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The aim of the research and analyses was to present the design process of industrial facilities, that takes into account their impact on the existing environment in order to limit the impact of the designed facility on the landscape. Industrial architecture work is usually carried out without taking the surrounding landscape into consideration. The proper analyses of the land for investment and its surroundings allows to develop a design strategy. Appropriate arrangement of isolating greenery allows to create natu...

Beginning with the statement of the World Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development from Rio de Janeiro (1992), the worldпїЅs countries have started to develop national policies for implementing the concept of sustainable development. The experiences of those years led to a more pragmatic approach of the sustainable development implementing policies. For the first time the European Union and United Nations also realized that without a qualitative and quantitative quantification of the objectives of sus...

Current development in the European Union countries may be considered heterogeneous, even though their economic and social similarities. Each country achieves its economic and social goals with different success rate. It is similarly in relation to the complex value such as sustainable development. Evaluation of sustainability and sustainable development is problematic, because of sustainable development (resp. part of it) can be evaluated using the various indicators. It is, for example, the evaluation of sustain...

Mobility, besides housing and food/drinks, is considered one of the main consumption clusters with high impact on environment that includes pollution (i.e. noise), energy consumption and climate changes. Sustainable mobility therefore should be the task high on the agenda for the municipal development governance and, especially, environmental governance, particularly, keeping sustainability principle - to have the ability of people to travel and supply goods in a way that balances environmental and socio-economic ...

The urgency of sustainable development in the world requires seeking solutions to chronic problems of a number of the past decades. Several of the problems are associated with the environment and food supply. The current food supply system was based on conventional farming, yet such food was produced making negative environmental impacts. Organic primary food production is an alternative to the system, which is based on organic farms, the number of and the land area managed by which have considerably increased. In...

The energetic requalification of the existing buildings stock is a key question in the attainment of the ambitious program regarding the energy efficiency proposed by European Union. There are several measures taken to increase the energy efficiency, both for new buildings and for existing buildings, such us the 20 пїЅ 20 пїЅ 20 EU Policy and the Nearly Zero Energy Buildings goal set by the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2010/31/EC, which gives the guidelines to be followed in order to attenuate the ene...

In the context of operationalising sustainable development some progress has been lately achieved in several countries on global level. Recently it seems to be an open dialog among scientists, economists, politicians, as well as city councils representatives about future local plans regarding a sustainable urban development. This concretely means to develop and apply local strategies by considering sustainability requirements. In this regard it is obvious that mindset changes and behaviour modifications, beside te...

The development of materials science is in direct connection to the production of composite material with specific properties and to the technologies for their fabrication. The unique properties of the composites fabricated in Ti-Al-B-C systems makes them attractive for aerospace, power engineering, machine and chemical and other practical applications. Besides, Aluminum matrix composites (AMCs) have great potential as structural materials again due to their excellent physical, mechanical and tribological properti...

The study considers the seaports as one of the main objects of coastal infrastructure in frames of the analysis of the system principles of sustainability of coastal systems in view of spatial planning and development of maritime activities in the coastal and marine areas of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation. The port of Sabetta launched in 2012 on the east coast of the Yamal Peninsula, the Gulf of Ob is aimed at providing the 24/7 and year-round transport and engineering infrastructure to ensure the suppl...

The paper is dedicated to the development of system of water objects pollution monitoring. An efficient study of the environment situation and giving appropriate solutions related to its improvement require adequate information, obtained from a large number of various parameters measurements. Conducting of analysis more than 3-4 times per day is more economically efficient if automatic systems for environment monitoring are used. Such system of water pollution monitoring proposed by authors consists of: computing ...

Systematic cadastre is a work of great economic and social importance in any country. Determining the position of the land register boundaries of the lands on the basis of measurements. It includes description of buildings and land registry entries related to real estate rights, personal rights, acts, facts or legal relations connected with real estates and encumbrances or charges or how to exercise property ownership In the systematic cadastral are a number of steps that begin with the identification, measurement...

Atlas production is largely a joint work of cartographers and designers. By undertaking the process of atlas production as a GIT project, a team of collaborators might be developed to incorporate experts on GIS, remote sensing, spatial statistics, spatial databases and spatial analysts. Furthermore, when digital atlas production is designed as a web interactive application, the team is extended to include computer developers and web engineers. This paper explores a concept of student team work which integrates var...

Food safety is all necessary to meet conditions and actions that must be taken during all stages of food production and food trade, to ensure the life and health of people. Many people do not think about where the food they buy come from, where it was produced, if in safe conditions. A large part of consumers do not read the labels to see what taste improvers or preservatives are included. And food that we eat affects our health, life. Food that does not meet the requirements, can cause a variety of diseases, incl...

Food safety is all necessary to meet conditions and actions that must be taken during all stages of food production and food trade, to ensure the life and health of people. Many people do not think about where the food they buy come from, where it was produced, if in safe conditions. A large part of consumers do not read the labels to see what taste improvers or preservatives are included. And food that we eat affects our health, life. Food that does not meet the requirements, can cause a variety of diseases, incl...

Tailings ponds are permeable hydrotechnical structures for retention purposes, specifically designed for safely dumping mining waste from mining operations and for evacuating fluid tailings from mining sites. Tailings ponds are grouped in classes according to their type, intended service life and function at the mining site. Another important criterion of classification is the terrain where the tailings pond is situated. Tailings or mining waste can be defined as the commercially worthless fraction or the waste ma...

Talc-bearing rocks in Kallievo-Murennanvaara deposit are associated with ultramafic rocks of peridotite-picritic series. Serpentinized rocks in the picritic portion of the sequence remained unaffected by talc alteration. Peidotitic komatiites, occurring below picrites which were altered to talc-carbonate rocks by carbon dioxide and then to talc-chloritic rocks under the influence of silica and alumina (the result of granite formation), were productive for soapstone. Kallievo-Murennanvaara soapstone deposit, is loc...

Issues of teaching C++ programming language at Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography (MIIGAiK) have been analyzed. Pedagogical experiments were conducted from 2009 till 2016. Modern course of C++ programming language for studentsпїЅ cartographers and geodesists has been developed. The training geodetic programs can be used both by teachers and students whose specializations are geodesy and mapping at lectures and practical sessions and also for home studies. The example of training program named "Coll...

The aim of the article is to teach future petroleum engineers how to write a report as part of their English language course. The topic of a report will be assessing the immediate response of the relevant parties to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010. The methods will involve the analysis of the undergraduate curriculum for petroleum engineers, the study of literature on methods for writing professional documents; and the experimental teaching of writing a report in English. The findings are as follows: writing ...

The main scope of underground gas storage reservoir is to maintain a constant pressure in the national transmission system and balance demand fluctuation on the market, respectively to meet the load variations. Underground gas storage reservoirs also play an important and strategic role as regards maintaining the fundamental parameters (pressure and flow rate) of the transmission system within optimal values. The underground storage activity is considered to be an efficient process allowing a constant delivery in ...

The purpose of the work was to identify the features of technical design of greening buildings integrated into the building The necessity of forming additional landscaping in the structure of residential development is substantiated by analyzing the modern character of residential areas (on the example of the city of Moscow). The typology of types of gardening is given, three main types are distinguished. Classified carrier base for landscaping. The environmental principles of the formation of structures for garde...

This paper presents a technical solution proposed for the mining drilling equipment command system, used for digging the horizontal mining works. The manufacturing industry of mining machinery in Romania and from different countries achieved a wide range of equipment for digging the horizontal mining works. As a result of the activity undertaken by a research team from the University of Petrosani, the drilling equipmentпїЅs with one manipulator arm (IMP-1) and two manipulator arms (IMP-2) were designed and constru...

Existing buildings made of masonry, have been subjected, within the time, to the action of external or internal factors, which led to important structural damage. Finding the suitable methods for structural rehabilitation for each building in order to conserve it, particularly the historical monuments, is not a simple thing, mainly if they are affected by seismic vulnerability. The paper submits the results of the research upon these buildings, regarding the technological process of fitting at the base of a buildi...

Apatite is mineral - common name for a number of related minerals of the apatite group with the common formula Ca5(PO4)3(F, OH, Cl). Mmineral species in the group are fluorapatite (F - up to 3.8), chlorapatite (Cl - up to 6.8), hydroxylapatite, carbonate-apatite. Kola apatite concentrate is a promising and raw material for complex processing, allowing to produce, in addition to the basic product пїЅ phosphoric fertilizers, strontium, rare earth elements and fluorine compounds. Despite obvious environmental expedie...

Drilling in permafrost is accompanied by a risk of specific complications related to the disturbance of temperature conditions. The risk imposes certain restrictions on the use mud motors, depths of installation of conductor pipe and surface casing, temperature of the circulation fluid, timing of cement curing etc. This article discusses a technology of additional reaming and reciprocating the wellbore just before running casing, which is based on the properties of cryogenic rocks. Conducted an analysis of technic...

The totality of all that is human-made: technical devices and systems, cities, houses, roads and all that humans have constructed to keep them alive on the planet are called the technosphere. The technosphere though is a relatively new phenomenon is evolving extraordinarily rapidly and its mass has been estimated to approximate to 30 trillion tons. Currently the weight of all that man creates in a year is an order of magnitude greater than the mass of wild living organisms (biomass). Thus, our civilization faces v...

The paper presents deformation of the housing and shaft reinforcement surveyed within the telemetry deformation monitoring system. Research was taken in the Salt Mine Wieliczka Museum, one of the most popular monuments in Poland, placed in 1978 on the original UNESCO list of the World Heritage Sites. Water leaking into Ko?ciuszko shaft posed a serious threat to museum and forced authorities to seal the housing with Jet-grouting method. Due to boreholes which were designed very close to the shaft, the material inje...

Revealing the conditions and mechanisms of evolution of oil deposit based on optical and electron microscopy, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) is a necessary step to create improved of recovery methods. Application EPR for study temperature, mechanical and radiation dynamics of organic matters were presented in this communication. The subject of the investigation was the core material from Bazhenov suite (East Siberian oil and gas province). In order to reveal the features of the material composition and the ...

The present paper analyze the thermic inversions, vertical thermic gradients and daily thermic differences determined at the Miercurea-Ciuc, Jigodin-Bai, Bucin and Toaca meteorology stations, based on hourly data for the 2006-2015 period. The analysis of the thermic inversions in the Ciuc Basin was made by measuring differences of the temperatures between the Miercurea-Ciuc (661 m altitude), Jigodin-Bai (710 m altitude), Bucin (1282 m altitude) and Toaca (1898 m altitude) meteorology stations, which are situated a...

The paper presents a prediction algorithm for the low rate GPS data in order to fuse them with the high rate Inertial Navigation System (INS) data; a major shortcoming in the integration process of the two navigation systems is due to the significant difference in theirs data rates in the reading processes. The algorithm is based on a smart mechanism based on adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference systems (ANFIS) concept, and includes an adaptive network of fuzzy inference systems. Under the form of a five layer feed-forw...

The purpose of the paper is evaluation of the influence of the additives of manufacture waste asphalt shingles (MWAS) on the properties of asphalt concrete mixture. Laboratory tests were performed on the asphalt concrete samples with additive of 1% and 2% WMAS. The scope of the study included the following tests: stiffness modulus at three temperatures (5пїЅC, 15пїЅC and 30пїЅC), indirect tensile strength in dry and wet conditions, fatigue properties, resistance to permanent deformation and resistance to low tempe...

The aim of the paper is evaluation of the influence of the additives of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) and manufacture waste asphalt shingles (MWAS) on the chosen properties of asphalt concrete mixture. Laboratory tests were performed on the asphalt concrete samples with additive of 20% RAS and 1% WMAS. The scope of the study included the following tests: stiffness modulus at three temperatures (5пїЅC, 15пїЅC and 30пїЅC), indirect tensile strength in dry and wet conditions, fatigue properties, and resistance to ...

Growing a healthy, stable and quality forest stands while using their products in the most effective way possible is the primary aim of every forest manager, as well as the forestпїЅs owner, considering the fact that wood mass is still the most important source of income for the forest management in Slovakia. As a result of wood logging and conversion, a significant amount of waste wood mass is left over in the forest, manipulation sites, wood stocks, warehouses and saw pits. The waste wood, consisting of pieces o...

Because wood ash resulted from furnace facilities destined to solve the problem of wood debris, are cumulated in large amounts, the problem of an alternative to their storage is increasingly important. A using possibility, if free of harmful constituents, is their administration as soil fertilizer/amendment may be taken into consideration. This experiment was conducted in order to emphasize the effect of using ash resulted from oak debris burning in facilities destined to this aim, as soil fertilizer, administered...

Evaluation of explosion-proof protected electrical equipment in scope of certification is extremely important considering the risk of explosion that has to be minimized in order to ensure life safety and health of workers and to prevent damaging of property and the environment, as well as free movement of goods when they meet the essential safety requirements at European level. The purpose of this paper is to present the tests carried out on the cable entries with type of protection increased safety and flameproof...

An innovative concept for design and detailing of precast concrete frame structures is analyzed under accidental seismic-type loading. The new detailing of post-tensioned assembled structures derives from the special hybrid moment frames as defined in the ACI T1.2-03 standard. The alternative detailing of special reinforcements, named modified special hybrid joints, are bondless with respect to both column and beams. The model represents a corner of an actual multistoried structure, cropped in the middle of the be...

Nowadays concrete is the worldпїЅs most widely used building material. A decisive constituent is cement, which causes in production nearly 10% of the worldпїЅs CO2 emissions. Ultra High Performance Concrete (UHPC), a new high-tech concrete with an outstanding compressive strength of 4 to 6 times the strength of standard concrete (NSC), is the most advanced building material in reinforced concrete construction and increasingly used in different countries all over the world. Due to its high compressive strength, bui...

Using of photogrammetric methods on quarries of dimension stone for determining cracks parameters and stone block modeling is actual problem. The methodology of applying the modern digital cameras (SLR-type) and terrestrial laser scanning for surveying of mining objects (dimension stone blocks), reception of the information on a camp of rock mass, recognition of cracks in rock massif with following definition of their geometrical parameters, quality control of dimension stone blocks on quarry are considered. The m...

The latest law in matter of property right, which aims to be a solution to solve the problems arising during the implementation of previous property laws, is Law no. 165/2013 concerning the measures to complete the process restitution, in the nature or equivalent, of the real estates abusively taken during the communist regime in Romania. The complexity of the previous laws regarding the restitution of properties abusively taken, as well as the changes produced upon them over the time, imposed the adoption of a ne...

The work is focused to study the impact of alkaline and metallic deposition on soil phosphatase activity. Area JelпїЅava - LubenпїЅk with specific alkaline pollutants is one of the most devastated regions of Slovakia. Mining and processing of magnesite is accompanied by enormous emissions of particulate matter of MgO into the air. The heavy metals Cd, Pb, Zn, Mn and Cr are also found in the dust particles. Seven research sites in the agrarian country of the problem area JelпїЅava and LubenпїЅk were monitored. Midd...

The article is devoted to the development of the algorithm for express analysis of the state of human functional systems, taking into account the data of goniometric control. The analysis of electrophysiological correlates of movements is given. The features of occurrence of bioelectric signals of brain centers and muscle neurons are analyzed. Based on the analysis it is established that for more effective study of the pathology of the musculoskeletal system it is necessary to carry out goniometric control togethe...

The analysis of environmental and economic effectiveness of the environmental management by cost indicators is important in the environmental policy of the enterprise. Volumes of environmental financing, indexing of environmental payments, formation and use of funds, the establishment of environmental insurance rates depend on the understanding of the category пїЅecological and economic efficiencyпїЅ. Studies have shown that the existing environmental cost-benefit analysis techniques in the evaluation of their eff...

Contribution deals with a future development of an area affected by brown coal mining. The area consists of Chomutov, Most, Teplice and пїЅstпїЅ nad Labem districts located in the northern Bohemia at the foot of the Ore Mountains. Even though the land is severely damaged by the coal mining, the future potential can be sustainable there. Due to good experience with reclamation and restoration processes, the area is constantly renewed and integrated back to the surrounding landscape. It is important to concentrate o...

Circularity metrics are useful for empirically assessing the effects of introduction of circular economy principles at product and company level. Due to the fact, that the concept of circular economy is new, one standardized method for measuring the circularity of products and company has still not been developed. For that reason, in this article the multidisciplinary literature review was carried out for indicating existing methods, tools and indicators dedicated to measure the circularity. This analysis has prov...

The land cover changes of the area result from both nature-induced activities that are sometimes indirectly caused by human influence, and direct human-induced activities such as land use change, deforestation, city expansions, and other. Therefore, the land cover change can indicate climate changes of the geographic area as well as the change of the socio-economic factors. This study aims at analyzing the land cover change over the territory of the Republic of Croatia from 1990 onwards. The study is based on CORI...

Knowledge of emitted neutron spectra is crucial to determination of degradation rate of materials or biological shielding designing. Therefore the paper focuses on the neutron spectra measurement using passive activation detectors made from indium and special spectral filters. A neutron radionuclide source made of mixture americium and beryllium was used for irradiation. The irradiation was carried out on the special stand SVICKA that allow generating different spectra in various irradiation channels. The spectral...

At present the extraordinary and earlier unprecedented development of the industry is observed. The scale of the production of different goods is huge and concerns many areas on our planet. Some of these areas were not industrialized till today. Their development from the one hand gives the social and economic benefits пїЅ like the life conditions improvement, money transfer, but from the other hand requires the location of new production lines or even plants. In many of them the old, worn out machines and the tec...

The nature of the soilпїЅs foundation bears a major influence on the time behavior of a building. Geotechnical studies are chosen based on the appropriate constructive methods for the terrain situation. There are however, cases where, even if the constructive solutions are adopted accordingly with the conclusions of prior studies, due to an inadequate approach in the achieving process of these studies, there are deformations that occur in the structure of the constructions, that affect their exploitation process o...

In this study, the antimicrobial activity of eight natural extracts (Citrus bergamia, Ocimum basilicum, Melissa officinalis, Eucaliptus, Pelargonium graveolens, Argania spinosa, Ricinus communis) over some nosocomial bacterial strains isolated from hospital units (Staphylococcus aureus M215, Escherichia coli M49 and Streptococcus pyogenes M372) has been studied using the diffusion method. The highest antibacterial effect was exhibited by the basil (Ocimum basilicum) and eucalyptus (Eucaliptus) oil (0.7 mm and 1.3 ...

The designation of protected natural areas aims to preserve the natural elements where the ecological balance is becoming unstable. Gradually, the role of the strict nature protection begins to be phased out, whereas most protected areas are an integral part of human settlements or represent points of tourist attraction for nature lovers. It is therefore necessary to harmonise the nature protection with the spatial development in order to minimize the negative environmental impacts and maximize the economic benefi...

Nowadays, mining and metallurgical enterprises are necessarily involved in recovering of technogenic deposits generated by their operations. By doing so, they obtain additional mineral resources and improve the environment situation. Studies of the processability of pelletized slag from Kola MMC (Nikel town) have disclosed the possibility increases of extracting non-ferrous metals via electric pulse disintegration method and next processing classic flotation. This is a consequence of the specific physical mechanis...