BACKGROUND Evidence regarding the extent of mental health problems and the associated characteristics within an employee population is necessary to inform appropriate and tailored workplace mental health programs. Mental health within male dominated industries (such as mining) has received recent public attention, chiefly through observations regarding suicide in such populations in Australia a...

Dr. Yang and his research team at USF aim to create a rigorous knowledge body for sensorbased complex systems monitoring, modeling and analysis. The research will ultimately contribute to a new paradigm where a complex system is autonomized and optimized at all scales. As shown in Figure 1, industry in the 21 century is investing in a variety of sensor networks and dedicated data centers to inc...

The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize a futureoriented human work environment and organizational activity in deep mines that entails a vision of good and safe workplace. Futureoriented technological challenges and mental images required for modern work organization design were appraised. It is argued that an intelligent-deep-mine covering the entire value chain, including environmental ...

For the development of mining industry and its urgent demand for positioning and navigation technology, three new underground mine positioning and navigation systems based on the existing positioning technologies would be investigated and studied in this paper, where Wireless Ethernet-based navigation system as a new navigation system is first used in underground mine. Three types of positionin...

The safety issue of coal mining engineering is very important to coal industry. According to our coal mine enterprises' safe characteristics, this paper analyzed the risk factors of coal mining engineering and studied the safety problem of “humanmachine-environment” system. The risk factors of coal mining engineering are divided to natural geological factors, personnel factors, equipment factor...

This paper estimates the effects of increase in Iran’s non-oil exports on its economic growth as well as sectoral outputs, using a single country, comparative static, exogenous policy Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model. The paper also investigates the share of tradable sectors in reaching to the targeted growth rate (8%) in 5th socio-economic development plan. For this purpose, the para...

The Eskay Creek gold-silver mine, located in northwest British Columbia, is an unusually high-grade ore deposit. The mining industry continues to spend more than $2 million each year on exploration for similar deposits in the area. The geologic setting at the minesite is well studied, but large tracts in north-central British Columbia require more detailed surveys to determine if favourable sit...

The Eskay Creek gold-silver mine, located in northwest British Columbia, is the highest-grade precious-metal volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit in the world. The mining industry continues to spend more than $2 million each year on exploration for similar deposits in the area. The geologic setting at the minesite is well studied, but large tracts in north-central British Columbia require more...

The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize a futureoriented human work environment and organizational activity in deep mines that entails a vision of good and safe workplace. Futureoriented technological challenges and mental images required for modern work organization design were appraised. It is argued that an intelligent-deep-mine covering the entire value chain, including environmental ...