scholarly journals Geomorphological Processes at the Industrial Sludge Landfill in Sered, Slovakia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6605
Author(s):  
Eva Michaeli ◽  
Matúš Maxin ◽  
Vladimír Solár ◽  
Jozef Vilček ◽  
Martin Boltižiar
Keyword(s):  
Northern Hemisphere ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Industrial Zone ◽  
Private Company ◽  
Industrial Sludge ◽  
Nickel Production ◽  
Nickel Smelter ◽  
Geomorphological Processes ◽  
The Town ◽  
Black Color

The principal aim of the study is to identify the nature and causes of changes to the surface of a landfill body of waste from nickel production located in the industrial zone of the town of Sereď (Slovak Republic). This change is related to natural and anthropogenic geomorphological processes characteristic of the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere. The landfill is an accumulative anthropogenic form of relief, and its body is composed from an artefact-metallurgical sludge, which has specific properties. The landfill constitutes a strange shape of relief at the Danubian Plane, which attracts attention with its physiognomy and also with the black color of the material significantly. It formed during the 30-year-long existence of the nickel smelter plant (1963–1993) and remained in this location, until the present day, for another 28 years after the end of production. Since 1994, the landfill has been the property of a private company that mines sludge in order to obtain residual metals.

scholarly journals IX-On a flora, including vascular land plants, associated with Monograptus , in rocks of Silurian age, from Victoria, Australia

1935 ◽  
Vol 224 (517) ◽  
pp. 421-449 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Northern Hemisphere ◽  
Lower Devonian ◽  
Land Plants ◽  
Jordan River ◽  
Red Sandstone ◽  
Present Account ◽  
Railway Line ◽  
Geological Age ◽  
Plant Remains ◽  
The Town

The earliest vascular or land-plants yet known with certainty from the northern hemisphere are those met with in the Lower Devonian or Lower Old Red Sandstone. The few records from earlier rocks have all been open to doubt, either because the age of the beds was not proved or because the plant-remains were obscure. The object of this paper is to describe some well-preserved plants of Silurian age from Victoria, Australia. Since certainty as to the geological age is essential, the present account is limited to the plants collected in four localities, in all of which they were associated with specimens of Mongraptus , the graptolites being found in the same beds and often on the same slabs of rock as the plants, figs. 51-53, Plate 32. The four localities will be referred to under the following names : (1) Yarra Track.—A quarry for road material on the Yarra track between Wood’s Point and Warburton, about 17 miles from the former place. (2) Alexandra.—Two exposures in mudstone (Geol. Survey, loc. 5 and loc. 9), both by the side of the railway line, near the town of Alexandra. (3) Killingworth Road.—Two exposures (Geol. Survey, loc. 14 and loc. 20) at Yea. (4) Thomson River,—This includes a number of exposures along the valley of the Thomson River, where black beds containing Monograptus have long been known in the Jordan River beds (Baragwanath, 1925). This is the locality in which the stratigraphical succession is described (Skeats, 1928).

Anything Goes in Cause Related Marketing?

2020 ◽  
pp. 97-109
Author(s):  
M. Mercedes Galan-Ladero ◽  
Clementina Galera-Casquet
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Private Company ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Town Council ◽  
Cause Related Marketing ◽  
The World ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Town

Cause-related marketing (CRM) is currently considered one of the main initiatives of corporate social responsibility (CSR). CRM programs offer numerous advantages for all the parties involved: companies, non-profit organizations, and consumers. Examples of CRM programs can be found in virtually every country in the world. Although most CRM campaigns succeeded, several of them were involved in some scandals. In Spain, an example of the controversy caused by CRM campaigns resurfaced with the installation of the so-called “solidarity traffic radar.” The aim of this chapter is to offer a case study about this campaign, where a private company managed this traffic radar. Half of the money that was raised in fines was given to the Town Council, which in turn decided to donate it to needy local families, that is, it was allocated to social aid. Thus, this case study discusses if anything goes in CRM, or there is sometimes a trivialization of solidarity.

scholarly journals Capacity Evaluation of Roundabouts in Slovakia

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Gavulová ◽  
Marek Drličiak
Keyword(s):  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Geometrical Parameters ◽  
Capacity Estimation ◽  
Traffic Loading ◽  
Traffic Models ◽  
Capacity Evaluation ◽  
Microscopic Models ◽  
Micro Simulation ◽  
The Town ◽  
Technical Regulations

Capacity Evaluation of Roundabouts in Slovakia Two technical regulations for capacity estimation of roundabouts are valid in the Slovak Republic at the present time. Each of these regulations is based on a different theory of capacity estimation which affects the outcome of the capacity of roundabouts and their evaluation. The capacity of various roundabouts was estimated according to both methods in the previous analysis made at our department [3] and in some cases different results of the evaluation were achieved. The question is: which one of the mentioned theories better reflects a real capacity of the roundabout? For this reason some of the existing roundabouts in the town Žilina were selected and they were evaluated according to both methods and a micro simulation using PTV Vissim software. The geometrical parameters of roundabout, real driving behaviour (speed, proportions, acceleration, etc.) and also pedestrian behaviour were taken into account in the microscopic models. The first assumption for capacity evaluation by a microscopic traffic model is a calibration process which is based on traffic surveys results. Thus created models allow several capacity analyses during the peak traffic loading. Then, the results of micro-simulation can be compared with the capacity evaluation according to the technical regulations. The article deals with creation and calibration of microscopic traffic models and with the mentioned comparing of results.

Paternalism in Indian Labor: The Tata Iron and Steel Company of Jamshedpur

1998 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 69-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blair B. Kling
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Steel Mill ◽  
Company Town ◽  
Steel Company ◽  
Private Company ◽  
Iron And Steel ◽  
Industrial History ◽  
The Town

The most celebrated case of paternalism in India is that of the Tata Iron and Steel Company (Tisco) and its company town, Jamshedpur. In the context of India, Jamshedpur is a marvel: a relatively clean, spacious, and prosperous city where more people live in middle-class neighborhoods than in slums. With a population of 650,000, Jamshedpur is certainly the largest company town in the world, and, because it is still controlled and administered by the private company that founded it in 1909, it is probably the oldest extant company town. Aside from the town, the steel company itself holds a special place in Indian industrial history. It was founded and capitalized in the colonial period by the Indian business community of Bombay in 1907, began production in 1911, and thereafter took its place as the largest private company in India and the largest integrated steel mill in the British Empire. It has survived revolutionary political changes, near-bankruptcy, and nationalization attempts, largely because its directors convinced the British that it was an essential defense industry and the Indian nationalists that it was a national treasure run by men of integrity for the benefit of the nation.

scholarly journals Grape Harvest Festival in the Town – A Successful Format for Entertainment, Politics, Trade, and Consumption (The Case of Pezinok, in the Slovak Republic)

Český lid ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 108 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-287
Author(s):  
Katarína Popelková
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
The State ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
The Public ◽  
Railway Company ◽  
Historical Archive ◽  
The Town ◽  
State Railway

This article focuses on a three-day town celebration called Vinobranie (Grape Harvest), which takes place in the public space of the town of Pezinok in Western Slovakia. This eventis over eighty years old and was established the representatives of the town in collaboration with the local wine-growing association, organised with the support of the state railway company. The grape harvest festival is a mosaic of various elements with symbolic contents, representing an impressive whole wrapped in an offer of a varied programme and consumption. The study observes the changing form and structure of the festival from its origins up until the present day, as well as the dynamics of the range of its functions in the local community. The author follows an ethnological perspective. She draws on historical archive documents and ethnographic materials. In her analysis, she applies the concept of festival (Waldemar Cudny’s ‘Festivalisation of Urban Spaces’, 2016).

Modelling of Combined Sewer Overflow Impacts on the Receiving Water Quality: Case Studies Hron and Drava

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Sokáč ◽  
Marta Jerković
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Combined Sewer Overflows ◽  
Combined Sewer ◽  
Sewer Overflows ◽  
The Town ◽  
Receiving Water

Paper analyses the influences of combined sewer overflows (CSO’s), on the receiving water quality, but generally deals also with various types of storm water management in urban areas. The first case study analyses the impacts of the continuous (wastewater treatment plant in the town Osijek) and discontinuous pollution sources (CSO’s in the town Osijek) on the quality of the receiving water – the Drava river (Croatia). The second modelling case study was performed on the river Hron (Slovak republic). In this study, the impacts on the water quality from combined sewer overflows form the biggest town on Hron River – Banská Bystrica were studied, as well as four feasible alternatives of storm sewer management (different mixing ratio, different size of storm tanks) were analysed. For both case studies, the mathematical simulation model MIKE11 (Danish Hydraulic Institute, DHI) was used.

scholarly journals Úloha kontroly vo verejnej správe

2020 ◽  
pp. 289-295
Author(s):  
Matúš Novák
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Control Activity ◽  
The Law ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

The article deals with the role of control in public administration within the Slovak Republic, its definition, legislative determination and its division. It is focused on the analysis of control activities of the chief auditor´s office in the town of Stará Ľubovňa. The aim is to point out the role of control in public administration and to evaluate the performance of control activities carried out by the chief auditor of Stará Ľubovňa for the years 2017 - 2018. The chief auditor of this town provided an interview and all materials related to the controls for the above years. Obtained data shows that the control activity within the city of Stará Ľubovňa for the years 2017 and 2018 is effective and fulfills its role, the city puts strong accent on being carried out properly, effectively and within the limits of the law. In the present paper several methods were used, especially the method of analysis, synthesis, but also concreteization.

scholarly journals Housing development in Banská Bystrica and its surroundings in the 1990's

Geografie ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 108 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-215
Author(s):  
Tomáš Chorvát
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Housing Development ◽  
Causal Relationships ◽  
The Town

The paper deals with the development and trends in housing development in the town of Banská Bystrica and its surroundings in the last decade of the 20th century, which was the first decade of its post-socialist transformation. At first, the study discusses general sources and conditions of building and housing development in post-socialist cities in the Slovak Republic. The paper is centred on analyses and comparisons of the development of housing in family houses and blocks of flats, on their spatial distribution and on the background of their construction. The author clarifies also causal relationships connected with new tendencies and behaviour patterns of subjects of housing development (individuals, building companies, developers) in the region of Banská Bystrica.

scholarly journals CARACTERIZACIÓN GEOLÓGICA Y GEOMORFOLÓGICA DEL MUNICIPIO DE JOÃO PESSOA – PB, BRASIL

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (54) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Tamires Silva Barbosa ◽  
Laura Marcela Torres Gomez ◽  
Max Furrier
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Morphological Attributes ◽  
Geomorphological Mapping ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Geomorphological Map ◽  
Geomorphological Processes ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Town

<p>Este trabajo tiene como objetivo la caracterización de aspectos geológicos y geomorfológicos del municipio de João Pessoa, Estado de Paraíba, a través de la elaboración de un mapa geomorfológico con metodología desarrollada en Brasil, basado en la morfoestructura y morfoescultura. La cartografía geomorfológica del municipio ofrece una amplia gama de información sobre datos litológicos, morfométricos, morfogenéticos y morfográfios. Estas informaciones son esenciales para cualquier estudio socio-espacial, especialmente en relación con la ocupación en las diferentes características morfológicas que componen el municipio. Como principales resultados se obtuvieron la distinción y cuantificación de unidades geológicas y geomorfológicas presentes en el municipio y los procesos geomorfológicos actuales, que son responsables de la génesis de las formas contemporáneas del relieve.</p><p> </p><p>GEOLOGICAL AND GEOMORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF JOÃO PESSOA MUNICIPALITY – PB, BRAZIL</p><p><span><br /></span></p><p><em><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></em><br /> This paper aims at characterizing geological and geomorphological aspects of the township of João Pessoa, Paraíba State, through the creation of a geomorphological map with methodology devel oped in Brazil, based on morphostructural and morphostructural aspects. The geomorphological mapping of the town offers a wide range of information on lithological, morphometric, morpho graphic and morphogenetic data. This information is essential to any social space study, especially in relation to the occupation in different morphological attributes that would compose the munic ipality. The main results were the distinction and quantifiation of geological and geomorpholog ical units present in the municipality and current geomorphological processes responsible for the genesis of contemporary forms of relief.</p><p> </p>

scholarly journals The landfill from nickel production in Danubian Lowland and its environmental implications

GeoScape ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-182
Author(s):  
Martin Boltižiar ◽  
Eva Michaeli ◽  
Vladimír Solár
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Physical And Chemical Properties ◽  
Industrial Zone ◽  
Environmental Implications ◽  
Private Company ◽  
Physical And Chemical ◽  
And Chemical Properties

Abstract The main objective of the paper is to point out to the origin of the waste from the production of nickel at the landfill in Sereď and its physical and chemical properties that affect the environmental conditions of the site. The landfill of metallurgical technological waste in Sereď is the second largest landfill for non-ferrous metallurgy in Slovakia (Central Europe). It is located in the northern part of the Danubian Lowland, southwest of the industrial zone of town Sereď. We divided the research into two phases. The preparatory phase consisted in obtaining all available archival materials for the years 1956−1993, so from of the construction of the plant to the end of production. The production was lasting from 1963 to 1993. The second phase concerned field research and was associated with sludge sampling for laboratory analysis. The results of the analysis identified the physical and chemical properties of the sludge as well as the possibilities of its use in some sectors of the economy. The production process in the nickel smelter was stopped in 1993 due to economic (annual state production subsidy was CZK 250 million) and ecological reasons. The landfill at the city’s industrial zone has remained to this day, but it was sold to a private company in 1994, thus relieving of the state’s liability for environmental damage.

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