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AffecTube — Chrome extension for YouTube video affective annotations
PublikacjaThe shortage of emotion-annotated video datasets suitable for training and validating machine learning models for facial expression-based emotion recognition stems primarily from the significant effort and cost required for manual annotation. In this paper, we present AffecTube as a comprehensive solution that leverages crowdsourcing to annotate videos directly on the YouTube platform, resulting in ready-to-use emotion-annotated...
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The Use of an Autoencoder in the Problem of Shepherding
PublikacjaThis paper refers to the problem of shepherding clusters of passive agents consisting of a large number of objects by a team of active agents. The problem of shepherding and the difficulties that arise with the increasing number of data describing the location of agents have been described. Several methods for reducing the dimensionality of data are presented. Selected autoencoding method using a Restricted Boltzmann Machine is...
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The forecasted values of cutting power for sawing on band sawing machines for Polish Scots pine wood (Pinus sylvestris L.) in a function of its provenance.
PublikacjaIn this paper the predicted values of cutting power for band sawing machine (EB 1800, f. EWD), which is used in the Polish sawmills, were showed. The values of cutting power were forecasted for Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) wood of five provenances from Poland. These values were determined using an innovative method of predicting the cutting power, which takes into account of elements of fracture mechanics. The resulting predictions...
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Mechanical properties of the human stomach under uniaxial stress action
PublikacjaThe aim of this study was to estimate the range of mechanical properties of the human stomach in order to use the collected data in numerical modelling of surgical stapling during resections of the stomach. The biomedical tests were conducted in a self-developed tensile test machine. Twenty-two fresh human stomach specimens were used for the experimental study of its general strength. The specimens were obtained from morbidly obese...
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A Review of Reduction Methods of Impact of Common-Mode Voltage on Electric Drives.
PublikacjaIn this survey paper, typical solutions that focus on the reduction in negative effects resulting from the common-mode voltage influence in AC motor drive applications are re-examined. The critical effectiveness evaluation of the considered methods is based on experimental results of tests performed in a laboratory setup with an induction machine fed by an inverter. The capacity of a common-mode voltage level reduction and voltage...
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Augmenting digital documents with negotiation capability
PublikacjaActive digital documents are not only capable of performing various operations using their internal functionality and external services, accessible in the environment in which they operate, but can also migrate on their own over a network of mobile devices that provide dynamically changing execution contexts. They may imply conflicts between preferences of the active document and the device the former wishes to execute on. In the...
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Diagnosis of bearing damage in induction motors by instantaneous power analysis
PublikacjaResearch of the machine with simulated bearing damages has been carried out, where variable load torque, simulating bearing damage, was introduced. The results show that components which can be used for bearings diagnosis appear in the spectrum of the product of current and supply voltage instantaneous values. These components are easier to identify than the components of current spectrum, which have been used so far in diagnostic...
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When Neural Networks Meet Decisional DNA: A Promising New Perspective for Knowledge Representation and Sharing
PublikacjaABSTRACT In this article, we introduce a novel concept combining neural network technology and Decisional DNA for knowledge representation and sharing. Instead of using traditional machine learning and knowledge discovery methods, this approach explores the way of knowledge extraction through deep learning processes based on a domain’s past decisional events captured by Decisional DNA. We compare our approach with kNN (k-nearest...
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Failure of cold-formed beam: How does residual stress affect stability?
PublikacjaIn machine industry, stresses are often calculated using simple linear FEM analysis. Occasional failures of elements designed in such a way require recomputation by means of more sophisticated methods, eg. including plasticity and non-linear effects. It usually leads to investigation of failure causes and improvement of an element in order to prevent its unwanted behavior in the future. The study presents the case where both linear...
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Improving all-reduce collective operations for imbalanced process arrival patterns
PublikacjaTwo new algorithms for the all-reduce operation optimized for imbalanced process arrival patterns (PAPs) are presented: (1) sorted linear tree, (2) pre-reduced ring as well as a new way of online PAP detection, including process arrival time estimations, and their distribution between cooperating processes was introduced. The idea, pseudo-code, implementation details, benchmark for performance evaluation and a real case example...
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ANALYSIS OF THE LOAD-CARRYING CAPACITY OF A HYDRODYNAMIC WATER-LUBRICATED BEARING IN A HYDROELECTRIC POwER PLANT
PublikacjaThe paper presents an analysis of the load-carrying capacity of a historic hydrodynamic water-lubricated radial bearing of an unconventional segment design installed in the Braniewo Hydroelectric Power Plant. The aim of the calculations was to determine whether the bearing operates in the conditions of hydrodynamic or mixed lubrication, as well as to establish the optimal geometry of the axial grooves allowing for the highest load-carrying...
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Cutting power estimation of the bandsawing process of beech wood (Fagus sylvatica L.) dried in three operating modes
PublikacjaIn this paper the predicted values of cutting power for bandsawing machine (ST100R, f. Stenner), which is located at the sawmill company Complex in Dziemiany, were presented. The values of cutting power were forecasted for beech wood (Fagus sylvatica L.), from the northern part of Pomerania region in Poland, which was dried in three operating modes: BKP - air drying at 25oC, BKS - air-steam mixture drying at 80oC, BKW - steam drying...
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THE PHASE SHIFTERS INFLUENCE ON THE POWER SYSTEM STABILITY
PublikacjaThe paper presents the effect of phase shifters as FACTS devices on the possibility of improving the angle stability. Presented results obtained by the dynamic simulation performed on the mathematical model of the three machine system cooperating with the 400 kV network. The generative blocks models include turbine models with their controllers and models of synchronous generators with their excitation systems and voltage regulation....
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An electric ring thruster as auxiliary manoeuvring propulsion system for watercraft - construction analysis
PublikacjaThe reported project aimed at examining properties and purposefulness of use of modern electromagneticbearings for a screw propeller in a prototype version of a synchronous ring motor with rare earths magnets.Bearings of this type generate electromagnetic forces which keep the rotor in a state of levitation. Therotating machine with magnetic bearings can work in any environment which reveals diamagnetic properties(air, vacuum,...
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Approximation algorithms for job scheduling with block-type conflict graphs
PublikacjaThe problem of scheduling jobs on parallel machines (identical, uniform, or unrelated), under incompatibility relation modeled as a block graph, under the makespan optimality criterion, is considered in this paper. No two jobs that are in the relation (equivalently in the same block) may be scheduled on the same machine in this model. The presented model stems from a well-established line of research combining scheduling theory...
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Computer-Aided Detection of Hypertensive Retinopathy Using Depth-Wise Separable CNN
PublikacjaHypertensive retinopathy (HR) is a retinal disorder, linked to high blood pressure. The incidence of HR-eye illness is directly related to the severity and duration of hypertension. It is critical to identify and analyze HR at an early stage to avoid blindness. There are presently only a few computer-aided systems (CADx) designed to recognize HR. Instead, those systems concentrated on collecting features from many retinopathy-related...
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A Study on Emission of Airborne Wear Particles from Car Brake Friction Pairs
PublikacjaThe emission of airborne wear particles from friction material / cast iron pairs used in car brakes was investigated, paying special attention to the influence of temperature. Five low-metallic materials and one non-asbestos organic material were tested using a pin-on-disc machine. The machine was placed in a sealed chamber to allow airborne particle collection. The concentration and size distribution of 0.0056 to 10 μm particles...
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Wear of electroplated diamond tools in lap-grinding of Al2O3 ceramic materials
PublikacjaCurrent development of modern products, together with ever-increasing demands for their operation and usage, necessitate the search for new processing methods. Abrasive machining is widely used in many industrial areas, especially for processing difficult-to-machine materials such as advanced ceramics. Grinding with lapping kinematics, also called lap-grinding, is still one of the innovative methods of abrasive processing being...
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Intracranial hemorrhage detection in 3D computed tomography images using a bi-directional long short-term memory network-based modified genetic algorithm
PublikacjaIntroduction: Intracranial hemorrhage detection in 3D Computed Tomography (CT) brain images has gained more attention in the research community. The major issue to deal with the 3D CT brain images is scarce and hard to obtain the labelled data with better recognition results. Methods: To overcome the aforementioned problem, a new model has been implemented in this research manuscript. After acquiring the images from the Radiological...
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Wave propagation signals in concrete beams under 3-point bending
Dane BadawczeThe DataSet contains the results of the mechanical behaviour of a concrete beams with dimensions 40 x 40 x 160 cm3under the 3-point bending. The beams were made of concrete with the following ingredients: CEM I 42.5R (450 kg/m3), water (177 kg/m3), sand 0-2 (675 kg/m3) and gravel 2-8 (675 kg/m3). The bending test was performed using a Zwick/Roell Z10...
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Polyarmonic model of synchronous generator for analysis of autonomous power generation systems
PublikacjaAbstract: This paper presents the polyharmonic modelling of synchronous generator (SG) in machine variables. The simple geometry and windings physical layout has been used for inductance calculations of a salient-pole SG. The main advantage of this model is the ease of describing an autonomous power generation system (APGS) in terms of its topology and thus providing effective analysis at the static and dynamic states, both for...
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Insights in microbiotechnology: 2022.Editorial
PublikacjaThis Research Topic serves as an invaluable resource for readers interested in staying updated with the latest progress and developments in the field of microbiotechnology. It spotlights the innovative research conducted by up-and-coming experts in the field, specifically emphasizing the transforming abilities of microorganisms that greatly influence the scientific community. The advent of multi-omic technologies has revolutionized microbiotechnology,...
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The role of robotisation in improving bakery product quality
PublikacjaThe article aims to present the role of robotisation in increasing bakery product quality, as it is closely linked to machine reliability, as well as hygienic and sanitary conditions. All machines employed in the production process ought to be maintained at full production potential and reliability, which also has a fundamental influence on the final product’s quality. While participating in the 2014-2020 Smart Growth Operational...
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Scheduling of identical jobs with bipartite incompatibility graphs on uniform machines. Computational experiments
PublikacjaWe consider the problem of scheduling unit-length jobs on three or four uniform parallel machines to minimize the schedule length or total completion time. We assume that the jobs are subject to some types of mutual exclusion constraints, modeled by a bipartite graph of a bounded degree. The edges of the graph correspond to the pairs of jobs that cannot be processed on the same machine. Although the problem is generally NP-hard,...
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Automatic music genre classification based on musical instrument track separation / Automatyczna klasyfikacja gatunku muzycznego wykorzystująca algorytm separacji dźwięku instrumentó muzycznych
PublikacjaThe aim of this article is to investigate whether separating music tracks at the pre-processing phase and extending feature vector by parameters related to the specific musical instruments that are characteristic for the given musical genre allow for efficient automatic musical genre classification in case of database containing thousands of music excerpts and a dozen of genres. Results of extensive experiments show that the approach...
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Determination Of Gas Mixture Components Using Fluctuation Enhanced Sensing And The LS-SVM Regression Algorithm
PublikacjaThis paper analyses the effectiveness of determining gas concentrations by using a prototype WO3 resistive gas sensor together with fluctuation enhanced sensing. We have earlier demonstrated that this method can determine the composition of a gas mixture by using only a single sensor. In the present study, we apply Least-Squares Support-Vector-Machine-based (LS-SVM-based) nonlinear regression to determine the gas concentration...
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Przydział narzędzi obróbkowych a efektywność szeregowania zadań produkcyjnych
PublikacjaThe paper addresses issues concerning the analysis of tool flow within a multi-machine machining cell, designated to small batch manufacturing a definite spectrum of prismatic parts. The approach utilises a method for job and tool allocation to work centres with limited number of machines and capacity of tool resources, based on the analysis of formalised relations: job - tool sets required. Selected allocation strategies are considered...
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A pin-on-disc study of airborne wear particle emissions from studded tyre on concrete road contacts
PublikacjaStudded tyres wear surfaces of winter roads, generating inhalable airborne particles. In this study, four concrete road materials and two stud geometries were investigated in terms of wear, road material hardness and airborne particle concentration. The sliding contact between studded tyres and road materials was studied using a pin-on-disc machine in a clean chamber. The results show that the normal load and the stud size have...
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Cavitation Erosion Resistance Influence of Material Properties
PublikacjaThe cavitation erosion is the phenomena that causes degradation of fluid flow machinery components due to repetitive implosion of cavitation bubbles adjacent to the solid surface. Cavitation erosion is a complex phenomenon, which includes not only hydrodynamic factors of liquid, but also properties of erodible material e.g. microstructure, hardness or Young modulus. In order to reduce the negative impact of erosion on machine components,...
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ANALYSIS OF BEARING CLEARANCE AND WIDTH OF OIL GROOVE ON CHARACTERISTIC OF FLUID FILM IN HYDRODYNAMIC MAIN CRANKSHAFT BEARINGS
PublikacjaAbstract Paper represents analysis of influence of oil groove width and bearing clearance on characteristics of oil film in hydrodynamic journal main crankshaft bearing. Analysis was performed in purpose to define influence of bearing clearance and dimensions of oil groove on static characteristics and manufacturability of half shelf bearings in industrial high-volume production. Computer simulations was made using ARTbear program...
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Criteria for assessment of pine wood surfaces after planing
PublikacjaThe arise of defects in raw material as well as a machined part in most cases causes need to qualify the final product (wooden frames) as a scrap part or an additional work activity must be done. In the paper selected results of the effect of the material defects on the surface quality of the elements after planing and painting are presented. The materials under production were glulam elements of pine wood. Research experiments...
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A Concept of Automatic Film Color Grading Based on Music Recognition and Evoked Emotions
PublikacjaThe article presents the aspects of the final selection of the color of shots in film production based on the psychology of color. First of all, the elements of color processing, contrast, saturation or white balance in the film shots were presented and the definition of color grading was given. In the second part of the article the analysis of film music was conducted in the context of stimulating appropriate emotions while watching...
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The energy approach to fatigue crack growth of S355 steel welded specimens subjected to bending
PublikacjaThe study presents the results of the research on the rate of fatigue crack growth subjected to bending in the ferritic-pearlitic structure. The studies were carried out at a constant amplitude of the moment and at various values of the load ratios R and at the operating frequency of the machine of 28.4 Hz. Flat specimens made of S355 steel and with fillet welds and with double-sided blunt external notches as well as concave...
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Identification of category associations using a multilabel classifier
PublikacjaDescription of the data using categories allows one to describe it on a higher abstraction level. In this way, we can operate on aggregated groups of the information, allowing one to see relationships that do not appear explicit when we analyze the individual objects separately. In this paper we present automatic identification of the associations between categories used for organization of the textual data. As experimental data...
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A newly-developed model for predicting cutting power during wood sawing with circular saw blades
PublikacjaIn the classical approach, cutting forces and cutting power in sawing processes of orthotropic materials such as wood are generally calculated on the basis of the specific cutting resistance kc (cutting force per unit area of cut). For every type of sawing kinematics (frame saws, band saws and circular sawing machines) different empirical values of specific cutting resistance kc have to be applied. It should be emphasised that...
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Evaluating the risk of endometriosis based on patients’ self-assessment questionnaires
PublikacjaBackground Endometriosis is a condition that significantly affects the quality of life of about 10 % of reproductive-aged women. It is characterized by the presence of tissue similar to the uterine lining (endometrium) outside the uterus, which can lead lead scarring, adhesions, pain, and fertility issues. While numerous factors associated with endometriosis are documented, a wide range of symptoms may still be undiscovered. Methods In...
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Data augmentation for improving deep learning in image classification problem
PublikacjaThese days deep learning is the fastest-growing field in the field of Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Neural Networks (DNN). Among many of DNN structures, the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are currently the main tool used for the image analysis and classification purposes. Although great achievements and perspectives, deep neural networks and accompanying learning algorithms have some relevant challenges to tackle. In this...
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Experimental and computational study on mechanical behaviour of carpentry corner log joints
PublikacjaThis work concerns experimental and numerical research on carpentry joints used in historic wooden buildings in southeastern Poland and western Ukraine. These structures are mainly sacred buildings, and the types of corner log joints characteristic of this region are primarily saddle-notch and dovetail joints; thus, these two types of joints were analysed in this study. The modelling of historic timber structures is a complex...
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Designing Intelligent Factory: Conceptual Framework and Empirical Validation
PublikacjaThis paper presents a framework for monitoring, analysing and decision making for a smart manufacturing environment. We maintain that this approach could play a vital role in developing an architecture and implementation of Industry 4.0. The proposed model has features like experience based knowledge representation and semantic analysis of engineering objects and manufacturing process. It is also capable of continuous real time...
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Examining Classifiers Applied to Static Hand Gesture Recognition in Novel Sound Mixing System
PublikacjaThe main objective of the chapter is to present the methodology and results of examining various classifiers (Nearest Neighbor-like algorithm with non-nested generalization (NNge), Naive Bayes, C4.5 (J48), Random Tree, Random Forests, Artificial Neural Networks (Multilayer Perceptron), Support Vector Machine (SVM) used for static gesture recognition. A problem of effective gesture recognition is outlined in the context of the system...
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Evaluation of sound event detection, classification and localization in the presence of background noise for acoustic surveillance of hazardous situations
PublikacjaAn evaluation of the sound event detection, classification and localization of hazardous acoustic events in the presence of background noise of different types and changing intensities is presented. The methods for separating foreground events from the acoustic background are introduced. The classifier, based on a Support Vector Machine algorithm, is described. The set of features and samples used for the training of the classifier...
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Conception and design of a hybrid exciter for brushless synchronous generator. Application for autonomous electrical power systems = Koncepcja i projekt hybrydowej wzbudnicy bezszczotkowego generatora synchronicznego. Zastosowanie w autonomicznych systemach elektroenergetycznych.
PublikacjaThis paper covers a subject of a hybrid excitation system for a brushless synchronous generator working with variable speed in an autonomous energy generation system (e.g. airplane power grid). A hybrid excitation system (hybrid exciter) means a synchronous machine with wound-field and permanent magnet excitation. The hybrid exciter supply a dc field current to the synchronous generator field winding through a rotating rectifier....
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Classification of Music Genres Based on Music Separation into Harmonic and Drum Components . Klasyfikacja gatunków muzycznych wykorzystująca separację instrumentów muzycznych
PublikacjaThis article presents a study on music genre classification based on music separation into harmonic and drum components. For this purpose, audio signal separation is executed to extend the overall vector of parameters by new descriptors extracted from harmonic and/or drum music content. The study is performed using the ISMIS database of music files represented by vectors of parameters containing music features. The Support Vector...
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Comparative Study of Machining Technology Selection to Manufacture Large-Size Components of Offshore Constructions
PublikacjaThe focus of this paper is on process planning for large parts manufacture in systems of definite process capabilities, involving the use of multi-axis machining centres. The analysis of machining heavy mechanical components used in off-shore constructions has been carried out. Setup concepts applied and operation sequences determined in related process plans underwent studies. The paper presents in particular a reasoning approach...
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Bending test results of first metatarsophalangeal joint after arthrodesis with medially or dorsally positioned locking plate and lag screw.
Dane BadawczeThe Dataset contains the results of the bending test of first metatarsophalangeal (MTP1) joint specimens after arthrodesis.
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Parallel Background Subtraction in Video Streams Using OpenCL on GPU Platforms
PublikacjaImplementation of the background subtraction algorithm using OpenCL platform is presented. The algorithm processes live stream of video frames from the surveillance camera in on-line mode. Processing is performed using a host machine and a parallel computing device. The work focuses on optimizing an OpenCL algorithm implementation for GPU devices by taking into account specific features of the GPU architecture, such as memory access,...
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Examination method of the effect of the incidence angle of laser beam on distance measurement accuracy to surfaces with different colour and roughness
PublikacjaInterest in the influence of the incidence angle of a laser beam to distance measurements can be seen in many areas of science and technology: geodesy, glaciology, archaeology, machine automation, and others. This paper presents results of measurements of the effect of the incidence angle of a laser beam to distance measurements to the surfaces of different colour and roughness by Topcon's electro-optical total station with an...
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Examining Influence of Distance to Microphone on Accuracy of Speech Recognition
PublikacjaThe problem of controlling a machine by the distant-talking speaker without a necessity of handheld or body-worn equipment usage is considered. A laboratory setup is introduced for examination of performance of the developed automatic speech recognition system fed by direct and by distant speech acquired by microphones placed at three different distances from the speaker (0.5 m to 1.5 m). For feature extraction from the voice signal...
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Efficiency of gas detection algorithms using fluctuation enhanced sensing
PublikacjaEfficiency of various gas detection algorithms by applying fluctuation enhanced sensing method was discussed. We have analyzed resistance noise observed in resistive WO3- nanowires gas sensing layers. Power spectral densities of the recorded noise were used as the input data vectors for two algorithms: the principal component analysis (PCA) and the support vector machine (SVM). The data were used to determine gas concentration...
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Experimental ultimate strength assessment of stiffened plates subjected to marine immersed corrosion
PublikacjaThis study experimentally analyses the impact of marine immersed corrosion degradation on the compressive strength of the stiffened plates where the lower degradation levels were considered. The corrosion degradation test was accelerated by controlling the natural corrosion environmental factors, avoiding applying an electric current. Different groups of corrosion degradation levels and initial plate thicknesses were investigated....