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The aim of the work is to point up on the relation among Arson criminality and social network groups. The impact of the internet social networks on arson crime is discussed in the paper. The impact of the top social networks incl. facebook or twitter is generally very high on the society. The arson criminality is partly hidden in the fire statistics especially in Slovak republic were the fire cases investigated with unknown fire source usually point up on the unknown perpetrator. Fire related crimes are often disc...

The study was aimed at monitoring social responsibility and environmental risks of the largest Russian metallurgical companies based on public reports and other sources of information. The methodological basis of the study was the regulatory documents on environmental safety, sustainable development standards in the field of ecology; information and rating agencies data; Internet resources of metallurgical companies, their financial and environmental reports, analytical reviews; works of foreign and Russian scient...

Since Latvia joined the European Union (hereinafter the EU) in 2004, socio-economic territorial development in the regions of the country has been unbalanced, increasing regional disparities. At NUTS3 level, there are six statistical regions in Latvia. Zemgale is one of the regions of Latvia. Since 1992, two administrative and territorial reforms (hereinafter ATR) have been implemented in Latvia, and in 2021 it is planned to carry out the third administrative and territorial reform. In June 2020, the new ATR was a...

Drought is a phenomenon with a possible negative effect on agroecosystems. It can cause significant impact and damages on crop, when the water balance is seriously affected. But additional harmful effects can be observed also on the whole agroecosystem. This is connected to the land surface and vadose zone, to the physical and chemical properties of soil and water; to the adjacent organisms, etc. To prevent and mitigate the possible dangerous effects of importance is best to know all the specifics of the drought p...

The aim of the paper is to propose some financial scenarios for recovery of natural disaster damages based on insurances and credits. In recent years, there has been an increase in the frequency and severity of natural disasters worldwide. It is well known that natural disasters can affect companies by damaging or completely destroying their material assets. This leads to a partial or complete economic activity interruption of the affected companies. The study focuses on the direct material damage to the companies...

In the present study, in laboratory conditions, a series of experiments were conducted to study the immobilizing ability of peats of Electrochemical Plant (Zelenogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia). It has been found that the studied sorbents have a significant sorption capacity and a reliable conservation ability towards uranium ions that prevent its spread outside the sludge storage. For quantitative characterization and calculation of sorption coefficients, laboratory experiments were conducted for three samples o...

Urbanization today is accompanied by an increasing interest in outdoor recreation and nature-oriented tourism. The topic becomes interesting in light of the most popular world practices to develop nature-oriented tourism and recreation in special protected natural areas. Specific spatial consequences for the sustainable development as for urbanized areas both for reserves are discovered. The territory of a reserve becomes a place of environmental stress (consider the goals of nature reservation), as well as social...

More sensitive methods to determine chemicals in food enable us to assess the contaminant danger in the product. It is of help when evaluating the speed and conditions of their formation in the food and studying long-term carcinogenic and acute toxic effects on the body. The results of exposure to contaminants on the body as biomarkers of the effect in a controlled experiment on laboratory animals and the further use of the results obtained in the risk assessment might serve as conditions for establishing or revie...

The Guli and Bor-Uryakh massifs, a part of the Siberian Large igneous province (LIP) are mafic-ultramafic intrusive complexes, with strong alkaline affinity. They contain deposits of apatite and are also known to be source rocks of Os-Ir-Ru placers. These massifs are of great interest for petrologists worldwide, as they are composed of an unusual variety of rocks (dunites/olivinites, shonkinites, melilitites, alkali syenites and carbonatites) and being coeval with Siberian trap volcanic rocks, including diamondife...

The purpose of this article is to present the algorithmization of the scenario planning process, based on cognitive methods of economic and mathematical modeling. The methods are based on the etiological diagnostics of synthesizing economic and non-economic indicators, exponential smoothing of the explanatory factors, and the results of the regression analysis. They will allow constructing multivariate scenarios (realistic, pessimistic, and optimistic) of the agrarian sector of Ukraine's economy. The assessment of...

The natural zeolites (NZs) are low-cost natural materials, available in large quantities in different parts of the world, with good mechanical and thermal properties, ion exchange capacity, ability to adjust pH, high surface area and adsorption capacity. Despite their wide range of applications, the use of NZs is limited in industrial processes (where synthetic zeolites are preferred) due to presence of impurities in their structure and the properties which could not be optimized by nature. These limitations can b...

This paper proves news about the argillized (bentonitized) deposits that are part of a complex distribution of volcanic rock types occurring in the Gurasada region. These are the oldest deposits of volcanic origin crops out in the Gurasada open pit. Above these are volcanic deposits of andesitic composition represented by pyroclastic breccias, rare tuff levels and lava flows. The site observations, petrographic, XRD, RAMAN spectroscopy and chemical analyses indicated the formation of the bentonite deposit by weath...

Geophysical surveys of wells represent a wide range of methods, the rational integration of which make it easier the solution of geological problems. In this article, the authors investigate the issue of identifying the parameters of hydraulic fractures. This method is one of the frequently used methods for increasing well productivity. Modifications of nuclear logging and the possibility of acoustic logging are considered on the example of data before and after hydraulic fracturing in carbonate and sandstone depo...

Urban noise is affecting an increasing number of people and this is why it is becoming a major environmental issue, being a known fact that it affects all human activities and constitutes a stress factor with negative effects on health. It can affect the population both physiologically and psychologically, having an influence on the elementary activities such as sleep, rest, study and communication. Noise in the environment - a harmful and unwanted sound from the outside - is spreading, both in duration and in geo...

Nowadays petroleum industry has a clear trend of depletion of conventional resources in traditional producing regions. As countries and petroleum companies are looking for the new directions of the development there is a need for evaluation and forecast of development of regions with high petroleum potential. The research focuses on one of such regions ? Easter Siberia of Russia. The region on one hand holds large resource potential that can provide base for sustainable development of the area and country in gener...

The article deals with a set of regional problems that require early adoption of political, environmental, institutional and scientific solutions to ensure sustainable development of the Kaliningrad region. The main problems are the imperfection of the legislative system, in which watercourses and lakes have different ownership forms to make it difficult to determine legal liability for the condition of water object. The imperfection of local management systems and the irrational separation of powers between autho...

Cleaning contaminated soil from heavy metals is a very important issue for Ukraine at present. Soil pollution is considered to be the result of metallurgical and chemical industries, as well as the irrational application of chemical plant protection. The goal of the studies was investigation of effectiveness of phytoremediation with co-cultivation of herbaceous plants as one of decontamination methods. An innovative method of cleaning soil from heavy metal contamination using a combination of switchgrass and peren...

We analyze the micro-seismic noise recorded at five seismic stations ? DEC, DJJ, FMP, MWC and RPV. They operate within CI: Southern California Seismic Network (SCSN), USA. The data set is collected from 01 July 2018 till 31 July 2019 and all seismic events with a magnitude Mw?4 are excluded. Our main goal is to find the effects of seismic noise synchronization between different seismic stations using data relevant to the vertical seismic components. The width of the multifractal spectrum, the spectral exponent and...

Aim of the article is to determine criteria and indicators of urban territory efficiency based on the concept of high and best urban territory use. Efficient use of urban territory is considered to be conformity between the urban land use and the City interests as a unified social-economic spatial system, rational location of different functional properties on the urban land, considering municipal and local needs of the land users System formation for efficiency criteria and indicators for urban territory use invo...

Russia is one of the top five countries for the extraction of aquatic bioresources. Although the contribution of fishing to the gross value added is insignificant, no more than 0.3% of the national level, for residents of the coastal regions of the country, the effective use of aquatic bioresources determines the level and quality of their life, guaranteeing earnings, supporting the traditional way of life. A comparative analysis of technical efficiency in 14 Russian coastal regions was carried out in order to ide...

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

In the paperwork are presented new aspects regarding test results of galvanic cells used in the apparatus intended for use in explosive atmospheres. In the first part of the paper was presented the explosion risk. The explosion risk involved by the presence of technical equipment in areas endangered by the presence of flammable substances is manifested through two sources of risk. The spark ignition is due to electrical equipment, electrostatic discharges and mechanical impact. The mixtures of air with flammable s...

Eastern sedimentary basins in terms of oil and gas bearing in particular the Balkhash from the point of view of oil and gas content is considered for the first time. The results presented are obtained on the basis of an analysis of the consideration of the paleogeographic conditions of the formation of the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic formations. The lithological composition of the sediments of the Balkhash depression is given in detail. The role of paleogeographic environments as one of the factors influencin...

Producing non-seasonal vegetables in Georgia is actually impossible without greenhouses and specially-designed constructions. Greenhouse enables us to be less depended on environmental conditions, as well as to accumulate sun power and to artificially regulate all necessary factors for growth and development of various plants, to protect plants from unfavorable and adverse nature affects such as hail, wind, draught and freezing. In open ground soils the producing process of vegetable crops terminates as soon as un...

A current global concern is environmental protection. Many of the human activities affect the environment and implicitly have economic repercussions. Economic and social development must be achieved so that economic activities cause as little damage to the environment as possible. The financial amounts allocated depend on the economic situation of each country. Expenditures for environmental protection represent an indicator regarding the actions undertaken by economic agents and the public administration concerni...

The gas hydrate formation is a non-stoichiometric process, which may be affected by a great number of variables, rather than thermodynamic conditions. Several chemical additives were found to act as inhibitors or promoters (or both together under specific situations) for gas hydrate. The most known chemical inhibitor is sodium chloride, whose effects needs to be widely investigated, due to its presence in about 97% of discovered hydrate reservoirs. However, other elements may intervene on the formation process and...

Introduction. According to observations of Russian scientists, the complex of biomedical and ecological factors, strictly specific for components of both northern ecosystems and northern human populations, participates in the formation of human health in the North. The aim of the work is to reveal the regularity of distribution of diselementoses and the elemental profile of pathology in women from various regions of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Materials and methods. Using the multielement analysis system usin...

The article examines the ideological and theoretical attitudes genesis presented in the Germany greens environmental doctrine. According to the authors' position, their practical implementation will contribute to solving environmental problems inherent in modern society, minimizing risks and destructions determined by environmental factors. Based on the green party environmental doctrine analysis, the provisions are formulated, which practical implementation contribute to reducing the risk of society. The author m...

Agriculture and all areas that contribute to its development are key to achieving significant and lasting progress towards ridding millions of people of poverty and hunger. Tasks related to solving the problem of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms lie at the heart of the leading goal in the field of Sustainable Development of the World for the period up to 2030, including: ensuring universal access to safe, nutritious and sufficient in volume food, and the elimination of all forms of malnutr...

The article describes the results of laboratory measurements of the micro-component composition of the produced oil and the mathematical processing of the obtained values in one of the fields of the Republic of Tatarstan. Vereiskian and Bashkirian horizons were studied, which are quite widespread in the Republic and surrounding areas. The studied horizons lay one above the other in close proximity to each other. The Bashkirian deposits are a massive reservoir, while the Vereiskian deposits have the form of a layer...

In any activity, as well as in public services, employee motivation is a challenge. Seeing the importance of Human Resources in the growth and success of any organization, it is pushed to them to study leadership styles, which is used effective style to achieve the set goals and increase the effectiveness of the organization. Leadership has an impact on the company's success by aligning common goals of the organization and the individuals within it, this influence did empower individuals to take the necessary acti...

One of the main obstacles in the agribusiness sector is the lack of interest in the field. Indeed, given the laborious working conditions, it has become increasingly challenging to attract the interest of workers into agriculture. In spite of the fact that the agribusiness sector offers products that meet the basic needs of the population, and therefore plays a pivotal socio-economic role in many regions around the world, the sector faces difficult working conditions, which is an extremely important socio-economic...

The environment is a major source of life that must be protected and treated, even though it is exposed to high inequality in different countries. The risk against the nature posed by pollution and global warming have brought about the need of safeguarding the environment in various forms. Today, many international organizations have developed different strategies for protecting the environment. Kosovo as a country in transition, that faces with many factors of environmental pollution. In this situation, the banki...

The Czech Republic can be characterized by saying that all its rivers originate in it and none flows in. The quality of water is thus directly determined by the attitude of the country?s inhabitants towards the environment and by the water management policies of the state. Most European countries are dealing with the possibilities of water retention in the landscape, especially the establishment of ponds and the construction of dams. The limiting factor for the creation of an artificial water surface is the morpho...

Currently in the field of BIM design, the Czech Republic is in many ways behind compared to other countries. In countries in which this method is long established, it makes a significant contribution to improving the economic and environmental efficiency of buildings in all life cycles of construction. The BIM method can save construction costs and conserve the environment, by appropriate design of technical and technological equipment, as early as the preliminary stage of a project, but also when building is carr...

The paper is devoted to the problem of lack of commonly used and well-tested algorithm for numerical modeling of response of porous water-saturated soil deposits to vertical ground motions from earthquakes. Numerical simulation of soil response is necessarily carried out for horizontal and vertical ground motions as part of the seismic hazard assessment of construction sites of important structures such as nuclear power plants and oil platforms due to their potential vulnerability and high environmental hazard. Th...

The chemical composition of 122 samples of snow cover (collected during 2018-2020) was measured for the representative points of the Almaty agglomeration (AA). Mean values of acidity show the absence of large-scale processes of acidification of snowfall over the study area. The analysis of the temporal variations of these parameters indicates their relative stability. The high values of suspended solids are characteristic of the mountainous territory, the Almaty city, including in the area of large highways. The c...

The article considers theoretical basis for determining cost-effective methods of increasing the supply of oil. Describe the major characteristics of social production, improvement of production organization, the most important factors of production for the oil industry. We discuss the main characteristics of the deposits, the volume of oil reserves, its quality and costs to receive it. The growth of oil production provides indicators of technical and economic efficiency for the fields and measures to increase oil...

Rare metal deposits, spatially and genetically associated with leucocratic and alaskite granites of the Permian age, are confined to their dome parts and apophyses. According to researchers, the formation temperatures of granitoid intrusions are determined within 890-7500C. The actual data indicate that the formation of these deposits is greatlyinfluenced by conductive heat flow from the cooling ore-bearing intrusive massif,leading to redistribution of temperatures in the near-intrusive space, resulting inemergenc...

The use of geo-information technologies is the main distinctive feature of modern economy. Currently, the level of privatization of domestic agriculture is of serious concern. Effective agricultural production is based on information on exact areas of fields which are under agricultural crops and negative erosion processes. The cartographic material, which is usually used for organizing agricultural production, loses its relevance over time, the reason for this is the growth of a gully-beam network, closed waterlo...

The structure of the Romanian Western Black Sea shelf has been studied before 1970 and described in publications that serve today as an important point of reference in the structural geology and geotectonic studies. After the year 2005, a new set of gravimetric data has been acquired by the Romanian National Institute of Marine Geology and Geoecology, that has been obtained by compiling over 13.400 km of profile measurements on the Romanian and Bulgarian offshore. By combining this newer data with an analysis on t...

The post-industrial transformation of the world economy, globalization and increased geopolitical competition, primarily for scarce natural resources, require a fundamentally new methodological justification of national natural resource and subsurface management in Russia. At present we need to solve very difficult task: to restore and strengthen the main sectors of the economy. One of the ways to solve this problem is to ensure rational use of mineral resources and improve the efficiency of enterprises in the min...

Paper analyses the principles and industrial applications of thermoelectric generators and energy harvesting devices in their almost 200-year history, e.g. from first documented application in 1840 till the current applications focusing on thermoelectric generators using waste heat from fireplace furnaces. Moreover, the energy harvesting devices as low power applications are involved in the paper. Applying the thermoelectric generators into existing products gives the managers an ability to innovate, be unique and...

Nowadays, steel constructions and their elements are used for their properties. One of their advantages is, for example, their low weight in comparison with their load capacity. Also, quick assembly is one of their advantages. On the other hand, there are disadvantages which are associated with changes of properties under thermal stress. There are no significant changes up to a temperature of 350°C, but steel loses their load capacity between 500-700 °C [1], [2]. Because of that, in many cases these constructions ...

In order to ensure economic development and respect of the principle of sustainability, the European Union has introduced a number of innovations in the legal framework and thus provided a large amount of money to modernize the economy. The benefits brought by the new economic model (circular economy) are reflected in the reduction of harmful effects on the environment, increased resource productivity, job creation, reduced dependence on raw material imports, increased competitiveness of the economy and encouragin...

The article considers various factors contributing to the development of tourism in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation (AZRF). On the example of the Murmansk region, the indicators of tourist flow, as well as the impact of tourism on the economy and, accordingly, on the sustainable development of the region, are analyzed. Problems of sustainable development at the regional level were studied in the Kirov-Apatity district of the Murmansk region, where the scientific base of the geographical faculty of Moscow...

The article focuses on basic socioeconomic and sanitary-epidemiologic parameters as well as parameters that characterize population health in RF regions. The research goal was to search for reasons that could potentially explain short life expectancy in some RF regions via combining similar territories into groups according to selected parameters. The authors applied a specific statistic procedure for data processing, cluster analysis; it allowed distributing RF regions into 4 clusters where analyzed determinants ...

The problem considered in this paper is the need to step up the methodological and informational support for improving the environmental and economic efficiency and sustainability of natural resource management in the Kamchatka territory (Russia) and the adjacent marine areas of the Pacific Ocean. The object of the research is the natural resource potential of the research area. The subject of research includes: clarification of the composition, structure and system relationships of the main natural resource poten...

Volodarsk deposit of complex ilmenite-magnetite-apatite ores is located within the ore field of the Kalchytsk ore district of the same name. Found in the process of GSM-200, studied in the process of search and evaluation work. It is dated to the Gabro-sienite phase of the South Kalchytsk complex, the rocks of which constitute a stratified intrusion of the main composition with an area of about 103.8 sq km in the southeastern part of the Volodarsk massif. In the process of formation of intrusion as a result of fra...

The Azov Sea is one of the shallowest inland reservoirs in Eurasia. The special physical and geographical location of that object determines the temporal variation of its hydrological and hydrochemical characteristics. One of the main features of the sea is the presence of run-off and surging phenomena, determined by water exchange with the Black Sea and the river flow, small area and shallow water body. The currents are considered as significant factors for many processes of matter and energy transport in the Azo...