In female mice, the experience of being shipped from the breeder facility or a single injection of the bacterial endotoxin, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), during pubertal development alters the behavioral response to estradiol in adulthood as demonstrated by perturbations of estradiol's effects on sexual behavior, cognitive function, as well as its anxiolytic and anti-depressive properties. Microgli...

The Baltic Sea shipping is at a crossroads as sulphur regulation will lead to excessive cost increases from the year 2015 onwards and CO2 emission trading is planned to be implemented for the entire shipping sector within the EU area. Therefore, shipping is going to be minimized and hinterland transportation (road and rail) will act as substitute. This research analyzes the situation on one of ...

11 Article history: 12 Available online xxxx 13 Keywords: 14 Fuzzy QFD 15 FAHP 16 FAD 17 SoQ 18 Shipping investments 19 Tanker markets 20 2 1 a b s t r a c t 22 Q5 Studying the market has crucial roles for executing the shipping investment decisions in maritime trans-23 portation industry. The high level of managerial effort requires bringing market tendencies with the up-24 to-date data over d...

The spatial pattern of initial introductions of marine alien species in the European Seas (including the entire Mediterranean) was investigated. Marked geographic patterns depending on the pathway of introduction were revealed, with specific countries acting as gateways to alien invasions. France and Italy were the countries mostly responsible for introductions by aquaculture, while Lessepsian ...

The mandatory requirement and introduction of ECDIS is seen by the regulatory bodies guiding the shipping industry as a major step forward in safe ship operation and protection of the environment. The transition to electronic navigation and the operation of a paperless bridge is however initially viewed differently by the shipping community with increased operational costs of new equipment and ...

This paper elaborates the human factors in ship management, and analyzes Liveware-Liveware interface and LivewareEnvironment interface based upon the SHEL model. And the measures to reduce human error in marine transport has also been proposed. This paper also has made systematic analysis on the complexity of Shipping Transportation System, construct system model, and analyzes Synergy Mechanism...

ship exhaust emission inventories and their associated externalities constitute valuableinformation resources towards policy making and management of the influence exerted by shipping on airquality. to this extent, the container terminal at the greek port of piraeus by virtue of its shipping significanceand its urbanised character was selected in order to provide an estimation of the emissions ...

In this study, we employ the global aerosol-climate model ECHAM-HAM to globally assess aerosol indirect effects (AIEs) resulting from shipping emissions of aerosols and aerosol precursor gases. We implement shipping emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO2), black carbon (BC) and particulate organic matter (POM) for the year 2000 into the model and quantify the model’s sensitivity towards uncertaintie...

We develop spatial competition a la Bertrand for barge shipping along a waterway. Equilibrium prices are derived for two variations. For each case, we …rst give the perfectly competitive benchmark (when all modes are priced at marginal cost) before introducing market power on the modes. The paper emphasizes strategic rivalry (and market power) in two dimensions, and, for tractability, we consid...