Modeling of Water Inflow Zones in a Swedish Open-Pit Mine with ModelMuse and MODFLOW

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These findings provide valuable insights for improving mine water management strategies and informing sustainable mine closure planning to mitigate long-term environmental risks.

How to Ask Great Questions

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For some people, questioning comes easily. Their natural inquisitiveness, emotional intelligence, and ability to read people put the ideal question on the tip of their tongue. But most of us don’t ask enough questions, nor do we pose our inquiries in an optimal way.

100+ Good Quality Questions Organized by Category

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This page shares a complete list of quality questions I’ve gathered from reading more than 100 of the best non-fiction books of all time. You’ll find more than 100 quality questions, organized by category.

Life cycle assessment: A perspective of improvement of hydro-plants for intensify “green electricity” - ScienceDirect

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Compared to the increased energy demand in the 21st century, Hydropower (also known as water power) is traditionally considered one of the “Green Energy”. Some advanced researches clarifies that various renewable generations have been performed well to fight back the drastic climate impacts. Though some of them are not as suitable for clean eco-friendly production due to the impacts on eco-system.

'The Rise of the Global Middle Class': An interview with Homi Kharas

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We are adding 110 to 115 million people into the middle class each year, despite all the difficulties the global economy is presenting. But that’s what’s powering the world economy forward.

Amnovis | High conductivity & high strength copper 3D printing

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A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum: Preserving A Monumental Copper Discovery for Generations

Story behind the 19-ton native copper block, discovered at the bottom of Lake Superior and now on display at the A.E> Seaman Mineral Museum.

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2021 Resource Governance Index | Natural Resource Governance Institute

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Unconditional convergence in manufacturing

Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit strong un-conditional convergence in labor productivity. The article documents this atvarious levels of disaggregation for a large sample covering more than 100countries over recent decades. The result is highly robust to changes in thesample and specification. The coefficient of unconditional convergence is esti-mated quite precisely and is large, at between 2–3% in most specifications and2.9% a year in the baseline specification covering 118 countries. The article alsofinds substantial sigma-convergence at the two-digit level for a smaller sampleof countries. Despite strong convergence within manufacturing, aggregate con-vergence fails due to the small share of manufacturing employment inlow-income countries and the slow pace of industrialization. Because of datacoverage, these findings should be as viewed as applying to the organized,formal parts of manufacturing.

Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit strong unconditional convergence in labor productivity. The article documents this at various levels of disaggregation for a large sample covering more than 100 countries over recent decades.
Put differently, successful countries experience both productivity convergence in formal manufacturing and rapid industrialization. Unsuccessful countries make do with just the former.

Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change

Neil Postman speech 1998

This means that for every advantage a new technology offers, there is always a corresponding disadvantage.
you would be surprised at how many people believe that new technologies are unmixed blessings
Idea Number One, then, is that culture always pays a price for technology.
the advantages and disadvantages of new technologies are never distributed evenly among the population
And so, that there are always winners and losers in technological change is the second idea.
Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas.
every technology has a prejudice
The third idea, then, is that every technology has a philosophy which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in what it makes us do with our bodies, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards.
Technological change is not additive; it is ecological
Capitalists are by definition not only personal risk takers but, more to the point, cultural risk takers.
There, they developed and promoted the technology known as the standardized test, such as IQ tests, the SATs and the GREs. Their tests redefined what we mean by learning, and have resulted in our reorganizing the curriculum to accommodate the tests.
They did not mean to turn political discourse into a form of entertainment
I come now to the fifth and final idea, which is that media tend to become mythic
The best way to view technology is as a strange intruder, to remember that technology is not part of God’s plan but a product of human creativity and hubris, and that its capacity for good or evil rests entirely on human awareness of what it does for us and to us.
First, that we always pay a price for technology; the greater the technology, the greater the price. Second, that there are always winners and losers, and that the winners always try to persuade the losers that they are really winners. Third, that there is embedded in every great technology an epistemological, political or social prejudice. Sometimes that bias is greatly to our advantage. Sometimes it is not. The printing press annihilated the oral tradition; telegraphy annihilated space; television has humiliated the word; the computer, perhaps, will degrade community life. And so on. Fourth, technological change is not additive; it is ecological, which means, it changes everything and is, therefore, too important to be left entirely in the hands of Bill Gates. And fifth, technology tends to become mythic; that is, perceived as part of the natural order of things, and therefore tends to control more of our lives than is good for us.

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