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The article analyses the attack of Ulcinj (Ulqin) pirates, otherwise the Ottoman sultan's subjects, on British trade ship Adventure, on spring of 1718, in waters near the Albanian city Durazzo. The incident provoked diplomatic and commercial disputes, revealing the interests and functions of Ottoman, British and Venetian institutions. The reports from British representatives from the Venice and the Ottoman Empire describe the details of the attacks, and then the procedures that British merchants and diplomatic representatives had to undertake in attempts to restore the abducted goods and the ship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reducing the amount of air infiltration through the doorways of food storage rooms would improve temperature control and the overall economics of food storage. In the UK a joint government/industry supported LINK project has been set up to look at methods of reducing air infiltration. The project is combining direct experimental measurement with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling. A CFD model of air movement through a doorway has been developed and verified against conventional and laser Doppler anemometry (LDA) measurements. The CFD model has been shown to be generally accurate, however, there are areas where the accuracy is less than perfect. For example the CFD model predicted the shape of the vertical profile accurately, although it under-predicted the maximum velocity by 0.1 m s−1 and it predicted the height at which the airflow changed direction to be 40 mm lower than was measured by the LDA. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]