The paper presents the results of research on trends in shaping of multifamily buildings in Poland on the example of Wrocław, after Polish accession to the European Union. The study is conducted within the research project: “Trends in creating of multifamily housing development since 2004, on the Wrocław study case” supported by Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and will be comple...

Group testing is an active area of current research and has important applications in medicine, biotechnology, genetics, and product testing. There have been recent advances in design and estimation, but the simple Dorfman procedure introduced by R. Dorfman in 1943 is widely used in practice. In many practical situations, the exact value of the probability p of being affected is unknown. We pre...

Computer simulation of surgery and scientific experiments help in preparation, training, and assessment. These benefits can be further extended with the integration of robotics for teleoperation and assistance. We describe our efforts to build a realistic and useable simulation for astronaut training and experiment planning. Most of our development focused on user interaction with hand sensors,...

The PVC membrane of an ion-selective electrode (ISE) sensitive to dibasic phosphate ions (HPO4-ISE) has not been optimized for maximum selectivity, sensitivity, and useable ISE lifetime and further work was necessary to improve its performance. Two areas of investigation are reported here: include the parameters for the lipophilicity of the plasticizer compound used and the amount of cyclic pol...

banded ultra-violet solar radiation, the high-rise solar tower to updraft the heated air to the atmosphere, and in between the power conversion unit, where a system of coupled turbines and generators transforms the stream of heated air into electric power. A good efficiency of the power plant can only be reached with extra-large dimensions of the tower and/or the collector area. The paper prese...

The high-power heating of magnetic reconnection has been applied to the ultra-high-beta ST formation in the TS-3, TS-4 and UTST merging experiments. Two low-beta ST plasmas were formed inductively by two or four PF coils without using any central solenoid (CS) and were merged for high power MW-GW reconnection heating. Cause and mechanism for the reconnection heating were directly measured for t...

When a fluid is heated by the absorption of a continuous laser wave, the fluid density decreases in the heated area. This induces a pressure gradient that generates internal motion of the fluid. Due to mass conservation, convection eddies emerge in the sample. To investigate these laser-driven bulk flows at the microscopic scale, we built a setup to perform temperature measurements with a fluor...

Noninvasive temperature measurement is feasible with MRI to monitor changes in thermal therapy. Phase shift based MR thermometry gives an estimate of the relative temperature variation between thermal and baseline images. This technique is limited, however, when applied on targets under inter-frame motion. Simple image registration and subtraction are not adequate to recover the temperature pro...

One of the most important and challenging questions in the area of clustering is how to choose the best-fitting algorithm and parameterization to obtain an optiml clustering for the considered data. The clustering aggregation concept tries to bypass this problem by generating a set of separate, heterogeneous partitionings of the same data set, from which an aggregate clustering is derived. Up t...