Workplace Violence Workplace violence has become a well-known yet often misunderstood social problem in both the United States and around the world. Ever since 1986, when a postal employee in Edmond, Oklahoma, murdered 14 fellow employees and wounded several others, workplace violence has been synonymous with senseless violence directed against coworkers and supervisors by deranged and disgrunt...

The UK government’s experiments withr remote voting (by post, Internet, telephone and SMS) have focused on increasing turnout at elections. The data so far however show that those already most likely to vote, and those with an incentive to commit electoral fraud, have received the greatest benefit. This has not provided a solid base for the public trust necessary to “e-enable” elections, and ha...

This paper describes a method of real-time processing of machine-printed Chinese postage envelopes in an automated postal system. We propose a vision-based postal envelope identification method, and a system that can be applied to rapidly moving machine-printed Chinese postage envelopes through the postal process. Our system uses a high-speed camera to capture images of envelopes running on a c...