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  • Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation of Activated Sludge Systems

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    - Year 2010

    Przegląd systemów osadu czynnego. Rozwój modeli procesu osadu czynnego. Podstawowe definicje z zakresu modelowania matematycznego i symulacji komputerowej. Proces budowy modelu (model biokinetyczny, hydrodynamiczny, transferu tlenu, temperatury). Modelowanie procesów biochemicznych zachodzących w systemach osadu czynnego. Organizacja badań symulacyjnych. Praktyczne zastosowania modeli osadu czynnego.

  • Model-Based Testing of Embedded Systems in the Automotive Domain

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    - Year 2009

    PhD

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  • Visual Data Encryption for Privacy Enhancement in Surveillance Systems

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    In this paper a methodology for employing reversible visual encryption of data is proposed. The developed algorithms are focused on privacy enhancement in distributed surveillance architectures. First, motivation of the study performed and a short review of preexisting methods of privacy enhancement are presented. The algorithmic background, system architecture along with a solution for anonymization of sensitive regions of interest...

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  • Parameter and delay estimation of linear continuous-time systems

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    In this paper the problem of on-line identification of non-stationary delay systems is considered. Dynamics of supervised industrial processes is described by ordinary differential equations. Discrete-time mechanization of their continuous-time representations is based on dedicated finite-horizon integrating filters. Least-squares and instrumental variable procedures implemented in recursive forms are applied for simultaneous identification...

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  • A Concept of Modeling and Optimization of Applications in Large Scale Systems

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    - Year 2013

    The chapter presents the idea that includes modeling and subsequent optimization of application execution on large scale parallel and distributed systems. The model considers performance, reliability and power consumption. It should allow easy modeling of various classes of applications while reflecting key parameters of both the applications and two classes of target systems: clusters and volunteer based systems. The chapter presents...

  • Generalized quazilinearization for systems of degenerate singular perturbation problem

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    - Nonlinear Studies - Year 2013

    Praca dotyczy ogólnej metody kwazilinearyzacji dla układów równań różniczkowych z parametrami.

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  • Some Optimization Methods for Simulations in Volunteer and Grid Systems

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    In this chapter, some optimization methods have been presented for improving performance of simulations in the volunteer and grid computing system called Comcute. Some issues related to the cloud computing can be solved by presented approaches as well as the Comcute platform can be used to simulate execution of expensive and energy consuming long-term tasks in the cloud environment. In particular, evolutionary algorithms as well...

  • Simulation of Parallel Applications on Large-scale Distributed Systems

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    This chapter has a form of a review article in the field of simulating High-Performance Computing systems. We justify the need for a new versatile simulator considering heterogeneity, energy efficiency and reliability of HPC systems. We sketch the problems that need to be solved by such simulator and rationalize using discrete-event simulation for this purpose. Based on a review of existing discrete-event HPC simulation solutions...

  • PROBLEMS WITH CORROSION PROTECTION STEEL STACKS IN FGD SYSTEMS

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    This paper presents problems associated with corrosion of steel stacks and changes in philosophy of corrosion protection when implemented into flue gas desulphurization systems. In-situ tests were taken by means of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy at a stack which discharges flue gas before wet lime/limestone desulphurization. A very rapid soaking of spherical infill vinylester coating with electrolyte has been observed....

  • Integrated monitoring, control and security of Critical Infrastructure Systems

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    Modern societies have reached a point where everyday life relies heavily on desired operation of critical infrastructures, in spite of accidental failures and/or deliberate attacks. The issue of desired performance operation of CIS at high security level receives considerable attention worldwide. The pioneering generic methodologies and methods are presented in the paper project for designing systems capable of achieving these...

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  • The use and development of e-learning systems in educational projects

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    - Year 2014

    The article introduces the problem of usage and development of e-learning systems among Polish universities. Easily accessible internet and IT development led to changes in education. Through the use of IT tools, e-learning has become an increasingly popular form of education. Presently, majority of Polish universities use an e-learning system of their own choosing designed to support the didactic processes. The goal of the article...

  • Future research directions in design of reliable communication systems

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    • J. Rak
    • M. Pickavet
    • K. S. Trivedi
    • J. A. Lopez
    • A. M. C. A. Koster
    • J. P. Sterbenz
    • E. Çetinkaya
    • T. Gomes
    • M. Gunkel
    • K. Walkowiak
    • D. Staessens

    - TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Year 2015

    In this position paper on reliable networks, we discuss new trends in the design of reliable communication systems. We focus on a wide range of research directions including protection against software failures as well as failures of communication systems equipment. In particular, we outline future research trends in software failure mitigation, reliability of wireless communications, robust optimization and network design, multilevel...

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  • Highly parallel distributed computing systems with optical interconnections

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    - Microprocessing and Microprogramming - Year 1989

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  • Neural Manoeuvre Detection of the Tracked Target in ARPA Systems

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    - IFAC Proceedings Volumes - Year 2001

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  • AN ENERGY APPROACH TO THE FATIGUE LIFE OF SHIP PROPULSION SYSTEMS

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    The conducted research investigations aimed to carry out an identification of the constructional materials fatigue state of the ship propulsions’ rotational mechanical units for diagnostic purposes. The fatigue cracks of the elements transmitting mechanical energy streams from the propulsion engines to the ship propellers or to the generators of the ship’s electric power station stand for a primary reason for the secondary, usually...

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  • Pawlak's flow graph extensions for video surveillance systems

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    The idea of the Pawlak's flow graphs is applicable to many problems in various fields related to decision algorithms or data mining. The flow graphs can be used also in the video surveillance systems. Especially in distributed multi-camera systems which are problematic to be handled by human operators because of their limited perception. In such systems automated video analysis needs to be implemented. Important part of this analysis...

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  • Systems of boundary value problems of advanced differential equations

    This paper considers the existence of extremal solutions to systems of advanced differential equations with corresponding nonlinear boundary conditions. The monotone iterative method is applied to obtain the existence results. An example is provided for illustration.

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  • Fractional-order Systems and Synchronous Generator Voltage Regulator

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    - Acta Energetica - Year 2015

    Modern regulators of synchronous generators, including voltage regulators, are digital systems, in their vast majority with standard structures contained in the IEEE standard. These are systems described with stationary differential equations of integral order. Differential equations of fractional order are not employed in regulators for synchronous generator control. This paper presents an analysis of the possibilities of using...

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  • Diagnostics of thermal processes in antenna systems of broadcast stations

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    - Przegląd Elektrotechniczny - Year 2014

    Diagnostics is an important element associated with the operation of a radio antenna systems, allowing earlier detection of potential damage. Thermography is one of the diagnostic tools, which allows for non-invasive assessment of technical condition. It brings together both financial savings associated with the removal of the damage and the potential effects caused by it. The article presents an example of using a thermal imaging...

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  • Security Evaluation of IT Systems Underlying Critical Networked Infrastructures

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    - Year 2008

    Critical infrastructures have become highly dependent on information and communication technology (ICT). The drawback of this situation is that the consequences of disturbances of the underlying ICT networks may be serious as cascading effects can occur. This raises a high demand for security assurance, with a high importance assigned to security evaluations. In this paper we present an experiment-centric approach for the characterisation...

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  • Multi-level models of transport systems for traffic management

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    The region of Pomorskie uses a variety of tools for forecasting and analysing transport. They can be operated, calibrated and updated with data that will be collected and stored in the TRISTAR system. An initiative of the Department of Highway Engineering of the Gdansk University of Technology is designed to develop and implement an integrated and hierarchical system for forecasting and analysing transport called MST (Multilevel...

  • Algorithms and Tools for Intelligent Control of Critical Infrastructure Systems

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    - Year 2015

    Critical Infrastructure Systems (CIS) are spatially distributed and of a network structure. The dynamics are nonlinear, uncertain and with several time scales. There is a variety of different objectives to be reliably met under a wide range of operational conditions. The operational conditions are influenced by the disturbance inputs, operating ranges of the CIS, faults in the sensors and actuators and abnormalities occurring in...

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  • Metaheuristic algorithms for optimization of resilient overlay computing systems

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    • K. Walkowiak
    • W. Charewicz
    • M. Donajski
    • J. Rak

    - Logic journal of the IGPL - Year 2014

    The idea of distributed computing systems has been gaining much interest in recent years owing to the growing amount of data to be processed for both industrial and academic purposes. However, similar to other systems, also distributed computing systems are vulnerable to failures. Due to strict QoS requirements, survivability guarantees are necessary for provisioning of uninterrupted service. In this article, we focus on reliability...

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  • Parameter and delay estimation of linear continuous-time systems

    In this paper the problem of on-line identification of non-stationary delay systems is considered. Dynamics of supervised industrial processes is usually described by ordinary differential equations. Discrete-time mechanization of their continuous-time representations is based on dedicated finite-horizon integrating filters. Least-squares and instrumental variable procedures implemented in recursive forms are applied for simultaneous...

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  • Ontology of the Design Pattern Language for Smart Cities Systems

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    The paper presents the definition of the design pattern language of Smart Cities in the form of an ontology. Since the implementation of a Smart City system is difficult, expensive and closely linked with the problems concerning a given city, the knowledge acquired during a single implementation is extremely valuable. The language we defined supports the management of such knowledge as it allows for the expression of a solution...

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  • Design of radio communication systems for unmanned transport applications

    In the paper the principle of OFDMA-based radio communication systems design for unmanned transport applications is presented. The concept of system radio interface is analysed and its basic parameters proposal are considered. In the last part of the paper some air interface characteristics useful for optimization of throughput and system capacity are considered.

  • Current risk analysis and management issues in technical systems.

    Dealing with the reliability and safety of industrial hazardous plants requires taking into account relevant interdisciplinary scientific knowledge and some existing approaches based on so-called good engineering practice, also those included in the international standards and guidelines. In this article an approach is proposed how to integrate the functional safety concept with information security aspects in the design and management...

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  • Integration of Lean Manufacturing with ISO Management Systems in Enterprise

    Lean manufacturing [LM], quality management system and environmental management system are clear initiatives with a goal of improving effectiveness and efficiencies of organizations. Many organisations tackle lean philosophy, ISO standards individually but this kind of attempt do not focus on the synergy and the advantage from the potential collaboration. This paper aims to present the possibility of integration Lean Management...

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  • Generalized Savitzky–Golay filters for identification of nonstationary systems

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    The problem of identification of nonstationary systems using noncausal estimation schemes is consid-ered and a new class of identification algorithms, combining the basis functions approach with localestimationtechnique,isdescribed.Unliketheclassicalbasisfunctionestimationschemes,theproposedlocal basis function estimators are not used to obtain interval approximations of the parametertrajectory, but provide a sequence of point...

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  • Identification of Continuous Systems - Practical Issues of Insensitivity to Perturbations

    In this paper the issue of continuous systems estimation, insensitive to certain perturbations, is discussed. Such an approach has rational advantages, especially when robust schemes are used to assist a target system responsible for industrial diagnostics. This requires that estimated model parameters are generated on-line, and their values are reliable and to a great extent accurate. Practical hints are suggested to challenge...

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  • Semantic Analysis and Text Summarization in Socio-Technical Systems

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    - Year 2018

    In this chapter the authors present the results of the development the methodology for increasing the reliability of the functioning of the Socio-Technical System. The existed methods and algorithms for processing unstructured (textual) information were studied. Taking into account noted above strengths and weaknesses of Discriminant and Probabilistic approaches of Latent Semantic Relations analysis in of the summarization projection...

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  • On the existence of homoclinic type solutions of inhomogenous Lagrangian systems

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    We study the existence of homoclinic type solutions for a class of inhomogenous Lagrangian systems with a potential satisfying the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz superquadratic growth condition and a square integrable forcing term. A homoclinic type solution is obtained as a limit of periodic solutions of an approximative sequence of second order differential equations.

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  • Application of BAN Network to Increase Security in Transport Systems

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    - Year 2017

    In the article general characteristics of the BAN network with M2M communications are presented. These are networks that enable the implementation of wireless transmission of signals using special sensors located on the body or implanted subcutaneously. These sensors allow monitoring of different type life parameters of a human. In the next part of work there is proposed the implementation of BAN networks to transport systems as...

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  • Local basis function estimators for identification of nonstationary systems

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    The problem of identification of a nonstationary stochastic system is considered and solved using local basis function approximation of system parameter trajectories. Unlike the classical basis function approach, which yields parameter estimates in the entire analysis interval, the proposed new identification procedure is operated in a sliding window mode and provides a sequence of point (rather than interval) estimates. It is...

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  • Stream Reasoning to Improve Decision-Making in Cognitive Systems

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    • C. S. de Oliveira
    • F. Giustozzi
    • C. Zanni-Merk
    • C. Sanin
    • E. Szczerbicki

    - CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS - Year 2020

    ABSTRACT Cognitive Vision Systems have gained a lot of interest from industry and academia recently, due to their potential to revolutionize human life as they are designed to work under complex scenes, adapting to a range of unforeseen situations, changing accordingly to new scenarios and exhibiting prospective behavior. The combination of these properties aims to mimic the human capabilities and create more intelligent and efficient...

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  • Road Restraint Systems as a Basis for Roadside Safety Improvement

    Roadside-related crashes occur when vehicles run off the road. The majority of the crashes have severe outcomes, especially when an object is hit (tree, pole, supports, front wall of a culvert, barrier). These accidents represent app. 19% of all of Poland's road deaths. Roadside crashes involve: hitting a tree, hitting a barrier, hitting a sign or utility pole, vehicle roll-over on the roadside, vehicle roll-over on a slope and...

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  • Smart Embedded Systems with Decisional DNA Knowledge Representation

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    - Year 2020

    Embedded systems have been in use since the 1970s. For most of their history embedded systems were seen simply as small computers designed to accomplish one or a few dedicated functions; and they were usually working under limited resources i.e. limited computing power, limited memories, and limited energy sources. As such, embedded systems have not drawn much attention from researchers, especially from those in the artificial...

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  • Generic invariant measures for iterated systems of interval homeomorphisms

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    - ARCHIV DER MATHEMATIK - Year 2020

    It is well known that iterated function systems generated by orientation preserving homeomorphisms of the unit interval with positive Lyapunov exponents at its ends admit a unique invariant measure on (0, 1) provided their action is minimal. With the additional requirement of continuous differentiability of maps on a fixed neighbourhood of {0,1} { 0 , 1 } , we present a metric in the space of such systems which renders it complete....

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  • Smart Knowledge Engineering for Cognitive Systems: A Brief Overview

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    - CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS - Year 2022

    Cognition in computer sciences refers to the ability of a system to learn at scale, reason with purpose, and naturally interact with humans and other smart systems, such as humans do. To enhance intelligence, as well as to introduce cognitive functions into machines, recent studies have brought humans into the loop, turning the system into a human–AI hybrid. To effectively integrate and manipulate hybrid knowledge, suitable technologies...

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  • Analysis of Agricultural and Engineering Systems using Simulation Decomposition

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    - Year 2022

    This paper focuses on the analysis of agricultural and engineering processes using simulation decomposition (SD). SD is a technique that utilizes Monte Carlo simulations and distribution decomposition to visually evaluate the source and the outcome of different portions of data. Here, SD is applied to three distinct processes: a model problem, a nondestructive evaluation testing system, and an agricultural food-water energy system....

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  • A Survey of Vehicular Network Systems for Road Traffic Management

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    In this survey, we analyze the proposals of vehicular communication systems in the context of road traffic management. Starting with the definition of communications between vehicles (V2V), vehicles-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicles-to-everything (V2X), we first focus on the requirements and current standards for the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), including the maximum communication delay, the communication range and the...

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  • Effect of Simultaneous Valve Closures in Hydraulic Piping Systems

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    - Year 2023

    The paper investigates wave interference (between pressure waves) occurring in simple hydraulic systems. Water hammer was induced by simultaneous closure of three valves located at the reservoirs of a “Y” type hydraulic system. Numerical simulations were carried out with the help of the freeware computer package Allievi enabling the reader to replicate results in a direct manner. The influence of the following quantities has been...

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  • On the Importance of Resilience Engineering for Networked Systems in a Changing World

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    • D. Hutchison
    • D. Pezaros
    • J. Rak
    • P. Smith

    - IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE - Year 2023

    Resilience is featured increasingly often in the media, usually applied to society when faced, for example, with disasters such as flooding and the enormous challenges that the Covid-19 pandemic posed. There are now many resilience-related discussion groups worldwide, and some standards initiatives devoted in particular to city resilience. However, there is relatively little explicit interest in resilience engineering for communication...

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  • Stability by linear approximation for time scale dynamical systems

    We study systems on time scales that are generalizations of classical differential or difference equations and appear in numerical methods. In this paper we consider linear systems and their small nonlinear perturbations. In terms of time scales and of eigenvalues of matrices we formulate conditions, sufficient for stability by linear approximation. For non-periodic time scales we use techniques of central upper Lyapunov exponents...

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  • Decentralized control of a different rated parallel UPS systems

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    The paper presents the single phase uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system with galvanic separated DC-AC-DC-AC converters operating in parallel. The CAN physical layer based system of communication between converters has been developed and applied, which allow to utilize a decentralized master-slave control providing high availability factor of the whole UPS system. The control system of particular converters has been developed...

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  • Numerical Test for Stability Evaluation of Discrete-Time Systems

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    - Year 2018

    In this paper, a new numerical test for stability evaluation of discrete-time systems is presented. It is based on modern root-finding techniques at the complex plane employing the Delaunay triangulation and Cauchy's Argument Principle. The method evaluates if a system is stable and returns possible values and multiplicities of unstable zeros of the characteristic equation. For state-space discrete-time models, the developed test...

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  • Studying road restraint systems to develop new guidelines

    The paper will present a proposed approach to such work along with preliminary results of numerical studies for selected problems using road safety devices such as safety barriers on horizontal curves, the effect of kerbs on bridges or the location of obstacles within the barrier’s working width. The paper will discuss assumptions to a methodology of numerical models, calculations and automated processing of data to help with assessing...

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  • Biopolymer based nanomaterials in drug delivery systems: A review

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    - Materials Today - Year 2018

    Drug delivery systems (DDS) are used to achieve a higher therapeutic effects of a pharmaceutical drug or natural compound in a specific diseased site with minimal toxicological effect and these systems consists of liposomes, microspheres, gels, prodrugs and many. Nanotechnology is a rapidly developing multi-disciplinary science that ensures the fabrication of the polymers to nanometer scale for various medical applications. Uses...

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  • Parallel Programming for Modern High Performance Computing Systems

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    - Year 2018

    In view of the growing presence and popularity of multicore and manycore processors, accelerators, and coprocessors, as well as clusters using such computing devices, the development of efficient parallel applications has become a key challenge to be able to exploit the performance of such systems. This book covers the scope of parallel programming for modern high performance computing systems. It first discusses selected and...

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  • Systems for storing and reducing energy consumption in residential buildings

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    - Year 2017

    W pracy przeprowadzany został przegląd różnych koncepcji magazynów energii cieplnej zintegrowanych z budynkiem mieszkalnym. Przedstawione zostały warianty różniące się między sobą pod względem kształtu, rozmiaru, wypełnienia, sposobu instalacji itp. Opisany został sposób zintegrowania systemów magazynujących z odnawialnymi źródłami energii. Następnie wskazane zostały inne rozwiązania projektowe umożliwiające redukcję zapotrzebowania...