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Linear and branched polyester resins based on dimethyl-2,5-furandicarboxylate for coating applications
PublikacjaIn this study, novel bio-based hydroxyl-functional (co)polyesters from dimethyl-2, 5-furandicarboxylate (DMF), 2,3-butanediol, and a variety of comonomers viz. glycerol, pentaerythritol or trimethylolpropane are prepared using a solvent-free, bulk polycondensation technique. Extensive molecular and thermal characterization was performed to elucidate the properties of these materials. The materials showed suitable properties for solvent-borne...
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Tailoring the Size and Shape—New Path for Ammonium Metavanadate Synthesis
PublikacjaAmmonium metavanadate, NH4VO3, plays an important role in the preparation of vanadium oxides and other ammonium compounds, such as NH4V3O8, (NH4)2V3O8, and NH4V4O10, which were found to possess interesting electrochemical properties. In this work, a new route for the synthesis of NH4VO3 is proposed by mixing an organic ammonium salt and V2O5 in a suitable solvent. The one-step procedure is carried out at room temperature. Additionally,...
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Potential and Use of the Googlenet Ann for the Purposes of Inland Water Ships Classification
PublikacjaThis article presents an analysis of the possibilities of using the pre-degraded GoogLeNet artificial neural network to classify inland vessels. Inland water authorities monitor the intensity of the vessels via CCTV. Such classification seems to be an improvement in their statutory tasks. The automatic classification of the inland vessels from video recording is a one of the main objectives of the Automatic Ship Recognition and...
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A method for selection of parameters of ship propulsion system fitted with compromise screw propeller
PublikacjaArtykuł dotyczy algorytmicznej metody wstępnego doboru parametrów układu napędowego okrętu wyposażonego w śrubę o skoku stałym, gdy eksploatacja okrętu związana jest z istotnymi zmianami: głębokości i szerokości drogi wodnej, oporu kadłuba i prędkości marszowej. Argumentami modelu matematycznego rozważanego zagadnienia projektowego są identyfikowane na etapie projektowania wstępnego główne parametry projektowe okrętu. Struktura...
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Shape-Based Pose Estimation of Robotic Surgical Instruments
PublikacjaWe describe a detector of robotic instrument parts in image-guided surgery. The detector consists of a huge ensemble of scale-variant and pose-dedicated, rigid appearance templates. The templates, which are equipped with pose-related keypoints and segmentation masks, allow for explicit pose estimation and segmentation of multiple end-effectors as well as fine-grained non-maximum suppression. We train the templates by grouping examples...
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Direct brain stimulation modulates encoding states and memory performance in humans
PublikacjaPeople often forget information because they fail to effectively encode it. Here, we test the hypothesis that targeted electrical stimulation can modulate neural encoding states and subsequent memory outcomes. Using recordings from neurosurgical epilepsy patients with intracranially implanted electrodes, we trained multivariate classifiers to discriminate spectral activity during learning that predicted remembering from forgetting,...
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Vehicle detector training with labels derived from background subtraction algorithms in video surveillance
PublikacjaVehicle detection in video from a miniature station- ary closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera is discussed in the paper. The camera provides one of components of the intelligent road sign developed in the project concerning the traffic control with the use of autonomous devices being developed. Modern Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based detectors need big data input, usually demanding their manual labeling. In the presented...
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The Development of a Combined Method to Quickly Assess Ship Speed and Fuel Consumption at Different Powertrain Load and Sea Conditions
PublikacjaDecision support systems (DSS) recently have been increasingly in use during ships operation. They require realistic input data regarding different aspects of navigation. To address the optimal weather routing of a ship, which is one of the most promising field of DSS application, it is necessary to accurately predict an actually attainable speed of a ship and corresponding fuel consumption at given loading conditions and predicted...
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Analyzing Preconditions to Introduce Internet Voting in Portugal: Insights from the Estonian Model
PublikacjaInternet voting has been trialed or introduced for several countries, including Norway, Portugal, United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland as an additional voting channel to increase voter turnout and, also to modernize the electoral process. However, only Estonia has successful introduced internet voting, deploying e-enabled elections in general governmental levels. This paper aims to provide an exploratory study on the Estonian...
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Federated Learning in Healthcare Industry: Mammography Case Study
PublikacjaThe paper focuses on the role of federated learning in a healthcare environment. The experimental setup involved different healthcare providers, each with their datasets. A comparison was made between training a deep learning model using traditional methods, where all the data is stored in one place, and using federated learning, where the data is distributed among the workers. The experiment aimed to identify possible challenges...
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Balanand Santhosh Ph.D.
OsobyDr. Balanand Santhosh, obtained his Ph.D. (cum laude) in Materials, Mechatronics and Systems engineering from the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, Italy. He is currently working as Research Assistant Professor at Gdansk Univerity of Technology, Poland. Formerly he was working as a post-doctoral researcher at University of Trento, Italy. His research expertise is mainly in the area of ceramic processing...
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Incorporation of nitrogen in diamond films – A new way of tuning parameters for optical passive elements
PublikacjaThis paper investigates the impact of nitrogen incorporation in diamond films for the construction of an interferometric sensor to measure displacement. Diamond films with different nitrogen levels (0–5%) were deposited on silicon substrates by microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. The structural characteristics of these samples are characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), confocal...
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Synthesis, thermal, structural and electrical properties of vanadium-doped lithium-manganese-borate glass and nanocomposites
PublikacjaA glassy sample with a nominal formula LiMn1−3x/2VxBO3 (where x = 0.05) was synthesised using the melt-quenching method. Material was characterised by differential thermal analysis (DTA), X-ray diffactometry (XRD) at room temperature and as a function of temperature (HT-XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), impedance spectroscopy (IS) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Dependences of glass transition and crystallisation...
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XRD patterns of the V2O5 coatings after thermal treatment under reducing atmosphere
Dane BadawczeThe DataSet contains the XRD patterns of V2O5 coatings on the silicon substrate after thermal treatment under a reducing atmosphere. Thin films were annealed at 500C, 600C, and 700C for 10 under a reducing atmosphere (94% Ar, 6% H2).
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The microstructure of aluminium alloys AA1050 and AA7075 subjected to anodic polarization at 8V in KOH electrolyte
Dane BadawczeThe dataset contains SEM pictures of the microstructure of aluminum alloy AA1050 and AA7075 exposed in aqueous KOH in the pH range between 14–11. Two sets of samples are presented, revealing the topography of the alloys when exposed to aggressive media under open circuit potential conditions as well as when subjected potentiodynamic polarization ranging...
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Analiza procesu zniszczenia kompozytu warstwowego aramidowo-szklanego przy zginaniu metodą in situ
PublikacjaPrzeprowadzono badania na zginanie in situ w komorze mikroskopu SEM kompozytów: winyloestrowego zbrojonego tkaniną aramidową i szklaną oraz epoksydowego zbrojonego hybrydową tkaniną aramidowo-szklaną. Otrzymano sekwencję obrazów postępującego zniszczenia laminatów. Określono przyczynę małej wytrzymałości laminatu winyloestrowego w porównaniu z laminatem epoksydowym o zadowalającej wytrzymałości.
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Superheroes or Super Spreaders? The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Social Attitudes towards Nurses: A Qualitative Study from Poland
PublikacjaThe social perception of the nursing profession in Poland is profoundly affected by social stereotypes that may discourage young people from entering the profession and lead to prejudice towards nurses. During the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses gained visibility, which caused the social image of nurses to likewise grow. In this study, we explore nurses’ experiences with respect to how the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the social image...
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Manufacture and research of TPS/PE biocomposites properties
PublikacjaIn this paper the process of native starch preparing for modification by extrusion and manufacture of biocomposites is presented. The first aim of this study was to determine the mixing and granulating condition of native starch to obtain granulated native starch. For mixing and granulation of native starch Intensive Mixer manufactured by Maschinenfabrik Gustav Eirich was used. Mixing and granulation in a single process is a new...
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The potential of imogolite nanotubes as (co-)photocatalysts: a linear-scaling density functional theory study
PublikacjaWe report a linear-scaling density functional theory (DFT) study of the structure, wall-polarization absolute band-alignment and optical absorption of several, recently synthesized, open-ended imogolite (Imo) nanotubes (NTs), namely single-walled (SW) aluminosilicate (AlSi), SW aluminogermanate (AlGe), SW methylated aluminosilicate (AlSi-Me), and double-walled (DW) AlGe NTs. Simulations with three different semi-local and dispersion-corrected...
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Optimal control at energy performance index of the mobile robots following dynamically created trajectories
PublikacjaIn practice, the problem of motion control of the wheeled mobile robots is often neglected. Wheeled mobile robots are strongly nonlinear systems and restricted by non-holonomic constraints. Motion control of such systems is not trivial task and usage of non-optimal control signals can lead to deterioration of the overall robot system’s performance. In case of autonomous application of the mobile robots all parts of its control...
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Low cost set-up for supercapacitors parameters evaluation
PublikacjaSupercapacitors are capable to store relatively high amount of energy comparing to its mass. Growing number of these devices applications requires development of new testing methods. Standard methods of evaluation of supercapacitor parameters, as cycling voltammetry, CV, galvanostatic cycling with potential limitation, GCPL, impedance measurements, require equipment of high cost...
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Comparison of predictive methods for flow boiling heat transfer in conventional channels and minichannels - the effect of reduced pressure
PublikacjaIn the paper are presented the results of follow on studies from [1]–[3] using authors own model to predict heat transfer coefficient during flow boiling. The model has been tested against a large selection of experimental data collected from various researchers to investigate the sensitivity of the in-house developed model. The collected experimental data came from various studies from literature and were conducted for the full...
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Safety integrity level verification for safety-related functions with security aspects
PublikacjaThe article is devoted some important issues of the functional safety analysis, in particular the safetyintegrity level (SIL) verification of safety functions to be implemented within the distributed controland protection systems with regard to cyber security aspects. The procedure for functional safety man-agement includes hazard identification, risk analysis and assessment, specification of overall safetyrequirements and definition...
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MRI-Derived Subcutaneous and Visceral Adipose Tissue Reference Values for Children Aged 6 to Under 18 Years
PublikacjaThe assessment of body composition in pediatric population is essential for proper nutritional support during hospitalization. However, currently available methods have limitations. This study aims to propose a novel approach for nutrition status assessment and introduce magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-derived subcutaneous and visceral fat normative reference values. A total of 262 healthy subjects aged from 6 to 18 years underwent...
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Time-Gating method with automatic calibration for accurate measurements of electrically small antenna radiation patterns in Non-Anechoic environments
PublikacjaNon-anechoic sites represent a cheap alternative to measurements of antennas in dedicated facilities. However, due to a high noise—from the external EM signal sources and multipath interferences—the quality of radiation patterns obtained in non-anechoic conditions is poor. The characteristics can be corrected using a time-gating method (TGM), which involves filtering of the noise based on temporal analysis of the measured signals....
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Mechanical analysis of eccentric defected bilayer graphene sheets considering the van der Waals force
PublikacjaIn this article, we have tried to simulate nonlinear bending analysis of a double-layered graphene sheet which contains a geometrical imperfection based on an eccentric hole. The first-order shear deformation theory is considered to obtain the governing equations. Also, the nonlinear von Kármán strain field has been assumed in order to obtain large deformations. Whereas the double-layered graphene sheet has been considered, the...
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Multiparameter sensitivity analysis of a GFRP composite footbridge of a sandwich structure and U-shaped cross-section
PublikacjaThe paper deals with multiparameter sensitivity analysis of a composite footbridge. A shell‐like structure is 14.5 m long shows U‐shaped cross‐section and inner service dimensions 1.3 × 2.5 m. Glass fiber reinforced polymer GFRP laminate constitutes faces of a sandwich structure while PET foam received from recycled bottle builts a core. The structure was divided into 285 independent areas where the thickness of laminates and stiffness...
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Comparison of Surface Quality and Tool-Life of Glulam Window Elements after Planing
PublikacjaThe quality of the surface of wooden elements, that have been planed, has a crucial importance in the whole production process, since the obtained effects affect the quality of wooden surface after fi nishing (painting). The occurrence of defects is usually the reason for qualifying a workpiece as scrap or for requiring additional work. This paper presents the selected results of research of the effect of the cutting tool wear...
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Tailoring optical constants of few-layer black phosphorus coatings: Spectroscopic ellipsometry approach supported by ab-initio simulation
Publikacja2D black phosphorus (BP) has attracted extensive attention as an anisotropic platform for novel optoelectronic and polarizing optics applications. Insight into the factors that tune the optical and polarizing properties of 2D BP reveals their essential influence on BP-based photonic and optoelectronic devices. In this work, studies of the optical constants of few-layer black phosphorus coatings are studied and discussed, with particular...
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Effect of nitrogen doping on TiOxNythin film formation at reactive high-power pulsed magnetron sputtering
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Wyjaśnienie przyczyn pocienienia rur w piecu technologicznym PC-1 na instalacji DRW II
PublikacjaWykonano analizę przyczyn korozji rur pieca instalacji DRW w oparciu o badania wizualne, SEM, EDX oraz literaturowe. W ciągu 5 lat eksploatacji nastąpiły znaczne ubytki korozyjne rur w wyniku procesów korozyjnych. Z uwagi na zbyt wysoką temperaturę rurek pieca nastąpił proces wysokotemperaturowego pylenia metalu.
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Analiza weryfikująca poprawność istniejącego układu ochrony przed korozją i osadami instalacji DRW4 w kontekście obecnych warunków pracy instalacji
PublikacjaCelem pracy były pomiary korozyjności kondensatów pochodzących z kolumny destylacyjnej z dodatkiem neutralizatora oraz inhibitora korozji, ponadto przeprowadzono badania SEM i EDX produktów korozji pochodzących z rurek chłodnicy powietrznej. Wykazano, że znacznie większą agresywnością charakteryzują się kondensaty które pochodzą z przerobu ropy naftowej zawierającą slopy.
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Satysfakcja i zaufanie jako mediatory pomiędzy oceną cech serwisów WWW a lojalnością
PublikacjaPraca ma charakter badawczy i jej celem jest poszukiwanie efektów mediacyjnych w sytuacji, gdy między cechami serwisów WWW a lojalnością występują satysfakcja i zaufanie jako mediatory. Do analizy tych efektów użyto metody PLS-SEM, która pozwoliła na wykrycie czterech efektów pośrednich, trzech prostych i jednego szeregowego.
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Evaluation of cathode materials for electrochemical photocatalyst deposition
PublikacjaElectrochemical deposition of photocatalyst, especially TiO2, onto several cathode materials was investigated and evaluated. The deposited films were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (EDX) and electrochemical measurements. Photocatalytic activity was determined by the decomposition of cyclohexane in air by irradiation with ultraviolet light emitting diodes. It was found that...
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Surface properties of barley straw
PublikacjaWłaściwości powierzchniowe słomy jęczmiennej (Hordeum vulgare) odgrywają kluczową rolę w zastosowaniach przemysłowych, takich jak sorpcja rozlewów olejowych oraz oczyszczenie gleby. Zbadano niejednorodność chemiczną oraz morfologiczną liści i łodyg słomy jęczmiennej poprzez pomiar kątów zwilżania wodą oraz olejem oraz z zastosowaniem techniki FTIR, SEM oraz AFM.
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Ocena odporności na pękanie podbudów drogowych z mieszanek mineralno-cementowo-emulsyjnych (MCE)
PublikacjaPodbudowy z mieszanek mineralno-cementowo-emulsyjnych (MCE) są jednym z wielu materiałów stosowanych do wykonywania warstw nawierzchni w ramach przebudów dróg w Polsce. Mieszanki MCE pozwalają na maksymalne powtórne wykorzystanie istniejących warstw konstrukcyjnych do budowy lub przebudowy nawierzchni. Do wykonania podbudów z MCE stosuje się materiał pochodzący z rozbiórki istniejących warstw (destrukt) bitumicznych, warstw związanych...
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The microstructure of AA5754 alloy under corrosion in alkaline media (pH=11) with 20 mM of various carboxylic acids
Dane BadawczeThis dataset contains scanning electron microscopy (SEM) micrographs taken for polished aluminum AA5754 alloy samples, exposed for 100 min in bicarbonate buffer (pH=11) with the addition of 20 mM of carboxylic acids, namely: citric acid, malic acid, maleic acid, succinic acid, tartaric acid, tricarballylic acid and serine. The goal of this study was...
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The microstructure of AA5754 alloy under corrosion in alkaline media (pH=11) with 4.5 mM of various carboxylic acids
Dane BadawczeThis dataset contains scanning electron microscopy (SEM) micrographs taken for polished aluminum AA5754 alloy samples, exposed for 100 min in bicarbonate buffer (pH=11) with the addition of 4.5 mM of carboxylic acids, namely: citric acid, malic acid, maleic acid, succinic acid, tartaric acid, tricarballylic acid and serine. The goal of this study was...
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The effect of cobalt addition on the corrosion behavior of near equiatomic NiTi shape memory alloy in normal saline solution, impedance and microscopic studies
Dane BadawczeThe electrochemical and corrosion (uniform and localized) behavior of a binary Ni52Ti48 shape memory alloy (SMA) and two ternary Ni52Ti48-xCox (x = 1.5 and 4.0 wt.%) SMAs were studied. Measurements were conducted in 0.9% NaCl solution at 37 oC. This dataset contains the results of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) studies done on daily basis...
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Incorporation of nitrogen in diamond films - A new way of tuning parameters for optical passive elements
PublikacjaThis paper investigates the impact of nitrogen incorporation in diamond films for the construction of an interferometric sensor to measure displacement. Diamond films with different nitrogen levels (0–5%) were deposited on silicon substrates by microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. The structural characteristics of these samples are characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy...
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Comparison of PM10 concentration in Gdansk and London using electron microscopy
PublikacjaParticulate matter (PM) has been considered as one of the most dangerous elements of air pollution. Multiply analytical methods are employed to identify the composition of particles present in the air. The theoretical part of this work is a description of different research centres all over the world where particulate matter is being analyzed using various techniques. The purpose of this project is to analyze and compare particles...
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Rozpoznawanie urządzeń i wykrywanie nieautoryzowanego poboru energii elektrycznej na podstawie pomiaru napięcia
PublikacjaW pracy rozpatrywany jest problem wykrywania nieautoryzowanego poboru energii z sieci elektrycznej przez identyfikację podłączonych urządzeń. Estymacja stanu sieci, rozumianej jako zbiór podpiętych układów, wraz z ustaloną listą urządzeń dopuszczonych, pozwala określić, czy w danej chwili ma miejsce pobór nieautoryzowany. W celu wykrywania urządzeń, proponuje się wykorzystać prostą metodę opartą na analizie wysokoczęstotliwościowego...
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On the Matano Plane Position in Multicomponent Diffusion Couples
PublikacjaEven though several methods of diffusion analysis avoid a necessity for the Matano plane determination, the Matano plane locations are of interest in the multicomponent couples and when tracer experiments are performed. The positions of the Matano plane calculated from the concentration profiles should be exactly the same. However, due to experimental errors, the results can differ significantly. In the paper we consider Matano...
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On the Matano Plane Position in Multicomponent Diffusion Couples
PublikacjaEven though several methods of diffusion analysis avoid a necessity for the Matano plane determination, the Matano plane locations are of interest in the multicomponent couples and when tracer experiments are performed. The positions of the Matano plane calculated from the concentration profiles should be exactly the same. However, due to experimental errors, the results can differ significantly. In the paper we consider Matano...
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Concept of a swirling diffuser in batch blending tanks
PublikacjaThe mixing of two or more components belongs to the category of the most common unit operations, both in technology and in nature. One particular version is homogenization (blending), the effectivity of which is strongly related to the blending time. Among many differentiated individual solutions of mixing systems used in blenders, one should distinguish the class of agitators with diffusers. An analysis of the character of the...
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Virtual reality technology in architectural education
PublikacjaContemporary virtual reality (VR) technology allows the recreation of non-existent architectural objects of which there may be no trace remaining. Virtual reality applications allow access to digital models, which visualise the lost architecture. The popularity of VR has resulted in it being applied not only to computer games, but also in visualising the past. Maps allow movement through historical trails and 3D models of architecture...
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Mask Detection and Classification in Thermal Face Images
PublikacjaFace masks are recommended to reduce the transmission of many viruses, especially SARS-CoV-2. Therefore, the automatic detection of whether there is a mask on the face, what type of mask is worn, and how it is worn is an important research topic. In this work, the use of thermal imaging was considered to analyze the possibility of detecting (localizing) a mask on the face, as well as to check whether it is possible to classify...
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Playback detection using machine learning with spectrogram features approach
PublikacjaThis paper presents 2D image processing approach to playback detection in automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems using spectrograms as speech signal representation. Three feature extraction and classification methods: histograms of oriented gradients (HOG) with support vector machines (SVM), HAAR wavelets with AdaBoost classifier and deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) were compared on different data partitions in respect...
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1D convolutional context-aware architectures for acoustic sensing and recognition of passing vehicle type
PublikacjaA network architecture that may be employed to sensing and recognition of a type of vehicle on the basis of audio recordings made in the proximity of a road is proposed in the paper. The analyzed road traffic consists of both passenger cars and heavier vehicles. Excerpts from recordings that do not contain vehicles passing sounds are also taken into account and marked as ones containing silence....
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MP3vec: A Reusable Machine-Constructed Feature Representation for Protein Sequences
Publikacja—Machine Learning (ML) methods have been used with varying degrees of success on protein prediction tasks, with two inherent limitations. First, prediction performance often depends upon the features extracted from the proteins. Second, experimental data may be insufficient to construct reliable ML models. Here we introduce MP3vec, a transferable representation for protein sequences that is designed to be used specifically for sequence-to-sequence...