Bayelsa State, Nigeria, faces a complex battle against illegal oil refining, locally known as Kpo-fire, which threatens the state's security, environment, and socio-economic stability despite ongoing Nigerian Navy interventions. This study investigates the challenges of illegal oil refining and...

Perceived value is a multidimensional construct that optimizes tourists’ stay in different destinations. This study analyzes the marketing of coastal and marine destinations from the perspective of foreign tourists. This research aimed to to a) establish the factors that influence foreign...

Perceived value is a multidimensional construct that optimizes tourists' stay in different destinations. This study analyzes the marketing of coastal and marine destinations from the perspective of foreign tourists. This research aimed to to a) establish the factors that influence foreign...

Coastal tourism is a significant part of the contemporary tourism, which is growing more and more due to the increasing world population with recreational needs. A part of the coastal tourism refers to using the coastal seawater for recreational activities, such as bathing. The bathing water...

National Defense requires adequately trained, prepared and equipped armed forces to perform in guaranteeing national interests and protect sovereignty. Regarding the issue of equipping - which is the main focus of the three forces' (Navy, Army, and Air Force) strategic programs - it is not...

Employing a measurement known as the “Hurst exponent,” I show that the U.S. War and Navy Departments displayed a strong trend towards “persistence”: that is, a tendency for each year’s budget to replicate the previous year’s over the period 1792-1957. Such a tendency, however, may...

This paper tackles some issues in personnel economics using the career profiles of British naval officers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We ask how promotions, payouts, positions, and peers affect worker retention. Random variation in task assignments and job promotions allows us...

This paper tackles some issues in personnel economics using the career profiles of British naval officers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We ask how promotions, payouts, positions, and peers affect worker retention. Random variation in task assignments and job promotions allows us...

This essay examines the ethical dilemmas that emerge from the intersection of morality and our professional obligations as attorneys. It argues that moral decision-making is difficult for similar reasons across professions: (1) We have imperfect knowledge about probabilities; (2) it is...

The “Blue Economy” is a recent topic of study that spans those economic activities which depend on ecosystem services, thereby including such sectors as tourism, maritime transport, energy, water, fishing, among others. However, there is only limited research approaching the added value...

The United States Navy’s most recent strategy document, A Design for Maritime Superiority 2.0, calls for the modernization of its own personnel management system to help maintain America’s competitive advantage over near peer adversaries in an increasingly complex global security...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to find the underlying variables of travel motivations associated with a coastal and marine destination, and the motivations that predict satisfaction and the intention to return and recommend a destination, as loyalty variables. Design/methodology/approach...

A fundamental problem in the field of the technological studies is to explain the source and nature of general purpose technologies (GPTs) that can support the patterns of long waves and socio-economic progress of nations. The study here confronts this problem by applying the theoretical...

As a nation gifted with approximately 5.8 million km sq of water areas and abundant marine biodiversity, Indonesia is expected to be able to prosper its citizen by utilizing its potential maritime sector. Unfortunately, maritime sector in Indonesia is still neglected. Vocational school of...

While most employers remain unaware, personal financial management problems of workers cost American employers millions of dollars in lost productivity every year. One employer who was interested in studying the cost was the United States Navy. This research found that the U.S. Navy experienced...

This paper examines the potential costs a country faces when it fails to develop domestic arms manufacturing. I examine these costs using the historical example of Canada's decision to not develop domestic naval shipbuilding capacity prior to World War II. Canada's primary naval responsibility...

As a nation gifted with approximately 5.8 million km sq of water areas and abundant marine biodiversity, Indonesia is expected to be able to prosper its citizen by utilizing its potential maritime sector. Unfortunately, maritime sector in Indonesia is still neglected. Vocational school of...

In 2007 it was six years since NMCI had been launched as the largest intranet system ever with more than 650,000 users. This update provides a summary of the problems and issues raised by GAO in its December 2006 report, DOD Needs to Ensure That Navy Marine Corps Intranet Program Is Meeting...