OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AALTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY P. O. BOX 11000, FI-00076 AALTO http://www.aalto.fi Author Antti Pohjoranta Name of the dissertation Manuscript submitted October 26, 2009 Manuscript revised February 3, 2010 Date of the defence March 19, 2010 Article dissertation (summary + original articles) Monograph Faculty Department Field of research Opponent(s) Su...

The application of underground pre-concentration technology to narrow vein mining has the potential to change the entire economics of bulk mining methods when used in narrow vein situations. The rejection of waste at or near the face means that a higher-grade ore can be sent to surface. The waste rock can be reused directly as backfill. Swelling of the muck through blasting means that only 60 t...

ABSTRACT:Meta-analysis includes statistical methods in combining the results of several studies. However, it might be affected by publication bias. Publication bias is the preferred publication of statistically significant results over insignificant ones. Therefore, if the source of meta-analysis studies are published scientific articles, they might face publication bias. Trim and fill is a met...

Given a video and its incomplete textural description with missing words, the Video-Fill-in-the-Blank (ViFitB) task is to automatically find the missing word. The contextual information of the sentences are important to infer the missing words; the visual cues are even more crucial to get a more accurate inference. In this paper, we presents a new method which intuitively takes advantage of the...

We propose a new inertia-revealing factorization for sparse matrices. The factorization scheme and the method for extracting the inertia from it were proposed in the 1960s for dense, banded, or tridiagonal matrices, but they have been abandoned in favor of faster methods. We show that this scheme can be applied to any sparse matrix and that the fill in the factorization is bounded by the fill i...

Warehouse is one of the important aspects of a company. Therefore, it is necessary to improve Warehouse Management System (WMS) to have a simple function that can determine the layout of the storage goods. In this paper we propose an improved warehouse layout method based on ant colony algorithm and backtracking algorithm. The method works on two steps. First, it generates a solutions parameter...