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  • PV installations and the safety of residential buildings

    The dynamic development of the photovoltaic industry entails threats that have a direct impact on the safety of residential buildings. Appropriate design of a PV installation can be a challenge due to the multifaceted nature of this issue. The designer should take into account issues related to the selection of electrical parameters of the installation, adapting lightning and surge protection in accordance...

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  • Networking and Familiness as Factors Stimulating the Early Internationalization of High-Tech Firms

    The problem of the role and importance of time in the process of firm’s internationalization belongs to the mainstream of international business research, as is the problem of the key role of high-tech firms operating across borders. The main goal of the paper is to understand how selected factors determine early internationalization of high-tech firms in Poland as an emerging market. The theoretical framework of the article is...

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  • Benchmarking the Digital Government Value Chain

    Publikacja

    Digital Government (DG) benchmarking is an academically vivid topic and, equally important, a tool with the potential to provide valuable insights to policymakers and public managers responsible for digital policies at the level of countries and international bodies. Alas, this potential remains largely untapped in the current DG benchmarking practice. In our study, we identify the reasons and propose a way of mitigating them....

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  • The Dynamics of Trade Relations between Ukraine and Romania: Modelling and Forecasting

    Publikacja

    - Virtual Economics - Rok 2022

    The article examines the monthly dynamics of exports, imports and balance of trade between Ukraine and Romania in the period from 2005 to 2021. Time series from 2015 to 2021 were used for modelling and forecasting (since the date the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement took effect). Adequate models of the dynamics series of the Box-Jenkins methodology were built: additive models with seasonal component ARIMA (Autoregressive...

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  • Concept of managing quality in baking industry, in vector representation

    The author introduced an innovative metrisable method of describing a manufacturing process. The idea of vector structure of a manufacturing process allows to formulate quantitative relations between the activity of input streams, elements of product quality, and measurable effects of losses. The structure was basis for the formulation of the concept of the process of managing product quality in the baking industry in a vector...

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  • Modeling of Performance, Reliability and Energy Efficiency in Large-Scale Computational Environment

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2016

    Large scale of complexity of distributed computational systems imposes special challanges for prediction of quality in such systems.Existing quality models for lower-scale systems include functionality,performance,reliability,flexibility and usability.Among these attributes,performance and reliability have a particular significance to the large-scale systems computing quality modeling due to their strong dependence on the system...

  • Lean Quality Management

    Publikacja

    - Problemy Jakości - Rok 2003

    Postrzeganie przedsiębiorstwa przez pryzmat zachodzących w nim procesów powoduje powstanie dynamicznego obrazu zmian zachodzących w firmie. W wyniku takiego spojrzenia obserwator wykracza poza funkcjonalny układ struktur uzyskując możliwość pełniejszej weryfikacji skuteczności licznych, powiązanych ze sobą działań przedsiębiorstwa i podejmowania decyzji o ich doskonaleniu. Kierunki tego doskonalenia to takie budowanie sekwencji...

  • Improving Re-rankCCP with Rules Quality Measures

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2022

    Recommender Systems are software tools and techniques which aim at suggesting new items that may possibly be of interest to a user. Context-Aware Recommender Systems exploit contextual information to provide more adequate recommendations. In this paper we described a modification of an existing contextual post-filtering algorithm which uses rules-like user representation called Contextual Conditional Preferences. We extended the...

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  • Expert systems in quality control of manufacturing processes

    Publikacja

    The paper deals with quality control in conditions of computer integrated manufacturing (CIM). It shows that quality of material stream items have to be analyzed on every stage of manufacturing process. Collecting and analyzing quantity of data with usage of expert systems make it possible to create a system for coordination of cell's work. The system contains error recovery algorithm and adaptive control subsystem based on fuzzy...

  • Classification of high-voltage varistors into groups of differentiated quality

    The research was aimed on defining a factor of quality for high-voltage varistors using Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) techniques, which could be applied during the production testing. The newly proposed parameter Q determined on the basis of the lowest resonant frequency fr measured within the preselected frequency range was taken into account. The parameter Q was defined for ZnO structures after firing, without metallized contacts....

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  • Hyperbolic position location estimation in the multipath propagation environment

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2009

    The efficiency analysis a hyperbolic position location estimation in the multipath propagation environment in the wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) interface was presented. Four, the most popular methods: Chan's, Foy's, Fang's and Friedlander's were considered. These algorithms enable the calculation of the geographical position of a mobile station (MS) using the time differences of arrival (TDOA) between several base...

  • Robust Monitoring of Water Quality in Drinking Water Distribution System

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2013

    The paper develops a novel open loop set bounded observer for robust estimation of water quality in DWDS based on the advanced nonlinear quality dynamics model including disinfections by-products (DBPs). The observer utilises a cooperativeness of the quality dynamics model and is computationally efficient, hence applicable to on-line quality monitoring. The simulation results illustrate its good and sustainable performance.

  • Nitrogen pathways in the environment.

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2004

    Praca stanowi wprowadzenie do zbioru artykułów poświęconych wielorakim aspektom badań nad ścieżkami przenoszenia związków azotu, zagrożeniami z tego wynikającymi oraz metodami przeciwdziałania tym zagrożeniom. Przedstawiono w niej bardzo problematykę obiegu kołowego azotu w przyrodzie, zwracając szczególną uwagę na zakłócenia w tym obiegu, będące rezultatem różnorodnej działalności człowieka. Na tle aktualnego stanu wiedzy, krótko...

  • Organohalogen compounds in the environment.

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2004

    Przedyskutowano problem związków chloroorganicznych w środowisku, takich jak: pestycydy chloroorganiczne, polichlorowane bifenyle, polichlorowane dibenzodioksyny i furany. Omówiono podstawowe właściwości fizykochemiczne, toksykologiczne oraz ścieżki przemian w środowisku.

  • Smartphones as tools for equitable food quality assessment

    Background: The ubiquity of smartphones equipped with an array of sophisticated sensors, ample processing power, network connectivity and a convenient interface makes them a promising tool for non-invasive, portable food quality assessment. Combined with the recent developments in the areas of IoT, deep learning algorithms and cloud computing, they present an opportunity for advancing wide-spread, equitable and sustainable food...

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  • Analysis of economical lighting of highways in the environment of SMOL language

    The paper puts forward and implements a method of designing and creating a modelling simulation environment for eztensive and complete analysis of economical lighting on highways. From a general design viewpoint, the proposed solution explores the concept of a network description language (SMOL), which has been designed to describe the necessary network functions, mechanisms, and devices; for the purpose of their computer simulation...

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  • Effect of the Road Environment on Road Safety in Poland

    Run-off-road accidents tend to be very severe because when a vehicle leaves the road, it will often crash into a solid obstacle (tree, pole, supports, front wall of a culvert, barrier). A statistical analysis of the data shows that Poland's main roadside hazard is trees and the severity of vehicles striking a tree in a run-off-road crash. The risks are particularly high in north-west Poland with many of the roads lined up with...

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  • Static Shunt PE Voltage-Quality Controllers

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2007

    This chapter focuses on power electronics (PE)-based solutions used in distribution networks for reduction of supply-voltage-quality deterioration, from long interruptions to the harmonics. Various PE devices and their combinations are addressed for particular or a range of voltage disturbances. A particular solution is applied taking into account demands for voltage quality and network configuration. In general, there are three...

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  • IT PROJECT TEAMS CREATION AND ANALYSIS IN C2 NIWA ENVIRONMENT

    Publikacja

    Teams are the basic unit of the C2NIWA community, which – using the technical capabilities of this environment – focuses on the implementation of various projects. This article presents one of the competitions carried out within the framework of a C2NIWA project called Uwaga! Upadek! [Attention! Fall!], used as an example of a collaborative project for which analyses related to the assessment of teamwork based on the input-process-result...

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  • Objectivity in a Noisy Photonic Environment through Quantum State Information Broadcasting

    Publikacja

    - PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS - Rok 2014

    Recently, the emergence of classical objectivity as a property of a quantum state has been explicitly derived for a small object embedded in a photonic environment in terms of a spectrum broadcast form—a specific classically correlated state, redundantly encoding information about the preferred states of the object in the environment. However, the environment was in a pure state and the fundamental problem was how generic and robust...

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  • Current air quality analytics and monitoring: A review

    Publikacja

    This review summarizes the different tools and concepts that are commonly applied in air quality monitoring. The monitoring of atmosphere is extremely important as the air quality is an important problem for large communities. Main requirements for analytical devices used for monitoring include a long period of autonomic operation and portability. These instruments, however, are often characterized by poor analytical performance....

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  • Digital Audio Broadcasting or Webcasting: A Network Quality Perspective

    In recent years, many alternative technologies of delivering audio content have emerged, with different advantages and disadvantages. In this paper pros and cons of digital audio broadcasting and webcasting transmission techniques in a network quality perspective are described. A case study of user expectations with respect to currently available services is analyzed, and the perceived quality of real digital broadcasted and webcasted...

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  • Mobile navigation system for visually impaired users in the urban environment

    This paper describes the prototype version of a mobile application supporting independent movement of theblind. Its objective is to improve the quality of life of visually impaired people, providing them with navigationalassistance in urban areas. The authors present the most important modules of the application. The module forprecise positioning using DGPS data from the ASG-EUPOS network as well as enhancements of positioning...

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  • Technological aspects of manufacturing polymer packaging materials degradable in seawater environment

    In recent years, the number of polymer materials used in the food packaging market was growing extremely fast. This contributed to depletion of non-renewable resources and more intense degradation of the environment due to resistant polymer. Therefore, such a dramatic situation has forced researchers to look for biodegradable materials, decomposable under action of microorganism. Currently, only a small number of researches examine...

  • Improving Objective Speech Quality Indicators in Noise Conditions

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2020

    This work aims at modifying speech signal samples and test them with objective speech quality indicators after mixing the original signals with noise or with an interfering signal. Modifications that are applied to the signal are related to the Lombard speech characteristics, i.e., pitch shifting, utterance duration changes, vocal tract scaling, manipulation of formants. A set of words and sentences in Polish, recorded in silence,...

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  • Performance Analysis of the OpenCL Environment on Mobile Platforms

    Publikacja

    Today’s smartphones have more and more features that so far were only assigned to personal computers. Every year these devices are composed of better and more efficient components. Everything indicates that modern smartphones are replacing ordinary computers in various activities. High computing power is required for tasks such as image processing, speech recognition and object detection. This paper analyses the performance of...

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  • The Importance of Demand and Environment for Defining and Establishing the Role of Data Stewards

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2022

    Data stewardship is now a central part of FAIR research data management. Although various types of positions called data stewards have been created at academic institutions over the last years, no demand-oriented, formal model of data stewardship and the associated roles exist so far. This workshop report presents the outcomes of the panel discussion “The Importance of Demand and Environment for Defining Data Stewardship” held...

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  • Real-time simulation in non real-time environment

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2016

    Simulation in real-time is a very useful tool because of didactical and practical benefits. Very important benefit of real-time simulation is a fact that operator’s decision can be taken into account in the same time scale as the real system would work. This enables construction of simulators, and opportunity to test control algorithms in Hardware in The Loop scheme using target industrial equipment. Professional real-time environments...

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  • Permeation passive sampling as a tool for the evaluation of indoor air quality

    Publikacja

    Określono stężenie średnie ważone w czasie wybranych lotnych związków organicznych w powietrzu ośmiu pomieszczeniach mieszkalnych na terenie miasta Gdańska. Do pobierania próbek analitów z powietrza wewnętrznego zastosowano permeacyjny dozymetr pasywny typu pudełkowego oraz technikę dynamiczną (urządzenie przepływowe z rurką sorpcyjną). Porównano wyniki uzyskane w wyniku zastosowania w/w technik pobierania próbek analitów.

  • Music Genre Recognition in the Rough Set-Based Environment

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2015

    The aim of this paper is to investigate music genre recognition in the rough set-based environment. Experiments involve a parameterized music data-base containing 1100 music excerpts. The database is divided into 11 classes cor-responding to music genres. Tests are conducted using the Rough Set Exploration System (RSES), a toolset for analyzing data with the use of methods based on the rough set theory. Classification effectiveness...

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  • Proposal of New Starch-Blends Composition Quickly Degradable in Marine Environment

    Publikacja

    The aim of this paper was to obtain a quickly degradable in seawater polymer blend as an alternative proposal for classical polymer packaging. For preliminary studies: poly(lactic acid) (PLA), starch, calcium carbonate (CaCO3), gelatin and glycerol were chosen. PLA was pointed out due to its biodegradability and comparable properties to polyethylene or polypropylene. Whereas starch was chosen as abundant, renewable and cheap polymer...

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  • Endocrine disrupting compounds in the baby's world - A harmful environment to the health of babies

    Publikacja

    - SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT - Rok 2023

    Globally, there has been a significant increase in awareness of the adverse effects of chemicals with known or suspected endocrine-acting properties on human health. Human exposure to endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) mainly occurs by ingestion and to some extent by inhalation and dermal uptake. Although it is difficult to assess the full impact of human exposure to EDCs, it is well known that timing of exposure is of importance...

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  • Metals in the environment as risk factors for infectious diseases: gaps and opportunities

    Publikacja
    • M. Ackland
    • J. Bornhorst
    • G. V. Dedoussis
    • R. R. Dieter
    • J. Nriagu
    • J. Pacyna
    • J. M. Pettifor

    - Rok 2015

    This chapter aims to provide insights into current knowledge and gaps in our understanding of the influence that trace metals in the environment have on the pathogenesis of infectious diseases. By reducing immune function, trace metal deficiencies may substantially contribute to the global burden of diarhea, pneumonia, and malaria. Improved methods and biomarkers for assessing the risk of trace metals deficiencies and toxicities...

  • Quality Evaluation of Agricultural Distillates Using an Electronic Nose

    The paper presents the application of an electronic nose instrument to fast evaluation of agricultural distillates differing in quality. The investigations were carried out using a prototype of electronic nose equipped with a set of six semiconductor sensors by FIGARO Co., an electronic circuit converting signal into digital form and a set of thermostats able to provide gradient temperature characteristics to a gas mixture. A volatile fraction...

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  • Factors affecting the quality of bottled water

    The ever-increasing popularity of bottled water means that it is important to analyze not only its mineral content but also, above all,its content of possible contaminants, especially the organic ones. In this respect, bottled waters are a special case, because apartfrom organic chemical contaminants derived from the well from which they were acquired, their secondary contamination is alwayspossible, during treatment or storage...

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  • Entropy Production Associated with Aggregation into Granules in a Subdiffusive Environment

    Publikacja
    • P. Weber
    • P. Bełdowski
    • M. Bier
    • A. Gadomski

    - ENTROPY - Rok 2018

    We study the entropy production that is associated with the growing or shrinking of a small granule in, for instance, a colloidal suspension or in an aggregating polymer chain. A granule will fluctuate in size when the energy of binding is comparable to k_{B}T, which is the “quantum” of Brownian energy. Especially for polymers, the conformational energy landscape is often rough and has been commonly modeled as being self-similar...

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  • Application of design-thinking models to improve the quality of tourism services

    The paper presents basic aspects of improvement activities for the quality of tourism industry service through its specific determinants of quality. The authors suggested an the application of design-thinking concept in the development of the service itself and an attempt to undertake improvement activities.

  • The effects of confinement in pores built of folded graphene sheets on the equilibrium of nitrogen monoxide dimerisation reaction

    Publikacja
    • S. Furmaniak
    • P. Gauden
    • A. Patrykiejew
    • R. Miśkiewicz
    • P. Kowalczyk
    • R. Miskiewicz

    - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter - Rok 2019

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  • Context sensitive privacy management in a distributed environment

    Artykuł przedstawia mechanizm zarządzania prywatnością stworzony dla systemu rozproszonego z założeniem, że węzły systemu mają ograniczone zasoby (moc procesora, pamięć). Podstawowy pomysł zakłada, że prywatne dane są filtrowane zgodnie z polityką prywatności użytkowników przed ich ujawnieniem innym użytkownikom. Te decyzje są silnie umiejscowione, co ogranicza narzut związany z zarządzaniem prywatnością na węzłach systemu. Sam...

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  • WATER ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH

    Czasopisma

    ISSN: 1061-4303 , eISSN: 1554-7531

  • Quality Modeling in Grid and Volunteer-Computing Systems

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2013

    A model of computational quality in large-scale computing systems was presented in the previous chapter of this book. This model describes three quality attributes: performance, reliability and energy efficiency. We assumed that all processes in the system are incessantly ready to perform calculations and that communication between the processes occurs immediately. These assumptions are not true for grid and volunteer computing...

  • Network design for surface water quality monitoring in a road construction project using Gamma Test theory

    Publikacja
    • S. Azadi
    • H. Amiri
    • M. G. Mooselu
    • H. Liltved
    • R. Castro-Muñoz
    • X. Sun
    • G. Boczkaj

    - Water Resources and Industry - Rok 2021

    Road construction has a negative environmental impact on the surrounding aquatic environment, requiring the continuous monitoring of surface water quality. Here, optimization of the water quality monitoring network (WQMN) is an essential step in supporting the sustainable development of road construction projects. This study introduces Gamma Test theory (GTT) as a practical method for optimizing the WQMN of surface waters during...

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  • On the problem of optimised allocation of water quality sensors and actuators in DWDS

    Publikacja

    The problems of water quality sensors and actuators placement in drinking water distribution systems (DWDSs) are addressed as separate, primarily. However, against the background of control systems theory, the nature of DWDSs dynamics indicates that these both problems are interdependent and impact the design of related water quality monitoring and control structures and algorithms. The research work presented in this paper is...

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  • Effect of interlayer bonding quality of asphalt layers on pavement performance

    The quality of interlayer bonding at the interfaces between the asphalt layers in flexible pavements affects the overall pavement performance. Lack or partial lack of interlayer bonding between asphalt layers can cause pavement's premature failures such as rutting, slippage of the wearing course, cracking or simply a reduction in the calculated fatigue life of the pavement structure. This paper shows the case studies of investigation...

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  • Greencoin: prototype of a mobile application facilitating and evidencing pro-environmental behavior of citizens

    Among many global challenges, climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our times. While it is one of the most devastating problems humanity has ever faced, one question naturally arises: can individuals make a difference? We believe that everyone can contribute and make a difference to the community and lives of others. However, there is still a lack of effective strategies to promote and facilitate pro-environmental...

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  • The Influence of LED Lighting Sources on the Nature of Power Factor

    Publikacja

    - ENERGIES - Rok 2018

    This article presents measurements of electric power absorbed by a newly built facility for office and scientific research activities. These measurements highlighted the need for compensation of capacitive reactive power—not predicted by the designer—due to the vast use of LED lighting in the facility. The article also describes a reactive power compensation system, designed on the basis of the above-mentioned measurements, and...

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  • Towards Understanding of Mechanics of Hernia Managed by Synthetic Mesh in Laparoscopic Operation: A Single Case Study

    In this paper a research towards understanding of mechanics of ventral hernia operated with the use of Physiomesh Open image in new window implant and SecureStrap Open image in new window staples is described. Experimental and numerical studies are conducted for that purpose. Experimental works cover uni-axial tension tests of the implant samples and of the implant-staples-tissue system. Also experiments on implant-staples-tissue...

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  • Photonic sensor to detect rapid changes in CRP levels

    Publikacja

    - Journal of Biophotonics - Rok 2023

    One of the most important biomarkers used to determine inflammation is C-reactive protein (CRP). Its level, when it is within the range that does not define inflammation, informs about the risk of cardiovascular events. If the norm is exceeded and inflammation is detected in the body, CRP level can increase 1000 times within a few hours. The type of infection can also be determined based on the level of elevated CRP. All this makes...

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  • HOW EFFICIENT IS NOISE LABELING OF TIRES?

    Since 2012 all new tires in Europe must be labeled. The label contains general information about tire performance concerning rolling resistance (that corresponds to fuel economy), noise emission and wet grip (only for passenger car tires). Measurements of noise performance of tires must be performed according to the Annex 3 of the Regulation No 117 of the Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations. The regulation specifies...

  • Practical I-Voting on Stellar Blockchain

    Publikacja

    In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving i-voting system based on the public Stellar Blockchain network. We argue that the proposed system satisfies all requirements stated for a robust i-voting system including transparency, verifiability, and voter anonymity. The practical architecture of the system abstracts a voter from blockchain technology used underneath. To keep user privacy, we propose a privacy-first protocol that...

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