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The Anjana
Published in Balai Chandra Das, Sandipan Ghosh, Aznarul Islam, Suvendu Roy, Anthropogeomorphology of Bhagirathi-Hooghly River System in India, 2020
Balai Chandra Das, Debabrata Das
For uninterrupted smooth navigation through rivers ways and for assured supply of adequate water for indigo processing, indigo planters were very much concerned about the river Anjana, and they made a significant change in the channel forms. The second branch of the river Anjana which is known as Heler Khal (canal), named after an indigo planter, was excavated in between Jaypur and Ichapur villages (Dutta, 1996). Peoples in Nadia district who were active participants of indigo revolt in the 19th century Bengal used to move through the river Anjana at midnight. But the indigo planters were informed about their movement through the Anjana. So, to stop their movement at midnight, indigo planters made earthen bāndh from both sides of the banks for partial closure of the river course. Then, central part of the river was fenced by iron grille mesh at Joypur indigo factory (Dutta, 1996). All the indigo factories on the bank of the river Anjana (Table 16.4) had their significant signature on channel geomorphology in the form of excavation of canal, dredging of the channel to improve navigability locally, making barriers across the channel, making ghat, etc.
Short sea shipping in the age of information and communications technology
Published in Tiago A. Santos, C. Guedes Soares, Short Sea Shipping in the Age of Sustainable Development and Information Technology, 2020
Tiago A. Santos, C. Guedes Soares
The potential areas of SSS improvement using information and communications technology, leading to increased utilization of SSS, have been listed in, for example, CENIT et al. (2015) and the Portuguese Port Association (2007): Integration of the logistics chain stakeholders (shipowners, carriers, forwarders) in a one-stop shop (IT systems), allowing the monitoring of cargo flows and transparency.Avoidance of discrimination of SSS in relation to deep sea shipping.Year-round navigability (no restrictions due to ice, bad weather, drought).Availability of water depth with no tidal restrictions.Simplification of rules governing the operation of ports.Reduced bureaucracy and complex documentation, namely in customs.Improvement of the overall reliability of the terminal.Establishment and monitoring of a set of service performance indicators.These aspects, which require further improvement if SSS is to provide a more attractive solution for freight transportation, may in fact be addressed by ICT at different levels. Figure 13.1 shows the scope of the three main types of electronic facilities along the full span of the logistics chain.
Examining user engagement and use of fitness tracking technology through the lens of technology affordances
Published in Behaviour & Information Technology, 2022
Xin Zhou, Archana Krishnan, Ersin Dincelli
Navigability refers to the extent to which users can explore a digital environment on their own. Technologies with good navigability enable users to explore the functions with ease and are designed to minimise the possible complexity that users may encounter (Sundar, Bellur, and Jia 2012). Such technologies use scaffolds or navigation tools (e.g. sitemaps) to allow users to explore the digital environment with the least possible effort. This is likely to create a positive user experience and a feeling of confidence in using the technology (Herrero and San Martin 2012; Joo, Park, and Lim 2018; Wojdynski and Kalyanaraman 2016; Zhang et al. 2017). Confidence in using technology, in return, can facilitate performing the desired behaviour using said technology.