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Cluster donation: How medical students bound certain types of tissues and biomedical research and how it affects their willingness to donate.
PublicationAlthough biomedical research requires cooperation with a large number of donors, its success also depends on the input of healthcare professionals who play a crucial role in promoting biomedical research and influencing an individual’s decision to donate one’s biospecimens that are left over after a medical procedure. This work was aimed at investigating the correlation between medical and healthcare students’ willingness to...
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Identification of inertia, damping and stiffness parameters for low pressure steam turbine framework.
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono metodę identyfikacji masy tłumienia i sztywności kadłuba części niskoprężnej turbiny parowej 200MW.
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On numerical analysis of a thin-walled I-beam with warping stiffenes undertorsional loads
PublicationPraca jest streszczeniem referatu wygłoszonego na międzynarodowej konferencji Metody Komputerowe w Mechanice, Wisła, 3-6 czerwca 2003. Przedstawiono problem numerycznej analizy belek cienkościennych ze stężeniami. Omówiono dwa modele jednowymiarowe: jeden bazujący na koncepcji skupionej sztywności bimomentowej, a drugi na zastosowaniu superelementu MES. Otrzymane wyniki porównano z rezultatami analizy MES przy zastosowaniu dyskretyzacji...
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The effect of groyne field on trapping macroplastic. Preliminary results from laboratory experiments
PublicationMacroplastic, a precursor of microplastic pollution, has become a new scope of research interest. However, the physical processes of macroplastic transport and deposition in rivers are poorly understood, which makes the decisions of where to locate macroplastic trapping infrastructure difficult. In this research, we conducted a series of experiments in a laboratory channel, exploring the impact of groynes and flexible artificial...
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Forecasting of railway track tamping based on settlement of sleepers using fuzzy logic
PublicationThe sleepers in a railway track transfer vertical, transverse and longitudinal loads to the track ballast and subgrade. The sleepers allow for keeping the distance between the rails constant. The thickness of ballast should be between 16 and 35 cm depending on the design standard of the track, and it should be densified where the ballast supports the sleeper. The exploitation causes contamination of the ballast, crushing the material...
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Damping Amplification Caused by a Mechanism that Trans-pass Trough its singular Position
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono badania dotyczące drgania hybrydowego systemu składającego się z mechanizmu i układu ciągłego. Pomimo ich obecności w wielu codziennych doświadczeniach to w większości przypadków technicznych obecność drgań jest niepożądana. Jednym z podstawowych problemów jest tu długie utrzymywanie się i konieczność tłumienia drgań o niskiej częstotliwości. W artykule badana jest metoda tłumienia oparta na niewspółmierności...
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Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Air Trapping in a Porous Medium with Coarse Textured Inclusions
PublicationThe paper presents a 2D upward infiltration experiment performed on a model porous medium consisting of fine sand background with two inclusions made of coarser sands. The purpose of the experiment was to investigate the effects of structural air trapping, which occurs during infiltration as a result of heterogeneous material structure. The experiment shows that a significant amount of air becomes trapped in each of the inclusions. Numerical...
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Credibility of Threats to Jam Anonymous Traffic Remapping Attacks in Ad Hoc WLANs
PublicationIn ad hoc networks, selfish stations can pursue a better quality of service (QoS) by performing traffic remapping attacks (TRAs), i.e., by falsely assigning their traffic to a higher priority class, which can hurt honest stations’ QoS. To discourage the attackers, honest stations can announce their dissatisfaction with the perceived QoS. If such a threat fails, a costly data frame jamming defense can be launched. We analyze the...
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Modified dynamic time warping method applied to handwritten signature authenticity verification
PublicationA signature verification system based on static features and time-domain functions of signals obtained using a tablet has been presented in the paper. The signature verification method, based mainly on dynamic time warping coupled with some signature image features, has been described. The FRR measures reflecting the method’s efficiency have been evaluated for verification attempts performed directly after obtaining model signatures...
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Modeling a Traffic Remapping Attack Game in a Multi-hop Ad Hoc Network
PublicationIn multi-hop ad hoc networks, selfish nodes may unduly acquire high quality of service (QoS) by assigning higher priority to source packets and lower priority to transit packets. Such traffic remapping attacks (TRAs) are cheap to launch, impossible to prevent, hard to detect, and harmful to non-selfish nodes. While studied mostly in single-hop wireless network settings, TRAs have resisted analysis in multi-hop settings. In this paper...
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The experimental investigations and modelling of trak work with the use of tamping machine's diagnostic informations
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono realizowany w Katedrze Inżynierii Kolejowej Politechniki Gdańskiej program badawczy, którego idea zasadza się na wykorzystaniu podbijarki torowej w zakresie diagnostyki toru kolejowego. Skupiono się głównie na dwóch aspektach związanych z torem bezstykowym, tj. na siłach podłużnych występujących w tokach szynowych oraz na oporach poprzecznych rusztu torowego związanych głównie ze stopniem ustabilizowania podsypki...
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Two-phase flow in heterogeneous porous media with non-wetting phase trapping
PublicationThis article presents amathematical model describing flowof two fluid phases in a heterogeneous porous medium. Zaproponowano model matematyczny przepływu dwufazowego w drobnoziarnistym ośrodku porowatym zawierającym inkluzje gruboziarniste. Inkluzje charakteryzują się niższą wartością ciśnienia wejścia dla płynu niezwilżającego (np. powietrze, ropa naftowa) niż materiał podstawowy. Podczas nawadniania takiego ośrodka dochodzi do...
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The Relationship Between Gene Polymorphisms and Dipping Profile in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease
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Effective Formula for Impact Damping Ratio for Simulation of Earthquake-induced Structural Pounding
PublicationStructural pounding during earthquakes may cause substantial damage to colliding structures. The phenomenon is numerically studied using different models of collisions. The aim of the present paper is to propose an effective formula for the impact damping ratio, as a parameter of the impact force model used to study different problems of structural pounding under seismic excitations. Its accuracy has been verified by four various...
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Using Fast Frequency Hopping Technique to Improve Reliability of Underwater Communication System
PublicationAcoustic underwater communication systems designed to work reliably in shallow coastal waters must overcome major limitations such as multipath propagation and the Doppler effect. These restrictions are the reason for the complexity of receivers being built, whose task is to decode a symbol on the basis of the received signal. Additional complications are caused by the low propagation speed of the acoustic wave in the water and...
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Calculation of flatness errors formed on the tool during finishing machining by lapping. Second International Tribology Conference, SITC 2002.
PublicationPłaskość przedmiotów obrabianych zależy głównie od płaskości narzędzia stosowanego w docieraniu. Orientacja przedmiotu na docieraku musi być wyznaczona w celu określenia korelacji pomiędzy błędami płaskości obu powierzchni. Metoda wyznaczania błędów niepłaskości narzędzia przedstawiona została w referacie. Pokazane zostały przykładowe położenia przedmiotów o różnych kształtach na czynnej powierzchni docieraka z błędem wklęsłości.
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Analysis of accumulation possibility of energy dissipated in the braking process of train driven by hybrid locomotive
PublicationW tradycyjnym procesie hamowania cała energia kinetyczna lub potencjalna pociągu napędzanego lokomotywą z silnikiem spalinowym jest rozpraszana do otoczenia w postaci energii cieplnej. W lokomotywach hybrydowych istnieje możliwość odzyskania części tej energii przez przekazanie jej do akumulatorów i ponowne wykorzystanie do napędu pociągu. W pracy przedstawiono model układu napędowego lokomotywy hybrydowej z silnikiem spalinowym,...
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Torque transmission diagnostic system for high-speed train using state-space observer
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono zagadnienie diagnostyki czujnika prędkości silnika i przekładni mechanicznej pociągu. W celach diagnostycznych zastosowano obserwatory stanu do obliczania prędkości obrotowej silnika i momentu obciążenia. Analiza chwilowych wartości obliczonej prędkości obrotowej oraz momentu obciążenia pozwala na diagnozowanie stanu układu transmisji momentu trakcyjnego. Zaprezentowano wyniki badań symulacyjnych i eksperymentalnych...
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Application of speed and load torque observers in high-speed train drive for diagnostic purposes
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono zastosowanie diagnostyczne obserwatorów prędkości obrotowej i momentu obciążenia w układzie napędowym z silnikiem asynchronicznym. System diagnostyczny jest dedykowany do napędu pociągu szybkiego. Celem diagnostycznym jest monitorowanie stanu czujnika prędkości obrotowej wału silnika oraz układu przeniesienia momentu trakcyjnego. Analiza sygnałów obliczanych w obserwatorach stanu pozwala na wykrycie uszkodzeń...
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Analysis of turnouts with non-linear curvature of diverging track for different train running speeds
PublicationThe paper deals with the issue of shaping a variable curvature in the diverging track of the railway turnout. Solution without a circular arc in the central zone, comprising two zones of non-linear curvature, of the same length, having zero curvature values at the end points, was adopted as a model, on the basis of the previously conducted dynamic tests. Optimum type of curvature was selected from the point of view of the kinematic...
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Travel agents and destination management organizations: eLearning as a strategy to train tourism trade partners.
PublicationThis article offers an overview of the existing online courses run by national destination management organizations (DMOs) in order to better equip travel agents and tour operators in the sales activities of the tourism destinations. These online courses represent one of the B2B offers by DMOs and an interesting opportunity for travel agents, who are trying to find their identity and competitive advantage within the context of...
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Cluster Donation: How Future Healthcare Professionals Bound Certain Types of Tissues and Biomedical Research and How It Affects Their Willingness to Donate
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Analysis of the applicability of laser scanning to making an inventory of swimming pool facilities
Publication3D scanning can be used in many branches of economy, e.g. reverse and prototype engineering, industrial design, quality control, pros-thetics, orthodontics, archiving of historic objects and archeological findings, examination of a scene of crime, making films and comput-er games. The technology of terrestrial laser scanning has a bright fu-ture as we are living in the time of blooming measurement tech-niques, which can provide...
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Cognitive memory for intelligent systems of decision-making, based on human psychology
PublicationA model of memory, which allows to expand the functionality of autonomous decision-making systems for robotic and human-system-interface purposes, is discussed. The model provides functions and features which make the prospective robotic and interfacing systems more human-like as well as more efficient in solving interactive issues.
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Virtual Engineering Objects: Effective Way of Knowledge Representation and Decision Making
PublicationThis paper presents a knowledge representation case study by constructing Decisional DNA of engineering objects. Decisional DNA, as a knowledge representation structure not only offers great possibilities on gathering explicit knowledge of formal decision events but also it is a powerful tool for decision-making process. The concept of Virtual engineering Object (VEO), which is a knowledge and experience representation of engineering...
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The Impact of Building Performance Analysis on intuition Development and Decision Making Rationality
PublicationContemporary architectural workshop is characterized by the ability to efficiently collect and process huge amounts of geometric and non-geometric information. Virtual substitutes for buildings and structures allow to analyze various aspects of real life activity at various stages of the design process. The possibility of increased prognostic quantitative data acquisition, such as cost of energy consumption, shifts architectural...
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An Intelligent Decision-Making System for Autonomous Units Based on the Mind Model
PublicationThis article presents a specific part of current trends in autonomous robotics. It pays special attention to the basic aspects of cognitive architecture. After a brief introduction, we shortly describe the Intelligent System of Decision-making developed at the Gdansk University of Technology.
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Application of decision–making parametric structures in the analysis of a compound planetary gear
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Acceleration of decision making in sound event recognition employing supercomputing cluster
PublicationParallel processing of audio data streams is introduced to shorten the decision making time in hazardous sound event recognition. A supercomputing cluster environment with a framework dedicated to processing multimedia data streams in real time is used. The sound event recognition algorithms employed are based on detecting foreground events, calculating their features in short time frames, and classifying the events with Support...
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Cognitive memory for intelligent systems of decision-making, based on human psychology
PublicationA model of memory, which allows to expand the functionality of autonomous decision-making systems for robotic and human-system-interface purposes, is discussed. The model provides functions and features which make the prospective robotic and interfacing systems more human-like as well as more efficient in solving interactive issues.
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Decision-Making Models of the Human-Operator as an Element of the Socio-Technical Systems
PublicationThe authors of the chapter proved that the fundamental intellectual processes, which lie on the basis of decision-making behavior of the human-operator, could be identified on the bases on the analogies with the devices (elements). The basic intellectual processes of the Rational decision-making models can be adequately identified by the transient processes of the PID-controller; the intellectual processes of the Bounded Rationality...
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Multi-criterion decision making in distributed systems by quantum evolutionary algorithms
PublicationDecision making by the AQMEA (Adaptive Quantum-based Multi-criterion Evolutionary Algorithm) has been considered for distributed computer systems. AQMEA has been extended by a chromosome representation with the registry of the smallest units of quantum information. Evolutionary computing with Q-bit chromosomes has been proofed to characterize by the enhanced population diversity than other representations, since individuals represent...
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Making digital TV smarter: capturing and resusing experience in digital TV
PublicationZaproponowano inteligentny system wspomagania funkcjonowania telewizji cyfrowej opraty na decyzyjnym DNA oraz formalizacji wiedzy w postaci zbioru doswiadczen.
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Does Obesity Influence Women’s Decision Making about the Mode of Delivery?
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Method of Decision-Making Logic Discovery in the Business Process Textual Data
PublicationGrowing amount of complexity and enterprise data creates a need for novel business process (BP) analysis methods to assess the process optimization opportunities. This paper proposes a method of BP analysis while extracting the knowledge about Decision-Making Logic (DML) in a form of taxonomy. In this taxonomy, researchers consider the routine, semi-cognitive and cognitive DML levels as functions of BP conceptual aspects of Resources,...
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Technology and democracy: the who and how in decision-making. The cases of Estonia and Catalonia
PublicationThis paper focuses on the use of technology to improve democracy, comparing the cases of Estonia and Catalonia. Both examples are closely related in their use of technology to further democratize the decision-making processes but have opposite starting points. Estonia’s internet voting system is an offshoot of the comprehensive e-governance system developed by the Estonian government. It is meant to make it more convenient for...
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Capping Agent-Dependent Toxicity and Antimicrobial Activity of Silver Nanoparticles: An In Vitro Study. Concerns about Potential Application in Dental Practice
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Förster Resonance Energy Transfer and Trapping in Selected Systems: Analysis by Monte-Carlo Simulations
PublicationMetoda symulacji Monte Carlo została opisana i zastosowana jako efektywne narzędzie do analizy wyników pomiarów transferu energii w wybranych układach, dla których zastosowanie podejścia analitycznego jest ograniczone lub nawet niemożliwe. Pokazano, że symulacja Monte Carlo pozwala obliczyć tzw. czynnik orientacyjny dla układów częściowo uporządkowanych oraz szereg innych wielkości ważnych do opisu zjawiska transferu energii, które...
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Vertical motions damping model test of a lifeboat lowered onto a flat sea surface
PublicationThe article presents the experiment’s results of the lifeboat model lowered with an initial speed and then released to fall onto a flat water surface. The purpose of the research is to determine the trajectory of the vertical boat motion and describe it with a mathematical model. This is closely related to determining the damping factor since the vertical motion is damped and the lifeboat gets balanced and stops moving after some...
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The impact of wind farms with fixed speed induction generators on grid damping in Northern Ireland
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Dissipated energy minimization in a combustion engine Mount system by position dependent damping coefficients
PublicationPraca opisuje rozważania na temat możliwości tłumienia drgań spalinowego silnika czterosuwowego. Do modelowania wykorzystano zasady dynamiki układów wielomasowych. Przedstawiono krótki opis wspomnianego sposobu modelowani. Zbudowano model numeryczny silnika. Model poddano analizie numerycznej. Podczas analizy dynamiki układu skoncentrowano się na elementach tłumiących drgania, obecnych w zawieszeniu silnika oraz na analizie wpływu...
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Mechanism of hopping conduction in Be–Fe–Al–Te–O semiconducting glasses and glass–ceramics
PublicationElectrical properties of beryllium-alumino-tellurite glasses and glass–ceramics doped with iron ions were studied using impedance spectroscopy. The conductivity was measured over a wide frequency range from 10 mHz to 1 MHz and the temperature range from 213 to 473 K. The D.C. conductivity values showed a correlation with the Fe-ion concentration and ratio of iron ions on different valence states in the samples. On the basis of...
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The boundaries for inequality aversion and certain measures of income inequality = Granice dla awersji do nierówności i pewnych miar nierówności dochodów
PublicationW srtykule wykazano, że istnieją granice dla awersji do nierówności przy zastosowaniu miar nierówności dochodów Atkinsona i uogólnionej entropii. Wyznaczono te granice dla rozkładu dochodów uogólnionego Beta drugiego rodzaju GB2
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Mapping of concentration of BTEX in atmospheric air in the area of Tricity Agglomeration = Mapowanie poziomów zanieczyszczeń związków z grupy BTEX w powietrzu atmosferycznym na terenie Aglomeracji Trójmiejskiej
PublicationUzyskanie informacji o poziomie zanieczyszczeń powietrza atmosferycznego przez związki z grupy BTEX na terenie aglomeracji Trójmiejskiej i Tczewa, pozwoli na ocenę i prognozowanie stanu środowiska w celu wyjaśnienia zmian zachodzących w środowisku w wyniku działalności człowieka. Sporządzenie map poziomu zanieczyszczeń powietrza atmosferycznego posłuży do opisu przestrzennego rozkładu zanieczyszczeń oraz szacowania poziomu zanieczyszczeń...
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Learning and memory processes in autonomous agents using an intelligent system of decision-making
PublicationThis paper analyzes functions and structures of the memory that is an indispensable part of an Intelligent System of Decision-making (ISD), developed as a universal engine for autonomous robotics. A simplified way of processing and coding information in human cognitive processes is modelled and adopted for the use in autonomous systems. Based on such a knowledge structure, an artificial model of reality representation and a model...
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ISSUE OF MAKING DECISIONS WITH REGARD TO SHIP TRAFFIC SAFETY IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS AT SEA
PublicationThe paper refers to the possibilities of making operational decisions that would enable to ensure safety to a ship in the event of application of the statistical decision theory with consideration of an expected value of consequences as a criterion for making such a decision. General description includes conditions for carrying out transportation tasks by ships and it has been shown that following this description it is possible...
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Learning and memory processes in autonomous agents using an intelligent system of decision-making
PublicationThis paper analyzes functions and structures of the memory that is an indispensable part of an Intelligent System of Decision-making (ISD), developed as a universal engine for autonomous robotics. A simplified way of processing and coding information in human cognitive processes is modelled and adopted for the use in autonomous systems. Based on such a knowledge structure, an artificial model of reality representation and a model...
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Design analysis of ORC micro-turbines making use of thermal energy of oceans
PublicationThe article presents the results of the analysis of energy conversion cycles making use of thermal energy of oceans. The objects of analysis were two cases of closed Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) power plants, which were: the cycle in which the vapour of the working medium was produced by warm oceanic water in the circum-equatorial zone, and the so-called “arctic” cycle in which this vapour was produced by non-frozen water in the circumpolar...
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Application of Spatial Models in Making Location Decisions of Wind Power Plant in Poland
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Multivariate Features Extraction and Effective Decision Making Using Machine Learning Approaches
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