Sustainable and optimal design of Chinese herbal medicine supply chain network based on risk dynamic regulation mechanism by Yao Wu, Weiwei Liu

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Short-Term Power Prediction by Using Least Square Support Vector Machine With Variational Mode Decomposition in a Photovoltaic System by Yongxiang Cai, Shuqing Hao, Xiankui Wen, Hongwei Li, Xiaomeng He, Lu Chen, Jiakuan Ren

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Disturbance rejection controller design based on adaptive nonlinear FOPID controller and chaotic WOA with a neuro-fuzzy approximation for URV robot by Mustafa Wassef Hasan

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Fixed-Time Sliding Mode Synchronization of Uncertain Fractional-Order Hyperchaotic Systems by Using a Novel Non-Singleton-Interval Type-2 Probabilistic Fuzzy Neural Network by Ke-Yong Shao, Ao Feng, Ting-Ting Wang

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Multi-area load frequency regulation of a stochastic renewable energy-based power system with SMES using enhanced-WOA-tuned PID controller by Peter Anuoluwapo Gbadega, Yanxia Sun

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A Dual Multimodal Biometric Authentication System Based on WOA-ANN and SSA-DBN Techniques by Sandeep Pratap Singh, Shamik Tiwari

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Multi-step ahead wind speed prediction based on a two-step decomposition technique and prediction model parameter optimization by He Wang, Min Xiong, Hongfeng Chen, Sumei Liu

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Loudspeaker Abnormal Sound Classification Using Auditory Perception Weighted by Energy Entropy by Haitao Su, Jialun Li, Jiepeng Gu, Hongzhi Hu, Cuifeng Xu

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Oil and gas operations offshore [videorecording] : an introduction / by The University of Texas at Austin. Petroleum Extension Service

“…From whaling ships in the north Atlantic, which provided valuable lamp oil, to the offshore drilling rigs that produce petroleum by the barrelful, humans have long looked under the sea for sources of energy. …”

hishuk’ish tsawalk—Everything is One by Charlotte Coté

“…My traditional name is thlutismayulth, Carrying Thunder, from our whaling heritage. I’m going to talk a little about who I am and where I am from. …”
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Baleias e Império: os Estados Unidos e a expansão baleeira nos mares do Atlântico Sul (1761-1844) by Wellington Castellucci Junior

“…Foram escrutinadas fontes em dois arquivos e museus da Nova Inglaterra, o Mystic Sea Port e o Whaling Museum. No primeiro, consultamos as relações de viagens baleeiras ocorridas entre a segunda metade do século XVIII até 1920. …”
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Ethical standards for research on marine mammals by Vassili Papastavrou, Conor Ryan

“…For example, the continuation of whaling for commercial purposes despite the international moratorium provides opportunities for scientists to obtain data and tissue samples. …”
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Demographic Reconstruction of Antarctic Fur Seals Supports the Krill Surplus Hypothesis by Joseph I. Hoffman, Rebecca S. Chen, David L. J. Vendrami, Anna J. Paijmans, Kanchon K. Dasmahapatra, Jaume Forcada

“…However, a lack of pre-whaling population baselines has made it challenging to investigate historical changes in the abundance of the major krill predators in relation to whaling. …”
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The World in a Footnote: Examining Ahab’s Chart in Chapter 44 of Moby-Dick by Julien Nègre

“…A comparison of Ahab’s use of nautical charts with actual documents used by whaling captains, though, reveals a disjunction between his cartographic ratiocinations and Maury’s work. …”
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Animals as instruments of Norwegian imperial authority in the interwar Arctic by Peder Roberts, Dolly Jørgensen

“…Reindeer were introduced to the island of South Georgia before World War I as Norwegian whalers turned a space previously uninhabited by humans into the operational hub of a booming Antarctic whaling industry. The successful transplantation of reindeer was followed by less successful attempts to transfer muskoxen from Greenland to Svalbard and the Scandinavian mainland, penguins from the Antarctic to the coast of Norway, and dreams of transferring fur seals from south to north. …”
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Revisiting Indonesia’s governance and conservation of cetaceans by Adrian Nugraha, Febrian Zen, Hawis Madduppa, Robert Lihtorng Chen

“…In addition, this research also recommends creating a collaboration mechanism between institutions and encouraging Indonesia to join as a full member of the International Whaling Commission and the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals Convention to strengthen cetacean governance and conservation.…”
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Pharming animals: a global history of antibiotics in food production (1935-2017) by Kirchhelle, C

“…Since their advent during the 1930s, antibiotics have not only had a dramatic impact on human medicine, but also on food production. On farms, whaling and fishing fleets as well as in processing plants and aquaculture operations, antibiotics were used to treat and prevent disease, increase feed conversion, and preserve food. …”

What Can Be Learned from Experience with Scientific Advisory Committees in the Field of International Environmental Politics? by Steinar Andresen, Prativa Baral, Steven J. Hoffman, Patrick Fafard

“…Third, there is also considerable variation in the extent to which the regime is driven by an overarching scientific consensus, for example, high in the case of climate change, lower in the case of whaling. Fourth, the role of science in a given regime is also a function of whether the problem being addressed is relatively benign or more malign, that is to say, marked by deep political disagreements (i.e., climate change). …”
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Interpreting Melville’s Typee: a Victorian age journey to understanding savage and civilized societies by Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam, Taha, Susan

“…The issue of cannibalism haunts the story, as do the abusive practices of colonial and whaling-ship officers, which provides the necessary suspense to carry the reader through the story to its end. …”
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Reframing the polar exploration narrative: Inuit resilience and ecological transformations in the early 20th century North American Arctic by Shini, N. Brentha

“…Instead, it offers an interdisciplinary study of how different Inuit communities across the region responded to ecological, cultural and religious shifts resulting from two interconnected events in North American polar exploration history—the decline in commercial whaling and the introduction of reindeer herding. …”
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