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For years it has been evident the presence of regions with significant surface water and groundwater deficits due to negative climate change impacts such phenomena as global warming, which contributes to enhancing water demands in the country. In order to rationalize water resources management one should minimize the water variability in time (during periods of drought and floods). It should be emphasized, that in recent years increasing frequency of floods, their wide coverage and economic impact justifies taking...

The paper presents the investigation results of rock mass state change regularities taking into account geological and mining factors by complex methods. The authors consider complexing of results from the cluster analysis of seismic events with numerical modelling of stress state in the rock mass on a case study of the Yukspor deposit (the Khibiny rock massif, Murmansk region, Russia). The time and dimensional analysis of the Yukspor depositпїЅs seismic regime was performed. The cluster groups of seismic events w...

A hydraulic fracturing job was performed to stimulate gas flow from a horizontal wellbore located in Poland. The whole operation was overseen by means of microseismic monitoring. For this purpose, an array of 12000 geophones was deployed on ground in form of patches distributed unevenly in a region of 4km from the wellbore. The array was constantly recording seismic signals during whole fracturing processed. Such recorded signals can by analyzed to locate, both in time and space, events connected to cracking rocks...

The skin is covered with a hydrolipid film that, depending on the area of the body, comprises secretions from sebaceous glands and from apocrine and eccrine sweat glands. Decomposition products from corneocytes and cornification (cellular debris and stratum corneum lipids) in the process of being shed are also present. This film provides a natural defense against pathogenic organisms but also attracts dirt and pollutants from the environment. Thus, periodic cleansing to remove debris, dirt, and odor is essential t...

The current hard-to-recover oil reserves in Russia stand for more than 60% of total recoverable oil resources. These kind of reservoirs with acceptable technical and economic indicators are extracted only by applying physicochemical recovery techniques. Thus, an important relevance is given to selection of most effective EOR technology, which is directed to decrease the residual oil saturation in rock formations. Various chemical reagents including composites based on water-soluble polymers are injected both in Ru...

The transportation is the most significant energy consumer. Energy consumption in European Union is supported by 50% from its own sources. This implies the need of fossil fuel replacement by alternative possibilities. One option is application of renewable inexhaustible and clean resources which hydrogen is. This paper deals with hydrogen technology application in order to power experimental vehicle. Other thing is the safety concerning the process of human пїЅ machine пїЅ environment system with respect to hydrog...

Opinions on the potential uses of risk analysis and environmental impact assessment (EIA) are different. Although many experts, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers agree that risk analysis is a valuable tool to inform decisions, they disagree about the extent to which risk estimates may be biased and should be allowed to influence public policies to protect health and the environment and to be used within the EIA process. The quality and value of any risk analysis depends on the adequacy of the data and t...

The main aim of this study was to determine pollution degree of heavy metals Cu, Ni, Pb, and Cd in sediments and mussel shells of coastal province of Bushehr. For this purpose, sediment samples and shellfish were collected in December 2016 from five different stations, including Leylateyn estuary, Schiff Island, Genaveh inlet, Rig and Imam Hassan port and. After drying samples, concentrated nitric and thick perchloric acid were used for dissolution. The presence and concentration of heavy metals were measured by u...

The aim of this study was to determine the extent of heavy metal accumulation in soils and potential risks of metals distribution in fruits, leaf and shoots in apple trees with rootstock M9 grown near smelter and mining areas of the Drenas, Kosovo. Individual soil samples were collected from each plant to assess metal content in the immediate plant environment. Samples of soils, fruits, leaf and shoots have been analyzed for heavy metals (Pb, Cd, Ni, As, Zn, Cu, Cr and Fe) using atomic absorption spectrophotometry...

It is recognized that the quarry activities are characterized by exposure to multiple health risks related to the production process and the Whole-Body-Vibration (WBV) is the most relevant between these. Particularly Load-Haul-Dump (LHD) mining vehicles are used to haul rock and other materials from the production point to crushing stations and / or in unloading points. The primary purpose of the present study is to evaluate health risks associated with the LHD operations of vehicles in quarry activities, highligh...

The paper deals with the food and water emergency supplies during the Natural and technologic disasters, or other emergency events. Vital foods are defined. There are many risks related to the organizing of the supplies on government level and also risk related to the behaviour of people in emergency event. There are several main risks that threatens the emergency food supplies. Each of them is connected either to technical factors or human factors or combined. Human factors include stress, behaviour under time an...

River bed processes include the flow and entrainment, transport and deposition of sediment particles on the river bed. The morphology of alluvial river channels is determinate by complex interaction between of constituent physical processes: flow, sediment transport and river bed deformation. Under natural conditions, rivers tend to achieve a relatively stable combination between different variables that characterize them: liquid flow, solid flow, hydraulic slope of river, sedimentological characteristics of the r...

One of the most significant elements of every machine operation is its control system. Proper design, construction and operation of the control system is the key factor for correct and efficient operation of a machine. This particularly applies to mining machinery operating in hazardous environments and exposed to loads which cannot be fully predicted. Such machines must be therefore characterized by high reliability, durability, readiness and safety. In order to fulfil all these requirements, a machine must be eq...

Many entities from energy sector are investing in the rational use of waste generated in the energy production process, using them as valuable raw materials. Measurable economic and environmental benefits associated with the recovery of waste lead to the development of new directions for their reuse. The proper organization of the logistic chain allows for the efficient management of energy waste from the manufacturer's point of view. Innovative technical and process solutions from the energy industry are conduciv...

The study of the structure and formation of shores is now modern issue, both in the assessment of their morphology and the ecological conditions of the steppe zone of Kazakhstan. The article reflects a structure of abrupt bank of Northern Kazakhstan rivers in conjunction with the soil adjacent to it. The authors believe that the intrasoil runoff has not been taken into account so far due to the presence of both soil genetic cracks and high permeability of humidified moisture to "puffy" fouling. Therefore, there sh...

The East European Platform (EEP) in Poland belonged to Baltica plate during Cambrian and Ordovician times. Baltica originated as a result of disintegration of supercontinent Pannotia, which occurred during Early Cambrian. Baltica included part of Poland and adjacent areas northeast of Teisseyre -Tornquist zone. This zone is associated with Teisseyre - Tornquist Line, which ran from Scania through Western Pomerania, central Poland to the Black Sea. The Baltica plate originally included also area south-west from thi...

Nowadays, Romanian rural area is facing many problems such as: the lack of infrastructure to support agricultural development, the lack of a program to develop rural tourism, the lack of interest of Romanian peasant towards keeping traditions and developing his vocation that was inherited over time, artificial industrialization in agricultural sector. All these led in time to the current situation which is faced nowadays - a low demographic percentage in the rural sector characterized by a majority of elderly peop...

Earthquakes represent a real threat in Romania. They can cause important damages, loss of lives, socio-economic as well as cultural losses. The National Institute for Earth Physics (NIEP) is the only governmental organization responsible for monitoring the seismic activity on RomaniaпїЅs territory. NIEP provides different kind of information minutes to hours after the occurrence of a significant earthquake in Romania: near realtime information (location, depth and magnitude), ground shaking parameters and maps wit...

The Romanian Ministry of Tourism as the National Tourism Administration, member of the Romanian Government, is in charge of coordination and implementation of the general tourism development strategy. Among other specific domains, thalassotherapy is a new desired touristic sector designed by Ministry of Tourism and local authorities, (Tourism Promotion Office and Licensing and Classification Office) as well as the private sector (NGOпїЅs related to the tourism industry). This has a major role in the balneary touri...

Transport systems are an important component of intra-plant logistics. Their role is the provision of transport services in order to ensure the efficient functioning of the individual processes. The quality and reliability of the transport system greatly affects the efficiency of intra-plant logistics. The extractive and mining industries are particularly sensitive to these indicators and parameters of transport technologies. The use of transport technology in this industry is dependent on a number of factors. The...

Drilling by the submersible drilling hammer is one of the progressive technologies in drilling of boreholes and it is currently being widely applied method for the drilling works. Use of the submersible hammers disposed in the borehole - drilling directly above the drilling tool - entails number of advantages. The most important is the energy loss prevention. Submersible drilling hammers are gradually and successfully replacing the surface hammers, which have been widely used for many years in Slovakia and in the ...

Climate change caused by the accumulation of greenhouse gases of anthropogenic origin in the atmosphere is one of the most acute problems of our time. Over the past two decades governments of different countries and international environmental organizations combine their efforts for confronting global warming. At the same time, companies are faced with steadily increasing expectations of stakeholders that require clear, consistent and transparent information about greenhouse gas emissions. This determines the need...

This contribution provides a prefabricated elements constructive system, which guarantees definite features and energy saving, with integrated energy performances and structural behaviors. First, we considered the requirement framework, identifying which were the indispensable energy, structural, environmental and product performances. These choices were then examined through UNI PdR13, which is today the benchmark for Sustainability in Italy. Secondly, the market scenario of this system was defined, identifying t...

The basic purpose of magnetic separation is to separate the ferromagnetic elements from the magnetically inert component. In difficult conditions of mining activity, due to high costs of repair or replacement of damaged machine elements, prevention related to the correct operation of machinery and equipment of production lines is particularly important. Safety systems of feed material (electromagnetic separators) are designed for installation on construction of a conveyor belt to clean the transported material fro...

Assessment of mining impact on natural environment is relevant, since open mining, the storage of mining and processing waste, the metallurgical processing of the concentrates produced are accompanied by aerosol mining-induced pollution of the atmosphere and natural environments as a result of the release of fine mineral particles. According to satellite observations for 17 years, aerosol mining-induced pollution and the state of the vegetation cover in the Kola mining complex (Russia, Murmansk region) have been s...

In this paper, we consider such dangerous disasters as wildfires. Wildfires are global sources of gas and aerosol emissions into the atmosphere and considered as one of the main factors of environmental risk, causing disbalance of the climate system of the Northern Eurasia and the planet as a whole. Taking into account terrain features and characteristic spatial scale of the Northern Eurasia, we suggest to use a satellite monitoring system for urgent detection of fire origins and assessment of volumes of hazardous...

Authors describe the novel approach to boost the scientific data analysis performance with the data storing schema for distributed scientific research systems. This approach optimizes the workload on storage nodes and enhances the computation performance. Managing the enormous output of scientific research systems is expected to be the most technically difficult part of all recent projects producing Petabytes of imagery data. For example, NASA's EOSDIS produces several Petabytes of uncompressed data per year and w...

The modern major project on creation a unique, scientific, educational, and technological Center of space researches and technologies was launched on the base of Engelhardt Astronomical Observatory (EAO) of Kazan Federal University in 2008. In EAO educational activity in the fields of training and retraining of specialists is conducted; scientific and practical training courses take place on the following educational programs: space geodesy and remote sensing, astronomy, radio astronomy. It should be noted, curren...

Rare Earth Elements (REE) are crucial for modern technologies and renewable energy application, while there is a high risk of supply. REEs have been identified as critical raw materials for the development and the European Union economy competitiveness. Currently, China dominates the market of REEs production and refining. However, there are several REE containing materials not being properly addressed. The ENVIREE project, funded by the ERA-MIN programme, is focused on REE supply for Europe, by addressing the exp...

Pigmentary retinopathy or Retinis pigmentosa (RP) is a hereditary degenerative disease of the visual cells responsible for capturing light (cones and rods). Although it is a condition rarely encountered, the number of people suffering from this disease has risen to over 1 million in the last few years. Starting from the encouraging literature, this paper aims to present the etiology and classification of RP and one original plant extract, obtained from sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides), a product with major pot...

The activity of drainage during various seasons and the impact of meteorological conditions on drainage runoff in different seasons (winter, spring, summer and autumn) during the period of 1969-2009 are reviewed. Particularly important indicator of drainage activity пїЅ dynamics of water runoff. The present article analyzes the change of climatic conditions in the object, Central Lithuania, following the data of Kaunas Meteorological Station; and it is determined that during the period of 1969-2009 the lowest quan...

Air pollution became a real public concern for countries all over the world. Increasing anthropogenic emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) can cause a substantial increase in ground-level ozone, which is a secondary air pollutant produced by photochemical interaction of NOx and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), through a complex set of reactions under the influence of solar radiation. Ploiesti is one of the main cities in Romania, which is facing with anthropogenic atmospheric emissions that result especially from ...

The introduction of the Minister of HealthпїЅs Regulation of 20 April 2010 on the quality of water intended for consumption by people resulted in the duty of testing the condition of water delivered to a consumer. In effect, a change in water quality during its distribution was noticed in many sites. There are many causes of this phenomenon, e.g. water supply system building material, quality of water coming out of the treatment station, failures and processes taking place in the system, for this reason, it is ver...

In recent years Gda?sk had sustained economic and social losses due to severe flash floods coming down from moraine hills. The first flood occurred in July 2001 and the second in July 2016. Both events were caused by intense and long rainfall characterized by different from each other rain intensity in time. Among other GdanskпїЅs streams the Oliwski Stream has the most extended flood protection system consist of 15 small retention reservoirs. Due to its extensive flood protection system and lack of severe flood e...

Study case is situated in Caras Severin County. Every sediment transport model application is different both in terms of time and space scale, study objectives, required accuracy, allocated resources, background of the study team etc. For sediment transport modelling, it is necessary to know the characteristics of the sediment in the river bed. Therefore it is recommended to collect a number of bed sediment grap samples. These samples should be analyzed in terms of grain size distribution.To solve theoretical prob...

The Permian sedimentary succession exposed in Sirinia Basin (South Carpathians, Romania) provides a record of mixed siliciclastic-volcanic rocks. The siliciclastic rocks are represented by conglomerate, sandstone and claystone, which are grouped into nine lithofacies (Gmm/mg, St, Sh, Sm, Sr, Fl, Fr, P) occur in a predictable order as repeated fining-upward cycles. Groups of associated facies are arranged into five distinct architectural elements (gravel channels, ribbon-channel, sandy channels, laminated sand shee...

This paper consist of creating a conceptual model of the first aquifer identified in the central area of Bucharest. The conceptual model was developed in three stages: the spatial schematization, the parametric schematization and the hydrodynamic schematization, based on data from geotechnical boreholes. Mathematical modeling of groundwater flow requires knowing the entire system, from the geological and spatial distribution of permeable geological structures to hydrogeological parameters of the aquifer (hydraulic...

The Rutbah formation is one of the most important reservoirs at the Saban field east of Syria, it can hold up to 40 % of the hydrocarbon volume at the area. The Rutbah formation sediments are belong to the early Cretaceous (late Neocomian age). The Rutbah formation sediments at the Saban field are subdivided according to the well logs accompanied with sedimentological data into two parts from down to top which are; the lower Rutbah and the upper Rutbah. The lower Rutbah forms a good quality reservoir with typical ...

Green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium. Sedum species are low-growing succulent plants that can grow rapidly when water is available yet also survive long periods without water. Green roofs are becoming increasingly popular in many countries, but in Kosovo the use of green roofs is a new practice. The aim of this study is to determine Sedum vegetation characteristics on extensive green roof in Kosovo urban areas, influenced by ...

Interfaces of rocks with different mechanical properties influence on seismic stress field appearing in rock mass during the earthquake. This influence may increase seismic load applied to underground objects located near the interface, so it should be taking into account in seismic analysis of the structures. For this aim the problem of elasticity theory about stress state of the ring supporting an opening in the half-plane, which is united with a half-plane of another material is considered. Lengths of seismic w...

The primary aim of earthquake resistant design is to prevent building collapse during the seismic event, but severe earthquakes have a low probability of occurrence during the life time of the structure, therefore in contrast to traditional structural design in earthquake design, structures are permitted to work in post-elastic domain under seismic load. It would require a large lateral stiffness of the structure and an expensive resisting system to design the building to have an elastic response. Because of these...

The paper highlights the seismicity of the Strei-Hateg depressionary system. This system is situated in the western part of the Southern Carpathians, and consists of two intermountain, post orogenic basins, Hateg basin and Strei basin. These two basins are separated by a threshold. The seismicity is characterized by moderate magnitude with a maximum magnitude of 4 (Mw) (8 September 2013) and by the presences of the seismic sequences. In the area are known two seismic sequences, one in 2011 of 14 earthquakes of 2 t...

There are already numerous attempts to scientifically relate seismicity to a number of precursors in seismologically active areas. There are also attempts to identify phenomena that may trigger the seismic events, especially the high magnitude ones, such as active tectonics or the Sun пїЅ Earth пїЅ Moon gravitational interactions. When studying the ROMPLUS Earthquake Catalogue [1], the time variability of seismicity in the Vrancea zone, characterized by both crustal and intermediate depths earthquakes, the results...

Sustainable design attempts to be perceptive to the environmental impact of the building project at each construction stage by evaluating the site, the embodied energy of the selected materials, as well as the proper construction techniques, adjusted to the local conditions. Moreover, physical hazards (flammability, corrosion) and/ or health hazards (toxicity, irritations) of the materials are especially important not only for the construction workers, building owners and occupants, but also for the environment, c...

The seismic investigation of buildings is in accordance with two important Romanian Codes, P130/1999 and the seismic design code P100-2013. Criteria for selecting buildings proposed to be seismic investigated/monitored are numerous: seismic zoning of the territory; data on structural system and types of existing structural systems, depending on the material pre and post-1940; the effect of vibration other than from the seismic vibration; location-site; seismic stations and sensors, sensors position/location in a b...

The proper selection of the structural steel grade has to take into account a lot of factors and, for structural steels, a minimum ductility is required so that the material shall have sufficient fracture toughness to avoid brittle fracture of the tension elements at the lowest service temperature. In this paper we present the methodology for selecting the toughness of structural steel with respect to EN 1993-1-10: 2003 and SR EN 1993-1-10: 2005. Establishing the steel sub-grade for the steel main girders of a rai...

The two-dimensional profile curves created by Barton are often used in geotechnics for the determination of the rock joint coefficients. These two-dimensional profiles of solid surfaces show self-affine properties, i.e. they are scaled differently in x- and y- directions. Similarly, the three-dimensional reliefs (3D) of solid surfaces are scaled differently in z-direction in comparison to x- or y-directions. Therefore, the vertical sections of surface reliefs (two-dimensional profiles) are self-affine curve (self-...

Currently, the design and development of the user interface is important, but at the same time, an empirical process. Despite the attempts of many authors to give recommendations on the correct design of the interface appearance, there are no recommendations on how to relate the domain and interface, and build the latter without losing the sense of the user's activity. Unlike the existing approaches in this area, the proposed approach to the semantic design takes into account the activity of the user in the domain...

With the decrease of production in conventional oil and gas resources, increasing attention is turning toward nonconventional oil sources to relieve the pressure caused by the lack of conventional stocks. Heavy oil and natural bitumen as two of the alternative sources are perhaps the most readily available to meet short- and long-term needs. As is well known, the physical and chemical properties of heavy oil and natural bitumen are quite different from conventional oils. Major differences include low content of th...

The air traffic in the European Union and operation of individual airports, including service provisions, belong among the most unregulated industries. Free market economies result in keen airport competition, and especially those airports are affected that compete for customers of the same catchment area. Passengers prioritize airports not only because of the quality of the services offered and provided but passengersпїЅ priorities also reflect presentation strategies of airports, as well as their communication a...