Microplastic hotspots mapped across the Southern Ocean reveal areas of potential ecological impact by Aidan Hunter, Sally E. Thorpe, Arlie H. McCarthy, Clara Manno

“…We identify potential hotspot areas of ecological impact from a spatial overlap analysis of multiple data sets to understand where marine biota are likely to interact with local microplastic emissions (from ship traffic and human populations associated with scientific research and tourism). …”
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Unsupervised SAR Image Segmentation Based on a Hierarchical TMF Model in the Discrete Wavelet Domain for Sea Area Detection by Jiajing Wang, Shuhong Jiao, Lianyang Shen, Zhenyu Sun, Lin Tang

“…The purpose of this step is to classify large image areas into different segments to assist with identification of the sea area and the ship target within the image. The recently proposed triplet Markov field (TMF) model has been successfully used for segmentation of nonstationary SAR images. …”
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Distribution of Heavy Metals in Surface Sediments of the Bay of Bengal Coast by M. Z. H. Khan, M. R. Hasan, M. Khan, S. Aktar, K. Fatema

“…It was revealed that the majority of the trace elements have been introduced into the Bengal marine from the riverine inflows that are also affected by the impact of industrial, ship breaking yard, gas production plant, and urban wastes. …”
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An Improved Correlation Filtering Method for Tracking Maritime Small Targets of GF-4 Staring Satellite Sequence Images by Deyang Zhang, Yao Xu, Haimin Hu

“…In this paper, GF-4 staring satellite’s sequence images are taken as the research objects, and its features such as “short imaging interval, long image sequence and high resolution” are used to solve the tracking problem of large and medium ships at sea. Using the target information, the dark-channel background modeling method and multi-scale Retinex illumination algorithm are improved to achieve target enhancement. …”
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Small fishing boat classification and recognition method based on GASF temporal graph coding and EMPViT model by Jiaqi Deng, Xin Liu, Gang Du, Xu Yang, Liangzhong Jiang, Chenglong Sun

“…Abstract Effective classification and identification algorithms of small fishing vessels are the key to strengthen ship management. This paper proposes a classification and recognition method for small fishing boats based on GASF sequence diagram coding, addressing the complex and challenging recognition environment. …”
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Vibratory Power Flow Analysis of a Gear-Housing-Foundation Coupled System by Yafeng Ren, Shan Chang, Geng Liu, Liyan Wu, Haiwei Wang

“…The marine gearbox is usually installed on a vibration isolation system in order to reduce oscillation transmitted to the ship foundation. However, researches on vibration transmission in the gear-housing system and isolation system are currently independent. …”
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Antibodies to Cardiolipin in Patients with Primary Biliary Cirrhosis by John Verrier Jones, Dianne P. Mosher, Edith Jones, C. Noel Williams, Dickran Malatjalian, Roland I. Carr, Mervat Mansour

“…The availability for study of a second group of patients with high levels of anticardiolipin antibodies should make it possible to determine whether the association of these antibodies with thrombosis and fetal wastage in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus is a direct relation ship or an epiphenomenon.…”
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Lattice-inspired NiTi-based metamaterials with widely tunable mechanical-superelastic synergy by Zhi Zhang, Jianbao Gao, Shuaishuai Wei, Bo Song, Yonggang Yao, Xu Zheng, Yuanjie Zhang, Lei Zhang, Qiaojiao Li, Jiafeng Wu, Yusheng Shi

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Berço manuelino from the wreck of Santiago by Pawel Kardasz

“…These guns were commonly found on board ships sailing East on the Carreira da India during the reign of King D. …”
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Evaluation of the Variability of Vibration Measurement Results in Rolling Bearing Quality Control by Paweł Zmarzły, Mateusz Wrzochal, Stanisław Adamczak

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Pursuer Navigation Based on Proportional Navigation and Optimal Information Fusion by Shulin Feng, Zhanxin Li, Li Liu, Hongyong Yang, Yuanhua Yang, Gaohuan Lv, Liang Yang

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Du bateau au lycée professionnel : les représentations de l’enseignement et de l’apprentissage ouvragées par les enseignants de techniques maritimes by Maryvonne Merri, Sylviane Veillette

“…They revealed the conditions of their learning and of their job on the ship, as well as teaching at the Maritime School, which are the circumstances of their consequential career orientation. …”
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Melville’s Obsessional Form: Disjunction and Refusal in “Benito Cereno” by Matthew Scully

“…Melville’s tale operates on at least two levels: the first part, a third-person narration that exhausts itself when “Melville’s ultimate dupe” (Ngai 61), Captain Delano, finally realizes there has been a slave revolt on Cereno’s ship, and the second part, transcripts from legal depositions in the court case that makes a sovereign judgment on Babo and the events of the preceding narrative. …”
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Dynamic Characteristics of the Rotating Penetrating Missile for Attacking Warship Vertically by Dong-ze Qin, Pei-hang Li

“…The dynamic response characteristics of the penetrator become more complex when attacking the ship target due to the special materials of the deck such as stiffeners. …”
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Breaking Undular and Breaking Surges Advancing in Still Water by Feidong Zheng, Xueyi Li

“…The propagation of secondary surges can lead to unexpected interaction events with navigation ships and downstream hydraulic structures; hence, they may cause navigation accidents and structural damage. …”
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Migration, Ethnocentrism and Linguistic Diversity Effect in the Development of the Takestan city by Esmaeil Nasiri, Ali Ahmadi, Reza Rahmani

“…The result obtained by analyzing questionnaire filled in by 400 people that the number has been chosen according to Morgan's Table, and the people have been chosen randomly, shows that there is a meaning full relation ship between ethnocentrism and linguistic diversity with development of the city.…”
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Review of Lightweight Vibration Isolation Technologies for Marine Power Devices by Yuanran Qiu, Wei Xu, Zechao Hu, Junqiang Fu, Mengxuan He

“…Vibration induced by marine power devices (MPD) transmitting to the hull structure is one of the most important factors that cause ship vibration and underwater sound radiation. Vibration isolation technologies (VIT) are widely applied to reduce the vibration transmission. …”
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Study on the Friction Reduction and Wear Resistance Performance of the Surface Laser Micro-texture Shape of the Chain Pin of Marine Engines by Liu Yi, Wang Kui, Dai Longjie, Yang Yong, Li Xiao, Xiong Li

“…Due to the complex marine environment, ship engines are under the harsh working conditions of high humidity and high salinity for a long time, which seriously aggravates the frictional wear of engine chains and thus affects the working stability and the fatigue life of engines. …”
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Réexamen du mobilier venant de l’épave d’un navire coulé par les pirates au XVIIIe siècle dans la baie d’Ambodifotatra, île Sainte-Marie, Madagascar by Jean Soulat, Yann von Arnim, Alexandre Audard, John de Bry, Alexandre Coulaud

“…Following on from the underwater archaeological investigations carried out between 2000 and 2015 in Ambodifotatra Bay on Sainte-Marie Island (Madagascar), a new mission aimed at uncovering the terrestrial remains of a pirate occupation also had the opportunity in May 2022 to re-examine all the artifacts from a wreck, a ship sunk by pirates whose identification has yet to be determined. …”
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Material Cost and Benefit Analysis for Dust Injection Technology in EAF Steelmaking Process and EAF Dust Treatment with CaO Addition by Shunsuke Koide, Akira Tsubone, Shusei Kubota, Kazuyoshi Yamaguchi, Tetsuya Nagasaka

“…The dust injection technology reduces the total quantity of dust shipped, but increases the total amount of slag and Fe loss. …”
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