The goal of this paper is a first attempt to link the geology and mineral deposits of the Gondwana GIS, called GO-GEOID, to spatial statistics and map modelling. Such integration allows, for example, meaningful identification of the mineral potential of unexplored regions relative to those around them that are known to host major ore deposits. We use gold and tin deposits of Africa to derive pr...

A total of 242 subjects participated in 3 experimental studies investigating reactions to a woman's success in a male gender-typed job. Results strongly supported the authors' hypotheses, indicating that (a) when women are acknowledged to have been successful, they are less liked and more personally derogated than equivalently successful men (Studies 1 and 2); (b) these negative reactions occur...

Japanese mine safety legislation was enacted in 1949. Improvements in safety and production in the mining industry have been achieved to a large extent under this legislation. However, because of the prescriptive legislation style of mine safety regulations, the degree of safety achieved has not been evaluated from a system performance point of view. Articles of the coalmine safety regulations ...

While it is widely agreed that obtaining top management support is critical for the success of IT projects, little research has provided prescriptive implications for how such support can be obtained. Much of the prescriptive literature has argued for cognition-based approaches, where managers are persuaded to participate in an IT project using logical arguments and factual evidence. We apply a...

We present a prescriptive type system with parametric polymorphism and subtyping for constraint logic programs. The aim of this type system is to detect programming errors statically. It introduces a type discipline for constraint logic programs and modules, while maintaining the capabilities of performing the usual coercions between constraint domains, and of typing meta-programming predicates...

Domain-specific approaches of the Wason selection task (WST) have postulated specifically adapted schemas or Darwinian algorithms and abandoned a normative concept of rationality. We propose a flexible deontic logic theory (FDL theory), which is domain-specific but normative. The test of a prescriptive rule does not involve testing its truth, as in the standard WST, but rather selecting cases i...