We summarize, categorize, and analyze the various kinds of educational robotics initiatives in Slovakia and share our experience we have obtained while organizing the contests and preparing non-contest robotics educational activities. We argue that the team-work is highly undervalued in the current school system, and that robotics contests and project work are a very suitable platform to streng...

Varga L. (2008): Hercinothrips femoralis (Reuter, 1891) – a new pest thrips (Thysanoptera: Panchaetothripinae) in Slovakia. Plant Protect Sci., 44: 114–118. Monitoring of pest species in plant production and extended trade on ornamental plant material, including precise identification, are the main goals of modern plant protection. As a result, a new species of phytophagous thrips – Hercinothri...

I. Pernis, J. Kasala, Alexander Dubček University of Trenčin, Faculty of Special Technology, Trenčin, Slovakia, D. Žabecká, Technical university of Košice, Faculty of Metallurgy, Košice, Slovakia The paper deals with the tribological properties of investigated types of hardfacing materials at erosive wear process. Infl uence of impact angle of abrasive grains on wear resistance and microhardnes...

{ } dB PSD T F , , { } dB PSD T F , , { } dB PSD T F , , An Experiment with Evaluation of Emotional Speech Conversion by Spectrograms J. Přibil 1, 2 and A. Přibilová 3 1 Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Academy of Sciences CR, v.v.i., Chaberská 57, CZ-182 51 Prague 8, Czech Republic 2 Institute of Measurement Science, SAS, Dúbravská cesta 9, SK-841 04 Bratislava, Slovakia, umerprib@savba...

The data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled "Habitat preferences of Hericium erinaceus in Slovakia" (Kunca and Čiliak, 2016) [FUNECO607] [2]. The dataset include all available and unpublished data from Slovakia, besides the records from the same tree or stem. We compiled a database of records of collections by processing data from herbaria, personal records a...

Although passive sampling has been previously used for the monitoring of volatile and semi-volatile contaminants in air, there are limited data on the use of this technique coupled with bioassays based on specific biological responses. Biological responses including those mediated by the aryl hydrocarbon (AhR) receptor as well as (anti-)estrogenicity and (anti-)androgenicity of samples from fou...

BACKGROUND Despite a variety of efficient and cost-effective antihypertensive medication, hypertension remains a serious health and economic burden. High consumption of cardiovascular drugs in the Slovak Republic does result neither in better hypertension control nor in significant decrease in cardiovascular mortality. At the same time, Slovakia has alarmingly low patients' adherence to medicat...

INTRODUCTION In 2007, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia joined the Schengen Agreement, abolishing restrictions on people crossing the borders. Currently, these areas are places of population movements for economic, family, and touristic reasons. This favors the transmission of infectious diseases, including tuberculosis, and requires enhanced control over the spread of the source of infe...

Correspondence address: Jana Navarová, PhD. President of the Society Slovak Toxicology Society SETOX Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava, Slovak Republic TEL.: +421-2-59410679 • E-MAIL: [email protected] world. She took an active part in the education of Slovak pharmacologists, and she supported the development pharmacology, actively helping young Slovak pharmacologists obtain postgraduat...

Forests provide important ecosystem services, and protected areas around the world are intended to reduce human disturbance on forests. The question is how forest cover is changing in different parts of the world, why some areas are more frequently disturbed, and if protected areas are effective in limiting anthropogenic forest disturbance. The Carpathians are Eastern Europe's largest contiguou...