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Uwarunkowania doktryny obronnej Niemiec i Polski na przykładzie polskiego i niemieckiego kontyngentu wojskowego w wojnie w Afganistanie

2018

Celem artykułu jest ukazanie różnic w podejściu do zagadnienia misji wojskowych przez polskie i niemieckie władze, co pozwoliło na zaobserwowanie znaczących różnic w prowadzeniu polityki zagranicznej, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem bezpieczeństwa, przez oba państwa. W artykule szczególna uwaga poświęcona została zagadnieniu realizacji zobowiązań sojuszniczych wobec NATO i Stanów Zjednoczonych w obliczu konfliktu w Afganistanie.

Biofilm Related to Animal Health, Zoonosis and Food Transmitted Diseases: Alternative Targets for Antimicrobial Strategy?

2012

The biofilm is a complex community of microbial cells that are associated with a surface and enclosed in a self-produced biopolymer matrix. Such structured community is a response of bacteria to a signal system named quorum sensing (QS) constituted by inter-cell communication through the production of small molecules called autoinducers (AIs) that trigger a cascade of events in gene expression. When the concentration of the AIs molecules reach a certain threshold, the bacterial population acts as a single organism, collectively expressing virulence or biofilm forming genes. Gram-positive bacteria use modified oligopeptides as QS effectors molecules.

Series arc faults in AC and DC electrical circuits. Characterization and detection methods

2013

This paper analyzes the problem of the arc faults in both AC and DC low voltage electrical circuits. The state-of-the-art of the arc fault detection methods is analyzed together with the UL 1699 and UL 1699B Standard requirements for protection devices against arc faults (AFCIs). An experimental characterization is carried out of the arc fault phenomenon, for both AC and DC systems, focusing the attention on series arcs. The experimental measurements are carried out on a proper test bench, which has been developed in order to reproduce significant arcing conditions, in accordance with the UL 1699 Standard requirements.

Caratterizzazione e metodi di riconoscimento degli arc faults per applicazioni in sistemi di bassa tensione

2013

Practicing Ballot Secrecy : Postal Voting and the Witness Requirement at the 2019 Finnish Elections

2021

Electoral rights belong to the core of citizenship in democratic nation-states. Voting, then, represents an actualization of the relationship between the citizen and the political community. For citizens living outside the country in which they are eligible to vote, voting signifies a rare institutional connection to the country of origin. The aim of this article is to explore the introduction of the postal vote, a new form of voting for external voters at Finnish elections, from the grassroots perspective. The study focuses on how a central policy concern, safeguarding ballot secrecy, was resolved in the policy implementation by the witness requirement, and how the individual voters subseq…

Preliminary evaluation of an analog procedure to assess acceptability of intimate partner violence against women: The Partner Violence Acceptability …

2015

Acceptability of partner violence against women is a risk factor linked to its perpetration, and to public, professionals’ and victims’ responses to this behavior. Research on the acceptability of violence in intimate partner relationships is, however, limited by reliance solely on self-reports that often provide distorted or socially desirable accounts that may misrepresent respondents’ true attitudes. This study presents data on the development and initial validation of a new analog task assessing respondents’ acceptability of physical violence toward women in intimate relationships: the Partner Violence Acceptability Movie task (PVAM). This new analog task is intended to provide a more i…

Définir la fiabilité de l'opérateur humain pour concevoir les futurs systèmes autonomes : un regard des Facteurs Organisationnels et Humains

2022

L'intégration de systèmes autonomes dans les transports continuent de progresser afin d'atteindre, à terme, des systèmes entièrement autonomes. Le domaine du transport ferroviaire ne fait pas exception et de nombreux projets, nationaux ou internationaux, sont en cours ou voient le jour. Le transport ferroviaire est réputé sûr. Cela passe notamment par des processus de certification des systèmes ferroviaires déployés. Un principe fondamental de l'assurance de sécurité ferroviaire est : l'intégration d'une nouvelle fonction ou la modification d'une fonction ne doit pas péjorer le niveau de sécurité. Pour vérifier ce principe, le projet TA-SV a fait le choix de réaliser une comparaison par rap…

Connected vehicles : can V2V communication and internet connectivity improve safety?

2016

This study explores the possibilities of V2V communication on vehicles. Starting with a broad overview of the history of vehicle safety, leading up to current safety technologies and then adding digitalization. Many parts of the everyday life became digital in recent years and the most used transportation device–the car–is to some extend already part of it. The latest studies on the subject will be examined and how the car manufacturers picture the near future of cars that are connected. The possibilities are nearly endless; a car could be aware of an upcoming obstacle, also infrastructure such as traffic lights could send information to approaching cars. In addition, the regular Internet c…

Stochastic model for a biological complex system: analysis of the bacterial growth in food products

2012

The Physics of Complex Systems has recently taken a more and more important role in the description of natural systems because of the interactions, both deterministic and noisy, between such systems and the environment. In particular the noise plays a relevant role in biological systems, whose dynamics is strongly influenced by environmental variables subject to random fluctuations. In this work a stochastic model is exploited to reproduce the growth of bacteria in food of animal origin. Specifically the dynamics of a bacterial species, Listeria monocytogenes, is analyzed in the presence of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) during the period of the fermentation of meat products. The model, based o…

SmartCrowding™ : Bruk av SmartCrowding™ i komplekse situasjoner ved Stavanger Universitetssykehus

2019

Masteroppgave helse- og sosialinformatikk HSI500 - Universitetet i Agder 2019 Background: Over the past years, over-filled hospital wards, critical and complex situations has created an increased amount of difficulties in Norwegian hospitals. This is also true for Stavanger University Hospital. In order to better tradethese challenging situations, Stavanger University Hospital decided to implement «plan for høy aktivitet»(«plan for high activity»), and «Smartcrowding™» as Multi Criteria Decision Analyses Software. The intended purpose of these tools is to ensure a higher level of patient safety, as well as to generate a common understandingof the activity level at Stavanger University Hospi…