In recent years, three types of linacs have been developed for large container inspection for customs application, viz., S-Band 9MeV travelling-wave (TW) linacs, S-Band 6MeV Standing-wave (SW) linacs and XBand 2.5MeV (SW) linacs. In cooperation with Tsinghua Tongfang Co. Ltd, a series of container inspection systems has been produced. Seven sets of large container inspection systems with 9MeV T...

This paper deals with a smuggling game with multiple stages, in which Customs and a smuggler participate. Customs and the smuggler are allowed to take an action of patrol and smuggling, respectively, within the limited number of chances. Customs obtains reward by the capture of the smuggler and the smuggler gets reward by the success of smuggling. The reward or the payoff of the game is brought...

To reduce cost and effort, e-government is trying to maximize the digital interaction with its citizens. E-customs is a carry-over of such an effort. Worldwide Customs is transforming from the labor intensive paper work it used to be for ages to e-customs, where international trade is facilitated fully exploiting the global digital infrastructure of the 21st Century. Service-Oriented Auditing (...

In response, the Horizons Program and the Population Council, in collaboration with the Municipal Secretariat of Health and the customs station in Foz do Iguaçu, the Paraná State Secretariat of Health, and the Uruguaiana Municipal STI/AIDS Program, conducted an intervention study from 2002 to 2005. The study examined the feasibility, acceptability, and impact of providing a range of health serv...

an organization’s varied needs when it comes to recruiting and staffing. One often hears that the proposed solution to a “people problem” is to do a better job in the recruiting process of attracting better people, do a better job in the hiring process of identifying future stars and “weeding out” the problems, and do a better job of attracting and selecting a more diverse workforce. Moreover, ...

There is widespread agreement of the importance of information and communication technologies (ICT) in building equitable prosperity and globally competitive economies. Effective use of these technologies, however, requires building new capacities and skills, here referred to as eskills, not only in the working force but the entire population. These skills are in very short supply all over the ...

In recent American political discourse, elections and debates tend to be presented by the news media as collisions of basic principles, with opposing parties advancing beliefs about what is right and what is wrong. When news coverage of an election campaign focuses on issues that emphasize rights and morals, voting behavior may be affected in two ways: Citizens become likely to form and make us...

Business history has traditionally tended to neglect the management of labor and has been primarily concerned with the commercial, organizational, and technological aspects of the firm. Individual company histories touch on labor relations briefly and almost as an aside, often dealing with only the most superficial aspects. Only in recent years have there been signs of a growing interest in var...