scholarly journals Possibilities of Using Brownfields After Mining and Processing of Mineral Resources in Slovakia

2019 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 02023
Author(s):  
Zuzana Šimková ◽  
Andrea Seňová ◽  
Adriana Divoková ◽  
Michaela Očenášová ◽  
Peter Varga
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Current State ◽  
Unused Land ◽  
Environmental Burdens ◽  
Degree Of Degradation ◽  
The Way

The article deals with possibilities of brownfields using after mining and processing of mineral resources in the Slovak Republic, which represent not enough used or unused land, including administrative buildings or mechanical engineering objects. These types of brownfields are often accompanied by environmental burdens in various forms and levels of contamination of individual environmental components. Brownfields, whose degree of degradation and contamination is directly determined by the way of mining and processing of mineral resources, represent the so-called brown investments, which do not benefit the region where the brownfields are currently located. The article points to the current state of existence of environmental burdens as a result of mining and processing of mineral resources, which is also considered negative determinants of their occurrence. Based on the prioritization of negative and positive determinants of the possible use of brownfields after mining and processing of mineral resources, it concludes with a categorization of their possible further use.

Creative Reconstruction: A Systematic Approach to Reinventing Large Cities in Democratic Republic of Congo

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1485-1497
Author(s):  
Mia Nsokimieno Misilu Eric
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Capital City ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Current State ◽  
Legacy Cities

The current state of large cities in Democratic Republic of Congo highlights the necessity of reinventing cities. More than fifty years after the independence, these major cities, like Kinshasa the capital city, are in a state of are in a state of disrepair. They are damaged, dysfunctional, and more vulnerable. Today, these legacy cities do not meet the international requirements of livable cities. Democratic Republic of Congo faces the challenge of rebuilding its cities for sustainability. The movement for independence of African countries enabled the shift from colonial cities to legacy cities. It is important to understand the cultural and ideological foundations of colonial city. Commonly, colonial cities served as purpose-built settlements for the extraction and transport of mineral resources toward Europe. What's required is a creative reconstruction to achieve a desired successful urban change. Creative reconstruction tends to ensure urban transformation in relation with urbanization, by making continuous and healthy communities. Creative reconstruction seems appropriate way of building back cities in harmony with cultural values. The article provides a framework for urban regeneration. The study is based on principle of thinking globally and acting locally in building back better cities.

Artistic Challenges within Control Societies: Big Data and Democratic Resistance

MedienJournal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Jagodzinski
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Data Archive ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

This paper will first briefly map out the shift from disciplinary to control societies (what I call designer capitalism, the idea of control comes from Gilles Deleuze) in relation to surveillance and mediation of life through screen cultures. The paper then shifts to the issues of digitalization in relation to big data that have the danger of continuing to close off life as zoë, that is life that is creative rather than captured via attention technologies through marketing techniques and surveillance. The last part of this paper then develops the way artists are able to resist the big data archive by turning the data in on itself to offer viewers and participants a glimpse of the current state of manipulating desire and maintaining copy right in order to keep the future closed rather than being potentially open.

PRIORITIES AND RESOURCES OF GEORGIA: MYTHS, HISTORY, PERSPECTIVES

2020 ◽  
pp. 95-102
Author(s):  
Givi Talakvadze ◽  
Zurab Lomsadze ◽  
Joseph Archvadze
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Management System ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Project Management System ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Current State ◽  
Single Category ◽  
Characteristic Features

The article deals with issues related to the study of the main socio-economic priorities of Georgia. The brief historical review refutes the widely circulated thesis that during the Soviet period the Georgian Republic allegedly consumed much more goods than it produced; that per capita incomes were calculated astronomically. The issues of the current state of the country's resource supply were also considered. The concept of integral resources is used and it is proposed to combine a number of traditional and newly formed group of potential opportunities over the past decades into a single category of the so-called. "Partial resources", which, along with traditional types - natural, human and material resources, allow the most complete and comprehensive characterization of the possibility of their use for solving urgent socio-economic problems of the country. Particular attention is paid to the current state of Georgia's natural resources on the example of a brief analysis of mineral resources with an emphasis, in particular, on the resources of building and facing materials. In order to improve the efficiency of managing economic processes, it is proposed to radically improve the activities of ministries and departments of the country by switching to the so-called "Project management system" of the entire economic and economic complex of Georgia. The main feature of this system is associated with the introduction of a three-level classification of the main projects, which will be assigned National, Sectoral and Regional levels, depending on their scale and characteristic features. This will allow developing specific programs for the rational use of natural resources, to optimize the management system at all levels of authorities, to introduce innovative models of sustainable management, intended to significantly improve the living standards of the population of Georgia.

scholarly journals Swedish interventions in the tragedy of the Jews of Slovakia

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-39
Author(s):  
Denisa Nestakova ◽  
Eduard Nižňanský
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
The Political ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The Way

This article describes a largely unknown Swedish effort to intervene in deportations of Jews of Slovakia between 1942 and 1944. Swedish officials and religious leaders used their diplomatic correspondence with the Slovak government to extract some Jewish individuals and later on the whole Jewish community of Slovakia from deportations by their government and eventually by German officials. Despite the efforts of the Swedish Royal Consulate in Bratislava, the Swedish arch­bishop, Erling Eidem, and the Slovak consul, Bohumil Pissko, in Stockholm, and despite the acts taken by some Slovak ministries, the Slovak officials, including the president of the Slovak Republic, Jozef Tiso, revoked further negotiations in the autumn of 1944. However, the negotiations between Slovakia and Sweden created a scope for actions to protect some Jewish individuals which were doomed­ to failure because of the political situation. Nevertheless, this plan and the previous diplomatic interventions are significant for a description of the almost unknown Swedish and Slovak efforts to save the Jews of Slovakia. Repeated Swedish offers to take in Jewish individuals and later the whole community could well have prepared the way for larger rescues. These never occurred, given the Slovak interest in deporting their own Jewish citizens and later the German occupation of Slovakia. 

scholarly journals Silencing the city?

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Paul Thibaud ◽  
Pascal Amphoux
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Basic Properties ◽  
Current State ◽  
Design Issue ◽  
Sonic Environment ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

The notion of silence must be handled very carefully. In addition, its use reveals the way we deal with the urban environment as well as social life. What does the notion of silence convey about the current state of the urban sonic environment? How can we clarify the various meanings and the stakes involved in silence? Three themes are developed in order to answer these questions: silence as a research topic presents three complementary perspectives (acoustic, sociocultural, technological); silence as a polysemous notion emphasises the ideas of keeping quiet, tranquillity and pause; silence as a design issue relies on basic properties and principles in order to orient the design of the urban sonic environment.

IMPACT OF MONTANE ENVIRONMENTAL LOADS ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boutheyna Touafchia ◽  
Rached-Kanouni Malika ◽  
Kadi Zahia
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Environmental Loads ◽  
Synergistic Interactions ◽  
Average Impact ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Environmental Burdens ◽  
Very High

Environmental burdens are currently a significant determinant ofenvironmental quality. The occurrence of montane environmental burdens affects the environmental quality at the local, regional and supraregional levels, mostly to a negative extent. Environmental pollution, due to montane environmental burdens is accompanied by a reduction in environmental quality in all spheres of anthropogenic existence. It is for this reason that the presented article studies the occurrence of montane environmental burdens and their impact on environmental quality in individual regions of the Slovak Republic. In the analyses Analytic Hierarchy Process a multi-criteria decision-making method based on values of the weights in terms of the principles of the Saaty matrix – a quantification of synergistic interactions of indicators. The study concentrates on selected comparative years 2008, 2012, 2017 and 2021 and includes a matrix of their elimination. The results present a categorization of montane environmental loads in the Slovak Republic into categories of the environmental load (from very low to very high) on the environmental quality. In the summary matrix of a comprehensive assessment of montane environmental loads, negative indicators (55.65%) prevails over positive ones (44.35%) with a total scoring ratio of 0.80, i.e. III. category, the average impact on environmental quality.

Transport Infrastructures Safety and Security

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-62
Author(s):  
Zdenek Dvorak ◽  
Bohus Leitner ◽  
Lenka Mocova
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
European Level ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Current State ◽  
Introductory Part

The chapter focuses on explaining the causal links between security and safety within the transport infrastructure. The chapter presents the current state of protection and resilience of the transport infrastructure in Europe. The introductory part will focus on comparative analysis of the latest information on transport infrastructure. In addition, an overview of current European transport infrastructure directives and legal acts will be included. This will be followed by an analysis of the results of scientific research projects at European level. As a case study, the state of security and safety in the transport infrastructure of the Slovak Republic will be presented. The following will be a generalized set of recommendations to improve security and safety in the transport infrastructure. The chapter will be supplemented by relevant sources of information on the issues addressed.

Characteristics of Education and the Current State of Teacher Effectiveness in Japan

2021 ◽  
pp. 148-171
Author(s):  
Takeshi Miyazaki ◽  
Hideki Watanabe ◽  
Emiko Furukawa ◽  
Masako Nezu ◽  
Shigeki Ohono ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Teacher Effectiveness ◽  
Real World ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Positive Results ◽  
The Way

This chapter analyzed how Japanese teachers' qualifications and abilities, as well as educational policies, have been promoted since the postwar period to the present day and summarized these results. There are discrepancies between the needs of students' families and the real world and the ideas and contents required by the Course of Study. Teachers have tried to play a positive role in bridging the gap and in merging the reality and the ideals. In order to bridge the “difference” faced by school sites, it is necessary to start by examining the contents of the reforms required from the bottom and reforms required from the top. As an initiative from below, in most elementary schools in Japan, groups of teachers have voluntarily gathered, and “Jugyo-Kenkyu” have been conducted for many years to analyze the challenges of their own school's students as a team. Although Jugyo-Kenkyu has achieved some positive results, the way to measure the effectiveness of the research is still an issue.

Practical Use of Drones for Energy Infrastructure Monitoring in Slovakia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zdeněk Dvořák ◽  
Nikola Chovančíková ◽  
Bohuš Leitner
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Academic Science ◽  
Energy Infrastructure ◽  
Infrastructure Monitoring ◽  
Current State ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Energy Equipment

Academic science, research and technology companies are currently working intensively on the possibilities of using cutting-edge information and communication technologies in practice. An example of the much-needed deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is energy. This sector of the national economy requires the monitoring of large line and area objects at regular intervals in order to analyse the state of wear and damage of energy equipment. The Slovak Republic, as a modern European country, is working very intensively on the implementation of all available modern technologies in the energy sector. The text of the chapter aims to present and describe the current state of practical use of drones in the energy infrastructure in Slovakia.

Knowledge management and information management: A tale of two siblings

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-77
Author(s):  
Judy Payne ◽  
Jonathan Fryer
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Codified Knowledge ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Way

Confusion has long existed between knowledge management (KM) and information management (IM). To the uninitiated, the difference between KM and IM is unclear – largely because there are no universally accepted definitions of ‘knowledge’ and ‘information’. But the confusion is not limited to the uninitiated. KM and IM specialists argue over the meaning of explicit and tacit knowledge, over the difference between information and data, and over the difference between codified knowledge and information. Why? And does any of this matter? This article explores the confusion between KM and IM by reflecting on the origins, development and current state of the two disciplines. The words we use to think and talk about KM and IM directly influence the way we practise KM and IM: and in some contexts, confusion between KM and IM has serious adverse effects on understanding and practice. The solution might lie in closer future development of the two disciplines – as long as practitioners appreciate that KM and IM are distinct but complementary, we talk to each other, and we pay attention to the words we use.

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