Evolving Sustainable Green Ship Technology

Man lives in two worlds, the biosphere and the techno-sphere. Over the years, time needs, growth, speed, knowledge, and competition have created demand that necessitated man to build complex institutions. Ship design is not left out of this process. Inland waters are under threat from untreated waste that can feed bacteria and algae, which in turn exhaust the oxygen. The ocean, the seas, and fresh water together cover the largest percentage of planet earth. Many think that everything that runs into it is infinite; the ocean is providing the source of freshening winds and current that is far more vulnerable to polluting activities that have run off too many poisons into them. The ocean may cease to serve these purposes if care is not taking to prevent pollution. The issue of the environment has become so sensitive recently and is linked to infrastructure development work. In the maritime industry, polluting activities from oil bilge to ballast pumping has turned into poison and has an adverse effect on water resources. Some have choked too much estuarine water where fish spawn. In a nutshell, the two worlds of man are currently are out of balance and in potential conflict. Man is in the middle, and since the threats are mostly water related, ships are in the middle too. Historical records of a number of calamities that have resulted in heavy loss and pollution call for environmentally sound ships. This has led to a number of regulations that will subsequently affect policy change and procedure interaction with the system. The current situation has an effect on the design of new ships and modification of existing ships. This chapter discuss regulations design, with an emphasis on new system design drive towards processing waste and emissions on board so that discharges are acceptable. The chapter hopes to give insight into need, response, and research directions for green ship technology.

A Method to Account for Personnel Risk Attitudes in System Design and Maintenance Activity Development

Systems ◽

10.3390/systems8030026 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 26

Author(s):

Benjamin W. Rathwell ◽

Douglas L. Van Bossuyt ◽

Anthony Pollman ◽

Joseph Sweeney

Keyword(s):

Systems Engineering ◽

System Reliability ◽

Risk Attitude ◽

Risk Attitudes ◽

Maritime Industry ◽

System Components ◽

Engineering Practices ◽

Future Work ◽

Insight Into ◽

Systems engineering practices in the maritime industry and the Navy consider operational availability as a system attribute determined by system components and a maintenance concept. A better understanding of the risk attitudes of system operators and maintainers may be useful in understanding potential impacts the system operators and maintainers have on operational availability. This article contributes to the literature a method that synthesizes the concepts of system reliability, and operator and maintainer risk attitudes to provide insight into the effect that risk attitudes of systems operators and maintainers have on system operational availability. The method consists of four steps providing the engineer with a risk-attitude-adjusted insight into the system’s potential operational availability. Systems engineers may use the method to iterate a system’s design or maintenance concept to improve expected operational availability. If it is deemed necessary to redesign a system, systems engineers will likely choose new system components and/or alter their configuration; however, redesign is not limited to physical alteration of the system. Several other options may be more practical depending the system’s stage in the life cycle to address low risk-adjusted operational availability such as changes to maintenance programs and system supportability rather than on component and system reliability. A simple representative example implementation is provided to demonstrate the method and discussion of the potential implications for Navy ship availability are discussed. Potential future work is also discussed.

Insight into tribological problems of green ship and corresponding research progresses

Friction ◽

10.1007/s40544-017-0184-4 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 472-483 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Yuwei Sun ◽

Xinping Yan ◽

Chengqing Yuan ◽

Xiuqin Bai

Keyword(s):

Green Ship ◽

CAN INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT ALLEVIATE MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY? — EVIDENCE FROM CHINA

The Singapore Economic Review ◽

10.1142/s0217590821440021 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-34

Author(s):

YONGBO GE ◽

YUEXIAO ZHU ◽

WENQIANG ZHANG ◽

XIAORAN KONG

Keyword(s):

Poverty Alleviation ◽

Capital Accumulation ◽

High Speed ◽

Large Scale ◽

Multidimensional Poverty ◽

Infrastructure Development ◽

Public Infrastructure ◽

Regional Heterogeneity ◽

The Impact ◽

We investigate the impact of the construction of large-scale high-speed railways (HSRs) on regional multidimensional poverty in China. We find that the opening of HSRs can reduce this poverty indicator. This association is robust to a series of checks. Regarding the mechanisms, the opening of HSRs can improve regional accessibility, enhance local tourism, increase labor mobility and promote human capital accumulation, which alleviates multidimensional poverty. Further research indicates the regional heterogeneity of the effect. This research supplements poverty alleviation theory from the perspective of public infrastructure and offers insight into how multidimensional poverty arises and how it can be alleviated.

MANAJEMEN BERBASIS POROS MARITIM KABINET KERJA PEMERINTAHAN JOKOWI- JUSUF KALLA

BISNIS : Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen Islam ◽

10.21043/bisnis.v3i1.1468 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 29

Author(s):

Moh Rosyid

Keyword(s):

Law Enforcement ◽

Small Island ◽

Infrastructure Development ◽

Maritime Industry ◽

Real Form ◽

Innovation Development ◽

Work Program ◽

The People ◽

The Republic ◽

The Government

The fact shows that 70 percent wide Indonesia is the sea. In geographic regions of the Unitary State of the Republic ofmainland only around 1.9 million kilo square meters, while the sovereignty of the sea consists of 3.1 million square kilometersand sea exclusive economic zone (ZEE) 2.7 km or 70 percent ofthe area of the archipelago in the form of the sea. The numberof large and small island as much as 17.500 island. A series of the island stretches from the east to the west as far as 6,400 km and almost 2,500 km from north to south. The potential for Coordinating Minister of Maritime law enforcement authorities recently have a work program be peneguhan maritime sovereignty, resource utilization, the infrastructure development and innovation development and maritime technology. The Program stresses that the maritime must be well managed to useful to the welfare of the people. The real form of the government in the form of maritime buildingutilization of maritime zones, treat maritime area, optimize the potential of waters environment, anticipation of evil in the seaand to optimize the performance of the national marine council. Various problems in the maritime governance circumventedAnalisis Manajemen Berbasis Poros Maritim by maintaining the sovereignty of the sea, in cooperation with the state adidaya, encouraged maritime industry, and take advantage of the waters as the lifeblood of the national economy.

Environmental Evaluation of Land-Applied Pulp Mill and Municipal Biosolids

10.32920/ryerson.14662815 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ashley M Spearin

Keyword(s):

Soil Amendment ◽

Pulp Mill ◽

Land Application ◽

Environmental Evaluation ◽

Sludge Disposal ◽

Run Off ◽

Municipal Biosolids ◽

Disposal Options ◽

Environmentally Sound ◽

Receiving Water

In terms of disposal options, a form of waste that has received much attention in recent years is sludge, the by-product of wastewater treatment from both industrial and municipal sources. Negative issues associated with traditional sludge disposal practices (e.g. landfilling or incineration) have resulted in an increased interest to find disposal alternatives such as applying the sludge, or biosolids, to land as a soil amendment for purposes such as agriculture, horticulture, and silviculture. The objective of this study was to assess the environmental impact of pulp mill and municipal biosolids land-application using a suite of ecologically-relevant biota. Based on the results of this study, it can be concluded that the practice of pulp mill and municipal biosolids land-application may indeed be a viable and environmentally-sound alternative to other traditional disposal methods. This study did not detect any obvious impact on biota from pulp mill and municipal biosolids land-application and run-off into receiving-water when compared to reference bioassays.

Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Discourse Communication Studies ◽

“The helm is lost!”: Reframing psychological matters in non-routine technologically mediated interaction in a maritime context

10.1515/text-2019-2023 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 171-190

Author(s):

Lisa Loloma Froholdt

Keyword(s):

Conversation Analysis ◽

Human Error ◽

Maritime Industry ◽

Discursive Psychology ◽

Technological Complexity ◽

The Future ◽

Routine Situation ◽

AbstractThe maritime industry is a dangerous and highly technologically saturated sector. Unfortunately, advancement in automation and technology have not minimised human error as intended. Interaction between humans and technology in the industry is also overtly pre-scripted. The main reason for this is to reduce human error by ensuring predictability in interaction. Ultimately, investigations of non-routine interaction are often based on a hindsight view of what went wrong in a given situation. This article analyses a collection of non-routine interactions that derive from a larger data corpus, using Discursive Psychology and Conversation Analysis. It argues that such a study can capture what is missing from some investigations, namely, what makes sense for crews in the context of a given non-routine situation. Despite the constraints and the challenges of technological complexity, this article argues that reframing psychological matters in non-routine technologically mediated interaction can be a new way of showing how such matters are dynamic, visible and manageable. This can inform the general debate of how to minimise human error, and more specifically, provide insight into the increasing inclusion of technology and as a consequence, the equally increasing amount of technologically mediated interaction that we will see in the future.

Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders and the Culture of Physical Therapy

Physical Therapy ◽

10.1093/ptj/82.5.459 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 82 (5) ◽

pp. 459-472 ◽

Cited By ~ 61

Author(s):

Jean E Cromie ◽

Valma J Robertson ◽

Margaret O Best

Keyword(s):

Physical Therapy ◽

Cultural Values ◽

Musculoskeletal Disorders ◽

Physical Therapists ◽

Attitudes And Beliefs ◽

Ability To Work ◽

Potential Conflict ◽

Abstract Background and Purpose. Knowledge, skills, relationships, and attitudes of caring and working hard are all thought to be valued by physical therapists. This article explores how physical therapists see themselves, in light of some of these values, when they experience work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs). The article also explores the ways in which these values may compete with each other, and it suggests how this may contribute to the onset of WMSDs and to therapists' behavior following a WMSD. Subjects and Methods. Eighteen therapists who had made a career change after a WMSD participated in interviews that were designed to gain insight into the attitudes and beliefs of therapists who had had a WMSD. Results. Participants did not anticipate WMSDs, and they typically believed their physical therapy knowledge and skills would have prevented WMSDs from occurring. They saw themselves as knowledgeable and caring and indicated that these characteristics were highly valued by the profession. Their need to demonstrate these attributes sometimes resulted in behaviors that contributed to the development of their WMSDs and made them worse after their onset. Discussion and Conclusion. The cultural values of physical therapists may make it difficult for them to do their jobs in a way that minimizes the risk of WMSDs. The study identified a potential conflict between the therapists' need to (1) demonstrate their ability to work hard and care for their patients and (2) appear knowledgeable and skilled by remaining injury free.

‘Contrarie to the Directorie’: Presbyterians and People in Lancashire, 1646–53

Studies in Church History ◽

10.1017/s0424208400003314 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

pp. 331-341

Author(s):

Alex Craven

Keyword(s):

Church Of England ◽

New Order ◽

Book Of Common Prayer ◽

Presbyterian Church ◽

Common Prayer ◽

The Church ◽

Insight Into ◽

In 1645, Parliament swept away the Anglican liturgy of the Church of England, replacing the Book of Common Prayer with a new Presbyterian alternative, the Directory. The Episcopal hierarchy of the Church had already been demolished, and it was expected that the national Church would be reformed along puritan lines. The campaign to impose Presbyterian discipline in England, and the concomitant struggle for a reformation of manners, has received much attention from historians. There is little doubt that nationally these new measures failed, with John Morrill asserting that ‘these ordinances were not only largely ignored but actively resisted’. Presbyterian classes were successfully erected in a handful of places, however, including Lancashire. This should not surprise us, given the county’s long reputation for Puritanism. Nine classes were created at Manchester, Bury, Whalley, Warrington, Walton, Leyland, Preston, Lancaster and Ulverston, and a Provincial Assembly met at Preston. The full minutes of Manchester and Bury classes, and the several extant sets of churchwardens’ accounts, offer a fascinating insight into the workings of this new system. The popular reaction to the new order is also demonstrated; people who travelled to banned services demonstrated where they stood on the liturgical divide, as did those who presented offenders for punishment. This essay, therefore, seeks to evaluate the efforts to erect Presbyterianism within a county where we might reasonably expect it could succeed. The outcome of this struggle will tell us much about the chances of a national Presbyterian Church of England’s survival.

Reform and counter reform: How sustainable is New Zealand&s latest health system restructuring?

Journal of Health Services Research & Policy ◽

10.1258/135581902320176476 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 7 (1_suppl) ◽

pp. 46-55 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Jackie Cumming ◽

Nicholas Mays

Keyword(s):

Primary Care ◽

Health Care ◽

New Zealand ◽

Health Services ◽

Community Health Services ◽

Public Hospitals ◽

District Health ◽

Potential Conflict ◽

Feasible Option ◽

New Zealand's health care sector has undergone almost continual restructuring since the early 1980s. In the latest set of reforms, 21 district health boards (DHBs) have been established with responsibility for promoting health, purchasing services for their populations and delivering publicly owned health services. Boards will be governed by a mix of elected and appointed members, will be responsible for arranging the delivery of primary and community health services, and will own and run public hospitals and related facilities. We clarify the differences and continuities between earlier reforms and the 2000/01 structures, as well as the current reforms’ potential strengths and weaknesses. The paper discusses whether the DHB model was the only feasible option for restructuring and whether the dynamics of the new system may lead to further changes, particularly on the purchaser side of the system. Given that DHBs face potential conflict between their purchasing and provision roles, and given the potential advantages that primary care organisations may have as purchasers, we conclude that it is possible that all or part of the purchasing function of DHBs might eventually shift to primary care organisations, leaving the DHBs as hospital-based provider organisations.

Narrative Insights: A Creative Space for Learning

LEARNing Landscapes ◽

10.36510/learnland.v6i1.583 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 215-221

Author(s):

Marcea Ingersoll

Keyword(s):

Personal Narrative ◽

Potential Conflict ◽

Scholarly Personal Narrative ◽

Creative Space ◽

Through this scholarly personal narrative, the author offers insight into how student creativity can be engaged or neglected. While the narrative highlights the potential conflict between students’ lives and their schools, the hope lies in the illuminative power of stories of difficulty. By interweaving narrative and theory, the author sheds light on the conditions that inhibit creativity, and emphasizes the capacity of teachers to locate creative, compassionate spaces for themselves and their students.