Academic Articles & Research Papers

Dual-Domain Primary Succession of Bacteria in Glacier Forefield Streams and Soils of a Maritime and Continental Glacier.

Leeches and linchpins: a scoping review of seafood market intermediaries in small-scale fishery supply chains.

Present-day Admixed Genomes Reveal Prehistoric Adaptation to Cold, Maritime Diet, and Local Pathogens in Patagonia.

Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean

Our world is a water world. Seventy percent of our planet consists of ocean. However, geography has traditionally overlooked this vital component of the earth's composition. The word 'geography' directly translates as 'earth writing' and in...

Urban Fear, Criminality and the Erosion of Intangible Cultural Access in Machala: A Critical Qualitative Content Analysis of Ecuadorian National Digital Press

This article examines how the Ecuadorian national digital press has represented the relationship between criminal violence, declining mobility, tourism contraction, and the erosion of intangible cultural access in Machala, Puerto Bolívar, a...

Total factor productivity growth and spatial–temporal evolution of China’s health system: a three-stage DEA-Malmquist approach

In recent years, the deepening of healthcare reform in China has raised high demands for the accurate measurement of hospital total factor productivity (TFP), where existing systems often overstate performance by neglecting social welfare. ...

Fiscal & tax incentives, ESG responsibility fulfillments, and corporate green innovation performance

Carrying out green technological innovation is a necessary way for enterprises to realize high-quality development, and government fiscal and tax incentive policy is an important initiative to promote enterprises' green technological innova...

Maritime Business Administration

Maritime transport, as an important component of global supply chains, requires the coordination and thorough integration of related functions combining the ship, cargo, and relevant players and actors involved. Maritime business has a holi...

Exploring stress mediation: self-efficacy, sense of coherence, and self-esteem among nursing students in Poland—a multicenter cross-sectional observational study

BackgroundNursing students frequently encounter stressful and demanding situations during clinical training, which may hinder their well-being and professional development. A strong sense of coherence is thought to buffer the negative effec...

A Decision Support Model for Hotel Recommendation Based on the Online Consumer Reviews Using Logarithmic Spherical Hesitant Fuzzy Information

Spherical hesitant fuzzy sets have recently become more popular in various fields. It was proposed as a generalization of picture hesitant fuzzy sets and Pythagorean hesitant fuzzy sets in order to deal with uncertainty and fuzziness inform...

Journal of International Business Studies

What determines the patterns of international expansion of financial institutions?Rugman and others have argued that internationalisation primarily occurs at the regional rather than global level.Others, including Johanson and Valne, have a...

The Digital Maturity Paradox: The Divergent Impact of Network Readiness and FDI Across Development Tiers

Contemporary economic growth trajectories are characterized by accelerating digital integration. However, the digital infrastructure required to accelerate growth remains unevenly distributed across development tiers. This study examines a ...

Ranking of sailing routes according to the potential number of groundings

The paper presents the selection of ship sailing routes in the coastal area according to the probability of grounding. Taking into consideration the dangers in the heading direction as well as the vicinity and length of the coastline parall...

PROPOSING A FRAMEWORK FOR ESTABLISHING A GREEN ENERGY LOGISTIC HUB: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY IN EGYPT

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has emphasized the opportunity to create "hydrogen hubs" to reduce costs associated with low-carbon hydrogen pathways. A "hub" is a region capable of aggregating hydrogen demand, typically found in coas...

Freeze-Thaw Splitting Strength Analysis of PAC Based on the Gray-Markov Model

In this study, a freeze-thaw split test was carried out to simulate the frost-heaving behavior of permeable asphalt concrete (PAC). Furthermore, the water stability problems caused by spalling and loosening were studied. Through a comparati...

Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering

IceRegionShip: Optical Remote Sensing Dataset for Ship Detection in Ice-Infested Waters

As shipping routes and resource exploration move toward high-latitude oceans, sea ice becomes a major threat to the safety of ship navigation, posing significant challenges to the shipping industry and offshore resource development. Continu...

Impacts of introduced Rangifer on ecosystem processes of maritime tundra on subarctic islands

Abstract Introductions of mammalian herbivores to remote islands without predators provide a natural experiment to ask how temporal and spatial variation in herbivory intensity alter feedbacks between plant and soil processes. We investigat...

TOURISM SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS AND THE PROSPECTS FOR CREATING AN ETHNOVISUAL TOURISM ATLAS IN ADJARA

Ethnovisual tourism explores a destination's cultural heritage through visual means, generating economic benefits and encouraging investment in cultural infrastructure and heritage conservation projects. Assessing the social, economic and e...

Blockchain-Enabled Maritime-Agricultural Integration: Professional Perspectives on Sustainable Supply Chain Transformation

This investigation explores maritime professionals' perspectives on blockchain-enabled agricultural supply chain integration for island community sustainability. Through qualitative analysis of ten experienced maritime graduates with decade...