Unearthing a Network of Resistance: Law and the Anti-Strip Mining Movement in Central Appalachia

While prisons are often seen as locally undesirable land uses (LULUs), nuance and historical analysis is needed to understand why this is not the case for all places, as well as why many of these “sites of acceptance” are layered upon legacies of resource extraction and environmental degradation. Central Appalachia has seen a shift from coalfields to prisonfields in the past three decades as policymakers turn to the incarceration industry to stem unemployment and depopulation as coal mining declines. Using the conceptual lens of trash, I contend that the literal trashing of the ecosystems of this region has been fostered by the metaphorical representation of Appalachians as “white trash.” In turn, the space is now viewed as a logical location for the deposition of “societal castoffs” in the form of prisoners.

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The use of guiding devices in recirculating schemes during strip mining of mineral deposits for the space industry

10.1063/5.0036677 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

I. I. Starostin ◽

A. V. Bondarenko

Keyword(s):

Mineral Deposits ◽

Strip Mining ◽

Space Industry

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The Optimization Research of Wide Strip and Full-Pillar Mining under Villages

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.616-618.406 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 616-618 ◽

pp. 406-410

Author(s):

Gui Liu ◽

Hua Xing Zhang ◽

Jin Hui Chen ◽

Chao Gao

Keyword(s):

Surface Structures ◽

Strip Mining ◽

Mining Method ◽

Sequence Optimization ◽

Wide Strip ◽

Deformation Limit ◽

Working Face ◽

Specific Analysis ◽

Pillar Mining ◽

Coal Pillars

By making full use of the advantages of strip mining method and full-pillar mining method, the wide strip and full-pillar mining method can achieve the aim of mining under villages. However, at the full-pillar mining stage, the difficulty in managing several workfaces which are at work at the same time still exists. To improve the wide strip and full-pillar mining method’s applicability, an optimization of extraction sequence for coal pillars instead of the multi-working-face is put forward at the stage of full-pillar mining, and in the case of the deformation limit of surface structures is satisfied, to extract all the coal pillars which are under villages. By specific analysis of the extraction sequence optimization of the coal pillars in No.1 mine under Qian Xudapo village which belongs to Chang Chun coal Co., LTD., a better result is got which also acts a technological reference for the extraction under villages.

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An integrated 3D log processing optimization system for hardwood sawmills in central Appalachia, USA

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture ◽

10.1016/j.compag.2011.12.014 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 82 ◽

pp. 61-74 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Wenshu Lin ◽

Jingxin Wang

Keyword(s):

Optimization System ◽

Central Appalachia ◽

Processing Optimization

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Non-Association of Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase (MTHFR) Polymorphisms with Homocysteine Levels, Venous or Arterial Thromboses in 1,141 North-Central Appalachian Patients

Cancer and Clinical Oncology ◽

10.5539/cco.v5n2p21 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 21

Author(s):

Farhad Khimani ◽

Peter Perrotta ◽

Gerry Hobbs ◽

Thomas Hogan

Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Patient Population ◽

Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase ◽

Plasma Homocysteine ◽

Minimal Cost ◽

Frequency Pattern ◽

Mthfr Polymorphism ◽

Mthfr Polymorphisms ◽

North Central ◽

Central Appalachia

Objectives: MTHFR polymorphism testing has been used by clinicians for thrombophilia risk assessment. We questioned the utility of such testing.Methods: 1,141 patients age 18 and above had MTHFR testing for both C677T and A1298C polymorphisms, 2006 through 2012. Available plasma homocysteine levels were obtained and ICD-9 billing codes were grouped to identify venous or arterial clots in these patients.Results: 901 women and 240 men were tested; median age in women was 33 years (range 18-86); median age in men was 47 years (range 18-83). County of residence mapping confirmed that this MTHFR tested population was from north-central Appalachia. Only 144 (13%) of the 1,141 patients had no polymorphism at either the C677T or the A1298C locus; only 4 patients (0.4%) had 3 or more polymorphisms; 993 patients (87%) had either one or two polymorphisms. We found polymorphism frequency pattern similar in both sexes. Although men had higher homocysteine levels, MTHFR polymorphisms did not associate with homocysteine levels in either sex. In 901 women tested, the ICD-9 coded incidence of arterial clots was 20%, and of venous clots was 21%; in 240 men tested, the incidence of arterial clots was 48% and of venous clots was 40%. MTHFR polymorphisms did not associate with arterial or venous clots in either sex. Based on CPT billing codes, a minimal cost estimate was $137,000 for performing these 1,141 MTHFR tests.Conclusions: MTHFR testing was costly and did not add useful information during thrombophilia evaluation in this patient population.

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