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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Naval officers"”.
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A needs analysis of English for Korean naval officers
… the target situations and tasks for which Korean naval officers must use English. Also investigated were their wants for the English courses and their perceptions of their own use of English. Further data about officers’ needs was drawn from a literature review of published books and newspaper …
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The Effect of Sexual Harassment on Female Naval Officers: A Phenomenological Study
… has not been similarly effective. Eight women officers give their perspective on the Navy's efforts to prevent the kind of sexual harassment they encountered. The consequences of the harassment they experienced are described in detail. This descriptive research employed a phenomenological …
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Selection, Training and Career Development of Naval Officers : A Long-Term Follow-Up Using Multivariate Techniques
… given extensive training initially in general naval matters, later in specialist subjects, to prepare them for service in Seaman, Supply and Secretariat, Engineer and Electrical branches. 4. The first 300 officers selected have not passed through the zone of promotion to Commander. Records of …
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“THE GREAT QUESTION”: SLAVERY, SECTIONALISM, AND THE U.S. NAVAL OFFICER CORPS, 1820-1861
This dissertation analyzes how United States naval officers’ beliefs about race and slavery shaped sectionalism between the North and South in the antebellum era. As agents of the federal government operating far from the capital, naval officers had significant influence on the implementation of …
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A cross-cultural dialogue: Eighteenth-century British representations of China
… China, the travel accounts of a group of British naval officers and a Scottish physician, John Bell, as actual or symbolic responses to changes in eighteenth-century British society, Continental European representations of China, and contemporary Chinese utterances about the British and European …
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The Royal Navy and the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade c.1807-1867 : anti-slavery, empire and identity
… of enslaved Africans. The wider framework for naval suppression encompassed international law, official policy and diplomacy, but at the operational frontline of the campaign were naval personnel. This history of suppression shifts the emphasis from political and diplomatic contexts to the …
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O-3 RETENTION: MONETARY VS. QUALITY OF LIFE FACTORS—IS MONEY THE SOLUTION?
… is to examine the retention rates of Junior Officers (O-3) who are at their first career retention point. This study covers the current incentives for both Marine Corps and Naval Officers when they reach their first career decision point to remain in service or separate. Taking survey data …
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An analysis of the relative productivity of officers from different accesion [sic] sources
This thesis compares the relative productivity of Naval Officers from the U.S. Naval Academy, Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC), and Officer Candidate School (OCS). This is accomplished by creating a performance index for each individual based on officer fitness reports. The effects of …
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Managing a sea of information : shipboard command and control in the United States Navy, 1899-1945
… It argues that early-to-mid twentieth century naval officers' development and employment of increasingly sophisticated shipboard command and control systems fundamentally altered the human experience of warfare at sea. Based predominately on archival research, Managing a Sea of Information …
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The Royal Navy’s anti-slavery campaign in the western Indian Ocean, c. 1860-1890: race, empire and identity
… background. As such, scholars have written a naval history of slave-trade suppression. This thesis, in contrast, adopts an interdisciplinary approach, and engages with new material and new themes in order to place the anti-slavery campaign firmly in the social and cultural context of …
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Future Nelsons: A quantitative social history study of British naval cadets, 1884-1894
This dissertation is a quantitative study of naval cadets who joined the Royal Navy in the final two decades of the nineteenth century via the training institution H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship). The focus of the study is on the backgrounds of cadets, geographical and social, and how they …
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Liberated Africans and Law in the South Atlantic, c. 1839-1871
… as ‘liberated Africans’ through sanctioning the naval capture of slave ships, court adjudications of these captures, and the apprenticeship of the slaves. At the end of apprenticeship, the polity in which liberated Africans had served the apprenticeship generally had jurisdiction to determine …
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Women and fashion in Australia's nineteenth century
… devoid of any sartorial fashion element. Yet the naval officers would have been well dressed, albeit somewhat dusty, and the First, Second and Third Fleets carried numerous people who had worked in Britain in the appearance industries. But what of the women? A large number of the convicts …
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The Development of Nuclear Propulsion in the Royal Navy, 1946-1975
… Director Nuclear Propulsion. A number of retired naval officers involved in the early stages of nuclear propulsion development gave interviews, copies of their papers and were generally enthusiastic to assist with any queries. Visits were paid to the archives of CND at the London School of …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… are typically of distinguished and long-serving naval officers, not of merchant sailors who averaged just 5-10 years at sea. The whole lives of the three subjects of this dissertation therefore provide an ideal opportunity for a fine-grained bottom-up study of how sailors’ meandering life courses …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… are typically of distinguished and long-serving naval officers, not of merchant sailors who averaged just 5-10 years at sea. The whole lives of the three subjects of this dissertation therefore provide an ideal opportunity for a fine-grained bottom-up study of how sailors’ meandering life courses …
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Access to justice in environmental law: An investigation of the locus standi of environmental pressure groups in English law and the creation of an environmental court
… 10 years ago when, standing at the window of a naval Wardroom in the South of England, I found myself, together with many other naval officers, looking down upon a gathering of about 500 protestors demonstrating against our possession of astrategic nuclear deterrent, most of whom were members …