Tests of space-time interaction detect clustering of events in space and time in excess of “any purely spatial or purely temporal clustering” (Kulldorff, 1998, pg. 58). These tests are widely employed in studies of crime (e.g. Knox, 2002; Grubesic and Mack, 2008) and disease (e.g. Petridou et al., 1996; Rogerson, 2001). By simultaneously considering both the spatial and temporal dimensions of t...

This paper studies a large economy in which workers’ productivities are influenced by the skills of their coworkers. Each worker’s skill is the result of an ability-augmenting investment that is made prior to matching with a coworker. These skills are ‘soft’ (unquantifiable) characteristics of workers. In contrast, investments are ‘hard’ characteristics. This feature gives investments a credent...

Mining activity always has high impact on its surroundings, being waste deposition the cause of multiple and complex problems to the environment. One of them is Acid Mine Drainage (AMD), causing acid water percolation through large areas in the mine site. Portugal was a prosper tungsten producer from the beginning of the XX century, having its apogee during World War II. Nowadays there are mill...

A numerical simulation is carried out to study the effect of the thin metal outer case of an antitank mine and the top air gap of an antipersonnel mine on the passive infrared imaging signature. In addition, an antipersonnel surface mine is also analyzed in the present investigation to show its effect on the soil thermal content. The effect of shortand long-wavelength radiation as well as the c...

Short-term production plans are the basis for operational mine production schedules. They concentrate on making long-term mine plans operationally feasible. Furthermore, some variables such as ore grade and tonnage govern mine production systems and cause uncertainty in the supply of raw materials to the mills. Due to the quality variation of material, short-term production optimization is an u...

Sediments recovered from the flooded mine workings of the Penn Mine, a Cu-Zn mine abandoned since the early 1960s, were cultured for anaerobic bacteria over a range of pH (4.0 to 7.5). The molecular biology of sediments and cultures was studied to determine whether sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) were active in moderately acidic conditions present in the underground mine workings. Here we docum...

Strategic researches on green mine construction are of great theoretical and practical significance to the sustainable development of China's mining industry as well as the great-leapforward development strategies of China. Strategies of green mine construction in China are methods summarized to solve all potential problems from mine production to ecological restoration. At present, strategies ...

The present work was planned to evaluate the phytoextraction of metal mine tailings, Sarcheshmeh copper mine, SE of Iran, by the endemic plant species Medicago sativa L. (Alfalfa). In this pot experiment, we investigated the effects of seven amendments on the growth of alfalfa and uptaking metals from the mine tailings and stream sediment of tailing dam surface. The mean metal concentrations in...

The majority of existing automatic mine detection algorithms which have been developed are robust at detecting mine-like objects (MLOs) at the expense of detecting many false alarms. These objects must later be classified as mine or not-mine. The authors present a model based technique using Dempster–Shafer information theory to extend the standard mine/not-mine classification procedure to prov...

Dynamic oscillation of the Min system in Escherichia coli determines the placement of the division plane at the midcell. In addition to stimulating MinD ATPase activity, we report here that MinE can directly interact with the membrane and this interaction contributes to the proper MinDE localization and dynamics. The N-terminal domain of MinE is involved in direct contact between MinE and the m...