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Epidemiological Characteristics and Prognostic Factors for Mortality in Severe Burns: A 32‐Year Analysis (1993–2024) From a National Referral Center in the Dominican Republic

open access: yesWorld Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
Severe burns represent a major public health burden in middle‐income countries. This study describes the epidemiological profile and identifies independent prognostic factors for in‐hospital mortality in patients with severe burns treated at the national referral center of the Dominican Republic over a 32‐year period.
José Enrique Cueva‐Ramírez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification of Black Reef Shipwreck Sites Using AI and Satellite Multispectral Imagery

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2023
UNESCO estimates that our planet’s oceans and lakes are home to more than three million shipwrecks. Of these three million, the locations of only 10% are currently known.
Alexandra Karamitrou   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Distribution of red deepsea crab (Chaceon quinquedens) by size and sex in the Gulf of Mexico [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The red deepsea crab (Chaceon quinquedens (Smith, 1879)) has supported a commercial fishery off the coast of New England since the 1970s (Wigley et al., 1975) and has had annual harvests from 400 metric tons (t) (1996) to 4000 t (2001) (NEFMC, 2002). In
Kilgour, Morgan J., Shirley, Thomas C.
core  

Postmortem submergence interval (PMSI) and human decomposition in anthropogenically constructed aqueous environments (pools, bathtubs, hot tubs, and spas)

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Postmortem decomposition changes of bodies in aquatic environments may offer valuable insights into the postmortem submergence interval (PMSI) for medicolegal death investigators. However, the effects of immersion on the onset of such changes are poorly understood.
Vienna C. Lam   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conservation of Waterlogged Wood of the Yenikapı Shipwrecks, Istanbul-Türkiye

open access: yesАрхеология евразийских степей, 2023
Theodosian Harbour was one of the principal harbors of Byzantine Constantinople, actively serving trading ships from the 4th to the early 11th centuries AD at the Sea of Marmara shore of the imperial center.
Kocabaş Kocabaş, Özsait-Kocabaş
doaj   +1 more source

Developing a GIS-Database and Risk Index for Potentially Polluting Marine Sites [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The increasing availability of geospatial marine data provides an opportunity for hydrographic offices to contribute to the identification of “Potentially Polluting Marine Sites” (PPMS).
Alexander, Lee   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Rethinking the Origins of Transnational Humanitarian Organizations: The Curious Case of the International Shipwreck Society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
By exploring the evolution of the International Shipwreck Society (ISS) – a previously neglected transnational humanitarian organization encompassing branches in every continent by the late 1830s – this article sheds new light on three key aspects of the
Davies, T. R.
core   +1 more source

Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
wiley   +1 more source

Benefitting from brutality? Profits of north‐western Europe's slave trade at the eve of the industrial revolution

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract One of the most contentious issues in the study of the Atlantic slave trade is the profitability of the trade. In this paper, we contribute by pooling all available data on transatlantic slave ship voyage accounts into a joint dataset. This dataset includes data from a period of 100 years (1730–1830) and from five nations (Denmark, France ...
Klas Rönnbäck   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shipwrecked

open access: yes, 2020
Reframing the American story from the vantage point of the nation's watery edges, Shipwrecked shows how disasters have not only bedeviled the American beach--they created it. Though the American beach is now one of the most commercialized, contested, and engineered places on the planet, few people visited it or called it home at the beginning of the ...
openaire   +3 more sources

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