Profesori Prírodovedeckej fakulty UPJŠ v Košiciach 1963 – 2023

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Pavol Mártonfi

The university textbook deals with the latest knowledge from the systematics of vascular plants in a clear manner. Vascular plants arose in the Silurian period in the Paleozoic, when the first primitive plants moved from water to dry land, which required evolutionary progress in the morphological and anatomical structure of these plants. During about 420 million years of the existence of vascular plants, several of their main groups have evolved: the spore vascular plants, including the lycopods (branch Lycopodiophyta) and group of ferns and related plants (branch Monilophyta), and the seed plants, including gymnosperms (branch Gymnospermae) and angiosperms ( Angiospermae), which currently dominate among plants. The textbook provides a brief but comprehensive overview of the main groups, orders and families of plants with their description, distribution, main representatives, while also addressing the useful properties of selected species. The work is complemented by an overview of the system of plants by Cronquist, Tachtadžjan, APG and an overview of the families of the Slovak flora, as well as a taxonomic index.

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Marek Bombara

The collection of exercises summarises and supplements the exercises realised at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice within the lecture course Elementary Particle Physics. The collection is intended for the master students of the Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics subject, but it could be beneficial also for other physics subjects or even for interdisciplinary study. 

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Jana Shepa (ed.)

The book of abstracts from 6th International Conference on Nanomaterials: Fundamentals and Applications, NFA 2022 is composed of contributions from the participants of this international conference. The conference consisted of 4 invited lecture and 52 abstracts of participants. The conference is focused on nanotechnology and its application in various research areas. All contributions are professionally processed and inspiring.

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Erik Bruoth - Juraj Šebej - Ľubomír Antoni

In these university-level textbooks, we present the fundamental concepts of networks and graph theory. We explore breadth-first and depth-first graph searching. We present static and dynamic network models. We describe the issue of detecting overlapping and non-overlapping communities in directed and undirected networks. Various approaches to anomaly detection in networks also form an important part of this textbook. The final chapter is dedicated to spectral clustering, which plays a significant role in data mining in network graphs for various application domains.

These textbooks are suitable for first and second-year university students in computer science programs. The study materials are also suitable for students in non-computer science fields, with the aim of improving their knowledge and practical experience in computer science-related areas, and provide an opportunity for students to find employment in IT companies to solve practical tasks.

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Janetta Nestorová Dická

The university handbook Elementals of Population Geography and Demography - Part I, as an introduction to population studies, is primary study material for students of the geography study program, as well as for students of the Information Systems in Public Administration study program at the Pavel Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, but also for the wider public interested in about population phenomena and their spatiality. Among other things, the handbook offers the latest population reports in the world and its regions. The aim of the handbook is to introduce young geographers to the basics of population research, which includes the most frequently used tools and methods in geographic analysis. The first part of the handbook contains an introduction to the scientific disciplines of population geography and demography with an overview of basic sources of demographic data. The next part discusses the issue of anthropogenesis, i.e. the development of humans from our ancestors and the spatial spread of humans across our Earth. Part of this part is the recent development of the world population and changes in the size and distribution of the global population over time. The last part analyses how the population is distributed in the world and in relation to the geographical components of the space.

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Ľubomír Antoni a kol.

In university textbooks, we present the history of data science, basic concepts in artificial intelligence, machine learning, or deep learning. We describe the relationships between data science and other disciplines and summarize the tasks of the data scientist. We present an overview of university subjects in the field of data science, which were created and innovated at Slovak universities within the national project IT Academy - Education for the 21st Century. We present extended subject annotations, application examples and case studies using various methods in the field of data science. University textbooks are intended for students of bachelor's, master's, engineering and doctoral study programs in computer science, but also in non-informatics fields.

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Katarína Cechlárová

Linear programming belongs to parts of mathematics with the greatest number of real applications. This Slovak-English problem collection provides an overview of basic knowledge in the area, application problems as well as problems to acquire routine in calculations. It is complemented by questions motivating the student to look for further theoretical principles, construct conterexamples  and formulate arguments to explain the studied phenomena.

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Igor Hudec - Ľubomír Kováč 

The study course provides the basic knowledge on the fundamental parameters, relationships and processes in ecological sciences. Brief content: ecological factors and relations to environment (air, water, soil); influence of ecological factors upon organisms (morphological adaptations, behavioural responses); populations and communities (external and internal parameters of populations, population dynamics); ecosystems (impact assessment) and biomes (basic features and human impact); cycles (hydrologic, gaseous, sedimentation) of basic elements on Earth.  

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Rudolf Gális

Predkladaná práca podáva základné poznatky z astronómie a astrofyziky úplne novou multimediálnou formou. Rozsah podávaných poznatkov je zameraný hlavne na stelárnu astrofyziku a doplnený o kozmológiu nad rámec názvu práce. 
Novým prístupom v práci je veľký podiel obrazového materiálu, grafov a videoklipov a naopak stručnosť sprievodného textu. Takáto forma predkladania poznatkov v danej problematike nemá zatiaľ na Slovensku obdobu, a preto túto prácu môžeme považovať za úplne novátorské dielo. Treba však zdôrazniť, že pútavá forma predkladaných poznatkov nie je na úkor ich obsahu. V práci sú všetky potrebné informácie, ktoré by mal zvládnuť študent fyziky hlavne pedagogického zamerania. Práca taktiež môže byť neoceniteľnou pomôckou pedagógom na stredných, ale aj základných školách, ako aj profesionálnym pracovníkom – astronómom pri popularizovaní astronomických poznatkov. Toto naznačuje, že práca pokrýva pomerne široké spektrum potrieb na rôznych pracoviskách zaoberajúcich sa astronómiou, a to od univerzít, cez pedagogické fakulty a gymnáziá až po hvezdárne, planetáriá a astronomické krúžky.

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Jana Šandrejová - Andrea Gajdošová (eds.)

The scientific book of abstracts from the conference „Novel Trends in Chemistry, Research and Education 2024“ is a summary of the contributions of conference participants, which contain the original results of their scientific and research activities. The contributions published in this volume are divided according to content into the fields of analytical, inorganic, organic, physical chemistry, biochemistry and didactics of chemistry.

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Zuzana Kudličková(ed.)

Zborník abstraktov z vedeckej konferencie s medzinárodnou účasťou organizovanej ku 50. výročiu založenia Katedry organickej chémie PF UPJŠ v Košiciach, konanej v dňoch 08-10.06.2016 v Košiciach.

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Miroslav Repčák - Martin Bačkor - Peter Paľove-Balang - Silvia Gajdošová

Zriadenie cvičebne fyziológie rastlín na Katedre botaniky PF UPJŠ v Košiciach v roku 1969 bolo spojené s menom Ing. Štefana Kocúrika, CSc. (1923 - 2006), ktorý spracoval aj prvé „Návody na cvičenia z fyziológie rastlín“ (Košice 1972, 1976). Od roku 1980 sa využívala príručka doc. RNDr. Karola Erdelského, CSc. a Ing. Fridricha Friča, DrSc. „Praktikum a analytické metódy vo fyziológii rastlín“ (Bratislava 1980).
Po zvýšení počtu študentov, sa v roku 1991 ukázalo aktuálnym vydať „Návody na cvičenia z fyziológie rastlín“ v záujme lepšej prípravy a efektívnej organizácie práce na cvičeniach. Doc. RNDr. A. Košturiak, CSc. svojimi podnetnými radami prispel k podstatnému rozšíreniu úvodnej časti návodov, za čo sú mu autori zaviazaní vďakou.
Pre štvrté vydanie sme inovovali a modernizovali niektoré úlohy a zohľadnili sme možnosti inovovanej praktikárne. Výber úloh sme prispôsobili aktuálnemu rozsahu cvičení jednotlivých predmetov fyziológie rastlín v bakalárskych a magisterských študijných programoch biológie a ekológie. Ide o predmety: Fyziológia rastlín, Metabolizmus rastlín, Minerálna výživa rastlín, Rast a vývin rastlín a Ekológia rastlín. Niektoré úlohy sú vhodné tiež pre stredoškolské pokusy. Výber tém ovplyvnila výskumná orientácia nášho pracoviska na sekundárny metabolizmus, ekofyziológiu a liečivé rastliny. V návodoch sa spravidla pridržiavame jednotiek SI sústavy, niekedy uvádzame iné zaužívané jednotky.

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Vladimír Sedlák

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Katarína Štrofeková

Cell Biophysics II is the one semester comprehensive course textbook for PhD students. It encompasses basic principles and mechanisms underlying cell physiology and biophysics with aims:

• General knowledge of the principles of cellular function, including membrane, cytoplasmic and nuclear roles in normal and abnormal conditions.
• In-depth understanding of the mechanisms underlying the cell functions at the molecular and subcellular level.
• Awareness of cell pathologies that lead to specific disease symptoms and phenotypes.
• The ability to apply learned principles to solve new problems (analysis & synthesis).

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Jana Shepa (ed.)

The book of abstracts from the second year of the international conference Spring electrochemical meeting is composed of contributions from the participants of this student conference.

The conference consisted of one invited lecture and ten competing student lectures. The message of this meeting is to create a dialogue between students of electrochemistry and the mutual exchange of knowledge. All contributions are professionally processed and inspiring.

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Jozef Bednarčík (ed.)

The SFEL school is continuation of the Winter Schools of Synchrotron radiation held in 2011, 2013, 2014 and SFEL 2017, 2018 and 2019. All schools of the series were held here, in Liptovský Ján, where our conference venue offers conditions for friendly and creative atmosphere. The aim of the SFEL 2022 school is to facilitate the growth of a new Slovak research community with high expertise in the area of high-efficiency RTG laser, synchrotron and neutron sources. The SFEL school is designed for efficient transfer of the rapidly developing know-howin these areas to young generation – researchers and university students. The next aim of the SFEL2022 is strengthening of personal connections between the local Slovak research community and actually forming scientific teams of XFEL users, scientific teams of synchrotron or neutron sources users, respectively. Slovak research community thus can take advantage of the fact that Slovakia is a shareholder of the European XFEL GmbH company in Hamburg, but also makes more efficient use of other closely related scientific facilities, including ILL and ESRF in Grenoble and DESY in Hamburg.

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