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The historical Ibrahim Aga Mansion purchased by the Chamber of Architects of Aksaray and wished to be used as the service building for the chamber. In this study, the strengthening project before the restoration of the building was prepared. The building had no foundations under the stone walls and suffered from cracks and decaying of the wooden floors. Since the existing structural system did not allow restoration of the building, strengthening and redesign of the structural system was the main priority. In the r...

Students approaches to “mine engineering job” in Selcuk University, Mining Engineering Department is one of the study area to comprehend departmental educational target. This study was taken place by surveying the mining engineering students at Selcuk University. The survey covered first year (grade) students for their ideas and expectations in future. Second and third year students were surveyed for their lectures and difficulties they come across during their education. Fourth year students in the department...

As it is well-known, customer relationship management (CRM) has become an important topic for practitioners in recent years. Customer relationship management becomes an important key of how to manage relationships with customers effectively. A key component of many initiatives is the implementation of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) methods. In order to enhance customer relationships, the application of CRM methods are exploring in detail. By means of the application of CRM methods, university human resourc...

The web content grows annually by a geometric progression. Internet pages provide information not only through the markup language (X)HTML, which is used to create Web pages, but often in many different other formats and also web services. One task of this project is to make detail analysis of existing web services for obtaining the geographical coordinates of the given information and take advantage of them to extract spatial information from web pages. Positive results of this analysis in Czech information on th...

The calibration of the geodetic apparatus is nowadays viewed as common. It is recommended to test it as soon as the new apparatus has been purchased, as it is necessary to find out whether the apparatus meets the parameters declared by the manufacturer. It is also necessary to test it at regular intervals (during the period of two or three years), after it has been repaired, or if any deviation has been found during the process of surveying. The testing of geodetics apparatus are preceded in such a way they corres...

Most important factors that made them feeling tired or overloaded in underground, were heat factor and other microclimatic factors influencing working environment deterioration. Mine modernism made those influences become lower rapidly, however, increasing the mine depth, made underground microclimate conditions get worse, as a lack of the fresh air and continuous problems to increase the air content. Microclimatic parameters in the Trepca mine were considered, emphasising horizon 10th and their influence in heat ...

This paper presents the analysis of ground vibration parameters induced by blasting excavations realized at different sites located close to the residential areas. Within the scope of this study, in order to predict peak particle velocity and determine the slope of the attenuation curve for all sites and rock units, ground vibration components were measured for all blast events over a long period. During the study, while the parameters of scaled distance were recorded carefully, the ground vibration components wer...

A revaluation of the important of the climatic variations on the Earth in the last 120,000 years (Quaternary palaeoclimatological data) led us to render evident a special geodynamic moment around 40,000-39,000 years (ka) before present (BP). We have correlated this moment with a severe change of the precessional year duration caused by a modification of the rotational axis position under the influence of a cosmic body. We consider this cosmic event to be the capture of the Moon (by the Earth), former first planet ...

Knowing wind energy and its features can help programmers in using this clean, free and renewable energy. Iran is located in the west wind region, and the common wind direction is from north-west to south-west in Iran. But in some regions of Iran, due to special regional conditions as well as the synoptic factors of atmosphere, the wind direction is different from the common wind direction in Iran. The wind speed is also higher than the average speed of west winds. Based on the statistics from wind speed and direc...

In the current global crisis conditions any opportunity of extending the tourism market, attracting a new segment of tourists is welcome. The lake’s water stands as a crucial link that conditions a leads through its physicalchemical composition the lake’s biological life, the flora and fauna casting, their discomposure and transformation into mud quality important organic mater. The water’s level growth involves deep qualitative alterations, concerning the peloidogenesis phenomenon related species, and the w...

The estimation of important parameters at Choghart mine stockpile is accomplished by sampling specific parameters that allow detection of useful parts of the Low Grade stockpile. Huge amount of low grade broken rocks near the open pit can causes some environmental problem. Therefore, determination of dump parameters became important in this mine. In this research the estimation of Fe and P was fulfilled in low grade stockpile of Choghart. The Estimation of these two parameters (Fe \& P) can be used for mapping the...

The investigation of the fluvial relief of the north-east side of Kosovo shows a particular scientific and practice interest, so our purpose is to give a circumstantial and full view of morphology and morphogenesis of this part during the evolution phases of its development. In the complex relief of this part, a very important part is the fluvial one, too, so, if we see it by its enlargement, it is ranged immediately after the structural relief, which is regarded to the fact that the fluvial morphogenesis phenomen...

The Bolboci hydrotechnical arrangement was achieved in 1988 on the upper course of Ialomita river, in the complicated geological and tectonic conditions of Bucegi massif from the Oriental Carpathians. This occupies the tectonic syncline of Bucegi which is situated between Cheile Tatarului and Cheile Zanoagei, at south, resulted from the background deformations of precadomian crystalline and the deposition blanket being made from the succession of Dogger, Malm and Albian. On the level of the litho-group of Malm-Dog...

Comprehensive atmospheric composition studies require multi-scale numerical experiments to be carried out, which to clarify to some extend different scale processes interaction, but also to further specify requirements for input data (emissions, boundary conditions, large scale forcing). Model interfaces from synoptic trough meso- to local scale have to be tailored. Shortly speaking, extensive sensitivity studies have to be carried out, tailoring the model set-up and parameters – a possible forerunner of single ...

Past to present, climate changes take place on every sections of the world during the history. This is an ordinary fact when these changes occur naturally, i.e. the natural climate changes are the necessity of our world’s natural behavior, and then the beings on the world are not affected artificially. However, in recent years, some human activities that increase the concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere and cause global warming are the most effective factors playing great roles on changing...

The increasing number of recent researches indicates that emotional intelligence and social intelligence are more important than IQ in many fields. In literature, many quantitative findings indicate that there is a significant relationship between academic achievement and emotional intelligence skills. In other words, analysis indicates that emotional intelligence skills can serve as a indicator of academic achievement and effective learning. The main focus of this research is to discuss the relationship between e...

The town of Northwich in Cheshire, England has played host to the salt mining industry for 300 years and was the cradle of the modern heavy chemical industry with which it has been associated for approximately 200 years. Historically, the dumping of waste from these industries on adjacent land was unregulated leading to substantial accumulations of ‘legacy industrial solid waste’ (LISW) arising from many processes including brine evaporation and the Leblanc and Solvay processes for soda ash production. This pr...

Vocational preference will affect students in their vocational decision making and train them about lifelong career management skills. Vocational choice covers the explanations about student’s features such as; career tendencies, learning styles, preferred working environment, weaknesses-strengths, skills. When students and teachers know students’ learning styles the academic success will increase because students will know the better way to study and teacher will know how to behave students that have differen...

The data obtained from Constant GBS (SGBS) networks which are established generally for the aim of geodesic, geodynamic and navigation studies also contribute to the meteorological studies. In this study, hourly temperature and pressure values measured by present meteorological sensors in SGPS stations as well as water vapor values (PWV) that can be converted into rain by taking the advantage of GPS observations will be calculated for Middle Anatolian Region. The values of GPS\_IPWV obtained as a result of calcula...

The difficulty in reclamation of the North Bohemian Basin dumps consists in extremely severe properties of rocks in most of the dumps. It mainly concerns the rocks of the overlaying formation and the formation of brown coal seams. Sands, kaolinitic clayey sands and kaolinitic and illitic clays are the main materials bulk to the dumps. The admixtures of the bulk rocks consist of organic coal, siderite and pyrite. These rocks are mechanically unstable against wind and water erosion and they have obtained adverse, ac...

The contribution deals with the possibilities of unknown part topography defining and with some problems, which originate at the creating of 3D model without drawing documentation details of modelled part. It is concerned to the parts with complex shape. To obtain the dimensions of such undefined real part is often very difficult, especially, if the accuracy requirement is great. The solution of these problems can greatly affect the efficiency of the part manufacturing and so considerably decrease the economic cos...

The relation man – environment has reached a point when it will bear major changes, which will reshape the entire structure of the man-made edifice. In fact, the changes will affect the society and the rules which it has created in all the aspects, starting from the definition of morality and reaching the behaviour of each individual, inhabitant of the planet. In this context, the ecologic policies do not situate themselves on auxiliary positions, “curative”, but they are meant to set up objectives on econom...

The main goal of this research is to determine the attitudes of high school students and higher education school students in terms of conflict, the types of conflicts they encountered and conflict management styles they applied. For this research, Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory was used to identified the students’ perceptions regarding conflict and conflict management styles. The sample data for this research is 372 School of Vocational Studies students in Istanbul. Thus, this research aimed at explorin...

The sustainable tourism implies the development of all the forms of tourism, the touristic management and marketing that should respect the natural, social and economic integrity of the environment by ensuring the exploitation of the natural and cultural resources for the future generations as well. The competitive development of the touristic products lead to the creation of new jobs, in a direct manner – in the area of the production and distribution of touristic services – as well as in an indirect manner, ...

Providing of the healthy environment at the mining activity spaces of each horizon or working fronts, is issues that is discussed and is imposed at all decision making levels and afterwards implementation of the exploitation activity of a source. It starts from the preparation of the visibility study and after in compilation of detailed projects, of exploitation flow and finally implementation of control. The ventilation problem is very important because it can cause danger and accidents, professional diseases, po...

In medical sector, the expectation of both hospital administration and patients is quite much today, in parallel with the rapid development of information technologies. The increment in culture and consciousness level of people increases their better medical service taking wish. This situation is possible with more qualified service given by the foundations offering medical service and being satisfied of the service customers from the service they have taken. In total quality management; various parameters are eff...

Using 36Cl dissolved in groundwater as a monitor of sub-surface neutron fluxes makes it possible to reconstruct information on the U and Th contents of the rocks interacting with the groundwater flow. In particular, the concentrations of radioelements such as uranium and thorium can be evaluated, which are the dominant source of the subsurface neutron flux. This can provide important information in connection with exploration of uranium ore deposits. Based on the results of several case studies from aquifers in cr...

This paper deals with the topic of image calibration and transformation inside the photogrammetric system FOTOM 2008. The calibration module is used for approximate determination of outer camera parameters (position and rotation) with respect to captured objects. An additional transformation is based on similarity of homocentric circles and is accomplished in two steps, which will be described. Variables, obtained from the calibration are used for corrective projection enabling easier measurement of observed objec...

Waste disposal is the biggest humanity problem nowadays. This has been recognized worldwide and we are lucky because waste treatment is applied, at least at developed countries. On the other hand Nature is suffering a lot and biodiversity is reducing rapidly. The preservation and conservation of Nature has leaded European Union to establish the NATURA 2000 network in continuity of Ramsar Convention. In this paper the conditions and the status of the biotopes of the National Park of East Macedonia and Thrace, and p...

A summary of abundance, quality and usage areas of the known bentonite occurrences in Turkey has been explained for this study. Bentonite that is one of the most important and abundant clays of Turkey has lower cost in comparison to other raw materials. Turkey has significant resources of bentonite that have been reported approximately 370 million tons base reserve. Also Turkey is one of the leading producers with 950 000 tons per year. Lower cost of bentonite in comparison to other raw materials for various usage...

One of the major concerns in all underground mine excavations is the stability of the stopes, the empty spaces which are created throughout the excavation process. Typically, the mining engineer supports or reinforces the stopes when needed, by means of rockbolts, wire meshes and steel sets. At the same time, a monitoring system based on geotechnical or geodetic measurements can provide against tiny displacements of control targets. This paper presents the application of artificial intelligence techniques, namely,...

Soil erosion is a process threatening natural resources such as water, soil, plant cover and climate both directly and indirectly and it is dangerous for human safety and his life. Erosion not only weakens soil, makes useless farms and a lot of damage, but also causes harm by sedimentation solid of materials in streams, sources, dams, ports and decreases the amount of their capacity. In this project, we are studying soil erosion in Mousa Abad basin in Tiran, Isfahan in SLEMSA model using GIS. In this research, the...

Horizontal location and interpretation of gravity anomalies plays an important role in the detection of anomalous bodies and determination of explorative boreholes location. There are various methods for interpreting of gravity anomalies, which commonly use high-pass filters. Among these, Normalized Full Gradient (NFG) method represents the full gradient of the gravity anomaly at a point divided by the average of the full gradient at the datum. This method uses Fourier series to remove deficiencies and eliminate t...

On the island of Evia, in central-east Greece, in Aliveri area, the mining operations (underground and surface) caused new and very complex hydrogeological, geochemical and geotechnical conditions. Since the mining operations have ceased since 1990, any plans for the utilisation of the former mining lands and buildings and the de3velopment of the area, demands the knowledge of these new conditions and the supply of sufficient water. A thorough investigation, including water level measurements, pumping tests, chemi...

A specific application of the Method of the finite elements is proposed. The approach is based on the theory about the rheological segmentation of the Earth crust. Different practical various of the proposed method are considered

Short-term production scheduling determines the sequence of block extraction over time spans of shift, days, weeks or months. The aim of scheduling is to decide which blocks of ore and waste to mine in which time period so that several operational and geometrical constraints can be satisfied simultaneously- like mining and mill capacity, meeting grade requirements, making long-term mine plans operationally feasible, etc. Since the 1960s several operational research based approaches have been developed. In order to...

The aim of our study is to make a research and determine the level of comprehending environmental risks and level of anxiety among health personnel resulting from those risks. The total field under survey is 2303 health personnel working GATA Haydarpasa Hospital. Our experimental group consists of 74 doctors, 81 nurses and 65 health workers working in managerial staff. In our crossectional research, a questionnary form of 16 questions, prepared specially, applied to our experimental group. 11 questions from the qu...

With regarding to population and increasing growth rate of civilization, one of the ecological problems that bring some difficulties to human being and social life is to produce industrial culch. It is natural that such an increasing growth will bring some difficulties the same as follows: Howe to product culch (rubbishes) and how to resumption them in a good way . The main aim of this research is to find some suitable ways for resumption of the used materials in educational workshops in Golestan province, Iran. T...

In this study, the investigating of sawability and abrasivity of Khalkhal and Azarshahr travertine were carried out in order to the planning of a new plant. To achieve the goal, rock samples were collected from the mines and some mineralogical, physical and mechanical properties of rocks were determined in the laboratory. The sawability was determined by using some empirical methods based on Schmidt hammer value, Tensile Strength, Uniaxial Compressive Strength and P-wave velocity and abrasivity of rocks were inves...

The topics of stress and academic achievement are becoming increasingly interesting to educational institutions and their members. The aim of this research is to examine the relationship between personality and academic achievement of the students of Vocational school in a private University in Istanbul, Turkey. There is a significant correlation between the students’ personalities which are depicted via adjective checklist and the students’ stress level assessed by Abidin’s Stress Scale. Adjective Check Lis...

As it is well-known, the latest trend in academia has been the rapid growth of online or distance learning courses. Globalization makes mobility easy and possible. That is why a graduate has the opportunity to find not only a nationwide but also a worldwide occupation. In most countries in the world, the function of accreditation for educational institutions is conducted by a government ministry of education. The purpose of this study is presenting the goal of the accreditation. The goal of accreditation is to ens...

As it is well-known, accreditation is a short of leadership and quality assurance in applied Science, computing, engineering, and technology education. In most countries in the world, the function of accreditation for educational institutions is conducted by a government ministry of education. One of the most important outcomes of economic globalization is the abolition of national boundaries in the fields of goods and services trade as well as production factors, namely capital and especially high-skilled labor. ...

It is called stress when an individual begins to act different physically and mentally as a result of the fact that he or she is affected by the environment he or she lived and worked in. To block or balance the process of adaptation to stressful circumstances of people can be in different ways. However, it may not be possible to get rid of stress completely. So that, an individual who is overstressed can suffer aggressiveness, nonconfidence, difficulties in focusing, chronic tiredness, tension, sadness, anxiety, ...

Many countries has used the wind energy for agricultural pumping water for many years. Mechanical energy or electrical energy which is converted from the wind energy drives the pump. Water is not directly convey the target areas due to discontinuous wind regime. Therefore water is conveyed the storage tank. In addition, using the drip irrigation system at this system is provided saving at the agricultural economy. The increasing use of wind energy instead of the fossil energy provides to decrease pollutant emissio...

The First step in analysis of slope stability in open pit mines is punctual definition of rock mass characteristics. Several rock mass classification systems have been presented so far in the area of geomechanics. One of the most widely used rock mass classification systems are the geomechanics classification (RMR) by Bieniawiski. The RMR classification is based on the definition of classic membership functions. So characterization of rock masses and determination of their strength may involve some uncertainties d...

Most of the salt that is being consumed in Iran is produced through stope and pillar mines, located in north of the central desert of Iran. The very large stopes have been excavated for applying open cut loading and hauling machines, so that those stopes have to be supported by large pillars. Therefore, the excavation ratio and stability considerations should be studied as two special cases in these mines. To determine the pillar’s strength, in this paper, four of the largest mines have been studied. An experime...

The Fenton process, one of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), has been widely implemented to remove COD and color for dye wastewater as a pre-treatment or posttreatment process. In recent years, Fenton-like processes have received considerable attention in wastewater removal. The main purpose of the present study was to determine the optimal operational conditions of the Fenton- like process by using raw limonite ore at various concentrations of hydrogen peroxide and raw limonite ore for treatment of dye wastewa...

Characterization of rock masses is one of the fundamental aspects of rock engineering. Particularly, as a rock mass characteristic, determination of the strength of jointed rock masses is difficult since the size of representative specimens including discontinuities is too large for laboratory testing. This problem can be overcome by using the Hoek– Brown empirical failure criterion in conjunction with the Geological Strength Index (GSI) classification system. However, characterization of rock masses and determi...

In this paper, the relationship between p-wave velocity and the most important strength properties of rock material has been studied. During this research eight various types of rocks from north-west of Iran have been tested view pointed of uniaxial compression strength (UCS), tensile strength (Brazilian test) and elastic modulus. Regression analyses between above parameters and p-wave velocity reveals that there is a mathematical relationship with exponential equation (R2= 0.8597) between p-wave velocity and unia...

Roof falls continue to be one of the greatest hazards faced by underground coal miners. For preventing unpredictable hazards and losses due to roof falls, assessment of roof rock behaviour in coal mines plays an assential role in ground control issue. However, based on the intensive reserches in this area, various parameters influence the roof rock behaviour of the stratified rock mass. One of them, which is extremely important to coal mine ground control, is moisture sensitivity. Many coal seams have immediate ro...