Search academic resources

The Pacific Alliance — comprising Peru, Chile, Mexico, and Colombia — ranked as the world’s leading copper mining bloc in 2024 and holds a significant share of critical and commodity minerals such as molybdenum, li...

The study, conducted to analyze the temporal and spatial changes in current land use types in Demre district of Antalya Province and to establish a foundation for future land management studies, was supported by multispe...

The coal mining areas spanning the Inner Mongolia-Shaanxi border represent both a quintessential ecologically vulnerable zone and a critically important coal production base in China. However, large-scale, high-intensity...

Aldo-keto reductases (AKRs) are nicotinamide-dependent enzymes that catalyze the transformation of aldehydes and ketones into alcohols. They are spread across all phyla, and those from microbial origin have proved to be ...

Cadmium contained in soil and water can be taken up by certain crops and aquatic organisms and accumulate in the food-chain, thus removal of Cd from mining or industrial effluents – i.e. Ni-Cd batteries, electroplating...

Gold mining plays a central role in Ghana’s national economy. However, conventional exploration approaches, particularly within artisanal and small‑scale mining sectors, often rely on trial‑and‑error methods ...

Taking a decolonial approach, this article examines how global economic centres are implementing a new wave of extractive policies in the name of the green and digital transition. Focusing on the San José lithium-mining...

The tapestry of life on Earth is unraveling as humans increasingly dominate and transform natural ecosystems. Scarce resources and dwindling time force conservationists to target their actions to stem the loss of biodive...

Subjects / keywords: green mining, underground energy storage, rock mechanics, geothermal energy, reservoir engineering; Technology: Mechanical engineering and machinery: Energy conservation; Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineer...

Cave 338 is a high-altitude prehistoric site located at 2,235 m a. s.l. in the eastern Pyrenees (Queralbs, Girona, NE Iberian Peninsula). Excavated between 2021 and 2023, the site preserves an exceptional and well-strati...

In reporting Implicit Association Test (IAT) results, researchers have most often used scoring conventions described in the first publication of the IAT (A.G. Greenwald, D.E. McGhee, & J.L.K. Schwartz, 1998). Demonstrati...

MOTIVATION: Prior biological knowledge greatly facilitates the meaningful interpretation of gene-expression data. Causal networks constructed from individual relationships curated from the literature are particularly sui...

Subjects / keywords: Sampling (signal processing); Computer science; Identification (biology); Health informatics; Data science; Qualitative research; Selection (genetic algorithm); Management science; Data collection; Set (abstract data typ...

The design, implementation, and capabilities of an extensible visualization system, UCSF Chimera, are discussed. Chimera is segmented into a core that provides basic services and visualization, and extensions that provid...

Increasingly, adult Indigenous language learners are being identified as the “missing generation” of learners who hold great potential to contribute to the revival of Indigenous languages by acting as the middle grou...