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The beginning of the XXI century was marked by a transitional period in the formation of the world energy system. The issue of energy saving is characterized by significant diversity and is a necessary strategic direction for the efficient use of production capacity with optimal energy costs. Intensive economic development and the use of non-renewable natural resources are currently of concern due to the danger of disturbing the ecological balance in the environment due to the burning of huge amounts of fossil fuels and emissions of various harmful substances. Biofuel production is becoming an alternative to traditional energy and can be a guarantee of solving problems of energy efficient and environmentally friendly development of rural areas. This work is a continuation of research work on the efficiency of biofuels production from energy crops and waste. The aim of the research is to assess the importance of biofuels production from the energy, economic and social aspects for sustainable development of rural areas of the world and Ukraine in particular. The conducted SWOT-analysis made it possible to determine the strategic directions of world biofuels production development. The results showed that biofuels production has a significant potential to decarbonize the economy, reduce reliance on crude oil, improve the environment by reducing emissions, create new “green” jobs in rural areas. The combination of social, economic and energy benefits will have a synergistic effect.
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Natalia Pryshliak
1
ORCID: ORCID
Dina Tokarchuk
1
ORCID: ORCID
Hanna Shevchuk
1
ORCID: ORCID

  1. Management and Law, Vinnytsia National Agrarian University, Ukraine
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The rapid and accurate detection and identification of coal gangue is one of the premises and key technologies of the intelligent separation of coal gangue, which is of considerable importance for the separation of coal gangue. Focusing on the problems in the current deep learning algorithms for the detection and recognition of coal gangue, such as large model memory and slow detection speed, a rapid detection method for lightweight coal gangue is proposed. YOLOv3 is taken as the basic structure and improved. The MobileNetv2 lightweight feature extraction network is selected to replace Darknet53 as the main network of the detection algorithm to improve the detection speed. Spatial pyramid pooling (SPP) is added after the backbone network to convert different feature maps into fixed feature maps in order to improve the positioning accuracy and detection capability of the algorithm, thereby obtaining the lightweight network MS-YOLOV3. The experimental equipment was set up and multi-condition coal and gangue datasets were constructed. The model was trained and the identification and positioning results of the model were tested under different sizes, illumination intensities and various working conditions, and compared with other algorithms. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can detect the coal gangue quickly and accurately, with an mAP of 99.08%, a speed of 139 fps and a memory occupation of only 9.2 M. In addition, the algorithm can effectively detect mutually stacking coal and gangue of different quantities and sizes under different lights with high confidence and with a certain degree of environmental robustness and practicability. Compared with the YOLOv3, the performance of the proposed algorithm is significantly improved. Under the premise that the accuracy is unchanged, the FPS increases by 127.9% and the memory decreases by 96.2%. Therefore, the MS-YOLOv3 algorithm has the advantages of small memory, high accuracy and fast speed, which can provide online technical support for the detection and identification of coal and gangue.
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Deyong Li
1
Guofa Wang
2
ORCID: ORCID
Shuang Wang
3
Wenshan Wang
3
Ming Du
3

  1. State Key Laboratory of Mining Response and Disaster Prevention and Control in Deep Coal Mines, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan 232001, China
  2. Collaborative Innovation Center for Mine Intelligent Technology and Equipment, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan 232001, China
  3. China Coal Technology Engineering Group Coal Mining Research Institute, Beijing 100013, China
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In the execution of edge detection algorithms and clustering algorithms to segment image containing ore and soil, ore images with very similar textural features cannot be segmented effectively when the two algorithms are used alone. This paper proposes a novel image segmentation method based on the fusion of a confidence edge detection algorithm and a mean shift algorithm, which integrates image color, texture and spatial features. On the basis of the initial segmentation results obtained by the mean shift segmentation algorithm, the edge information of the image is extracted by using the edge detection algorithm based on the confidence degree, and the edge detection results are applied to the initial segmentation region results to optimize and merge the ore or pile belonging to the same region. The experimental results show that this method can successfully overcome the shortcomings of the respective algorithm and has a better segmentation results for the ore, which effectively solves the problem of over segmentation.
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Feng Jin
1 2
ORCID: ORCID
Kai Zhan
1
Shengjie Chen
1
Shuwei Huang
1
ORCID: ORCID
Yuansheng Zhang
1

  1. BGRIMM Technology Group, China
  2. University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
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The paper describes climatic conditions of the north-western part of Oscar II Land (Spitsbergen) based on meteorological data from 1975 to 2000, which were taken from Ny Ĺlesund and Kaffiöyra-Heggodden stations. The changes in annual courses of main climatic elements are investigated. However, the authors focused mainly on the analysis of summer climate, because most of the field work is conducted at this time of the year. Aside from the standard climatic analysis, the influence of atmospheric circulation on selected meteorological elements was also investigated. The climate of the north-western part of Oscar II Land was compared with the climates of the remaining areas of the western coast of Spitsbergen . It was found that the climate of the studied area differs considerably from the climate of the central-inner and southern parts of the western coast of Spitsbergen (areas represented by the Svalbard Lufthavn and Hornsund stations respectively). The differences in climatic elements, however, are not stable throughout the year and in particular seasons and months can even change signs. Thus, any generalisation of results obtained based on seasonal data is inadmissible. It was also found that the wind conditions of the Kaffiöyra region are more representative of the north-western part of Oscar II Land than are the wind conditions of the Ny Ĺlesund region.

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Rajmund Przybylak
Andrzej Araźny
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Founding myths constitute the substrate of national identities and political orders. Especially in times of political change, the significance of such myths becomes clear as conflicts develop around them, in which various political forces attempt to embed the power of interpretation of a founding event in their programmes. In Poland, this is clearly demonstrated by the continuing polarizing power of political camps around the founding myths of the Third Polish Republic: „Solidarność“ and the Round Table. For that reason, they attempt to personify them to a high degree in the person of Lech Wałęsa. As a representative example, his behaviour serves as a reference for the legitimation of the political programme of the struggling political forces. By using both, the narrative of traitor and hero as sources of reference, political action is justified because of the denial or recognition of the founding myths. The only unifying dogma is once again anticommunism.
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Dawid Mohr
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The aim of this article is to present the relation between Christianity and Korean culture. The problem here is not the concept of Christianity, but the concept of Korean culture. In the Korean thought is hard to distinguish between religion and philosophy. Philosophy, religion and culture are synonyms for “philosophy of life”.

The original Korean philosophy is Shamanism and received from China Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. In the case of Christianity we have to consider Catholic Church, Protestant Church and Orthodox Church. Special attention we have to pay to the Korean theology, which is based on Korean tradition. Special role in the history of Catholic Church in Korea played Korean martyrs. Sanguis martyrum, semen christianorum.

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Ks. Antoni Kość SVD
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Similarity assessment between 3D models is an important problem in many fields including medicine, biology and industry. As there is no direct method to compare 3D geometries, different model representations (shape signatures) are developed to enable shape description, indexing and clustering. Even though some of those descriptors proved to achieve high classification precision, their application is often limited. In this work, a different approach to similarity assessment of 3D CAD models was presented. Instead of focusing on one specific shape signature, 45 easy-to-extract shape signatures were considered simultaneously. The vector of those features constituted an input for 3 machine learning algorithms: the random forest classifier, the support vector classifier and the fully connected neural network. The usefulness of the proposed approach was evaluated with a dataset consisting of over 1600 CAD models belonging to 9 separate classes. Different values of hyperparameters, as well as neural network configurations, were considered. Retrieval accuracy exceeding 99% was achieved on the test dataset.

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Authors and Affiliations

Dawid Machalica
1
Marek Matyjewski
2

  1. Warsaw Institute of Aviation, Warsaw, Poland.
  2. Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics, Warsaw, Poland.

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