Introduction ............................................................................................ 23 I. Tourism and the Environment: An Introduction to the Relationship ...... 26 II. The Concept of Sustainable Tourism ............................................... 29 III. Ecotourism: Environmentally Sustainable Tourism? ........................... 32 IV. The Regulation of Tourism by In...

There is a growing need in maritime missions to monitor moving vessels with satellite sensors, in order to detect vessels that may mislead about their identity and transmit wrong identification parameters. In order to provide an efficient and cost-effective solution, vessel behavior prediction is a necessary ability. We present three models for vessel behavior prediction: Min-Max, Uniform-Walk ...

Large-scale quantum computation is likely to require massive quantum error correction (QEC). QEC codes and circuits are described via the stabilizer formalism, which represents stabilizer states by keeping track of the operators that preserve them. Such states are obtained by stabilizer circuits (consisting of CNOT, Hadamard and Phase gates) and can be represented compactly on conventional comp...

The growth of aquatic organisms on vessel hulls creates roughness which gives rise to reduced vessel speed per unit energy consumption. A 10 (μm) increase of the average vessel hull can cause an increase in fuel consumption of about 0.3-1 %. Tributyltin (TBT) based antifouling paints began to use in the early 1970 s. Tributyltins contaminate marine environment and cause problems for marine envi...

Marine debris is widely distributed at the coastal area of the global oceans; however, shipborne garbage source studies are still lacking to document the pollution in Malaysia Territorial Water. Thus, this study has adopted a standard method of beach marine debris survey at five beaches and inspected 115 vessels to assess the type and amount of debris from shipping source stranded on the beach....

Recent advances in computer hardware and algorithms make it possible to consider more computationally demanding control methods, allowing more effective exploitation of the equipment under control. This thesis explores new ways of controlling ships (or other marine vessels) that are designed to keep a predetermined position and heading automatically exclusively by the means of their thrusters –...

Growing ship traffic worldwide has led to increased vessel noise with possible negative impacts on marine life. Most research has focused on low frequency components of ship noise, but for high-frequency specialists, such as the harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), medium-to-high frequency noise components are likely more of a concern. To test for biologically relevant levels of medium-to-high ...

Much of the information we are seeing at this symposium revolves around the utility of Zn rich coatings. Marine Environmental Research (MER) has been examining these coatings as the material component in a surface protective system applicable to both marine and land based needs. The nonmaterial component of this system is electrical. The way these two components interact and the surprising resu...