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FIBRE-OPTIC SENSOR FOR SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT OF THICKNESSAND REFRACTIVE INDEX OF LIQUID LAYERS
PublicationIn this paper, we present a fibre-optic sensor for simultaneous measurement of refractive index and thickness of liquid layers. We designed an experimental low-coherence setup with two broadband light sources and an extrinsic fibre-optic Fabry–Pérot interferometer acting as the sensing head. We examined how the refractive index of a liquid film and its thickness affect spectrum at the output of a fibre-optic interferometer. We...
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Changes in the Global Competitiveness Index 4.0 Methodology: The Improved Approach of Competitiveness Benchmarking
PublicationThe Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) developed by the World Economic Forum (WEF) is used as a standard for measuring a country’s competitiveness. However, in literature, the GCI has been accused of numerous methodological flaws. Consequently, in 2018, the WEF introduced significant methodological changes. This study aims to examine whether the methodological modifications in the GCI’s structure increase its ability to capture...
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Determination of Odor Air Quality Index (OAQII) Using Gas Sensor Matrix
PublicationThis article presents a new way to determine odor nuisance based on the proposed odor air quality index (OAQII), using an instrumental method. This indicator relates the most important odor features, such as intensity, hedonic tone and odor concentration. The research was conducted at the compost screening yard of the municipal treatment plant in Central Poland, on which a self-constructed gas sensor array was placed. It consisted...
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Effect of temperature change on refractive index of an egg white and yolk: a preliminary study
PublicationIn this article, the refractive index of an egg white and yolk depending on temperature in range 30 - 47 °C over 1550 nm was determined. The measurement head was constructed as fiber optic Fabry-Perot interferometer with interference between polished fiber end-face and aluminum weighing dish. The measurement setup has been made of an optical spectrum analyzer, a superluminescent diode with a central wevelength of 1550 nm, 2:1 fiber...
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Simplified method of water cooled exhaust system design.
PublicationThe water cooled exhaust systems are not often used onboard ships. Prime goal is to lower temperature of exhaust gas from main propulsion and auxiliary engines to the defined limit. The design of such systems require detailed analysis of propulsion system operational parameters to meet designer expectations. The paper outlines the cooled exhaust system design problems in specific application. The simplified method of evaluation...
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An analysis of ship escort and convoy operations in ice conditions
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Miniaturization and Automation of an Internally Cooled Coated Fiber Device
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Nordhaus-Gaddum results for the convex domination number of a graph
PublicationPraca dotyczy nierówności typu Nordhausa-Gadduma dla dominowania wypukłego.
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Stakeholders Satisfaction Index as an Important Factor of Improving Quality Management Systems of Universities in Poland
PublicationThe following article analyses the role of stakeholders in selected methods of assessing the quality of educational services of universities and discusses quality management systems according to Common Assessment Framework for education. Furthermore, it presents the example of method of stakeholder satisfaction measurement called Stakeholders Satisfaction Index (SSI) which is an original proposal of an aggregate measure of satisfaction...
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Effect of the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism on affective temperament, depression and body mass index in obesity
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approximation of photonic crystal fibres with large air holes by the step index fibre model
PublicationAn equivalent step index fibre with a silica core and air cladding is used to model photonic crystal fibres with large air holes. We model this fibre for linear polarisation (we focus on the lowest few transverse modes of the electromagnetic field). The equivalent step index radius is obtained by equating the lowest two eigenvalues of the model to those calculated numerically for the photonic crystal fibres. The step index parameters...
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Water Footprint Index (WFTP) for Poznań as a Tool for Assessing Water Management in Urban Areas
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Digital Access Index - pomiar dostępu kraju do technik informacyjnych i komunikacyjnych
PublicationArtykuł podaje syntetyczne informacje dotyczące jednego z ostatnich indeksów mierzących pomiar dostępu kraju do najnowszych technologii informacyjnych i komunikacyjnych. Autorka poddaje analizie konstrukcję indeksu oraz jego komponentów
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A method of vibration surveillance with a use of the optimal control at energy performance index and the acceleration feedback
PublicationDokonano twórczej modyfikacji metody nadzorowania drgań za pomocą sterowania optymalnego przy energetycznym wskaźniku jakości. Zaproponowano oryginalną modyfikację, która polega na bezpośrednim powiązaniu sygnału pomiarowego z akcelerometru i optymalnego sygnału sterującego. Przewidziano obiecujące perspektywy zastosowań praktycznych zmodyfikowanej metody do przypadków frezowania szybkościowego.
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Optimal control at energy performance index of the mobile robots following dynamically created trajectories
PublicationIn practice, the problem of motion control of the wheeled mobile robots is often neglected. Wheeled mobile robots are strongly nonlinear systems and restricted by non-holonomic constraints. Motion control of such systems is not trivial task and usage of non-optimal control signals can lead to deterioration of the overall robot system’s performance. In case of autonomous application of the mobile robots all parts of its control...
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Blue applicability grade index (BAGI) and software: a new tool for the evaluation of method practicality
PublicationIn this work, blue applicability grade index (BAGI) is proposed as a new metric tool for evaluating the practicality of an analytical method. BAGI can be considered complementary to the well-established green metrics, and it is mainly focused on the practical aspects of White Analytical Chemistry. This tool evaluates ten main attributes including the type of analysis, the number of analytes that are simultaneously determined, the...
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20+ years of Polish residential real estate prices – a house price index proxy
PublicationInformation on house prices is often considered crucial when assessing developments in economy. However, in Poland for the long time house prices haven’t been tracked in an organized manner. Recent developments, most notably house price indices developed by Poland’s national bank and by the statistical office do not go back more than 10 years, therefore data series are relatively short compared to those of other macroeconomic data. In...
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Xanthone synthetic derivatives with high anticandidal activity and positive mycostatic selectivity index values
PublicationWith the current massive increases in drug-resistant microbial infection as well as the significant role of fungal infections in the death toll of COVID-19, discovering new antifungals is extremely important. Natural and synthetic xanthones are promising derivatives, although only few reports have demonstrated their antifungal mechanism of action in detail. Newly synthetized by us xanthone derivative 44 exhibited strong antifungal...
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Honey as an indicator of heavy metals in the environment
PublicationHoney bees collect nectar, pollen and honeydew to produce bee products. One of them is honey, which due to chemical composition and properties is considered by human as a valuable food product. When honey bees collect substrates to produce honey they can bring contaminants to the hive. The presence of xenobiotics in bee products may lower their quality and devalue their properties, and also endanger human health. Many scientists...
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Brassica Napus Florescence Modeling Based on Modified Vegetation Index Using Sentinel-2 Imagery
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A frequency-domain surveillance of the robot's structural vibration with a use of modal control at energy performance index
PublicationRozważano drgania niestacjonarnego układu nośnego robota IRb-6. W celu nadzorowania drgań zastosowano algorytm sterowania modalnego przy energetycznym wskaźniku jakości w dziedzinie częstotliwości. Podejście takie umożliwia wykorzystanie elementów projektowania mechatronicznego do nadzorowania drgań, którego celem jest minimalizacja amplitudy drgań końcówek manipulacyjnych, a w konsekwencji - poprawa dokładności i powtarzalności...
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Enhance Color Rendering Index via Full Spectrum Employing the Important Key of Cyan Phosphor
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Augmentation index, pulse pressure amplification and superoxide anion production in patients with coronary artery disease
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Multiple solutions of indefinite elliptic systems via a Galerkin-type Con- ley index theory
PublicationW pracy wykazano prawdziwość hipotezy Angenenta i van der Vorsta dotyczącąilości rozwiązań pewnego układu eliptycznego. Liczbę rozwiazań szacuje się zdołu przy pomocy niezmiennika topologicznego zwanego uogólnionym indeksemMorse`a. W dowodzie stosuje sie niezmienniczy index Conleya w przestrzeniachHilberta.
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Modification of the structural model of manipulator's carrying system for a use of modal control at energy performance index.
PublicationW pracy rozważa się drgania niestacjonarnego układu nośnego manipulatora IRb-6 modelowanego dyskretnie metodą sztywnych elementów skończonych. Z uwagi na gwałtowne ruchy (start, zatrzymanie) poszczególnych członów manipulatora, jest to problem o dużym znaczeniu praktycznym. Jednym ze sposobów nadzorowania tych drgań jest wykorzystanie sterowania modalnego przy energetycznym wskaźniku jakości. Uwzględnia on zmianę w czasie względem...
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Application of the chromatographic retention index system for theestimation of the calibration constants of permeation passivesamplers with polydimethylsiloxane membranes
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono wyniki badań z zastosowaniem pasywnych dozymetrów typu permeacyjnego, wyposażonych w membrany wykonane z PDMS. Badania dotyczyły oszacowania wartości stałych kalibracyjnych dozymetrów przy wykorzystaniu systemu indeksów retencji, wyznaczanych chromatograficznie, w warunkach liniowego narostu temperatury pracy kolumny (LTPRI). Znaleziono korelację pomiędzy wartościami stałych kalibracyjnych próbników typu pasywnego,...
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Mechatronics in the design of three wheeled mobile platform controlled by surveillance system at energy performance index
PublicationPraca jest poświęcona projektowaniu mechatronicznemu trójkołowej platformy mobilnej, sterowanej systemem nadzorowania bazującym na energetycznym wskaźniku jakości. Zdefiniowany zakres badań i silna nieliniowość obiektu wymagały niezawodnego systemu sterowania. Warunki deterministyczne i zastosowany algorytm wpłynęły na wybór metody opracowania systemu. Przedstawione techniki projektowania mechatronicznego i przeprowadzone warianty...
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Response of a fiber-optic Fabry-Pérot interferometer to refractive index and absorption changes – modelling and experiments
PublicationThis paper describes how the refractive index and the absorption of investigated substances change the spectrum of the optical radiation at the output of the fiber-optic Fabry-Pérot interferometer. The modeling of the operation of the interferometer takes into account not only the spectra of the refractive index and the absorption of the medium that is inside the cavity, but also spectra of the refractive indices of the core and...
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Cure Index demonstrates curing of epoxy composites containing silica nanoparticles of variable morphology and porosity
PublicationAn image was taken by Cure Index on curability of epoxy with silica nanoparticles having variable morphology and porosity. Three kinds of silica nanoparticles with non-porous curved-rod, non-porous spherical, and mesoporous spherical microstructures were synthesized and characterized by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Brunauer–Emmett–Teller analyses. Epoxy nanocomposites containing...
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Preparation and Characterization of Microsphere ZnO ALD Coating Dedicated for the Fiber-Optic Refractive Index Sensor
PublicationWe report the fabrication of a novel fiber-optic sensor device, based on the use of a microsphere conformally coated with a thin layer of zinc oxide (ZnO) by atomic layer deposition (ALD), and its use as a refractive index sensor. The microsphere was prepared on the tip of a single-mode optical fiber, on which a conformal ZnO thin film of 200 nm was deposited using an ALD process based on diethyl zinc (DEZ) and water at 100 °C....
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Doped Nanocrystalline Diamond Films as Reflective Layers for Fiber-Optic Sensors of Refractive Index of Liquids
PublicationThis paper reports the application of doped nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) films—nitrogen-doped NCD and boron-doped NCD—as reflective surfaces in an interferometric sensor of refractive index dedicated to the measurements of liquids. The sensor is constructed as a Fabry–Pérot interferometer, working in the reflective mode. The diamond films were deposited on silicon substrates by a microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition...
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The Physical Activity Environment Policy Index for monitoring government policies and actions to improve physical activity
PublicationBackground A multifaceted response, including government action, is essential to improve population levels of physical activity (PA). This article describes the development process of the ‘Physical Activity Environment Policy Index’ (PA-EPI) monitoring framework, a tool to assess government policies and actions for creating a healthy PA environment. Methods An iterative process was undertaken. This involved a review of policy...
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Investigation of the outdoor illuminated and air-cooled silicon solar cell
PublicationPrzedstawiono metodę wyznaczania współczynnika nieidealności ogniwa słonecznego w oparciu o zmiany napięcia otwartego obwodu w funkcji nasłonecznienia. Zastosowano chłodzenie ogniwa przy użyciu radiatora i strumienia powietrza celem utrzymania jego temperatury na stałym poziomie podczas eksperymentu. Omówiono wpływ nasłonecznienia i temperatury ogniwa na kształt charakterystyki i położenie punktu maksymalnej mocy.
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Heat calculations for water-cooled radiators of the inverter for induction heating
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Equivariant degree of convex-valued applied to set-valued BVP
PublicationW pracy określono stopień ekwiwariantny dla odwzorowań o wartościach zwartych i wypukłych. Zastosowano go do dowodu twierdzenia o istnieniu wielunietrywialnych rozwiązań problemu brzegowego typu Dirichleta dla inkluzji różniczkowych z warunkami wzrostu typu Bernsteina-Nagumo, z dodatkowymi symetriami
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Nordhaus-Gaddum results for the weakly convex domination number of a graph
PublicationArtykuł dotyczy ograniczenia z góry i z dołu (ze względu na ilość wierzchołków) sumy i iloczynu liczb dominowania wypukłego grafu i jego dopełnienia.
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Honey bees and their products - bioindicators of environmental contamination
PublicationHuman activities produce contaminants, the amounts and toxicity of which often exceed the environment’s homeostatic capacity to cleanse itself. Hence, the systematic analysis and monitoring of the environment is increasingly a matter of urgency. Honey bees, thanks to their morphological features, and also bee products are regarded as good indicators of environmental pollution by toxic substances, be these heavy metals, radioactive...
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Georg Simmel’s The Philosophy of Money and the Modernization Paradigm
PublicationThis article examines Georg Simmel’s contribution to the understanding of how money functions in modern society, mainly scrutinizing his most important work on that topic, The Philosophy of Money, in the context of modernization theories. Modernization theories, as developed (most notably) by Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Elias, attempted to explain the transition from feudalism and a closed agrarian economy to capitalism and industrial...
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COLLABORATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION (COLED)
PublicationCollaborative Learning Environment for Engineering Education is a European project implemented under the Erasmus + program, The main goal of 5 partners from 4 different European countries – Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal and Romania is to develop an innovative collaborative training approach, encompassing curricula related to the introduction of enterprise automation. Project activities are carried out in the period from Dctober 2018...
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Does Eccentric-only and Concentric-only Activation Increase Power Output?
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Rozwój technologii produkcji asfaltów drogowych stosowanych do budowy autostrad w Polsce
PublicationArtykuł przedstawia zmiany własciwości asfaltu produkowanego w Rafinerii Gdańkiej (Grupa Lotos S.A.) i mieszanek mineralno-asfaltowych z tymi asfaltami. Zaprezentowano wyniki z 11 prac badawczych wykonanych w Zakładzie Budowy Dróg Politechniki Gdańskiej. Stwierdzono, że właściwości asfaltu produkowanego w Rafinerii Gdańskiej są ciągle polepszane. Asfalty te są właściwe do zastosowania w konstrukcjach nawierzchni nowobudowanych...
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Stakeholders Satisfaction Index as an Important Factor of Improving Quality Management Systems of Universities in Poland Stakeholders Satisfaction
PublicationThe following article analyses selected methods of assessing the quality of educational services of universities and discusses the role of stakeholders in, required by law, quality assurance and quality management systems according to Common Assessment Framework for education. Furthermore, it presents the Stakeholders Satisfaction Index (SSI) which is an original proposal of an aggregate measure of satisfaction perceived by stakeholders....
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HILS for the Design of Three-Wheeled Mobile Platform Motion Surveillance System with a Use of Energy Performance Index
PublicationCurrent tendency in mechatronic design requires the use of comprehensive development of an environment, which gives the possibility to prototype, design, simulate and integrate with dedicated hardware. The paper discusses the Hardware-In-the-Loop Simulations (HILS) mechatronic technique, used during the design of the surveillance system based on energy performance index. The presented test configuration (physical controller – emulated...
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Selection of effective cocrystals former for dissolution rate improvement of active pharmaceutical ingredients based on lipoaffinity index
PublicationNew theoretical screening procedure was proposed for appropriate selection of potential cocrystal formers possessing the ability of enhancing dissolution rates of drugs. The procedure relies on the training set comprising 102 positive and 17 negative cases of cocrystals found in the literature. Despite the fact that the only available data were of qualitative character, performed statistical analysis using binary classification...
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Application of the chromatographic retention index system for the estimation of the calibration constants of permeation passive samplers with polydimethylsiloxane membranes
PublicationThe paper presents the results of research on the calibration of permeation passive samplers equipped with polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) membranes using the physico-chemical properties of the analytes. Strong correlations were found between the calibration constants of the samplers and the linear temperature-programmed retention indices of the analytes determined on columns coated with pure PDMS (r2 = 0.914). These correlations...
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Performance properties of rigid polyurethane-polyisocyanurate/brewers’ spent grain foamed composites as function of isocyanate index
PublicationIn the presented work, rigid polyurethane-polyisocyanurate (PUR-PIR) foams filled with brewers’ spent grain (BSG) were prepared. The influence of the isocyanate index (II) on its performance was investigated. Foams obtained with higher isocyanate index required a higher amount of hydrofluorocarbon physical blowing agent to provide the same apparent density of material. An increase of isocyanate index resulted in a slight decrease...
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Laboratory Examination of Frost-heaving Properties of Road Unbound Mixtures Based on Fines Content and Plasticity Index
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Gradient-Index (GRIN) Matrices Based On Mosaic Assembling Technology (MAT) For Multichannel Fiberoptic Environmental Sensors
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All-fiber tunable devices based on high-index photonic crystal fibers filled with liquid crystals
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INDICES OF VASCULAR STIFFNESS AND WAVE REFLECTION IN RELATION TO BODY MASS INDEX OR BODY FAT IN HEALTHY SUBJECTS
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