In this paper, we are going to investigate the growth of the Iranian maritime transport with a focus mainly on the North - South transit Corridor, review of dry ports in order to support the Iranian container terminals at the south ports in order to increase the volume of container storages at the terminals. For the purpose of assessing the outcome of port operational management, the Balanced ...

A generalized multiport network analyzer implemented using commercially available hardware is presented. Measurement calibration is accomplished through a novel calibration procedure which requires only conventional standards used for two-port calibrations, The calibration theory accounts for the errors due to the signal switching network but does not systematically remove errors due to signal ...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2008.05.033 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +90 216 395 1064; fa E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Celik). The strategic positions and geographical advantages of the Turkish container ports in the world transportation network create an excessive demand which seek urgent development strategies for managing ongoing problems ...

Scope and Purpose: To cope with the increasing internet traffic, it is necessary to improve the performance of routers. To accelerate the switching from input ports to output in the router partitioning of ports and dynamic queueing are proposed. Input and output ports are partitioned into two groups A/B and a/b respectively. The matching for the packet switching is performed between group pairs...

The global shipping network facilitates the transportation and introduction of marine and terrestrial organisms to regions where they are not native, and some of these organisms become invasive. South Africa was used as a case study to evaluate the potential for shipping to contribute to the introduction and establishment of marine and terrestrial alien species (i.e. establishment debt) and to ...

The Genoa Active Message MAchine (GAMMA) is an ee-cient communication layer for 100base-T clusters of Personal Computers running Linux. It is based on Active Ports, a communication mechanism derived from Active Messages. GAMMA Active Ports deliver excellent communication performance at user level (latency 12.7 s, maximum throughput 12.2 MByte/s, half-power point reached with 192 byte long messa...

Recent advances in surgical techniques have trended toward minimally invasive procedures. Currently, a laparoscopic approach has become the gold standard for splenectomy because it is an effective, reliable technique requiring a shorter hospitalization period with fewer surgical complications, less morbidity, and better esthetic results (1). However, as the number of ports increases in laparosc...

NOAA’s PORTS (Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System) currently provides historical and real-time observations and predictions of water levels, coastal currents and other meteorological and oceanographic data for a dozen US estuaries. The PORTS web site displays real-time data in graphical and tabular form. The tabular form can require lengthy inspection to identify salient conditions and retr...

We consider the role of switching in minimizing the number of electronic ports (e.g., SONET ADMs) in an optical network that carries sub-wavelength traffic. Providing nodes with the ability to switch traffic between wavelengths, such as through the use of SONET cross-connects, can reduce the required number of electronic ports. We show that only small switches distributed among the nodes in the...

We study the concept of ports and we define an ontology for representing them. Ports define the locations of interaction at the boundaries of components or sub-systems; they can be used across different disciplines for both product modeling and simulation. They are therefore a convenient abstraction that allows simulation modelers to modularize and encapsulate their system descriptions such tha...