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Attitude and self-esteem versus entrepreneurial intention among young in Poland
PublicationThe main aim of the paper is to present the relation between intentions to become an entrepreneurs among young polish people and the two factors with possible influence on it: self-efficacy and attitude towards entrepreneurship. Two groups of young people were examined: students enrolling the Management Faculty at Gdańsk University of Technology, and pupil from high schools, attending "Entrepreneurship" classes. It appeared that...
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Influence of Transurethral Resection of Bladder Cancer on Sexual Function, Anxiety, and Depression
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Experimental verification and comparison of mode shape-based damage detection methods
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono wynik badań eksperymentalnych dotyczących oceny dokładności znanych z literatury metod detekcji uszkodzeń konstrukcji wykorzystujących zmiany jej parametrów modalnych. Pomiary wykonano wykorzystując skaner laserowy firmy Polytec. Omówiono sposoby poprawy jakości uzyskiwanych wyników, oraz zaproponowano własną metodę detekcji uszkodzeń wykorzystującą pomiar postaci i częstości drgań własnych konstrukcji.
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Broadband LFM signal source for a module-based diver detection sonar
PublicationPraca przedstawia koncepcję źródła impulsów sondujących sonaru DDS, dla pogrupowanych po stronie nadawczej elementarnych sekcji przetwornika w moduły 8 lub 16 elementowe. Na podstawie oszacowania teoretycznego i pomiarów czwórnikowych określono potrzebną moc wyjściową i topologię tych nadajników. Przedstawione są też uzyskane na drodze pomiarów charakterystyki częstotliwościowe modułów przetwornika, razem z zastosowanym układem...
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Detection and classification of gaseous compounds by solid electrolyte cyclic voltammetry sensors
PublicationW pracy omówiono właściwości i ostatnie wyniki badań dotyczące czujników elektrokatalitycznych.
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Damage detection in beams using wavelet transform on higher vibration modes
PublicationNiniejsza praca poświęcona jest technice diagnostyki konstrukcji bazującej na transformacie falkowej. Badany obiekt to belka wspornikowa z uszkodzeniami w formie nacięcia o głębokości 20%, 10% oraz 5% wysokości belki. Pomiary postaci drgań wykonano za pomocą nowoczesnego wibrometru laserowego. Celem pracy jest przedstawienie eksperymentalnych i numerycznych analiz wpływu wyższych postaci drgań na efektywność wykrywania uszkodzeń...
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Kernel PCA in Application to Leakage Detection in Drinking Water Distribution System
PublicationMonitoring plays an important role in advanced control of complex dynamic systems. Precise information about system's behaviour, including faults detection, enables efficient control. Proposed method- Kernel Principal Component Analysis (KPCA), a representative of machine learning, skilfully takes full advantage of the well known PCA method and extends its application to nonlinear case. The paper explains the general idea of KPCA...
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Layered background modeling for automatic detection of unattended objects in camera images
PublicationAn algorithm for automatic detection of unattended objects in video camera images is presented. First, background subtraction is performed, using an approach based on the codebook method. Results of the detection are then processed by assigning the background pixels to time slots, based on the codeword age. Using this data, moving objects detected during a chosen period may be extracted from the background model. The proposed approach...
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Tribological model of porous bearings with particular attention given to the lubricant lubricity
PublicationThe friction and wear problems, accompanying all the tribological systems, lead to reduced service life. In order to prevent such situation, it is necessary to maintain fluid friction, which improves durability of all friction nodes in a tribological system. In the paper, the tribological system consists of porous bearings and the model deals with their weakest spots - the oil outflow points in the porous wall. A kinetic model...
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Reliability model of slide bearings with particular attention given to lubricating oil
PublicationThe paper presents the slide bearing with circulating lubrication as a system of series three-element structure, where lubricating oil is the weakest link. In accordance with the Pierce statement that ''strength of chain is the strength of its weakest link'', a bearing reliability model has been developed. It allows to use the lubricating oil to evaluate the probability of correct working of the whole slide bearing, i.e. the reliability....
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Distance magnetic nanoparticle detection using a magnetoelectric sensor for clinical interventions
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Commercial systems for automatic detection of events. Features, limitations and potential solutions
PublicationVideo Content Analysis (VCA). Motion detection. Example of complex VCA system. Commercial VCA systems and their applications. Limitations and problems. Possible solutions.
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Experimental verification and comparison of mode shape-based damage detection methods
PublicationThis paper presents experimental verification and comparison of damage detection methods based on changes in mode shapes such as: mode shape curvature (MSC), modal assurance criterion (MAC), strain energy (SE), modified Laplacian operator (MLO), generalized fractal dimension (GFD) and Wavelet Transform (WT).
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Description of the silo flow and bulk solid pulsations detection using ECT
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono wyniki zastosowania tomografii pojemnościowej do analizy pulsacji występujących w bezkohezyjnym materiale sypkim podczas opróżniania silosu cylindrycznego. Przeanalizowano wpływ parametrów zmiennych (zagęszczenia początkowego, szorstkości ściany, prędkości opróżniania) na wielkość dynamicznych pulsacji)
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Modular machine learning system for training object detection algorithms on a supercomputer
PublicationW pracy zaprezentowano architekturę systemu służącego do tworzenia algorytmów wykorzystujących metodę AdaBoost i służących do wykrywania obiektów (np. twarzy) na obrazach. System został podzielony na wyspecjalizowane moduły w celu umożliwienia łatwej rozbudowy i efektywnego zrównoleglenia implementacji przeznaczonej dla superkomputera. Na przykład, system może być rozszerzony o nowe cechy i algorytmy ich ekstrakcji bez konieczności...
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Optimized Deep Learning Model for Flood Detection Using Satellite Images
PublicationThe increasing amount of rain produces a number of issues in Kerala, particularly in urban regions where the drainage system is frequently unable to handle a significant amount of water in such a short duration. Meanwhile, standard flood detection results are inaccurate for complex phenomena and cannot handle enormous quantities of data. In order to overcome those drawbacks and enhance the outcomes of conventional flood detection...
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Detection of Closing Crack in Beam Based on Responses Induced by Harmonic Excitation
PublicationThe non-linear contact model was chosen to simulate the closed crack in the cantilever beam. The study examines the shape and characteristics of the phase diagram of a cantilever beam with closed cracks. It investigates how various crack properties influence the geometry of the phase diagram and proposes a method for identifying cracks based on their features. The area of each closed curve in the phase diagram is determined using...
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Microextraction by packed sorbent: Uncommon detection techniques, sorbents, samples and analytes
PublicationAmong sample preparation approaches, the most desirable are procedures that ensure high efficiency and reproducibility, that are cheap, fast and simple, that minimize the number of operational steps and that require a small amount of sample and solvent and are thus environmentally friendly. Microextraction by packed sorbent (MEPS) is a miniaturized form of solid-phase extraction, the use of which has been continuously expanding...
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Visual Detection of People Movement Rules Violation in Crowded Indoor Scenes
PublicationThe paper presents a camera-independent framework for detecting violations of two typical people movement rules that are in force in many public transit terminals: moving in the wrong direction or across designated lanes. Low-level image processing is based on object detection with Gaussian Mixture Models and employs Kalman filters with conflict resolving extensions for the object tracking. In order to allow an effective event...
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Detection of moving objects in images combined from video and thermal cameras
PublicationAn algorithm for detection of moving objects in video streams from the monitoring cameras is presented. A system composed of a standard video camera and a thermal camera, mounted in close proximity to each other, is used for object detection. First, a background subtraction is performed in both video streams separately, using the popular Gaussian Mixture Models method. For the next processing stage, the authors propose an algorithm...
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Building Sustainable Cities - Challenges for professional Education with Special Attention on Poland
PublicationW artykule omówiono problemy związane ze współczesnym kształceniem urbanistów w Polsce. Dokonano tego na tle zarysowanych problemów gospodarowania przestrzenią w kraju oraz z uwzględnieniem istniejących potrzeb w zakresie równoważenia jego rozwoju.
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Detection of stress corrosion cracking dynamics by dynamic electrochemical impedance spectroscopy.
PublicationKlasyczne badania korozji naprężeniowej nie dają precyzyjnych informacji o dynamice takiego procesu korozyjnego. Nowa technika dynamicznej elektrochemicznej spektroskopii impedanyjnej, która została opracowana w Katedrze Elektrochemii, Korozji i Inżynierii Materiałowej stwarza takie możliwości. Fakt ten związany z zastosowaną metodologią analizy umożliwiającą selektywną analizą czasowo-częstotliwościową danych pomiarowych.Praca...
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Ultrahigh-resolution detection techniques for biomedical applications of optical coherent tomography.
PublicationOptyczne metody pomiarowe odgrywają w ostatnich latach coraz większą rolę w badaniach i diagnostyce medycznej. Mają one szereg zalet, do których zaliczyć można odporność na promieniowanie elektromagnetyczne, bezinwazyjność, bezpieczeństwo pomiaru oraz wysoką rozdzielczość. Jedną z najważniejszych technik stosowanych w diagnostyce medycznej jest koherentna tomografia optyczna (OCT). Jest to wysokorozdzielcza metoda obrazowania wewnętrznych...
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Damage detection in rectangular plates by continuous two-dimensional wavelet transform
PublicationPraca opisuje zastosowanie dwuwymiarowej transformaty falkowej do detekcji i lokalizacji uszkodzeń w konstrukcji płytowej. Defekt zlokalizowano na podstawie postaci drgań z symulacji numerycznych oraz z badań eksperymentalnych.
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A time-frequency method for detection of electromagnetic field interference on metal constructions.
PublicationPrzedstawiono metodę detekcji oddziaływania pola elektromagnetycznego na metalowe konstrukcje podziemne. Polega ona na czasowo-częstotliwościowej analizie rejestrów zmian potencjału źródła pola (np. prądów błądzących) oraz potencjału konstrukcji podziemnej, z wykorzystaniem krótkoczasowej transformaty Fouriera STFT. Wnioski o oddziaływaniu pola na konstrukcję metalową wyciąga się na podstawie analizy uzyskanych widm.
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An application supporting the educational process of the respiratory system obstructive diseases detection
PublicationThe paper presents a description of functioning of a platform supporting the detection of obstructive diseases in the respiratory system education process. A 16-parameter model of the respiratory system simulated in the MATLAB/Simulink environment was set in the role of the tested patient. It has been linked to the control layer, developed in the LabVIEW environment, using the SIT library (Simulation Interface Toolkit). This layer...
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Detection of apple in orange juice using ultra-fast gas chromatography
PublicationThe determination of authenticity is an increasingly important issue for food quality and safety. The use of an electronic nose based on ultra-fast gas chromatography technique ensures rapid analysis of the volatile compounds from food products. Due to the fact that this technique enables chemical profiling of agricultural products, it can be an effective tool for authentication when combined with chemometrics. In this article...
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Guided ultrasonic waves for detection of debonding in bars partially embedded in grout
PublicationThis paper deals with theoretical, numerical and experimental investigations of guided wave propagation in multilayered cylindrical bars with pre-existing debonding. The research focuses on a complex description of the nature of the wave phenomena occurring in a debonded specimen with a special emphasis on the influence of the location of damage on the wave conversion and diffraction. Experimental non-destructive and destructive...
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Sonar Pulse Detection Using Chirp Rate Estimation and CFAR Algorithms
PublicationThis paper presents a new approach to sonar pulse detection. The method uses chirp rate estimators and algorithms for the adaptive threshold, commonly used in radiolocation. The proposed approach allows detection of pulses of unknown parameters, which may be used in passive hydrolocation or jamming detection in underwater communication. Such an analysis is possible thanks to a new kind of imaging, which presents signal energy in...
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Numerical modeling of GPR field in damage detection of a reinforced concrete footbridge
PublicationThe paper presents a study on the use of the ground penetrating radar (GPR) method in diagnostics of a footbridge. It contains experimental investigations and numerical analyses of the electromagnetic field propagation using the finite difference time domain method (FDTD). The object of research was a reinforced concrete footbridge over a railway line. The calculations of the GPR field propagation were performed on a selected cross-section...
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Comparison of Acoustic and Visual Voice Activity Detection for Noisy Speech Recognition
PublicationThe problem of accurate differentiating between the speaker utterance and the noise parts in a speech signal is considered. The influence of utilizing a voice activity detection in speech signals on the accuracy of the automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is presented. The examined methods of voice activity detection are based on acoustic and visual modalities. The problem of detecting the voice activity in clean and noisy...
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Methods of Artificial Intelligence for Prediction and Prevention Crisis Situations in Banking Systems
PublicationIn this paper, a support vector machine has been studied due to prediction of bank crisis. To prevent outcomes of crisis situations, artificial neural networks have been characterized as applied to stock market investments, as well as to test the credibility of the bank's customers. Finally, some numerical experiments have been presented.
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Guided Wave Propagation in Detection of Partial Circumferential Debonding in Concrete Structures
PublicationThe following article presents results of investigating the damage detection in reinforced concrete beams with artificially introduced debonding between the rod and cover, using a non-destructive method based on elastic waves propagation. The primary aim of the research was to analyze the possible use of guided waves in partial circumferential debonding detection. Guided waves were excited and registered in reinforced concrete...
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A Multi-Antenna Scheme for Early Detection and Mitigation of Intermediate GNSS Spoofing
PublicationThis article presents a method for detecting and mitigating intermediate GNSS spoofing. In this type of attack, at its early stage, a spoofer transmits counterfeit signals which have slight time offsets compared to true signals arriving from satellites. The anti-spoofing method proposed in this article fuses antenna array processing techniques with a multipath detection algorithm. The latter is necessary to separate highly correlated...
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Debonding Detection in Reinforced Concrete Beams with the Use of Guided Wave Propagation
PublicationOne of the most frequent damage of the reinforced concrete structures is debonding between steel bar and concrete cover. In the case of debonding occurrence not only the strength of the structure decreases, but also it is more vulnerable to corrosion damages. For this reason fast and effective methods of debonding detection in an early stage of its development need a significant boost. The paper presents analytical and experimental...
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Real-time PCR approach in dermatophyte detection and Trichophyton rubrum identification
PublicationDermatophytes are keratinophilic molds that infect human hair, nails and skin. Diagnosis of dermatophytosis is based on morphological, serological and biochemical features. However, identification is difficult and laborious due to similarities between microorganisms. Thus, there is considerable interest to develop mycological diagnostic procedures based on molecular biology methods. In this study, fast, two-step DNA extraction...
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Method of selecting the LS-SVM algorithm parameters in gas detection process
PublicationIn this paper we showed the method of resistive gas sensors data processing. The UV irradiation and temperature modulation was applied to improve gas sensors’ selectivity and sensitivity. Noise voltage across the sensor’s terminals (proportional to its resistance fluctuations) was recorded to estimate power spectral density. This function was an input data vector for LS-SVM (least squares – support vector machine) algorithm, which...
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Analysis and Detection of Faults at Insulated Conductors of Overhead Medium Voltage Lines
PublicationThe paper dealt with the issue of breakdowns detection of isolated hanging wires on the medium-voltage transmission. The main aim of article is to describe the function of created breakdowns detector and evaluation its. The breakdowns detector is created based in indicators of faults such as touch between tree limbs and insulated wire, touch tree limbs with several phases or fall insulated wire on the ground. Breakdowns detector...
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Toward Intelligent Vehicle Intrusion Detection Using the Neural Knowledge DNA
PublicationIn this paper, we propose a novel intrusion detection approach using past driving experience and the neural knowledge DNA for in-vehicle information system security. The neural knowledge DNA is a novel knowledge representation method designed to support discovering, storing, reusing, improving, and sharing knowledge among machines and computing systems. We examine our approach for classifying malicious vehicle control commands...
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LCT, PIV and IR Imaging Detection in Selected Technical and Biomedical Applications
PublicationThermochromic liquid crystals (TLC), Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Infrared Imaging Themography (IR) have been successfully used in non-intrusive technical, industrial and biomedical studies and applications. These four tools (based on the desktop computers) have come together during the past two decades to produce a powerful advanced experimental technique as a judgment of quality of information that cannot be obtained...
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Deep Features Class Activation Map for Thermal Face Detection and Tracking
PublicationRecently, capabilities of many computer vision tasks have significantly improved due to advances in Convolutional Neural Networks. In our research, we demonstrate that it can be also used for face detection from low resolution thermal images, acquired with a portable camera. The physical size of the camera used in our research allows for embedding it in a wearable device or indoor remote monitoring solution for elderly and disabled...
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Detection of corrosion process in marine environment by means of acoustic emission technique
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono możliwość detekcji procesu korozyjnego nieniszczącą metodą emisji akustycznej konstrukcji metalowych pracujących w środowisku wody morskiej. Pewną alternatywą wobec technik elektrochemicznych w monitorowaniu korozji zaproponowano nieniszczącą technikę emisji akustycznej. Emisja akustyczna znana jako zjawisko fizyczne i technika pomiarowa znalazły zastosowanie w detekcji korozji obiektów morskich. W związku...
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Detection and localisation of corrosion process effect by means of acoustic emission technique
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono możliwość wykorzystania techniki emisji akustycznej do detekcji i lokalizacji skutków procesu korozyjnego - wycieku. Wyniki badań wykonanych w warunkach laboratoryjnych, zbliżonych do rzeczywistych, potwierdziły akustyczne wykrycie oraz ustalenie położenia wycieku. Położenie wycieku obliczono również na podstawie techniki interkorelacji i porównano z lokalizacją uzyskaną bezpośrednio z pomiarów akustycznych....
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Detection of stray current field interference on metal constructions using STFT
PublicationZaprezentowano metodę detekcji pola prądów błądzących wykorzystującą krótkoczasową transformatę Fouriera STFT. Ten sposób analizy umożliwia wyznaczenie zmian spektralnej gęstości mocy sygnału (np. potencjału konstrukcji) w funkcji czasu. Przedstawiono rezultaty analizy zmian potencjału w polu prądów błądzących generowanych przez trakcję tramwajową. Spektrogramy są kompozycją prążków w łącznej dziedzinie czasu i częstotliwości....
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A novel chemiluminescent immunoassay for detection of Toxoplasma gondii IgG in human sera
PublicationThis study describes Toxoplasma gondii IgG chemiluminescent immunoassay (CLIA) based on the use of a novel immunochemical reagents in the form of the conjugates of original acridinium ester (AE) labels attached to antibodies and SAG2-GRA1-ROP1L chimeric antigen and shows that this test is useful for diagnostic purposes.
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Nano-engineered diamond-based materials for supercapacitor electrodes: A review
PublicationOwing to the popularity of carbon-based supercapacitors, diamond has also been examined as a potential candidate with unique advantages such as a wide electrochemical potential window and stable capacitive behavior in both aqueous and non-aqueous electrolytes. Moreover, its chemical stability in harsh environments at extreme applied potential and current provides rare opportunities for designing new supercapacitors. Owing to the...
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Study of Statistical Text Representation Methods for Performance Improvement of a Hierarchical Attention Network
PublicationTo effectively process textual data, many approaches have been proposed to create text representations. The transformation of a text into a form of numbers that can be computed using computers is crucial for further applications in downstream tasks such as document classification, document summarization, and so forth. In our work, we study the quality of text representations using statistical methods and compare them to approaches...
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Robust Object Detection with Multi-input Multi-output Faster R-CNN
PublicationRecent years have seen impressive progress in visual recognition on many benchmarks, however, generalization to the out-of-distribution setting remains a significant challenge. A state-of-the-art method for robust visual recognition is model ensembling. However, recently it was shown that similarly competitive results could be achieved with a much smaller cost, by using multi-input multi-output architecture (MIMO). In this work,...
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3D DEM SIMULATIONS OF BASIC GEOTECHNICAL TESTS WITH EARLY DETECTION OF SHEAR LOCALIZATION.
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono rezultaty numeryczne dla podstawowych testów geotechnicznych: testu trójosiowego ściskania oraz w aparacie bezpośredniego ścinania dla piasku bez kohezji. Wszystkie testy zostały wykonane w 3D, a piasek został wymodelowany w postaci kulek wraz z momentami symulującymi nieregularny kształt ziarna. Podczas badań sprawdzono wpływ parametrów fizycznych (m. in. początkowy wskaźnik porowatości, obciążenie pionowe...
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Nitrogen dioxide gas-sensing detection with GO modified CuO thin films
PublicationGas sensors have been continuously developed over the last few decades for several applications including air quality monitoring, automotive industry and recently for medical use. Gas sensors are usually based on metal oxides (MOXs), such as SnO2, TiO2, ZnO, WO3, CuO. Recently, new materials such as graphene oxide and heterostructures of graphene oxide and metal oxides are utilized for gassensing applications.