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Showing 1 to 20 of 190 for “"miners"”.
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Planned communities for coal miners
Thesis (M.C.P.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1952.
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The South Wales Miners 1964-1985
… the delegates and told them that the south Wales miners 'are associated in people's minds with resistance and struggles ... There is no doubt in my mind that miners have an historical mission to lead in class struggles'.1 This statement expressed the conscious self-image of the South Wales Area …
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Mines and Miners of the Swauk
This paper is presented as an investigation into the history of the gold field lying in the mountains of northern Kittitas county and known as the Swauk.
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Food patterns of southern West Virginia coal miners
Fifty-one male coal miners between 18 and 65 years old (78% underground and 22% surface miners) completed a self-administered questionnaire. Population and food pattern characteristics were described. Food frequencies were used to obtain a food score which was a weighted average of the frequency of …
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Development/exploration funding for black junior miners in South Africa
… is to investigate the proportion of black junior miners holding prospecting rights that manage to advance to obtain a mining license and then to production. Moreover, this study aims to describe and explain attributes that influence the investigated phenomenon to derive mitigations and remedies. …
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Occupational exposures and the development of lung disease in Minnesota miners
… study of current and former taconite miners that examines the association between duration of taconite employment, exposure to EMPs, and the development of parenchymal and pleural lung abnormalities as evidenced by chest radiography.
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Silicosis pulmonary dysfunction and respiratory symptoms in South African gold miners
… population of black, migrant, South African gold miners. No previous study has examined a working population of these men.
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Political Identities: The Miners of the Ruhr and South Wales, 1890-1926
… The fragmentation of the lifeworld of the Ruhr miners into several milieux or sub-cultures, however, contributed to the development of more particularist discourses and sectionalist identities. These differences were encouraged by the nature of civil society in the two regions. German civil …
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Appalachian Coal Miners At Greater Risk For Silica Exposure than Rocky Mountains
… </p> <p>The Appalachian mountain region coal miners had significantly higher exposure to silica, and significantly greater odds of CWP. </p>
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Subterranean governance: The political work of artisanal miners in the northern Peruvian Andes
… the political work of this group of artisanal miners to secure and sustain their livelihoods in a context marked by state initiatives aimed at regulating their informal activities. Based on eleven months of ethnographic research, it unpacks four key sociopolitical arrangements that have allowed …
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Hard-Rock Miners of the Great Basin and Rocky Mountain West, 1860-1920
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T20:25:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7524269.pdf: 31518287 bytes, checksum: caa51324bfb17fd9bea573627222bd95 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Revolution in the Mines: An Analysis of the Miners' Revolt of 1969-1970
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:38:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317667.pdf: 9070507 bytes, checksum: f88b5bbea3ddd8e7f6887cf09d698d09 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Variation in silicosis prevalence in South African gold miners : an industry-wide study
… been blighted by silicosis and tuberculosis in miners since its inception in 1887. There have been two previous studies conducted in black in-service miners using modern epidemiologic methods that found high prevalences of silicosis .The objectives of our study were three-fold. Firstly, to …
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The Asteroid Miners: Space Mining and Resource Making in the Commercial Space Era
… arguments: (1) That the "fall of the space miners" was a failure which was generative, anticipated, and taken advantage of (2) that space mining was real in the way it was realized (3) and that while space mining contributed to a greater project to colonize outer space, colonization also …
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Liveness analysis, modeling, and simulation of blockchain consensus algorithms' ability to tolerate malicious miners
… time of client transactions when malicious miners work to slow the system. Queuing theory and Markov chains jointly are employed to test a given blockchain's ability to perform correctly despite the presence of malicious miners or resistant nodes. Overall, the methodology presented here …
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Mining God’s way: towards mineral resource justice with artisanal gold miners in East Africa
The daily livelihood practices of artisanal gold miners have social, economic, environmental, and governance impacts. Three situations were observed in East Africa, where interventions towards improving livelihoods or mitigating these impacts, have resulted in impasses. These impasses are engaged …
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Determinants of functional capacity and work ability post SARS-COV-2 infection in miners
… of functional capacity and work ability in miners following COVID-19 disease. Methods: This cross-sectional study recruited 204 mine workers employed at a ferromanganese mine in the Northern Cape province of South Africa with a confirmed laboratory diagnosis of COVID-19 within the past 12 …
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Process Innovation by working miners : a case of user innovation in copper mining industry
Employees are known to develop and use key process improvements. In this thesis, I explore innovation by mining employees working in Codelco, a Chilean mining company. The data on these innovations come from a contest sponsored by mine management at the Andina division of Codelco. This contest …
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A Torrent of Silver: Richard Trevithick, Cornish Miners and Steam Engines in Peru 1815-1828
… better the first generation of Cornish miners and steam engines in Peru from 1815 to 1828. The aims of this thesis are to approach Trevithick and other Cornishmen like Richard Hodge in the wider context of Peruvian mining history, in the late colonial and early Republican periods. It …
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