In a sporting context, it has been acknowledged that fan attention and response to sponsorship is affected by a range of variables, including the duration of sponsorship and fan commitment to the sporting organisation. The results of surveys of the members of five AFL clubs indicated that there is a positive relationship between the satisfaction level of season-ticket holders and their orientat...

Advances in wireless network technology and the continuously increasing users of Personal Trusted Device (PTD) make the latter an ideal channel for offering personalized services to mobile users. In this paper, we apply some cryptology (such as public key infrastructure, hashing chain and digital signature) to propose a realistic mobile ticket system such that fairness, non-repudiation, anonymi...

Study objective: The use of connections who have the authority to cancel penalties related to traffic violations seems to be very frequent in France. This study aimed at describing risk taking driving behaviours associated in France with using connections to have traffic tickets cancelled (ticket fixing). Design: Retrospective study on driving behaviour and road safety conducted between March a...

Quick response (QR) code has become one of the more popular two-dimensional barcodes because of its greater data capacity and higher damage resistance. The barcode scanners can easily extract the information hidden in the QR code while scanning the data modules. However, some sensitive data directly stored in QR codes are insecure in real-world QR applications, such as the e-ticket and e-coupon...

Abstract This paper studies how punishment affects future compliance behavior and isolates deterrence effects mediated by learning. Using administrative data from speed cameras that capture the full driving histories of more than a million cars over several years, we evaluate responses to at extensive (receiving speeding ticket) intensive margins (tickets with higher fines). Two complementary e...

The solution structure of a new modified thrombin binding aptamer (TBA) containing a 50–50 inversion of polarity site, namely d( 0 GGT 0 0 TGGTGTGGTTGG0), is reported. NMR and CD spectroscopy, as well as molecular dynamic and mechanic calculations, have been used to characterize the 3D structure. The modified oligonucleotide is characterized by a chair-like structure consisting of two G-tetrads...