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More than 400 geodetic and cartographic documentation centres are active in Poland; they are maintained by starosts (heads of districts) and presidents of cities with rights of districts at the level of heads of districts, or cities with rights of districts. In particular cases those centres are maintained at the municipal level, if a relevant agreement has been concluded with a mayor or a president of a city which is not a district. At present the method of producing maps for design purposes is regulated by two l...

The rapid developments of science and technology, as well as the restructuring of the extractive mining industry, have led to massive changes in the structure and complexity of mining equipment. Mining units must provide an advanced level of mechanization and automation, thus ensuring increased productivity and safety. The use of modern information technologies for surveillance and monitoring of high complexity technological facilities is a topical issue. By monitoring the main functional parameters of excavation,...

Vulnerability to stress occurs during the person's biography, depending on psycho-emotional trauma, experiences of severe psychological stressful situations, including how the individual succeeded in managing them. Some people have a constitutional or psychological vulnerability to the action of traditional stressors, being more prone to psychic stress. The multifactorial complex of non-specific factors that modulate the individual response necessarily includes personality traits, acquired during the individual's ...

In this work, the high-bog peat was used for the production of monosaccharide as a biofuel source. As it is known, peat is one of the renewable energy sources which is widespread in the Central Region of the Russian Federation. Paet contains over 40% of such polysaccharides like cellulose and hemicelluloses. The study of the peat pretreatment methods for further hydrolysis is the main task for chemical and biotechnology. In the current work, the effectiveness of the ultrasonic pretreatment of the high-bog peat for...

The garlic crop is made by planting bulbs and they can easily pass through many herbicides that are applied to the soil due to the vigor of the garlic emerging seedlings. However, some weeds, especially those with large seeds, can also pass through the superficial layer of herbicide so that they can cause great damage to the crop. These weed species, such as cocklebur (Xanthium sp.) or velvet leaf (Abutilon theophrasti) can be controlled in postemergence with Goal 4F herbicide. Other herbicides, as Lontrel (clopyr...

The paper approaches a series of researches that concern the finding of a solution for modernizing the cutting wheels of the extraction tower of Slanic Prahova salt mine. With this in view and starting from the observation that the former solution is worn out, a new variant has been conceived and designed in order that it might be applied to the structure of the extraction tower without important changes. Specialized software has been used for the assisted analysis and designing, which is able to provide the corre...

The geotechnical characteristics of rocks influence their behavior in terms of their strength and stability. Changing the geotechnical characteristics of the rocks is the direct cause of the loss of the natural balance of the slope when the resistance forces defeated by the sliding forces. Influence factors, which may be of geological, hydrogeological, hydrometeorological, climatic, seismic, biotic, anthropic, mechanical or geomechanical nature and occur in time and space on rock massifs/deposits, determines the c...

Volatile organic compounds produced by industrial activities are harmful to human health and environment, playing an important role in environment quality, but especially in air quality. The main issues raised by presence of volatile organic compounds in the environment are ozone depletion, ozone photochemical formation at ground level, increased global greenhouse effect, carcinogenic effects, toxic and other health problems. The paper presents a case study conducted at an economic operator dealing with treatment ...

The purpose of this work is the rehabilitation of a plot of land located on Circumvala?iunii Street in Timisoara, which at present has no functionality, by arranging a space dedicated to quadrupeds, but also to their owners. The main motivation of this project was the desire to set up a dog park in the true sense of the word and to make this concept known in Romania, because in most cities in the country, these spaces dedicated to dogs are either non-existent or too small for their needs. The area also helps expan...

The article presents researches on the use of drones in agriculture. Going away from military and espionage applications, like many other inventions of mankind, drones have finally come to peaceful applications. The inclusion of top technologies in the construction and endowment of drones has made these devices very useful in many applications, such as: industry, agriculture, health, civil engineering, environmental protection, local administrations, security and guarding, transport, etc. In the literature, variou...

Restructuring of the exploitation of the coal deposit in the carboniferous area of the Jiu Valley in Romania is part of a quarter-century closure program and the use of minerals has been reduced by 10 times compare with the production achieved at the level 1989. In the last 10 years, the use of the coal in the steel production was abandoned, the production being processed only for electric and thermal energy needs. At present, 4 production units (Lonea, Livezeni, Vulcan and Lupeni) are operating in this area, out ...

Article is describing results of an experimental program focused on development of concrete, resistant to impacts of low pH environment. To a very low pH (2-4) is concrete often exposed when used in agricultural production (for example for silage or hay silage pits). Therefore, its degradation with such a low pH is very fast. The experimental part of the work focused on modification of concrete with sealing admixture on the basis of styrene-acrylate. We prepared set of 3 concrete mixtures with different dosing of ...

The article discusses modern approaches and assessments of "resource regions" and "resource dependence". For the analysis of resource dependence, the data of Rosstat and customs statistics for 2005-2016 were used. The lower border (2005) is determined by the end of the period of economic recovery after the deep recession of the 90s. Moreover, 2005 is the first year when data on the share of extractive industries in the gross regional product of the region began to be calculated. 2016 is the last year for which dat...

Today, much attention is paid to the research and development of application-specific instruction set processors (ASIPs). The architecture of such processors is focused on their application and the command systems differ from each other, therefore each architecture requires its own set of developer tools like a compiler, debugger, linker, etc. The program code optimization for each ASIP also has its own specifics. At the same time, compiler development should be as fast and technologically advanced as possible in ...

A vital role in detecting eye disorders is played by the analysis of the human retina using medical imaging methods. The main objective of this study is to improve the detection of retinal blood vessels by ameliorating the overall quality of non-uniform illumination conditions, removing image artifacts, connecting the broken vessels, and generating accurate segmented retinal vascular systems. A three-stage edge detection framework is proposed. First, image denoising, contrast enhancement, stretched decorrelation a...

Traditional agriculture is characterized by high indicators of economic efficiency, but the ecologic consequences of its implementation cause a decrease of soil productivity and environmental pollution. Soil productivity is determined by its fertility ? an ability of the soil to meet the needs of plants in the elements of nutrition, moisture, air, as well as provision of the conditions for their normal live to obtain stable yields. Rational use of land resources in agricultural production, the development and effe...

The need of increasing the use of alternative materials, in construction and in production, is a current issue worldwide. At the same time, with regard to the treatment of waste, the management of bottom ash coming from Municipal Solid Waste Incineration, is an important issue all over the world, especially in Italy. In fact, the need for right management of ashes increases, which, in Italy, are almost always disposed of in landfills. This paper presents the environmental aspects of an industrial experiment, in Ce...

The expansive soils, known for significantly volume changes when subjected to moisture, pose major problems to foundations, causing severe damages to structures built on this kind of soils. Recent environmental approaches are focused on the conservation of natural resources and on reducing the effects of waste landfills by recycling and reusing different types of waste materials. In this perspective, a sustainable way to deal with expansive clay soils is to integrate them back into secondary building materials or ...

In this article, I will focus on the possibilities of recycling aluminium chips and chips from aluminium alloys. Recycling can be divided into conventional recycling, by remelting the material, or the unconventional method of recycling it in its solid state, in which the chips can be transformed directly into dense bulk materials. The advantages of this method lie in lower energy consumption, reduced metal losses, almost no emissions of harmful gases and minimum waste. In the introduction I will introduce the meth...

Revitalisation includes comprehensive and integrated activities in the social, technical, economic, environmental and spatial sphere. All revitalisation activities, however, must be subordinated to social goals, and infrastructural projects should support the improvement of the quality of life of residents and the socio-economic recovery of problem areas. Changes in rural areas aimed at improving spatial order and landscape aesthetics while preserving resources and forms of cultural heritage and local identity and...

Riparian ecosystems play significant role both in the natural and man related activities. They are important part of the hydrological cycle and ecosystem services. They actively support many processes connected to the environment wellbeing, floods retention and mitigation, erosion reducing, river restoration. But under the climate and climate change specifics and anthropogenic works they are under continuous pressure, surely affecting their natural development. To safe and mitigate presented impacts various measur...

The chemical hazard for Pezinok District is analysed. Risk identification of the objects with high amounts of chemicals includes both industrial and the common civil objects and facilities. The highest possible number of people under the risk in case of chemical leakage as a result of terrorist attack is taken into account as well as the health consequences according the certain concentration of the chemical matter. The air pollution period and environmental impact on the fauna and flora, including soil contaminat...

For the district governance level, taking into account the medium- and long-term changes in the model of strategic spatial planning of marine activities (marine spatial planning) natural and environmental sustainability factors are one of the most important components, which is necessary to consider. Their importance is due to the fact that the geographical environment, being complex and comprehensive formation, has a strong impact on the development and preservation of ecosystems. At the same time, for the consid...

RM/RA CRAMM method is a multispectral method for risk management including risk assessment process. It is used mainly for environmental, technology and social threats including major natural emergency events e.g. floods, forest fires, whirlwinds, earthquakes, landslides etc. The paper explains the logic of the method and its application though the Risk Assessment Scoreboard with quantitative inputs and outputs calculated by a simple logic function. The method respects its main sources - EN 31001 Risk management an...

Ensuring the continuous production of housing and communal services, forms quality indicators of the human environment. The strategic orientation of the municipal management system allows enterprises to adapt to changing market conditions. In order to ensure the successful functioning and development of the industry, the classification and assessment of the probability of occurrence of negative events is carried out., which are a manifestation of latent or real threat to the safety of the human environment. With t...

Nowadays, sustainable forest management is affected by both the internal management conditions of forest enterprises as well as the external restrictions. While the internal conditions are determined by the economic efficiency of forest enterprises, the external restrictions, except for the nature conditions, result from the governmental regulative and supportive measures, forest policy concepts, characteristics of business environment, and principles accepted by the whole society ? this approach may both either h...

The paper deals with height determination in indoor environment using inertial sensors (accelerometers, gyroscopes) and barometer built in a smartphone, which is very important to detect upstairs and downstairs motion of the users. The algorithm proposed uses the barometric formula for height determination and the relationship between the decreasing barometric pressure and increasing height. The main advantage of the use of barometer is the long-term accuracy, because the algorithm is not recursive. The problem of...

The Upper-Pontian aquifer is one of the most important in Northwest Bulgaria. It is built of sands with a thickness of up to 100 m that outcrop on the surface at the periphery of the Lom depression. The aquiferous sands are overlain by a lignite coal layer up to several meters thick. In order to assess the influence of coal on the chemical composition of groundwater, an experiment has been carried out in laboratory. In view of the leading role of rainwater, the experiments were conducted with real rainwater. This ...

Shoot cultures of the essential oil bearing plant Artemisia alba Turra (Asteraceae) were studied with the aim to elaborate the effect of in vitro rooting on cytokinin (CK) conjugation and chloroplast architecture in vitro. For this purpose, two in vitro morphotypes were induced ? (1) the root developing morphotype on plant growth regulator-free as well as on auxin indole-3-butyric acid (IBA)-containing media and (2) the root suppressed morphotype, obtained by a combination of IBA with CK N6-benzyladenine (BA). End...

In this paper a new type of Ru-containing catalysts based hypercrosslinked polystyrene (HPS) is proposed for cellulose hydrolytic hydrogenation to increase the selectivity to sorbitol. Also, we report the development of Ru-containing magnetically recoverable catalysts for cellulose hydrogenolysis to low alcohols, EG and PG. The use of the 1.0% Ru/HPS MN-270 catalyst allows achieving the total sorbitol and mannitol yield about 50% (245 °C, 60 bar H2, 30 mL water, 600 rpm, 0.028 mmol Ru on 1 g cellulose, process dur...

At the head of all the activities of society are human resources, they are making technological breakthroughs and the development of economic growth. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the development of new technologies is carried out at the expense of organizations working to improve the economy and technological development; organizations face the difficult task of stimulating human resources for a technological breakthrough. In this article, corporate social responsibility is considered as one of the tools...

Mining-and-industrial heritage ? underground workings, open areas of former mining works, natural caves and underground cavities are, in many cases in critical condition and pose a safety threat to the tourists visiting those. On the other hand, such places, have significant historical, technological and landscape value. Moreover, these objects are also crucial for the development of tourism, attracting a lot of visitors by their uncommonness. Underground space for tourism purposes is often used by the specialists...

Traffic volumes in road traffic show growth, especially in developed countries. Where necessary and depending on space, financial possibilities and other aspects, increasingly more capacity roads (multi-lane highways, complex grade-separated interchange, etc.) are being built. The places, where the roads meet (i.e. at the intersections), are the most problematic (traffic accidents, capacity problems, etc.). Standard intersections (i.e. level intersections, roundabouts, intersections with traffic lights or grade-se...

The security of technical infrastructure in crisis situations can be divided into several areas that can affect its functions. The aim of this work was to focus on water infrastructure with regard to legal aspects set in the Czech Republic. Water is essential for economic growth, human health, and the environment. The main reason for the emergence of the crisis situation in parts of the water infrastructure is predominantly presence of a large amount of water (torrential rain, lightning flood, flood, increased wat...

Safety planning is an important part of the mechanism that helps overcome extraordinary events or crisis situations. A safety plan is a general planning document such as a crisis plan, emergency plan, flood plan, etc. that focuses on the safety of an area. The structures of individual safety plans are defined in various legal and methodological regulations in the Czech Republic. The content may include safety plans aimed at either preventing or responding to emergencies. Some safety plans have combined content and...

In the past decade significant attention has been given to the development of tools that attempt to measure the vulnerability, risk or resilience of communities to disasters. Particular attention has been given to the development of composite indices to quantify these concepts mirroring their deployment in other fields such as sustainable development. Whilst some authors have published reviews of disaster vulnerability, risk and resilience composite indicator methodologies, these have been of a limited nature. Thi...

The present paper aims to assess the microbiological water quality of the wetland La Tembladera?, Ecuador. The object of study is located in the southwestern Ecuador, canton Santa Rosa, in the province El Oro. Microbiological analyses included the determination of the sanitary-indicative microorganisms? number, such as total bacterial count, bacteria Escherichia coli, ?lostridium, actinomycetes and micromycetes. Water samples were collected two times per week during dry tropical season at three points with differe...

According to national forest statistics data of 2018, Picea abies occupies 18% of the forest area of Latvia. As a result of intensive forestry management a forest productivity and the diverse anthropogenic influences on forest ecosystems are significantly increased. During the life a growth of spruce young stands can be influenced not only by abiotic but also by various biotic and anthropogenic factors. An aim of the research was to analyze sanitary condition of the artificially regenerated young forest stands of ...

Climate change is defined as a significant difference between two mean climatic states, with substantial impact on the ecosystem. Extreme climatic events, such as higher temperatures, more intense precipitation, increased drought risk and duration as well as cyclones and flooding in coastal areas, are expected to increase in both frequency and intensity. One of the possible indicators of water stress is sap flow measurement. For this experiment were used the apple trees in Nove Zamky, Slovakia. On stem were instal...

Human losses in Europe are mostly associated with meteorological and climatological hazards such as heat waves, heavy precipitation, river floods, windstorms and landslides. Economic losses are most significant for the industry, transport and energy sectors. Highest economic losses and annual numbers of affected people are caused mainly by geophysical and hydrological disasters. Landslides are natural hazards that cause fatalities and significant economic losses in various parts of Europe. Heavy precipitation even...

The paper describes a new design of a directional coupler with four plug-in quarter-wave loops. Four loops increase the operating frequency band several times, but the area of the device also grows by two quarter-wave segments in length. It is not always possible to use such a large device area, for this reason, techniques are used to reduce the size of the device with minimal loss in its characteristics. Using miniaturization, which is the use of compact structures, it was possible to reduce the size of a quarter...

It is well known that the main purpose for all upscaling techniques related with homogenization of initial any heterogeneous property and substituting it with an effective value. Thus, the essence of upscaling is computing weighted average on the fine-grid to form coarse-grid considering representative elementary volume. The goal of this research work was experimental investigations of pore space distribution of carbonate rocks. Samples were collected from the Upper Permian ages core data. Samples bulk porosity we...

Acrylic derivative-based superabsorbents are widely used currently in agriculture as the soil conditioners, plant growth regulators, etc. Their usage has a positive effect on the growth and survival of the plants cultivated in the arid regions. However, the effects of hydrophilic acrylic polymers on the soil microbiocenosis still remain unknown. The influence of the moisture-absorbing acrylic acid-based hydrogels with different concentration of bentonite filler was studied on the soil microbiota. N,N-methylenebisa...

A supervised classification algorithm has been developed for automated sea ice retrieval in some regions of the Arctic seas. Sentinel-1 Extra Wide images were utilized as input for a Neural Network (NN)-based algorithm. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data has several features significantly affected on the microwave backscatter from sea ice. In this paper, an approach to improve data quality is proposed. Since different sea ice types can have similar backscattering coefficients, the extracted SAR texture features i...

The Cieszyn Tufa Springs is a special area of conservation located in the Western Carpathians (southern Poland). The main subjects of protection are springs that outflow from the contact zone between Cretaceous limestones and slates. Due to a high vulnerability of shallow aquifers within the area of Cieszyn Foothills as well as urbanization and highly-developed industry of the Silesia region, a wide range of contaminants is detected in the spring water. Although microcomponents present in water of the mentioned ar...

Research was performed using application of airborne laser scanning (ALS) data for the assessment of land use and land cover (LULC) changes, especially for the monitoring forest succession on abandoned farmland. ALS point clouds were used to confirm the progress of forest succession process at the analysed area, not only in terms to show the occupied area, but also to derives informations about the structure of vegetation ? growth of trees and shrubs. The part of Wieliczka district (Malopolskie Voivodship, South o...

Internet of Things (IoT) has a different meaning to different people. The term has been known for a long time. The use of interconnected devices has become more and more necessary to solve established business problems. It turns out that data acquired from IoT sensors and controllers are valuable enough to have the power to change the overall business models and behaviour of entire industries in a given economy. Therefore, the future of IoT as a cutting-edge technology depends on the security capabilities that IoT...

This work is about paleogeographic reconstructions on the basis of mineralogical and geochemical studies. Vanavar, Oskobinsk and Sobinsk formations of the Vendian age (Ilbokichskoe deposit in Eastern Siberia) were studied. The complex of research included data of XRD and ICP-MS. According to the obtained results, the mineralogical composition of the sediments was refined. Quartz, carbonate minerals, represented by magnesite, dolomite, calcite and siderite, and sulfates ? gypsum, barite, anhydrite are noted among t...

Despite the widespread use of sedimentation in the industry and numerous scientific works in this field, all factors affecting the process of sedimentation are still not sufficiently recognized. The sedimentation of fine-grained suspension must often be supported by a flocculation process or by using a multiflux filling. The particles of the solid phase of the suspension after the addition of the flocculant have the tendency to flocculate to form larger agglomerates, and thus their falling speed increases due to t...

In this paper, we present the spatial distribution of sedimentological and geochemical characteristics of the bottom sediments of Vouliagmeni lake which is located in the SW Perachora peninsula extending into the eastern Gulf of Corinth, Greece. A total of nineteen (19) samples consisting of upper 1-2cm lake bottom sediments were collected and analyzed. Standard sedimentological analyses were carried out including grain size analysis and the measurement of calcium carbonate content (CaCO3), total organic carbon (T...