The operation of a port, including its customs import processes, is an instance of a complex socio-technical system with multiple stakeholders. In order to provide insight for policy analysis, we posit the appropriateness of agent-based modelling techniques for the simulation of potential anticorruption policies in the maritime customs context. We outline the design of an agent-based simulation...

Article history: Received 5 May 2016 Received in revised form 18 August 2016 Accepted 19 August 2016 Available online 28 August 2016 Although homosexuality can evoke disgust, the extent to which disgust influences judgments about transgressions committed by homosexuals remains unclear. To address this knowledge gap, participants high (HHD) and low (LHD) in homosexual disgust provided disgust an...

The fundamental problem raised by reparations, and particularly reparations litigation, is the question of how to apportion responsibility for historical wrongs. The most controversial harm targeted by reparations litigation is the enslavement of Africans and African Americans and the injuries consequent to that enslavement. The task faced by such litigation, therefore, is to construct persuasi...

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...

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...