Modern American Coal Mining

Modern American Coal Mining

Modern American Coal Mining: Methods and Applications covers a full range of coal mining and coal industry topics, with chapters written by leading coal mining industry professionals and academicians. Highlights from the book include coal resources and distribution, mine design, advances in strata control and power systems, improvements in surface mining, ventilation to reduce fires and explosions, drilling and blasting, staffing requirement ratios, management and preplanning, and coal preparation and reclamation.

Modern American Coal Mining

Water in Mineral Processing

Water in Mineral Processing

One of the major challenges confronting the mining and minerals processing industry in the 21st century will be managing in an environment of ever decreasing water resources.

Water in Mineral Processing

The Yellow Papers

The Yellow Papers

It’s 1872 and China still bruised from its defeat in the two Opium Wars sends a group of boys, including seven-year-old Chen Mu, to America to study and bring back the secrets of the West. But nine years on Chen Mu becomes a fugitive and flees to Umberumberka, a mining town in outback Australia. He eventually finds peace working for Matthew Dawson, a rich pastoralist.

The Yellow Papers

Underwater Tailing Placement at Island Copper Mine

Underwater Tailing Placement at Island Copper Mine

By their very nature, mining operations generate significantly more waste than ore. For a large-scale mine, this can translate into several hundred million tons of waste rock and tailings that must stored and eventually reclaimed. Waste storage on this scale requires vast land mass and significant expense for site reclamation once the mine is closed.

Underwater Tailing Placement at Island Copper Mine

High-Throughput Screening in Drug Discovery

High-Throughput Screening in Drug Discovery

Backed by leading authorities, this is a professional guide to successful compound screening in pharmaceutical research and chemical biology, including the chemoinformatic tools needed for correct data evaluation. Chapter authors from leading pharmaceutical companies as well as from Harvard University discuss such factors as chemical genetics, binding, cell-based and biochemical assays, the efficient use of compound libraries and data mining using cell-based assay results.

High-Throughput Screening in Drug Discovery

Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook

Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook

Natural Language Processing is used everywhere – in search engines, spell checkers, , phones, computer , – even your washing machine. Python’s Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) suite of libraries has rapidly emerged as one of the most efficient tools for Natural Language Processing. You want to employ nothing less than the best techniques in Natural Language Processing – and this book is your answer.,

Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook is your handy and illustrative guide, which will walk you through all the Natural Language Processing techniques in a step-by-step manner. It will demystify the advanced features of text analysis and text mining using the comprehensive NLTK suite.

Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook

PowerPivot for Business Intelligence Using Excel and SharePoint

PowerPivot for Business Intelligence Using Excel and SharePoint

PowerPivot comprises a set of technologies for easy , to data mining and , intelligence analysis from , Excel and SharePoint. Power users and developers alike can create sophisticated, online analytic processing (OLAP) solutions using PowerPivot for Excel, and then share those solutions with other users via PowerPivot for SharePoint. Data can be pulled in from any of the leading database platforms, as well as from spreadsheets and flat files.,

The book takes a scenario-based approach to showing you how to collect data, to mine that data through insightful analysis, and to draw conclusions that drive business performance.

PowerPivot for Business Intelligence Using Excel and SharePoint