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Geo: Geography and Environment, 2023 The daily lives of female artisanal and small‐scale miners revolve around an array of complex and labour‐driven activities. The complexities and labour demands vary depending on the type of artisanal and small‐scale mining involved, the underground pit ...
Issah Baddianaah
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A hybrid decision tree/genetic algorithm method for data mining [PDF]
, 2004 This paper addresses the well-known classification task of data mining, where the objective is to predict the class which an example belongs to. Discovered knowledge is expressed in the form of high-level, easy-to-interpret classification rules.
Carvalho, Deborah R., Freitas, Alex A.
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Measuring Livelihood Vulnerability to Large-Scale and Small-Scale Mining in Rural Ghana: A Comparative Examination of Agrarian Households [PDF]
, 2021 While promoting both large-scale and small-scale mining to facilitate rural development and poverty reduction, it becomes imperative to examine the level of exposure and the risk of mining on assets and livelihoods of agrarian households in mining ...
Abankwah, Vincent
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New Extractivism in Ghana’s Salt Sector
Cosmopolitan 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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The Clinical Importance of the Mercury Problem in Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mining
Frontiers in Public Health, 2019 Artisanal small-scale mining is widely operated in various countries serving as a livelihood to many rural communities. However, it is a significant source of environmental mercury contamination which affects human health.
Justice Afrifa +6 more
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Caravelle, 2023 Small-scale gold mining has become the main income for many traditional groups around the world in the past decades. Apart from the negative impacts on several aspects of tribal life, this sector also lead to challenges for tribal leadership in the ...
Ine Apapoe
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The dilemma of women empowerment in informal artisanal and small-scale gold ore mining in Ghana [PDF]
, 2022 For several years, women demand more decision-making power from their husbands and the society. Studies indicate that egalitarian decision-making power can be beneficial in many important ways to the household and society, and the pathway to this desire ...
Natia, James Adam +3 more
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Impact of Geophysics in Small-Scale Mining
Journal of Remote Sensing & GIS, 2016 Geological exploration for new mining ventures involves drilling campaigns, an expensive activity that may take significant time, with no guarantee of financial success. The literature review indicated that the average cost of drilling may reach over US $100 per meter drilled, and that the use of Geophysics can reduce by 30% to 50% the number of ...
Antonio Carlos Martins +1 more
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.CIN85 is highly expressed in osteosarcoma, particularly in metastatic lesions. Its overexpression increases cell migration and Matrigel invasion, while silencing CIN85 suppresses these behaviors. Transcriptome analysis shows that CIN85 regulates MMP2, COL3A1, and Akt/mTOR signaling. Targeting these pathways reverses CIN85‐induced motility, highlighting
Iryna Horak +10 more
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Biological responses to disturbance from simulated deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Commercial-scale mining for polymetallic nodules could have a major impact on the deep-sea environment, but the effects of these mining activities on deep-sea ecosystems are very poorly known. The first commercial test mining for polymetallic nodules was
Daniel O B Jones +16 more
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