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Environmental risks in waterstreams are not inconsiderable factor affecting the ecosystem and humans as part of the whole. As part of a comprehensive EU wide efforts to protect water bodies in Slovakia was adaptation of Directive 2000/60/EC which is establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy and water management. The core of the paper is an analysis of potential environmental risks in river basin Horn?d due to flooding. The aim is to identify possible sources of contamination, which...

The aim of this article is to identify and assess the sources of risk in the mining production planning process in terms of quantity and value in a hard coal mine. To implement this goal, the first part of this paper identifies sources of risk, the second part in turn describes preventative actions that the mine should undertake to minimize the risk during the mining production planning. The article makes use of deduction, mining production processes analysis and literature on mining economics. The internal source...

Authors describe the novel approach to boost the scientific data analysis performance with the data-storing schema for distributed scientific research systems. This approach optimizes the workload on storage nodes and enhances the computation performance. Managing the enormous output of scientific research systems is expected to be the most technically difficult part of all recent projects producing Petabytes of imagery data. In this paper we describe the distributed storage structure with indexing techniques whic...

Rural areas are antipodes to urbanized and industrialized territories. At the same time, rural areas are obligatory components of the sustainable environment and economic development of countries and regions. The rural area mostly depends on environmental factors. Ameliorative factors, i.e. the suitability for improving the performance characteristics of the area, have the leading role as well. These factors effect on the development of agricultural production functions (specialization) and on the rural areas soci...

Following socio-economic changes in Central Eastern Europe, the areas located near water bodies have changed, on a massive scale, their character from that of agricultural areas to that of areas developed with holiday buildings. These changes occur very rapidly, with no opportunity for municipalities to prepare comprehensive area development plans. Cadastral divisions performed to satisfy the new owners? needs do not ensure the sustainable development spaces that are particularly attractive in terms of recreation,...

The paper analysis the precipitations associated to the cut-off lows and their regional distribution induced by the air circulation types and the position of cut-off lows in relation to the different regions of the country, in Romania in 2014. Cut-off lows have been identified using geopotential, air temperature and circulation maps at 500 and 300 hPa levels within the region of latitude 40 to 50 В°N and longitude 15 to 35 В°E. To establish the atmospheric circulation type for each cut-off event, HYSPLIT model was...

The pore space is an important part of a rock that affects its mechanical and petrophysical properties. Among numerous methods for pore space characterization X-ray computed microtomography (?CT) is one that provides information on the spatial distribution of pores within rocks. Followed by image processing and analysis, detailed information on orientation and shape of voids can be obtained. Hence, it is a good method for microstructural studies on the porous space. The aim of this paper is to present spatial vari...

X-ray microtomography (?CT) has been increasingly popular among geoscientists interested in reservoir rocks? pore space, as it enables studying much more parameters than solely the porosity. Because carbonate rocks can be dramatically complex with respect to their permeability, porosity, and mineral composition ? they need advanced tools like ?CT to be studied in details. Petrographically and petrophysically variable carbonate sample withdrawn from the Bro?sko Reef, West Poland was examined by means of the ?CT-bas...

Actual tasks in development, configuration, utilisation and support of complex technical, economic and natural systems require a deep understanding of its internal processes. System dynamics discipline is devoted to that problem and let to researching and analysis the complex systems behaviour. The base of it is a numerical method for dynamic system modelling. Modelling processes for real systems require significant computational resources (time and power consumption). Authors provide the approach to the optimisat...

The Power Plant Ostroleka is one of many in Poland, which is coal-fired. Fly ash, as is well known, are combustion by-products, which are mineral residue from burning coal. Their phase composition depends mainly on the quality of fuel (coal) and combustion conditions. In the mineral composition of the examined ashes one has identified minerals such as: glass, quartz, mullite, spinels, hematite. Spinels present in the fly ash can be a source of some metals, and due to the magnetic properties of some of them, are ea...

In mayonnaise formulation various types of oil (sunflower, rice and olive oil) were preliminary used. In the production of low fat mayonnaise, the most sensorially acceptable oils were used. Low fat (LF) mayonnaise was produced at different levels of oil with different types (xanthan gum, XG; agar, A; and a combination of XG and A, 1:1) and levels (0.00, 0.20, 0.40, 0.60, 0.80 and 1.00%) of hydrocolloid gums. All samples were compared to traditional full fat (FF) mayonnaise. The most sensorially acceptable oils we...

In mayonnaise formulation various types of oil (sunflower, rice and olive oil) were preliminary used. In the production of low fat mayonnaise, the most sensorially acceptable oils were used. Low fat (LF) mayonnaise was produced at different levels of oil with different types (xanthan gum, XG; agar, A; and a combination of XG and A, 1:1) and levels (0.00, 0.20, 0.40, 0.60, 0.80 and 1.00%) of hydrocolloid gums. All samples were compared to traditional full fat (FF) mayonnaise. The most sensorially acceptable oils we...

Underground mines from Jiu Valley have as objective the extraction of hard coal, used for energetic purposes. Exploitation activities are associated with the extraction of significant amounts of sterile, derived from opening and preparing works, but also from coal processing activity. The sterile rocks are stored in waste dumps of different sizes, which must undergo periodic stability analysis. This paper aims to estimate waste dumps stability, by using fuzzy theory, the results of such an analysis being of qualit...

The stable isotopes oxygen-18 (18O) and deuterium (2H) are naturally abundant in precipitation. Due to fractionation effects, a seasonally variable distribution of water isotopes occurs in the precipitation of temperate and continental regions. Water isotopes, being conservative tracers, are ideal for investigating subsurface flow processes. They reveal information about soil water fluxes like evaporation, transpiration, downward infiltration and others that are difficult to determine by other techniques. We are u...

Nematodes belonging to the genus Trichinella are zoonotic parasites with a high impact on the animal trade and human health. Foodborne pathogens of Trichinella genus are known as causative agents of human trichinellosis, a disease that is a public health hazard. According to the Commission Regulation (EU) No. 2015/1375 all animals, which are potential carriers of Trichinella spp. larvae and are for human consumption, must be tested according to one of the approved tests. For assessment of developed benzanthrone lu...

Nematodes belonging to the genus Trichinella are zoonotic parasites with a high impact on the animal trade and human health. Foodborne pathogens of Trichinella genus are known as causative agents of human trichinellosis, a disease that is a public health hazard. According to the Commission Regulation (EU) No. 2015/1375 all animals, which are potential carriers of Trichinella spp. larvae and are for human consumption, must be tested according to one of the approved tests. For assessment of developed benzanthrone lu...

Recent studies emphasized rather skeptical views shared by the Romanian stakeholders with regard to the public recognition of the central role of soil resources for assuring food security as well as the fundamental role that soils play in climate change adaptation. As stakeholder views are particularly important for understanding their values and needs, the paper aims to explore the perceptions with regard to soil quality, soil threats as well as the existence and effectives of the national and European policies o...

Scientific codes are usually highly parallelised and executed on heterogeneous architectures. Nowadays, it is common to use graphics accelerators (GPUs) to speed up data-parallel algorithms, and in the meantime, the already existing CPUs can help in this work. Distributing the jobs between systems is always a difficult problem, especially when the processing units have different runtime environments and hardware architectures. There are several attempts for static and dynamic load balancing, but most of these are ...

The optimization of the station points stability position in the monitoring of civil engineering structures displacements in service stage is a necessity due to the fact that depending on the location of the station points the visibility and therefore the accuracy of the determination is maximized. Because sometimes these monitored objects are no longer isolated to afford a wide range of positions of observation points, sometimes even in urban agglomerations that greatly narrow this area and the optimization of th...

For a long time, various researches have been realized about the presence and distribution of Ag, Au, Pb, Zn and their distributions research in different horizons, but there are few researches that are available with statistical analysis related to their distribution which gives a better information about their distribution. Research on the method of distribution by statistical methods are quite accurate methods and give us a clear presentation of the way these elements are distributed in the Trepca Mining. There...

The research and development activity is becoming increasingly important in the current economic context. The emergences of new products, increasing the share of a saturated market or even entering a new market are now based on a research and development activity. The amounts allocated for this activity must be in line with the objectives set by manufacturers in the building materials industry in Europe. For them it is very important to increase their turnover, but they also seek to increase their notoriety, in ad...

For a balanced life, milk and dairy products occupy an important place in the gastronomic culture of each country and are highly appreciate for their nutritional values. Cheese, as the most consumed milk ? derived product, it turned out to be a food product rich in nutrients that was the subject of numerous studies because of its contribution to nutrition and health. There are a very large number of cheese types,with different composition, due to many variations in production process, and that's why it is difficul...

Increasing tendency for fresh food - fruits, vegetables, and herbs - consumption worldwide and also in our country shows the important role they play in the diet. In this case, it is not only good looks, nice color or taste and aromas that are considered to be important, but especially their nutritional value, rich in sugars, vitamins and minerals necessary in the diet of the human body. They also have the advantage to be fit for consumption without any processing which could reduce their nutritional value. The pu...

Waste disposal and management is one of the urgent issues faced by mankind at the current stage of development. Waste car tires pose a significant threat to the environment, which makes their efficient processing particularly important, as the volume of this type of waste generated each year worldwide is estimated at more than 10 million tons, of which 1 million tons are produced in Russia. The paper provides a description and calculations for a process system that can be used to dispose of waste tires by their st...

Since 2017, the Russian government has begun to pay more attention to digital technologies in agriculture. The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation proposed the creation of a state subprogram "Digital Agriculture", in addition, an analytical center was created within the Ministry to monitor the state of agricultural land. Intensive introduction of information technologies in agriculture, promises productivity growth, investment attractiveness of the industry, improving the quality of products with a s...

In southern Algeria, energy consumption is inevitable due to the hot climate and the summer period, which extends for more than half a year, it is necessary to take a strategic approach to ensure the sustainability and maximum comfort while reducing energy through passive and active architectural. Forthis reason, to reduce this consumption, it is necessary to improve the performance of the building. As a result, windows and ventilation become key points to improve in terms of Losses. These two elements may be at t...

Brief The JOINTISZA Project (Strengthening cooperation between river basin management planning and flood risk prevention to enhance the stats of waters of the Tisza River Basin) creates transnational cooperation for next two years in the largest sub-basin of the Danube Basin. The project is funded through the Interreg VB Program of the European Union, the Danube Transnational Program (DTP 2014-2020) component, Priority Axis 2 (Responsibility for Environment and Culture in the Danube Region), Component 2.1 (Strengt...

The present study seeks to relate the focal mechanisms of moderate earthquakes, regional tectonics and the tectonic stress distribution, in Albania. We have analyzed 33 moderate earthquakes (2.2 ? MW ? 4.9) recorded in the time period 2013-2015, by the Albanian broadband (BB) seismic network. Events were located within the upper crust, in the depth range 0 ? h ? 17 km, showing the present day active tectonics. Formal stress inversion of the focal mechanism data, support the variation in the direction of the actual...

The North Dobrogean Orogen is located between the Sf Gheorghe fault to the north and Peceneaga -Camena to the south. Structurally, it involves four tectonic units with NW-SE direction: M?cin unit, Niculi?el unit, Consul unit and Tulcea unit. The M?cin unit comprise a large variety of rocks assemblage, including sedimentary rocks, metamorphic rocks and igneous rocks. All this rocks assemblage belongs to several subunits developed on quasi-parallel NW-SE direction. M?cin unit has been interpreted as nappe folded ove...

Both rural areas and agriculture related to them serve a crucial role in shaping the economic growth and social development of the country. Structural changes occurring in Polish agriculture are determined by numerous factors of an external and internal nature. One of the major ones is the agricultural policy pursued by the state. Economic and social changes taking place in Poland after 1989 posed new challenges to Polish economy, including agriculture and the countryside. They are associated with a deep restructu...

The paper presents results of experimental study of microstructural changes in rock specimens under the effect of high pulse pressure due to shock waves. Specimens of strong rock and coal were placed into special steel preservation ampoules. Shock waves were generated by explosion of trotyl blocks. The study involved electron microscopy, micro- and nanoindentation and laser spectroscopy of particle size. Images of specimen surface fragments were obtained by electron microscopy at various scale levels before and af...

The low head hydropower development ?Capra VI and VII? consists of two small hydropower (SHP) stations accomplished in sequence on the homonym stream in Arge? County, center Romania, each of them less than 1MW. The SHPs, study case for this paper, follow the European directives regarding the water, the environment and the green energy. Their accomplishment was based on the existing delimitation of the minor river bed for which it was noticed that the ichthyofaunal environmental conditions are not entirely achieved...

The low head hydropower development ?Capra VI and VII? consists of two small hydropower (SHP) stations accomplished in sequence on the homonym stream in Arge? County, center Romania, each of them less than 1MW. The SHPs, study case for this paper, follow the European directives regarding the water, the environment and the green energy. Their accomplishment was based on the existing delimitation of the minor river bed for which it was noticed that the ichthyofaunal environmental conditions are not entirely achieved...

The purpose of the article is to assess the regional structure of the upper Triassic - lower Cretaceous sediments (Mulussa F and Rutbah reservoirs), which serve as an important targets for hydrocarbons production and exploration to the center and Middle East of Syria. The upper Triassic - lower Cretaceous sediments are approximately of 800 m thickness consist mainly of floodplain clays interbedded with medium to fine grained fluvial sandstones. In addition, there are dolomites and clay dolomites present in the low...

The properties of materials obtained during the thermal treatment of gypsum depend on structural defects in the multiphase gypsum-anhydrite system. Analysis of the crystal structures of gypsum (CaSO4В·2H2O), bassanite (CaSO4В·0,5H2O), ?-anhydrite (?-CaSO4) and natural anhydrite (?-CaSO4) allowed us to identify a common structural motif in each of these structures. This is an irregular hexagon formed by chains of ?Ca?SO4?Ca?SO4?. During successive thermal transformation of gypsum into anhydrite, this structural mot...

The research was carried out in the meadows ecosystems in the Bazo? forest park, located between Timis and Bega rivers and in the Cornetu forest, situated in the meadow of the Arges river. In each 1 ha survey area, information on the biometric features of component trees was collected and increment core samples were extracted. The purpose of the research was to know the structure and the functioning of the specified crop stands and the elaboration of the dendrochronological series for pedunculate oak and common as...

Created for the purpose of stabilizing the tailing dumps from Moldova Noua against wind erosion, the forest plantations successfully fulfill theirs eco protective role. The arrangement of plantations along the slope or plateau of tailing dumps are determining a different development in vertical and horizontal structure, depending on density, composition or site conditions. The structure study of the stands from tailing dumps was made by processing data obtained from sample surfaces located on the plateau or slope ...

Renewable raw materials, including natural fiber sources, are the future of storage resources with a variety of positive effects on both the planet ecosystem and the living and working environment, and the energy consumption of delivering the required functionality. Noise reduction is a significant component in creating a professional and suitable work environment as open-plan offices have become a quintessential trend of the 21st century. The most common solutions in noise control include installation of noise ab...

Existing legal base regulating behaviour in common and professional ecological situations, problems of the law enforcement is investigated. Analysis of the results showed that ecologist-legal formation should be implemented on the basis of system approaches and multicompound model. Essential distinctions are revealed between the components of ecologist-legal erudition in different groups of trained. Correlation communications are investigated between different components of students' ecologist-legal erudition. The...

The paper deals with the implementation of modern techniques and methods of surveillance in closed mining sites, for monitoring, assessing the real state and forecasting possible changes to provide an integrated picture of the state of the natural environment. The proposed system is designed as a tool with practical applicability in the decision making process of ecological restoration strategies of closed mining sites. Closed / abandoned mines have an acute need to deploy a sensor network due to their lack of wor...

The paper presents a study on the ecological recovery of a waste from the urban waste water treatment plant, respectively the sewage sludge. The use of sewage sludge, is made through its use in agriculture and forestry, through incineration with energy recovery, or co-incineration. According to EU legislation, sludge cannot be used in farming in raw form, so it must be treated before it is properly used. The paper presents an analysis of sludge samples from the decanters of the urban waste water treatment plant fr...

The purpose of this paper is to study some mix design on different mortar mixtures whose results aim at obtaining high mechanical strengths, especially for flexural strength, with low water absorption, to prevent material degradation due to the action of various environmental factors and also to ensure their durability. From the category of cement additions widely used in the current practice due to their pozzolanic and hydraulic activity in latent condition, we refer to silica fume (SF) which is a mineral additio...

Membrane technology is a separation process used predominantly in the primary and secondary sectors of industry, being a viable option over conventional water and wastewater treatment systems. Due to fresh water scarcity increment at global scale, it is essential to develop a best available technology to reduce the negative effects of water contamination and to produce potable and process water, also. Pressure driven membranes have drawn high attention in the past 60 years, due to simple operability and maintenanc...

In order to make selection methods more efficient and to make improvement works perfect in developing new mustard cultivars at the Agricultural Research Station in Lovrin, we carried out a series of research and biometrical measurements starting from the necessity of better knowing specific variability, quantitative features, productivity features, the way they are passed on hereditarily, and the intensity of the correlations between them. The main objective of our research was the establishing the general and spe...

In order to make selection methods more efficient and to make improvement works perfect in developing new mustard cultivars at the Agricultural Research Station in Lovrin, we carried out a series of research and biometrical measurements starting from the necessity of better knowing specific variability, quantitative features, productivity features, the way they are passed on hereditarily, and the intensity of the correlations between them. The main objective of our research was the establishing the general and spe...

Since ancient times to present, grapes have been important to man, as they were considered to be healthy food due to their phytonutrients: polyphenol antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. The preliminary researches highlight the health-related benefits of red grapes, due to their antioxidant, antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties. Starting from this information, compared researches have been conducted so as to highlight the evolution of some biological, technological and biochemical properties of three variet...

Since ancient times to present, grapes have been important to man, as they were considered to be healthy food due to their phytonutrients: polyphenol antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. The preliminary researches highlight the health-related benefits of red grapes, due to their antioxidant, antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties. Starting from this information, compared researches have been conducted so as to highlight the evolution of some biological, technological and biochemical properties of three variet...

Quality of food and beverages is an important aspect that can heavily influence the purchasing behavior of consumers. Wine quality broadly encompasses both extrinsic and intrinsic factors and how these factors are interpreted depends on the level of expertise Wine producers constantly brag about the quality ratings that their wines receive from critics, because a high wine rating ? implying high quality ? translates into increased sales for a wine. But quality wines come in all colors, degrees of sweetness and dry...

Quality of food and beverages is an important aspect that can heavily influence the purchasing behavior of consumers. Wine quality broadly encompasses both extrinsic and intrinsic factors and how these factors are interpreted depends on the level of expertise Wine producers constantly brag about the quality ratings that their wines receive from critics, because a high wine rating ? implying high quality ? translates into increased sales for a wine. But quality wines come in all colors, degrees of sweetness and dry...

The paper presents the impact of variable environment acidity and low temperature on the stability of biosensor receptor layer component BSA (Bovine Serum Albumin). With the use of UV/Vis spectrophotometer, absorption spectra in range (250-300nm) was taken to study conformational changes of the protein with time after exposition to different factors. The results showed an increase in absorption, associated with the conformational changes of BSA with time. A significant decrease in the absorption intensity was note...