NOVEL TRENDS IN CHEMISTRY, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION at the Faculty of Science of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice 2023

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Vladimír Komanický

The aim of this textbook is to acquaint students in physics, chemistry and material science on both undergraduate and graduate level, with the techniques used to prepare micro-electromechanical devices, nanoobjects and nanostructures using the so called top down methodologies. The is no requirement for this course to pass any prior courses. The introduction part of the text defines the forces that affect nanoobjects and the interactions between them. Reader can understand in detail why properties of nanomaterials and nanostructures are so different when comprared to their macroscopic counterparts. Text gives also an overview of thin film preparation technologies as precursors for the preparation of nanostructures. The main emphasis in Volume I is on conventional lithographic technologies for the preparation and shaping of nanostructures, methods for characterization of thin films, nanoparticles and nanomaterials. Unconventional lithographic methods will also be discussed in the prepared upcoming Volume II. Student will also get acquainted with the applications of nanostructures in research focused on nanophysics, nanocatalysis and nanoelectronics. The textbook is used as a study material for the course ÚFV / MPN / 14 - Methods of preparation and characterization of nanostructures. Part of the course is also a laboratory exercise in which the student gets acquainted with the techiques used for the preparation and characterization of thin films and top-down technologies used for the preparation of nanostructures.

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Adriana Zeleňáková - Zuzana Ješková - Adela Kravčáková - Gabriela Fabriciová - Erik Čižmár - Róbert Tarasenko - Jaroslava Szűcsová - Ľuboš Nagy (eds.)

Zborník obsahuje abstrakty príspevkov účastníkov 14. česko - slovenskej študentskej vedeckej konferencie vo fyzike, ktorá sa konala 2.-3.mája 2024 na PF UPJŠ v Košiciach.

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Juraj Ševc - Filip Mochnacký

Students studying biology as the single-subject or as a part of two-subject programs on various faculties of sciences are often encountered with the problem, how to limit the topics in the subject Human anatomy. This List of anatomical terms is aiming to help the non-medical students to get acquainted with the extensive anatomical nomenclature and to optimize the number of anatomical terms, which should be memorized, to preserve the sufficient capacity of the students for another knowledge of the field of systemic, comparative, developmental and functional anatomy. The emphasis on the arrangement of individual anatomical terms into the logical units supports the hierarchical view on the architecture of the human body.

Despite the common opinion, anatomical nomenclature represents a framework, which is during the further study gradually enveloped with the knowledge of more or less related disciplines concerning with the human body and its biological processes. Moreover, besides this ambition, which exceeds the area of the human anatomy, this List of anatomical terms continues the long tradition with respect to the valid Latin and Slovak anatomical terminology.

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Peter Kollár

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Jana Shepa  (ed.)

The book of abstracts from 8th International Conference on Novel Materials: Fundamentals and Applications, NFA 2023 is composed of contributions from the participants of this international conference. The conference consisted of 6 invited lecture and 38 abstracts of participants. The conference is focused on novel materials and its application in various research areas. All contributions are professionally processed and inspiring.

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Mária Vilková,Monika Garberová, Michal Goga

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Dušan Barabas - Alena Labunová

Tieto učebné texty sa snažia podať základné informácie o biogeografických problémoch z pohľadu geografického t. j. pohľadu orientujúceho sa predovšetkým na aspekt priestorovej diferenciácie biosféry. Základom rozčlenenia biosféry bol jej historický vývoj, počas ktorého sa formovali jednotlivé taxóny a spoločenstvá. Historický vývoj biosféry neprebiehal v stabilných konštantných podmienkach, ale prebiehal v neustále sa meniacich podmienkach spôsobených polohou našej planéty v rámci slnečnej sústavy, respektíve polohou zemskej osi voči ekliptike, a tiež polohou slnečnej sústavy v rámci galaxie. Všetky zmeny polohy Zeme spolu so zmenami polohy kontinentov (drift), klímy, vytvárali predpoklad pre priestorové rozšírenie biosféry. Historický vývoj biosféry, rôzne pohľady, hierarchická úroveň diferenciácie, príčiny diferenciácie sú zakomponované v predkladanom učebnom texte, ktorého cieľom je načrtnúť základne princípy tohto rozčlenenia. Cieľom je tiež poukázať na niektoré odlišnosti v chápaní terminológie, ako aj poukázať na niektoré základne vzťahy fungujúce v systéme krajiny v tom najširšom slova zmysle. Časť venovaná ekologickým princípom fungovania a formovania sa systému krajiny v zmysle MIČIANA a ZATKALÍKA (1984) načrtáva problémy chápania termínu ekosystém a geosystém. Z toho dôvodu sú v predloženom texte zaradené kapitoly, ktoré sa snažia vysvetliť chápanie a prístup k niektorým základným pojmom.

Učebné texty sú určené pre študentov jednoodborového, medziodborového a rozširujúceho štúdia, ako základný učebný materiál. Rozšírením poznatkov tohto študijného materiálu o ďalšie poznatky, ktoré sú detailnejšie rozpracované v literatúre zhrnutej v zozname literatúry tohto učebného textu, získajú absolventi komplexný pohľad na problémy biogeografie.

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Jozef Strečka,Katarína Karľová

The 48th Conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics (MECO48) will be held on May 22nd-26th, 2023, in Stará Lesná, High Tatras, Slovakia. The MECO48 conference continues a long tradition of regular international meetings in the domain of statistical physics established in the early 1970s with the aim of bridging the gap between the communities of scientists from the Eastern and Western parts of Europe separated by the iron curtain. In the modern era the MECO conferences attract attention of the community of scientists who are active in the field of statistical physics including various interdisciplinary applications to biology, medicine, geography, finance, quantum information theory, and machine learning. The MECO48 conference is organized jointly by Faculty of Science of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Institute of Experimental Physics of Slovak Academy of Sciences in Košice, Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, University of Prešov under the financial support of Slovak Research and Development Agency (grant No. APVV-20-0150) and other sponsors.

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Peter Fedoročko a kol. 

Vysokoškolský učebný text Prírodovedeckej fakulty UPJŠ.

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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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Vlasta Demečková - Petra Hradická - Petra Adamková

The learning material for the course Practice in Immunology is based on several years of experience with teaching this subject, but mainly to provide students from the Biology Department at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, UPJŠ in Košice with sufficient theoretical background for practical exercises. It also serves as a scientific diary for detailed recording of all experimental data necessary for preparing laboratory protocols from individual exercises.

In studying biology, it is essential that students thoroughly understand not only the basics of each discipline but also acquire practical skills, including designing scientific experiments, selecting appropriate analytical/investigative techniques up to interpreting and presenting experimental data. The goal of this new publication is therefore to provide master's students with a practical study guide that supports and expands their knowledge about basic immunology principles.

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Jana Špaková Raschmanová - Zuzana Kudličková - Kvetoslava Stanková

Organic chemistry plays a key role in our lives, from the pharmaceutical industry to the production of plastics and food additives. Additionally, it is essential in biochemistry, as it deals with the basic building blocks of living organisms, such as carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. One of the best ways to teach organic chemistry and increase students' interest in the subject is through conducting school experiments. This study material presents a collection of visually striking practical experiments in organic chemistry that will help students better understand the chemical processes and techniques used in the field. This electronic study material is supplemented with visual material, allowing students to verify the results of experiments and better understand the individual procedures. At the end of each section, there are questions to help assess the acquired knowledge and encourage deeper understanding of the experiments conducted.

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Mariana Budovská

The aim of writing the university textbook "Selected Heterocyclic Compounds" was to create a study aid for students of the Organic Chemistry program, which provides essential information in a clear format for the subject of Heterocyclic Compounds. In selecting the content of the textbook, the goal was to present basic information about the chemistry of the most significant heterocycles. Given that the summary of chemical knowledge about heterocycles is vast, it was not possible to include all heterocyclic compounds in the content.

The intention was for readers to orient themselves in the field of heterocyclic compounds. Separate chapters included in the content address the nomenclature of heterocycles, basic chemical properties of individual heterocycles, their synthesis and reactions, the occurrence of heterocycles in nature, and their practical applications (medications, dyes, pesticides, detergents, etc.).

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Miroslava Martinková

This electronic material provides the basic principles of creating a systematic nomenclature of organic compounds, from the simplest hydrocarbons to the more complicated nomenclature of carbohydrates. For some groups of derivatives, alternative ways of generating system names are also mentioned, as well as the most common trivial names that are still in use in the literature and in practice, in some cases being the characteristic (dominant) ones. In the introductory section, the basic rules to be respected when writing names of organic compounds are discussed. This document is intended primarily for interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate students as support material for the courses Organic Chemistry and Selected Chapters in Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry. In the final section of this document, solved examples are given so that the student can check how the rules for forming the names of organic compounds have been understood.

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Ján Füzer

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Gregor Bánó

Photonics is an application-oriented discipline at the interface of optics, opto-electronics and quantum optics. It includes classical optics extended by the description of physical phenomena and optical devices that rely on quantum (photon) nature of light.
The main objective of the Photonics course is to provide a comprehensive overview of essential optical and photonic phenomena routinely applied in experimental scientific research while working with various light sources (e.g. in the field of biophotonics). The first chapters are devoted to the description of light at different levels. The logical order of subsections in this part corresponds to the structure of the textbook: B. E. A. Saleh, M. C. Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics. The following chapters contain a description of laser operation and an overview of selected optical instruments and their applications.
The body text is complemented by practical notes on the use of theoretical knowledge during daily work in the laboratory. The course of Photonics requires a basic knowledge of mathematics, electromagnetism and optics, and thus it is recommended to students who previously passed through the courses of the Bachelor's program in Physics.

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