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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Trade routes"”.
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Shipping conferences and antitrust exemption in North America from a Canadian perspective: New life in an old debate
… under an agreement to provide service on common trade routes and which collectively agree on rates and terms of service."
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Tradizione manifatturiera ceramica sarda. Processi produttivi e botteghe in età postclassica all'origine dell'artigianato attuale.
… in an economical and commercial way, and the trade routes that allowed the spread of those ceramics throughout Sardinia. It also focuses on three contemporary production centres (Oristano, Pabillonis and Assemini), examined using ethnoarchaeological and ethnoarchaeometrical methods, in order …
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Books, Homilies, and Medicine: Sogdian Christians and Christian Networks along the Silk Roads
Along the trade routes of late antique and early medieval Eurasia, Sogdian Christians stood within a confluence of networks. As Sogdians, they belonged to a people recognized for maintaining one of the most expansive and renowned trading networks in history. On these so-called Silk Roads, Sogdian …
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Weaving Subjects at the Obraje de Chincheros: Indigenous Contributions to the Colonial Aesthetic
… Global fashion trends, colonial sumptuary laws, trade routes, and local preferences combined to ascribe textile characteristics with meanings. These meanings often related to identity, and it was through their dress that colonists embodied their position within colonial society. Based on findings …
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Environmental effects of the Beaufort Lens on underwater acoustic communications during Arctic operations
… range from the availability of new global trade routes, accessibility of newly available resources in the area, and national security interests of the United States in the region. It’s necessary to build a greater understanding of the undersea environment and how it’s changing since these …
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The German naval menace: the relationship between the press and diplomacy in the Dreadnought Era 1904-1914, an era of misperception?
… policy. Moreover, British attempts to secure its trade routes across the globe had the unintentional effect of making Germany less secure. The thesis provides a chronological account of the Anglo-German arms race. Topics discussed in the thesis include Foreign Office affairs, personal …
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"Inside that fortress sat a few peasant men, and it was half-made": a study of 'Viking' fortifications in the British Isles, AD793-1066
… they settled, bringing Britain back into trade routes lost since the collapse of the Roman Empire. These glimpses of domestic life show a very different picture of the Vikings to that portrayed in popular culture. Fortifications provide a compromise to these views, as they are relatively …
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Cooking vessels and foodways in central Tyrrhenian Italy (350 BC - AD 550)
… fragmentation and the breakdown of long-distance trade routes that characterise Late Antiquity and explores how these led to a divergence of cooking behaviours within the central Tyrrhenian.
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Environmental Effects of the Beaufort Lens on Underwater Acoustic Communications during Arctic Operations
… range from the availability of new global trade routes, accessibility of newly available resources in the area, and national security interests of the United States in the region. It’s necessary to build a greater understanding of the undersea environment and how it’s changing since these …
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The impact of maritime trade disruptions on food security: the case of imported calories
World trade is heavily dependent on maritime travel of goods and services (Brancaccio, et al. 2020; UNCTAD, 2024; Wang, et al., 2024). Key maritime passageways, such as the Panama Canal, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Turkish Straits, the Suez Canal, and the Strait of Malacca, facilitate global …
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TO KILL AND TO BE KILLED: THE TRANSFERENCE, TRANSFORMATION AND USE OF THE SMITING POSE IN EGYPT AND THE AEGEAN DURING THE BRONZE AGE
… power in the Eastern Mediterranean and how do trade networks influence this. The first part of this approach considers different trade routes explored by Crete and the Mainland as well as the role the Aegean peoples played in the international trade networks. The second part of this study …
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The EU straying from the norm: How the European Union has changed its narrative to respond to China’s belt and road initiative
… plan to increase connectivity along historical trade routes in parts of Europe, Asia, and the African continent with its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The European Union (EU) is concerned with the effects that this initiative will have on the global status of the EU as well as on the …
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Analysis of marine container terminal gate congestion, truck waiting cost, and system optimization
… of 12,000 TEUs plus containerships into major trade routes, the port industry is under pressure to deal with the ever increasing freight volume. Gate congestion at marine container terminal is considered a major issue facing truckers who come to the terminal for container pickup and delivery. …
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Societies, Politics, Cults and Identities in pre-Islamic Arabia
… and at the center of a lucrative network of trade routes. The project pulls together the various strands of the composite cultural and political milieu of the region, situating its history in relation to the broader late antique environment. My discussion offers an interpretative framework …
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Measuring the capacity of a port system : a case study on a Southeast Asian port
As economies develop and trade routes change, investment in port infrastructure is essential to maintain the necessary capacity for an efficiently functioning port system and to meet expected demand for all types of cargo. However, these largescale, expensive investments in long-term infrastructure …
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Market characteristics of future oil tanker operations
… variability in ship design. Market cycles, trade routes, refinery locations, cargo prices, and fuel prices are all targeted as key evolving factors over the next twenty-five years and are considered in a sensitivity analysis on metrics of profitability and tanker operations. The study's …
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Imperial/Non-Imperial Encounters in the Gulf during the Late Pre-Islamic Period: The Glazed Pottery from Southeastern Arabia and Tepe Yahya, Iran
… Seleucids, Parthians, and Sasanians controlled trade routes in the region. Such approaches overlook local agency and simplify encounters to a center-periphery model. This study seeks to invert this model and return agency to local groups through an analysis of the trade in glazed pottery. The …
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An examination into the quality of regional trade institutions: The economic community of West African states (ECOWAS); a historical, theoretical and modelling perspective
… including common currencies, standardised trade rules and protection of trade routes which facilitated regional and international trade. A single administration system helped in the effective implementation of the common institutions. Therefore, historical changes after independence led to …
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An examination into the quality of regional trade institutions: The economic community of West African states (ECOWAS); a historical, theoretical and modelling perspective
… including common currencies, standardised trade rules and protection of trade routes which facilitated regional and international trade. A single administration system helped in the effective implementation of the common institutions. Therefore, historical changes after independence led to …
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External actors, high value resources and threatened species: shark fin commodity chains of Northern Madagascar, interception for conservation
Wildlife trade threatens many exploited populations with unsustainable levels of extraction. The shark fin trade is perceived as a primary driver in the decline of many shark populations. The targeting of sharks by local fisheries to feed the demand for shark fins is contributing significantly to …
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