This paper is an analysis of project proposals for mine clearance of mine-affected areas. Specifically we are studying the relationship between proposals and their evaluation scores influencing their funding possibilities. First we investigate the possibility of building a reliable predictive model for automatic evaluation score prediction from the attributes of the proposal, and second we anal...

To model the effects of volume heterogeneities in 1) scattering from sand sediments and 2) in sound propagation within those sediments. A better understanding of the role of heterogeneities in both scattering and propagation could lead to improvements in sediment characterization using remote sensing techniques as well as in high-frequency detection of mine and mine-like targets resting on or b...

As interpreters, we all approach the biblical text with a set of presuppositions that govern our exegesis. Since these presuppositions influence our exegesis, we should state them openly. My hermeneutic presuppositions influence the method presented in this chapter. If your views differ significantly from mine, you should still find the chapter helpful, but you may need to adapt it. These are m...

This study investigated the effects of user factors and cognitive sign features on the guessability of mine safety signs. Sixty naïve participants guessed the meanings and rated the cognitive sign features of 42 Mainland Chinese mine safety signs. The results showed that some user factors were significant predictors of guessing performance, while some were not. As expected, guessability scores ...

If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top...that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem. (Fuller 1969, ...

Europe was once the most important mining region in the world and nearly every European country has remnants of historic and even pre-historic mining sites. Though the importance of mining activities in most European countries declines, the abandoned sites are still there and can cause environmental dangers as well as technological challenges. On the basis of selected European countries and cas...

MINE? YOURS? OURS? RECONCEPTUALIZING AND CONTEXTUALIZING THELEADER-MEMBER RELATIONSHIP

In the last Number of the Medico-Chirurgical Journal, I am called upon to explain an apparent contradiction in some observations in a paper of mine on the action of the heart, and the results of Dr. Parry's experiments, in his work on the arterial pulse. If the reader particularly compares Dr. Parry's experiments and mine, the contradiction, which strikes him at first view, will, I think, disap-

To model the effects of volume heterogeneities in 1) scattering from sand sediments and 2) in sound propagation within those sediments. A better understanding of the role of heterogeneities in both scattering and propagation could lead to improvements in sediment characterization using remote sensing techniques as well as in high-frequency detection of mine and mine-like targets resting on or b...