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Shipping Through Sea Ice: Impacts on Marine Habitats and Best Practices [PDF]

, 2017
As the result of Arctic climate change and an increase in shipping season length, there is a growing interest in Arctic shipping operations. Sea ice serves as an important habitat for marine mammals, therefore, shipping through sea ice could lead to ...

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Evaluation of turbulent dissipation rate retrievals from Doppler Cloud Radar [PDF]

, 2012
Turbulent dissipation rate retrievals from cloud radar Doppler velocity measurements are evaluated using independent, in situ observations in Arctic stratocumulus clouds. In situ validation data sets of dissipation rate are derived using sonic anemometer
Azevedo, C.D.R., Borges, F.I.G., Cebrián, S., Cervera, A., Conde, C.A.N., Cárcel, S., Diesburg, M., dos Santos, J.M.F., Díaz, J., Esteve, R., Fernandes, L.M.P., Ferrario, P., Ferreira, A.L., Freitas, E.D.C., Gehman, V.M., Goldschmidt, A., González-Díaz, D., Gutiérrez, R.M., Gómez-Cadenas, J.J., Hauptman, J., Henriques, C.A.O., Hernando Morata, J.A., Labarga, L., Laing, A., Lebrun, P., Liubarsky, I., Lorca, D., Losada, M., López-March, N., Martín-Albo, J., Martínez, A., Martínez-Lema, G., Miller, T., Monrabal, F., Monserrate, M., Monteiro, C.M.B., Mora, F.J., Moutinho, L.M., Muñoz Vidal, J., Nebot-Guinot, M., Novella, P., Nygren, D., Para, A., Perez Aparicio, J.L., Perez, J., Querol, M., Renner, J., Ripoll, L., Rodríguez, J., Santos, F.P., Serra, L., Shuman, D., Simón, A., Sofka, C., Sorel, M., Stiegler, T., Toledo, J.F., Torrent, J., Tsamalaidze, Z., Veloso, J.F.C.A., Villar, J.A., Webb, R., White, J.T., Yahlali, N., Yepes-Ramírez, H., Álvarez, V.   +65 more
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Product‐Related CSR in the Digital Era: Communication Patterns That Drive Consumer Interactions on Social Media

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To meet rising sustainability demands, companies increasingly use social media to communicate product‐related CSR initiatives. Consumers' interactions with these messages largely depend on the messages' perceived credibility. However, there remains limited understanding of how firms combine communication characteristics into distinct patterns ...
Judith Derenthal, Waldemar Toporowski
wiley   +1 more source

On the new icebreaker

Antarctic Record, 1981
In April 1979,the Japanese Government decided to build a new icebreaker to take over the function of the icebreaker FUJI, because the latter's capability in the Antarctic activities was reduced due to aging.
Ichiro Honda
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Growing Pre‐Service Teachers' Well‐Being Capacity: Comparing the Perspectives of Teacher Education Programme Administrators and Teacher Candidates Across Canada

Future in Educational Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recognising the importance of addressing teacher development in the early career stages, our study examined programmatic considerations within teacher education programmes in Canada to determine the extent to which teacher preparation included support for and promotion of teacher well‐being as part of their pre‐service teaching development ...
Benjamin Kutsyuruba, Keith Walker, Karen Ragoonaden, Tim Claypool, Sabre Cherkowski, Lorraine Godden, John Bosica   +6 more
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Hovercraft as a Mobile Science Platform Over Sea Ice in the Arctic Ocean [PDF]

Oceanography, 2014
Physical sampling of sea ice, the water mass, and subbottom geology in the Arctic Ocean is carried out from icebreakers or temporary ice camps deployed and supported by aircraft.
Yngve Kristoffersen, John K. Hall
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The visual online tools for collaborative learning and icebreaker activities

RUDN Journal of Informatization in Education, 2022
Problem statement. The study is aimed to explore how have transformed the traditional approaches of collaborative learning under the influence of new digital environment? And what are the ways of introducing online group activities, precisely icebreakers?
Elizaveta A. Osipovskaya, Duško Lukač
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Promoting Fun or Competition? Testing Interventions on Ludic and Agonistic Work Design

Journal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research highlights the benefits of play‐at‐work, yet little is known about training employees to self‐initiate it. We tested two programs to train employees on designing work with elements of fun (ludic work design [LWD]) or competition (agonistic work design [AWD]).
Jan E. Walsken, Fabiola H. Gerpott, Carl Marcus Wallenburg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Review of Maritime Nuclear Reactor Systems

Journal of Nuclear Engineering
Marine reactors have been applied to floating nuclear power plants, naval vessels such as submarines, and civilian ships such as icebreakers. Nuclear-powered shipping is gaining increased interest because of decarbonization goals motivated by climate ...
Keith E. Holbert
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Activities of the Summer Party of the 35th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition in 1993-1994

Antarctic Record, 1997
The 35th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE-35) consisted of forty wintering members and sixteen summer members plus three foreign scientists from the U.S.A. and Australia.
Okitsugu Watanabe
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