For broadband networks to be widely useful to society, they must dynamically recognize some connections, like those that deal with emergencies or natural disasters, as having greater importance than others. This paper proposes an architecture of geographically distributed ticket servers that issue importance tickets for connection admission. User agents contact ticket servers using an agent com...

Until the last decade of the 20th century, the environmental aspects of the sport industry very seldom received any attention in the societal debate. The very same year as the UNEP summit on Environment and Development was held in Rio, negative environmental aspects on the hosted city occupied space from the sport broadcast of the Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Despite an ambitious environmental...

The purpose of this paper is to catch a glimpse of the theoretical subject of club business management by analyzing ticket sale. Now, ticket sale has made little increase globally. When a club manager has a short view, he will regard relatively the ticket market as the market maturization. The club manager will not concentrate his attention on ticket sale in which he cannnot desire big sales. O...

We introduce a model that allows anonymous yet accountable access to services in mobile communication systems. This model is based on the introduction of a new business role, called the customer care agency, and a ticket based mechanism for service access. We introduce the general idea of ticket based service access, and present a categorisation of ticket types and ticket acquisition models. We...

OBJECTIVE To assess indicative trends in the use of protective eyewear by Australian squash players and their attitudes towards its use since 1989. METHODS Data were extracted from three Australian surveys of squash players conducted in 1989, 1995, and 2000. Responses to directly similar attitudinal questions relating to protective eyewear use from each survey were compared. The proportion of...

This study arose as a result of two squash players, one male one female, seeking advice on how to improve their mental approach to playing. They both felt that their game suffered badly through too much anxiety. After preliminary interviews it was decided to use a programme of stress inoculation training to help them learn to control their anxiety. In order to obtain baseline measures of anxiet...

In an interactive multimedia environment that handles multiple sessions dynamically, a mechanism for controlling the QOS among sessions is very important. It is, however, di cult to achieve such QOS control without any system support. A new resourcemanagement mechanism and QOS-control architecture for multimedia applications are needed. This paper rst discusses features required for such archit...

This paper proposes a concept of how to collect toll on highways. Unlike any existing method, the proposed approach requires no structure to be built on highways for the toll collection purpose and drivers are not required to stop or even slow down to pay toll. Toll must be prepaid in advance and a driver must keep a toll ticket as proof of payment. We apply public key cryptographic operations ...

Relationship marketing is a paradigm shift and it is associated with the return of direct marketing both in business-to-business and business-to-consumer markets (Seth & Parvatiyar 1995). This paradigm shift in marketing focuses on acquisition and retention in building and ensuring long-term relations with clients and therefor requires the integration of proper communication principles. A long-...

Most of the world languages are resource-poor for statistical machine translation; still, many of them are actually related to some resource-rich language. Thus, we propose three novel, language-independent approaches to source language adaptation for resource-poor statistical machine translation. Specifically, we build improved statistical machine translation models from a resource-poor langua...