Mine valuation can be defined as the process of determining the worth of a specific mineral deposit and capability of making a return by a prospective investment (SME, 2005). Although the definition is very brief and compact, actually, it has a very wide content. Determination of worth of an underground asset requires a plenty of works to explain physical, structural and economical properties o...

2 Just like the sequel to a successful movie, O'Reilly and Munakata's " Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience " aims to follow up and expand on the original 1986 " Parallel Distributed Processing " volumes edited by Computational Explorations: Not only does this volume visit many of the problems and paradigms that the original books were focused on (so making Computational Explor...

The use of digital information in geological fields is becoming very important. Thus, informatization in geological surveys should not stagnate as a result of the level of data accumulation. The integration and sharing of distributed, multi-source, heterogeneous geological information is an open problem in geological domains. Applications and services use geological spatial data with many featu...

izeh plain is a sedimentary plain situated at northeastern part at khuzestan province, iran where according to some partial investigations carried out in 2007, 54 settlements from epipalaeolitic and early neolithic ages were discovered there. henry wright, who had explored throughout this settlement before islamic revolution, implies that only 30 percent of piedmonts were completely investigate...

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Teach the Earth: The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) Portal for Geoscience Faculty (Carleton College). This portal is the gateway to thousands of pages of activities, workshops, course descriptions and more http://serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/index.html [1] See the SERC site Bringing Research on Learning to the Geosciences for a searchable database of articles on effective learning and...

Teach the Earth: The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) Portal for Geoscience Faculty (Carleton College). This portal is the gateway to thousands of pages of activities, workshops, course descriptions and more http://serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/index.html [1] See the SERC site Bringing Research on Learning to the Geosciences for a searchable database of articles on effective learning and...

In this thesis we further develop the theory of synchrony and Synchronic Modal Equivalencing (SME), as applied to models of power system dynamics. First, we extend the SME partitioning algorithm to include the grouping of load buses. The generalized eigenanalysis setup previously used for load bus grouping in slow coherency is adapted to the synchrony framework. The extended SME partitioning al...

Circle packing can be seen as the art of placing tangent circles on the plane, leaving as little unoccupied space as possible. Circle packing is a very attractive field of mathematics, from several points of view. It contains interesting and complex questions, both mathematical and algorithmical, and keeps its properties through a wide range of geometric transformations. There are several ways ...

In this paper I will examine the geography of one particular type of virtual reality virtual worlds. They are publicly available on the Internet and are designed for social interaction in real-time. The two key elements of these systems that move them beyond conventional computer-mediated communication channels into the realm of virtual reality are the shared graphical environment in which inte...