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Knowing wind energy and its features can help programmers in using this clean, free and renewable energy. Iran is located in the west wind region, and the common wind direction is from north-west to south-west in Iran. But in some regions of Iran, due to special regional conditions as well as the synoptic factors of atmosphere, the wind direction is different from the common wind direction in Iran. The wind speed is also higher than the average speed of west winds. Based on the statistics from wind speed and direc...

In the current global crisis conditions any opportunity of extending the tourism market, attracting a new segment of tourists is welcome. The lake’s water stands as a crucial link that conditions a leads through its physicalchemical composition the lake’s biological life, the flora and fauna casting, their discomposure and transformation into mud quality important organic mater. The water’s level growth involves deep qualitative alterations, concerning the peloidogenesis phenomenon related species, and the w...

Until the year of 1996, there had been an intense air pollution beyond standards because of the use of fossil fuels such as coal and fuel oil especially in homes in the winter. With the start of the use of natural gas in Istanbul after 1996 there has been a decrase in the amount of air pollution. In this study, the measurement values of pre and post natural gas use in 10 different measurement stations conducted by ‘Istanbul Metropolitan Municapality, Environment Protection and Development Department, Environment...

The growth of tourism has prompted debate about environmental consequences and desirability of further development. The effects of mass tourism and increasing awareness of the human impact on the environment led more environmentally sensitive forms of tourism such as ecotourism and wildlife-based tourism. With this increasing awareness environmental concerns are explicitly included in sectoral policies and programmes concerning many areas including tourism, urban and rural development. One of the recent examples o...

Nowadays the problem of global climate change is on the agenda of various disciplines from natural sciences to social sciences, politics, law, security and etc. The subject is dealt with from many different viewpoints and argued with different dimensions like social, technical and global. However, the migration phenomenon, one of the consequences of global climate change is perhaps the most important issue to dwell upon. Because of the environmental pollution and natural disasters, the number of immigrant increase...

The estimation of important parameters at Choghart mine stockpile is accomplished by sampling specific parameters that allow detection of useful parts of the Low Grade stockpile. Huge amount of low grade broken rocks near the open pit can causes some environmental problem. Therefore, determination of dump parameters became important in this mine. In this research the estimation of Fe and P was fulfilled in low grade stockpile of Choghart. The Estimation of these two parameters (Fe \& P) can be used for mapping the...

The purpose of this study is the identification of financial cost of wastewater treatment technology/plant prior to discharge into river Lumbardh of Prizren municipality The identification of actual condition of the sewerage(Canal network) of the municipality of Prizren, calculation of the quantity and the quality of the waters of the (sewerage) before discharging it in the river Lumbardh, is the essence of this study. So that later it can be possible to plan the different locations for putting the equipment and t...

The investigation of the fluvial relief of the north-east side of Kosovo shows a particular scientific and practice interest, so our purpose is to give a circumstantial and full view of morphology and morphogenesis of this part during the evolution phases of its development. In the complex relief of this part, a very important part is the fluvial one, too, so, if we see it by its enlargement, it is ranged immediately after the structural relief, which is regarded to the fact that the fluvial morphogenesis phenomen...

The Bolboci hydrotechnical arrangement was achieved in 1988 on the upper course of Ialomita river, in the complicated geological and tectonic conditions of Bucegi massif from the Oriental Carpathians. This occupies the tectonic syncline of Bucegi which is situated between Cheile Tatarului and Cheile Zanoagei, at south, resulted from the background deformations of precadomian crystalline and the deposition blanket being made from the succession of Dogger, Malm and Albian. On the level of the litho-group of Malm-Dog...

Comprehensive atmospheric composition studies require multi-scale numerical experiments to be carried out, which to clarify to some extend different scale processes interaction, but also to further specify requirements for input data (emissions, boundary conditions, large scale forcing). Model interfaces from synoptic trough meso- to local scale have to be tailored. Shortly speaking, extensive sensitivity studies have to be carried out, tailoring the model set-up and parameters – a possible forerunner of single ...

Past to present, climate changes take place on every sections of the world during the history. This is an ordinary fact when these changes occur naturally, i.e. the natural climate changes are the necessity of our world’s natural behavior, and then the beings on the world are not affected artificially. However, in recent years, some human activities that increase the concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere and cause global warming are the most effective factors playing great roles on changing...

Globalization makes world a small village. Information technologies are fostering the development interaction between nations, business and marketing centers. Instead of producing everything, trade companies are focusing their efforts to produce one thing as big brand. This tendency provides efficiency and effectiveness. To this end, trade companies try to categorize their customers or divide into customer segments. For example a medical company produces one medicine to capture all customers of a certain market. I...

The increasing number of recent researches indicates that emotional intelligence and social intelligence are more important than IQ in many fields. In literature, many quantitative findings indicate that there is a significant relationship between academic achievement and emotional intelligence skills. In other words, analysis indicates that emotional intelligence skills can serve as a indicator of academic achievement and effective learning. The main focus of this research is to discuss the relationship between e...

Fuel cells are the high efficient devices those convert the chemical energy to the electrical energy. Basically a fuel cell is comprised anode, cathode and electrolyte of parts. Membranes have been used as electrolyte which are made up of various materials. The specifications of membranes are important for the productive working of the fuel cells. In this study the literature research regarding membranes which are used us electrolyte in fuel cells has been realized and their technical specifications have been stud...

There are many varieties of plant in the world. Plants are essential to the balance of nature and people’s lives. As a critical part of the ecosystem, plants provide oxygen for organisms to survive. They are able to reduce the problem of pollution, by using carbon-dioxide. Plants are also the basis of most food webs as producers of food for herbivores and ultimately carnivores. Plants also provide shelter for animals, clean and filter water and help prevent soil erosion. Historically, plants have provided a sour...

Biomass resources include wood and wood wastes, agricultural crops and their waste by products, municipal solid waste, animal wastes, waste from food processing. Especially organic waste, dumped in open places causes heavy environmental pollution to soil, groundwater and surface waters as the amount of the waste generated is growing very fast. However, energy from biomass may significantly contribute to the growing future demand for energy. Energy from biomass avoids the net increase of carbon dioxide in the atmos...

During the production and service to the humanity of mine resources that are needed both by industry and construction of new grand buildings and plants that are the basic news of the modern world parallel to the urbanization and the increase in population, it is known that, like it has been in the past and will be in the future, works of excavation by blastings are inevitable.In order to designate the effects of the blastings on surrounding area, measurements of concussion and air shocks are very important. This p...

The town of Northwich in Cheshire, England has played host to the salt mining industry for 300 years and was the cradle of the modern heavy chemical industry with which it has been associated for approximately 200 years. Historically, the dumping of waste from these industries on adjacent land was unregulated leading to substantial accumulations of ‘legacy industrial solid waste’ (LISW) arising from many processes including brine evaporation and the Leblanc and Solvay processes for soda ash production. This pr...

Vocational preference will affect students in their vocational decision making and train them about lifelong career management skills. Vocational choice covers the explanations about student’s features such as; career tendencies, learning styles, preferred working environment, weaknesses-strengths, skills. When students and teachers know students’ learning styles the academic success will increase because students will know the better way to study and teacher will know how to behave students that have differen...

The data obtained from Constant GBS (SGBS) networks which are established generally for the aim of geodesic, geodynamic and navigation studies also contribute to the meteorological studies. In this study, hourly temperature and pressure values measured by present meteorological sensors in SGPS stations as well as water vapor values (PWV) that can be converted into rain by taking the advantage of GPS observations will be calculated for Middle Anatolian Region. The values of GPS\_IPWV obtained as a result of calcula...

The difficulty in reclamation of the North Bohemian Basin dumps consists in extremely severe properties of rocks in most of the dumps. It mainly concerns the rocks of the overlaying formation and the formation of brown coal seams. Sands, kaolinitic clayey sands and kaolinitic and illitic clays are the main materials bulk to the dumps. The admixtures of the bulk rocks consist of organic coal, siderite and pyrite. These rocks are mechanically unstable against wind and water erosion and they have obtained adverse, ac...

Kosova geology structurally is roughly divided into two equal-sized areas represented (in east from the Vardar Zone and in the west from the Drina-Ivanjica/Share-Korabi zone) of the one part and the other part in NNE-SSW direction between the Serbo- Macedonian province in Kosova and the geological Dinaric province of Albania. The fault zone of Mesozoic alteration which divides Dinaric and the Korabi of respective geotectonic units in two parts is called Shkoder-Peje lineament. Geotectonic units: Dinaric, Vardar Zo...

Career planning curriculum will support student in their vocational decision making and train them about lifelong career management skills. Employee can use their strengths more effectively and efficiently. They will be able to learn their career tendencies, skills, strengths-weaknesses, preferred working area, learning styles and occupations that are compatible with their personal features. It is well-known that making vocational choices presents the fundamentals of the Holland Code Career Model. Vocational Choic...

The research area is the Esenyurt village in the 15 km south of Sivas City and lies in the section of i37c1 of the scale of 1/25.000. The small mammals group extracted from Esenyurt locality has been taken from the clay stone layers. Rodentia fossils aged Pleistocene have been examined taxonomically and the combination of this fauna group has been interpreted biochronologically, paleobiologically and paleoechologically.

The contribution deals with the possibilities of unknown part topography defining and with some problems, which originate at the creating of 3D model without drawing documentation details of modelled part. It is concerned to the parts with complex shape. To obtain the dimensions of such undefined real part is often very difficult, especially, if the accuracy requirement is great. The solution of these problems can greatly affect the efficiency of the part manufacturing and so considerably decrease the economic cos...

The relation man – environment has reached a point when it will bear major changes, which will reshape the entire structure of the man-made edifice. In fact, the changes will affect the society and the rules which it has created in all the aspects, starting from the definition of morality and reaching the behaviour of each individual, inhabitant of the planet. In this context, the ecologic policies do not situate themselves on auxiliary positions, “curative”, but they are meant to set up objectives on econom...

The main goal of this research is to determine the attitudes of high school students and higher education school students in terms of conflict, the types of conflicts they encountered and conflict management styles they applied. For this research, Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory was used to identified the students’ perceptions regarding conflict and conflict management styles. The sample data for this research is 372 School of Vocational Studies students in Istanbul. Thus, this research aimed at explorin...

The sustainable tourism implies the development of all the forms of tourism, the touristic management and marketing that should respect the natural, social and economic integrity of the environment by ensuring the exploitation of the natural and cultural resources for the future generations as well. The competitive development of the touristic products lead to the creation of new jobs, in a direct manner – in the area of the production and distribution of touristic services – as well as in an indirect manner, ...

Providing of the healthy environment at the mining activity spaces of each horizon or working fronts, is issues that is discussed and is imposed at all decision making levels and afterwards implementation of the exploitation activity of a source. It starts from the preparation of the visibility study and after in compilation of detailed projects, of exploitation flow and finally implementation of control. The ventilation problem is very important because it can cause danger and accidents, professional diseases, po...

The description of new theoretical solutions of forming a strain and stress state in the soil massifs of landslide prone slopes is introduced. The suggested approach is based on a new theory of forming of the limited equilibrium in rock massifs which includes: Coulomb-Mohr’s criterion for the limited state equilibrium of rocks, the concept of the rock structural strength str (for compression), the interaction of active and passive pressures in slope massif. The equation for the limited state equilibrium in a ...

In recent years, the concern for renewable energy sources has intensely increased the studies on fuel cells. Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) among other fuel cell technologies is seen as an ideal preference in order to be used as cogeneration system with its high operation temperature. The operation of SOFC fuel cell systems depends on thermodynamic, electrochemical and mass transfer theories. In this study, the mathematical models of electrochemical events occurred in solid oxide fuel cells were investigated theore...

In medical sector, the expectation of both hospital administration and patients is quite much today, in parallel with the rapid development of information technologies. The increment in culture and consciousness level of people increases their better medical service taking wish. This situation is possible with more qualified service given by the foundations offering medical service and being satisfied of the service customers from the service they have taken. In total quality management; various parameters are eff...

Using 36Cl dissolved in groundwater as a monitor of sub-surface neutron fluxes makes it possible to reconstruct information on the U and Th contents of the rocks interacting with the groundwater flow. In particular, the concentrations of radioelements such as uranium and thorium can be evaluated, which are the dominant source of the subsurface neutron flux. This can provide important information in connection with exploration of uranium ore deposits. Based on the results of several case studies from aquifers in cr...

This paper deals with the topic of image calibration and transformation inside the photogrammetric system FOTOM 2008. The calibration module is used for approximate determination of outer camera parameters (position and rotation) with respect to captured objects. An additional transformation is based on similarity of homocentric circles and is accomplished in two steps, which will be described. Variables, obtained from the calibration are used for corrective projection enabling easier measurement of observed objec...

Waste disposal is the biggest humanity problem nowadays. This has been recognized worldwide and we are lucky because waste treatment is applied, at least at developed countries. On the other hand Nature is suffering a lot and biodiversity is reducing rapidly. The preservation and conservation of Nature has leaded European Union to establish the NATURA 2000 network in continuity of Ramsar Convention. In this paper the conditions and the status of the biotopes of the National Park of East Macedonia and Thrace, and p...

UBL is product of international effort to define standard for electronic business documents based on XML without licence fees. Contribution deals with creation of electronic business documents derived from UBL 2.0 for „Order-to-Invoice“ process in Slovak SMEs environment, identification of particular items in business documents and mapping these items to UBL standard with subsequent customization of UBL. Contribution further deals with visual presentation of created documents in MS InfoPath environment in rela...

A summary of abundance, quality and usage areas of the known bentonite occurrences in Turkey has been explained for this study. Bentonite that is one of the most important and abundant clays of Turkey has lower cost in comparison to other raw materials. Turkey has significant resources of bentonite that have been reported approximately 370 million tons base reserve. Also Turkey is one of the leading producers with 950 000 tons per year. Lower cost of bentonite in comparison to other raw materials for various usage...

Biggest challenge experienced by hospitals in 21st century is integrating social values into business operations. Corporate Social Responsibility is a term used for determining responsibility of a healthcare institute whereby the institute not only takes financial economic dimension in decision-making process, but it also considers social and environmental consequences.1 Healthcare institutions are required to invest socially responsible manner; this term is related with use of money in accordance with social and ...

One of the major concerns in all underground mine excavations is the stability of the stopes, the empty spaces which are created throughout the excavation process. Typically, the mining engineer supports or reinforces the stopes when needed, by means of rockbolts, wire meshes and steel sets. At the same time, a monitoring system based on geotechnical or geodetic measurements can provide against tiny displacements of control targets. This paper presents the application of artificial intelligence techniques, namely,...

Soil erosion is a process threatening natural resources such as water, soil, plant cover and climate both directly and indirectly and it is dangerous for human safety and his life. Erosion not only weakens soil, makes useless farms and a lot of damage, but also causes harm by sedimentation solid of materials in streams, sources, dams, ports and decreases the amount of their capacity. In this project, we are studying soil erosion in Mousa Abad basin in Tiran, Isfahan in SLEMSA model using GIS. In this research, the...

Horizontal location and interpretation of gravity anomalies plays an important role in the detection of anomalous bodies and determination of explorative boreholes location. There are various methods for interpreting of gravity anomalies, which commonly use high-pass filters. Among these, Normalized Full Gradient (NFG) method represents the full gradient of the gravity anomaly at a point divided by the average of the full gradient at the datum. This method uses Fourier series to remove deficiencies and eliminate t...

There are selected regions with a certain quality of a situation or a tendency of changes of environmental components. The significantly changes, in these areas are observed at soils, as the basic component of environment at which is man biologically contacted. The significantly chemical degradation of soils - acidification and contamination of soils with heavy metals - in loaded regions – the middle Spis region are showed. The middle Spis region is area at Slovak republic with deteriorated or heavily deteriorat...

There is an extensive complex of activities before 3D visualization, which affects the field of geodesy and Photogrammetry. This work presents a possible process for the proposed 3D visualization. For the mapping of large-scale territorial units you can use advantage, the aerial photogrammetry. It is a highly efficient method that saves time and money. Therefore, it is useful to use photogrammetry in mapping procedure of the quarry, which has area of several kilometers.

Close parallels between transpiration and water deficit indicate that in diseased plants water loss is largely determined by leaf water content. The rate of water loss (transpiration) depends on evaporation. Therefore anything that affects the rate of evaporation would also affect the rate of water lost. There was no clear relationship between leaf growth rate and leaf water potential or turgor for either species. It decreases with leaf age and is correlated with the rate of dehydration, but it is independent of t...

On the island of Evia, in central-east Greece, in Aliveri area, the mining operations (underground and surface) caused new and very complex hydrogeological, geochemical and geotechnical conditions. Since the mining operations have ceased since 1990, any plans for the utilisation of the former mining lands and buildings and the de3velopment of the area, demands the knowledge of these new conditions and the supply of sufficient water. A thorough investigation, including water level measurements, pumping tests, chemi...

Natural bitumen (NB) fields development in ecological terms is a complicated and responsible activity for a person. The activities consequence show up as air pollution by different harmful impurities, fresh water and land pollution by oil, bitumen and waste waters(1). Main sources of environment pollution (atmosphere, land, surface and groundwater) in oil and gas producing industry are oil and gas surface and subsurface structures. According to the existing legislation, NB field development project and design pape...

\cCanakkale district, Tuzla region in Turkey houses one of the major geothermal fields of Turkey. Tuzla geothermal field, with its 173 oC temperature is also an important site of weathering and alteration occurrence. Weathering and alteration develops in many different irregular forms and stages in the field. The regional geology consist of volcanics, such as rhyolites, latites, andesites and pyroclastics. Volcanics in the field had been weathered and altered in various stages. Gradual weathering from the outer wa...