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Increasing in air temperatures, changes in the precipitation pattern and increased frequency of extreme weather events represent the main characteristics of climate changes in Serbia. Climate changes, according to their characteristics, affect the society, the various sectors of economy and the natural environment. Based on the direct dependence of agricultural production on the climate state, and therefore on climate changes, the agricultural sector represents the most vulnerable sector of economy. In order to de...

Eastern sedimentary basins in terms of oil and gas bearing in particular the Balkhash from the point of view of oil and gas content is considered for the first time. The results presented are obtained on the basis of an analysis of the consideration of the paleogeographic conditions of the formation of the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic formations. The lithological composition of the sediments of the Balkhash depression is given in detail. The role of paleogeographic environments as one of the factors influencin...

The paper applies the concept of bankfull discharge for a mountainous anthropized (both in terms of channel, floodplain, and catchment) river: Bistricioara river, Eastern Carpathians, Romania. A review of the literature is done, and several methods are chosen, both based on gauge data and on fieldwork measurements: discharge frequency, hydraulic geometry, and the Gauckler?Manning formula. The resulting discharges are compared to the historical gauge data and are correlated to the long-term channel topography varia...

The majority of the rivers in Kazakhstan can be characterized as plain and lowland type. The flow in such rivers is uneven both within the year and over the years. In order to regulate this variability, to conserve water resources as well as to provide water for domestic use the reservoirs have been built. In Kazakhstan, there are 43 large on stream and valley reservoirs on 33 rivers, half of which are on plain, lowland rivers. One of such reservoirs, Astana reservoir is studied in this paper. It is situated on th...

The aim of the presented paper is to give a review of the classification of atherosclerotic plaques between two different input values; using computer image analysis and a visual assessment by an experienced sonographer. In the case of computer analysis, the echogenicity index (Echo-Index) is used. In the case of visual assessment, echogenicity of the plaques have been evaluated from histological patterns. In the case of computer image analysis, B-images have been processed. To computer image analysis, our develop...

Producing non-seasonal vegetables in Georgia is actually impossible without greenhouses and specially-designed constructions. Greenhouse enables us to be less depended on environmental conditions, as well as to accumulate sun power and to artificially regulate all necessary factors for growth and development of various plants, to protect plants from unfavorable and adverse nature affects such as hail, wind, draught and freezing. In open ground soils the producing process of vegetable crops terminates as soon as un...

This work aims at the creation of digital selenographic satellite maps (DSSM) using fractal geometry and multi-parameter harmonic analysis. The observational data for DSSM were produced by the ?Clementine?, ?Kaguya? and ?LRO? space missions. An electronic database on altimetry measurements was built and they were brought into the single reference system by robust modeling. Based on the produced data and the method of multi-parameter harmonic analysis, we developed a digital selenographic satellite map covering the...

This work focuses on the creation of a selenocentric satellite simulation navigation system (SSSNS) using a set of reference objects on the lunar surface. The latter is based on the data from the modern space missions ?LRO?, ?Clementine?, ?GRAIL? (all ? NASA, USA), ?SELENE? (JAXA, Japan), and ?SMART-1? (European Space Agency). The SSSNS was created to transform measurements taken from in-orbit satellite into the selenocentric inertial reference system. The measurements should be taken by on-board altimeter and las...

The evaluation of organoleptic parameters of Adjara Coastline Waters of the Black Sea Basin is carried, their multi-element composition is identified. The organoleptic and toxicological parameters of Clupea harengus and Trachurus mediterraneus inhabiting in these waters are determined. The research subjects are the waters of coastline of River Chorokhi confluence at the Black Sea and deep waters of the same location (Gonio Settlement, Active fishing zone) where research materials were taken from. According to rese...

A current global concern is environmental protection. Many of the human activities affect the environment and implicitly have economic repercussions. Economic and social development must be achieved so that economic activities cause as little damage to the environment as possible. The financial amounts allocated depend on the economic situation of each country. Expenditures for environmental protection represent an indicator regarding the actions undertaken by economic agents and the public administration concerni...

The gas hydrate formation is a non-stoichiometric process, which may be affected by a great number of variables, rather than thermodynamic conditions. Several chemical additives were found to act as inhibitors or promoters (or both together under specific situations) for gas hydrate. The most known chemical inhibitor is sodium chloride, whose effects needs to be widely investigated, due to its presence in about 97% of discovered hydrate reservoirs. However, other elements may intervene on the formation process and...

Transport sector is a fundamental component of the human society. The importance for both the economic and social activities reveals from the fact that through this sector the movement of goods and people is performed in order to satisfy the material and spiritual needs of the society. However, in long term, the transport sector has a significant role in degrading the quality of the air and witch affects directly or indirectly the health of the population. In the period 2007-2018 there was a significant increase i...

Fabrication of nanofibers is a field of research attracting a lot of interest from technologici scientists because of its great applications in many fields. In order to design the polymer drug delivery system, we had to select a polymer that is biocompatible, biodegradable, non-toxic and approved for medical use. One of the polymers that fulfill those requirements is poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA). There have been various reports on the fabrication of PVA nanofibers with solvents as water, or water with different salt...

Introduction. According to observations of Russian scientists, the complex of biomedical and ecological factors, strictly specific for components of both northern ecosystems and northern human populations, participates in the formation of human health in the North. The aim of the work is to reveal the regularity of distribution of diselementoses and the elemental profile of pathology in women from various regions of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Materials and methods. Using the multielement analysis system usin...

The article examines the ideological and theoretical attitudes genesis presented in the Germany greens environmental doctrine. According to the authors' position, their practical implementation will contribute to solving environmental problems inherent in modern society, minimizing risks and destructions determined by environmental factors. Based on the green party environmental doctrine analysis, the provisions are formulated, which practical implementation contribute to reducing the risk of society. The author m...

Within Europe 2020 Strategy the maxi Framework Programme Horizon 2020 cover a prominent role. SME Instrument is an implementation tool which had largely contributed to the development of innovative initiatives within the Small Medium Enterprises? system focusing on smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. SME instrument is staggered in three phases and the first two phases are the concrete vehicle to obtaining financing. This paper provides the concrete robustness of the accessions to 2019, i.e. the total number o...

Water has a very important role in the process of growth and development of plants, they need primarily water and nutrients, which are made available to them by soil conditions and climate. Water and soil, together ensure the existence of life on Earth. Romania has been experiencing frequent droughts in recent years, the lack of rainfall over a longer period of time and the increase in evapotranspiration lead to a decrease in the water content of the soil below the field capacity (FC) reaching the threshold of per...

Agriculture and all areas that contribute to its development are key to achieving significant and lasting progress towards ridding millions of people of poverty and hunger. Tasks related to solving the problem of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms lie at the heart of the leading goal in the field of Sustainable Development of the World for the period up to 2030, including: ensuring universal access to safe, nutritious and sufficient in volume food, and the elimination of all forms of malnutr...

The article describes the results of laboratory measurements of the micro-component composition of the produced oil and the mathematical processing of the obtained values in one of the fields of the Republic of Tatarstan. Vereiskian and Bashkirian horizons were studied, which are quite widespread in the Republic and surrounding areas. The studied horizons lay one above the other in close proximity to each other. The Bashkirian deposits are a massive reservoir, while the Vereiskian deposits have the form of a layer...

Majority of world inhabitants are living in cities as well as many inhabitants in Latvia choose to move to cities to look for wellfare. Living in a city with a high density of buildings, cars, and factories, the risk of air pollution increases. Air pollution from the transport, industry, and energy sectors affect the health of the urban population. In cities, air is often contaminated with dust containing various chemical elements, including heavy metals, which, even in low concentrations, can be hazardous to huma...

In any activity, as well as in public services, employee motivation is a challenge. Seeing the importance of Human Resources in the growth and success of any organization, it is pushed to them to study leadership styles, which is used effective style to achieve the set goals and increase the effectiveness of the organization. Leadership has an impact on the company's success by aligning common goals of the organization and the individuals within it, this influence did empower individuals to take the necessary acti...

The paper presents results about a decreasing of a cooling demand in the selected office building where the night ventilation/pre-cooling of building construction is used. The energy saving is about 10 - 15% in comparison with operation of this Office building without using of night ventilation/pre-cooling of building constructions. Mechanical ventilation is used in this selected Office building and the airflow volume was calculated by using the technical standard STN EN 16798-1. These results we got by using ener...

The urban environment in which we live is an important part of the quality of life. The state of the environment affects the quality of life of the inhabitants of settlements. However, the issue of environmental quality of life is not trivial. In urban areas, the average annual air temperature has been increasing for a long time. Due to the city's heat island, the adverse effects of the ever-increasing incidence and duration of heat and extreme temperatures in the city are amplified. The availability of greenery, ...

Following the international procedures, aviation professionals are required to prove very high psychological and physical standards. There are plenty of factors which might affect a performance of aviation employees. A working environment of aviation personnel is constantly changing, and this variability of their tasks escalates a lot of stress, which further affect safety and quality of flights. There are a lot of stress relieving techniques exercised by pilots, prior they take off. Some of them are selfregulator...

Nitrous oxide N2O is one of the major contributors to global warming and ozone depletion in the stratosphere. Management of agricultural soils is the largest source of N2O emissions in agricultural sector, therefore simultaneous and accurate measurement of N2O concentration is necessary. Nitrous oxide emission is formed within nitrification and denitrification processes in agricultural soils. The agricultural sector is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in Latvia as it accounted for 24.6 % of t...

Climatic conditions have significantly changed over the last decades. In the middle latitude, the annual precipitation total does not change significantly, but precipitation is unevenly distributed throughout the year. The aim of the research is to investigate the effects of climatic conditions on the dendrological changes of the Royal walnut (Juglans Regia L. var. Chandler) in the period from July to November 2020 in the conditions of the middle latitude of southern Slovakia. This area is characterized by intensi...

One of the main obstacles in the agribusiness sector is the lack of interest in the field. Indeed, given the laborious working conditions, it has become increasingly challenging to attract the interest of workers into agriculture. In spite of the fact that the agribusiness sector offers products that meet the basic needs of the population, and therefore plays a pivotal socio-economic role in many regions around the world, the sector faces difficult working conditions, which is an extremely important socio-economic...

The environment is a major source of life that must be protected and treated, even though it is exposed to high inequality in different countries. The risk against the nature posed by pollution and global warming have brought about the need of safeguarding the environment in various forms. Today, many international organizations have developed different strategies for protecting the environment. Kosovo as a country in transition, that faces with many factors of environmental pollution. In this situation, the banki...

The worldwide exponential increase of vehicles in operation generates, in addition to meeting transport needs, serious problems with environmental pollution. Vehicle pollution means not only pollution with exhaust emissions, but also tire pollution. Microparticles resulting from the interaction between tire and driveway or waste tires have a negative impact on the environment, regarding air, water and soil pollution. Solutions to reduce this type of pollution are not only the subsequent treatment or reuse of waste...

The Czech Republic can be characterized by saying that all its rivers originate in it and none flows in. The quality of water is thus directly determined by the attitude of the country?s inhabitants towards the environment and by the water management policies of the state. Most European countries are dealing with the possibilities of water retention in the landscape, especially the establishment of ponds and the construction of dams. The limiting factor for the creation of an artificial water surface is the morpho...

One of the greatest challenges in restoring the urban landscapes consists in getting data as accurate as possible on the historically evolving landscape. This case study of the historical ensemble of Ciacova, Timi? County in Romania, presents the methods for interpreting data from particular historical and archaeological research that contributed to establishing the principles for the restoration of the ensemble. On the one hand, the research provides the necessary data for the restoration process, on the other ha...

Currently in the field of BIM design, the Czech Republic is in many ways behind compared to other countries. In countries in which this method is long established, it makes a significant contribution to improving the economic and environmental efficiency of buildings in all life cycles of construction. The BIM method can save construction costs and conserve the environment, by appropriate design of technical and technological equipment, as early as the preliminary stage of a project, but also when building is carr...

The problem relevance investigated in the article is due to several reasons. First, in recent decades, the world has seen such cities rapid growth that researchers have started talking about the "urban revolution." According to the UN Commission, 56% of the world's population already live in cities in 2019 [12], i.e. more than the world's population half, and this process is accelerating more and more. Megapolises are growing especially fast [2]. Secondly, cities with one million population are faced with serious ...

The paper is devoted to the problem of lack of commonly used and well-tested algorithm for numerical modeling of response of porous water-saturated soil deposits to vertical ground motions from earthquakes. Numerical simulation of soil response is necessarily carried out for horizontal and vertical ground motions as part of the seismic hazard assessment of construction sites of important structures such as nuclear power plants and oil platforms due to their potential vulnerability and high environmental hazard. Th...

The main difficulties nowadays in Bulgaria in agricultural land governance, land administration and land management stem from weaknesses in the legal framework. To this can be added the historically accumulated lack of interest in land stewardship and the inherited soil degradation processes. Nowadays chaotic land use does not provide territorial conditions for taking advantage of modern agricultural technologies. The socio-economic development requires complicated interaction between the private, state, municipal...

One of the main processes of functioning of digital measuring systems is image analysis. For photogrammetric systems, such tasks involve searching, counting the number of objects of a given type, followed by determining their geometric characteristics. The main problem that impedes the direct application of methods is the provision of a given level of measurement error. Methods, depending on their specific combinations and input parameters, can give different results. This is due both to the quality of the image i...

BelAZ-7540 quarry dump trucks are widely used in the development of placer deposits in the Arctic zone of Russia. The efficiency of the mining enterprise depends by their reliability. As practice shows, the operation of mining machines in the Arctic North has specific features, which are a large distance from industrial and energy centers, the lack of year-round road connections, low climatic temperatures and seasonal character of mining. The operational reliability of BelAZ-7540 quarry trucks is not sufficiently ...

The gradual deepening of deposits development and long-term exploitation of open geotechnology elements, buildings and the industrial site facilities (control objects) of large mining enterprises result in paying considerable attention to the creation of integrated monitoring systems to control their stability (hereinafter referred to as the System). The article presents the basic principles of organizing the System using the example of Kovdorsky GOK JSC. The formation of the Zhelezny main open pit to a depth of 8...

The paper presents the results of geomechanical research of the state of mine workings located in the bearing pressure zone at a rockburst hazardous deposit. The aim of the research is substantiation of the measures to protect the mine workings from the impact of high tectonic stresses. The stress-strain state calculations were carried out by the finite element method in volumetric setting. Numerical models have been developed on the basis of in-situ measurements data of stress field parameters. The stress-relief ...

The Yamal Peninsula is one of the most important strategic oil and gas-bearing regions of Russia. Active development of the Far North territories threatens to have negative consequences for the delicate balance of Northern ecosystems, therefore their monitoring and comprehensive research are particularly relevant. In 2012-2013 during the expeditions on the Yamal, Yavay and Gyda peninsulas bottom sediments of the Unnamed lake (57.5 cm; 1300 cal yr BP), located in the catchment area of the Pyasedayakha river, were s...

The chemical composition of 122 samples of snow cover (collected during 2018-2020) was measured for the representative points of the Almaty agglomeration (AA). Mean values of acidity show the absence of large-scale processes of acidification of snowfall over the study area. The analysis of the temporal variations of these parameters indicates their relative stability. The high values of suspended solids are characteristic of the mountainous territory, the Almaty city, including in the area of large highways. The c...

In modern society, in most areas of activity, information technologies are actively being introduced, which has been facilitated by their powerful development over the past decades. The development of the technical equipment of the modern army, the increasing preponderance towards information wars, led to the fact that the defense sphere was no exception. Most of the important information technologies used by the military are based on means of processing digital information about the terrain and methods for collec...

The development of knowledge-based economy is based largely on the national innovative system. The effectiveness on innovative processes depends not only on the scientific, technical and production potential, but also on the relationship between science and production. Higher education institutions in post-industrial economies expand the list of functions they perform, as they are involved in the commercialization of scientific knowledge. Thereby, the article aims to investigate the forms and the level of particip...

With the development of space and information technology, emergency monitoring using satellite data is gaining tremendous relevance. If we take into account the area of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2.7 million km2), there is an urgent need to create a unified space monitoring system for the most priority natural and man-made disasters. This article discusses the space monitoring system, its composition and functional diagram of the basic elements of the system and remote access services to the resources and results...

The paper presents the synthesis of the results of the research obtained in the development of the infrastructure for evaluating the safety of explosives for civil use in terms of friction sensitivity, using a modern BAM Friction Apparatus test equipment, FSKM-10 characterized by a high degree of technology, in order to determine the friction sensitivity of civil use explosives (assuring loads from 0.1 N to 360 N), being of the last generation and capable of meeting, at the highest level and in terms of economic e...

Higher education in Kosovo is considered a public service, regardless of whether the institution is a state- or privately-owned facility. As such, regardless of the country?s stage of development, it faces a constant challenge, namely to ensure a quality education system. Quality assurance in higher education in Kosovo is characterized by problems and difficulties related to the low level of recognition and low interest of relevant institutions for internal quality mechanisms, as well as the lack of external contr...

The identification of the landslide preparation and development mechanisms is the key to the sustainable development of landslide and landslide-prone urban and mining areas. The understanding of the landslide preparation mechanism is necessary for landslide hazard and risk assessments and designing proper protection measures and monitoring. A new equation for calculation of a slip surface depth (of a landslide basis) was obtained, using slope morphological and soil strength parameters. A new elaborated approach fo...

The article examines the relationship between the tasks facing geologists and the General state of the economy of the USSR and modern Russia. Since the end of the 19th century, geology has moved away from purely historical research of the Earth and is increasingly focused on the search and exploration of minerals and on merging with the mining industry. Given that the territory of the USSR and modern Russia has almost all types of minerals, it is most profitable to use the resources located on its own territory. H...

Regulatory documents of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of substantiating the stability of slopes of pit edges are currently at variance with world practice in the design and operation of open-pit deposits. Modern design methods involve the creation of a three-dimensional complex geomechanical model of the field. Such a model contains information on the geological and structural composition that describes the disturbance of the solid mass by folds, tectonic faults, and jointing. It is important to accurate...

The precise point positioning (PPP) method is a relatively young method of GNSS observations processing but it is already quite widespread in many cases. However, the processing of observations with this method using specialized software requires some experience and competencies. The advent of web services for processing the results of observations using the PPP method significantly simplified this task. This circumstance is especially important for workers in the cadastral sphere, and makes it possible to simplif...