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A critical realists approach to seafarer\u27s non-compliance to standards on-boar ship
No full textFilipino seafarers for the longest time are considered as an important component of our country’s overseas Filipino workers. Their remittances are a major contributor to the country’s gross domestic product. Many sectors refer to them as the modern heroes of our country providing support to the economy, their company, and their family. The objective of this paper is to explain the causal mechanisms that resulted to the non-compliance of seafarers following simple instructions in the line of work resulting to unfortunate situations such as maritime accidents. This paper is more importantly directed to the different manning agencies and their foreign principals. Much as they are focused on company profits and revenues, making seafarers competitive as far as their skills are concerned, they are also responsible in keeping their seafarers safe and protected while they are on board. The phenomenon that is being observed is why Filipino seafarers, in spite of extensive trainings and in-house programs meant to ensure that they will follow and comply the standards set upon by the International Maritime Organization governing body, there are still numerous accidents being experience as a results of non-compliance of these procedures. Through this research, the author will be able to contribute in the maritime industry by informing and educating the proper authorities about the significance of addressing non-compliance of seafarers in the prevention of maritime accidents. Seafarers must be sufficiently educated, trained to operate, and must follow procedures and guidelines. In 2107, marine accidents killed 1,163 people and caused almost $197 million in insured loses for ship owners. According to the research of Batalden and Sydnes (2017), some of the causal factors leading to maritime accidents can be attributed to higher levels of the organization. Many of these ship owners have put insufficient effort in handling the activities of their people (Batalden and Sydnes, 2017). Another study by Apostol-Mates and Barbu (2016) states that maritime accidents are caused by human factors. Humans are not robots and cannot be programmed to keep an eye on every processes on board. There are also a variety of elements that may affect their performance such that it is very difficult to adhere to the maritime law for each state or country that their vessel passes by (Apostol-Mates and Barbu, 2016). The critical realist philosophy will be used by the author in describing the phenomenon that is being observed. According to Bhaskar (1989) his argument is that as researchers we will only be able to understand what is going on in the social world if we understand the social structures that have given rise to the phenomena that we are trying to understand. He added that critical realism is a philosophical tool for identifying causal mechanisms within a particular field of activity (Bhaskar, 1989
The Maritime Transportation Sector: Addressing Key Challenges towards Sustainable Development
Get PDFThe present business landscape expects sustainability from the most diverse organizations. However, sustainability issues in maritime transportation have taken a lower priority among its stakeholders. The different maritime stakeholders have started to become aware of their sustainability responsibility as interest in sustainable shipping has grown among retailers and their shipping vessels, leading to cost-efficiency in their operations and compliance with regulations and conventions set forth by the IMO (Lister, 2015). It must be noted that the maritime transportation sector is central to the worldwide economy as it is responsible for transporting products of all kinds and accounts for approximately ninety percent of world trade (Richter, 2016). With all these changes, this research wants to determine the barriers confronting the maritime transportation sector in their aspiration to become sustainable. In addition, the research wants to identify those enablers that will clear the way towards a Sustainable Maritime Transportation. The Essential Dimensions of Sustainable Maritime Transportation System (Jeon, 2007, cited in Chatzinikolaou & Ventikos, n.d., p.6) framework will be used in assessing what comprise a sustainable maritime company. A deliberate assessment of the framework and applying it to the maritime transportation sector revealed the barriers confronting the maritime stakeholders in pursuing sustainable initiatives.
The first of these is the barrier in environment sustainability which pertains to the existence of poor seafaring schools and training providers which hinder their competitiveness in pursuing environmental sustainability for their respective organization. The second is the barrier in Socio-Cultural Sustainability which suggests that Filipino seafarers continue to suffer social maltreatment when they are not given an equal opportunity to be selected as a crew member of a particular manning agency specifically in those instances when manning agencies select seafarers without standard procedures. The third is the barrier in economic sustainability where Filipino seafarers are having a very difficult time processing the paperwork required by the various international port states because of the long processing times of the certificates issued by the government.
The following recommendations are intended to guide management and other shipping stakeholders in addressing issues that have proven to be necessary avenues for the development and fostering of a sustainable shipping sector. An enabler of environmental sustainability is to ensure that the maritime education institutions and training centers it accredited were able to pass CHED\u27s stringent guidelines and comply with the latest 2010 STCW Convention Code for Maritime Education. Maritime education and training centers could also include sustainability topics and subjects in the curriculum of their students. Hence, by the time they start working, they are already inclined to pursue sustainability initiatives. The next recommendation will be an enabler of socio-cultural sustainability in which the government, through MARINA and with the support of various maritime sectors, ensure that the recommendations of the 2006 Maritime Labor Convention are implemented in all maritime sectors. This gives seafarers the confidence to carry out their duties on board, knowing that they have a right to safe work that respects decent living and working conditions. The last recommendation will be an enabler of economic sustainability which suggests that streamlining MARINA\u27s processes and seafarer requirements will enable seafarers to meet all the requirements necessary to pursue a seafaring career or be included in their manning agency’s line-up. This should not just be a call to the maritime transportation sector, it should be a call to all maritime stakeholders. These are the challenges we are grappling with today, and they require not just band aid solutions, but they require serious cooperation from all stakeholders. After all, we are talking about the modern heroes of our country
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
A proposal in developing and sustaining an effective maritime education and training system for Power Link Training and Assessment Center
No full textTraditionally, the purpose of training and development has been tat seafarers can accomplish their jobs efficiently. Strategic positioning of training and development directly promotes organizational business goals and objectives. The intention of this paper is (1) to determine whether Power Link and Training and Assessment center is able to implement an effective maritime education and training among their seafarers and help them in improving their knowledge and skills. Training is delivered for undergraduates (future seafarers) in maritime schools and universities and after graduation in maritime training centers and in the employing company. A particular attention must be given to transmission of adequate knowledge for gaining competences and abilities and not only theoretical insights (Maritime transport & navigation journal, vol. 2, 2010); and, (2) to determine whether seafarers from different manning agencies find our training programs effective in enhancing the skill level. Using a set of criteria for evaluating an effective maritime education and training by Demirel and Meha (2009), the researcher will be evaluating Power Link performance based on their own assessment versus the assessment of their clients particularly the seafarers of the manning agencies. The results showed that majority of the seafarers believe that the training programs of Power Link is effective in improving their competency though, they feel that it must improve their facilities and that they need to offer more IMO mandated courses to be preferred. The owner of Power Link also believes that a lot is still in store for the company if only they may increase the number of their courses. These findings will help provide valuable insights to the management of Power Link on how they may add sustainable practices that will increase their engagement with their clients
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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