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Non-invasive investigation of a submerged medieval harbour, a case study from Puck Lagoon
PublicationThis study presents an innovative approach to underwater archaeological prospection using non-invasive methods of seabed exploration. The research focuses on the Puck medieval harbour, a cultural heritage site, and utilises acoustic and optical underwater remote-sensing technology. The primary objectives include optimising the use of Airborne Laser Bathymetry in underwater archaeology, enhancing the filtration process for mapping...
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Road Transport of High Consequence Dangerous Goods—Assessment of Terrorist Threat (Case Study)
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Image Representation for Cognitive Systems Using SOEKS and DDNA: A Case Study for PPE Compliance
PublicationCognitive Vision Systems have gained significant interest from academia and industry during the past few decade, and one of the main reasons behind this is the potential of such technologies to revolutionize human life as they intend to work under complex visual scenes, adapting to a comprehensive range of unforeseen changes, and exhibiting prospective behavior. The combination of these properties aims to mimic the human capabilities...
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On the Consumption of Multimedia Content Using Mobile Devices: a Year to Year User Case Study
PublicationIn the early days, consumption of multimedia content related with audio signals was only possible in a stationary manner. The music player was located at home, with a necessary physical drive. An alternative way for an individual was to attend a live performance at a concert hall or host a private concert at home. To sum up, audio-visual effects were only reserved for a narrow group of recipients. Today, thanks to portable players,...
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REVITALIZATION PROJECT OF SLUM TRANSFORMATION: A CASE STUDY HAY-AL TANAK,BEIRUT,LEBANON
PublicationSlums are global phenomena that exist as a solution for those who couldn’t afford a house. This phenomenon is growing accompanying the rapid urbanization and the growth of the urban population, three-quarter of the world population anticipated to live in an urban environment by 2050 (Avis, 2016, p. 57). This paper reviews slum's evaluation of the revitalization project for one of the poorest slums in Beirut called Hay-Al Tanak....
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The Impact of Material Selection on Durability of Exhaust Valve Faces of a Ship Engine – A Case Study
Publicationwo alloys were used in order to extend the service life of marine engine exhaust valve head. Layers of cobalt base alloys were made of the powders with with chemical composition as follow: the layer marked L12; C-1,55%; Si-1,21%; Cr-29,7%; W-9%; Ni-2%; Mo<0,01%; Fe-1,7%; Co-54,83% and the layer marked N; C-1,45%; Co-38,9%; Cr-24,13%; Ni-10,43%; W-8,75%; Fe-7,64%; Mo-7,56%; Si-2,59%. Base metal was valve steel after heat treatment....
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The Potential of Improving Air Quality by Urban Mobility Management: Policy Guidelines and a Case Study
PublicationThere is a growing recognition among planners and policy makers that proper transformation of urban mobility systems is crucial to the reduction of air pollution emission. The main objective of the work was to review the current urban mobility strategies in the city of Gdańsk, Poland in terms of their potential for the improvement of urban air quality. Firstly, general policy guidelines for mobility systems were formulated based...
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Application of Eco-innovative Technologies of Nutrients Removal in Wastewater – Case Study BARITECH Project
PublicationEco-innovative technologies in wastewater treatment should provide not only stringent standards for the quality of treated wastewater but also ensure maximum recovery of energy and raw materials from wastewater. One of the ways to improve the removal efficiency of nitrogen and phosphorus compounds in existing conventional wastewater treatment plants is pretreatment of reject water generated during the mechanical...
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The forecasts-based instrument rule and decision making. How closely interlinked? The case of Sweden
PublicationResearch background: The Central Bank of Sweden declared in years 1999–2006 the implementation of the Svensson’s concept of inflation forecast targeting (IFT). It means that the repo rate decision-making process depends on the inflation forecasts. The concept evolved from the strict IFT with the decision-making algorithm called ‘the rule of thumb’ to the flexible IFT. Purpose of the article: The aim of...
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Experience based knowledge representation for Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems with case studies
PublicationCyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things have grown significant attention from industry and academia during the past decade. The main reason behind this interest is the capabilities of such technologies to revolutionize human life since they appear as seamlessly integrating classical networks, networked objects and people to create more efficient environments. However, enhancing these technologies with intelligent skills becomes...
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AI-powered Digital Transformation: Tools, Benefits and Challenges for Marketers – Case Study of LPP
PublicationThe article aims to show the role (benefits and challenges) of AI-powered digital marketing tools for marketers in the age of digital transformation. The considerations were related to the Polish market and a case study of LPP, a Polish clothing retailer. The starting point for this study was the analysis of the literature on the concept of artificial intelligence (AI) with reference to digital marketing. In the next steps, the...
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Organic solvents aggregating and shaping structural folding of protein, a case study of the protease enzyme
PublicationLow solubility of reactants or products in aqueous solutions can result in the enzymatic catalytic reactions that can occur in non-aqueous solutions. In current study we investigated aqueous solutions containing different organic solvents / deep eutectic solvents (DESs) that can influence the protease enzyme's activity, structural, and thermal stabilities. Retroviral aspartic protease enzyme is responsible for the cleavage of the...
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Migration of container terminals as their natural process of evolution: Case study of Gdańsk and Gdynia ports
PublicationThe paper proposes a theoretical model of container terminals and container port development, based on the life cycle theory, threshold theory and catastrophe theory, and in references to Kuznets' swings (interpreted as waves of infrastructural investments), and Kondratiev long economic waves. The aim of this model is to explain the development process of a container terminal and a port within one technological generation, as...
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Benchmarking Scalability and Security Configuration Impact for A Distributed Sensors-Server IOT Use Case
PublicationInternet of Things has been getting more and more attention and found numerous practical applications. Especially important in this context are performance, security and ability to cope with failures. Especially crucial is to find good trade-off between these. In this article we present results of practical tests with multiple clients representing sensors sending notifications to an IoT middleware – DeviceHive. We investigate performance...
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An overview of the cognitive and biological effects of city nighttime illumination including a London case study
PublicationCurrent scientific research demonstrates how critical the effects of city nighttime illumination are upon cognitive and biological health1 – which needs to be adequately acknowledged, understood and addressed by conscious cities and the plans they develop. Until recent decades, the design of nighttime lighting was determined mostly by electrical engineers who often applied technical standards to meet the requirements of vehicle-focused...
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Sanctions and their role in preventing the appropriation of the creditor’s property rights in bankruptcy proceedings–the case of Poland
PublicationThe aim of this paper is to fill the cognitive gap regarding the role of sanc-tions in the protection of a creditor’s property rights in the event of an entrepreneur insolvency. The impact of sanctions on transaction costs, including their identifica-tion and types, as well as the impact on the protection of creditor rights, has been poorly recognized in the subject literature to date. This article investigates...
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Improvement of ships seakeeping performance by application of the Full-scale CFD simulations – case study
PublicationThe ship’s fuel economy is increasingly important. The paper presents the effect of redesigning a case study ship for increasing seakeeping performance. Selected wave parameters reflects very difficult operational con-ditions existing on the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. The analyzed variants of a case study ship represent the latest developments of modern hull forms. The concepts similar to V-shaped bulbous bow, X-bow, X-aft,...
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Consequences of suboptimal design of Building Integrated Photovoltaic Installation – a case study for Gdansk, Poland
PublicationThe carried out analysis concerns 2 kWp building integrated photovoltaic installation (BIPV) at the Chemistry Faculty of Gdansk University of Technology. It was proven that the generated energy data for every month diverge significantly from the expected vales. It is corelated with suboptimal orientation of the installation itself, as well as with the tilt angle varying from optimal.
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MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF FLOOD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN THE CITY OF GDAŃSK, ORUŃSKI STREAM CASE STUDY
PublicationAim of the study This study analyses the efficiency of flood protection in a small urban catchment, based on a system of small reservoirs. Material and methods To assess the flood routing and surge reduction, a mathematical model of the river catchment was implemented. This was a lumped hydrological model, based on the SCS-CN method. Channel routing was performed, using kinematic wave equation. The sub-catchments have been determined...
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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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Distributed Architectures for Intensive Urban Computing: A Case Study on Smart Lighting for Sustainable Cities
PublicationNew information and communication technologies have contributed to the development of the smart city concept. On a physical level, this paradigm is characterised by deploying a substantial number of different devices that can sense their surroundings and generate a large amount of data. The most typical case is image and video acquisition sensors. Recently, these types of sensors are found in abundance in urban spaces and are responsible...
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Anti-crisis activities and export performance in the Covid-19 pandemic: The case of Polish exporters
PublicationThe article aims to investigate the impact of anti-crisis activities undertaken by the Polish exporting firms on their export sales during the Covid-19 pandemic. We used a quantitative research design. We conducted the survey on the sample of 161 manufacturing Polish exporting firms between April 21 and June 25, 2021. To verify the assumed relationships, we used the probit regression model. The main novelty is a firm-level analysis...
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Zwalczanie przestępczości skarbowej jako aktywny sposób minimalizacji ryzyka podatkowego - case study
PublicationCelem pracy jest prezentacja i ocena sposobów zwalczania przestępczości skarbowej jako jeden z podstawowych sposobów minimalizacji ryzyka podatkowego. Metodologia badania - analizie i ocenie poddano wybrane sposoby zwalczania przestępstw skarbowych. Dla osiągnięcia tego celu posłużono się zarówno analizą literatury, jak i materiałów pochodzących ze statystyk sporządzonych przez służby skarbowe oraz policję. Wyniki - wyniki dowodzą,...
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An Approach to Testing Antivandal Composite Materials as a Function of Their Thickness and Striker Shape—A Case Study
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Case Study: Measuring the Thermal Insulation of Heated Protective Gloves on a Thermal Hand Model
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Technology and democracy: the who and how in decision-making. The cases of Estonia and Catalonia. METADATA
Open Research DataThe analysis of the Estonian data comes mainly from studies conducted to analyse the cost-efficiency of the Estonian online voting model (Krimmer; Duenas-Cid; Krivonosova, 2021), as well as from the contagion effect that ensued in other parts of the Estonian administration after the voting system was developed (Krimmer; Duenas-Cid,2019). In both cases,...
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Technology and democracy: the who and how in decision-making. The cases of Estonia and Catalonia. METADATA 1
Open Research DataThe analysis of the Estonian data comes mainly from studies conducted to analyse the cost-efficiency of the Estonian online voting model (Krimmer; Duenas-Cid; Krivonosova, 2021), as well as from the contagion effect that ensued in other parts of the Estonian administration after the voting system was developed (Krimmer; Duenas-Cid,2019). In both cases,...
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Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports
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Communications in Statistics: Case Studies, Data Analysis and Applications
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Quantification of methadone and its metabolites: EDDP and EMDP determined in autopsy cases using LC‐MS/MS
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Conservative treatment of Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome: Analysis and long-term follow-up of 51 cases
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Schemes of transmission of classical information via quantum channels with many senders: Discrete- and continuous-variable cases
PublicationSuperadditivity effects in the classical capacity of discrete multiaccess channels and continuous variable (CV) Gaussian MACs are analyzed. Several examples of the manifestation of superadditivity in the discrete case are provided, including, in particular, a channel which is fully symmetric with respect to all senders. Furthermore, we consider a class of channels for which input entanglement across more than two copies of the...
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The Influence of Gas Mixture in the Glow-Discharge Nitriding Process of Austenitic Stainless Steel on Characteristic of Nitrided Cases
PublicationAustenitic stainless steels characterize with excellent corrosion resistance, although low mechanical properties. In many cases that limits their exploitation in industrial applications. Moreover, austenitic stainless steel is susceptible to local corrosion in the presence of halide ions. In present works, it was emphasized that the nitriding of austenitic stainless steels gives some potential abilities to obtain beneficial effect...
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Numerical Comparison of Damping Amplification Effects Obtained in Neighborhood of a Mechanism Singular Position - Viscous and Electromagnetic Cases
PublicationIn the paper, results of numerical investigations are presented. A continuous beam is considered as the main vibrating element. Two energy dissipations methods are compared: viscous dampers and DC generators. To increase the damping effectiveness, velocity amplification is proposed, i.e., a mechanism is introduced between the beam and the damping element, and the mechanism configuration is set as closed to the singular position...
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Blood concentrations of a new psychoactive substance 4-chloromethcathinone (4-CMC) determined in 15 forensic cases
PublicationPurpose: The 4-chloromethcathinone (4-CMC) is a synthetic derivative of cathinone and belongs to new psychoactive substances. Neither data on the effects of 4-CMC on the human body, nor on nontoxic, toxic and lethal concentrations in biological materials have been published in the literature. This paper describes the results of an analysis of the blood concentrations of 4-CMC determined in 15 forensic cases related to nonfatal...
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Finite element method simulations of various cases of crash tests with N2/W4/A steel road barrier
PublicationThe subject of this study is performance of N2/W4/A steel road safety barrier investigated in numerical simulations. System was checked under several types of initial conditions, which were assumed basing on the TB11 and TB32 normative crash tests. The main goal of present study is to investigate the relationship between initial conditions (angle and velocity) of the impact and the severity indices (associated to the vehicle occupant) during...
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Comparison of disk and tube methods for estimation of biostatic properties of polyurethanes based on synthetic poly[(R,S)-3-hydroxybutyrate
PublicationThe influence of novel aliphatic polyurethanes on growth of Staphyloccocus aureus (SA)in the around of polymer samples has been estimated by disk method. It was staed that the growth of SA was inhibited.The influence of polyurethanes on planctonic Staphyloccocus aureus was also pefrormed by tube method. In this test the slight decrease of bacteria concentration was noticed.
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THE POTENTIAL OF DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF WHITE CABBAGE IN PHYTOREMEDIATION OF ZN AND CD
PublicationThe species belong to the botanical family Brassi- caceae are considered to be useful for phytoremediation of soil contaminated with heavy metals. Problems with use the plants recognized as hyperacumulators is that, the plants need to be harvested shortly after the plants become mature, which causes problems of disposal of obtained biomass. When these plants are dried, they easily crumble and flake off, greatly reducing the yield obtained,...
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Wireless LAN with noncooperative anonymous stations: QOS provisioning via war of attrition
PublicationMAC-layer QoS provision necessitates an admission scheme to grant a requested QoS notwithstanding subse-quent requests. For an ad hoc WLAN with anonymous stations, we assume a degree of power awareness to propose a session- rather than frame-level bidding for bandwidth. Next we analyze the underlying Bayesian war of attrition game.
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Entrepreneurial environment at regional level: the case of Polish path towards sustainable socio-economic development
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A probabilistic model estimating oil spill clean-up costs – A case study for the Gulf of Finland
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Probabilistic Approach to Precipitation-Runoff Relation in a Mountain Catchment: A Case Study of the Kłodzka Valley in Poland
PublicationOn the basis of daily precipitation and discharges recorded in 1974–2013 relations between precipitation and runoff in the Kłodzka Valley (KV) in south-western Poland were analyzed. The degree of synchronicity between them was determined using the bivariate Archimedean copulas. This study aims at identifying and then describe in a probabilistic way the precipitation and runoff relations in the area playing an important role...
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Isolation and molecular characterization of Fowl adenovirus strains in Black grouse: First reported case in Poland
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Human Health Risk Assessment on the Consumption of Apples Growing in Urbanized Areas: Case of Kharkiv, Ukraine
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Two-dimensional diffusion wave model for numerical simulation of inundation - Upper Narew case study
PublicationPrzedstawiono zastosowanie uproszczonego modelu matematycznego przepływu wody ze swobodną powierzchnią, zwanego falą dyfuzyjną, do numerycznej symulacji zalewu powodziowego doliny rzeki. Równania modelu rozwiązano metodą objętości skończonych. Model w dwuwymiarowej wersji wykorzystano do odtworzenia przejścia fali powodziowej przez fragment doliny Górnej Narwi między miejscowościami Suraż i Łapy.
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COVID-19-Associated Mucormycosis (CAM): Case-Series and Global Analysis of Mortality Risk Factors
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Effect of previous lowering of skin temperature on the time of safe exposure to a hot environment: a case study
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The Role of Trade in Intra-Industry Productivity Growth-the Case of Old and New European Union Countries
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Ambulatory blood pressure in mild hypertensive women taking oral contraceptives a case-control study
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Apolipoprotein E ( ApoE ) polymorphism is related to differences in potential fertility in women: a case of antagonistic pleiotropy?
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