Singapore is depicted to be the fastest growing telecommunications nation in Asia. Presently, all the members of the Singapore banking industry have engaged in the use of Information and Communication Technology as a platform for effective and efficient means of conducting financial transactions. This paper focuses on determining the level of users’ acceptance of the electronic banking services...

Due to the continuously increasing container trade, many terminals are presently operating at or close to capacity. An efficient terminal is one that facilitates the quick transshipment of containers to and from ships. In this sake, this paper addresses the ship assignments problem at a maritime container terminal, where ships are normally assigned to specific quay cranes until the work is fini...

This paper describes the design and implementation of a exible and extens-ible framework for providing access to diverse and geographically remote data reserves. This study combines the use of client/server gateways and virtual documents to provide generic client access to remote databases, which may employ diierent data formats and protocols. This exploration has resulted in the construction o...

Inflation is presently our most convincing scenario of the very early universe, not only because it is physically attractive, but also because it makes a series of definite predictions that can be tested concretely by means of astrophysical observations. In this short article, we quickly review what are these predictions and describe how the on-going high accuracy Cosmic Microwave Background (C...

Presentists face a challenge from truthmaker theory: if you hold that the only existing objects are presently existing objects and, moreover, you agree that truth supervenes on being, then you will be hard pressed to identify some existent on which a given true but traceless claim about the past supervenes. Cameron (Philos Books 49:292–301, 2008, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, In: D Zimmerman (...

Hypertension, orthostatic hypotension, arterial insufficiency, and atherosclerosis are common disorders in the elderly that lead to significant morbidity and mortality. One common factor to these conditions is an age-related decline in vascular beta-adrenergic receptor-mediated function and subsequent cAMP generation. Presently, there is no single cellular factor that can explain this age-relat...

This paper demonstrates that multi-stage compaction (supercompaction) (high-force compaction) has an important role to play in treating metallic LLW. A specialized shear/compactor can produce significant labor and burial cost savings, as well as better operational safety and environmental protection. A case study is the supercompaction facility presently nearing completion at the DOE East Tenne...

Recently, individual difference scaling has become one of the most active fields of research in psychometrics. Numerous models and algorithms have been proposed but relatively little evidence as to the validity of the produced representations is available so far. To shed some new light on this issue we will reanalyze some data collected by Green and Rao (1972) via PINDIS (Procrustrean INdividua...

Variable structures with sliding mode control (SCM) are one of the best techniques for analyzing the dynamics of nonlinear systems, not only in continuous domain but also in discrete domain. This paper presents a redefined discrete quasi-sliding mode control strategy. The reaching law condition defined in the presently available technique is redefined in this paper. For systems with both time i...