This paper is a follow-up of a companion paper by Hassani et al. (2012b) on a control design methodology for Dynamic Positioning (DP) of marine vessels and offshore rigs subjected to the influence of sea waves, currents, and wind loads using mixed-μ synthesis. The present paper describes the results of a design exercise in which robust controllers were designed for a representative vessel. Its ...

Multi-touch interaction, in particular multi-touch gesture interaction, is widely believed to give a more natural interaction style. We investigated the utility of multi-touch interaction in the safety critical domain of maritime dynamic positioning (DP) vessels. We conducted initial paper prototyping with domain experts to gain an insight into natural gestures; we then conducted observational ...

SHIP-2 is a phosphoinositidylinositol 3,4,5 trisphosphate (PtdIns[3,4,5]P3) 5-phosphatase that contains an NH2-terminal SH2 domain, a central 5-phosphatase domain, and a COOH-terminal proline-rich domain. SHIP-2 negatively regulates insulin signaling. In unstimulated cells, SHIP-2 localized in a perinuclear cytosolic distribution and at the leading edge of the cell. Endogenous and recombinant S...

The Src homology 2 domain-containing inositol 5'-phosphatase (SHIP) is recruited to immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibition motif (ITIM)-containing proteins, thereby suppressing phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI 3-kinase)-dependent pathways. The role of SHIP in phagocytosis, a PI 3-kinase-dependent pathway, is unknown. Overexpression of SHIP in macrophages led to an inhibition of phagocytosis ...

SH2-containing Inositol Phosphatase (SHIP) is a 145 kD protein expressed in hematopoietic cells. SHIP is phosphorylated on tyrosine after receptor binding by several cytokines and has a negative role in hematopoiesis. We cloned a murine complementary DNA (cDNA) sequence for an isoform of SHIP with an internal 183 nucleotide deletion, encoding a protein 61 amino acids shorter than 145 kD SHIP. T...

Shipmasters may have to perform unberthing without tugboat assistance when a tsunami warning is issued. Keeping this in mind, we studied emergency unberthing without tug assistance by conducting numerical simulations and full‐mission ship maneuvering simulator (SMS) experiments. A panamax class medium‐sized bulker and a pure car carrier (PCC) were used as test ships. In the...

This paper uses data processing techniques to reduce the required transmission bandwidth in ship-to-shore communications. The proposed framework (ONline Efficient Sources Transmission Optimizer -) leverages state-of-the-art technologies and novel algorithms automatically optimize transmissions under structural (e.g., available bandwidth, fixed packet overhead) user-defined maximum latency) cons...

The problem of analysing operational policies for transhipping containers in a port container terminal is studied using an agent-based simulation approach. The decision makers involved in transhipment operations, i.e., the terminal manager, the port captain, the stevedores and the ship captains, as well as some of the operators of the physical resources, such as cranes and straddle carriers, ar...

SHIP and SHIP-2 are inositol phosphatases that regulate FcγR-mediated phagocytosis through catalytic as well as non-catalytic mechanisms. In this study we have used two-dimensional fluorescence difference gel electrophoresis (DIGE) analysis to identify downstream signaling proteins that uniquely associate with SHIP or SHIP-2 upon FcγR clustering in human monocytes. We identified LyGDI as a bind...