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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Merchant marine"”.
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Merchant Marine Deck Officer Agency Through Performative Acts
… These performatives constantly build the mariner's identity within the maritime deck officer community and their successful performatives give deck officers agency in the form of an oppositional view to deskilling. These same performative acts are the value of the mariner's experiential …
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Government hesitancy amidst industry discord: Decline of the United States-flag merchant marine after World War II
The American-flag merchant marine became the world's largest during World War II. U.S.-flag ships carried most of the nation's commerce, and the world looked to America for shipping strength. After the war, the different parties in the maritime industry began to fight for their individual interests …
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The Ready Reserve Force: is it capable of performing its mission
… examined is the decline in the number of merchant mariners and in the number of available billets for the mariners. Three merchant marine manning studies are evaluated and five alternatives for guaranteeing manning are discussed. In the area of supply and logistic support, the onboard …
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The Jones Act : an economic and political evaluation
On June 5, 1920, the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, also known as the Jones Act, became law. The Jones Act, a cabotage law, restricts American waterborne domestic trade to vessels flagged in the United States, owned by citizens of the United States, operated by citizens of the United States, and …
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Strategic sealift: decisions today to ensure tomorrow.
… the United States no longer needs an active Merchant Marine. Despite these results our Fourth Arm is still insufficient. This thesis examines the reasons why this is true, and considers possible solutions to this problem, some of which have been provided from both the government and …
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Application and evaluation of high speed data transfer for decision support in remote health care.
… different scenarios viz. remote communities, merchant marine vessels and offshore installations. In each scenario, telemedical technology and new operational procedures were devised and applied, taking into account the health care requirements of the remote population and the medical education …
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Production of Filipino Cruise Ship Workers
… a qualitative methodology nine students from a merchant marine school in the Philippines were interviewed. Twenty-five cruise ship workers who had worked for at least one year were also interviewed to explore their workplace experiences. The findings present a decline in the dominance of …
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Taking the war to Scotland and France : the supply and transportation of English armies by sea, 1320-60
… by the kings of this period were requisitioned merchant vessels, the inner process of this operation of raising a fleet needs to be studied more closely. In addition, because the supply system that the land based troops relied on was largely conducted at sea, an assessment needs to be made of …
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Merchant Seamen, Sailortowns, and the Shaping of U.S. Citizenship, 1843-1945
<p>This dissertation argues that merchant seamen, because of their inherent transience, diversity, and the unique nature of their work, occupied a marginal position in U.S. society, and that that marginalization produced a series of confrontations with shoreside people, communities, institutions, …
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Human resource management in the shipping industry
… human element'. This thesis examines the ways merchant marine officers (seafarers), working for British and European companies, are managed, through the theoretical specification and empirical evaluation of issues and practices associated with the seafaring employment relationship, including …
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Investigating an Interactive Technological Self Study Conceptual Framework for On-board Maritime Education and Training
Merchant marine officers have multiple specific duties and responsibilities to perform. Moreover, there is a need for a well-trained workforce to operate modern ships. In this era, the development of technological tools to assist in the delivery of the syllabus, and develop the marine cadets’ …
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Dynamic modelling of SOFC marine power systems and shipboard applications
… shipboard energy is an obvious challenge for the merchant marine industry. Various initiatives have been made to find alternatives to replace the currently used combustion engine for ship power and propulsion. In recent years, fuel cell technology, as has been widely advertised as a clean and …
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Aliens en route : European transmigration through Britain, 1836-1914
… of the transmigrant business to the British merchant marine has been largely overlooked in recent historiography, and it is this lacuna that the present dissertation seeks to redress.The study is split into three sections. The first part quantifies the patterns of the transmigrant business, …