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In the business environment the principl es of sustainable business are being progressively more respected. These are activ ities that contribute to minimizing costs, reduction of the load on the environment and take into account social aspects in the company. The main result of this pape r is Quality index of regional business environment, which helped to create the rank of the different regions of Slovakia in the examined area.

This research will address the important pr oblem of waste management sector for the Municipality of Prishtina. Rapid urbani zation has made solid waste management a serious problem today. The perception of the people has always been that it is a responsibility of the local government bodies. Local authorities are bound to keep their area clean. For some time now, many municipa lities, city corporations and industries have been experimenting with several innov ative and participatory methods of Reduce, Reuse and R...

Natural disasters, such as earthquakes, hu rricanes, flash floods, volcanic eruptions and landslides have always cons tituted a major problem in many developing and developed countries. Flood disaster has very special place in natural hazards and is considered as a major natural hazard due to its devastating effects on the affected area. Its effected area is not bounded; it is an unusual event of river basin. Flood related problems and many other applications proved that these problems could be solved through plan...

This publication presents th e assessment studies of two important characteristics, limiting the utilization of the geological envi ronment for various pu rposes, especially construction. The first is the character of the pre-quaternary bedrock, other is the rock workability. Character of the pre-quaternar y bedrock and its depth is important primarily for the complex foundation engineering. They carry the greater load caused by the weight of the structure itself. Therefore, it is often necessary to carry the weig...

Recognizing the desirability of reaching out to new students and enga ging in innovative pedagogical approaches, academic staff continues to prefer traditional lectures, skeptical about the potential for student learning in online settings. There are also fears of loss of academic control to central administration. There are drivers and barriers which increase or decrease motivation to engage in e-learning, and provides some insights into the challenges of embedding e-learning in higher education. The most importa...

This paper gives some information about risk management and its significance for financing project in mining industry. The projects in mini ng industry are very exacting for financial sources. By the obtaining of financial sources must be accepted kinds of financing. In the concrete mining company we were determining, which kind of financing is possible to use to finance mini ng projects with acceptance of risk. With the selection of the form of financing are conn ecting risks, that we are analyzing and we were pr...

In this paper we deal with analysis and evaluation of objects of interest which are present in ultrasound images as well as assessment of the progress or regressions that occurred in these objects. These objects ar e highly significant from a medicinal perspective and include atherosclerostic pl aque in carotid arte ries, the intima-media thickness in the distal part of the common carotid artery, cerebral cortex size and brain stem findings in cases of Parkinson disease. Here, we describe procedures employing comb...

Geographical information systems (GIS) are commonly understood as information systems serving for effective saving, actualiz ing, manipulating, analyzing, modelling and presenting geographically oriented da ta. Treatment of geological information through GIS comes together with several problems. Right and effective analysis of complex system of surface and undersurface objects requires whole specific data gamut, which are typical for geological sphere. It is possible to solve questions connected with qualitative a...

This paper evaluates the usage of the Geographic Markup Language (GML) in Turkey and essential subjects of the interoperabi lity concept in Turk ey for the future. Geography Markup Language-GML was developed by Open GIS Consortium-OGC. OGC presented GML based upon the technology of Extensible Markup Language-XML developed by World Wide Web Consortium-W3C. It was planned to constitute a layer for land registry and cad astral data at studies of INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Info rmation in Europe) that adopted...

In this study, It is estimated the effect of short-term exposure to air pollution on hospital admission for respiratory illnesses among young children. The study used existing data from records of three hospitals. Air quality and meteorological da ta were used to estimate daily exposure for children. The impact of air pollution on the respiratory health of children is assessed using case- crossover methodology. During study period (June 2007- May 2008), the average particulate matter (PM10) concentration is 93.77 ...

A comparative study on the zeolitization of coal fly ash from thermo-power plant “Maritsa 3” (Dimitrovgrad) with KOH and NaOH solutions of different concentrations has been made. The initial materials have been activ ated by application of “conventional” method of hydrothermal treatment at temperatures near 100 °C, atmosphere pressure and liquid/solid ratio of 10 ml.g -1. Three concentration levels for KOH and four concentration levels for NaOH have been used. The initial fly ashes and the obtained zeolitized fly ...

The Upper Cretaceous Flysch series between Suhareka and Bajice is developed in the psamitic and brecciaed facies . The relation between them is tectonic, but south of the area a gradual transitio n from one to the other facies has been established. Psamitic Flysch facies is characterized by a constant composition and regular graded bedding on the whole area of its distribution. It is represented by three lithogenous types: limy, sandy and conglomeratic. The limy lithogenous types : is characterized by a fairly goo...

This paper aims at studying some complex coagulants derived from the medium anionic polymer and medium cationic surfactant in order to evaluate the opportunity to use them in destabilizing and removing th e colloidal systems from water and wastewater. In this respect, medium anionic copolymers of acrylamide and sodium acrylate with commercial Preastol 2540, and a medium cationic surfactant derived from triethanolamine with commercial name of Tetranyl AT-7590 were used in order to obtain these complex coagulants. T...

The biggest polluters of water resources are industrial waste water produced after various production technological processes. Within the industrial complex RTB Bor, the waste water are generated during the copper production process with negative impact on the environment, reflected in long-term contamination of soil with which they come into contact and accumulation of heavy metal ions in it, in inflow into surface water and mixing with ground water and their pollution. Directly, the most vulnerable are the Bor R...

The presented paper describes artesian aquifer collector which is situated in the area of interest of the J. Sverma and Vrsany open pit mines. The area of interest is situated at the southern border of the central part of the Most Basin (previously North Bohemian Brown Coal Basin). The occurrence of severa l saturated collectors, which were created in this area in different geological peri ods (especially in the Upper Cretaceous and Miocene Period), is obstacle to the continuous extraction of coal from the beginni...

Trepça mine in Stantërg during its activities of exploitation periods divides this process in three stages of exploitati on, where in the first stage there are old exploitations of levels from 830m and 610m, and the way of exploitation method, dimensions of backbones and securing plates has been change d as a result of determination of height of floor-horizons between them. The heights of 30m and the angle of small fall allows this method of exploitation to be more favourable and secure. Securing backbones, are fo...

Estimation of large to rare floods is needed in the design of major water infrastructure such as large bridges, weir s and dam spillways. This paper presents a simple Large Flood Regionalisation Model (LFRM) which is relatively easy to apply in practice. The proposed method assumes that the maximum observed flood data over a large number of sites in a region can be pooled together by accounting for the at-site variations in the mean and coefficient of variation (CV) and inter-station correlation among the flood se...

To study the distribution and repetition of droughts, an ar chive of droughts has been created in eastern Georgia for 19 meteorol ogical stations for the vegetation period between 1961 and 2008. It has been eval uated geographic and meteorological conditions of droughts formation: conditions of humidity, temperature background, hydrothermal regime of soils. It has been studied the territorial distribution and probability of dry months, repetition of drought s within a season and a month, severe and ultra-severe dr...

The paper marks evaluation of existing me thodological tools for the formation of polymer composites, summarizes in brief the known technical designs and recent points of view for functioning of the old processi ng methods. Further, to make these systems usable in a practical working environment we will focus on the implementation of well- established utensils and ou tline possible new viewpoints for the modern revelations. Here, we will involve identified developments and routine utilizations, and will propose pr...

The increase of the demands for quality in th e EU is caused by the fact that customer’s satisfaction is no longer enough; the expectations must be overcome by promoting the concept “Beyond Customer Satisfaction”, which determined the orientation of the Romanian companies toward s implementing the Quality Management System. This paper aims at analysing the impact that th is implementation system has on the analysed company's financial and economic results involv ed in such a process. This diagnosis, during 2007-20...

The contribution deals with heating proc ess modelling and using service oriented architecture in process modellin g in Matlab client envir onment. Granular material heating with combustion gas is typical process in area of raw material processing. Paper briefly characterizes and describes model of heating process with its particularly models of heat accumulation and convec tive heat transfer from the modelling point of view. In the next part of contribution is characte rized basic service oriented architecture pr...

Methods for gas extraction are currently ranked among clean coal technology. Coal gas is a normal part of coal deposits a nd its mining reduces methane emissions. Underground coal gasification is a non-traditional mining method that also allows use of coal deposits which are not possible to be mined by traditional methods. These technologies bring both positive and negative aspects aff ecting the environment. This contribution is covering the influence of gas extraction from coal deposits on the environment accomp...

The determination of heights using the me thod of geometric levelling belongs to the most precise geodetic measurements. The majo rity of errors in geometric levelling can be eliminated in the most part by testing and rectification of instruments, by selecting an appropriate measuring method and the most convenient external conditions and the time of the day and the year. The errors that canno t be eliminated in f iled conditions are the error of staff scale, the error of irregula rly attached staff scale and the ...

Feldspar ores occur usually together with quartz, micaceous minerals and some amount of coloured impurities. For fu rther utilization of feldspar is necessary to effectively remove colouring gangue minerals. The main me thod of feldspar ores treatment is froth flotation. In this paper the emphasis is put on efficiency of pH changes and varied dosages of flotation reagents in application of laboratory flotation.

The analysis of the air quality impact of the industry production reduction was elaborated by means of th e air quality pollution modeling in accord with the Czech reference methodology SYMOS"97. All relevant pollution sources were included. It concerned local and contiguous extra large and large air pollution sources (REAPS 1), medium-sized sources, local heating systems (small sources) and the road traffic. Also the local pollution background and the tran sfrontier pollution transmission were estimated. The air ...

Road structures construction and maintenance involves the use of large amounts of materials, including natural aggregates that occupies the largest share. On one hand the quality of natural aggregates, and other road ma terials, is decisive for the success of the technologies used in the road construction sector and on the other hand, the diversity, and number of the possibilities of purchasing and the number of producing units are more varied for natural a ggregates with possibilities to significantly influence t...

The Moravica River is one of the most signifi cant right tributaries of the South Morava River. Its total length is 43 km and basin area 640 km 2. The municipal center of Aleksinac with its urban, commercial, industrial and cultural areas is situated close to the Moravica river estuary in to South Morava river. Due to position of the settlement and the natural river channel conditions, significant damages occurred in the past. Flood flows were endangering the inhabited part of Aleksinac, residential and public str...

Conception of information society can be viewed as using of information and communication Technologies that are sign ificant phenomenon of present economy, since they remove geographical boundaries and they support process of economy globalization and international cooperation. Most mature countries are striving deliberately to use advantages of info rmation and communication Technologies for acceleration of development of society, ec onomy and quality of the inhabitants live. Government of Slovak republic declare...

Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) interests among young people has to be raised gradually. Incremental building of SET image for young people means employing several tools. One of them is educational background to be perceived by future students as attractive. This perception was observed in two case studies at secondary schools of technical and non-technical programe. It was the aim of the survey to gather and analyze the data about the perceptions concerning the SET issue. The objects of interest had bee...

The influence of solvents on the colloidal stability of petroleum disperse systems in Devonian fields in Tatarstan has been considered. A stability factor has been suggested as a criterion for kinetic stability of petroleum disperse systems. A pa ttern for choosing solvents with the aim of using them in technological process of organic sediment deposits removal has been proposed.

This paper presents correlations of a porti on of bordering zone Kosova – Albania, in other words sheet K-34-78-A - Shishtavec. Sheet of the three neighbouring countries boarders Kosova –Macedonia – Albania and covers the are of roughly 387 km 2. Out of this area, 148 km2 or 38 % lay in Albania territory, more precisely in the surrounding of Kukës and Dibra towns. Othe r part, however, roughly 239 km 2 or 62 % lay in Kosova territory, Dragash Municipality (Sharr Mountain area). Geological map of each of these plac...

Dinarido-Albanido-Hellenic folded alpine belt is interpreted as a result of Mesozoic - Cenozoic convergence and continental collision of a series of micro-blocks localized between the Eurasian and African plates. The ophiolites of the Balkan Peninsula are particularly formed in the ocean basins wh ich were divided by micro-continents during the Mesozoic period and they are products of the Mesozoic - Cenozoic obduction. The Vardar Ophiolites from the region of Gjilan are covered by a chaotic sequence, well stratifi...

Transport noise barriers are ecological struct ures that are designed and built along the roads (motorways, expressways and railways etc. ), in order to reduce the noise levels to the limit values for urban areas and in rooms of buildings. Assessment of the effectiveness of the barrier is carried out th eoretically, empirically or by a combination of both methods. To automate the design of th in noise barriers are created four modules from the series Screen *, which are part of the software package for acoustic ca...

The local rural communities of Romania have been strongly affected by the historian evolution in former decades by social- economic system evolution. To these ones, there have been added a period of almost fifty years of a social system based on centralized economy and, afterwards, Romanian economy was and is marked by the period of transition towards the market economy. All of these periods determined a peculiar social - economic relationship and, in fact, be haviors of the rural inhabitants, as ones between the ...

All wastes, as the products of human activity, necessarily enter matte r cycles in nature and ecosystems after certain time. They can damage the nature by their direct effects on biotic and abiotic ecosystems. Our contributio n discusses the risk properties of wastes and their influences on the environment with respect to the protec tion of public health. The hazard effects of wastes are demonstr ated using some cases of their direct exposition on organisms and other parts of the environment.

Bacterial density, biomass, morphological dive rsity and cell integrity were studied in surficial sediment samples taken form eight locations on the Romanian coast. Investigation was done by epifluorescence microscopy, employing SYBR Green I (universal fluorochrome) and propidium iodide (for visualising cells with damaged membranes). Cell density varied between 4.62-9.64 × 107 cells/cm3 sediment, showing a relation to sediment grain size. Dry biomass ranged between 3.03-6.39 µg/cm 3. Rod shaped bacteria were domin...

Soil erosion associated with non-point source pollution is viewed as a process of land degradation in many terrestrial environments. The question of nutrient loading of rivers and reservoirs, as it relates to sediment in general and farmland erosion in particular, is still a potentially important issue. This paper presents the suggestion of model for predicting the total nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium contents in reservoir bottom sediments. The model is based on the soil loss calculation using the Univer sal S...

From working in the field, sheep herding, washing laundry in the river's whirlpool, ritual singing in the young forest, traditional dancing of the village , all the way to the office job, dry cleaning, disco, hip-hop and neighbor-hood slang, took only a few centuries time. The peasants’ time was well di vided: preparing weather calendars in the winter, working the fields or taking the sheep flock up the mountain in the spring, gathering the harvest and celebrating in the fall. No missed occasion for him, who take ...

We intend with this work to establish the evolution of some indicators which are significant for the development of the economies of Romania and Bulgaria – two neighbour countries with the same options for the economic and politic development. We shall discover that usually the analysed indicators developed in the same way, but with different rhythms. In order to fi nd out the disparities betw een the indicators of the two countries, we will use the method of the extrapolating by analogy, thus allows us the measur...

Biooxidation of sulphide minerals has become an important method for the pretreatment of refractory gold ores. More over, bioleaching of the mi nerals with thermophilic microorganisms is attracting increasing interest as a promising alternative process. In this study, the biooxidation of an arsenical refractory gold sulphide concentrate using extreme thermophiles is examined. The concentrate contained 100.84 g/t Au, 31.8% pyrite (FeS2), 10.9% arsenopyrite (FeAsS), 0.2% chalcopyrite (CuFeS 2), 37.3% quartz (SiO2) a...

Recovery of gold and other valuable metals from electronic scrap involves a complex metallurgical flow sheet and requires state- of-the-art recovery technologies that are available in large-scal e, integrated smelter-refinery opera tions. At the end of their use, electronic and other el ectrical product scrap offer an important recycling potential for the secondary supply of gold and silver into the market. With gold concentrations reaching 200-250 g/t for computer circuit boards, this scrap is an ‘urban mine’ tha...

Many researches have been carried out in field of “Roof rock behavior in coal mines", most of them concentrated on mines devel opment networks; but a less attention have been paid to assessment and classification of roof strata behavior over long wall coal mining panels. In this paper, It has been a ttentioned to roof strata behavior over long wall coal mining panels in East Alborz coal mines. Intens ive field work and laboratory analyses that discuses the influence of various parameters on roof rock behavior of t...

The article deals with the kinematics analys is of crank mechanism realized by three methods followed by comparison of achieved results. The crank mechanism is the most commonly used mechanism in practice; it is the part of the various machines and almost every car. It belongs to the fundamental mechanisms whereon the kinematic characteristics of mechanism are investigated by students on FMT TU Košice with seat in Prešov within the scope of Technical mechanics lessons. Ar ticle hints as the utilization of suitable...

Investment in the mine scope is one of the most risk able fields. In the new management skills, risk management is a ve ry important feature. During of the execution of a mine project, the variation of each effective factor can affect on the execution, production and efficiency, therefore a mining project ma nager must be knowledge about of any effective parameter such as Annual productivity, annual benefit, annual cost and exploitation time, in project The net present value (NPV) is one of the most important meth...

During the research of flora and vegetation of Sharri Mountains we have found five new taxons for Kosovo’s flora. As part of the Sharri Mountains we have also researched Mushtisht Mountain which occupied the northeas tern part of the Sharri Mountains and range in altitude 480 - 2092 m (Maja Pashallare). These terrains are rich with rare endemic and relict species to the Balkans and that species have been preserved very well especially at the valley of the Rusenica. During research the Mushtisht Mountain flora’s, w...

The influence of washout scavenging on the removal processes of SO 4 2-, NO3 - and Cl - ions were investigated using sequential ra in sampling. For this purpose this study investigates the variation of these ions in precipitation using the sequential rain sampling and relationships of the wet depos ition flux to the rain intensity and ion concentration were introduced. We carried out sequential rain sampling for five different rain events sampled in Istanbul on a) March 14 th, 2008 b) March 20 th, 2008 c) March 25...

The new lab facility at the Ge ological Institute of the Bu lgarian Academy of Sciences was set up in the end of 2009. The main equipment consist a state of the art PerkinElmer ELAN DRC-e ICP-MS and New Wave Research UP-193FX excimer laser ablation system. Combined together, it is a precise instrument for geochemical research and geochronology. One of the leading research topics is quantitative determination of trace and ultra trace elements in rocks together w ith their age dating clar ification. We report our fi...