ICT in the Local Community
Airports
In airports, all public access is channelled through the terminal,
where every person must walk through a metal detector and all items
must go through an X-ray machine which then sends the picture to a
monitor where a person can see what luggage you are carrying and if
you are concealing any metal objects that may cause a threat to other
passengers. All of the checked luggage goes through a large X-ray
machine before it is loaded onto the aircraft. In the United States,
most major airports have a computer tomography (CT) scanner. A CT
scanner is a hollow tube that surrounds your bag. The X-ray mechanism
revolves slowly around it, bombarding it with X-rays and recording the
resulting data. The CT scanner uses all of this data to create a very
detailed tomogram (slice) of the bag. The scanner is able to calculate
the mass and density of individual objects in your bag based on this
tomogram. If an object's mass/density falls within the range of a
dangerous material, the CT scanner warns the operator of a potential
hazardous object.
CT scanners are slow compared to other types of baggage-scanning
systems. Because of this, they are not used to check every bag.
Instead, only bags that the computer flags as "suspicious" are
checked. These flags are triggered by any anomaly that shows up in the
reservation or check-in process. For example, if a person buys a
one-way ticket and pays cash, this is considered atypical and could
cause the computer to flag that person. When this happens, that
person's checked bags are immediately sent through the CT scanner,
which is usually located somewhere near the ticketing counter.
A baggage-handling system makes all of the decisions about where a bag
is going. Hundreds of computers keep track of the location of every
bag, every traveller's itinerary and the schedules of all the planes.
Computers control the conveyor junctions and switches in the DCV
tracks to make sure each bag ends up exactly where it needs to go. The
process begins when you check in and hand your bag to the agent.
When you check in, the agent pulls up your itinerary on the computer
and prints out one or more tags to attach to each of your pieces of
luggage. The tag has all of your flight information on it, including
your destination and any stopover cities, as well as a bar code that
contains a ten-digit number.
This number is unique to your luggage. All of the computers in the
baggage-handling system can use this number to look up your itinerary.
The dogs apply this force by pulling on the tug lines which leads to a gangline which is attached to the sled. some mushers place a shock absorber between the sled and the gangline to both ease jolts from the dogs accelerating from a stop and to reduce the jolt on the dogs from large bumps in the trails.
Robinson (1984) affirms that there exists a close relationship between the growth of capitalism and slavery. Slaves were the property of slave owners; slaves were dehumanised because they were commodities that were sold and they represented unfree labour (Robinson, 1984). According to Marx (1984, 45), the profits made by the slaves were prime to the primitive accumulation which then led to the growth of manufacturing and industrial capitalism. The value created by slave labour was appropriated by the metropole, and this created immeasurable disparities of wealthy between the colonies and the metropole, both historical wealth and contemporary wealth (Robinson, 1984). For example, the raw material used in production of textiles, which led the Industrial Revolution in Britain, was slave-produced. Robinson (1984:46) argues that the economic footing of slave labour and slavery formed the economic basis of the political ideologies that emerged from the French Revolution, i.e. liberty, equality and fraternity – thus the economy and politics are inseparable. One may thus argue that when colonialism (politics) was established, then capitalism (economy) was expanded, for example, the more colonies Britain had, the more capitalism grew. Slavery, says W.E.B du Bois, was a significant subsystem of capitalism and that at the centre of the economics of slavery was the idea of the racial superiority of non-black people (Robinson, 1984: 61). The underlying principle for the development of capitalism was slavery and it was thus not coincidental (Robinson, 1984: 47).
Wolinsky, H. (2006, October). Tagging products and people. espite much controversy; radiofrequency identification chips have great potential in healthcare. Science and
RFID data, for example, part and serial numbers, assembly dates and support history are put away on the tags and catches which help in maintenance of equipment. RFID technology as high value for asset management and inventory systems. A barcode is a visual representation of data that is checked and utilized for data. Bar code is simple to control equipment and tool inventory. In facilities supervisors can use barcodes to link work orders, purchase orders, spare parts and equipment which can be further used to track and collect costs.
RFID has taken strides from being a far off solution to becoming a mainstream application that helps speed the handling of manufactured goods and materials. RFID is an identification and tracking tool for a product using radio waves. It uses a microchip and a printed antenna that can be then packaged in several different forms such as a label or embedded between layers of a carton. These labels are then used to identify the manufacturer, product category and the RFID enables this identification from a distance and unlike earlier bar-code technology, it does so without requiring a line of sight. (Finkelzeller)
Once the British gained control of the island, development was swift. The industries of sugar cane and other agricultural resources were increased, thus creating a larger demand for African slaves. Due to this explosion of growth in the late 17th century, Jamaica became one of the largest slave trading centers in the world. The slave trade was conducted out of the city of Port Royal, made famous for being a hideout of the pirate Blackbeard, until the city was destroyed by an earthquake in 1692. The destruction of Port Royal led to th...
We did not have a specific place on the ramp at where we would drop the mass pieces onto the trolley. We just dropped them anywhere on the ramp. The position of the collisions was different for all three trials which might have affected the results because the distance after the collisions was different for every collision. There was no consistency.
RFID, or radio frequency identification, is the new system that is replacing the use of barcodes. RFID tags allow users to more quickly obtain information from the object that the RFID tag identifies (Evans, 2012, p. 190). RFID tags are more helpful and will eventually replace barcodes entirely because they allow the user to scan the object without physically touching or optically reading anything on it. Rather than reading an identification number that is then looked up in a database, it is possible to gather information directly from the tag (Bonsor).
Barbados previously dabbled in the mass-tourism industry, but currently primarily offers a more up-market and luxury product. The success of tourism was traditionally measured in percentage annual increase of arrivals, however this type of measurement ignores important variables such as length of stay or visitor expenditure and seasonal variations. This fa...
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The inequality of education is a disparity among our children experience in their education compared to other children. The relations of educational success focus on grades, test scores, dropout rates, college entrance rates, and college completion percentages. Unfortunately, the inequalities of education are linked to the difference in socioeconomic status, racial, and geographic reasons. According, to Colclough (2005) “it is commonly presumed that formal schooling is one of several important contributors to the skills of an individual and to human capital. There’s not just only one factor parents, individuals and government officials have the abilities to contribute” (p.40). This perception of inequality of education does not only exist in the United States, but also all over the world. When associated with other nations the United States invests the most in education, however manages to obtain lower levels of student performance than many other countries. The children around the nation are not responsible for the injustice of inequality in education but sadly enough they are our victims. Although, the ones to blame would be our government they should be accountable for creating a vicious cycle that eventually trickles down to our public education. Our government highly contributes to our problem on the inequality of education because they are the ones in control of the Board of Education were they have the opportunity to analyze their trouble schools including their state test scores, their academic school standings, and school dropout rates. By knowing and having easy access to valuable information there shouldn’t be any an excuse on the behalf of the government or on the Board of Education for not trying to working together i...
Industrial relations is an umbrella concept that overall encompasses the relationship between the employer and the employee on the contrary Industrial conflict between or among groups, industries and government. Economically, the factor of productivity in workplace is very important
This paper discusses the relationship between technology and society. It focuses on how technology has influenced various aspects of the society. The areas looked are: how technology has affected the communication, transportation, education, health, economic activities, environment, food production, food conservation and preservation and food distribution. It has gone further to explain how technology has radically changed the demographic structure of the societies in question, specifically Japan society. In addition, it has discussed how technology has influenced government policy formulation.