A River Cruise

A "broken heart" on a cruise ship.

An elderly female cruise ship passenger developed chest pain shortly after an emotionally charged incident involving shipboard authorities. The electrocardiogram and cardiac enzyme profile were indicative of myocardial infarction but the final diagnosis, established after aeromedical evacuation, was stress-related cardiomyopathy. This case is an example of a relatively unknown clinical entity t...

Influenza A outbreak on a cruise ship.

On 10 September 1997, Health Canada notified the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that on a cruise from New York City to Montreal during 31 August to 10 September, a total of 39 (2.7%) of 1,445 passengers and three (0.5%) of 631 crew members presented to the ship’s infirmary because of acute febrile respiratory illness. All passengers disembarked in Montreal; nine ...

The influence of cruise control and adaptive cruise control on driving behaviour--a driving simulator study.

Although Cruise Control (CC) is available for most cars, no studies have been found which examine how this automation system influences driving behaviour. However, a relatively large number of studies have examined Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) which compared to CC includes also a distance control. Besides positive effects with regard to a better compliance to speed limits, there are also indic...

Cruise Tourism in Belize:

A Dynamic Model of Fishing Cruise Duration

In many fisheries, particularly high seas fisheries, effort is controlled primarily by scaling estimated fleet capacity to available biomass. Capacity is traditionally estimated by relating inputs to outputs, with gaps between maximum harvest and actual harvest ascribed to technical inefficiency; precaution often dictates managing for maximum technical efficiency. I demonstrate that cruise-leve...