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Návrh modelu mediálnej komunikácie lesných podnikov
Authors: Lichý Ján
Published: May 2015

Nowadays, forest enterprises are facing the persistent need for communication with media, while such situation was not common in the past. Thus, it is necessary to study the principles of media communication under special conditions of forestry, using phenomenological approach. The paper, based on the analysis of theoretical background of communication and media policy, proposes model of the forest enterprise presentation in media, including general principles of communication policy with special emphasis on its effectiveness in non-monetary terms. More specifically, the following issues are addresses in the paper: goal and objectives of media communication as well as basic characteristics of media communication. Then, the irreplaceable components of the model of forest enterprise media communication, including the enterprise communicator role, media communication tools and strategies, are proposed. Finally, the measures of effective media presentation of forest enterprises are discussed.
SIGNS and MEANINGS: Horace’s Trial and the Quarrel of the Cid (II)
Authors: Soare Antoine
Published: May 2015

In Corneille’s Horace the hero is brought to trial for having defended Rome’s integrity by killing his own sister. The fifth act of the play is devoted to this trial, but should also be read like an allegorical re-enactment of the Querelle du Cid, during which Corneille himself was put to a kind of a ”trial’’ by colleagues and critics scandalized by the moral and ideological audacity of this first play dedicated to a criminal hero. Our paper tries to point out in detail the analogies that authorize such a reading.
JACOB’s LADDER: Holotropic Economy
Authors: Brăilean Tiberiu
Published: May 2015

Economic activity and reflection should be Holotropic, that is aiming at unity, instead of overspecialized approaches. A cosmic awareness is needed, along a radical revision and reformulation of human nature and of reality. In the modern era, the Hylotropic, matter oriented movement prevailed, imposing a coarser materiality and a marked spiritual devolution. This is how it reached this form of economy, based on selfishness, mercantilism and highly pecuniary greedy interest, a highly financialized economy and its dominance (econocracy) over the other social disciplines, over the behaviour and human life in general. It seems we are at the end of such a period and a new holotropic era is to come.
The Topicality of the Humanism of Chartres
Authors: Deremble Jean-Paul
Published: May 2015

The main question this article arises is about the nowadays pertinence of the humanist heritage of Chartres. The most radical modernity cannot avoid a permanent cohabitation with the past, with the magic of the cathedral and the memory of an emotional power. Medieval thought has set the standards of a sustainable humanisation that has lost nothing of its topicality. The harmonious equilibrium of eternal beauty, transparent in the spiritual timeless message of Chartres attests that the medieval concept of humanism is still intelligible for the modern sensitivity
About the Word Arbuse as one of the First Russicisms in the Language of Russian Germans
Authors: Jolanta Mędelska , Marek Cieszkowski , Rutkowska Jankowiak
Published: May 2015

The article presents the process of creation of German island dialects in Russia and in the USSR. Starting in the second half of the 18th century, people from various German regions, primarily farmers and artisans, migrated to Russia. The authorities most frequently settled them in so-called colonies, or in other words, compact country villages, which were typically separated widely from each other. Germans settled in very large numbers along the Volga, in southern Russia, Crimea, the Caucasus, as well as in the St. Petersburg region, Novgorod, Voronezh and Volyn.

The arrivals from Germany brought with them a wide range of dialects and local varieties. Arriving in the colonies, they most commonly settled down based on their places of origin in Germany, but sometimes by religious denomination or even on the basis of friendships formed on the way to Russia. In this way, the residents of one colony might speak even dozens of substantially different dialects and local varieties. These native varieties of speech mixed together and created a common code, which nevertheless retained archaisms as a result of the lack of contact with the living German language.

Despite the significant degree to which Germans were isolated from Russians, linguistic borrowings from Russian began to appear in their language early on, even during the long journey to the migrants’ new home. Primarily, lexis required for everyday life were borrowed.

The authors of this article, in researching the Soviet variety of German in Russia, observed that the Russicism Arbuse appeared frequently in this variety, yet only rarely - as dictionary entries testify - in German used in Germany. Analysis revealed that Arbuse is one of the earliest and most widely spread Russicisms in the language of Germans from Russia. Likely it is through their particular code that the term made its way into German dictionaries.
The Use of Verbs in Business E-Mail Communication – A Pragmalingu Istic Corpus Study
Authors: Šiškovič Mojca Nidorfer
Published: May 2015

Corpus analyses conducted with the help of special tools have become more widely used in all areas of linguistics, including discourse analysis, genre analysis and pragmatics. The paper presents a pragmalinguistic research study of verbs, carried out on a specialized corpus of authentic correspondence of (chains of) Slovene business e-mails, Posle-pis. The corpus tools Oxford Wordsmith Tools 5.0 and Sketch Engine were used for analysis, and the research was followed by a comparison of language use with two Slovene reference corpora FidaPLUS and Gigafida. The study confirms the hypothesis that business discourse via e-mail has inherent characteristics that are shown through the frequency of use of certain verbs and verb forms. Certain forms were also identified which prove the conventionalized language use of business e-mail discourse.
The Prophet Muhammad’s Models of Coexistence and the Constitution of Medina
Authors: Demirel Serdar
Published: May 2015

Modern humankind is experiencing some obstacles in solving the complex and chronic problems of society. The question how multireligious, multicultural, and multiethnic societies can exist peacefully raises these problems. The difficulty of finding a solution to these problems has historical, social, and political aspects. The reluctance of the public in general and decision-making mechanisms in particular to force or step over the boundaries of modern paradigms can also be added to these problems. This study explains the models of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) for peaceful coexistence with particular focus on the Constitution of Medina.
Supplication, Prayer and the Inner Peace They Afford
Authors: Aydin Hayati
Published: May 2015

This article emphasizes two important aspects of worship in Islam. It focuses, namely, on two different types of terms for prayer: supplication (du’a)and prayer (salat). In Islamic tradition supplication means giving one’s whole self to God and presenting one’s physical and spiritual needs to Him. Salat (prayer) is communication between the temporal and spiritual domains. In fact, prayers function as regulators and equaliser systems on personality and character. In the context of worship, if prayers are done consciously they improve people both internally and externally. If, while worshipping God consciously , one feels that he or she is before God, he or she will feel that way, i.e. in God’s presence, all the time, and this will regulate his or her behaviours.
Evaluation of corrosion resitance of weathering steel with 3 % Ni
Authors: Kreislová K. , Křivý V.
Published: May 2015

Streszczenie

V článku je porovnáváno korozní chování různých typů patinujících ocelí s novým typem oceli se zvýšeným obsahem niklu exponovaných na atmosférických stanicích v České republice a ve zrychlených laboratorních testech. Korozní úbytky po 1, 2 a 4 letech expozice v atmosférických podmínkách byl porovnán efekt obsahu SO2 a depozice chloridů s výsledky modifikovaných zrychlených korozních testů. Rovněž byly provedeny analýzy korozních produktů. Byla hodnocena ochranná účinnost vzniklých patin.
Corrosion behaviour of copper in wet bentonite Rokle B75
Authors: Stoulil J. , Horáčková L. , Říhová-Ambrožová J.
Published: May 2015

Materials for storing nuclear waste are a hot topic all over the globe right now. This study monitors corrosion behaviour of copper as one of the contemplated materials in the Czech bentonite Rokle B75. The tests were carried out in a thermostated cell deaerated with argon at temperatures of 90 and 40°C in the environment of bentonite pore solution, bentonite pore solution with an addition of sulphides and wet bentonite suspension. The scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and resistometric methods of corrosion rate measurements were applied. The most compact layer is formed in the environment of bentonite pore solution. The addition of sulphides leads to a significant growth of thickness of the layer of corrosion products and its porosity. However, the porosity decreases towards the layer - metal interface. The layer formed after exposure to the wet bentonite suspension is reported to have the worst parameters. Nevertheless, considering the final temperature of 40°C in the repository, the corrosion rate will still be acceptable.
Faktorová analýza v Mössbauerovì spektroskopii a RTG difrakèní fázové analýze / Factor analysis in Mössbauer spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction analysis
Authors: Camara A. H.
Published: May 2015

Ze souboru vzorků obsahujících železo byly metodami Mössbauerovy spektroskopie a rtg difrakční analýzy získána data, na která byla aplikována faktorová analýza, díky níž bylo zjištěno, kolika faktory lze vysvětlit celkový rozptyl dat. Došlo tedy k vyčíslením faktorového skóre, k redukci počtu proměnných a vzniku faktorů, kterými byly nahrazeny původní proměnné. U Mössbauerovy spektroskopie se jedná o šest faktorů, kterým bylo přiřazeno šest původních proměnných a u rtg difrakční analýzy byly zjištěny tři faktory, kterým byly přiřazeny tři původní proměnné.
Zhodnocení pøíèin vzniku defektních kovových povlaků na polymerním systému ABS / The assessment of causes of formation of defective metallic coatings on the ABS polymer system
Authors: Pokorný P. , Švadlena J. , Novák P. , Szelag P. , Šubert L.
Published: May 2015

Tento článek seznamuje čtenáře s problematikou galvanického pokovování polymerních materiálů typu ABS nebo ABS/PC. Zhodnocuje nejen vlastní technologii vzniku jednotlivých povlaků, tj. autokatalytických i galvanických na polymerních odlitcích, ale přibližuje čtenáři i vlastní specifi cké polymery vhodné pro povlakování. Druhá část článku studuje možné příčiny vzniku defektních povlaků na polymeru ABS poskytnutému k zhodnocení komerčním subjektem. Defekty v kovových povlacích a ve vlastním odkoveném polymerním odlitku byly zkoumány metodou rastrovací elektronové mikroskopie s využitím EDS analýzy.
Evaluation of the impact of selected microbiological preparations on the development of the aboveground biomass of Trifolium pratense L. / Ocena wpływu wybranych preparatów mikrobiologicznych na kształtowanie się biomasy nadziemnej Trifolium pratense L.
Authors: Sosnowski Jacek , Jankowski Kazimierz , Wiśniewska-Kadżajan Beata
Published: May 2015

In order to determine the impact of improved microbiological preparations of soil on the development of the aboveground biomass of red clover (Parade variety) in the 2012-2013 year, field experiment with cultivation of this species was conducted. Experiment factors were three preparations containing composition of soil microorganisms (trade name: UGmax, Humus Active and Ekoużyźniacz). All study objects were carried out in triplicate. The analysed features were: green and dry matter of plant (kg • m-2), plant height (cm), number of shoots (unit • m-2), share of leaves and stems in biomass (%). The plants were cut three times, and collections of fresh weight were carried out at the beginning of flowering, i.e. when in 30-50% of the plants from plots the flower buds bloomed. The results were statistically analysed using analysis of variance. The study shows that the effects of biopreparations were dependent on the type of preparation and cut. Also, the meteorological conditions during the growing season of each research year were highly significant. The highest values of the analysed parameters were obtained for the plants that were sprayed using aqueous solutions of UGmax and Humus Active. There were no clear effects of soil fertilisers on the biomass structure expressed as the percentage of leaves and stems
Evaluation of influence of the Mine-Energetic Plant “Janina” in Libiąż activity on soil productivity index / Ocena wpływu działalności eksploatacyjnej Zakładu Górniczo- Energetycznego „Janina” w Libiążu na indeks produktywności gleb
Authors: Klatka Sławomir , Boroń Krzysztof , Ryczek Marek , Malec Magdalena
Published: May 2015

The aim of the work was the determination of productivity index (PI) of soil in the area of exploitation activity of the Mine-Energetic Plant “Janina” in Libiąż using the Zhenqi Hu et al. [1992] method. Studies were carried out in mining subsidence basin in the Żarki village near Libiąż where two soil pits were realised and material for laboratory investigations was taken. Soil properties determined in laboratory used the Zhenqi Hu et al. [1992] algorithm method and values of PI were calculated. Mean value of PI amounted 0.67, which classifies the investigated area as one of the conditions for poor agricultural production. Changes of primary soil properties caused by mining activity of the Mine-Energetic Plant “Janina” had the highest influence on the calculated PIs. The determined PIs show the necessity of undertaking reclamation works for restoring primary properties of soil
Influence of farming technology on bioaccumulation of calcium, magnesium and sodium in muscle tissue of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss Walbaum) / Wpływ technologii chowu na biokumulację wapnia, magnezu i sodu w tkance mięśniowej pstrąga tęczowego (Oncorhynchus mykiss Walbaum)
Authors: Barszcz Agnieszka A. , Siemianowska Ewa , Sidoruk Marcin , Skibniewska Krystyna A. , Szarek Józef
Published: May 2015

Poland is one of the countries with limited water resources where water saving is recommended e.g. by improving aquaculture methods to use less water. The aim of the study was to determine the influence of water quality and aquaculture technology on bioaccumulation of calcium, magnesium and sodium in muscle tissue of rainbow trout. The study was performed in spring and autumn 2011 in two trout fish farms using different farming technologies: one with flow-through system and the other with water recirculation system. The farming technology had significant influence on magnesium and sodium in waste waters but did not affect the content of the minerals in muscle tissue of rainbow trout
Lichens of Sokółka (Podlasie, NE Poland) as indicators of the state of air pollution / Porosty Sokółki (Podlasie, Polska NE) jako wskaźniki zanieczyszczenia powietrza
Authors: Matwiejuk Anna , Kałuska Agnieszka
Published: May 2015

Monitoring of lichens as bioindicators of air pollution has been conducted in Sokółka. On the basis of the occurrence of indicator epiphytic and epilithic lichen species, the scale of lichen sensitivity for the city has been developed and lichen zones have been designated. The zone pattern was not of insular character, and as a result there was no “total lichen desert”. The distribution of lichen zones reflects the intensity of anthropogenic pressure within the town. The least favourable conditions for lichen growth have been recorded in the town centre, while the green areas have shown the most beneficial impact on the lichen test sites
Biofortifcation of Wheat Grain with Copper Through Soil Fertilization
Authors: Korzeniowska Jolanta , Kantek Katarzyna
Published: May 2015

In recent years, in the literature, there have been frequent reports of insuffcient amounts of copper in the diet of various groups of the inhabitants of our country. This is disturbing as the adequate input of copper is signifcant from the point of view of prevention of cardiovascular diseases. At the same time, grain of wheat cultivated in Poland is characterized by low content of this element. Considering that the main source of Cu is bread and cereal preparations, the important issue is to increase the content of Cu in the grain of wheat. If the defciency in the diet is accompanied by the defciencies in the soil, biofortifcation through fertilization is a favourable solution. Pot experiments have shown the pos-sibility to signifcantly increase Cu content in the grain of wheat as a result of soil fertilization with copper. It was also found that a small difference between the defciency and surplus of Cu in the grain may lead to some copper excess content, especially on the soils with low organic matter content. For this reason, biofortifcation of wheat with copper requires a precise determination of soil fertilization doses under the conditions of feld experiments.
Comparison of Total Content of Zinc and Arsenic in Soils of Średzka Upland and Wrocław Ice-Marginal Valley
Authors: Kaszubkiewicz Jarosław , Pora Ewa , Kawałko Dorota , Jezierski Paweł , Gałka Bernard
Published: May 2015

The aim of this study was to demonstrate that alluvial sediments of Wrocław ice-marginal Valley are characterized by higher con-centrations of metallic elements in relation to the adjacent areas of different soil cover genesis.

Studies of zinc and arsenic content in soils were carried out in six municipalities of Średzki district. A total of 117 soil samples from arable land was collected: 80 from Średzka Upland and 37 from Wrocław ice-marginal Valley

The process of accumulation of heavy metals in alluvial sediments in the Wocław ice-marginal Valley is so effective that, despite the heavier grain size composition of the soil cover immediately adjacent to Średzka Upland, zinc and arsenic concentrations are higher in the alluvial soils.
Influence of Cultivar and UGmax on Antioxidative Properties of Carrot Roots (Daucus Carota L.) and their Stability During Freezing Process
Authors: Keutgen Anna J. , Wszelaczyńska Elżbieta , Pobereżny Jarosław
Published: May 2015

In the present experiment, the significance of cultivar (convention-al and coloured) and of the application of the soil fertility enhancer UGmax on health-promoting properties of carrot roots subjected to the freezing process of carrot cubes after water blanching was investigated. The selection of cultivar turned out to be highly signif-icant with respect to the development of health-promoting properties of carrot roots. The highest antioxidant properties were found in the purple cultivar ‘Deep Purple’. Its mean antioxidant capacity accounted for 5.31 mmol Fe+2 · kg–1 f.m. Essential for health-promoting properties were the contents of anthocyanins (R2 = 0.83), chlorogenic acid (R2 = 0.81) and total polyphenolics (R2 = 0.71). The application of the biological agent UGmax improved the qual-ity of carrot significantly, increasing the content of total carotenoids and reducing the losses of ascorbic acid during processing. The freezing process negatively influenced the antioxidative properties of carrot irrespective of cultivar and applied agro-technique (use of UGmax), especially in the case of water-soluble antioxidants such as anthocyanins and ascorbic acid.
“A Very Remarkable Piece of Iron”: Towards a Theory of Material Imagination in Virginia Woolf’s “Solid Objects”
Authors: Štefl Martin
Published: May 2015

This article examines the supposed lack of “humanity” in Woolf’s short stories and novels by identifying its source in the sphere of “solid objects” and in the way these “objects” destabilize the coherence of what the western philosophical tradition typically refers to as “subject” (in the Cartesian sense). Referring to Moore’s direct realism as well as James’s and Mach’s radical empiricism, the discussion focuses on specific states of heightened perceptive intensity in which the perceiving subject stumbles on the verge of collapse and “mixes” itself with what it perceives. By considering these limit cases, this paper tries to demonstrate the way in which Woolf’s fiction might in fact be understood as illustrative of the process of de-humanizing de-centralization and dispersion of the already fluid consciousness and its blending with the impersonal material objects, resulting in a complete loss of one idea of “the human” (an idea based on the intellectual autonomy and sovereignty of a unified subject) and pointing towards a post-human and post-modern condition in which human becomes defined by the ever-widening circle of its own outside
Gender, Humour and Transgression in Canadian Women’s Theatre
Authors: Meisner Natalie , Mounsef Donia
Published: May 2015

Are humour and laughter gender-specific? The simple answer, like most everything that is ideological, is “yes”. Many feminists in recent years have grappled with the question of humour and how it is often the site of much contestation when it comes to women using it as a tool of transgression. This paper probes the seemingly timeless antipathy between humour and representations of femininity through recourse to performance and theories of the body. This article holds the term “woman” up to scrutiny while simultaneously examining the persistence of both critical and philosophical recalcitrance and the way humour continues to function in both gendered and violent ways. How does gender “do” or “undo” humour? Laughter is no simple matter for women, due to the legacy of profoundly polarized and hyper-sexualized historical ambivalence between femininity and laughter. Acknowledging the problematic nature of the category “woman”, and after clearing some terminological distinctions (comedy, humour, irony, satire, and parody), this article investigates humour’s complicated and volatile relationship to gender and the way the laughing body of women on stage presents a fascinating double helix of sexual aggression and power
The Concept of the Relative Adjective
Authors: Vinogradova Svetlana
Published: May 2015

This article aims to give a cognitive linguistic account of the dual nature of the concept of relative adjectives, and the specific character of their semantic processes. After a brief discussion of the adjectival character of the relative subclass, it will be argued that denominal relative adjectives belong to the class of predicate words (i.e., words denoting property and hence forming a predicate concept), while retaining, on the other hand, the substantive nature of the basic noun’s concept. Further, two subclasses of relative adjectives are contrasted in view of their cognitive processes: substancepredicate, denoting a certain substance of which an object is made, and argumentpredicate, denoting an object the relation to which becomes a property of another object. The substance-predicate group of relative adjectives will be analyzed as having the properties of qualitative adjectives, as they clarify their meanings in discourse due to the operation of profiling the landmark properties on the base of the trajector of the described object. On the other hand, the conceptual entity of argument-predicate relative adjectives can be described by means of the theory of conceptual integration. Argument-predicate adjectives in discourse form a new conceptual blend that is the result of mapping the mental spaces of the predicate concept and the concept of the described noun. The relation between the two objects that appears in the blend forms the context meaning of the adjective
Derivational Versus Phrasal Adverbials of Manner
Authors: Protopopescu Daria
Published: May 2015

This paper compares the usage of derivational and phrasal adverbial expressions of manner in English and Romanian. It also points to possible translational and learning problems due to selection peculiarities in the two languages. Both English as well as some of the Romance languages (among others French, Italian, Spanish), use both simple adverbs of manner (e.g. well) and derivational adverbs formed by adding a suffix to an adjective (e.g. poorly vs -mente adverbs in Romance).
What is a Short Story Besides Short? Questioning Minds in Search of Understanding Short Fiction
Authors: Tucan Gabriela
Published: May 2015

The paper seeks to identify the cluster of essential features for a working definition of the short story, in an attempt to establish short fiction as a fully independent literary genre. I further explore the fundamental mode of thinking and of imagination generated by reading short fiction.
From West to East: Romeo Must Die but Shakespeare is the Sun
Authors: Frenţiu Luminiţa , Goşa Codruţa
Published: May 2015

The paper presents a mini survey of the hallmark English language motion pictures which are explicitly based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The selection of the six films under investigation takes into account various criteria such as aspects of chronology, culture, impact or novelty of approach. The analysis is based on four categories: genre, auteurism (authorship), reception and verisimilitude.
What has changed in France in coastal flood risk management after Xynthia storm
Authors: Cunge Jean , Erlich Marc
Published: May 2015

What has changed in France in coastal flood risk management after Xynthia storm. One year after the Xynthia storm surge, which struck the Vendée and the Charente-Maritime counties of the French Atlantic Coast in the night of 27/28 February 2010, French authorities implemented a national plan for mitigation and management of the fl ash submersions (MEDDTL 2011). In this paper authors analyse partial results of this plan after almost three years of its effectiveness in the perspective of Xynthia catastrophic event, but also taking into account other dramatic coastal submersions, which occured during winter 2014 in the same region.
Prediction of yellow lupin yield (Lupinus luteus L.) for northern Poland using weather-crop model
Authors: Grabowska Krystyna , Kuchar Leszek , Dymerska Aneta
Published: May 2015

Prediction of yellow lupin yield (Lupinus luteus L.) for northern Poland using weather- -crop model. The paper presents an analysis of the impact of meteorological factors (solar radiation, maximum, minimum and mean temperature, precipitation) on the development and yield of yellow lupin Parys cultivar in the northern Poland in the years 1987-2008. Using multiple regression methods (linear and quadratic function) created regression equations that were estimated using the coefficients of determination (R2, R2 adj and R2 pred - using the Cross Validation procedure). Selected regression equation used to estimate the yield of yellow lupin, using generated - by means of model WGENK - daily values of global radiation, maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation, and climate change scenario GISS Model E for Central Europe. Examined dependencies weather-yield of lupine seeds (cultivar Parys) allowed the application of the chosen model to forecast yields from the time when the values are independent variables in the model by the end of the growing season. The comparison of distributions of actual and simulated yields shows that real yields are slightly (by 0.06 t·ha-1) higher than those generated for 2 × CO2 conditions.
Spatiotemporal variations of tropospheric ozone concentrations in the Warsaw Agglomeration (Poland)
Authors: Rozbicka Katarzyna , Rozbicki Tomasz
Published: May 2015

Spatiotemporal variations of tropospheric ozone concentrations in the Warsaw Agglomeration (Poland). The study uses ozone concentrations from stations in Warsaw Agglomeration and its vicinity. Diversity of localizations of considered station, in terms of type of emissivity, allows on comparison of air pollution conditions by ozone in Warsaw area. Concentration of ozone in summer and spring were above twice greater than the concentration in autumn and winter. The greatest differences between weekend days concentration and work days concentration occur during autumn and winter, but in the same time the differences during the day are the least, especially in urban site stations. Statistics analysis shows strong relationship between ozone concentration and nitrogen dioxide concentration and meteorological elements especially for days with high level of ozone concentration. For these days regression equations were statistically significant (α = 1%) and correlation coefficients were greater than 0.81. Polynomial of IV power is the best fitted function of one-hourly values of ozone concentration course in particular seasons.
DOES COGNITIVE TRAINING MAKE NUTRITION AND EXERCISE PROGRAMS FOR WEIGHT REDUCTION MORE SUCCESSFUL?
Authors: Paasch Rene
Published: May 2015

By carrying out an intervention study including a two-month period of executing measures and an observation period of another two months, the hypothesis stating that cognitive training makes weight reduction programs more successful is to be confirmed. The measures are introduced in a fitness facility. This study involved a cooperation with Mrs. Sporty. The target group are overweight women from the age of 30 onwards. From this target group of overweight women from the age of 30 onwards, three groups of 25 participants each are randomized. Two groups of 25 participants each are assembled from various Mrs. Sporty facilities in Flensburg, Schleswig, Rendsburg, and Husum. A third group of overweight non-athletes is generated over the press, flyers, and posters. All groups equally take part in one or, if required, two introductory individual interviews at the beginning in which initial data is gathered by way of a questionnaire that was developed for the study and first measurements are taken regarding BMI, waist size, and body fat content. Moreover, the participants’ individual situation and their specific problems are discussed and the intervention is adjusted accordingly. For participants that also receive cognitive training, mental measures that are in accordance with the concept developed and presented for the study are additionally integrated in the interviews as well as in the questionnaire and conducted theoretically and practically throughout the entire procedure.
Historical Consciousness in the Focus of Sociological Enquiry
Authors: Šubrt Jiří
Published: May 2015

Historical Consciousness in the Focus of Sociological Enquiry. This article attempts to elaborate a theory of historical consciousness which could apply to the area of empirical sociological enquiry. Its essential idea is that it is possible to view historical consciousness as an "entity" shaped by the interplay of four components: a) lived historical experience (lived personally, eventually transmitted through interpersonal contact), b) ideology, particularly state ideology and ideology of political parties, c) knowledge produced by historiography and historical science, d) collective memory
Zhodnotenie zdravotného stavu lesov v inundačnej oblasti Dunaja v úseku Dobrohošt – Sap z leteckých multispektrálnych snímok z roku 2011
Authors: Bucha Tomáš , Slávik Martin , Hatala Norbert , Bartko Martin
Published: May 2015

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the forest health condition in the area of Hydropower plant Gabčikovo using the digital multispectral aerial images from 2011 in the section Dobrohošt - Sap. We proposed a new innovative procedure of creating the forest mask in the image processing. It concerns a process of defining tree crowns, where we combined subject and raster oriented approach of the image classification. We evaluated forest health condition on a selected forest mask using the method of twophased sampling with regression. The indicators of health condition were tree defoliation and presence of heavily damaged trees and snags in the stands. Defoliation was used to compare the current forest health condition in the concerned area with the data from 2008. Presence of the snags as the result of severe damage is interpreted in terms of stand types related to site conditions. Field survey proved presence of invasive and non-native tree species and plants. Based on the result, we have formulated recommendations for further forest monitoring in the Danube River inundation
Above-ground net primary productivity in young stands of beech and spruce
Authors: Pajtík Jozef , Konôpka Bohdan , Marušák Róbert
Published: May 2015

One of the expected consequences of climate change and its inherent phenomena to forest ecosystems is the gradual modification of their tree species composition (i.e. expansion of resistant species instead of less resistant ones). Climate change accompanied with increasing temperatures and a lack of precipitations may present a threat especially to spruce stands in the European part of the temperate zone. European beech is one of the possible forest tree species which might replace the potentially endangered spruce. In this paper, we observed, by using a combination of continual measurements and destructive whole-tree sampling, standing stocks of above-ground biomass (i.e. stem, branches, and foliage) and its annual net primary productivity (NPP) in naturally regenerated young stands of beech and spruce. We intentionally selected a site where the changing climate conditions are better suited to the ecological demands of beech rather than spruce (the species is dominant in the observed area). We recorded only small differences in the standing stock of stems of the beech, if based on tons per ha. However, this is in favor of spruce if based on cubic meters per ha. The largest difference between the species was found for the standing stock of foliage, spruce retained three times the biomass of beech. Also, beech allocated more carbohydrates to stem than spruce. On the other hand, we estimated nearly the same production of foliages and branches in both stands.
Fine root standing stock and production in young beech and spruce stands
Authors: Konôpka Bohdan , Pajtík Jozef , Maľová Miriam
Published: May 2015

Fine roots (defined by a maximum diameter of 2 mm) and assimilatory organs are the compartments which rotate carbon much faster than any other tree part. We focused on quantification of fine roots in young European beech and Norway spruce trees growing under the same ecological conditions. Standing stock of fine roots was estimated by soil coring during 2009 - 2012. Fine root production was established by the in-growth bag method. Standing stock and productions of fine roots were comparable in both tree species. The quantity of fine root biomass (at a soil depth of 0 -50 cm) varied inter-annually between 6.08 and 7.41 t per ha in the beech and from 5.10 to 6.49 t per ha in the spruce stand. Annual production of fine roots (soil depth of 0 - 30 cm) was between 1.11 and 1.63 t ha-1 in beech and between 0.95 and 1.54 t.ha-1 in spruce. We found that fine root standing stock at the beginning of each growing season was related to climatic conditions in the previous year. Annual fine root production was influenced by the climatic situation of the current year. In general, a maximum standing stock of fine roots as well as a relatively slow fine root turnover is expected in young forest stands. Whereas production of fine roots prevailed over mortality in a favorable year (sufficiency of precipitations and slightly above-average temperatures in 2010), there was a reverse situation in an unfavorable year (drought episodes in 2011). We concluded that although both forest types represented contrasting turnovers of assimilatory organs (once a year and once in 5 years in beech and spruce respectively), fine root turnover rates were very similar (approx. once per four years).
Modelling effects of weather condition on seasonal dynamics of the stem circumference increment in a mixed stand of Norway spruce and European beech
Authors: Bošeľa Michal , Pajtík Jozef , Konôpka Bohdan , Šebeň Vladimír , Vida Tomáš
Published: May 2015

This study was aimed at modelling seasonal variation of stem circumference increments in a mixed stand composed of Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.). Moreover, we focused on the quantification of the main climatic factors governing the increments. The measurements were performed at a site established at about 970 m a.s.l. from the locality of Vrchslatina (Central Slovakia). Data was collected from 20 European beech trees and 20 Norway spruce trees, from 2009 to 2012. The increments (measured at 130 cm above ground level) were recorded circa biweekly using manual band dendrometers. Lognormal function was used for the modelling of the seasonal trend of the increments. Hourly-based records of climatic variables such as air temperature, precipitation, and derived vapour pressure deficit were used for the modelling. The effect of climatic parameters on the seasonal variations of the increments was tested by including them directly into the lognormal function. The results suggest that while the sum of precipitation was a better predicting factor for spruce, the mean temperature was the better predictor for beech. In addition, both temperature and vapour pressure deficits also had an effect on the increments of spruce, but these parameters did not contribute to the explanation of the variability of increments for beech. Overall, the variability clarified by the final model was 72% for spruce and 78% for beech. At the same time, climatic parameters as a part of the model helped to explain 10% of the variability for the spruce (precipitations) and 3% of the variability for the beech (temperature). We also found lower variability in the increments of beech compared to spruce. This suggests that for the specific site conditions spruce are more sensitive to environmental conditions than beech
Preliminary results of soil respiration in beech, spruce and grassy stands
Authors: Priwitzer Tibor , Capuliak Jozef , Bošela Michal , Schwarz Matej
Published: May 2015

Soil respiration constitutes the second largest flux of carbon between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. This study provides the preliminary results of soil respiration (Rs) observations in three different stands, including two types of young forest stands (beech and spruce) and grassy clearings. The average values of Rs ranged from 0.92 to 15.20 μmol CO
Návrh ucelenej sústavy riadenia slovenského lesného hospodárstva vo forme téz do lesného zákona
Authors: Greguš Ctibor
Published: May 2015

The paper presents basic conception (system) of long term and sustainable forest management. Forest benefits divides into timber production and provision of public functions. It characterizes a new categorization of forests. The basic forest feature and also the basic forest management feature is a long- -term. Therefore, it is necessary to develop such a system of a long-term planning, resulting in forest management plan. The paper presents main principles of long-term forest management development. It defines consequent key decisions (determining the forest category, management targets, management method, deriving the allowable cut, etc.). At the end, it presents the control system of management that should ensure improvement of the whole long-term process of forest management. It involves a complex concept of long-term and sustainable forest management development, with a practical application in a view of management system into the forest legislation, especially, the new forest act.
Gilles Deleuze on Sacher-Masoch and Sade: A Bergsonian Criticism of Freudian Psychoanalysis
Authors: Lauwaert Lode , Britt William
Published: May 2015

In the long line of French Sade studies, Deleuze's essay Coldness and Cruelty marks out a special place. By discussing Masoch both in addition to and in contrast to Sade, Deleuze reveals the stakes of his book: he wants to unmask the concept of sadomasochism as a clinical nonentity. In their paper, the authors explain the arguments supporting this project and show their relation to Deleuze's reading of Bergson. They then argue that there is a second, similarly Bergsonian criticism of Freudian psychoanalysis operating in the background of Coldness and Cruelty. This more wide-ranging criticism takes Freud to task for conceiving perversion, like neurosis, in Oedipal terms. This conception, Deleuze holds, forgets that perversion and neurosis represent two different worlds that essentially have nothing to do with each other despite crossing in clinical experience.
Reading and Interpreting Variants inCome and Go,Va-et-vientandKommen und Gehen
Authors: Sardin Pascale
Published: May 2015

This paper focuses on textual variants in Come and Go, Va-et-vient and Kommen und Gehen and considers these variants as thresholds (Genette, 1997) into these works. This paper aims to show how Beckett's self-translating process, which was prolonged and complicated in the case of his plays when he directed them himself, produces a number of possible textual confusions, but also how these complications constitute insight into the Beckettian text. Indeed variants and rewritings point to moments in the writing and rewriting process when Beckett met ‘resistant vitalities’ mentioned by George Steiner in After Babel (1975). To illustrate this, I study Beckett's first ‘dramaticule’, Come and Go, by examining its pre-texts, the French translation, and Beckett's production notebooks for Kommen und Gehen. In these texts, I explore the motifs of death and ocular anxiety, as studied by Freud in his famous paper on ‘The Uncanny.’ I show how the Freudian uncanny actually reveals the parodic archaism of Beckett's drama, as a parallel is drawn between the structure of Beckett's play and Greek tragedy. Beckett's sometimes ‘messy’ rewritings in Come and Go, Va-et-vient and Kommen und Gehen served the performing intuitive perception in us of death, an issue explored here through the trope of femininity. Furthermore, comparing Beckett's Come and Go and Va-et-vient makes it easier to see Beckett progressing towards what Deleuze called a ‘theatre of metamorphoses and permutations’ in Difference and Repetition – a monograph published in France the very year Come and Go was first produced (1966).
Storm Identification, Tracking and Forecasting Using High-Resolution Images of Short-Range X-Band Radar
Authors: Shah Sajid , Notarpietro Riccardo , Branca Marco
Published: May 2015

Rain nowcasting is an essential part of weather monitoring. It plays a vital role in human life, ranging from advanced warning systems to scheduling open air events and tourism. A nowcasting system can be divided into three fundamental steps, i.e., storm identification, tracking and nowcasting. The main contribution of this work is to propose procedures for each step of the rain nowcasting tool and to objectively evaluate the performances of every step, focusing on two-dimension data collected from short-range X-band radars installed in different parts of Italy. This work presents the solution of previously unsolved problems in storm identification: first, the selection of suitable thresholds for storm identification; second, the isolation of false merger (loosely-connected storms); and third, the identification of a high reflectivity sub-storm within a large storm. The storm tracking step of the existing tools, such as TITANand SCIT, use only up to two storm attributes, i.e., center of mass and area. It is possible to use more attributes for tracking. Furthermore, the contribution of each attribute in storm tracking is yet to be investigated. This paper presents a novel procedure called SALdEdA (structure, amplitude, location, eccentricity difference and areal difference) for storm tracking. This work also presents the contribution of each component of SALdEdA in storm tracking. The second order exponential smoothing strategy is used for storm nowcasting, where the growth and decay of each variable of interest is considered to be linear. We evaluated the major steps of our method. The adopted techniques for automatic threshold calculation are assessed with a 97% goodness. False merger and sub-storms within a cluster of storms are successfully handled. Furthermore, the storm tracking procedure produced good results with an accuracy of 99.34% for convective events and 100% for stratiform events.
Experimental Study on Dry Torrefaction of Beech Wood and Miscanthus
Authors: Gucho Eyerusalem , Shahzad Khurram , Bramer Eddy , Akhtar Niaz , Brem Gerrit
Published: May 2015

Torrefaction is a thermochemical pre-treatment process for upgrading the properties of biomass to resemble those of fossil fuels such as coal. Biomass properties of particular interest are chemical composition, physical property and combustion characteristics. In this work, torrefaction of beech wood and miscanthus (sinensis) was carried out to study the influence of torrefaction temperature (240–300 °C) and residence time (15–150 min) on the aforementioned properties of the biomass. Results of the study revealed that torrefaction temperature has a significant influence on mass and energy yields, whereas the influence of the residence time becomes more apparent for the higher torrefaction temperatures (>280 °C). Torrefied miscanthus resulted in higher energy densification compared to beech wood for a residence time of 30 min. A significant improvement in grindability of the torrefied beech wood was obtained even for lightly torrefied beech wood (at 280 °C and 15 min of residence time). Observation from the combustion study showed that the ignition temperature is slightly affected by the torrefaction temperature. As a whole, the torrefaction temperature determines the characteristics of the torrefied fuel compared to other process parameters like residence time. Furthermore, with optimal process conditions, torrefaction produces a solid fuel with combustion reactivity and porosity comparable to raw biomass, whereas grindability and heating value are comparable to low quality coal.
Integrated Power Management of Conventional Units and Industrial Loads in China’s Ancillary Services Scheduling
Authors: Yao Mingtao , Hu Zhaoguang , Sifuentes Froylan , Zhang Ning
Published: May 2015

With the development of the smart grid in China, new opportunities for responsive industrial loads to participate in the provision of ancillary services (AS) will become accessible. This paper summarizes AS in China and analyzes the necessary characteristics and advantages of industrial users to provide AS according to their response mechanism. Cement manufacturing and aluminum smelter processes are selected as two representatives of responsive industrial loads. An agent-based model that includes generation, industrial user, and grid agents is proposed. Using two case studies, we analyze the integrated power management of conventional units and industrial loads in day-ahead and real-time AS scheduling based on real device parameters, price mechanisms and production data. The simulation results indicate that the participation of responsive industrial loads in the provision of AS, in China, can improve the coal consumption rate and the system-wide load factor as well as reduce the total system cost for the provision of AS significantly.