The 7th International Conference on Novel Materials Fundamentals and Applications

Marcel Uhrin - Petr Benda -  Peter Kaňuch

Bats represent a unique group of mammals, characterised by different life strategies. They are the only mammals capable of active flight, which, combined with their almost exclusively nocturnal activity, has led to the evolution of specific adaptations. One of the most striking is echolocation, which enables them to orientate themselves perfectly in their surroundings in the dark. Bats are mainly native to the tropics, but have also colonised areas outside the tropics, which, has led to a complex phenological cycle with active phases and interruptions during hibernation, especially in temperate zones. In this diverse and species-rich group (almost 1,500 known species), there is a wide range of social organisation as well as feeding and roosting strategies. The textbook "Fundamentals of Chiropterology" brings the current state of knowledge about these extraordinary animals in eleven chapters and two appendices for the first time in the Slovak language.

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Erik Sedlák - Rastislav Varhač -  Patrik Danko - Helena Paulíková - Dušan Podhradský

The presented scripts were created in an effort to update and especially clarify the tasks that are solved in the basic practical exercises in biochemistry students of the 2nd and 3rd year of the bachelor's degree in chemistry, biology and their combinations with other disciplines. Most of the tasks come from the original scripts "Podhradský, Mihalovová: Praktické cvičenia z biochémie, Košice 1989".

Some of them have been modified to a greater or lesser extent and adapted to current conditions in the laboratory. New tasks were also added, such as those dedicated to nucleic acids. The scripts are thematically divided into six separate units, each of which consists of several tasks. The names of the units correspond to the nature of the biomacromolecules, which form their central theme. Theoretical introductions at the beginning of the unit are newly constructed and their main goal is to provide a brief overview of the basic biochemical methods used in the study of biomacromolecules.

These scripts are intentionally only available in electronic form. The reason is the effort to continuously update and modernize individual tasks according to the changing possibilities of our laboratory. We hope that the scripts will fulfill their role and that students will have sufficient theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the field of basic biochemical methods after completing these laboratory exercises.

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Jozef Bednarčík

Crystallography deals with discerning the arrangement and bonding of atoms in crystalline solids. Almost immediately after their discovery, X-rays began to be used to study the internal structure of substances. The first chapter of this textbook deals with the basic concepts of crystallography. At the beginning, crystalline solids are characterized. In the next section, the basic types of bonds and their characteristics are briefly presented. The main subject of this chapter is the interpretation of basic concepts such as symmetry operations, translational periodicity, grid, elementary cell. Spatial lattices and crystal systems are presented. At the end of this chapter, attention is paid to the description of individual types of defects in crystal structures. In the second chapter, the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom is presented. Individual quantum numbers and their meaning are given. Next, energy levels and allowed transitions within an atom with multiple electrons are described. The second chapter concludes with the characterization of the basic absorption and emission processes. The third chapter is devoted to the production of X-ray radiation and its properties. Sources of X-ray radiation and a description of their operation are presented. Interaction of X-ray radiation with matter, absorption and detection of X-ray radiation are the subject of the last part of this chapter.

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Katarína Cechlárová • Eva Pitoňáková (eds.)

Zborník abstraktov príspevkov účastníkov Študentskej vedeckej konferencie PF UPJŠ v Košiciach, ktorá sa konala 26. apríla 2017.

Už po piaty raz vychádza zborník zo Študentskej vedeckej konferencie (ŠVK) na Prírodovedeckej fakulte Univerzity Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach. Teší nás, že ŠVK je pevnou súčasťou života fakulty a výkladnou skriňou kvality poskytovaného vzdelávania. V roku 2017 sa ŠVK konala v rámci tradičných Prírodovedeckých dní dňa 26. apríla 2017. Vystúpilo na nej 105 študentov Prírodovedeckej fakulty. Príspevky boli zaradené do 15 sekcií, ktoré navyše dopĺňala otvorená súťaž v programovaní, do ktorej sa zapojilo 17 študentov a finále súťaže IHRA, v ktorej súťažilo 27 tímov z celého Slovenska.

Abstrakty príspevkov prezentované v tomto zborníku dokumentujú, že na PF UPJŠ získavajú študenti poznatky a vedomosti zo svojho odboru nielen teoretickým štúdiom jednotlivých disciplín, ale aj aktívnym zapojením sa do riešenia čiastkových vedeckých problémov, ktoré sú súčasťou výskumných zámerov na ústavoch PF UPJŠ. Abstrakty príspevkov predstavujú svojim spôsobom aj prehľad o vedeckej aktivite na fakulte, ktorý, veríme, bude zaujímavý aj pre širšiu verejnosť.

doc. RNDr. Gabriel Semanišin, PhD.
dekan fakulty

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Ondrej Hutník (ed.)

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Uncertainty Modeling 2024 (UM 2024) is organized by Pavol Jozef ˇSaf´arik University in Koˇsice. It is a continuation of the series of colloquia held in Rzesz´ow under the name International Symposium on Fuzzy Sets (ISFS) and in Bratislava under the name Uncertainty Modeling.

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Zuzana Vargová • Miroslav Almáši • Juraj Kuchár • Jana Dinajová 

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Andrea Morovská Turoňová

The discovery of radioactivity at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries stimulated the rapid development of nuclear sciences. At the interface between nuclear physics and chemistry, disciplines such as radiochemistry, radiation chemistry and nuclear chemistry were formed. The aim of the Nuclear Chemistry course which is taught at the PF UPJŠ is to provide basic knowledge, with an emphasis on the general value of the subject. It is important to make available the basics of various methods, techniques and their specifics in the application of nuclear phenomena in chemistry and related fields. Emphasis is also placed on the use of correct terminology, knowledge of the context of relationships and basic principles, supplemented by illustrative concrete cases. The choice of material is rather difficult, but we count on additional monographs and textbooks to fill in the gaps of these teaching texts.

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Ľubomír Antoni a kol.

In university textbooks, we present the basics of the Internet of Things, its origin and technological development, concept. We classify Internet of Things applications into the areas of healthcare, intelligent environment, personal and social areas, transport and logistics, smart cities.

We present an overview of university subjects in the field of the Internet of Things, 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 the Internet of Things.

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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Vladimír Sedlák

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Božena Mihalíková - Ján Ohriska

Tento učebný text je určený poslucháčom prvého ročníka študijného odboru 76–12–8 „Učiteľstvo všeobecnovzdelávacích predmetov“ v kombináciách s matematikou. Je vyhotovený na základe prednášok autorov a ich viac ako desaťročných skúseností z výučby tohoto predmetu na PF UPJŠ. Pri jeho písaní sa autori snažili zohľadniť špecifickosť učiteľského štúdia matematiky. Predkladaný učebný text nebol písaný pre nedostatok učebníc matematickej analýzy. Dôvodom pre jeho napísanie boli zistenia autorov, že poslucháči nemajú zo strednej školy dostatočné skúsenosti v práci s odbornou literatúrou, ťažkosti mnohým spôsobuje (najmä v prvých semestroch) čo i len trochu odlišný výklad, nie zriedka aj zmena v označovaní, čím im uniká podstata študovanej problematiky. Autori textu si nekládli za ciel byt originálni. Ich snahou bolo urobiť taký výber tém, aký je nutný pre budúceho učiteľa matematiky a zvoliť takú metódu výkladu, ktorá je podla ich názoru vhodná pre poslucháčov prvého ročníka. Dobré zvládnutie učiva (rozšírenie matematického aparátu a s tým súvisiace možnosti uplatnenia iných dokazovacích metód ako aj získanie potrebných početných schopností) predpokladá použitie aj ďalších literárnych prameňov (učebníc, zbierok úloh) podla odporúčania vyučujúceho.

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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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Karel Saksl

Solving crystal structures is the royal discipline of X-ray crystallography. Its primary task, with the exception of defects, is to describe the atomic structure of the motif that, by its repetition, fills the volume of the entire crystal or crystalline phase. This task is nowadays more or less routine for single-crystal X-ray diffraction, which can locate hundreds to thousands of non-hydrogen atoms in large unit cells. However, in real practice, we often have material available only in powder form instead of single crystals. Solving the atomic structure from its X-ray diffraction data is non-trivial, mainly because the three-dimensional diffraction space of a single crystal is reduced to one dimension by measuring a large number of randomly oriented microcrystals (crystallites). Therefore, the solution itself requires, in addition to proper measurement methodology, the selection of suitable tools, procedures, and strategies that, through optimization, will lead to the solution and refinement of the given crystalline phase. The current limit of this method is approximately 100 non-hydrogen atoms in the asymmetric part of the unit cell, which, however, is sufficient for most inorganic materials.

The goal of these educational texts is to provide students in the second and third levels of university studies with specific guidance on solving crystal structures from powder X-ray diffraction data. These scripts build upon my first monograph and require practical knowledge of its content. Similar to my previous monograph, I offer solved examples without a deep theoretical introduction, demonstrating procedures and strategies leading to the correct solution of crystalline phases using the freely available GSAS-II program. The examples are arranged from simpler to more complex, and the reader will find many useful pieces of information in the literature references as well as in the comments below the line. Part of these scripts are data intended for your individual practice of the described procedures. 

Karel Sakls

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Adriana Zeleňáková

One of the fundamental characteristics of the magnetic state of ferromagnetic materials is the existence of a domain structure. The university textbook "MAGNETIC DOMAINS: SPECIAL PHYSICAL PRACTICE 1" is intended primarily for students of the Master's programme in Physics of Condensed Matter FKLm and for the PhD programme in Progressive Materials PMd within the profile subject Special Practice 1 at the Institute of Physical Sciences of the Faculty of Sciences of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice.  The textbook is divided into seven chapters. The first chapter is devoted to the basics of domain theory, including the history of domain observation and the specification of different types of energies in ferromagnetic body. The second chapter presents the relationship between domain structure and magnetisation processes in ferromagnetic materials The third chapter describes the different types of domain-wall interactions with the defect. The fourth chapter illustrates examples of domain structure in selected ferromagnetic body such as grain oriented and non-grain oriented electrical steels, amorphous and nanocrystalline ribbons. The fifth chapter summarises an overview of the different experimental methods used to visualise the domain structure and their advantages or disadvantages with respect to the structure of ferromagnetic materials. The last two chapters, the sixth and the seventh, are devoted to specific experimental tasks for observing the domain structure of a selected polycrystalline sample using the optical microscope Bitter powder method and the MFM (magnetic force microscopy) method. During the preparation of this undergraduate text, its individual parts were developed using the foreign language literature listed in the recommended references.

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Mária Kožurková

Tieto vysokoškolské učebné texty sú určené poslucháčom prvého ročníka magisterského štúdia na Prírodovedeckej fakulte UPJŠ v Košiciach. Rozsah a náplň prác zahrnutých v týchto skriptách vychádza hlavne z časových a priestorových možností s prihliadnutím na materiálovú náročnosť prác. Cieľom týchto skrípt je naučiť študentov základné mikrobiologické techniky a ukázať im význam mikroorganizmov v bežnom živote a ich dôležitú úlohu v prírode. Cvičenia sú zamerané tak, aby si študenti zvýšili svoju technickú zručnosť, naučili sa pracovať podľa bezpečnostných zásad. Text je rozdelený do 13 častí. V úvode každej z nich je uvedená teória k precvičovanej téme. V prílohe je návrh na vypracovanie protokolov k jednotlivým cvičeniam.

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Miroslav Almáši (ed.)

The book of abstracts from the conference "Porous Materials for Environmental Applications 2024" is a collection of contributions of the conference participants, which contain original results of their scientific and research activities. The conference was aimed to share new findings dealing with the preparation, characterization and application of porous materials in environmental fields.

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Gabriel Semanišin - Emil Hutňan - Jana Oleničová

Zborník obsahuje príspevky účastníkov konferencie UNIFOS 2014,
Univerzitné informačné systémy v Košiciach, ktorá sa konala 27. – 29. októbra 2014.

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