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History and Anthropology, 2022 When Ever Given, one of the world’s largest container ships, ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal for six days in March 2021, it dramatically brought to light the fragile dependency of global trade on maritime infrastructures. It also drew attention to ships as actors within this global system of mobility.
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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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The Mobilities of Ships and Shipped Mobilities [PDF]
Mobilities, 2014 In the burgeoning field of mobilities studies, the seas and all that moves in, on, across and through them, have not been embraced with the same enthusiasm as mobilities ashore.
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Nature, 1905 A VERY excellent little volume and a most handy addition to any shipping office. The naval information makes it also a very useful book to naval officers. One slight improvement would be useful—port-to-port distances round the coast of Great Britain and Europe; for example, London to Plymouth. Ships and Shipping. By Commander R. Dowling. With a preface
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Atlas of solar hidden photon emission [PDF]
, 2015 Hidden photons, gauge bosons of a U(1) symmetry of a hidden sector, can constitute the dark matter of the universe and a smoking gun for large volume compactifications of string theory.
Redondo, Javier
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An assessment of the sportfishery on artificial "Liberty Ship" reefs off Port Aransas, Texas [PDF]
, 1977 The concept of using surplus World War II Liberty Ships for the construction of artificial reefs to increase the availability of sportfish off the Texas coast was originally suggested in 1974.
Roels, Oswald A., Vetter, Russell
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Ships Passing In The Night? [PDF]
, 2014 In this Cousins Research Group Report, David Mathews describes two different civic engagement movements. One is underway in higher education. On campuses across the country, leadership and service learning programs are growing, and students are taught ...
David Mathews
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Rudder roll stabilization for ships [PDF]
, 1990 This paper describes the design of an autopilot for rudder roll stabilization for ships. This autopilot uses the rudder not only for course keeping but also for reduction of the roll. The system has a series of properties which make the controller design
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Automatic collision avoidance of ships [PDF]
, 2008 One of the key elements in automatic simulation of ship manoeuvring in confined waterways is route finding and collision avoidance. This paper presents a new practical method of automatic trajectory planning and collision avoidance based on an artificial
Han, D., Lee, B.S., Xue, Y.
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