English Tense Expressing Verb Phrases in the Process of Teaching Polish Students

English Tense Expressing Verb Phrases in the Process of Teaching Polish Student

Predictive Modeling in Race Walking

This paper presents the use of linear and nonlinear multivariable models as tools to support training process of race walkers. These models are calculated using data collected from race walkers’ training events and they are used to predict the result over a 3 km race based on training loads. The material consists of 122 training plans for 21 athletes. In order to choose the best model leave-one-out cross-validation method is used. The main contribution of the paper is to propose the nonlinear modifications for linear models in order to achieve smaller prediction error. It is shown that the best model is a modified LASSO regression with quadratic terms in the nonlinear part. This model has the smallest prediction error and simplified structure by eliminating some of the predictors

The Use of Artificial Neural Networks in Supporting the Annual Training in 400 meter Hurdles

This paper presents an evaluation of the annual cycle for 400 m hurdles using artificial neural networks. The analysis included 21 Polish national team hurdlers. In planning the annual cycle, 27 variables were used, where 5 variables describe the competitor and 22 variables represent the training loads. In the presented solution, the task of generating training loads for the assumed result were considered. The neural models were evaluated by cross-validation method. The smallest error was obtained for the radial basis function network with nine neurons in the hidden layer. The performed analysis shows that at each phase of training the structure of training loads is different

Accurate Landing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Ground Pattern Recognition

[EN] Over the last few years, several researchers have been developing protocols and applications in order to autonomously land unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, most of the proposed protocols rely on expensive equipment or do not satisfy the high precision needs of some UAV applications such as package retrieval and delivery or the compact landing of UAV swarms. Therefore, in this work, a solution for high precision landing based on the use of ArUco markers is presented. In the proposed solution, a UAV equipped with a low-cost camera is able to detect ArUco markers sized 56×56 cm from an altitude of up to 30 m. Once the marker is detected, the UAV changes its flight behavior in order to land on the exact position where the marker is located. The proposal was evaluated and validated using both the ArduSim simulation platform and real UAV flights. The results show an average offset of only 11 cm from the target position, which vastly improves the landing accuracy compared to the traditional GPS-based landing, which typically deviates from the intended target by 1 to 3 m.This work was funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Programa Estatal de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad, Proyectos I+D+I 2018 , Spain, under Grant RTI2018-096384-B-I00.Wubben, J.; Fabra Collado, FJ.; Tavares De Araujo Cesariny Calafate, CM.; Krzeszowski, T.; Márquez Barja, JM.; Cano, J.; Manzoni, P. (2019). Accurate Landing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Ground Pattern Recognition. Electronics. 8(12):1-16. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8121532S116812Pan, X., Ma, D., Jin, L., & Jiang, Z. (2008). Vision-Based Approach Angle and Height Estimation for UAV Landing. 2008 Congress on Image and Signal Processing. doi:10.1109/cisp.2008.78Tang, D., Li, F., Shen, N., & Guo, S. (2011). UAV attitude and position estimation for vision-based landing. Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Electronic & Mechanical Engineering and Information Technology. doi:10.1109/emeit.2011.6023131Gautam, A., Sujit, P. B., & Saripalli, S. (2014). A survey of autonomous landing techniques for UAVs. 2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). doi:10.1109/icuas.2014.6842377Holybro Pixhawk 4 · PX4 v1.9.0 User Guidehttps://docs.px4.io/v1.9.0/en/flight_controller/pixhawk4.htmlGarrido-Jurado, S., Muñoz-Salinas, R., Madrid-Cuevas, F. J., & Medina-Carnicer, R. (2016). Generation of fiducial marker dictionaries using Mixed Integer Linear Programming. Pattern Recognition, 51, 481-491. doi:10.1016/j.patcog.2015.09.023Romero-Ramirez, F. J., Muñoz-Salinas, R., & Medina-Carnicer, R. (2018). Speeded up detection of squared fiducial markers. Image and Vision Computing, 76, 38-47. doi:10.1016/j.imavis.2018.05.004ArUco: Augmented reality library based on OpenCVhttps://sourceforge.net/projects/aruco/Jin, S., Zhang, J., Shen, L., & Li, T. (2016). On-board vision autonomous landing techniques for quadrotor: A survey. 2016 35th Chinese Control Conference (CCC). doi:10.1109/chicc.2016.7554984Chen, X., Phang, S. K., Shan, M., & Chen, B. M. (2016). System integration of a vision-guided UAV for autonomous landing on moving platform. 2016 12th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA). doi:10.1109/icca.2016.7505370Nowak, E., Gupta, K., & Najjaran, H. (2017). Development of a Plug-and-Play Infrared Landing System for Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. 2017 14th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV). doi:10.1109/crv.2017.23Shaker, M., Smith, M. N. R., Yue, S., & Duckett, T. (2010). Vision-Based Landing of a Simulated Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with Fast Reinforcement Learning. 2010 International Conference on Emerging Security Technologies. doi:10.1109/est.2010.14Araar, O., Aouf, N., & Vitanov, I. (2016). Vision Based Autonomous Landing of Multirotor UAV on Moving Platform. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 85(2), 369-384. doi:10.1007/s10846-016-0399-zPatruno, C., Nitti, M., Petitti, A., Stella, E., & D’Orazio, T. (2018). A Vision-Based Approach for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Landing. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 95(2), 645-664. doi:10.1007/s10846-018-0933-2Baca, T., Stepan, P., Spurny, V., Hert, D., Penicka, R., Saska, M., … Kumar, V. (2019). Autonomous landing on a moving vehicle with an unmanned aerial vehicle. Journal of Field Robotics, 36(5), 874-891. doi:10.1002/rob.21858De Souza, J. P. C., Marcato, A. L. M., de Aguiar, E. P., Jucá, M. A., & Teixeira, A. M. (2019). Autonomous Landing of UAV Based on Artificial Neural Network Supervised by Fuzzy Logic. Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems, 30(4), 522-531. doi:10.1007/s40313-019-00465-ySITL Simulator (Software in the Loop)http://ardupilot.org/dev/docs/sitl-simulator-software-in-the-loop.htmlFabra, F., Calafate, C. T., Cano, J.-C., & Manzoni, P. (2017). On the impact of inter-UAV communications interference in the 2.4 GHz band. 2017 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC). doi:10.1109/iwcmc.2017.7986413MAVLink Micro Air Vehicle Communication Protocolhttp://qgroundcontrol.org/mavlink/startFabra, F., Calafate, C. T., Cano, J. C., & Manzoni, P. (2018). ArduSim: Accurate and real-time multicopter simulation. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 87, 170-190. doi:10.1016/j.simpat.2018.06.009Careem, M. A. A., Gomez, J., Saha, D., & Dutta, A. (2019). HiPER-V: A High Precision Radio Frequency Vehicle for Aerial Measurements. 2019 16th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON). doi:10.1109/sahcn.2019.882490

Neonatal survival and kidney function after prenatal interventions for obstructive uropathies

Objectives: Prenatal interventions in LUTO (lower urinary tract obstruction) usually are still question of a debate between gynaecologist and paediatric nephrologist. We aimed the study to assess the early survival rate and renal outcome in LUTO foetuses. Material and methods: The study was a prospective data analysis of 39 foetuses from singleton pregnancies. All pregnant women with LUTO in the foetus were qualified for VAS based on a local practice. The mean time of first urine analysis ranged between 13–30 weeks of pregnancy. Primary end-point analysis included live birth, 28d-survival, pulmonary and renal function assessment in neonatal period. Results: From initial number of 39, six patients miscarried before the procedure was performed. Overall, 33 VAS were performer at the mean 21 week of pregnancy (range 14–30 weeks). 25/39 foetuses survived until delivery. Three neonates died in first 3 days of life. In the first month 3 children required peritoneal dialysis, but at 28 day all children were dialysis-free. Overall survival rate at 28 day was 56%. Renal function preservation of the initial group (39) turned out to be low — 18% (7/39). Conclusions: Our study showed average survival curves and complications. LUTO in the foetus had mostly unfavourable outcome in the neonatal period. The prenatal intervention did not increase it significantly and did not guarantee the preservation of normal kidney function

Implementation of Exome Sequencing in Prenatal Diagnosis and Impact on Genetic Counseling: The Polish Experience

This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Insights into Prenatal Genetic Testing.Background: Despite advances in routine prenatal cytogenetic testing, most anomalous fetuses remain without a genetic diagnosis. Exome sequencing (ES) is a molecular technique that identifies sequence variants across protein-coding regions and is now increasingly used in clinical practice. Fetal phenotypes differ from postnatal and, therefore, prenatal ES interpretation requires a large amount of data deriving from prenatal testing. The aim of our study was to present initial results of the implementation of ES to prenatal diagnosis in Polish patients and to discuss its possible clinical impact on genetic counseling. Methods: In this study we performed a retrospective review of all fetal samples referred to our laboratory for ES from cooperating centers between January 2017 and June 2021. Results: During the study period 122 fetuses were subjected to ES at our institution. There were 52 abnormal ES results: 31 in the group of fetuses with a single organ system anomaly and 21 in the group of fetuses with multisystem anomalies. The difference between groups was not statistically significant. There were 57 different pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants reported in 33 different genes. The most common were missense variants. In 17 cases the molecular diagnosis had an actual clinical impact on subsequent pregnancies or other family members. Conclusions: Exome sequencing increases the detection rate in fetuses with structural anomalies and improves genetic counseling for both the affected couple and their relatives.This research was funded by the Ministry of Health, granted to the Center of Postgradu- ate Medical Education, Poland, grant number Minigrant-501-1-106-44-20/MG4 to J.B., and by the National Science Centre, Poland, grant number Miniatura 2—Dec2018/02/X/NZ2/00709 to D.M.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Budżetowanie działalności jednostek gospodarczych Teoria i praktyka. Część V

Z wprowadzenia: "Przekazujemy do rąk Czytelników część monografii dotyczącej budżetowania jednostek gospodarczych. Jej przygotowanie zbiegło się z ukazaniem się manifestu Precz z budżetami Jeremiego Норе’а i Robina Frasera. Autorzy poddają tam ostrej krytyce dotychczasowe praktyki stosowania budżetowania kosztowego. Stąd niniejsza publikacja - między innymi - dlatego różni się istotnie od poprzednich. Od pewnego czasu - także w Polsce - pojawiały się głosy wskazujące na istotne niedoskonałości budżetowania kosztowego, na przykład J. Gierusz [Materiały konferencyjne 2001], G. H. Świderska [Rachunkowośćzarządcza i rachunek kosztów, 2002]. Nie odnosiły one jednak skutku. Nie zauważono też dotąd narastającej listy zarzutów wytaczanych przeciw finansowym jednostkom miary stosowanym w budżetowaniu kosztowym, na przykład G. K. Świderska [jak wyżej], M. Sierpińska, B. Niedbała [Controllingoperacyjny wpnedsiębiorstwie, 2003]. Bez echa pozostało postawione przez autora pytanie: „zmierzch czy rozwój budżetowania?” [„Controlling i rachunkowość zarządcza” 9/2002], gdzie jednoznacznie wskazano, że budżetowanie kosztowe obejmuje jedynie jedną sferę działalności przedsiębiorstwa i tym samym nie może stanowić wystarczającej podstawy do sterowania przedsiębiorstwem. Zwolennicy budżetowania kosztowego nawet zgadzali się ze stawianymi zarzutami, jednak nie reagowali na propozycje zmian w filozofii i metodologii budżetowania."(...

The ANTENATAL multicentre study to predict postnatal renal outcome in fetuses with posterior urethral valves: objectives and design

Abstract Background Posterior urethral valves (PUV) account for 17% of paediatric end-stage renal disease. A major issue in the management of PUV is prenatal prediction of postnatal renal function. Fetal ultrasound and fetal urine biochemistry are currently employed for this prediction, but clearly lack precision. We previously developed a fetal urine peptide signature that predicted in utero with high precision postnatal renal function in fetuses with PUV. We describe here the objectives and design of the prospective international multicentre ANTENATAL (multicentre validation of a fetal urine peptidome-based classifier to predict postnatal renal function in posterior urethral valves) study, set up to validate this fetal urine peptide signature. Methods Participants will be PUV pregnancies enrolled from 2017 to 2021 and followed up until 2023 in >30 European centres endorsed and supported by European reference networks for rare urological disorders (ERN eUROGEN) and rare kidney diseases (ERN ERKNet). The endpoint will be renal/patient survival at 2 years postnatally. Assuming α = 0.05, 1–β = 0.8 and a mean prevalence of severe renal outcome in PUV individuals of 0.35, 400 patients need to be enrolled to validate the previously reported sensitivity and specificity of the peptide signature. Results In this largest multicentre study of antenatally detected PUV, we anticipate bringing a novel tool to the clinic. Based on urinary peptides and potentially amended in the future with additional omics traits, this tool will be able to precisely quantify postnatal renal survival in PUV pregnancies. The main limitation of the employed approach is the need for specialized equipment. Conclusions Accurate risk assessment in the prenatal period should strongly improve the management of fetuses with PUV

Contrastive generative grammar

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