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Review Of Pollution Sources Of Sitnica River, Kosovo And Approaches For Improving The River Quality, Ermal Daka Oct 2019

Review Of Pollution Sources Of Sitnica River, Kosovo And Approaches For Improving The River Quality, Ermal Daka

UBT International Conference

The paper aims to provide an overview and in-depth analysis concerning the main sources of pollution of Sitnica River in the section from its springs to discharge into Ibër River. All the existing emitters discharging into the river and its tributaries are analyzed and ranked according to their impact on the river body in terms of pollution load. The main source of pollution appears to be the untreated domestic and industrial wastewater, as the pressure increases with the increasing of population living in the river basin. Different wastewater management approaches (centralized and decentralized) are proposed for the most significant emitters …


Passive Control Of Structures, Feti Selmani Oct 2019

Passive Control Of Structures, Feti Selmani

UBT International Conference

Lately, powerful earthquakes stroke some parts of the world, while the Balkan Peninsula was hit by moderate ones. During a powerful earthquake, a building structure is invaded by an enormous quantity of kinetic energy . As far as the manner is concerned, this energy it is initially absorbed, and thereafter distributed throughout building structure relying not only to the reaction of structure as a whole, or structural elements in particular, but the nature, the distribution and the quantity of the damages also. As Nikola Tesla once quoted:“If you want to find the secrets of universe, think in terms of energy, …