As mobile devices have been popular, many wireless applications for mobile devices have been developed. One of applications is to represent financial transaction report for a product such as online game. This paper presents the architecture of financial transaction report system of an online game on WAP with J2EE and WML as a case study. The implemented system provides transactional report by f...

BACKGROUND To effectively address the health burden of tobacco use, tobacco control programs must find ways of motivating smokers to quit. The present study examined the extent to which former smokers' motivation to quit was influenced by two tobacco control policies recently introduced in the Waterloo Region: a local smoke-free bylaw and graphic cigarette warning labels. METHODS A random dig...

Transactional analysis (TA) is a theory of personality that can be applied in virtually all fields of psychology: educational, counseling, organizational and psychotherapy. The atmosphere that supports transactional analysis is one of comfort, security and respect. A positive relationship is forged between the clinician and the client in order to provide a model for subsequent relationships tha...

The art and science of clustering is used in many fields, from ubiquitous customer segmentation for gauging marketing effectiveness, to predicting default patterns among credit card holders, to its recent application by financial institutions to segment investment customers to enhance liquidity management. In the area of anti-money-laundering, the use of peer grouping, or segmenting, is even mo...

This paper describes a flexible distributed transactional workflow environment based on an extensible object-oriented framework built around class libraries, application programming interfaces, and shared services. The purpose of this environment is to support a range of EC-like business activities including the support of financial transactions and electronic contracts. This environment has as...

A new data model is proposed using a traditional accounting approach to model an organization’s transactional data and extending this model to include not only financial information but also internal business process, learning and growth, and customer perspectives. It provides an organization with a single data model that supports both transactional and data warehousing needs. The model has a v...