G eo Factsheet www.curriculum-press.co.uk Number 225 Development versus conservation in Alaska’s Arctic wilderness: the case of the oil and gas industry Fig. 1 Oil prices 2006-08. Introduction The Arctic wilderness areas of Alaska are facing potential dramatic new changes as a result of the rising world price of oil and gas (Fig. 1). In Autumn 2003 the world price of standard crude oil was $25 per barrel. By July 2006 the price had risen to $75 per barrel but by late 2007 the price had rocketed
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States to increase the supply of available crude oil by drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The idea of drilling in the Arctic has been controversial and to the present day is still being debated. The United States’ need to determine whether drilling in the Arctic will be a worthwhile consideration‚ or if there are not sufficient benefits to counteract the harmful possibilities drilling possesses. Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge provides many immediate economic benefits
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There are submarines traveling under the Arctic icepack regularly‚ and they occasionally surface at the North Pole. Recently‚ the gradual melting of polar ice has caused a lot of activity to spring up in the area; nations from all over the world are eyeing the possibilities to gain new viable oil‚ gas deposits‚ mineral reserves and transit and shipping routes‚ such as the Northwest Passage. Most notably‚ Russia is already setting ground to claim part of the Arctic as Russian territory. A Mission to Research
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WEB MINING: AN INTRODUCTORY APPROACH Lavalee Singh1 Arun Singh2 1 M.Tech (C.S.) Student IIMT Engineering College Meerut (U.P.) India lovely_198631@rediffmail.com 2Associate Professor IIMT Engineering College Meerut (U.P.) India
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Web Mining Data mining is the nontrivial process of identifying valid novel‚ potentially useful‚ and ultimately understandable patterns in data – Fayyad. The most commonly used techniques in data mining is artificial neural networks‚ decision trees‚ genetic algorithm‚ nearest_neighbour method‚ and rule induction. Data mining research has drawn on a number of other fields such as inductive learning‚ machine learning and statistics etc. Machine learning – is the automation of a learning process
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Stock Exchange forecasting with Data Mining and Text Mining (Marketing and Sales Analysis) Full names : Fahed Yoseph TITLE : Senior software and Database Consultatnt (Founder of Info Technology System) E-mail: Yoseph@info-technology.net Date of submission: Sep 15th of 2013 CONTENTS PAGE Chapter 1 1. ABSTRACT 2 2. INTRODUCTION 3 2.1 The research problem. 4 2.2 The objectives of the proposal. 4 2.3 The Stock Market movement. 5 2.4 Research question(s). 6 2. Background 3. Problem
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Project Topic 1: What is the Impact of Mining on South Africa and its people? GOLD Authors: Michelle Dandara‚ Kirsten Collins‚ Robyn Blench‚ Yumna Badrooien and Sonia Mataramvura Date of Completion: 17 February 2012 Teacher: Mr Altern Abstract Mining plays a very important role in South Africa: it is one of the driving forces behind South Africa’s booming economy and provides employment for millions of South Africans. South Africa boasts world-scale primary mining processing facilities and is a world
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P D Y Chapter 3 1 0 2 SURFACE MINING METHODS REFERENCE: BULLIVANT‚ DA. Current Surface Mining Techniques. Journal for the Transportation of Materials in Bulk: Bulk Solids Handling‚ vol 7‚ n6‚ December 1987‚ pp827-833. 2.1 Ore reserves Suitable for Surface Mining Ore reserves suitable for surface mining can be classified initially as; Relatively horizontal stratified reserves with a thin or thick covering of overburden Stratified vein-type deposits with an inclination steeper
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SMS CUSAT Reading Material on Data Mining Anas AP & Alex Titty John • What is Data? Data is a collection of facts and information or unprocessed information. Example: Student names‚ Addresses‚ Phone Numbers etc. • What is a Database? A structured set of data held in a computer which is accessible in various ways. Example: Electronic Address Book‚ Phone Book. • What is a Data Warehouse? The electronic storage of large amount of data by business. Concept originated in
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Data Mining Melody McIntosh Dr. Janet Durgin Information Systems for Decision Making December 8‚ 2013 Introduction Data mining‚ or knowledge discovery‚ is the computer-assisted process of digging through and analyzing enormous sets of data and then extracting the meaning of the data. Data mining tools predict behaviors and future trends‚ allowing businesses to make proactive‚ knowledge- driven decisions Although data mining is still in its infancy
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