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Emotions are an integral part of human life. Different situations in our lives affect changing emotional state. It is believed that human facial expressions is distinctive enough to be a part of analysis that allows for assessment of emotional state. The article describes an innovative research conducted by scientists team. As input data used in movies recorded speed camera at speed of 1,000 frames per second in high definition. Registration of a human face took place during the application of the stimulus causing...

Over the time, many plant oils and extracts have been reported to possess antimicrobial properties. Recently, those plants which have been used in traditional medicines as sources of disease healing are investigated for their antibacterial, antifungal and antioxidant effects and their chemical composition is being elucidated. The increasing interest regarding sustainable and environmentally friendly control of plant pathogens and consumer demand for natural products that are pesticide free means that quantitative ...

The presence of metals in aquatic environment is known to cause several health problems to animals and human beings. The levels of heavy metals in wastewater and drinking water must be reduced to the maximum permissible concentration. Clays are abundant and inexpensive layered alumino-silicate minerals that have adsorbent properties. In general, chemical species can interact with clays either by ion exchange or physisorption, both being reversible processes. Among the mineral clays, smectites, especially montmoril...

This paper presents the results of micropaleontological research of foraminiferal fauna and calcareous nannofossils research of the Upper-Eocene sediments in the Delchevo and Strumica basins on the territory of the Serbian-Macedonian massif in the Republic of Macedonia, which are very important in solving the stratigraphy of the sediments. The studied micropalaeontological material was obtained from 31 samples coming from the upper flysh unit of 2 outcrop sections belonging to sedimentary basins: Delchevo and Stru...

Asphaltites derive from petroleum origin. The combustion of asphaltites produces fly and bottom ashes that are characterized by a high content of valuable elements such as vanadium, nickel, molybdenum, uranium, thorium, sulfur and unburnt carbon [1]. This study presents the concentration and speciation of nickel in bottom ash of Milli (Sirnak), SE Anatolia in Turkey. Determination of total nickel in asphaltite bottom ash was performed in two stage microwave-acid digestion followed by inductively coupled plasma opt...

The paper presents and analyzes the experimental results obtained by the welding reconditioning of a pressure vessel made of 14CrMoV4, a Romanian trade of steel, which is the equivalent of 13CrMo4-5, in the European norm 10028-2/2009, steel, which functioned for a long period of time in the energetic industry. The welding process used for reconditioning is robotized gas metal arc welding (GMAW). A series of samples were realized using different technological parameters in order to obtain different geometrical conf...

This paper is focused on the reuse of construction and demolition wastes in concrete production. From a large group of demolition wastes the concrete waste was selected. Tested concrete samples were prepared using coarse recycled concrete aggregate. In these specimens, fraction 4/8 mm were replaced by recycled concrete aggregate with a range of 100%. To reduce the absorption of the recycled concrete aggregate, the surface of aggregate was activated by a multi-stage mixing and using of geopolymer phases. To prepara...

Geoid is an equipotential surface of Earth?s gravity field, which partially coincides with the mean sea level and extended inside continents. In the gravimetric geoid determination; global geopotential models (GGMs), digital elevation models and terrestrial gravity observations are combined in a proposed technique (e.g. Remove-Compute-Restore). The external Earth's gravity field is represented by a GGM that consists of the globally and homogeneously distributed terrestrial and satellite gravity measurements. Curre...

The Danube Delta dynamics formation and expansion represent the motivation of the study included in this paper. The results of soil studies made possible to develop the Danube Delta genesis maps [7]. That information?s are the input data and the validation data for the numerical flow studies of the Danube River. The study of the formation of new territories has been developed by the Computational Fluid Dynamics (C.F.D.) method. There were modelled in three dimensions the maps for Danube River Basin flowing into th...

Development of numerical methods allows on much more better examination of changes in foundation-soil interaction. However, there are still some areas which require more analysis and discussion, because results of simulations on are often divergent to the field tests. One of these problems is numerical modeling of displacement pile installation and proper consideration of its influence on surrounding soil. Application a simple FEM model can be not sufficient, by its limited application in changes of soil considera...

This paperwork aims to present the correlation between the Modulus of Deformation, E as a physical parameter and the internal friction angle of the soil, ? as a resisting parameter of soils. Assigning the resisting parameters to soils shall be reliable and when there is a suspicion in their values derived out of a test, than they shall be compared with other tests used to determine the shear resistance. To give the correlation between the Modulus of Deformation, E and the internal friction angle, ? the results obt...

An effective development of underground space is impossible without the use of modern systems of underground navigation. And the high-precision inclinometric survey is one of the main problems of such systems, as well as the complicated systems of drilling rigs, which are usually used in the construction of oil and gas wells. As a result of research described in the paper the authors scientifically prove a necessity of new special indices of geomagnetic activity introduction. Also the algorithm of their calculatio...

Historic military complexes form a separate typological genre, with unique hieratic site plans, stately yet austere stylistics and a multiplex functional program. They form a significant portion of historic landscape in garrison towns, as both material and immaterial heritage. It is essential, that as many of the complexes as possible are preserved to serve as historic links for future generations. Luckily, their innate characteristics predispose them to adaptations for diverse purposes once demilitarized. The pap...

In 2008, a new polymer substance FIRESORB®, used both as a fire extinguishing agent as well as a fire retardant, especially at wildland fires, was placed on the Slovak market. FIRESORB® gel, in general, due to its high density affects burning materials by even uniform cooling effect, reducing the rate of evaporation. This cooling effect is a dominant one at fires with origin of very high temperatures, where applying water streams would be ineffective due to near immediately water evaporation. The paper is dealing ...

Today, the need for resources is growing based on the replacement of forest areas by areas used for economic and agricultural activities. The present study means to identify the changes in land use cover and forest areas between the changes made by the economic activities and aridity indexes, characterized by high temperatures and low quantities of precipitations in Southwestern Romania. This region is affected by high temperatures and low precipitations in July and August, growing urban areas and necessity for ag...

Nowadays, the leading place in space industry production materials belongs to reinforced polymers. One of the most popular reinforced polymer in this sector is produced from aramid fibers and epoxy resin as matrix with hot solidification at temperature 160 ? 170 grad. Celsius. Despite the automated winding technology on modern machinery, there is an accumulation of epoxy resin as a waste happens. This paper is devoted to the processes of curing low-viscosity epoxy resin waste under the influence of orthophosphoric...

The generation and occurrence of surface runoff from a slope is driven by many factors, such as the slope gradient, the physical properties and current state of the soil, the type and density of the vegetation cover, and the intensity and duration of rainfall events. Within the study experiments with a rainfall simulator were focused on an analysis of the impact of a changing slope gradient on the generation of surface runoff and the amount of eroded soil material. The experiments were conducted in laboratory cond...

In modified Tube reactor, where the average concentration of solids amounts to 0.1- 0.2 t/m3, i.e. the conditions for residence time are long enough for the thermal combustion of biomass waste and coal and extensive gas mixing with 60-70% excess air so enhancing biomass combustion and heat transfers to the boilers. It is necessary to create conditions of internal circulation without the transported coal and waste in modified Tube and boiler, 90-95% combustion yield were observed at the end of combustion. Total hea...

The article is devoted to the development of the algorithm for express analysis of the state of human functional systems, taking into account the data of goniometric control. The analysis of electrophysiological correlates of movements is given. The features of occurrence of bioelectric signals of brain centers and muscle neurons are analyzed. Based on the analysis it is established that for more effective study of the pathology of the musculoskeletal system it is necessary to carry out goniometric control togethe...

Adsorption of p-nitrophenol from aqueous solution by combined membrane-adsorption technology was studied. Activated carbon samples were synthesized on the base of industrial by products (coal tar pitch) and biomass. Synthetic activated carbon synthesized from mixture of coal tar pitch and furfural by thermo-oxidation treatment with sulfuric acid at 200oC, and subsequent carbonization in nitrogen atmosphere at 600 oC, followed by hydro-carbonyzation at 800oC. Biomass based activated carbon was obtained by hydro-car...

For years it has been evident the presence of regions with significant surface water and groundwater deficits due to negative climate change impacts such phenomena as global warming, which contributes to enhancing water demands in the country. In order to rationalize water resources management one should minimize the water variability in time (during periods of drought and floods). It should be emphasized, that in recent years increasing frequency of floods, their wide coverage and economic impact justifies taking...

Specific models and storage technologies which is possible to save domain semantics are required to create configurable information systems. This is why modern researchers talk about the high cost of domain models in comparison with a program code. But they don't suggest any approaches for including this model as a component of the system itself. Existing approaches for domain modeling during the transition to final stages of a system life cycle tend to lose the semantic component of the data. They only allow to p...

Cruciferous vegetables are rich source of phytochemicals which play an important role as a health-protecting factor. These compounds and enzymatic systems may combat oxidative stress in the human body by maintaining a balance between oxidants and antioxidants. This is particularly important because under oxidative stress excessive formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) can damage biomolecules, such as DNA, proteins, lipids and carbohydrates, and lead to numerous disease conditions. The enzyme superoxide dismut...

Optimization of the measurements is an important theme nowadays of the geodesy and especially engineering geodesy. The optimization can be categorized into orders, from the zero to the third order. The zero order design is the coordinate system selection, the first order is the configuration optimization, the second order is the optimization of the number of the repetitions, the third order is the improvement of the existing network by adding point and/or observations. In the engineering surveying the second order...

Wastewater treatment plants that currently lack biological step have a low efficiency in wastewater treatment. This causes polluted emissions to be discharged into emissaries. An example of this is Drobeta Turnu Severin wastewater treatment plant. Drobeta Turnu Severin City in Mehedinti county currently has 108 246 inhabitants, of which 80% benefit from centralized drinking water distribution and centralized system for collecting and transporting wastewater to the treatment plant. Drobeta Turnu Severin has a waste...

Latvia has been actively involved in reducing global climate change. However, since 2006, along with an increase in economic activity, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from Latvia?s agricultural sector have tended to increase; besides, the agricultural sector is the second largest source of GHG emissions, in 2015 accounting for 24.2% of the total GHG emissions in the country. Such changes in GHG emissions from agriculture in Latvia indicate that without additional measures Latvia cannot reach its GHG emission target...

The floodplain forest ecosystems have the unique biodiversity despite of long-term human alternations of floodplain landscapes. The priorities of nature conservation in central European floodplains currently aimed to coppice and standard-with-coppice forest stands, which are relics of historical ways of forest management. This paper deals with a proposal of management strategy for floodplain forests in the Czech Republic. A management strategy which would compromise the commercial interests of production of renewa...

Water serves as a medium for fundamental process phases (e.g. tanning and dyeing) in leather production. The reduction of water consumption per product unit has been an environmental priority for European tanners over the years. This is possible mainly through the setting of continuous improvement objectives aiming at developing water efficient processes and water recycling technologies. The paper analyses the pickling operation, for bovine hides processing. The aim is to develop an automation system which will re...

This paper presents an original approach on developing and testing an extruder for paste-like materials for conventional 3D printers based on Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) technology. The main advantage of such technology is that it allows the final product to be modified / altered after fabrication i.e. either to correct printing irregularities or simply give it another design form. The material is fed into the extrusion nozzle via a plastic cylinder driven by an electric actuator. Various extruding nozzles wer...

This paper presents a study of the structural models convergence, rezulted from CAD (Computer Aided Design ), based on method of estimation. The study of the structural models convergence presented a method based on the convergence, in the sense of mathematical analysis, adapted to finite strings. The convergence estimators are status sizes that characterize the response of the structural model to the given load. As convergence estimators can be used sizes that characterize the response of the structure, like foll...

Potatoes take up metals by absorbing them from contaminated soils, as well as from deposits on different parts of the vegetables exposed to the air from polluted environments. The content of Zn, Cu, Pb and Cd in potato tubers grown in different production sites of Vushtri, Kosovo was determined using atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS). Experimental work was performed at the chemical laboratory of the Phytosanitary Corporation Sara & Meti, Kosovo, which is accredited according to ISO 17025. The results of this st...

The processes of nanogold deposition and concentration in the environment, which have been occurring with enlargement of metal grain size, may be considered as the natural nanotechnologies. The mechanisms of nanogold concentrations in geological objects are established and described on the example of many deposits in Russia (the Urals, Siberia) and abroad (Canada). They produce different morphological and chemical aggregations of gold nanoparticles. Among them variable growths on the placer metal surface, globular...

The contribution deals with the indoor air quality (IAQ) in residential prefabricated panel houses, which represent a significant proportion of the housing stock in the Czech Republic. Ensuring the health and comfort of users is a phenomenon of present time in accordance with the principles of sustainable development. Almost two thirds of building occupants suffer from the symptoms of Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). Concentration of pollutants in indoor environments increases due to increasing of airtightness of the...

The results of microstructure study, X-ray microanalysis, microhardness, porosity of sintered samples from a powder high-speed steel before and after hardening by the wave intensive plastic deformation are presented. It has been established that the basic elements in the composition of sintered samples from tungsten powders are C, O, Mo, Ca, V, Cr, Fe, W. Based on the analysis of the sintered samples microstructure, it was determined that the there is a uniform distribution of solid carbide in the base material vo...

The Holy Cross Mountains is Paleozoic massif, 120 km long and 30 km wide is situated in the central part of Poland. It is built of Cambrian to Permian rock sequences and surrounded by Triassic to Cretaceous rocks. All over the massif Quaternary sediments form spotted cover. Paleozoic rocks are folded and dissected by transversal and longitudinal faults. The deposits, that occur between the siliciclastic Lower Devonian and Carbonate Middle Devonian sediments are interesting due to numerous ore mineralization sites....

Renewable energy is a key factor in the sustainable development of any modern society. The development of renewable energy project must continue to be part of a competitive economy and the research and innovation of this domain should be a priority. One of the renewable energy sources (RES) that are reliable, provides predictable energy, assures the energy supply in remote areas and at the end of the power transmission lines, are small hydro power plants (SHPP). In Romania SHPP are not new, being part of the devel...

Hlucin town, together with its surrounding area, is a typically historically- rich example of the region, which undoubtedly has influenced the historical development of its entire area - an area characterized by its frequent changes and various political, ethnic, economic, social, cultural and spiritual impact. Some historic moments are therefore reflected even in the present day, whether the actual location, structure of the city centre, the emergence of a fortification and its current state, changes in the ethni...

In spatial data processing, the area of legislation is crucial but often neglected by the expert's community. Knowledge of the various legal aspects related to the data collection, data processing, and analysis of data, as well as publishing the results of spatial analysis and its visualization, is an essential prerequisite for effective work. Legislative aspects are understood as a set of legislative standards, their relationships and their influence on other fields of human activity. In the context of geoinforma...

The East European Platform (EEP) in Poland belonged to Baltica plate during Cambrian and Ordovician times. Baltica originated as a result of disintegration of supercontinent Pannotia, which occurred during Early Cambrian. Baltica included part of Poland and adjacent areas northeast of Teisseyre -Tornquist zone. This zone is associated with Teisseyre - Tornquist Line, which ran from Scania through Western Pomerania, central Poland to the Black Sea. The Baltica plate originally included also area south-west from thi...

This paper presents the works on applying the recommendations of European Commission to Member States by the Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystem Services (MAES) framework to the Romanian peculiarities of wetlands ecosystems, at local level. The MAES framework, published in several guides by MAES working group, recommends for the Member States the methodology for the fulfillment of the Action 5 from the European Union's Biodiversity Strategy 2020 which is to assess in the first phase the ecosystems condition and th...

Depletion of soil fertility due to decrease in soil organic matter content represents a considerable problem in both developed and undeveloped countries. This paper deals with the comparison of compost (Cp) and mineral nitrogen fertilizer (NF) application on selected soil parameters which indicate state of soil environment, its health and quality. The main objectives of this study were (a) to investigate influence of Cp and NF application on total nitrogen (TN) and carbon (TC) content in soil (b), to determine pos...

Use of biomass for energy purposes is one of the viable priorities of the energy and forestry policies of the state. Given the expanse of forest in Slovakia include the forest biomass among one of the best renewable energy potential. It is used in the traditional way as it is burning, but also further processing of the products in the form of pellets or briquettes. Appropriate are also fast-growing trees. Currently, large amounts of available biomass are unused. These are mainly so-called biomass waste residues of...

Protected natural areas are ideal for monitoring relatively undisturbed natural development of both inorganic and organic parts of ecosystem. The stock-taking of species occurring in the nature reserve is not only crucial to maintain the function of natural reserve, but also to monitor the development of species spectrum, as well as the diversity and succession under conditions relatively undisturbed by anthropogenic factors. Prosisko nature reserve was established in 1998 in order to protect forest ecosystems wit...

This paper aims to bring the latest information on annual calibration of measuring equipment installed in cement plants. Calibration should be certified to confirm the quality of continuous measurements, namely the measurements of plant equipment is controlled by parallel measurements with standard reference methods by an authorized testing laboratory (accredited). These types of measurements are referred to as instant annual measurements or measurements for the chimney testing. A continuous emissions monitoring e...

Industrial history of many places still interacts with the present time. Ostrava (Czech Republic) as former industrial city is a typical example of problems and barriers which can be found in process of regeneration, revitalization or redevelopment of areas used formerly for heavy industry. The article is focused on retrospective description of development of areas which can be known as backfields or mega sites. The article will be focused on five areas for which there are expectations and likely huge potential fo...

The article deals with optimizing CFD model of the gravitational heat pipe to the creation of substitute materials and the optimization of its properties, depending on the actually measured results of the experimental device. Gravitational heat pipe operates on the principle of phase change working fluid (heat transfer fluid). The very principle of heat transfer is based on the theory of evaporation and condensation of the working fluid (heat transfer fluid). Heat pipes are classified according to the method of op...

The paper deals with the determination of accuracy and precision of distance measurement on the reflective foil, which is rotated under different angles to the sight line of the device. The problem with the rotation of reflective foil appears especially on large construction sites, where improper rotation complicate determination of temporary stations and setting-out of given points. At the Department of Special Geodesy Faculty of Civil Engineering CTU in Prague was proposed testing procedure to find limits of rot...

The basic tasks of building and production sphere, housing and communal services are connected with life protection and comfortable conditions creations for people. In this way the automated control systems of distributed energy supply and life support facilities play an important part. The main scientific direction in this area is increasing their energy efficiency. Paper represents results of implementation of automated dispatch control systems of distributed energy supply and life support facilities that includ...

The Moravian Karst, situated in the eastern part of the Czech Republic, is the most extensive and most developed karst area in the Bohemian Massif. To protect its unique environment, the Moravian Karst was declared a Protected Landscape Area in 1956. Despite the protection, pollution occurs in some disappearing streams both on the earth?s surface and underground, in caves formed by karst processes. The aim of the study was to assess the hydrochemical status of several selected streams and identify the sources of t...

This study focuses on petrophysical characteristics of flysch sandstones in the S-8 well section, located in the western part of the Polish Outer Carpathians (southern Poland). A number of laboratory tests were performed with application of the mercury injection capillary pressure, low field nuclear magnetic resonance, X-ray diffraction and pulse decay permeability measurements. Laboratory tests results were compared with the well logging interpretation. The laboratory analyses were conducted on core samples from ...