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Port Economics

Port Economics

Port Economics is the study of the economic decisions (and their consequences) of the users and providers of port services. A port works as an engine for economic development. This book provides a detailed discussion of port freight service users such as freight water and land carriers that have their ships and vehicles serviced and their cargoes unloaded by ports as well as passenger services such as ferry carriers which are serviced by ferry passenger ports. This text continues to enhance our understanding of port economics by exploring the economic theories supply and demand curves and the actual and opportunity costs relating to the carriers shippers and passengers who use ports. This new edition has been updated throughout. This includes: An expanded discussion of container break-bulk dry-bulk liquid-bulk and neo-bulk ports; An introduction of port service chains hinterland transport chains maritime transport chains and port multi-service congestion; A discussion of seaborne trade dry ports port centrality and connectivity and free trade zones. This updated and comprehensive introduction to port economics will be of benefit to students and researchers in their study of port economics and management. It is also of great importance to professionals who manage and operate ports as well as freight and passenger carriers.

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Port Economics Management and Policy

Port Economics Management and Policy

Port Economics Management and Policy provides a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary port industry showing how ports are organized to serve the global economy and support regional and local development. Structured in eight sections plus an introduction and epilog this textbook examines a wide range of seaport topics covering maritime shipping and international trade port terminals port governance port competition port policy and much more. Key features of the book include: Multidisciplinary perspective drawing on economics geography management science and engineering Multisector analysis including containers bulk break-bulk and the cruise industry Focus on the latest industry trends such as supply chain management automation digitalization and sustainability Benefitting from the authors’ extensive involvement in shaping the port sector across five continents this text provides students and scholars with a valuable resource on ports and maritime transport systems. Practitioners and policymakers can also use this as an essential guide towards better port management and governance.

GBP 52.99
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Policing Port Security and Crime Control An Ethnography of the Port Securityscape

Policing Port Security and Crime Control An Ethnography of the Port Securityscape

Ports are the vital hubs of the maritime transport industry and crucial to the flow of global trade. The protection of this global supply chain from crime and terrorism is a fundamental objective of port security and is a landscape beset by new challenges and changes post 9/11. Building on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in two major European ports Yarin Eski discusses how operational policing and security realities and identities are established and examines how industrial commercialization has aggravated security issues. Policing Port Security and Crime Control offers a compelling empirically balanced account of the attitudes and practices of port police officers and security officers exploring the everyday realities and ambitions of these street-level professionals as they seek to (re)establish a meaningful occupational identity. In doing so this book presents a criminological understanding of the way that security questions and procedures are integrated into the daily lives of those that protect the industrial port sites where they themselves must interrupt the global supply chain in order to defend it. Exploring topics such as port security management multi-agency policing port theft drug trafficking human smuggling and terrorism this book offers a major contribution to the growing literature on transnational crime and security and is one of the first to offer an ethnographic approach to port security. This book is interdisciplinary and will appeal to criminologists sociologists ethnographers and those engaged with policing and security studies as well as professionals in the field of multi-agency policing border control security and governance of the port and wider maritime industry. | Policing Port Security and Crime Control An Ethnography of the Port Securityscape

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802.1X Port-Based Authentication

802.1X Port-Based Authentication

Port-based authentication is a “network access control” concept in which a particular device is evaluated before being permitted to communicate with other devices located on the network. 802. 1X Port-Based Authentication examines how this concept can be applied and the effects of its application to the majority of computer networks in existence today. 802. 1X is a standard that extends the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) over a Local Area Network (LAN) through a process called Extensible Authentication Protocol Over LANs (EAPOL). The text presents an introductory overview of port-based authentication including a description of 802. 1X port-based authentication a history of the standard and the technical documents published and details of the connections among the three network components. It focuses on the technical aspect of 802. 1X and the related protocols and components involved in implementing it in a network. The book provides an in-depth discussion of technology design and implementation with a specific focus on Cisco devices. Including examples derived from the 802. 1X implementation it also addresses troubleshooting issues in a Cisco environment. Each chapter contains a subject overview. Incorporating theoretical and practical approaches 802. 1X Port-Based Authentication seeks to define this complex concept in accessible terms. It explores various applications to today’s computer networks using this particular network protocol.

GBP 56.99
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2D to VR with Unity5 and Google Cardboard

2D to VR with Unity5 and Google Cardboard

The book provides an up-to-date introduction to the latest version of Unity and its workflow by guiding readers through various prototypes. These range from 2D to 3D game concepts for PC and mobile will allow readers to get acquainted with several important concepts and allow them to become competent Unity developers able to learn at their own pace. The book starts by introducing Unity and proceeds in building a basic understanding of its main components by developing a first simple 2D game before proceeding in developing a full casual game to development of a simple but immersive 3D game concept to be tested first on PC before exploring how to port it for mobile VR. using Google Cardboard. | 2D to VR with Unity5 and Google Cardboard

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Introduction to RF Power Amplifier Design and Simulation

Introduction to RF Power Amplifier Design and Simulation

Introduction to RF Power Amplifier Design and Simulation fills a gap in the existing literature by providing step-by-step guidance for the design of radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers from analytical formulation to simulation implementation and measurement. Featuring numerous illustrations and examples of real-world engineering applications this book:Gives an overview of intermodulation and elaborates on the difference between linear and nonlinear amplifiersDescribes the high-frequency model and transient characteristics of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistorsDetails active device modeling techniques for transistors and parasitic extraction methods for active devicesExplores network and scattering parameters resonators matching networks and tools such as the Smith chartCovers power-sensing devices including four-port directional couplers and new types of reflectometersPresents RF filter designs for power amplifiers as well as application examples of special filter typesDemonstrates the use of computer-aided design (CAD) tools implementing systematic design techniquesBlending theory with practice Introduction to RF Power Amplifier Design and Simulation supplies engineers researchers and RF/microwave engineering students with a valuable resource for the creation of efficient better-performing low-profile high-power RF amplifiers.

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Growth and Decay of Coral Reefs Fifty Years of Learning

Growth and Decay of Coral Reefs Fifty Years of Learning

Growth and Decay of Coral Reefs: Fifty Years of Learning describes how coral reefs have alternately flourished and declined over the last 50 years and the dynamics of these changes. The study is based on recordings at 30 different locations along the Sudanese coast visited by the author between 1971 and 1973. Beyond the Red Sea's desert shores lie some of the richest and most diverse coral reefs on our planet. Over a thousand species of reef fishes matched by a similar abundance of living corals creating habitats scientists were only just beginning to understand. The complexity of the inter-relations was truly mesmerizing. A single intervention such as removal of a key species could cause the whole community to collapse. Healthy corals were transformed into green weed-smothered reefs accompanied by the loss of both corals and fish. Based on the author’s observations of how knowledge and perspectives have changed over the last 50 years this book highlights lessons learned from historical records that may help maintain and reestablish coral reefs in the years to come. Topics covered include: CORAL REEF FISH Fish surveys CORAL REEF PROFILES Coral growth rates Coral distribution Corals on 'Cousteau garage' CORAL THREATS Climate change Coral bleaching Coral diseases Coral sponges Terpios hoshinota Coral predators Coral urchins CORAL – ALGAE CORAL RESEARCH and more . | Growth and Decay of Coral Reefs Fifty Years of Learning

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Asianism and the Politics of Regional Consciousness in Singapore

Asianism and the Politics of Regional Consciousness in Singapore

Over the last two decades Singapore has undergone a substantial degree of ‘Asianization’. Apart from participating in the Asian values debate of the 1990s re-visioning itself as ‘New Asia’ and a global-Asian hub and establishing Asian identities for the commodities it consumes and produces Singapore has also repurposed its modernity cultures and ethos along similar regionalist precepts. However even in recent times Singapore continues to vacillate ambivalently between identifying with and differentiating itself from Asia. Responding to the challenges Singapore faces in coming to terms with its Asian identity this book examines the complex cultural social and political underpinnings that have shaped Singapore’s mainstream discourse on Asia. Indeed it argues that its legacy as a colonial port city the exigencies of managing the post-independence nation state and the larger forces of imperialism and capitalism all contribute to its politics of Asianism. Taking a thoroughly interdisciplinary approach that spans history cultural studies postcolonialism and cultural geography Leong Yew reveals how Asia has been used to narrate Singapore’s beginnings revalidate Singaporean ethnic culture and to consolidate its practices of consumption and commodification. This book will be welcomed by students and scholars working across a range of fields including Asian culture and society Asian politics cultural theory and postcolonial studies. | Asianism and the Politics of Regional Consciousness in Singapore

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Policing Global Movement Tourism Migration Human Trafficking and Terrorism

Policing Global Movement Tourism Migration Human Trafficking and Terrorism

The movement of humans across borders is increasing exponentially—some for benign reasons others nefarious including terrorism human trafficking and people smuggling. Consequently the policing of human movement within and across borders has been and remains a significant concern to nations. Policing Global Movement: Tourism Migration Human Trafficking and Terrorism explores the nature of these challenges for police governments and citizens at large. Drawn from keynote and paper presentations at a recent International Police Executive Symposium meeting in Malta the book presents the work of scholars and practitioners who analyze a variety of topics on the cutting edge of global policing including:Western attempts to reform the policing of sex tourists in the Philippines and Gambia Policing the flow of people and goods in the port of RotterdamPolicing protestors and what happened at the 2010 G20 Summit in TorontoMexico’s use of the military in its war against drug traffickingPublic–private cooperation in the fight against organized crime and terrorism in AustraliaRecommendations for police reform in AfghanistanSweden’s national counterterrorism unitTreatment of asylum seekers in a privately run detention center in South AfricaThe policing of human trafficking for the sex trade in sub-Saharan Africa Vietnam Australia and Andhra Pradesh IndiaExamining areas of increasing concern to governments and citizens around the world this timely volume presents critical international perspectives on these ongoing global challenges that threaten the safety of humans worldwide. | Policing Global Movement Tourism Migration Human Trafficking and Terrorism

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Cyber Crime Investigator's Field Guide

Cyber Crime Investigator's Field Guide

Transhumanism Artificial Intelligence the Cloud Robotics Electromagnetic Fields Intelligence Communities Rail Transportation Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)—all this and more is discussed in Cyber Crime Investigator’s Field Guide Third Edition. Many excellent hardware and software products exist to protect our data communications systems but security threats dictate that they must be all the more enhanced to protect our electronic environment. Many laws rules and regulations have been implemented over the past few decades that have provided our law enforcement community and legal system with the teeth needed to take a bite out of cybercrime. But there is still a major need for individuals and professionals who know how to investigate computer network security incidents and can bring them to a proper resolution. Organizations demand experts with both investigative talents and a technical knowledge of how cyberspace really works. The third edition provides the investigative framework that needs to be followed along with information about how cyberspace works and the tools that reveal the who where what when why and how in the investigation of cybercrime. Features New focus area on rail transportation OSINT medical devices and transhumanism / robotics Evidence collection and analysis tools Covers what to do from the time you receive the call arrival on site chain of custody and more This book offers a valuable Q&A by subject area an extensive overview of recommended reference materials and a detailed case study. Appendices highlight attack signatures Linux commands Cisco firewall commands port numbers and more. | Cyber Crime Investigator's Field Guide

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Shipboard Life and Organisation 1731-1815

Shipboard Life and Organisation 1731-1815

The idea behind this volume according to its editor Brian Lavery was to give a rounded picture of life at sea during the age of sail. It concentrates on the daily routine of shipboard life rather than more dramatic events such as battles and mutiny. It supplements other volumes produced by the Navy Records Society notably Five Naval Journals 1789-1817 (vol 91 1951 ed H G Thursfield) and The Health of Seamen (vol 107 1965 ed C C Lloyd. )The selection begins in the second quarter of the eighteenth century because stated Brian Lavery ‘there are no suitable documents from earlier periods’ and closes in 1815 when the navy entered a new era with the advent of steam and a long period of peace. One of the most important aspects of shipboard life was that it was intensely self-contained especially in the later part of the age of sail. After the conquest of scurvy ships were able to stay at sea for many months at a time and the world-wide battle for empire caused them to make very long voyages often away from their home bases over a period of years. Even in port seamen often stayed on board and shore leave was not in any sense a right. This volume throws a spotlight on the way in which a crew of up to 850 men could be crammed into a small space for many months at a time and the ways in which they were fed clothed allocated space for eating and sleeping at the same time as they were organised for sailing and battle duties. It contains separate sections dealing with Admiralty Regulations Captain’s Orders Medical Journals discipline and punishment. It also includes an extensive glossary of the nautical terms and descriptions of the time. | Shipboard Life and Organisation 1731-1815

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Shipboard Propulsion Power Electronics and Ocean Energy

Shipboard Propulsion Power Electronics and Ocean Energy

Shipboard Propulsion Power Electronics and Ocean Energy fills the need for a comprehensive book that covers modern shipboard propulsion and the power electronics and ocean energy technologies that drive it. With a breadth and depth not found in other books it examines the power electronics systems for ship propulsion and for extracting ocean energy which are mirror images of each other. Comprised of sixteen chapters the book is divided into four parts: Power Electronics and Motor Drives explains basic power electronics converters and variable-frequency drives cooling methods and quality of power Electric Propulsion Technologies focuses on the electric propulsion of ships using recently developed permanent magnet and superconducting motors as well as hybrid propulsion using fuel cell photovoltaic and wind power Renewable Ocean Energy Technologies explores renewable ocean energy from waves marine currents and offshore wind farms System Integration Aspects discusses two aspects—energy storage and system reliability—that are essential for any large-scale power system This timely book evolved from the author’s 30 years of work experience at General Electric Lockheed Martin and Westinghouse Electric and 15 years of teaching at the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy. As a textbook it is ideal for an elective course at marine and naval academies with engineering programs. It is also a valuable reference for commercial and military shipbuilders port operators renewable ocean energy developers classification societies machinery and equipment manufacturers researchers and others interested in modern shipboard power and propulsion systems. The information provided herein does not necessarily represent the view of the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy or the U. S. Department of Transportation. This book is a companion to Shipboard Electrical Power Systems (CRC Press 2011) by the same author.

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