Bauxite formation is usually possible in humid and tropical weather conditions with the enrichment of minerals containing Al2O3 environment. These are found chemical compositions that rich major trace elements, REEs. Karst-type bauxites have different characteristics terms REE elements since they undergo alteration processes. Various correlations can be evaluated using geostatistical methods to...

Knowledge-Based Engineering (KBE) has gradually gained prominence as a major tool to speed up product development, especially in large scale projects such the ones that take place in aerospace and automotive industry. The encoding of design knowledge from domain experts into computer codes that can generate complex geometric data has demonstrated significant savings in manpower and time resourc...

Private higher education has been growing in South Africa, leading to intense concerns about its possible positive and negative effects in the fulfillment of broader goals. This article provides a comparative perspective, examining the experience of Latin American countries on the subject, first regarding the impact of the private sector on issues of access, equity, extension work, research and...

Many life insurance companies are turning to technology to speed and remove cost from the underwriting process. Automated underwriting systems have been developed to reduce the manpower, time and/or data necessary to underwrite a life insurance application, while maintaining the quality of underwriting decisions. Although these systems have been in existence for some time, not much is known abo...