In the transportation sector, Smart Ticket Machines (STMs) have arisen as automated ticketing options that provide ease and effectiveness for both users operators. The research articles on smart ticket machines analysed in this review of literature are synthesised, including topics like user acceptability, implementation case studies, technology, security, accessibility, data analytics, interac...

Yeast histidine tRNA guanylyltransferase (TGT) catalyzes in the presence of ATP the addition of GTP to the 5‘ end of eukaryotic cytoplasmic tRNAHi” species. A study of the enzyme mechanism with purified protein showed that during the first step ATP is cleaved to AMP and PPi creating adenylylated TGT. In a second step the activated enzyme forms a stable complex with its cognate tRNA substrate. T...

This paper presents results from an impact analysis of the Ticket to Work (TTW) program, as implemented by the Social Security Administration (SSA) from 2002 through 2007. For new, young Social Security Disability beneficiaries, we use exogenous variation in the month of Ticket mailing to rigorously estimate impacts of TTW on beneficiary outcomes over a 48-month period following the start of Ti...

Online air ticket booking is a cognitively complex task even on fully-functional internet-access devices such as desktops, representing a repetitive multi-parametric search in the flights database and then browsing long lists of flights found, consisting of different carriers, prices, dates and times, to create an optimal combination of outbound and inbound flights. We present the results of re...

Cell nuclei are like gated communities—quite selective about who gets in. And understandably so, because if the wrong proteins showed up at the wrong time and place, the consequences could be disastrous. The standard procedure for moving large molecules that cannot diffuse from the cytoplasm into the nucleus is to use the transport proteins known as karyopherins as escorts. How do karyopherins ...

U.S. airlines achieved a startling turnaround in 2009. Profits rose to $2.3 billion after a loss of $3.3 billion the year before. Also during 2009, the airlines collected $2.7 billion in baggage fees (U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics 2010). In other words, by charging separately for a service once associated with the price of a ticket, the airlines turned a potential loss into a profit....

This paper analyzes how subjective experiences of being punished affect subsequent offending behavior. The context of our study is the enforcement of speeding tickets through speeding radars in a suburb of Prague. Using unique data that cover anonymized individual driving and ticketing histories of more than 170,000 car owners over 15 months, we evaluate drivers’ responses to receiving a speedi...

This article examines ticket splitting in five different mixed-member electoral systems—Germany, New Zealand, Japan, Lithuania, and Russia—and indicates the shortcomings inherent in any analysis of such ticket splitting that does not take into account the presence of the personal vote. We find that the personal vote plays a central part in shaping ticket splitting in all of our cases except for...

Electronic tickets (e-tickets) are electronic versions of paper tickets, which enable users to access intended services and improve services’ efficiency. Generally, to buy discounted tickets, users must convince ticket sellers that their attributes (i.e. age, profession, location) satisfy the ticket price policies. Hence, privacy issues have been the primary concerns of e-tickets users. In this...