Surgeons of the Merchant Marine.

Computational Analysis of Merchant Marine GPS Data

A series of quantitative and structural analyses are applied to geospatial data regarding the movement of Merchant Marine vessels in the English Channel.

Health characteristics of inland waterway merchant marine captains and pilots.

BACKGROUND Most published studies on seafarer health have focused on patterns of mortality, injury and communicable diseases. Little information is available regarding lifestyle-related cardio-metabolic disease in maritime populations. AIMS To describe health characteristics of a population of US inland waterway merchant marine captains and pilots. METHODS A cross-sectional study of the hea...

The merchant subtour problem

We consider the problem of a travelling merchant that makes money by buying commodities where they are cheap and selling them in other places where he can make a profit. The merchant ships commodities of his own choice in a van of fixed capacity. Given the prices of all the commodities in all of the places, and the cost of driving from one place to another, the problem the merchant faces each d...

The influence of Sinequan of the reactivity of the vegetative system in neuroses among seamen of the Polish merchant marine.

Profile of Sabeeha Merchant.

Organic molecules dominate the biological world, yet many of life’s critical molecular reactions depend on metals for catalysis. Sabeeha Merchant, a professor of biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), studies how cells keep track of crucial trace nutrients like iron and copper. Her early work on Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a single-celled alga that, like all plants, pr...