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  • Rozwój polskiego winiarstwa w latach 2000–2017

    W artykule przedstawiono historie polskiego winiarstwa. Na podstawie danych zawartych w raportach Agencji Rynku Rolnego przedstawiono kształtowanie się liczby winnic oraz powierzchni upraw winorośli i zbioru winogron w latach 2009–2018. Dane z portalu winogrodnicy.pl posłużyły do scharakteryzowania liczby winnic wraz z ich lokalizacją oraz powierzchnią. Z przeprowadzonej analizy wynika, że polskie winiarstwo od ponad 20 lat przeżywa...

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  • Hyperelastic Microcantilever AFM: Efficient Detection Mechanism Based on Principal Parametric Resonance

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    • A. Alibakhshi
    • S. Rahmanian
    • S. Dastjerdi
    • M. Malikan
    • K. Behrouz
    • B. Akgöz
    • Ö. Civalek

    - Nanomaterials - Year 2022

    The impetus of writing this paper is to propose an efficient detection mechanism to scan the surface profile of a micro-sample using cantilever-based atomic force microscopy (AFM), operating in non-contact mode. In order to implement this scheme, the principal parametric resonance characteristics of the resonator are employed, benefiting from the bifurcation-based sensing mechanism. It is assumed that the microcantilever is made...

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  • GNIAZDA PRZEDSIĘBIORCZOŚCI W STREFIE PODMIEJSKIEJ METROPOLII

    Problem suburbanizacji jest wciąż aktualny w analizach rozwoju miast. Przybiera często formy spontanicznego rozlewania się miast (urban sprawl). Badacze tego problemu skupiają się przeważnie na rozwoju funkcji mieszkaniowej w strefach podmiejskich. Specyficzny charakter polskiego procesu suburbanizacji polega na równoległym rozwoju klasycznej suburbanizacji osiedleńczej oraz rozwoju mikro- oraz małych i średnich przedsiębiorstw....

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  • Normalized Partial Scattering Cross Section for Performance Evaluation of Low-Observability Scattering Structures

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    - Electronics - Year 2021

    The development of diffusion metasurfaces created new opportunities to elevate the stealthiness of combat aircraft. Despite the potential significance of metasurfaces, their rigorous design methodologies are still lacking, especially in the context of meticulous control over the scattering of electromagnetic (EM) waves through geometry parameter tuning. Another practical issue is insufficiency of the existing performance metrics,...

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  • Modeling of lapping plate wear and conditioning in single-sided lapping

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    In order to achieve higher quality on worked surfaces with lower roughness, very high accuracy of shape and dimensions it is crucial to improve conventional finishing technologies and to develop new working principles. Single-sided lapping is one of the most effective planarization technologies and it is determined by a number of factors and boundary conditions. The most significant influence over a dimensional and profile accuracy,...

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  • Platforma edX - nowe podejście do kursów online

    Współczesne metody nauczania na odległość zmieniają się dynamicznie. Powstają światowe konsorcja podejmujące starania zapewnienia dostępu do edukacji na najwyższym poziomie z wykorzystaniem Internetu. Jedną z takich prób jest platforma edX. Jej rozwój zapoczątkowały niemal 2 lata temu MIT i Harvard. Obecnie zespół liczy już 30 uczelni z całego świata. Renoma ośrodków naukowych biorących udział w projekcie przyciągnęła już ponad...

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  • Thermal ablation modeling via bioheat equation

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    - Year 2013

    We consider Pennes’ bioheat equation and discuss an implicit numerical scheme which has better stability properties than other approaches. Our discussion concerns Carthesian geometry problems, however it carries over to spherical geometry models and more complicated shapes.

  • Evolution of Edges and Porosity of Urban Blue Spaces: A Case Study of Gdańsk

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    Current waterfront studies focus mainly on a land-based perspective, failing to include the water side. Water is, however, not just a resource for port and industrial purposes and an edge to the waterfront; it is also a feature of the waterfront and the complex relation between water and city. Thus, the article suggests that water-land edges need to be re-contextualised, taking into consideration also their shape, functionality,...

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  • Refurbishment of a historical building - design issues

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    - Year 2013

    Over a 10-year modernization of the main building of Gdansk University of Technology is coming to the end. The ever increasing number of students requires not only the development of the campus with new facility buildings, also the existing buildings are subject to adaptation and modernization. In addition to high-impact solutions, as restoring the former glory of the building (reconstruction of the clock tower), or introducing...

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  • Ag/Pt-modified TiO2 nanoparticles for toluene photooxidation in the gas phase

    Ag/Pt-modified TiO2nanocomposites were synthesized using the sol–gel method. The effect of metal typeand amount as well as synthesis route on the photocatalytic activity in reaction of toluene removal, usedas a model volatile organic compound, was investigated. Toluene, at the concentration of about 200 ppm,was irradiated over modified TiO2using light-emitting diodes (LEDs, max= 415 nm). The results showedthat toluene could be...

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  • The Influence of the Aircraft Operating Fluids on the Mechanical Parameters of the Airport Surface Concrete

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    - Materials - Year 2020

    The authors of the article assessed the impact of operating fluids used to service aircraft on changing mechanical parameters of cement concrete intended for airport pavement. The research concerned concrete designed with the use of CEM I 42.5N LH NA low-alkali cement, broken granite aggregate, fine washed aggregate, and admixtures. The analysis included the assessment of changes in dierences in endurance parameters over various...

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  • Exploring efficiency differentials between Italian and Polish universities, 2001-2011

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    In this study, data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to evaluate the relative efficiency of a sample of 54 Italian and 30 Polish state universities over the period 2001–11. The investigation was conducted in two steps. Unbiased DEA efficiency scores were first estimated and then regressed on external variables to quantitatively assess the direction and size of the impact of potential determinants. The analysis reveals a strong...

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  • Spatial pattern of ASG-EUPOS sites

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    - Open Geosciences - Year 2017

    The article presents the spatial pattern analysis of the ASG-EUPOS permanent GNSS stations in Poland. Using different methods and tools (nearest neighbour, Riplay’s K-function, morphology of Thiessen polygons) we proved that the station distribution model changes within scales. At short distances up to 65 km, which are typical lengths in the network, stations are irregularly dispersed. Increasing this distance to 130 km and over...

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  • Topological behavior mimicking ethylene–hexene copolymers using branched lactones and macrolactones

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    • L. Jasińska-Walc
    • M. Ryan Hansen
    • D. Dudenko
    • A. Różański
    • M. Bouyahyi
    • M. Wagner
    • R. Graf
    • R. Duchateau

    - Polymer Chemistry - Year 2014

    Polyolefins are of paramount importance in the world of polymers due to their technological and economic potential.1 However, their nonpolar character significantly restricts the compatibility and adhesion properties, which consequently limits their versatility. Moreover, an intensified demand for materials from renewable resources can also become a problematic venture for the current polyolefin industry.2 Although Braskem and...

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  • Audio Content and Crowdsourcing: A Subjective Quality Evaluation of Radio Programs Streamed Online

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    - Year 2023

    Radio broadcasting has been present in our lives for over 100 years. The transmission of speech and music signals accompanies us from an early age. Broadcasts provide the latest information from home and abroad. They also shape musical tastes and allow many artists to share their creativity. Modern distribution involves transmission over a number of terrestrial systems. The most popular are analog FM (Frequency Modulation) and...

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  • Stan awaryjny wiaduktu kolejowego w Bydgoszczy

    W pracy przedstawiono opis stanu awaryjnego wiaduktu kolejowego. Omówiono wyniki badań in situ oraz teoretycznych analiz statyczno-wytrzymałościowych ponad 100-letniego obiektu. Przedstawiono wnioski i zalecenia dotyczące doraźnego zabezpieczenia obiektu oraz warunki jego dalszej eksploatacji.

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  • Stan awaryjny wiaduktu kolejowego w Bydgoszczy

    W pracy przedstawiono opis stanu awaryjnego wiaduktu kolejowego. Omówiono wyniki badań in situ oraz teoretycznych analiz statyczno-wytrzymałościowych ponad 100-letniego obiektu. Przedstawiono wnioski i zalecenia dotyczące doraźnego zabezpieczenia obiektu oraz warunki jego dalszej eksploatacji.

  • Technologie prośrodowiskowe dla budynków miejskich

    Współczesne duże miasta na całym świecie charakteryzują się dużą i wciąż rosnącą intensywnością zabudowy. Jest to tendencja utrwalona, którą pogłębia idea „miasta zwartego” jako rozwiązania dla problemu nadmiernego rozrastania terytorialnego i rozpraszania się struktury terenów miejskich. Jednocześnie realną potrzebą współczesnych miast jest poprawa jakości ich środowiska (eliminacja zanieczyszczeń, minimalizacja zjawiska miejskiej...

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  • Photoelectron-photoabsorption (PePa) database

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    In this paper a recently launched Photoelectron-Photoabsorption Database is presented. The database was developed in order to gather all the photoelectron and photoabsorption spectra measured by various collaborators over the years as well as to ease the access to the data to the potential users. In the paper the main features of the database were described and its outline explained.

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  • Possibilities of Increasing the Overall Efficiency of Gas-steam CHP Microplant

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    The paper presents ways to increase the efficiency of a gas-steam micro power plant by modifying the cycle combination. The modification consists in partial release of the fluid downstream of the gas turbine and using it for ORC fluid overheating and evaporation. Advantages of this solution over the simplest gas and steam cycles’ combination are demonstrated.

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  • Push-to-talk als eine der ersten voip - applikationen in mobilfunknetzen

    W pracy przedstawiono wybrane aspekty realizacji multimediów w sieciach komórkowych. Dokonano analizy protokołu SIP ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem pomiarów systemów rzeczywistych. Oceniono nową usługę PoC (Push-to-Talk over Cellular)- pierwszą aplikację typu VoIP realizowaną w sieciach komórkowych

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  • Pavement ageing influence on tyre/road noise

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    - Year 2017

    Road surface should be constructed in a way that ensures safe and comfortable traffic conditions, not only when it is newly paved but also during its entire lifetime. An important factor in the asphalt mixture design process is also the expected pavement durability and stability of pavement properties over time. In many countries, road surface starts to play a significant role in traffic noise reduction actions. Selecting a particular...

  • Magnetic field mapping along a NV-rich nanodiamond-doped fiber

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    • A. Filipkowski
    • M. Mrózek
    • G. Stępniewski
    • M. Ficek
    • D. Pysz
    • W. Gawlik
    • R. Buczyński
    • A. M. Wojciechowski
    • M. Klimczak

    - APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS - Year 2024

    Integration of NV−-rich diamond with optical fibers enables guiding quantum information on the spin state of the NV− color center. Diamond-functionalized optical fiber sensors have been demonstrated with impressive sub-nanotesla magnetic field sensitivities over localized magnetic field sources, but their potential for distributed sensing remains unexplored. The volumetric incorporation of diamonds into the optical fiber core allows...

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  • Design-oriented modeling of antenna structures by means of two-level kriging with explicit dimensionality reduction

    The employment of full-wave electromagnetic (EM) analysis is a practical necessity in the design of contemporary antenna structures. This is because simpler models are generally not available or of limited accuracy. At the same time, EM-based design is computationally expensive. Consequently, the ways of accelerating tasks such as parametric optimization or uncertainty quantification have to be sought. A possible workaround that...

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  • Generalized temperature dependence model for anammox process kinetics

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    Temperature is a key operational factor influencing the anammox process kinetics. In particular, at temperatures below 15 °C, the specific anammox activity (SAA) considerably decreases. This study aimed to describe the temperature dependence of the anammox process kinetics in the temperature range from 10 to 55 °C, including the specific characteristics of“cold anammox”. The commonly used Arrhenius and extended and modifiedRatkowsky...

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  • Low-Cost and Highly-Accurate Behavioral Modeling of Antenna Structures by Means of Knowledge-Based Domain-Constrained Deep Learning Surrogates

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    - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION - Year 2023

    The awareness and practical benefits of behavioral modeling methods have been steadily growing in the antenna engineering community over the last decade or so. Undoubtedly, the most important advantage thereof is a possibility of a dramatic reduction of computational expenses associated with computer-aided design procedures, especially those relying on full-wave electromagnetic (EM) simulations. In particular, the employment of...

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  • Flow maldistribution and its mitigation in mini heat exchangers

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    In the present paper, a detailed numerical investigation has been carried out to analyze the flow maldistribution in 50 parallel 1 mm x 1 mm rectangular minichannels and 1 mm depth minigap section with rectangular, trapezoidal, triangular or concave mani-folds in Z-type flow configuration (16 different cases). The working medium was ethanol and the mass flow rate was 5×10-4 kg/s. Both sections was heated from the bottom side. Heat...

  • Accelerated Parameter Tuning of Antenna Structures by Means of Response Features and Principal Directions

    Popularity of numerical optimization has been steadily on the rise in the design of modern antenna systems. Resorting to mathematically rigorous parameter tuning methods is a matter of practical necessity as interactive techniques (e.g., parameter sweeping) are no longer adequate when handling several performance figures over multi-dimensional parameter spaces. The most common design scenarios involve local tuning since decent...

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  • Polysaccharides in fabrication of membranes: A review

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    - CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS - Year 2022

    Sustainability concerns have motivated and directed a great deal of interest over the past decade towards the development of green technologies. Polysaccharides are green polymers, which experienced growing demand to substitute chemically synthetic polymers. Different types of polysaccharides i.e. cellulose-, starch-, chitin- alginate-, and chitosan-based carbohydrate polymers have been applied in the fabrication of separation...

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  • A Survey of Fast-Recovery Mechanisms in Packet-Switched Networks

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    • M. Chiesa
    • A. Kamisinski
    • J. Rak
    • G. Retvari
    • S. Schmid

    - IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials - Year 2021

    In order to meet their stringent dependability requirements, most modern packet-switched communication networks support fast-recovery mechanisms in the data plane. While reactions to failures in the data plane can be significantly faster compared to control plane mechanisms, implementing fast recovery in the data plane is challenging, and has recently received much attention in the literature. This survey presents a systematic,...

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  • Weighted Clustering for Bees Detection on Video Images

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    This work describes a bee detection system to monitor bee colony conditions. The detection process on video images has been divided into 3 stages: determining the regions of interest (ROI) for a given frame, scanning the frame in ROI areas using the DNN-CNN classifier, in order to obtain a confidence of bee occurrence in each window in any position and any scale, and form one detection window from a cloud of windows provided by...

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  • A Study of Cross-Linguistic Speech Emotion Recognition Based on 2D Feature Spaces

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    • G. Tamulevicius
    • G. Korvel
    • A. B. Yayak
    • P. Treigys
    • J. Bernataviciene
    • B. Kostek

    - Electronics - Year 2020

    In this research, a study of cross-linguistic speech emotion recognition is performed. For this purpose, emotional data of different languages (English, Lithuanian, German, Spanish, Serbian, and Polish) are collected, resulting in a cross-linguistic speech emotion dataset with the size of more than 10.000 emotional utterances. Despite the bi-modal character of the databases gathered, our focus is on the acoustic representation...

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  • Optical-Fiber Microsphere-Based Temperature Sensors with ZnO ALD Coating—Comparative Study

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    - SENSORS - Year 2021

    This study presents the microsphere-based fiber-optic sensor with the ZnO Atomic Layer Deposition coating thickness of 100 nm and 200 nm for temperature measurements. Metrological properties of the sensor were investigated over the temperature range from 100 °C to 300 °C, with a 10 °C step. The interferometric signal was used to monitor the integrity of the microsphere and its attachment to the connecting fiber. For the sensor...

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  • Making agile retrospectives more awesome

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    According to the textbook [23], Scrum exists only in its entirety, where every component is essential to Scrum’s success. However, in many organizational environments some of the components are omitted or modified in a way that is not aligned with the Scrum guidelines. Usually, such deviations result in missing the full benefits of Scrum [24]. Thereby, a Scrum process should be frequently inspected and any deviations should be...

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  • Insights into Seawater Biodegradation of Sustainable Mater-Bi/Poly(ε-caprolactone)-Based Biocomposites Filled with Diisocyanate-Modified Cellulose Particles

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    • A. Hejna
    • P. Kosmela
    • O. Mysiukiewicz
    • M. Barczewski

    - Environments - Year 2023

    : Due to rapid economic growth, the use of plastics in almost all areas of human life has significantly increased over recent decades, leading to massive pollution. Therefore, works dealing with sustainable and biodegradable polymer materials are vital now. Herein, sustainable MaterBi/poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL)-based biocomposites, filled with diisocyanate-modified cellulose particles, were prepared and subjected to 12-week seawater...

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  • Badania eksperymentalne słupów CFST z betonem zwykłym i ekspansywnym

    Praca przedstawia badania eksperymentalne ponad 40 słupów CFST. Analizie poddano wyniki siły niszczącej słupy w aspekcie grubości stalowego płaszcza, smukłości słupa, rodzaju betonu wypełniającego stalową rurę (zwykły i ekspansywny) i jego wytrzymałości a także sposobu obciążania słupa (przez rdzeń lub przez cały przekrój). Sprawdzono efektywność słupów CFST z użyciem betonu ekspansywnego i zwykłego rozumianą jako stosunek nośności...

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  • Management Information Base module for electrical power system configuration and use

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    - Year 2012

    Internet standards describe a virtual information store, termed the Management Information Base (MIB), which is made available through Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). No standard MIB exists to date for monitoring power lines in facilities over IP network. This paper defines a subset of the MIB for power system monitoring.

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  • Sub-regional service centres in reality and regional planning in Poland = Podregionalne osrodki obsługi w sferze realnej i planowaniu regionalnym w Polsce

    Sub-regional centres are defined as towns where the services of the sub-regional level are concentrated. In Poland these are such services that can be located in several towns in a voivodeship (region), but not in every capital of a poviat (county). The transformation of civilization has influenced changes in Christaller’s model of settlement network, but re-gularities are still valid. Models derived from Christaller's Central...

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  • Możliwości zastosowań, potencjalne źródła oraz ewolucja technologiczna sposobu otrzymywania trehalozy ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem enzymu syntazy trehalozy [EC 5.4.99.16]

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    - Year 2017

    Jedna z wiodących gałęzi współczesnej biotechnologii opiera się na produkcji białek – przede wszystkim enzymów. Są one powszechnie wykorzystywane: od przemysłu chemicznego poprzez przemysł spożywczy aż po medycynę i życie codzienne (czy ktoś wyobraża sobie w dzisiejszych czasach proszek do prania „bez enzymu”). Przed rozwojem nowoczesnych metod biologii molekularnej i inżynierii genetycznej pozyskiwano interesujące substancje z...

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  • Self Organizing Maps for Visualization of Categories

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    - Year 2012

    Visualization of Wikipedia categories using Self Organizing Mapsshows an overview of categories and their relations, helping to narrow down search domains. Selecting particular neurons this approach enables retrieval of conceptually similar categories. Evaluation of neural activations indicates that they form coherent patterns that may be useful for building user interfaces for navigation over category structures.

  • Unifying Aspects of Generalized Calculus

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    - ENTROPY - Year 2020

    Non-Newtonian calculus naturally unifies various ideas that have occurred over the years in the field of generalized thermostatistics, or in the borderland between classical and quantum information theory. The formalism, being very general, is as simple as the calculus we know from undergraduate courses of mathematics. Its theoretical potential is huge, and yet it remains unknown or unappreciated.

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  • Recent steel structures in Poland - the selected projects

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    - Year 2016

    The paper presents selected examples of recently completed steel structures in Poland. These are roofs over sport stadiums, construction of public buildings and bridges. Described examples do not exhaust the acquis in the field of steel constructions in Poland. The authors, however, may hope that the presented con-structions represents current achievements in Poland in the field of steel structures.

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  • Has EGNOS its own place in maritime navigation?

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    - Year 2015

    GNSS (in fact it usually means GPS) is at the moment the fundamental means of positioning for any variants of navigation. However some attributes of it can be not sufficient for every users or in some tasks, so there are any cases when this system needs support. From the mariner point of view pure GPS properties perfectly fulfils expectations of sailors at the open sea, however there are lot of cases, when accuracy of the system...

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  • Ordered TiO2 nanotubes: the effect of preparation parameters on the photocatalytic activity in air purification process

    Vertically ordered TiO2 nanotube arrays were synthesized by anodic oxidation of titanium foil in glycerol, ethylene glycol and water-based electrolytes. The effect of electrolyte composition, anodization voltage, ultrasonic treatment and calcination time on the morphology of the resulting thin films, as well as on their photocatalytic activity in toluene removal, used as a model volatile organic compound, was investigated. Toluene,...

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  • Spinon excitations in the quasi-one-dimensional S=12 chain compound Cs4CuSb2Cl12

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    - PHYSICAL REVIEW B - Year 2020

    The spin−1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain is ideal for realizing one of the simplest gapless quantum spin liquids (QSLs), supporting a many-body ground state whose elementary excitations are fractional fermionic excitations called spinons. Here we report the discovery of such a one-dimensional (1D) QSL in Cs4CuSb2Cl12. Compared to previously reported S=1/2 1D chains, this material possesses a wider temperature range over...

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  • COMPOSITE FOOTBRIDGE - SYNERGY EFFECT IN COOPERATION BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES AND INDUSTRY

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    Paper presents conditions of science and industry cooperation in Poland (restrictions, barriers, good practice). A key role in initiation of collaboration between units has financial support. What is also important, it is much easier to create innovative solutions on the base of combining the potential of individuals. That is why many countries all over the world look for innovative solutions using budget funds to support grants...

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  • Identification of transition curves in vehicular roads and railways

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    In the paper attention is focused on the necessity to systematize the procedure for determining the shape of transition curves used in vehicular roads and railway routes. There has been presented a universal method of identifying curvature in transition curves by using differential equations. Curvature equations for such known forms of transition curves as clothoid, quartic parabola, the Bloss curve, cosinusoid and sinusoid, have...

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  • 3D Hierarchical Boron-Doped Diamond-Multilayered Graphene Nanowalls as an Efficient Supercapacitor Electrode

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    - Journal of Physical Chemistry C - Year 2019

    Synthesis of stable hybrid carbon nanostructure for high-performance supercapacitor electrode with long life-cycle for electronic and energy storage devices is a real challenge. Here, we present a one-step synthesis method to produce conductive boron-doped hybrid carbon nanowalls (HCNWs), where sp2-bonded graphene has been integrated with and over a three-dimensional curved wall-like network of sp3-bonded diamond. The spectroscopic...

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  • Rapid multi-objective optimization of antennas using nested kriging surrogates and single-fidelity EM simulation models

    Ever increasing performance requirements make the design of contemporary antenna systems a complex and multi-stage process. One of the challenges, pertinent to the emerging application areas but also some of the recent trends (miniaturization, demands for multi-functionality, etc.), is the necessity of handling several performance figures such as impedance matching, gain, or axial ratio, often over multiple frequency bands. The...

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  • Protect our right to light

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    - NATURE - Year 2019

    “The struggle for light” is how the Swiss architect Le Corbusier described the history of architecture in 1935. Today, with the skies crowded out by buildings in modern cities, those words should ring in the ears of policymakers and planners. Skyscraper construction is booming. China is the leader, last year completing 88 of the 143 buildings around the world that are taller than 200 metres (see ‘Vertical growth’). As the nation’s...

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