one of the fundamental notions of realization of sustainable city within the framework of the theory of sustainable development is what affects the urban green spaces as well as the influence they may have. as the upshot of years’ worth of experiences in the ideology of iranian urban design, iranian garden is of magnificently high position which possesses the potentials to act as the green spac...

the present research has been done with the aim of determine the relationship between intellectual capital and employee performance of ports and maritime organization. statistical population of the present study includes head office employees of tehran ports and maritime organization. the statistical population is 140 people, 103 samples were selected according to morgan table. in this research...

Ocean transport to international trade is very important in Taiwan. The direct shipping opened between Taiwan and China in 2008 and the rising of e-commerce business increases the volumes of cargoes between cross-strait. The communications between Taiwan and China have become more frequently. That is why the “maritime express” appeared. Comparison with air express, maritime express has an advan...

The port system is a particularly important segment of valorisation of the sea and of the maritime orientation of any country and together with shipping it constitutes a fundamental link of the maritime industry of a country. A strong maritime economy can be built by the developing of all of its segments, systematically linked into a single entity and mutually determined. In this respect, the p...

Maritime anomaly detection requires an efficient representation and consistent knowledge of vessel behaviour. Automatic Identification System (AIS) data provides ships state vector and identity information that is here used to automatically derive knowledge of maritime traffic in an unsupervised way. The proposed approach only utilises AIS data, historical or real-time, and is aimed at incremen...

The sea-going cook has often been portrayed as a legendary figure by both contemporaries and writers of maritime fiction. For some, he was the most important — and the most interesting — figure on board: "Ship's cooks not only deserve our attention; they command it, dumbly yet imperiously."1 Yet little historical research has been done on them, even though they were one of the most established ...