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This article presents the numerical analysis results obtained with a finite element of a corrugated steel box culvert. This article also presents the analysis of the main characteristics of the backfill soil, as well as predicting the value of the material properties. The analyses the plastic soil behavior and its interaction with buried flexible structures. Among all the theories available, three different theories were selected that describe the model properly. The theories used and compared are called Mohr Coul...

Approaching the issue of fertilizers with organic substances of the bio stimulants class is a difficult task as the concept is far from complete elucidation and the legislation, research and experimental activities are still incipient as this products category with agricultural use is concerned. Any substance or micro organism applied to plants with the purpose to enhance nutrition efficiency, non biotic stress bearing, and/or crops quality features regardless of their nutrient content can be generally defined as ...

The main purpose of this paper is to present the process of fast and efficient acquisition of field data in order to create a map of the maneuvering area and aprons of the Deblin Airport (EPDE) using Mobile Mapper 50 receiver with Mobile Mapper Field Application. The area navigation (RNAV) uses runway information, field obstacles, and other important factors that support a precision and non-precision instrumental approach and landing procedure. Therefore, the development of RNAV flight procedures requires the acqu...

Air pollution is one of the most important problems of the contemporary society. One of the vital reasons for bad air quality are particulate matters and gases, generated by municipal and household sector, coming from coal-fired boiler houses and heating stoves used in houses. This source of pollution is named as low-stack emission. The situation is especially difficult in the regions of high population density, such as South Poland. In this region air belongs to the most polluted in the European Union. The concen...

Nonwoven geotextiles have been used as filter and drainage materials in geotechnical works in the past 40 years. Geotextiles are easy to install and they help to minimize clogging effect of drainage systems, however sometimes geotextiles may not drain water as effectively as was expected. Drainage and filter layers have to cope with more severe clogging mechanism (chemical, biological and physical). Clogging, which involves the accumulation of material within the void space of drainage medium, is a problem in drai...

The demand for rare earth elements (REEs) in the global economy has incentivised many researchers to search for alternative sources of those metals. For many years fly ashes have been the subject of such research, which indicate that they might be fit for REE recovery. One of the primary problems with recovering those metals from fly ashes faced by process engineers is the form in which they occur. As research shows, REEs occur in fly ashes in the glass and other mineral components (e.g. monazite, xenotime and oth...

The mining sector is currently undergoing a transformation. The reforms result from the difficult economic situation in mining companies, which is a consequence of the low price of natural gas, substantial coal supplies in ports and power plants storage sites as well as the growing energy production from renewable sources. Unfortunately, a drop in prices does not cause a decrease in the cost of raw material production. Such a situation causes that Polish coal is not competitive on international markets. The ongoin...

Environmental Citizenship is a key factor in EU's growth strategy (Europe 2020) and its vision for Sustainable Development and Green and Circular economy. Significant behavior change amongst both individuals and organizations is required in order to meet Europe?s sustainability objectives and climate change targets. At a general level, policies aimed at changing behavior have tended to rely on two aspects: the introduction of fiscal measures and statutory legislation or market-based measures. Unfortunately, relati...

The solution of the problem of formalization of document flow processes with the help of the proposed model of multilevel graphs of information processing has considered in the article. Despite the significant development of machine data processing technologies, the theoretical basis for their application and adaptation to the architecture of electronic document management systems is poorly developed. The model of multilevel graphs of information processing which is formalize a structure of document flow of the or...

Skin cancer is a disease with an increasing incidence due to its complex etiology and various forms of manifestation. The topical treatment can be a successful therapeutic approach in early diagnosed cutaneous neoplasm. The main drawback of the drugs currently in use is the low bioavailability caused by many pathophysiological and pharmaceutical factors. The aim of the present study was to develop new modifiedrelease topical products by encapsulating bexarotene into biocompatible silica matrices and by formulating...

Salt water intrusions of marine origin are a major cause of contamination for coastal fresh water aquifers. They are generated mainly by the uncontrolled exploitation of fresh water in pumping stations from coastal areas. In Romania, such marine intrusions have occurred in the southern part of Black Sea's coastline, in the area of Vama Veche and Costine?ti resorts, contaminating the main aquifers which are hosted within Sarmatian (late Middle Miocene) lumachelic and oolitic limestones. Fresh water exploitation man...

Renewable-energy sources are considered to be the energy that is collected from sources that may be regenerated in a lifetime. The renewable-energy sources branch out in five types: wind power, hydropower, solar energy, geothermal energy and bio energy. However, in this paper, we are analyzing the water, solar and wind, since those three are the most exploited in Romania. Wind power refers to produce electric power, by mechanical powered generators when air flows through wind turbines. Alternatively, to fossil fue...

Task of advancing geonavigation becomes an actual topic when constructing a horizontal trunk of oil and gas reservoir of geophysical studies of horizontal wells. Advancing geonavigation allows to predict intersection of trunk with boundaries of oil-gas reservoir. Mathematical model of unsteady electromagnetic field of a horizontal conductive plate is approximated by the known plane ???? and excited by a horizontal magnetic dipole; Plane ???? is transformed into a vertical half-plane ???? by dynamic method of mirro...

The contribution is focused on asphalt mixtures in wearing courses of pavements from the point of view of their performance based, road user properties and traffic noise emissions. In the article there are described the options and examples of objectification of pavement surfaces influence on traffic noise. The author's inform about the condition of pavement with wearing course from SMA 11 (Stone Mastic Asphalt) asphalt mixture which was constructed on expressway R1 from grade-separated junction of Zvolen in the d...

One of the parts of sustainable mobility is surely the quality public transport service. It includes the suitable vehicles, as well as the stations, bus stops and various other integrated transfer points of the public transportation system. For the optimization of using these transfer points, as well as overall optimization of public transport services, it is necessary for us to obtain a traffic data in a real time. Nowadays it is not enough to know just the exact position of the vehicle on the map via GPS, with i...

The fast development in chromatography occurred in the middle of twentieth century when gas chromatography came to light. It was invented by James and Martin. Presently, gas chromatography coupled with universal or selective detectors including mass selective detector is an effective, powerful and versatile analytical tool for special cases. It can be applied in numerous fields for example in drugs and pharmaceuticals, clinical chemistry, foods, environmental analysis or petroleum industry. Gas chromatography can ...

The fast development in chromatography occurred in the middle of twentieth century when gas chromatography came to light. It was invented by James and Martin. Presently, gas chromatography coupled with universal or selective detectors including mass selective detector is an effective, powerful and versatile analytical tool for special cases. It can be applied in numerous fields for example in drugs and pharmaceuticals, clinical chemistry, foods, environmental analysis or petroleum industry. Gas chromatography can ...

Last century was an apogee of drilling operations in all around the world. Petroleum industry has managed to achieved large progress in technology which contribute to minimize costs and time of drilling and completion operations but above all this, to increase production of oil and gas from the reservoirs. Rapid development also bring with itself potential problems with integration of the well during production processes and workovers. Changes in temperature conditions connected with treatments of the well result ...

Environmental legislation and the one ruling the mining industry require the ecological rehabilitation of areas affected by mining activities, which are currently under way, with the cessation of productive activities. From this point of view, one of the most active areas of exploitation, especially of construction and ornamental rocks, is located in Tulcea County (more precisely, there are 50 quarries occupying a total area of approximately 792 ha). We also have to bear in mind that the largest one, Turcoaia (130...

We present the results of the use of geo-information management of geographically distributed systems for the comparative assessment of environmental criteria for alternative routes of the Russian section of the Nord Stream ? 2 marine gas pipeline. For the planned anthropogenic impact, we consider the complex of biotic and abiotic parameters of ecosystems allocated in the zones of influence (ZI), using the system analysis as a theoretical basis. In the land part of ZI, we allocate water protection zones and coasta...

The East Carpathians Bend region includes a multitude of natural discharges of saline groundwater. Some of these outflows - such as the mud volcanoes at Beciu and a couple of springs at Lep?a - have previously been shown to be sensitive to the intense seismic activity which developed in that area. Yet no attempts have so far been made for exploring relationships that possibly existed between those brines chemical characteristics, and the local geo-structural setting: the latter consists of a stack of successively ...

The data on the geological position, the features of the mineral and material granitoids composition of the Borschovochny massif, which is localized in the northeastern part of the Eastern Transbaikalia, are given. According to geotectonic zoning, granitoids of the massif are collision formations that arose as a result of the collision of the Siberian craton and the Argun microcontinent in the Late Jurassic time. The granites of the Borschovochny massif correspond to rocks of normal alkalinity with potassium (and ...

Considering the substantial increase in the number of buildings needed in the continuous development of human activities, no matter their destination (civil, industrial, social, cultural, hydrotechnical, communication etc.) and their environmental impact, it is required to increase attention to the activity of land and building monitoring, according to present laws. There is often needed a quick and precise answer concerning the monitored objective (land or building) behavior, which may help preventing any negativ...

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 Holy Cross Mountains are one of the oldest mountain ranges in Europe. The south-eastern part of the Holy Cross Mountains (the south-central part of Poland) is characterized by high geodiversity. Sediments from Proterozoic to Paleozoic (Cambrian, Ordovician, Devonian and Cambrian) are discovered on the surface. The younger sediments (from Permian to Cretaceous) occur in the west, north and northwest part. The whole area is covered by Quaternary sediments. Selected objects, deposits and high valuable geotouristi...

Geophysical surveys are used frequently in the early stages of the landslide study, associated with the traditional drilling. But for monitoring the slide are used only the bore holes equipped with various sensors and expensive devices for movement measuring, which cannot be recovered and are destroyed once the slippery mass moves again. To continue the monitoring of the next stage of the landslide involves new drillings and a new set of devices. Finally the cost of monitoring will be very high. Initially, the Bre...

Geological structures be of great control groundwater flow and accumulation of groundwater, and should therefore be taken into account in studies related to groundwater studies. This study attempts to investigate the impact of geological structures on groundwater flow and groundwater quality in Al Jaaw Plain, United Arab Emirates. A set of thematic maps derived from digital elevation model (DEM), Landsat images, and ALOSPLAS SAR images were enhanced by applying Sobel filter with 10% threshold and equalization enha...

Carbonate reservoirs are important exploration targets from the perspective of hydrocarbon and, also, groundwater reserves. In this respect, the most important aquifer system in Romania is located in South Dobrogea region, comprising two distinct aquifer complexes: a deeper one, mostly under pressure, hosted in fractured/fissured and karstified limestones and dolomites of Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous age and a shallower one, mostly unconfined, hosted in Sarmatian (late Middle Miocene) lumachellic and oolitic l...

The study area is located in the northern and western parts of Moldavian Platform, the oldest platform unit of the Romanian territory and representing the margin of the East European Platform. Two hydrocarbon systems are recognized in the Moldavian Platform: a thermogenic system of Paleozoic age and a biogenic system of Miocene age. The Miocene biogenic system comprises significant natural gas fields (including dry gas with more than 98% methane), reservoired especially in Sarmatian (late Middle Miocene) deposits,...

Major efforts are directed worldwide in order to establish proper strategies for the preservation of soil quality, its protection and sustainable use by precision farming techniques. Since the in-depth distribution of soil moisture represent valuable information for farmers, electric and electromagnetic techniques were employed for its investigation. Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) with small electrode space interval was utilized for illustrating sectors of vertical water penetration and horizontal sectors...

Good information is crucial for effective working and decision making in all fields of human activity. It is widely thought that up to 80 % of information we get every day is related to a particular place on earth. With respect to this fact it is clear that spatial relations cannot be omitted in any case of planning and decision making. Hence teaching of thinking spatially and in wide relations has become an essential skill of graduates. This paper is to propose a teaching synergy in education where strategic deci...

Throughout the last few years, there has been a global trend to preserve protected green areas. Each nation is responsible for ensuring that such areas are not potentially destroyed by faulty social management and development. Therefore, a sustainable future can only be built with sufficient care for green infrastructure, which once destroyed is almost impossible to restore. Communities should thus actively participate towards protecting their local biodiversity and natural habitats, thereby improving their collec...

Paper focuses on methodology for preprocessing of transactional data from public transport system the in region as administration unit of the Czech Republic. The aim is to present synthetic information in GIS information system. Necessary data sources are defined and evaluated. Target group of users are those who plan development of public transport system. Information covering state of each bus or other mean of transport (number of passengers categorized by tariffs between any stops of the bus line) and activitie...

This paper explores the opportunities of using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and data from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and satellites for effective tree health mapping and assessment of forest stands, damaged from biotic and abiotic factors. The aim is to detect affected areas with tree health problems using time series satellite images. The next step is to extract precise vector and attribute data describing the type and extent of damages using drone-captured digital images. The experimental area is pa...

Land contamination generated by non-metallic mining activities through inappropriate handling and storage of industrial wastes and mine waters that pass through these sites. The contaminated land is not just the surface of the soil but also the underground and underground water. This contamination has the potential to damage the human factor and the environment. For qualitative quantification of the activity carried out in the Brad mining perimeter, we carried out an assessment of the impact of pollutant emissions...

The article traces the technique of visualization of educational information in various graphic ways. The following methods are best-known by students: the fundamental, traditional cartographic of research and teaching. They learn such methods from the course of the school geography and it is associated with the techniques and knowledge of spatially distributed information on maps and other geoimages. In addition to spatially distributed, there is other information that can be shown graphically. The modern term "i...

This paper considers a field of study related to green value creation in project management and specifically addresses the spectrum of green project managements in Kosovo case, and its impact in developing in general the Kosovo?s economy. During the paper, research questions are related to the role and the importance of green projects management in the country economy. The paper is based on the hypothesis that green project management plays important role in economic development, and also for future business devel...

With the beginning of the 21st century, there was a rapid development of technologies allowing to cover elevation of buildings with various plant species, even those that are not adapted to the natural overgrowth of vertical walls. This is the result of changes in the approach to the sustainable design. The technologies that derive from the simplest, proven solutions known for thousands of years become popular. Plants have a number of advantages that are very difficult to replace by modern filtration systems, they...

The library is one of the most important urban institutions with a wide social impact (including its research, educational, cultural and recreational impact).Being in the previous decades, a place, which aimed at building up the manuscript collection, it gradually opened up to the recipient, adapted its character depending on the changing times, today performing the function of a bustling center of culture and pro-ecological thinking. The idea of the Green Library Movement first appeared in the early 90s in the US...

Carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are the most important anthropogenic greenhouse gases and their concentrations are continuously increasing. Some scientists consider that water vapor is more an enhancer than a greenhouse gas by itself, even though its concentration in the atmosphere is much higher than those of the other 3 GHGs listed above. But it is not only the concentration of a GHG that counts, but also its percentage of absorption and reemission of infrared radiation, namely its gl...

This study delineates groundwater potentiality assessment for growing population, irrigation and industrial development, combining with geo-informatics and field data for hydrological research in Kalmykia, Russia. Various thematic layers wear used along with existing maps to prepare groundwater potential zone (GWPZ) map. Weights were assigned to all above factors according to their effectiveness, sensitivity and relevance to groundwater potentiality. Furthermore the resulting groundwater potential map has been cla...

The research on the growth dynamics for private forest area during the last 10 years, silvicultural parameters of afforested areas and related utilization of European Union funding for this purpose, basically covers the analysis of changes in the total forest area owned by private forest owners since 2007 and the quality analysis of afforested areas. The measure for afforestation consistently affordable from the Latvian Rural Development Programme, has made a significant contribution to the total increase in the p...

The construction sector is one of the largest consumers of energy and non-renewable natural resources, but also an important increasing factor of global warming by producing greenhouse gases, especially CO2. In Europe, about 30% of CO2 emissions and 36% of all greenhouse gases emissions are a direct or indirect environmental consequences of the construction sector. In the sustainable development contex, the possibility of recycling, reuse and reintegration in nature, environmental protection and efficient manageme...

Hungary, like other eastern European countries, has suffered from an energy deficit for the past several years. Energy consumption exceeds energy production, and the country remains dependent on mostly imported fossil fuels such as oil and gas. Renewable energy usage is mostly limited to hydro and solar power generation. Government, industry and academia have paid relatively little attention to geothermal energy as a source of heat and power generation. This study aims to identify and examine the feasibility of ha...

Alzheimer?s disease (AD) is associated with conformational changes of amyloid-? peptides, which result in peptide oligomerization and fibril formation and, finally, in the appearance of senile plaques and extensive neuronal loss. However, the factors regulating the process of plaque-associated beta-amyloid peptide (A?) aggregation are only partly understood. Therefore, several ?-amyloid peptide fragments have been synthesized by SPPS according to Boc/Bzl strategy. Binding of metal ions to ?-amyloid peptides was st...

Alzheimer?s disease (AD) is associated with conformational changes of amyloid-? peptides, which result in peptide oligomerization and fibril formation and, finally, in the appearance of senile plaques and extensive neuronal loss. However, the factors regulating the process of plaque-associated beta-amyloid peptide (A?) aggregation are only partly understood. Therefore, several ?-amyloid peptide fragments have been synthesized by SPPS according to Boc/Bzl strategy. Binding of metal ions to ?-amyloid peptides was st...

The industrial activity of the last century has led to the severe environment pollution, especially in the areas where mining and smelting processes were involved. The impact of atmospheric emissions from the metallurgical plants was detected at great distances from the emission source. The main units for the processing of non-ferrous ores (in Romania) were located in Baia Mare (Maramures county ? MM), Copsa Mica (Sibiu county ? SB) and Zlatna (Alba county ? AB). In the Alba and Maramures counties there was and st...

Laser systems are widely used for measuring the most important physical values with the highest accuracy. In particular, laser measuring systems are used to identify earthquake precursors in monitoring tidal rock fluctuations. In many cases, signals from laser measuring systems contain noises that need to be filtered out. The signal component in this case has the form of a harmonic oscillation, the frequency and phase of which change and these changes carry information about the measured quantity. This signal shou...

Pontus Euxinus, the Black Sea today, was since ancient time playground of human activities, of which the most important is the trading navigation, whose beginning coincides with the Greek colonization started in the 7th century BC. The colonies and settlements founded along the coast were connected in ancient time mainly by nautical trade routes running along the shores. The case study area is located in the shallow waters of the Black Sea, in front of the sandbank system that today separates the Razelm-Sinoie lac...

Recent developments in the existing molecular genetic tools have augmented our current understanding towards the deleterious effects of nanoparticles on human health. During building construction, the rapid generation of nanoparticles has greatly affected to human with severe toxicity by generating free radicals inside their body as potential health hazards. However, there is still need of analyzing nanoparticle toxicity based on the type of microbial diversity present on surface and its potential impacts on human...