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Dr. Sisi Que
College of River and Ocean Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China

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Journal article
Published: 04 August 2021 in Sustainability
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As with other engineering design tasks, mine design involves setting design objectives and constraints (the feasible solution space) and finding the optimal design alternative. Mine engineers often struggle to incorporate the preferences of local community members into their evaluation of mine design alternatives because the mining literature lacks tools to quantify such risks during mine planning. This paper presents an approach to evaluate community acceptance (i.e., community preferences for the alternatives) using discrete choice models and decision-based design during mine planning. Using discrete choice models and a rigorous framework, engineers can estimate the cost of social risks as a function of the probability that individuals in the host community will prefer a particular design alternative. They can then estimate the overall utility of a particular design alternative to the project proponents. This paper illustrates the proposed approach with a strategic mine planning exercise for a gold mine. The framework can be a useful tool for designing mines for sustainability, if combined with effective community engagement and management’s commitment to creating shared value.

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Kwame Awuah-Offei; Sisi Que; Atta Ur Rehman. Evaluating Mine Design Alternatives for Social Risks Using Discrete Choice Analysis. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8700 .

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Kwame Awuah-Offei, Sisi Que, Atta Ur Rehman. Evaluating Mine Design Alternatives for Social Risks Using Discrete Choice Analysis. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (16):8700.

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Kwame Awuah-Offei; Sisi Que; Atta Ur Rehman. 2021. "Evaluating Mine Design Alternatives for Social Risks Using Discrete Choice Analysis." Sustainability 13, no. 16: 8700.

Journal article
Published: 17 April 2020 in Sustainability
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The sustainable development of the Yangtze River will affect the lives of the people who live along it as well as the development of cities beside it. This study investigated the relationship between shipping development and the water environment of the Yangtze River. Canonical correlation analysis is a multivariate statistical method used to study the correlation between two groups of variables; this study employed it to analyze data relevant to shipping and the water environment of the Yangtze River from 2006 to 2016. Furthermore, the Yangtze River Shipping Prosperity Index and Yangtze River mainline freight volume were used to characterize the development of Yangtze River shipping. The water environment of the Yangtze River is characterized by wastewater discharge, ammonia nitrogen concentration, biochemical oxygen demand, the potassium permanganate index, and petroleum pollution. The results showed that a significant correlation exists between Yangtze River shipping and the river’s water environment. Furthermore, mainline freight volume has a significant impact on the quantity of wastewater discharged and petroleum pollution in the water environment.

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Sisi Que; Hanyu Luo; Liang Wang; Wenqiang Zhou; Shaochun Yuan. Canonical Correlation Study on the Relationship between Shipping Development and Water Environment of the Yangtze River. Sustainability 2020, 12, 3279 .

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Sisi Que, Hanyu Luo, Liang Wang, Wenqiang Zhou, Shaochun Yuan. Canonical Correlation Study on the Relationship between Shipping Development and Water Environment of the Yangtze River. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (8):3279.

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Sisi Que; Hanyu Luo; Liang Wang; Wenqiang Zhou; Shaochun Yuan. 2020. "Canonical Correlation Study on the Relationship between Shipping Development and Water Environment of the Yangtze River." Sustainability 12, no. 8: 3279.

Journal article
Published: 23 April 2019 in Sustainability
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The social responsibility of corporate mining has been challenged by a significant socio-political risk from local communities. These issues reduce shareholder value by increasing costs and decreasing the market perception of corporate social responsibility. Community engagement is the process of understanding the behavior and interests of a group of targeted mining communities through surveys and data analysis, with the purpose of incorporating mining community acceptance into the mining sustainability. While mining organizations have discussed community engagement to varying degrees, there are three main shortcomings in current studies, as concluded in the authors’ previous research. This paper presents a framework to apply discrete choice theory to improve mining community engagement and corporate mining social responsibility. In addition, this paper establishes the main technical challenges to implement the developed framework, and presents methods to overcome the challenges for future research with a case study. The contribution of this research will transform mine sustainability in a fundamental way by facilitating the incorporation of effective community engagement. This will lead to more sustainable mines that local communities support.

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Sisi Que; Liang Wang; Kwame Awuah-Offei; Wei Yang; Hui Jiang. Corporate Social Responsibility: Understanding the Mining Stakeholder with a Case Study. Sustainability 2019, 11, 2407 .

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Sisi Que, Liang Wang, Kwame Awuah-Offei, Wei Yang, Hui Jiang. Corporate Social Responsibility: Understanding the Mining Stakeholder with a Case Study. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (8):2407.

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Sisi Que; Liang Wang; Kwame Awuah-Offei; Wei Yang; Hui Jiang. 2019. "Corporate Social Responsibility: Understanding the Mining Stakeholder with a Case Study." Sustainability 11, no. 8: 2407.

Review
Published: 25 May 2018 in Sustainability
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Mineral products provide essential fuels and raw materials for industrialization and our daily life, but their influences on other aspects of life need to be taken into consideration. While the whole world benefits from mining’s contributions, most of the resulting detrimental impacts on the environment and society fall on the local communities. The participation of the local community is one solution to decrease the risks from community-related problems. Subsequently, the requirements of mining sustainable development can be met. A literature review was conducted on mining sustainability and stakeholder participation, and the shortcomings of existing research and difficulties of further study were discussed in detail. This study covers a broad understanding of mining sustainability from a mining community’s perspective. In addition, it offers a new mining sustainability scope based on the literature review. Besides the balance of economic, environmental, and social aspects, the mine owner and local community have to be engaged in the new mining sustainability scope. This literature review could improve community engagement and help mining companies to better understand local mining communities.

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Sisi Que; Liang Wang; Kwame Awuah-Offei; Yao Chen; Wei Yang. The Status of the Local Community in Mining Sustainable Development beyond the Triple Bottom Line. Sustainability 2018, 10, 1749 .

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Sisi Que, Liang Wang, Kwame Awuah-Offei, Yao Chen, Wei Yang. The Status of the Local Community in Mining Sustainable Development beyond the Triple Bottom Line. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (6):1749.

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Sisi Que; Liang Wang; Kwame Awuah-Offei; Yao Chen; Wei Yang. 2018. "The Status of the Local Community in Mining Sustainable Development beyond the Triple Bottom Line." Sustainability 10, no. 6: 1749.

Journal article
Published: 05 April 2018 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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The literature on mining community preferences for mineral development, which is the basis for engaging local communities, mainly focuses on rural communities, and may not provide enough insight into an urban community's needs, concerns, and preferences. To bridge this gap, this work uses Salt Lake City, Utah in the United States of America (USA) as a case study to understand an urban population's preferences for mineral resource development. The work considered 16 mining project attributes and four demographic factors (gender, age, education, and income), which have previously been identified as important for explaining individual preferences for mining projects in the USA. The study recruited 628 participants from Salt Lake City to participate in a survey and used a discrete choice model to examine their preferences. The results show that 15 of the 16 attributes have statistically significant influence on the preferences of these urban dwellers. The probability of the respondents preferring mineral development increases with job opportunities, availability of independent information, income increase, infrastructure improvement, and mine buffer but decreases with noise pollution, air pollution, increase in housing costs, and crime increase. Older, male respondents with higher levels of income and education are more likely to prefer mineral development. The issues that drive the preferences of these urban dwellers are generally similar to those of rural dwellers. However, the study finds that job and housing cost are more important for our urban dwellers than for rural dwellers in other studies. The results suggests that our respondents prefer mines with longer lives.

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Sisi Que; Kwame Awuah-Offei; Liang Wang; V.A. Samaranayake; Nathan Weidner; Shaochun Yuan. Individual preferences for mineral resource development: Perspectives from an urban population in the United States. Journal of Cleaner Production 2018, 189, 30 -39.

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Sisi Que, Kwame Awuah-Offei, Liang Wang, V.A. Samaranayake, Nathan Weidner, Shaochun Yuan. Individual preferences for mineral resource development: Perspectives from an urban population in the United States. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018; 189 ():30-39.

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Sisi Que; Kwame Awuah-Offei; Liang Wang; V.A. Samaranayake; Nathan Weidner; Shaochun Yuan. 2018. "Individual preferences for mineral resource development: Perspectives from an urban population in the United States." Journal of Cleaner Production 189, no. : 30-39.

Journal article
Published: 01 March 2017 in Journal of Choice Modelling
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Sisi Que; Kwame Awuah-Offei; Nathan Weidner; Yumin Wang. Discrete choice experiment validation: A resource project case study. Journal of Choice Modelling 2017, 22, 39 -50.

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Sisi Que, Kwame Awuah-Offei, Nathan Weidner, Yumin Wang. Discrete choice experiment validation: A resource project case study. Journal of Choice Modelling. 2017; 22 ():39-50.

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Sisi Que; Kwame Awuah-Offei; Nathan Weidner; Yumin Wang. 2017. "Discrete choice experiment validation: A resource project case study." Journal of Choice Modelling 22, no. : 39-50.

Journal article
Published: 03 August 2016 in Minerals
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The impact of methane explosions on mining operations can never be over-emphasized. The safety of miners could be threatened and local ventilation facilities are likely to be damaged by the flame and overpressure induced by a methane explosion event, making it essential to understand the destructiveness and influence range of a specific explosion. In this paper, the attenuation effect of geometric changes, most commonly bends, obstacles, and branches, present in the way of blast-wave propagation and the capability of the selected numerical model were studied. Although some relevant experimental research has been provided, quantitative analysis is insufficient. This paper investigates the attenuation factors of seven bends, three obstacles, and two T-branch scenarios to ascertain a better insight of this potentially devastating event quantitatively. The results suggest that (1) the numerical model used is capable of predicting four of the seven validated scenarios with a relative error less than 12%; (2) the maximum peak overpressure is obtained when the angle equals 50° for bend cases; and (3) the selected numerical scheme would overestimate the obstacle cases by around 15%.

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Liang Wang; Sisi Que; Jerry C. Tien; Nassib S. Aouad. Modeling of Geometric Change Influence on Blast-Wave Propagation in Underground Airways Using a 2D-Transient Euler Scheme. Minerals 2016, 6, 81 .

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Liang Wang, Sisi Que, Jerry C. Tien, Nassib S. Aouad. Modeling of Geometric Change Influence on Blast-Wave Propagation in Underground Airways Using a 2D-Transient Euler Scheme. Minerals. 2016; 6 (3):81.

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Liang Wang; Sisi Que; Jerry C. Tien; Nassib S. Aouad. 2016. "Modeling of Geometric Change Influence on Blast-Wave Propagation in Underground Airways Using a 2D-Transient Euler Scheme." Minerals 6, no. 3: 81.

Review
Published: 13 July 2016 in Sustainability
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Sustainable mining has received much attention in recent years as a consequence of the negative impacts of mining and public awareness. The aim of this paper is to provide mining companies guidance on improving the sustainability of their sites through effective community engagement based on recent advances in the literature. It begins with a review of the literature on sustainable development and its relationship to stakeholder engagement. It then uses the literature to determine the dominant factors that affect community perceptions of mining projects. These factors are classified into five categories: environmental, economic, social, governance and demographic factors. Then, we propose a new two-stage method based on discrete choice theory and the classification that can improve stakeholder engagement and be cost-effective. Further work is required to validate the proposed method, although it shows potential to overcome some of the challenges plaguing current approaches.

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Liang Wang; Kwame Awuah-Offei; Sisi Que; Wei Yang. Eliciting Drivers of Community Perceptions of Mining Projects through Effective Community Engagement. Sustainability 2016, 8, 658 .

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Liang Wang, Kwame Awuah-Offei, Sisi Que, Wei Yang. Eliciting Drivers of Community Perceptions of Mining Projects through Effective Community Engagement. Sustainability. 2016; 8 (7):658.

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Liang Wang; Kwame Awuah-Offei; Sisi Que; Wei Yang. 2016. "Eliciting Drivers of Community Perceptions of Mining Projects through Effective Community Engagement." Sustainability 8, no. 7: 658.

Journal article
Published: 25 January 2016 in Environmental Earth Sciences
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Incidents of hazardous accumulations of CO2 in homes built on or near reclaimed mine land, in the last decade, have been shown to be linked to neutralization reactions between acidic mine drainage and carbonate material. Recent research has shown that CO2 fluxes on reclaimed mine land with this hazard are, sometimes, spatially autocorrelated (i.e., the spatial variability is not random). This result implies geostatistics can be used to delineate hazardous areas where fluxes are likely to exceed established thresholds. This study applies sequential Gaussian simulation to delineate this emerging hazard on a site in southwestern Indiana, USA. Due to lack of regulatory threshold limits for CO2 flux at the current time, the authors conduct a sensitivity analysis of the threshold limit using the 75th, 90th and 95th percentiles of the measured fluxes for the first day of monitoring. These limits are used to produce hazard maps, which are validated with the known hazard at the site. This work further shows the potential of surface CO2 flux monitoring as a cheap and effective strategy to monitor and delineate such hazards to avoid residential and commercial real estate development in high risk zones.

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Kwame Awuah-Offei; Sisi Que; Moagabo Mathiba. Delineating hazardous CO2 fluxes from acid mine drainage. Environmental Earth Sciences 2016, 75, 1 -11.

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Kwame Awuah-Offei, Sisi Que, Moagabo Mathiba. Delineating hazardous CO2 fluxes from acid mine drainage. Environmental Earth Sciences. 2016; 75 (3):1-11.

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Kwame Awuah-Offei; Sisi Que; Moagabo Mathiba. 2016. "Delineating hazardous CO2 fluxes from acid mine drainage." Environmental Earth Sciences 75, no. 3: 1-11.

Journal article
Published: 29 December 2015 in Minerals
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Gas explosion is the most hazardous incident occurring in underground airways. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques are sophisticated in simulating explosions in confined spaces; specifically, when testing large-scale gaseous explosions, such as methane explosions in underground mines. The dimensions of a confined space where explosions could occur vary significantly. Thus, the scale effect on explosion parameters is worth investigating. In this paper, the impact of scaling on explosion overpressures is investigated by employing two scaling factors: The Gas-fill Length Scaling Factor (FLSF) and the Hydraulic Diameter Scaling Factor (HDSF). The combinations of eight FLSFs and five HDSFs will cover a wide range of space dimensions where flammable gas could accumulate. Experiments were also conducted to evaluate the selected numerical models. The Large Eddy Simulation turbulence model was selected because it shows accuracy compared to the widely used Reynolds’ averaged models for the scenarios investigated in the experiments. Three major conclusions can be drawn: (1) The overpressure increases with both FLSF and HDSF within the deflagration regime; (2) In an explosion duct with a length to diameter ratio greater than 54, detonation is more likely to be triggered for a stoichiometric methane/air mixture; (3) Overpressure increases as an increment hydraulic diameter of a geometry within deflagration regime. A relative error of 7% is found when predicting blast peak overpressure for the base case compared to the experiment; a good agreement for the wave arrival time is also achieved.

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Liang Wang; Sisi Que; Jerry C. Tien; Nassib S. Aouad. Scale Effect of Premixed Methane-Air Combustion in Confined Space Using LES Model. Minerals 2015, 6, 2 .

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Liang Wang, Sisi Que, Jerry C. Tien, Nassib S. Aouad. Scale Effect of Premixed Methane-Air Combustion in Confined Space Using LES Model. Minerals. 2015; 6 (1):2.

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Liang Wang; Sisi Que; Jerry C. Tien; Nassib S. Aouad. 2015. "Scale Effect of Premixed Methane-Air Combustion in Confined Space Using LES Model." Minerals 6, no. 1: 2.

Journal article
Published: 15 November 2015 in International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment
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Sisi Que; Angelina Anani; Kwame Awuah-Offei. Effect of ignoring input correlation on truck–shovel simulation. International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment 2015, 30, 405 -421.

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Sisi Que, Angelina Anani, Kwame Awuah-Offei. Effect of ignoring input correlation on truck–shovel simulation. International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment. 2015; 30 (5):405-421.

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Sisi Que; Angelina Anani; Kwame Awuah-Offei. 2015. "Effect of ignoring input correlation on truck–shovel simulation." International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment 30, no. 5: 405-421.

Journal article
Published: 13 April 2015 in International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment
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Sisi Que; Kwame Awuah-Offei; Samuel Frimpong. Optimising design parameters of continuous mining transport systems using discrete event simulation. International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment 2015, 30, 217 -230.

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Sisi Que, Kwame Awuah-Offei, Samuel Frimpong. Optimising design parameters of continuous mining transport systems using discrete event simulation. International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment. 2015; 30 (3):217-230.

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Sisi Que; Kwame Awuah-Offei; Samuel Frimpong. 2015. "Optimising design parameters of continuous mining transport systems using discrete event simulation." International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment 30, no. 3: 217-230.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2015 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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Sisi Que; Kwame Awuah-Offei; V.A. Samaranayake. Classifying critical factors that influence community acceptance of mining projects for discrete choice experiments in the United States. Journal of Cleaner Production 2015, 87, 489 -500.

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Sisi Que, Kwame Awuah-Offei, V.A. Samaranayake. Classifying critical factors that influence community acceptance of mining projects for discrete choice experiments in the United States. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2015; 87 ():489-500.

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Sisi Que; Kwame Awuah-Offei; V.A. Samaranayake. 2015. "Classifying critical factors that influence community acceptance of mining projects for discrete choice experiments in the United States." Journal of Cleaner Production 87, no. : 489-500.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2014 in International Journal of Mining and Mineral Engineering
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The significance of local community acceptance to the success of a mine cannot be over-stated. Project sustainability has implications for local community acceptance as the development and operation of a mine can be viewed as a development intervention with concrete social, economic and environmental impacts. Although, some work has been done to understand these relationships, very little has been done to quantitatively model the relationship between project sustainability and community preferences. This paper presents a framework for quantitative community consultation for mining projects based on discrete choice theory. The paper establishes the most appropriate choice model and uses a review of the literature to select key determinants of mining community acceptance. Recommendations are made for future research to implement the proposed framework. This framework will allow engineers and regulators to better evaluate community input.

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Sisi Que; Kwame Awuah-Offei. Framework for mining community consultation based on discrete choice theory. International Journal of Mining and Mineral Engineering 2014, 5, 59 .

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Sisi Que, Kwame Awuah-Offei. Framework for mining community consultation based on discrete choice theory. International Journal of Mining and Mineral Engineering. 2014; 5 (1):59.

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Sisi Que; Kwame Awuah-Offei. 2014. "Framework for mining community consultation based on discrete choice theory." International Journal of Mining and Mineral Engineering 5, no. 1: 59.

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Published: 01 January 2014 in PsycEXTRA Dataset
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Brandi Klein; Rachel Stancil; Reinhold Schnell; Brittney Abel; Jordan Verslues; Sisi Que; Kwame Awuah-Offei. Optimal Number of Factors for Choice Experiments in Mining Community Consultation. PsycEXTRA Dataset 2014, 1 .

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Brandi Klein, Rachel Stancil, Reinhold Schnell, Brittney Abel, Jordan Verslues, Sisi Que, Kwame Awuah-Offei. Optimal Number of Factors for Choice Experiments in Mining Community Consultation. PsycEXTRA Dataset. 2014; ():1.

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Brandi Klein; Rachel Stancil; Reinhold Schnell; Brittney Abel; Jordan Verslues; Sisi Que; Kwame Awuah-Offei. 2014. "Optimal Number of Factors for Choice Experiments in Mining Community Consultation." PsycEXTRA Dataset , no. : 1.