DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125523 Corpus ID: 230554226; Construction of landscape ecological network based on landscape ecological risk assessment in a large-scale opencast coal mine area
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Safety Risk Assessment and Risk Prediction in Underground Coal Mines Using Machine Learning Techniques D. P. Tripathy1. Satyajeet Parida2. Leki Khandu3 Received: 18 May 2021/Accepted: 6 September 2021/Published online: 7 October 2021 The Institution of Engineers (India) 2021 Abstract Risk management focusses on the identification
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