A mining complex is an integrated business that extracts materials from open pit or underground mines, treats extracted materials via a series of processing facilities that are interconnected by various material handling methods, and generates a set of products that…

Over the past few decades, advances in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy have greatly expanded our knowledge of the neutron-star family. One important recent discovery has been that of the "magnetars," isolated neutron stars whose radiation and occasional bursting activity is…

Due to land degradation, growing population pressures, and frequent drought, smallholder farmers in Kenya’s food insecure drylands are struggling to meet production objectives while maintaining a diverse set of crops to support health/nutrition. In the Eastern Province’s semi-arid region of…

Investigating the development of internationally-adopted (IA) children makes it possible to examine how early life experiences might affect later development and, in particular, the extent to which the language faculty is flexible and can adapt to a new language after…

Happiness (sa'a>dah) materializes as the ultimate goal of man in Abu> Nas}r Muh{ammad b. Muh{ammad b. T{arkha>n al- Fa>ra>bi>'s Maba>di' A' Ahl Al-Madi>na Al-Fa>d}ila (Principles of the Views of the Citizens of the Best State). But happiness, i.e., happiness in…

Collapse of transmission towers can occur due to accidental loads such as conductor breakages, failures of insulators or other components, either under every day conditions (components with marginal strengths) or under extreme conditions such as ice storms, thunderstorms, tornadoes, fires,…

The aim of data assimilation is to find the optimal estimate of the state of the atmosphere at a given time using all the available observational data and the knowledge of the physical and dynamical laws that govern the system's…

Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common intraocular tumor in adults. Despite the increase in diagnostic accuracy over the past several decades and the development of eye saving treatments such as plaque radiotherapy and photon beam therapy, there was no…

There currently exists no available model for predicting the Sauter mean bubble diameter, D32, from the key process variables for mechanical flotation machines. This is seen as a significant shortcoming since flotation is a surface area (of bubbles) dependent process,…

This study examined the effects of the residential school system on the Cree and their communities. The four guiding questions for this study were: (i) How has the legacy of the residential school system affected the lives of the survivors…