...technology makes an incredible stride in modern businesses’ and societies’ progression. “RFID is the generic name for technologies that use radio waves to identify and track objects automatically”(Jones, Hill, Hiller & Comfort, 2005). RFID system comprises tags with integrated circuit where data is stored, a reader and antenna which communicate between reader and tags. The tags could be active, passive or semi-passive. Active tags have built in battery and can be used for reading and writing capabilities. Similarly, semi-passive tags contain a battery that enables longer reading distance and also enable the tags to operate independently of the reader whereas passive tags do not have power source and do not have writing capability. This RFID system does not require line of sight to detect data like in bar code system. The reader transmits wave signal where the tags use this signal as power source or use the power in circuit to transmit data stored in tags back to the reader. The data acquired by the reader is then passed to a host computer or any other devices (Jones et.al, 2005). Many people argue that RFID technology has positive impacts on business and society. However, RFID technology creates negative impacts on business and society. This essay will outline the impacts of RFID in the efficiency of business, its cost analysis, and impacts in large sectors of society. The most argumentative issue in the debate is whether RFID...
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...“If you build it they will come” fails for turtle crossings By Sarah Zelinski | 1 | It’s really too bad that turtles can’t read. | 2 | If they did, it would make saving them so much easier. When people create an ecopassage1 so the reptiles can safely cross a road by going underneath or over it, they could let the animals know with little signs saying “Don’t become roadkill! Safe crossing, left 20 meters.” | 3 | Instead, we have to rely on fencing to keep the turtles and snakes off roads, which is a good idea because 98 percent or more of turtles are killed in their first attempt at a road crossing. But the reliance on fences may be a problem, a new study shows. When there aren’t effective fences to keep the reptiles out, they don’t use the ecopassages, James Baxter-Gilbert of Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, and colleagues report March 25 in PLOS ONE. | 4 | The study looked at the effectiveness of a series of ecopassages built along a 13-kilometer stretch of Highway 69/40 near Burwash, Ontario, near Lake Huron, a region with high reptile biodiversity. The passages ran beneath the highway and were paired with fencing along the road. The researchers looked at reptile activity along the roadway before and after the project was constructed, and also used another stretch of highway, near the Magnetawan First Nation, as a comparison. | 5 | They surveyed the roadside and put up cameras in the ecopassages to see what kind...
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...CHAPTER I PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND 1.1 Introduction The technology today plays a vital role in our society. Many reviewers can be access using online to make work easier and efficient. Our examinees take the civil service exam and they rely on their books to access some information to review. It is an important thing that ECSERR should have because it helps a lot in many ways such as reviewing, updating and accessing data. It also helps a lot in such a way of viewing of questionnaire same as civil service to know that format inside. Having ECSERR can help more chance of passing. This Application is applicable to all android phones, more valuable especially for under-employed, it takes some ideas and information about the facts of Civil service. The Civil service reviewer is one major problem for us to know how to review without a particular book of reviewer. 1.2 Background Of The Study One of the greatest challenges in most of the examinee today is to review without the particular book of reviewer in Civil service examination. This application will serve as a digital reviewer that you can take anywhere with you to refresh and enhance your knowledge regarding the exam. ECSERR can use whether offline or online. The offline purpose is to review without any access to internet and the online purpose is to know when, where, how and etc., the data about the Civil Service examinations to familiarized about the questions and to have an idea what Civil Service...
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...Veronica McNutt IT590 Unit 4 Assignment Professor DePriest September 2, 2014 Unit 4 Assignment Essay Questions Scenario 1: You are working as a designer for a university that offers a program in Computer Science. One of the tracts is computer security. One of your colleagues has recommended adding a course addressing network security. In this course, students learn about the history of networks and study network attacks that have caused significant damage to the network that was the subject of the attack. During the second term of this two semester course, the students are taught how to hack into a system, how to create malware (including Trojan horses, viruses, and worms), and how to perpetrate a DOS attack. Choose one or more of the ethical theories discussed in Chapter 2 and combine that with research to determine whether this course should be taught. Be sure to discuss both sides of the issue before taking a specific side. Would it make a difference if this were a graduate or PhD level course instead of an undergraduate level course? Explain. Disadvantages According to research, there are many concerns for offering hands-on training to students in a computer network class. According to Trabelsi & Ibrahim (2013), UAE conducted a survey of the students who used the skills learned in the hands-on DOS attack class. Eighty five percent of students used the skills learned outside the isolated network university lab. These concerns would be the following: that the...
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...reality technology integrates 3D virtual objects into a real 3D environment, in real time. This book chapter presents the areas of everyday life where AR can be used (including, but not limited to): medical informatics, production repair, visualization, route planning, entertainment and military applications, marketing tasks and education. The basic characteristics of AR systems, the need for compro‐ mise in their applicability, and optical and video mixing approaches are presented in the chapter. The chapter introduces the two main areas of sensor errors, which are considered as a basic problem during the design of efficient augmented reality systems. We summarize how the current devices are able to solve these problems. The expected future direction of AR technology developments and the areas where further research is needed are simultaneously introduced. 1.1. Aims In the course of preparing the study, the actualities of augmented reality technologies have been reviewed. Questions associated with differing scope of application, design and imple‐ mentation problems of augmented reality systems, and possible solutions have been delineat‐ ed during the writing process. The book chapter concludes with possible compromises for questions and approaches, which have arisen during the problem-solving process, and possible directions for future developments are presented, which are suitable for further researches. © 2014 The Author(s). Licensee InTech. This chapter...
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...SECTION 1: Human resource management, Business environment and Human resource planning. LO1 a & b (26 marks). Question 1 With the support of relevant examples from the given case: Define personnel management and human resource management, and discuss TWO major differences between the two concepts. (6 marks) Analyze TWO potential external business environment challenges faced by Enterprise Rent-a-Car and their implications on the Company. (10 marks) Based on the challenges analyzed in Question 1b), above, suggest effective human resource planning process and methods, that can be used by Enterprise Rent-a-Car in determining the manpower needs for it’s international business expansion. Justify your answer with specific examples. (10 marks) Introduction This question will focus on defining and differentiating Personnel Management from HRM, it will also examine some technological and social challenges, as potential external business environment challenges faced by the company, and will discus an effective HR Planning process and method to address those challenges. a) Definitions and Differences Personnel Management: Is the administrative discipline which mainly works around Industrial/ Employee/ Labour Relations and activities connected with grievance handling, negotiations, enforcement of labour statute, looking after welfare of employees and so on. Human Resource Management: The process of hiring and developing employees so that they become...
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...Chapter 1 Information Systems in Global Business Today True-False Questions 1. Internet advertising is growing at a rate of more than 30 percent a year. Answer: True 2. Difficulty: Hard Reference: p. 6 A business model describes how a company produces, delivers, and sells a product or service to create wealth. Answer: True Difficulty: Easy Reference: p. 11 3. Information technology (IT) consists of all the hardware that a firm needs to use in order to achieve its business objectives, whereas information systems consist of all the software and business processes needed. Answer: False Difficulty: Medium Reference: pp. 13–14 4. Computers are only part of an information system. Answer: True Difficulty: Easy Reference: p. 16 5. Information systems literacy describes the behavioral approach to information systems, whereas computer literacy describes the technical approach. Answer: False Difficulty: Easy Reference: p. 16 6. The dimensions of information systems are management, organizations, and information technology. Answer: True Difficulty: Easy Reference: p. 16 7. In order to understand how a specific business firm uses information systems, you need to know something about the hierarchy and culture of the company. Answer: True Difficulty: Easy Reference: pp. 17–18 8. Developing a new product, fulfilling an order, or hiring a new employee are examples of business processes. Answer: True Difficulty: Easy Reference: p. 7 1 9. Business...
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...Marketing Essay Student name:Weilun(Frank) Zhang Student number:42435498 Tutor's name: Lucy Miller Tutorial day/time: Friday/1p.m. Introduction： With the deteriorating environment, environmental protection becomes a topic of concern by the public. Because of Carbon dioxide emissions from traditional vehicles is a major factor in destroying the ozone layer that the concept of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) or electronic vehicles (EVs) came out which been defined as ‘a promising technology for reducing the GHG emissions and other environment impacts of road transport’ (Max, G et al 2011) the ZEVs or EVs will help not only protect the environment and air quantity but can also decrease the demand of non-renewable energy. With the characteristic of protect environment and save sources, the zero-emission vehicles become the product with social expectation and has the trends to be used widely in the future. However the ZEVs or EVs also has limitation and barriers to entry the markets because of its unknown demand, technology problem and consultation issues among government and vehicle manufactures, also the new formulation of laws and regulation for the development of zero-commission vehicles. The article is going to identify and discuss about the current marketing environment for ZEVs and EVs to find out the factors that are affecting the customers behaviors, also will identify the barriers for the ZEVs and EVs to entry...
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...aiming to be a zero-carbon business by 2050 and using scarce resources responsibly, including in our supply chain Being a great employer: We are a great employer creating inspiring work that makes our colleagues happy and proud of what they do Supporting local communities: We support our local communities by being a good neighbour and running our business to the highest standards * Tesco has signed a £28 million deal with CA Technologies, adopting the vendor's systems management tools as a global standard. The UK retail giant has been a CA customer for 20 years, and has used its Unicenter systems management platform to support international operations since 2005. “We rely on CA Technologies software to tame a very big, distributed, heterogeneous infrastructure," explained Tesco CIO Mike McNamara in a statement. "We are very pleased to extend our long-standing relationship with CA Technologies into a third decade." CA says that products covered by the new deal include its service assurance system (used...
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...Wiki Loves Monuments: Photograph a monument, help Wikipedia and win! Mobile phone From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search "Cell Phone" redirects here. For the film, see Cell Phone (film). For the Handphone film, see Handphone (film). The Qualcomm QCP-2700, a mid-1990s candybar style phone, and an iPhone 4S, a current production smartphone. A mobile phone (also known as a cellular phone, cell phone and a hand phone) is a device that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile phone operator, allowing access to the public telephone network. By contrast, a cordless telephone is used only within the short range of a single, private base station. In addition to telephony, modern mobile phones also support a wide variety of other services such as text messaging, MMS, email, Internet access, short-range wireless communications (infrared, Bluetooth), business applications, gaming and photography. Mobile phones that offer these and more general computing capabilities are referred to as smartphones. The first hand-held mobile phone was demonstrated by Dr Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973, using a handset weighing around 2.2 pounds (1 kg). [1] In 1983, the DynaTAC 8000x was the first to be commercially available. From 1990 to 2011, worldwide mobile phone subscriptions grew from 12.4 million to over 5.6 billion, penetrating about 70% of the...
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...Master thesis in Informatics REPORT NO. 2008:034 ISSN: 1651-4769 Department of Applied Information Technology Soft Systems Methodology in action: A case study at a purchasing department Using SSM to suggest a new way of conducting financial reporting at a purchasing department in the automotive industry OLLE L. BJERKE IT Universtiy of Göteborg Chalmers University of Technology and Universtiy of Gothenburg Göteborg, Sweden 2008 1 Using Soft Systems Methodology at a purchasing department to conduct a study of financial reporting needs Olle L. Bjerke Department of Applied Information Technology IT University of Göteborg Göteborg University and Chalmers University of Technology SUMMARY The aim of this essay has been to try out Soft Systems Methodology on financial reporting at Volvo Cars Corporation (VCC). VCC saw a possible opportunity to improve their reporting processes, and SSM was chosen to deal with this possible problematic situation. Action Research became the natural way of conducting the study since it is almost a mandatory way of conducting SSM. A delimitation was made due to limited resources and only a small part of the purchasing department was involved, namely electrical purchasing. The result of the study is the artifacts from the different SSM steps that points upon how the participants would like the reporting system to be as well as many issues with the current reporting process. These outputs from the method were regarded as successful...
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...In recent years the mushrooming power, functionality and ubiquity of computers and the Internet have outstripped early forecasts about technology’s rate of advancement and usefulness in everyday life. Alert pundits now foresee a world saturated with powerful computer chips, which will increasingly insinuate themselves into our gadgets, dwellings, apparel and even our bodies. Robots on SCM Obviously, it hasn’t turned out that way. It is true that industrial robots have transformed the manufacture of automobiles, among other products. But that kind of automation is a far cry from the versatile, mobile, autonomous creations that so many scientists and engineers have hoped for. In pursuit of such robots, waves of researchers have grown disheartened and scores of start-up companies have gone out of business. It is not the mechanical “body” that is unattainable; articulated arms and other moving mechanisms adequate for manual work already exist, as the industrial robots attest. Rather it is the computer-based artificial brain that is still well below the level of sophistication needed to build a humanlike robot. Nevertheless, I am convinced that the decades-old dream of a useful, general-purpose autonomous robot will be realized in the not too distant future. By 2010 we will see mobile robots as big as people but with cognitive abilities similar in many respects to those of a lizard. The machines will be capable of carrying out simple chores, such as vacuuming, dusting, delivering...
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...Process that has changed my life The internet has greatly changed the lives of many people in my country and definitely the world over. Now people are able to do things which they could not do before the coming of the internet. The following are how the internet has influenced many people: • E-banking • E-learning • Communication through emails, social networks and Skype, for example • Ecommerce • Surfing the internet for learning • Research. This list is not exhaustive. However one process that changed my life very much is through searching for jobs online. There are a lot of employment agencies that are online. People can register with them for their services. I registered with a number of employment agencies in my country. I can now search for jobs and apply for jobs on the internet in a fast and efficient manner. Before the use of the internet for that purpose people would be required to use express mails or postal services to apply for jobs. People could also travel for long distances in search of employment. I can no longer do that. I have changed jobs in the past ten years through online applications. It now takes very little time to search for employment. The employment agencies, can as well keep data bases of job seekers, so much that it is easier to find right candidates for employment. In the past ten years I changed jobs four times by the use of the internet. That has not been very expensive for me. Now I am earning a lot of money because I managed to search...
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...Introduction of Information System An information system is a software that helps user to organize and analyze data. This makes it possible to answer questions and solve problems relevant to the mission of an organization. Many organizations work with large amounts of data. Data are the basic values or facts and are organized in a database. Many people think of data as synonymous with information; however information actually consists of data that has been organized to help answer questions to solve problems. An information system is defined as the software that helps organize and analyze data. So, the purpose of an information system is to turn raw data into useful information that can be used for decision making in an organization. Sources: Study.com A hierarchy chart beside shows that there are many different types of information system can be divided into categories based on the where they are used in the hierarchy of an organization. For example, Transaction Processing System for worker used, Management Information Systems for Middle Managers used, Decisions Support Systems for senior managers used and Executive Information System for executive used. There are some general types of information systems. For example, a database management system (DBMS) is a combination of software and data that makes it possible to organize and analyze data. DBMS software is typically not designed to work with a specific organization or a specific type of analysis. Rather, it is a general-purpose...
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...Information technology in business practices Introduction Information Technology systems have expanded in all the companies. Information Technologies include hardware and software as well. Besides, IT may consider telecommunications networks, the management of data and many technologies based on the use of the Internet. There has been in this essay a try to show the strategic value and the utilization in production of Information Technology in business practices. Many believe that IT has a controversial value in strategic arrangement of organizations and productivity implementation, while others believe that IT affects enterprises in all the above mentioned sectors and after all that it is the backbone of every modern company. Nobody can deny that Information Technology plays important role in strategy and productivity of companies who use it. However there is a growing opinion that Information Technology has become a commodity and that has already lost its competitive advantage. The alternative opinion is that speed and flexibility may occur, via IT, into businesses. Moreover improvement of organizational structure is one more of the benefits companies can gain by the proper use of Information Technology. However in any occasion companies should innovate in continuous matter in order to conserve the strategic value of Information Technology. Main body Nicolas Carr's article “IT doesn't matter” (May 2003) expresses the opinion of senior managers concerning...
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