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University of Zimbabwe Courses offered - 2022/2023

Bachelor of Science Honours in Engineering (Options: Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering) Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Mining Engineering; Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Geoinformatics and Surveying; Apply online. Faculty of Law . Bachelor of Laws Honours ( Full Time and Part ...

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Introducing Pi Network - Making Cryptocurrency Accessible to the Masses ...

Mining Pi on a smartphone is a simple and easy way to watch cryptocurrency rewards accrue on a daily basis. However, the value of those rewards requires Pi to gain the traction and usage of the network effect. Only once enough people participate and are willing to transact goods and services in Pi, will the rewards gain any real-world value.

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P017: Mining temporalities: ideas, experiences and politics of time in ...

Resource extraction is often seen as a process of transformation of a space, rarely as a complex temporal process. Following the recent anthropological debates on the anthropology of time, this panel invites to submit proposals that examine temporal dimensions of mines and extractive processes.

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Hunting and gathering | Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology

Hunting and gathering constitute the oldest human mode of making a living, and the only one for which there is an uninterrupted record from human origins to the present. Correspondingly, there has been a lot of anthropological attention devoted to hunting and gathering with an initial confidence that one could directly observe human nature by studying hunter-gatherers. More recently, however ...

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Jessica Smith | Colorado School of Mines

As an anthropologist, Professor Smith's research interests focus around public accountability and engineering, with a particular focus on the mining and energy industries. She spent her 2018 sabbatical as a British Academy Visiting Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland).

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Archaeologists on surprising trail of Japanese families who lived in ...

The classic black-and-white photos from early decades of the American West often fail to capture the diversity of the people who came here. Chinese migrants helped build the railroads and were big in gold mining. Basque people from Spain became known for sheep herding. The first Filipino cannery workers arrived around the turn of the last century. Now, Oregon archaeologists are on the ...

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Mining the evolutionary process of knowledge through multiple ...

Feb 21, 2022The edge-perspective network involves the link and the related nodes and enables capturing higher-order structures in a graph (Zhao et al., 2018). A study exists on a patent citation network and technology convergence of the patent pairs, where edge outliers are assumed to be the opportunity for innovation emerging (Zhang et al., 2017).

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Anthropologist view of social network analysis and data mining

An anthropologist shares with the "SNA and data mining community" his own anthropological perspective framed during more than five decades of network thinking about a broad range of anthropological...

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Network Analysis of a Fishing Community in Japan - Anthropology News

Examining the social organization of groups gives insight into the decline of fishermen in a Japanese town. Hamoto, my field site, was one of the fishing towns that flourished following World War II by feeding the Japanese workforce that made possible the post war economic boom. In the 1960s, however, the fish "disappeared.".

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Academic Content, Techno-Anthropology, Master - Aalborg University

Techno-Anthropology is a two-year Master's programme of 120 ECTS (1 ECTS equals 27.5 hours of work) that focuses on educating students at intervening on the relationship between digital transformations and society. ... Data Mining, and Machine Learning ; ... The Techno-Anthropology research network is responsible for organising annual ...

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Documenting Accountability: Environmental Impact Assessment in a ...

Over the past two decades, practices of accountability have acquired a new presence in neoliberal governance and resource extraction in Peru. In the context of mining activity, accountability generally refers to public mechanisms of evaluation and record-keeping through which citizens can make corporations and governments answerable to them.

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Alex Golub - An Anthropology Blog

This is the website of Alex Golub. I'm an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. I have three different research interests. First, I am a Melanesianist with an interest in the history and anthropology of Papua New Guinea. Secondly, I am a political anthropologist with a focus on mining, extractive ...

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Mining and Its Health Consequences - A Companion to the Anthropology of ...

The industrial pathologies associated with the occupation of mining range from the cellular to the global. Medical anthropology has contributed to understandings of particular conditions like black lung, the inherent structural vulnerabilities of miners, and through studies that explore the cultural construction of eco‐risks in the large scale, highly disruptive process of oil and gas fracking (Cartwright 2013).

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Network analysis and data mining in food science: the emergence of ...

Abstract. The rapidly growing body of publicly available data on food chemistry and food usage can be analysed using data mining and network analysis methods. Here we discuss how these approaches can yield new insights both into the sensory perception of food and the anthropology of culinary practice. We also show that this development is part of a larger trend.

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Emma Gilberthorpe — University of East Anglia

My main area of research examines the parameters of social organisation, kinship and exchange in contexts of large-scale resource extraction (mining and oil/gas extraction). I am particularly interested in the implications of the cultural incompatibilities that exist between large-scale, capitalist corporations and small-scale societies.

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Anthropologist view of social network analysis and data mining

Abstract. An anthropologist shares with the "SNA and data mining community" his own anthropological perspective framed during more than five decades of network thinking about a broad range of anthropological problems. For 50 years he has viewed all people, things, and ideas in dynamic relationships.

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Digital anthropology - Wikipedia

Digital anthropology is the anthropological study of the relationship between humans and digital-era technology. The field is new, and thus has a variety of names with a variety of emphases. These include techno-anthropology, [1] digital ethnography, cyberanthropology, [2] and virtual anthropology. [3]

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Anthropology < Columbia College | Columbia University

Professor Naor Ben-Yehoyada; 470 Schermerhorn Extension; 212 854-8936; ; Professor Maria José de Abreu; 957 Schermerhorn Extension; 212-854-4752; [email protected]. Office Hours are by appointment. Anthropology at Columbia is the oldest department of anthropology in the United States. Founded by Franz Boas in 1896 as a site of academic ...

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Mining History Association Journal

A. Bernard Knapp, V. C. Piggott, Eugenia W. Herbert, eds., "Social Approaches to an Industrial Past: The Archaeology and Anthropology of Mining.". Reviewed by Raymond E. Dummett. ( Download pdf) Beth Sagsetter and Bill Sagsetter, "The Mining Camps Speak: A New Way to Explore the Ghost Towns of the American West.".

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Experts | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame

Experts. University of Notre Dame faculty experts with extensive media experience are available to analyze, provide context and commentary on a variety of topics. Search the ND Experts database to identify the most appropriate expert for your story or contact the Office of Media Relations for assistance. About Our Experts. 245 record (s) found.

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Levels of Sociocultural Integration: An Operational Concept

This article was published in the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology (1945-1972), which is continued by the Journal of Anthropological Research (1973-present). ... Alvin W. Wolfe Anthropologist view of social network analysis and data mining, Social Network Analysis and Mining 1, ...

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Daniel J. Hoffman | Department of Anthropology | University of Washington

Research Advised: Graduate Predissertation Pilot Awards. St. John. Construction, Negotiation, and Contestation of Visual Narrative Through Photographic Practice, Qingdao and Vancouver. 2020.

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Contested value and an ethics of resources: Water, mining and ...

The Australian Journal of Anthropology. Volume 27, Issue 1 p. 84-103. Original Article. Contested value and an ethics of resources: Water, mining and indigenous people in the Atacama Desert, Chile ... while industrial extraction and commodification by the mining industry are the basis for indigenous people's contestations over water resources ...

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Hunting and gathering | Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology

Hunting and gathering constitute the oldest human mode of making a living, and the only one for which there is an uninterrupted record from human origins to the present. Correspondingly, there has been a lot of anthropological attention devoted to hunting and gathering with an initial confidence that one could directly observe human nature by studying hunter-gatherers.

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Blockchain Mining Project Pi Network Nears 500,000 Mobile App Miners ...

Blockchain Mining Project Pi Network Nears 500,000 Mobile App Miners - Halving Point on Horizon. By. Richard Kastelein - 26 September 2019. 0. 6880. Facebook. ... Head of Product is a Stanford Ph.D. in Computational Anthropology and Pi Head of Community Vincent McPhillip out of Yale and Stanford who is a co-Founder of the Stanford Blockchain ...

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Systematic analysis of safety profile for darunavir and its boosted ...

Affiliations 1 Department of Pharmacy, Chongqing Health Center for Women and Children, Chongqing, 400021, China.; 2 Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Institute of Anthropology, National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, and School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China.; 3 Department of Pharmacy, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University ...

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Mining Network ROI Calculator - Donations

Donations. Help keep this site running! Renewal date is on the 5th of every month! Send donations to ifo2o.c.wam. Server Cost Funded 110/350 73.333333333333%

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Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, 2nd Edition

This second edition of the widely praised Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, features a variety of updates, revisions, and new readings in its comprehensive presentation of issues in the history of anthropological theory and epistemology over the past century. Provides a comprehensive selection of 60 readings and an insightful overview of the evolution of anthropological theory ...

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Data mining in conservation research using Latin and vernacular ... - PeerJ

Introduction. Analyses of the Internet provide a rich source of information and contribute considerably to conservation activities and evaluation (Wilson et al., 2007; Kim et al., 2014).Internet search engines, web-based data assessments, and social network mining approaches are increasingly used to assess public awareness regarding nature conservation (Funk & Rusowsky, 2014; Arts, Van der Wal ...

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Data Mining Applications with R - 1st Edition - Elsevier

Purchase Data Mining Applications with R - 1st Edition. Print Book & E-Book. ISBN 9780124115118, 9780124115200 ... Discovery of Emergent Issues and Controversies in Anthropology Using Text Mining, Topic Modeling, and Social Network Analysis of Microblog Content. ... 4.6 Social Network Analysis of Authors. 4.7 Conclusion. References. Chapter 5 ...

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Staff Directory | Dr Susan Hemer - University of Adelaide

Doctor Susan Hemer lectures in the areas of medical and psychological anthropology, and development studies. Dr Hemer's research interests include the social impact of mining and development projects in the Pacific, and expatriate communities associated with development projects. Research interests in psychological anthropology are focused on ...

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Mining Encounters - Pluto Press

His research focuses on the micro-politics of (large-scale) mining in West Africa. He is co-coordinator of both the AEGIS Collaborative Research Group 'Resource Extraction in Africa' and the EASA 'Anthropology of Mining' Network. He is the editor of Mining Encounters: Extractive Industries in an Overheated World (Pluto, 2018). Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and former President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.

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London Central Asia Research Network

An interdisciplinary network for early-career research on Central Asia and its wider region. We are a London-UK based group. ... Her recent research project focuses on illegal gold mining in Kyrgyzstan, criminalisation and de-legitimation of mining protests. ... Exeter Central Asian Studies Network Roadwork: An Anthropology of Infrastructure at ...

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Mining | National Geographic Society

May 20, 2022Mining is the process of extracting useful materials from the earth. Some examples of substances that are mined include coal, gold, or iron ore.Iron . ore is the material from which the metal iron is produced.. The process of mining dates back to prehistoric times.. Prehistoric people first mined flint, which was ideal for tools and weapons since it breaks into shards with sharp edges.

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Susan Wright - Research - Aarhus University

Academic. • Circle U chair, 2021-2023. • Professor of Educational Anthropology, Danish Educational University, from May 2003. (C-SAP), University of Birmingham, 2000-3. • Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Sussex, 1985-97. • Associate Researcher, Department of Planning, University College London, 1978-83.

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Credibility Crisis: Brumadinho and the Politics of Mining Industry ...

This was a response to industry recommendations about mine tailings management. The process by which those recommendations were made is analysed in a book, Credibility Crisis - Brumadinho and the Politics of Mining Industry Reform . One of the Safety First report's authors, Dr Steven Emerman, has now written a review of this book.

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Workshop/CfP - Anthropology of Mining Network, 20 - ARMACAD

WORKSHOP: Anthropology of Mining Network Mining Temporalities. Ideas, experiences and politics of time in extractive industries This workshop will build upon and extend the discussions initiated during the last EASA conference in Milan with the panel "Mining Temporalities".

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Discovery of Emergent Issues and Controversies in Anthropology Using ...

Discovery of Emergent Issues and Controversies in Anthropology Using Text Mining, Topic Modeling, and Social Network Analysis of Microblog Content December 2013 DOI: 10.1016/B978--12-411511-8.00003-7

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Theses and Dissertations--Anthropology - UKnowledge

During the last several years far southwest Virginia, like elsewhere in the central Appalachian region, has faced a decline in all coal mining activity and a subsequent loss of coal mining jobs, meaning that local economies are suffering and the unemployment line is long. In addition, this area continues to face environmental pollution from surface coal mines that are still in operation or ...

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Dr Hedda Askland - University of Newcastle

My chief scholarly contributions have been in the areas of displacement and the anthropology of mining. My current ethnographic research focuses on mining-affected communities in rural New South Wales, Australia. I have been conducting fieldwork there since 2015, observing how local communities endure rapid change because of mining operations.

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