The EC funded CyClaDes research project is designed to promote the increased impact of the human element in shipping across the design and operational lifecycle of ships. It addresses the design and operation of ships and ship systems. One of the CyClaDes’ tasks is to create a crew‐centered design case‐study examination of the information that is shared between the Bridge and En...

Games like Myst, Civilisation and Anno 1602 are centred around the virtual travelling of the gamer through unknown worlds. The voyage s/he undertakes often hinges on notions of colonialist exploration, turning the gamer into a traveller who surveys and masters unknown domains and learns to control techno-scientific principles along the way. Since such games are related to a mentality of colonia...

Th is paper reports research on service branding carried out on the prestigious Norwegian Coastal Voyage, or Hurtigruten, which is its brand name. Th e primary research instrument employed in the research was semi-structured in-depth interviews with managers and service personnel previously and presently employed by the shipping line Hurtigruten ASA. Th e paper shows that a set of factors infl ...

fishing per somewhat longer voyage and more fish per day at sea and per ton of fuel. These two British pioneer experiments have indicated two possible ways of improving the exploitation of wide-ranging fisheries. 'Those who rely on supplies brought in by distant-water trawlers may before very long be freezing sizeable quantities at sea' (European Productivity Agency of the Organisation for Euro...

Constraint Logic Programming over Finite Domains, CLP(FD), has been in constant development for a few years. CLP(FD) allows an efficient resolution of various highly combinatorial problems in scheduling, cutting-stock, warehouse location, planning, molecular biology ... [DIN 90a,b,c], [BAP 92], [BEL 92], [CHA 92], [CLA 93], [BOI 94b]. From a software engineering view point, this approach provid...

©2018 Turkish League Against Rheumatism. All rights reserved. ABSTRACT Objectives: This study aims to compare the disease status of patients with active rheumatoid arthritis after treatment with tofacitinib or non-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) biologics. Patients and methods: The study included a total of 50 rheumatoid arthritis patients (18 males, 32 females; mean age 68.3±1.3 years; range 42 to...

Reactive oxygen species are known to be potentially dangerous, but are also needed for signal-transduction pathways. Tumor cells have relatively low amounts of superoxide dismutase (SOD), which quenches superoxide anion (O2 •), and as a result of a higher level of aerobic metabolism, higher concentrations of O2 •, compared to normal cells. But this may not be true of all tumor cells. Some tumor...

A radial haemolysis test was used to investigate immunity to mumps. Antibody was found in 92 (42%) out of 220 children aged up to 5 years, 124 (78%) out of 159 children aged 6--10 years, 192 (86%) out of 222 children aged 11 years, 138 (92%) out of 150 children aged 15 years, and 280 (95%) out of 296 women attending an antenatal clinic. A group of 307 cadets aged 16--18 years were also tested a...