Lessons from Tailings Dam Failures—Where to Go from Here?

Floods from tailings dam failures.

This paper compiles the available information on historic tailings dam failures with the purpose to establish simple correlations between tailings ponds geometric parameters (e.g., dam height, tailings volume) and the hydraulic characteristics of floods resulting from released tailings. Following the collapse of a mining waste dam, only a part of tailings and polluted water stored at the dam is...

Diversion of Water from a Tailings Dam

Where to go from here? Mobility prediction from instantaneous information

We present the work that allowed us to win the Next-Place Prediction task of the Nokia Mobile Data Challenge. Using data collected from the smartphones of 80 users, we explore the characteristics of their mobility traces. We then develop three families of predictors, including tailored models and generic algorithms, to predict, based on instantaneous information only, the next place a user will...

Lessons from use of the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory: where do we go from here?

PURPOSE The purpose of this article is to review the innovations, applications, and effect of the original Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI) published in 1992 and to describe planned revisions. SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS During the past decade, the PEDI has helped to shift thinking from a developmental to a functional focus. Using the PEDI, researchers and clinicians worldwide ha...

So where do we go from here?

i First, I would like to thank Bernd Carsten Stahl for the opportunity to write this editorial, and for his vision, hard work, and dedication. It also has been a privilege to work with the editorial team, the reviewers, and, of course, the authors. IJTHI is off to a good start. It has been exciting for me to be part of a new journal and to see it go from just a concept to its fourth issue. Alth...