Application of Robotics in Mining Industry: A Critical Review Santosh Kumar Nanda* Ashok Kumar Dash** Sandigdha Acharya* Abikshyana Moharana* ABSTRACT The advance of robotics and the increase in robot use have raised the need for computer simulation of robots‚ among the aims of which are the design of new robots‚ task planning of existing robots‚ performance evaluation and cycle time estimation. For mining environment‚ both the opencast and underground mining needs seriously application of
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We decided to group all the retail companies together by understanding that a retail company will have a relatively low collection period and then break them down further based upon our knowledge and research of industry averages. We believe that the Department store is represented by column K. The first aspect that caught our attention was the fact that there was a very large amount of inventory‚ which makes sense because a department store will need to have a continuous flow of inventory in
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Misty Sprout 5/3/2013 Smoky Mountains Most of the Smoky Mountains in the national park are sedimentary and were formed by accumulations of clay‚ silt‚ sand‚ gravel minor amount of calcium carbonate. The oldest of the sedimentary rock were formed during the Proterozoic Era about 800-545 million years ago. About 310-245 million years ago‚ the eastern edge of the North American tectonic plat collided with the African plate becoming part of a supercontinent. During one of earlier collisions‚ tremendous
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(10486) BAFA1mA DISSERTATION PROPOSAL Project Title: The art of the moving image Project description: Exploring the definitions of art‚ and if these definitions are hard and fast rules that we‚ as practicing artists‚ should adhere to. Thus‚ through this dissertation‚ I wish to confront the issue of whether moving images (film‚ video‚ media) can be considered a form of art. And if so‚ how do we define which kind of moving images are art‚ and which aren’t. Is there even such a segregation that
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The goal of coal mining is to obtain coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content‚ and‚ since the 1880s‚ has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production. In the United States‚ United Kingdom‚ and South Africa‚ a coal mine and its structures are a colliery. In Australia‚ "colliery" generally refers to an underground coal mine. Coal mining has had many developments over the recent
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Concepts in Brokeback Mountain and how it relates to Our Sexuality Human Sexuality Spring 2011 The concept of homosexuality has been explored by society for many years and is not a new concept. Gay roles portraying homosexuals as people with the same drives and desires as heterosexual people have only begun to surface in the last few decades. Roles showing lesbian women and transgender seem to have been more widely accepted especially when they are used as humor. The role of the gay man
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MOVING TO AMERICA Do you know moving could be a very traumatic and scary experience for a child? When my mom decided to leave Trinidad and Tobago to pursue her Master degree‚ I don’t think she realized the impact it would have on me‚ knowing that you are moving to a whole different country is a big pill to swallow at the age of 14 years old. Me and my mom was having dinner when she broke the news that we were moving to America I remembered that day like it was yesterday I felt like
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Mountaintop Removal: Critical fuel source or environmental antagonists? Mountaintop Removal mining is a very controversial environmental issue with many pros and cons on both sides of the argument. I have found three different articles with three contrasting views in the sense that they are from different geographic regions. The three articles are from the St. Petersburg Times‚ The Washington Times‚ and The Guardian‚ which are located in Florida‚ Maryland‚ and London‚ respectively. Despite the
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A MOUNTAIN TO CLIMB: THE BARRIERS TO CHANGE The last financial year for Aesch has been a relatively positive one. With the situations and context in Germany‚ they have still managed an 8% growth in sales and profitability. Therefore there is no actual sense of urgency in the organisation. With healthy growth in an established market‚ there is no incentive to change. Furthermore we see that‚ in Kotter’s 8 Step Model for Change‚ the first step is to create a sense of urgency. Anna‚ with her argumentation
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The Ozarks‚ also known as the Ozark Mountains‚ is a “physiographic‚ geologic‚ and cultural highland region of the central United States which covers much of the southern half of Missouri and an extensive area of northwest Arkansas.” The region extends to the west into southeast Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma. While the region is referred to as the Ozark Mountains‚ it is actually a “high and deeply dissected” plateau. The Ozark Mountains consist of three sections: the Salem Plateau‚ the Springfield
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