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  • Collagen type II–hyaluronan interactions – the effect of proline hydroxylation: a molecular dynamics study

    Publikacja
    • P. Bełdowski
    • M. Przybyłek
    • D. Bełdowski
    • A. Dedinaite
    • A. Sionkowska
    • P. Cysewski
    • P. M. Claesson

    - Journal of Materials Chemistry B - Rok 2022

    Hyaluronan–collagen composites have been employed in numerous biomedical applications. Understanding the interactions between hyaluronan and collagen is particularly important in the context of joint cartilage function and the treatment of joint diseases. Many factors affect the affinity of collagen for hyaluronan. One of the important factors is the ratio of 3- or 4-hydroxy proline to proline residues. This article presents...

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  • Two-phase optimizing approach to design assessments of long distance heat transportation for CHP systems

    Cogeneration or Combined Heat and Power (CHP) for power plants is a method of putting to use waste heat which would be otherwise released to the environment. This allows the increase in thermodynamic efficiency of the plant and can be a source of environmental friendly heat for District Heating (DH). In the paper CHP for Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is analyzed with the focus on heat transportation. A method for effectivity and feasibility...

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  • RE-SHAPING THE LAND AND WATER CONNECTIONS AND ITS ROLE IN ACHIEVING LANDSCAPE AND ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS’ CONTINUITY ON THE POST-INDUSTRIAL TERRITORIES

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2016

    This paper delves into recently applied strategies of creating new water areas and modifying the existing ones as a part of the transformation processes of post-industrial territories. It proves that while the pursuit for unique architectural and urban space values remains an important factor contributing to such modifications, they may also play an important role in reclaiming ecological systems continuity. On the basis of theoretical...

  • Portable raman spectrometer for maritime security applications

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2010

    The fast identification of explosives, narcotics and other chemicals carried on board of ships or transported in containers to the harbors is an important problem of maritime security. Raman spectroscopy is widely used for fast identification of various chemicals. Continuous progress in the field of photonics has resulted in commercial availability of low-power compact Raman spectrometers which can be integrated into portable systems....

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  • Anisotropy and compaction gradient assessment on rammed earth specimens through sonic tomography approach

    Publikacja

    - ENGINEERING STRUCTURES - Rok 2024

    Rammed earth is a traditional construction technique that has recently gained attention because of its benefits from an ecological perspective. The conservation of the existing valuable cultural heritage sites and the quality control of new constructions built with this material require the development and application of practical inspection techniques. This paper explores the application of sonic tests and sonic tomography as...

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  • Process control of air stream deodorization from vapors of VOCs using a gas sensor matrix conducted in the biotrickling filter (BTF)

    This article presents the validity, advisability and purposefulness of using a gas sensor matrix to monitor air deodorization processes carried out in a peat-perlite-polyurethane foam-packed biotrickling filter. The aim of the conducted research was to control the effectiveness of air stream purification from vapors of hydrophobic compounds, i.e., n-hexane and cyclohexane. The effectiveness of hydrophobic n-hexane and cyclohexane...

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  • The aluminium and polycarbonate covering to the roof over the stadium in Gdańsk

    This paper presents information about structural elements of the roof covering to the stadium in Gdansk built for the 2012 European Football Championship in Poland and the Ukraine. The paper discusses elements of the polycarbonate covering, the supporting structure and the drainage system. It also provides information about tests and research performed prior to construction, which determined the solutions adopted as well as...

  • Hybrid Model of Axially Moving Continua

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2009

    The paper introduces the method of the model reduction of systems that experience a Coriolis acceleration component. It causes that system equations are non-self-adjoined. To avoid such problem modal, reduced model is built up for the system without Coriolis acceleration terms which are next included by application of any lumping technique. Hence, the final reduced model is a hybrid one, obtained by both lumping and modal methods...

  • Document Agents with the Intelligent Negotiations Capability

    Publikacja

    The paper focus is on augmenting proactive document-agents with built -in intelligence to enable them to recognize execution context provided by devices visited durning the business process, and to reach collaboration agreement despite of their conflicting requirements. We propose a solution based on neural networks to improve simple multi-issue negotiation between the document and the device, practically with no excessive cost...

  • Speciation of Iron in the Aquatic Environment

    Publikacja

    - WATER ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH - Rok 2014

    Iron is one of the basic metals occurring in the aquatic environment and it is considered a macroelement with regard to live organisms. This metal has a broad range of applications that, together with factors conditioning its chemical transitions, results in the occurrence of many iron species in water. Depending on water and land development type, as well as the use of water for household and industrial purposes, iron may be found...

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  • Nanotechnology and human environment

    Kursy Online
    • M. Chmielewski

  • Pesticides in the Environment

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2013

    Applied all over the world, pesticides are some of the most dangerous pollutants of the environment becauseof their mobility and ability to accumulate in the environment and their consequent long-term adverseeffects on living organisms in general and human health in particular. For these reasons, it is essential tomonitor and analyze pesticide residues in the environment. This entry discusses the classification of pesticidesas...

  • Hybrid model of moving or rotating continua

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2009

    The paper introduces the method of the model reduction of systems that experience a Coriolis acceleration or gyroscopic effect component. In such causes that corresponding system equations are non-self-adjoined. Modal reduced model is built up for the system without Coriolis or gyroscopic effect terms. These phenomena are next included by application of any lumping technique. Hence, the final reduced model is a hybrid one, obtained...

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  • Koncepcja Smart Cities - obszar Smart Environment

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2018

    The Smart Cities Concept– Smart Environment. The paper concentrates on the possibilities of checking the extent to which cities meet the smart city concept. The presented concept concentrates on one of the main smart cities characteristic: Smart Environment. This paper is a result of joint work of specialist from two diff erent areas: management and environmental protection. The interdisciplinary character of the paper is characteristic...

  • Projekt systemu sterowania dwukołowym robotem balansującym

    W niniejszym artykule rozważony został problem sterowania dwukołowym robotem balansującym. Celem zaprezentowanych prac było zaprojektowanie systemu sterowania tego typu obiektem z wykorzystaniem metod nowoczesnej teorii sterowania. W ramach syntezy, bazując na wyprowadzonym w oparciu o zasady dynamiki Newtona modelu, dobrana została struktura systemu sterowania w postaci regulatora wykorzystującego sprzężenie zwrotne od stanu oraz...

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  • Built Heritage

    Czasopisma

    ISSN: 2096-3041 , eISSN: 2662-6802

  • Diagnosing wind turbine condition employing a neural network to the analysis of vibroacoustic signals

    It is important from the economic point of view to detect damage early in the wind turbines before failures occur. For this purpose, a monitoring device was built that analyzes both acoustic signals acquired from the built-in non-contact acoustic intensity probe, as well as from the accelerometers, mounted on the internal devices in the nacelle. The signals collected in this way are used for long-term training of the autoencoder...

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  • The harmonic distortion of voltage waveforms in the ship's electrical power system

    Dane Badawcze
    open access

    The dataset is a part of the research results on the quality of supply voltage on bus bars of the ship's electrical power system's main switchboard in different states of ship exploitation. The attached dataset contains the results of a harmonic distortion analysis expressed by the total harmonic distortion (THD) coefficient of voltage waveforms recorded...

  • SIMPLIFIED DYNAMIC MODEL OF ROTATING BEAM

    Publikacja

    In the paper a hybrid model of rotating beam is presented. It was obtained by using two methods: modal decomposition and spatial discretization. Reduced modal model was built for the system without the load related to inertia forces that occur during beam rotation. This inertia load was next modeled by using the method of simply spatial discretization and combined with reduced modal model. This approach allows to obtain accurate...

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  • Detection of illicit chemicals by portable Raman spectrometer

    The Raman spectrometers can be built as the portable devices and can be used in various places to detect illicit chemicals. This method has become popular due to deficiency of other fast methods that could be applied against terrorist attacks or could help police at their work. The conception of a portable Raman spectrometer has been presented. The description enclosures presentation of the prepared device and its possible applications...

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  • Strain gauges monitoring of arch bridge over the Vistula river in Toruń during construction

    Publikacja

    In 2013 one of the biggest Polish road bridges over the Vistula was built in Torun. Considering the use of original engineering solutions and innovative assembly it was decided on monitoring of strain gauges and assessment of building’s behaviour during its construction. The research was aimed at determining the degree of strain and the assessment of proper work of main arch girders during assembly phases. This work presents the...

  • Modal Reduction and Analysis of Gyroscopic Systems

    Publikacja

    The paper introduces the method of the modal reduction of systems that experience the Coriolis acceleration or gyroscopic effect component. In such cases corresponding system equations are non-self-adjoined. To solve the problem modal reduced model is built up for the system without Coriolis acceleration or gyroscopic effect terms. These phenomena are included by application of any lumping technique. Hence, the final reduced model...

  • A filter bank solution for active power filter control algorithms

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2003

    Thb paper describes the proposed active power fiIter (APF) with a new control circuit based on an algorithm using ufilter bank and a harmonic predictor. The conirol circuit was realized using the digiiaI signor processor ADSP-21065L and FPGA circuiL In the proposed circuit transient performunee of APF is improved The active power fdter circuil has been built and teste6 and some illustrative, experimental results are uIso presented...

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  • Optymalizacja zasobów chmury obliczeniowej z wykorzystaniem inteligentnych agentów w zdalnym nauczaniu

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2023

    Rozprawa dotyczy optymalizacji zasobów chmury obliczeniowej, w której zastosowano inteligentne agenty w zdalnym nauczaniu. Zagadnienie jest istotne w edukacji, gdzie wykorzystuje się nowoczesne technologie, takie jak Internet Rzeczy, rozszerzoną i wirtualną rzeczywistość oraz deep learning w środowisku chmury obliczeniowej. Zagadnienie jest istotne również w sytuacji, gdy pandemia wymusza stosowanie zdalnego nauczania na dużą skalę...

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  • Examples of AFM applications in liquid environment

    Dane Badawcze

    Important advantage of atomic force microscopy (also tunneling microscopy) is the ability to work in different environments (vacuum, controlled atmosphere, liquid environment). The last one, open interesting possibilities, such as imaging of delicate biological materials in their natural state. The use of electrochemical mode allows for the modification...

  • ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

    Czasopisma

    ISSN: 1352-2310 , eISSN: 1873-2844

  • High-quality academic teachers in business school. The case of The University of Gdańsk, Poland

    Publikacja

    The Bologna process, the increasing number of higher education institutions, the mass education and the demographic problems make the quality of education and quality of the academic teachers a subject of wide public debate and concern. The aim of the paper is to identify the most preferred characteristics of a teacher working at a business school. The research problem was: What should a high-quality business school academic teacher...

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  • Evaluation of multimedia applications in a cluster oriented environment

    In the age of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Web and the Internet have changed significantly the way applications are developed, deployed and used. One of recent trends is modern design of web-applications based on SOA. This process is based on the composition of existing web services into a single scenario from the point of view of a particular user or client. This allows IT companies to shorten product time-to-market....

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  • Wieloobszarowa rozmyta regulacja PID mocy reaktora jądrowego

    W artykule przedstawiono wieloobszarowy regulator rozmyty z lokalnymi regulatorami PID dla sterowania mocą reaktora jądrowego typu PWR. Wykorzystano model matematyczny o parametrach skupionych reaktora PWR obejmujący procesy generacji i wymiany ciepła oraz efektów reaktywnościowych. Nastawy lokalnych regulatorów PID zostały dobrane w sposób optymalny, minimalizując całkowy wskaźnik jakości ISE. Na przykładzie pokazano że zastosowane...

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  • Experimental ORC micro-power plant for CHP application Part B: Radial and Multi-stage axial turbines

    Publikacja

    The co-generative micro-power plant with the HFE7100 applied as a working medium was designed and built for experimental investigations. Special attention is paid to a micro-turbine which was built and tested in two variants: a radial turbine and an axial turbine. A concept of a radial turbine with 2 centripetal and 2 centrifugal stages is shown. This prototype was equipped with an aerostatic gas bearing and, alternatively, with...

  • The Impact of Spatiotemporal Changes in Land Development (1984–2019) on the Increase in the Runoff Coefficient in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq

    Publikacja

    Nowadays, geospatial techniques are a popular approach for estimating urban flash floods by considering spatiotemporal changes in urban development. In this study, we investigated the impact of Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) changes on the hydrological response of the Erbil basin in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). In the studied area, the LULC changes were calculated for 1984, 1994, 2004, 2014 and 2019 using the Digital Elevation...

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  • On bidirectional preestimates and their application to identification of fast time-varying systems

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2023

    When applied to the identification of time-varying systems, such as rapidly fading telecommunication channels, adaptive estimation algorithms built on the local basis function (LBF) principle yield excellent tracking performance but are computationally demanding. The subsequently proposed fast LBF (fLBF) algorithms, based on the preestimation principle, allow a substantial reduction in complexity without significant performance...

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  • Czynniki kształtujące środowisko pacjenta w szpitalu

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2018

    Szpital jest miejscem szczególnym – z założenia przebywają w nim osoby, znajdujące się w sytuacji niekomfortowej. Możliwości adaptacji w nowym środowisku u osób chorych, osłabionych lub osób z niepełnosprawnościami są znacząco obniżone, a przecież szpital należy do budynków o najbardziej skomplikowanej strukturze funkcjonalno-przestrzennej. Stan emocjonalny pacjenta w środowisku szpitalnym jest uzależniony od relacji z lekarzami...

  • Redefiniowanie przestrzeni medycznej = Redefining healthcare space

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2015

    Szpital jest obiektem publicznym, budynkiem-miastem, jego architektura nakierowana jest na realizację procesu leczenia i zdrowienia, a jednocześnie formuje przestrzenne ramy mikrokosmosu interakcji społecznych rozgrywających się pomiędzy pacjentami i personelem, gośćmi i „mieszkańcami”. Współcześnie w podejściu do rozumienia czym jest szpital - a zatem również do kształtowania architektury obiektów medycznych - można zauważyć dwa...

  • Poland: Quality Monitoring of Therapeutic Processes in a Small Treatment Center for Children

    This article presents the case of the first ISO 9001:2000-certified small healthcare organization (the Center for Therapy and Rehabilitation) providing therapeutic and rehabilitation services for disabled children in Northern Poland. Elements of the process-oriented healthcare quality system implementation, initial benefits, and the organization's quality system structure and process descriptions are described. Particular attention...

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  • Quality Assurance and Quality Control in the Analytical Chemical Laboratory. A practical approach : Second edition

    Publikacja

    The second edition defines the tools used in QA/QC, especially the application of statistical tools during analytical data treatment. Clearly written and logically organized, it takes a generic approach applicable to any field of analysis. The authors begin with the theory behind quality control systems, then detail validation parameter measurements, the use of statistical tests, counting the margin of error, uncertainty estimation,...

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  • Relieving the Measuring System of the Trailer for Tyre/Road Rolling Resistance Measurements from the Inertia Force

    In the article the principle of measuring of tyre/road rolling resistance tyres in road conditions applied in a special measuring trailer is presented. This trailer was built in Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Gdansk University of Technology. The construction of two special devices used in this trailer was discussed. These devices eliminate the influence of some chosen confounding measurements factors such as: the inertia...

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  • EXPERIMENTS AND SIMULATIONS FOR LAPAROSCOPICVENTRAL HERNIA REPAIR IMPROVEMENT

    The authors conducted a wide experimental and numerical study in order to determine effective approaches in the laparoscopic VH repair. At first the study covered identification of mechanical properties of the abdominal fascia, implants, tacks and transabdominalsutures. Basis on these data, the one and two-dimensional mathematical models were formulated and a number of numerical static and dynamic analyses were carried out. Then...

  • AUTOMATED NEGOTIATIONS OVER COLLABORATION PROTOCOL AGREEMENTS

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2015

    The dissertation focuses on the augmentation of proactive document - agents with built-in intelligence to recognize execution context provided by devices visited during a business process, and to reach collaboration agreement despite conflicting requirements. The proposed solution, based on intelligent bargaining using neural networks to improve simple multi-issue negotiation between the document and thedevice, requires practically...

  • Terminological and Assertional Queries in KQL Knowledge Access Language

    One of the directions of development of information systems in recent years in the evolution of data-based systems into the knowledge-based systems. As a part of this process there is ongoing work on a whole range of languages for accessing knowledge bases. They can be used in a variety of applications, however their main drawback is the lack of clearly defined algebra representing a theoretical basis for them. For instance, such...

  • Load test of new European record holder in span length among extradosed type bridges

    Publikacja

    The article presents acceptance load tests of a newly built extradosed MS-3 bridge located along the national road DK-16 near Ostróda (Poland). The structure features significant dimension in European reference scale. It is a new record holder in span length regarding this distinct bridge category. Its length ranges 206 m. Static and dynamic load tests were performed here. The program was extended by entire structural laser scanning...

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  • TIME-OF-FLIGHT DIFFERENTIAL ELECTRON SCATTERING FROM MOLECULAR TARGETS: BENCHMARK CROSS SECTIONS

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2023

    We report time-of-flight differential cross section (DCS) measurements for the electron impact excitation transition in H2. In this work, agreement between available theory and experiment is excellent overall, and marks a transition in electron molecule scattering where differential scattering of excitation is found to be in such precise agreement. We also prove that the newly built apparatus can be used for accurate measurement...

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  • Very high altitude micro air vehicle deployment method

    Publikacja

    - IFAC-PapersOnLine - Rok 2019

    The paper presents the original work and method for high altitude micro air vehicle deployment. The method is based on the scientific ballooning, and adapted for stratospheric flight of commercial off-the-shelf micro air vehicle in flying wing configuration. The High Altitude Micro Air Vehicle, built for this research, was deployed during a test experiment at the lower level of the stratosphere. The results of the experiment and...

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  • The system for remote monitoring of a vertical axis wind farm

    The article presents a system for remote monitoring of working parameters of a wind turbine with a vertical axis. The monitoring system was built using a Raspberry PI 3 microcomputer with the Raspbian operating system and a MicroDAQ E2000 measuring card. The developed system enables monitoring the power output of the generator, torque on the turbine shaft, turbine speed and wind speed. The values of the monitored parameters are...

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  • Methods of navigation in the mobile application supporting movement of the blind

    This paper presents conclusions from the last development phase of the “Voice Maps” project. Authors specify newly found available options for navigation in affordable system for the blind with all their related aspects. System uses dedicated geographical data, built-in smartphone GPS receivers and DGPS external device in order to assist blind users in their everyday travelling. Authors also discuss new methods to improve positioning...

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  • Occurrences, sources, and transport of organochlorine pesticides in the aquatic environment of Antarctica

    We review information on the concentration levels of organochlorine pesticides in the abiotic aquatic environment (in seawater, sea ice, surface freshwater, snow, firn, and glacial ice) and the organisms inhabiting those, in Antarctica. Particular attention is given to the environmental fate of these pollutants, which modifies their impact on the organisms living in the Antarctic. OCPs have been delivered to the Antarctic environment...

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  • BUILT IN PERFORMANCE EVALUATION FOR AN ADAPTIVE NOTCH FILTER

    Publikacja

    The problem of estimating instantaneous frequency of a non- stationary complexsinusoid (cisoid) buried in wideband no ise is considered. The proposed approach extends adaptive notc h filtering algorithm with a nontrivial performance assessme nt mechanism which can be used to optimize frequency tracking performance of the adaptive filter. Simulation results confi rm that the proposedextension allows one to improveaccuracyo f frequency...

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  • Parallel frequency tracking with built-in performance evaluation

    The problem of estimation of instantaneous frequency of a nonstationary complex sinusoid (cisoid) buried in wideband noise is considered. The proposed approach employs a bank of adaptive notch filters, extended with a nontrivial performance assessment mechanism which automatically chooses the best performing filter in the bank. Additionally, a computationally attractive method of implementing the bank is proposed. The new structure...

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  • Architektura i woda - przekraczanie granic

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2013

    Publikacja daje wgląd w procesy kształtowania połączeń wody i form zbudowanych. W obserwowanych współcześnie eksperymentach struktury budynków przeplatają się z zarysami pól wodnych, powstają konstrukcje architektoniczne unoszące się na różnego rodzaju platformach pływających. Woda jest także coraz częściej włączana w projekty urbanistyczne. Linie styku pomiędzy lądem i wodą ulegają modyfikacjom, przywraca się dawne kanały i tworzy...

  • Design and investigations of a micro-turbine flow part

    -generative micro-power plant with the HFE7100 as a working medium was designed and built for experimental investigations. The heat output of the plant was assumed equal to 20 kW, while the electric output amounted to about 3kW.In the paper a multi-stage micro-turbine with partial admission of all the stages is described in detail and the results of the particular experimental investigations and numerical calculations are shown,...