Following an introduction to containerships, formal safety assessment and its development in the shipping industry are described. Containership accident statistics are studied and discussed. This is followed by a description of containership characteristics and a proposed formal safety...

This paper has identified specific problems likely to be encountered in endeavour of implementing reliability-centred maintenance (RCM) on ships. These stem out of the cultural differences between the aviation and maritime industries. In the maritime industry, RCM is often considered resource...

We solve the optimal asset allocation problem using a mean variance approach. The original mean variance optimization problem can be embedded into a class of auxiliary stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) problems using the method in Zhou and Li (2000) and Li and Ng (2000). We use a finite...

We consider the bandwidth selection in a test of equality of regression curves given by King et al. (1991). We propose two sub-sample methods that determine data-based bandwidths maximizing the power while keeping the asymptotic size of the test to be fixed at a given level. The optimality is...

Stochastic resonance (SR) induced by the signal modulation is investigated, by introducing the signal-modulated gain into a single-mode laser system. Using the linear approximation method, we detailedly calculate the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a gain-noise model of the single-mode laser,...

Owing to the considerable virtues of semiconductor lasers for applications, they have become the main optical source for fiber communication systems recently. The behavior of stochastic resonance (SR) in direct-modulated semiconductor laser systems is investigated in this article. Considering...

The stochastic resonance phenomenon is studied in a single-mode laser system driven by correlated multiplicative and additive colored noises without modulation by external periodic force. We detect that there are multiple extrema (maximum) in the curve of the mean output laser intensity versus...

We theoretically investigate a possible interfacial charge current flowing in a magnetised/normal graphene junction where both the intrinsic and extrinsic (Rashba) spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is considered in the normal graphene. It is found that a spin galvanic effect occurs at the interface and...