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The society of the future will be more and more oriented towards the individual and his needs, which will be more and more complex and varied, in the context in which diversity, equal opportunities, creativity, transparency and flexibility will represent the most important values of the future society. In the future, the well-being of the world will increasingly depend on the capital of knowledge, and the challenge of perceiving and understanding the world will become major. The society of the future will be more ...

The objective of this paper to study the mechanical properties of natural fiber fabrics and to promote their use as a strengthening technique to reinforced concrete structures. The materials used are the natural hemp fibers and synthetic glass fibers as control material. The natural hemp fibers have been known since ancient times and remain relevant today. In fact, in civil engineering the use of composite carbon fiber material, although recent is an interesting alternative application in the field of strengthenin...

In this work the quality of the slim-tube packing was demonstrated, the inner diameter and porosity was determined by using X-ray computed tomography. The literature analysis of slim tube packing over was carried out. It is noted that in all cases of slim tube does not accept the most theoretically possible dense rhombic packaging. Moreover, the presence of interstices due to loose contact of the grains to each other illustrates the technological limitations when filling out. To confirm the absence of signs of def...

Ascent and submersion of algae depends on their density. As a result, algae find themselves in different conditions for solar radiation and temperature. The paper represents model of algae concentration during vegetative period both in upper mixed layer and in bottom layer for three types of algae depending on density. The model is based on research of water samples from various horizons obtained in the Gorky reservoir from 2014 to 2019. Samples were examined for the presence of algae using a microscope equipped w...

The features of the weather and climate regime of West Svalbard Island (on the example of Barenzburg village) for 2006 - 2015 were examined. Trends and characteristics of the island 's bioclimate were studied on the basis of analysis of urgent data of 8-urgent meteorological observations obtained at Barenzburg village, Russia, West Svalbard Island, for the period from 2006 to 2015 and provided by the North-West branch of «NPO Typoon». The uniqueness of the nature and climatic conditions of Svalbard Island (Barenzb...

Land resources are the main means of production and a factor of socio-economic development and ecological sustainability of environment[1]. The condition of soils is one of the main indicators of the ecological state of the territories, because of the direct impacts from internal factors, which are caused by the use of soils in agricultural production[2] and external influences caused by anthropogenic activities[3]. Unsatisfactory condition of the soil cover in Ukraine, which is confirmed in scientific works of th...

The largest iron ore basin in Europe, located in the city of Kryvyi Rih and in which since 1876 and to this day continues the active development of the mining industry causes the rapid emergence of anthropogenic landscapes. And thus the question arises as to what scale technogenesis has covered, what the largest landscape systems have emerged as a result of the mining industry, and what optimization methods are being carried out to maintain the area to prevent man-made hazards. In our work we have analyzed the qua...

The scope of this research is to present and discuss information for ?Ada Tepe? open pit gold mine geological section within ?Khan Krum? gold mine deposit in South-Eastern Bulgaria. The mine is located near to Krumovgrad, approximately three kilometers south of the town, at Ada Tepe hill. The deposit is designed to extract 850,000 tons of gold ore per year over an eight-year period. Conventional open pit mining methods are planned to use for gold mining. The gold ore is currently processed in dressing plant, invol...

The research topic is about to planning geopark in Racha-Lechkhumi Kvemo Svanei region, specifically in Racha region In Georgia, Caucasus. There is no one category of protected areas in Racha region. Geopark is a new category of protected areas which will be a novelty in Georgia and the whole of the Caucasus. In the case of planning the geopark, in the region would develop geotourism. In today's developed countries, Geotourism and geoparks as novel strategies for socio?economic development in rural areas. Geopark ...

The main purpose of this paper is to provide new geological information and interpretation of the well data from the Istria Basin, Western Black Sea. Therefore, we present a reconsideration of the microfaunas (mainly foraminifers) and calcareous nannofossils described from several wells drilled on the Lebada East structure belonging to the Istria Basin, by using core reports. Thus, we have been able to compile integrated information regarding the lithology and biostratigraphy of the wells. We have focused on the s...

Most modern software systems use dozens of traffic types, which leads to the transmission of large volumes of data of three main types via communication channels: audio, video, and computer data. Such software systems are built on the basis of multiservice computer networks in which all data is transmitted over a single communication channel, which makes it possible to use common standards and simplifies the construction of a network capable of serving a large number of users. Thanks to these features, multiservic...

The paper dwells on examining and testing a mechanism for determining exposure to transport noise followed by dividing an area of a large industrial city with population exceeding 1 million people into specific zones as per health risk criteria. Noise spread was modeled with ?Ecolog-NOISE? specialized software basing on a vector map of the city and using geoinformation systems. To create a database on transport noise sources, the authors collected and analyzed data on traffic intensity on city motorways. Basing on...

Based on the overview of existing industrial safety technologies and new electronic components on the market, the Concept outlines the new requirements to key segments and sub-systems of the System for personnel and mobile machinery positioning in mines. The concept of the system?s functioning is focused on building a highly robust fail proof adaptive system for data collection, processing, transmission and display, as well as for process management. The system for positioning of personnel and mobile machinery in ...

Being an almost landlocked sea, the Black Sea has a particular situation regarding water exchange and circulation. Moreover, the anthropogenic pressure and shipping related activities worsen the situation of this sea from the pollution point of view. The introductory part of the article presents the role of the ballast water system onboard ships in a few words. Then, the paper presents the environmental context of the Black Sea with the focus on the wind and waves, factors which can affect the ship stability. The ...

Nowadays, the problem of environmental pollution by heavy and radioactive metals is still remaining crucial. Extraction is one among the most efficient ways to remove the metals from contaminated soil and wastewater. However, this process is complicated by a number of factors, including the difficulty of separating extractants from soil and water, as well as the technological problems in the process. Herein, polymer granules based on crosslinked polyvinyl alcohol and possessing magnetic properties due to the iron ...

Most of the time, in assessing a situation where a leakage of combustible gas is involved, the volume of the room where the release occurs and the volume of the released gas is taken into account, thus resulting in an average concentration of the fuel gas applied to the entire volume of the room. In some cases, when the source of combustible gas is close enough to the source of initiation, or when air currents converge at the location of the source of initiation carrying amounts of combustible gas, the explosive m...

Naturally regenerated birch (Betula spp.) stands, to a large extent formed on abandoned agricultural lands, is a notable part of the privately owned forests in Latvia. Birch is fast growing and less frequently affected by abiotic and biotic factors (like dendrophagous insects, cervids, drought) than other main commercial tree species in Latvia. However, wind storms, predicted to increase in frequency in future, is an important risk in birch stands. Therefore, the aim of our study was to assess the snapping height ...

Cannabis consumption in Romania has increased significantly recently. Due to the fact that consumption is forbidden, consumers try to grow the plant themselves, in makeshift greenhouses. Cannabis is the most consumed drug in Romania, both in the general population and in the school population. Cannabis also remains the most widely seized drug nationally. Police discover at least once a month, illegal productions in apartments and confiscate hundreds of kilograms of cannabis. Only about a third of 16-year-old adole...

Schools and universities of independent Ukraine are constantly developing the technique and skills of using visual teaching computer methods. Important, in this sense, is the use of GIS in various fields of knowledge. At the moment, a significant number of academic disciplines in Ukraine relate to the use of GIS technologies not only in geography, but also in other areas, such as architecture, ecology, etc. Such academic disciplines as ?Historical Informatics? and ?Geoinformation Systems? are included in the curri...

The demographic load on the Volga River beaches in the Cheboksary urban district (Russia) significantly exceeds their maximum demographic capacity. This happens, first of all, due to the ?improper distribution? of holidaymakers between the beaches of the right and left banks of the Volga River. The ?improper distribution? of the holidaymakers is caused by the unjustifiably high cost of time, financial expenses that holidaymakers incur when visiting left-bank beaches. It is necessary either to significantly expand ...

The region of Kardzhali is earthquake prone to various local and near/trans border seismic impacts. That is why their combined analysis is of interest to be studied. The 3 most significant seismic events that struck this region in the last 15 years are considered and discussed. That is: the 2006, M=4.5 local one; the 2014, M=6.9 transborder and the 2019, M=3.6 local one. The real dynamic impact by these events transformed into the earthquake engineering characteristics they produced is evaluated. Data accumulated ...

Increasing in air temperatures, changes in the precipitation pattern and increased frequency of extreme weather events represent the main characteristics of climate changes in Serbia. Climate changes, according to their characteristics, affect the society, the various sectors of economy and the natural environment. Based on the direct dependence of agricultural production on the climate state, and therefore on climate changes, the agricultural sector represents the most vulnerable sector of economy. In order to de...

Object. In high-precision work including surveying observations of deformations the researcher often encounters with the problem of interpreting survey measurements. The quality of such measurements and their functions are characterized by root-mean-square deviation. In this article authors consider a method that improves the quality of equalizing angular measurements using the example of circular (360-degree) techniques. The initial data were taken from one of classic calculation work «The results processing of h...

The Irovka River in latitude is in the rectangle 23.89 minutes and in longitude 18.89 minutes. The purpose of the article is the analysis of wave equations in the form of asymmetric wavelets of coordinate change - local longitude. After identifying the wavelet, 18 components with variable amplitude and oscillation period were obtained. A significant part of the oscillations occurs along the Irovka River with a length of 69 km. The first three members gave a correlation of 0.9991, which is slightly less for the loc...

The primary goal of the economic and innovative potential development lies in promoting cooperation between Russian universities along with academic organizations and manufacturing companies in order to expand knowledge-intensive production and fuel the supply of innovative products and services. Cooperation between universities and enterprises is organized around the joint development of sought-after technological solutions which are used as the basis for the creation of innovative products. By addressing applied...

Transport sector is a fundamental component of the human society. The importance for both the economic and social activities reveals from the fact that through this sector the movement of goods and people is performed in order to satisfy the material and spiritual needs of the society. However, in long term, the transport sector has a significant role in degrading the quality of the air and witch affects directly or indirectly the health of the population. In the period 2007-2018 there was a significant increase i...

In Romania, the production of coal and lignite depends on the national demand for primary energy resources in the electricity production sector and on the available resources / reserves. Although it still plays an important role in the mix of electricity production and the safety of the National Energy System, especially in the winter, coal-fired electricity production is decreasing even this season. The considerations for which this situation was reached are: the programs for extractive industry reorganization an...

This paper describes the influence of biomass ash (BA) from wooden chips processing on the properties of magnesium potassium phosphate cement (MKPC) mortar. The MKPC belongs to chemically bonded cementitious binders and is formed through the reaction between the dead burned magnesia (MgO), KH2PO4 and water. The dead burned magnesia powder as well as the biomass ash were first analysed by XRF, particle size distribution and specific density. In the production of MKPC-based composites, the biomass ash was used in th...

The investigation of the ambient seismic noise recorded by the Bulgarian Antarctic seismic station LIVV over four polar summers from 2015 to 2020 is presented in the paper. The method for evaluating the Power Spectral Density and Probability Density Functions is applied to study the distribution of the seismic noise in a period interval from 0.02 s to 30 s. The method is widely applied in seismological practice of the Seismological Society for carrying out both fundamental and practical scientific projects. For a ...

The Sea of Azov is characterized not only by small sizes and depths for oceanic waters, but also by intensive water exchange with river waters and the waters of the Black sea. These features of the reservoir are superimposed by wind activity, which contributes to the formation of wind surges phenomena. Under their influence, the upper layer of bottom sediments is agitated, accompanied by the transition of previously deposited material into the water column. After the wind action is weakened, the reverse flow of re...

Currently, geotechnical monitoring systems are used to solve the problems of protecting the life-supporting and technical objects from possible catastrophic scenarios during the life cycle of objects as a whole. They allow us to assess geomechanical changes in the geological environment, as well as to carry out technological control of buildings and structures in order to form a predictive assessment of the possibility of man-made disasters. It is determined that the main problem of emergency situations on technic...

Black Carbon (BC) is one of the most significant ingredient of atmospheric fine particle matter which is a global climate, air quality and human health concern. A precise and accurate determination of both the concentration and source contribution of BC in air particulate samples is very important and can provide key information for environmental management regulators and researchers. BC is typically formed through the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, biofuel, and biomass, and is emitted in anthropogenic and...

Discontinuity of rocks under uniaxial compression may be accompanied by a cleavage of one part relative to the other. Such a phenomenon is also observed in laboratory testing experiments. The cleavage area is geometrically an uneven rough surface. In modern practice, the level of roughness is usually characterized using the Barton-Choubey scale, where the visual profile of the discontinuity is correlated to the corresponding value of the joint roughness coefficient (JRC), varying in the range from 0 to 20. But in ...

Fields that are in the late stages of development have low potential and opportunities to solve the accumulated technical and environmental problems due to insufficient profitability of their operation, lack of sources of financing. This fully applies to the fields of the Orenburg region, among the main problems of which should be noted: the growth of the share of hard-to-recover hydrocarbon reserves in low-permeable reservoirs, the share of high-viscosity oil; the low level of utilization of associated petroleum ...

The main cut-off parameter that determines the quality of iron ore resources and reserves is Fe cut-off grade. We often use the content of iron associated with magnetite for BIF deposits. The purpose of the study is to define the method of optimal values selecting for Fe cut-off grade. This value for resources calculation should be acceptable and effective, both for the owner of the subsoil resources, and for mining enterprises. It is proposed a method for choosing the optimum values of cut-off grade Fe in evaluat...

The solution of the gravity direct problems performs a crucial impact on the results of investigation of the gravity anomalies in oil and gas fields. The direct problem of gravimetry itself means that we have to determine the analytical characteristics of the gravitational field from a set of specified parameters of the geological medium (such as an average depth, an excess density, coordinates of anomaly sources, and other medium parameters). Evaluation of the distribution of similar parameters of anomalous bodie...

Disasters bring about sudden changes to life, the environment and nature; fundamentally altering landscapes and thus also influencing the history, culture, traditions and environmental perspectives of the regions in which they occur. This study aimed to investigate the ways in which a landscape is treated and changed in the process of recovery from a large scale earthquake and to examine the introduction of green infrastructure during this recovery process. To achieve this, we set two specific research objectives....

There is a strong interdependence between natural ecosystems and human health. The imbalances created within natural ecosystems as a result of climate change have left their mark on human habitats. Understanding the importance of the relationship between biodiversity - natural ecosystems - human health could lead to solving some of the problems planet Earth is facing at the beginning of the 21st century. Global political strategies should encompass more ideas of including natural ecosystems in the design of genera...

The results of a study of the dynamics of anthropogenic transformation of the species composition of the forests of Karelia using GIS technologies are presented in the article. The main object of research is the forests of the Karelian basement lake-taiga plain (eastern part of the Baltic crystalline shield). A quantitative analysis of changes in the species composition of forests in historical time was carried out for the first time. Retrospective, cartographic, comparative, historical and geographical sections o...

The aim of this article is to create a risk analysis of selected school facilities which can be an auxiliary tool of security solutions against terrorism. Most terrorist attacks are focused on so-called soft targets - crowded places, which are not secure against violent attacks. Furthermore, attacks on school facilities abroad are frequent too. A wellprepared risk analysis is a necessary method to detect weaknesses and strengths of the security of a soft target. The university in Zlin in the Czech Republic was cho...

The problem of classifying spatially distributed targets using their radar images during the process of remote sensing has been and remains one of the main tasks when observing the Earth with space-based observation means based on the use of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The applying of radar monitoring means is especially relevant for the northern latitudes, for example, the territory of Russia, where, on the one hand, a rather high percentage of cloud cover, on the other hand, the duration of daylight hours ...

In 2018 the squid catch in the Russian Federation amounted to about 102 thousand tons. Different kinds of products are made from squid (dried, air-dried and smoked squid, preserves, canned food, culinary products), but frozen squid makes a great part of them. In the production of squid carcasses, about 52.3% of waste is generated, of which 23.2% accounts for the liver and 76.8% for the entrails, tentacles and head. Therefore, about 54 thousand tons of waste is generated annually, where 41 thousand tons accounts fo...

Introduction. The Eastern region of the European part of Russia (Perms Krai) is characterized by the peculiarities of the wind regime, the presence of large highways and petrochemical enterprises. Aromatic hydrocarbons (AH) are highly prevalent in the environment and are found in emissions from vehicles and industrial plants. These substances belong to hormone-like xenobiotics, which are capable of making adjustments to the work of immune and hormonal regulation. Purpose of the work: analysis of the features and p...

The Shchuchinsko-Borovskaya system, consisting of seven large lakes, was studied. Lakes of tectonic origin are located at different absolute levels within the granite massif. The water in the lakes is fresh, less often brackish, and previously has been widely used for agricultural and drinking purposes. Based on monitoring data and analysis of a long-term series of satellite images over the past 30 years, a significant decrease in the level of the lakes and water resources has been revealed. This has affected the ...

The aim of the study is to give the evidence that the formation of students' cognitive initiative as a part of integrative personality development by means of a foreign language becomes a defining factor in training a competitive specialist. A sufficiently high level of mental development, a strong memory, having the logic for reasoning, broadening one's horizons, working capacity, perseverance, etc. ? all these contribute to student?s success. However, even with all of these qualities, it is necessary to constant...

In recent years, a range of UAV photogrammetry applications, such as long-range corridor mapping, has increased significantly [4]. However, in photogrammetry linear configuration of the flight is considered to be problematic, due to geometric distortions creating ?bowl effect? and a high correlation between focal length and flight altitude. Thus, it is important to investigate how factors like georeferencing method and camera calibration affecting final accuracy. The aim of the article is to determine if the direc...

In the article, the results of the estimation of an influence of soil back pressure of the lower slope on the distribution of the landslide pressures between the rows of the piles of the multi-row retaining structures. The conditions of a stable soil and an unstable one as well as a dugout from the lower slope side have been considered. The analysis has been carried out on the basis of the distribution of the forces between the rows of the piles according to the spatial numerical model study data of the multi-row ...

Unequal distribution of annual precipitation is negative trend of last year?s influencing primary agricultural field production. One of the natural possibility for elimination of this gesture is to increase patience to the actual conditions and functionality of root system of the plants. Among possible abilities of field crops protection to abiotic stresses during vegetation period belongs strengthening of their natural tolerance. Present situation of soil degradation does not allow to plants sufficiently deploy r...

In this work the possibility of express prediction of the content of organic carbon, total and hydrolysable nitrogen in leached chernozems by infrared spectrometry with attenuated total reflection sampling technique with minimal spectra processing was studied. The territory of study is a plot with a rugged topography (elevation changes up to 60 m) and severe erosion. In total, 50 samples were taken from the arable horizon (0-20 cm). The spectra were obtained in the range 4000-660 cm-1 with a spectral resolution ? ...

The research is aimed at studying the quantitative laws of the morphological pattern dynamics for alluvial plains. Basing on the random process theory - the renewal process theory, we substantiate that in the course of the development despite constant changes such as generating new packages, erasing old packages, changing of the number of a package, some features of the morphological pattern remain the same. They are the length distribution of the arrows for the preserved (non-erased) package fragments, the durati...