A mining industry view

A Geometric View of Similarity Measures in Data Mining

The main objective of data mining is to acquire information from a set of data for prospect applications using a measure. The concerning issue is that one often has to deal with large scale data. Several dimensionality reduction techniques like various feature extraction methods have been developed to resolve the issue. However, the geometric view of the applied measure, as an additional consid...

African mining industry

Accepted 29 July 1996 Abstract Objective-To determine whether previous health experiences affect the prevalence of occupational lung disease in a semirural Botswanan community where there is a long history of labour recruitment to South African mines. Method-A cross sectional prevalence study of 304 former miners examined according to a protocol including a questionnaire, chest radiograph, spir...

Mining Event Histories: A Social Scientist View

Individual longitudinal or sequence data are common to many fields. For instance, they are essential for understanding and predicting the evolution of a patient’s disease after it has been diagnosed (survival analysis), the behavior of a visitor of a web site (web log mining), but also for categorizing or clustering signal sequences in domains such as telecommunication. This paper focuses on th...

Waste Management in Mining Industry

This paper with the title Waste Management in Mining Industry mainly deals with the large amount of waste generated by the mining industry in the process of extraction of minerals which is a great threat to the environment leading to air pollution soil pollution and many other hazardous effects to the environment as well as human lives . This paper broadly discusses about the different type of ...

Salary survey offers view of lab industry.