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A body position influence on ECG derived respiration
PublicationAn influence of a human body position on ECG derived respiration (EDR) signal is presented in the paper. Examinations were performed during deep, suspended and normal breathing for eight people in four different body positions. EDR and thoracic impedance signals were compared using correlation and standard deviation coefficients. Obtained results have shown that it is possible to monitor breath activity of people being in different...
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International Conference on Image and Signal Processing
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International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing
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Educational Dataset of Handheld Doppler Blood Flow Recordings
PublicationVital signals registration plays a significant role in biomedical engineering and education process. Well acquired data allow future engineers to observe certain physical phenomena as well learn how to correctly process and interpret the data. This dataset was designed for students to learn about Doppler phenomena and to demonstrate correctly and incorrectly acquired signals as well as the basic methods of signal processing. This...
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Mechanical properties of sisal fiber-reinforced soybean oil-based polyurethane biocomposites
PublicationIn this paper the results of the mechanical properties of polyurethane biocomposites reinforced with short sisal fibers are presented. The fillers were added in different amount: 5, 10 and 15% by mass. Tensile test, hardness, abrasion resistance, elasticity were determined according to the standards.
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How to adapt Lean Six Sigma to improve performance of SMEs of manufacturing sector
PublicationThe main objective of the paper is to present the utilitarian effect of the adaptation of the Lean Six Sigma concept and its implementation in the small and medium-sized enterprises of the manufacturing sector. The original methodology was developed on the basis of research carried out in the Polish and French enterprises from 2009 to 2011. In the case of SMEs, the use of the concept of Lean Six Sigma is much less common, as...
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Assessment of preparedness for Lean Six Sigma projects in small and medium-sized organizations
PublicationThe article presents a proposal for the maturity indicator of Lean Six Sigma projects within the framework of the original comprehensive methodology of Lean Six Sigma implementation dedicated to the SME sector. The indicator allows an LSS project to be matched to the real needs and preparedness of any small or medium-sized organization. The indicator was designed as a result of pilot research conducted in Polish and French SMEs...
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The new footbridge in city of Cracow dynamic design and final verification in test loading
PublicationArtykuł przedstawia rozwój projektu kładki od formy architektonicznej do ostatecznego kształtu konstrukcji.
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Synthesis of Fentanyl Triazole Derivatives and their Affinity for Mu-Opioid and Sigma-1 Receptors
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Long Distance Vital Signs Monitoring with Person Identification for Smart Home Solutions
PublicationAbstract— Imaging photoplethysmography has already been proved to be successful in short distance (below 1m). However, most of the real-life use cases of measuring vital signs require the system to work at longer distances, to be both more reliable and convenient for the user. The possible scenarios that system designers must have in mind include monitoring of the vital signs of residents in nursing homes, disabled people, who...
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LSS Plutus - Lean Six Sigma dla małych i średnich przedsiębiorstw
PublicationKsiążka w przystępny sposób prezentuje metodykę adaptującą koncepcję Lean Six Sigma do potrzeb małych i średnich przedsiębiorstw w Polsce. Autorzy pracy zwracają jednocześnie uwagę na specyfikę tego sektora w naszym kraju, przedstawiając jednocześnie przykłady dobrych praktyk stosowanych z powodzeniem w przedsiębiorstwach francuskich.
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Effect of sisal fiber filler on thermal properties of bio-based polyurethane composites
PublicationThis work is mainly focused on study of thermal and thermomechanical properties of obtained bio-based polyurethane (coded as bio-PU) composites via using different types of bio-components (bio-glycol, modified soybean oil and sisal fiber) in the procedure. The chemical structure, morphology and mechanical properties were also investigated and described in this manuscript in order to know more perfect characterization of produced...
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Automatyzacja procesów pomiarowych w metodyce Six Sigma w sektorze MŚP
PublicationCelem niniejszego artykułu jest przedstawienie metrologicznych aspektówmetodyki Six Sigma w świetle nowoczesnych rozwiązań technologicznych.Pomiary są nieodłącznym elementem metodyki Six Sigma, gdyż na ich bazieprowadzi się nadzorowanie procesów produkcyjnych. Tradycyjne metody pomiarowe mogą występować w produkcji jednostkowej, natomiast produkcjaseryjna i masowa wymaga automatyzacji procesów pomiarowych.
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Analog fault signature based on sigma-delta modulation and oscillation-test methodology.
PublicationW artykule dokonano przeglądu prac z zakresu testowania układów elektronicznych metodą oscylacyjną. Wskazując na niedostatki aktualnie stosowanej techniki testowania oscylacyjnego zaproponowano nową sygnaturę uszkodzeń dla układów analogowych. Proponowany parametr diagnostyczny jest wydobywany z odpowiedzi czasowej oscylatora testującego, w układzie złożonym z detektora szczytowego, modulatora sigma-delta oraz licznika rewersyjnego....
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Examining the Impact of Distance Between VSL Road Signs on Vehicle Speed Variance
PublicationVariable speed limit (VSL) is an intelligent transportation system (ITS) solution for traffic management. The speed limits can be changed dynamically to adapt to traffic conditions such as visibility and traffic volume, curvature, and grip coefficient of the road surface. The VSL traffic sign location problem and attempts to solve it using computer simulation are presented in this paper. Experiments on a selected road segment,...
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Automatic Classification of Polish Sign Language Words
PublicationIn the article we present the approach to automatic recognition of hand gestures using eGlove device. We present the research results of the system for detection and classification of static and dynamic words of Polish language. The results indicate the usage of eGlove allows to gain good recognition quality that additionally can be improved using additional data sources such as RGB cameras.
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Adversarial attack algorithm for traffic sign recognition
PublicationDeep learning suffers from the threat of adversarial attacks, and its defense methods have become a research hotspot. In all applications of deep learning, intelligent driving is an important and promising one, facing serious threat of adversarial attack in the meanwhile. To address the adversarial attack, this paper takes the traffic sign recognition as a typical object, for it is the core function of intelligent driving. Considering...
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Cichy sonar - stan aktualny i perspektywy
PublicationW zastosowaniach militarnych często istnieje potrzeba prowadzenia obserwacji w sposób skryty za pomocą urządzeń emitujących sygnały trudne do przechwycenia przez przeciwnika. Rozwiązania stosowane w cichych radarach stanowiły punkt wyjścia do opracowania cichego sonaru. Prace nad projektem rozpoczęto na Politechnice Gdańskiej w roku 2010 w ramach Grantu NCBiR i są one dalej kontynuowane. W celu zachowania w cichym sonarze warunków...
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Pipelined division of signed numbers with the use of residue arithmetic for small number range with the programmable gate array
PublicationIn this work an architecture of the pipelined signed residue divider for the small number range is presented. Its operation is based on reciprocal calculation and multiplication by the dividend. The divisor in the signed binary form is used to compute the approximated reciprocal in the residue form by the table look-up. In order to limit the look-up table address an algorithm based on segmentation of the divisor into two segments...
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Experimental investigations and prediction of WEDMed surface of nitinol SMA using SinGAN and DenseNet deep learning model
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Objectivization of phonological evaluation of speech elements by means of audio parametrization
PublicationThis study addresses two issues related to both machine- and subjective-based speech evaluation by investigating five phonological phenomena related to allophone production. Its aim is to use objective parametrization and phonological classification of the recorded allophones. These allophones were selected as specifically difficult for Polish speakers of English: aspiration, final obstruent devoicing, dark lateral /l/, velar nasal...
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Badanie rozkładów parametrów sygnału mowy w zastosowaniach do prognozowania prawdopodobieństwa popełnienia błędów w systemach identyfikacji mówców = Examining distribution of speech signal parameters for the prognosis of error probability in speaker verification systems
PublicationPrzedmiotem pracy jest system identyfikacji mówców w sposób zależny od tekstu ("text dependent''). Dokonano analizy wielu różnych wypowiedzi kilkudziesięciu mówców. Zastosowana metoda parametryzacji to metoda oparta na wynikach analizy cepstralnej sygnału mowy. Zdefiniowane zostały nowe parametry skojarzone z elementarnymi zdarzeniami w procesie weryfikacji mówców. Na tej podstawie dokonano estymacji funkcji gęstości prawdopodobieństwa...
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Application of IR UWB Spectrum Shaping to IEEE 802.15.4a Standard
PublicationCoexistence of existing narrowband systems and new ultra wideband devices in the same frequency range requires using some interference mitigation techniques, for example based on spectrum shaping. This paper presents efficiency of impulse radio spectrum shaping methods, applied to IEEE 802.15.4a UWB alternate physical layer signals. Basic parameters of 802.15.4a signal structure and outline of proposed spectrum shaping methods...
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Comparison of Doppler Effect Estimation Methods for MFSK Transmission in Multipath Hydroacoustic Channel
PublicationUnderwater wireless communication remains a challenging topic, particularly for applications such as wreck penetration where multipath and Doppler effects are very intense. These effects are becoming even more difficult to mitigate for fast data transmission systems that utilize wideband signals. Due to the low propagation speed of acoustic wave in the water, there is a significant difference between the Doppler shift for lower...
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The development of an underwater telephone for digital communication purposes
PublicationThe underwater telephone HTL-10 has been designed to provide voice and data communication between helicopter and submarines using acoustic waves. It works in a half-duplex mode and uses analogue power-efficient modulation in the form of a single side-band, suppressed carrier, in a wide range of frequencies. It generates the transmitted signal, and processes the received signals. It is implemented with the use of digital signal...
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Assessment of particular abdominal aorta section extraction from contrast-enhanced computed tomography angiography
PublicationThe aim of this work is to improve the accuracy of extraction of a particular abdominal aorta section and to reduce the distortion in three-dimensional Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA) images. Imaging modality and quality plays crucial role in the medical diagnostic process, thus ensuring high quality of images is essential at every stage of acquisition and processing.Noise is defined as a disturbance of the image quality...
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Improving the quality of speech in the conditions of noise and interference
PublicationThe aim of the work is to present a method of intelligent modification of the speech signal with speech features expressed in noise, based on the Lombard effect. The recordings utilized sets of words and sentences as well as disturbing signals, i.e., pink noise and the so-called babble speech. Noise signal, calibrated to various levels at the speaker's ears, was played over two loudspeakers located 2 m away from the speaker. In...
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Acoustic emission signals in concrete beams under 3-point bending (polyolefin and steel fibre concrete)
Open Research DataThe DataSet contains the results of the mechanical behaviour of concrete beams with dimensions 40 x 40 x 160 cm3 under the 3-point bending. All specimens were manufactured based on the same concrete mixture composed of cement CEM I 42.5R (380 kg/m3), water (165 kg/m3), aggregate 0/2 mm (648 kg/m3), aggregate 2/8 mm (426 kg/m3), aggregate 8/16 mm (754...
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Acoustic emission signals in concrete beams under 3-point bending (beams #1, #2, #3)
Open Research DataThe DataSet contains the results of the mechanical behaviour of concrete beams with dimensions 40 x 40 x 160 cm3under the 3-point bending. The beams were made of concrete with the following ingredients: cement CEM I 42.5R (330 kg/m3), aggregate 0/2 mm (710 kg/m3), aggregate 2/8 mm (664 kg/m3), aggregate 8/16 mm (500 kg/m3), water (165 kg/m3) and super-plasticizer...
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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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Selected properties and parameters of radio channel impulse response estimation in ISM 2.4 GHz band
PublicationThe article presents experimental research indicating that the impulse response of the communication channel, determined in practice, are not of an universal character, but only represent its approximate value for the frequency on which this measurement was made. Phases for each of the replicas of the measurement signal were determined during the analysis of the received signals in the baseband. Phase changes of individual replicas...
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Transient detection for speech coding applications
PublicationSignal quality in speech codecs may be improved by selecting transients from speech signal and encoding them using a suitable method. This paper presents an algorithm for transient detection in speech signal. This algorithm operates in several frequency bands. Transient detection functions are calculated from energy measured in short frames of the signal. The final selection of transient frames is based on results of detection...
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Assessment of the Small Enterprise’s Maturity to Improvement Projects Based on the Lean Six Sigma Concept
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Six Sigma w małych i średnich przedsiębiorstwach. Puste hasło czy konieczność?
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono aspekty wykorzystania w sektorze małych i średnich przedsiębiorstw (MŚP) elementów koncepcji Six Sigma. Celem tego opracowania jest ocena potrzeb i uwarunkowań aplikacyjnych koncepcji Six Sigma w sektorze MŚP, zwłaszcza w nawiązaniu do bazujących na podejściu procesowym systemów zarządzania jakością. Zaprezentowano charakterystyczne cechy mniejszych organizacji, stanowiące w kontekście programów Six Sigma...
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Zastosowanie metody SIX SIGMA do analizy półfabrykatów łożysk ślizgowych turbin parowych
PublicationObecnie w różnych dziedzinach życia, rónież w przemyśle, zaobserwowano coraz większe zainteresowanie zagadnieniami związanymi z metodą usprawniania procesów SIX SIGMA. Podjęto decyzję, aby także podczas produkcji łożysk ślizgowych do turbin parowych przeprowadzić konstrukcyjno-technologiczną analizę półfabrykatów pod względem ich różnorodności, użytych gatunków materiału, cyklu dostawy oraz czasu związanego z dalszym przebiegiem...
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Characterization of small and medium enterprises (SMES) of Pomeranian Region in six sigma methodology application
PublicationThe paper presents the rarely researched and important issue for SMEs competitiveness - knowledge and practical application of Six Sigma methodology. The results of research conducted by Authors allow to answer the question - to what degree SMEs of Pomeranian region are aware of importance and prepared for systemic control and improvement of their processes?W opracowaniu poruszono istotne, z punktu widzenia podnoszenia konkurencyjności...
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Effect of Active Mining Impact On Properties with Engineering Structures – Forecast and Final Result Discrepancies
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Simultaneous siRNA-mediated silencing of pairs of genes coding for enzymes involved in glycosaminoglycan synthesis.
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Non-causal final impulse response filters for the maximum return from capital markets
PublicationW artykule rozważa się strategię operacji na rynkach kapitałowych, która polega na kupowaniu lub sprzedawaniu instrumentu finansowego, kiedy sygnał wyjściowy nie-przyczynowego filtru o skończonej odpowiedzi impulsowej osiąga odpowiednio minimum lub maksimum. Celem artykułu jest wyznaczenie "najlepszego" nie-przyczynowego filtru o skończonej odpowiedzi impulsowej (FIR), który zapewnia maksymalną stopę zwrotu z rynku przy użyciu...
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Model integracji koncepcji Lean Management i Six Sigma w sektorze MŚP
PublicationW opracowaniu przedstawiono propozycję metodyki wprowadzania i wykorzystania elementów koncepcji Lean Six Sigma w sektorze MŚP. Metodyka została poddana weryfikacji w średniej wielkości francuskiej firmie produkcyjnej. Wnioski płynace z tej weryfikacji przyczyniły się do udoskonalenia proponowanych rozwiązań
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HOW TO ASSESS THE MATURITY OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES TO LEAN SIX SIGMA PROJECTS
PublicationThis article describes the considerations for the implementation of the Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodology in small and medium-sized enterprises. Pilot research was conducted in Polish and French SMEs (nine Polish and nine French enterprises from the service and production sectors) referring to the context of the implementation and application of the Lean Six Sigma concept. The studies led to the identification of the motives, needs,...
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The impacts of final demands changes on the total outputs of Japanese industrial sectors: A further study
PublicationThe purpose of the current study is to expand the previous studies which analyze the impacts of final demands changes on the total outputs of industrial sectors of a specific country. More specifically, the study conducts the analysis regarding the impacts on the total outputs of Japanese industries. The study employs a demand-pull Input-Output (IO) quantity model, one of the calculation tools in the IO analysis. The study focuses...
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Assessment of the Small Enterprise’s Maturity to Improvement Projects Based on the Lean Six Sigma Concept
PublicationThis paper explores the methodology to assess the maturity of small enterprise of building masonry sector to implement integrated approach of Lean Six Sigma. For this purpose survey data from senior managers were used. Quantitative method of the case organization’s needs and capabilities in the scope of Lean Six Sigma project implementation was applied. The value of maturity indicator for Lean Six Sigma projects dedicated to the...
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The impacts of final demands changes on the total outputs of Japanese industrial sectors: A further study
PublicationThe purpose of the current study is to expand the previous studies which analyze the impacts of final demands changes on the total outputs of industrial sectors of a specific country. More specifically, the study conducts the analysis regarding the impacts on the total outputs of Japanese industries. The study employs a demand-pull Input-Output (IO) quantity model, one of the calculation tools in the IO analysis. The study focuses...
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Parallel multithread computing for spectroscopic analysis in optical coherence tomography
PublicationSpectroscopic Optical Coherence Tomography (SOCT) is an extension of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). It allows gathering spectroscopic information from individual scattering points inside the sample. It is based on time-frequency analysis of interferometric signals. Such analysis requires calculating hundreds of Fourier transforms while performing a single A-scan. Additionally, further processing of acquired spectroscopic information...
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Receiver of Doppler multistatic system for moving target detection and tracking
PublicationThe article presents a method for solving major structural problems that occur in the receiver used in the multistatic Doppler system, aimed at determination of the trajectory and velocity of a moving target. In the system two transmitters emit acoustic continuous sinusoidal waves at different frequencies. The signals, scattered from a moving target are received by four hydrophones. Beside of the echoes, much larger signals coming...
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Ultrasonic spectroscopy of silicon single crystal
PublicationSpecimens of Si single crystals with different crystal orientation [100] and [110] were studied by the electro-ultrasonic spectroscopy (EUS) and Resonant Ultrasonic Spectroscopy (RUS). A silicon single crystal is an anisotropic crystal, so its properties are different in different directions in the material relative to the crystal orientation. EUS is based on interaction of two signals: electric AC signal and ultrasonic signal,...
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Duration of disability, functional independence, coping styles and the quality of life in patients with spinal cord injury – Pilot study
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Języki migowe w Finlandii [Sign languages in Finland]
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An additional ultrasonographic sign of Hashimoto’s lymphocytic thyroiditis in children
PublicationWe present an additional sonographic sign of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HLT), increasing the specifi city of this method in pediatric populations. Methods: A total of 98 children (mean age 12.7 years, range 7–17 years) were selected from the registry of the endocrinology outpatient department. All subjects met the diagnostic criteria for HLT. All children underwent a prospective thyroid ultrasound examination with special attention...