The Thai coup of 19 September 2006 derived ideological legitimacy from the view that the Thaksin government’s electoral mandate was illegitimate because it had been ‘‘bought’’ from an unsophisticated and easily manipulated electorate. There is nothing new about this argument, nor its use in justifying military interference. Political commentators have asserted regularly that the Thai populace l...

Near Field Communication (NFC) technology allows for the implementation of novel contactless payment systems in stationary retail. In this paper, we quantitatively analyze the impact of such systems on a retailer's payment costs on the example of real-world data from a Swiss food retailer. Our results indicate that the introduction of contactless payment under current card fee models would in v...

S. Cheng and L. J. Curtis Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606 (Received 7 July 1997) We have confirmed the prediction of a pseudo-time-reversal-odd anisotropy proportional to $ E ? k̂ in the decay of metastable s2s1y2d Ar171 ions in an electric field $ E, where k̂ is the direction of observation. The anisotropy arises from interference between the M1 and ...

A new method of calculating the asymmetry parameter from aircraft microphysical observations is discussed and has been applied to aircraft data where direct measurements are available. Recent parameterizations of the asymmetry parameter often are based on theoretical ray-tracing results for simple particle shapes. One recent theory, which has gained prominence, is the use of equivalent surface ...

Moinuddin Ghauri 1,*, Khurram Shahzad 2,*, Abrar Inayat 3, Zulfiqar Ali 4, Waqar Ali Khan 5, Javaid Akhtar 2 and Keith R. Cliffe 6 1 Department of Chemical Engineering, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Defence Road, Off Raiwind Road, Lahore 54000, Pakistan 2 Centre for Coal Technology, University of the Punjab, Lahore 54000, Pakistan; [email protected] 3 Department of Sustainable...

Prior studies indicate that perceived risk is an important determinant of the adoption of commerce-related IT innovations. However, little work has investigated how risk perceptions are formulated in consideration of different demographic attributes. Based on a sample of 377 useful responses, this study quantifies how different risk dimensions (privacy risk, performance risk, psychological risk...

This paper presents a printed near field communication system that can be integrated into everyday objects, like paper products or plastic parts. The interface is realised by high-volume production technologies, like printing and injection moulding, as they allow for the integration of “low-end” electronics at low costs and, thus, potentially enable a wide spreading of the technology. As a firs...

Traditionally, there are two methods to implement anonymous channels: free-route networks like onion routing and cascade networks like mix network. Each of them has its merits and is suitable for some certain applications of anonymous communication. Both of them have their own drawbacks, so neither of them can satisfy some applications. A third solution to anonymous channels, Klein bottle routi...

In this work, the physical and mechanical properties of bleached Eucalyptus pulp reinforced with nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) are compared with those of traditional beaten pulp used in the making of writing/printing and offset printing papers. For this purpose, three different types of hardwood slurries were prepared: beaten pulps, unbeaten pulps reinforced with NFC, and slightly beaten pulp...