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Autonomous Vessels: State of the Art and Potential Opportunities in Logistics

The growth in technology on autonomous transportation systems is currently motivating a number of research initiatives. This paper first presents a survey of the literature on autonomous marine vessels in general. By identifying the main research interests in this field, we define nine thematic categories. The collected articles are then classified according to these categories. We show that research on autonomous vessels has increased dramatically in the past decade. However, most of the published articles have focused on navigation control and safety issues. Studies regarding other topics, such as transport and logistics, are very limited. While our main interest is the literature on autonomous vessels, we contrast its development with respect to the literature on autonomous cars so as to have a better understanding about the future potentials in the research on autonomous vessels. The comparison shows that there are great opportunities for research about transportation and logistics with autonomous vessels. Finally, several potential research areas regarding logistics with autonomous vessels are proposed. As the technology behind remote-controlled or autonomous ships is maturing rapidly, we believe that it is already time for researchers in the field to start looking into future water-borne transport and logistics using autonomous vessels.

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Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care was launched in 1998. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The fields of clinical nutrition and metabolic care are divided into 15 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS George GrimbleGeorge GrimbleGeorge Grimble graduated from University College London (UCL) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. He has pursued a research and teaching career in clinical nutrition since 1980. At various times he has worked at Central Middlesex Hospital, St Mark's Hospital, Roehampton and Reading Universities, and is now in the Institute of Liver and Digestive Health in the UCL Division of Medicine, UK. George has specialised in nutrition related to gastroenterology, intensive care for preterm and adult humans, ageing, and the problems of poverty and food insecurity. He has co-authored 69 refereed papers, 96 reviews, 2 patents, and is coeditor of 6 books. As may be guessed, he has broad interests gained partly through designing, initiating, and running undergraduate and graduate programmes. Two MSc programmes in Clinical and Public Health Nutrition and in Eating Disorders and Clinical Nutrition at UCL were joined by a third BSc Nutrition and Medical Sciences programme in 2017. The important thing seems to be to consider nutrition from simultaneously a clinical and basic scientific perspective; societal issues naturally follow on from this. James RyallJames RyallJames Ryall was awarded his PhD in the field of skeletal muscle physiology in 2006 at The University of Melbourne, Australia. In 2008 he was awarded a CJ Martin Overseas Biomedical Research Fellowship (NH&MRC) and from 2008–2013 he worked with Dr Vittorio Sartorelli at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD (USA) on trying to understand the links between intrinsic cell metabolism and the process of myogenic lineage commitment in skeletal muscle stem cells. This work was the first to provide the whole transcriptome of quiescent and actively proliferating muscle stem cells and defined a process of metabolic programming. In 2013 Dr Ryall returned to Australia and The University of Melbourne, where he is now a leading scientist within the Centre for Muscle Research (CMR). Dr Ryall's current research lies in better understanding the link between skeletal muscle stem cells and their metabolic environment as they transition from quiescence to proliferating myogenic progenitor. A better understanding of the link between metabolism and cell identity will lead to improvements in stem cell transplantation and regenerative medicine, nuclear reprogramming, transdifferentiation, and stable ex vivo expansion of stem cells. Luc TappyLuc TappyLuc Tappy graduated from Lausanne University Medical School in 1981 and completed his medical and research training at Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland, and Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, USA. He is currently Professor of the Department of Physiology at Lausanne University, and Associate Physician in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at Lausanne University Hospital. His main research interests are the regulation of insulin sensitivity by nutrients, the pathogenesis of the insulin resistance syndrome, and the metabolic responses to stress and aggression. Bettina MittendorferBettina MittendorferBettina Mittendorfer graduated from the University of Vienna in Austria with a MSc in Human Nutrition, and from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, USA, with a PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry. In 1999 she came to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA, for a postdoctoral research fellowship. Currently she is Associate Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences and the Director of the Nutrition and Obesity Research Center Clinical Science Research Core Laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research interests focus on the regulation of muscle protein and lipid metabolism with special emphasis on obesity, aging and sexual dimorphism, which she studies in vivo in human subjects by using stable isotope labelled tracer techniques.

Das Realismusproblem

Free AccessDas RealismusproblemKlaus Sachs-HombachKlaus Sachs-HombachKlaus Sachs-Hombach, PhD University of Münster, is Full Professor for Media Studies at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. He went for a research scholarship to Oxford and to the MIT in Boston. Thereafter, he received his Habilitation from the University of Magdeburg and became full professor at the University of Chemnitz, before finally moving to Tübingen. His main research interests are picture theory, communication and media theory, semiotics, and visual culture studies. His work on picture theory is best documented in Das Bild als kommunikatives Medium (3rd edition, Cologne: Halem, 2013). He co-edited various anthologies, e. g.: Origins of Pictures (together with J. R. J. Schirra, Cologne: Halem, 2013) and Multimodal Media (together with J.-N. Thon, special issue of Poetics Today 40.2, 2019).Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:Feb 2020https://doi.org/10.7788/figu.2019.20.1.21SectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail About Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Download book cover ISSN: 1439-4367eISSN: 2194-363XHistoryPublished online:February 2020 PDF download

Assiduous Folklore Worker

In 2019, the 100th anniversary of the famous Lithuanian folklorist Ambraziejus Jonynas (1919–2006) is celebrated. This publication gives a detailed survey of his biography, scholarly works and public activities. The main research interests of Jonynas comprised the folklore historiography. Besides, he edited or co-authored a number of the most important collective theoretical works by the Lithuanian folklorists and folklore publications printed in the second half of the 20th century.

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Boris Aleksandrovich Larin: The Free Element of Colloquial Speech

This article considers the contribution to philology made by B. A. Larin, a professor at Leningrad University. He formulated many ideas which remain relevant today. They include a comprehensive description of writers’ language, dialectal nondifferential dictionaries, lexicographic analysis of the vernacular of Moscow Rus’ between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, studies on urban colloquial speech (argot and jargon in particular), analysis of semantic lexical dominants relying on the diachronic approach, and discussions of principles of historical phraseology, etc. The scholar not only solved many issues connected with modern philology but also laid the foundations for further research. One of Larin’s main research interests was semantics, to which he devoted many of his works. In his study of semantics, he relied on a multi-dimensional examination of living colloquial speech both synchronically and diachronically. His most important ideas and projects related to this sphere: the colloquial language of Muscovite Rus’ in its everyday written form and notes made by foreigners; the living idiomatised speech of the Praying by Daniel the Immured; urban argot, Pskovian dialects, and the dialects of Pechora and Nekrasov Cossacks; the colloquial speech of Nizhny Novgorod examined through the prism of Gorky’s autobiographical trilogy, etc. The majority of his ideas became long-term research projects which have already been realised to a large extent in dictionaries co-authored by Larin’s students at the interdepartmental lexicographical centre of the University of St Petersburg.

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Previous article FreeContributors to This IssuePDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreAlexsia T. Chan is assistant professor of government at Hamilton College. Her research focuses on comparative politics, the political economy of development, and Chinese politics, and her interests include inequality, authoritarian rule, labor, public service provision, and social control.Xi Chen is associate professor in the Department of Government and Public Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China (2012) and is currently completing another book, Disempowering Contention: Restructuring, Resistance, and State Domination in China. He has also published articles in journals such as Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Politics and Society, China Quarterly, and Journal of Democracy.Wing-Chung Ho (何榮宗) is associate professor of sociology at City University of Hong Kong. He holds a PhD in anthropology from SOAS, University of London. Ho has published broadly on community studies and social problems in relation to subordinate people in Hong Kong and China in journals that include China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and China Review.Carsten A. Holz, an economist, is a professor in the Social Science Division at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on China’s reform-period economy, most recently on the quality of Chinese statistics, issues of economic growth, and economic development in underdeveloped regions of the PRC.Yu Huang (黄瑜) is a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include industrial automation and robotization, science and technology studies, labor studies, agrarian change and rural development in China.Tao-chiu Lam teaches at the College of Professional and Continuing Education, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests are local government and politics and governance issues in China.Carlos Wing-Hung Lo is professor and head of the Department of Government and Public Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and director of the Centre for Business Sustainability in the Faculty of Business Administration. His main research interests are in the areas of law and government, environmental governance, public sector management, and corporate social and environmental responsibility.Jian Lu (陆健) is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University in Beijing. His research interests include contentious politics, environmental governance, and environmental nongovernmental organizations in China.Kevin J. O’Brien is the Alan P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies and Political Science and director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on Chinese politics since 1978, and his interests include policy implementation, legislative politics, village elections, popular resistance and protest policing.Naubahar Sharif is associate professor in the Division of Social Science and the Division of Public Policy at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His current research is on the process of industrial automation, including robotics, unfolding in southern China. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The China Journal Volume 81January 2019 Published on behalf of the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/700669 Copyright 2019 by The Australian National University. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Entrepreneurship research in Iran: a systematic review of the empirical studies

A highly growing body of research has attempted to explore various aspects of entrepreneurship. Yet, there is limited well-organised knowledge on entrepreneurship research interest areas and gaps in the empirical literature specifically in developing countries including Iran. This study aims to categorise the main research interests and identify the specific themes and the gaps in the empirical research on entrepreneurship in Iran using the systematic literature review method. A total of 236 articles on entrepreneurship published in between 1995 to 2012 were identified in 74 national and international academic journals. The findings suggested six main research interest areas of Iranian researches including entrepreneurship education and training, SMEs, organisational and corporate entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship process, entrepreneurship development at rural, national and international levels and social entrepreneurship and family business. This paper concludes with a systematic summery of the research interests, gaps in the body of literature and directions for future studies.

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Meet the First Authors.

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Transferability of biotic interactions: Temporal consistency of arctic plant-rodent relationships is poor.

Variability in biotic interaction strength is an integral part of food web functioning. However, the consequences of the spatial and temporal variability of biotic interactions are poorly known, in particular for predicting species abundance and distribution. The amplitude of rodent population cycles (i.e., peak‐phase abundances) has been hypothesized to be determined by vegetation properties in tundra ecosystems. We assessed the spatial and temporal predictability of food and shelter plants effects on peak‐phase small rodent abundance during two consecutive rodent population peaks. Rodent abundance was related to both food and shelter biomass during the first peak, and spatial transferability was mostly good. Yet, the temporal transferability of our models to the next population peak was poorer. Plant–rodent interactions are thus temporally variable and likely more complex than simple one‐directional (bottom‐up) relationships or variably overruled by other biotic interactions and abiotic factors. We propose that parametrizing a more complete set of functional links within food webs across abiotic and biotic contexts would improve transferability of biotic interaction models. Such attempts are currently constrained by the lack of data with replicated estimates of key players in food webs. Enhanced collaboration between researchers whose main research interests lay in different parts of the food web could ameliorate this.

Gas-phase metal ion chelation investigated with IRMPD spectroscopy: A brief review of Robert Dunbar's contributions.

With the passing of Prof. Robert C. Dunbar on 31 October 2017, the field of ion chemistry lost one of its modern heroes. Throughout his career in mass spectrometry, two of his main research interests involved the interaction of trapped ions with electromagnetic radiation and the chelation motifs of metal ions with organic ligands. The focus of his early career was on the fundamental processes that take place in molecules upon ultraviolet and infrared excitation. From 2003 to 2017, his scientific interests shifted to more structural questions, notably to resolving the structures and binding motifs of metal ion chelation complexes by application of infrared photodissociation spectroscopy. These experiments were carried out during numerous visits to the (Free Electron Laser for Infrared eXperiments) (FELIX) facility in the Netherlands and were complemented by extensive theoretical investigations by Rob. As a tribute to our friend, we present in this contribution a brief review of this work.

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The Abrahamic Faiths as Forces for Good or Evil

Research Article| September 01 2018 The Abrahamic Faiths as Forces for Good or Evil Donald Crosby Donald Crosby Colorado State University Donald Crosby is professor of philosophy emeritus of Colorado State University, where he taught for thirty-six years. His current main research interests are in the areas of religious naturalism, metaphysics, American philosophy, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion. Crosby’s latest published books are Faith and Freedom: Contexts, Choices, and Crises in Religious Commitments (Routledge, 2018) and Partial Truths and Our Common Future (SUNY, 2018). He is also coeditor (with Jerome A. Stone) of The Routledge Handbook of Religious Naturalism (Routledge, 2018). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Journal of Theology & Philosophy (2018) 39 (3): 29–47. https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjtheophil.39.3.0029 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Donald Crosby; The Abrahamic Faiths as Forces for Good or Evil. American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 1 September 2018; 39 (3): 29–47. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjtheophil.39.3.0029 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressAmerican Journal of Theology & Philosophy Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2019 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2019 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Ambient ionisation mass spectrometry for in situ analysis of intact proteins

The interest in proteins is fuelled by their fundamental role in the biological processes occurring in living cells, both under normal conditions and in disease states. A key advantage of the analysis of proteins in their intact form is that all information relating to primary structure and posttranslational modifications is retained. Moreover, by considering intact proteins, it is possible to probe their tertiary (and quaternary) structures and interactions. In this perspective special feature, Helen Cooper and colleagues describe surface analysis techniques most commonly used for the mass spectrometric analysis of intact proteins, with emphasis on liquid extraction-based techniques focusing on in situ intact (top-down) protein analysis from biological surfaces such as tissue sections, dried blood spots, and bacterial communities. They also provide a brief overview of the potential future developments. Helen J. Cooper is Professor of Mass Spectrometry at the University of Birmingham (Birmingham, United Kingdom). Her main research interests are centered on the development and application of mass spectrometry techniques for the characterisation of biomolecular structures.

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Previous article FreeContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreYuqing Feng (冯煜清) is associate professor of law at the School of Law, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. His current research centers on legal consciousness and judicial reforms in China.Ivan Franceschini is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Australian National University’s Australian Center on China in the World and at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His research focuses on labor and civil society in China and Cambodia. He is coeditor of the open access journal Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights.Xin He (贺欣) is visiting professor of law (2017–18) at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China, and professor of law at University of Hong Kong. His recent articles have appeared in American Journal of Sociology, Law & Society Review, China Quarterly, and American Journal of Comparative Law. His book Embedded Courts: Judicial Decision Making in China (with Kwai Ng) was published by Cambridge University Press (2017). His research interests include judicial reforms in China and Chinese family law.Shu Keng (耿曙) is University Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology and the Center for Local Government and Social Governance Studies, both at Zhejiang University. His research interests range from comparative political economy to organizational sociology, especially Chinese local governments, government-business relations, and cross-Strait trade relations.Xingmiu Liao (廖幸谬) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing. His main research is on Chinese politics and society, Chinese ethnic minorities, and the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front organization.Elisa Nesossi is an Australian Research Council Early Career Research Fellow at the Australian National University’s Australian Centre on China in the World. Her scholarship focuses on Chinese law, criminal justice, human rights, and civil society in contemporary China.Lynette H. Ong is an associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Prosper or Perish: Credit and Fiscal Systems in Rural China (Cornell University Press, 2012) and of papers in Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Politics, The China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and Foreign Affairs, among others.Baoqing Pang (庞保庆) is assistant professor in the School of Sociology and Political Science and the Center for Social Governance and Public Policy, both at Shanghai University. His main research focuses on Chinese politics, especially the behavior of local governments.Edward Schwarck is a visiting research fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo. His research interests include political-military affairs in China.Munish Sharma is a consultant at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, and a doctoral candidate at the Centre for East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research interests include cybersecurity, critical information infrastructure protection, space security, and defense technologies. He is the author of the monograph Securing Critical Information Infrastructure: Global Perspectives and Practices (2017) and coeditor of the book Securing Cyberspace: International and Asian Perspectives (2016).Wen-Hsuan Tsai (蔡文轩) is an associate research fellow at the Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. His main research is on Chinese political development, comparative politics, and comparative authoritarian regimes. He has recently published in China Journal, China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Modern China, Asian Survey, and Problems of Post-Communism.Lingna Zhong (钟灵娜) is assistant professor in the School of Politics and International Studies and a Fellow at the Centre for Reforms in Rural China at Central China Normal University, Hubei. Her main research interests are China’s cadre management system and studies of Chinese local government. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The China Journal Volume 80July 2018 Published on behalf of the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/697399 Copyright 2018 by The Australian National University. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

From Skeptic to Vital Partner in Massage Therapy Research: an Interview with Mark Hyman Rapaport, MD

Mark Hyman Rapaport, MD is a highly accomplished researcher, academician, and clinician. Dr. Rapaport has more than 180 publications, and his main research interests include biologic genesis of anxiety disorders, as well as immunity abnormalities and depression in mood disorders. His research investigating massage therapy has included study of inflammatory biomarkers, cancer related fatigue, and generalized anxiety disorder. He has created a successful partnership with the Atlanta School of Massage for the implementation of his research inquiry. Dr. Rapaport discusses with us a wide range of topics on massage therapy, including from where his inspiration for research comes.

Flexible thin broadband microwave absorber based on a pyramidal periodic structure of lossy composite

Microwave absorber with broadband absorption and thin thickness is one of the main research interests in this field. A flexible ultrathin and broadband microwave absorber comprising multiwall carbon nanotubes, spherical carbonyl iron, and silicone rubber is fabricated in a newly proposed pyramidal spatial periodic structure (SPS). The SPS with equivalent thickness of 3.73mm covers the -10 dB and -15 dB absorption bandwidth in the frequency range 2-40GHz and 10-40GHz, respectively. The excellent absorption performance is achieved by concentration and dissipation of the electromagnetic field inside different parts of the magnetic-dielectric lossy protrusions in different frequency ranges.