struggle‚ there is no progress.” This statement is definitely true as people can’t bring about change easily or without opposition. This declaration is personified in Paul Farmer’s story as he tries to cure the world of tuberculosis. In Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder‚ we see all the challenges and opponents that Farmer faces in attempting to bring about good‚ but we also see the reward of fighting the long defeat and how these challenges are active in our own lives as we try to bring
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Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis Report Elizabeth Mine South Strafford‚ Vermont Final Report Final Report Prepared for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New England District Concord‚ Massachusetts 12 March 2002 Arthur D. Little‚ Inc. Acorn Park Cambridge‚ Massachusetts 02140-2390 Contract No. DACW33-00-D-0002 Delivery Order 0002 Arthur D. Little Reference 76071 Table of Contents Page List of Acronyms ............................................................................................
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like some sedimentary material. Also weathering may have contributed to the failing slopes as the orange color appears to be a lighter color orange There was a large volume of loose rock that had been dumped in the upper portion of the slope due to mining making the slope where the slide happened unstable. 1 Vegetation Conditions None Warning Signs of failure prior to event Yes‚ there were warning signs. There were signs of the mine’s wall slipping a millimeter or so each day in February.
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[GLF02] Michael Gordon‚ Robert K. Lindsay‚ and Weiguo Fan‚ Literature-based discovery on the World Wide Web‚ ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 2 (2002)‚ plications: Text retrieval‚ extraction and categorization‚ John Benjamins Pub- lishing Company‚ Amsterdam‚ The Netherlands and Philadelphia‚ USA‚ 2002 knowledge‚ Psychological Review 104 (1997)‚ no. 2‚ 211–240. 5 New York‚ NY‚ 2005. $Id: vaim-faqs.tex‚v 1.6 2006/05/10 21:45:07 sok Exp $
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Data Mining Abdullah Alshawdhabi Coleman University Simply stated data mining refers to extracting or mining knowledge from large amounts of it. The term is actually a misnomer. Remember that the mining of gold from rocks or sand is referred to as gold mining rather than rock or sand mining. Thus‚ data mining should have been more appropriately named “knowledge mining from data‚” which is unfortunately somewhat long. Knowledge mining‚ a shorter term‚ may not
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Chapter 1 Exercises 1. What is data mining? In your answer‚ address the following: Data mining refers to the process or method that extracts or \mines" interesting knowledge or patterns from large amounts of data. (a) Is it another hype? Data mining is not another hype. Instead‚ the need for data mining has arisen due to the wide availability of huge amounts of data and the imminent need for turning such data into useful information and knowledge. Thus‚ data mining can be viewed as the result of the
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Data Mining On Medical Domain Smita Malik‚ Karishma Naik‚ Archa Ghodge‚ Shivani Gaunker Shree Rayeshwar Institute of Engineering & Information Technology Shiroda‚ Goa‚ India. Smilemalik777@gmail.com; naikkarishma39@gmail.com; archaghodge@gmail.com; shivanigaunker@gmail.com Abstract-The successful application of data mining in highly visible fields like retail‚ marketing & e-business have led to the popularity of its use in knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) in other industries
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Introduction to Data Mining Assignment 1 Ex1.1 what is data mining? (a) Is it another hype? Data mining is Knowledge extraction from data this need for data mining has arisen due to the wide availability of huge amounts of data and the imminent need for turning such data into useful information and knowledge. So‚ data mining definitely is not another hype it can be viewed as the result of the natural evolution of information technology. (b) Is it a simple transformation of technology developed
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Wildcat Mining Recently there has been a dispute between the Munduruku Tribe and “wildcat miners”‚ in which several illegal miners had set up various mines on the Munduruku’s land in search of gold. To remove these miners on their land‚ the tribe’s leaders travelled to Brazil‚ demanding from the government to remove illegal miners on their territory. Unfortunately‚ a court action by the government could take years and years‚ thus the Munduruku Tribe decided to evict the illegal miners by themselves
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Green Mountain Resort Case Study Benjamin L. Martinez Davenport University Introduction Green Mountain Resort was initially constructed as an attractive amenity for home ownership in the Appalachians. Property owners received a membership to the resort and were offered a not only a home‚ but a lifestyle. The problem with this strategy was that Green Mountain was made for buyers and not vacationers. As it
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