Value Chain Flexibility with RFID: A Case Study of the Octopus Card Lam Tak Ming The Hong Kong Polytechnic University mslam@polyu.edu.hk Abstract: Octopus cards are an electronic payment system based on a wireless RFID technology developed in Hong Kong. Users simply hold their contactless smartcards over an electronic reader‚ and the payment is deducted from the card automatically. If users link their cards to their credit card to upload money
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In our group’s case study report‚ we will examine the use of Octopus system in the education sector. Octopus system is a widely used e-Commerce technology in Hong Kong‚ covering a variety of industries including transportation‚ retail‚ restaurants‚ and more. Tsung Tsin Primary School is the main focus of this case study. The school uses the Octopus system extensively‚ integrating into student and staff information‚ attendance‚ educational activities‚ payment‚ and communications. We will look at
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Discuss the design and function of the Minoan palaces with emphasis on the palace of Knossos. The design and function of the Minoan palaces found throughout Crete enable modern day archaeologists to help determine possibilities of what life was like and how the civilization was portrayed as a group and society. What is known about Minoan palaces is based purely on what we know as archaeological findings and here say from various archaeologists throughout more recent years. From what little information
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In Ellen Jewett sculpture she has made an octopus. The colours involved in the sculpture is a combination of light blue and dark blue colours with some yellow hints on the tips of the tentacles. The centre of the octopus is darker and as you reach to the end of the tentacles it gets lighter. The colours blend together nicely and they flow together well. The colours remind me of the ocean and the creatures that live inside of it. The tentacles are long and sharp at the ends. It is scaly and also
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Differences between Aegean and Egyptian/Mesopotamian Societies The Minoans‚ the Mycenaeans‚ the Egyptians‚ the Mesopotamians – all were great civilizations‚ but no civilization is the same. Change can be expected‚ as these civilizations arose in very different environments. As a result of evolving in very different places‚ the civilizations that developed had some similarities but quite a few differences. The Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations differed from the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations
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2012 The Haunted Vase Most people wouldn’t consider a haunted object that scary or even much of a threat‚ let alone a little vase. That would just seem unreal. Can an inanimate object‚ something with no life at all about it be haunted? (Wagner) A paranormal researcher by the name of Stephen Wagner asked a similar question in “The Haunted Painting”. The title of this article clearly states that this story was about a painting. But this story that I’m about to share is about a vase a harmless lifeless
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Essay Writing A Vase of Flowers Mr. Mohd Amar Bin Mohd Mokhtar * UQGF 0123 English 2 (3) Prepared by: Name: Farah Hani Binti Muhamad Naim Matric No. : MC1303DC2968 A Vase of Flowers They sit there‚ that little vase of flowers‚ filled with freshly plucked little blue Forget-Me-Nots‚ Lilacs and the innocent-looking Daisies. They bask in the rays of the sun that shine through the window of the windowsill they are placed on. Sitting in a half-full translucent vase of water‚ the flowers
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innovation both artistically and architecturally. The Minoans formed the first Greek civilisation on the island of Crete‚ which is located just south of mainland Greece. The name Minoan stems from a series of Greek myths about the legendary King Minos of Crete who was said to rule a vast sea empire; the Minoans were sea-faring people themselves. Minoan civilisation thrived from approximately 2000-1050 B.C.E. before being succeeded by the Mycenaean’s. Minoan civilisation was very clearly influenced by its
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Religion was very important in the Minoan civilization. There were countless activities and artistic products that revolved around a religious cult. There were many objects that were sacred to the Minoans especially natural objects‚ animals‚ and weapons (Glotz‚ Gustave). One object that was sacred to the Minoans was unhewn blocks of stone‚ especially ones from mountaintops‚ they were believed to be inhabited by spirits (Glotz). Another sacred object was the double axe. In the earliest time stone
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Explain the role of women in Minoan Crete. Women in Minoan society had a key role within religion; this is supported by many pieces of archaeological evidence from sites on the island. Evidence also suggests that women were involved in parts of the economy‚ as well as having roles within several other parts of Minoan life. Minoan women were a central part of religion on Crete; evidence suggests that they were priestesses‚ having significant responsibilities within rituals and ceremonies. La
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