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NOx Emissions Control Area (NECA) scenario for ports in the North Adriatic Sea
No full textIn response to global warming, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) set rules of 50% Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reduction by 2050, from 2008 levels. Signatory countries to the IMO's regulation require frequent assessment of the contribution of GHG emissions from shipping calling at their ports or trading in their territorial waters to ensure their compliance with the regulations. This demands a rapid and accurate method to assess shipping's contribution to GHG emissions. Current methodologies for estimating emissions from ships can be described on a scale between bottom-up and top-down methods. Top-down methods provide rapid estimates – primarily based on fuel sales reports - without considering individual vessel details. Therefore, they are less accurate and do not provide a breakdown of emissions by ship types or in specific regions. Bottom-up methodologies are detailed vessel-based estimates; however, they are data and time-demanding. The Ship Emissions Assessment method (SEA) (Topic et al., 2021) fills the gap between bottom-up and top-down methods by providing an innovative hybrid solution for rapid but accurate ship emission estimation. It uses publicly available, cost-effective data sets for emission estimates. The SEA method is capable of estimating ships' emissions in designated areas to understand regulations' effectiveness and provide emission quantification evidence. This research objective was to apply the SEA method to quantify CO2, SOX and NOX exhaust emissions from containerships for the three crucial containership ports: Trieste, Rijeka and Venice, in the North of the Adriatic Sea. The SEA methodology was applied to assess emissions and forecast efficiency in scenarios of different regulatory measures. A reduction in NOx emissions was estimated for the event of the implementation of NECA in all three ports. Results showed that 447.13 tonnes of NOx could be reduced each year in the North Adriatic Sea area around the ports of Rijeka, Trieste and Venice in the event that NECA regulations are stipulated.</p
Assessment of ship emissions in coastal waters using spatial projections of ship tracks, ship voyage and engine specification data
No full textTo understand, mitigate and reduce the detrimental effects on human health and the environment from exhaust gas emissions from ships it is necessary to be able to estimate the quantity and location of these ship emissions in time.Currently, the two most commonly used ship emission assessment methods sit on opposite ends of the spectrum – the top-down approach, which provides low resolution yet efficient aggregated results however is unable to account for specific shipping activities, and the bottom-up vessel-by-vessel approach, which provides near-instantaneous ship emissions production at a high resolution – yet is data and time intensive.To address the market gap for a ship greenhouse emission estimation method that hybridises the best of both the bottom-up and top-down methods the novel Ship Emissions Assessment (SEA) method is proposed as an innovative hybrid solution.It is a cost effective and resource efficient method, presenting spatial ship emissions utilising widely accessible data, and it is precise – fulfilling the requirements needed to evaluate ship emissions reduction measures.Novel SEA method is the first in its endeavour to replace Automatic Identification System (AIS) Vessel-based raw data allocation, by using rapid analyses of readily available ship track density data and average voyage information. It combines obtained average voyage distance with voyage average speed to estimate ship activity for emission assessments - saving costs by reducing time and reliance on complex computations, especially when many ships need to be analysed simultaneously.Using the novel SEA method, a series of containerships from geographically diverse ports were sampled and assessed for emissions with comparative results confirming the representations equivalent to the detailed and data demanding bottom-up method.Subsequently, the novel SEA method was applied to containership traffic calling into the Port of Trieste, in the northern Adriatic Sea, where it demonstrated the ability to estimate and quantify historic emissions for the preceding 12 months while taking into account seasonal port traffic variations.The novel SEA method showed to be an efficient, inexpensive and accurate, easy-to-use emission assessment tool based on widely accessible data. It can be used in day-to-day shipping operations by a variety of stakeholders including port operations managers, regional traffic operators, and those non-industry, while providing the required level of technical accuracy. In comparison, existing methods are not as time and cost effective, user-friendly, nor based on easy to interpret and readily accessible data.The novel SEA method enables further global research of ship emissions, and for regional and international policy makers to effectively manage the measures needed to reach greenhouse gas emission reduction targets
Tamara K. Anderson and Expectations
No full textAre things not going according to your plans? Tamara K. Anderson, the author of Normal for Me, describes how she has found success and hope by adjusting what she expects. She relates how she achieves happiness despite trials and setbacks. Check out her podcast Stories of Hope in Hard Times at https://tamarakanderson.co
Oral history interview with Tamara Lebak
No full textTamara Lebak discusses her life as a singer-songwriter, author, and minister at All Souls Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She talks about her upbringing and education, studying abroad in Belgium, and her work as a teacher in Garland, Texas. She discusses how she became involved in Unitarian Universalism and how she became the first openly gay minister at All Souls. She also comments on her current projects, the children's books that she has written, and her love of singing and songwriting.The Deep Roots: Oklahoma Authors Collection is a series of interviews with authors who discuss their lives, work, and creative processes
HOW AN ONLINE COURSE COMPARES
No full textStudent satisfaction with and performance in an on-line agrisales course is compared with that of students enrolled in a simultaneously-taught classroom course. Assessment tools are developed for both sections. Online and classroom students were equally satisfied with the course and the instructor using most measures, but had different motivators for course enrollment. Overall student performance did not differ, but the composition of such was unique for each group. Results suggest instructors be well prepared to handle unique learner situations prior to marketing an online course.Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession,
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'I've got those empty diary blues': a wee case study of performance management in a Glasgow office
No full textFriedrich Nietzsche's writings are currently threatened in that he is he treated only as a philosopher or a poet, and his relationship with twentieth century politics and latterly Management theory is largely ignored, excepting of course when he is held to be responsible for the growth in Fascism. In this paper an attempt will be made to show that Nietzsche should not simply be considered as the deracine par excellence with no interest with more general humanitarian concerns. This paper presents a background to Nietzsche and his relationship to Managerialism and then provides a story written in Glaswegian argot of the relationship between a recruit to a Law Enforcement Office in Glasgow, Scotland and his new Manager. An interesting tale about performance management, illustrates how the abuse of power hides personal and organizational dysfunctionality. Another key feature in the twist at the end of the tale is the manifestation of simulacra in performance measures relating to inspection tasks, where we see that 'work not done but recorded' becomes more important, more 'real' than 'work done but not recorded'. This is the excess of history. The story is written in the Glaswegian vernacular partly as homage to the renowned author James Kelman, but more significantly in an attempt take us closer to the lived experience of the actors - as opposed to the more usual sanitised accounts which abound in the management literature. The language is surprisingly 'industrial' in what is regarded as a 'professional' setting
Antisemitism in Serbia in the past and present
No full textPredavanje Tamare Stojanović “Antisemitizam u Srbiji u prošlosti i sadašnjosti” je drugo predavanje četvrtog kursa pod nazivom "Antisemitizam" koji se realizuje u okviru projekta „Holokaust u zemljama bivše Jugoslavije“. Ovaj projekat je prvi ovakav projekat u regionu i ima za cilj da pruži dublje razumevanje Holokausta na prostoru bivše Jugoslavije, podstakne kritičko mišljenje, promoviše toleranciju i empatiju, kao i da istakne konstantnu važnost obrazovanja o Holokaustu u regionu. Projekat se sastoji od četiri zasebna online kursa sa po tri predavanja i jednog šestodnevnog seminara uživo, koji se organizuje nakon završetka četvrtog kursa u Beogradu i Skoplju. Svi kursevi, kao i seminar, bave se temom Holokausta i antisemitizma na prostoru bivše Jugoslavije. Svaki od četiri online kursa obuhvata dragocena opšta znanja iz pomenutih tematskih okvira, ali i fokus na pojedine delove regiona i iskustvo Holokausta u njima.Tamara Stojanović's lecture "Antisemitism in Serbia in the past and present" is the second lecture of the fourth course entitled "Antisemitism", which is being realised within the project "Holocaust in the countries of the former Yugoslavia". This project is the first of its kind in the region and aims to deepen understanding of the Holocaust within the former Yugoslavia, encourage critical thinking, promote tolerance and empathy, and emphasise the ongoing importance of education about the Holocaust in the area. The project includes four online courses, each with three lectures, and one six-day live seminar, organised after the end of the fourth course in Belgrade and Skopje. All courses, as well as the seminar, address the topic of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism in the former Yugoslav territory. Each of the four online courses provides valuable general knowledge from the specified thematic frameworks, with a particular focus on certain parts of the region and their experiences of the Holocaust.Trajanje 1:43:09 minuta (duration 1:43:09 minutes).Projekat realizuje organizacija Haver Srbija u saradnji sa Fondom za Holokaust Jevreja iz Makedonije, uz podršku Claims Conference. Koordinatori projekta su Tamara i Aleksandar Stojanović. (The project is implemented by the Haver Serbia organization in cooperation with the Holocaust Fund of the Jews from Macedonia, with the support of the Claims Conference. The project coordinators are Tamara and Aleksandar Stojanović).YouTube link [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T0x_h58a1U&list=PLhnejJShQmj6qZbBOZJmuu-BK74Qp4JVQ&index=7
Thomas Tamara Konrad Bieber Totoket to James Meredith (5 October 1962)
No full textSigned by Thomas Tamara Konrad Bieber Totokethttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/mercorr_pro/1923/thumbnail.jp
Investigation of the deregulatory mechanisms of METTL3 nuclear localization in cellular senescence
No full textAuthor Tamara Gattringer, BScMasterarbeit Johannes Kepler Universität Linz 202
[Review of the book "Suffer the Little Children: Genocide, Indigenous Nations and the Canadian State", by Tamara Starblanket]
No full textDr. Carling Beninger (Douglas College) reviews the book Suffer the Little Children: Genocide, Indigenous Nations and the Canadian State, by Tamara Starblanket (2018).Peer reviewedFinal article published
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