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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Seafaring"”.
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The journal of Roberto da Sanseverino (1417-1487) : a study on navigation and seafaring in the fifteenth century
Roberto da Sanseverino went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1458. He travelled from Venice to Jaffa on a galley and made his return, from Acre to Ancona, on a three-masted sailing ship. During both voyages he kept very accurate logs of distances, courses and wind directions. He described the …
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Investigating The Impact Of Human Resource Practices On The Experiences Of Nigerian Seafaring Officers: An In-depth Analysis Of The Shipping Industry In Nigeria
… heavily on the expertise and dedication of its seafaring officers. Drawing on motivation and commitment theories, this study offers a thorough analysis of the prevalent shipping industry practices within the Nigerian setting, exploring the complex effects of human resource practices on the …
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The Maritime Revival: Antimodernity, class, and culture, 1870--1940
… perceptions, ideas, and cultural meanings of seafaring under sail. The Maritime Revival---a cultural phenomenon that took the workaday nineteenth-century maritime world and converted it into an archetypical exercise in essential Americanism---selectively picked stories, symbols, and specific …
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Human resource management in the shipping industry
… of issues and practices associated with the seafaring employment relationship, including prospects for `progressive HRM'. Issues include but not are limited to the influence of `open registries' shortage of qualified officers, stress among seafarers, and problems arising from demography. A …
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Recruitment and retention of seafarers: a maritime industry insight from Myanmar
… facing Myanmar seafarers, an emerging seafaring nation, at a crucial time of technological and regulatory change. These challenges are explored through a mixed-methods approach, combining quantitative and qualitative data from seafarers and interviews with industry stakeholders. The …
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From the sea to the stars : the forgotten journeys of the Philippines' ancient explorers
… points to the likelihood that they possessed seafaring technology. If so, then modern Filipinos -- who are even now making their first tentative steps into space -- are heirs to a rich heritage of exploration, the story of which has yet to be fully told.
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Exploitation at Sea: Examining the Structural Failings of an International Legal Regime
… desertion. At the turn of the twentieth century seafaring labour became the subject of specific regulation under the newly established International Labour Organization (‘ILO’). Since its inception sixty-eight conventions and recommendations related to the rights and labour conditions of …
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Vocational science and the politics of independence: The Boston Marine Society, 1754--1812
… community.</p><p>Given the close ties between seafaring, economic growth and political influence in a mercantile economy, the Marine Society's work in navigational research granted them social and political influence in Boston during the Early Republic. With this added influence, the Marine …
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Tides of War: Privateering, The British Economy, and The Winning of the American Revolution, 1772-1783
… colonists served aboard privateer ships. These seafaring rebels captured or sunk, by some estimates, over 3000 royal vessels. Some American privateers were bold enough to capture enemy ships in the English Channel. This strategy so disrupted the British economy that it turned the tide of public …
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Application of Lyapunov Exponents to Strange Attractors and Intact & Damaged Ship Stability
… sailors, and cargo since the beginning of a seafaring culture. The event is a nonlinear, chaotic phenomenon that is highly sensitive to initial conditions and difficult to repeatedly predict. In extreme sea states most ships depend on an operating envelope, relying on the operator's detailed …
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'Petticoat Sailor' to 'She Crossing': adaptation in process, a writer's reflection on adapting a feature length screenplay into a novel
… 'Petticoat Sailor'. They both derive from 'The Seafaring Maiden', a Nova Scotian newspaper article dating from 1957. All of these narratives are concerned with a nineteenth-century woman who had to captain a commercial sailing ship across the Atlantic. My screenplay, 'Petticoat Sailor', is set …
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NORTH BY NORTHEAST: TOWARDS AN ASIAN-ARCTIC REGION
… traditionally perceived as non-Arctic. The seafaring states of China, Japan, and Korea have commercial interests in the Arctic involving shipping, hydrocarbons, and fisheries. Yet questions of identity and power projection are also paramount, as the Arctic allows the Northeast Asian …
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Arrest of ships in Germany and South Africa - a comparison
… arrest of a vessel is just as much a part of seafaring as distress, pirates and congested ports". Even if this comparison is doubtful since in opposition to an arrest, "distress, pirates and congested ports" are no legal institutes that are regulated by procedural rules. But the sentence shows …
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'Not in Glorious Battle Slain’: Disease and Death in the Royal Navy’s Western Squadron during the Seven Years’ War
… was a concerted effort to take healthy men with seafaring knowledge, local magistrates and constabularies saw this as an opportunity to rid their towns of the unwanted, and the demands of manning an ever growing Navy forced the Admiralty to take the sick and infirm. British prisons during this …
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Pirates in the Age of Projects, 1688-1707
… “pirate” became applied to some within global seafaring communities as part of a contest among people of middling means to define the purpose and organisation of overseas expansion. These merchants, landowners, priests and politicians acted as part of an “Age of Projects”, a societal impulse …
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Navigating gods and monsters: the production of safe insecure spatialities in the deterrence of risk at sea
… is refined to embody the everyday norms of seafaring but, most importantly, pursues security without posing further risk to the merchant mariner. Drawing on personal testimonies of seafarers who have transited the aptly named High-Risk Area and the experience of elite, expert representatives …
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Methodist Union in Whitby : a study of the impact of organizational, social and cultural factors on Methodist Union in Whitby and District, 1918-1953
… local culture is highlighted with its roots in seafaring and farming, together with the influence of tourism and the seasonal cycle of visitors. The influence of social class, related to the 'social geography' of Whitby, was also a significant factor. The organizational structures and practices …
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Iron age maritime nodes on the English Channel coast.
… classical literature to Britain, the Channel and seafaring. Information from the coastal county Sites and Monuments Records, excavation records and published sources then provides an overview of the English Channel in the Iron Age. The characteristics of Iron Age coastal sites are determined and a …
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The Federated States of Micronesia: Control, Self Preservation and Continuity
… and infrastructure, knowledge and skills of seafaring, warfare, canoe technology, fishing techniques, and conservation practices to perpetuate Micronesian continuity. This oceanic outlook also contained effective mechanisms for dealing with a host of unheralded external influences from beyond …
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The Federated States of Micronesia: Control, Self Preservation and Continuity
… and infrastructure, knowledge and skills of seafaring, warfare, canoe technology, fishing techniques, and conservation practices to perpetuate Micronesian continuity. This oceanic outlook also contained effective mechanisms for dealing with a host of unheralded external influences from beyond …
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