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Karol Kufel mgr inż.
OsobyKarol Kufel od 2010 roku pracuje na Wydziale Zarządzania i Ekonomii PG. Od 2014 pełni funkcję asystenta w Katedrze Zarządzania w Przemyśle. Jest absolwentem Wydziału Mechanicznego PG na specjalności Robotyka oraz Wydziału Zarządzania i Ekonomii PG na specjalności Zarządzanie systemami produkcyjnymi. Jego zainteresowania naukowo-badawcze obejmują projektowanie oraz doskonalenie systemów produkcyjnych i logistycznych, a także rozwój...
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Deep compaction control of sandy soils
PublikacjaVibroflotation, vibratory compaction, micro-blasting or heavy tamping are typical improvement methods for the cohesionless deposits of high thickness. The complex mechanism of deep soil compaction is related to void ratio decrease with grain rearrangements, lateral stress increase, prestressing effect of certain number of load cycles, water pressure dissipation, aging and other effects. Calibration chamber based interpretation...
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Heat exchange enhancement of jet impingement cooling with the novel humped-cone heat sink
PublikacjaJet impingement cooling technology is applicable to control temperature of devices, where very high heat flux is generated within a small area. This paper is about the improvement of the jet impingement cooling efficiency by the heat sink geometry modification. Two reference cases were sourced from the literature – flat heat sink and modified one with cone in the jet stagnation region. Such a change improves cooling capability...
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Agnieszka Landowska dr hab. inż.
OsobyUkończyła studia na dwóch kierunkach: Finanse i bankowość na Uniwersytecie Gdańskim oraz Informatyka na WETI Politechniki Gdańskiej. Od 2000 roku jest związana z Politechniką Gdańską. W 2006 roku uzyskała stopień doktora w dziedzinie nauk technicznych, a w roku 2019 stopień doktora habilitowanego. Aktualnie jej praca naukowa dotyczy zagadnień interakcji człowiek-komputer oraz informatyki afektywnej (ang. affective computing), która...
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Ocena wzmocnienia podłoża metodą wymiany dynamicznej na podstawie próbnych obciążeń kolumn
PublikacjaAnaliza wykonanego wzmocnienia słabego podłoża gruntowego pod nasyp drogowy w technologii kolumn DR na przykładzie obwodnicy Brodnicy. Omówienie warunków geotechnicznych podłoża i zastosowanych rozwiązań. Analiza wsteczna na podstawie wyników próbnych obciążeń kolumn oraz pomiarów osiadań wzmocnionego podłoża całego obszaru. Porównanie uzyskanych wyników i wnioski.
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IFE: NN-aided Instantaneous Pitch Estimation
PublikacjaPitch estimation is still an open issue in contemporary signal processing research. Nowadays, growing momentum of machine learning techniques application in the data-driven society allows for tackling this problem from a new perspective. This work leverages such an opportunity to propose a refined Instantaneous Frequency and power based pitch Estimator method called IFE. It incorporates deep neural network based pitch estimation...
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Improving the Survivability of Carrier Networks to Large-Scale Disasters
PublikacjaThis chapter is dedicated to the description of methods aiming to improve the survivability of carrier networks to large-scale disasters. First, a disaster classification and associated risk analysis is described, and the disaster-aware submarine fibre-optic cable deployment is addressed aiming to minimize the expected costs in case of natural disasters. Then, the chapter addresses the improvement of the network connectivity resilience...
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Responsible Court in the Global World - Managerism or Managerialism
PublikacjaOne can look at the improvement of the effectiveness and efficiency of the justice system from three perspectives: macro, mezo, and micro. After all, the general goal is to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the justice system as a whole (the macro perspective), the courts (the mezo scale), and court proceedings (the micro scale). The need to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the justice system was noticed in...
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Impact of Shifting Time-Window Post-Processing on the Quality of Face Detection Algorithms
PublikacjaWe consider binary classification algorithms, which operate on single frames from video sequences. Such a class of algorithms is named OFA (One Frame Analyzed). Two such algorithms for facial detection are compared in terms of their susceptibility to the FSA (Frame Sequence Analysis) method. It introduces a shifting time-window improvement, which includes the temporal context of frames in a post-processing step that improves the...
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Enterprise Gamification - Learning as a Side Effect of Competition
PublikacjaGmification in companies can be used for driving desired employees behaviour that are advantageous to their development and performance improvement. This paper presents tools acquired from online social networking services and game mechanisms to encourage managers to compete by providing extended statistics and user profiles features in e-learning system.
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Critical review of propeller performance scaling methods based on model experiments and numerical calculations
PublikacjaThe article presents the results of experimental and theoretical investigation of propeller scale effects. The objective of this investigation is to test the adequacy of the methods currently used and to develop possible improvement of the methods.New approaches to the problem and new procedures to account for the propeller scale effects are suggested. The description of the underlying experimental and theoretical research is included.
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Prioritising national healthcare service issues from free text feedback – A computational text analysis & predictive modelling approach
PublikacjaPatient experience surveys have become a key source of evidence for supporting decision-making and continuous quality improvement within healthcare services. To harness free-text feedback collected as part of these surveys for additional insights, text analytics methods are increasingly employed when the data collected is not amenable to traditional qualitative analysis due to volume. However, while text analytics techniques offer...
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The concept of improving warehouse management in the X production company
PublikacjaThe article aims at the presentation of a concept referring to the improvement of warehouse management in the X production plant. The authors suggest two solutions: using storage racks at the picking process site and warehouse automation. Ultimately, the authors of the article present their basic calculation of the costs, indicating the increase in efficiency after the implementation of the discussed...
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Green Lean in Services
PublikacjaThe study presents the basic aspects of the improvement of the company useing Green Lean concept. The authors refer to the basics of the concept, present its theoretical aspects together with a revew of possible actions to eliminate the green waste. All these considerations refer to the service activities of any kind in order to maintain holistic approach of the research.
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Stages of project implementation based on design-thinking concept
PublikacjaIn this chapter there were presented basic aspects of project management focused on an improvement of the final effect. Firstly the project ter was defined including a discusion of its core attributes and determinants of its management procedure. Next design-thinking concept was introduced as an approach to use in project management for achieving maximum consumer satissfaction.
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Communication as a Factor Limiting University-Business Cooperation
PublikacjaObjective - Despite the broad extent of the scientific activity dealing with university-business cooperation, Poland has yet to develop a satisfactory cooperation strategy that takes business needs into account. This issue is still relevant due to the need for continuous improvement and resulting benefits aimed at improving enterprise competitiveness. Methodology/Technique - Authors of this article attempt to select an overriding...
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Practical Eco-Driving Strategy for Suburban Electric Multiple Unit
PublikacjaIn this paper, a practical approach to velocity profile optimization for electric multiple unit was presented. The study focuses on a case of fast urban railway, which is a popular mean of transport across Tricity, Poland. Based on observations and measurements, a potential for improvement of energy efficiency by modifying the speed profile was recognized. In order to conduct necessary calculations, simulation model of railway...
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Analysis of the design development of the sliding table saw spindles
PublikacjaProducers of sliding table saws constantly strive for improvement in sawing accuracy. One of the method is an upswing in a spindle behavior, since, it affects to a large degree sawing effects. The design development of sliding table saw spindles during the last quarter-century is presented. The spindle system of the modernized spindle of the sawing machine Fx550 is described.
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New Indoor Positioning Algorithm for Distance Measurements
PublikacjaIn the paper a new indoor positioning algorithm is presented. This algorithm takes into account selected features of radio wave propagation in indoor environment. This results in improvement in accuracy of calculated position estimates. A comparative analysis of this new algorithm with Chan and Foy algorithms was made and described in the paper. This comparative analysis was made with utilization of real radio distance measurements.
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TQM tools in crisis management
PublikacjaThe current article is concerned with basic aspects connected with improvement of crisis management activities employed by economic operators. The work presents the crisis management model with its fundamental phases and identifies TQM tools that might be applied in all of these phases. The analysis included in the work has been supported with research conducted on companies located in northern Poland
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Leszek Osiecki dr hab. inż.
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Solid State Conductivity of Optimized Polypyrrole Coatings on Iron Obtained from Aqueous Sodium Salicylate Solution Determined by Impedance Spectroscopy
PublikacjaIn this work the optimization procedure for corrosion resistance, surface analysis and electrical properties of PPy-Fe electrodes have been examined. Polypyrrole (PPy) film was electrochemically synthesized in a one step process from an aqueous solution of sodium salicylate and pyrrole with certain concentrations, different parameters and type of polymerization...
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Fish gelatin-nanoclay films. Part I: Effect of a kind of nanoclays and glycerol concentration on mechanical and water barrier properties of nanocomposites
PublikacjaThe aim of work was the improvement of the mechanical and water barrier properties of nanocomposites prepared from fish gelatin and nanoclays (5–15%), plasticized with glycerol at different concentrations. The effect of hydrophilic Cloisite Na1 and Nanomer®PGV was compared with that exerted by organically modified more hydrophobic Nanofil®2 and NanoBent ZR-1. Antimicrobial activity of nanocomposites containing hydrophobic nanoclays...
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Performance and Energy Aware Training of a Deep Neural Network in a Multi-GPU Environment with Power Capping
PublikacjaIn this paper we demonstrate that it is possible to obtain considerable improvement of performance and energy aware metrics for training of deep neural networks using a modern parallel multi-GPU system, by enforcing selected, non-default power caps on the GPUs. We measure the power and energy consumption of the whole node using a professional, certified hardware power meter. For a high performance workstation with 8 GPUs, we were...
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Interconnection of the Customer-Side Resources Using Single Phase VAPF
PublikacjaThe paper introduces method for utilization of the customer-side generated energy using single phase voltage active power filter. Structure and control method of the power electronics converter has been described and some simulation results are shown to prove usefulness of this arrangements. Proposed application realizes the following functions: power quality improvement, uninterruptible supplying and energy costs reduction.
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Gesture recognition framework for multimedia content viewer controlling
PublikacjaIn the paper a system for controlling a multimedia content viewer by hand gestures is presented. First, selected methods used for gesture recognition are described. Two different application cases of the system, i.e. for multimedia presentation purposes and for multimedia content viewing are outlined. Moreover, a proposal of improvement of the system combining these approaches is also given. The system work cycle is reviewed. The...
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An improved frequency estimator for an adaptive active noise control scheme
PublikacjaAn improved frequency tracker is proposed for the recently introduced self optimizing narrowband interference canceller (SONIC). The scheme is designed for disturbances with quasi-linear frequency modulation and, under second-order Gaussian random-walk assumption, can be shown to be statistically efficient. One real-world experiment and several simulations show that a considerable improvement in disturbance rejection may be achieved...
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Gate Driver with Overcurrent Protection Circuit for GaN Transistors
PublikacjaThe improvement of the gate driver for GaN transistor is presented in this paper. The proposed topology contains the overcurrent protectionwith the two-stage turning off and independent control of turn on and off time of the GaN transistor. The operation of driver and its application in thehalf-bridge converter are described using both simulation and prototype measurements. The overcurrent protection was tested in Double Pulse...
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Karol Moszyk
OsobyCertified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with maritime transport and operations academic background. Logistics professional with a broad experience in various container terminal positions, reporting to COO and Operations Director in Operations Department and CFO (directly) and CEO (indirectly) within Performance Improvement Team. Professional ambition is to combine an open and pragmatic leadership style with a customer focus supported...
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The Potential of Improving Air Quality by Urban Mobility Management: Policy Guidelines and a Case Study
PublikacjaThere is a growing recognition among planners and policy makers that proper transformation of urban mobility systems is crucial to the reduction of air pollution emission. The main objective of the work was to review the current urban mobility strategies in the city of Gdańsk, Poland in terms of their potential for the improvement of urban air quality. Firstly, general policy guidelines for mobility systems were formulated based...
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Evolutionary Sets of Cooperating Ship Trajectories: COLREGS Compliance
PublikacjaThe paper presents a newly designed improvement to the method of solving multi-ship encounter situations. In general, the method combines some of the assumptions of game theory with evolutionary programming and aims to find optimal set of cooperating trajectories of all ships involved in an encounter situation. The improvement presented here is a new way of modelling some of the COLREGS rules. Due to this change, the method is...
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Enzyme immobilization on magnetic nanoparticles
PublikacjaImmobilized enzymes have been commonly used in many branches of industry, biotechnology, medicine and also in analytical chemistry. Their use provides many advantages in comparison with free enzymes including repeated, easy recovery of the enzyme and improvement in enzyme stability. Enzymes are strong and specific catalysts, but are also expensive and fragile. Their immobilization and stabilization may reduce reaction costs, which...
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A space-efficient algorithm for computing the minimum cycle mean in a directed graph
PublikacjaAn algorithm is introduced for computing the minimum cycle mean in a strongly connected directed graph with n vertices and m arcs that requires O(n) working space. This is a considerable improvement for sparse graphs in comparison to the classical algorithms that require O(n^2) working space. The time complexity of the algorithm is still O(nm). An implementation in C++ is made publicly available at http://www.pawelpilarczyk.com/cymealg/.
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Improved selectivity compact band-stop filter with gosper fractal-shaped defected ground structures
PublikacjaA novel band-stop filter using Gosper fractal-shaped defected ground structures has been designed and manufactured. The improvement in the filter selectivity has been achieved by introducing a multiresonance fractal-shaped defect leading to a higher filter order, simultaneously maintaining its compact size. The experimental results prove the validity of proposed solution and its utility in novel miniaturized and severe requirement...
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Prywatyzacja przestrzeni publicznych
PublikacjaArtykuł zawiera przegląd problematyki związanej z kwestią prywatyzacji przestrzeni publicznych, m.in.: genezę procesu, opis charakterystycznych strategii związanych z realizacją przestrzeni ''quasi publicznych'', identyfikacją głównych uczestników tych procesów oraz ich motywacji. Artykuł zawiera także szkicowy opis dwóch przykładów prywatyzacji przestrz. publ. - Bryant Park w Nowym Jorku oraz Business Improvement Districts.
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Statistical Tuning of Walfisch-Ikegami Model for the Untypical Environment
PublikacjaThe Walfisch-Ikegami model has been investigated in terms of mobile radio systems designing in the untypical environment such as the maritime container terminal. The measurement equipment and procedures have been described as well as characteristics of investigated environment. Results of the statistical tuning in terms of path loss estimation in such environment have been analysed. The analysis has proved improvement of the path...
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Extending Continuous Integration with Post-mortem Debug Automation of Unhandled Exceptions Occurred in Kernel or User Mode Applications
PublikacjaThe paper proposes extension of the Continuous Integration practices with debug automation of unhandled exceptions. Goal of this improvement is to reduce the amount of redundant work when inspecting hundreds of failed tests from possibly the same reason, and to decrease time necessary to provide a fix to the codebase. The suitable CI infrastructure is proposed and an automatic method how to eliminate duplicated bugs is discussed....
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DBpedia and YAGO as Knowledge Base for Natural Language Based Question Answering—The Evaluation
PublikacjaThe idea of automatic question answering system has a very long history. Despite constant improvement of the systems asking questions in the natural language requires very complex solutions. In this paper the DBpedia and YAGO are evaluated as a knowledge bases for simple class 1 and 2 question answering system. For this purpose a question answering system was designed and implemented. The proposed solution and the knowledge bases...
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Statistical Tuning of Walfisch-Ikegami Model for the Untypical Environment
PublikacjaThe Walfisch-Ikegami model has been investigated in terms of mobile radio systems designing in the untypical environment such as the maritime container terminal. The measurement equipment and procedures have been described as well as characteristics of investigated environment. Results of the statistical tuning in terms of path loss estimation in such environment have been analysed. The analysis has proved improvement of the path...
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Preparation and Characterization of Films Based on Disintegrated Bacterial Cellulose and Montmorillonite
PublikacjaThe food packaging materials from natural polymers including polysaccharides offer an ecologically important alternative to commonly used synthetic, non-biodegradable counterparts. The purpose of this work was to modify of bacterial cellulose (BC) leading to the improvement of its functional properties in terms of use as a food packaging material. Effects of disintegration of BC and addition of montmorillonite (MMT) on its water...
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Strategie zarządzania obszarami śródmiejskimi - kwestia przestrzeni handlu
PublikacjaArtykuł opisuje strategie zarządzania śródmiejskimi przestrzeniami handlu, m. in. Town Centre Management (TCM) jak i Business Improvement Districts (BID). Artykuł zawiera opis genezy strategii oraz głównych zadań przez nie realizowanych (zarządzanie, marketing, estetyzacja, ochrona). Artykuł kończy spojrzenie na alternatywy dla komercyjnych aspektów BID związanych z zarządzeniem śródmieściem jako strategią aktywizacji społecznej.
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Working conditions in small companies in the eyes of the employees. [Warunki pracy w małych firmach w ocenie pracowników]
PublikacjaThe article presents the results of the study concerning the employees' awareness of working conditions. 157 employees from small production and service companies took part in the research. The research showed differences in the employees' perception of their working conditions. The employees were more often dissatisfied with working conditions than managers. A significant number of respondents (more than 75%) believe that the...
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DETERMINATION OF DIFFUSIBLE HYDROGEN CONTENT IN DEPOSITED METAL OF RUTILE ELECTRODES BY GLYCERIN METHOD
PublikacjaThe presence of diffusible hydrogen in welded joints is one of the causes of formation the welding imperfections. Improvement of weldability can be achieved by reducing the hydrogen amount in welded joints. This requires, among others, the finding of sources of hydrogen. For high hydrogen processes the commonly used method of determining the diffusible hydrogen amount is the glycerin method. This paper concerns issues related to...
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Towards 5G — Cloud-based Radio Access Networks
PublikacjaIn the paper a general concept of the 5G network architecture is presented as well as system requirements having impact on innovative solutions in the 5G network are highlighted. A major part of the paper is both presentation and discussion of the problem of Cloud Radio Access Network introduction for public networks in which the cell and resource virtualisation will be implemented. On the other hand, the problem of resource virtualization...
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Emotion recognition and its application in software engineering
PublikacjaIn this paper a novel application of multimodal emotion recognition algorithms in software engineering is described. Several application scenarios are proposed concerning program usability testing and software process improvement. Also a set of emotional states relevant in that application area is identified. The multimodal emotion recognition method that integrates video and depth channels, physiological signals and input devices...
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Modeling the effect of parasitic capacitances on the dead-time distortion in multilevel NPC inverters
PublikacjaA simple model is derived and verified for evaluating the effect of parasitic capacitances on the dead-time related voltage distortion in multilevel NPC voltage source inverters. The model permits well-defined and precise compensation of dead-time distortion, exhibiting meaningful improvement on compensation methods neglecting the effects of parasitic capacitances. A simple formula is given for evaluating the capacitances as serial/parallel...
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Anna Baj-Rogowska dr
OsobyAnna Baj-Rogowska zatrudniona jest na stanowisku adiunkta w Katedrze Informatyki w Zarządzaniu (Politechnika Gdańska, Wydział Zarządzania i Ekonomii). Jej wyższa edukacja związana jest z Uniwersytetem Gdańskim, gdzie ukończyła magisterskie studia informatyczne, studia doktoranckie i następnie uzyskała stopień naukowy doktora nauk ekonomicznych w zakresie nauk o zarządzaniu (Katedra Informatyki Ekonomicznej na Wydziale Zarządzania...
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Implementation and Validation of Multisinusoidal, Fast Impedance Measurements in Atomic Force Microscope Contact Mode.
PublikacjaThis study presents a novel approach to impedance measurements. The methodology discussed is limited to contact in the sample-probe system under ambient conditions without the presence of electrolyte. Comparison with results of direct and alternating current measurements for well-defined metallic surfaces are made. In spite of idealization related to the type of contact examined, the proposed technique provides an improvement of...
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On the validation of the LS-DYNA Geo Metro numerical model
PublikacjaThe paper presents experiences gained during work with numerical model of Geo Metro vehicle used for simulations of crash tests with road safety barriers. Attention is drawn to the subject of tire/wheel breakage during collision events. Some methods for improvement of the model are presented in the paper. Several results for the normative vehicle numerical tests are introduced. Simulations were carried out using LS-DYNA finite...
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Grzegorz Rotta dr inż.
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