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Znaczenie instrumentów finansowych dla potencjału finansowego gospodarstw domowych w Polsce.
PublicationRozwijający się rynek finansowy stworzył gospodarstwom domowym wiele możliwości lokat oszczędności oraz korzystania z zewnętrznych źródeł finansowania Służą temu liczne instrumenty finansowe. Znaczenie gospodarstw domowych na rynku finansowym zdeterminowane jest ich potencjałem finansowym.
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Accurate and continuous adhesive fracture energy determination using an instrumented wedge test
PublicationThe wedge test and the related double cantilever beam test are practical methods of assessing structural adhesive fracture energy. In the former, and to a lesser extent the latter, a recognised problem is the difficulty of following the length of the growing crack, required to calculate fracture energy with any accuracy. We present a novel method of measurement of crack length that has the advantages of being accurate and allowing...
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Column base fixity in steel moment frames: Observations from instrumented buildings
PublicationThe rotational fixity of column base connections in Steel Moment Resisting Frames (SMRFs) strongly influences their seismic response. However, approaches for estimating base fixity have been validated only against laboratory test data. These approaches are examined based on strong motion recordings from four instrumented SMRF buildings in California to informbest practices for seismic response simulation. These buildings represent...
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Identification of residual force in static load tests on instrumented screw displacement piles
PublicationOccurrence of the so-called residual force of an unknown value significantly disturbs interpretation of static load tests performed on piles equipped with additional measuring instruments. Screw displacement piles are the piling technology in which the residual force phenomenon is very common. Its formation mechanism is closely related to the installation method of this type of piles, which initiates generation of negative pile...
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Irregular variations in GPS time series by probability and noise analysis
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Resistance Noise Higher-Order Spectrums in Nanoparticle Gas Sensors.
PublicationPrzedstawiono badania fluktuacji rezystancji sensora gazu wykonanego z nanocząstek WO3. Stwierdzono występowanie składowych o rozkładzie prawdopodobieństwa różnym od rozkładu Gaussa. W celu zwiększenia czułości i selektywności wykrywanych gazów zastosowan do analizy obserwowanych fluktuacji spektra wyższych rzędów.
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Quality assessment of ZnO-based varistors by 1/f noise
PublicationNoise has been used as a diagnostic tool of surge arrester varistor structures comprising of ZnO grains of various type and size. The physical and electrical properties of the measured samples have been described. In the experimental study, the applied measurement system and the results of noise measurements for the selected structures of varistors designed for the continuous working voltage 280 V, 440 V and 660 V have been presented....
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Applications of electrochemical noise technique in stress corrosion cracking diagnosis
PublicationW pracy przedstawione zostały rezultaty analizy prądowego szumu elektrochemicznego, generowanego podczas korozji naprężeniowej próbek stali stopowej. W przeciwieństwie do tradycyjnych metod analizy nie zakładano stacjonarności analizowanych sygnałów. Zamiast tego analizie poddana została zmodyfikowana widmowa odpowiedź szumowa o charakterze zależnym od czasu. Rezultaty badań skonfrontowano z wynikami otrzymanymi za pomocą techniki...
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Noise Analysis and Optimization of Continuous-Time OTA-C Filters
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono efektywną procedurę wyznaczania szumów w filtrach OTA C czasu ciagłego. Procedura wyprowadzona jest w oparciu o ogólny model filtru OTA C oraz jego opis macierzowy. Podano jawne formuły pozwalające okreslić odniesione do wejścia widmo szumów dowolnego filtru rozważanej klasy. Otrzymane wyniki teoretyczne zostały zweryfikowane poprzez porównanie z wynikami otrzymywanymi za pomocą symulatora SPICE dla wybranych...
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Analysis and Optimization of Noise in Continuous-Time OTA-C Filters
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono ogólną procedurę analizy szumów w filtrach klasy OTA-C czasu ciągłego. Procedura umożliwia analizę filtrów o dowolnej topologii i dowolnego rzędu w ramach rozważanej klasy. W oparciu o opis macierzowy ogólnej struktury filtru OTA-C wyprowadzono ogólne formuły pozwalające na wyznaczanie i optymalizację szumów dowolnego filtru OTA-C. Przedstawione wyniki są użyteczne nie tylko dla klasycznych (dyskretnych lub...
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Evaluation of Lombard Speech Models in the Context of Speech in Noise Enhancement
PublicationThe Lombard effect is one of the most well-known effects of noise on speech production. Speech with the Lombard effect is more easily recognizable in noisy environments than normal natural speech. Our previous investigations showed that speech synthesis models might retain Lombard-effect characteristics. In this study, we investigate several speech models, such as harmonic, source-filter, and sinusoidal, applied to Lombard speech...
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Dedicated power supply subsystem for ultra-low noise preamplifiers
PublicationIn field of electronics there is need for low-noise amplifiers. Noise have the most important influence on analog circuits. Therefore exist necessity to develop new ultra-low noise power supplies, which can cooperate with specified amplifiers and preamplifiers. It is very common that professional power supplies are very expensive and still have disadvantages. This paper proposes simple and inexpensive solution, which fulfill specific...
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Generation-recombination and 1/f noise in carbon nanotube networks
PublicationThe low-frequency noise is of special interest for carbon nanotubes devices, which are building blocks for a variety of sensors, including radio frequency and terahertz detectors. We studied noise in as-fabricated and aged carbon nanotube networks (CNNs) field-effect transistors. Contrary to the majority of previous publications, as-fabricated devices demonstrated the superposition of generation-recombination (GR) and 1/f noise...
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Impact of Spatial Noise Correlation on Bearing Accuracy in DIFAR Systems
PublicationDIFAR type underwater passive systems are one of the more commonly used tools for detecting submarines. At the design stage, which usually uses computer simulations, it is necessary to generate acoustic noise of the sea. It has been shown that correlating noise significantly reduces these errors compared to the assumption that noise is uncorrelated. In addition, bearing errors have been shown to be the same in systems with a commonly...
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Temperature influence on tire/road noise evaluated by the drum method
PublicationAmbient air and road surface temperatures substantially affect the road vehicle noise emission. The temperature influence on tire/road noise depends mainly on tire-road combination. It is different for dense and porous pavements, for bituminous and cement ones. It differs also depending on tires. The correction procedures for temperature effect are still under consideration and preparation. Laboratory experiment was prepared to...
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Reduction of noise and rolling resistance by horizontal grinding of asphalt pavements
PublicationGrinding of cement concrete pavements to reduce unevenness and noise is common since a long time. Grinding is then made with wheels equipped with diamond blades rotating in the vertical plane. This creates narrow vertical/longitudinal grooves in the pavement. It is not applied to asphalt pavements. In this paper an alternative type of grinding is studied. In this case plates with diamond heads rotate in the same plane as the pavement,...
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Fast clutter cancellation for noise radars via waveform design
PublicationCanceling clutter is an important, but very expensive part of signal processing in noise radars. It is shown that considerable improvements can be made to a simple least squares canceler if minor constraints are imposed onto noise waveform. Using a combination of FPGA and CPU, the proposed scheme is capable of canceling both stationary clutter and moving targets in real-time, even for high sampling rates.
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Performance of Noise Map Service Working in Cloud Computing Environment
PublicationIn the paper a noise map service designated for the user interested in environmental noise subject is presented. It is based on cloud computing. Noise prediction algorithm and source model, developed for creating acoustic maps, are working in cloud computing environment. In the study issues related to noise modeling of sound propagation in urban spaces are discussed with a special focus on road noise. Examples of results obtained...
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DEVELOPMENT OF A COUPLED NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO HYDRODYNAMIC NOISE ESTIMATION
PublicationThe hydroacoustic signature of ships' propellers can be estimated experimentally through measurements of cavitation-induced pressure fluctuations and the corresponding noise distributions at model scale. These measurements need to be performed in a cavitation tunnel under the propellers operating conditions and are quite sensitive and challenging to perform with sufficient accuracy. In comparison, the numerical approach can be...
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Traffic Noise Analysis Applied to Automatic Vehicle Counting and Classification
PublicationProblems related to determining traffic noise characteristics are discussed in the context of automatic dynamic noise analysis based on noise level measurements and traffic prediction models. The obtained analytical results provide the second goal of the study, namely automatic vehicle counting and classification. Several traffic prediction models are presented and compared to the results of in-situ noise level measurements. Synchronized...
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New approach to railway noise modeling employing Genetic Algorithms
PublicationMain goal of this paper was to describe an innovative method of noise prediction based on Genetic Algorithms. First part of the paper addresses the problem of growing noise, mainly in the context of a unified method for measuring noise. Further, Genetic Algorithms are described with regards to their fundamental features. Further a description is provided as to how Genetic Algorithms were used in the area of noise modeling. Next...
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Shipping Low Frequency Noise and Its Propagation in Shallow Water
PublicationOne of the most significant factor influencing acoustical climate of the sea is underwater noise generated by moving ships. If the considered sea area has features of the shallow water, namely the wave frequency fulfils relation f < 10c/h, where c denotes phase speed of sound, and h is depths of the sea, then in certain distance from the wave source specific image of sound pressure distribution in the mean of wave modes appears....
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An improved frequency estimator for an adaptive active noise control scheme
PublicationAn improved frequency tracker is proposed for the recently introduced self optimizing narrowband interference canceller (SONIC). The scheme is designed for disturbances with quasi-linear frequency modulation and, under second-order Gaussian random-walk assumption, can be shown to be statistically efficient. One real-world experiment and several simulations show that a considerable improvement in disturbance rejection may be achieved...
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Investigation of the underwater noise produced by ships by means of intensity method
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Cheap Cancellation of Strong Echoes for Digital Passive and Noise Radars
PublicationThe problem of cancellation of strong, potentially nonstationary,echoes in noise radars and passive radars utilizing digitaltransmissions is considered. The proposed solution is a multi-stage procedure.Initial clutter estimates, obtained using the least mean squares(LMS) algorithm, are refined using specially designed filters, "matched"to spectral densities of targets and clutter. When the postprocessing filtersare noncausal, the...
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Some aspects of noise generated by a small ship in the shallow sea
PublicationThe passing and underwater moving objects produce the noises of variable intensity, which significantly increase the overall level of noise in the sea. This applies to both the sonic and ultrasonic range. The excessive levels of underwater noise adversely affects the so-called underwater acoustic climate and is the reason why this phenomenon is intensively investigated from the number of years. The results of experimental work...
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Distributed System For Noise Threat Evaluation Based On Psychoacoustic Measurements
PublicationAn innovative system designed for the continuous monitoring of acoustic climate of urban areas was presentedin the paper. The assessment of environmental threats is performed using online data, acquired through a grid ofengineered monitoring stations collecting comprehensive information about the acoustic climate of urban areas.The grid of proposed devices provides valuable data for the purpose of long and short time acoustic climateanalysis....
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Identification of inherent noise components of semiconductor devices on an example of optocouplers
PublicationIn the paper, a method of estimation of parameters of Gaussian and non-Gaussian components in the noise signal of semiconductor devices in a frequency domain is proposed. The method is based on composing estimators of two spectra, corresponding to noise (Gaussian component) and two-level RTS noise (non-Gaussian component). The proposed method can be applied for precise evaluation of the corner RTS frequency fRTS in the noise...
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Evaluation of excessive noise effects on hearing employing psychoacoustic dosimetry
PublicationResearch results regarding the noise impact on hearing applying the concept of the Psychoacoustic Noise Dosimetry (PND) are presented. The general characteristics of the PND algorithm are discussed. Additionally, the results of hearing examinations conducted in the laboratory conditions are shown. The main objective of the research was to determine the time needed for the Temporary Threshold Shift to reverse. The results were used...
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Two-stage method of impulsive noise detection for audio signals
PublicationPrzedstawiono nowa dwuetapową metodę detekcji zakłóceń impulsowych opartą na analizie funkcji gęstości rozkładu prawdopodobieństwa zakłóconego sygnału. Opisano algorytm określania poziomu wyzwalania detektora progowego.
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Piece-wise constant approximation method of identification of RTS noise
PublicationPrzedstawiono nową metodę wydzielania szumów RTS z całkowitych szumów przyrządów półprzewodnikowych. Metoda ta oparta jest na aproksymacji liniowo odcinkowej przebiegu szumowego.Przedstawiono wyniki zastosowania tej metody do wydzielenia dwupoziomowego szumu RTS z szumu przyrządu półprzewodnikowego.
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Directivity of tire/road noise emission for selected tires and pavements
PublicationPraca pośwoęcona jest kierunkowości emisji hałasu opon i nawierzchni drogowych. Opony są dominującym źródłem haasu w pojaździe poruszającym się w typowych warunkach ruchu drogowego. Hałas ten nie jest bezkierunkowy jak to przyjmuje się w modelach obliczeniowych hałasu. Takie założenia wynikają z ograniczonej dostępności danych dotyczących kierunkowości i mogą prowadzić do niedokładności przy prognozowaniu hałasu drogowego. Praca...
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Pitting corrosion characterization by electrochemical noise measurements on asymmetric electrodes
PublicationKorozja wżerowa stali nierdzewnych może być wykryta za pomocą obserwacji charakterystycznych sygnałów prądowych, jakie płyną między dwiema elektrodami metalowymi. W artykule proponuje się wyznaczanie funkcji bispektrum dla układu dwóch elektrod o istotnie różnej powierzchni narażonej na występowanie korozji. Proponowana metoda została zastosowana do analizy korozji wżerowej stali 0H18N9 powstającej pod wpływem 1M roztworu FeCl3...
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Low Noise Poroelastic Road Pavements Based On Bituminous Binder
PublicationTire/road noise is the dominant source of traffic noise. It depends both on the tire design and on the characteristics of road pavements as well as on the vehicles’ operating conditions. Due to the fact that conventional (pneumatic) car tires have almost reached the limits of their ability to further reduce their noisiness, it is widely believed that the additional reduction of tire noise will be possible mainly through modifications...
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Noise profiling for speech enhancement employing machine learning models
PublicationThis paper aims to propose a noise profiling method that can be performed in near real-time based on machine learning (ML). To address challenges related to noise profiling effectively, we start with a critical review of the literature background. Then, we outline the experiment performed consisting of two parts. The first part concerns the noise recognition model built upon several baseline classifiers and noise signal features...
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Selective monitoring of noise emitted by vehicles involved in road traffic
PublicationAn acoustic intensity probe was developed measures the sound intensity in three orthogonal directions, making possible to calculate the azimuth and elevation angles, describing the sound source position. The acoustic sensor is made in the form of a cube with a side of 10 mm, on the inner surfaces of which the digital MEMS microphones are mounted. The algorithm works in two stages. The first stage is based on the analysis of sound...
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Application of Electronic Nose to Ambient Air Quality Evaluation With Respect to Odour Nuisance in Vicinity of Municipal Landfills and Sewage Treatment
PublicationThis chapter contains information about application of the electronic nose type instruments to evaluation of ambient air odour quality connected with such sectors of human activity as municipal landfills or sewage treatment plants. The authors present potential sources of emission from these sectors, characterize the chemical compounds responsible for presence of unpleasant odours, describe the influence of those compounds on human...
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Instrumenty prawne ochrony interesów akcjonariuszy mniejszościowych w polskich spółkach publicznych.
PublicationWe wstępie wskazano na znaczenie ochrony interesów akcjonariuszy mniejszościowych w świetle corporate governance. Następnie omówiono instrumenty ochrony akcjonariuszy mniejszościowych przed transferem zysków i w wezwaniach na sprzedaż akcji. Rozważania oparto na licznych przykładach.
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The state of the art in the field of non-stationary instruments for the determination and monitoring of atmospheric pollutants
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono informacje oparte zarówno na danych literaturowych jak i własnych doświadczeniach dotyczące:-podstawowych tendencji rozwojowych w zakresie analityki i monitoringu zaneczyszczeń powietrza atmosferycznego-wymogów metrologicznych stawianych różnych typom urządzeń kontrolno-pomiarowych;-klasyfikacji analizatorów i monitorów wykorzystywanych w monitoringu powietrza.
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Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers
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Grzegorz Szwoch dr hab. inż.
PeopleGrzegorz Szwoch was born in 1972 in Gdansk. In 1991-1996 he studied at the Technical University of Gdansk. In 1996 he graduated as a student from the Sound Engineering Department. His thesis was related to physical modeling of musical instruments. Since that time he has been a member of the research staff at the Multimedia Systems Department as a PhD student (1996-2001), Assistant (2001-2004), Assistant professor (2004-2020) and...
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Determining and verifying the safety integrity level of the safety instrumented systems with the uncertainty and security aspects
PublicationSafety and security aspects consist of two different group of functional requirements for the control and protection systems. In the paper it is proposed that the security analysis results can be used as a factor increasing or decreasing the risk level. It concerns a process of determining required safety integrity level of given safety functions. The authors propose a new approach for functional safety risk analysis. In this case...
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Karta Dużej Rodziny jako jeden z instrumentów wsparcia rodziny w Polsce
PublicationPolityka społeczna w Polsce w ramach modelu socjaldemokratycznego ukierunkowana jest na bezpieczeństwo socjalne. Istotnym wyzwaniem dla polskiej polityki społecznej jest podniesienie poziomu dzietności w oparciu o efektywne rozwiązania w polityce rodzinnej. W jej ramach prowadzone są działania ukierunkowane na zabezpieczenie społeczne. Istotnym elementem tej polityki jest Karta Dużej Rodzinny; wprowadzona w 2014 r.Jest ona ogólnopolskim...
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Serwisy WWW jako instrument kształtowania relacji z klientem usług medycznych
PublicationWprowadzenie: W artykule podjęto problem oceny użyteczności serwisów WWW i badania postaw lojalnościowych e-klientów korzystających z serwisów WWW usług medycznych. Celem badania była wstępna walidacja metody do oceny jakości użytkowej serwisów WWW usług medycznych oraz określenie związków pomiędzy cechami jakości użytkowej serwisów WWW a cechami relacyjnymi, takimi jak: satysfakcja, chęć powrotu oraz zamiar rekomendowania serwisu...
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City as a product. Architecture as an Economic Instrument. Are Global Cities People-Friendly Places?
PublicationWhile spending time in our everyday urban environment do we ever think how particular architecture influences the economic value of that space? Space has its measurable financial value. From the economic point of view a place can be treated as a product that fights for appearing in tourists’ and investors’ consciousnesses. Space - treated as an object of demand and supply - becomes an element in a marketing game. To reach its...
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Virtual instrument using bilinear transformation for parameter identification of high impedance objects.
PublicationArtykuł przedstawia przyrząd wirtualny do pomiaru parametrów obiektów wysokoimpedancyjnych (/Zx/<10GOhm). Opracowano metodę identyfikacji elementów składowych dwójników wieloelementowych opartą na przekształceniu biliniowym.Metoda jest predestynowana do identyfikacji parametrów różnych powłok antykorozyjnych. Dla identyfikacji konieczne są wektorowe pomiary impedancji obiektu na kilku wybranych częstotliwościach, których liczba...
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Musical Instrument Classification and Duet Analysis Employing Music Information Retrieval Techniques.
PublicationArtykuł przedstawia w sposób przeglądowy prace Katedry Systemów Multimedialnych Politechniki Gdańskiej związane z wyszukiwaniem informacji muzycznej, a w szczególności z klasyfikacją dźwięków instrumentów muzycznych. W opisywanych eksperymentach wykorzystano sztuczne sieci neuronowe.
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Validation of the Polish version of WHO-5 as a screening instrument for depression in adults with diabetes
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Modeling incipient creep damage effects on Barkhausen noise and magnetoacoustic emission.
PublicationZaproponowano model fizyczny opisujący zmiany natężenia efektu Barkhausena i emisji magnetoakustycznej podczas procesu degradacji stali ekploatowanych w przemyśle energetycznym.