This paper proposes seamless customer identification (SCI), a means to identify physically present customers without any effort on customers’ part beyond a one-time opt-in. With SCI, customers need not present cards or operate smartphones to convey their identities. So, stores can provide personalized shopping experiences at any time, not just at check-out. SCI uses two complementary technologi...

Abstract One major insight derived from the moral twin earth debate is that evaluative and descriptive terms possess different levels of semantic stability, in meanings former but not latter tend to remain constant over significant counterfactual variance patterns application. At same time, it common metanormative divide into those are thin thick. In this paper, I combine debates about stabilit...

Light which enters a photomultiplier tube is detected and produces an output signal through the following processes. (1) Light passes through the input window. (2) Light excites the electrons in the photocathode so that photoelectrons are emitted into the vacuum (external photoelectric effect). (3) Photoelectrons are accelerated and focused by the focusing electrode onto the first dynode where ...

Background Establishment of viable pregnancy requires embryo implantation and placentation. Ectopic pregnancy (EP) is a pregnancy complication which occurs when an embryo implants outside of the uterine cavity, most often in a fallopian tube. On the other hand, an important aspect of successful implantation is angiogenesis. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a potent angiogenic factor...

CSCW seems to be in a dilemma. On one hand there is a position which aims at the provision of systems that prescribe interaction but which, in doing so, restricts coordinative interaction, and on the other hand a position which aims at radically flexible systems that do not prescribe interaction but which, in doing so, leaves it to the users to cope with the complexity of coordinating their coo...

WebSubmit is a Web-browser based interface to heterogeneous collections of remote high-performance computing resources. It makes these resources easier to use by replacing a constantly changing range of unfamiliar , command-driven queuing systems and application environments with a single, seamless user interface. WebSubmit lets users run in their regular accounts on the remote system. Strong a...

AIMS OF THE STUDY We compared seamless combination of probation and treatment (where the probation officer is co-located with treatment provider or is actively engaged in treatment) to traditional probation where treatment is left to the client's choice. METHODS Clients were randomly assigned to either seamless or traditional probation. We used a decision analytic approach which had two advan...