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Investigation of the ways to Develop the Port at Hambantota of Sri Lanka as a Vehicle Transshipment Hub
No full textDeveloping transshipment hub port facilities can provide a plethora of advantages to a country for global competitiveness. This is especially true for an emerging economy like Sri Lanka endowed with an important strategic location in South Asia.
This study aims to explore the way to develop the port at Hambantota as a vehicle transshipment hub port. To this end, a preliminary study is conducted before the implementation of the research study. In addition, as the significant there are four vehicle transshipment hub ports which have located around the Hambantota International Port (HIP), data analysis is performed regarding these ports to identify the ways to develop HIP as a vehicle transshipment hub port.
According to the selected hub ports, monetary, time, port traffic, location, operation, and shipping-related categories have been identified as the significant factors by using secondary data collected from the previous research articles and the internal records of the Hambantota International Port (HIP). In addition to that, shipping service design factors, macro-level factors, port-related factors, strategic changes in the shipping industry, and stakeholder influence are considered to investigate of the ways to develop HIP as a vehicle transshipment hub port.CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Chapter Introduction 1
1.2 Research Packground 1
1.2.1 History Port Establishment 1
1.2.2 Port Establishment and Geographical Background in Sri Lanka 4
1.2.3 Establishment of Colombo Port 7
1.2.4 Establishment of an Urban Port 9
1.2.5 Port at Hambantota 10
1.2.5.1 Establishment of Hambantota International Port (HIP) 11
1.2.5.2 Hambantota International Port (HIP) Vision, Mission, and Values 12
1.2.5.3 Location & Connectivity 12
1.2.5.4. Surface Transportation Network and Indenter Modernizations 13
1.2.5.5 Port Facilities: 14
1.3 Research Problem and purpose of the Study 15
1.4 Research Objective of the Study 16
1.5 Scope of the Study 16
1.6 Research Design 17
1.6.1 Data Collecting Instrument 17
1.6.2 Analytical Techniques 17
1.7 Significance of the Study 17
1.8 Outline of the Thesis 18
1.9 Chapter Summary 18
CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 20
2.1 Chapter Introduction 20
2.2 Background 20
2.2.1 Seaports in Sri Lanka. 20
2.2.2 Status of Seaports. 21
2.3 Hub Ports and Characteristics 29
2.4 Ro-Ro Hub Port Selection Criteria 32
2.5 Idiosyncratic Features of Vehicle Transhipment Ports 34
2.6 Implications 37
2.7 Chapter Summary 39
CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY 40
3.1 Conceptual Framework 40
3.2 Research Approach 41
3.3 Data Collection Procedure 41
3.4 Data Collection Period 42
3.5 Data Analysis Method 42
3.6 Area Selection for the Study 42
3.7 Preliminary Analysis 43
CHAPTER 4 ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION 46
4.1 Macro-Level Factors 46
4.1.1 Market-Related Factor 46
4.1.2 Geographical Related Factor 47
4.2 Shipping Service Design Factors 48
4.2.1 Operational Strategies 48
4.2.2 Network Type 48
4.3 Port Related Factors 49
4.3.1 Supporting Logistic Platform 49
4.3.2 Ancillary Service 50
4.3.3 Land Side Factors 50
4.3.4 Operational Factors 50
4.3.5 Monetary Factors 51
4.4 Stakeholder Influence 51
4.4.1 Feeder Network 51
4.4.2 Port Authorities 52
4.4.3 Terminal Operations 52
4.4.4 Shippers/Freight Forwarders 52
4.5 Strategic Changes in the Shipping Industry 53
4.5.1 Alliances Vs. Standalone Service 53
4.5.2 Cascade Effect 53
4.5.3 Investment in Port Infrastructure 54
4.6 Performance of Hub Port 54
4.7 Port Performance Index 56
4.8 Analysis of Technical Information of the Terminals in HIP 58
4.9 Rol On Roll Off (RO-RO) Service Analysis 60
4.10 Analysis of Major Vehicle Hub Ports 68
4.10.1 Analysis of Ports in the Europe Region 69
4.10.2 Analysis of Ports in the North America 72
4.10.3 Analysis of Ports in the Asia 74
4.11 SWOT Analysis of HIP 75
CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 78
5.1 Conclusion 78
5.2 Recommendations 81
5.3 Future Researchers 83
REFERENCES 84Maste
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
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
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koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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