Sequence-alignments in general and BLAST searches in particular have become a ubiquitous part of molecular biology. Despite its popularity, the vast array of BLAST tools and parameter choices can overwhelm the user. Yet accepting the default parameters can greatly reduce search sensitivity and accuracy. This review focuses on the major parameters for BLASTN and BLASTP searches, and discusses bo...

The conventional practice in open cut coal strip mining has been to blast the overburden or coal layers in separate blast events. This is done in order to maximise the benefits from throw blasting and also to limit coal losses. Each blast event usually has a particular design of hole diameters, burdens and spacings, explosive charges and blast timing in order to achieve the required blast outco...

Correct selection of coefficients for blasthole parameters in Ghalat limestone mine in Shahr-e-kord of Iran has resulted is designing and performing 20 blasting operations. After each blast, fragmented rocks larger than one square meter, called oversize, are estimated and prepared for secondary blasting. Next blasthole pattern were designed based on previous blasting results. The results of the...

Dynamic slope stability in open-pit mines still remains a challenging task in the computational mining design. Earthquake and blasting are two significant sources of dynamic loads that can cause many damages to open-pit mines in active seismic areas and during exploitation cycles. In this work, the effects of earthquake and blasting on the stability of the NW slope of Chadormalu mine are compar...

Abrasive blasting materials, such as coal slag garnet and copper slag, are often used for cleaning metal surfaces to remove rust and to prepare a surface before the application of a coating. The pre-blast and post-blast (spent) abrasive materials contain traces of heavy metal constituents such as Cr, Mn, Ni, Pb Fe, and Ba. Hence, the health risk associated with the resultant particulate emissio...

While the mobile game industry is growing with each passing day with the popularization of 3G smart devices, the creation of successful games, which may interest users, become quite important in terms of the survival of the designed game. Clustering, which has many application fields, is a successful method and its implementation in the field of mobile games is inevitable. In this study, classi...

In the present paper, we investigate the blast induced ground motion recorded at the limestone quarry "Suva Vrela" near Kosjerić, which is located in the western part of Serbia. We examine the recorded signals by means of surrogate data methods and a determinism test, in order to determine whether the recorded ground velocity is stochastic or deterministic in nature. Longitudinal, transversal a...