to the widespread use of the internet-based shopping and banking. Over the years‚ credit cards have become one of the most common forms of payment for e-commerce transactions. In North America almost 90% of online B2C transactions were made with this payment type. Turban et al. goes on to explain that it would be difficult for an online retailer to operate without supporting credit and debit cards due to their widespread use. Increased security measures include use of the card verification number
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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‚ and the appropriate amount based on distance traveled will be deducted when the users show their card again at the
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How does Harper Lee use the symbol of the mockingbird? According to the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” So‚ mockingbirds are harmless‚ innocent creatures‚ and killing them is wrong‚ because they don’t hurt anyone. The mockingbird represents innocence and purity. After all it only sings for us to hear its music‚ they don’t bother us or harm us. So‚ to kill a mockingbird is a sin because you destroy innocence. Throughout the book‚ a number of characters
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What Affects the Rate of Evaporation? Aim * To find out if changes in temperature‚ draught and surface area of water open to air affects the rate of evaporation through the water. * To safely check if these variables change the rate of evaporation * To complete all the experiments in the short period given Prediction * I believe that a raise in temperature will speed up the rate of evaporation in the water * I believe that a larger surface area will speed up the rate of evaporation
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Examine the dangerous jokes that that form the bassis of the book. How does the author use satire to critique the idiocies and short comings of his contemporary world? The real purpose behind Vonnegut’s writings is “to poison minds with humanity … to encourage them to make a better world”. This is the author’s idiocies and short comings of his contemporary world and uses dangerous jokes in the form of black humour as well as other satirical techniques such that; Vonnegut is in a way‚ holding a mirror
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Tan Advanced B Jeff Puccini 3/29/2011 Why Crime Rates Will Drop? This important cause which is some experts think strong economic could let crime rates to drop. However‚ the fact is actually not‚ before 1992‚ American has strong economic. However‚ in fact‚ in these times‚ crime rates were very high. Furthermore‚ according to “Levitt D. Steven and Stephen J. Dubner” (Freakonomics 3). We know homicide fell at a greater rate during the 1990s than any other sort of Crime and number
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on operation only in Globus Stores Pvt. Ltd. That is “Store operation”. In retail there are so many fields like Apparel‚ Electronic (White products)‚ Grocery‚ confectionary‚ Pharmaceutical etc. Globus has started its journey as a chain of Departmental store but as soon as it launched its first store in Indore‚ they found an innovative idea to cover the next market with the specialty store instead of departmental store. So they open there next store as a specialty store of apparel segment. This story
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Ann Simon Target: From “Expect More” to “Pay Less” The macroenvironmental factors that affected Target’s performance during the period were connected to the demographic‚ economic‚ natural‚ technological‚ political‚ and cultural. The change in demographic is related to the economy because when there is an unemployment it will create households income to drop while the households expenses increases. Since Wal-Mart is all about low price and Target is all about style and brand‚ Target thought customers
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Is it ethical to target uniformed consumers? No! Almost every advertisement I can think of unethically target particular groups of people that don’t know any better. Some people think it is perfectly fine to target uniformed people‚ but I am not one of them! They tend to be dishonest about their product rather than completely truthful and informing what it is and does. Also‚ vulnerable people can be a target and that is extremely wrong. Here are my reasons for thinking so. My first reason
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can make decisions and do the tasks which we require from it to be done. It would be a vehicle which can process the data in real time and take the respective decisions on the bases of that processed data. The project is based on integration of different hardware and software modules and their interaction to produce an efficient outcome. 1.1 Motivation The basic idea of this project is to design a map following vehicle that would be autonomous. Meaning that‚ it can go to
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