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Participation of Kanak communities in the Koniambo project: the role of subcontracting [PDF]

open access: yesPacific Geographies, 2018
Nickel mining is a field of political contention in New Caledonia. The government of the Northern Province, dominated by indigenous Kanak people, wants to use the nickel sector as an instrument for political and economic emancipation from France.
Rosner, Raphael
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Mining large-scale smartphone data for personality studies [PDF]

open access: yesPersonal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2011
In this paper, we investigate the relationship between automatically extracted behavioral characteristics derived from rich smartphone data and self-reported Big-Five personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability and openness to experience).
Gokul Chittaranjan   +2 more
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Mining Efficient Taxi Operation Strategies From Large Scale Geo-Location Data

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2017
Taxi drivers always look for strategies to locate passengers quickly and therefore increase their profit margin. In reality, the passenger seeking strategies are mostly empirical and substantially vary among taxi drivers.
Huigui Rong   +6 more
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New Extractivism in Ghana’s Salt Sector

open access: yesCosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Since commercial production of oil and gas started in Ghana over a decade ago, the salt sector which has historically been dominated by artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has seen renewed corporate interest.
Alhassan Atta-Quayson
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An overview of interactive visual data mining techniques for knowledge discovery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
n the past decade, the analysis of data has faced the challenge of dealing with very large and complex datasets and the real-time generation of data. Technologies to store and access these complex and large datasets are in place.
Gaber, Mohamed Medhat   +11 more
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Operation mercury: Impacts of national‐level armed forces intervention and anticorruption strategy on artisanal gold mining and water quality in the Peruvian Amazon

open access: yesConservation Letters, 2023
Artisanal and small‐scale gold mining (ASGM), a wealth‐generating industry in many regions, is nonetheless a global challenge for governance and a threat to biodiversity, public health, and ecosystem integrity.
Evan N. Dethier   +6 more
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Surface Subsidence Monitoring of Mining Areas in Hunan Province Based on Sentinel-1A and DS-InSAR

open access: yesSensors, 2023
Monitoring the surface subsidence in mining areas is conducive to the prevention and control of geological disasters, and the prediction and early warning of accidents. Hunan Province is located in South China. The mineral resource reserves are abundant;
Liya Zhang   +8 more
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Weighted Association Rule Mining using Weighted Support and Significance Framework [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
We address the issues of discovering significant binary relationships in transaction datasets in a weighted setting. Traditional model of association rule mining is adapted to handle weighted association rule mining problems where each item is allowed to
Feng Tao   +5 more
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Design and robust control of a dual-loop valve-controlled cylinder system

open access: yesResults in Engineering
To address the critical challenges of abrupt dynamic impacts and lumped disturbances arising from fault-induced loop switching, and to enhance control robustness and operational continuity in hydraulic support pushing systems under complex mining ...
Lijuan Zhao, Tiangu Wu
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Mining tables from large scale HTML texts [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics -, 2000
Table is a very common presentation scheme, but few papers touch on table extraction in text data mining. This paper focuses on mining tables from large-scale HTML texts. Table filtering, recognition, interpretation, and presentation are discussed. Heuristic rules and cell similarities are employed to identify tables. The F-measure of table recognition
Hsin-Hsi Chen   +2 more
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