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Systematization of ore deposits is carried out according to geomechanical conditions on the basis of tectonic features. In total, more than 120 underground mines have been analyzed. Four models of the geo-environment are distinguished. They make it possible to differentially describe the nature of the change in the stress state with increasing depth. The efficiency and reliability of the use of typical geomechanical conditions of rock massifs for determining the field of application of geotechnologies is shown. Co...

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,...

In the East Carpathians Bend region (Romania), a salt formation was deposited during the lowermost Miocene (Aquitanian-Burdigalian). Subsequently, the salt reached present-day structural positions by diapiric piercing of the overlying sedimentary deposits. As a result, a multitude of isolated ? although quite large - outcrops of salt diapirs are encountered nowadays. In this complex geological setting, a great number of salt karst phenomena occur, generating dolines, sinkholes and salt caves. The surface topograph...

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...

In the implementation of the characterization, i.e. the determination of the relevant mechanical and physical characteristics of the municipal waste landfill, it is necessary to define the optimal scope of the investigative works. The criterion of an optimum is determined by the minimum volume of planned actions with maximizing their performance. Generally, exploratory drillings give the so-called dotted data, with a regularly questionable quality of undisturbed and even disturbed samples. At the same time, they a...

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...

This paper describes the process of creating a useful geographic information system (GIS) viewer on the web that shows the map of the old town of ?ibenik, which is located in the heart of Dalmatia. Spatial and attribute data is the core of every geoinformation system so therefore a database with objects of interest (cultural and historical sights in the old town centre) was created. The main goal of the project was to develop a GIS viewer for tourist purposes, but also to provide basic information about the curren...

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...

Groundwater filtration is a very complicated process determined by natural environmental factors and anthropogenic impacts. Credible predictions of impact of extortions on the groundwater environment require application of appropriate research methods which will enable detailed representation of the groundwater circulation. Such methods include numerical modeling of filtration processes and application of mathematical description of groundwater flow, based on assumed hydrogeological parameters and boundary conditi...

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...

Thunderstorm activity is the main natural cause of forest fires occurrence. Lightning discharges are divided into cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud. The higher the current, the higher the probability of fire in the forest. Geographic information systems are a convenient and multifunctional means of visualization and geospatial data analysis, including the level of forest fire danger. It is necessary to design the structure and information flows in such a GIS system. The development of such a GIS system is carried...

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...

In order to preserve its competitiveness and retain the current number of work places in the European steel industry as well as to meet stricter emission standards, the implementation of industrial symbiosis activities is an unavoidable measure. The objective of this paper is to identify the best industrial symbiosis enabling practices done in the steel industry worldwide. For this purpose, a review of successful industrial symbiosis case studies in the steel industry was performed. For the sake of comparability, ...

Globalization phenomena is spreading more and more around the world. This has a major impact on food safety as food chains have become increasingly complex. This paper studies the benefits and drawback from a globalization standpoint regarding food safety in the developing countries and aims to find ways that might overcome the challenges consumers deal with. The research is based on data extracted from European Union reports, Eurostat Database, International Trade Centre Database and Romanian National Institute o...

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...

The most of information is linked to the geospace location. This information can be represented on the map. For some kinds of users, the maps have to be created in a different way than is usual. People with visual impairments are such a target group of users. The number of visually impaired people increases every year and to their fullfledged integration into society is devoted considerable attention. The tactile maps are an essential element of current cartographical research. Presented study is focused on the as...

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...

In the world community, some experience has already been gained in the development of the "green economy". The Baltic States are in search of rational forms of combining objective indicators and criteria for applying them in the planned plans for the development of a "green" economy, taking into account the specifics of the economy and the availability of the resource-resource potential of the Baltic region countries. The sectors of the green economy that have a high green potential and play a major role in divers...

Nowadays there is increased emphasis on reviving the rural areas and the small businesses are considered to be the engine. This study examines how the rural areas entrepreneurship spirit can be stimulated through increasing awareness in regards to the environmental impact of green activities. The aim is to find ways of converting the rural traditional economy into a sustainable one by creating different types of initiatives for the population such as organic farming, renewal energy alternatives, eco-tourism and re...

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...

A fundamental research question related to the impact of thawing permafrost on global change is, how fast organic matter in the thawing permafrost can be converted to CO2 and CH4 and released into the atmosphere. Current estimates on the degradability of thawing organic matter in permafrost are based on incubation studies which are highly artificial and probably overestimate the greenhouse gas production under in situ conditions. We aimed at identifying the microbial response and associated release of CO2 and CH4 ...

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...

The following article is devoted to greening education in Russia. Moreover the following article describes ecological problems in education and culture. We try to underline the role of ecological culture in people life and greening education in higher education. The education system is a sphere of society which forms a man adapted to life in the society and prepared to a certain field of activity. The conditions of higher ecological education is formed general ecology, social ecology, applied ecology. Mass media a...

In the current forest typology?s scheme of Latvia the descriptions of vegetation are based on corresponding forest type?s ground vegetation in maturity stand. However, in practical forest management it is important to know forest ground vegetation?s development through all foresty cycle and valuate phytocoenoses state in every stand?s age and development?s stage. There are significant changes in ground vegetation?s taxonomic structure, projective covering and vertical structure in all forest types from clearing ti...

This work aimed to define when high ice content in permafrost sediments becomes a leading factor of coastal dynamics of Kara Sea region and to determine the place of this parameter among other factors of coastal retreat. For three key sections of the Kara Sea coast (Kharasavey Cape, sites of underwater pipeline crossing of the Baydaratskaya Bay coasts), spatial variability of ground ice distribution was investigated in the field. Changes in ice content and the presence of massive ice (wedge ice, massive ice beds ?...

One of the most common geotechnical risk induced by earthquakes is liquefaction phenomena, which it has been responsible for building damages that directly influenced population and economy. The growing recognition of importance of geotechnical site conditions in earthquake-prone areas has been generated by concern about liquefaction observed in strong seismic motions that occurred during 20th century. The paper aims to substantiate the necessity of a rational assessment of uncertainties and risks related to seism...

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 ?Druzhba? uranium mine, near village of Eleshnitsa, Southwestern Bulgaria, was in operation from 1955 to 1992. During excavation work three different confined aquifers were registered ? at altitude of 805, 730 and 630 m. The original groundwater table was at 815 m and during the operation period it was reduced down to 520 m. After cessation of mining activities, the dewatering pumps (with approximate flow-rate of 300 m3/h) were stopped in December 1995, and then the deep mine galleries started to be flooded by...

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...

Countries on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea ? Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland ? experienced significant changes in the political and economic structure during the 20th/21th centuries. The aim of the research, first of all, is to assess the competitiveness of the Latvian economy compared with the other countries on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea and, secondly, to evaluate the activities carried out in 2009-2016 in order to increase the competitiveness of the national economy. The Global Competitiven...

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...

The study of halobacterial communities is a promising direction in applied and theoretical biotechnology. Researches, carried out in this field, open up new approaches in understanding the role of interspecies interactions between halobacterial cells in conditions of increased salinity. Viruses, as one of the major regulation factor, greatly affect the composition of communities. Every year the halovirus database is replenished with new representatives, but still much remains unknown about the life cycle of viruse...

The study of halobacterial communities is a promising direction in applied and theoretical biotechnology. Researches, carried out in this field, open up new approaches in understanding the role of interspecies interactions between halobacterial cells in conditions of increased salinity. Viruses, as one of the major regulation factor, greatly affect the composition of communities. Every year the halovirus database is replenished with new representatives, but still much remains unknown about the life cycle of viruse...

Poland has been long harnessing hydraulic energy despite the absence of supportive conditions for hydropower development. According to the Energy Regulatory Office, there were 721 hydropower plants in Poland in 2014. Electric power generation in small and medium-sized hydropower plants is characterized by minor fluctuations, in particular in comparison with other sources of renewable energy. In a given period, the observed changes in power output result mainly from variations in operating conditions. Hydropower re...

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...

The rich mining activity in the city of Ostrava (18th century ? July 1991) has so far reminded many areas, buildings, and head frames. This article will focus on mining sites the headframes of which have survived up to the recent time, thus completing the historical and industrial history of Ostrava. This is then used in tourism, where the mining tradition is one of the possibilities of promoting the city as an interesting industrial site. It is no accident that the Lower V?tkovice Area with the Hlubina Mine Area ...

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...