• Coupling NCA dimensionality reduction with machine learning in multispectral rock classification problems 

  Sinaice, Brian Bino; Owada, Narihiro; Saadat, Mahdi; Toriya, Hisatoshi; Inagaki, Fumiaki; Bagai, Zibisani; Kawamura, Youhei (MDPI, https://www.mdpi.com/, 2021-08-05)

  Though multitudes of industries depend on the mining industry for resources, this industry has taken hits in terms of declining mineral ore grades and its current use of traditional, time consuming and computationally ...

• Contaminant binding and bioaccessibility in the dust from the Ni-Cu mining/smelting District of Selebi-Phikwe (Botswana) 

  Ettler, Vojtěch; Hladíková, Karolína; Mihaljevič, Martin; Drahota, Petr; Culka, Adam; Jedlicka, Radim; Kříbek, Bohdan; Sracek, Ondra; Bagai, Zibisani (Wiley Periodicals LLC, https://www.wiley.com/, 2022-08-22)

  We studied the dust fractions of the smelting slag, mine tailings, and soil from the former Ni-Cu mining and processing district in Selebi-Phikwe (eastern Botswana). Multi-method chemical and mineralogical investigations ...

• Biosurfactant production by halophilic yeasts isolated from extreme environments in Botswana 

  Daniel, Loeto; Mosimanegape, Jongman; Lerato, Lekote; Mbaki, Muzila; Margaret, Mokomane; Koketso, Motlhanka; Thando, Ndlovu; Nerve, Zhou (Oxford University Press, https://academic.oup.com/femsle, 2021)

  Nine morphologically distinct halophilic yeasts were isolated from Makgadikgadi and Sua pans, as pristine and extreme environments in Botswana. Screening for biosurfactant production showed that Rhodotorula mucilaginosa ...

• Advances in the use of biocontrol applications in preharvest and postharvest environments: a food safety milestone 

  Mosimanegape, Jongman; Patricia, Carmichael; Daniel, Loeto; Annancietar, Gomba (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17454565, 2022-04)

  Increasing concerns toward food safety and public health have rendered the use of synthetic chemicals in agricultural environments unacceptable. A shift toward biologically safe approaches has been considered a preferred ...

• The Impact of China’s lockdown policy on the incidence of COVID-19: an interrupted time series analysis 

  Molefi, Mooketsi; Tlhakanelo, John T.; Phologolo, Thabo; Hamda, Shimeles G.; Masupe, Tiny; Tsima, Billy; Setlhare, Vincent; Mashalla, Yohana; Wiebe, Douglas J. (Hindawi, https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/, 2021-10-28)

  Background. Policy changes are often necessary to contain the detrimental impact of epidemics such as those brought about by coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In the earlier phases of the emergence of COVID-19, China was the ...

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