The paper combines a systematic literature review and cluster analysis to investigate the progress challenges of policy instruments designed mitigate coal mining externalities. Coal is widely abundant fossil fuel it forecasted remain in energy mix for many years come. However, responsible multiple social environmental externalities that need be fully internalized supply market. Around world, ha...

Gold mining by itinerant miners is acknowledged by the International Labour Organization (ILO) as the means of livelihood for more than 13 million people in the developing world. Though there are many potential socio-economic benefits of smallscale mining, there are also negative impacts from these small and inefficient operations due to wasteful extraction and processing techniques, often invo...

An attempt has been made in this study to examine the relationship between entrepreneurship financing from the perspective of agricultural small and medium scale enterprises and nation building in Nigeria from 1990 to 2017. Data were collected from the Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin with the application of Autoregressive Distributed Lagged and Bounds test to address the objective ...

Many organizations use digitized policy manuals to help govern their business operations. However, many business processes are often not synchronized in a timely manner with the business policies because of the high costs of redesigning business process models in the face of frequent policy changes. As such, there is a great need for more efficient ways to maintaining the alignment between busi...

Since participation in blockchain mining requires a lot of computational power and consumes large amount electricity, which leads to significant level carbon emissions, governments some nations frame the policy about mining, such as cracking down on or imposing an additional tax for mining. We propose dynamical model miners' decision-making under imposition both income green tax. show that rewa...

This paper explores the integration of semantic computing technologies with security technologies. Past and current research on the application of semantic web technologies for policy management and inference control, the application of data mining technologies for intrusion and malware detection, and programming language-based approaches to mobile code certification and data confidentiality en...

Pharmaceutical companies have exploited health information technology to "mine" data from drug prescriptions and use the data to better target their sales pitches to physicians. This article considers the policy arguments and first amendment implications regarding state regulation of data mining. It concludes that the legislative provisions are desirable and should withstand constitutional chal...