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Cernush? map case is located between Mitrovica and Vushtrri (Kosovo). The southwestern part belongs to the northwestern edge of the Kosovo Basin, whereas the remainder of the map-case is characterized with hill-type reliefs. Part of the mountainous relief are the peaks of Stremenica (1064m), ?uka (1036m), and Cernusha (1009m). Cernusha map-case is subject to average continental climate, hot summers and cold winters. In the Cernusha map-case, quaternary deposits hold around 15% of the surface and are made of Holoce...

In this article, considering the process of preparing the regulated stage of construction for hazardous objects of a high degree of responsibility - this is an assessment of the impact of the proposed construction on the environment (EIA). The main attention is paid to the socio-technical aspects of the EIA procedure, as a tool for data collection for making management decisions. In this paper, we highlight the importance of a comprehensive assessment of the construction site and taking into account the features o...

The drilling and investigation of the Kola superdeep borehole SG-3 provided unique data on the ore formation in the ancient continental crust. They revealed high ore potential of the continental crust at previously inaccessible depths, made in possible to determine parameters of the ore formation in deep zones of the Fennoscandian shield at different stages of its geological development and increased the ore potentional of the Pechenga ore field as the largest in Europe mining area [1]. The ore-forming systems of ...

This article presents the high risks of exploration and mining of coal deposits for coal supply to hard-to-reach regions of North Yakutia (North-east of Russia). It?s caused by a lot of factors complicating and cost-increasing all process of development of the deposits from exploration of georesource to coal combustion of consumer remote from coal mines for thousands of kilometres. Special geoinformation systems is created and developed to improve the level of technological and organizational decisions. It is base...

Investing in real estate has always been considered an attractive form of multiplying capital. It is not a risk-free kind of investment, nevertheless many people, decide to locate their money in that kind of good. There are many things that potential property investors have to analyze in order to minimize the risk of investment failure. One of them is property value. Most of the properties are sold according to market conditions. In other words, these are transitions where a willing buyer and a willing seller in a...

Wood was the most common source of energy on earth, being gradually replaced by fossil fuels. Given that the wood used in the generating stations comes from properly managed forests, then the carbon emitted from the chimneys can be annihilated by the carbon that is absorbed and used by the freshly planted trees. Wood can therefore be considered as carbon neutral. It remains to be seen if this theory is actually verified. Once it was decided to classify wood as a renewable source, its consumption increased exponent...

Extraction of the copper ore deposit in the Legnica-G?ogow Copper Basin in Poland is usually associated with high seismic activity. In order to face this threats, a number of organizational and technical prevention methods are utilized, from which blasting works seem to be the most effective. A significant number of recorded dynamic events may be clearly and directly explained by the effects of this approach. It is also expected, that the simultaneous firing of a number of mining faces may provide the amplificatio...

Production of electricity in power plants using steam-driven turbines represents today and will continue to remain for decades the main source of such energy, regardless of the fuel consumption type: fossil or nuclear. Even some types of power plants using renewable energy, such as solar energy, transform it first into steam energy. Considering that nowadays about 80% of total world electrical energy is produced by power plants that use steam energy, it is very important that the efficiency and reliability of esse...

The aim of this research study is to perform an analysis of the eco-innovation trends and to identify the development opportunities in Latvia. The research methodology applied for this research study involves the theoretical concepts of eco-innovation trends and collects examples of existing and emerging eco-innovative practices in Latvia. The results of the research indicated that the eco-innovation trends in Latvia led to positive results and gave an impulse to increasing economic activities. For evaluation of L...

The article devoted to issues of organization of regime observations in the system of geodynamic karstological monitoring, which is carried out with the active development of karst or karst-suffusion processes with a high degree of danger for the construction. It is noted that for stationary observations it is necessary to provide quantitative characteristics of changes in individual components of the geological environment in time and space that must be sufficient to assess and predict the development of the kars...

Nowadays, new rural paradigm foresees sustainable development and the transition of agriculture and rural areas from agricultural origin goods providers to providers of various goods and services, which are based on ecosystem services, especially agroecosystem services. The one group of ecosystem services - provisioning services (biomass e.g. food and fiber) could be better provided by intensive and industrialized farms. The other group of ecosystem services could be assured by farms complying with the agro-ecolog...

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) is among the top five most cultivated and most important cereals in the world, being a highly yielded crop that adapts easily to drought and high temperatures. Besides being used as a raw material for biofuel, it is used in the diet in many parts of the world because of the rich content of health promoting compounds such as phenolic compounds. The aim of this research was to determine the total phenolic content, flavonoids content and the antioxidant activity of flour made from whole g...

Mixed intercropping of cereal-leguminose presents important tool to increase efficiency of using nitrogen from soil and fixing it from air while current recovery of soil fertility. The paper presents first results of a field experiment after its start in 2012. The main goals of a presented study were as follows: (a) to describe setting and assessing the results of the experiment in the system of mixed cereal-legume culture, (b) to investigate the utilization of N in the mixed culture of winter wheat and winter pea...

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 aspects regarding the importance of thermal endurance tests performed on the electrical equipment ...

The main aim of the contribution is development the spatial structure analysis of the landscape on the basis of evaluation the classes of land cover and their extension in the model territory in two time horizons (1956, 2009) on the bases of GIS technologies with using superstructure software Patch Analyst for ArcView GIS and as well as using mathematical and statistical methods which is each other combined also with traditional geographic field research. These methods were complemented by the results of explorati...

The paper deals with the application of the pulse tomography Arbotom as a support decision tool for management of hardwood floodplain forest in the Czech Republic. The method of acoustic wood tomography is based on the finding that intact wood conducts sound faster than damaged wood with defects. Tomograph measures the time which takes a mechanical pulse (an acoustic wave) to pass the distance between sensors placed on the tree trunk. The evaluation of the trunk measurements in two-dimensional tomograms then shows...

The investigated cold spring (10.4-10.9 ?C) is located onto a reverse fault zone within the Subcarpathian nappe (Vrancea region). A small travertine deposit has precipitated along the stream. The spring-water samples display an essentially calcium-bicarbonate chemical facies, indicative of a prevalently meteoric water contribution. Still significant Na and Cl concentrations - each of them amounting, when expressed as miliequivalents, to about one third of the HCO3 concentration - also suggest mixing with a signifi...

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

Dust and heavy metals pollution is the first-priority problem of Almaty city. The city is located at the foot of the Tien Shan Mountains in the Southeast of the Republic of Kazakhstan and has the following geographical coordinates: 77 E (east longitude) and 430 N (north latitude). As long as existing pollution monitoring system in Almaty city is represented just by chemical and analytical data acquisition, it is claimed to be inefficient. The purpose of this reseach is to employ the best mathematical toolkits in p...

This paper presents the problems of ship-generated waste management in port areas. The first part contains a classification and characterisation of ship-generated pollution, with a particular focus on waste and cargo residues. Further to that, the legal and documentation aspects of waste management in seaports are discussed, along with the basic principles of rational waste management. The second part of the paper presents a diagram of the waste management model within a port area and analyses each individual stag...

The TM-71 dilatometer is a device manufactured in the 60s of the 20th century in the Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. It has been developed as a reliable and easy-to-use rock crack monitoring facility capable of working even in the least favorable climatic conditions. It is a purely mechanical system capable of determining relative shifts and rotations in all three axis of two monitored blocks. The device is read out using two pairs of overlapping optical patterns, which ...

The empirical orthogonal functions method is widely used for the study of the hydrophysical characteristics in meteorology and oceanography, for example for the analysis of ocean surface currents in the North Carolina and the distribution of horizontal velocities in the Shira Lake. This method is also applied to study the distribution temperatures with depth in the Pacific Ocean and to analyze sea surface temperature in the Western North Atlantic. The empirical orthogonal functions method gives us an optimal modal...

The increasing demand for energy imposes strengthening the energy efficiency as a part of energy management on every level, with stress on production plants. Present paper is focused on energy management in renovated pellets production plant in Shumen town, Bulgaria. A comprehensive comparative analysis between the new wood pellets production line and substituted one is conducted. The net energy savings per year are calculated. The improvement of production line results in enhancing energy efficiency on every stag...

The stoichiometry of metal?protein complexes is pH dependent. Since mass spectrometric measurements at higher pH values are difficult in the presence of usual buffers, we extended this approach to pH in excess of 10 by adding ethanolamine to the electrospray solution being investigated. Therefore, a new method for probing the metal ion-peptide complexes at high pH utilizing electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) has been advanced. Nevertheless, the high pH ESI-MS spectra of peptides are far too complex...

The paper emphasizes the ecological restoration (renaturation) of the natural conditions of a saline soil, which was previously under long term melioration. The soil is a Salinic Pelic Alluvic Sodosol with relict gleization, covering an Alkali soil (according to SRTS-2012). The site is located in Moldova Tableland, where Tma is 584.6?C and Pma is 9.5 mm. The depth of the groundwater table is about 1.80 m, with frequent seasonal fluctuations and weak-moderate mineralization. The soil had a polyphasic evolution, bot...

The main aim of the paper is to introduce theoretically developed curve which describes load settlement curve of the pile. A majority of European and US standards and recommendation indicates static pile load tests as a basic procedure to confirm bearing capacity of piles. The paper presents systematically made review of pile head settlement prediction methods, and static pile load test interpretation methods used in Europe, and United States. Using practical examples of static pile load test author indicates diff...

Poland?s forest cover accounts for 28.8% and is lower than the average for Europe, which is 32%. The first programme to increase the afforestation rate in Poland was developed in the year 1993 and was titled "The National Programme of Increasing Forest Cover". The document was a strategic study intended for use as an instrument of forest policy in the field of shaping the environmental space of the country. It contains general guidelines for drawing up regional spatial development plans in the scope of increasing ...

The term and interpretation of "risk" is analyzed in various regulatory documents, particularly in the standard of German automobile manufacturers VDA 6.3 and ISO. In their interpretation was found partial inconsistency. It is shown that the normative document of audit processes should be developed based on the requirements of ISO/IEC, taking into account the industry specifics. For this, it is proposed to separate the concept of " non-conformity of requirements" and "risk" and to identify risks during the audit p...

The parking platforms required for the operation of different industrial, service, goods storing and manipulating companies, inside boarding houses, hotels, stores, gas stations, etc., are continuously and quickly developing, in close line with the development of economic activities and the construction field. The technical solutions applied to realize the resistance structures for these surfaces are very diverse and, in several cases, do not include a proper resistance calculation according to the traffic intensi...

We have developed an online information system of mechanical recanalizations which is used in stroke centers in Czech Republic. The application is technically based on HTML forms, PHP and MySQL database. The system is online, independent on operating system and with possibilities to extend the functionality, there are main benefits. The database of mechanical recanalizations is a useful tool for long-period studies in neurosonology. Practical using, goals and benefits of the system is discussed in the first part o...

Development and consumption of frozen products is an aspect that is strongly related to nowadays consumers. These are considered less nutritious and less healthy than fresh ones due to processing, artificial ingredients and additives used for production. The paper focuses on the influence of frozen storage of bread dough enriched with lentil flour. The addition of lentil flour in different proportions (15% and 30%) was investigated in order to study the physicochemical and organoleptic effect concerning the obtain...

In the tasks of managing energy resources and energy conservation, it is necessary to forecast the consumption of energy resources for a long period, with the detailed speci-fication of consumption over time intervals. A special case of such a task is the determi-nation of the annual consumption of energy resources and its division into monthly con-sumption, taking into account the changes in climatic conditions, the operating condi-tions of objects and other factors [1-2]. The paper suggests a method for predicti...

Simulation of biological processes with the aid of computing techniques helps to model physiological processes, to create mathematical models with the computer support. Starting from experimental data difficult to be obtained, we can do calculation algorithms to identify the variation functions of the processes that are to be simulated, then to interpolate in order to fill them in the missing data collection. Having the variation parameters (input data): time, temperature, dry substance, a software product (output...

Soils can be defined as four dimensional natural bodies, where the lithosphere, the atmosphere, the hydrosphere and the biosphere are soil ? forming factors which operate in geological time. The soil profile reflects the climate change passed during soil ? forming process. The majority actual soils are the result of a polyphasic soil development, therefore they involve in their age the climate existing in the Tertiary, especially in the Quaternary, period. Climate change is expected to have several effects on soil...

This manuscript concentrates on the relationship between pellets quality, which is represented by the pellets physical properties, and the input composition of raw material. The main aim of this study is to determine the relationship between the raw material composition, which influences the pellets quality and the pellets quality indicators - physical properties of pellets. During the biomass densification also the raw material properties significantly influences the final solid biofuels quality. Therefore the ra...

Air pollutants coming from human activities (anthropogenic) may be generated in the atmosphere at high concentrations and they are a potential problem due to their harmfulness to the environment as well as to the population. These high concentrations of atmospheric pollutants can have a significant impact through the formation of a transient local microclimate. Educational activities imply knowledge of this degree of pollution as well as its level through continuous monitoring over time. The monitoring was carried...

Many decades have elapsed since the invention of the steam engine and gradually falls into forgotten. However, the most significant message that has emerged when discovering this facility is the discovery of the railway. In order to make the track and therefore the railway as we know it today, it was necessary to develop methods of construction at the same time, and last but not least, the methods and devices for their reconstruction. One of the most important discoveries in the field of railway construction has u...

The work considers information and computing technologies supporting regional deci-sions making and based on geoinformation web-systems and mapping web-services. The use of such systems for the information support of regional management is now becoming common. Long-term strategic forecasting and planning of territories development, solu-tion of various institutional and sectoral problems today are often based on the use of integrated information and computing environment, complex information systems of re-gional m...

In the context of sustainable development, special emphasis is assigned on the use of renewable and non-polluting energy sources. An important potential is due to the solar energy. There are several ways to convert solar radiant energy into useful energy forms, the most direct of which is to obtain electricity by using photovoltaic cells grouped into photovoltaic panels. Considering all the factors that contribute to the performances of a solar cell, as there are: solar radiation, generated power, energy productio...

Along with welding, the casting of metal alloys is a primary production process, with great spread in the industry, especially in the machine building industry. By casting, a series of semi-fabricated products are obtained, from which, subsequently, by metal grinding processes finite parts are obtained such as straight and cranked shafts, belt wheels, gears, various casings, motor blocks for internal combustion engines and others. There are many casting processes used on an industrial scale such as: casting in tem...

This article attempts to assess the impact of refrigerant plants used to cool the containers transported by sea on the environment. The process is based on studies carried out on one of the merchant ship capable of transporting both refrigeration and classic containers. The data necessary to perform the analysis come from reports on units damaged over two years. Subjects? CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions resulting from the consumption of energy used by the refrigeration equipment and its equivalent associated with t...

The paper presents the results obtained in the artificial reproduction of carp breeds (Cyprinus carpio): Frasinet, Ineu and Ropsa between 2015 and 2017. Carp used in artificial breeding experiments (body weight 4,5 - 8,0 kg / ex., 4-7 years old) were raised in the ponds within the experimental base of the Fish Culture Research and Development Station Nucet, Romania. For the induction of maturation and ovulation the carp pituitary extract (CPE) and Nerestin 6A were used. The carp pituitary extract (CPE) was given i...

In regions with complex geological history, diversity of climate, soils and parent rocks, it is possible to predict a large number of paths for soils recovery in the areas that have been disturbed by human activity. The purpose of this work was to identify territorial difference of rocks within the Crimean Peninsula basing on the content of the trace elements and macroelements, assessment of potential suitability of disturbed rocks of various age and chemical composition for efficient pedogenesis during implementa...

The aim of this research is to teach ethical decision-making to future economists by solving the problem of advertising to children shown in the in the English-language documentary ?Consuming Kids?. Research methods included analysis of literature on the issues of what is ethical/unethical and the decision-making process, and the evaluation of 14 business reports written by students. The writing task entailed looking into the problem of the negative effects of advertising to children and preparing a report to the ...

Water level fluctuations play a significant role in linking water and soil environments and shaping littoral zone. The aim of study was to evaluate the physical and chemical features of water as well as light availability in phytolittoral zone in the case of water level rise. Investigations were carried out in deep mesotrophic lake with well-developed charophytes meadow, above which samples were collected (30 stations). In this lake between year 2010 and 2012 water level increased over 1.0 m as a result of intense...

One of the problems that are encountered today is the migration from rural to urban areas. Cities are becoming overpopulated and consequently overbuilt. Due to the high demand for new residential and commercial buildings, in the last few decades, green zones such as parks are often becoming built. In the cities, there is increasingly less room left to nature. Urban vegetation has a large impact on the quality of life in cities. The aim of this research is the detection of urban vegetation by three independent mult...

The paper deals with the negative effects of mining on the transport network in the Moravian-Silesian area, especially is focused on problems reflected in construction layers of transport-related structures (railways, roads, area storage and handling areas). With the extraction downturn, the sources and objectives of transport have changed including the characteristics of transport flows of all traffic roads and connections. Various measures for all transport modes situated in Moravian-Silesian region are identifi...

This article is focused on possibilities of dedusting equipments to capture particulate matters from the chosen production process of the metallurgical plants in the Czech Republic. It deals with the issue of particulate matter generated during the production of pig iron. The article presents the manufacturing process at main sections of a metallurgical enterprise for the production of pig iron and possible formation of particulate emissions in individual sections. The emissions from sinter plants dominate the ove...

The Techirghiol Lake, with a total surface of 1,462 ha, a length of 7,500 m and a maximum depth of 12 m, is situated on the NW Black Sea coast, south to the Constanta town. The lake is located in SE Dobrogea, a region that displays the highest density of lakes in Romania. These lakes were formed during the Quaternary, in relation with the Black Sea level fluctuations. Due to the low-level waters of the Lake Techirghiol, relative to the Black Sea one, the salty marine waters periodically invaded the lake. Genetical...

Organization of the Access database of the Zletovo lead-zinc deposit Eastern Macedonia represents the first attempt of this paper authors to synthesize geological exploration data of this ore bearing locality in one professional database available for the interested parties. Ours experience in organization of similar databases for other metal deposits such are Bucim, Borov Dol, Kadiica, Sasa etc., gave us the necessary knowledge and experience to construct quality Access database for the Zletovo deposit. The Zleto...