This paper investigates determinants of crew and passenger injuries in passenger vessel accidents. Crew and passenger injury equations are estimated for ferry, ocean cruise, and river cruise vessel accidents, utilizing detailed data of individual vessel accidents that were investigated by the U.S. Coast Guard during the time period 2001-2008. The estimation results provide empirical evidence (f...

This article presents the most frequent damage in bearing structure of a rail car during rail/sea transportation. The study includes load modes for an open such as unloading with grab and transportation by train ferry. It was found that vulnerable element is top cord. authors suggest applying viscous material (an elastomer) to reinforce solution confirmed means strength calculation, whose resul...

By comparison of the NMR data of the ferribactins from Pseudomonas chlororaphis ATCC 9446 and of P. fluorescens 18.1 with those of their Ga3+-complexes as models for the Fe3+-complexes it will be shown that only two bidentate ligands are provided for complexation, both located in the peptide chain. The two remaining free sites of the octahedral metal ion are probably occupied by solvent molecules.