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The possibility and practicability of usage aluminiferous waste in the production of aluminate cements were studied. Aluminothermic slag, calcareous component and alumina in row stock was correlated for different compositions of aluminate clinkers. Clinkers were making by electric-arc melting at temperature 1600 ??. There was found a difference in mineral composition under conditions fast and slow cooling aluminate melts. In case of fast cooling main phase was calcium bialuminate and high glass-like phase content....

Tsunami is one of the major natural hazards presenting significant flood risk for coastal communities and therefore, increasing the society resilience to this phenomena in exposed areas is very important for minimizing damage and possible destructive effects on the environment in these areas. In the frame of the EC Programme-FP7 ASTARTE project (Assessment, STrategy And Risk reduction for Tsunamis in Europe), we conducted a questionnaire survey among people living, working, or visiting Eforie Nord site. The tsunam...

One of the main and most important features of the weather in Kazakhstan is the air temperature, which significantly affects for energy, agriculture, etc. Particular interest are the significant temperature anomaly, which is related to many dangerous phenomena. These include, first of all, severe drought, excessive moisture, which if not take the necessary protective measures, often bring huge losses in various sectors of economic activity.There is no any single universal index to characterize the conditions of at...

The clay consists of the tiniest particles of soil, which have a considerable amount of physical and chemical activity with influence on water and nutrient cycles, observable over several scales. Therefore, the Global Soil Map Project (GSM) has included clay content among the key properties estimated across the world at 100 m resolution. Subsequently, in 2015 the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission produced a clay content map of the soil uppermost layer (called ?topsoil?), converging towards the...

In urban environment the local areas or neighborhoods are multidimensional phenomenon consisting of social, physical, political and economic aspects. The main goal of the neighborhood development is to create conditions for sustainable socio - economic and spatial policy implementation within the city administrative territory as well as to improve urban development planning and the quality of life. Population satisfaction with local public services such as open space is an important factor of sustainable spatial d...

The knowledge of temporal changes in land use as well as the proper interpretation of such changes is one of the factors that allow accurate diagnosis of problems that affect the development of rural areas. It helps to make decisions related to various types of changes that the areas may undergo. The identification of changes in land use is possible thanks to the analyses of satellite imaging, aerial scanning, and ground-based measurements completed with different measuring methods. Characteristic features of each...

There is a problem of a traffic block nowadays, which started in the middle of the last century and had become a real disaster for many developed countries. There is a variety of methods of traffic regulation and traffic flows management, which were developed at different times. One have become irreparably out of date and does not provide the solution of the traffic block problem in present conditions of growth of vehicles amount. Another allow to improve the management of urban traffic flows, but a lot of resourc...

Testing and certification of explosion-proof electrical equipment required for product conformity assessment are extremely important, taking into account the unexpected hazard of explosion occurrence due to potentially explosive atmospheres generated by mixtures of air-gas/dust. The explosion risk has to be minimized in order to ensure the health and safety of people and for preventing material damages. The new European Directive which regulates the protection to explosion field is the ATEX Directive 2014/34/EU wh...

The direct field observations and processing the info-graphic support (satellite images, thematic maps, profiles, digital images of the area) led to the preparation of this paper and realization of the proposal rehabilitation measures of anthropogenic landforms generated by coal mining activities in Petrosani Basin. These are exemplified by analyzing the Petrila 2 East dump (the Eastern end of the Basin) and Campu lui Neag coal pit (in the Western end of the Basin). The landscape of Petrosani Basin is transformed ...

The article shows methodology and principles of the system monitoring and integrated assessment of forestlands on the basis of the submission of such lands as a source of biological resources (including wood) and also as environment-forming and social functions source. Systematic monitoring of forestland is expressed in observations, assessment (in physical indicators) and prediction of all its natural resources potential. Scientific principles for a comprehensive assessment of forestlands include justification fo...

The scope of benefits of land consolidation is wide ? there can be indicated spatial, agricultural, socio-economic, landscape and environmental effects of the process. As a result of the process there can be noticed significant structural changes in rural areas. Land consolidation process enables to improve the inadequate spatial structure of farms, remove the adverse effects of land fragmentation and improve agricultural productivity. The assessment of the land fragmentation reduction requires reliable measuremen...

The present paper represents a first for Romania as it aims to empirically analyze the 26 collision cases between military aircrafts and birds registered during 1967 ? 1991. The paper is based solely on the observations made in the above-mentioned period by the Chief of the Meteorological Division within the Romanian Air Force Headquarters between 1990 and 1993 (PhD meteorological engineer and retired commander). This article completes various scientific and statistical studies in the field, which were missing inf...

This paper presents results for a research of the possibility of applying the combined methods of mining in construction of the underground premises in coal mines in the Republic of Serbia. The purpose of this study is to process the application and effects of combined (standard) methods of a pit remises construction through coal with a goal to find new technology of construction which will result in more productive and rational ways of their building. This study includes the analysis of the construction of pit pr...

Floods are natural catastrophes which cause environmental and structural damages as also casualties. There is growing concern that flooding is becoming more frequent and severe not only in Europe but also in the whole world. This study investigates changes in trends and seasonality of annual peak-discharges for 51 mid-sized Slovakian gauging stations with the lengths of observations of 46 years. The area of selected catchments varies from 19 km? to 295 km?. Seasonality of maximum annual peak-discharges is determin...

A great problem of maintenance of highways in the Northern territories ? environmental pollution of anti-icing materials. Chemical compounds as a part of the anti-icing materials can also have a negative impact on metal and concrete structures of facilities along the roads. Method of sampling of water and snow along the roads is presented in the article. The results of the chemical research of the degree of water pollution in the canals of highways witch operated in the city of Arkhangelsk and the Arkhangelsk regi...

The technique named "base isolation", resorts to place at the bottom of buildings special components, leading to long fundamental periods that would avoid resonance tendency of buildings with its site in the case of strong earthquakes. The nonlinear characteristics of the isolator layer change the linear period-shift estimation and can lead either to dangerous shortening shift in case of hardening nonlinearity or to unnecessary shift enlargement in case of softening nonlinearity. By neglecting this period-shift di...

It is well known that the Russian North is rich in hydrocarbon resources, and oil production there requires long transporting pipelines. We studied geological and other natural risks associated with the project of construction of oil pipeline from South Bagan field, Komi Republic. To evaluate the risks we put into geographic information system (GIS) topographic maps as well as drilling data, remote sensing and own field survey materials. It is the system-morphological approach by A. Lastochkin that was used as a m...

The major changes that have taken place over the last decade on the world food market reveal people?s great interest in health and nutrition. The modern consumer is being warned about the major influences that the diet has on his health condition by the appropriate information accompanying the well-packaged product or by publicizing the risk of some diseases whose major cause is an unbalanced diet. Since there is great interest in providing bakery products with preservation by complying with the clean label statem...

The contribution is focused on a research of thermal and mineral water resources in areas located in the norther Bohemia regions. The main monitoring parameter is their heat potential. Other goal of the paper is to suggest a use of that thermal potential as an alternative energy source in selected areas. The Czech Republic does not have such geothermal potential in comparison with other geothermal superpowers such as Iceland, New Zealand, the USA or Philippines, but the northern Bohemia region has the highest heat...

The present work aimed to investigation of influence molecular weight of chitosan, method of silver nanoparticles producing and immobilization, amount of cross-linking agent on antibacterial activity. Silver was incorporated in the matrix in two ways: 1 ? by the recovery of silver ions from AgNO3 solution; 2 - by addition to hydrogel the silver nanoparticles, obtained previously by microbiological synthesis. The molecular weight of chitosan shows strong influence on internal structure of matrices and on release of...

Satellite images analysis conducted using modern ERS methods allows to allocate lands which can be referred to the deposits based on a group of diagnostic indicators and using a number of techniques. Change of vegetation cover type associated with change of fallow lands use features is manifested in their spectral response, including the vegetation index values (NDVI). In the course of experimental studies the peculiarities of seasonal dynamics of vegetation index for the initial few years after the transfer of th...

For unused agricultural land afforestation are several aims like, rational land use, rural landscape diversification, decrement of environment pollution, increasing recreation possibilities and other but also can be established or special purposes planted forest stands as plantation forest. In Latvia during year 2015 State Forest Service (VMD) registered 3.4 thou. ha of afforested agricultural land and 2.7 thou. ha were registered as plantation forests. Aim of research is to analyse sanitary condition of agricultu...

By definition, serviceability state is characterized by the fact that despite meeting the requirements associated with carrying capacity, the object is not suitable for use. Serviceability limit state refers to factors, such as durability, overall stability, fire resistance, cracking, excessive vibration. Perfect examples of exceeded serviceability state are the improper vibration of a skyscraper, which inhabitants may suffer from seasickness like ailment, or bridges, which by resonance might be devastated. Among ...

An open source tool?s popularity has increased considerably, as well as micro aerial vehicles (MAV) technologies based on open source hardware. An open source software and hardware delivers a wide variety of applications and technology. The world?s most successful open source projects have their roots in the academy, and now its participation includes a wide variety of academic programs and research. Based on open source technology, a case study has been designed and performed, in order to prove this technology me...

The chronometric geodesy is based on a relationship derived on the basis of the general theory of relativity, indicating a change of frequency and time at occurring change of potential. It is known that there is a possibility of using these relationships to determine geopotential changes, thus also height changes, by examining changes of clock rates in various places. From the formulas that describe this relationship, it can be estimated that at geopotential change by 1 m2/s2 (which corresponds to a height differe...

In this paper were realized some researches concerning the grinding process of plates used by the sintering process DMLS. This plates are used in Direct Metal Laser Sintering process like support necessary for the powder deposing and for the final pieces realized by sintered process. The material used in DMLS process necessary for dental crowns manufacturing is a Co-Cr alloy. Co-Cr alloy is a super stainless steel with good mechanical and corrosion resistance. The material used for plates is a Fe-15%Cr martensitic...

One of the important factors affecting nutrient uptake by the root system of the plants includes soil reaction. Increased soil acidity may adversely affect the use of biogenic nutrients, such as phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sulphur and molybdenum. In soil, nutrients are immobilized to insoluble forms. Although their amount in soil may be sufficient, the plants cannot obtain the optimal quantities, causing a decrease in the yield or production quality. On the other hand, in the metabolism of plants, a...

Ishim steppe (plain) is the southern part of Western Siberia, situated between the Irtysh and Tobol rivers. The plain is composed chiefly of sand and clay deposits of the Neocene era, covered with loess-like loams. In the lowlands and valleys there are many fresh, bitter, and salt lakes, including investigated B.Tarangul, Shaglyteniz, Zhamantuz, Kishikaroy and Kalibek lakes. This paper gives a recent study of the water lakes chemistry to show their diversity despite a close arrangement, the similar hydrogeological...

The paper presents a 1D numerical modeling of the water flow on River ?Alb?, the village of Coroie?ti ? S?la?ul de Sus in Hunedoara County, Romania, aiming to establish the influence of a hydraulic structure built on a left side branch, on the main river channel. The purpose for the hydraulic structure towards a trout fish farm, designed with respect to the enforced specific national regulations. The numerical model simulations are to support the study of water flows and levels on both the river main course and it...

Mass continuity equation along with dynamic equilibrium equation or Darcy equation, and one of the state equation defines the fundamental system of equations which describes the fluid flow, particularly, the gas flow through a porous and permeable formation. Converting the mass continuity equation for single phase fluid into a volumetric equation that can be applied for the entire reservoir or partially, represents the starting point in elaboration of mathematical models for gas well performance evaluation. Mathem...

Knowledge of emitted neutron spectra is crucial to determination of degradation rate of materials or biological shielding designing. Therefore the paper focuses on the neutron spectra measurement using passive activation detectors made from indium and special spectral filters. A neutron radionuclide source made of mixture americium and beryllium was used for irradiation. The irradiation was carried out on the special stand SVICKA that allow generating different spectra in various irradiation channels. The spectral...

The moderate-size earthquake with local magnitude 5,7 which occurred on November 22, 2014 in Vrancea region, at 41 km depth, is the largest crustal event instrumentally recorded at the bending of the Eastern Carpathians. Using the method developed by [2] termed the Hash method, (incorporated in Seisan software) we obtain the focal mechanisms for earthquakes that occurred in Vrancea region associated with the seismic sequence of November 22, 2014. We have examined the main shock and 29 aftershocks that occurred aft...

In the paper a novel technique of impulsive noise suppression in color digital images is proposed. The new filtering design is based on the exploration of the local pixel neighborhood by geodesic digital paths, whose cost defined as a sum of squared Euclidean distances between adjacent pixels in the RGB color space, serves as a measure of pixel corruption. The digital paths link the border of a filtering window with its central pixel and the cost of a path with minimum value is used to discriminate between the noi...

The paper aims at presenting oily water separators as one of the key components of complex lubrication systems used in seagoing vessels. Furthermore, the paper presents commonly used standardized connection flanges and pumps that may be considered a meaningful parameter in the evaluation of the efficiency of oily waste treatment systems in seagoing vessels. The objective of the current study was to discuss the working principles of selected oily water separators and to analyze their capacity, throughput as well as...

River, dam, and lake banks are often attractive as a holiday destination for both domestic and overseas visitors. Therefore, different water based activities including water sports centres, as well as walking and cycling routes adjacent to water bodies require clean and environmentally green water. The places of greatest tourism significance need to be determined and their vulnerability to water quality is indisputable. It is in close connection to the pollution of water. Nowadays, the number of polluters of the H...

The solution of subsoil-structure interaction is affected by several factors as a choice of interaction model, influence of physical-nonlinear behaviour of structure and co-effects of the upper structure and the foundation structure. The subsoil-structure interaction can be solve by application of analytical methods or numerical methods - eg. Finite Element Method (FEM) or Boundary Element Method (BEM). FEM was used for numerical analysis performed in this article. Many different interaction models implemented in ...

Fatigue damage is determined from time signals of loading, usually in the form of stress or strain. However, there are many design scenarios when the loading, or fatigue damage process, cannot easily be defined using time signals. In these cases the design/operation engineer usually has to use a test based approach to evaluate the fatigue life of the structure or the component. Alternatively, a frequency based fatigue calculation can be used where the loading and response are represented using Power Spectral Densi...

One of the main problems in the exploration of porphyry copper deposits is the process of acid rock drainage and metal leaching (ARD/ML), that develops during storage enclosing rock in a dump. ARD/ML is formed by the natural oxidation of sulfide minerals exposed to air and water. It leads to the production of acidic, sulfate waters and results in the heavy-metal contamination of surface and ground natural water. Standard procedures for the evaluation of waste rocks ARD/ML potential are static and kinetic tests. St...

The present work shows some results obtained by the Time-Domain Electromagnetic Method (TDEM) to help characterize the geology and Penacova- R?gua-Verin fault structure in the Vila Pouca de Aguiar sector. The Fault is an important tardi-variscan structure with NNE-SSW direction, more than 500 km long, extending from the North of Spain until near Nazar?. The application of the TDEM method aimed to acquire data towards obtaining profiles of subsurface electrical resistivity in the zone affected by the fault and adja...

The purpose of this work was to study specific features of the accumulation and distribution of the total content and mobile forms of heavy metals (HM) in soils and plants of the estuarine ecosystems of the Don river and the Taganrog bay coast (Russian Federation). The soil cover is represented by following soils types: Fluvisols, Haplic Chernozem, Arenosol, Solonchak. The following higher plants were sampled: Phragmites australis Cav., Typha angustifolia L., Carex riparia Curtis, Cichorium intybus L., Bolboschoen...

The progress achieved over the past half century in modeling of hydrophysical processes and numerical methods, as well as the current level of computer and information technologies, led to an increasing use of 3-D models for modeling aquatic ecological systems. Nevertheless, the problem of numerical solution of systems of equations describing coupled hydrophysical, hydrochemical and hydrobiological processes is highly time-consuming and difficult from a computational point of view. In addition to computational dif...

In the paper underground monitoring measurement system for continuous measurement of load changes in instrumented rockbolts was presented. The use of anchor casings creates an effective method of protecting underground mine excavations in KGHM Polska Mied? S.A. mines. Foundation for technical assumptions of original monitoring method was trial measurement period carried out in two underground copper mines of KGHM Polska Mied? S.A. between 2005 and 2008. The main aim was to receive interaction between load variatio...

In the classification of natural disasters and hazards that occur all over the world, landslides are in the fifth place, both as far as number of casualties and material losses. Landslides are processes that lead to natural disasters or technical failures, the consequences of which threaten life, health and property of people. Continuous monitoring and evaluation of the risk seems to be a very important issue in preventing effects of this natural disasters. This paper therefore discuss the causes of landslides wit...

Wet ageing is the most commonly used ageing sistem by the meat industry to improve tenderness, which results in a more homogeneous product with high consumer acceptability. The aim of this study is to determine the influence of wet ageing duration on beef quality characteristics, at refrigeration temperatures (0 - 5°C). The meat samples were kept under refrigeration conditions for 2, 7, 12, 17, 21 days. After each period, there were monitored: the textural parameters (hardness, adhesiveness, springiness, cohesiven...

The numerous cases of the upper headwaters drying are observed in the plains of the Middle Volga region. The reasons of the streamflow change pertain to the reduction of forest vegetation and the change of its species composition. More than 1000 cartographic materials for more than 200 years, as well as aerial and satellite imagery were used during the research of forest vegetation breadth. Currently, the forest and the forest-field landscapes prevail in the north of Tatarstan, where coniferous-deciduous forests a...

The reactive oxygen species are usually generated by normal cellular activities of the aerobic metabolism and play the role of a signal molecule and beneficial growth regulator. When plants are exposed to stress conditions the concentration of reactive oxygen species increases. Therefore, to neutralize these free radicals and to protect cells from oxidative damage enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidant systems are activated. In this paper it was investigated the effect of drought on the activities of antioxidant ...

The aim of this paper is to draw attention to the relatively simple way how to both increase fire safety of paper technology processing and to remove one environmentally unfriendly and unhealthy chemical substance from the production process. Practical examination of flammability based on standardized testing method STN ISO 871:2010-07 of selected cellulosic material focusing on harvesting specimens and tissue paper bring new insights into the issues of flammability and combustion of the materials and finished pro...

The article deals with the design of new technology for the treatment of thin-walled house for carrier pipe conveyor drive roller. Production on conventional machine tool is unsatisfactory because of the failure of the machine tool and the actual production inaccuracies. Conventional machine tools are being replaced by numerically controlled machines CNC OS which allow reuse through production and higher labor productivity. They were designed and compared the new CNC axes of different structures, appropriate tools...

The Fourier two-dimensional series is used for classification of surface irregularities of rock joints. The expansion coefficients of this series are employed to form an absolute indicator of waviness of joint rock surfaces. The indicator serves for classification of surface irregularity of rock joints. The method has been applied to several real rock samples and the results are presented in the form of graphs. A similar visual comparison is often performed in geotechnical practice when joint rock coefficients are...

Linear programming problems are optimization problems where the objective function and constraints are all linear. Mathematica has a collection of algorithms for solving linear optimization problems with real variables, accessed via LinearProgramming, FindMinimum, FindMaximum, NMinimize, NMaximize, Minimize, and Maximize. LinearProgramming gives direct access to linear program- ming algorithms, provides the most flexibility for specifying the methods used, and is the most efficient for large-scale problems. FindMi...