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Vessel Port Dues: An Influence from Path Dependency rather than Geography of Ports
Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics, 2018 Port dues have a limited impact on the door-to-door international decision making process. They are, however, a major source of revenue for port authorities.
Alexandre Lavissiere
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Small and Medium-Sized Port Greening Initiatives as Trigger for a Servitisation Port Ecosystem
Environmental and Climate Technologies, 2023 Despite the highest competition among the big EU seaports – gateways and hubs, such as Rotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg or Valencia, etc. which stand for the Core Ports in the European Union (EU) Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) Core and Comprehensive
Meyer Christopher +2 more
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The complex network of global cargo ship movements [PDF]
, 2010 Transportation networks play a crucial role in human mobility, the exchange of goods, and the spread of invasive species. With 90% of world trade carried by sea, the global network of merchant ships provides one of the most important modes of ...
Andrea Kölzsch +9 more
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A comparative benchmarking analysis of main Iberian container terminals: a DEA approach [PDF]
, 2009 Benchmarking is an important tool to organisations to improve their productivity, product quality, process efficiency or services. From Benchmarking the organisations could compare their performance with competitors and identify their strengths and ...
Azevedo, Susana Garrido +3 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Multidrug transporters BpeB and BpeF from the Gram‐negative pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei have a hydrophilic patch in their substrate‐binding pocket. Drug susceptibility tests and growth curve analyses using an Escherichia coli recombinant expression system revealed that the hydrophilic patches of BpeB and BpeF are involved in the substrate ...
Ui Okada, Satoshi Murakami
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Ballast Water Management in the Black Sea’s Ports
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2018 The objective of this work is to develop a case study in order to improve the ballast water management in the Black Sea’s ports. From this perspective, the present paper provides an extensive explanation about the main issues related to the control
Vasile Rata +2 more
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Aggressive prostate cancer is associated with pericyte dysfunction
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Tumor‐produced TGF‐β drives pericyte dysfunction in prostate cancer. This dysfunction is characterized by downregulation of some canonical pericyte markers (i.e., DES, CSPG4, and ACTA2) while maintaining the expression of others (i.e., PDGFRB, NOTCH3, and RGS5).
Anabel Martinez‐Romero +11 more
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Promet (Zagreb), 2006 Sea ports are the key segment of the traffic and economicdevelopment of maritime countries. Pan-European transportcorridors include the most important sea pmts and sea routes.They are an extension of the existing land corridors.The most important and the
Čedomir Ivaković +2 more
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Transit: An analysis of networked criminal groups and criminal opportunities at transit ports [PDF]
, 2017 Like the path of many contraband commodities, trafficked cultural objects cross countless legal borders and intersect with the legitimate market world at a number of critical transit junctures, which supports the concept of a single “grey” market.
Casey, Ryan Nicole
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Nanosecond infrared laser (NIRL) low‐volume sampling combined with shotgun lipidomics uncovers distinct lipidome alterations in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) of the palatine tonsil. Several lipid species consistently differentiate tumor from healthy tissue, highlighting their potential as diagnostic markers.
Leonard Kerkhoff +11 more
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