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The influence of strain on the Verwey transition as a function of dopant concentration: towards a geobarometer for magnetite-bearing rocks
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Compatibility of Sustainable Mater-Bi/poly(ε-caprolactone)/cellulose Biocomposites as a Function of Filler Modification
PublicationDespite their popularity and multiplicity of applications, wood–polymer composites (WPCs) still have to overcome particular issues related to their processing and properties. The main aspect is the compatibility with plant-based materials which affects the overall performance of the material. It can be enhanced by strengthening the interfacial adhesion resulting from physical and/or chemical interactions between the matrix and...
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Two-center radial basis function network for classification of soft faults in electronic analog circuits
PublicationW pracy zaproponowano specjalizowaną sieć neuronową z dwucentrowymi radialnymi funkcjami bazowymi (TCRB) neuronów w warstwie ukrytej,przeznaczoną do diagnostyki uszkodzeń parametrycznych układów analogowych. Zastosowanie funkcji TCRB pozwala na znaczne zmniejszenie liczby neuronów w warstwie ukrytej, lepsze dopasowanie do słownika uszkodzeń oraz poprawę dokładności klasyfikacji, w porównaniu z dotychczas stosowaną siecią z jednocentrowymi...
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Doppler indexes of left ventricular systolic and diastolic function in relation to the arterial stiffness in a general population
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Kidney function in the very elderly with hypertension: data from the hypertension in the very elderly (HYVET) trial
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Arterial stiffness, body fat compartments, central hemodynamics, renal function and left atrial size
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Parallel Implementation of the Discrete Green's Function Formulation of the FDTD Method on a Multicore Central Processing Unit
PublicationParallel implementation of the discrete Green's function formulation of the finite-difference time-domain (DGF-FDTD) method was developed on a multicore central processing unit. DGF-FDTD avoids computations of the electromagnetic field in free-space cells and does not require domain termination by absorbing boundary conditions. Computed DGF-FDTD solutions are compatible with the FDTD grid enabling the perfect hybridization of FDTD...
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GTR/NBR/Silica Composites Performance Properties as a Function of Curing System: Sulfur versus Peroxides
PublicationIn this work, conventional sulfur and two types of organic peroxides (dicumyl peroxide (DCP) and di-(2-tert-butyl-peroxyisopropyl)-benzene (BIB)) curing systems were used to investigate the possibility for tailoring of the performance properties of GTR/NBR blends reinforced with a variable content of highly dispersive silica (0–30 phr). The curing characteristics, static mechanical and acoustical properties, swelling behavior,...
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Improved-Efficacy EM-Based Antenna Miniaturization by Multi-Fidelity Simulations and Objective Function Adaptation
PublicationThe growing demands for integration of surface mount design (SMD) antennas into miniatur-ized electronic devices have been continuously imposing limitations on the structure dimen-sions. Examples include embedded antennas in applications such as on-board devices, picosatel-lites, 5G communications, or implantable and wearable devices. The demands for size reduction while ensuring a satisfactory level of the electrical and field...
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The non-invasive evaluation of heart function in patients with an acute myocardial infarction: The role of impedance cardiography
PublicationBackground: The purpose of this study was to analyze hemodynamic changes in patients treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) at an early stage of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and at one-month follow-up. Methods: Patients with AMI (n = 27) who underwent PCI were analyzed using impedance cardiography (ICG). ICG data were collected continuously (beat by beat) during the whole PCI procedure and thereafter at every...
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Self-assembly, stability and conductance of amphotericin B channels: bridging the gap between structure and function
PublicationAmphotericin B (AmB), one of the most powerful but also toxic drugs used to treat systemic mycoses, is believed to selectively permeabilize fungal cell membranes to ions in a sterol-dependent manner. Unfortunately, the structure of the biologically active AmB channels has long eluded researchers, obstructing the design of safer alternatives. Here, we investigate the structural and thermodynamic aspects of channel formation, stability,...
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Cascade Object Detection and Remote Sensing Object Detection Method Based on Trainable Activation Function
PublicationObject detection is an important process in surveillance system to locate objects and it is considered as major application in computer vision. The Convolution Neural Network (CNN) based models have been developed by many researchers for object detection to achieve higher performance. However, existing models have some limitations such as overfitting problem and lower efficiency in small object detection. Object detection in remote...
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Exposure to Bisphenol A Analogs and the Thyroid Function and Volume in Women of Reproductive Age—Cross-Sectional Study
PublicationBisphenols (BPs) are commonly known plastifiers that are widely used in industry. The knowledge about the impact of BPs on thyroid function is scarce. Proper thyroid functioning is especially important for women of reproductive age, as hypothyroidism affects fertility, pregnancy outcomes and the offspring. There are no studies analyzing the influence of BPs on thyroid function and volume in non-pregnant young women. The aim of...
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Lower rim substituted tert-butylcalix[4]arenes.Part 8: Calix[4]arenes with dialkoxyphosphoryl functions. Synthesis and complexing properties
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono syntezę i charakterystykę otrzymanych związków (1, 2), pochodnych alkoksyfosforylowych p-tert-butylokaliks[4]arenu: 5,11,17,23-tetra-tert-butylo-25,26,27,28-tetrakis(3-diizopropoksyfosforylopropoksy)kaliks[4]arenu (1) oraz 5,11,17,23-tetra-tert-butylo-25,26,27,28-tetrakis(3-methoksyetoksyfosforylopropoksy)kaliks[4]arenu (2). Zbadano właściwości jonoforowe związków 1 i 2 w membranie elektrod jonoselektywnych,...
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Development of Physics-Based Energy Functions that Predict Medium-Resolution Structures for Proteins of the α, β, and α/β Structural Classes
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The Effectiveness of Computerized Cognitive Training Combined With Whole Body Cryotherapy in Improving Cognitive Functions in Older Adults. A Case Control Study
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A Dirac delta-type orthogonality relation for the on-the-cut generalized associated Legendre functions of the first kind with imaginary second upper indices
PublicationThe orthogonality relation for the on-the-cut generalized associated Legendre functions of the first kind with imaginary second upper indices is evaluated in a closed form. It is found to be proportional to a sum of two terms, both depending on the second upper indices and containing the Dirac delta distribution.
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Virtual Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation Algorithm for Three-Level NPC Converters Based on the Final Element Shape Functions
PublicationThe paper puts forth a novel idea for the computation of Nearest Three Virtual Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation for the three level NPC converters. The computations are based on the concept of final element shape function widely used in the domain of finite element analysis. The proposed approach significantly frees the computations from the use of trigonometric functions, which simplifies the computations and permits easier...
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Two- and three-dimensional elastic networks with rigid junctions: modeling within the theory of micropolar shells and solids
PublicationFor two- and three-dimensional elastic structures made of families of flexible elastic fibers undergoing finite deformations, we propose homogenized models within the micropolar elasticity. Here we restrict ourselves to networks with rigid connections between fibers. In other words, we assume that the fibers keep their orthogonality during deformation. Starting from a fiber as the basic structured element modeled by the Cosserat...
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Electrical Transport and Magnetic Properties of Metal/Metal Oxide/Metal Junctions Based on Anodized Metal Oxides
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Electrical Transport and Magnetic Properties of Metal/Metal Oxide/Metal Junctions Based on Anodized Metal Oxides
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The Analysis of Container Vessel Service Efficiency in the Aspect of Berth and Handling Equipment Usage in Polish Ports
PublicationThe paper analyses the efficiency of container vessel service in Polish container terminals taking under considerations different berth layouts and handling equipment.
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The Proposal to “Snapshot” Raim Method for Gnss Vessel Receivers Working in Poor Space Segment Geometry
PublicationNowadays, we can observe an increase in research on the use of small unmanned autonomous vessel (SUAV) to patrol and guiding critical areas including harbours. The proposal to “snapshot” RAIM (Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring) method for GNSS receivers mounted on SUAV operating in poor space segment geometry is presented in the paper. Existing “snapshot” RAIM methods and algorithms which are used in practical applications...
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Vessel Scheduling Optimization Model Based on Variable Speed in a Seaport with One-Way Navigation Channel
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PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE COMBINED GAS-STEAM TURBINE UNIT OF A HYBRID CYCLE FOR THE FPSO VESSEL
PublicationA thermal diagram of the combined gas‒steam turbine unit of a hybrid cycle, which is an energy complex consisting of a base gas turbine engine with a steam turbine heat recovery circuit and a steam-injected gas turbine operating with overexpansion, is proposed. A mathematical model of a power plant has been developed, taking into consideration the features of thermodynamic processes of simple, binary, and steam-injected...
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A novel approach exploiting properties of convolutional neural networks for vessel movement anomaly detection and classification
PublicationThe article concerns the automation of vessel movement anomaly detection for maritime and coastal traffic safety services. Deep Learning techniques, specifically Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), were used to solve this problem. Three variants of the datasets, containing samples of vessel traffic routes in relation to the prohibited area in the form of a grayscale image, were generated. 1458 convolutional neural networks with...
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Tuning Properties of Irregular Posts in Waveguide Junction - Tunable Filter Application
PublicationW artykule opisano filtrowe zastosowanie metody hybrydowej MM-FDFD analizy rozpraszania fali elektromagnetycznej od obiektów o nieregularnym kształcie umieszczonych w złączu falowodowym. Nieregularnym kształt obiektów rozpraszających umożliwia wykorzystanie ich do strojenia filtrów falowodych bez konieczności stosowania dodatkowych elementów strojących.
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Investigations of cylindrical ferrite coupled line junction using hybrid technique
PublicationW pracy zaproponowano nowe cylindryczne złącze magnesowanych wzdłużnie ferrytowych linii sprzężonych. W porównaniu do znanych w literaturze planarnych konfiguracji złączy ferrytowych, zaproponowana struktura charakteryzuje się znacznie wyższym współczynnikiem sprzężenia żyrotropowego. Pozwala to na uzyskanie wymaganej w układach niewzajemnych rotacji Faraday'a o kąt 45 stopni przy znacznie krótszej długości sekcji linii ferrytowych...
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Investigations of nonreciprocal devices employing cylindrical ferrite coupled line junction
PublicationArtykuł opisuje wykorzystanie cylindrycznej sekcji ferrytowych linii sprzężonych do realizacji układów niewzajemnych. W artykule opisano proces projektowy izolatora ferrytowego wykorzystującego badaną sekcję oraz planarne układy zasilające. Uzyskane z symulacji wyniki zostały zweryfikowane eksperymentalnie.
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Numerical analysis of CO2-water separation in a horizontal double T-junction
PublicationCarbon dioxide is considered one of the main factors leading to global warming. Considering the significant impacts of CO2 on climate change, various technologies have been developed in recent decades to control carbon emission, such as for example CO2 capture and storage. The developed cycle of a negative CO2 emission power plant includes some devices, out of which, separator plays an indispensable role. To this end, T-junction...
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Mercury concentration in the sediments as a function of changing climate in coastal zone of Southern Baltic Sea – preliminary results
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Assessment of the Global and Regional Land Hydrosphere and Its Impact on the Balance of the Geophysical Excitation Function of Polar Motion
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Utilization of a Non-Linear Error Function in a Positioning Algorithm for Distance Measurement Systems Designed for Indoor Environments
PublicationA new positioning algorithm for distance measurement systems is outlined herein. This algorithm utilizes a non-linear error function which allows us to improve the positioning accuracy in highly difficult indoor environments. The non-linear error function also allows us to adjust the performance of the algorithm to the particular environmental conditions. The well-known positioning algorithms have limitations, mentioned by their...
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P1471Multimodality imaging of left ventricular function and volumes in patients with acute and chronic myocardial injury - Novel insights
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Mercury concentration in the sediments as a function of changing climate in coastal zone of Southern Baltic Sea – preliminary results
PublicationMercury, despite of its many uses in industry, is also highly toxic. It is highly neurotoxic, and because of the ability of mercury to penetrate placental barrier, in some countries ban on predatory fish consumption (the main route of mercury into human organism) by pregnant women was introduced. There are very little publications describing the consequences of weather anomalies on contaminants cycles. No research was published...
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A New Expression for the 3-D Dyadic FDTD-Compatible Green's Function Based on Multidimensional Z-Transform
PublicationIn this letter, a new analytic expression for the time-domain discrete Green's function (DGF) is derived for the 3-D finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) grid. The derivation employs the multidimensional Z-transform and the impulse response of the discretized scalar wave equation (i.e., scalar DGF). The derived DGF expression involves elementary functions only and requires the implementation of a single function in the multiple-precision...
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Winding function approach based design of novel five-phase brushless doubly fed induction generator
PublicationThe paper presents the concept of the new design of the five-phase brushless doubly fed induction generator. The generator is dedicated to the modern wind turbine. The innovative design approach uses a five-phase power supply from the stator control winding side of the generator with a stator three-phase classic power winding. The research results presented indicate that the electromagnetic coupling between the control and power...
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Inverse method for 2D viscous flow design problem using stream-function coordinates for axisymmetric model
PublicationOpracowano metodę odwrotną dla przepływów lepkich nieściśliwych w osiowosymetrycznej konfiguracji. Użyto współrzędnych funkcji prądu mających tą właściwość, iż możliwe jest zastapienie jednej współrzędnej geometrycznej zmienną zależną od prędkości przepływu. W związku z czym możliwe jest rozwiązanie zadania projektowego. Metodę rozwiązano numerycznie dla przypadku testowego jak i pokazano możliwości metody dla bardziej skomplikowanego...
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The molecular function of kallikrein‐related peptidase 14 demonstrates a key modulatory role in advanced prostate cancer
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New Two-center Ellipsoidal Basis Function Neural Network for Fault Diagnosis of Analog Electronic Circuits
PublicationIn the paper a new fault diagnosis-oriented neural network and a diagnostic method for localization of parametric faults in Analog Electronic Circuits (AECs) with tolerances is presented. The method belongs to the class of dictionary Simulation Before Test (SBT) methods. It utilizes dictionary fault signatures as a family of identification curves dispersed around nominal positions by component tolerances of the Circuit Under Test...
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Entropy function application within the selection process of diagnostic parameters of marine diesel and gas turbine engines
PublicationThe paper presents the method of conducting an analysis of the diagnostic informativeness among the parameters characterizing the observed gas dynamic processes carried out within working spaces of marine diesel and gas turbine engines. An entropy function, as the measure of uncertainty of the identified states' set of the engine unfitness was applied. Having evaluated the diagnostic information the most adequate parameters were...
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A Potential Relationship Between Estrogen Receptors Polymorphisms, Sperm Function and in vitro Fertilization Success: A Preliminary Study*
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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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Analysis of Organic Rankine Cycle efficiency and vapor generator heat transfer surface in function of the reduced pressure
PublicationIn the paper presented is analysis of the influence of reduced pressure on efficiency and heat transfer area of vapor generator of Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) in case of subcritical and supercritical parameters of operation. Compared are two cases of subcritical and supercritical ORC featuring a similar arrangement of heat source supply and heat removal, that is featuring the same temperatures of working fluid before the turbine,...
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THE MELT FLOWABILITY AND TENSILE PERFORMANCE OF POLY (-CAPROLACTONE)/BREWERS’ SPENT GRAIN COMPOSITES AS A FUNCTION OF FILLER MODIFICATION
PublicationNowadays, it is essential to reduce the environmental impact of products and technologies. Such an approach should be highlighted in all research activities. In the case of polymer composites, it can be realized by introducing by-products or waste materials as fillers. An auspicious example of such material is the brewers’ spent grain, the major byproduct of the beer production. Its chemical composition, relatively similar to conventional...
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Green`s function methods for Mathematical modeling of unidirectional diffusion process in isothermal metals bonding process
PublicationPodano wykorzystanie funkcji Greena w rozwiązaniu matematycznego modelu dyfuzji jednowymiarowej podczas izotermicznego łączenia metali.
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Site-to-site distance distribution in flexible molecules: theoretical evaluation of the donor and/or acceptor fluorescence decay function
PublicationPrzedstawiono wyrażenie teoretyczne opisujące zależność funkcji zaniku fluorescencji od rozkładu odległości P(r) pomiędzy donorami i akceptorami w giętkich molekułach dwuchromoforowych. Wyrażenie uwzględnia wiekoeksponencjalny zanik izolowanych donorów i akceptorów, a także możliwość niekompletnego oznakowania molekuł akceptorami. Przyjęto, że względne zmiany odległości donorów i akceptorów w czasie życia fluorescencji donora mogą...
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New Approach to Arc Fitting for Railway Track Realignment
PublicationThis article presents a new method of arc fitting for railway track realignment. The theoretical foundations are presented, along with a detailed algorithm of the iterative computational process. This method is based on solving a set of linearized pseudo-observation equations. The formulas of the functional model of the fitting problem were derived, and a special form of objective function is proposed. An iterative method for optimization...
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Functional safety with cybersecurity for the control and protection systems on example of the oil port infrastructure
PublicationSafety and cybersecurity aspects consist of two different group of functional requirements for the industrial control and protection systems in the oil port installation. It is the main reason why the analyses of safety and cybersecurity shouldn’t be integrated directly. These article presented some important issues of the functional safety analysis with regard to cybersecurity aspects in the oil seaport infrastructure. The proposed...
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Closed-loop stimulation of temporal cortex rescues functional networks and improves memory
PublicationMemory failures are frustrating and often the result of ineffective encoding. One approach to improving memory outcomes is through direct modulation of brain activity with electrical stimulation. Previous efforts, however, have reported inconsistent effects when using open-loop stimulation and often target the hippocampus and medial temporal lobes. Here we use a closed-loop system to monitor and decode neural activity from direct...