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Safety Operation for Large Deck Cargo Barge at a U-Shaped Basin in Complex Port Areas
Journal of Marine Science and EngineeringIt is challenging to manoeuvre large deck cargo barges within the confined, congested port waters, especially when berthing and unberthing at a U-shaped basin.
Wei Zhu +5 more
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Long-term in situ observations on typhoon-triggered turbidity currents in the deep sea [PDF]
, 2018 This work is supported by the National Science Foundation of China (grants 91528304, 41576005, and 41530964). We thank J. Li, X. Lyu, P. Li, K. Duan, J. Ronan, Y. Wang, P. Ma, and Y. Li for cruise assistance; G. de Lange and J.
Colin, Christophe +7 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite growing research on explicating travelers' decision‐making processes regarding greener travel options, there remains potential for exploring nuances of different factors and mechanisms that may encourage higher green travel. Grounded in the propositions of the push–pull–mooring framework, our study attempts to explicate whether eco ...
Chuhong Wang +3 more
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Damage Monitoring of a Catenary Moored Spar Platform for Renewable Energy Devices
Energies, 2020 Structural performance of renewable energy device platforms is central to their power generation in a reliable and competitive manner. However, there is a gap in research in the conceptual and experimental stages of such devices at lower technological ...
Deirdre O’Donnell +2 more
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Low frequency shelf current fluctuations in the Gulf of Alaska [PDF]
, 1977 Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1977A general oceanographic study of a shelf region in the Gulf of Alaska has revealed low-frequency, current fluctuations.
Worley, Steven James
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Chain‐Level Business Model Patterns for the Green Logistics Transition
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability transitions in freight transport increasingly depend on coordinated changes across entire logistics networks, not just within individual firms. This study investigates how business‐model change unfolds across a multimodal European logistics chain engaged in reducing transport‐related emissions.
Marikka Heikkilä
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Zhongguo Jianchuan YanjiuObjective Articulated multiple floating structures are not only subject to wave excitation forces, but also to other nonlinear loads such as connection forces, mooring forces and diffraction forces between floats, making it challenging to predict their ...
Zhengyuan ZHANG +3 more
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Influence and optimization of mooring angle in multi-point mooring positioning system
Zhongguo Jianchuan Yanjiu, 2018 [Objectives] In this paper, a method for calculating the static restoring force of a mooring system is proposed in order to optimize the mooring angle and meet the strength requirements of mooring lines.
HAN Sen +3 more
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Progressive Reliability Method and Its Application to Offshore Mooring Systems [PDF]
, 2013 Assessing the reliability of complex systems (e.g. structures) is essential for a reliability-based optimal design that balances safety and costs of such systems.
Mousavi, Mir Emad +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The transition to a circular economy (CE) has become a strategic priority for firms, yet empirical assessments of corporate circularity remain fragmented and heavily dependent on structured indicators or self‐reported metrics. This paper proposes a novel, text‐based circularity index derived from mandatory non‐financial statements of large ...
Giuseppe Pernagallo +2 more
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