Development of Japanese Merchant Ships during the Past Forty Years

America`s Strategies against IR during the Last Forty Years

The Islamic Revolution, as the greatest historical evolution of contemporary times, has caused America`s interests face many challenges. Understanding the tools and strategies used by the United States against the Islamic Republic of Iran helps us to better understand and confront the country. In this regard, using the theory of invasive realism, American strategies against the Islamic Republic...

Occupational accidents aboard merchant ships.

OBJECTIVES To investigate the frequency, circumstances, and causes of occupational accidents aboard merchant ships in international trade, and to identify risk factors for the occurrence of occupational accidents as well as dangerous working situations where possible preventive measures may be initiated. METHODS The study is a historical follow up on occupational accidents among crew aboard D...

Definitions for Autonomous Merchant Ships

Hospitalisations among seafarers on merchant ships.

AIMS To study morbidity among active seafarers in the merchant navy in order to clarify possible work related morbidity and the morbidity related to work and lifestyle where possible preventive measures may be initiated. METHODS From a register in the Danish Maritime Authority a cohort of Danish merchant seafarers who had been actively employed at sea in 1995 was identified. For each seafarer...

Forty Years of X-Ray Binaries

In 2012 it was forty years ago that the discovery of the first X-ray binary Centaurus X-3 became known. That same year it was discovered that apart from the High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs) there are also Low-Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXBs), and that Cygnus X-1 is most probably a black hole. By 1975 also the new class of Be/X-ray binaries was discovered. After this it took 28 years before ESAs INTE...