Recommender systems are software tools and techniques which aim at suggesting to users items they might be interested in. Context-aware recommender systems are a particular category of recommender systems which exploit contextual information to provide more adequate recommendations. However, recommendation engines still suffer from the cold-start problem, namely where not enough information about users and their ratings is available....

The chapter analyses the K-Means algorithm in its parallel setting. We provide detailed description of the algorithm as well as the way we paralellize the computations. We identified complexity of the particular steps of the algorithm that allows us to build the algorithm model in MERPSYS system. The simulations with the MERPSYS have been performed for different size of the data as well as for different number of the processors used...

Steam and gas turbines are some of the fundamental means of power generation. The energy efficiency of the turbines, however, is not satisfactory. Ever since the start-up of the first turbine in the world, engineers have been striving for their increased efficiency. Multiple solutions to the problem of steam loss in an operating turbine are available. The use of seals is one of them. Empirical methods or numerical calculations...

Zsyntetyzowano na fazie stałej nowe analogi tuftsyny i retro-tuftsyny zawierające wiązanie isopeptydowe na epsilon-aminowej grupie lizyny jako potencjalne immunostymulatory. Do syntezy wykorzystano standardową procedurę Fmoc. Po zdjęciu osłon kwasem TFA końcowe związki były oczyszczane, liofilizowane i charakteryzowane: MS, HPLC i NMR.