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Empowering or Disempowering? Online Support Among Seafarer-Partners [PDF]

open access: yes
Past research in sociology and social psychology has revealed two aspects of online support. This mutual support among members of online support groups brings about empowerment as well as produces common values.
Lijun Tang
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Trading in troubled times: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic, military coup, and Chinese border closure on the Kachin amber industry

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper investigates the impact of Covid‐19, border closure, and the military coup on the mining and trading of Kachin amber in northern Myanmar. Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic and the 2021 military coup have dramatically affected the lives and livelihoods of communities across Myanmar.
Seng Lawn Dan, Alessandro Rippa
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of spool diffusion profile on flow characteristics of turbine control valve

open access: yesZhongguo Jianchuan Yanjiu
ObjectiveTo address the operational instability, vibration, and abnormal noise in a specific steam turbine unit, this study proposes a method for modifying the internal flow characteristics of the control valve through an internally-cut valve core ...
Luotao XIE   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

What About Eco‐Populism? A Neglected Historical Tradition

open access: yes
Constellations, EarlyView.
Federico Tarragoni
wiley   +1 more source

Economic activity during extreme events

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract Although extreme weather events, natural disasters or infrastructure failures potentially have important economic effects, quantifying these effects over small areas and fine time intervals has been difficult because of the fairly coarse scales available in most data sources. This paper surveys the use of relatively new and finely grained data
John W. Galbraith
wiley   +1 more source

Path following control of large ship towing based on hierarchical anti-disturbance control strategy

open access: yesZhongguo Jianchuan Yanjiu
ObjectiveThe safety of towing large ships to designated sea areas is of great significance for maritime navigation. However, traditional towing operations, which rely on manual scheduling, face challenges in complex marine environments. The towing system
Baisong LU   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Disillusionment with Chinese culture in the 1880s : Wang Tao\u27s Three classical tales

open access: yes, 2016
Leading scholars of modern Chinese literature have long discussed how the May Fourth became a hegemonic force and have sought to uncover the “burdens of May Fourth”; that is, those discourses eclipsed by the May Fourth intellectuals as they promoted the ...
SHI, Xiaoling
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Shipping markets and freight rates: an analysis of the Baltic Dry Index [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Shipping, although a crucial component of the transportation of commodities worldwide, is hardly present in the finance literature at this point. The first and foremost goal of this paper is to describe and explain from an economic perspective the key ...
Geman, Hélyette, Smith, William O.
core   +1 more source

China inside out: Explaining silver flows in the triangular trade, c. 1820s‒70s

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyses a new large dataset of silver prices, as well as silver and merchandise trade flows in and out of China in the crucial decades of the mid‐nineteenth century when the Empire was opened to world trade. Silver flows were associated with the interaction between heterogeneous monetary preferences and availability of specific ...
Alejandra Irigoin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A review of deep learning-based few sample fault diagnosis method for rotating machinery

open access: yesZhongguo Jianchuan Yanjiu
ObjectivesDeep learning has shown great potential in the field of rotating machinery fault diagnosis. Its excellent performance heavily relies on sufficient training samples.
Ke WU   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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