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  • Cross section calculations for electron scattering from platinum chemotherapeutic compounds

    Cross section for electron impact ionization of carboplatin, C6H12N2O4Pt, and oxaliplatin, C8H14N2O4Pt, have been calculated within binary-encounter-Bethe model for energies from the ionization threshold up to 5000 eV. Cross section for elastic electron scattering from carboplatin and oxaliplatin molecules have also been derived using independent atom method (IAM) and additivity rule for collision energies ranging from 50 eV to...

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  • Theoretical study of the photoelectron spectrum of ethyl formate: Ab initio and density functional theory investigation

    The first ionization energy and associated photoelectron spectrum of ethyl formate are investigated with quantum chemistry calculations. The geometries, harmonic vibrational frequencies and first ionization energy are computed at the Hartree-Fock (HF) and at the second order Moller-Plesset perturbation theory (MP2). Moreover, accurate ionization energies are obtained with the Coupled-Cluster theory including singles and doubles...

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  • Low-energy interactions related to atmospheric and extreme conditions

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    - EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL D - Year 2017

    This Topical Issue, entitled “Low-Energy Interactions Related to Atmospheric and Extreme Conditions”, showcases a collection of eighteen articles that reported recent theoretical and experimental findings pertaining to the following topics: – low-energy interactions of charged particles (electrons [1–7], protons [8], positrons [9]), and photons [10] with atoms and molecules of biological [1–4,7,8], astrochemical [10], industrial,...

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  • Engineering Graphics II (M:31997W1) 2023/24

    e-Learning Courses
    • J. Łubiński
    • B. Bastian

    The course covers subject scope of standardised methods used for the presentation of machine details in projected views, in technical design drawings. Detailed topics include: projection systems, principles of design documentation in machine design, rules in dimensioning and selection of views in technical drawing. Practical excercises are carried out and an introduction to CAD is performed.

  • Fundamentals of Communication Networks Resilience to Disasters and Massive Disruptions

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    • J. Rak
    • D. Hutchison
    • J. Tapolcai
    • R. Bruzgiene
    • M. Tornatore
    • C. Mas-Machuca
    • M. Furdek
    • P. Smith

    - Year 2020

    Communication networks are exposed to a variety of massive failure events following from activities of nature, weather-induced disruptions, technology-implied problems, and malicious human activities. In this chapter, we first highlight the characteristics of these scenarios and discuss example failure events reported during the last three decades. Next, we explain the concept of network resilience and present an overview of major...

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  • Special Issue: “Non-Destructive Testing of Structures”

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    - Materials - Year 2020

    The Special Issue “Non-Destructive Testing of Structures” has been proposed to present recent developments in the field of diagnostics of structural materials and components in civil and mechanical engineering. The papers highlighted in this editorial concern various aspects of non-invasive diagnostics, including such topics as condition assessments of civil and mechanical structures and connections of structural elements, the...

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  • Spatio-Temporal Validation of GNSS-Derived Global Ionosphere Maps Using 16 Years of Jason Satellites Observations

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    Existing ionospheric models perform very well in mapping the calm state of the ionosphere. However, the problem is accurately determining the total electron content (TEC) for disturbed days. Knowledge of the exact electron density is essential for single−frequency receivers, which cannot eliminate the ionospheric delay. This study aims to investigate temporal and spatial variability in the distribution of TEC based on differences...

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  • Topic 1: Transformations / Spatial form design, scale 1:1

    e-Learning Courses
    • E. Urwanowicz
    • K. Wróblewski
    • P. Różycki

    Brief description: The subject matter of the spatial form design classes is transformation. First, a black square becomes a flat graphic composition, which is then converted to color. The final stage of the transformation process is a spatial object, which is by assumption devoid of any utilitarian functions. Course content / classes schedule:   1. Graphic. The task is to create an achromatic flat composition in the contrast...

  • Grzegorz Szwoch dr hab. inż.

    Grzegorz 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...

  • Bacterial presence in polar regions associated with environment modification by chemical compounds including contaminants

    Microbes are omnipresent and diverse members of all biological communities. In marine and freshwater ecosystems, microorganisms form the base of the food chain supporting higher trophic levels. Even though, microbes generally are thought to live in warm regions of Earth, many of them develop in cold climates. Polar regions remain relatively protected from widespread anthropogenic disturbances, which is a consequence of its remoteness...

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  • Gendered entrepreneurship and its impact on firm innovativeness - a literature review.

    Entrepreneurs gain a lot of attention in recent decades. Even if a precise definition of entrepreneur and entrepreneurship remains problematic, it is clear that there is a strong link between entrepreneurship and innovativeness, as well as between entrepreneur and innovation. In the current era of globalisation, the importance of innovations is as great as never before. And so is the importance of innovativeness determinants. Investigating...

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  • Krystian Zawadzki dr hab. inż.

    Krystian Zawadzki is associate professor in the Department of Finance at the Faculty of Management and Economics of the Gdańsk University of Technology; member of the Polish Olympic Academy at the Polish Olympic Committee; coordinator of the Stock Exchange School (Warsaw Stock Exchange) in Gdańsk; Head of postgraduate studies "Capital Investments and Personal Finance Management"; member of the audit committee of the sports club...

  • The biotic and abiotic mercury at the coastal zone of Gulf of Gdańsk

    Open Research Data
    open access

    Concentration of neurotoxin Hg (mercury) was determined monthly form 01.2012 to 05.2013 (total and suspended) in the surface microlayer and the surface water as well as in: phytoplankton, zooplankton, epilithon, epifithon, phytobenthos (macroalgae and angiosperms), zoobenthos, and in the sediment. The study was conducted in the coastal zone of the Puck...

  • The interaction between bacterial abundance and selected pollutants concentration levels in an arctic catchment (southwest Spitsbergen, Svalbard)

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    Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have been a topic of interest in environmental sciences for > 60 years. POPs in the Arctic have been investigated since the 1970s, when first atmospheric measurements revealed the presence of these pollutants in the polar regions. Major contaminant transport routes to the Arctic include atmospheric and oceanic transport, as well as inflow from rivers and sea ice. The sources of pollutants, such...

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  • Nina Rizun dr

    Nina Rizun is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Management and Economics at the Gdańsk University of Technology. In October 1999 she obtained a PhD degree in technical sciences in the Faculty of Enterprise Economy and Production Organization, National Mining Academy, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. PhD thesis title: Development of Complex Subsystem of the Organization and Planning of Mining and Transport Processes. In the years...

  • Identification of Novel Chemical Scaffolds Inhibiting Trypanothione Synthetase from Pathogenic Trypanosomatids

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    • D. Benítez
    • A. Medeiros
    • L. Fiestas
    • E. Panozzo-Zenere
    • F. Maiwald
    • K. Prousis
    • M. Roussaki
    • T. Calogeropoulou
    • A. Detsi
    • T. Jaeger... and 6 others

    - PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases - Year 2016

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  • state aid for sustainable urban development

    Open Research Data
    open access

    The dataset encompassed a choice of important legal acts with respect on the usage of EFRD for urban projects, a list of selected bibliography as well as a list of selected individual notifications of state aid measures being part of the Sustainable Urban Development Programme in the period  2014- 2020. As a comparison, an example of individual EC decision...

  • Wireless Networks as an Infrastructure for Mission-Critical Business Applications

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    Despite the dynamic growth of wireless network systems, their pres-ence in business-support infrastructure has been limited. In the article we provide an overview of generic corporate network architecture and examine usefulness of available wireless network solutions in such systems. Following this overview we analyze new wireless network architecture which currently undergoes standardization process - wireless mesh. It can result...

  • Students’ soft urban planning skills and local development are the benefits from the Fair of Good Practice. Small cities - big challengesprogramme

    The urban planner in practice needs soft skills when dealing with public consultations connected to local development plans. To improve the abilities of architecture and urban planning students to discuss solutions and to support the development of local public spaces of small towns in the Pomeranian voivodeship ( province) in Poland, the Fair of Good Practice. Small cities - big challenges programme...

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  • The Sustainable Link - the Haze of the Past in the Future

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    - Year 2018

    The aim of the topic is to explore the site by focusing on historical elements and life cycle thinking. The history and sustainability will thereby be the core approach and method during the ongoing design process. These themes will encourage the interdisciplinary and iterative design process.

  • Theory of Urban Design 2023/24 - LECTURES

    e-Learning Courses
    • M. Leszczyński
    • J. Martyniuk-Pęczek
    • M. Kostrzewska
    • M. Rembeza
    • A. Zackiewicz

    Introductory lectures on the topic of urban design concepts in contemporary climate change, sustainable development and the creation of public spaces. 

  • Art Workshop I 2024/2025

    e-Learning Courses
    • Ł. Ławrynowicz
    • D. Krechowicz

     Drawing classes for first-year students of the Faculty of Architecture are aimed at developing basic drawing skills (learning composition, studying proportions, directions and contrasts, mutual relations of objects and chiaroscuro problems) based on the following topics: still life sketches, still life study, figure sketches in motion, character study. Classes are based on the observation of nature, which is an important element...

  • The Use of Sustainability Reporting Instruments in the Global Airline Industry in Financial Year 2019

    Open Research Data
    open access

    This dataset provides an overview of the GRI topic-specific disclosures global passenger airline companies reported in their 2019 financial year sustainability reports and the specific SDGs they addressed. Additionally, it includes information on the frequency of application of other well-known SR instruments (i.e., SASB, IIRC, CDSB, CDP, UNGC, ISO...

  • Researching Digital Society: Using Data-Mining to Identify Relevant Themes from an Open Access Journal

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    - Year 2021

    Open Access scholarly literature is scientific output free from economic barriers and copyright restrictions. Using a case study approach, data mining methods and qualitative analysis, the scholarly output and the meta-data of the Open Access eJournal of e-Democracy and Open Government during the time interval 2009–2020 was analysed. Our study was able to identify the most prominent research topics (defined as thematic clusters)...

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  • Researching Digital Society: Using Data-Mining to Identify Relevant Themes from an Open Access Journal

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    - Year 2021

    Open Access scholarly literature is scientific output free from economic barriers and copyright restrictions. Using a case study approach, data mining methods and qualitative analysis, the scholarly output and the meta-data of the Open Access eJournal of e-Democracy and Open Government during the time interval 2009–2020 was analysed. Our study was able to identify the most prominent research topics (defined as thematic clusters)...

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  • Wireless Local Area Network Technologies as Communication Solutions for Unmanned Surface Vehicles

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    As the number of research activities and practical deployments of unmanned vehicles has shown a rapid growth, topics related to their communication with operator and external infrastructure became of high importance. As a result a trend of employing IP communication for this purpose is emerging and can be expected to bring significant advantages. However, its employment can be expected to be most effective using broadband communication...

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  • Different aspects of women’s participation in self-employment with particular reference to the costs

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    - Ekonomiczne Problemy Usług - Year 2018

    Over the last twenty years a growing number of researchers have been interested in female entrepreneurship. It is wort noting that being a self-employed person, for certain women, is the only chance to participate actively in social and economic life. Women choose self-employment because of flexibility of schedule and family-related reasons. This study aims to increase knowledge about self-employment as one of multiple labor market...

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  • Dynamic Bankruptcy Prediction Models for European Enterprises

    This manuscript is devoted to the issue of forecasting corporate bankruptcy. Determining a firm’s bankruptcy risk is one of the most interesting topics for investors and decision-makers. The aim of the paper is to develop and to evaluate dynamic bankruptcy prediction models for European enterprises. To conduct this objective, four forecasting models are developed with the use of four different methods—fuzzy sets, recurrent and...

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  • MXene-based materials for removal of antibiotics and heavy metals from wastewater– a review

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    - Water Resources and Industry - Year 2023

    As a novel family of 2D materials, MXenes provide an extensive variety of applications in water and effluent treatment due to their distinctive properties and attractive applicability, including superior electrical conductivity, higher thermal stability, hydrophilicity, and high sorption-reduction capacity. Their excellent sorption selectivity makes them perfect for removing hazardous contaminants. Currently, MXene-based materials...

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  • Binary Grating of Subwavelength Silver and Quantum Wires as a Photonic-Plasmonic Lasing Platform With Nanoscale Elements

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    • V. Byelobrov
    • T. Benson
    • A. Nosich

    - IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS - Year 2012

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  • Family business succession – the practical or also theoretical problem. Bibliometric analysis

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    - Year 2020

    Family businesses, in various forms, have existed since societies began to be created. However, family business research has a decidedly shorter tradition. In favorable conditions, family enterprises develop for many generations, and their fate is intertwined with the fate of the families. The topics of family businesses are raised by researchers around the world. Estimates regarding the number of family businesses are a frequent...

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  • An Analysis of Airline GRI and SDG Reporting

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    - Year 2024

    This study aims to increase our understanding of the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) topic-specific disclosures and the sustainable development goals (SDGs) addressed in the global passenger airline industry’s sustainability reporting (SR). Based on a quantitative content analysis of the industry’s sustainability reports from the financial year 2019 (FY19), this study reveals that airlines focused more on reporting environmental...

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  • A Finite Element Approach for Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids

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    - Year 2024

    This book focuses on wave propagation phenomena in elastic solids modelled by the use of the finite element method. Although the latter is a well-established and popular numerical tool used by engineers and researchers all around the word the process of modelling of wave propagation can still be a challenge. The book introduces a reader to the problem by presenting a historical background and offering a broad perspective on the...

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  • A Systematic Literature Review on Implementing Non-functional Requirements in Agile Software Development: Issues and Facilitating Practices

    Agile Software Development methods have become a widespread approach used by the software industry. Non-functional requirements (NFRs) are often reported to be a problematic issue for such methods. We aimed to identify (within the context of Agile projects): (1) the issues (challenges and problems) reported as affecting the implementation of NFRs; and (2) practices that facilitate the successful implementation of NFRs. We conducted...

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  • Znaczenie kobiet w firmach rodzinnych: wczoraj, dziś i jutro

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    Abstract: This paper provides a review of the literature on women in family businesses. Based on a structured literature review (SLR) method, 81 articles and other research works published since 1997 were analysed. The aim was to contribute to the literature and present what is new in the recent debate and how the evolutionary trend looks like. Over the last twenty years only a few investigations have studied women in family firms....

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  • Cross-domain applications of multimodal human-computer interfaces

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    - Year 2015

    Developed multimodal interfaces for education applications and for disabled people are presented, including interactive electronic whiteboard based on video image analysis, application for controlling computers with mouth gestures and audio interface for speech stretching for hearing impaired and stuttering people and intelligent pen allowing for diagnosing and ameliorating developmental dyslexia. The eye-gaze tracking system named...

  • Practical issues for the implementation of survivability and recovery techniques in optical networks

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    • G. Ellinas
    • D. Papadimitriou
    • J. Rak
    • D. Staessens
    • J. P. Sterbenz
    • K. Walkowiak

    - Optical Switching and Networking - Year 2014

    Failures in optical networks are inevitable. They may occur during work being done for the maintenance of other infrastructures, or on a larger scale as the result of an attack or large-scale disaster. As a result, service availability, an important aspect of Quality of Service (QoS), is often degraded. Appropriate fault recovery techniques are thus crucial to meet the requirements set by the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between...

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  • Błażej Kochański dr

    Błażej Kochański is an assistant professor at the Department of Statistics and Econometrics  at the Faculty of Management and Economics of Gdańsk University of Technology, banking risk expert. He worked for banks in Poland and Europe, as a risk specialist, planning and analysis manager, chief risk officer, supervisory board member and management consultant. He built numerous credit risk management models, successfully managed credit...

  • Krystyna Dziubich mgr inż.

    Krystyna Dziubich obtained a Eng. degree in computer science granted by a council at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology in 1996. 1996-2005 employment in industry, as a computer scientist as specialist analyst in the Department of Management Systems Development; She is employed at ETI Faculty as a lecturer since 2005. She conducts lectures for full-time, extramural...

  • Models of using the Internet by young Poles and their social capital.

    Highlights • Study examining Polish youth on internet usage styles. • Online communication is the most common form of spending time on the Internet. •...

  • Bioaccumulation of Metals in Tissues of Marine Animals, Part I: the Role and Impact of Heavy Metals on Organisms

    Heavy metals contribute to the anthropogenic contamination of marine ecosystems. Some of them are essential to the life processes of organisms; others are toxic, even at low concentrations. They penetrate organisms via food, respiratory pathways or the skin. The extent to which metals penetrate organisms is measured by the bioconcentration and bioaccumulation factors and also by their transport between organisms at different trophic...

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  • Nutrient removal in municipal wastewater treatment

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    • E. Zaborowska

    This series of lectures and interactive teaching sessions will cover all the important aspects of nutrient removal in municipal wastewater treatment. There will be five sessions. The topics of the sessions are: 1) Nutrient removal – why, how and what has been achieved?; 2) Biological treatment processes and conventional nitrogen removal; 3) Shortcut nitrogen removal processes and climate implication of nitrogen removal; 4) Biological...

  • Wojciech Wyrzykowski dr hab.

    Wojciech Wyrzykowski is an employee of the Department of Finance at the Faculty of Management and Economics of the Gdańsk University of Technology. He is the author of 70 scientific publications, including 5 monographs, and co-author of 7 monographs. The most important of them reflecting the author's scientific interests include: Tax conditions for the development of entrepreneurship in Poland, Taxes in Poland - outline of the...

  • Analysis of the harmonic structure of the vowel /a/ taking into account the age and gender of the speaker

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    - Year 2024

    Sound waves are disturbances propagating through an elastic medium that, upon reaching the ear, elicit auditory sensations. Sounds generated by the surroundings can be captured by a transducer (microphone), which transforms them into an electrical signal. The signal from the microphone is then transmitted to a computer, where software allows for the extraction and analysis of individual tones. This process enables the description...

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  • Where Did Knowledge Management Go?: A Comprehensive Survey

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    - CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS - Year 2021

    Knowledge Management (KM) research outputs have been expanding exponentially in the past years, generating diversified topics, which lack integration and classification. It has been challenging for experts to classify KM because of its versatile open fields, and in our view, it contributes to the technocratic approach remaining behind the organizational approach. This paper highlights a way to classify KM publications through a...

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  • Impact of digital technologies on reliability of risk forecasting models - case study of enterprises in three global financial market regions

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    - Year 2021

    This chapter focuses on the evaluation of impact of ICT on reliability of financial risk forecasting models. Presented study shows how the development of ICT can improve the effectiveness of such models. Determining a firm’s financial risk is one of the most interesting topics for investors and decision-makers. The multifaceted goal of the presented research is to separately estimate five traditional statistical and five soft computing...

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  • Advances in Modelling and Analysis of Strength of Corroded Ship Structures

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    The present study reviews the recent advances in modelling and analyses the strength of corroded ship structures. Firstly, the time-variant methodologies that consider only the mean structural element thickness loss due to corrosion degradation are identified. Corrosion degradation is regarded as the phenomenon that causes uneven thinning of specimens. This has been captured by various researchers as the loss of mechanical properties...

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  • Disaster-resilient communication networks: Principles and best practices

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    • A. Mauthe
    • D. Hutchison
    • E. Cetinkaya
    • I. Ganchev
    • J. Rak
    • J. P. Sterbenz
    • M. Gunkelk
    • P. Smith
    • T. Gomes

    - Year 2016

    Communication network failures that are caused by disasters, such as hurricanes, arthquakes and cyber-attacks, can have significant economic and societal impact. To address this problem, the research community has been investigating approaches to network resilience for several years. However, aside from well-established techniques, many of these solutions have not found their way into operational...

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  • How Swiss Watchmaking Brands are Communicating Made in Switzerland

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    - Year 2023

    Country-of-origin indications, also called “made in” labeling [35], are utilized in marketing strategies by companies to distinguish themselves from others, trying to associate their products with positive characteristics [9]. Swiss watchmaking companies have an iconic status that is essential to their reputation - mainly due to their high quality, precision, innovation, and craftsmanship [7]. They are also using country-of-origin...

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  • Karolina Krause-Brykalska dr inż. arch.

    Karolina Krause – Brykalska is employed  at the Department of Applied Informatics in Management at the Faculty of Management and Economics, GUT. She graduated from a master's and PhD degree at GUT. Moreover she obtained several postgratuated studies in fields of urban revitalisation, real estate, safety at work and pedagogical studies.Her current scientific interests are located in users safety in buildings – in context of ergonomics...