When designing tabletop digital games, designers often draw inspiration from board games because of their similarities (e.g., spatial structure, social setting, and physical interaction). As part of our tabletop handheld augmented reality (THAR) games research, in which computer graphics content is rendered and registered on top of the players’ view of the physical world, we are motivated to un...

One of the most important occupational diseases encountered in mining is noise induced hearing loss (NIHL). In this study, analyses were carried out to examine NIHL open pit lignite mine Turkey. The was evaluated accordance with miners’ age, experience, occupation, exposure value (Lex), and maximum level (Lpeak). Noise levels exposed employees measured dosimeters a test applied by special cente...

Snake bite remains a common injury in endemic areas of Pakistan. A facility based observational study was undertaken to ascertain the incidence of snake bite, its mortality and the management in public health facilities located in the Thar Desert of Province of Sindh, Pakistan. A total of 771 cases of snake bite were reported to seven randomly selected health facilities during a one-year period...

The need to engineer cover systems for the successful rehabilitation or remediation of a wide variety of solid wastes is increasing. Some common applications include landfills, hazardous waste repositories, or mine tailings dams and waste rock/overburden dumps. The brown coal industry of the Latrobe Valley region of Victoria, Australia, produces significant quantities of coal ash and overburden...

nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide gases together with dust are known as the major pollutants arising during the blasting operations using the ammonium nitrate-fuel oil (anfo) explosive at the sungun surface mine, located in the northwest of iran. the pollutants were monitored during some blasting operations at the mine. it was concluded that the gases and dust clouds initially went up to the ...

Many geological problems have not been convincingly explained so far and are debatable, for instance the origin changes of Neogene depositional environments in central Poland. Therefore, these reconstructed terms global to local tectonic climatic fluctuations. The examined deposits divided into a sub-lignite unit (Koźmin Formation), lignite-bearing (Grey Clays Member), and supra-lignite (Wielko...