Thesis (M.A.)--East Carolina University, 2009. / Presented to the faculty of the Department of Anthropology. Advisor: Charles R. Ewen. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed May 25, 2010). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of West Florida, 2009. / Submitted to the Dept. of Anthropology. Title from title page of source document. Document formatted into pages; contains 250 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Den här studien undersöker utvecklingen av att skapa en ny turistprodukt och utgår från projektet med vrakutfärder för allmänheten inom en framtida marin park på Dalarö. Vrakutfärderna kräver en teknisk utrustning ombord på båten samt en undervattenskamera (ROV) som filmar vraken. Det undersöks även i den här uppsatsen hur marknadsföringen kan se ut samt hur produkten kan bli mer attraktiv och säljbar. Undersökningen baseras på kvalitativa intervjuer med personer insatta i projektet, en observationsstudie av Dalarö som destination samt en dokumentstudie av de dokument som insamlats genom Haninge kommun. Den tidigare forskningen som använts har studerats inom tre delar; vrakturism, storytelling och marknadsföring. Resultaten av detta har visat att det finns stora utmaningar med att utveckla vrakturism i skärgården. Men slutsatserna är ändå att om dessa hinder kan lösas så finns det förutsättningar till att det blir en attraktiv turismprodukt genom professionell storytelling samt marknadsföring genom till exempel Vasamuseet. Det finns både positiva och negativa sidoeffekter genom att tillgängliggöra vraken för allmänheten. Negativa effekter är bland annat nedskräpning av den marina miljön samt förstörelse av vraken. Positiva effekter är bland annat regleringar genom naturreservatsbestämmelser samt att detta ger förutsättningar till forskning av vraken. / This study investigates the development of creating a new tourism product and is based on the project with shipwreck-trips to the public within a future marine park in Dalarö. The shipwreck-trips require technical equipment on board the boat and an underwater camera (ROV), which focuses on the wrecks. It also examined in this paper how the marketing might look like and how they can become more attractive and salable. This study is based on qualitative interviews with people familiar with the project, an observational study of Dalarö as a destination and a document study of the documents collected in Haninge. The previous research used has been studied in three parts; shipwreck tourism, visiting reasons and marketing. The result of this has shown that there are significant challenges in developing wreck tourism in the archipelago. But the conclusions are still that if these obstacles can be overcome, there are opportunities to become an attractive tourism product through professional storytelling and marketing through for example the Vasa Museum. There are both positive and negative side effects by making the shipwrecks available to the public. Negative effects include littering of the marine environment as well as destruction of the shipwrecks. Positive effects include regulation through the nature reserve provisions and that this provides the conditions for research of the shipwrecks.

In this day and age of europeanisation and internationalisation of all aspects of society, including law, the topic of medieval maritime law has attracted increasing interest.  Regulating sea shipping, which is characterised by the connection between different ‘nations’, sea law is intrinsically international.  Or is it?  The existence of a common medieval maritime law has often been presumed, but is researched thoroughly for the first time in this study. By analysing the developing and spread of the written sea laws across Northern Europe and by comparing the contents of the different maritime regulations, as well as the legal practice in five Northern European towns (Lübeck in Northern Germany, Reval (Tallinn) in Estonia, Danzig (Gdansk) in Poland, Kampen in the Netherlands and Aberdeen in Scotland) by using the examples of shipwreck, jettison and ship collision, the author has aimed to determine whether it is accurate to speak of a common law of the sea in medieval Northern Europe on the level of the books of law, their contents and the practice of the law at the town courts. Research has proven that there was no uniformity on any of these levels, despite occasional similarities between the laws and the judgements passed by the courts.  There was no single law compilation available throughout Northern Europe at any time during the Middle Ages, there were no common regulations in the written laws and there was  no uniform legal practice in the towns of Northern Europe. The divergence between the five towns handled in this study could largely be explained by the different role each of the towns played on the European stage.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Western Australia, 2007.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2005. / Advisor: Dr. William A. Parkinson, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Anthropology. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 10, 2005). Document formatted into pages; contains xxii, 302 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2000. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53-57).

Almost two thirds of the Earth's surface is covered in ocean, and yet, only about 5% of it is mapped. There are an unknown amount of sunken ships, planes, and other artifacts hidden below the sea. Extensive search via boat and a sonar tow fish following a standard lawnmower pattern is used to identify sites of interest. Then, if a site has been determined to potentially be historically significant, the most common next step is a survey by either a human dive team or remotely operated vehicle. These are time consuming, error prone, and potentially dangerous options, but autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are a possible solution. This thesis introduces a system for automatically generating paths for AUVs to survey and map shipwrecks. Most AUVs include software to set a lawnmower path for a given region of ocean, and individualized paths can be set via specifying GPS encoded nodes for the AUV to pass through. This thesis presents an algorithm for generating an individualized path that permits the AUV, equipped with a camera to "see" all sides of a region of interest (i.e. a shipwreck). This allows the region of interest to be completely documented. Photogrammetry can then be used to reconstruct a three-dimensional model, but a path is needed to do so. Paths are generated by a probabilistic roadmap algorithm that uses a rapidly-exploring random tree to quickly cover the volume of exploration space and generate small maps with good coverage. The roadmap is constructed out of nodes, each having its own weight. The weight of a given node is calculated using an objective function which measures an approximate view coverage by casting rays from the virtual view and intersecting them with the region of interest. In addition, the weight of a node is increased if this node allows the AUV to see a new side of the region of interest. In each iteration of the algorithm, a node to expand off of is selected based off its location in space or its high weight, a new node with a given amount of freedom is generated, and then added to the roadmap. The algorithm has degrees of freedom in position, pitch, and yaw as well as the objective function to encourage the path to see all sides of the region of interest. Once all sides of the region of interest have been viewed, a path is determined to be complete. The algorithm was tested in a virtual world where the virtual camera acted as the AUV. All of the images collected from our automatically generated path were used to create 3D models and point clouds using photogrammetry. To measure the effectiveness of our paths versus the pre-packaged lawnmower paths, the 3D models and point clouds created from our algorithm were compared to those generated from running a standard lawnmower pattern. The paths generated by our algorithm captured images that could be used in a 3D reconstruction which were more detailed and showed better coverage of the region of interest than those from the lawnmower pattern.

The thesis begins with a brief description and analysis of various genres Junger blends in his text. What follows is a look at the challenges of interpretation in historical writing and theoretical framing of the genre distinctions regarding new journalism and nonfiction narrative.

Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document / Thesis (DPhil (Cultural History))--University of Pretoria, 2001. / Historical and Heritage Studies / unrestricted