Zambia’s Copperbelt Area and Copper Mining: A Review

Book review: Africanisation, nationalisation and inequality - mining labor and the Copperbelt in Zambia development

Book review: Africanisation, nationalisation and inequality - mining labor and the Copperbelt in Zambia development

Toxicity of manufactured copper nanoparticles - A review

The health effects of nanoparticles (NPs) are raising considerable and growing concerns from the public and government around the world. Nano-metals are new forms of metal with special properties, but are characterized by having a particle size of less than 100 nm. Copper is an essential trace element and its deficiency leads to different diseases in humans. In gen...

A review of text mining approaches and their function in discovering and extracting a topic

Background and aim: Four text mining methods are examined and focused on understanding and identifying their properties and limitations in subject discovery. Methodology: The study is an analytical review of the literature of text mining and topic modeling.  Findings: LSA could be used to classify specific and unique topics in documents that address only a single topic. The other three text min...

Bioassessment of Heavy Metals in Wheat Crop from Soil and Dust in a Coal Mining Area

Coal mining and related industry can increase heavy metals (HMs) concentrations in soil, atmosphere and wheat, thereby posing metal-associated human health risk via food ingestion.  In this study, 58 samples of soil, wheat, and dust were collected from Xuzhou coal mine eastern China, six kinds of HMs Pb, Cd, Cu, Zn, As and Cr were studied for their spatial distribution in wheat, enrichment in d...