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Using AHP Method for Making a Decision on How the Management of Sewage Sludge in the Northern Croatia

Author(s): Vesna Dušak,Lovorka Gotal Dmitrović,Renata Bagnall / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

By 2018, in Croatia, the agglomerations for collecting the sewage and water treatment systems are going to be constructed. All devices will be based on the mechanical-biological method of purification. However, the work of water treatment system produces a problem of sludge management.The paper presents the challenges of wastewater sludge handling and makes a decision on further sludge management. The hierarchical model of the decision making problem by defining the goal, criteria and alternative solutions is developed. On each level of the hierarchical model the elements of the model are compared with each other in pairs, and the preferences are expressed by using the Saaty’s scale.Moreover, the APH model compares the alternative pairs (thermal processing, deposition on agricultural land, disposal to waste repositories and composting) among each others. The intensities and weight preferences of one alternative over another are selected within the required criteria (economic, environmental, organisational and sociological).

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Особливості накопичення неструктурних вуглеводів у пагонах різних видів роду acer в умовах коксохімічного виробництва

Author(s): V. S. Bilchuk,L. V. Shupranova / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2005

The research results on influence of the by-product-coking industry emission on starch and saccharose accumulation in sprouts of the Acer L. species are presented. The toxic ingredients of the coke production wastes inhibit the process of starch hydrolysis that provokes considerable decrease of the sugars content and negative influence on the plants’ winter hardiness are established.

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Донні безхребетні р. Вовчої в умовах впливу різних за походженням забруднювачів

Author(s): N. I. Zagubizhenko,V. M. Kochet,О. О. Khristov / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2005

Zoobenthos state of the Vovcha-river along its full length in Dnipropetrovsk region is under consideration. Hydrocoles' response to the two main pollution types – mining water of the Central Donbass and municipal and industrial sewage of the city of Pavlograd – was found out. Relative importance of the every pollution type on the communities of aquatic invertebrates was determined.

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Внутрипопуляционный полиморфизм плотвы rutilus rutilus

Author(s): I. A. Stolbunov / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2005

The phenomenon of shift of morphological features and parameters of the roach Rutilus rutilus (Linnaeus, 1758) dwelling in littoral and pelagic areas of the Rybinsk reservoir are marked. The given phenomenon has adaptive character and allows to utilize of the environment more effectively and to master existing spatial and temporal sub niches with alternative resources perfectly. Influence of non-ecological (inheritable) differences and ecological factors on differentiation of fishes on various intrapopulation forms is considered.

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Причины цветности природной и питьевой вод

Author(s): О. V. Tkachenko / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2005

The values of chromaticity, turbidity, permanganate oxidability and iron content in the water are under consideration. It is proved, that iron cannot be cause of chromaticity of the studied waters.

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The Influence of Religious Sentiment and Positive Thinking on Life Quality

Author(s): Mariana Floricica Călin / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Positive thinking is associated with a certain state of well-being, which is desirable for all of us. The way we manage to maintain it, the way some individuals creates illusions based on this type of thinking, as well as the general impact on life quality has been and is still being discussed. Just as biblical verses have the power to become life beliefs for some, and positive thinking has the power to turn into faith.We want to discover through this research how the approach of positive thinking as life philosophy, influences personal autonomy. Another aspect that we wanted to observe through this research is the element of support for positive thinking, which is faith. It was the reason why we introduced a questionnaire to evaluate the intensity of religious sentiment, and then we correlated with the level of positive thinking.

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Space Law at 21st Century: The Security Issues

Author(s): Oleg Gennadiyevich Danilyan,Аleхander Dzeban / Language(s): English Issue: 22/2019

The article analyzes the problem of the formation of the imperative of explication of human activity in outer space. It is believed that the existing international treaties and legal framework for the regulation of human activities in outer space require close attention of researchers and thorough study. The main challenges posed by space exploration carry not only potential benefits but also global threats and risks to the existence of human civilization. The content of the strategy for the development of the comic space is demonstrated taking into account the non-classical paradigm of philosophy and epistemology, which significantly delegitimize the content of modern ethical and axiological principles. The search for strategies of legal support of the policy and strategy of civilization development in the context of space exploration is carried out within the eight formulated trends (space delimitation, prevention of militarization, environmental problems of space exploration, resource potential of space, etc).

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The Philosophy of Mining: Historical Aspect and Future Prospect

Author(s): Hennadii Haiko,Pavlo Saik,Vasyl Lozynskyi / Language(s): English Issue: 22/2019

The influence of the humanitarian component (sacred, religious, social factors) on the origin and initial development of mining activity, metallurgy origin, the first natural and technical knowledge accumulation and application forms are considered. The hypothesis of the metallurgy occurrence in the stable communities of primitive miners is considered. The ideology component of important technological inventions, created in an environment where both these phenomena were extremely close, is shown. The organizational forms of mining activity in which sacred factors played an extremely important role from archaic mining communities to medieval religious orders (in particular, Cistercians) were analyzed. The role of traditions, beliefs and professional knowledge in the formation of the special mining communities’ nature from ancient time to the Middle Ages, their heritable resistance and isolation have been revealed. The possible ways of future mining progress are described, for which the scientists’ and entrepreneurs’ substandard ideas and predictions are used.

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One View of a Base of the Environmental Protection Issues to Industrial Waste Treatment Management

Author(s): Milun Kokanović,Ivana Ilić,Radoljub Tomić / Language(s): English Issue: 23/2018

The paper presents the research framework of questions, models and possible solutions that should be taken into account in order to define and establish an integrated system for managing industrial hazardous and inert waste generated in the process of industrial production of facilitiesproducts, processing and techno-metallurgical treatment of materials. Here, a specific case was analyzed regarding the IHP “Prva petoletka” HCO - Trstenik (PPT), in the period when the company operated according to market principles and generated revenues and profits. So, everything has been real here, at the level of perceiving the concrete situation of a company that operates and exists in a real environment. The established ecological policy and ecological goals had been evidenced. Process algorithms are presented with appropriate activities at the level of management of solid hazardous and inert waste, wastewater and management of used oils that represent hazardous waste - a valuable raw material. Reporting of the waste to the Recycling Agency is the significant thing at implementation of waste management in the Republic of Serbia in order to protect the environment and implement the provisions of the Basel Convention in our country. An industrial landfill in a sanitary-utility landfill in Trstenik is a dumped waste that could not be recycled and reused. Waste management in the PPT has been carried out yet as responsibly 25 years ago according to the specifics of the company and the requirements of the legislation. In the meantime, the system has maintained and upgraded in line with observed irregularities and changes in legal acts.

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Financing of the Flood Defense in Dabulenicetate Area

Author(s): Dorin Cosma,Mihaela Triculescu / Language(s): English Issue: 05/2014

Danube River Basin has been frequently affected by floods in the last decades which often gained historical meanings, the latest being recorded in 2006 and 2013. The material losses were very high and on the Cetate-Dabuleni sector of the Danube river, after the floods of 2006 the dikes have been damaged and partially destroyed. In the end the Rast locality was almost total relocated. Following these events, we need to rebuild the flood defense infrastructure in the Lower Danube, but after the first assessment the costs are very high. With this paper we propose the ways of funding the flood protection works on the Lower Danube, research being done on the Cetate-Dabuleni Danube's sector.

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The Trolley Problem revisited. An exploratory study

Author(s): Sharaf N. Rehman,Joanna Dzionek-Kozłowska / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2018

Recent studies by cognitive scientists demonstrate that people’s choices are more complex than the image provided by rational choice theory, and consistency of choice is not a characteristic to be expected in real-life situations. This exploratory paper attempts to isolate three variables in relation to decision making. Working with a sample (N=70) of university students in the U.S, and using the three variants of the Trolley Problem, the subjects’ responses are used to identify the similarities and differences based on the three dimensions. The participants were asked to respond to three hypothetical situations regarding a runaway trolley. Their decision in the first scenario could save a person’s life or let him be run over by the trolley. In the second scenario, their decision could either let one person die and save five lives or save one life and let five people be killed. These two scenarios require pulling a lever to switch the trolley from one track to another. The third scenario requires pushing an obese person in front of the runaway trolley to stop it from killing five persons. The paper presents the findings on the three variables: gender, age, and relational status.

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MODERN TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS IN ELECTRICITY SUPPLY

Author(s): Kamen Seymenliyski,Silvija Letskovska,Eldar Zaerov,Radoslav Simionov / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

This paper examines the impact of electrotechnical installations on the environment, in particular the influence of an electromagnetic field, a source of which in the residential buildings are the transformer substations, the distribution boxes for power supply, as well as the conductors from the supply network. Attention is paid to thermal imaging as a modern technological solution that can be successfully applied to the diagnosis of building energy systems.

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Aplinkos apsaugos politikos formavimas ir jos įgyvendinimas Lietuvoje

Author(s): Pranas Mierauskas / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 1/2019

This article focuses on formation of environmental policy in different periods in Lithuania. The purpose of the article is to analyze main steps of development environmental policy. Some researchers keep opinion that the beginning of environmental policy started in the interwar period. Meanwhile more environmental specialists are following position that in this period had been not founded any specialized environmental institution and the roots of environmental policy cannot be in the interwar years. Actually development of environmental policy started after Second World War in the soviet period when Nature Conservation Act has been adopted and State Nature Protection Committee, and some environmental protection agencies had been founded. The beginning of modern environmental policy started in the beginning of re – establishing of the Independent Republic when Sate Environmental Protection Department has been founded and Environmental Protection Act has been adopted. The adoption of the State Environmental Protection Strategy and the National Environmental Protection Strategy are main current strategic instruments to develop modern environmental policy in Lithuania.

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Ruchy miejskie: konflikt jako strategia rozwiązywania problemów społecznych miasta

Author(s): Justyna Tomczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2017

Basing on the sociological theory of conflict, the article presents the significance, roles and functions of civic movements in the process of articulating and solving social problems which emerge in the city and concern its inhabitants. The use of the conflict approach has double justification. Firstly, the city is treated (following D. Harvey) as an area of conflicts and tensions that have economic and social class roots. Secondly, civic movements are understood (following Touraine) as a manifestation of a social conflict, consisting in the division of society into two opposing groups, disunited by the subject of the fight over which they try to take control. The constitutive feature of this conflict is the fact that it refers to real (organised) social actors and is directed at the articulation and realisation of interests of the urban community. The conflict activates inhabitants as it is a form of a civic participation, a tool of change and modernisation, an instrument of transformations within the urban structure and culture.

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Уголовно-наказуемое загрязнение вод: понятие и вопросы квалификации

Author(s): A. Yu. Bokovnia / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2018

The composition of water pollution sources according to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation has been investigated. The greatest vulnerability of the aquatic environment from all components of the ecosystem has been noted. The objective and subjective signs of water pollution according to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation have been analyzed. Taking into account the analysis of normative legal materials, legal practice, and literature, promising theoretical conclusions and proposals on improving the regulation of criminal liability for water pollution in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation have been substantiated. Differentiation of criminal responsibility depending on the forms of guilt, providing for pollution of water bodies by not being careful in a separate article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation or in certain parts of articles 250-252 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, has been recognized as promising. It has been also proposed to supplement article 250 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, with part four, which should provide for a stricter sanction for water pollution resulting in the death of two or more persons by negligence. The qualification of water pollution, its delimitation from other related offenses have been performed.

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FARKLI ORANLARDA MORDAN KULLANARAK PAMUKLU KUMAŞLARDA YAPILAN EKOLOJİK BASKI UYGULAMALARI

Author(s): Cansel Özel,Sema Özkan Taği / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 55/2019

Eco printing is a new fabric patterning technique made entirely by using natural materials. There is a few studies to test and increase the resistance of fabrics that are eco printed for external effects. In this study, fabrics including poplin and mermerşahi that were mordaned by alum at 20 - 30 % ratio with long leaves and round leaves eucalyptus, rose, oriental arborvitae leaves and carnation petals. The plants were boiled in licorice root extract to make 20 eco printings that were evaluated visually. Also, it is aimed to determine the effect of different mordant ratios in dry and wet rubbing fastness values of fabrics.

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Decomposition Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the European Union Based on Its Sectoral Structure

Author(s): Magdaléna Drastichová / Language(s): English Issue: 08/2018

Climate change is a serious threat to sustainable development (SD). A Decomposition Analysis (DA) of the data on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in the European Union (EU) in 2008 – 2014 was carried out using the Log-Mean Divisia Index Method (LMDI). To detect the factors behind de/coupling of GHG emissions from Gross Value Added (GVA) in the EU-28, changes of GHG emissions were divided into three effects. The negative intensity effect showed the highest absolute magnitude in the overall period 2008 – 2014 and the two partial periods 2008 – 2011 and 2011 – 2014. The composition effect also helped reduce GHG emissions, but to a lesser extent. The scale effect boosted increases of GHG emissions except for two years, 2009 and 2012, which was related to the effects of the economic crisis. Transportation and storage along with the Agriculture, forestry and fishing activities should be addressed more significantly in relation to GHG emissions.

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ECOFEMINISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY

Author(s): Ana Batrićević,Nikola Paunović / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Having in mind climate change as well as the rising risk of potential environmental crisis caused by pollution and unsustainable exploitation of natural resources, the concept of environmental security, primarily defined as the resilience of countries and individuals to the challenges of environmental degradation, is rapidly obtaining the interest of general public and experts from various scientific disciplines. However, it seems that the gender aspect of security in general and particularly of environmental security has not been given the amount of attention it deserves until recently. Thanks to the ecofeminist movement, based on the idea that women are more closely related to nature than men and more vulnerable and susceptible to the negative impacts of environmental degradation (especially those emerging as the consequences of pollution and climate change), the role of women in the improvement of environmental security through participation in decision-making processes in legislation and public policy making is finally being recognised. The aim of this paper is to analyse the modern concept of environmental security as well as the evolution and contemporary discourses within ecofeminist movements and to explain the link between them, i.e., the contribution of ecofeminism to the shift in the approach to environmental security in the sense of taking into consideration the rights and interests of women as more common victims of negative environmental impacts as well as their potentials as relevant stake holders in this field.

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FARKLI DEPREM DOĞRULTULARININ ORTOGONAL BETONARME YAPI ÜZERİNDEKİ ETKİSİ

Author(s): Fatih Malkoç / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 43/2019

In recent earthquakes, there has been a significant field evidence that the collapse of existing structures is due to the effect of the vertical component of the seismic ground motions. Such field evidence has been not supported by comprehensive analytical and experimental testing yet. This study focuses on the preliminary analysis of the seismic response of reinforced concrete elements exposed to horizontal and vertical ground motions. In this research, the vertical earthquake effect was investigated on two reinforced concrete buildings with 3 stories and 7 stories. In this analysis, seven earthquake recordings were used to cover a wide verticalhorizontal spectral ratio. The selected structural parameters are nodal displacements, axial forces and shear forces. Using the SeismoStruct program, first the earthquake effect examined on two dimensions (x,y) and then three dimensional (x,y,z) and the results were controled comparatively. The results show that although the structure does not significantly affect the displacement and shear forces response, the multicomponent effect of earthquakes has a significant effect on the forces of building columns.

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Symbolic Interactionism and the Perceived Style of Parenting

Author(s): Zornitsa Totkova / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

This article utilizes a symbolic interactionist approach in an investigation of perceived parenting during early adulthood. The aim is to explore the family environment and family relationships in the light of how parenting is constructed through the interaction of parents with their children and with society. The findings from semi-structured interviews conducted with adult volunteer respondents concerning their recollections of their relations with their parents are summarized. This provides the basis for outlining subjective experiences of the social environment and perceived parenting styles from a retrospective point of view in respect to gender and age differentiation.

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