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Illegal Gold Mining in the Brazilian Amazon: Environmental Degradation in Yanomami Indigenous Lands, and Regulatory Failures

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Illegal gold mining has emerged as a major sustainability threat in the Amazon, eroding Indigenous rights, forest integrity, and climate mitigation efforts. This study examines how international market incentives relate to the expansion of illegal mining and associated deforestation within the Yanomami Indigenous Territory (YIT) from 2008 to ...
Shirléia Lago Santos, Ana Claudia de Araujo Moxotó, Jurandir Moura Dutra   +2 more
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Design of data model of underground personnel positioning and management system

Gong-kuang zidonghua, 2013
For problems that reliable information is easily destroyed and query efficiency is low existed in underground personnel positioning and management system, the paper designed a data acquisition model and data flow diagrams of the system, and analyzed design requirements, table structure design and database optimization.
LIU Jia, ZHU Hui, HUA Gang
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Bus rapid transit [PDF]

, 2002
Effective public transit is central to development. For the vast majority of developing city residents, public transit is the only practical means to access employment, education, and public services, especially when such services are beyond the viable ...
Wright, Lloyd
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Three resilient megastructures by Pier Luigi Nervi [PDF]

, 2013
Resilience, as the ability of a structure to withstand threats and continue to function, it is normally related to durability and performance to accepted standards over time.
Cartiere Burgo SpA, Cresciani M., Cresciani M., De Giorgio M., John Forth, Manuel Cresciani, Minello B., Nervi P. L., Nervi P. L., PlannING., Ruggieri N., Zevi B.   +11 more
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A Multi‐Node Wearable Monitoring System for Firefighters With Edge AI and LoRa‐BLE Heterogeneous Communication

Safety Science and Technology, EarlyView.
A multinode wearable system tailored for firefighters is presented, featuring LoRa‐BLE heterogeneous communication and edge‐side deep learning. It integrates a lightweight 1D‐CNN for real‐time posture recognition and an adaptive Physiological Strain Index (aPSI) model, ensuring reliable status monitoring and safety warning in complex fireground ...
Chongyuan Ni, Saihua Jiang, Shun Li, Hongyi Guo, Luyao Huang, Jianjun Xia, Yang Lan, Zhijun Zheng, Zhiwei Tan   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multi-technology RF fingerprinting with leaky-feeder in underground tunnels [PDF]

, 2012
Techniques using RSS fingerprinting for localization have been studied over a number of ifferent technologies in many different scenarios. In the case of underground tunnels localization can be quite challenging, yet it is extremely important for safety ...
Moreira, Adriano, Pereira, Fernando, Ricardo, Manuel, Theis, Christian   +3 more
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Temporal and Spatial Organization in Collaborative Work by Nurses in an Emergency and Critical Care Center

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This study describes the work at an emergency and critical care center, focusing on the collaboration of multiple nurses when moving patients from the outpatient department to the ward. This study is an ethnomethodological ethnography based on fieldwork at a hospital and analysis of video data. The patient transport process is temporally organized into
Hiroki Maeda, Yumi Nishimura
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction to Nuclear Propulsion: Lecture 15 - Nuclear Test Operations [PDF]

, 1963
The test operation of nuclear power plants, specifically nuclear rockets, bears some interesting similarities to the operation of chemical rocket tests as well as, of course, many differences.
Drexler, R. L., Storrs, C. L.
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Assessing Capability Complexity Using Enterprise Architecture Framework

Systems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study proposes a structured and quantitative methodology to evaluate the holistic complexity of system‐of‐systems (SoSs), employing the Zachman Architecture Framework (ZAF) as its foundational analytical tool. A five‐phase analytical procedure is developed and empirically validated, encompassing: (1) refinement of complexity measures, (2)
Javad Bakhshi, Mahmoud Efatmaneshnik
wiley   +1 more source

After LUX: The LZ Program

, 2011
The LZ program consists of two stages of direct dark matter searches using liquid Xe detectors. The first stage will be a 1.5-3 tonne detector, while the last stage will be a 20 tonne detector.
Akerib, D. S., Araujo, H. M., Bai, X., Bedikian, S., Bernard, E., Bernstein, A., Bradley, A., Cahn, S. B., Carmona-Benitez, M. C., Carr, D., Chapman, J. J., Clark, K., Classen, T., Coffey, T., Curioni, A., Currie, A., Dazeley, S., de Viveiros, L., Dragowsky, M., Druszkiewicz, E., Faham, C. H., Fiorucci, S., Gaitskell, R. J., Gibson, K. R., Hall, C., Hanhardt, M., Holbrook, B., Ihm, M., Jacobsen, R. G., Kastens, L., Kazkaz, K., Lander, R., Larsen, N., Lee, C., Leonard, D., Lesko, K., Lindote, A., Lopes, M. I., Lyashenko, A., Majewski, P., Malling, D. C., Mannino, R., McKinsey, D. N., Mei, D. -M., Mock, J., Morii, M., Murphy, A. St J., Nelson, H., Neves, F., Nikkel, J. A., Pangilinan, M., Phelps, P., Reichhart, L., Shutt, T., Silva, C., Skulski, W., Solovov, V., Sorensen, P., Spaans, J., Stiegler, T., Sumner, T. J., Svoboda, R., Sweany, M., Szydagis, M., Thomson, J., Tripathi, M., Verbus, J. R., Walsh, N., Webb, R., White, J. T., Wlasenko, M., Wolfs, F. L. H., Woods, M., Zhang, C.   +73 more
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