Experiences and opportunities in teaching ukrainian students at the faculty of mining and geoengineering in AGH University of Science and Technology

The paper presents the influence of various factors on the process of internationalisation of higher education in Poland, and particularly in AGH University of Science and Technology from the perspective of the Faculty of Mining and Geoengineering. It lays out educational opportunities for learners at mining and geology study courses, and the benefits stemming therefrom for international students, including students from Ukraine. Possibilities of academic exchange were discussed and that of international cooperation, in particular with Ukraine, in order to support the potential of science and higher education in both countries. Lastly, factors were indicated in favour of taking education with AGH

PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION Automatic Telephone Dialing Equipment: Establish Regulations

The Act regulates the use of automatic telephone dialing and announcing equipment within the state. This equipment can be used only by permit-holders and when prior permission of the recipient is obtained, with certain exceptions, and only between certain hours. The caller must be identified and an automatic disconnection is required. The Public Service Commission is responsible for enforcement. June 1, 198

COURTS Minors: Provide for Parental Notification of Abortion

The Act amends the code to grant juvenile courts jurisdiction over proceedings concerning a minor\u27s right to waive notice to her parents of her abortion and adds a new article which requires the unemancipated minor seeking an abortion to be accompanied by an adult. The accompanying adult must either be her parent or guardian and sign an affidavit to that effect, or sign an affidavit that the parent has been notified about the abortion, or that there is no parent or legal guardian and that the person who stands in loco parentis for this minor has been notified. Further, the minor must sign the affidavit and must also sign a consent form stating that she seeks the abortion freely and without coercion. A judicial bypass procedure is created whereby the minor can obtain a waiver of the notice requirement from the judicial court. July 1, 198

COURTS Minors: Provide for Parental Notification of Abortion

The Act amends the code to grant juvenile courts jurisdiction over proceedings concerning a minor\u27s right to waive notice to her parents of her abortion and adds a new article which requires the unemancipated minor seeking an abortion to be accompanied by an adult. The accompanying adult must either be her parent or guardian and sign an affidavit to that effect, or sign an affidavit that the parent has been notified about the abortion, or that there is no parent or legal guardian and that the person who stands in loco parentis for this minor has been notified. Further, the minor must sign the affidavit and must also sign a consent form stating that she seeks the abortion freely and without coercion. A judicial bypass procedure is created whereby the minor can obtain a waiver of the notice requirement from the judicial court. July 1, 198

Slow antiferromagnetic dynamics in the low temperature tetragonal phase of La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4 as revealed by ESR of Gd spin probes

Measuring the ESR of Gd spin probes we have studied the magnetic properties of the copper oxide planes in the low temperature tetragonal (LTT) phase of Eu doped La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4. The data give evidence that at particular levels of Sr and Eu doping the frequency of the antiferromagnetic fluctuations in the LTT phase dramatically decreases at low temperatures by almost three orders of magnitude. However, no static magnetic order has been found for T>8K in contrast to the observation by neutron scattering of stripe ordering of spins below 50K in a Nd doped La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4 single crystal. To our opinion static order in the Nd doped compound is induced due to the interaction between the Cu spins with the rare earth magnetic moments. Therefore, a really characteristic property of the magnetism in the LTT structural phase may be not static magnetic order at elevated temperatures but rather extremely slow antiferromagnetic dynamics.Comment: 12 pages RevTex, 2 EPS figures, to appear in Phys.Rev.B, Feb.,9

COURTS Minors: Provide for Parental Notification of Abortion

The Act amends a 1987 law enjoined and found unconstitutional by a federal district court. The 1988 Act amends the 1987 law by deleting the provisions requiring an adult to accompany a minor seeking an abortion to the abortion facility, by providing alternative methods of verification of parental notification, and by changing certain provisions including those relating to confidentiality, jurisdiction, and the standard for granting judicial waiver

COURTS Minors: Provide for Parental Notification of Abortion

The Act amends a 1987 law enjoined and found unconstitutional by a federal district court. The 1988 Act amends the 1987 law by deleting the provisions requiring an adult to accompany a minor seeking an abortion to the abortion facility, by providing alternative methods of verification of parental notification, and by changing certain provisions including those relating to confidentiality, jurisdiction, and the standard for granting judicial waiver

Limiting nutrient contaminants from agricultural non-point sources: Nutrient monitoring at EKU’s Meadowbrook Farm, Madison County, Kentucky

Sources of contamination to U.S. waterways have largely shifted from industrial, point sources to agricultural and other non-point sources associated with common human activities. EKU’s Meadowbrook Farm explores best-practices in agriculture and animal husbandry that not only act to increase the efficiency of farm operations, but also to limit environmental effects such as the eutrophification of its neighboring watershed. We recently started a collaboration with the Farm and the EKU Department of Agriculture, which are developing methods to sequester phosphorus and thus limit nutrient export to the adjacent Muddy Creek watershed. Our task is to quantify the amount of phosphorus (mainly as orthophosphate, PO43-) and other nutrients (ammonium, NH4+; nitrate, NO3-) leaving the Farm at key points of egress both before and after sequestration efforts begin. We will then compare initial phosphorus export estimates to those obtained after sequestration begins in order to characterize its utility and effectiveness. Phosphorus export will be directly related to runoff and rainfall events that vary considerably from season-to-season and from year-to-year. We aim to monitor phosphorus (and nitrogen) concentrations over a period of 2-3 years both before and after phosphorus sequestration begins, establishing a monitoring period of 4 to 6 years total. Some preliminary results are given by Buskirk et al., Evans et al., and Kelley et al. at this conference

Mediation of eutrophication of surface and subsurface water from non-point sources: Nutrient monitoring at Meadowbrook Farm (Madison County, Kentucky)

Non-point sources from various human activities such as farming have replaced industrial point sources as contributors of many contaminants in surface and subsurface waters of the United States. Eastern Kentucky University’s Meadowbrook Farm (720 acres, ~2.9 km2; Madison County, Kentucky) is a teaching facility dedicated to improving farming techniques and discovering best practices for farm operations that include minimizing environmental impacts. Agricultural activities on the Farm contribute nutrients to the Muddy Creek (Kentucky River) watershed that promote eutrophication and degrade water quality. Farm management already uses protocols to mediate drainage of dissolved nitrogen off the Farm, but also wants to limit phosphorus contributions by developing a phosphorus sequestration program. To correctly access the success of sequestration, phosphorus export from the farm must be quantified before sequestration efforts begin and then after implementation. For the next several years before phosphorus sequestration begins, we will quantify nutrient export of a representative portion of the farm acreage by measuring stream discharge and nutrients (orthophosphate, PO43-; total phosphorous; nitrate, NO3-; and ammonium, NH4+) over a constructed weir. Once sequestration begins we will continue to monitor nutrient export and compare before-and-after results to test the efficacy of phosphorus sequestration efforts. Our team initiated work to characterize nutrient drainage from the Farm in summer 2016. Geology and farming combine to control runoff and the nutrient content of Meadowbrook Farm waters. Two main overland drainages are developed on the Farm and a series of 10 springs drain into Muddy Creek on the Farm’s southern and eastern borders. Springs emanate from the Boyle Dolomite (Silurian) and often connect to surface drainage, which can then run for as little as 10 m or up to 100’s of meters before entering Muddy Creek. Crop area of the Farm is underlain by a network of tile drains, some of which discharge directly into Muddy Creek whereas others discharge into channels that feed overland drainage. Our team sampled waters from all 3 major sources and from Muddy Creek to assess dissolved nutrient levels with results given as a series of student poster presentations presented at this conference

Reducing False Alarms of Intensive Care Online-Monitoring Systems: An Evaluation of Two Signal Extraction Algorithms

Online-monitoring systems in intensive care are affected by a high rate of false threshold alarms. These are caused by irrelevant noise and outliers in the measured time series data. The high false alarm rates can be lowered by separating relevant signals from noise and outliers online, in such a way that signal estimations, instead of raw measurements, are compared to the alarm limits. This paper presents a clinical validation study for two recently developed online signal filters. The filters are based on robust repeated median regression in moving windows of varying width. Validation is done offline using a large annotated reference database. The performance criteria are sensitivity and the proportion of false alarms suppressed by the signal filters