Review of Hakuryu-1's contribution to Japanese offshore industry.

The contribution of human factors to accidents in the offshore oil industry

~I complex socio-technical system, is dependent upon the interaction of technical, human, social, organisational, managerial and environmental factors and that these factors can be important co-contributors that could potentially lead to a catastrophic event. The purpose of this article is to give readers an overview of how human factors contribute to accidents in the offshore oil industry. An ...

Argentina's Offshore Software Industry - Opportunities and Challenges

Argentina’s software industry is orders of magnitude smaller than the largest software industries in the world like India’s. However, it has seen impressive growth over the last years, with ratios ranging from 15 to 20% per year since 2003. This is due to several reasons, including time zone compatibility with the US and Europe, resource quality, price competitiveness and active policies from t...

Working hours in the offshore petroleum industry

Real-Time Visualization in the Offshore Industry

eal-time underwater visualization has been extremely slow to develop within the offshore industry and has generally been limited to 2D representations of vessel positions on digital charts. 1 Only recently have marine industries realized the potential of 3D real-time virtual environments (VEs) and visual-ization systems for effective management planning and real-time situation awareness. In thi...

contribution of setting to the study of characters and the main idea in e. brontes: wuthering heights and t. hardys: return of the native.

this thesis aims to adduce an unmitigated and comprehensive explication concerning the relationship of three significant elements of fiction: setting, chracter and theme. my research is basically placed on two outstanding novels of the 19th century: emily brontes wuthering heights and thomas hardys return of the native. my endeavour lies in studying the correlation among the three above-mention...