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  • Cienie, cykl 'Odcinki' (1998)

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    - Year 2011

    Katalog aukcji polskiej sztuki współczesnej, która odbyła się w Domu Aukcyjnym Desa Unicum w Warszawie w dniu 15 grudnia 2011 roku. Katalog liczy 62 strony i zawiera noty biograficzne artystów wraz z charakterystyką twórczości w jezyku polskim, i zawiera 59 kolorowych reprodukcji (rep. autora s. 12). Wydawcą katalogu jest Desa Unicum.

  • Tesla Friction-Type Micro Turbine For Small-Scale Cogeneration

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    • Ł. Jędrzejewski
    • P. Lampart

    - RED. ZAGR. ANGIELSKI - Year 2011

    Tesla turbine is rarely used in professional power installations due to its specific work characteristics and relatively low internal efficiency. However, it has some potential to be applied in micro-power plants operating in distributed co-generation systems, also working in an organic Rankine cycle. This paper presents results from numerical calculations of flow in three models of Tesla disk turbines assuming nitrogen as a working...

  • GRAPHENE IN GAS CHEMIRESISTORS

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    Graphene has a range of unique physical properties which could be exploited in gas sensing. Every atom of graphene may be considered as a surface atom, able to interact even with single molecule of the target gas or vapour species resulting in the ultrasensitive sensor response. In this paper the potential of graphene as a nanomaterial for fabricating chemiresistors was described. Recent development in graphene sensors was considered...

  • Spectral Analysis of Capital Markets

    In this paper the problem of cycles existence in capital markets is addressed. A spectral analysis algorithm, which reduces signal-to-noise ratio, is proposed to derive cycle periodograms for the yield function of DJIA, WIG~20, and NIKKEI 225 indices. Peaks of the the periodograms provide premises to postulate the existence of some possible cycles. The 3.5 year periodicity in all 3 indices, which can be related to Kitchin cycle...

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  • Modelling of cutting by means of fracture mechanics

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    - Year 2013

    The suitability of modern fracture mechanic theory was proved for the estimation of the cutting force and the cutting specific resistance. This paper shows modification of Ernst-Merchant theory and its application for determination some other properties of wood sample. This theory is acceptable for evaluation of shear yield stresses and shear plane angle. Sawing by gang saw machine was used as a process similar to the orthogonal...

  • Emotion recognition and its application in software engineering

    In this paper a novel application of multimodal emotion recognition algorithms in software engineering is described. Several application scenarios are proposed concerning program usability testing and software process improvement. Also a set of emotional states relevant in that application area is identified. The multimodal emotion recognition method that integrates video and depth channels, physiological signals and input devices...

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  • Current risk analysis and management issues in technical systems.

    Dealing with the reliability and safety of industrial hazardous plants requires taking into account relevant interdisciplinary scientific knowledge and some existing approaches based on so-called good engineering practice, also those included in the international standards and guidelines. In this article an approach is proposed how to integrate the functional safety concept with information security aspects in the design and management...

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  • Low-cost Adsorbents Derived from Agricultural By-products/Wastes for Enhancing Contaminant Uptakes from Wastewater: A Review

    A major threat to the comfort of human life has been imposed by increased industrialization and urbanization. The generation and disposal of huge amounts of toxic materials and pollutants have heavily contaminated our environment. Some Organics such as synthetic dyes (SD) and heavy metals (HM) are becoming increasingly prevalent as the most dangerous pollutants in soil and surface water environments. They are...

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  • Gender, education and motivation of onwers of small firms and their growth

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    - Year 2016

    Almost every article on the growht of SMEs begins with noting the lack of a unified theory or a model of growth in thei group of companies, although the growth of small and medium sized enterprises has been the subject of research for many years and early theories about it appeared already before the Second World War. In the paper some conlusions about the relation between gender, education and motivation of owner and the small...

  • Arctic as a reservoir for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polychlorinated biphenyls- water samples from Foxfonna glacier

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    Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polychlorinated biphenyls are groups of stable compounds, hard to biodegrade, potentially toxic. Their presence in Arctic environment may have a big impact on natural balance, fauna and flora. Although Arctic areas should be unpolluted, some amounts of pollutants are transferred from lower latitudes with sea currents and air masses. This paper presents the amounts of selected persistent organic...

  • A filter bank solution for active power filter control algorithms

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    - Year 2003

    Thb paper describes the proposed active power fiIter (APF) with a new control circuit based on an algorithm using ufilter bank and a harmonic predictor. The conirol circuit was realized using the digiiaI signor processor ADSP-21065L and FPGA circuiL In the proposed circuit transient performunee of APF is improved The active power fdter circuil has been built and teste6 and some illustrative, experimental results are uIso presented...

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  • Analiza dostępności kampusu Politechniki Gdańskiej dla osób z niepełnosprawnością

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    - Year 2014

    Opis dostępności obiektów kampusu Politechniki Gdańskiej z uwzględnieniem potrzeb osób z niepełnosprawnością. Ocenie poddano 40 obiektów naukowo-dydaktycznych, laboratoria i domy studenckie, których właścicielem jest Politechnika Gdańska. Ekspertyza zawiera dokumentację zdjęciową zauważonych barier przestrzennych, które utrudniają lub uniemożliwiają samodzielne poruszanie się po terenie kampusu PG osobom z ograniczeniami mobilności...

  • Zmiany w zasadach ochrony odgromowej obiektów budowlanych według norm serii pn-en 62305

    W pracy przedstawiono aktualne podstawy prawne projektowania i wykonywania systemów ochrony odgromowej i przeciwprzepięciowej w obiektach budowlanych. Wskazano nowe zasadnicze zalecenia norm serii PN-EN 62305, które zastąpiły dotychczas stosowane przedmiotowe normy krajowe i międzynaro-dowe. Zwrócono szczególna uwagę na ocenę ryzyka szkód pioru-nowych w obiektach budowlanych i instalacjach związanych.

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  • Advances in Architectures, Big Data, and Machine Learning Techniques for Complex Internet of Things Systems

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    - COMPLEXITY - Year 2019

    Te feld of Big Data is rapidly developing with a lot of ongoing research, which will likely continue to expand in the future. A crucial part of this is Knowledge Discovery from Data (KDD), also known as the Knowledge Discovery Process (KDP). Tis process is a very complex procedure, and for that reason it is essential to divide it into several steps (Figure 1). Some authors use fve steps to describe this procedure, whereas others...

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  • MODELLING OF CUTTING BY MEANS OF FRACTURE MECHANICS

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    - Pro ligno - Year 2013

    The suitability of modern fracture mechanic theory was proved for the estimation of the cutting force and the cutting specific resistance. This paper shows modification of Ernst-Merchant theory and its application for determination some other properties of wood sample. This theory is acceptable for evaluation of shear yield stresses and shear plane angle. Sawing by gang saw machine was used as a process similar to the orthogonal...

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  • Syntheses and Structures of Transition Metal Complexes with Phosphanylphosphinidene Chalcogenide Ligands

    The reactivity of the phosphanylphosphinidene complex [(DippN)2W(Cl)(η2-P-PtBu2)]− (1) toward chalcogens (Ch = Se, S) was studied. Reactions of stoichiometric amounts of 1 with chalcogens in DME yielded monomeric tungsten complexes with phosphanylphosphinidene chalcogenide ligands of the formula tBu2P−P−Ch (Ch = Se (in 2) and S (in 5)), which can be regarded as products of the addition of a chalcogen atom to a P=W bond in starting...

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  • Możliwości ograniczenia zużycia energii napędowej urządzeń przez optymalizację doboru wymienników ciepła, właściwą konfigurację i kontrolę przepływu płynów roboczych

    Artykuł 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...

  • Trudności ochrony środowiska w planowaniu przestrzennym–struktura problemu

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    Artykuł zawiera ogólną systematykę negatywnych oddziaływań na środowisko przyrodnicze. Autor omawia trudności zapobiegania przez planowanie przestrzenne zagrożeniom środowiska. Analizuje strukturę problemu, wskazując czynniki: społeczne, gospodarcze, prawne i polityczne, w tym rolę: motywacji, hierarchii wartości, świadomości ekologicznej, przekonań. Autor wskazuje też działania prowadzące do ograniczenia zagrożeń.

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  • Od pragmatyzmu do masowej indywidualizacji w kształtowaniu form oświetlania miasta

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    - Year 2013

    „Od pragmatyzmu do masowej indywidualizacji w kształtowaniu form oświetlenia miasta” podejmuje dwa istotne wątki. Z jednej strony mówi o ewolucji architektonicznych użytkowych form oświetleniowych na przestrzeni wieków, z drugiej zaś zwraca uwagę na oznaki rewolucji cyfrowej i jej wpływ na kształtowanie oświetlenia miasta. Te dwa wątki łączą się w dokonanej obserwacji pojawienia się nowego paradygmatu masowej indywidualizacji...

  • Measuring pulse rate with a webcam — A non-contact method for evaluating cardiac activity

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    In this paper the simple and robust method of measuring the pulse rate is presented. Elaborated algorithm allows for efficient pulse rate registration directly from face image captured from webcam. The desired signal was obtained by proper channel selection and principal component analysis. A developed non-contact method of heart rate monitoring is shown in the paper. The proposed technique may have a great value in monitoring...

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  • On the validation of the LS-DYNA Geo Metro numerical model

    The paper presents experiences gained during work with numerical model of Geo Metro vehicle used for simulations of crash tests with road safety barriers. Attention is drawn to the subject of tire/wheel breakage during collision events. Some methods for improvement of the model are presented in the paper. Several results for the normative vehicle numerical tests are introduced. Simulations were carried out using LS-DYNA finite...

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  • Scheduling of unit-length jobs with cubic incompatibility graphs on three uniform machines

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    - DISCRETE APPLIED MATHEMATICS - Year 2018

    We consider the problem of scheduling n identical jobs on 3 uniform machines with speeds s1, s2, and s3 to minimize the schedule length. We assume that jobs are subject to some kind of mutual exclusion constraints, modeled by a cubic incompatibility graph. We how that if the graph is 2-chromatic then the problem can be solved in O(n^2) time. If the graph is 3-chromatic, the problem becomes NP-hard even if s1>s2=s3.

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  • Unconditional privacy over channels which cannot convey quantum information

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    • K. Horodecki
    • M. Horodecki
    • P. Horodecki
    • D. Leung
    • J. Oppenheim

    - PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS - Year 2008

    Quantum cryptography enables one to verify that the state of the quantum system has not been tampered with and thus one can obtain privacy regardless of the power of the eavesdropper. All previous protocols relied on the ability to faithfully send quantum states or equivalently to share pure entanglement. Here we show this need not be the case-one can obtain verifiable privacy even through some channels which cannot be used to...

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  • Homocitrate synthase gene as a new molecular target in diagnostics of Candida spp. infections

    New potential molecular target which will be investigated during this research (homocitrate synthase gen) is the innovative target other than ribosomal DNA. This gene encodes enzyme present only in fungi and some Archaea what significantly increases specificity. It also reduces risk of contamination or influence of other factors (reaction with other DNA present in sample derived from bacteria or host cells) what excludes false...

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  • Application of Ionic Liquids in Amperometric Gas Sensors

    This article presents an analysis of available literature data on metrological parameters of the amperometric gas sensors containing ionic liquids as an electrolyte. Four mechanism types of signal generation in amperometric sensors with ionic liquid are described. Moreover, this article describes the influence of selected physico-chemical properties of the ionic liquids on the metrological parameters of these sensors. Some metrological...

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  • Thermal Self-Action of Acoustic Beams Containing Several Shock Fronts

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    Thermal self-action of an acoustic beam with one discontinuity or several shock fronts is studied in a Newtonian fluid. The stationary self-action of a single sawtooth wave with discontinuity (or some integer number of these waves), symmetric or asymmetric, is considered in the cases of self-focusing and self- defocusing media. The results are compared with the non-stationary thermal self-action of the periodic sound. Thermal self-action...

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  • Big Data Paradigm Developed in Volunteer Grid System with Genetic Programming Scheduler

    Artificial intelligence techniques are capable to handle a large amount of information collected over the web. In this paper, big data paradigm has been studied in volunteer and grid system called Comcute that is optimized by a genetic programming scheduler. This scheduler can optimize load balancing and resource cost. Genetic programming optimizer has been applied for finding the Pareto solu-tions. Finally, some results from numerical...

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  • Emotion Recognition and Its Applications

    The paper proposes a set of research scenarios to be applied in four domains: software engineering, website customization, education and gaming. The goal of applying the scenarios is to assess the possibility of using emotion recognition methods in these areas. It also points out the problems of defining sets of emotions to be recognized in different applications, representing the defined emotional states, gathering the data and...

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  • Service and service decomposition model - theoretical foundation of it service management

    The publication contains different definitions of Service - one of the fundamental IT Service Management term. It describes types of Service attributes nad introduces so-called ''distinguish functions'' in order to propose different categories of Services. It proposes both general model of Service decomposition and practical model based on CMDB implementation limitations. In summarizes obtained results and gives some remarks about...

  • Automatic Analysis System of TV Commercial Emission Level

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    - Year 2012

    The purpose of the study was to determine whether the commercial emission level is higher than the emission level of a regular program and to check if the commercials broadcasters follow the recommended levels of loudness. The paper shortly reviews some chosen methods of volume measurements specified in the ITU and EBU recommendations. Then, it describes a prototype of a system implemented in Embarcadero C++ Builder 2010 which...

  • Wzbudzone siły wewnętrzne : skutki upr0szczonego modelowania zakrzywionej estakady sprężonej

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    the paper presents problems, which were encountered during the construction of a southern road bypass of city gdansk. after prestressing and removing formwork, the contractor spotted, that some of outer bearings are detached. performed analysis showed that, this situation was caused by the usage of a simplified, straight beam model during design phase. the paper shows the influence of a curved in plane prestressed system on internal...

  • Review of historical buildings' foundations

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    - GEOTECHNIQUE - Year 2005

    The paper presents in brief the history of foundation engineering with a particular regard to its development, applied techniques and materials. Different types of old foundations in relation to various soil conditions are considered. Basic methods of preservation of old foundations, with special emphasis given to their faults and advantages are discussed. Finally, some problems of the reuse of pre-existing foundations are raised....

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  • Model of emotions for game players

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    - Year 2015

    Affect-aware video games can respond to a game player's emotions. Such games seem to be more attractive for users. Therefore for that kind of games it is necessary to create a model of the player's emotions to know to which emotions the application should react. The paper describes different models of emotions. The questionnaire and experiment for video game players is presented. Some results of the tests are shown. Then the model...

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  • The International Mercury Cartel, 1928–1954: Controlling Global Supply

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    - Business History Review - Year 2015

    This article describes the features of the international mercury marketduringthe firsthalfofthetwentiethcentury.Itanalyzes the various market agreements made, their effectiveness, and their consequences. The period studied is little understood, although it was one in which mercury production greatly increased. It was also one that saw persistent efforts at market manipulation, owing to a series of agreements between Spanish and...

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  • Simple SIR models with Markovian control

    We consider a random dynamical system, where the deterministic dynamics are driven by a finite-state space Markov chain. We provide a comprehensive introduction to the required mathematical apparatus and then turn to a special focus on the susceptible-infected-recovered epidemiological model with random steering. Through simulations we visualize the behaviour of the system and the effect of the high-frequency limit of the driving...

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  • Density smoothness estimation problem using a wavelet approach

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    In this paper we consider a smoothness parameter estimation problem for a density function. The smoothness parameter of a function is defined in terms of Besov spaces. This paper is an extension of recent results (K. Dziedziul, M. Kucharska, B. Wolnik, Estimation of the smoothness parameter ). The construction of the estimator is based on wavelets coefficients. Although we believe that the effective estimation of the smoothness...

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  • Błedy projektowe i wykonawcze przyczyną awarii konstrukcji zadaszenia tarasu

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    W artykule przedstawiono opis usterek zadaszenia tarasu w istniejacym budynku Miejskiego Domu Kultury. W obiekcie w celu zwiększenia powierzchni użytkowej wykonano zadaszenie tarsu - w artykule opisano wpływ przyjetych rozwiązań projektowych oraz popełnionych błedów wykonawczych na stan techniczny nowej konstrukcji stalowej zadaszenia, jak również istnijącej konstrukcji budynku. Zaproponowano koncepcję wzmocnienia stalowej konstrukcji...

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  • Safeguarding democracy during pandemics. Social distancing, postal, or internet voting—the good, the bad, or the ugly?

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    - PUBLIC MONEY & MANAGEMENT - Year 2021

    During a pandemic, many countries and organizations must decide whether to postpone upcoming elections or to hold them (Krimmer et al., 2020a). If the decision is made to hold the election, three main scenarios come to mind: continue using the existing system but include measures to ensure the health of participants; or look for alternatives among remote voting channels which could ensure social distancing is guaranteed either...

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  • Charge density wave, enhanced mobility, and large nonsaturating magnetoresistance across the magnetic states of HoNiC2 and ErNiC2

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    - PHYSICAL REVIEW B - Year 2024

    We report on magnetotransport and thermoelectric properties of two ternary carbides HoNiC2 and ErNiC2 hosting both charge density wave and long-range magnetic order. In the charge density wave state, both compounds show relatively large magnetoresistance MR ≈ 150% in HoNiC2 and ≈ 70%in ErNiC2 at a magnetic field of 9 T and temperature as low as 2 K. This positive field-linear magnetoresistance shows no signatures of saturation....

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  • Survey on opportunities and barriers in lighting controls

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    • B. B. Unzeta
    • J. de Boer
    • R. Delvaeye
    • B. Deroisy
    • M. Fontoynont
    • D. Geisler-Moroder,
    • N. Gentile,
    • T. Luo
    • D. N. Pimenta
    • P. Reinhold... and 5 others

    - Year 2021

    This report summarizes a survey performed in eight countries on the status quo of daylight and electric lighting control systems. Feedback from more than 100 international experts (building / facility managers and planers) was evaluated. The aim of the survey was to identify the perception of the different possibilities of the current lighting control solutions and the expectations about the control systems. The survey aims to...

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  • On existence and uniqueness of weak solutions for linear pantographic beam lattices models

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    - CONTINUUM MECHANICS AND THERMODYNAMICS - Year 2019

    In this paper, we discuss well-posedness of the boundary-value problems arising in some “gradientincomplete” strain-gradient elasticity models, which appear in the study of homogenized models for a large class ofmetamaterials whosemicrostructures can be regarded as beam lattices constrained with internal pivots. We use the attribute “gradient-incomplete” strain-gradient elasticity for a model in which the considered strain energy...

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  • Search for identity of Pomeranian house by means of educational activities

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    Architecture is a universal phenomenon and is a culture-creating field closely related to other fields of art. Hence, experiencing and feeling identity are also conditioned by the proper formation of architectural objects, which are carriers specific values which co-decide about the possibility of this experience occurring in connection with a specific place and the fulfilment of a specific need in it. In the era of ubiquitous...

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  • KASZUBY bionicznie. Studium formy

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    - Year 2022

    Wystawa towarzysząca Szkole Letniej “Dom&Ziemia” prezentuje studium form bionicznych i kulturowych osadzonych w realiach przyrodniczych Kaszub. Celem była prezentacja określonej metody twórczego działania jako preludium przeprowadzanych warsztatów, ale także ukazanie potencjału regionu.

  • Architektoniczne przestrzenie wspólne dizajnu i sztuki

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    - Year 2017

    W aspekcie współczesnego wszechobecnego konsumpcjonizmu i ograniczonych możliwości dotarcia do odbiorcy, role obiektów należących do sztuk czystych przejmują obiekty będące wytworami projektantów w zakresie sztuk użytkowych, w tym architektów. Jednocześnie sztuka poszukuje nowych form i środków wyrazu, żeby wzbudzić zainteresowanie. Rozpatrywanym obiektem jest Dom. Oczywistą jego odsłoną jest spełnienie oczekiwanej funkcji wynikającej...

  • A Tutorial on AGREEprep an Analytical Greenness Metric for Sample Preparation

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    - Advances in Sample Preparation - Year 2022

    Sample preparation is a key step in the analytical procedure and a critical component for achieving analytical greenness. AGREEprep is the first metric intended for evaluating the environmental impact of sample preparation methods. The approach consists of ten steps of assessment that correspond to the ten principles of green sample preparation and uses a user-friendly open-source software to calculate and visualize the results....

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  • Bending Moment Control and Weight Optimization in Space Structures by Adding Extra Members in the Optimal Locations

    This 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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  • Quantum entanglement

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    - REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS - Year 2009

    All our former experience with application of quantum theory seems to say that what is predicted by quantum formalism must occur in the laboratory. But the essence of quantum formalism-entanglement, recognized by Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen, and Schrödinger-waited over 70 years to enter laboratories as a new resource as real as energy. This holistic property of compound quantum systems, which involves nonclassical correlations between...

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  • Bridging challenges of clinical decision support systems with a semantic approach. A case study on breast cancer

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    - PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS - Year 2013

    The integration of Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) in nowadays clinical environments has not been fully achieved yet. Although numerous approaches and technologies have been proposed since 1960, there are still open gaps that need to be bridged. In this work we present advances from the established state of the art, overcoming some of the most notorious reported difficulties in: (i) automating CDSS, (ii) clinical workflow...

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  • Polymer journal bearings behaviour research under limited lubrication and cooling conditions conducted on high torque test rig

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    Polymer journal bearings are frequently used as a water-lubricated bearings of small marine units’ propeller shafts . Choice of these bearings is based on their simple construction and relatively low purchase and maintenance costs. Although properly designed and installed water lubricated bearings may well last for over a decade, rapid wear or failure of these bearings can be observed...

  • Rapid assessment of the authenticity of limequat fruit using the electronic nose and gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry

    Citrus fruits are very popular food products. There are many species and varieties of them. There are also documented cases of some citrus fruits causing a severe allergic reaction. Some species of the citrus fruits, especially hybrid ones show a reduced allergenic effect due to the lack of seeds. There is a need for rapid methods for evaluation of citrus’ botanical origin. During research, the headspace of three citrus fruits...

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