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Improving Schools
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Underwater in situ local heat treatment by additional stitches for improving the weldability of steel
PublikacjaIn this paper the influence of in situ local heat treatment performed by additional stitches on the weldability of high-strength low-alloy (HSLA) S355J2C+N steel was tested. The investigated steel is characterized by high susceptibility to cold cracking. It is necessary to find a method to improve the quality of welded joints. The local heat treatment was applied as an eect of bead-on plate welding made on the face of a Tekken...
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Journal of Polish Safety and Reliability Association, Summer Safety and Reliability Seminars
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MICROELECTRONICS RELIABILITY
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RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY
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Eksploatacja i Niezawodność - Maintenance and Reliability
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Proposal of Steel weldability quantification.
PublikacjaPrzedstawiono analizę używanych definicji spawalności i zaproponowano jej zmodyfikowanie. Opracowano metodykę określania wartości względnej spawalności stali stodowanych na konstrukcje spawane. Za podstawę przyjęto uniwersalną skalę jakościową. Dla określenia spawalności uwzględniono szacowanie skłonności do pękania gorącego, zimnego, lamelarnego oraz relaksacyjnego. Ponadto, wzięto pod uwagę wskaźniki eksploatacyjne złącza, takie...
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Smart Services for Improving eCommerce
PublikacjaThe level of customer support provided by the existing eCom-merce solutions assumes that the person using the functionality of theshop has sufficient knowledge to decide on the purchase transaction. Alow conversion rate indicates that customers are more likely to seekknowledge about the particular product than finalize the transaction.This is facilitated by the continuous development of customers’ digi-tal...
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Weldability of S500MC Steel in Underwater Conditions
PublikacjaWet welding with the use of covered electrodes is one of the methods of underwater welding. This method is the oldest, the most economic and the most versatile. The main difficulties during underwater wet welding are: high cooling rates of the joint, the presence of hydrogen in the arc area and formation of hard martensitic structure in the weld. These phenomena are often accompanied by porosity of welds and large number of spatters,...
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SERVICE-ORIENTED CYBERSPACE FOR IMPROVING CYBERSECURITY
PublikacjaThe paper presents a cyberspace model where different categories of IT services are offered and used largely. A general cybersecurity policy is considered and the corresponding cybersecurity strategies are shown. The role of such technologies as: Internet of Things, Cloud Computing and Big Data is analyzed in order to improve the cybersecurity of a cyberspace. A new kind of service oriented cyberspace is proposed and its main properties...
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Improving the production planning and control process
PublikacjaFocusing the activities of a production business on the strategy based on quality entails orientation on meeting the expectations of the customers with respect to the product itself, and the terms of its delivery. The article notes the role of the production planning and control process in improving the quality of the business offer. It identifies the objectives set for the process from the perspective of meeting the expectations...
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Improving automatic surveillance by sound analysis
PublikacjaAn automatic surveillance system, based on event detection in the video image can be improved by implementing algorithms for audio analysis. Dangerous or illegal actions are often connected with distinctive sound events like screams or sudden bursts of energy. A method for detection and classification of alarming sound events is presented. Detection is based on the observation of sudden changes in sound level in distinctive sub-bands...
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System to system migration for improving interoperability
Publikacjaprzeanalizowano różne aspekty migracji pomiędzy systemaami. Zaprezentowane zostały mozliwe problemy, które mogą wystąpić w czasie tego procesu, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem migracji danych. dalsza część artykułu wskazuje na związek migracji między systemami (S2S migration) z problelem interoperacyjnosci. Przedstawione obserwacje i wnioski bazują na doświadczeniach uzyskanych w czasie rozwoju e-uczelni na Politechnice Gdańskiej.
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Agile Methodology for Designing and Improving EnterpriseScenarios
PublikacjaPrzedstawiona została iteracyjna metoda projektowania i ulepszania scenariuszy biznesowych. Zaproponowana metoda definiuje etapy wytwarzania scenariuszy, zestaw metryki oceny jakości scenariuszy oraz zestaw procedur usprawnieniowych, które pozwalają zwiększyć wydajność scenariuszy, ich jakość oraz użyteczność. Proste studium przypadku zostało rozważane i jego ocena jakościowo-wydajnościowa omówiona. Jako przykład realizacji metody...
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Weldability of high strength steel in underwater environment
PublikacjaThe article describes the problems with weldability of high-strength steels in the aquatic environment. The tendency of steel S355J2G3 and S500M to form cold cracks when welded in wet welding conditions has been experimentally evaluated. It was found that the tested steels have a high propensity to cracking. An experiment has been proposed and tested to evaluate the usefulness of the tempering bead technique as a method of improving...
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The role of robotisation in improving bakery product quality
PublikacjaThe article aims to present the role of robotisation in increasing bakery product quality, as it is closely linked to machine reliability, as well as hygienic and sanitary conditions. All machines employed in the production process ought to be maintained at full production potential and reliability, which also has a fundamental influence on the final product’s quality. While participating in the 2014-2020 Smart Growth Operational...
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Towards Improving Optimised Ship Weather Routing
PublikacjaThe aim of the paper is to outline a project focusing on the development of a new type of ship weather routing solution with improved uncertainty handling, through better estimation of ship performance and responses to sea conditions. Ensemble forecasting is considered to take into account the uncertainty levels that are typical of operations in a stochastic environment. Increased accuracy of weather prediction is achieved through...
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Improving Re-rankCCP with Rules Quality Measures
PublikacjaRecommender 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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Improving the quality of speech in the conditions of noise and interference
PublikacjaThe aim of the work is to present a method of intelligent modification of the speech signal with speech features expressed in noise, based on the Lombard effect. The recordings utilized sets of words and sentences as well as disturbing signals, i.e., pink noise and the so-called babble speech. Noise signal, calibrated to various levels at the speaker's ears, was played over two loudspeakers located 2 m away from the speaker. In...
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Method for improving multibeam sonar bearing accuracy
PublikacjaPrzedstawiono prostą metodę poprawy dokładności namiarów w sonarach wielowiązkowych. Zasada zaproponowanej metoda jest zbliżona do metody monopulsowej stosowanej powszechnie w radarach i sonarach. Nie wymaga jednak ręcznego lub automatycznego obracania wiązek, co wydatnie zmniejsza potrzebne nakłady obliczeniowe procesorów sonaru Stosowanie metody daje znaczne zmniejszenie błędów namiarów przy względnie dużym wyjściowym stosunku...
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Graph decomposition for improving memoryless periodic exploration
PublikacjaW ostatnich latach często badanym problem jest eksploracja anonimowych grafów z lokalnymi etykietami portów przy każdym wierzchołku. Niedawno pokazano [Czyzowicz et al., Proc. SIROCCO'09], że dla każdego grafu istnieje poetykietowanie prowadzące do eksploracji przez automat bezpamięciowy z okresem co najwyżej 13n/3. W niniejszej pracy poprawiamy to ograniczenie do 4n-2, stosując całkowicie nową technikę dekompozycji grafu.
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The 5S methodology as a tool for improving organization of production
PublikacjaThe chapter presents the 5S method as a tool for continuous improving lean management processes, whose task is to create a highly efficient, clean, and ergonomic working environment. The method is presented as a collection of 5 simple rules, and at the same time it is a tool that allows you to control the workplace visually. The history of the 5S tool originates from Japanese philosophy, namely the five basic elements of the system: Seiri...
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Improving evolutionary multi-objective optimisation by niching
PublikacjaW pracy rozważa się ogólny problem optymalizacji ewolucyjnej i przestrzeniach wielowymiarowych, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem mechanizmu niszowania, biorącego pod uwagę oceniane charakterystyki (funkcje przystosowania) osobników w generowanych nowych pokoleniach. Mechanizm ten służy do zapobiegania przedwczesnej zbieżności procedur ewolucyjnych poszukiwań oraz zwiększenia efektywności poszukiwań rozwiązań optymalnych. Polega on...
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The Application of Cluster Analysis in the Assessment of the Weldability of Unalloyed Steels
PublikacjaNon-alloy steels constitute a large group of steels characterised by diversified chemical composition, structural morphology and a wide range of mechanical properties (determining weldability). The paper presents results of multidimensional analyses (based on cluster analysis) of 110 selected unalloyed steel grades. Properties adopted as diagnostic features included the chemical composition, mechanical properties (yield point)...
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Weldability of high strength steels in wet welding conditions
PublikacjaIn this paper are characterized problems of high strength steel weldability in underwater wet welding conditions. Water as a welding environment intensifies action of unfavourable factors which influence susceptibility to cold cracking of welded steel joints. The susceptibility to cold cracking of S355J2G3 steel and S500M steel in wet conditions was experimentally estimated (by using Tekken test). It was concluded that the steels...
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Mashup Approaches for Improving Service Oriented Business Scenarios
PublikacjaTwo kinds of business scenarios are considered: application- and service-oriented. It is shown that the former are more flexible and easier reconfigurable for both traditional (human-oriented) and IT services. Moreover, complex IT services can be created by simple IT services using the modern mashup technology. It is the reason why such business scenarios can be modeled by BPMN in much easier ways. A simple example of a supply...
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Language of Benefits as a Novel Tool for Improving Website Personalization
PublikacjaA properly designed website allows the user to search for information faster, and more accurately. The information content of the website should be also adapted to the needs of the user. The purpose of this article is to present a novel Language of Benefits (LoB) approach to facilitate the use of websites for individual user groups. The LoB approach is an approach addressed to IT Analysts, to facilitate the process of web design,...
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Improving the Performance of Ontological Querying by using a Contextual Approach
PublikacjaIn the paper we present the results of experiment we performed to determine whether a contextual approach may be used to increase the performance of querying a knowledge base. For the experiments we have used a unique setting where we put much effort in developing a contextual and a non-contextual ontology which are as much close counterparts as possible. To achieve this we created a contextual version...
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Improving Objective Speech Quality Indicators in Noise Conditions
PublikacjaThis 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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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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Polymodal Method of Improving the Quality of Photogrammetric Images and Models
PublikacjaPhotogrammetry using unmanned aerial vehicles has become very popular and is already commonly used. The most frequent photogrammetry products are an orthoimage, digital terrain model and a 3D object model. When executing measurement flights, it may happen that there are unsuitable lighting conditions, and the flight itself is fast and not very stable. As a result, noise and blur appear on the images, and the images themselves can...
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Improving Effectiveness of SVM Classifier for Large Scale Data
PublikacjaThe paper presents our approach to SVM implementation in parallel environment. We describe how classification learning and prediction phases were pararellised. We also propose a method for limiting the number of necessary computations during classifier construction. Our method, named one-vs-near, is an extension of typical one-vs-all approach that is used for binary classifiers to work with multiclass problems. We perform experiments...
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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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Improving Patient Compliance with Hypertension Treatment: Mission Possible?
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Improving AFM images with harmonic interference by spectral analysis
PublikacjaPrzedstawiono sposób usunięcia zakłóceń pojawiających się na obrazach uzyskiwanych z mikroskopu sił atomowych (AFM). Przybliżono kilka metod stosowanych do redukcji zakłóceń w obrazach. Następnie opisano zidentyfikowane zakłócenia harmoniczne oraz zaproponowany sposób ich znaczącej redukcji. W pracy zamieszczono szereg obrazów uzyskanych z mikroskopu AFM ilustrujących efekty powodowane zakłóceniami oraz skuteczność zaproponowanej...
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Improving agility and discipline of software development with the Scrum and CMMI
PublikacjaThis study presents a method of combining the Scrum methodology with the CMMI maturity model to improve bothagility and discipline of software development. First, the authors propose the CMMI-Scrum reference model, which maps Scrumpractices onto 123 practices of CMMI staged levels 2 and 3. For 60% of CMMI practices, which are insufficiently covered byScrum they add new practices that improve discipline while maintaining agility....
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Improving web user experience with caching user interface
PublikacjaOften, Web technologies are used to operate or to configure network-enabled equipment, to configure and administer modular applications, or as teaching environments. The comfort of human work requires a similar response time in these applications as in the Internet. To improve response time, various forms of caching at different levels are employed. To improve the user experience in regard to response time when performing specific...
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Improving web user experience with caching user interface
PublikacjaIn human-computer interaction, response time is assumed generally not to exceed significantly 1-2 seconds. While the natural competition in the Internet public Web serving ensures adhering widely to such limits, some Web environments are less competitive and offer much worse user experience in terms of response time. This paper describes a solution to significantly improve user experience in terms of response time with only modification...
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Relability of distributed networks
PublikacjaNiezawodność sieci jest jednym z parametrów opisujących jakość sieci. Jako parametr niezawodnościowy przyjęto liczbę niezależnych tras pomiędzy każdą parą węzłów. Podano dwie metody projektowania niezawodnych sieci. Jedna z nich wyznacza niezawodną strukturę sieci o minimalnym koszcie, druga wyznacza niezawodną strukturę z minimalną liczbą kanałów.
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON RELIABILITY
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The reliability of tree and star networks.
PublikacjaOne of the important parameters characterizing the quality of computer networks is the network's reliability with respect to failures of the communication links and nodes. This chapter investigated the reliability of tree and star networks. The tree and star topology is used in centralized computer networks. In centralized computer networks all communication must take place through some central computer. Following measures of network...
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Reliability of Pulse Measurements in Videoplethysmography
PublikacjaReliable, remote pulse rate measurement is potentially very important for medical diagnostics and screening. In this paper the Videoplethysmography was analyzed especially to verify the possible use of signals obtained for the YUV color model in order to estimate the pulse rate, to examine what is the best pulse estimation method for short video sequences and finally, to analyze how potential PPG-signals can be distinguished from...
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The reliability of tree and star networks
PublikacjaThis paper investigated the reliability of tree and star networks. Following measures of network reliability are assumed: the expected number of nodes, that can communicate with the central node; the expected number of node pairs, that are connected by a path through the central node; the expected number of node pairs communicating.
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Improving medical experts’ efficiency of misinformation detection: an exploratory study
PublikacjaFighting medical disinformation in the era of the pandemic is an increasingly important problem. Today, automatic systems for assessing the credibility of medical information do not offer sufficient precision, so human supervision and the involvement of medical expert annotators are required. Our work aims to optimize the utilization of medical experts’ time. We also equip them with tools for semi-automatic initial verification...
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Is Digitalization Improving Governance Quality? Correlating Analog and Digital Benchmarks
PublikacjaThe digitalization of public governance and the resulting concept of electronic governance is a characteristic feature of contemporary information society. Both can be defined as the process and outcome of digital transformation: transformation of the “analog” version of governance into “digital” governance. Measuring both versions of governance against typical performance measures of efficiency, effectiveness, equity, openness...
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Focus on Misinformation: Improving Medical Experts’ Efficiency of Misinformation Detection
PublikacjaFighting medical disinformation in the era of the global pandemic is an increasingly important problem. As of today, automatic systems for assessing the credibility of medical information do not offer sufficient precision to be used without human supervision, and the involvement of medical expert annotators is required. Thus, our work aims to optimize the utilization of medical experts’ time. We use the dataset of sentences taken...
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Improving css-KNN Classification Performance by Shifts in Training Data
PublikacjaThis paper presents a new approach to improve the performance of a css-k-NN classifier for categorization of text documents. The css-k-NN classifier (i.e., a threshold-based variation of a standard k-NN classifier we proposed in [1]) is a lazy-learning instance-based classifier. It does not have parameters associated with features and/or classes of objects, that would be optimized during off-line learning. In this paper we propose...
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Improving depth maps of plants by using a set of five cameras
PublikacjaObtaining high-quality depth maps and disparity maps with the use of a stereo camera is a challenging task for some kinds of objects. The quality of these maps can be improved by taking advantage of a larger number of cameras. The research on the usage of a set of five cameras to obtain disparity maps is presented. The set consists of a central camera and four side cameras. An algorithm for making disparity maps called multiple...
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Crucial factors for improving the ISO 14001 environmental management system
PublikacjaThe practice of using environmental management systems (EMS) ISO 14001 at the organisational level indicates that the efficacy of such solutions depends on many factors, both endogenous and exogenous in nature. This article aims to identify the fac- tors that determine the opportunities for the improvement of EMS in organisations, the analysis of the relationship between the factors and the classification of the factors due to...
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Experimental and Theoretical Screening for Green Solvents Improving Sulfamethizole Solubility
PublikacjaSolubility enhancement of poorly soluble active pharmaceutical ingredients is of crucial importance for drug development and processing. Extensive experimental screening is limited due to the vast number of potential solvent combinations. Hence, theoretical models can offer valuable hints for guiding experiments aimed at providing solubility data. In this paper, we explore the possibility of applying quantum-chemistry-derived...