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Gemstones inspired people since the very beginnings of humankind due to their esthetic nature and as a symbol of lasting value and social superiority. Precious and decorative stones from the East Kazakhstan Region are known in this area of Central Asia since the early prehistory. The most precious among the Kazakhstan gemstones пїЅ emeralds пїЅ were processed by the factories in the Urals in the 16th-19th Centuries. Among other well-known non-metallic minerals there are sapphires, topazes and tourmalines, mostly o...

Information regarding activity on the market provides valuable source for the future managerial decisions of each company. They are very important for achieving company strategic goals which represent part of a long-term strategic management concept of the company. Highly-valued information concerns especially the sales and the expenses development. Development of set company's values can be predicted to a certain extent using mathematical methods. Company can adequately respond to its future predicted state of va...

Lake Suturuokha (69'06 "N, 145'23" E) is a unique lake within the Indigirka River basin, which is located on the border of the forest-tundra and taiga in the north of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Formed due to the influence of glaciers of several glaciations in the late Pleistocene, the lake has a large area (69 km2) and comparatively shallow depths (2 - 2.5 m). Because of its unusual genesis and low study, the lake is of great interest to scientists. In August 2015, in the framework of the research expedition...

This paper reports the preparation of novel polymer membranes by phase inversion at room temperature (25 пїЅC), using acrylonitrile, acrylic acid, dimethyl sulfoxide and small amount of medicinal plant extract. We investigated the structure of the resulting membranes through Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy and SEM microscopy. Also was determined the water content. FTIR-ATR spectra show that the peak at 1723 cm-1 shifted to lower wave number when medicinal plant extract (1715 cm-1) is added in the p...

Classic models of fault related folding frequently fails to describe complicated geological structures. The combination of tectonic modelling techniques can be used to reproduce observed geometry of folds. Indirect information contained in geophysical data can provide a good quality check for proposed tectonic models. The Draganowa Anticline is the westernmost part of the Draganowa-Iwonicz Fold. This structure is characterized by existence of very steeply dipping limbs in shallow zone which turns into gentle antic...

The priorities of the state policy of the Russian Federation in the Arctic is determined primarily by the Strategy of development of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation and national security for the period up to 2020, approved by the President of the Russian Federation. In the framework of the activities of the Russian State Commission on Arctic development a working group "Education and Science" under the leadership of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. This group had analyzed ...

When aiming to study pro-environmental behavior (PEB) developments at the local municipal level in Latvia, there were two complementary studies employed: 1- main local stakeholder groups interviewing in two town municipalities to study their existing PEB practice, especially obstacles and related municipal governance instruments; 2- questionnaire for about 100 Eco-schools (EcoS) coordinators in Latvia to study schools existing PEB practice within school grounds, but especially their orientation towards and collabo...

The article analyzes the necessity of forming a model of environmentally sustainable development. It is determined that the solution of this problem is extremely necessary for Russia. The characteristic of the basic concepts of solving global environmental problems is given. It is determined that the solution of this problem is extremely necessary for Russia. The characteristic of the basic concepts of solving global environmental problems is given. The need is formulated to consider nature as an economic category...

The competitive markets complemented by the concern for resources and environmental protection represent real and actual challenges factors for any organization. The customers call for special attention and organizations integrate the customer-centred approach in their strategies as main vehicle for achieving performance objectives. One of the well-known methods in this matter is referring to the Total Quality concept which supports checking and implementing different quality models needed to improve the competiti...

The main purpose of any socio-economic system is the quality of life of the population. Factor of production is dominant in the regional economy to achieve those goals. Creating conditions for the development of industrial production, is subject to state regulation, including all levels of government. However, responsible for the achievement of the final goal are also enterprises, organizations and citizens themselves. Production potential and quality of life of the population-are directly linked to the level of e...

The intensity of scientific and technical progress is the most important factor in the sustainable development of the economy, its economic and environmental security. In order to increase the intensity of scientific and technological progress in Russia was developed a state program "Development of Science and Technology" for 2013-2020. One of the main tasks of this program is "the formation of a modern material and technical base of the research and development sector." Measurement of the supply of material and t...

Today, sustainable development is related not only to sustainable production issues but also to a sustainable consumption. In the planning document пїЅSustainable Development Strategy of Latvia until 2030пїЅ, special attention is focused on enhancement of ecologically certified and healthy products, thus shaping the image of Latvia as a пїЅgreenпїЅ country by promotion of sustainable eating habits and cultural heritage. To position Latvia as one of the пїЅgreenestпїЅ countries of the EU, the consumers, food produc...

In the paper the priority directions of development of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation and ensuring national security, and note that one of the most principal factor is the development of science and technology and international cooperation in the Arctic. For the development of Arctic science and technology, the Russian Federation conducts work on formation of competitive scientific and technological sector in the development and deployment of advanced technologies and materials adapted to the climatic c...

Since 2014 Russia has been developing and implementing a new environmental policy based on the concept Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control and Best Available Techniques. Transition to Integrated Environmental Permits is gradual: first 300 industries characterized as пїЅkey pollutersпїЅ have to obtain permits in the period of 2019-2022. They will be followed by at least 5-6 thousand industries of nearly 30 economic sectors. Within the construction materials industry sector, several older cement plants are l...

With the growing number of cars in Russia over the last years, the number of gas stations has several times increased, and the range of oil products has greatly changed. At present gasoline should provide reliable and efficient engineпїЅs work; it mustnпїЅt change its composition and characteristics during long-term storage; mustnпїЅt damage reservoirs, fuel related components, industrial rubber articles; should have effective volatility and hydrocarbon composition; should provide non-detonating stable fuel combus...

The paper presents the analysis of the impact of quality and organizational parameters of products using industrial waste An attempt to analyze possibility of waste processing steel in order to improve the quality and properties of products. In today of globalization and standardizations processes, products as well as diagnostic systems, extremely a fact of abilities and adjustabilities seems material to the organization of enterprise for completion of diagnostic treatments. It isn't possibile here to omit the nee...

Border effect is a phenomenon that adversely affects the development of the regions. It involves the suppression of links between centers, which limits the development of the areas between these centers. Each type of boundary is generating variously powerful border effect, which can be quantified as the ratio between the expected and actual power of spatial interactions. Expected power of spatial interactions is calculated on the basis of geographic application of the gravity model, calibrated by using data on dai...

A decade of improvements and new development of tools for observation statistics, standard point positioning, clock-jumps and cycle-slip detection and other interruptions over all constellations, frequencies and signals, satellite elevations and azimuths, elevation-specific histograms, satellite ascending/descending times for horizon and user elevation cut-off, pseudo-range multipath and noise, carrier-phase signal-to-noise ratio, data gaps and small data pieces and other useful lists and statistics allow us to an...

The goal of the presented study was to investigate and outline potential benefits of an integrated scientific analysis, encompassing modern automated mineralogy and largearea SEM-imaging data for the needs of multiscale geomechanical and hydrodynamical problem solving. A research was conducted on a set rock samples of a Russian promising tight gas-bearing formation, featuring nanometers-to-millimeters pore space elements, wide spectrum of mineral composition, and a complex multiscale pore-space topology. In the cu...

The research was aimed to study the pore water volume and chemical composition in the isolated core samples of the Bazhenov source rock formation taken from four different oil fields in West Siberia, Russian Federation. The approach is based on the complex laboratory methods of the investigation such as Dean-Stark and evaporation methods, the X-ray spectrometry, mass-spectrometric study (ICP-MS), water and Pfeffer's solution extracts. It was found that the samples contain three types of pore water: free groundwate...

Carbonaceous material (CM) from Outer Carpathians hydrothermal veins was investigated by Raman spectroscopy in order to reveal thermal conditions of its alteration. The studied CM as being found in association with пїЅmarmarosh diamondsпїЅ confirms that the crystallization environment of this mysterious quartz variety is connected with thermally-influenced organic matter. Obtained temperatures in the range of 159 to 205пїЅC are indicative for low to medium hydrothermal conditions. Presented temperatures stay in qu...

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....

The purpose of the study is to identify the features of additive technology and accordance with them to form a methodology for the economic evaluation of additive technologies application for the titanium production process.The fundamental difference between additive technologies and the traditional is that the improvement of the traditional technological methods aimed at more complete use of waste пїЅ that is, their recycling. The use of additive technologies allows you to move on a new level of rational use of n...

Research objective: To develop methodological technique for the assessment of change patterns of the effectiveness of oil recovery depending on the size of already exhausted sections and stress-strain performance of oil reservoir. The experience of oil development shows that configuration (size) of operating area as well as flow coefficient of oil reservoir are considered to be within the key factors determining the rate of oil recovery, regime and parameters of injection and pumping as well as the design of well ...

Exergy analysis is a tool, which indicates how far the system departs from the state of equilibrium. Exergy has been implemented as a preferred means of characterizing the impacts of resource consumption for the purpose of improving decision-making. The present study realizes an energy and exergy analysis for a heat exchanger in operation for a district heating system. Exergy balances of a heat exchanger were therefore established to identify the thermodynamic imperfections of the process using real data. They are...

The seismicity of Romania is significantly affected by earthquakes produced by the Vrancea seismic source with intermediate depth events (3 shocks/century with magnitude Mw greater than 7.0). The seismic activity on the Romanian territory consists of both shallow and intermediate-depth earthquakes. The crustal seismicity is moderate and more scattered in comparison with the intermediate-depth one. The recent upgrade of the seismic network in Romania with high dynamic range accelerometers ( 114 real time seismic st...

Hydrocarbon producing companies are looking at recovery factor evolution and replacement ratio of reserves as they are critical indicators for investments. Subsequently, these factors impact the business development process and the profitability. Maximizing the recovery factor means to have a detailed knowledge about the geological model and drive mechanism of the gas reservoir, especially when hydrocarbon production contains significant residual water which is driven up the well with the hydrocarbons. Replacement...

The paper is devoted to the performance of a new combination between a classical closed center hydraulic feedback steering unit and an electrohydraulic servo system based on the modern generation of digital servo valves. This type of combination may represent a solution for autonomous agricultural machinery based on the high-level technologies. The research is generated by increasing world population requesting more supplies on one hand, and the obvious decreasing of rural inhabitants, augmented by the translation...

Considering the European experience, the aim of this paper is ecologic, economic and organizational prospects for the creation of innovative technological clusters of he production, processing, transportation of fossil energy resources, primarily gas condensate in Russia. Improving the methodology of natural resources management, the paper proposed organizational structure of the resource cluster, consisting of three main zones: the center of the cluster (specialized production), internal environment (services, as...

Models for resource and environmental management should be as specific as possible, but complex, regional environments are highly variable and not readily compared, as would be desired for decision support. This paper presents selected tools to improve the transparency and quantitative character of modelling procedures and databases are presented. These methods are largely related to existing procedures for regional relative risk ranking, but also include system structural analysis and risk classification. Several...

The EU has set out its vision for Europe's social market economy in the Europe 2020 strategy, which aims at confronting our structural weaknesses through progress in smart specialization. In line with the Guide to Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialization, this paper aims to identify key directions of sustainable innovative development of Russian resource regions and determine their readiness for smart specialization. Relying on clustering methodological approaches, this study has revealed: 1) ec...

In this study revealed that there is a connection between fluctuations in the groundwater level with diurnal and semidiurnal tides. Especially this relationship manifests itself in the aquifer with low porosity. In the proposed regression algorithms to eliminate the endogenous character the interference. The algorithm involves splitting the interval of observation on the quasi-stationary geodynamic portions. This forms the minimization function for regression analysis. For registration of points within the range, ...

Kazakhstan has a special geological structure, which is not explained in full as from the position of geosyncline paradigm, and from a position of plate-tectonics. A comparison of the actual field geological research record of the paleozoic geological structures with the principles of plume tectonics shows that they are in good agreement. According to geological data, to develop superplume and its formation took place in the Paleozoic, which lasted impulsively with Ordovician to lower Permian. The Influence of thi...

This paper presents a research which consists in measuring potential energy which be obtained on the surface of water in motion and showing the phenomenon of пїЅwavesпїЅ monitoring in the Black Sea basin. For this were measured, processed and analyzed the amplitude of the waves, the frequency and the waves direction, more than 12 Mm shore, isobath of 50 m, to the coastal zone. There are described techniques and measurement accuracy durring one year. Also, are presented monitoring and processing data with graphycal...

In the context in which European authorities promote the use and development of rail transport, in Romania, this type of transport is on a continuous decline. To have a better view of the situation, it is necessary to highlight the limitations of the relief in order to reveal some of the Romanian rail system deficiencies. The Gala?i Railway Regional District was chosen as a case study because it includes railroads that run through all types of relief (plain, hill, plateau or mountain areas) and connect cities and ...

The Internet and computer networks development led to the development of data acquisition and monitoring systems, becoming nowadays a necessity. This paper proposes the development of applications to monitoring parameters, both local and remote; the parametersпїЅ values are derived from a micro-weather station. Two interfaces are implemented for monitoring parametersпїЅ values: the first one is a part of a wireless sensors network (named eKoView), and the second one is implemented in C# and running on a color oper...

This paper reports the efficiency of polymer membranes without and with small amount of commercial plant extract involved in removal of nickel ions from synthetically wastewater using a mini-electrodialysis cell. The membranes were obtained by phase inversion technique at room temperature. The structure of the resulting membranes was investigated through Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR-ATR) spectroscopy and Environmental Scanning Electron (ESEM) microscopy. FTIR spectra show that the peak at 2325 cm?1 shifted to ...

Access to cheap sources of energy has been a foundation of economic development of the modern world. High rates of GDP growth affect the dynamic development of civilization and, inter alia, make technological progress possible due to the increase in global energy consumption. Energy costs and energy availability also have a significant impact on the economic competitiveness of particular countries and regions of the world. Dynamic world economic development, population growth and the widespread use of energy in ev...

The paper aims to present the impact of renewable sources operation on the power distribution network. Different aspects are tackled for the case in point. One of the discussed problems regards their inf luence on the voltage in network buses and power flow on distribution s ystem branches. Thus, po wer flow studies have been performed. The case study refers to a real and complex distribution system. It is managed by an important distribution system operator (DSO). It has been modelled using computer aided power s...

Nowadays, there is an increasing interest in the tight oil reserves. Such kind of oil have the specific physicochemical properties under conditions of natural occurrence [1]. In this article we consider the solution of the problem of preparing geophysical data for modeling seismic inversion on the example of bitumen deposits. The reservoirs occur at a depth between 150 and 200 m. Thuswise, the accurate processing of geophysical data remains actual. The seismic inversion is usually understood as a group of algorith...

Sludge from sewage formats municipal byproducts are considered "undesirable" that focuses remove pollutants from wastewater and can be a danger to the environment.Lupeni dump was born by storing the waste material resulting from the preparation of coal.The material deposited on the two branches of the heap consists of sandstone rocks clay, marl, carbonaceous shales and sandstones.From the analysis it is observed that: the reaction is slightly alkaline soil (pH = 7.4); humus content: medium to good; containing coar...

Ensuring stability of economic development, an energy and ecological safety is connected with increase in energy efficiency and decrease in power consumption of economy. The main indicator of resource intensity is power consumption. power consumption characterizes amounts of an energy consumption and fuel on the basic and auxiliary engineering procedures of production of products, performance of works, rendering services based on the set technological system. The Russian economy is one of the most power-intensive ...

Even though land cover and use changes, climate changes and altered use of energy, known together as the пїЅglobal changesпїЅ have been studied intensively, their relationships are still under debate, especially with respect of assessing the anthropogenic contribution. The study relies on the hypothesis according to which poverty and lack of environmental awareness could lead to disastrous environmental impacts, with adverse economic consequences. Starting from an assessment of deforestations based on GREENPEACE d...

The appearance of species imported in the EU, and so on the Romanian market, led to a change in consumer preference towards new species of fish (tilapia, African catfish, pangasius) and aquaculture products (shrimp, clams, oyster, etc.). One of these species is tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) which, at European level, the import volume is about 10,000 tons / year. In order to reduce imports and increase the competitiveness of aquaculture in the EU have been taken strategic measures to develop technologies that int...

Research aimed at testing new PIONEER oil rape hybrids cultivated on three different fertilisation rates in the soil and climate conditions of the BanatпїЅs Plain, near Jebel, Timis County, Romania. The soil is a typical cambic chernozem, moist phreatic, pH 6.21, and 2.07% humus in the Ap horizon. The climate in the area is moderate continental with little Mediterranean and ocean influences favourable to oil rape cultivation. The trials organised between 2014 and 2016 were bifactorial, with Factor A represented by...

The importance of the ecological exploitation of the treated sludge consists in the fact that it is generated in the treatment plants 365 days from 365, 24 hours from 24, but unfortunately the sludge exploitation is limited nowadays, no matter the chosen option. Practically there are no standard solutions, all the research options, respectively the exploitation of the sludge require costs and cooperation with the thirds, plus the sludge quality must conform to certain values imposed by law. The difficulty elements...

This paper presents results of research on feeding behavior of paddlefish (Polyodon spathula, Walb. 1792), performed at the Fish Culture Research and Development Station Nucet, DпїЅmbovi?a, between 2002 -2007. The results confirmed the planctonofag character of this species. Paddlefish food consists primarily of zooplankton, insects and insect larvae, plant debris and detritus, identified in the intestinal contents. Feeding behavior is differentiated by age and size of fish. During the first days of life, juvenile...

Miscanthus sp. is a perennial grass cultivated in the European Union with multiple uses. It can be used as a commercial energy crop or as a resource for easy construction materials and isolation. It can also be used as a source of CO2 capture and restraint. Miscanthus is a plant which demand low needs for fertilization, adapting easily to less fertile soils. In this way it was taken into study the behavior of this species on a sandy soil, poorly fertile from Southern Romania, under the influence of some doses of n...

Energetic crops are increasingly used as renewable sources of energy as well as for their ability to fix and accumulate carbon in the soil. Willow culture for biomass promotes rural development and environmental protection, especially if it is established in areas less favorable for agricultural crops. Researches from this work has been carried out in a wide range of genotypes of Salix sp. cultivated on a deposit of ash resulting from coal burning to Isalnita Power Station, near Craiova, Romania, over a period of ...

The main purpose of this research is to analyse the influence of different natural aggregate sources, as well as different bitumen types, on the adhesion and affinity between the two materials and on the properties of stone mastic asphalt (SMA). The aggregates used in this study were both fine (sand 0/4) and coarse (4/8 and 8/16), extracted from four different natural rock quarries in Romania, selected after a geographical, geological and geomorphological analysis. From a petrographic point of view, the rocks extr...