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This article summarizes the findings of extensive hydrogeological mapping that has taken place over the past few years. The area of the CSA mine is situated at the northern edge in the central part of the Most Basin (North Bohemia, The Czech Republic). The area of interest is divided into several hydrogeological units, which are characterized by mutually different main determinants such as morphology, lithological characterization of the main types of rocks, tectonic violation. These are the following units: the c...

The last decades witnessed an explosive increase of the demand for digital data in the economy. This led to a significant growth in the number and the sizes of data centers. The energy used by the data centers has increased dramatically. This situation determined the quest for metrics that measures energy efficiency in data centers. A classical metric for measuring energy efficiency in data centers is PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness). It was introduced in 2006 by C. Malone and Christian Belady. It is defined as the...

Out of allbroad-leavedspeciesthat are to be found in our woods, ash trees have a special importance throughboththe great value of the wood andthe cultural qualities.The imbalancesin forest ecosystems due to the influenceof some climatic and anthropic factors havematerialized in the occurrence of some gradations of defoliationinsects, among themStereonychus fraxiniDe Geer, 1775.In the last few years the ash tree stands were increasinglyaffected, which requiredeven more careful preoccupation withthe prevention and c...

This paper deals with new trends in fire testing of electrical cables. At present, the most widely used tests of electrical cables are reaction to fire tests. The cable systems powering electrical devices which have to remain operational for a certain period of time under fire conditions are additionally subjected to circuit integrity maintenance testing. New trends in cable fire tests include tests of critical heat flux, testing the effect of cable inclination, current load, voltage and frequencies to the rate of...

Distance learning has become increasingly popular today. It is defined as the process of transferring knowledge to learners (students) who are separated from the instructor (teacher) by time and / or physical distance and are making use of interactive technologies to accomplish learning. Krasnoyarsk state agrarian university also uses distance learning. Both teachers and students of our University benefit by the introduction of distance learning technologies in the educational process. Students can take part in on...

The article presents a comparison of the advantages of natural refrigerants R717 or R744 (with low global warming potential ?GWP and zero ozone depletion potential ? ODP) instead of R404A. Energy Efficiency is also analysed. Romania signed Kyoto and Montreal Protocol and in the same time as a new member of EU has the obligation to respect the environmental legislation as Energy Efficiency Directive, Eco-Design Directive, and Regulation 517/2014 cold ?F-Gas? and to solve Certification System in the field of Air Con...

In this study, investigation of the composition, structure and catalytic activity of the catalyst support based on Ni-Al mixed oxides was carried out. The possibility of controlling structural and acid-base properties of the layered double hydroxides (LDH) by varying the ratio of M2+/M3+ metal cations determines its use as catalyst support. Besides varying of anions in the interlayer space allows to regulate catalytic system activity in the reaction medium. The Ni-Al LDH support was prepared by coprecipitation met...

Vegetation takes the active part in processes of migration and transformation of chemical combinations on the Earth's surface. The intensity of biogenic migration of chemical elements is defined, first of all, by chemical composition of plants. Various security of soils with chemical elements causes also their various accumulation in agricultural plants. Unrationed use of fertilizers, pesticides, broad development of the industry in the territory of the studied region - all these factors allow to classify the Rost...

The main factor of effective biological waste water treatment and pollutants biotransformation is correlation between different nitrogen forms in the media. The waste water specimens were obtained from the pulp and paper mill of the Russian North involving BAS-technology. Concentration of ammonium ions in wastewater was carried out on a spectrophotometer by Sedji-Solorzano method using phenol-hypochlorite reaction. Nitrite ions were determined colorimetrically by diazotization with sulfanilamide and subsequent cou...

Mixed intercropping of cereal-leguminose presents important tool to increase efficiency of using nitrogen from soil and fixing it from air while current recovery of soil fertility. The paper presents first results of a field experiment after its start in 2012. The main goals of a presented study were as follows: (a) to describe setting and assessing the results of the experiment in the system of mixed cereal-legume culture, (b) to investigate the utilization of N in the mixed culture of winter wheat and winter pea...

Zones 30 have been used for years in suburban districts as common traffic calming devices. The solution of zone 30 was used in a street in Szczecin. The street connects the area of detached houses with large panel housing estates. To reduce speed to 30 km/h, four successive raised areas were made of paving stone cubes as well as a 1 m wide median strip in the road axis. The change of asphalt blanket into paving stone cubes is thought to change the acoustic climate, due to differences of noise levels generated by t...

The right selections of BHA, (bottom hole assembly), provides to minimize cost of drilling through the elimination of fishing works, which could took place during drilling. In many cases during drilling operations there is need to maintain the continuity of pure drilling works in the wellbore through fishing works. The name of the time for these works, it is known as NPT ? nonproductive time. Before drilling the borehole, the engineers must took into account all geological properties and affordable technological s...

The paper is considering the results of the development of three hundred and three deposits of the Romashkinskoye oilfield, which is composed of porous fractured carbonate reservoirs. The investigation was devoted to the challenges associated with increasing of the production from the carbonate reservoirs on the basis of study concerning the conversion degree of the reserves involved in the development and production through the non-stationary production well operation. The authors present a comparative analysis o...

A number of small mountain ranges (horsts) separated by small basins (grabens) with Tertiary sedimentary filling appeared in the Western Carpathians mostly in their NW and N part. The Tatry Mts. and smaller so called Ru?bachy ?island? are the northernmost horsts from a series of Western Carpathian horsts. Our magnetotelluric measurements focusing particularly on the nature of the Sub-Tatra fault and the interconnection of the Tatry Mts. with the Ru?bachy ?island? confirm steep dip of Sub-Tatra fault in the souther...

At present many new housing projects are being realized in Poland. They are often built in areas characterized by complex hydrogeological and geotechnical conditions. In such cases, the need to build deep excavations is complicated, especially when there is a high water table. The paper presents analysis of dewatering process of deep excavation of residential building. The excavation was carried out to the depth of 10 m below the ground surface. Due to the location of the investment near the river the water table ...

The purpose of the present paper is to analyse the behaviour of a flexible pile foundation versus a rigid one when submitted to lateral cyclic action coming from waves or wind, through numerical modelling using 3D finite elements. The comparison elements are: the maximum pile head displacement and the evolution of the maximum bending moment. The numerical modelling has been performed using the software CESAR-LCPC [1]. The study has been performed for 15 cycles, but the numerical model has also served to create som...

Antropogenic seismicity is one of the most important geomechanical hazard encountered in Polish deep copper mines. Obviously, it may have a negative impact on the people?s safety and the production process. In such circumstances, a number of both active and passive prevention measures have been implemented in the mines, at least partially. One of the most effective, applied for many years, active means used for seismic hazard reduction, is multi-faces blasting works which by assumption should result in release of ...

The present article reports numerical results of laminar natural convection heat transfer within an air filled semi cylindrical cavity with its horizontal walls submitted to different heating models. In this work, the horizontal surface is maintained at constant temperatures Tc (Dirichlet condition) or heat fluxes q (Newman condition), while that of the opposite surface is considered at cold temperature Tf. The parameters governing the problem are the Rayleigh number (103 < Ra < 106), and the Prandtl number (Pr = ...

Tsunami in the Black Sea is a relatively rare phenomenon. Because of its rare occurrence and small volume of full-scale data, tsunami hazard of the Black Sea region has not been sufficiently studied. However, the chance of tsunami waves is still on. In the XX century, four known tsunami phenomena were recorded by marigraphs. These include two events that occurred in 1927, events of 1939 and 1966. Vertical sea level fluctuations were recorded in several points on the Black Sea coast. However, true sea level heights...

Information about informal Romani settlements housing are not found in books or archives. They are found ?live?, in settlements. The intent of this paper is to point out that they represent a world of signals that can be detected through the methodological tools of observation and discussion with residents; also and therefore, to create guidelines for operational tools useful for an aware and contemporary design of Romani house. The paper starts from the fact that including cultural components in projects that are...

This work is devoted to obtaining and characterization of wood-mineral composites based on wood debarking waste and basalt screenings, which have improved ecological,strength, sound and heat insulation properties. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were solved: the regularities of the process of spontaneous filling of the porous space of the wood matrix with mineral fine particles due to the capillary forces of plant raw materials were established; simulation models of the structure and functional propertie...

The necessity of fulfilling as many conditions as possible in the specification resulted in the creation of composite materials. This idea developed in the aerospace industry was later used successfully in all industrial branches. The two materials that have been used are chemically distinct, each of which retains its properties in the composite, but provides the assembly with different properties and characteristics. Thus, for the continuous phase, the matrix was used an aluminum alloy, and for the discontinuous ...

Technology development has been enormous in recent years. This is particularly noticeable as regards telephones and personal computers as well as other devices e.g. modern GNSS receivers which currently are the basic equipment of even small land surveying firms. Drones are an example that shows the dynamics of technology development, especially in a few recent years. Currently, the aim is to capture data of the best possible quality, yet capturing it should generate the lowest possible costs. In this regard, drone...

The article presents risk assessment during the surveyor's work. Threats occurring during geodetic measurements in the field were determined. These are various types of measurements carried out for investment purposes, topographic and property boundaries survey, determination of displacements and deformations of structures and engineering structures, etc. It is worth, therefore, that each surveyor should be aware of the dangers that may threaten him during work. Hazards related to geodetic measurements have been i...

The use of bioenergy is gradually increasing, so are the number of different technologies to produce it. Particularly during the last years, new biogas plants had been built across Latvia to ensure more efficient use of farming and other agronomic waste or by-products. The aim of the research is to determine occupational risk factors at biogas plants in Latvia. The research summarises the risk factors of the biogas plant environment, compares the results of observations of biogas plants, performs a survey and an a...

Trichloroethene (TCE) and tetrachloroethene (PCE) have been detected in water of the Triassic carbonate aquifer in Tarnowskie G?ry area since 1994. Since 2005, TCE and PCE in groundwater have been constantly monitored by the Voivodship Inspectorate for Environmental Protection in Katowice in 12 observation wells and pumping wells located in Tarnowskie G?ry and outskirts of the city. After 24 years chlorinated solvents still pose a serious environmental risk and are responsible for closure of selected wells situate...

Russian northern territories? cultural advance and development were directly connected to the extraction of minerals. Development of northwest Russia?s mineral resources became more planned and systematic with ?Mining Prikaz? established by Peter the Great. There are numerous old mines preserved in Leningrad region and Karelia, and their cultural potential is underestimated by the state and their historical value is downgraded. This article considers spreading in Russia practices of using shut-down underground min...

The first isolation of the Paratethys from the Tethys Ocean (that included the Mediterranean region), at the beginning of the Oligocene Epoch, at around 33 My (million years) led to significant palaeobiogeographical changes in Europe. The present day Romanian territory belongs, since the Oligocene and up to the Middle Miocene, to the Central Paratethyan domain and afterwards was included in the Eastern Paratethys. The palaeogeographical isolation, produced in the Eastern Carpathians at the Eocene-Oligocene boundar...

Most of bilingual or multilingual dictionaries, especially the printed ones can be represented as a simple relational database with two relations with cardinality 1:N for each side of the dictionary. This database structure is actually sufficient if the user needs only word to word translation and if they are experienced enough to choose a proper translation from mostly many synonyms. One step forward is a contextual dictionary. The translation is influenced by the context of the word, what can make the translatio...

The public hearings are the kinds of the public control?s forms. These hearings are usually devoted to considering of environmental issues, problems of town planning, land use, i.e. the most important problems for population. Research objective is search of additional legal opportunities for citizens' activity in questions of local life. The author analysed the positive experience of participation of inhabitants in some American municipalities by solution of city problems. However there is a number of the problems...

Waste from poultry farms represents the greatest danger to people and the environment among all types of bio waste. Approximate estimates show that in Russia up to 15 million tons of manure and a mixture of litter with sawdust or straw are formed annually. The original litter is a toxic substance; the main bacteria in the litter are E. coli and Salmonella. The process of torrefaction of a mixture of manure and sawdust was studied. The torrefaction proceeds in a reactor consisting of three sections with horizontal ...

A hydrogeological map is a cartographic model reflecting the structure, regularities of formation and spread of gravity underground water. Traditionally, cartographic data on hydrogeology are presented as a rule in hard copies or in formats of graphic editors. Another large part of cartographic data is presented in the formats MapInfo and ArcGIS, which does not meet criteria identifying their belonging to up-to-date information systems, and as consequence, limit digital processing of data and its spatial analysis....

Systematic research on the collective behaviour of formal grammars started in the 90s of 20th century. One of the variants of grammar system models was inspired by eco-systems and it is called eco-grammar systems. Eco-grammar systems describe the interplay between an evolving environment and the community of agents which form the eco-system. Each agent as well as the environment of the eco-grammar system is represented by its own 0L scheme. Agent in the eco-grammar systems can change environmental symbols independ...

The goal of the paper is to design a concept of online monitoring for the urban environment. The set of urban online monitoring procedures includes five Internet of Things services: online calculation of air pollution produced by traffic congestion, online calculation of noise pollution for road neighborhood, calculation of the actual and forecast microalgae concentration for lakes and reservoirs, online calculation of livable meteorological conditions for urban microsites and calculation of acute and long-term he...

An exceptional occurrence can generally be regarded as a manifestation of risk. In order to handle it, it is necessary to have sufficient amount of information about the risk itself as well as about potential sources and means to deal with the situation it evokes and the preparedness of citizens. In Slovakia, it is mainly the risks of natural character which are, for the purposes of crisis management, evaluated based on a methodology from the year 1994. The ever-extending list of potential risks leads to the need ...

One of the most popular systems of simulation - GPSS World provides users (1) software tools to interact with the system in the process of simulation research and (2) software tools, realizing immediately the implementation of the model (including: syntax analyzer interpreter model, clock modeling, management of the list of events and more.). Until a few years ago the programs in the first group only automated a part of research itself, namely the creation of a text model and conduct experiments with it. In the ab...

The problem of optimization of design and regime parameters of PSA unit?s operation with regard to an economic criterion (total costs, profit, etc.) and fulfillment of design and technologicalechnologicalechnological echnologicalechnologicalechnologicalechnological constraints on the process (purity of the concentrated gas (hydrogen, oxygen), on PSA unit capacity, energy- and resource-saving, etc.) is formulated and solved. The problem?s formulation takes into account: 1) the uncertainty (inaccuracy) of the initia...

Agricultural production is based on responding issues related to climate change in the coming years. Frequent drought seasons lead to a decline in yield production, and negative hydrological balance is expected in the future, which will also affect water consumption for agriculture [1]. Based on sap flow measurements, it is possible to optimize irrigation. For our experiment was used the grape vines in Nitra region, on which we installed Dynagage Sap Flow Sensors with the Flow 32-1K Sap flow system, which measure ...

The study presents the possibilities, procedures and financial burden of mitigation and elimination of the consequences of radiation events within emergency zones of nuclear power plants regarding local contaminated plant biomass of agricultural crops. The agricultural land of Jiho?esk? kraj (South Bohemian Region ? Czech Republic) was chosen as the model area where Temel?n, a two-block nuclear power, plant is operated. In this area, emergency response planning is divided into two parts: the on-site zone and exter...

In our study, we optimized two methods of enzyme activity estimations characterizing C and P cycles (?-1,4-glucosidase and acid phosphatase) for agricultural soil with 2.629% of total C and 0.062 % of total N sampled in Tatarstan (Russia). Concentration of the substrates (4-MUF-?-d-glucopyranoside, 4-MUF-phosphate) in the range from 20 to 900 ?mol g-1 soil was used, four levels of buffer pH (3, 6, 8, 11) were compared, and three different dilutions of soil suspension (1%, 2%, 10% w/v) were investigated. Besides, t...

In our study, we optimized two methods of enzyme activity estimations characterizing C and P cycles (?-1,4-glucosidase and acid phosphatase) for agricultural soil with 2.629% of total C and 0.062 % of total N sampled in Tatarstan (Russia). Concentration of the substrates (4-MUF-?-d-glucopyranoside, 4-MUF-phosphate) in the range from 20 to 900 ?mol g-1 soil was used, four levels of buffer pH (3, 6, 8, 11) were compared, and three different dilutions of soil suspension (1%, 2%, 10% w/v) were investigated. Besides, t...

The present paper deals with an important issue for the present digital world, namely the quality control of the optic fiber used in transmitting the internet, television, landline or mobile telephony and other digital content connection. Romania, the country with one of the most developed high-speed internet networks in the world, needs modern methods to test the fiber already in use, the one to be installed, as well as the welded connections between them. The paper presents the theoretical model of transmitting ...

Preservation of the environment becomes a vital issue in an era of intensive societal development. The long-term economic development of areas with low forest cover and poor composition of woody vegetation leads to a sharp decline in biodiversity and the deterioration of trophic connections. Forest ecosystems are those components that are capable of stabilizing the environmental situation and solving economic and social issues. Forest plantations play a special part in preserving and maintaining ecological balance...

The paper presents the results of theoretical and practical research on developing the infrastructure for assessment of overall risk (explosion / occupational terrorist attack) associated with unwanted events such as major accidents that can occur at explosive storehouses for civilian use. The scientific research outlined in this article was carried out within the NUCLEU Project PN 16 43 02 15 - ?Research on increasing safety levels at technical facilities for storage of explosives for civil use?. The key element ...

Strandja Massifs? units form the basement metamorphic units of north western edge parts of Turkey and intruded by the Late Cretaceous felsic and mafic intrusive rocks. The felsic and mafic rocks have a contact metasomatic effects at the border of sedimentary rocks resulting in the formation hornfels, metasandstone and calcsilicaticfels in the composition. Demirk?y is one of the youngest intrusive body which crops out at NE of the massif and mainly composed of granite, granodiorite, diorite and gabbro in compositio...

Soil and its quality are the key factor that determines opportunities for agricultural production in a particular territory. However, through lasting land management practices, soil structure can be significantly modified. In the context of climate change, soils can contribute to increased greenhouse gas emissions; for this reason, the techniques that contribute to sustainable land management have to be used in agricultural production. In many Central European countries, organic soils have been extensively used an...

Woodchip material is one of the most promising fill media for denitrifying bioreactors. Woodchip denitrifying bioreactors are used for nitrate reduction in the outlets of drainage systems, shallow groundwaters, etc. Despite their overall positive effect, undesirable leaching of organic compounds from the fill medium can occur during a bioreactor?s start-up phase. The released organic compounds can cause oxygen depletion and some of them can have a toxic effect on biota. The paper presents the quality of leachates ...

The current stage in the development of the construction industry is associated with improving the consumer properties of composite materials, increasing their operational efficiency, increasing production volumes and service lives. One of the ways to solve the problem associated with increasing the durability and reliability of materials from plant raw materials is to create compositions based on the synthesis of ceramic materials with an ordered structure by mineralization of the wood matrix with sol-gel surface...

In 1791 the French Academy of Sciences decided to have the size of the Earth measured once more, to a superior accuracy, hoping that perhaps the size of the Earth could be determined to some 10 metre accuracy. This would translate to the error of one metre etalon to be about 1 micrometer. The task of determining the size of the Earth was entrusted to a pair of geodesists/astronomers, P.F.A. M?chain and J.-B.J. Delambre, both highly regarded members of the Academy. Their task was to measure as accurately as possibl...

The paper is focused on literature review from the scientific works in area of utilization of biomass in agglomeration process. Actual environmental potential of biomass, as well as its availability, emphasizes the importance of this topic. The composition and properties of biomass differs from the fossil fuels. It is important to view on utilization of biomass in agglomeration process in wired then ecological context. Technological and economical parameters are also important for its utilization. The type pf the ...