During my tenure as director of the Postal Inspection Headquarters Laboratory (1988-1992), a Postal Inspector submitted a computer to examine for the presence of specific evidence he had enumerated in the letter of request. The evidence technician logged in the computer, assigned it a case number, and brought the request to me, inquiring “What should we do with this?” That was the beginning of ...

P.P. Avelino, 2 D. Bazeia, L. Losano, 4, 3 J. Menezes, 4, 5 and B. F. Oliveira Centro de Astrof́ısica da Universidade do Porto, Rua das Estrelas, 4150-762 Porto, Portugal Departamento de F́ısica e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 687, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal Departamento de F́ısica, Universidade Federal da Paráıba 58051-970 João Pessoa, Paráıba, Brazil...

It is important to have the accuracy sorting plan for the save of postman work time and the fast delivery of the receipt mail. It’s also very important to plan the proper carrier sorting plan at the situation where the number of pocket of letter sorting machine [LSM] is less than the number of postal code or the number of carrier. This paper describes the method for the carrier sorting plan and...

BACKGROUND: Health studies sometimes rely on postal code location as a proxy for the location of residence. This study compares the postal code location to that of the street address using a database from the Alberta Provincial Project for Outcome Assessment in Coronary Heart Disease (APPROACHCopyright ). Cardiac catheterization cases in an urban Canadian City were used for calendar year 1999. ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This case describes challenges in the adoption and implementation of IT in two public sector enterprises in the postal and distribution businesses respectively, in India. In spite of similarities in the scale of operations and the general cultural contexts, the IT adoption processes and outcomes of the two organizations were significantly different. While one failed to impleme...

J . N . P R E T T Y , * , † A . D . N O B L E , ‡ D . B O S S I O , § J . D I X O N , | R . E . H I N E , † F . W . T . P E N N I N G D E V R I E S , ⊥ A N D J . I . L . M O R I S O N † Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Environment and Society, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, U.K., International Water Management Institute (IWMI), P.O. Box 1025, Kasetsart U...

P.P. Avelino, 2 D. Bazeia, L. Losano, 3, 4 and J. Menezes 4, 5 Centro de Astrof́ısica da Universidade do Porto, Rua das Estrelas, 4150-762 Porto, Portugal Departamento de F́ısica e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 687, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal Departamento de F́ısica, Universidade Federal da Paráıba 58051-970 João Pessoa, Paráıba, Brazil Centro de F́ısic...