Search results for: SACHSEN-ANHALT
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On the ratio between 2-domination and total outer-independent domination numbers of trees
PublicationA 2-dominating set of a graph G is a set D of vertices of G such that every vertex of V(G)D has a at least two neighbors in D. A total outer-independent dominating set of a graph G is a set D of vertices of G such that every vertex of G has a neighbor in D, and the set V(G)D is independent. The 2-domination (total outer-independent domination, respectively) number of a graph G is the minimum cardinality of a 2-dominating (total...
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Simulation of wood structure geometry after machining
PublicationW niniejszym artykule została przedstawiona nowa metoda trójwymiarowych symulacji geometrii powierzchni drewna. Zaprezentowano wpływ parametrów obróbkowych oraz drgań podczas strugania obrotowego drewna. Chropowatość powierzchni była charakteryzowana poprzez parametry profilu chropowatości Ra oraz Rz. Posuw na ostrze oraz średnica narzędzia są najbardziej wpływającymi czynnikami na wielkość nierówności podczas maszynowej obróbki...
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The effect of the annual growth and the late wood share upon density of the Polish pine wood as a function of its origin
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono zróżnicowanie gęstości polskiego drewna sosnowego (Pinus sylvestris L.) w zależności od udziału drewna późnego w przyroście rocznym z uwzględnieniem krainy pochodzenia drewna. Wspomniane zróżnicowanie jest w istotne statystycznie w skali globalnej oraz dla większości miejsc pochodzenia. Pomiar gęstości wykonano przy użyciu metody stereometrycznej. Metoda ta polegała na określeniu objętości pryzmy poprzez...
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The lasting traditions of activities in the field of wood technology researches at the Gdansk University of Technology
PublicationW niniejszym artykule przedstawiono sylwetki ludzi z Politechniki Gdańskiej, którzy odeszli, jednakowoż, których działalność była znacząca w obszarze drzewnictwa i mechanicznej technologii drewna.
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Do online reviews reveal mobile application usability and user experience? The case of WhatsApp
PublicationThe variety of hardware devices and the diversity of their users imposes new requirements and expectations on designers and developers of mobile applications (apps). While the Internet has enabled new forms of communication platform, online stores provide the ability to review apps. These informal online app reviews have become a viral form of electronic wordof-mouth (eWOM), covering a plethora of issues. In our study, we set ourselves...
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On the Agile Mindset of an Effective Team – An Industrial Opinion Survey
PublicationIn this paper we present the results of an opinion survey among 52 agile practitioners who evaluated the importance of 26 selected elements of the agile mindset to the effectiveness of an agile team. In total, we have identified 70 unique agile mindset elements based on 11 literature sources and 5 interviews with industry experts. 7 elements belonged to the “support for business goals” category, 20 to the “relationships within...
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Preliminary Citation and Topic Analysis of International Conference on Agile Software Development Papers (2002-2018)
PublicationThis study utilizes citation analysis and automated topic analysis of papers published in International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP) from 2002 to 2018. We collected data from Scopus database, finding 789 XP papers. We performed topic and trend analysis with R/RStudio utilizing the text mining approach, and used MS Excel for the quantitative analysis of the data. The results show that the first five years of XP...
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Assessing Effectiveness of Recommendations to Requirements-Related Problems through Interviews with Experts
PublicationRequirements Engineering and Business Analysis are known as very important to software project outcome but also difficult activities, coping with many problems and challenges. The work reported in this paper was preceded by a survey which revealed most common requirements-related problems in Polish IT industry. We addressed ten most frequently reported problems by reviewing the literature for recommen¬dations how to cope with...
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Analyzing energy/performance trade-offs with power capping for parallel applications on modern multi and many core processors
PublicationIn the paper we present extensive results from analyzing energy/performance trade-offs with power capping observed on four different modern CPUs, for three different parallel applications such as 2D heat distribution, numerical integration and Fast Fourier Transform. The CPU tested represent both multi-core type CPUs such as Intel⃝R Xeon⃝R E5, desktop and mobile i7 as well as many-core Intel⃝R Xeon PhiTM x200 but also server, desktop...
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MaliciousIDE – software development environment that evokes emotions
PublicationEmotions affect every aspect of human live, including work. Numerous studies in software engineering have shown that negative emotions can lower the productivity of programmers. Unlike traditional approaches to managing software development, modern methods, such as Agile and Lean, take into account human aspects of programming. To thoroughly investigate the impact of negative emotions on the work of programmers, a malicious integrated...
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Stereoscopy in Graphics APIs for CAVE Applications
PublicationThe paper compares the advantages and disadvantages of a variety of Graphics Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) from the perspective of obtaining stereoscopy in applications written for a CAVE virtual reality environment. A number of problems have been diagnosed and an attempt has been made to solve them using OpenGL, DirectX 11 and 12, Vulkan, as well as the Unity Engine which can internally use DirectX, OpenGL and Vulkan,...
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The Role of a Software Product Manager in Various Business Environments
PublicationThe aim of the paper is to identify the role of the software product manager depending on the size of the company and the characteristics of the product they are working on. This has been achieved in cooperation with 15 experts from the IT industry. The companies were divided into 4 levels of size: micro-enterprises, small businesses, medium businesses and large enterprises. The characteristics of the products were divided into...
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Playing the Sprint Retrospective
PublicationIn agile software development, where great emphasis is put on effective informal communication, success depends heavily on human and social factors. However, Scrum does not specify any techniques that aid the human side of software development. In this paper we investigate the use of 6 collaborative games for the Sprint Retrospective. Each game was implemented twice in a Scrum team in Intel Technology Poland. The received feedback...
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Towards semantic-rich word embeddings
PublicationIn recent years, word embeddings have been shown to improve the performance in NLP tasks such as syntactic parsing or sentiment analysis. While useful, they are problematic in representing ambiguous words with multiple meanings, since they keep a single representation for each word in the vocabulary. Constructing separate embeddings for meanings of ambiguous words could be useful for solving the Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD)...
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Problems and Solutions of Software Design in Scrum Projects
PublicationThe aim of the paper is to identify the problems and solutions of the software design in Scrum project as well as to analyze the effectiveness of the solutions. Through a series of workshops with 4 experts from IT industry and academia we have identified 52 problems and 99 unique solutions. In this paper we present a list of 10 common problems and 5 solutions for each problem selected by the number of sources. The effectiveness...
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Benchmarking overlapping communication and computations with multiple streams for modern GPUs
PublicationThe paper presents benchmarking a multi-stream application processing a set of input data arrays. Tests have been performed and execution times measured for various numbers of streams and various compute intensities measured as the ratio of kernel compute time and data transfer time. As such, the application and benchmarking is representative of frequently used operations such as vector weighted sum, matrix multiplication etc....
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The methodology for determining of the value of cutting power for cross cutting on optimizing sawing machine
PublicationIn the article the methodology of forecasting the energy effects of the cross-cutting process using the classical method, which takes into account the specific cutting resistance, is presented. The values of cutting power for the cross-cutting process of two types of wood (softwood and hardwood) were forecasted for the optimizing sawing machine with using presented methodology. The cross-cutting process with high values of feed...
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Supporting Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Diagnostics by Using Wavelet Analysis in Esophageal pH-Metry
PublicationThis paper presents a new approach to computer supported esophageal pH-metry measurement analysis performed in order to diagnose gastroesophageal reflux disease. In this approach wavelet analysis was used to analyse the esophageal pH-metry course. The research was performed on three groups of pH-metry courses: whole 24-hour pH-metry course, sleep only pH-metry course and 20 minutes after the end of a meal pH-metry course. After...
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Hard Lessons Learned: A Model that Facilitates the Selection of Methods of IT Project Management
PublicationThe article presents the results of research conducted in an international enterprise responsible for IT project implementation. The carried out analysis of the case study with the use of surveys and data synthesis allowed the major factors causing problems connected with project management to be identified. The identified factors were aggregated and then, by using four key variables, a rhomboidal model adaptation was proposed...
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Utilizing online collaborative games to facilitate Agile Software Development
PublicationEffective collaboration and interaction among the development team and between the team and the customer as well as proactive attitude in initiating and implementing improvements play vital roles in the success of agile projects. The challenge is how to address these social aspects since neither the Agile Manifesto nor the Scrum Guide specify techniques that aid the human side of software development. To fill this gap, we developed...
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Surface texture of pine wood beams after planing in industrial conditions
PublicationMeasuring the surface features of wooden components after planing is connected with the rising demands regarding to the quality of the painted window frames. In the paper the complex surface texture analysis especially identifying of surface damages using non-contact 3D measurement techniques for precise area measurement were presented.This enabled the study of irregular surface features with sufficient fidelity and resolution....
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Application in circular sawing machines of the experimental results of investigations of the chip removing system operation
PublicationThe experimental results of the chip removing system operation are presented. The main aim of them was to optimize suction system of the panel saw Fx3 and its follower Fx550. The attention was focused on the upper casing, which was the part of removing system. Within the framework of the work a systematic experimental study of pressure distribution in the casing during operation of the selected rotational speed of saw blade with...
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The reduction of vibrations in circular sawing machines
PublicationThe presented in this paper the main objectives of the research were to explore vibrations signals of the main spindle system, the machine tool body and a circular saw to extract informative features for assessment of the designs of the panel saw Fx3 and its follower Fx550.Even though the main spindle of the new table sliding saw Fx550 has its rotational speeds larger about 20% in comparison to the Fx3, peak values of the vibrational...
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Criteria for assessment of pine wood surfaces after planing
PublicationThe arise of defects in raw material as well as a machined part in most cases causes need to qualify the final product (wooden frames) as a scrap part or an additional work activity must be done. In the paper selected results of the effect of the material defects on the surface quality of the elements after planing and painting are presented. The materials under production were glulam elements of pine wood. Research experiments...
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Top k Recommendations using Contextual Conditional Preferences Model
PublicationRecommender systems are software tools and techniques which aim at suggesting to users items they might be interested in. Context-aware recommender systems are a particular category of recommender systems which exploit contextual information to provide more adequate recommendations. However, recommendation engines still suffer from the cold-start problem, namely where not enough information about users and their ratings is available....
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The lemniscate knowledge flow model
PublicationKnowledge is seen as one of the main resources for organizations providing knowledge-intensive services. Therefore, sharing and reusing are the main goals of modern knowledge management (KM) approach, driven by information and communication technologies (ICT). However, one can ask for the details in order to provide means and tools to design and deploy environment able to fulfil these two goals. We observed that occurred interactions...
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Towards better understanding of context-aware knowledge transformation
PublicationConsidering different aspects of knowledge functioning, context is poorly understood in spite of intuitively identifying this concept with environmental recognition. For dynamic knowledge, context especially seems to be an essential factor of change. Investigation on the impact of context on knowledge dynamics or more generally on the relationship between knowledge and its contextual interpretation is important in order to understand...
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Wood structure constraints on sawing accuracy with narrow-kerf saws
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono analizę przyczyn i przykłady niedokładności przecinania wynikających z lokalnych zmian struktury drewna.
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Parameters of entry and going out of saw blade teeth during cutting with circular saw
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono analizę parametrów wejścia i wyjścia ostrzy przy przecinaniu piłami tarczowymi. Określone zostały parametry kątów natarcia i grubości warstwy skrawanej na wejściu i wyjściu ostrzy z materiału w zależności od kinematyki układu.
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Modes of vibrations occuring in the washboarding phenomenon
PublicationW oparciu o współczesną literaturę oraz wyniki badań własnych przedstawiono teorie zjawiska washboarding dla obróbki na pilarkach taśmowych z użyciem wąskich i szerokich pił. Zaprezentowano również wytłumaczenie wspomnianego zjawiska dla przypadku obróbki na pilarkach ramowych. Poprzez analogię do drgań typu chatter (drgania samowzbudne w obróbce metali) zaproponowano nazwy regenerative washboarding, dla drgań samowzbudnych na...
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Geometrical conditions of saw blade`s entering into and going out of material during wood cutting
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono analizę geometrycznych warunków wejścia i wyjścia ostrza piły z materiału obrabianego przy przecinaniu drewna. Przedstawiono czasowy i przestrzenny rozkład geometrycznych parametrów wejścia i wyjścia ostrza i ich wpływ na trwałość ostrzy i dokładność przecinania.
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Relationship between saw blade teeth wear and kinematics of frame sawingmachines
PublicationPrzedstawiono rezultaty badań zużycia ostrzy pił trakowych i wpływ kinematyki pilarki ramowej na rozkład zużycia poszczególnych ostrzy pił.
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Information Logistics as a Paradigm
PublicationThis paper presents a paradigm-based approach to information logistics. The approach deals with extracting concepts specific to information logistics in categories typical to paradigms. The resulting description should be easily connected to complementary components which are based on other paradigms, e.g. business process management and information systems development. Empirical part aims at checking and enhancing features typical...
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Comparison of the impact test and the harmonic test in measurements of natural resonant frequencies of circular saw blades
PublicationIn this paper results of measurements of natural resonant frequencies of circular saw blades with the impact test and the harmonic test are presented. Comparison of these two methods revealed that during testing of circular saw blades, in which bodies the open and closed notches (cuts) for cleaning of knives are present, with the harmonic test method it has been observed appearing of quasi-twin resonant frequencies, whereas the...
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Distinctive properties of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) originating from the Carpathian and Great Poland-Pomeranian of Nature and Forest Land
PublicationIn this paper values of properties of Scots pine, the fracture toughness and of shear yield stress in the shear zone are presented. Samples of Scotch pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) wood of two provenances from Poland were tested. These properties were determined from the values of cutting power obtained experimentally on the saw frame PRW-15M. The values of fracture toughness and shear yield stress based on the Atkins model for cutting...
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The selected effects of high temperature air-steam mixture wood drying
PublicationThe results of properties change of beech wood after drying process are presented. The wood taken to experiments was from northern part of Pomeranian region in Poland. Before the main high temperature drying process using air-steam mixture, wood was initially dried in an open air conditions. The high temperature drying process was conducted at temperature 120oC, humidity 48%, flow rate of drying medium 2.5m/s and atmospheric pressure....
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The effect of current signal filtering method on the value of cutting power while sawing wood
PublicationThe goal of this work was to investigate an effect of various signal pre-processings on the outline of the electrical power curve and its influence on the measured cutting force estimation. Two signal processing methods were selected for the needs of the experiment, including digital filter and wavelet transform. The filter used was Butterworth, 3rd order band-stop with the cut-out band from 45 Hz to 55 Hz. The second approach...
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Emotion Monitor - Concept, Construction and Lessons Learned
PublicationThis paper concerns the design and physical construction of an emotion monitor stand for tracking human emotions in Human-Computer Interaction using multi-modal approach. The concept of the stand using cameras, behavioral analysis tools and a set of physiological sensors such as galvanic skin response, blood-volume pulse, temperature, breath and electromyography is presented and followed...
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Methodology for determination of the selected mechanical properties of wood based on cutting tests
PublicationFrom kiln-dried spruce wood (with steam) as well as in natural conditions were randomly selected 8 samples. After determining the average dimensions, moisture content and density of the samples they have been cut on the frame sawing machine PRW15M for measurement of cutting power. Based on those results from a linear rela-tionship of cutting power versus feed per toot mechanical properties of wood such as facture toughness and...
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On some approaches to cutting power estimation while wood sawing
PublicationW niniejszym artykule przedstawiono i porównano metody, które mogą być stosowane do szacowania mocy skrawania przy przecinaniu drewna na pilarkach tarczowych. Przy klasycznym podejściu efekty energetyczne procesu przecinania drewna piłami są obliczane na bazie właściwego powierzchniowego oporu skrawania. W internecie dostępne są narzędzia do określania mocy skrawania w postaci oprogramowania dostępnego on-line, przykładowo "Horsepower...
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Influence of steam drying process on wood mechanical properties
PublicationResults of influence of gas-steam mixture drying process on mechanical properties of material are presented. Wood species, namely oak (Quercus L.), beech (Fagus L.), pine (Pinus L.) and spruce (Picea K.) from the northern part of Pomerania region in Poland, were subject of air-steam mixture drying process in a laboratory kiln especially arranged for that reason. Measurements of the global coefficient of elasticity and bending strength...
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The innovative experimental rig for wood steam drying at atmospheric pressure
PublicationThe high cost of fossil fuel and soaring consumer interest have encouraged people in the wood industry to look for faster and more energy-efficient methods to dry lumber. The air-steam mixture as medium of drying process was used in a laboratory kiln especially arranged for that reason. Experimental rig is based on automatic control system. At the time of drying measurements of the internal temperature, wood temperature, moisture...
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Parseval Wavelet Frames on Riemannian Manifold
PublicationWe construct Parseval wavelet frames in L 2 (M) for a general Riemannian manifold M and we show the existence of wavelet unconditional frames in L p (M) for 1 < p < ∞. This is made possible thanks to smooth orthogonal projection decomposition of the identity operator on L 2 (M), which was recently proven by Bownik et al. (Potential Anal 54:41–94, 2021). We also show a characterization of Triebel–Lizorkin F sp,q (M) and Besov B...
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Adaptive Method of Adjusting Flowgraph for Route Reconstruction in Video Surveillance Systems
PublicationPawlak’s flowgraph has been applied as a suitable data structure for description and anal- ysis of human behaviour in the area supervised with multicamera video surveillance system. Infor- mation contained in the flowgraph can be easily used to predict consecutive movements of a partic- ular object. Moreover, utilization of the flowgraph can support reconstructing object route from the past video images. However, such a flowgraph with...
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Au nanoparticles identifiction with the use of AFM Volta potential mapping
Open Research DataThe specific physical, chemical and electrochemical electrical properties of gold nanoparticles have led to their extensive use as high-performance chemical and biochemical sensors. The described properties relate to surface plasmon resonance, fluorescence quenching or enhancement, high electrical conductivity and light scattering. The described nanoparticles...
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Próba oszacowania światowego rozkładu dochodów
PublicationŚwiatowy rozkład dochodów potraktowano jako mieszankę rozkładów krajo-wych, z wagami równymi udziałom populacji danego kraju w łącznej populacji anali-zowanych krajów. Jako teoretyczny model krajowych rozkładów dochodów przyjęto dwuparametryczny rozkład log-logistyczny (Fiska). Wybór tego typu rozkładu teore-tycznego był podyktowany jakością dostępnych danych statystycznych. Z istniejących baz danych nt. dochodu w krajach świata...
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Application of dynamic headspace and gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (DHS-GC-MS) for the determination of oxygenated volatile organic compounds in refinery effluents
PublicationThe paper presents a new procedure for the determination of oxygenated volatile organic compounds (O-VOCs) in postoxidative effluents from the production of petroleum asphalt using dynamic headspace coupled to gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in the selected ion monitoring (SIM) mode (DHSGC-MS). Among the GC capillary columns tested, a polar SLB-IL111 column with the ionic liquid stationary phase was found to be superior due...
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The application of non-destructive methods in the diagnostics of the approach pavement at the bridges
PublicationThe article presents the possibility of using non-destructive methods of road pavement diagnostics as an alternative to traditional means to assess the reasons for premature cracks adjacent to bridge objects. Two scanning methods were used: laser scanning to measure geometric surface deformation and ground penetrating radar (GPR) inspection to assess the road pavement condition. With the use of a laser scanner, an effective tool...
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Inhomogeneity of low-noise wearing courses evaluated by tire/road noise measurements using the close-proximity method
PublicationPerforming numerous analyses of tire/road noise measurements on low-noise pavements during the last several years, the authors observed significant inhomogeneity of the wearing course in numerous cases, while similar problems were almost non-existent when dense pavements were measured. Three main causes of low-noise pavement inhomogeneity can be defined. The first one is imperfections in the technology used for asphalt mix production...
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Advancing sustainable hybrid bitumen systems: A compatibilization solution by functionalized polyolefins for enhanced crumb rubber content in bitumen
PublicationPolymer waste pollution has a profound effect on the environment and, consequently, on the lifestyle of hu- mankind. The massive production and disposal of cross-linked polymers clearly exemplify the challenges of recycling. Increasing efforts are being undertaken to introduce recycled polymers, especially crumb rubber (CR), into asphalt formulations. Due to the rather poor processability and phase separation associated with CR- modified...