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Magnetic instrumentation and other applications of magnets in NOTES
PublicationModern surgery is developing towards a minimally invasive approach. To minimize the trauma the number of ports is either limited as in single incision laparoscopic procedures or ports are introduced through natural orifices as in nat- ural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES). To provide surgeons with appropriate instrumentation novel technologies are employed involving magnets. This article summarizes the theoretical...
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A Family Of Multicore 0ptical Fibre Based Sensors And Instrumentation Systems
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Hybrid Integrated Components For Optical Fiber Communication And Instrumentation Systems
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Human Factors in designing the Instrumentation and Control Systems Important to Safety
PublicationThis work addresses selected aspects of human factors in designing the instrumentation and control (I&C) systems important to safety as a part of the functional safety management of industrial hazardous plants, in particular nuclear power plants. As it is known in such plants a concept of “defence in depth” (D-in-D) is widely applied and some layers of protection are designed with regard to functional safety (FS) concept given...
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Static load test on concrete pile – instrumentation and results interpretation
PublicationFor some time (since 8-10 years in Poland) a special static load tests on instrumented piles are carried out. Such studies are usually of a scientific nature and provide detailed quantitative data on the load transfer into the ground and characteristics of particular soil layers interaction with a pile shaft and pile base. Deep knowledge about the pile-subsoil interaction can be applied for a various design purposes, e.g. numerical...
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Analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in water samples. Methods and instrumentation
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono stan wiedzy nt. metodyk analitycznych oraz urządzeń kontrolno-pomiarowych, wykorzystywanych w badaniach próbek wody na zawartość lotnych związków organicznych. Szczególną uwagę zwrócono na techniki izolacji i wzbogacania analitów przed etapem oznaczeń końcowych.
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Measurement of noise parameter set in the low frequency range: requirements and instrumentation.
PublicationOpisano dwa podstawowe szumowe modele metrologiczne czwórnika: ze źródłami szumów odniesionymi do wejścia i ze zwarciowymi prądami szumów. Parametry szumowe opisujące modele zawierające korelację pomiędzy prądami i/lub napięciami są mierzone przy zastosowaniu metod bezpośrednich i pośrednich. Przedstawiono kilka technik redukcji szumów własnych systemu pomiarowego. Szerzej zaprezentowano dwukanałowy system do pomiaru szumów z komputerowym...
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Virtual Models of Analog-Digital Converters in Education of Electrical Measurements and Instrumentation.
PublicationPrzedstawiono opracowane przez autorów przyrządy wirtualne do demonstracji działania przetworników analogowo-cyfrowych: integracyjnego, kompensacyjnego, sigma-delta, z pośrednim sygnałem częstotliwościowym. Programy umożliwiają obserwację zmian napięcia w punktach charakterystycznych układów w spowolnionej skali czasowej. Możliwe jest również zadawanie zakłóceń.
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Defence in depth conception in nuclear power plants and requirements for instrumentation and control systems
PublicationThe aim of this article is to identify and discuss some issues of the safety systems’ design for nuclear power plants equipped with the light water reactors using a defence in depth (D-in-D) conception. Because the functional safety solutions play nowadays an important role for the risk control, the basic requirements for the instrumentation and control systems are specified with regard to relevant international standards. For...
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Programmable dynamically changing RC model for evaluation of Dynamic EIS methods and instrumentation
PublicationThe paper concerns the RC equivalent circuit of electrochemical cell with the impedance changed during the experiment. The model was constructed using the digital potentiometers controlled by the microcontroller. This solution allows to control the model impedance by the software means. By creating adequate changes of the impedance spectrum as a time function, the different impedance measurement method can be tested to find out...
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Programmable Input Mode Instrumentation Amplifier Using Multiple Output Current Conveyors
PublicationIn this paper a programmable input mode instrumentation amplifier (IA) utilising second generation, multiple output current conveyors and transmission gates is presented. Its main advantage is the ability to choose a voltage or current mode of inputs by setting the voltage of two configuration nodes. The presented IA is prepared as an integrated circuit block to be used alone or as a sub-block in a microcontroller or in a field...
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A global atmospheric electricity monitoring network for climate and geophysical research
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An integrated geotechnical and geophysical investigation of landslide in Chira town, Ethiopia
PublicationLandslides pose a significant threat to infrastructure, property, and human lives in many regions worldwide, including Chira town in Ethiopia. This study presents an integrated geotechnical and geophysical investigation aimed at identifying the contributing factors to landslides in Chira town, Ethiopia, with a focus on a recent landslide event. The methodology employed a combination of geotechnical and geophysical techniques to...
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Assessing hydrological signal in polar motion from observations and geophysical models
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Comparison of the geophysical excitations of polar motion from the period: 1980.0–2009.0
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Effect of the Combined Therapy of the Muscle Energy Technique and Trigger Point Therapy on the Biophysical Parameters of the Trapezius Muscle: a Randomized Clinical Trial
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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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Corrigendum to “Rapid PD-L1 detection in tumors with PET using a highly specific peptide” [Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 483/1 (2017) 258–263]
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Instrumentation optical fibres for wave transformation, signal processing, sensors, and photonic functional components, manufactured at Białystok University of Technology in Dorosz Fibre Optics Laboratory
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A geophysical, geochemical and microbiological study of a newly discovered pockmark with active gas seepage and submarine groundwater discharge (MET1-BH, central Gulf of Gdańsk, southern Baltic Sea)
PublicationHigh-resolution bathymetric data were collected with a multi-beam echosounder in the southern part of the Baltic Sea (region MET1, Gulf of Gdańsk) revealing the presence of a 10 m deep and 50 m in diameter pockmark (MET1-BH) on the sea bottom (78.7 m). To date, no such structures have been observed to reach this size in the Baltic Sea. The salinity of the near-bottom water in the pockmark was about 2 PSU (about 31.22 mmol/l...
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Nowoczesne techniki przygotowania próbki do oznaczania analitów organicznych z zastosowaniem chromatografii gazowej. Część II. Aparatura. Modern techniques of preparation of samples for determining organic analytes by gas chromatography. Part II. Instrumentation.
PublicationW pracy dokonano przeglądu szerokiego spektrum technik przygotowania próbki ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem technik o charakterze prośrodowiskowym. Opisu technik dokonano pod kątem wykorzystywanych mechanizmów izolacji analitów oraz stosowanych rozwiązań aparaturowych.
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Mobile Systems (Portable, Handheld, Transportable) for Monitoring Air Pollution
PublicationThe monitoring and analysis of atmospheric air pollutants is a rapidly developing branch of analytical chemistry. The in situ analysis of atmospheric air quality using mobile instrumentation is becoming routine. The article provides information on devices used in various kinds of mobile laboratories. It reviews the portable gas chromatographs and handheld devices used for detecting and determining specific harmful substances in...
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Applying ground penetrating radar to tracking of ancient architectural transformations: the case of the monastery St. Peter on the Island of Rab (Croatia)
PublicationThe ground-penetrating radar (GPR) method has been used for many years in archaeological research. However, thismethod is still not widely used in studies of past architecture. The biggest problem with the implementation of the GPRmethod at such sites is usually connected with extensive debris layers, plant cover and standing relics of walls and otherfeatures that restrict the available measurement area. Despite of these, properly...
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A review of design approaches for the implementation of low-frequency noise measurement systems
PublicationElectronic noise has its roots in the fundamental physical interactions between matter and charged particles, carrying information about the phenomena that occur at the microscopic level. Therefore, Low-Frequency Noise Measurements (LFNM) are a well-established technique for the characterization of electron devices and materials and, compared to other techniques, they offer the advantage of being non-destructive and of providing...
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Tools for Automatic Wound Healing Evaluation
PublicationFinal results of the research project devoted to development of a new objective and quantitative method of post cardiosurgery wound healing diagnostics, already preliminary discussed at the QIRT 2014 Conference, is presented. We assumed that thermal processes should be effective in subtle description of temporal changes of tissue thermal properties after surgical interventions. To prove this assumption more than 400 patients after...
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An integrated geoarchaeological approach to late Iron Age settlement at Kaštelina hillfort (Lopar, Island of Rab, Croatia) using Amplitude Data Comparison (ADC) method and trial excavation
PublicationGeophysical prospection and small-scale archaeological excavation were undertaken on the site of Kaštelina, a Late Iron Age hillfort settlement located on the Stolac promontory in the northern part of Rab island (Kvarner Gulf, Croatia). Within the frame of the “Archaeological topography of the island of Rab” program, a Polish–Croatian team applied a series of multidisciplinary methods to study the occupational history of the...
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Gas chromatography-olfactometry (GC-O), electronic noses (e-noses) and electronic tongues (e-tongues) for in vivo food flavour measurement
PublicationThe capter revies two types of artificial olfaction instrumentation, i.e. gas-chromatography-olfactometry (GC-O) and chemical sensor technologies (electronic nose and tongue), combined with multivariate data processing methods as promising approaches for rapid analysis of food. The chapter also includes examples of specific applications for the detection of food flavour and volatile components.
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BJS-03 DO WE NEED FIXATION OF THE MESH IN LAPAROENDOSCOPIC TECHNIQUES FOR M3 INGUINAL DEFECTS? AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY
PublicationThe authors conducted a research experiment to verify the hypothesis that it is possible to preserve the mesh in the operating field in large direct hernias (M3) without the need to use fixing materials. The results showed that mesh fixation is not the only alternative to preventing recurrence in complex defects and that the type of implant seems to be a key factor from the point of view of mechanics and biophysics.
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Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography - promising technique for analysis of complex food matrices
PublicationThe present paper is focused on brief description of operational principle of comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC) technique, instrumentation and data processing. Furthermore, the examples of application in the field of food analysis, performed also in the author's laboratory, are given. The detailed discussion of GC×GC characterization and comparison of the volatile composition of berries of different blue...
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A Set of Low-power Microcontroller-based Modules Used for Testing of Small Energy Measurement Methods
PublicationEstimation of energy consumption of low-power devices is not widely discussed in the scientific literature, but this topic is getting more and more popular. Evaluation process of newly developed methods and instrumentation requires carefull treatment. In order to fulfill this niche, the set of micro-power microcontroller based devices was proposed. The devices represent typical energy consuption profiles and allow experimental verification...
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Extension of the Force Matching Method to Anisotropic Coarse-Grained Transferable Force Fields: Application to the Unres Model of Proteins
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Extension of the Unres Package for Physics-Based Coarse-Grained Simulations of Proteins and Protein Complexes to Very Large Systems
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Molecular simulation study of cooperativity in hydrophobic association: clusters of four hydrophobic particles
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Erratum to “Molecular simulation study of cooperativity in hydrophobic association: clusters of four hydrophobic particles” [Biophys. Chem. 105 (2003) 339–359]
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NMR studies of new arginine vasopressin analogs modified with α-2-indanylglycine enantiomers at position 2 bound to sodium dodecyl sulfate micelles
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Molecular Determinants of Proton Transfer in ATP Synthase FO Complex
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Molecular modelling of amphotericin B-ergosterol primary complex in water
PublicationBadano właściwości pierwotnego kompleksu amfoterycyny B z ergosterolem przy pomocy symulacji dynamiki molekularnej. Otrzymane w wyniku naszych symulacji rezultaty słabo odpowiadają postulowanym przez innych autorów modelom kompleksu antybiotyk-sterol. Z drugiej strony uzyskane geometrie nie są sprzeczne z wynikami eksperymentów biofizycznych dotyczących powstawania kompleksów w wodzie i w środowisku wodno-alkoholowym.
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Lateral diffusion coefficients in membranes measured by resonance energy transfer and a new algorithm for diffusion in two dimentions
PublicationOpisano wyniki pomiarów współczynników dyfuzji w membranach przy wykorzystaniu rezonansowego przekazywania energii wzbudzania. Donorem był kompleks metaloorganiczny renu o czasie życia ok. 3ćs, co pozwalało na pomiary współczynników dyfuzji mniejszych od 10 cm2/s. Zmierzono współczynniki dyfuzji w membranach typu DMPG i DOPC w różnych temperaturach.
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Protochlorophyllide in model systems — An approach to in vivo conditions
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Molecular organization of antifungal antibiotic amphotericin B in lipid monolayers studied by means of Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy
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Syntheses and DNA binding of new cationic porphyrin–tetrapeptide conjugates
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Binding of new cationic porphyrin–tetrapeptide conjugates to nucleoprotein complexes
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Arbidol targeting influenza virus A Hemagglutinin; A comparative study
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Molecular modeling of amphotericin B - ergosterol primary complex in water II
PublicationPrezentowane badania dotyczą oddziaływania antybiotyku polienowego anfoterycyny B (AmB) i ergosterolu (ERG) (typowego sterolu błonowego komórek grzybowych) na poziomie molekularnym. W odróżnieniu od badanego poprzednio kompleksu binarnego analizowany obecnie kompleks AnB/ERG/AmB charakteryzuje się zdecydowanie wiekszą stabilnością i wzglednie sztywną, sandwiczową geometrią. Za trwałość i geometrie kompleksu odpowiedzialne są oddziaływania...
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Generalization of the Elastic Network Model for the Study of Large Conformational Changes in Proteins
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The Effect of Sterols on Amphotericin B Self-Aggregation in a Lipid Bilayer as Revealed by Free Energy Simulations
PublicationAmphotericin B (AmB) is an effective but toxic antifungal drug, known to increase the permeability of the cell membrane, presumably by assembling into transmembrane pores in a sterol-dependent manner. The aggregation of AmB molecules in a phospholipid bilayer is, thus, crucial for the drug’s activity. To provide an insight into the molecular nature of this process, here, we report an atomistic molecular dynamics simulation study...
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On the mechanism of nitrobenzene liquid membrane oscillators containing hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide
PublicationBadano oscylacje różnicy potencjałów elektrycznych między fazami wodnymi oscylatora z membraną ciekłą, zawierającego kwas pikrynowy rozpuszczony w nitrobezenie. Wodnej fazie donorowej znajdował się kationowy surfaktant, zaś faza akceptorowa składała się z wodnego roztworu sacharozy. Zaproponowano mechanizm oscylacji składajacy się z trzech etapów. Zaproponowano procesy zachodzące w każdym etapie. Stwierdzono, że procesy adsorpcji...
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Influence of a lipid bilayer on the conformational behavior of amphotericin B derivatives - A molecular dynamics study.
PublicationAmphotericin B (AmB) is an effective but very toxic antifungal antibiotic. In our laboratory a series of AmB derivatives of improved selectivity of action was synthesized and tested. To understand molecular basis of this improvement, comparative conformational studies of amphotericin B and its two more selectivederivatives were carried out in an aqueous solution and in a lipid membrane. These molecular simulation studies revealed...
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Amyloid fibril formation in the presence of water structure-affecting solutes
PublicationThe impact of the differently hydrated non-electrolytes (protein structure destabilizers) on the fibrillation of hen egg white lysozyme (HEWL) was investigated. Two isomeric urea derivatives i.e. butylurea (BU) and N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylurea (TMU) were chosen as a tested compounds. The obtained results show that butylurea exerts greater impact on HEWL and its fibrillation than tetramethylurea. Both substances decrease the time of...
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Sequence-dependent structural properties of B-DNA: what have we learned in 40 years?
PublicationThe structure of B-DNA, the physiological form of the DNA molecule, has been a central topic in biology, chemistry and physics. Far from uniform and rigid, the double helix was revealed as a flexible and structurally polymorphic molecule. Conformational changes that lead to local and global changes in the helix geometry are mediated by a complex choreography of base and backbone rearrangements affecting the ability of the B-DNA...