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Novel Inductive Power Transfer Approach Based on Z-Source Network with Compensation Circuit
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Examining Government-Citizen Interactions on Twitter using Visual and Sentiment Analysis
PublicationThe goal of this paper is to propose a methodology comprising a range of visualization techniques to analyze the interactions between government and citizens on the issues of public concern taking place on Twitter, mainly through the official government or ministry accounts. The methodology addresses: 1) the level of government activity in different countries and sectors; 2) the topics that are addressed through such activities;...
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Collaborative urban studios in Poland. Teaching collective problem solving via live projects
PublicationThe requirements of contemporary architectural and urban design practice places a growing importance on the ability to generate new solutions to complex design challenges. Such an approach is particularly relevant in the context of contemporary urban projects in need of urban innovation and socially engaged practice, i.e. urban regeneration or street quality improvement projects. Meaningful involvement in such topics requires a...
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Bioaccumulation of metals in tissues of marine animals, Part II - metal concentrations in animal tissues
PublicationThe bioaccumulation of metals in an animal depends on a multitude of factors: biotic ones, like its body dimensions and mass, age, sex, diet, metabolism and position in the trophic web, as well as abiotic ones such as the distribution of metals in its environment, the salinity, temperature and pH of the water, habitat type, interactions with other metals. But it is diet that has the greatest influence on the accumulation of metals...
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Impact of Innovative Financial Products on Financial Systems: Exchange Traded Products and the Polish Financial System
PublicationExchange Traded Products (ETPs) are one of the most recent and most rapidly developing financial products. As their assets grow they have an increasing impact on financial systems in many countries, including USA, UK or Japan. Development of ETPs is linked with many opportunities and threats for the local financial systems. Their correct assessment is becoming more difficult due to the growing complexity of the available products,...
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Inductive Bifilar Coil Based Wireless Charging System for Autonomous Electric Boat
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Genre-Based Music Language Modeling with Latent Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process Allocation
PublicationIn this work we present a new Bayesian topic model: latent hierarchical Pitman-Yor process allocation (LHPYA), which uses hierarchical Pitman-Yor pr ocess priors for both word and topic distributions, and generalizes a few of the existing topic models, including the latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), the bi- gram topic model and the hierarchical Pitman-Yor topic model. Using such priors allows for integration of -grams with a topic...
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Genre-Based Music Language Modeling with Latent Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process Allocation
PublicationIn this work we present a new Bayesian topic model: latent hierarchical Pitman-Yor process allocation (LHPYA), which uses hierarchical Pitman-Yor pr ocess priors for both word and topic distributions, and generalizes a few of the existing topic models, including the latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), the bi- gram topic model and the hierarchical Pitman-Yor topic model. Using such priors allows for integration of -grams with a topic model,...
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Damage Control in Warships
PublicationAs a result of dynamic quantitative and qualitative developments in the maritime industry its participants face harder and harder challenges pertaining to safety of ships and navigation. Practice has shown that even very well organised fleets are harassed by emergencies and accidents that can be neither predicted nor absolutely avoided. In order to counter the occuring emergencies and accidents, and to minimize their effects damage...
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Sound engineering as our commitment to its creators in Poland
PublicationSound engineering is an interdisciplinary and rapidly expanding domain. It covers many aspects, such as sound perception, studio and sound mastering technology, music information retrieval including content-based search systems and automatic music transcription frameworks, sound synthesis, sound restoration, electroacoustics, and other ones constituting multimedia technology. Moreover, machine learning methods applied to the topics...
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Web search results clusterization with background knowledge
PublicationClusterization of web pages is an attractive wayfor presenting web resources. Arranging pages into groups ofsimilar topics simplifies and shorten the search process. Thispaper concerns the problem of clustering web pages and presentsour approach to this issue. Our solution is focused on findingsimilarities between documents delivered by different web searchengines. This process was accomplished by applying WordNetdictionary.
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Remote Sensing in Vessel Detection and Navigation
PublicationThe Special Issue (SI) “Remote Sensing in Vessel Detection and Navigation” highlighted a variety of topics related to remote sensing with navigational sensors. The sequence of articles included in this Special Issue is in line with the latest scientific trends. The latest developments in science, including artificial intelligence, were used. The 15 papers (from 23 submitted) were published.
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Radar and Sonar Imaging and Processing
PublicationThe 21 papers (from 61 submitted) published in the Special Issue “Radar and Sonar Imaging Processing” highlighted a variety of topics related to remote sensing with radar and sonar sensors. The sequence of articles included in the SI dealt with a broad profile of aspects of the use of radar and sonar images in line with the latest scientific trends. The latest developments in science, including artificial intelligence, were used.
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Greencoin: a Proenvironmental Action-Reward System
PublicationThe massive destruction of the natural environment is rapidly eroding the world’s capacity to provide food and water, threatening the security of billions of people. In order to facilitate green lifestyles – understood in terms of both pro-environmental behaviors and green self-image on the one hand, and to build sustainable local and global communities, on the other, we put forward an idea of a novel action-reward system based...
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Methodology for Text Classification using Manually Created Corpora-based Sentiment Dictionary
PublicationThis paper presents the methodology of Textual Content Classification, which is based on a combination of algorithms: preliminary formation of a contextual framework for the texts in particular problem area; manual creation of the Hierarchical Sentiment Dictionary (HSD) on the basis of a topically-oriented Corpus; tonality texts recognition via using HSD for analysing the documents as a collection of topically completed fragments...
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Commercially produced and modified starches
PublicationThis book presents some fascinating phenomena associated with the remarkable features of high performance polymers and also provides an update on applications of modern polymers. It offers new research on structure–property relationships, synthesis and purification, and potential applications of high performance polymers. The collection of topics in this book reflects the diversity of recent advances in modern polymers with a broad...
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Radar and Sonar Imaging and Processing (2nd Edition)
PublicationThe 14 papers (from 29 submitted) published in the Special Issue “Radar and Sonar Imaging Processing (2nd Edition)” highlight a variety of topics related to remote sensing with radar and sonar sensors. The sequence of articles included in the SI deal with a broad profile of aspects of the use of radar and sonar images in line with the latest scientific trends, in which the latest developments in science, including artificial intelligence,...
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Deep eutectic solvents microbial toxicity: Current state of art and critical evaluation of testing methods
PublicationDeep eutectic solvents (DESs) were described at the beginning of 21st century and they consist of a mixture of two or more solid components, which gives rise to a lower melting point compared to the starting materials. Over the years, DESs have proved to be a promising alternative to traditional organic solvents and ionic liquids (ILs) due to their low volatility, low inflammability, easy preparation, and usually low cost of compounds...
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Use of NMR and Fluorescence Spectroscopy as well as Theoretical Conformational Analysis in Conformation-activity Studies of Cyclic Enkephalin Analogues
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A Comprehensive Review on the Medicinal Importance; Biological and Therapeutic Efficacy of Lagenaria siceraria (Mol.) (Bottle Gourd) Standley Fruit
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Approaches Towards Better Immunosuppressive Agents
PublicationSeveral classes of compounds are applied in clinics due to their immunosuppressive properties in transplantology and the treatment of autoimmune diseases. Derivatives of mycophe-nolic acid, corticosteroids and chemotherapeutics bearing heterocyclic moieties like methotrexate, azathioprine, mizoribine, and ruxolitinib are active substances with investigated mechanisms of action. However, improved synthetic approaches of known drugs...
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Urine composition as a source of information about occupational exposure to chemicals
PublicationIn the article there is presented review of data concerning application of human urine samples to analytical studies conducted in order to gain information on occupational exposure. The parameters characterizing the most commonly used techniques of xenobiotics isolation and preconcentration (organic compounds and metals) from urine samples and techniques of analytes determination in properly prepared extract samples of human urine.
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Analyzing and Visualizing Government-Citizen Interactions on Twitter to Support Public Policy-making
PublicationTwitter is widely adopted by governments to communicate with citizens. It has become a major source of data for analyzing how governments communicate with citizens and how citizens respond to such communication, uncovering important insights about government-citizen interactions that could be used to support public policy-making. This article presents research that aims at developing a software tool called Twitter Analytics for...
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Lighting Design for the 21st Century Applied research in lighting practice
PublicationFor those who are unfamiliar with research, it’s important to know there are two categories. Fundamental (or basic) research and applied research. Basic research often discusses scientific ideas/theories, whereas, applied research explores testing these ideas in practice to develop technology or techniques. It’s applied research which most interests lighting practitioners. Great lighting design that creates a pleasant and beneficial...
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Introduction to the ONDM 2022 special issue
PublicationThis JOCN special issue contains extended versions of selected papers presented at the 26th International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM 2022), which took place 16–19 May 2022 at Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland. The topics covered by the papers represent trends in optical networking research: application of machine learning to network management, cross-layer network performance optimization,...
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Developments in ultrasound-assisted microextraction techniques for isolation and preconcentration of organic analytes from aqueous samples
PublicationThe great potential of ultrasonic assistance in sample preparation, especially extraction, is being recognized. In this review, we discuss the applications of ultrasonic radiation in assisting microextraction. Topics covered include ultrasound-assisted emulsification microextraction, ultrasound-assisted-emulsification-dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction, and ultrasound-assisted hollow-fiber liquid-phase microextraction with...
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Understanding Knowledge-Intensive Business Services. Identification, Systematization, and Characterization of Knowledge Flows
PublicationThis book contributes to an improved understanding of knowledge-intensive business services and knowledge management issues. It offers a complex overview of literature devoted to these topics and introduces the concept of ‘knowledge flows’, which constitutes a missing link in the previous knowledge management theories. The book provides a detailed analysis of knowledge flows, with their types, relations and factors influencing...
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Pulse-Width Modulation of Power Electronic DC–AC Converter
PublicationThe Second Edition of High Performance Control of AC Drives with Matlab®/Simulink delivers an updated and thorough overview of topics central to the understanding of AC motor drive systems. The book includes new material on medium voltage drives, covering state-of-the-art technologies and challenges in the industrial drive system, as well as their components, and control, current source inverter-based drives, PWM techniques for...
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New polish catalogue of typical flexible and semi-rigid pavements
PublicationThe paper covers the following topics important for the development of the new Polish Catalogue of typical flexible and semi-rigid pavements: reasons for preparing the new issue of the Catalogue of typical flexible and semi-rigid pavements, items introduced in the new issue, organise the terminology related to pavements, design traffic calculations and new equivalent axle load factors,...
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THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF PROGRESSIVE TAXATION
PublicationThe following article describes and discusses the theoretical aspects of taxation including its functions, mechanisms and in particular income taxes and progression system. The author analysed the literature both historical and modern to research the topic. The idea of progressive taxation has been present in modern tax system for several ages together with its positive and negative consequences. The article summarises with several...
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English, French, and Polish Aliases of Criminals: Diversity of Inspirations in their Creation and Typical Nicknaming Schemes
PublicationThe present paper examines the topic of aliases of criminals, which seems to be understudied in linguistic research. Therefore, this article’s primary goal is to describe how criminals’ aliases are created and what are the differences and similarities in that process in English, French, and Polish. Firstly, the theoretical background concerning the topic of pseudonyms is presented. Then, the corpus gathered for this paper (available...
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Universities’ journey towards sustainability- systematic literature review
PublicationPurpose: This research aims to identify a sustainable university's key features. It is an essential step in tracing the topics discussed in the context of a sustainable university and their evolution in the scientific discourse. Design/methodology/approach: This paper relies on a systematic literature review (SLR) conducted using two scholarly databases: Emerald and Scopus. The timeframe selected by the authors for reviewing the...
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Determination of local polarization properties of PLZT ceramics by PS-OCT
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Hyperfine structure and isotope shifts in 733.2 nm mixed forbidden line of Pb I
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Shaping coherence function of sources used in low-coherent measurement techniques
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Calculations of electron impact ionization cross section for simple biomolecules: formic and acetic acids
PublicationObliczono przekroje czynne na jednokrotną jonizację kwasu mrówkowego oraz kwasu octowego. Obliczenia przeprowadzono używając formalizmu BEB w zakresie energii od progu na jonizację do 400 eV. Wyniki porównano z dostępnymi danymi doświadczalnymi.
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Design and simulation of excitation laser system for in-situ Raman monitoring
PublicationPraca opisuje projekt oraz kontrukcję laserowego pobudzania próbek cienkowarstwowych. Zaprezentowana modelowanie optyczne systemu pobudzania oraz konfigurację prototypu. Układ znajdzie zastosowanie w długoogniskowym spektroskopie ramanowskim pracującym na stanowisku PA CVD.
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Calculation of adiabatic potentials of Li2
PublicationPrezentujemy adiabatyczne krzywe energii potencjalnej jonu cząsteczki litu. Krzywe zostały stabelowane według odległości międzyatomowej: od 2ao do 100ao. Nasze teoretyczne wyniki zostały porównane z wynikami innych autorów oraz z krzywymi potencjałów energii uzyskanymi w wyniku eksperymentów. Wszystkie obliczenia zostały wykonane przy użyciu programu MOLPRO.
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Shaping coherence function of sources used in low-coherent measurement techniques
PublicationW niskokoherencyjnych technikach pomiarowych kształt funkcji koherencji wykorzystywanego źródła ma bezpośredni wpływ na parametry metrologiczne układu pomiarowego. Z tego względu, w wielu aplikacjach niezbędne jest użycie metod pozwalających na zmianę kształtu tej funkcji. W artykule przeanalizowano możliwości kształtowania funkcji koherencji, a przedstawione analizy teoretyczne i wyniki symulacji komputerowych wskazują, że kształtowanie...
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coincidence investigation of inelastic electron-atom collisions with magnetic selection of scattering angle - feasibility study
PublicationOpisana została nowa aparatura do badania zderzeń elektronów z atomami metodą koincydencji z wykorzystaniem techniki lokalnego pola magnetycznego. Połączenie obu metod umożliwia wyznaczenie parametrów koincydencji w pełnym kącie rozproszenia. W pracy zaprezentowano pierwsze widma energii straconej oraz widma koincydencji.
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Elipsometric data analysis used in on-line metal passivation monitoring
PublicationWykorzystano technikę elipsometrii monochromatycznej do opisu on-line warstw tlenkowych, elektroosadzanych na miedzi. Elipsometria jest w stanie dostarczyć informacji odnośnie grubości i współczynników załamania światła układów warstwowych, jednakże wymagane w tym celu jest zbudowanie matematycznego modelu odwzorowującego stałe optyczne układu badanego. W powyższej pracy przedyskutowane zostały różne metody dopasowywania modelu...
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Application of organic materials in electronics
PublicationRozwój urządzeń elektronicznych na bazie materiałów organicznych przestawia jedno z najbardziej spektakularnych osiągnięć nauki w XXI wieku. Do produkcji zostały wdrożone urządzenia zbudowane na cienkich warstwach organicznych, i poczynione zostały pierwsze kroki w kierunku rozwoju elektroniki molekularnej. Celem publikacji jest dostarczenie podstawowych informacji dotyczących urządzeń elektronicznych zbudowanych na bazie cienkich...
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Simple adaptive cubic spline interpolation of fluorescence decay functions
PublicationZaproponowano prostą metodę interpolacji funkcji zaniku fluorescencji. W pierwszym kroku interpolowany zanik jest całkowany za pomocą adaptacyjnego algorytmu wykorzystującego kwadratury Newtona-Cotesa. Uzyskiwana w ten spoób siatka wartości czasu jest używana w drugim kroku polegającym na typowej interpolacji za pomocą funkcji sklejanych trzeciego stopnia.
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Multiple-scattering and electron-uracil collisions at low energies
PublicationDyskutowany jest związek dwóch znanych metod w teorii rozpraszania elektronów na cząsteczkach : potencjałów zerowego promieniu i metody potencjałów "muffin-tin". Rozwój obu metod pozwala na stworzenie nowej techniki obliczenia parcjalnych faz i przekrojów czynnych w nazwanej teorii. Technika ta ma zastosowanie do zagadnienia dotyczącego układu elektron-uracil.
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Liquid crystalline optical components for application in optical sensing
PublicationW artykule opisano proces wytwarzania pryzmatów Wollastona na bazie roztworu ciekłokrystalicznego ZLI-1957 i płytek falowych na bazie prekursora polimeru ciekłokrystalicznego RMS03-001. Przedstawiono uzyskane parametry optyczne elementów pod kątem ich potencjalnych aplikacji
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Coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations in optic fibers theory
PublicationIn this paper a detailed derivation and numerical solutions of CoupledNonlinear Schr¨odinger Equations for pulses of polarized electromagnetic wavesin cylindrical fibers has been reviewed. Our recent work has been compared withsome previous ones and the advantage of our new approach over other methods hasbeen assessed. The novelty of our approach lies is an attempt to proceed withoutloss of information within the frame of basic...
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Spatial characterization of H 2: CH 4 dissociation level in microwave ECR plasma source by fibre-optic OES
PublicationSpatially resolved optical emission spectroscopy (SR-OES) was used to investigate microwave activated H2/Ar/CH4 plasma under conditions of the electron cyclotron resonance (ECR). The chemistry and composition of the gas phase were studied using self-designed fibre-optic system with echelle type spectrometer during CVD deposition of polycrystalline diamond. One-dimensional intensity profiles of the main species were collected along...
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Molecular dynamics studies of polyurethane nanocomposite hydrogels
PublicationPolyurethane PEO-based hydrogels have a broad range of biomedical applicability. They are attractive for drug-controlled delivery systems, surgical implants and wound healing dressings. In this study, a PEO based polyurethane hydrogels containing Cloisite R 30B, an organically modified clay mineral, was synthesized. Structure of nanocomposite hydrogels was determined using XRD technique. Its molecular dynamics was studied by means...
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Photoelectron spectroscopy of brominated derivative of pyrimidine: 2-bromopyrimidine
PublicationIn this study the brominated derivative of pyrimidine, 2-bromopyrimidine, was investigated by photoelectron spectroscopy. Outer valence photoelectron spectra recorded at 21.22, 45 and 100 eV photon energy for this compound are presented. The recorded spectra have a higher resolution than that previously reported in the literature. The bromine 3d and 3p edge photoelectron spectra have also been recorded in a photon impact experiment...