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Showing 1 to 20 of 723 for “"maritime"”.
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THE IRANIAN MARITIME CHALLENGE
… is this challenge more pronounced than in the maritime domain, where Iran’s naval power continues to dwarf that of its neighbors in the Persian Gulf. This thesis explores the threat Iran poses by examining the extensive maritime capabilities of its two navies, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards …
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Maritime Mesh Network Simulation
Maritime network plays an important role in civilian and academic applications. However, traditional maritime communication technologies cannot provide broadband services that can satisfy users' need. In this thesis, we proposed a buoy-based maritime mesh network and analyzed the maritime …
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Unsupervised maritime target detection
The unsupervised detection of maritime targets in grey scale video is a difficult problem in maritime video surveillance. Most approaches assume that the camera is static and employ pixel-wise background modelling techniques for foreground detection; other methods rely on colour or thermal …
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Maritime Sensibility: Sentimentalism, Racial Capitalism, and a Critique of the American Maritime Genre
… marketplace and argues that the American maritime genre, assumed to have begun with James Fenimore Cooper’s novel "The Pilot" in 1824, was not an uncontested genre prior to Cooper’s popularization of maritime nationalism. Instead, this dissertation remaps the genealogy of the genre of …
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Maritime surveillance with small satellites
Maritime surveillance is one of the interesting topics nowadays. Monitoring of the ocean and the exclusive economic zone are a prevalent task for many countries. One of the crucial tasks is to make surveillance of the ship traffic and their activities in the ocean. Maritime surveillance usually …
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Terminal maritime à Split (Croatie)
… plan d'aménagement, développement des réseaux maritimes et urbains, augmentation de la population résidente: les transformations à l'échelle de la ville si longtemps retardées sont sur le point de se produire. Le projet de terminal est l'occasion de questionner la ville, en profitant de la …
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The effects of Maritime union. --
… first chapter will deal with the history of the Maritimes to discover the evolution of the autonomy of these three provinces. The second will search out the economy or savings which amalgamation would produce. The final chapter will be a detailed study of the advantages, disadvantages, and …
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The Australia-Indonesia maritime boundary
The recent discovery of large oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea1 has reemphasised the importance of establishing permanent boundaries between Australia and Indonesia in the area.
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Maritime courts and the constitution
… Courts of Marine Enquiry, Courts of Survey, and Maritime Courts. Courts of Marine Enquiry are used when a South African ship is lost, abandoned or stranded, or an accident occurs aboard, or there is loss of life or a serious injury, whether locally or overseas. Courts of Survey are used when …
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The Maritime Museum of Baltimore
The Maritime Museum finds its home in a corner of the Baltimore harbor near the intersection of Boston Street and Clinton Street in Canton. As an institution focusing on the historical context of Baltimore, I chose to align the building with Fort McHenry; a National Monument and Historic Shrine as …
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Falmouth and the British Maritime Empire
… Falmouth was a significant part of Britain’s maritime empire during the period 1800-1850, looking specifically at four areas of interest. First, it argues that Falmouth’s Packet Service played a significant role in intelligence gathering during the Napoleonic Wars, victory in which led to …
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Maritime mortgages: a question of priority
… mortgage. In seeking to trace the origins of the maritime mortgage the 'Rolls of Oleron' present an early definitive recording of what may be described as being a 'pledge' of a ship's equipment by the master if he required money for the expenses of the ship in a foreign port. This process is …
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Possible mechanisms of explosive maritime cyclogenesis
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, 1983.
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Yield management for the maritime industry
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1994.
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Organizational change for the intelligence community supporting maritime homeland security and defense : developing a domestic maritime intelligence network
… this is not always possible. The missions of Maritime Homeland Security and Defense have gained significant importance in the overall national security of the United States. In order to effectively support these missions, an effective intelligence apparatus must exist which is adapted to the …
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Feature-based object tracking in maritime scenes.
… of various objects on the sea is essential for maritime navigation and collision avoidance. Mariners normally rely on two complementary methods of the monitoring: radar and satellite-based aids and human observation. Though radar aids are relatively accurate at long distances, their capability …
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Maritime legal labour: empowering workers at sea
In the popular mind the principle of equality before the law is sometimes confused with the idea that the law applies to every one in the same way. But there are certain groups of workers who are excluded for one reason or another from many of the benefits or burdens of legislation passed by …
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International maritime organization : rethinking marine environmental policy
As environmentalism has swept into political prominence, influencing the environmental policy of developed nations, the IMO- the UN dedicated legislator of the shipping industry- has been increasingly faced with challenges to its decision making process as well as to the effective fulfillment of …
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Maritime Piracy as a Challenge to Maritime Governance: A Critical Analysis of Counter Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
… specifically, towards eradicating the threat of maritime piracy. Incidences of maritime piracy in the Gulf of Guinea is not a recent phenomenon. While not new, the political interest in piracy has grown. Today, maritime piracy in the Gulf of Guinea has become a significant element in the security …
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