During the past few years an increased number of violent failures causing fallouts have been observed in both LKAB and Boliden mines. These types of failures are generally called rockbursts, but different mines give different meaning to...
The questionnaire results showed that understanding of the real meaning of pedestrian clearance time is not changed by the installation of countdown signals. Despite its effectiveness in fa...
The problem until now; however; is that planners have found it difficult to integrate conventional land-use and transport data into a single model, meaning planning policies tend to be formulated ...
The plan is for wind energy to deliver three-quarters of the target but that, as this paper explains, would actually require 12 GW, meaning the target will not be met. Furthermore, experience in Denmark...
All words in the english language fall into two major groups: content words (stone, run, big, swiftly); and empty words (in, has, because, the, and, to, been, etc.). Use empty words sparingly; they clutter a ...
First, many locks on the system have grown old together and are approaching the end of their design life; second, many are simply too small to handle today's barges, meaning tows often must break up to pass. The result: delays at locks ...