An Iranian blockade by means of mining, airstrikes or sabotage is logistically well within Tehran's military capabilities.
On Friday, the Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining proposed new regulations that it hopes will permanently legalize mountaintop mining — a cheap, ruthlessly efficient, environmentally destructive means of mining coal from the mountains of Appalachia.
These companies, however, are not just colonising space; they are also colonising time – mostly, by means of mining whatever data they can grab about our personal, social and professional lives.
Environmental As problems are commonly the result of mobilization under natural conditions, such as weathering of arsenic-bearing minerals and geothermal sources, but human activities have contributed to an important additional impact by means of mining processes, fossil fuel combustion, and the use of arsenic in pesticides, herbicides, crop desiccants, and livestock feed [ 5].
The identification and quantification of this relationship is obtained by means of data mining techniques.
He suggested that one way in which ecogenomics research could be translated into viable opportunities, was by means of 'nature mining' (cf. Brouwer [2008]).
With the experience of the two-year ongoing experiments on distance learning, and with the learning information discovered from the web-based-distance-class learners' learning portfolios by means of data mining techniques, the learning model mentioned above is inferred, tested and verified.
Such data are then subject to statistical analysis, or other means of data mining, to answer the underlying scientific questions.
In this study, we identified ENC homologs in diverse vertebrates by means of database mining and polymerase chain reaction screens.
Here we present a useful strategy to identify enzymes with potential biotechnological interest by means of genomes mining.
