The mining industry operates in a complex and dynamic environment and faces many challenges that can negatively affect sustainable development goals. To avoid these effects, mining needs to adopt strategic decisions. Therefore, it requires effective decision-making processes for resource optimization, operational efficiency, and sustainability. Multicriteria decision-making methods (MCDM) have been ...

Mining is becoming increasingly vulnerable to the effects of climate change (CC). The consequences of changing weather patterns, such as extreme weather events that can damage equipment, infrastructure, mining facilities, and operation interruption, are the source of the vulnerability. The new demand initiated by governments and international agreements put extra pressure on mining industries to ...

<p>Extremophiles, especially those living in high-temperature environments, exhibit unique enzymatic mechanisms that allow survival under conditions detrimental to most life forms. Of particular interest is thermophiles, which are able to thrive at temperatures at which psychrophiles and mesophiles unfold and cease to function. The mechanisms by which these enzymes are able to overcome this temperature ...

Since the discovery of decamethylsilicocene over three decades ago, chemists have successfully isolated a variety of divalent silicon compounds by orchestrating steric and electronic effects to their advantage. Two broad strategies of electronic stabilization appear to have been widely deployed, namely, π-conjugation as in diaminosilylenes and π-complexation as in decamethylsilicocene and ...

The collective effects of sleep loss and sleep disorders are correlated with many adverse health consequences, including increased risk of high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, depressive state, and cardiovascular symptoms. Research in eHealth can provide methods to enrich personal health care with information and communication technologies (ICTs). An eCoach system may allow people to manage a ...

As meteoroids enter the Earth’s atmosphere, the majority will fully evaporate in the altitude region 70–110 km, due to the frictional heating from atmospheric interactions. The evaporated material is thought to re-condense and coagulate into nanometer sized particles called meteoric smoke particles (MSP). These particles are thought to be a central component in the formation of noctilucent clouds ...

As renewable energy sources offshore wind energy develop quickly, countries like Norway with long coastlines are exploring their potential. However, the diverse wind resources across different regions of Norway present challenges for study for effective utilization of offshore wind energy. This study proposes a novel method that utilizes transfer learning techniques to analyse the resource differences ...

The variability of Arctic sea-ice during abrupt stadial-interstadial shifts in the last glacial period remain poorly understood. Here, we investigated the millennial-scale relationship, with a focus on Heinrich Stadials (HS), between sea-ice cover and bottom water temperature (BWT) during Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 3 and 2 (64–13 ka) in the Fram Strait using new molecular sea ice biomarker data and ...

Precise ischemic lesion segmentation plays an essential role in improving diagnosis and treatment planning for ischemic stroke, one of the prevalent diseases with the highest mortality rate. While numerous deep neural network approaches have recently been proposed to tackle this problem, these methods require large amounts of annotated regions during training, which can be impractical in the medical ...

Recent advances in sequencing technologies and platforms have enabled to generate metagenomics sequences using different sequencing platforms. In this study, we analyzed and compared shotgun metagenomic sequences generated by HiSeq3000 and BGISEQ-500 platforms from 12 sediment samples collected across the Norwegian coast. Metagenomics DNA sequences were normalized to an equal number of bases for ...