This article describes the influence of infectious diseases on ancient maritime navigation and the early attempts to prevent their spread with legal regulations. In ancient times, the greatest health hazard for sailors were poor hygienic conditions, water supply, nutrition, accommodation, air, and lighting on board. These conditions favoured the development and transmission of infectious diseas...

Surveillance in a maritime environment is indispensible in the fight against a wide range of criminal activities, including pirate attacks, unlicensed fishing trailers and human trafficking. Computer vision systems can be a useful aid in the law enforcement process, by for example tracking and identifying moving vessels on the ocean. However, the maritime domain poses many challenges for the de...

A research has been carried on and is still in progress aimed at the construction of three specialized lexicons organized as databases of relational type. The three databases contain terms belonging to the specialized knowledge fields of maritime terminology (technicalnautical and maritime transport domain), taxation law, and labour law with union labour rules, respectively. The EuroWordNet/Ita...

The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (East Timor) attained independence on 20 May 2002, marking its separation from Indonesia. As a newly independent country, East Timor is faced with a number of significant international opportunities, together with some obligations that it must fulfil, including the delimitation of its international boundaries. Similarly, for Indonesia, with 10 maritime nei...