We report 20 new species records for the Coleoptera fauna in New Brunswick, Canada, five of which are new records for the Maritime provinces, including one species that is new for Canada. One species of Kateretidae, Kateretes pusillus (Thunberg) is newly recorded for New Brunswick and the Maritime provinces. Stelidota octomaculata (Say), Phenolia grossa (Fabricius), andCryptarcha strigatula Par...

Marine economic cooperation has emerged as a major theme in this era of globalization; hence, maritime network connectivity and dynamics have attracted more and more attention. Port construction and maritime route improvements increase maritime trade and thus facilitate economic viability and resource sustainability. This paper reveals the regional dimension of inter-port linkage dynamic struct...

Following a recommendation of the shipowners and seafarers representatives within the ILO's Joint Maritime Commission (JMC) in what is called the "Geneva Accord", the ILO decided to consolidate the entire body of its international maritime labour standards in a single instrument. A high level tripartite working group was established and met several times betwen 2001 and 2004 to prepare a draft ...

The maritime sector has a high incidence of serious and fatal injuries because of frequent accidents and maritime catastrophes (1). The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (2) in the United Kingdom claims that, after the positive trends in technological navigation instruments in the past 20 years, one factor is the predominant cause of accidents: human error. This hypothesis is supported by an...

International maritime health has largely developed within the sphere of occupational health services and international health problems. We reviewed publications in the journal International Maritime Health from 2000 to 2010 to establish the coverage of the journal and the scope of research in maritime health. We identified six thematic categories: healthcare access, delivery and integratio...

In the nineteenth-century globalizing world of colonial expansion and maritime trade, systematic study of ocean currents and winds became of increased concern in various seafaring nations. Both naval officers and university professors engaged in maritime meteorological and hydrographic research. In order to attract the attention of the state and obtain support for establishment of national scie...

Acantholycosa azarkinaesp. n. is described from the Maritime Province of Russia on the basis of both sexes. Acantholycosa norvegica (Thorell, 1872) is reported from the Maritime Province for the first time. A key and illustrations to all six species that occur in Far East Asia are provided.

Eilif Dahl, MD, MHA, PhD, Senior Consultant, Division of Surgery, Rikshospitalet University Hospital, 0027 Oslo, and Professor of Maritime Medicine, University of Bergen, Norwegian Centre for Maritime Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, 5021 Bergen, Norway, phone +47 23 07 00 00/23 07 09 62, e-mail: [email protected] Cruise ship doctor: demands and challenges versus qualificatio...

[1] The Cenozoic reorganization of islands in the Maritime Continent region of the tropical western Pacific may have increased the amount of land surface area, changed the distribution of sea surface temperature (SST), and consequently provided a necessary condition for the onset of the Walker Circulation. Precipitation rates over the Maritime Continent, measured with the Tropical Rainfall Meas...

The utilization of autonomous maritime vehicles is becoming widespread in operations that are deemed too hazardous for humans to be directly involved in them. One of the ways to increase the productivity of the tools used during missions is the deployment of several vehicles with the same objective regarding data collection and transfer, both for the benefit of human staff and policy makers. Ho...