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Provenance studies on Late Neolithic amber ornaments from North-East Poland
PublicationThe area of North-East Poland was in prehistory, and still is today, an area with easy access to amber as a raw material, as is evidenced in part by numerous Late Neolithic (3rd millennium) amber workshops located in the Gulf of Gdańsk and Żuławy Wiślane (Vistula Fens). Given this fact, it is surprising that only a few finished amber products have been recovered from this area. Among them are unique ornaments from the Late Neolithic...
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Virtual designs and reconstructions of amber works: Amber craftsman simulator
PublicationThis paper presents the concept of visualization of amber works in a virtual reality cave. It describes problems encountered during the acquisition, modeling and rendering of geometrical objects distinguished by heterogeneous transparency.
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Amber imitations through the eyes of a chemist
PublicationBaltic amber imitations division was proposed. Main types of succinite imitations were presented and characterized. Different methods of identification of Baltic amber imitations were presented.
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3D Scanning of Semitransparent Amber with and without Inclusions
PublicationThis paper is concerned with making 3D scans of semitransparent ambers with and without inclusions. The paper presents results of using a variety of devices applied for this purpose. Equipment used in the experiments includes a 3D laser scanner, a structured light scanner, a stereo camera, a camera array and a tomograph. The main object used in the experiment was an amber with a fossil of a lizard. The paper shows possibilities...
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Succinite, Baltic Amber: A Chemical Masterpiece of Nature
PublicationSuccinite, Baltic amber, is one of the most appreciated fossil resins. Its beauty has fascinated people since prehistoric times. It is a substance, and also gemstone, whose uniqueness is due to its compelling, though still not fully understood, physicochemical nature. In this article, some facts about the physical and chemical properties of succinite in order to find an answer for questions about the unique properties of this resin,...
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Plans Ornaments in The Architectural Details of Art Nouveau Townhouses And Villas in Sopot
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Mid-infrared spectroscopy for characterization of Baltic amber (succinite)
PublicationNatural Baltic amber (succinite) is the most appreciated fossil resin of the rich cultural traditions dating back to prehistoric times. Its unequivocal identification is extremely important in many branches of science and trades including archeology, paleontology, chemistry and finally mineralogical and gemological societies. Current methods of modification of natural succinite are more and more sophisticated making the identification...
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Plant ornaments in the architectural detail of Art Nouveau tenement houses and villas of Jeżyce and Łazarz in Poznań
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Ornamental Horticulture
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Ház és Ember
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I vizi e gli eccessivi ornamenti delle donne secondo alcune testimonianze medievali
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Amber extract as a bio‐additive to poly(lactic acid) films: Multimethod analysis of crystallinity and stability
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Variability of Pomeranian-German_danish Ornamental Forms in the Cistercian Church in Gdańsk Pomerania
PublicationArtykuł dotyczy powiązań między architekturą Zakonu Cystersów na Pomorzu Gdańskim, a budownictwem ceglanym północnych Niemiec i Danii. Wykazano szereg analogii do odnalezionych pierwowzorów udowadniając ciągłość związków między filiacją oliwską, a romańskimi założeniami sakralnymi w zachodniej części basenu Morza Bałtyckiego.
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Tire camber angle influence on tire-pavement noise
PublicationTaking into account tire-pavement noise and tires classification with respect to noise emission special measurement methods are usually used. When two of them are applied (the Laboratory Drum Method (DR) and the Close-Proximity Method (CPX)) the investigator has to be sure that the position of the tire is correct. The authors of this paper thought about tire position as tire (wheel) alignment in particular tire camber angle. They...
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Propagation of Ornamental Plants
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Museum Institutions in Monuments - Positive and Negative Aspects of Adaptation: The New Amber Museum and Museum of Science in Gdansk, Poland
PublicationThe issue of the creation and location of new museums is a current topic. The decision of where and how to create new museum facilities will impact successful function in the future. Museums are either located in newly designed buildings or in existing buildings. In general, existing buildings adapted for museum use are either formally under conservational protection or not. With regard to museum location in preserved monuments,...
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Minute and diverse in fossil sticky stuff: Tanytarsini (Diptera: Chironomidae) from early Eocene Indian Cambay amber
PublicationWe here present a pioneering systematic review of fossil dipterans of the tribe Tanytarsini (family Chironomidae) discovered in Indian amber from Cambay. The specimens examined belong to five species: Gujaratomyia miripes, Stempellina stebneri sp. nov., Stempellinella pollex sp. nov., Tanytarsus forfex sp. nov. and Tanytarsus ramus sp. nov., which are described. All species belong to the oldest known Tanytarsini and come from the...
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Ornamental Flowers Grown in Human Surroundings as a Source of Anthocyanins with High Anti-Inflammatory Properties
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LED Light Sources and Their Complex Set-Up for Visually and Biologically Effective Illumination for Ornamental Indoor Plants
PublicationOrnamental plants are often used in indoor environments as part of biophilic design to improve the health and wellbeing of occupants, and to support sustainable, green architecture. Unfortunately, many plants do not thrive and need to be continuously replaced, which is economically unsustainable. The wavelengths and spectrum ratio of commonly used light sources such as light emitting diode (LED), and the lack of an appropriate...
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Ensemble fits of restrained peptides’ conformational equilibria to NMR data. Dependence on force fields: AMBER/8 ff03 versus ECEPP/3
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Journal of Fruit and Ornamental Plant Research
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"Wzory Pamięci"
PublicationFascynuje mnie forma wschodnich kobierców. W swoich pracach podejmuję próbę zrozumienia kultury, która je stworzyła, kultury, która jako środek ekspresji przyjęła estetykę znaków i ornamentów. Tkaniny (w tym także wzory umieszczane na nich) są przedmiotami, których ludzkość używa od wieków. Kobierce tworzone przez mieszkańców Wschodu są wyrazem wyznawanych przez nich wartości i mają głębokie znaczenie symboliczne. Malując motywy...
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Origin of the ornamented bâton percé from the Gołębiewo site 47 as a trigger of discussion on long-distance exchange among Early Mesolithic communities of Central Poland and Northern Europe
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Epitaph of Choene-Jaski family in St. Mary's Church in Gdańsk
Open Research DataThe data set concerns epigraphy. It refers to the epitaph placed in St. Mary’s Church in Gdańsk, that is dedicated to family Chöne-Jaski, that came to Poland from Moldavia at the beginning of XVI century and was engaged in trade in amber. Later on, the representatives of the family were in city council as jurors, councilors, judges and city treasurers....
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Sztuka i matematyka -algorytmiczne i parametryczne detale
PublicationOpracowanie dotyczy wykorzystania komputerowych metod obliczeniowych do projektowania dzieł architektonicznych, w których geometria formy, detal struktury i efekty materiałowe są wynikiem spójnej reguły generatywnej. Nowatorskie biura tworzą własne narzędzia na poziomie języków programowania czerpiąc idee z abstrakcyjnych koncepcji i procedur matematycznych. W konsekwencji algorytmiczne i parametryczne strategie projektowania w...
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Golden artefacts, resin figurines, body adhesives and tomb sediments from the pre-Columbian burial site El Caño (Gran Coclé, Panamá): tracing organic contents using molecular archaeometry
PublicationThis research aimed to determine the origin of organic residues from funerary contexts in the El Ca~no settlement (Gran Cocl�e area, Panam�a, Central America) by means of multiple molecular probing techniques (GC-MS of organic solvent extracts and pyrolysis-GC-MS, THM-GC-MS and FTIR of solid samples). The samples include particles of precious resin figurines, fillings of golden objects, tomb sediments, plant exudates from extant...
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Dekoracja architektoniczna - szkic o jej historii i dniu dzisiejszym
PublicationZagadnienie dekorowania budynków, albo ich niedekorowania to jeden z głównych teoretycznych i praktycznych problemów architektonicznych XX wieku. Mimo werbalnych deklaracji architektów w XX wieku o braku potrzeby ornamentów i innych sposobów ozdabiania architektury, a nawet o ich szkodliwości, z dekoracji architektonicznych nigdy nie zrezygnowano.
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Metodologia i metodyka odtworzenia stolarki okiennej w zabytkowych obiektach na przykładzie Muzeum Bursztynu w Wielkim Młynie w Gdańsku
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono metodologię i metodykę odtworzenia stolarki okiennej w obiekcie zabytkowym, o zachowanej średniowiecznej formie, przy realizacji Muzeum Bursztynu w Wielkim Młynie w Gdańsku. Omówiono wyniki wykonanych badań w tym zakresie i decyzje projektowe odtworzenia okien. Opisano wpływ współczesnych wymagań dotyczących stolarki w obiektach muzealnych na jej kształt i formę. Wykonane dla Muzeum Bursztynu okna są autorską...
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Rotor Blade Geometry Optimisation in Kaplan Turbine
PublicationThe paper presents the description of method and results of rotor blade shape optimisation. The rotor blading constitutes a part ofturbine flow path. Optimisation consists in selection of the shape that minimises ratio of polytrophic loss. Shape of the blade isdefined by the mean camber line and thickness of the airfoil. Thickness is distributed around the camber line based on the ratio ofdistribution. Global optimisation was done...
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Wpływ kąta pochylenia koła na opór toczenia opon samochodowych
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono wpływ kąta pochylenia koła na opór toczenia opon do samochodów osobowych. Pomiary oporu toczenia kół toczących się z kątem pochylenia od -6º do +3º wykonano na bębnowej maszynie bieżnej metodą momentową. Wyniki pomiarów przedstawiono w formie zależności współczynnika oporu toczenia oraz przyrostu współczynnika oporu toczenia w funkcji kąta pochylenia badanego koła.
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Piotr Grudowski dr hab. inż.
PeopleProfessor Dr hab. Eng. Piotr Grudowski heads the Department of Quality and Commodity Management at the Faculty of Management and Economics of Gdansk University of Technology. In the years 1987-2009 he worked at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Gdansk University of Technology, where he obtained a doctoral degree in technical sciences in the discipline of construction and operation of machines and he headed the Department...
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Ornamentacja a manipulacja
PublicationW dziedzinie twórczości architektonicznej XXI wieku – daje się zauważyć nowa fala testowania możliwości zdobycznych tkwiących zarówno w materiałach elewacyjnych jak i elementach konstrukcji, włączająca w proces kreacji nieograniczone możliwości technologiczne hybryzacji grafiki i fotografii. Na tym tle uwidacznia się strategia manipulacji estetycznej, której adresatem jest społeczny odbiorca architektury współczesnej. Agresywność...
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Bartosz Rybacki
PeopleA scientist, engineer, graduate of molecular biotechnology, R&D of the Stardust project, coordinator of the AMBER rocket project, member of the Polish Astrobiological Society, Polish Rocketry Association, Innspace Team and PTAstrobio Working Group. Employee of the Blirt S.A.. Ad Astra!
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The PolarScreen™ Estrogen Receptor Competitor Assays for determination of estradiol equivalent concentrations (EEQs) in sewage and drinking water samples.
Open Research DataMunicipal waste waters are one of the main sources of estrogenic compounds in aquatic environments. Feminization of fish downstream of Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTPs) discharges has been observed worldwide. Some estrogenic chemicals, particularly steroid estrogens, are known to cause disruption of the endocrine system of fishes and abnormalities...
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Production of certified reference materials - homogeneity and stability study based on the determination of total mercury and methylmercury
PublicationReference materials (RMs) play an important role in all elements of the quality assurance system of measurements. In this work, ``package'' 4 new CRMs (bottom sediment, herring tissue, cod tissue, cormorant tissue) were prepared and characterised to carry out the quality control in monitoring analysis of mercury and methylmercury in environmental samples. Materials - candidates were collected in Poland and south part of the Czech...
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Halime Kamber
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Energy Level Structure of Bi3+ in Zircon and Scheelite Polymorphs of YVO4
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Optimization of parallel implementation of UNRES package for coarse‐grained simulations to treat large proteins
PublicationWe report major algorithmic improvements of the UNRES package for physics-based coarse-grained simulations of proteins. These include (i) introduction of interaction lists to optimize computations, (ii) transforming the inertia matrix to a pentadiagonal form to reduce computing and memory requirements, (iii) removing explicit angles and dihedral angles from energy expressions and recoding the most time-consuming energy/force terms...
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The Role of Electrostatics in Enzymes: Do Biomolecular Force Fields Reflect Protein Electric Fields?
PublicationPreorganization of large, directionally oriented, electric fields inside protein active sites has been proposed as a crucial contributor to catalytic mechanism in many enzymes, and it may be efficiently investigated at the atomistic level with molecular dynamics simulations. Here, we evaluate the ability of the AMOEBA polarizable force field, as well as the additive Amber ff14SB and Charmm C36m models, to describe the electric...
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Die Sandgrube „Köplitz“ – ein interessanter geologischer Aufschluss am Nordwestrand der Schmiedeberger Stauchendmoräne
PublicationDie Kiessandgrube Köplitz ermöglicht einen Einblick in die komplizierten, durch glazidynamische Überprägung gekennzeichneten geologischen Lagerungsverhältnisse im Bereich der Schmiedeberger Stauchendmoräne. Anhand neuer Geländedokumentationen wird ein kleiner Eindruck vom komplizierten injektiven „Fließfalten-Schuppenbau“ der Stauchendmoräne vermittelt. Die steil aufgerichteten, aus tertiären (Untermiozän bis Oligozän) und quartären...
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Investigation of the Effect of the Rocket's Suborbital Flight on Biofilm, Enzymes and Biosynthesis on Autonomous, Modular and Scalable Platforms For Conducting Experiments of an Astrobiotechnological Nature
PublicationWith new incentives for human space exploration, biotechnological experiments in orbit became imperative. Answering this need, we build an autonomous, modular, and scalable platform that enables those experiments on rockets. We called it AMBER. The aim of the payload of the R6 suborbital rocket is to perform an experiment to study the influence of rocket flights on biofilm, molecular biology enzymes and biosynthesis using our platform....
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INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF THE ROCKET'S SUBORBITAL FLIGHT ON BIOFILM, ENZYMES AND BIOSYNTHESIS ON AUTONOMOUS, MODULAR AND SCALABLE PLATFORM FOR CONDUCTING EXPERIMENTS OF AN ASTROBIOTECHNOLOGICAL NATURE
PublicationWith new incentives for human space exploration, biotechnological experiments in orbit became imperative.Answering this need, we build an autonomous, modular, and scalable platform that enables those experiments onrockets. We called it AMBER. The aim of the payload of the R6 suborbital rocket is to perform an experiment tostudy the influence of rocket flights on biofilm, molecular...
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Przewodnik Architektoniczny=Architectural Guide=Architekturführer. Gdynia
PublicationGdynia is a unique city that is particularly interesting for architects due to its homogeneous architecture. The city, based on the structure of an earlier fishing village, was entirely designed and built from scratch in the interwar period, as was the case later for cities such as Brasilia and Chandigarh. Today, Gdynia is a modern port town that forms the Tri-City metropolitan area together with Gdańsk, the city of amber, and...
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Energy levels in CaWO4:Tb3+ at high pressure
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Wsparcie rzeczywistości wirtualnej dla projektów realizowanych w ASP w Gdańsku / Virtual reality support for the projects carried out in the AFA in Gdańsk
PublicationLaboratorium Zanurzonej Wizualizacji Przestrzennej (LZWP) jest unikatowym w skali kraju miejscem, gdzie w grupie kilku osób można wspólnie eksplorować świat iluzji. Na takie doświadczenie pozwalają znajdujące się tam jaskinie rzeczywistości wirtualnej (ang. Cave Automatic Virtual Environment, CAVE) umożliwiające uczestnikom eksperymentu wniknięcie w środowisko zarówno kreowane komputerowo, jak i stanowiące cyfrową kopię realnego...
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WHY SHOULD WE ADOPT NON-USED ATTICS OF MONUMENTAL SACRAL CATHOLIC CHURCHES FOR SECULAR PURPOSES?
PublicationA motive for adapting the desecrated churches to new purposes is a broadly discussed matter, progressively better investigated and defined. Is it advisable to introduce a new, permanent function, complementary to the sacred one in the historical ecclesial buildings? This paper presents the results of the research on benefits of adapting the non-utilized attics of monumental churches still performing their sacred function, located...
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A construction for the hat problem on a directed graph
PublicationA team of n players plays the following game. After a strategy session, each player is randomly fitted with a blue or red hat. Then, without further communication, everybody can try to guess simultaneously his own hat color by looking at the hat colors of the other players. Visibility is defined by a directed graph; that is, vertices correspond to players, and a player can see each player to whom he is connected by an arc. The...
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Cast iron in the 19th-century building equipment
PublicationCast iron is a material, characteristics of which enable to receive extremely artistic elements. It maintains good strength properties at the same time. That combination of these seemingly contrary traits makes it a commodity that was widely used in the 19th century industry and architecture. These usages were not only as decorative elements, technical and structural ones. The production of new household utilities started, which...
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A Cost-Effective Method for Reconstructing City-Building 3D Models from Sparse Lidar Point Clouds
PublicationThe recent popularization of airborne lidar scanners has provided a steady source of point cloud datasets containing the altitudes of bare earth surface and vegetation features as well as man-made structures. In contrast to terrestrial lidar, which produces dense point clouds of small areas, airborne laser sensors usually deliver sparse datasets that cover large municipalities. The latter are very useful in constructing digital...
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Video traffic data - Interchange Sosnica (A1 - 902), Poland
Open Research DataThe data includes video traffic data registered with 8 video cameras at weaving area (weaving section type A) of the Sosnica interchange within A1 motorway in Poland (interchange of motorway A1 and regional road 902, located in the Silesian Agglomeration).The data covers the two days: 12.09.2017 (motorway A1) and 11.09.2017 (road 902).