The Application of Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Mining Industry

Mining industry consumes a significant amount of energy and makes greenhouse gas emissions in various operations such as exploration, extraction, transportation and processing. A considerable amount of this energy and gas emissions can be reduced by better managing the operations. The mining method and equipment used mainly determine the type of energy source in any mining operation. In surface mining operations, mobile machines use diesel as a source of energy. These machines are haul trucks excavators, diggers and loaders, according to the production capacity and site layout and they use a considerable amount of fuel in surface mining operation; hence, the mining industry is encouraged to conduct some research projects on the energy efficiency of mobile equipment. Classical analytics methods that commonly used to improve energy efficiency and reduce gas emissions are not sufficient enough. The application of artificial intelligence and deep learning models are growing fast in different industries, and this is a new revolution in the mining industry. In this chapter, the application of artificial intelligence methods to reduce the gas emission in surface mines with some case studies will be explained

Psyche in Eco-Apocalypse: A Reading of Ballard's 'The Drowned World'

Embodiment of apocalyptic imagination has been a major theme in which many writers have pointed it out especially from the midst of twentieth century onwards. Earth today is vulnerable and would be so dangerous for future generation from now on. Although, J. G. Ballard's narrations do not create an ordinary apocalyptic apprehension of human abolition, but he enters the core of the apocalyptic theme by intertwining our world with an altering people's psyche who try to develop a new relationship with nature. This paper examines Ballard's The Drowned World (1962) from the view of the human psyche in an apocalyptic setting. It follows and analyzes the characters of Dr. Robert Kerans (a biologist) and his team in which they are transformed in the story - both mentally and physically

Survey of Love and Marriage in Janette Oke's Fictions

Love is a responsibility in being fond of others that is higher than a desire of friendship, for sure. It is something more than overcoming our loneliness, though human needs a power to escape from his loneliness. As a social being, human requires others to live, especially in opposite sex. In Janette Oke’s novels, the nature and meaning of love is the common path in choosing a life partner for marriage. In her view, marital love is a main principle in transcending human life. In her novels, when pure love happens in which we love somebody honestly without expecting reciprocation. In such relationship, the lover can only adjust his behaviors to show the message of love. Oke tries to show that the romantic love is the basis of the most extreme pleasure that our life needs

Love, perfection, and egotism in Janette Oke's fictions

Love is distinguished as a feeling that begins from the lover's sight to the beloved. In societies in the past, lovers preferred to keep their relationships with the beloved in secret. It means that keeping love as a secret had been appropriate in societies. In present people's view, it is a big problem which cannot be answered with any reason, but religion. Today's lovers are not forced with such problem and they overtly speak about their beloveds. In Janette Oke's fictions, the lovers openly speak about their idiosyncratic behaviors. She shows perfect love in her novels that is against egotism which this paper tries to survey it

The satiric grotesque in Poe’s Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

This paper surveys the grotesque which takes a principal position in the American literature since the nineteenth to the present. It outlines the evolution of grotesque from art to literary form, and its meaning that is combined from different critical works. Moreover, it describes the grotesque from the gothic to the textual analysis of Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque which is a short fiction by Edgar Allen Poe as a key literary w riter in the ground of the grotesque. He appears as a groundbreaking writer in the nineteenth century American literature and a fruitful influence on his followers. His grotesques are not as common as his gothic stories because the former ones are of a humorous and unusual character when compared to his other stories. In fact, his grotesques fall into the territory o f satirical grotesque

The demonic grotesque in Flannery O’Connor’s Everything That Rises Must Converge

This paper surveys the grotesque as a main genre in American Literature which is mostly connected with satire. It defines the grotesque from the gothic to the textual analysis o f the collection o f short stories in Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965) as a short fiction b y F lannery O’Connor, the twentieth century American writer. He has created great tragi-comedy fictions in Southern Gothic. This paper also tries to place O’Connor’s fiction as a great example o f the demonic grotesque within the framework o f the American gothic. Totally, this paper studies this book on the characteristics which depict the demonic grotesqu