INTRODUCTION For over two hundred years, the United States relied on ships as connective links of a nation. Vessels crossing the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific Oceans, and our inland waters made fundamental contributions to colonial settlement, development of trade, exploration, national defense, and territorial expansion. Unfortunately, we have lost much of this maritime tradition, and most ...

Background: Maritime employees are a hard to reach population group. The mandatory medical examinations of seafarers, fishermen and offshore workers are performed by GPs with training in maritime medicine. However, they might as well consult their regular general practitioner for other health concerns. So far very little is known about the breadth of services and follow up practices offered to ...

Tannin extracts were prepared from barks of maritime pine (Pinus maritimus), aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis), Norway spruce (Picea abies) and from a mixture of barks of different pine species (Pinus spp., namely 20% black pine (Pinus thunbergii)+ 30% Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) + 20% maritime pine (Pinus maritimus) + 10% Aleppo Pine (Pinus halepensis) + 5% Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) +...

As in every industry at risk, the human and organizational factors constitute the main stakes for maritime safety. Furthermore, several events at sea have been used to develop appropriate risk models. The investigation on maritime accidents is, nowadays, a very important tool to identify the problems related to human factor and can support accident prevention and the improv...

This paper introduces the general notion of elastic interfaces and the derived concepts of transparency and tailorability, and exemplifies the notions in the domain of maritime instrumentation. It concludes that maritime automation to some degree already follows principles of transparency and possibly might benefit from adopting a disciplined version of tailorability.

c Journal of Maritime Research ▪ 24/1(2010) 27 Mr. sc. Edvard Tijan / M. Sc. Adrijana Agatić, univ. bacc. ing., student Sveučilište u Rijeci / University of Rijeka Pomorski fakultet u Rijeci / Faculty of Maritime Studies Rijeka Studentska 2 51000 Rijeka Hrvatska / Croatia Dr. sc. Bojan Hlača / Ph. D. Lučka uprava Rijeka / Rijeka Port Authority Riva 1 51000 Rijeka Hrvatska / Croatia Pregledni čl...

Maritime wireless communication is different from terrestrial wireless communication, due to difference of environments. In this paper focuses to simulate on IEEE 802.16j for ship to ship maritime communication under various sea states. We describe BER level according to sea states under Rician fading channel model. BER patterns are designed using MATLAB.

Quaternary glaciations in Antarctica drastically modified geographical ranges and population sizes of marine benthic invertebrates and thus affected the amount and distribution of intraspecific genetic variation. Here, we present new genetic information in the Antarctic limpet Nacella concinna, a dominant Antarctic benthic species along shallow ice-free rocky ecosystems. We examined the pattern...

Understanding tree recruitment is needed to forecast future forest distribution. Many studies have reported the relevant ecological factors that affect recruitment success in trees, but the potential for genetic-based differences in recruitment has often been neglected. In this study, we established a semi-natural reciprocal sowing experiment to test for local adaptation and microenvironment ef...

Maritime; Intangible; Heritage; Adriatic; Croatia; Tourism; Gajeta; Falkuša; Community-based management; Adaptive co-management; Experience economy; Integrated rural tourism (IRT) Abstract In the Adriatic, the importance in tourism of the small rowing and sailing boats, like the gajeta and other heritage vessels, is clearly relevant, as icons of heritage boats adorn brochures, logos, and their ...