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On December 5, 1965, no flying was scheduled from aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga, which was cruising from the Yankee Station toward Japan. Although Ticonderoga was fighting a real conflict and losing men in conventional warfare, the ship's primary mission was Cold War nuclear combat with the Communist bloc. That day, during the course of a weapons-loading drill and simulated mission, Douglas Webster and his armed A-4 Skyhawk toppled overboard. A young pilot from Ohio, Webster was newly married and with 17 combat missions under his belt. The loss of the bomber, the pilot and the live B43 one-megaton thermonuclear bomb was a major incident, and one that should have been investigated immediately. But instead a cover-up mission began. Though the crew was ordered to stay quiet, rumors circulated of sabotage, a damaged weapon and a troublesome pilot who needed "disposing of." The incident, a "Broken Arrow" in the parlance of the Pentagon, was kept under wraps for a quarter of a century. In the late 1980s, researchers discovered archived documents that disclosed the true location of the carier, hundreds of miles closer to land than admitted. Emerging in 1989, this information caused a diplomatic incident, as the public - and Webster's family - learned that the United States had violated agreements not to bring nuclear weapons into Japan. Broken Arrow tells the story of Ticonderoga's sailors and airmen, the dangers of combat missions and shipboard life, and the accident that threatened to wipe her off the map and blow American-Japanese relations apart

UNDERSTANDING ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXT (2A. ED.) -- PÁGINA LEGAL -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CASE STUDIES -- 1 INSIDE ORGANISATIONS -- 1.1 HARLEY-DAVIDSON -- 1.2 SYNGENTA AND GM RICE -- 1.3 ADVANTAGES OF A PERSONAL PASSION -- 2 CULTURE AND ORGANISATIONS -- 2.1 FOREIGN INVESTORS IN CHINA -- 2.2 LONG WORKING HOURS -- 2.3 CHORDIANT -- 3 ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR -- 3.1 STRATEGIC VISION -- 3.2 FIRST-CLASS LEADERSHIP -- 3.3 THE PEARL RIVER DELTA -- 4 MARKETING -- 4.1 CHINA AND CAPPUCCINO -- 4.2 TOBACCO ADVERTISING -- 4.3 COCA-COLA -- 5 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT -- 5.1 KAIZEN AT PERKINS -- 5.2 BODY SHOP AND HEMP -- 5.3 BOEING -- 6 FINANCE -- 6.1 SMITHKLINE BEECHAM -- 6.2 PFI -- 6.3 TUC AND MINIMUM WAGE -- 7 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT -- 7.1 BEATING SKILLS SHORTAGES -- 7.2 STAFF AS INTANGIBLE ASSETS -- 7.3 PART-TIME AND TEMPORARY WORKERS -- 8 THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT -- 8.1 US AIRLINES -- 8.2 ALCOPOPS -- 8.3 WAL-MART -- 9 THE COMPOSITION OF THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT -- 9.1 PEUGEOT IN SLOVAKIA -- 9.2 NIKE IN CAMBODIA -- 9.3 HOLIDAYS AND THE INTERNET -- 10 THE COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT -- 10.1 WRANGLER AND LEVI -- 10.2 BILLA, ORGANIC BRANDS -- 10.3 THE FRAGRANCE INDUSTRY -- 11 STAKEHOLDER AND SWOT ANALYSES -- 11.1 RESTAURANTS -- 11.2 MONSANTO -- 11.3 INTERFLORA -- 12 MANAGING A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT -- 12.1 PRADO MUSEUM -- 12.2 CRUISING AT SEA -- 12.3 TATA AND MG ROVER -- TEACHING WITH THIS BOOK -- GUIDED TOUR OF THE BOOK -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 INSIDE ORGANISATIONS -- ENTRY CASE STUDY 1.1: HARLEY-DAVIDSON -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS -- ORGANISATIONAL RESOURCE CONVERSION -- THE LEGAL STRUCTURES OF BUSINESS -- ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES -- ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE AND BEHAVIOUR -- CULTURE AND STRUCTURE -- SUMMARY -- LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR CASE STUDIES -- ETHICAL ISSUES CASE STUDY 1.2 AND QUESTIONS: (...)

AbstractWe investigated the role of rate limiting factors in development using walking as a model system. The achievement of bipedal posture and locomotion are among the most significant achievements in an infant's first year, with poor balance and weak muscles long proposed as the rate limiting factors. Compensating for either may reveal upright motor skill that has not yet emerged in the infant's natural repertoire. To probe this question, we unweighted prewalking infants and measured their performance in various standing and walking behaviors while unweighted compared to baseline. Our secondary objective was to determine if the influence of unweighting was related to infants' locomotor experience. Infants stood unsupported for longer durations with 20% or 40% unweighting. Infants took more independent steps and more steps with one hand held with 40% unweighting. No differences in transition to/from standing were observed. Locomotor experience was related to the influence of unweighting during cruising and walking with a push toy. This is the first report of more advanced motor skills—longer periods of unsupported standing and the emergence of independent walking—revealed by unweighting infants. We interpret our observations to suggest that the refinement of motor control needed to support bipedal posture and locomotion precedes the functional emergence of these skills in infants. In other words, the musculoskeletal components required for walking are slower to develop than the neurological factors – and consequently may be the rate limiters. We further suggest that training regimens including unweighting should be explored in infants with motor delays.

The paper analyses the data on ship and passenger availability in the busiest ports in the Republic of Croatia. In order to evaluate the variables related to cruiser traffic in seaports in the period from 2015 to 2023 in the Republic of Croatia, it was first necessary to determine the following most important variables of the proposed model: the port of Dubrovnik, the port of Split, the port of Zadar, the port of Rijeka and the port of Šibenik. The trends in passenger traffic from 2015 to 2023 for the five most important cruise ports in the Republic of Croatia were investigated. The values of the selected model variables were quantified on an index scale from zero to 100. This form of tourism is becoming more and more present on the international tourist market, offering numerous favourable opportunities, especially in the Mediterranean area. Due to its geo-traffic position, mild climate and rugged coastline, the Republic of Croatia is one of the most desirable cruising destinations in the world. The aim of this paper is to investigate and evaluate the cruise traffic variables of the busiest ports in the Republic of Croatia and to compare the observed ports with the port of Barcelona, as one of the most important ports for cruise ships in the Mediterranean. The conducted research indicates the constant growth of this form of tourism in the Republic of Croatia with the obligation to implement well-thought-out policies and strategies in order to achieve long-term sustainability.

In the south basin of Lake Biwa, Shiga, Japan, overgrown aquatic weeds (submerged macrophytes) impede cruising boats and cause unpleasant odors and undesirable waste when washed ashore. To address this socio-ecological problem, Shiga Prefectural Government implemented a public program to remove overgrown weeds and compost them ashore to conserve the lake environment, while coastal inhabitants and occasional volunteers remove weeds from the beaches to maintain the quality of the living environment. However, these effects are limited because of disjointed social networks. We applied an adaptive and abductive approach to develop community capability to jointly address this problem by sharing academic knowledge with local actors and empowering them. The initial multifaceted reviews, including interviews and postal questionnaire surveys, revealed that the agro-economic value of composted weeds declined in historical and socio-psychological contexts and that most of the unengaged public relied on local governments to address environmental problems. These findings were synthesized and assessed with workshop participants, including local inhabitants, governmental agents, businesspeople, social entrepreneurs, and research experts, to unearth the best solution. The workshops resulted in the development of an e-point system, called Biwa Point, to promote and acknowledge voluntary environmental conservation activities, including beach cleaning. It may contribute to enhancing the socio-ecological capability of communities. Additionally, ethical issues, such as publication of inconvenient truths, undesired interpretation by the researchers, and social constraints in research methods, arose through our research practice. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42532-021-00078-3.

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is implemented to various processes with a strict exception for naval platforms and warships. Thus, the recent studies for life cycle analysis of military ships are limited. LCA is a holistic method based on developing an optimization between environmental performance, cost-benefit balance and usability. LCC is a supporting subsection of LCA implemented to the analysis in order to calculate the probable costs during whole phases of a product. In this study, LCA and LCC are implemented to a naval platform and a calculation, which is based on escalation, is realized to compare the maintenance costs and initial cost for all life cycle of the platform. A generic warship is selected and yaw damping system of the ship was chosen for implementation of LCA and LCC. It is accepted that the systems and devices are used 1500 hours during cruising and 7260 hours during hoteling. First, the initial cost of yaw damping system is calculated, then, costs of long term maintenance with and without escalation are considered. In the final part, the profit gained by recycling of yaw damping system is calculated. The results has shown that an extra cost of 38 % and 19 % for operation and maintenance and total cost, respectively, must be added according to escalation calculations. While initial cost and operation and maintenance costs have 51 % and 49 % of total costs without escalation, the share of initial cost decreases to 43 % and the share of operation and maintenance increases to 57 % with the utilization of escalation.

My senior thesis is an analysis of gay space from the late 1970s to 1980s New York, and I'm questioning how themes of private vs. public, accessibility, race, and economic status dictated where one searched for gay self-expression and community in the built environment. In order to understand how queer spaces functioned architecturally and socially, I've chosen to research two opposites: The Saint and the west side piers. The former was a private club in New York City from 1980-1988 and was considered to be the "Vatican of Disco" with a planetarium that could hold over a thousand men, two bars, and top of the line sound and lighting systems. As a result of its architectural and technological advancements, the Saint was able to blur reality and manufacture a new dimension of interaction where society's rules didn't exist at least for a select crowd of wealthy white men. On the other hand, the piers, the democratic ruins of the west side, were open to all: gay, straight, black, white, and they were frequented for sex, drugs, and artistic intervention. The piers weren't about escaping reality, rather it was a space where one could explore gay identity in the crumbling outskirts of New York by anonymously cruising or sunbathing with friends on the concrete beach. Ultimately, by analyzing these two spaces, I plan to explore the various meanings and forms gay space takes, and consider how spaces like these have been both memorialized and forgotten over time.

Efficient use of energy is currently a very important issue. As conventional energy resources are limited, improving energy efficiency is, nowadays, present in any government policy. Railway systems consume a huge amount of energy, during normal operation, some routes working near maximum energy capacity. Therefore, maximizing energy efficiency in railway systems has, recently, received attention from railway operators, leading to research for new solutions that are able to reduce energy consumption without timetable constraints. In line with these goals, this paper proposes a Simulated Annealing optimization algorithm that minimizes train traction energy, constrained to existing timetable. For computational effort minimization, re-annealing is not used, the maximum number of iterations is one hundred, and generation of cruising and braking velocities is carefully made. A Matlab implementation of the Simulated Annealing optimization algorithm determines the best solution for the optimal speed profile between stations. It uses a dynamic model of the train for energy consumption calculations. Searching for optimal speed profile, as well as scheduling constraints, also uses line shape and velocity limits. As results are obtained in seconds, this new algorithm can be used as a real-time driver advisory system for energy saving and railway capacity increase. For now, a standalone version, with line data previously loaded, was developed. Comparison between algorithm results and real data, acquired in a railway line, proves its success. An implementation of the developed work as a connected driver advisory system, enabling scheduling and speed constraint updates in real time, is currently under development.

Efficient use of energy is currently a very important issue. As conventional energy resources are limited, improving energy efficiency is, nowadays, present in any government policy. Railway systems consume a huge amount of energy, during normal operation, some routes working near maximum energy capacity. Therefore, maximizing energy efficiency in railway systems has, recently, received attention from railway operators, leading to research for new solutions that are able to reduce energy consumption without timetable constraints. In line with these goals, this paper proposes a Simulated Annealing optimization algorithm that minimizes train traction energy, constrained to existing timetable. For computational effort minimization, re-annealing is not used, the maximum number of iterations is one hundred, and generation of cruising and braking velocities is carefully made. A Matlab implementation of the Simulated Annealing optimization algorithm determines the best solution for the optimal speed profile between stations. It uses a dynamic model of the train for energy consumption calculations. Searching for optimal speed profile, as well as scheduling constraints, also uses line shape and velocity limits. As results are obtained in seconds, this new algorithm can be used as a real-time driver advisory system for energy saving and railway capacity increase. For now, a standalone version, with line data previously loaded, was developed. Comparison between algorithm results and real data, acquired in a railway line, proves its success. An implementation of the developed work as a connected driver advisory system, enabling scheduling and speed constraint updates in real time, is currently under development.

As it was conceptualized, the manual is aligned with other field manual that are currently in use by different universities, such as Mississippi State University, Stephen F Austin, or University of British Columbia. The present manual is the first unified version of Louisiana Tech University of a Field Manual to be used in conjunction with the Forest Measurements course. The manual covers both forest inventory techniques that are traditionally used in cruising, such as preset intensity inventory, as well as modern techniques, such as distance sampling. The manual is dedicated to layout in great details all the steps required for successful completion of a forest inventory. To each technique a special section is dedicated to the possible usage of the respective technique, such as distance sampling can be used in forest inventory, fuel load or forest planning. A series of visual aids were used to enhance the presentation. The images, drawings, or chart presented are either produced by the author or courtesy of the US Forest Service, which states that "Photographs and images on this website (i.e., http://www.fs.fed.us/) are publicly owned, produced by Forest Service employees or other government agencies and institutions; or, have been obtained from non-governmental organizations and private photographers with their permission to use them on this website. Photographs included on this website that are publicly owned are available for free for non-commercial scientific and educational uses." In text the graphical aids obtained from the US Forest Service website were identified in the caption.

Cover -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: How to Make the Body -- "What Is the Matter with these Germans?" -- What Is "The Body"? -- Chapter Overview -- 1 Arousal, the Bible, and Bruegel's Codpieces: The Male Body in Early Modern Visual Culture -- Arousal in German Print -- Similar Interests in the Male Body -- Bruegel's Codpieces -- 2 The Construction of the Aryan Body in German Visual Advertising, 1908-33 -- 3 Group Zero: Transforming Trauma into Transcendence -- 4 RAF Corpse Art: The Resistant and Recuperative Body: Aesthetics of Diffusion and the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF)/Red Army Faction -- Perpetrators and Victims: On the Functionalization of Iconic Corpses -- Inconceivable Corpses: Ernst Volland's Burnt Images and Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 -- Return of the Dead: Hans-Peter Feldmann's Tomb -- Vanishing Corpses: Where are they Now? -- 5 Penis-bodied Specimens in Körperwelten (Body Worlds) -- 6 For the Porn Connoisseur: Cinema Joy -- Porn and Feminism -- Cinema Joy: "If you can dream it, you can do it."-Walt Disney (quoted in Female Fantasies) -- "She Calls the Shots": Let's celebrate female orgasms! -- Cruising: "No wimpy, limpy gimps." -- Porn as Therapy -- 7 Orientalized Bodies at Work: Cultural Zaniness in Berlin's Sayonara Tokyo Revue -- 8 Ai Weiwei's Body in Berlin -- The Chinese Avant-garde -- Ai Weiwei in Berlin -- The Aesthetic Affect -- Conclusion -- 9 Afrolocken: Natural Hair in German Literature and Media -- 10 Poppthority: The Politics of Dr. Bitch Ray's Bodily Negotiations -- 11 Becoming Invisible/Against Visibility: Hito Steyerl's How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Educational .MOV File -- Those Who Watch: A Surveillance Society -- Lesson I: "How to Make Something Invisible for a Camera".

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1: Understanding the Clinical and Social Psychological Aspects of HIV -- Introduction -- Some Definitions -- HIV Risk or HIV Outcomes? -- The Focus on Gay Men -- Clinical and Social Psychological Aspects -- Case Studies -- Gay Men in Contemporary Britain -- What Is Next for HIV? -- Why a Multidisciplinary Book on HIV among Gay Men? -- Overview of the Book -- References -- 2: HIV: Its History, Science and Epidemiology -- Introduction -- The Origins of HIV -- SIV -- The First Human Infections -- Initial Medical Responses to HIV/AIDS -- Early AIDS Treatments -- HIV/AIDS in the UK -- The First Public Health Campaign in the UK -- The Slow March to Controlling the Virus -- HIV Today: An Epidemiological Snapshot -- Overview -- References -- 3: Sexuality and HIV Risk in Gay Men -- The Biology of HIV Risk -- The Social Psychology of HIV Risk -- Attitudes Towards Condoms -- The Fear Factor -- Sense of Invincibility -- Personality Traits -- Social Norms -- Identity Concerns -- Risky Sexual Behaviours -- Sexual Compulsivity -- Chemsex -- Geospatial Gay Mobile Social Networking Applications -- Gay Saunas -- Gay Cruising -- Overview -- References -- 4: HIV Prevention -- The HIV Prevention Landscape -- Adherence to the Norm of Condom Use -- HIV Testing -- Promoting STI Testing and Treatment -- The Emergence and Use of Post-exposure Prophylaxis -- The Advent of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis -- The Clinical Aspects of PrEP -- Social and Political Aspects of PrEP -- Treatment as Prevention -- Other Prevention Options: Microbicides and Circumcision -- The Search for a Vaccine -- Overview -- References -- 5: HIV Diagnosis, Management and Prognosis -- HIV: Its Effects and Treatment -- HIV Virology and Patient Prognosis -- Innate Immunity -- HIV Seroconversion -- Chronic Inflammation and HIV -- HIV Treatment.

"Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police. Usually these take place in disadvantaged neighborhoods composed of working-class families of immigrant origin or belonging to ethnic minorities. These tragic events have received a great deal of media coverage, but we know very little about the everyday activities of urban policing that lie behind them. Over the course of 15 months, at the time of the 2005 riots, Didier Fassin carried out an ethnographic study in one of the largest precincts in the Paris region, sharing the life of a police station and cruising with the patrols, in particular the dreaded anti-crime squads. Far from the imaginary worlds created by television series and action movies, he uncovers the ordinary aspects of law enforcement, characterized by inactivity and boredom, by eventless days and nights where minor infractions give rise to spectacular displays of force and where officers express doubts about the significance and value of their own jobs. Describing the invisible manifestations of violence and unrecognized forms of discrimination against minority youngsters, undocumented immigrants and Roma people, he analyses the conditions that make them possible and tolerable, including entrenched policies of segregation and stigmatization, economic marginalization and racial discrimination. Richly documented and compellingly told, this unique account of contemporary urban policing shows that, instead of enforcing the law, the police are engaged in the task of enforcing an unequal social order in the name of public security."--Publisher's description

The stark reality of human existence with a predictable 90 per cent of most reported cases emerging from these showcases of development, urbanisation, and industrialisation — our cities and towns tell us something that we cannot ignore. The cities took the brunt and revelled as the epicentres of the pandemic and a public health disaster, with the lockdowns remaining prolonged, severe, and even punitive in many cities of the world. We discuss here, the impacts of unprecedented crisis as we continue to rely on a globalised economy, and gaze at the helplessness with which the state handles our lives and appears to compromise our destinies through in a market full of uneven players. COVID-19 first hit the global power centres, the developed nations, and the business capitals in developing countries. Excited holidaymakers cruising passenger returnees from Ruby Princess began infecting others and those others infected capital cities like Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. It is intriguing and highly disturbing that how responsibility for a disease that travelled across borders with passports and through commercial airlines came to be laid at the poor of Mumbai's slums or Brazil's favelas. It is really the well-off and the powerful who seem to rule the roost in cities. The density of populations in urban habitats and the intensity of local and global interconnectivity have made these urban habitats clearly more vulnerable to the spread of the virus. Be it the social housing that is vertical for low-income earners in Melbourne or the urban sprawls of Dharavi, Mumbai; evidence suggests that density per se correlated to higher virus transmission.

Queer space discourse in architecture has often been about reclaiming sexualized spaces or spaces used by LGBT people as being part of architectural history. However, critical practitioners have sought to expand from an understanding based on an essentialist understanding of queer bodies to link instead the experience of built environments to the repression of non-normative/non-compliant bodies. This article discusses projects by J. Mayer H., Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLINN), and MYCKET that build on a queer understanding of architecture and design to explore relationships between bodies, the materiality of domestic spaces, and communal identities, challenging binary understandings of architectural design spaces and linking them to the configuration of citizenship. J. Mayer H.'s work on data-protection patterns and thermo-sensitive materials uses bodies as material in developing a discourse on privacy stemming in part from queer people's experience of oppressing policies. OFFPOLINN's projects on IKEA and on gay cruising digital environments question the role of architects by underlining the close integration of advertisement, online social networks, and urban and architectural policies in relation to the experience of citizenship and migration. Finally, MYCKET's queer feminist performative architectures attempts to reframe the neutrality of the architectural modernist tradition to celebrate the messiness that comes with thinking of space as designed for a diversity of people. The three practices expand architectural discussions of domesticity beyond an understanding of the house as a container for family life and towards seeing it as a nexus of social and political relations that converge around the body.