices. Carrying out design tasks that involve massive...
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Visual Features for Endoscopic Bleeding Detection
PublicationAims: To define a set of high-level visual features of endoscopic bleeding and evaluate their capabilities for potential use in automatic bleeding detection. Study Design: Experimental study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Computer Architecture, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology, between March 2014 and May 2014. Methodology: The features have...
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Benchmarking Performance of a Hybrid Intel Xeon/Xeon Phi System for Parallel Computation of Similarity Measures Between Large Vectors
PublicationThe paper deals with parallelization of computing similarity measures between large vectors. Such computations are important components within many applications and consequently are of high importance. Rather than focusing on optimization of the algorithm itself, assuming specific measures, the paper assumes a general scheme for finding similarity measures for all pairs of vectors and investigates optimizations for scalability...
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TINKTEP: A fully self-consistent, mutually polarizable QM/MM approach based on the AMOEBA force field
PublicationWe present a novel quantum mechanical/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) approach in which a quantum subsystem is coupled to a classical subsystem described by the AMOEBA polarizable force field. Our approach permits mutual polarization between the QM and MM subsystems, effected through multipolar electrostatics. Self-consistency is achieved for both the QM and MM subsystems through a total energy minimization scheme. We provide an expression...
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Kriging-assisted hybrid reliability design and optimization of offshore wind turbine support structure based on a portfolio allocation strategy
PublicationIn recent years, offshore wind power generation technology has developed rapidly around the world, making important contributions to the further development of renewable energy. When designing an Offshore Wind Turbine (OWT) system, the uncertainties in parameters and different types of constraints need to be considered to find the optimal design of these systems. Therefore, the Reliability-Based Design Optimization (RBDO) method...
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Expedited EM-Driven Design of Miniaturized Microwave Hybrid Couplers Using Surrogate-Based Optimization
PublicationMiniaturization of microwave hybrid couplers is important for contemporary wireless communication engineering. Using standard computer-aided design methods for development of compact structures is extremely challenging due to a general lack of computationally efficient and accurate simulation models. Poor accuracy of available equivalent circuits results from neglecting parasitic cross-couplings that greatly affect the performance...
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3D Object Shape Reconstruction from Underwater Multibeam Data and Over Ground Lidar Scanning
PublicationThe technologies of sonar and laser scanning are an efficient and widely used source of spatial information with regards to underwater and over ground environment respectively. The measurement data are usually available in the form of groups of separate points located irregularly in three-dimensional space, known as point clouds. This data model has known disadvantages, therefore in many applications a different form of representation,...
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Isolation of the relative decrease in magnetic permeability contribution to reluctance of an open magnetic circuit based on stray field measurements
PublicationThe goal of the study was to evaluate a relative decrease in magnetic permeability in open magnetic circuits based on stray magnetic field measurements. The boundary element method was used to simulate magnetic circuits with variable geometry and variable magnetic permeability. The simulated magnetic circuits were rectangular or bone-shaped flat samples. Reluctance was increased in the middle of the samples resulting in leakage...
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eFRADIR: An Enhanced FRAmework for DIsaster Resilience
PublicationThis paper focuses on how to increase the availability of a backbone network with minimal cost. In particular, the new framework focuses on resilience against natural disasters and is an evolution of the FRADIR/FRADIR-II framework. It targets three different directions, namely: network planning, failure modeling, and survivable routing. The steady state network planning is tackled by upgrading a sub-network (a set of links termed...
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Comparative analysis of the flow control over a circular cylinder with detached flexible and rigid splitter plates
PublicationA comparative study is performed on a circular cylinder with both flexible and rigid splitter plates (SPs). This study has the novelty of using single and dual detached SPs located downstream of the cylinder. The dimensionless gap distance between the first splitter plate and the cylinder as well as the distance between the SPs are varied. The strain of flexible SPs can be used for energy harvesting from the flow. Therefore, a...
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A Single-Carrier-Based Pulse-Width Modulation Template for Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverters
PublicationMultiplicity of the triangular carrier signals is a criterion for the extension of sinusoidal pulsewidth modulation, SPWM, to a number of output voltage levels per phase-leg in cascaded H-bridge (CHB) multilevel inverter (MLI). Considering medium and high voltage applications where appreciable number of output voltage levels from CHB MLI is needed, commensurate high number of carrier signals in either classical level- or phase-shifted...
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Environmentally acceptable lubricants (EAL) compared with a reference mineral oil as marine stern tube bearing lubricant – Experimental and theoretical investigations
PublicationThe purpose of this research is to indicate the potential differences in bearing characteristics resulting from the application of different lubricant types with the same viscosity grade. The effect of different environmentally acceptable lubricants (EALs) on hydrodynamic journal bearing properties is studied experimentally and compared to the properties obtained after lubrication with a reference mineral oil. The results of the...
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Unusual streaming in chemically reacting gases
PublicationNonlinear stimulation of the vorticity mode caused by losses in the momentum of sound in the chemically reacting gas, is considered. The instantaneous dynamic equation which describes the nonlinear generation of the vorticity mode, is derived. It includes a quadratic nonlinear acoustic source. Both periodic and aperiodic sound may be considered as the origin of the vorticity flow. In the non-equilibrium regime of the chemical reaction,...