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Intimate Spaces on the Open Road: Navigating Access, Trust, and Ethical Boundaries during Field Research with Long Haul Truck Drivers

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Despite its ubiquity, the trucking industry is not well‐understood in social scientific literature. Gathering insight into truckers' worlds is difficult due to the solitary, isolating, and unpredictable nature of the work. An understanding of truckers' work lives and work ideologies is even further limited.
Michael A. Fleming
wiley   +1 more source

Human Toxicity and Marine Ecotoxicological Risk of Methanol as a Ship Fuel: A Critical Narrative Review of Exposure, Fate and Aquatic Effects. [PDF]

Toxics
Parris D, Kalogiannidis S, Spinthiropoulos K, Chatzitheodoridis F.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

On the Study of Ship's Motion and Fuel Consumption

The Journal of Japan Institute of Navigation, 1974
openaire   +2 more sources

Alignment of Agile and Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) Principles in Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organizations have consistently sought faster and more efficient methods for producing and delivering products. Agile principles offer essential guidance for shaping their policies and practices. The Agile Manifesto (AM) outlines 12 core principles for guiding software development but can also be applied in other contexts.
Terry Plonsky, Daniel R. Herber
wiley   +1 more source

Dataset to support the modelling of Vietnam's transport sector: population, economy, transport activity, energy intensity, load capacity, and carbon emission. [PDF]

Data Brief
Tan N, Kiley F, Dalkmann H, Zilliacus J, Harrison J, Howells M, Foster V.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Assessment of Metal Contamination and Human Health Risk in the Buffalo River Estuary, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Metal contamination in estuarine environments poses environmental and public health concerns, particularly where surface waters support domestic and subsistence uses. This study assessed the seasonal distribution, controlling mechanisms, and non‐carcinogenic health risks of selected metals (Mg, Al, Ba, Fe, Mn, and Zn) in the Buffalo River ...
Motebang D. V. Nakin, Tolulope Elizabeth Aniyikaiye, Akinola Ikudayisi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advances in Optimized and Safe Path Planning of Marine Autonomous Surface Vehicles: A Review. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Kou L, Gao X.
europepmc   +1 more source

Firearm Safety in a Country of Arms

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Firearm safety policy in the United States cannot succeed through legislation alone; effective interventions must also address the social, economic, and infrastructural conditions that shape perceptions of safety. Evidence suggests that place‐based investments can reduce violence and firearm deaths while strengthening social cohesion and ...
JONATHAN M. METZL
wiley   +1 more source

Citizens marine pilots: Increasing autonomous surface vehicles navigation capabilities with and for the public. [PDF]

Open Res Eur
Aracri S, Ferreira F, Odetti A, Bruzzone G, Bibuli M, Ferretti R, Bruzzone G, Cervellera C, Caccia M, Batoš M, Lončar I, Obradović J, Kraševac N, Asanović V, Tomović S, Zečević Ž, Martinović L, Radusinović I.   +17 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘The Housewife's Greatest Standby’: Dried Eggs, Gender and Domesticity During the Second World War

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the previously underexplored connections between dried eggs, women and domesticity in Britain during the Second World War. It argues that newsprint and advertisements framed the purchase and use of dried eggs, a novel wartime product, as a means for housewives to contribute to the war effort through domestic labour. Dried
Joel Mead
wiley   +1 more source