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  • Metals in the environment as risk factors for infectious diseases: gaps and opportunities

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    • M. Ackland
    • J. Bornhorst
    • G. V. Dedoussis
    • R. R. Dieter
    • J. Nriagu
    • J. Pacyna
    • J. M. Pettifor

    - Year 2015

    This chapter aims to provide insights into current knowledge and gaps in our understanding of the influence that trace metals in the environment have on the pathogenesis of infectious diseases. By reducing immune function, trace metal deficiencies may substantially contribute to the global burden of diarhea, pneumonia, and malaria. Improved methods and biomarkers for assessing the risk of trace metals deficiencies and toxicities...

  • Self-organizing wireless monitoring system for cargo containers

    This paper presents a description of new global monitoring system for containers with its layer-modular structure, as a solution for enhance security and efficiency of container transport with particular emphasis on the practical implementation of that system for maritime container terminals. Especially the Smart Container Module (SCM) architecture and its operation as a part of the Self-Organizing ContainerMonitoring Network is...

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  • ANALYSIS OF BONE WEDGE DIMENSIONS SELECTION METHODS IN HIGH TIBIAL OSTEOTOMY

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    The article presents the analysis of methods for selecting dimensions of bone wedge for high tibial osteotomy. The existing methods are described along with the procedure. In the following paragraphs, deficiencies in the selection of bone wedge dimensions and global trends in this field have been demonstrated. Based on the numerical analysis, the problem appearing in the wrong choice of bone wedge imensions was illustrated.

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  • Adaptive Sampling for Non-intrusive Reduced Order Models Using Multi-Task Variance

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    - Year 2024

    Non-intrusive reduced order modeling methods (ROMs) have become increasingly popular for science and engineering applications such as predicting the field-based solutions for aerodynamic flows. A large sample size is, however, required to train the models for global accuracy. In this paper, a novel adaptive sampling strategy is introduced for these models that uses field-based uncertainty as a sampling metric. The strategy uses...

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  • Polystyrene/polybutadiene blends: an analysis of the phase inversion regionand cophase continuity and a comparison with theoretical predictions.

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    - JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE - Year 2003

    Mieszaniny przygotowano przez mieszanie w stopie. Występowanie jednego lubobu polimerów w postaci fazy ciągłej stwierdzano przez badanie morfologii przy pomocy skaningowego mikroskopu elektronowego i przez rozpuszczanie jednego ze składników mieszaniny. Badania morfologii mieszanin wykazały, że polistyren występował w postaci globul przy jego zawartości do 30%. Przy zawartości od 40% do 60% obserwowano fazy ciągłe obu...

  • New technologies using Trace Metals of Concern

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    - Year 2015

    This chapter discusses the occurrence, material flows, technical applications of and pollution by platinum, palladium, thallium, rare earth elements, gold , silver, and antimony, all of which are essential for global economic growth. Modern technology relies on theses chemicals for the production of various industrial goods. however, their use releases pollutants into the environment, thus posing a threat to human health.

  • On a Method of Efficiency Increasing in Kaplan Turbine

    This paper presents a method of increasing efficiency in Kaplan-type turbine. The method is based on blade profile optimisation together with modelling the interaction between rotor and stator blades. Loss coefficient was chosen as the optimisation criterion, which is related directly to efficiency. Global optimum was found by means of Genetic Algorithms, and Artificial Neural Networks were utilised for approximations to reduce...

  • BADANIE I ANALIZA WYBRANYCH PARAMETRÓW UŻYTKOWYCH NAZIEMNEGO SYSTEMU RADIOLOKALIZACYJNEGO AEGIR

    Mimo olbrzymiej popularności radionawigacyjnych systemów satelitarnych GNSS (Global Navigation Satelite System), naziemne systemy radiolokalizacyjne są cały czas rozwijane. W artykule przedstawiono wyniki analizy wybranych parametrów użytkowych systemu AEGIR, który powstał w ramach projektu badawczo-rozwojowego numer O R00 0049 06 w latach 2009-2011.

  • Special Issue: Recent Advances in Corrosion Science

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    - Materials - Year 2020

    The dynamic development of the global industry and growing demand for new material technologies generates constantly increasing problems regarding premature material degradation and the requirement to determine corrosion mechanisms and to develop new protection/evaluation approaches. This Special Issue, “Recent Advances in Corrosion Science”, brings together fourteen articles and one review, providing a snapshot of the recent activity...

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  • Homoclinics for singular strong force Lagrangian systems

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    We study the existence of homoclinic solutions for a class of generalized Lagrangian systems in the plane, with a C1-smooth potential with a single well of infinite depth at a point ξ and a unique strict global maximum 0 at the origin.Under a strong force condition around the singular point ξ, via minimization of an action integral, we will prove the existence of at least two geometrically distinct homoclinic solutions.

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  • Functional specialisation and economic upgrading in GVCs

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    The dataset collected for selected Central Eastern European (CEE) countries (CZE, EST, HUN, LVA, LTU, POL, SVK, SVN) contains country-level and sector-level observations for the project implementation linked to the concept of functional specialization of economies. The aim of the project is to identify patterns of functional specialisation in global...

  • Iranian future healthcare professionals’ knowledge and opinions about rare diseases: cross‑sectional study

    Background: Rare diseases are a new global health priority, requiring evidence-based estimates of the global prevalenceof diseases to inform public policymakers and provide a serious challenge to the healthcare system that must not be ignored. The purpose of this study is to investigate Iranian future healthcare professionals’ knowledge and opinions about rare diseases.Results: A total of 6838 students responded...

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  • Analysis of nonlinear eigenvalue problems for guides and resonators in microwave and terahertz technology

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    - Year 2023

    This dissertation presents developed numerical tools for investigating waveguides and resonators' properties for microwave and terahertz technology. The electromagnetics analysis requires solving complex eigenvalue problems, representing various parameters such as resonant frequency or propagation coefficient. Solving equations with eigenvalue boils down to finding the roots of the determinant of the matrix. At the beginning, one...

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  • Anaerobic consortia mediate Mn(IV)-dependent anaerobic oxidation of methane

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    - CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL - Year 2023

    Manganese-dependent anaerobic oxidation of methane (Mn-AOM) is a major methane sink and vital to mitigating global warming. However, it is difficult for microorganisms to mediate electron transfer between the hardly dissolved CH4 and insoluble Mn(IV) minerals, leading to poor understanding of species mediating Mn-AOM. This study successfully enriched an anaerobic consortium mediating AOM driven by Mn-dependent respiratory growth,...

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  • An approach to improve the time efficiency of disjoint paths calculation

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    - Year 2015

    Failures of network elements can be appropriately dealt with by utilization of alternate disjoint paths to provide redirection of flows affected by failures of the respective working paths. Known approaches can be broadly divided by decision on backup paths installation into proactive and reactive mechanisms, as well as based on the scope of recovery actions into local and global rerouting. There are several important scenarios...

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  • On the crack front curvature in bonded joints

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    - THEORETICAL AND APPLIED FRACTURE MECHANICS - Year 2012

    Standard tests of adhesively bonded specimens are likely to produce heterogeneous stress distribution along the crack front and its vicinity. High separation rate mode I dominated fracture test is performed.Observation of post mortem fractured surfaces with an optical microscope reveals characteristic features of mixed mode I/III fracture near the sides of the specimen but not in the middle. At first, finite elements calculations...

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  • Abilities, Motivations, and Opportunities of Furloughed Employees in the Context of Covid-19: Preliminary Evidence From the UK

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    - Frontiers in Psychology - Year 2021

    The Covid-19 global pandemic is a crisis like no other, forcing governments to implement prolonged national lockdowns in an effort to limit the spread of the disease. As organizations aim to adapt and remain operational, employers can suspend or reduce work activity for events related to Covid-19 and claim government support to subsidize employee wages. In this way, some employees are placed on furlough (i.e., temporary unemployment)...

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  • 3D Vision System for a Robotic Arm Based on Equal Baseline Camera Array

    This paper presents a lightweight 3D vision system called Equal Baseline Camera Array (EBCA). EBCA can work in different light conditions and it can be applied for measuring large range of distances. The system is a useful alternative to other known distance measuring devices such as structured-light 3D scanners, time-of-flight cameras, Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) devices and structure from motion techniques. EBCA can be...

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  • Homoclinic orbits for a class of singular second order Hamiltonian systems in ℝ3

    We consider a conservative second order Hamiltonian system \ddot{q}+ ∇V(q)=0 in R3 with a potential V having a global maximum at the origin and a line l ∩ {0} = ∅ as a set of singular points. Under a certain compactness condition on V at infinity and a strong force condition at singular points we study, by the use of variational methods and geometrical arguments, the existence of homoclinic solutions of the system.

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  • Efficient Complex Root Tracing Algorithm for Propagation and Radiation Problems

    An efficient complex root tracing algorithm for propagation and radiation problems is presented. The proposed approach is based on a discretization of Cauchy’s Argument Principle and its generalization to the C × R space. Moreover, an engagement of the tracing process with a global root finding algorithm recently presented in the literature is performed. In order to confirm a validity and efficiency of the proposed technique, a...

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  • Alternative Energy: Photovoltaic Solar Cells

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    Solar radiation is a fuel for photovoltaic cells and modules, which are a source of electric energy. Viable solar technologies that have been developed in the past are starting to be adopted on a broader and more meaningful global scale across different sectors with ever-increasing market penetration. In this entry, a brief overview of the material properties relevant to solar cell operation, the structure of the solar cell, and electrical...

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  • ARCHITECTURE IN BRANDING AND OVERBRANDING PROCESS. HOW GLOBALIZATION INFLUENCED ARCHITECTURE QUALITY.

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    - Year 2014

    Globalization is unification. In the field of architecture and in the social structure alike, the globalization leads to a blending of economies and cultures that produces uniformly branded public space as a response to universal assumptions of integration and correlation. While branding consists in creating a recognizable and outstanding image a strong contradiction exists between both of these approaches. As a result, regional...

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  • Ryszard Dąbrowski verstorben.

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    - Year 2004

    Przedstawiono życiorys oraz osiągnięcia zawodowe i naukowe zmarłego profesora, który poprzez swoje publikacje rozwijał twórczo teorię konstrukcji inżynierskich. Wobec licznego publikowania także w językach obcych, znany był w skali globu.

  • Budownictwo morskie na progu XXI wieku

    Przeanalizowano zjawiska globalne (przyrost ludności, zapotrzebowania na energię i bilans cieplny na ziemi) i na tej podstawie określono zadania stojące przed budownictwem morskim w najbliższej przyszłości. Zadania te to: tworzenie nowych powierzchni lądu w celu dociążenia istniejących aglomeracji nadmorskich, eksploatacja podmorskich złóż węglowodorów, wykorzystanie energii wiatru, falowania morskiego, pływów i prądów morskich...

  • The existence and multiplicity of heteroclinic and homoclinic orbits for a class of singular Hamiltonian systems in R^2

    W niniejszej pracy badamy autonomiczne układy Hamiltona na płaszczyźnie z potencjałem, który ma punkt osobliwy x, globalne minimum równe zero osiągane w punktach a i b różnych od x oraz spełnia warunek typu Gordona w otoczeniu punktu osobliwego. Wykorzystując metody wariacyjne i pojęcie rotacji krzywej wykazaliśmy, że istnieją co najmniej dwa rozwiązania, które omijają punkt osobliwy i łączą {a,b} z {a,b}.

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  • Wykorzystanie Data Envelopment Analysis do porównania polityki wiekowej w krajach Unii Europejskiej

    Celem artykułu jest zbudowanie modelu, bazującego na Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), pozwalającego na porównanie działań związanych z polityką wiekową w krajach Unii Europejskiej. Zastosowano model z ograniczeniami na wagi, pozwalający na stworzenie rankingu i określenie kierunków kształtowania polityki wiekowej. Wykorzystano dane pochodzące z bazy danych Global AgeWatch Index 2013.

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  • Two families of infinitely many homoclinics for singular strong force Hamiltonian systems

    We are concerned with a planar autonomous Hamiltonian system with a potential possessing a single well of infinite depth at a point X and a unique strict global maximum 0 at a point A. Under a strong force condition around the singularity X, via minimization of an action integral and using a shadowing chain lemma together with simple geometrical arguments, we prove the existence of infinitely many geometrically distinct homoclinic...

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  • Reception of GNSS Signals Under Jamming Conditions

    The article focuses on performance of Global Navigation Satellite System receivers in environment where intentional interference is present. First part is a general description of GNSS systems. Secondly, types of positioning service disturbances are specified. In the third part authors present a scheme of measurement stand which is used to evaluate the influence of interference on reception of navigation signals. Next, research...

  • Analiza przestrzenna sprzedaży paliw

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    Ze względu na zmieniające się warunki i niepewność ekonomiczną gospodarowania, przeprowadzane badania dotyczące popytu na paliwa płynne dotyczą głównie zmian popytu w czasie, rzadziej w przestrzeni. Jednak rozwój narzędzi ekonometrycznych, który dokonał się w latach dziewięćdziesiątych, umożliwił nie tylko badania zmian popytu wynikające ze związków przyczynowo-skutkowych zachodzących w czasie, ale również w przestrzeni oraz w...

  • Michal Piechowicz dr

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    Adjunct at the Department of European Studies at the Faculty of Political Science and Security Studies. Doctoral thesis defended in 2011. Author of publications in the field of European integration and security. Research interests focus on issues related to the decision-making processes and EU defense and security policy issues. I'm visiting the CEEs constantly. My ongoing and future-oriented goal is establishing research and trust-based...

  • Smart sustainable cities : Reconnaissance Study

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    - Year 2016

    The global urban population is expected to grow by 63 percent between 2014 and 2050 – compared to an overall global population growth of 32 percent during the same period. Megacities with over 20-million inhabitants will see the fastest increase in population – and at least 13 new megacities are expected by 2030, in addition to the 28 existing today. The fastest growing urban centres contain around one-million inhabitants, and...

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  • Evaluation of time-efficiency of disjoint paths calculation schemes

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    - Year 2015

    The concept of alternate paths has been shown in the literature to provide fast response of a network to failures of its elements (nodes/links) affecting flows along the primary communication paths. Various approaches have been proposed to reduce the time necessary to redirect the respective flows onto the alternate paths. In this paper, we focus on another important objective, that so far has not received much attention, i.e.,...

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  • Changing patterns in export of goods versus international competitiveness. A comparative analysis for Central-East European countries in the period 2000-2011.

    This paper discusses the existing links between changing patterns in the export of goods, broken down by technology-intensity, versus intrenational competitiveness. The study covers nine Central-East European (CEE) economies: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and the Slovak Republic, in the time span 2000-2011. We examine the hypothesis of a strong, positive and statistically significant...

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  • A strategy for GPS data processing in a precise local network during high solar activity

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    - GPS SOLUTIONS - Year 2003

    This paper presents the analyses connected with reduction of errors from ionospheric refraction using GPS data from local satellite networks. This is particularly essential during rising solar activity. The Bernese GPS Software v. 4.2 was used, as an analytical tool. The test data included measurements from a geodynamic network SUDETES situated in the Sudety Mountains across the border between the Czech Republic and Poland. A local...

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  • Review of International Standards and Policy Guidelines for Smart Sustainable Cities

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    - Year 2021

    Smart cities are often criticized for preoccupation with technology, for ignoring the negative effects of technology, for irrelevance to the needs of the poor, and for ubiquitous data collection creating perfect conditions for surveillance societies and autocratic states. In response, cities pursue smartness and sustainability simultaneously, becoming global (by participation in global digital networks) and local (by addressing...

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  • Historical crane on the redesigned original trestle bridge as a memorial of Gdansk Shipyard

    The paper includes selected aspects of the study, whose goal is to hold the historical crane 642-24 in its current location after the modification of trestle bridge static scheme. The scope of the paper includes the assessment of current technical condition of the object, a presentation of FEM analyses, a description of the assumed load cases, results of the static calculations, checking the effort of construction elements, global...

  • Wireless Systems of Threats Monitoring

    The concept of wireless system of threats monitoring with self-organizing network of multipurpose data transfer nodes are presented. Two practical applications of this system are also presented. The first of these is the Global Wireless Monitoring System for Containers, and the second is the Mobile Monitoring System for Gas Air Pollution Measurements. Presented practical applications of the wireless threats monitoring system is...

  • Zmiany w systemach jakości BRC dedykowanych producentom żywności

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    - MARKETING I RYNEK - Year 2016

    W artykule przedstawiono zmiany wprowadzone w najnowszych wersjach standardu BRC Food wersja 7 i BRC/IoP wersja 5. Na podstawie danych zamieszczonych w ogólnodostępnym katalogu „BRC Global Standards Directory” dokonano oceny stopnia certyfikacji polskich przedsiębiorstw wg standardu BRC Food. Przeprowadzono analizę liczby akredytowanych jednostek certyfikujących w Polsce z uwzględnieniem stopnia ich wydajności.

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  • Koncepcja międzynarodowej konkurencyjności makrootoczenia przedsiębiorstw

    Celem badań przedstawionych w niniejszym artykule jest opracowanie koncepcji konkurencyjności międzynarodowej (IC) krajów, której podstawą jest makroekonomiczne otoczenie przedsiębiorstw. Motywem podjęcia tych badań były poważne wady metodologii pomiaru IC gospodarek stosowanej przez Światowe Forum Ekonomiczne (WEF). WEF rekomenduje Globalny Indeks Konkurencyjności (GCI) jako globalną miarę produktywności kraju. WEF utrzymuje,...

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  • Cost-Efficient Globalized Parameter Optimization of Microwave Components through Response-Feature Surrogates and Nature-Inspired Metaheuristics

    Design of contemporary microwave devices predominantly utilizes computational models, including both circuit simulators, and full-wave electromagnetic (EM) evaluation. The latter constitutes the sole generic way of rendering accurate assessment of the system outputs that considers phenomena such as cross-coupling or radiation and dielectric losses. Consequently, for reliability reasons, the final tuning of microwave device parameters...

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  • Systemic analysis of a manufacturing process based on a small scale bakery

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    - Quality and Quantity - Year 2023

    The main aim of the article is to present two new innovative concepts of reliability of a functioning manufacturing system in the process of making bread in small-scale bakeries. Reliability is understood as one of the representations of an operator acting on specifc streams in time to - t. One of these represents the global reliability of a system as a function of parallel action of all the streams of the system in time to to...

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  • FulbrightSeniorAward The impact of trade exposure and global division of labor on product variety - evidence from Europe and the U.S (Fulbrigh Senior Award, realised at UC Berkeley)

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    Project manager: dr hab. inż. Aleksandra Parteka

    Project realized in Politechnika Gdańska - Katedra Ekonomii according to Fulbright Senior Award 2018 agreement from 2018-02-01

  • Time for temporariness! Temporary architecture - whim or necessity?

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    - Year 2016

    What are the qualities of temporary architectural objects that make them helpful instruments for evolving the image of contemporary urban space? Six hypotheses provide rationales for why current temporary architecture seems to be a remedy for dysfunctional city structures. The research was limited to the temporary architectural objects constructed in open-air city zones, including the architecture of events. The temporary objects'...

  • Diagnosis of Damage in a Steel Tank Model by Shaking Table Harmonic Tests

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    Diagnosis of damage in civil engineering structures has recently become an important issue in the safety assessment procedure. Among a number of different approaches, a method of measuring the changes in natural frequencies is one of the most effective indicators of global damage. It has been successfully applied to relatively small. structures, however, the tests on large structures are very difficult and the practical application...

  • Changes of Conformation in Albumin with Temperature by Molecular Dynamics Simulations

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    • P. Weber
    • P. Bełdowski
    • K. Domino
    • D. Ledziński
    • A. Gadomski

    - ENTROPY - Year 2020

    This work presents the analysis of the conformation of albumin in the temperature range of 300K – 312K, i.e., in the physiological range. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we calculate values of the backbone and dihedral angles for this molecule. We analyze the global dynamic properties of albumin treated as a chain. In this range of temperature, we study parameters of the molecule and the conformational entropy derived from...

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  • An Optimal Power Point Tracking Algorithm in a Solar PV Generation System

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    - Acta Energetica - Year 2019

    The non-linearity in I-V characteristics of a PV panel requires to be operated at knee point to extract maximum power. In order to operate the panel at optimal point, maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm is employed in the control structure. The main objective of MPP tracking is to keep the operation at knee point of I-V characteristics under varying condition of temperature and solar insolation. Under non uniform solar...

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  • Specification of private art galleries used in the central part of old town Belgrade

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    In Belgrade, since the late 1990s, private art galleries have appeared that indirectly create the image of the city through the propagation of art, take part in the education process of the residents and undertake criticism of local and global events. The article is an answer to the following questions: [1] why and how do the bottom-up art oriented places appear in Belgrade, [2] how do they function, and (3) what is their architectural...

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  • Alternative Energy: Photovoltaic Modules and Systems

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    Use of solar energy does not contribute to global warming. The light-to-current conversion (photovoltaic conversion) takes place within solar cells, which in most cases are made of silicon. Solar module consists of many solar cells, which are electrically connected and placed between glass or Tedlar® and framed by an aluminium frame. A number of solar modules and other components form photovoltaic systems. In this entry, a brief...

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  • Diagnostic Models and Estimators for LDI in Transmission Pipelines

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    This article considers and compares four analytical models of the pipeline flow process for leak detection and location tasks. The synthesis of these models is briefly outlined. Next, the methodology for generating data and diagnosing pipes is described, as well as experimental settings, assumptions and implemented scenarios. Finally, the quality of model-based diagnostic estimators has been evaluated for their bias, standard deviations...

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  • Evaluation of the Macro- and Micro-Economic Factors Affecting the Financial Energy of Households

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    - ENERGIES - Year 2021

    This paper is an evaluation of the common macro-economic, micro-economic, and social factors affecting households’ financial situations. Moreover, the author’s objective was to develop a fuzzy logic model for forecasting fluctuations in the number of nonperforming consumer loans in a country using the example of Poland. This study represents one of the first attempts in the global literature to develop such a forecasting model...

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