Trend Analysis of Total Affected Water and Total Discharged Wastewater of Nišava District (Serbia)

BACKGROUND: Water, as a natural resource, is the most basic substance of life that has immeasurable significance for the living world, ecosystems, and planet Earth. It is consumed by plants, animals, and humans. AIM: We aimed to preform a trend analysis of total affected quantities of water and total discharged wastewater (TDWW) of Nišava district (Serbia). METHODS: In this paper, a trend analysis is given of total affected quantities of water, delivered quantities of drinking water (DQDW), total discharged wastewater (TDWW), wastewater discharges to wastewater systems, and number of households connected to the water supply network of Nišava district (Serbia). RESULTS: The values for Nišava district (Serbia) for total affected quantities of water and DQDW for the period 2006–2018 and wastewater discharges to wastewater systems for the period 2009–2018 decreased, whereas the values for Nišava district (Serbia) for TDWW for the period 2006–2018 and number of households connected to the water supply network for the period 2007–2018 increased. The paper also provides regression models for approximation DQDW (eq. 1) and TDWW (eq. 2) for Nišava district (Serbia) for the period 2006–2018. CONCLUSION: Values for total affected quantities of water (×103 m³) for Nišava district (Serbia) for the period 2006–2018, they decreased from 41740 in 2006 to 9931 in 2018

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Skepticism Motivated: On the Skeptical Import of Motivated Reasoning

Empirical work on motivated reasoning suggests that our judgments are influenced to a surprising extent by our wants, desires and preferences (Kahan 2016; Lord, Ross, and Lepper 1979; Molden and Higgins 2012; Taber and Lodge 2006). How should we evaluate the epistemic status of beliefs formed through motivated reasoning? For example, are such beliefs epistemically justified? Are they candidates for knowledge? In liberal democracies, these questions are increasingly controversial as well as politically timely (Beebe et al. 2018; Lynch forthcoming, 2018; Slothuus and de Vreese 2010). And yet, the epistemological significance of motivated reasoning has been almost entirely ignored by those working in mainstream epistemology. We aim to rectify this oversight. Using politically motivated reasoning as a case study, we show how motivated reasoning gives rise to three distinct kinds of skeptical challenges. We conclude by showing how the skeptical import of motivated reasoning has some important ramifications for how we should think about the demands of intellectual humility

The Poor Man’s Fight: Mercenary Soldiers in the Civil War: An Interview with William Marvel

Over the course of this year, we’ll be interviewing some of the speakers from the upcoming 2018 CWI conference about their talks. Today we are speaking with William Marvel, an independent scholar of mid-19th-century American History. Marvel is the author of eighteen books, including most recently, Lincoln’s Mercenaries: Economic Motivation among Union Soldiers, which is due for release by LSU Press in the early fall of 2018. Some of Marvel’s additional publications include: Lincoln’s Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton (UNC Press, 2015), A Place Called Appomattox (UNC Press, 2000), and Andersonville: The Last Depot (UNC Press, 1994), for which he won a Lincoln Prize, the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award, and the Malcolm and Muriel Barrow Bell Award. He has also written a four-volume history of the Civil War that was published by Houghton Mifflin between 2006 and 2011. Mr. Marvel is currently working on a biography of Fitz John Porter. [excerpt

Temporal Variations of River Morphology: A Case Study Wey Ganga, Sri Lanka

Rivers are among the natural ecosystems most threatened by natural factors and human activities. Tools and techniques of remote sensing, geographical information system and Google earth satellite imagery have been used to determine the morphological changes along Wey Ganga, located in Sabaragamuwa province, Sri Lanka, is a victim of intense riverbed gem mining activities. By using Google earth satellite images of 2006, 2014 and 2018, changes of wetted river area (WR), water covered area (W), bar covered area (B), B/W ratio and sinuosity index (SI) were analysed for the 5km river segment. Then the river segment was divided into five reaches and changes of same parameters were evaluated. According to the results, WR of the river segment and five reaches were decreased over the period from 2006 to 2018. Similarly B were also decreased in the river segment and in three river reaches out of five. At the same time W was also decreased in river segment and four river reaches except one reach over the period. Nevertheless, from 2006 to 2018 B/W ratios were also decreased in river segment and three reaches out of five. When considering the SI, it was also decreased from 2006 to 2018. The study revealed that the narrowing trend (2006-2018) of the morphological plan of the Wey Ganga form certainly decrease the active channel area. The findings of the study will be important for the wise management of river ecosystems.Keywords: GIS, Google earth platform, Remote sensing, River parameters, River morphological change

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Service Life Design for Infrastructure (SLD4)

SLD4 is a conference on Service Life Design for Infrastructures which is jointly organised by Delft University and Tongji University as part of the RILEM week 2018 in Delft, The Netherlands. The conference builds on the success of the previous three events on this topic held in Shanghai (2006), Delft (2010) and Zhuhai (2014). Service Life Design for Infrastructure is a very broad topic involving aspects starting from the material properties and behaviour, via structural performance, serviceability and durability to integral design and asset management. All related topics from experimental research to modelling and from codes and standards to applications are welcomed to the conference. The conference consist of 3 key-note papers and 132 regular papers presented over 3 days. Parallel to the SLD4 Conference a symposium on Concrete Modelling (CONMOD2018) and a workshop honouring Professor Klaas van Breugel were organised with topics that are related to Service Life Design. In total more than 350 participants took part in the events organised during the RILEM week 2018

Procjena recentnih gubitaka šume u Bosni i Hercegovini korištenjem Copernicus i Corine land cover baze podataka

The analysis of data from the first two decades of the 21st century shows that the area under forests in Bosnia and Herzegovina is gradually decreasing. In order to gain a detailed insight into this process, the paper will analyse the forest databases of the European satellite monitoring program Copernicus. This program, among other things, monitors the condition of forests in 39 European countries by using the High Resolution Layer (HRL). The HRL Forests database consists of 3 types of (status) products, and additional change products. The status products are available for the reference years 2012, 2015, and 2018. The status layers provide information on the Dominant Leaf Type and the Tree Cover Density at pixel level for the reference year 2018 in 10 m resolution. The Forest Type layer largely follows the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) forest definition. Also, the paper will use the data on forests from the CORINE Land Cover project for 2000, 2006, 2012 and 2018. The time-series includes a land change layer, highlighting changes in land cover and land use. The CLC Changes database will be analysed separately for three periods: 2000-2006, 2006-2012 and 2012-2018, due to more accurate data on forest losses. The results of the research show that forests in Bosnia and Herzegovina were reduced by 2.95%, in the period 2012-2018, where 2.55% of them were coniferous. Forests are primarily endangered by the process of conversion to transitional forest / shrub and fires.Analiza podataka iz prve dvije dekade 21. stoljeća pokazuje da se teritorija pod šumom u Bosni i Hercegovini postepeno smanjuje. Da bi dobili detaljan uvid u taj proces u radu će biti analizirana baza podataka o šumama Europskog satelitskog monitoring programa Copernicus. Ovaj program, između ostalog, prati stanje šuma u 39 europskih zemalja koristeći bazu podataka slojeva visoke rezolucije High Resolution Layer (HRL). HRL Forest baza podataka sadrži tri tipa (statusnih) produkata i dodatni produkt o promjenama. Statusni produkti su dostupni za 2012, 2015. i 2018. godinu. Statusni slojevi daju informacije o dominantnom tipu lista i gustini šumskog pokrivača na pikselskom nivou za referentnu godinu 2018. prostorne rezolucije 10 m. Forest Type sloj u najvećem dijelu prati FAO definiciju šume. Osim toga, u radu će biti korišteni podaci CORINE Land Cover (CLC) projekta za 2000, 2006, 2012. i 2018. godinu. Vremenska serija uključuje i sloj o promjenama, koji prikazuje promjene u tipovima površinske pokrovnosti i načinu korištenja zemljišta. Baza podataka o promjenama (CLC Changes) za sva tri perioda bit će analizirana zasebno: 2000-2006, 2006-2012. i 2012-2018, radi veće preciznosti podataka o gubitcima šumskog tla. Rezultati istraživanja pokazuju da su šume u BiH u periodu 2012-2018. smanjile površinu za 2,95%, od čega su 2,55% četinari. Šume su najugroženije procesima konverzije u tranzicijsku šumu/šikaru i požarima