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Kosova geology structurally is roughly divided into two equal-sized areas represented (in east from the Vardar Zone and in the west from the Drina-Ivanjica/Share-Korabi zone) of the one part and the other part in NNE-SSW direction between the Serbo- Macedonian province in Kosova and the geological Dinaric province of Albania. The fault zone of Mesozoic alteration which divides Dinaric and the Korabi of respective geotectonic units in two parts is called Shkoder-Peje lineament. Geotectonic units: Dinaric, Vardar Zo...

Career planning curriculum will support student in their vocational decision making and train them about lifelong career management skills. Employee can use their strengths more effectively and efficiently. They will be able to learn their career tendencies, skills, strengths-weaknesses, preferred working area, learning styles and occupations that are compatible with their personal features. It is well-known that making vocational choices presents the fundamentals of the Holland Code Career Model. Vocational Choic...

The research area is the Esenyurt village in the 15 km south of Sivas City and lies in the section of i37c1 of the scale of 1/25.000. The small mammals group extracted from Esenyurt locality has been taken from the clay stone layers. Rodentia fossils aged Pleistocene have been examined taxonomically and the combination of this fauna group has been interpreted biochronologically, paleobiologically and paleoechologically.

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...

The description of new theoretical solutions of forming a strain and stress state in the soil massifs of landslide prone slopes is introduced. The suggested approach is based on a new theory of forming of the limited equilibrium in rock massifs which includes: Coulomb-Mohr’s criterion for the limited state equilibrium of rocks, the concept of the rock structural strength str (for compression), the interaction of active and passive pressures in slope massif. The equation for the limited state equilibrium in a ...

In recent years, the concern for renewable energy sources has intensely increased the studies on fuel cells. Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) among other fuel cell technologies is seen as an ideal preference in order to be used as cogeneration system with its high operation temperature. The operation of SOFC fuel cell systems depends on thermodynamic, electrochemical and mass transfer theories. In this study, the mathematical models of electrochemical events occurred in solid oxide fuel cells were investigated theore...

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...

UBL is product of international effort to define standard for electronic business documents based on XML without licence fees. Contribution deals with creation of electronic business documents derived from UBL 2.0 for „Order-to-Invoice“ process in Slovak SMEs environment, identification of particular items in business documents and mapping these items to UBL standard with subsequent customization of UBL. Contribution further deals with visual presentation of created documents in MS InfoPath environment in rela...

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...

Biggest challenge experienced by hospitals in 21st century is integrating social values into business operations. Corporate Social Responsibility is a term used for determining responsibility of a healthcare institute whereby the institute not only takes financial economic dimension in decision-making process, but it also considers social and environmental consequences.1 Healthcare institutions are required to invest socially responsible manner; this term is related with use of money in accordance with social and ...

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...

There are selected regions with a certain quality of a situation or a tendency of changes of environmental components. The significantly changes, in these areas are observed at soils, as the basic component of environment at which is man biologically contacted. The significantly chemical degradation of soils - acidification and contamination of soils with heavy metals - in loaded regions – the middle Spis region are showed. The middle Spis region is area at Slovak republic with deteriorated or heavily deteriorat...

There is an extensive complex of activities before 3D visualization, which affects the field of geodesy and Photogrammetry. This work presents a possible process for the proposed 3D visualization. For the mapping of large-scale territorial units you can use advantage, the aerial photogrammetry. It is a highly efficient method that saves time and money. Therefore, it is useful to use photogrammetry in mapping procedure of the quarry, which has area of several kilometers.

Close parallels between transpiration and water deficit indicate that in diseased plants water loss is largely determined by leaf water content. The rate of water loss (transpiration) depends on evaporation. Therefore anything that affects the rate of evaporation would also affect the rate of water lost. There was no clear relationship between leaf growth rate and leaf water potential or turgor for either species. It decreases with leaf age and is correlated with the rate of dehydration, but it is independent of 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...

Natural bitumen (NB) fields development in ecological terms is a complicated and responsible activity for a person. The activities consequence show up as air pollution by different harmful impurities, fresh water and land pollution by oil, bitumen and waste waters(1). Main sources of environment pollution (atmosphere, land, surface and groundwater) in oil and gas producing industry are oil and gas surface and subsurface structures. According to the existing legislation, NB field development project and design pape...

\cCanakkale district, Tuzla region in Turkey houses one of the major geothermal fields of Turkey. Tuzla geothermal field, with its 173 oC temperature is also an important site of weathering and alteration occurrence. Weathering and alteration develops in many different irregular forms and stages in the field. The regional geology consist of volcanics, such as rhyolites, latites, andesites and pyroclastics. Volcanics in the field had been weathered and altered in various stages. Gradual weathering from the outer wa...

Two major series of crosscutting dikes (Dk1a and Dk1b) are common in Sungun porphyry deposit. Those are varying compositionally from quartz monzo-diorite to granodiorite. About thirty percent of the sungun stock is filled by Dk1a and Dk1b dikes. Presence of dikes will cause lots of errors in copper content estimation, so determination of dikes is very important. Ten percent of dikes volume could be identified through drawing strings and correlation between boreholes. For estimating and determining the other part o...

The Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI) has proved to be a valuable tool for evaluating the potential for coastal change in a given area. The CVI ranks the following variables in terms of their physical contribution to sea level-related coastal change: geomorphology, regional coastal slope, rate of relative sea-level change, the rate of historical shoreline change, mean tidal range and mean significant wave height. They are termed coastal risk variables and the rankings for each variable are combined and an index va...

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...

Shear flocculation characteristics of magnesite with sodium oleate as anionic surfactant have been investigated in this study. The effects of various parameters such as pH, stirring speed and concentration of sodium oleate on the shear flocculation of magnesite were determined. It was found that the shear flocculation of magnesite was not affected much by the pH changes of the suspension. However, the flocculation of magnesite showed strong dependences on stirring speed and surfactant concentration. By evaluation ...

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...

In recent years, all over the world and in Turkey, as aresult of, increasing population, industrial and urban developpment and reasing life standarts, the fosil fuels have dramatically been used up and caused environmental pollution. Since it has been recognized that energy sources such as petroleum and coal are non renewable energy sources and they are limited, researches have been concentrated on the biomass energy, wind energy, solar energy and hydro-energy which are renewable and obtained easily in all world. ...

In this study, the volcanic rocks located in the South of Baskil (Elazig) town were investigated in terms of their geochemical, petrographical and geological charecteristics, for pointing out the relations of this unit with the late Cretaceous Komurhan ophiolite and Andean type arc magmatics (Baskil granitoid). The volcanic rocks crop out along an approximately east-west trending belt in the region. It is represented by alternations of volcanic and sedimentary rock units. The measured thickness of the volcanics in...

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...

Theoretical and experimental investigations have been made to study the polar motion based on the IERS (International Earth Rotation Service) solution. A set of 9 mathematical models is proposed to examine the time series of polar motion. We have proved by statistical tests that the ARMA (2,1) model is the “best” one of the proposed set of competing models. Estimates have been obtained of the spectral characteristics by investigating the cyclic polar motion variations. Criteria are applied to assess the adequa...

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...

In the detailed exploration and reserve estimation, with separating the alteration (as the controller of the grade) in ore reserve and estimating the reserve in each alteration, the estimation variance will decrease and the accuracy of the estimation will increase. This paper tries to quantify and separate the alterations using discriminant analysis, a multivariate statistical method, and distribute them through sequential gaussian simulation in the Sungun copper deposit. A simple linear discriminant function tran...

The elimination of the risks endangering the health and life of the employees should be the main task of every employer. A necessary step for handling this task is identification of all dangerous steps referring toparticular activities of companies and specification of sources of risks engaged to every identified danger including recent as well as planned safety actions according to Work Code and low No. 126/2006 Z. z. of NR SR about safety and protection of health at work. Therefore employers have to accept effic...

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...