Do the media play a role in corporate governance and, if so, how? Those questions are broad and their answers have implications. This is especially so countries such as U.S. that characterized by free vigorous business press. By governance, we mean traditional of monitoring management to ensure top managers act shareholders’ interests. So whether this active coverage plays guiding interests how...

Breakthroughs in the existing state of the art in the detection of abandoned mines have been successfully demonstrated in this U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) project. The technical problem addressed by this breakthrough is that when an electromagnetic (EM) wave traveling at the speed of light (c) intersects natural media, such as the earth's surface or the recently cut coal f...