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  • Algorytmy obliczania składowej czynnej prądu upływu ograniczników przepięć

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    Pomiar prądu upływowego ograniczników przepięć i analiza jego składowych jest podstawowym kryterium diagnostycznym stosowanym obecnie w energetyce zawodowej. W badaniu ograniczników przepięć wykorzystuje się różne algorytmy określania składowej rezystancyjnej w oparciu o zarejestrowane przebiegi prądu upływu i napięcia zasilającego lub tylko prądu upływowy. W pracy wykorzystano typowe dla rejestratorów jakości energii elektrycznej...

  • Chitosan-based electrospun nanofibers for encapsulating food bioactive ingredients: A review

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    - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES - Rok 2023

    Today, society has been more aware of healthy food products and related items containing bioactive compounds, which potentially contribute to human health. Unfortunately, the long-term stability and bioactivity of biologically active compounds against environmental factors compromise their target and effective action. In this way, lab-designed vehicles, such as nanoparticles and nanofibers, provide enough properties for their preservation...

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  • Magnetic nanocomposites for biomedical applications

    Publikacja
    • M. Naghdi
    • M. Ghovvati
    • N. Rabiee
    • S. Ahmadi
    • N. Abbariki
    • S. Sojdeh
    • A. Ojaghi
    • M. Bagherzadeh
    • O. Akhavan
    • E. Sharifi... i 6 innych

    - ADVANCES IN COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE - Rok 2022

    Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine have solved numerous problems related to the repair and regeneration of damaged organs and tissues arising from aging, illnesses, and injuries. Nanotechnology has further aided tissue regeneration science and has provided outstanding opportunities to help disease diagnosis as well as treat damaged tissues. Based on the most recent findings, magnetic nanostructures (MNSs), in particular,...

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  • Analysis of Signalized Intersections in the Context of Pedestrian Traffic

    Gdynia is a city in the Pomeranian Voivod e ship of Poland with a population of about 250,000. It faces a growing motorization rate th at needs to be addressed. Car ownership in Gdynia now exceed s 500 vehicles per 1000 residents. Travel by public transport is decreasing and the rate of walking and cycling remains low. It is necessary to reverse these negative trends by implementing solu tions based...

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  • Media architecture for post-modern society - new forms of participation

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    - Rok 2018

    The article shows the relationship between the characteristics of the post-modern society, and the development of media architecture with the function of interactivity. In this context, the duality of the features of post-modern society was emphasized: taking into account its location between creativity and consumerism, as well as on the border between the real and virtual word. The development of media architecture has been linked...

  • Sensors and System for Vehicle Navigation

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    - SENSORS - Rok 2022

    In recent years, vehicle navigation, in particular autonomous navigation, has been at the center of several major developments, both in civilian and defense applications. New technologies, such as multisensory data fusion, big data processing, or deep learning, are changing the quality of areas of applications, improving the sensors and systems used. Recently, the influence of artificial intelligence on sensor data processing and...

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  • Society 4.0: Issues, Challenges, Approaches, and Enabling Technologies

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    - CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS - Rok 2024

    This guest edition of Cybernetics and Systems is a broadening continuation of our last year edition titled “Intelligence Augmentation and Amplification: Approaches, Tools, and Case Studies”. This time we cover research perspective extending towards what is known as Society 4.0. Bob de Vit brought the concept of Society 4.0 to life in his book “Society 4.0 – resolving eight key issues to build a citizens society”. From the Systems...

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  • Experience-Oriented Intelligence for Internet of Things

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    - CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS - Rok 2017

    The Internet of Things (IoT) has gained significant attention from industry as well as academia during the past decade. The main reason behind this interest is the capabilities of the IoT for seamlessly integrating classical networks and networked objects, and hence allows people to create an intelligent environment based on this powerful integration. However, how to extract useful information from data produced by IoT and facilitate...

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  • Experience oriented enhancement of smartness for Internet of Things

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    - Rok 2015

    In this paper, we propose a novel approach, the Experience-Oriented Smart Things that allows experiential knowledge discovery, storage, involving, and sharing for Internet of Things. The main features, architecture, and initial experiments of this approach are introduced. Rather than take all the data produced by Internet of Things, this approach focuses on acquiring only interesting data for its knowledge discovery process. By...

  • Evaluation of a Novel Approach to Virtual Bass Synthesis Strategy

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    - Rok 2015

    The aim of this paper is to present a novel approach to the Virtual Bass Synthesis (VBS) strategy applied to portable computers. The developed algorithms involve intelligent, rule-based settings of bass synthesis parameters with regard to music genre of an audio excerpt and the type of a portable device in use. The Smart VBS algorithm performs the synthesis based on a nonlinear device (NLD) with artificial controlling synthesis...

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  • Autoencoder application for anomaly detection in power consumption of lighting systems

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    - IEEE Access - Rok 2023

    Detecting energy consumption anomalies is a popular topic of industrial research, but there is a noticeable lack of research reported in the literature on energy consumption anomalies for road lighting systems. However, there is a need for such research because the lighting system, a key element of the Smart City concept, creates new monitoring opportunities and challenges. This paper examines algorithms based on the deep learning...

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  • Code development of a DSP-FPGA based control platform for power electronics applications

    Publikacja
    • V. Minambres-Marcos
    • I. Roasto
    • P. Szczepankowski
    • E. Romero-Cadaval
    • D. Vinnikov
    • F. Barrero-Gonzalez

    - Rok 2015

    This paper focuses on the implementation of power electronics algorithms in control platforms based on DSP-FPGA. Today’s power electronics technology demands high power computation with high speed interfacing at the same time. The most popular configuration is a DSP for the former and a FPGA for the latter. The main goal of this work was to develop a generic control system for power electronics application, but it is explained...

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  • Digital Public Service Innovation: Framework Proposal

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    - Rok 2016

    This paper proposes the Digital Public Service Innovation Framework that extends the "standard" provision of digital public services according to the emerging, enhanced, transactional and connected stages underpinning the United Nations Global e-Government Survey, with seven example "innovations" in digital public service delivery -- transparent, participatory, anticipatory, personalized, co-created, context-aware and context-smart....

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  • Borders of Digital Art in the Context of the Information Society

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    The article shows the relationship between the development of information technologies, the characteristics of the information society and digital art. The broad possibilities of the digital world related to recording, storing and processing data (cyber text, big data, smart services) and the creation of virtual worlds are pointed out. The influence of the development of information technologies on the character of the works of...

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  • Integration of antifouling properties into epoxy coatings: a review

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    - Journal of Coatings Technology and Research - Rok 2022

    he need for nontoxic antifouling coatings has encouraged material scientists to develop a class of organic coatings for diverse applications. As a versatile thermosetting resin and well known for coating application, antifouling characteristics have been integrated into epoxy along with anticorrosion and adhesive functions. Accordingly, both micro- and macro-biofoulings have been successfully controlled by using epoxy-based antifouling...

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  • Channel State Estimation in LTE-Based Heterogenous Networks Using Deep Learning

    Following the continuous development of the information technology, the concept of dense urban networks has evolved as well. The powerful tools, like machine learning, break new ground in smart network and interface design. In this paper the concept of using deep learning for estimating the radio channel parameters of the LTE (Long Term Evolution) radio interface is presented. It was proved that the deep learning approach provides...

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  • Experimental Research on the Energy Efficiency of a Parallel Hybrid Drive for an Inland Ship

    The growing requirements for limiting the negative impact of all modes of transport on the natural environment mean that clean technologies are becoming more and more important. The global trend of e-mobility also applies to sea and inland water transport. This article presents the results of experimental tests carried out on a life-size, parallel diesel-electric hybrid propulsion system. The eciency of the propulsion system was...

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  • Employees With Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Digitized Work Environment: Perspectives for the Future

    The aim of this article is to examine the opportunities for employees with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), arising from digital technology (DT) development. The author discusses assistive technology (AT) as a mean of creating a better work environment, making the digitized workplace more friendly for people with ASD. A possible solution of communication problems is replacing the interpersonal communication between employees with...

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  • Deep Instance Segmentation of Laboratory Animals in Thermal Images

    In this paper we focus on the role of deep instance segmentation of laboratory rodents in thermal images. Thermal imaging is very suitable to observe the behaviour of laboratory animals, especially in low light conditions. It is an non-intrusive method allowing to monitor the activity of animals and potentially observe some physiological changes expressed in dynamic thermal patterns. The analysis of the recorded sequence of thermal...

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  • Aeration Process in Bioreactors as the Main Energy Consumer in a Wastewater Treatment Plant. Review of Solutions and Methods of Process Optimization

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    - Processes - Rok 2019

    Due to the key role of the biological decomposition process of organic compounds in wastewater treatment, a very important thing is appropriate aeration of activated sludge, because microorganisms have to be supplied with an appropriate amount of oxygen. Aeration is one of the most energy-consuming processes in the conventional activated sludge systems of wastewater treatment technology (may consume from 50% to 90% of electricity...

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  • Optical Sensor Based Gestures Inference Using Recurrent Neural Network in Mobile Conditions

    In this paper the implementation of recurrent neural network models for hand gesture recognition on edge devices was performed. The models were trained with 27 hand gestures recorded with the use of a linear optical sensor consisting of 8 photodiodes and 4 LEDs. Different models, trained off-line, were tested in terms of different network topologies (different number of neurons and layers) and different effective sampling frequency...

  • Structural Health Monitoring of Overhead Power Transmission Lines

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2013

    Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is a novel and continuously developing branch of science and technology that draws attention of scientists all over the world. It creates opportunities to detect, localize and identify structural damage of various types such as: line breakage, permissible sag, bolt loosening, fatigue cracking or insulator contamination. On the other hand the methods used to estimate the remaining operational...

  • Sources of inspiration in designing ecological buildings. If not Pinterest than what?

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    Efficiency of ecological measures for sustainable architecture depends greatly upon the moment in which it is defined as essential, and how early it can be applied during the design concept stage. The following article refers to inspiration, the initial stage of the design and means to combine it with substantial knowledge regarding ecological architecture. Means, such as computer programs...

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  • A Semiautomatic Experience-Based Tool for Solving Product Innovation Problem

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    - CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS - Rok 2017

    In this paper we present the idea of Smart Innovation Engineering (SIE) System and its implementation methodology. The SIE system is semi-automatic system that helps in carrying the process of product innovation. It collects the experiential knowledge from the formal decisional events. This experiential knowledge is collected from the group of similar products having some common functions and features. The SIE system behaves like...

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  • The usage of the openBIM idea in architectural design on the example of Blender and BlenderBIM add-on

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    - Architectus - Rok 2021

    The aim of the article is the research about the method and advancement of the openBIM idea implementation, clearly defined by the buildingSMART organization. The conducted analysis are limited to the Blender program and the BlenderBIM add-on and has been embedded in the context of the work of an architect and other IT solutions. The article presents four aspects of the openBIM concept implementation. The first approach relates...

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  • Adaptacyjny system sterowania ruchem drogowym

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2024

    Adaptacyjny system sterowania ruchem drogowym to rodzaj systemu sterowania, który dynamicznie, w czasie rzeczywistym, dostosowuje swoje parametry w oparciu o bieżące warunki ruchu drogowego. Celem niniejszej rozprawy jest sprawdzenie wpływu wybranych cech systemu, zbudowanego w oparciu o zaprojektowane i zbudowane z udziałem autora inteligentne znaki drogowe, na wybrane parametry mające wpływ na bezpieczeństwo i płynność ruchu....

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  • The Cultures of Knowledge Organizations: Knowledge, Learning, Collaboration (KLC)

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    - Rok 2023

    This book focuses on seeing, understanding, and learning to shape an organization’s essential cultures. The book is grounded on a fundamental assumption that every organization has a de facto culture. These “de facto cultures” appear at first glance to be serendipitous, vague, invisible, and unmanaged. An invisible and unrecognized de facto culture can undermine business goals and strategies and lead to business failures. The authors...

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  • Trends in Locally Balanced Energy Systems without the Use of Fossil Fuels: A Review

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    - ENERGIES - Rok 2023

    In recent years, the idea of the operation of energy systems (power systems, heating systems) has changed significantly. This paper is an overview of locally balanced energy systems without the use of fossil fuels. The paper justifies the concept of local energy balancing in a new energy system that does not use fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and crude oil), based on European Union guidelines and formal documents as well as the...

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  • Multimodal human-computer interfaces based on advanced video and audio analysis

    Multimodal interfaces development history is reviewed briefly in the introduction. Some applications of multimodal interfaces to education software for disabled people are presented. One of them, the LipMouse is a novel, vision-based human-computer interface that tracks user’s lip movements and detect lips gestures. A new approach to diagnosing Parkinson’s disease is also shown. The progression of the disease can be measured employing...

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  • Assessment of Supercapacitor’s Quality by Means of Low Frequency Noise

    Publikacja

    Low frequency noise is a well-known tool for quality and reliability assessment of electronic devices. This phenomenon is observed in different electrochemical devices as well (e.g., smart windows, electrochemical corrosion processes). Thus, we can assume that the same tool can be used to asses quality of supercapacitors. Their quality is usually determined only by capacitance and/or equivalent series resistance (ESR), or impedance....

  • A measurement method for capacitive sensors based on a versatile direct sensor-to-microcontroller interface circuit

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    - MEASUREMENT - Rok 2020

    In the paper, there is presented a new time-domain measurement method for determining the capacitance values of capacitive sensors, dedicated, among others, to capacitive relative humidity sensors. The method is based on a versatile direct sensor-to-microcontroller interface for microcontrollers with internal analog comparators (ACs) and with precision voltage reference sources, e.g. digital-to-analog converters (DACs). The reference...

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  • Multimodal human-computer interfaces based on advanced video and audio analysis

    Multimodal interfaces development history is reviewed briefly in the introduction. Examples of applications of multimodal interfaces to education software and for the disabled people are presented, including interactive electronic whiteboard based on video image analysis, application for controlling computers with mouth gestures and the audio interface for speech stretching for hearing impaired and stuttering people. The Smart...

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  • Neural network training with limited precision and asymmetric exponent

    Publikacja

    Along with an extremely increasing number of mobile devices, sensors and other smart utilities, an unprecedented growth of data can be observed in today’s world. In order to address multiple challenges facing the big data domain, machine learning techniques are often leveraged for data analysis, filtering and classification. Wide usage of artificial intelligence with large amounts of data creates growing demand not only for storage...

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  • A Development of a Capacitive Voltage Divider for High Voltage Measurement as Part of a Combined Current and Voltage Sensor

    Publikacja

    - Elektronika Ir Elektrotechnika - Rok 2020

    This article deals with the development of capacitive voltage divider for high voltage measurements and presents a method of analysis and optimization of its parameters. This divider is a part of a combined voltage and current sensor for measurements in high voltage power networks. The sensor allows continuous monitoring of the network distribution status and performs a quick diagnosis and location of possible network failures....

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  • Genetic programming extension to APF-based monocular human body pose estimation

    New method of the human body pose estimation based on a single camera 2D observation is presented, aimed at smart surveillance related video analysis and action recognition. It employs 3D model of the human body, and genetic algorithm combined with annealed particle filter for searching the global optimum of model state, best matching the object's 2D observation. Additionally, new motion cost metric is employed, considering current...

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  • Real-time facial feature tracking in poor quality thermal imagery

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    Recently, facial feature tracking systems have become more and more popular because of many possible use cases. Especially in medical applications location of the face and facial features are very useful. Many researches have presented methods to detect and track facial features in visible light. However, facial feature analysis in thermography may also be very advantageous. Some examples of using infrared imagery in medicine include...

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  • Quality of graphical markers for the needs of eyewear devices

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    - Rok 2015

    in this paper we propose to cast the problem of identification of people, objects or places into an application for smart glasses that decodes information from graphical markers. We focus on analyzing different factors that can have influence on the processes of the automatic recognition of information from a code. The research we present aims at reviewing recognition performances in function of: size of a marker, distance from/to...

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  • Idee inteligentnego rozwoju (ang.smart growth) i planowania zintegrowanego w przemianach rozwojowych miast

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    • J. Bach Głowińska

    - Rok 2010

    Celem pracy było określenie możliwości wykorzystania w warunkach polskich idei inteligentnego rozwoju (ang. smart growth) i planowania zintegrowanego, jako strategii odnowy miast po zbadaniu ich skuteczności dla odnowy miast zachodnioeuropejskich. Idee te zostały opisane w strategicznym dokumencie "Europa 2020 na rzecz inteligentnego i zrównoważonego rozwoju sprzyjającego włączeniu społecznemu", gdzie zakłada się odnowę miast europejskich...

  • Fully Automated AI-powered Contactless Cough Detection based on Pixel Value Dynamics Occurring within Facial Regions

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2021

    Increased interest in non-contact evaluation of the health state has led to higher expectations for delivering automated and reliable solutions that can be conveniently used during daily activities. Although some solutions for cough detection exist, they suffer from a series of limitations. Some of them rely on gesture or body pose recognition, which might not be possible in cases of occlusions, closer camera distances or impediments...

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  • Integrating Digital Twin Technology Into Large Panel System Estates Retrofit Projects

    As sustainability is now a standard for the proposed developments, the focus ought to be shifted towards the existing buildings and, among them, the worldwide stock of large panel system (LPS) buildings. Major upgrades and retrofits were done to some of the LPS estates in Germany and France, but a leading sustainable way must still be developed for LPS buildings in Eastern European countries, where apartments in those half‐a‐century‐old...

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  • Management Strategy for Seaports Aspiring to Green Logistical Goals of IMO: Technology and Policy Solutions

    Publikacja
    • T. T. Le
    • H. P. Nguyen
    • K. Rudzki
    • L. Rowiński
    • V. D. Bui
    • T. H. Truong
    • H. C. Le
    • N. D. K. Pham

    - Polish Maritime Research - Rok 2023

    Recently, because of serious global challenges including the consumption of energy and climate change, there has been an increase in interest in the environmental effect of port operations and expansion. More interestingly, a strategic tendency in seaport advancement has been to manage the seaport system using a model which balances environmental volatility and economic development demands. An energy efficient management system...

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  • Remote measurement of building usable floor area - Algorithms fusion

    Publikacja
    • A. Janowski
    • M. Renigier-Biłozor
    • M. Walacik
    • A. Chmielewska

    - LAND USE POLICY - Rok 2021

    Rapid changes that are taking place in the urban environment have significant impact on urban growth. Most cities and urban regions all over the world compete to increase resident and visitor satisfaction. The growing requirements and rapidity of introducing new technologies to all aspects of residents' lives force cities and urban regions to implement "smart cities" concepts in their activities. Real estate is one of the principal...

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  • Wyróżniki modelu biznesu przedsiębiorstwa inteligentnego

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2016

    Burzliwa zmiana środowiska biznesowego wpływa na ludzi tak, że generują oczekiwania na wyroby i usługi zaspokajające ich dotychczasowe i nowe potrzeby w coraz większym stopniu. W ten sposób przed menedżerami powstają wciąż nowe, bardziej skomplikowane i wysublimowane wymagania. W takich uwarunkowaniach prowadzenia biznesu sukces osiąga to przedsiębiorstwo, które jest inteligentne. W takiej perspektywie celem badań było wyłonienie...

  • Zmiany przestrzenne w miastach wywołane pandemią COVID-19 a przestrzenny wymiar rewitalizacji.

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic affects every aspect of the modern world on a global and local scale. Part of the fight against the virus was, among other things, limiting the possibility of movement. In cities, this has resulted in a focus on the spatial aspects of the urbanized environment. The article aims to analyse spontaneous actions taken in cities to mitigate the effects of a pandemic concerning strategic activities...

  • Buckling analysis of piezo-magnetoelectric nanoplates in hygrothermal environment based on a novel one variable plate theory combining with higher-order nonlocal strain gradient theory

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    - PHYSICA E-LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS & NANOSTRUCTURES - Rok 2018

    In the present investigation, a new first-order shear deformation theory (OVFSDT) on the basis of the in-plane stability of the piezo-magnetoelectric composite nanoplate (PMEN) has been developed, and its precision has been evaluated. The OVFSDT has many advantages compared to the conventional first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT) such as needless of shear correction factors, containing less number of unknowns than the existing...

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  • Microcrystalline Cellulose Management in the Production of Poly(ether-urethane)s- Structure, Morphology, and Thermal Characteristic

    In response to the demand of polymer industry for reducing the use of synthetic chemicals, eco-friendly materials are investigated. In the presented study, bio-based poly(ether-urethane)s were prepared by using microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) and polyether polyol and 1,3-propanediol derived from corn sugar. A step towards sustainability was taken by incorporating bio-based compounds and cellulose, consequently, bio-waste are utilized...

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  • Capacity Transforming challenges into opportunities

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2022

    The Urban Initiative Laboratory (UIL) aims to upgrade the smart city concept in Gdańsk by introducing the Food-Water-Energy (FWE) nexus to the city. It was agreed in the CRUNCH international consortium that projects on different scales would be implemented in the individual countries to test the Integrated Decision Supportive system platform, which would, in principle, concern urban scale. The regular urban scale was to be researched...

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  • A facile strategy for reclaiming discarded graphite and harnessing the rate capabilities of graphite anodes

    Publikacja
    • H. Tian
    • M. Graczyk-Zajac
    • D. M. De Carolis
    • C. Tian
    • E. I. Ricohermoso
    • Z. Yang
    • W. Li
    • M. Wilamowska-Zawłocka
    • J. P. Hofmann
    • A. Weidenkaff
    • R. Riedel

    - JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS - Rok 2023

    Graphite negative electrodes are unbeaten hitherto in lithium-ion batteries (LiBs) due to their unique chemical and physical properties. Thus, the increasing scarcity of graphite resources makes smart recycling or repurposing of discarded graphite particularly imperative. However, the current recycling techniques still need to be improved upon with urgency. Herein a facile and efficient hydrometallurgical process is reported to...

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  • Greencoin: a Pro­environmental Action-­Reward System

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    The massive destruction of the natural environment is rapidly eroding the world’s capacity to provide food and water, threatening the security of billions of people. In order to facilitate green lifestyles – understood in terms of both pro-environmental behaviors and green self-image on the one hand, and to build sustainable local and global communities, on the other, we put forward an idea of a novel action-reward system based...

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  • Enhancing seismic performance of rigid and semi-rigid connections equipped with SMA bolts incorporating nonlinear soil-structure interaction

    Nowadays, using smart connections can improve the performance of buildings with some recentering features that are from the superelastic behavior of Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs). It seems that there is different rigidity between the designed connection and the real one in Steel Moment-Resisting Frames (SMRFs), which can be considered as a problematic issue due to the importance of connections in seismic performance assessment. This...

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