1. InTroduCTIon The world around us is full of artificially gathered data. Upon that data we draw conclusions and make decisions, which possibly influence the future of our society. The difficulty hereby is not the data acquisition – we already have plenty – but our ability to process it (Gold-haber, 1997). Arising from this circumstance, at least two demands for data preparation can be identif...

Richard Preston's timing could not have been better. In August 1994, only a few weeks before his new book appeared in bookstores, alarming national newspaper headlines informed the public of a scientist becoming infected with the exotic Sabia arenavirus after a laboratory centrifuge accident at the Yale Arbovirus Research Unit. Following the scientist's relatively rapid recovery under ribavirin...

The article presents a method of forecasting the deformation land surface over large fields underground gas storage facilities located in salt caverns. solution allows for taking into account many parameters characterising operation facilities, such as cavern processes (leaching, enlargement, operational, etc.), their depth, distribution, diameter, shape, and others. advantage applied other ava...