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The city of Mitrovica, approximately 40 km north of Prishtina, was the site of one the largest lead smelters in Europe. The present environmental situation in Mitrovica, put as in front of the responsibility to act more rationally towards nature and to be more responsible towards the protection of the environment for future generations. The lack of protection of the environment during the last ten years, as well as the conflict in Kosova are the origin of huge problems regarding present environmental situation in ...

Combustion product production increases with growing demand for energy produced by fossil fuel combustion. Their amount is higher in every year and new way of their use must be looked for. The combustion products can be largely used in a building industry where light ashes are applicable admixture for a concrete production or as a partial substitution of cement. Other way of use is at reclamation and improvement where the combustion products can be applied for back filling or rampart creation. The objective of the...

Currently, continuous gas lift has a significant contribution for the purpose of petroleum production from those wells that have low production rates or those that have ceased their production. Therefore, production engineers are constantly finding the ways for optimizing this type of system. Superior designs are achieved when important parameters are optimized prior to system implementation. Optimization of gas injection into the annulus and also the tubing size are of the most important parameters. The functiona...

A marine archaeological survey reveals not only ancient relics, in cases of success but interesting features on the seabed. During a field work, at the sea area westwards of Santorini island, (South Aegean Sea, Greece) we discovered volcanic formations of pillow lavas surrounded by hydrothermal vents, delineated by white bacterial mats and drifted particulates in the water column. With side scan sonar, we recorded two circular dome-like formations possibly of volcanic origin with nearby larger seamounts and wide o...

A combustion product production has increased in Czechia in recent years. The ways must be looked for how to use the combustion products effectively. One of the ways is to use them as building mixtures suitable for building purposes and for reclamation redevelopment works. Types of building mixtures based on combustion products were designed and their qualitative parameters were long term observed in the frame of the solution of a research proposal under the title “Research of physical and chemical properties of...

The causes of geomagnetic disturbances are either high velocity streams of solar wind originating in coronal holes or coronal mass ejections related to solar energetic events. In this presentation we will concentrate on the second case. Data concerning solar energetic events, published by the USAF/NOAA in the form of daily reports, have been collected since 1996. An analysis of ten years long data collection has shown that the degree of the geoeffectiveness of energetic events depends not only on their size and on...

Geographic information systems (GIS) constitute a new powerful technology that can address many of the information needs of decision makers in state and local governments. Therefore this paper represents an attempt to use this technique to optimize Ghorabi iron ore grade for uses in blast furnace as the first step in steel industry in Egypt.

SД±r\ccalД± Medrese(Madrasa- moslem theological school), which is one of the most important medreses of Konya and Anatolia is in Konya Province, Meram District, GazialemЕџah Quarter.SД±r\ccalД± Medrese, that is among the medreses having an open courtyard, two liwans and two floors, has been had constructed by Bedreddin Muslih in the Period of GД±yaseddin Keyh\"usrev the 2nd. In the front parts of the building cut stone is used, while in other parts rubble stone is used. It has been used as medrese until 1924 with ...

Bubble-point pressure, gas solubility and viscosity of oils are of the most important parameters in use for petroleum and chemical engineers. In this study a simple-to-use; straight-forward mathematical model is correlated on a set of 94 crude oil data. The correlation is achieved based on an exponential regression. The results are compared with variety of conventional empirical correlations and have also been evaluated by comparison with 12 laboratory data other than those used for the regression. It has been con...

The offered method is based on consideration of seismic process as a process of Earth’s crust destruction by seismogenetic breaks of different size and location, connected with each other. Special mathematical methods of handling are used to reveal these connections of earthquakes (EQs) that determine place and time of a preparing strong EQ. We’ll divide EQs (1) by their strength in magnitudes, for example 5.0 and 7.0, into weak, moderate, and strong, and (2) by depth, for example 15 and 40 km, into surfacial,...

Methane emission into the underground mine environment frequently leads to gas accumulations and therefore increases explosion risk. This risk is very serious since primary gas explosion can act as an ignition source of the secondary coal dust explosion with devastating consequences, generating disastrous events in underground mines. In most cases fatalities occur at locations far from the source of the explosion due to the effects of a propagating large flame and an intense pressure wave. The objective of this pr...

Classification of information and data of mining in every relevant mining industry plays an important, sensitive, and undeniable role in progressive decision making procedures. Collecting this data in the form of a software collection package can be useful in providing service and information for the future mining activities and industries. Organizing of mining information on base the type of major minerals, geological setting, origin of the forming , and situation of the active and abandoned mines basically leads...

Natural sources of water, especially fresh water resources, are of significant importance for the population of each country. One of the major problems of the research of water state is the determination of influence of anthropogenic impact factors on water quality. In the given work there is executed statistical processing of the existing base of longterm historical data of the River Kura (Mtkvari) water quality parameters (some physical-chemical parameters and the main ions) for the period of 1980–1989, and th...

\cCakraz district of Bartın province in northwestern Turkey contains wide deposits of quartz sand. Regional geology consist of Lias aged carbonated claystones of Himmetpaşa formation, Barremian aged limestone, dolomitic limestones of Zonguldak formation and Aptian aged sandstone – carbonated sandstones of Kilimli formation. \cCakraz district quartz sand deposits are hosted in Himmetpaşa formation and usually occur as wide lenses in the host rocks. In this study major and minor element chemical analysis, petro...

Konya Basin has wide area which 62.000 km2 and has important water potential. However water reserves decreasing in basin recent years. Groundwater levels are decreasing for global warming, scarcity of rains, unconscious usage, plant cover, uncontrolled illegal wells and conditions of basin coming near drought. Climatic data are changing because of global warming in Konya Basin. Average rain is 280,8 mm and this is very low. Drought period is living since 1998 in basin. Rain quantity of 2007 is less than average of...

Return material consists of gating, risers and residues from cold chamber, defective castings and another residues from die casting. This material has to be degreased from the fatty and separating agents that are usually of oil origin. In common praxis the clean and contaminated material is put in to melting furnace, it is melted and new alloys are added in the form of small pieces. Within the frame of experiments the influence of contaminated return material in the charge on quality die castings was observed. The...

The method of seismic refraction is widely used in many applied Geology fields and problems today. Although it has some limitations, in the case of detecting a lower velocity bounded layer, this method is well tailored to a crystalline environments where, more often, weathering degree is highest on the surface and gradually decreases in depth and thus can aid in associating the weathering degree to velocity. Some relationships have been made to establish a connection between velocities and the elastic properties o...

In this study, the water content of the base sediments and rocks under an abandoned small waste water dam in Selcuk University campus in Konya was monitored. This small dam was planned to construct for the beneficiation of the waste water of Selcuk University main campus. After usage of a few mouths, the dam was demolished by campus authorities due to its water leakage through its base sediments. The study presented here contains the work done to determine water localization in the base rocks in front of the dam. ...

Several soft-programs to reverse tomography data acquired on 2D panels, for transmitted seismic rays, were developed. The procedures are based on three concepts: graphic mediation of velocities (V) coupled with a system of correction factors to reconstruct the initial V distribution (Tomography Interactive Modeling-TIM), minimize velocities errors by applying matrix calculation (Matrix Calculus in Tomography -MCT) and graphic-analytical uncover of velocities from the periphery to the center of the examined panel (...

This study focuses on the geochemical and mineralogical compounds of clay occurrences that had been interbedded low rank coals in Biga Peninsula, Turkey. The usages of these clay formations were also studied. Clay occurrences were formed and alternated along with Tertiary lignite seams in the peninsula where is one of the basic metallic and industrial mineral potential regions in Turkey. Chemical and mineralogical analyses were performed on thirteen clay samples from different lignite beds. The XRD analyses show t...

Kosovo is rich in coal resources / reserves. There are about 14 billion tones coal resources in Kosova. The coal in Kosova is used mainly in power (electricity) generation and less amount for heating. Kosovo coal is lignite type. Exploitation of coal is being donning in two open pits Bardh and Mirash. There is also a project for building of the new power plant (capacity 2000 MW). For this, supply of coal should be made by the new mine - Sibovci. The underground mining was abandoned in 1922. Now it is the surface m...

Kosovo has a varied geology that ranges in age from the Neo-Proterozoic to the Holocene. The geology is characterized by substantial structural features on a regional scale, including, normal faulting and thrusting. The area belongs to the External Vadar Zone (EVZ). The Volcanic complex Mitrovic\"e – Samadrexh\"e is dominated by Jurassic and Neogene volcanic rocks from several eruption centres, interlayered by metamorphic and sedimentary units. The survey area was determined in the adjacent area of the known Pb ...

Sb-mineralization had been exploited in many localities in Slovakia. Contamination of environment by Sb, As and other heavy metals is specific problem of Slovak mining regions. Three localities Poproc (in eastern part of Slovakia), Medzibrod and Dubrava (in The Low Tatras) are abandoned mining areas where the stibnite ores had been exploited for many years. These areas represent high potential environmental risk because of transport and accumulation of contamination in different parts of environment (waters, strea...

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...