scholarly journals Mapping the Geology and Topography of the European Seas (European Marine Observation and Data Network, EMODnet)

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. qjegh2020-131
Author(s):  
C.A. Moses ◽  
H. Vallius
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Geology ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Data Network ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Marine Data ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Marine Engineering ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Marine Basins ◽  
European Seas

Marine engineering geology requires good seabed maps and access to metadata. In 2009 the European Commission established the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) programme, which is now in its fourth phase (2019–21). The programme is designed to assemble existing, but fragmented and partly inaccessible, marine data and to create contiguous and publicly available information layers which are interoperable and free of restrictions on use, and which encompass whole marine basins. This collection highlights the use of EMODnet Geology data for better understanding seafloor geology, coastal behaviour and geological events and probabilities. The papers illustrate methodological approaches to harmonizing and representing geological and geohazards information, resultant maps and datasets and their uses, alongside national datasets, for marine spatial planning.Thematic collection: This article is part of the Mapping the Geology and Topography of the European Seas (EMODnet) collection available at: https://www.lyellcollection.org/cc/EMODnet

Mapping geological events in submerged areas

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. qjegh2020-031 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Battaglini ◽  
S. D′Angelo ◽  
A. Fiorentino
Keyword(s):  
Structural Model ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Submarine Landslides ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Data Layers ◽  
Available Information ◽  
European Seas

EMODnet Geology Project work package 6 collects information regarding ‘Geological events and probabilities’, including submarine landslides, earthquakes, volcanic centres, tsunamis, fluid emissions and tectonics. The elaboration of guidelines to compile GIS layers was aimed at identifying parameters to be used to thoroughly characterize each event. Particular attention has been devoted to the definition of the ‘Attribute tables’ in order to achieve the best degree of harmonization and standardization complying with the European INSPIRE Directive. Due to the different geological settings of European seas it was necessary to elaborate a comprehensive and detailed pattern of attributes for the different features, in order to represent each occurrence at different scales. The huge amount of data received has been processed, validated and standardized, thus obtaining homogeneous data layers at a European level. Metadata and available information collated during the project are displayed on the EMODnet Geology Portal (http://www.emodnet-geology.eu/). By combining all these data it may be possible to elaborate additional thematic maps which could support further research as well as land planning and management. The Geological Survey of Italy is testing one of these potential applications, which addresses the production of a structural model for submerged areas in Italy.Thematic collection: This article is part of the Mapping the Geology and Topography of the European Seas (EMODnet) collection available at: https://www.lyellcollection.org/cc/EMODnet

scholarly journals Eric Broekaert (1951-2016): the life and legacy of a TC pioneer and integrative thinker

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-135
Author(s):  
Wouter Vanderplasschen ◽  
Stijn Vandevelde ◽  
Franky D’Oosterlinck ◽  
Dirk Vandevelde ◽  
Jan Naert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Integrative Approach ◽  
European Federation ◽  
Therapeutic Communities ◽  
Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
Behavioural Disorders ◽  
Content Type ◽  
European Working ◽  
University Professor ◽  
Methodological Approaches

Purpose Eric Broekaert passed away shortly after the XVIth European Working group on Drug-Oriented Research (EWODOR)-conference in Rome on 28 September 2016. He was one of the great TC pioneers in Europe, who founded the first TC for addictions in Belgium (De Kiem) and co-founded the European Federation of Therapeutic Communities and EWODOR. He was a respected Professor of “Orthopedagogics” at Ghent University and a Member of the Editorial Collective of Therapeutic Communities: the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities. The paper aims to discuss the overview of the career of Eric Broekaert. Design/methodology/approach In this obituary, the authors provide an overview of his career, major achievements and theoretical, methodological and integrative ideas, clustered around four typologies: university professor and scholar; manager and source of inspiration; TC pioneer and believer, and integrative thinker. Findings Besides his obvious merits as a TC researcher and advocate, one of his major theoretical contributions has been the introduction of the holistic, integrative approach and the idea that diverse types of interventions, as well as methodological approaches can alternatively go together. Originality/value He regarded TCs as the ultimate integration of various educational and therapeutic approaches to promote growth and quality of life among severely disadvantaged populations, such as drug addicts and children and adults with emotional and behavioural disorders.

scholarly journals INFOMAR data supports offshore energy development and marine spatial planning in the Irish offshore via the EMODnet Geology portal

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. qjegh2020-033 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Guinan ◽  
C. McKeon ◽  
E. O'Keeffe ◽  
X. Monteys ◽  
F. Sacchetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Wind Farms ◽  
Offshore Wind ◽  
Irish Sea ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Data Portal ◽  
European Seas

The characterization of the seafloor is a fundamental first step in informing resource management, marine spatial planning, conservation, fisheries, industry and research. Integrated Mapping for the Sustainable Development of Ireland's Marine Resource (INFOMAR), Ireland's national seabed mapping programme, delivers freely available, high-resolution seabed imagery derived from multibeam echosounder data in the Irish Exclusive Economic Zone. The European Union established the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) Geology data portal, which provides harmonized broad-scale seabed substrate information for all European seas and confidence assessments of the information that underpins the geological interpretations. A multi-scale product has been produced using INFOMAR's high-resolution seabed substrate information at the 1:50 000 scale. As part of the Supporting Implementation of Maritime Spatial Planning in the Celtic Seas project, the EMODnet Geology seabed substrate data portal assisted in addressing the challenges associated with the implementation of the European Union's Marine Spatial Planning Directive. The seabed substrate data in the EMODnet Geology data portal were identified as a valuable tool for guiding the selection of sites for offshore wind farms in the Irish Sea and their subsequent characterization. This paper outlines the approach to delivering a multi-scale seabed substrate dataset for the Irish offshore and its applicability to marine spatial planning and the development of offshore energy resources.Thematic collection: This article is part of the Mapping the Geology and Topography of the European Seas (EMODnet) collection available at: https://www.lyellcollection.org/cc/EMODnet

The emergence of family entrepreneurship in the transition economy of Cuba

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eli Gimmon ◽  
Christian Felzensztein
Keyword(s):  
Transition Economies ◽  
Transition Economy ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Entrepreneurial Firms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Private Data ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Family Entrepreneurship

PurposeTo better understand the emergence of small-scale entrepreneurial firms in the under-researched transition economy of Cuba.Design/methodology/approachGiven the scarcity of reliable publicly available information and restrictions on private data collection in Cuba, in-depth interviews were conducted with a panel of small-scale entrepreneurs at three different points in time. Evolutions are analyzed over this period.FindingsFamily can overcome institutional constraints by helping the entrepreneur deal with market and social obstacles. Despite the absence of a supportive entrepreneurial ecosystem, these new entrepreneurs and their families have been able to transform longstanding passive attitudes into positive steps to set up new small-scale ventures in a country facing unprecedented internal and external challenges.Originality/valueA new conceptual model of family support for entrepreneurship in transition economies is presented. The findings lend weight to institutional theory on overcoming constraints in emerging markets and extend the theory of family entrepreneurship to new transition economies.

The transformation of corrosion products on 0Cu2Cr carbon steel in the marine

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (5) ◽  
pp. 457-463
Author(s):  
Hongyu Liu ◽  
Yingxue Teng ◽  
Jing Guo ◽  
Qinghe Xiao ◽  
Miao Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Steel ◽  
Energy Dispersive Spectrometer ◽  
Low Carbon Steel ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Corrosion Products ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Transformation Mechanism ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Marine Engineering

Purpose This paper aims to explore the transformation process and transformation mechanism of carbon steel under the marine environment. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, the transformation and rust layers corrosion products on 0Cu2Cr carbon steel with different cycles coupon test was investigated and deeply explored by scanning electron microscope, energy dispersive spectrometer, X-ray diffraction. Findings The results showed that the thickness of rust layers grew from 71.83 µm to 533.7 µm with increasing duration of corrosion. The initial corrosion product was γ-FeOOH, then part of the γ-FeOOH continued growing, and under the capillary action, the other part of the γ-FeOOH transformed to α-FeOOH. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper puts forward for the first time a new viewpoint of the development of corrosion products of low-carbon steel in two ways. This discovery provides a new idea for the future development of steel for marine engineering.

A guide on empirical tests of the EMH

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-295
Author(s):  
David Peón ◽  
Manel Antelo ◽  
Anxo Calvo
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Asset Price ◽  
Efficient Market Hypothesis ◽  
Price Formation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Economic Fundamentals ◽  
Empirical Tests ◽  
Available Information

Purpose The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) states that asset prices in financial markets always reflect all available information about economic fundamentals. The purpose of this paper is to provide a guide as to which predictions of the EMH seem to be borne out by empirical evidence. Design/methodology/approach Rather than following the classic three groups of tests for the different forms of EMH that are common in the literature, the authors consider how the two alternative definitions of the EMH and the joint hypothesis problem impact on the tests and leave the controversy unsolved. The authors briefly report the antecedents, the main theoretical and empirical contributions and recent literature on each type of tests. Findings Eventually, as a summary for each type of tests, the authors provide a critical view on the main sources of acrimony between the alternative schools of thought in understanding asset price formation. Originality/value The paper may be seen as an up-to-date introductory review for researchers on the different tests of the EMH performed, and for newcomers to understand the key sources of acrimony between rationalists and behaviorists.

The production of ground-related hazard maps to aid risk management of the Highways England Strategic Road Network Hazard maps for Highways England

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 466-471
Author(s):  
Jonny Neville ◽  
Christopher Power ◽  
Tim Spink ◽  
David Grant ◽  
David Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Engineering Geology ◽  
Transportation Infrastructure ◽  
Data Management System ◽  
Hazard Maps ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Management Activity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Related Risk

As part of a coordinated programme of knowledge improvement tasks, Highways England commissioned Mott MacDonald to research, develop and implement a series of maps to communicate clearly the threat posed by ground-related hazards to the Strategic Road Network (SRN) of England. Events associated with a number of hazards have occurred in the recent past. Understanding the presence, and relative likelihood of occurrence, of these hazards over the 7000 km of the SRN is an essential risk management activity. The maps draw on readily available data sources held on the Geotechnical Data Management System of Highways England (HAGDMS) and have been deliberately created to be open and simple, to convey the hazards to users who may not be specialists in engineering geology. This paper presents the development, validation and application of the hazard maps.Thematic collection: This article is part of the Ground-related risk to transportation infrastructure collection available at: https://www.lyellcollection.org/cc/Ground-related-risk-to-transportation-infrastructure

Financial characteristics of takeover targets: a French empirical evidence

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hicham Meghouar ◽  
Mohammed Ibrahimi
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Abnormal Returns ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Subprime Mortgage ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Financial Variables ◽  
Target Firms ◽  
Debt Capacity ◽  
Financial Characteristics ◽  
Available Information

PurposeThe purpose of this research is to highlight the financial characteristics of large French targets which were subject to takeovers during the period 2001–2007 and thereafter deduct the implicit motivations of acquirers.Design/methodology/approachUsing a global sample of 128 French listed companies (64 targets and 64 non-targets), the authors carried out Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney testing and logistic regression in order to test nine hypotheses likely to discriminate between the two categories of companies (targets and non-targets).FindingsAccording to the results, target firms are more unbalanced in terms of growth resources and less rich in liquidity than their peers. They have unused debt capacity, offer greater opportunities for growth than firms in the control group and present low levels of value creation.Research limitations/implicationsThe main limitation of this study is regarding the sample size, limited by the exclusive use of large firms (deals of over $100m). The scope of this research could be broadened in future by including medium-sized companies.Practical implicationsThe authors believe that their results have two major implications. First, they enable market investors to achieve abnormal returns by investing in predicted targets through a portfolio of high takeover probability firms. Second, CEO of companies that are potentially targeted can assess their takeover likelihood in order to act and to manage such a situation for the benefit of their shareholders.Originality/valueThis research concerns the last wave of takeover prior to the subprime-mortgage financial crisis (2001–2007), a period that has not been sufficiently covered in empirical studies. This research contributes to the existing literature in two main respects. First, the results of this study improve our understanding of motivations for takeovers, particularly in the French context. Second, the introduction of new accounting and financial variables, not previously tested in the literature, enriches the available information concerning the profile of takeover targets.

scholarly journals Relationships between two kinds of MSP in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Honghao Tang ◽  
Qi Yue ◽  
Chen Wang ◽  
Lingling Zhou ◽  
Jing Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Present Status ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Functional Zoning ◽  
Spatial Management ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThe major marine functional zoning plan (MMFZP) and marine functional zoning (MFZ) are two important kinds of marine spatial planning (MSP) in China. Their developing and implementation are integral to rational marine utilization and sustainable marine development. The purpose of this research is to study how these two kinds of MSP work in coordination in China.Design/methodology/approachThis paper reviewed the present status of MSP research in China and abroad and presented a comparative study of the MMFZP and MFZ from different aspects, analyzing the relationship between the two.FindingsThe study found obvious differences between the MMFZP and MFZ, with respect to their concept and connotation, purpose and goal, as well as zoning methods and zoning functions. MFZ provides reference with respect to data, zoning methods and partial zoning results for the MMFZP, which in turn takes measures for addressing issues faced by MFZ and promotes the national MSP work.Originality/valueIn the process of developing and implementing the two zoning plans, this paper emphasizes the necessity to strengthen data sharing, reference of zoning techniques and coordination in zoning work, which will help to improve China's marine spatial management.

Bribery: cost of doing business in Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-64
Author(s):  
Adefolake Adeyeye
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Available Information

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the implications of foreign bribery and perceptions that bribery is just a cost of doing business in Africa in light of recent reports and developments in the global attempt to curb bribery and corruption. Design/methodology/approach The research relied on primary data from anti-corruption legislation, surveys and monitoring reports and secondary data from publicly available information, journal articles and media reports to analyse recent developments in the fight against corruption with a special focus on Africa. Findings The research findings and analysis suggest that foreign bribery, which is illegal but largely carried out with impunity and perceived as a just a cost of doing business in Africa, has heavy costs on developing nations and on corporations and individuals that are prosecuted. Although much has been done to curb corruption, it seems active enforcement takes place in only a limited number of countries. There is still the need for enhanced enforcement by nations, increased societal awareness of effective measures against corruption and improved corporate compliance and responsibility. Originality/value The paper contributes practical insights into improvements and lapses in the fight against foreign bribery and corruption. Using recent and relevant analysis, the paper revisits the resilience of bribery and corruption in spite of increased anti-corruption actions and the need for multiple and varied measures. The information provided will be useful for governments, corporations and civil society in the fight against corruption, which requires constant multilateral action and examination.

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