Initially‚ though I found the overview provided in each wheel a little vague and abstract‚ I began to see how things could disparate components could “gel” together when I explored the Social Services wheel and it summed up very neatly how social services case workers could benefit tremendously from a coordinated and integrated electronic system that delivered comprehensive profiles of individual clients. It became abundantly clear to me how this sort of holistic access to information‚ accompanied by the
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Payments Payment is a kind of feedback system that making a transaction of purchases at Octopus-enabled retailers. Holding the card against or waving it over an Octopus card reader from up to a few centimeters away without the user taking out the card. The reader will acknowledge payment by emitting a beep sound‚ and display the amount deducted and the remaining balance of the card in 0.3 seconds. In MTR When riding the MTR system‚ the entry point of commuters is noted when a passenger enters
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August 23‚ 2013 Dear Brush‚ I am writing this report regarding your requested information about thermo-chromic material and how can be benefits to our company. Before I give description about above material I would like to thank you for giving me opportunity and give me enough time and source to search information about this new material. Thermochromism is the reversible change in the color of a compound when it is heated or cooled. Systematically investigated thermochromism was in 1971 at first
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Global warming is an increase in the earth’s surface temperature that has affected numerous life forms on the earth. The source of global warming is the release of more and more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere‚ such as carbon dioxide‚ resulting in the greenhouse effect. Now let me talk about why global warming is the threat to living things. 1. What is the difference between a. and a. Melting Icebergs As the earth warms‚ the icebergs at the North and South Poles melt‚ making it more difficult
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SmartSockets: Solving the Connectivity Problems in Grid Computing Jason Maassen and Henri E. Bal Dept. of Computer Science‚ Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam‚ The Netherlands jason@cs.vu.nl‚ bal@cs.vu.nl ABSTRACT Tightly coupled parallel applications are increasingly run in Grid environments. Unfortunately‚ on many Grid sites the ability of machines to create or accept network connections is severely limited by firewalls‚ network address translation (NAT) or non-routed networks. Multi homing
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Unit 3 S.M.A.R.T. GOALS ACTIVITY Worksheet Name: List a short-term‚ intermediate‚ and long-term educational or professional goal in the column on the right. Make sure you fill in the boxes to ensure each of your goals is specific‚ measurable‚ attainable‚ realistic‚ and timed. Short-Term Goal What is your short-term goal? My short-term goal is to obtain a position as an SIU investigator with my current employer. Is this goal specific? Yes. It will allow me to build my skill set and
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This week’s article‚ Struggle for Smarts? How Eastern and Western Cultures Tackle Learning‚ was written by Alix Spiegel on November 12 of 2012. It goes over the cultural norms regarding education in the United States and compares it to the schooling systems in Eastern Asia‚ particularly Japan and Taiwan. The biggest differences he pointed out were the widely contrasting views on struggling in the learning process. In America‚ he points out‚ struggling is a sign of weakness. If a person struggles
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company. Different sources of documents will give me different views in examining this issue. 1.2 Marketing Mix Analysis According to The American Marketing Association marketing is “the process of planning and executing the conception‚ pricing‚ promotion‚ and distribution of ideas‚ goods‚ and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational goals” [2] . In this analysis‚ I am going to analyse the marketing mix used by the company which the responds from the consumers from a survey
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“book smart” or “street smart.” On the one hand‚ some argue that being book smart is more intellectual than being street smart. From this perspective‚ they say that doing well in school and being educated on things that we consider academic is how to be intellectual. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue that being street smart is more intelligent than being book smart. In the words of Gerald Graff in Hidden Intellectualism‚ one of this view’s main proponents‚ “I believe that street smarts beat
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Smartphone Security Survey of U.S. consumers Sponsored by AVG Technologies Independently conducted by Ponemon Institute LLC Publication Date: March 2011 Ponemon Institute© Research Report Smartphone Security Survey of U.S. Consumers Ponemon Institute‚ March 2011 Part 1. Introduction Ponemon Institute is pleased to present the findings of the Smartphone Security Survey: A Study of U.S. Consumers sponsored by AVG Technologies. The goal of the research is to determine consumers’ perceptions
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