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Confronting Technological and Tactical Change: Allied Anti-Submarine Warfare in the Last Year of the Battle for the Atlantic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The recall of German U-boat wolfpacks from the central north Atlantic at the end of May 1943 ended the most costly phase of the shipping war for the Allies. Never again would the German U-boats inflict dangerously high shipping losses.
McLean, Douglas M.
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Emotional nourishment begets academic coping during the primary to secondary school transition

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The transition from primary to secondary school is widely viewed as the most demanding in a child's educational journey. Despite a wealth of research on this transition, little is known about the children's ‘lived experience’ of it across different contexts.
Peter Wood   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are warm temperatures the key factor to prevent winter swarms of Hemimysis anomala in peri-alpine lakes?

open access: yesKnowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 2023
The invasive bloody red mysid, Hemimysis anomala, has recently colonised peri-alpine lakes in Western Europe. During the last decade, scuba divers have regularly reported observations of substantial winter swarms of this animal in Lakes Bourget (France ...
Jacquet Stéphan
doaj   +1 more source

Evolution of secondary cellular circulation flow above submarine bedforms imaged by remote sensing techniques [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Normalized radar cross section (NRCS) modulation and acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) measurements above submarine sand ribbons and sand waves are presented. The two study areas are located in the Southern Bight of the North Sea at the Birkenfels
Hennings, Ingo, Herbers, Dagmar
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A review of the historic and present ecological role of aquatic and shoreline wood, from forest to deep sea

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ecology of forests, their losses, and terrestrial wood decomposition dynamics have been intensively studied and reviewed. In the aquatic realm, reviews have concentrated on large wood (LW) in rivers and the transition from freshwater to marine environments in the Pacific Northwest of North America. However, a comprehensive global synthesis
Jon Dickson   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Marine Heritage Monitoring with High Resolution Survey Tools: ScapaMAP 2001-2006 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Archaeologically, marine sites can be just as significant as those on land. Until recently, however, they were not protected in the UK to the same degree, leading to degradation of sites; the difficulty of investigating such sites still makes it ...
Calder, Brian R.   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Blocked and “Unblocked” Learning: Structural Factors That Impede and Enable Evidence‐Informed Policymaking

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses a critical issue in evidence‐informed policymaking: the challenge of translating knowledge into policy outputs amidst the complex interplay between research and politics. It discusses the concept of “blocked learning,” where individual‐level learning fails to scale up to organizational and policy levels, thus impeding ...
Thenia Vagionaki
wiley   +1 more source

The legal situation of the wreck of the ironclad ''Re d'Italia'' sunk in the 1866 battle of Vis (Lissa)

open access: yesPoredbeno Pomorsko Pravo, 2012
There is an allegation that wrecks of warships remain the property of the flag State wherever located and notwithstanding the passage of time since their sinking, unless expressly abandoned by the flag State.
Vladimir-Đuro Degan
doaj  

The role of cultural heritage in the geopolitics of the Arctic: the example of Franklin’s lost expedition

open access: yesFennia: International Journal of Geography, 2021
Sir John Franklin’s ships departed from Greenhithe port in Great Britain (1845) with the aim of discovering the Northwest Passage in what is now Canada. During their journey, both ships got stuck in ice near King William Island and eventually sank.
Kim Pawliw   +2 more
doaj  

Providing the Third Dimension: High-resolution Multibeam Sonar as a Tool for Archaeological Investigations - An Example from the D-day Beaches of Normandy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
In general, marine archaeological investigations begin in the archives, using historic maps, coast surveys, and other materials, to define submerged areas suspected to contain potentially significant historical sites.
Calder, Brian R.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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