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A series of initiatives have been adopted in the European Union to address greenhouse gas emissions and establish a society that is resilient to climate change. In response to these initiatives, the implementation of mobility budgets offers a more precise strategy for addressing carbon footprints associated with travel. Prioritizing localized carbon footprint control, mobility budgets are calculated and customized according to distinct regions, goals, and target demographics. When prioritizing the mobility budget as the central objective in municipal transport route planning, the focus should encompass principles of fairness and equity in travel. This entails considering factors such as accessibility, variety of mobility choices, inclusivity of transportation modes, and social justice. Therefore, this article aims to formulate an enhanced activity modelling methodology that would aid data-driven decision-making in municipal transport route planning, while upholding the principles of travel fairness and equity. The results obtained from scrutinizing data related to public bus services and mobile networks are presented. The evaluation of Jelgava's city transportation network to facilitate mobility budget reduction is undertaken, and this assessment is based on an analysis of data derived from a survey on public transport use coupled with an examination of the city's mobility budget. The research presents the communication challenges that municipalities will face in planning and implementing changes that are needed to meet the greenhouse gas emission targets and outlines the possible use of visualization tools for modelling, explanation and communication of scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Various environmental, constructional, and human-related factors affect overall eggs production. The egg poultry production has been analysed in barn housing system depending on birds' life cycle time and environmental conditions (carbon dioxide concentration, outdoor and indoor temperature, indoor relative humidity). Within the present research study, the data provided by the Baltic poultry industry company has been analysed. Outside temperature, environmental conditions, carbon dioxide (CO2) and ammonia (NH3) concentrations were continuously monitored in two-storey tunnel-ventilated layer house from January to June 2021. CO2 and NH3 gas concentrations were higher during the winter (p <.05). The outdoor temperature during investigation was in range from −27 °C to +13 °C. The indoor temperature and CO2 concentration were higher on the 2nd storey (p <.05) and influenced by outdoor temperature. The relationships between CO2 gas concentrations and environmental conditions (indoor and outdoor temperature, indoor relative humidity) have been detected in the research. The indoor relative humidity tended to be negatively correlated with indoor temperature (rxy = −0.59) and positively correlated with CO2 concentration (rxy = 0.68, rxy = 0.54); the indoor temperature increased, then relative humidity and CO2 decreased. Results showed that the hen-day egg production and feed conversion ratio (FCR) depend on the hen age (p <.05) and temperature (p <.05), and not depend on the CO2 levels. If the CO2 and NH3 levels are in acceptable range, gases will not influence hen performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Already now we have a huge amount of machine readable data publicly available in open repositories. The task of research is to identify and analyze resources from Latvian official open repositories and to find out if any relationship with the values of Indicators from pilot Ecosystem Services valuation project in Jaunkemeri territory exist and to highlight the way - how to determine correlations between machine readable information from open machine readable spatial datasets and Ecosystem Services Provisioning, Regulating and Cultural mapped indicators' assessments. The aim of the research is to create prerequisites for decision making in sustainable land development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The World Wide Web is not a culturally neutral environment. Diversity of Web users causes multiple problems for local and international companies, which want to provide their services using the World Wide Web. Two models are widely applied for cross-cultural website design: culture marker model and culture dimension model. One of the main culture marker model's markers is colour. Application of colour has an impact on usability of cross-cultural websites. However there is poor availability of solutions for designers for extraction and analysis of colour information from websites. An algorithm and set of tools that allows to extract and collect colour information from source code and rendered image of websites is proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Project management information system (PMIS) is one of the main enablers of successful project management. Project management and document centralization are diverting large amounts of energy when working on collaborative projects with academic institutions, private enterprises and government organizations. Each of these organizations include different user roles with different interests for the project, project management practices and requirements for PMIS. Therefore PMIS should be adapted to the needs and requirements of these collaborative projects and users. The objective of this paper is to define functional needs and describe the configuration for PMIS, suitable for common business, educational and research projects based on literature review and assessment of needs. The platform for business and education project (BEP) management of is an online PMIS that will support defined functional needs and configuration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the past years, the number of smartphones used in the world is rapidly increasing. As mobile technologies become more advanced, especially with expansion of smartphones and tablet pc's market, mobile applications and smart cards became one of the current business development trends. Following this trend, from the business process execution standpoint, different industry representatives are willing to develop mobile, web and smartcard applications, which are able to perform basic functions of e-commerce. Therefore there is an existing need for effective solution, which would allow organizations to integrate and combine services and products from different providers in the smartlet applications for easy and comfortable usage by clients. In this article smartlet concept and roles for managing smartlets are introduced. Service oriented solution for smartlet application development and management is proposed. With developed solution smartlet mobile application “Jelgava city guide” is developed and presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]