Acoustic focalization is a well known concept that aims at estimating source location through the adjustment of multiple environmental parameters. This paper uses the same concept for inverting water column sound speed in a blind fashion, where both source location and source emitted waveform are not known at the receiver that is Blind Ocean Acoustic Tomography (BOAT). The results obtained with...

Ab initio calculations at HF/6-31G* level of theory for geometry optimization and MP2/6-31G*//HF/6-31G*for total energy calculation are reported for Z-cyclooctene (1). The most favorable conformation of 1 is theunsymmetric boat-chair (1-BC) geometry. Potential energy profiles for two different boat-chair/boat-chairinterconversion processes were calculated. The process via a chair transition sta...

*Correspondence: Cherng-Yuan Lin, Department of Marine Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 202, Taiwan e-mail: [email protected] Biodiesel is a renewable, clean, alternative energy source with advantages, such as excellent lubricity, superior biodegradability, and high combustion efficiency. Biodiesel is considered for mixing with fishing boat fuels to adjust their fuel cha...

An Abaqus/Standard FEA based study was carried out to develop a structural format for a wing sail used on a sailing boat, V-39 Albatross. As well as providing a novel structural solution to meet a challenging set of requirements, the study has given the necessary mass properties and stiffness data required to further progress the preliminary design phase of the overall boat. The brief for the b...

background the occupational health is an important issue. in some jobs, the working conditions contribute to musculoskeletal complaints and the overall health of the individual is compromised. musculoskeletal complaints have gained credence in the public as one of the most important problems in the field of occupational diseases. physical and mental health of crew members with critical jobs and...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to enhance removal of fishing gear from right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) at sea that evade disentanglement boat approaches. Titrated intra muscular injections to achieve sedation were undertaken on two free swimming right whales. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Following initial trials with beached whales, a sedation protocol was developed for right...

The coupled acoustic-gravity field channel used in this study is schematically illustrated in Fig. 5.1. A lead-zirconate-titanate transducer with 510kHz resonant frequency (170mm-length × 15mm-width × 4.2mm-thick, Fuji-ceramics Inc., Japan) was glued on a 5.00mm-thick Pyrex glass plate using epoxy adhesive. Boat-shaped PTFE spacer (0.8mm-thickness) was sandwiched between the glass plate with tr...

Johnstone Strait provides important summer habitat for the northern resident killer whales Orcinus orca of British Columbia. The site is also an active whale-watching area. A voluntary code of conduct requests that boats do not approach whales closer than 100 m to address perceived, rather than demonstrated, effects of boat traf®c on killer whales. The purpose of the study was to test the relev...