Migrant rescue as organized hypocrisy: EU maritime missions offshore Libya between humanitarianism and border control

Safety Control of Maritime Traffic Near by Offshore in Time

This paper introduces and presents a strategy for ensuring safety during control of vessel interaction in real time. A measure of danger during the interaction is explicitly computed, based on factors affecting the impact force during a potential collision between an object and the vessel. A motion strategy to minimize the danger factors and risk level is developed for articulated degree of fre...

Applications and Technologies for Maritime and Offshore Industries

Autokon, a CAD/CAM system for ships, was one of the most important early Norwegian applications. We describe the background for the Autokon project and its results. We will specifically follow three technology threads that we have called Data-centred architectures, Mathematical modelling, and Personal information systems, where the last one includes distribution and component based architecture...

Review of Uncertainty Reasoning Approaches as Guidance for Maritime and Offshore Safety-Based Assessment

Many different formal techniques have been developed over the past two decades for dealing with uncertain information for decision making. In this paper we review some of the most important ones, i.e., Bayesian theory of probability, Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence, and fuzzy set theory, describe how they work and in what ways they differ from one another, and show their strength and weaknes...

Informal International Border Crossing, Refugee and Illegal Migrant Workers: Issue in Travel Medicine

the relationship between locus of control and iranian efl university students’ beliefs about language learning

this exploratory study aimed to investigate a possible relationship between learners’ beliefs about language learning and one of their personality traits; that is,locus of control (loc). both variables, beliefs and locus of control, are assumed to influence the language learning process. the internal control index (ici) and the beliefs about language learning inventory (balli) were administered...