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Measures Of International Transport Cost For OECD Countries [PDF]
, 2008 This paper presents new estimates of country-specific international transport costs for 21 OECD countries over the period 1973-2005. The methodology is based on direct measures of air, maritime, and road transport costs rather than on cif/fob ratios or ...
Golub, Stephen S., Tomasik, B.
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Applied Sciences, 2022 In this paper, the nonlinear effects of the built environment on bus–metro-transfer ridership are explored, based on Shanghai metro data, with an extreme gradient-boosting decision-trees (XGBoost) model.
Ding Liu +3 more
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‘Tainted Pearls of Wisdom’ . A thematic analysis of the representation of women in Egyptian proverbs
Anàlisi: Quaderns de Comunicació i CulturaThis article discusses the representation of women in Colloquial Egyptian proverbs (CEPs). Even though myriad studies have tackled the image of women in many linguistic genres, this is the first study to discursively examine such portrayal in Egyptian ...
Mohamed El-Nashar +3 more
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Optimal selection of ship's main engine based on interactive weighting and evidential reasoning
Zhongguo Jianchuan Yanjiu, 2019 [Objectives]The optimal selection of ship's main engine is a problem worthy of further study, and also a complicated problem on multi-attribute decision making.[Methods]The criteria system of optimal selection of a ship's main engine was proposed by ...
Zhao Ruijia +3 more
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Experimental and Theoretical Investigation for Shaft Journal Bearing Lubrication Performance [PDF]
Port Said Engineering Research JournalHydrodynamic lubrication is definitely one of the foremost factors upon which the load carrying capacity within journal bearing mainly rely. Therefore, maintaining journal bearing lubrication away from boundary and transient lubrication regions is so ...
Nader Abdul Rahman +3 more
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Identification and prioritization of human error factors related to maritime accidents
Maritime Research and TechnologyMaritime accidents associated with its consequences, such as loss of people, huge financial compensations, pollution disasters, and environmental damage, are real threats to maritime transport industry. Many factors have a direct or an indirect effect on
Dina Farouk Mahgoub +2 more
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.The corrosion performance of AlSi7Mg and AlSi10Mg alloys produced through selective laser melting (SLM) was examined under compressive stress in a chloride environment. Electrochemical analyses, including open‐circuit potential (OCP), potentiodynamic polarization (CPP), and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), were complemented by scanning ...
Femi John Akinfolarin +2 more
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Vulnerability Analysis of Bohai Rim Ports in the Context of High-Quality Development [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThe article scientifically analyzes the connotation of port vulnerability, and based on the principles of exposure-sensitivity-adaptability and the five major theories of high-quality development, constructs a high-quality development perspective port ...
Liu Cuilian, Zheng Zeyi, Zhang Qiaojun
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.This study demonstrates how optimizing laser power, scanning speed, and hatching distance in laser powder bed fusion can boost the productivity of Inconel 718 manufacturing by up to 29% while maintaining mechanical integrity. The work delivers a validated process window and cost–time analysis, offering industry‐ready guidelines for efficient additive ...
Amir Behjat +7 more
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Analysing the barriers of sustainable supply chain in fashion sector: a review
International Business Logistics Journal, 2022 Purpose: the aim is to figure out the barriers and challenges that mostly influence sustainable fashion supply chain especially textile in order to develop the industry in EgyptDesign/Methodology/Approach: About 59 academic papers, books, were used from ...
Rowan Abd Elbary +3 more
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