Abstract The recent European Union Ship Recycling Regulation and other existing conventions aimed to reduce harmful environmental health impacts of ship shipbreaking, may push the shipbreaking industry further South Asian countries, where ecosystem public are threatened due lack monitoring for dirty beaching methods breaking. Such unsustainable patterns continue expand mismatch economic benefic...

We present the concepts of physics-based learning models (PBLM) and their relevance and application to the field of ship hydrodynamics. The utility of physics-based learning is motivated by contrasting generic learning models (GLM) for regression predictions which do not presume any knowledge of the system other than the training data provided, with methods such as semi-empirical models which i...

An analog of the Falconer distance problem in vector spaces over finite fields asks for the threshold α > 0 such that |∆(E)| & q whenever |E| & q, where E ⊂ Fq , the d-dimensional vector space over a finite field with q elements (not necessarily prime). Here ∆(E) = {(x1 − y1) 2 + · · ·+ (xd − yd) 2 : x, y ∈ E}. The second listed author and Misha Rudnev ([4]) established the threshold d+1 2 , an...

Abstract Media coverage of migrant and refugee camps often concerns not everyday life in camps, but violence or a camp's outright destruction. These portrayals risk inscribing into public memory as sites danger criminality, vulnerability without agency. What methods engaging with aftermath its representation might enable more complex understandings the reality camps? We engage camp site inscrip...

The authors examined factors related to participation in walking, gardening or yard work, and sports or exercise in 686 community-dwelling adults 60-95 years of age from Wave IV of the population-based Americans' Changing Lives Study. Logistic regression revealed that male gender, being married, and better functional health were associated with greater likelihood of participating in gardening o...

The 6-min walk test (6MWT) is a common component of fitness assessments of older adults; however, differing course configurations might affect 6MWT performance. It is unclear how comparable 2 different configurations are. To determine the comparability of 2 courses, 35 adults >65 years of age completed two 6MWT, once walking around a 20- by 5-yd outdoor rectangle and once on an indoor oval trac...

On October 15, we met to listen to a presentation by Marques Griffin from ChevronTexaco. He gave an overview of the entire oil production process and gave an idea of what types of positions his company had available. We also had this semester’s officer auction, where bidders could hire an officer for an hour to do such as things as cleaning or yard work. Our volleyball tournament to be held on ...