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A new method of fault loop resistance measurement in low voltage systems with residual current devices
PublicationThis paper presents a new method of fault loop resistance measurement in low voltage systems with residual current devices. The method enables measuring fault loop resistance without nuisance tripping of residual current devices, by application an unconventional waveform of measurement current. It is important for proper verification of the effectiveness of protection against electric shock.
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Numerical Analysis of the Unsteady Propeller Performance in the Ship Wake Modified by Different Wake Improvement Devices
PublicationThe paper presents summary of numerical analysis of the unsteady propeller forces and induced pressure pulses generated by the selected real propeller of 7000 tons product tanker, operating in five different wakefields including four inflenced by the different wake improvement devices. The results of the analysis are partly compared with experimental data and univocal conclusions about the optimum wake improvement device are presented.
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Evaluation of applicability of classic methods of a fault loop impedance measurement to circuits with residual current devices
PublicationMeasurement of fault loop impedance in low voltage grids and systems is in most cases performed to verify the effectiveness of protection against electric shock by automatic disconnection of supply. For the sake of measurement accuracy, it is advisable to perform it using large current. Unfortunately, in circuits with residual current devices which are very widely used nowadays, a large measurement current may trigger those devices...
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Wavelet-based denoising method for real phonocardiography signal recorded by mobile devices in noisy environment
PublicationThe main obstacle in development of intelligent autodiagnosis medical systems based on the analysis of phonocardiography (PCG) signals is noise. The noise can be caused by digestive and respiration sounds, movements or even signals from the surrounding environment and it is characterized by wide frequency and intensity spectrum. This spectrum overlaps the heart tones spectrum, which makes the problem of PCG signal filtrating complex....
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Capillary pumped loop as a tool for collecting large heat fluxes from electronic devices on warships
PublicationThe combat potential of future warships will be directly related to the use of modern electronic devices being parts of advanced systems, such as, for instance, radar systems, fire aiming systems, fire detection systems, electric drive systems, and even electronic and radio-electronic weaponry, railguns and lasers, installed on these warships. The capacity and functionality of these devices is continually increasing, at decreasing...
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Residual Current Devices Operational Characteristics within the Frequency Range 50 Hz to 1000 Hz.
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono charakterystyki działania powszechnie stosowanych wyłączników różnicowoprądowych przy prądach różnicowych w zakresie częstotliwości 50÷1000 Hz. Częstotliwość wyższa niż 50 Hz wpływa niekorzystnie na prąd zadziałania wyłączników, a w skrajnych przypadkach mogą one w ogóle nie reagować na wolno narastający prąd różnicowy.
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The effect of PWM frequency on the effectiveness of protection against electric shock using residual current devices
PublicationW referacie przedstawiono analizę widmową odkształconego prądu ziemnozwarciowego z obwodu silnika o regulowanej prędkości obrotowej za pomocą przemiennika częstotliwości. Oszacowano wpływ tego odkształcenia na próg fibrylacji serca. Analizowano skuteczność ochrony przeciwporażeniowej wykorzystującej wyłączniki różnicowoprądowe przy różnych wartościach częstotliwości PWM przemiennika. Przedstawiono charakterystykę działania zaproponowanego...
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Modified monopole ring antennas as a solution for HiperLAN1/2 and IEEE 802.11b/g standard devices
PublicationZaprojektowano, wykonano i przebadano pierścieniową antenę planarną przeznaczona do aplikacji multisystemowych. Zastosowano system zasilania poprzez linie mikropaskową oraz dobrano wymiary i kształty pierścieni (promienników) w taki sposób, aby odpowiednio ''ulokować'' podzakresy pracy anteny. Zrealizowany prototyp anteny pracuje w zakresie standardów IEEE 802.11b/g oraz HiperLAN1/2.
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Elimination of the negative effect of earth fault current higher frequency on tripping of residual current devices
PublicationCzęstotliwość prądu różnicowego większa niż 50/60 Hz ma niekorzystny wpływ na wyzwalanie wyłączników różnicowoprądowych. Przy zwiększonej częstotliwości prądu różnicowego rzeczywisty prąd zadziałania wyłączników zwiększa się, a niektóre z nich w ogóle nie wyzwalają. W artykule omówiono główne przyczyny zwiększenia się prądu zadziałania wyłączników różnicowoprądowych oraz przedstawiono sposób eliminacji niekorzystnego wpływu zwiększonej...
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Optoelectronic Devices, Sensors, Communication and Multimedia, Photonics Applications and Web Engineering, Wilga, May 2012
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A universal IT system architecture for servicing, collecting, storing, processing and presenting data from wireless devices
PublicationIn the article we present a universal IT system architecture, which allows one to develop, based on mobile and multiplatform JAVA language, applications capable of working with many different wireless systems in an easy and effective way. Modular system architecture supports efficient data processing and enables convenient presentation of chosen parameters. Additionally, proposed IT system architecture provides easy adoption to...
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Penetration of different nanoparticles through melt-blown filter media used for respiratory protective devices
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Multifunctional Polymer Composites Produced by Melt-Blown Technique to Use in Filtering Respiratory Protective Devices
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The effect of PWM frequency on the effectiveness of protection against electric shock using residual current devices
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono analizę widmową odkształconego prądu ziemnozwarciowego z obwodu silnika o regulowanej prędkości obrotowej za pomocą przemiennika częstotliwości. Oceniono skuteczność ochrony przeciwporażeniowej wykorzystującej wyłączniki różnicowoprądowe przy różnych wartościach częstotliwości PWM przemiennika. Przedstawiono charakterystykę działania proponowanego wyłącznika różnicowoprądowego.
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Room temperature depinning of the charge-density waves in quasi-two-dimensional 1T-TaS2 devices
PublicationWe report on the depinning of nearly commensurate charge-density waves in 1T-TaS2 thin films at room temperature. A combination of the differential current–voltage measurements with the low-frequency noise spectroscopy provides unambiguous means for detecting the depinning threshold field in quasi-2D materials. The depinning process in 1T-TaS2 is not accompanied by an observable abrupt increase in electric current—in striking contrast...
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Effect of the let-through energy of overcurrent protective devices on the temperature of conductors during short-circuits
PublicationThe scope of the verification of low-voltage systems covers the earth fault loop impedance measurement. This measurement is usually performed with the use of low-value current meters, which force a current many times lower than the one occurring during a real short-circuit. Therefore, the international standard recommends consideration of the increase of resistance of conductors with the increase of temperature, which may occur...
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Research on the Use of Mobile Devices and Headphones on Pedestrian Crossings—Pilot Case Study from Slovakia
PublicationThe topic of the use of mobile devices and headphones on pedestrian crossings is much less explored in comparison to the use of the mobile phone while driving. Recent years have seen many discussions on this issue, especially in foreign countries. The Slovak Republic, however, has not been giving it enough attention (and it is not mentioned in the National Road Safety Plan for the Slovak Republic from 2011 to 2020). This paper...
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Verification of safety in low-voltage power systems without nuisance tripping of residual current devices
PublicationLow-voltage power systems require initial and periodical verification to check the effectiveness of protection against electric shock. As a protection in case of fault, automatic disconnection of supply is most often used. To verify such a protection measure, the earth fault loop impedance or resistance is measured. This measurement is easy to perform in circuits without residual current devices. When residual current devices are...
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Fluctuation-Enhanced Sensing of Organic Vapors by Ink-Printed MoS2 Devices under UV Irradiation
PublicationThis work presents the results of fluctuationenhanced sensing (FES) of selected organic gases by MoS2 sensor fabricated via a simple ink printing method. We demonstrate that low-frequency noise measured under UV irradiation (275 nm) is more sensitive to different gases than measured in the dark. The noise at 1 Hz under UV light increased 3.3, 3.5, 1.6, and 2.9 times for chloroform, tetrahydrofuran, acetonitrile, and acetone ambiances, respectively....
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Techniques of interference reduction in probe system for wafer level noise measurements of submicron semiconductor devices.
PublicationPrzedstawiono skrótowo system do ostrzowych pomiarów szumów struktur submikronowych. Znaczny wpływ na pomiary ostrzowe mają zakłócenia i szumy własne systemu, zwłaszcza zakłócenia o wysokim poziomie wpraowadzane przez ostrza (fluktuacje rezystancji styków ostrza do struktury powodowane przez wibracje i udary mechaniczne w środowisku pomiarowym)i środowisko elektromagnetyczne. Zakłócenia okresowe powodowane przez wibracje i pola...
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EU Project of Life Programme “Algae Service for Life” Creates Tools for Ecological Service to Mitigate Cyanobacteria and Macroalgae Blooms in Freshwater Ecosystems
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Strategie wzrostowe dla Neptun Ship Service Ltd.
PublicationW ekspertyzie przeprowadzono ewaluację strategii wzrostowych dla firmy Neptun Ship Service Ltd.
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How to provide fair service for V2I communications in VANETs?
PublicationIn this paper, we focus on fairness issues of Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communications. In particular, we show that under a common technique of selection of RSUs by OBUs based on the received signal strength, a vast variability of a number of OBUs connected to RSUs can be observed leading to inefficient/unfair service provided by RSUs. To overcome this problem, we propose an algorithm for RSU selection called RSEL to obtain...
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Three-dimensional conceptual model for service-oriented simulation
Publicationn this letter, we propose a novel three-dimensional conceptual model for an emerging service-oriented simulation paradigm. The model can be used as a guideline or an analytic means to find the potential and possible future directions of the current simulation frameworks. In particular, the model inspects the crossover between the disciplines of modeling and simulation, service-orientation, and software/systems engineering. Finally,...
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Commonly Accessible Web Service Platform - Wiki-WS
PublicationWeb Service technology on the basis had to supply complete and reliable system components. Nowadays this technology is commonly used by companies providing results of their work to end users and hiding implementation details. This paper presents a SOA-enabled platform - Wiki-WS - that empowers users to deploy, modify, discover and invoke web services. Moreover it discusses concepts and functionalities of this open source management...
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Providing Differentiated Levels of Service Availability in VANET Communications
PublicationInter-vehicle communications seems to be a promising remedy not only for a number of road-safety issues, but also to improve the efficiency of road traffic, as well as to support the on-board infotainment applications. However, it often encounters disruptions due to high mobility of vehicles causing frequent failures of communication links. In this paper, we utilize the idea of multipath vehicle-to-vehicle routing to provide protection...
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Low Cost Method for Location Service in the WCDMA System
PublicationA new and low cost method for a location service (LCS) in the Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) system is outlined. This method, which is called TDOA + RTT, enables calculation of the geographical position of a mobile station (MS) without knowledge of relative time differences (RTDs) between base stations (BSs). The TDOA+RTT method is based on the measurement of round trip times (RTTs) between the MS and the serving...
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Project- and service oriented thinking in engineering management education
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SERVICE ORIENTED SCENARIOS FOR SUPPORT ENTERPRISE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
PublicationIn the paper, a service oriented architecture is used to describe various scenarios of human-oriented enterprises. They can be modeled by BPMN to show basic information flow. We consider business scenarios to present another modeling solution called service orchestration or service mashup. That approach gives an opportunity for the right management through taking the best possible choice of services, or composition of services....
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Ships Shore Service Optimization Using the Queueing Theory
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Determining QoS in the Video Telephony Service in an IP Environment
PublicationIP networks are indispensable nowadays. They are among the most efficient platforms. The constantly growing number of users and new services in these networks - the largest being the Internet - requires a good quality of any application used.Determining the QoS in real-time services is particularly important. This work is dedicated to exactly this aspect of the real-time service Video Telephony over IP (VToIP). First, the ITU-T...
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Service restoration in survivable networks under malicious attacks
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono porównanie jakości odtwarzania usług w przeżywalnych sieciach optycznych poddanych awariom losowym oraz celowym działaniom niszczącym (atakom). Założenia odnośnie przeżywalności są następujące: ochrona od krańca do krańca, rozłączność węzłowa każdej pary ścieżek: aktywnej i zabezpieczającej.Z powodu NP-zupełności problemu przeżywalnego doboru tras i przydziału długości fali w sieciach optycznych, zaproponowano...
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End-to-end service survivability under attacks on networks
PublicationW artykule zaproponowano model znajdowania przeżywalnych i odpornych na ataki połączeń od końca do końca dla sieci o topologii bezskalowej. Głównymi założeniami są: zróżnicowanie sposobu zapewniania przeżywalności połączeń w zależności od klasy ruchu oraz omijanie przez ścieżki aktywne węzłów, narażonych na ataki (tzw. centrów). Wprowadzono nową metrykę dla wyznaczania ścieżek, proporcjonalną do wymaganej jakości obsługi połączeń,...
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Accuracy analysis of the radio location service in the sea environment
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono koncepcję systemu bezpieczeństwa na morzu w oparciu o istniejące systemy komórkowe. Scharakteryzowano problem lokalizowania terminala ruchomego przez sieć w warunkach morskich. Przedstawiono wyniki badań przeprowadzonych w warunkach rzeczywistych w odniesieniu do efektywności lokalizowania terminala na morzu. Przedstawiono wnioski, wypływające z przeprowadzonych analiz.
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Algorithms of fast service restoration in survivable multilayer networks
PublicationGłównym celem rozprawy jest zaproponowanie nowych modeli/algorytmów doboru tras zapewniających przeżywalność usług w sieciach IP-MPLS/WDM poprzez zastosowanie wyznaczonych zawczasu ścieżek zabezpieczających. Zakres pracy obejmuje: dokonanie przeglądu mechanizmów transmisji informacji w warstwowych sieciach teleinformatycznych IP-MPLS/WDM; szczegółowy opis sposobów zapewniania przeżywalności usług; zaproponowanie nowych metod doboru...
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Performance Models of a Multidomain IMS/NGN Service Stratum
PublicationThis paper quantifies call processing performance (CPP) of a multidomain IMS/NGN architecture, which was proposed to deliver current and future telecommunication services with strict quality requirements, independently of the transport network technologies. A realistic simulation model is used as a reference for evaluation of the analytical results, in which vari-ous types of queuing systems are applied to model the opera-tion...
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Personal branding of artists and art-designers: necessity or desire?
PublicationPurpose Personal branding becomes a new in-demand skill for all professionals today. To be well-known helps to achieve success in the networked business environment. Personal relationships and a good reputation in the reality of network economy help young artists and art designers move up the career ladder. This paper aims to discuss a problem of artists who often find it difficult to define their artistic and self-distinction...
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Experience marketing in the service of the “secular religion” of big tech
PublicationThe article proposes an interpretation of the meaning of experience marketing as a tool in the process of sacralisation of products, and in a broader context – the so-called secular religion accompanying some contemporary big tech organizations. The article is of theoretical nature and the authors have intended to explain how big tech corporations, in line with the concept of experience marketing (digital platforms, in particular),...
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Mashup Approaches for Improving Service Oriented Business Scenarios
PublicationTwo kinds of business scenarios are considered: application- and service-oriented. It is shown that the former are more flexible and easier reconfigurable for both traditional (human-oriented) and IT services. Moreover, complex IT services can be created by simple IT services using the modern mashup technology. It is the reason why such business scenarios can be modeled by BPMN in much easier ways. A simple example of a supply...
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Minimising the Churn Out of the Service by Using a Fairness Mechanism
PublicationThe paper proposes an algorithm of bandwidth distribution, ensuring fairness to end-users in computer networks. The proposed algorithm divides users into satisfied and unsatisfied users. It provides fairness in terms of quality of experience (QoE) for satisfied users and quality of service (QoS) for unsatisfied users. In this paper, we present detailed comparisons relevant to service providers to show the advantages of the proposed...
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Radio Link Measurement Methodology for Location Service Applications
PublicationThe aim of this paper is the methodology of measurements executed in a radio link for the realization of radiolocation services in radiocommunication networks, particularly in cellular networks. The main results of the measurements obtained in the physical layer of the universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) are introduced. A new method for the utilization of the multipath propagation phenomenon to improve the estimation...
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End-to-end service survivability under attacks on networks
PublicationW artykule zaproponowano model znajdowania przeżywalnych i odpornych na ataki połączeń od końca do końca dla sieci o topologii bezskalowej. Głównymi założeniami są: zróżnicowanie sposobu zapewniania przeżywalności połączeń w zależności od klasy ruchu oraz omijanie przez ścieżki aktywne węzłów, narażonych na ataki (tzw. centrów). Wprowadzono nową metrykę dla wyznaczania ścieżek, proporcjonalną do wymaganej jakości obsługi połączeń,...
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Formation of Highly Conductive Boron-Doped Diamond on TiO2 Nanotubes Composite for Supercapacitor or Energy Storage Devices
PublicationIn the present paper, we report the phenomena of the formation of the novel composite nanostructures based on TiO2 nanotubes (NTs) over-grown by thin boron-doped diamond (BDD) film produced in Microwave Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PE MWCVD). The TiO2 nanotube array overgrown by boron-doped diamond immersed in 0.1 M NaNO3 can deliver high specific capacitance of 7.46 mF cm−2. The composite electrodes were characterized...
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Design of a Distributed System using Mobile Devices and Workflow Management for Measurement and Control of a Smart Home and Health
PublicationThe paper presents design of a distributed system for measurements and control of a smart home including temper- atures, light, fire danger, health problems of inhabitants such as increased body temperature, a person falling etc. This is done by integration of mobile devices and standards, distributed service based middleware BeesyCluster and a workflow management system. Mobile devices are used to measure the parameters and are...
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Mathematical Models of Control Systems of Angular Speed of Steam Turbines for Diagnostic Tests of Automatic and Mechatronic Devices
PublicationAccurate modeling of physical processes of many automatics and mechatronics systems is often necessity. In power system such a process is control of angular velocity of power objects during connection to operation in parallel. This process is extremely dynamic. For this reason response of control system depends from changes of many physical parameters (temperature, pressure and flow of the medium, etc.). Precision modeling influences...
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Thermal and Electrodynamic Risk of Residual Current Devices in the Case of Back-Up Protection by Overcurrent Circuit Breakers
PublicationResidual current operated circuit breakers without integral overcurrent protection should be back-up protected. As back-up protection devices, overcurrent circuit breakers are used. The maximum let-through energy and let-through current of the overcurrent devices were evaluated under laboratory conditions. The thermal and electrodynamic risk of residual current devices was analyzed.
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Experimental verification of a new method of loop resistance testing in low voltage systems with residual current devices
PublicationA periodical verification of the effectiveness of protection against electric shock shall be performed in low voltage systems. The scope of this verification includes loop impedance/resistance testing. If a residual current device is installed in a tested circuit, this testing is problematic. A residual current device trips out during the test, because of the high value of measurement current. This precludes the execution of the...
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New devices to capture the temperature effect under dynamic compression and impact perforation of polymers, application to PMMA
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All-fiber tunable devices based on high-index photonic crystal fibers filled with liquid crystals
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Assessing the Operation System of Fire Alarm Systems for Detection Line and Circuit Devices with Various Damage Intensities
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