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Automatic Analysis of Trajectories of Moving Objects
PublicationOngoing monitoring is essential to providing security and safety of maritime and air operations. This paper presents the research in the area of automatic analysis of movement of unrestricted vehicles like ships and air-planes. The analysis is aimed at extraction of trajectory information, and the results can be used to identify anomalous behaviour in archived and real-time data. In this paper we focus on data acquired using the...
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Practical I-Voting on Stellar Blockchain
PublicationIn this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving i-voting system based on the public Stellar Blockchain network. We argue that the proposed system satisfies all requirements stated for a robust i-voting system including transparency, verifiability, and voter anonymity. The practical architecture of the system abstracts a voter from blockchain technology used underneath. To keep user privacy, we propose a privacy-first protocol that...
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The new concept of product. Cooling band
PublicationThe chapter below presents the innovative solution consist in applying the cooling band to help holding the hot object. The solution was found through substitute inputs analysis and brain storm method. The new product was submitted in Polish Patent Office under the No. W.120905.
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Hybrid Model of Axially Moving Continua
PublicationThe paper introduces the method of the model reduction of systems that experience a Coriolis acceleration component. It causes that system equations are non-self-adjoined. To avoid such problem modal, reduced model is built up for the system without Coriolis acceleration terms which are next included by application of any lumping technique. Hence, the final reduced model is a hybrid one, obtained by both lumping and modal methods...
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Hybrid model of moving or rotating continua
PublicationThe paper introduces the method of the model reduction of systems that experience a Coriolis acceleration or gyroscopic effect component. In such causes that corresponding system equations are non-self-adjoined. Modal reduced model is built up for the system without Coriolis or gyroscopic effect terms. These phenomena are next included by application of any lumping technique. Hence, the final reduced model is a hybrid one, obtained...
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Extremal thermal loading of a bifurcation pipe
PublicationThe subject of considerations is a spherical bifurcation pipe of a live steam made of steel P91, which is an element of a block of coal-fired power plant working with a 18K370 turbine. As experience shows, it is a very sensitive element of the boiler pipelines. An extreme work scenario for such a block has been adopted, in which the turbine is shutting down to a warm state three times in 24 hours. This is an action dictated by...
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Ukrainian Market of Electrical Energy: Reforming, Financing, Innovative Investment, Efficiency Analysis, and Audit
PublicationThe aim of this research is to determine the influence of electrical energy market regulation reform in Ukraine on the competitive environment, the reproduction processes of financial and innovative support, and the energy efficiency of the national economy. The authors have put forward and verified the hypothesis that, under conditions of institutional maturity of the Ukrainian electrical energy market, its liberalization and...
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Anxiety, Stress Perception, and Coping Strategies among Students with COVID-19 Exposure
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Coping styles and symptomatic manifestation of first-episode psychosis: Focus on cognitive performance
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Coping Styles, Mental Health, and the COVID-19 Quarantine: A Nationwide Survey in Poland
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Cinema-Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image
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Stem Cells and Cloning-Advances and Applications
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AMYLOID-JOURNAL OF PROTEIN FOLDING DISORDERS
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Identification and cloning of C. albicans SC5314 genes encoding L-methionine biosynthetic pathway enzymes.
Open Research DataEnzymes of fungal L-methionine biosynthetic pathway: homoserine O-acetyltransferase (Met2p), O-acetylhomoserine sulfhydrylase (Met15p) and cystathionine-γ-synthase (Str2p) could be exploited as molecular targets for antifungal chemotherapy. The goal of the study was to identify and clone genes encoding mentioned above enzymes. MET2, MET15 and STR2 genes...
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Quality Aspects in Digital Broadcasting and Webcasting Systems: Bitrate versus Loudness
PublicationIn this paper the quality aspects of bitrate and loudness in digital broadcasting and webcasting systems are examined. The authors discuss a survey concerning user preferences related with processing and managing audio content. The coding efficiency of a popular audio format is analyzed in the context of storing media. An objective study on a representative group of signal samples, as well as a subjective study of the perceived...
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Molecular typing of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from cows with mastitis in the east of Poland on the basis of polymorphism of genes coding protein A and coagulase
PublicationPolimorfizm genów kodujących białko A i koagulazę wykorzystano do badania zmienności genetycznej bakterii Staphylococcus aureus wyizolowanych z gruczołów mlekowych krów u których stwierdzono stan zapalny. W badanej grupie 82 szczepów wyróżniono 24 genotypy.
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Fathers’ Coping Strategies and Children’s Temperament as Predictors of Parental Attitudes among Polish Fathers
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The strategy of coping with stress and selected health related behavioural patterns of demobilized battle participants
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THE SELECTION OF STRESS COPING STRATEGIES BY UNIVERSITY STUDENTS BASED ON PRIOR COVID-19 EXPOSURE
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Strategies for Coping With Stress Used by Nurses in Poland and Belarus During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF COPING STRATEGIES WITH STRESS OF STUDENTS IN DIFFERENT LEARNING CONDITIONS DURING THE PANDEMIC
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The propagation of the waves in the CTO S.A. towing tank
PublicationThe paper presents the results of research focused on the wave propagation in the CTO S.A. deepwater towing tank. In the scope of paper, the wavemaker transfer function was determined for regular waves, based on the Biésel Transfer Function and further for irregular waves, based on Hasselman model of nonlinear energy transfer. The phenomena: wave damping, wave breakdown and wave reflection, were measured, analyzed and mathematically...
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Fading Modeling in Maritime Container Terminal Environments
PublicationIn this paper, an analytical model for slow and fast fading effects in maritime container terminals is derived, from fitting distributions to the results of measurements performed in an actual operational environment. The proposed model is composed of a set of equations, enabling to evaluate fading statistical distribution parameters for different system and environments conditions, as a function of frequency, base station antenna...
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Some aspects surface cooling by impinging jet
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono wyniki badań wymiany ciepła, uskoku hydraulicznego i stabilności podczas napływu strugi na powierzchnię ciała stałego.
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Impedance measurements of coating properties on bridge structures
PublicationPomiary impedancyjne pozwalają na prostą ocenę właściwości ochronnych powłok ochronnych i wykładzin. Pomiary stosuje się w celu porównania powłok, monitorowania ich właściwości i oceny mechanizmu działania. Metodyka jest z powodzeniem stosowana w pomiarach laboratoryjnych. Pomiary terenowe są bardziej skomplikowane ponieważ wymagają w pełni kontrolowanych komputerowo przyrządów, kontroli warunków pogodowych oraz wielu innych parametrów...
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Evaluation of coating systems using impedance spectroscopy
PublicationTrwałość powłokowych systemów ochronnych zależy od oddziaływań środowiska i związana jest nieodwracalnymi procesami chemicznymi i fizycznymi. Zastosowanie spektroskopii impedancyjnej pozwala na określenie obszaru zastosowań danej powłoki i prognozowanie okresu jej trwałości. W pracy zamieszczono przykłady oceny trwałości systemów powłokowych stosowanych w strategicznych konstrukcjach.
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Fading Modelling in Dynamic Off-Body Channels
PublicationThis paper presents an off-body fading channel model for Body Area Networks (BANs) in indoor environments. The proposed model, which is based on both simulations and measurements in a realistic environment, consists of three components: mean path loss, body shadowing, and multipath fading. Seven scenarios in an indoor environment (a medium-size room with furniture, mostly consisting of wooden tables and chairs) have been measured:...
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Development trends of automotive engine cooling systems
PublicationDzięki daleko idącym modyfikacjom układów zasilania i zapłonu silników samochodowych oraz udoskonaleniom układów oczyszczania spalin uzyskano znaczne zmniejszenie emisji związków toksycznych. Układy chłodzenia z pompą cieczy napędzaną mechanicznie stają się archaiczne nie pozwalając na swobodne sterowanie obiegiem cieczy. Również różna wartość temperatury potrzebnej do schładzania różnych procesów wymaga sterowanych zaworów trójdrożnych...
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The Proposition of an Automated Honing Cell with Advanced Monitoring
PublicationHoning of holes allows for small shape deviation and a low value of a roughness profile parameter, e.g., Ra parameter. The honing process heats the workpiece and raises its temperature. The increase in temperature causes thermal deformations of the honed holes. The article proposes the construction of a honing cell, containing in addition to CNC honing machine: thermographic camera, sound intensity meter, and software for collecting...
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Fading Modelling in Dynamic Off-Body Channels
PublicationThis paper presents an off-body fading channel model for Body Area Networks. The proposed model, based on both simulations and measurements at 2.45 GHz in a realistic indoor environment, consists of three components: mean path loss, body shadowing, and multipath fading. The first is modelled as a log function of distance, the path loss exponent being in between 0.4 and 1.6. A statistical perspective is taken for the other two components,...
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Determination of Failure Causes of a Steam Turbine Casing
PublicationThe paper presents results of research and failure analysis undertaken to determine failure causes of a steam turbine casing. After 130,000 hours of service the crack in a outer shell of the turbine casing was found. The inner shell of the casing was made of cast steel grade G21CrMoV5-7, and the outer shell of grade G20CrMo4-5. Following research were performed in order to determine causes of the casing failure: chemical analysis;...
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Hydroxyapatite films as biocompatibile coating for artifical bone
PublicationW artykule została szczegółowo opisana budowa kości oraz materiał biokompatybilny hydroksyapatyt (HAp). Autorzy wykazali jak wielkie podobieństwo do budowy kości przejawia sztuczny hydroksyapatyt. opisali syntezy powłoki z HAp.
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New generation cooling systems for car engines
PublicationNormy czystości spalin silników samochodowych wymusiły rozwój elektronicznego sterowania pracą silników samochodowych. Do niedawna układy chłodzenia były bardzo tradycyjnymi - niesterowanymi programowo. W artykule przedstawiono możliwości wprowadzenia zaawansowanego sterowania mikroprocesorowego do układów chłodzenia silników spalinowych. Rozważania zilustrowano badaniami z literatury i własnymi pomiarami autora.
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Fading modelling in dynamic off-body channels
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Indium doping in SrCeO3 proton-conducting perovskites
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Cooling of electronic equipment by means of jets and microjets
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono rozwiązanie sprzężonej wymiany ciepła od uderzającej strugi cieczy oraz przewodzenia ciepła w łytce. Uzyskano proste zależności opisujące rozkład temperatur na płytce. Umożliwia to przeprowadzenie analizy wpływu różnych parametró na wymianę ciepła podczas chłodzenia urządzeń elektronicznych generujących ciepło.
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Advanced Macromodel Matrix Structure Cloning for FDTD
PublicationWe propose an improved macromodel-based techniquefor efficient analysis of the structures based on PhotonicCrystals (PhC). The technique involves a new structure of thecoupling matrix and advanced cloning of not only the macromodel matrices, but also the coupling matrices SE and SH.The method allows one to shorten considerably the preprocessingtime, the RAM usage and also the iterating speed of performingFDTD. With this...
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The lubricant-coating interaction in rolling and sliding contacts
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Doppler estimation method for moving target location
PublicationArtykuł opisuje nowy algorytm lokalizacji obiektów ruchomych bazujących na analizie odchyłek dopplerowskich sygnałów odebranych z sieci hydrofonów rozmieszczonych równomiernie w obserwowanym akwenie. Źródłem analizowanych sygnałów są fale ciągłe o niskim natężeniu odbite od obiektu ruchomego. W artykule została przedstawiona postać algorytmu oraz wyniki symulacji komputerowych.
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Modelling, Simulation and Optimization of the Wavemaker in a Towing Tank
PublicationThe paper analyses the problem of experimental identification (frequency response), modelling and optimization of the towing tank wavemaker in the Scilab/Xcos environment. The experimental identification of the objects (the towing tank wavemaker placed in the hydrodynamic laboratory of the CTO S.A. Ship Design and Research Centre (CTO)) and the implementation of the models in the simulation environment, enable to perform: 1. tuning...
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Stability of a truss under upward wind loading
PublicationThe present paper is devoted to the numerical investigations of stability of a truss under upward wind load. The truss is braced at its the upper cord. A structural variant including lateral braces, or lateral and torsional braces is considered. The research presents the problems of linear buckling and non-linear static analysis of the truss shell and beam model with geometric and material non-linearity are presented. The initial...
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Examination of the epoxy coating system's resistance to Corrobill
PublicationThe tests of the influence of the surface cleaning agent on the epoxy coating were carried out. Electrochemical and corrosion tests were carried out. The effect of the preparation on the adhesion and hardness of the tested coating was tested.
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Structural optimization of microjet array cooling system
PublicationThe single phase heat transfer from an upward facing, horizontal copper surface to arrays of impinging water jets was experimentally investigated. Experimental configuration allows for a free-surface unconfined jets flow. Square nozzles 50 × 100 μm arranged in four different geometries were used. Additionally, for the set of two jets array geometry was varied by adjusting the nozzle to nozzle distance. The area averaged heat transfer...
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Redundant information encoding in QED during decoherence
PublicationBroadly understood decoherence processes in quantum electrodynamics, induced by neglecting either the radiation [L. Landau, Z. Phys. 45, 430 (1927)] or the charged matter [N. Bohr and L. Rosenfeld, K. Danske Vidensk. Selsk, Math.-Fys. Medd. XII, 8 (1933)], have been studied from the dawn of the theory. However, what happens in between, when a part of the radiation may be observed, as is the case in many real-life situations, has...
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Simple and low-cost wireless voting system
PublicationThis paper presents the concept of a simple and low-cost wireless voting system working in the 868 MHz frequency band. The described system is dedicated to general shareholders assemblies but it can be easily adapted for other applications. The main advantage is its simplicity and mobility as it consists solely of three components - voting modules, a base station and a PC application from which the whole system is mamaged. This...
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Performance of a hybrid microjet – microchannel cooling module
PublicationThe paper presents the experimental investigation of a microjet- microchannel cooling module. In which microjets of water are impinging into the microchannels and forming a liquid film on the impingement surface. Applied technology takes benefits from two very attractive heat removal techniques. When lminar jets are impinging on the surface have a very high kinetic energy at the stagnation point, also in microchannels boundary...
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Digital Control System of the Wavemaker in the Towing Tank
PublicationThe paper describes a digital control system of the rigid flap wavemaker in a towing tank in CTO S.A. Ship Design and Research Centre. The control system is based on an 8-bit AVR microcontroller and consists of two cascading PID controllers. The digital system replaced the previous analogue system from 1974 and has been integrated with the existing sensors and actuators of the wavemaker. The new control system allows to obtain...
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Simple and low-cost wireless voting system
PublicationThis paper presents the concept of a simple and low-cost wireless voting system working on the 868 MHz frequency band. Described system is dedicated to general shareholders assemblies but it can be easily adapted for other applications. The main advantage is its simplicity and mobility as it consists solely of three components - voting modules, base station and a PC application from which the whole system is managed. This architecture...
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Signatures and acoustic images of objects moving in water
PublicationObservation of underwater space is part of a generaltrend, which primary purpose is to protect and increasesafety in the selected area. The basic aim of the paper ispresentation of designated acoustic characteristics typicalfor objects moving on the water surface and under water,which represent some knowledge about detection of theseobjects. Create a catalog of acoustic signature and not onlyacoustic, as well as acoustic images...