This book is one out of six IAEG XIII Congress and AEG 61st Annual Meeting proceeding volumes, and deals with topics related to slope stability including case histories, landslide mapping, and emerging technologies. The theme of the IAEG/AEG Meeting, held in San Francisco from September 17-21, 2018, is Engineering Geology for a Sustainable World. The meeting proceedings analyze the dynamic role…
Introduction -- Soil research history -- Climate -- Geology and geomorphology -- Soil maps and major soil types -- Soil properties and its sustainability -- Soil classification -- Soil fertility and its security -- Land use and vegetation -- Soil pollution and its management -- Soils and humans -- Future soil issues.This book reviews the distribution of soils across Egypt, their history, genesi…
1. Introduction -- 2. Starting points for creating ecological networks -- 3. Methodological base for development of the territorial system of ecological stability -- 4. Method and procedures of designing the territorial system of ecological stability -- 5. Conclusion -- 6. Summary -- 7. References -- 8. Case study: Evaluation of linear formations of non-forest woody vegetation (biocorridors) fo…
Introduction -- 1 Material Base of Sustainable Development - Landscape as a Geosystem -- 2 Landscape as a Geosystem -- 3 Construction and Mapping of Geosystems -- 4 Characteristics of Geocomplexes -- 5 Application of the Geosystems in Model Territory - An Example -- Conclusion.The book analyses the landscape as a geosystem in all its complexity (from the abiotic environment, and land use to soc…
Preface -- Introduction -- Application of Dense Offshore Tsunami Observations from Ocean Bottom Pressure Gauges (OBPGs) for Tsunami Research and Early Warnings -- Remote Sensing for Natural or Man-made Disasters and Environmental Changes -- Classification of Post-Earthquake High Resolution Images using Adaptive Dynamic Region Merging and Gravitational Self-Organizing Maps -- A Survey on the Rol…
Keynote addresses -- Cooling and Heating -- Fires and Explosions -- Energy -- Numerical Simulation -- Mine Monitoring -- Networks, Standards, Ventilation on Demand -- Diesel Emissions -- Spontaneous Combustion -- Fan -- Case Studies -- Mine Planning -- Occupational Hygiene -- Dust Control.The proceedings of the 11th International Mine Ventilation Congress (11th IMVC), is focused on mine ventila…
1. Introduction -- 2. Seismic data assessment -- 3. Seismic signature of the caving process -- 4. Comparison of seismicity induced while mining hydro-fractured and non-preconditioned rock mass volumes -- 5. Summary and Conclusions -- Index. .This book presents the results of seismic data analysis and interpretation based on nearly one million seismic events. This seismicity was induced by the c…
Seismic Interpretation -- to Seismic Texture -- Atlas of 3D Seismic Attributes -- The Use of Structure Tensors in the Analysis of Seismic Data -- Automated Structural Interpretation Through Classification of Seismic Horizons -- Automatic Fault Extraction Using Artificial Ants -- Geological Model Building -- Geological Modelling and Reservoir Simulation -- Geological Model Building: A Hierarchic…
This volume contains two of the three lectures that were given at the 33rd Probability Summer School in Saint-Flour (July 6-23, 2003). Amir Dembo’s course is devoted to recent studies of the fractal nature of random sets, focusing on some fine properties of the sample path of random walk and Brownian motion. In particular, the cover time for Markov chains, the dimension of discrete limsup ran…
Stochastic Methods in Statistical Physics -- Coarse-Graining Techniques for (Random) Kac Models -- Euclidean Gibbs Measures of Quantum Crystals: Existence, Uniqueness and a Priori Estimates -- Some Jump Processes in Quantum Field Theory -- Gibbs Measures on Brownian Paths: Theory and Applications -- Spectral Theory for Nonstationary Random Potentials -- A Survey of Rigorous Results on Random Sc…