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Composting of Waste from Poultry Breeding – Biological Analysis
The objective of this study was primarily to determine the course of biological composition changes of wastes during composting. Here presented are the results of the bacteriological, mycological and parasitological composition analyses of composts consisting of: goose and broiler excrements from ecological farms, remainders of goose intestines from slaughterhouses, goose feather waste collected on the sieves of the farm wastewater treatment plants, as well as sewage sludge from slaughterhouse wastewater treatment plants and poultry processing plants. Ground pine bark, pine shavings and rye straw chaff was used as an addition to the composting mixture. The investigation of the composting process in static piles lasting 120 days was carried out in winter conditions
in the area near the aforementioned wastewater treatment plant of an industrial complex situated in Lower Silesia (the south-western region of Poland), the complex specializing in breeding, slaughtering and processing of poultry
On the k-Boundedness for Existential Rules
The chase is a fundamental tool for existential rules. Several chase variants
are known, which differ on how they handle redundancies possibly caused by the
introduction of nulls. Given a chase variant, the halting problem takes as
input a set of existential rules and asks if this set of rules ensures the
termination of the chase for any factbase. It is well-known that this problem
is undecidable for all known chase variants. The related problem of boundedness
asks if a given set of existential rules is bounded, i.e., whether there is a
predefined upper bound on the number of (breadth-first) steps of the chase,
independently from any factbase. This problem is already undecidable in the
specific case of datalog rules. However, knowing that a set of rules is bounded
for some chase variant does not help much in practice if the bound is unknown.
Hence, in this paper, we investigate the decidability of the k-boundedness
problem, which asks whether a given set of rules is bounded by an integer k. We
prove that k-boundedness is decidable for three chase variants, namely the
oblivious, semi-oblivious and restricted chase.Comment: 20 pages, revised version of the paper published at RuleML+RR 201
Utilization of Electrohydrodynamic Cavitation in Primary Sludge Conditioning
This paper presents a brief characterization of the method of electrochemical conditioning of sludge, using the effect of low-temperature plasma. Primary sludge from the municipal wastewater treatment plant in Gorzów was analysed. The sludge was conditioned electrochemically, chemically with calcium hydroxide and dihydrogen dioxide, and using a combined method – electrochemical and chemical. For each conditioned sludge its settlement characteristics, hydration, dry mass content, organic and mineral
substances, calculated and measured specific filtration resistance, effectiveness of filtration, iron content in ash, as well as energy-consumption in the process were determined. For the electrochemical, chemical and combined processes of primary sludge conditioning, their courses were compared. It was proved that (1) processes of conditioning cause changes in properties of primary sludge; (2) electrochemical conditioning causes mineralization
and stabilization; (3) dewaterability of sludge is improved; (4) the process can be supported using additionally calcium hydroxide and dihydrogen dioxide; (5) optimization of the process can be performed only by improving the effectiveness of selected process parameters
Disclination vortices in elastic media
The vortex-like solutions are studied in the framework of the gauge model of
disclinations in elastic continuum. A complete set of model equations with
disclination driven dislocations taken into account is considered. Within the
linear approximation an exact solution for a low-angle wedge disclination is
found to be independent from the coupling constants of the theory. As a result,
no additional dimensional characteristics (like the core radius of the defect)
are involved. The situation changes drastically for 2\pi vortices where two
characteristic lengths, l_\phi and l_W, become of importance. The asymptotical
behaviour of the solutions for both singular and nonsingular 2\pi vortices is
studied. Forces between pairs of vortices are calculated.Comment: 13 pages, published versio
GRB030406 an extremely hard burst outside of the INTEGRAL field of view
Using the IBIS Compton mode, the INTEGRAL satellite is able to detect and
localize bright and hard GRBs, which happen outside of the nominal INTEGRAL
telescopes field of view. We have developed a method of analyzing such INTEGRAL
data to obtain the burst location and spectra. We present the results for the
case of GRB030406. The burst is localized with the Compton events, and the
location is consistent with the previous Interplanetary Network position. A
spectral analysis is possible with the detailed modeling of the detector
response for such a far off-axis source with the offset of 36.9 . The
average spectrum of the burst is extremely hard: the photon index above 400
\kev is -1.7, with no evidence of a break up to 1.1 \mev at 90% confidence
level.Comment: Astronomy and Astrophysics in pres
POLAR: a space borne GRB polarimeter
International audienceThe direction and the level of polarization of high energy photons emitted by astrophysics sources are valuable observables for the understanding of the corresponding emission mechanisms, source geometry and strength of magnetic fields at work. POLAR is a novel compact space-borne detector conceived for a precise measurement of hard X-ray polarization and optimized for the detection of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) photons in the energy range 50-500 keV. In POLAR, the GRB photons undergo Compton scattering in a target made out of 1600 plastic scintillator bars. The azimuthal distribution of the scattered photons inside the target provides the information on the GRB polarization. The target is divided into 5x5 units, each one consisting of 8x8 scintillator bars optically coupled with a multi-anode photomultiplier. POLAR, thanks to its large modulation factor (mu_100=40%), its large effective area (Aeff = 250 cm2), and its large field of view ( 1/3 of the sky) will be able to determine the degree and angle of polarization of a strong GRB with a minimum detectable polarization of less than 10% (3sigma). In this communication the present design and status of the POLAR project is presented. Expected results through deep Monte Carlo simulation studies as well as the recent results of laboratory measurements are detailed
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