BACKGROUND The Isle of Man is a UK crown dependency able to operate a category 1 shipping register, permitting its marine administration to register vessels of unlimited size and tonnage. Little is known about work related mortality among seafarers who are employed in Isle of Man registered shipping. OBJECTIVES To establish the causes and circumstances of all work related deaths among seafare...

What is it to have a reason? According to one common idea, the Factoring Account, you have a reason to do A when there is a reason for you to do A which you have—which is somehow in your possession or grasp. In this paper, I argue that this common idea is false. But though my arguments are based on the practical case, the implications of this are likely to be greatest in epistemology: for the p...

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^^ir jEdmund Hillary of Mount Everest \ fajne liked to tell a story about one of ^J Captain Robert Falcon Scott's earlier attempts, from 1901 to 1904, to reach the South Pole. Scott led an expedition made up of men from thb Royal Navy and the merchant marine, as jwell as a group of scientists. Scott had considel'able trouble dealing with the merchant n|arine personnel, who were unaccustomed ip ...

We exploit a unique merchant-level dataset from the monopoly payment card network in China to study payment card pricing. We develop hypotheses associating payment card pricing to card penetration rate, profitability and fraud risk. Our empirical analysis uses the variations in those three factors across industries to show that the card network charges a higher merchant discount for industries ...

In this paper, the problems of diagnostics of main propulsion marine engines are presented. Diesel or turbine engines are used for main propulsion of vessel power plants. Marine engine is a complex technical object. For the purpose of diagnostics it is convenient to divide the engine into several units – subsystems such as: piston –crank assembly; working medium exchange system, fuel supply sys...