1) The mining industry in South Africa faces challenges related to skills shortages as mines increasingly mechanize their operations. Companies are focusing on upskilling workers and investing heavily in skills development programs to address this issue.
2) Mechanization is seen as necessary for mines to remain profitable but requires higher-skilled workers to operate complex machinery. However, many South African miners have low levels of education and numeracy, making training difficult.
3) There is an acute shortage of artisanal skills in particular. While companies invest billions annually in training, the public education system is seen as not adequately preparing youth for technical careers needed in mining. Improving education is key to resolving the long-term skills shortage.
ICAO GAT Symposium-Delhi-Qs for the Session 1Maryam Shoja
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The impact of quality management on the profitability of the nigerian road tr...Chijioke Ukwuegbu
The main focus of this project is to reveal the impact of quality management on the profitability of the Nigerian mass transport industry.
In order to achieve the aim of this study; attributed quality management factors like maintenance, accessibility, availability, safety, customer satisfaction and price were investigated. To this end, the Lagos Danfo drivers were chosen as the body of study. For a purposeful study to be conducted, some relevant books and research by many authors were reviewed. Research questions were formulated to avoid any form of deviation from the main purpose of the topic. The use of questionnaires was employed to gather the information needed from the respondents. This information was then analysed using Spearman’s correlation to determine the type of association between the hypotheses.
The study revealed that the application of quality management to the Nigerian mass transport industry would indefinitely boost their profitability.
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Technical report of a three month student industrial work experience scheme. Covering C# programming, Microsoft Office, and Basic computer networking.
By Abah Joseph Israel.
ICAO GAT Symposium-Delhi-Qs for the Session 1Maryam Shoja
The 6th Global Aviation Training & TRAINAIR PLUS Symposium
December 4th to 6th, 2019, New Delhi
Questions for Session 1: Global Overview - Innovating in the training field to prepare for the evolving needs of the aviation community
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The impact of quality management on the profitability of the nigerian road tr...Chijioke Ukwuegbu
The main focus of this project is to reveal the impact of quality management on the profitability of the Nigerian mass transport industry.
In order to achieve the aim of this study; attributed quality management factors like maintenance, accessibility, availability, safety, customer satisfaction and price were investigated. To this end, the Lagos Danfo drivers were chosen as the body of study. For a purposeful study to be conducted, some relevant books and research by many authors were reviewed. Research questions were formulated to avoid any form of deviation from the main purpose of the topic. The use of questionnaires was employed to gather the information needed from the respondents. This information was then analysed using Spearman’s correlation to determine the type of association between the hypotheses.
The study revealed that the application of quality management to the Nigerian mass transport industry would indefinitely boost their profitability.
siwes technical report in mechanical engineering, automobile workshopjsunny155
my name is sanusi jibrin a student in bayero university kano in the department of mechanical engineering. this report gives the overview of the siwes program and also its background.
i hope this might help you in one way or the other
Technical report of a three month student industrial work experience scheme. Covering C# programming, Microsoft Office, and Basic computer networking.
By Abah Joseph Israel.
Welcome to the H1 2014 Global Workforce Survey, prepared by Air Energi and OilCareers.com. With more than 500 industry professionals participating and representing every region and type of organisation across the supply chain – including EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) and project management contractor (PMC) firms, sub-contractors and energy companies – the aims of the Global Workforce Survey are to:
Highlight the people-focused issues oil and gas companies will face in 2014
Raise awareness of people-related risk in the oil and gas industry and its impact on projects
Provide an overview of pay rates for contractors across the industry
Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme was establish by Federal Government of Nigeria in 1973 and it been head by Industrial Training Fund in line with the Federal Government and this is a SIWES report carried out in the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, Calabar Airport.
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Forecasting the supply and demand of the Logistics Human Capital in GCCRanjan Sinha
An Presentation on the Challenges and future trends of Logistics Industry in GCC . It also discusses about challenges and trends of Human Capital in Logistics Industry and its mitigation measures.
The students industrial work experience scheme (SIWES) is a skills training programme designed to expose and prepare students of Universities, Polytechnics/Colleges of Technology/Colleges of Agriculture and Colleges of Education for the industrial work situation they are likely to meet after graduation.
Welcome to the H1 2014 Global Workforce Survey, prepared by Air Energi and OilCareers.com. With more than 500 industry professionals participating and representing every region and type of organisation across the supply chain – including EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) and project management contractor (PMC) firms, sub-contractors and energy companies – the aims of the Global Workforce Survey are to:
Highlight the people-focused issues oil and gas companies will face in 2014
Raise awareness of people-related risk in the oil and gas industry and its impact on projects
Provide an overview of pay rates for contractors across the industry
Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme was establish by Federal Government of Nigeria in 1973 and it been head by Industrial Training Fund in line with the Federal Government and this is a SIWES report carried out in the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, Calabar Airport.
UPES is an endeavour of Hydrocarbons Education & Research Society (HERS), a non profit organisation registered under the Societies Act 1860 dedicated to promoting education and training in Energy and allied sectors.
Forecasting the supply and demand of the Logistics Human Capital in GCCRanjan Sinha
An Presentation on the Challenges and future trends of Logistics Industry in GCC . It also discusses about challenges and trends of Human Capital in Logistics Industry and its mitigation measures.
The students industrial work experience scheme (SIWES) is a skills training programme designed to expose and prepare students of Universities, Polytechnics/Colleges of Technology/Colleges of Agriculture and Colleges of Education for the industrial work situation they are likely to meet after graduation.
In this presentation we mainly focus on Redevelopment and its methodology, discussion of TWC (Third World Countries) redevelopment strategies, planners activity for redevelopment, An overview of gradual change on Dhaka city from the old (Basically on Land use and Transportation) and International Case study.
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Creating local employment in up and downstream value chains: Case of mining s...Isabelle Ramdoo
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Globally, logistics is an important economic
activity valued at about USD 320 billion a year and growing at
an annual rate of 3 to 10 percent. Malaysia has recognized the
industry as the main key towards enhancing Malaysia’s progress
on becoming a globally competitive fully developed nation. It
was predicted that the logistics industry would grow at 8.6%
during the year 2006 – 2020 plan period and contribute 12.1% to
Growth Domestic Product (GDP) by 2020. Therefore, the
development of the human capital or human resource for the
logistics industry in Malaysia becomes important in confirming
the nation’s competitiveness. Accordingly, the aim of this study
is to produce a feasible framework of human-resource
development for the logistics industry in Malaysia.
The award-winning New Miner Training, 4th edition, program is a must-have for your organization. This important training tool includes all the information you need on meeting Mining Health and Safety Administration requirements, with additional information on diesel particulate matter, wellness, silica, and first aid.
Indo Africa Times, a weekly newspaper has its key intend to create extensive awareness amongst people about Africa and India concerning different sectors like economy, politics, culture, fashion, sports and many more. It is our sincere endeavor to bridge the information gap between Africa and India by endowing our readers with updated and latest developments occurring in both the countries.
There are currently 20 large–scale Carbon capture and storage (CCS) sites in existence across the world. To meet 2050 targets on CO2 emissions as per the Paris agreement we will need 3000 sites. Quite a daunting task!!
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An Approach to Detecting Writing Styles Based on Clustering Techniquesambekarshweta25
An Approach to Detecting Writing Styles Based on Clustering Techniques
Authors:
-Devkinandan Jagtap
-Shweta Ambekar
-Harshit Singh
-Nakul Sharma (Assistant Professor)
Institution:
VIIT Pune, India
Abstract:
This paper proposes a system to differentiate between human-generated and AI-generated texts using stylometric analysis. The system analyzes text files and classifies writing styles by employing various clustering algorithms, such as k-means, k-means++, hierarchical, and DBSCAN. The effectiveness of these algorithms is measured using silhouette scores. The system successfully identifies distinct writing styles within documents, demonstrating its potential for plagiarism detection.
Introduction:
Stylometry, the study of linguistic and structural features in texts, is used for tasks like plagiarism detection, genre separation, and author verification. This paper leverages stylometric analysis to identify different writing styles and improve plagiarism detection methods.
Methodology:
The system includes data collection, preprocessing, feature extraction, dimensional reduction, machine learning models for clustering, and performance comparison using silhouette scores. Feature extraction focuses on lexical features, vocabulary richness, and readability scores. The study uses a small dataset of texts from various authors and employs algorithms like k-means, k-means++, hierarchical clustering, and DBSCAN for clustering.
Results:
Experiments show that the system effectively identifies writing styles, with silhouette scores indicating reasonable to strong clustering when k=2. As the number of clusters increases, the silhouette scores decrease, indicating a drop in accuracy. K-means and k-means++ perform similarly, while hierarchical clustering is less optimized.
Conclusion and Future Work:
The system works well for distinguishing writing styles with two clusters but becomes less accurate as the number of clusters increases. Future research could focus on adding more parameters and optimizing the methodology to improve accuracy with higher cluster values. This system can enhance existing plagiarism detection tools, especially in academic settings.
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Water billing management system project report.pdfKamal Acharya
Our project entitled “Water Billing Management System” aims is to generate Water bill with all the charges and penalty. Manual system that is employed is extremely laborious and quite inadequate. It only makes the process more difficult and hard.
The aim of our project is to develop a system that is meant to partially computerize the work performed in the Water Board like generating monthly Water bill, record of consuming unit of water, store record of the customer and previous unpaid record.
We used HTML/PHP as front end and MYSQL as back end for developing our project. HTML is primarily a visual design environment. We can create a android application by designing the form and that make up the user interface. Adding android application code to the form and the objects such as buttons and text boxes on them and adding any required support code in additional modular.
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2. ‘Conventional mining methods are no longer a profitable manner to operate mines in South
Africa, which is exacerbated by the current low commodity prices,’ Frik Fourie, head of
mining at Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) recently told delegates at the Southern
African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy’s 2016 Mining for the Future conference. If they
are to remain relevant, mines must substantially change how they operate, he added.
3. One way of doing this, according to the SA Chamber of Mines (CoM), is to mechanise as well
as modernise, as this will see the industry evolve to not merely replace people with machines
but instead upskill the workforce and equip them with the knowledge necessary to operate
this machinery. As CoM senior executive of modernisation and safety Sietse van der Woude
puts it, people are at the centre of modernisation – and with this, an increased need for
focus on skills development.
In a CoM report on the modernisation of mines, the chamber says this includes ‘turning to
account South Africa’s mineral resources in the safest, most efficient, costeffective and
sustainable manner possible’ and ‘recognising that people are at the heart of our industry,
with focus on improving skills, health, quality of life and fulfilment of employees’, among
other things.
However, the CoM also acknowledges that the dynamic nature of the labour market means
the sector will always face difficulties where education and skills development are concerned.
The various challenges include developing the skills needed for mining, including a legacy of
poor educational opportunities, along with employees having little or low levels of literacy
and numeracy.
‘A national shortage of skills increases the portability of skilled mining industry personnel and
sufficient people needing to be trained in order to prevent a shortage of skills in the mining
industry,’ the CoM states on its website.
According to Declan Vogt, director of Wits’ Centre for Mechanised Mining Systems, the
escalating use of mechanisation in mines affects the type of skills the mining sector needs –
particularly where technical skills are required. ‘The aim of mechanisation is to take away
muscle effort from people, so it makes the job more attractive and less physically
demanding,’ he says.
4. ‘Another gain of mechanisation pertains to safety – mechanised operations are safer because
people are less exposed to risk.’ Vogt adds that the uptake of mechanisation in SA has been
‘slow and steady’ but is adamant that mechanisation ‘is the way to go’.
Roger Dixon, SRK Consulting (SA) corporate consultant, does not believe that current skill
levels in SA mining have increased or changed to any great degree in recent years. ‘A large
proportion of the South African mining industry is still labour intensive and reliant on manual
labour,’ he says. ‘Skill levels increase with the advent of mechanisation and automation –
areas in which we have not seen any real progress.’ He adds that education and experience
are among the best ways to build skills.
5. According to Dixon, the skills shortage is primarily being felt at artisan level, as youths of
today are not interested in learning a trade at a technical college but would rather obtain
a degree from a university institution. ‘In addition to artisan skills, we have to develop the
technical skills to take advantage of the electronic age that we live in,’ he says.
‘More and more of the activities in mining are going to be automated and monitored by
electronic devices. The level of information available to the manager of a mining operation is
going to grow exponentially, and we will require technicians to develop and operate these
systems. And, of course, the engineers and managers of the future will need to have the
skills to understand and act on the available information.’
Vogt shares this sentiment. ‘There’s a shortage of skills at all levels but an acute shortage at
artisan level,’ he says. ‘This is going to be a problem for a while. There’s a new scheme
coming for artisans but it’s too early to say if this will make a change.’ Many of SA’s unskilled
workers are functionally illiterate, he adds, making it difficult to train them for a highly
technical career.
The Mining Charter requires that mining companies invest 5% of their annual payroll in skills
development. According to the CoM, R3.8 billion was invested in skills development in SA’s
mining sector during 2014. And in addition to the 5% of payroll, companies paid a further
1% of their payroll as a skills development levy.
Niel McCoy, key account manager at Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology, says major
mining companies are investigating mechanisation opportunities, with some ‘aggressively
pursuing’ this. ‘All new mining projects that Sandvik has been involved in are being designed
as fully mechanised mines, as it is easier to design a mine in a particular way from the start.
So yes, there is certainly an increase in interest for mechanisation.’
Among the many drivers for increased mechanisation is a shortage of labour, he adds. ‘The
skills pool for handheld rock drill operators is dwindling at a rapid rate, with most mines
stating average ages for these operators at between 45 and 55 years old. Young people
coming out of school are no longer interested in doing hard, physical labour. These points are
forcing companies to look at alternate ways of mining involving less manual labour, which by
implication is mechanisation.’
In 2015, Sibanye Gold spent R385 million on human capital development, with employees
undergoing a total 7.93 million hours of training. Mbali Magudulela, vicepresident of human
capital development at Sibanye Gold, says that all novices who join the mine are taught
a skill to start their career. ‘As they progress through the ranks, there are more opportunities
for further development to complement the experience gained and enable employees to cope
with their new work demands.’
Sibanye focuses on providing adult education and training, learnerships, skills programmes,
portable skills training, coaching and mentorship, as well as internships and bursaries, in an
effort to maintain a skills pipeline. The company also runs its own training facility in
Westonaria – the Sibanye Gold Academy – which is fully accredited by the Mining
6. Qualifications Authority. The academy manages several satellite campuses, located at each
operation.
Gold Fields’ South Deep mine is one of the world’s leading deeplevel mechanised mining
operations. Crucial to this was the upskilling of mine workers and engineers. To train its
staff, South Deep runs a hightech mechanised training centre that can accommodate 60
students across four lecture rooms and a large engineering workshop. The mine holds
classroom and similar training to allow operators to familiarise themselves with the
equipment before going underground.
7. According to Sven Lunsche, vicepresident of corporate affairs at Gold Fields, poor literacy
and numeracy levels pose significant difficulties as far as upskilling workers is concerned.
Despite this, intensive onthejob training, supervision and mentorship can enable some
workers to improve on their current skills level, he says.
During 2015, Impala Platinum (Implats) invested 6.2% of its payroll (R456 million) in skills
development across its local operations, providing an average of 86.9 hours of training per
employee. In the same year, Implats’ local operations had 49 fulltime bursary holders
studying engineering and miningrelated disciplines at university, while an additional 391
individuals benefited from apprenticeships and learnership programmes.
Implats has also seen continual improvement in its employees’ level of basic literacy. During
2015, 433 employees enrolled in adult basic education and training for parttime and full
time classes.
Dixon reiterates the importance of education with regard to improving skills. ‘South Africa
has to match its primary, secondary and tertiary education curricula with the skills
requirements that will be necessary 10 to 20 years from now. Education will be the driver of
economic growth,’ he says.
Vogt agrees, adding that when it comes to education, government should lead the charge:
‘Education is really a role of government, and it would be good if government delivered.
However, more and more often, we are finding that mining companies are addressing the
problem directly by investing in colleges and the curriculum in general.’
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