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3.8: Benefits and Limitations of RFID: Though RFID is not likely to entirely replace commonly used barcodes in the near future, the following advantages suggest to additionally apply RFID for added value of identification: • Tag detection not requiring human intervention reduces employment costs and eliminates human errors from data collection, • As no line-of-sight is required, tag placement is less constrained, • RFID tags have a longer read range than, e. g., barcodes, • Tags can have…

Over history, vaccines have benefited disease control, but there has been much speculation as to whether vaccines are better than natural immunity. These benefits and speculations concern how vaccines work, which has evolved into how vaccines benefit the health of individuals, which suggests that they are better than natural immunity. Vaccines work with our immune system to build the body’s resistance to infection. Vaccines benefit the health of individuals by providing immunity without the…

The concept of utilitarianism gives rise to a question- What do human beings stand to gain from giving autonomous machines the power to make decisions for us? In order to answer this question, we have to firstly, consider the cost-benefit analysis of autonomous machines substituting human beings in the decision making process. “Replace one human worker with a general-purpose artificial intelligence, and the total unemployment of the species is yours for the extrapolating”- Stuart Armstrong From…

Is gentrification beneficial to regeneration? Gentrification is a controversial topic within regeneration, defined by a variety of urban planners and architects alike. Smith and Williams (1986, p.3) describe the process of gentrification as dynamic, which cannot be constrained to a simple definition. ‘Gentrification of the City’ (Smith and Williams, 1986) explores the idea of gentrification as made up of several layers and developments that can only be understood if the links between one…

Have you ever wondered why a dollar or even a coin has any value at all? It’s just a piece of paper or metal and just as easily seashells or beads could have been given value for trade, right? Well what’s stopping other physical objects, or in this case pieces of code, from having value? Virtual currency or “cryptocurrency”, so called because it is a currency that uses a form of cryptography, is a type of currency that exists solely online. One of the most successful cryptocurrencies to emerge…

The process of desalinization is removing salts from salt water in order to produce fresh water. Desalinization can be used for many different things. The most common use it to make potable water from salt water for domestic or municipal reasons. Desalinization is surging in growth for industrial purposes. Most notably in the oil and gas industry. 97.5% of the worlds water is salt water that derives from the many different oceans on this planet. 2.5% of the worlds water is fresh water. Of that 2…

Introduction Businesses from different corners of the world, such as Kiwi Experience “the leading hop-on, hop-off backpacker bus New Zealand experience” (Kiwi Experience, 2014), every day are fighting to keep up with technology as technology grows and expands. They also face the question, how do we reach our customers across the other side of the world efficiently and effectively whilst also competing with other companies? One technological advancement that has aided companies like Kiwi…

According to synesthesia researchers, this condition offers individuals an artistic advantage. They have a greater aesthetic sensitivity and are drawn to more artistic fields. They are able to expresses unrelated concepts better than those without synesthesia. For example a normal painter either paints some ting in front of them or something they imagine, while a synesthete paints what they actually visualize when experiencing a certain stimulus. Many famous celebrities involved with music and…

1. Introduction Fossil fuels are used to satisfy a very significant fraction of the world energy demands. The use of fossil fuels comes with some adverse effects, prominent among which is the emission of CO2. Carbon dioxide significantly contributes to global warming and, consequently, causes climate change. This has called for international policies like the Kyoto protocol and Copenhagen summit that set limit on greenhouse gases (GHG) emission [1]. Renewable energy sources are carbon neutral…

Microchips are smaller than regular sized chips and typically can do the same amount of work, if not more. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a regular chip is “a small wafer of semiconductor material that forms the base for an integrated circuit.” (dictionary) Although microchips seem like a better way to go, there are a few minor complications in this idea, such as the complexity of the circuits, the cost of the materials to make produce it and the function that is required of this…