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Renewable sources of energy are supported in all the EU countries including Czech Republic. The landscape potencial of Central Europe enables generally the exploitation of wind energy rather than other sources. One of the most important problems is the location of the energetic power stations as the landscape in the Czech Republic is densely inhabitated and used for complex functions including agriculture, industry, communications, ecological functions etc. That is why the construction of any "wind mill" requires ...

The research focused on the development and testing of the algorithm for the design of ambient air quality monitoring programs for areas affected by production, preparation and primary oil refining. This research was performed for about 100 production, preparation and primary oil refining facilities in the territory of intensive production of sulfur crude oil (Perm region, the Russian Federation) and it lasts for 4 years. During this work the levels of maximum and average ambient air pollutants concentrations in t...

The paper focuses on the evaluation of the heat transfer coefficient, both by means of calculation models and based on measurements on the actual design. In their research, the authors evaluate the differences between the values of the heat transfer coefficients of the envelope constructions obtained by calculation based on the declared parameters of the building materials and the constructions made therefrom and the actual values of the heat transfer coefficients determined by the measurements on the already real...

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 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...

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...

The study of heavy metals (HMs) in plants increases in importance with years because of the enhancing anthropogenic impact. HMs arriving in plants from the soil and air are capable of accumulating in plant tissues in large amounts and passing along the trophic chain into animal and human organisms. Enterprises of energetic, metallurgical, and ore-mining industries are sources of environmental contamination with HMs. For example, the Novocherkassk energetic enterprise releases 1% of total pollutants into the atmosp...

Picea abies (L.) H. Karst is the most economically significant coniferous species in Europe. In central Europe, it has been growing for a long time. Since spruce stands in Latvia occupy considerable area - 18% of the total forest area (3.01 million), it is important to evaluate the impact of thinning on the productivity of young forest stands. In order to grow up healthy and productive forest stand, it is necessary thinning to perform timely and with a good quality. The aim of the research - to assess impact of Pi...

The importance of keeping in good shape and transmitting the world heritage to future generations is accepted worldwide unanimously. The values of the past are those that define a country, and for which society must ensure as efficiently as possible their protection, while adapting them to advancing technology. At present, there is a well-established legislation on the energy efficiency of new or renovated buildings. This facilitates the achievement of a ranking and therefore a labeling based on energy consumption...

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...

The patchwork of land is one of the major factors that have a negative impact on the organization and the level of agricultural production. Excessive fragmentation reduces the intensity of work and increases the costs of agricultural production, thus generating lower and lower incomes. In terms of the unfavorable geometry of the boundaries of plots, resulting from the considerable fragmentation of land, the land patchwork plot is also an obstacle to building a cadastral system in Poland. The geodesy tool for impro...

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...

The results of the study of high-Mg rocks from the Aganozero chromite deposit, located in the Republic of Karelia, are reported. It is a complex type of deposits. Other promising useful minerals, in addition to chromite ore mining, are Mg-rich ultramafics such as olivinite, dunite, serpentinite and pyroxenite. High-Mg dunite units are thick, and their MgO concentration varies 36.97 from 46.77%. Aganozero dunite is a good raw material for the production of refractory materials, e.g. refractory bricks, steel furnace...

Commercial field development of high-viscosity oil and natural bitumen presents a global issue nowadays due to increase in hydrocarbon consumption, changes in structure of oil reserves with the increasing dominance of heavy and extra-heavy crudes, and development of innovative technologies of production and processing of natural bitumen. The estimated probable bitumen reserves are 790-1000 billion tons, much greater than reserves of light and medium viscosity oil. Bitumen processing technologies include production...

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...

The separation between the mobile plate (Phanerozoic) in south and west of the eastern European Precambrian East European Craton is the most prominent geological limit in Europe known as the Trans-European Suture Zone (TESZ) In this study we were mainly interested in a prominent segment of TESZ, known as the Tornquist -Teisseyre Area (TTZ). In this study we highlighted the TTZ area through the gradient of geoid from Romania. The geoid provides a good representation of the long wavelength characteristics of the Ear...

The paper deals with actual testing of available hiking and sports mobile applications for their use in the terrain. Testing was carried out in individual steps, starting with the analysis of existing hiking and sports mobile applications and the selection of suitable mobile applications for the field research.The contribution also includes the overview of the most downloaded iOS and Android free hiking and sports mobile applications in category Health and Fitness in Slovakia. Hiking and sports mobile applications...

The flood regime in the Prut ? B?rlad catchments is characterised by short, high intensity floods in the majority of upland rivers. These upland rivers are often ephemeral ? dry during the hot, summer months and wet during the winter months. In lowland rivers, flooding is more prolonged, especially near confluences. Short, high intensity rainfall coupled with low infiltration on catchments lead to flash flooding in upland areas. Changing land use patterns during the last 15 ? 20 years are increasing the frequency ...

The paper deals with applying of the GIS tools to assessment of the historical changes and future predictions of landscape structure in cultural landscape ? study area Olomouc Archdiocese region (east part of the Czech Republic). European cultural landscapes have been significantly influenced by human activities in the past. Despite of it cultural landscapes in Europe are important as a part of European cultural heritage. This is a reason that cultural landscapes are in the focus of multidisciplinary research, joi...

The history of the welded steel structures in Romania and in the world is the starting point for the construction of mega-steel structures for nowadays. In order to understand the way of the welded steel structures is achieved, we need to know the history of the welded steel structures in each country and especially in our country. The paper will present the history of the welded steel structures in Romania from viaducts, steel bridges or even mega steel structures from the early 1900s. Also, the paper will presen...

Satellite imagery with different spatial resolutions and global daily revisit time provide much information of earth surfaces on a large scale in a short time. Thereby it is necessary to determine the horizontal accuracy of the satellite imagery to enable the possibility of their future everyday use in different application fields like environmental assessment, urban monitoring, forestry management, etc. In this research multispectral (MS) imagery from PlanetScope (PS), RapidEye (RE) and WorldView-2 (WV2) satellit...

In every technology as well as in Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD), there are design challenges. Compliance with the requirements forces the application of modern solutions in the mentioned technology. One such solution is the Intersect Drilling method. The Intersect Drilling technology makes it possible to create a hole for Horizontal Directional Drilling of shallow layers and a longer length compared to conventional methods. The decision on whether the Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) project should be...

Environmental parameters can be seen as underlying forces of land-use change. Their physical expression in land use-change depends on many factors such as landscape heterogeneity, land-use intensity and socio-economic variables. This paper focuses on the role of four particular environmental parameters ? aspect, elevation, slope and soil-trophy ? within three separate study areas in cultural landscape of Trkmanka watershed. The research was based on combination of spatial analysis and advanced multivariate statist...

The development and implementation of new technologies can generate many effects for the economy, the quality of environment and human life. For that reason, when a decision about using new or developing already functioning technologies is made, the Sustainability Assessment of the Technology (SAT) should be carried out. The methodology of assessing social impacts is worst developed compared with assessment of economic and environmental impacts, so there is still need to find appropriate indicators and methods for...

City spatial development is strongly connected with the transport systems development. One of the spatial structure model type could determine implementation of the ecofriendly transport, whilst the other could affect against of the sustainable transport system. We consider three spatial development of the city models: linear city, radiant city and grid city. The article presents analysis of each city models, taking into account the implementation of the ecofriendly transport system modes and impact on the transpo...

The article provides a brief description of the concept human-machine interface for the interactive touch control panel of the mobile cone crusher. A software implementation of an automated cone crusher control system is proposed that allows to integrate a set of interconnected technological units in the control of one hardware and technical units in the controller and human-machine interface on the touch panel in the operator station. A human-machine interface was implemented, based on a set of technical, informa...

Use of fertilizers and plant protection products for yield increases led to environment pollution. There is intense concern for new materials development with controlled immobilization/ holdup/release role of compounds that get involved in plant nutrition and protection. Multiple beneficial effects of humic substances upon soil ecosystem is the reason that their control and conservation take priority. Part of the research results carried out regarding humic substances (HS) holdup on biodegradable, bio polymeric st...

Molluscs are invertebrates that form one of the largest groups in the animal kingdom, with more than 100,000 known species. A wide range of molluscs including families of Pulmonata, Gastropoda, Planorbidae and Lymnaeidae are intermediate hosts of trematodes. The snail Lymnaea stagnalis belongs to the family Lymnaeidae under the order Basommatophora-class Pulmonata is known to be an intermediate host of several parasites such as Chaetogaster limnaei which belongs to the annelid family, Naididae, an ecologically div...

Molluscs are invertebrates that form one of the largest groups in the animal kingdom, with more than 100,000 known species. A wide range of molluscs including families of Pulmonata, Gastropoda, Planorbidae and Lymnaeidae are intermediate hosts of trematodes. The snail Lymnaea stagnalis belongs to the family Lymnaeidae under the order Basommatophora-class Pulmonata is known to be an intermediate host of several parasites such as Chaetogaster limnaei which belongs to the annelid family, Naididae, an ecologically div...

Safe management of tailings storage facilities requires evaluation of embankment stability dams. In case of dams constructed by upstream method, special attention is drawn to evaluation of liquefaction potential. This requires evaluation of state of saturated, not compacted tailings material containing various amount of fines. Conventional methods based on static or dynamic sounding and standard sampling can?t assure required accuracy in determination of void ratio of deposited material. The paper presents results...

A new joint configuration system has been developed to achieve a higher strength and ductility. The joint system consist of a reinforced concrete wall and a composite steel-concrete beam. The study aims for an experimental and a numerical part in a FEM program Abaqus 6.13. The program consist to reproduce the behavior of the joints and the materials variation. The purpose of the paper is to investigate the main parameters that affect the response on the contribution of the steel-concrete materials that influences ...

In the article, the authors provide the analysis of the industry state in the field of software and hardware development on the FPGA basis. The primary emphasis is on high-level synthesis (HLS) tools, which allows making a custom design by a non-RTL engineer. The key factors limiting the extensive introduction of HLS in the industry are determined: in most cases is not allowing to get a good solution without an understanding of target microarchitecture and synthesis method; too complicated and unpredictable tool b...

The Paper present confined groundwater flow and solute transport modeling in water catchments area and wastewater system Giarmata, using the hydraulically modelling whit mathematical simulation. Modeling purpose is to constitute extending pollution propagation of aquifers generated of possible wastewater pumping station pollution. Pollution zone definition is necessary to settle technical measures to using drinking water systems. The used software for numerical modelling in this paper is Processing Modflow for Win...

Tailings are the waste product of mining industry which is usually deposited in the form of slurry. In the present study, laboratory experiments were performed to investigate the permeability properties of coal mine tailings. The investigation includes the compressibility and consolidation behavior of tailings material of different gradations upon application of incremental loads in large size hydraulic consolidometer. The samples were collected from open pit Tur?w Coal Mine in Poland. Remolded samples were manufa...

The paper gives comparative analysis of the method of vacuum extraction of Chaga carried out by the authors. The process supposed that the ground Chaga was pre-vacuumed for 10 minutes in order to release the holes from air and moisture vapor and conduce efficient time pregnation of the extractant; further, the author saddled still dewatering the ratio 1:10 and kept at the temperature of 70В°C.In the process of extraction, the pressure was hourly lowered to 0.3 atm, which promoted the boiling of the extractant in a...

The property that influences the binding properties of slag is its hydraulicity. The term ?hydraulicity? is now used internationally to describe cements and other binders that set and harden as a result of chemical reactions with water and continue to harden even if subsequently placed under water. There are a few exceptions but these chemical reactions generally involve calcium, silica, and aluminum constituents that react with water to form a whole family of calcium silicate and calcium aluminate hydrates. The c...

In the area of the Erzgebirge Foothills (Krusne hory), research of flooded mine pits in terms of water regime and quality as well as their management and subsequent use has attracted great attention in recent years. Smaller water reservoirs (ponds, wetlands, dips, sinks) have not been systematically monitored, despite of their importance in this type of landscape which has been affected by mining. The Modlany reservoir was monitored in 2013?2017. This small water body shows symptoms of an extremely eutrophicated s...

This paper sets forth in exploring the impact that developments in the energy sector in Greece may have on the economic growth of the country, and in the EU?s energy situation. The inspiration for this topic derived from a widely recognized need for the EU to reinforce, through multiple initiatives, developmental activities in the sector in countries located in the south-east Mediterranean region, diversify its energy supply and improve its energy security. Greece has a lot to offer towards that direction, confirm...

At present there is an intensive growth of rivers? water use, which results in deterioration of water quality and hydrological regime. Small rivers are regulators of water regime of landscapes, maintain equilibrium and redistribution of moisture, as well as determine the hydrological and hydrochemical specificity of medium and large rivers. Drying, silting and disappearing of small rivers are the result of anthropogenic activity and climate change. Monitoring researches of surface water quality of small rivers is ...

The Dobrudzha Coal Deposit is characterized by complex geological, tectonic and hydrogeological conditions. The formed aquifers and complexes, on the one hand, hinder the possible exploitation of the coal deposit, on the other hand they are important for drinking water supply in the area. The aim of the present study is to develop a 3D hydrodynamic model in the area of the deposit to elucidate the dynamics of the flow processes, the hydraulic connections between the different hydrogeological units and the possibil...

This work is devoted to the investigation of the possibility of use of Ru-containing catalysts including bimetallic (Ru-Fe) magnetically separable one on the basis of polymeric matrix of hypercrosslinked polystyrene in hydrogenation of levulinic acid (LA) to gamma-valerolactone (GVL), which is a semi-product for obtaining of liquid fuel components. Synthesized catalysts were shown to be promising for further study in LA hydrogenation. 3%-Ru/MN270 was shown to allow achieving about 37% GVL yield for 2 h of reaction...

In order to increase the resource potential of the Volga-Ural oil and gas province, natural bitumen deposits have been commissioned in recent years. The pilot-industrial development of some near-surface bituminous deposits encountered numerous problems due to insufficient information on the hydrogeological conditions of the sites under study. In this paper, conditions of the groundwater deposits formation at natural bitumens deposits of the eastern side of the Melekess depression and the western slope of the South...

This article examines the conditions and prospects of technical water supply with a requirement of up to 20,000 m3/day of the soda ash production factory in the amount of 300,000 tons per year in Aralsk district (Zhalgizagash area) of the Kyzylorda region. The geographical position of the Aral Sea basin, the relief, the amount of precipitated water and the hydrographic network are described. Consumers of soda ash are also presented in this article. The construction of the soda ash production factory will have a si...

Mining exploitation in an underground mine is the main factor disturbing the balance within the rock mass. By removing the obtained raw material from the rock mass mining activity leads to changes in the broadly understood state of the natural environment. Extraction of the raw material ? hard coal with barren rocks is often associated with the need to undertake dewatering of the rock mass and discharging mine gases into the atmosphere. The process of extracting the raw material from the deposit and the accompanyi...

Mathematical determination of the course of the baseline is necessary to establish the external border of the territorial sea, which is the state border. Its determination mainly affects the defining of the range of sovereign rights of individual states. For Poland, the determination of the course of the territorial sea baseline can be considered in two main aspects: legal and measurement-related. This paper discusses the issue of preparing measurements of the baseline. It presents domestic and international regul...

Assurance of radiation and environmental safety of nuclear power plants (NPPs) implies development of an automated radiation monitoring system. In its turn, such a system presupposes that hydrological and meteorological monitoring should be arranged on the NPP site and in its vicinity. Monitoring is launched at pre-design stages of the NPP construction project, and continues during the construction, operation and decommissioning (dismantling) of the plant. The goal of the study is to generalize the results of hydr...

Modeling was carried out on the basis of hydrological data from the ?yna River (north-eastern Poland). The length of the river is 264 km, the average river slope is 1.2 ?, the catchment area is 7126 km2. Modeling was based on data on water flows and the amount of precipitation. Neural models were created in which the input data is the amount of rainfall and the output is the flow. The possessed data has been divided into two parts, one of which was used to teach and test ANN, and the other - smaller - to verify th...

Hydrological reclamations are one way of eliminating consequences of surface mining of coal. The residual quarries occupy extensive areas and the most effective way how to integrate them into the surrounding landscape is their flooding. This will create a new water area that can be used recreationally and could also serve as a habitat or a migration point for different plant and animal species. The contribution is focused on northern part of the Czech Republic (The Most Basin) where brown coal has been mined for n...