European social democracy needs to be shaken out of the defensive posture to which it has shrunk for several years now. It should not be in this position at all. Inequality is again becoming a major issue; the power of large corporations is producing a growing number of problems for consumers, workers and citizens; the neglect of collective needs is producing frightening problems of environment…
Have you watched a blockbuster on Netflix, bought a gadget on Amazon.com, or synced files with Dropbox today? If so, you’ve used Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the background. As of December 2014, AWS operated 1.4 mil- lion servers and therefore is a big player in the cloud computing market. The data centers of AWS are distributed throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America. B…
The issues of developing country debt crises, increased volatility and risk, and the determination of market liquidity are high on the agendas of policy-makers, market participants and researchers in the area of financial markets. These issues are also of major importance to regulators and exchange officials. This book contains a collection of eight papers which provide new insights into all th…
Wireless networking is widely used in everybody’s daily lives. Nevertheless, not everyone has considered the reasons for such increasing utilization and nor have they understood the consequences. In this introduction, we provide a brief background regarding wireless networking evolution and the main scenarios where these networks are currently deployed.
In this paper, we survey recent work on peer-to-peer systems, and venture some opinions about future requirements for research. The paper is a survey to support the tutorial at the Networks 2002 Conference and is therefore neither complete, nor likely to be up-to-date by the time you are reading this, since the topic was extremely fast- evolving at the time of writing. Instead, we try to bring …
n November 1992, European Union (EU) and United States trade negoti- ators met in the US President’s official guest house to resolve outstanding differences on domestic support for agriculture. The resulting Blair House Agreement paved the way for the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), whose rules govern global trade. Decisions taken around the world about whether to cultivate ge…
This paper proposes a theoretical framework as a foundation for building online communities of practice when a suite of social networking applications referred to as collective intelligence tools are utilized to develop a product or solutions to a problem. Drawing on recent developments in Web 2.0 tools, research on communities of practice and relevant theories of learning, and the authors own…
This book is a descriptive treaty proving a critical overview of the law of credit rating agencies (CRAs) on both sides of the Atlantic. It examines the regulations introduced, how effective the mechanisms for the enforcement of these regulations are, whether they act as a deterrent to CRAs and whether or not investors receive compensation for their losses. The book embarks on a systematic jour…
The emergence and spread of social networking services on Internet 1 is one of the most relevant phenomena to emerge in the field of new technologies in recent years. Appearing at the beginning of the 21st Century, in many cases starting out as communication tools for reduced groups of people in specific contexts, such as university students, some platforms have since expanded rapidly,…
Did global governance through transgovernmental networks lead to regulatory failure that caused the Great Recession? And, if yes, should we enhance global cooperation to prevent future crises or focus on the national level? In 2005, bank supervisors from industrialised nations – within the transgovernmental network of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision – agreed to harmonise their …
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virtual enterprise. It is therefore, about the ways we should be using Information Technology, the way we present the knowledge that could helps us organise and optimise the efforts to perform better and stay successful in this turbulent world. The book is organized in four major parts. The first part introduces some basic concepts on enterprise network infrastructures related to enterprise c…
The notion ‘International Economic Law’ encompasses a complex architecture of rules governing international economic relations and transboundary economic conduct by States, international organizations, and private actors. The term essen- tially refers to the regulation of cross-border transactions in goods, services, and capital, monetary relations and the international protection of inte…
Markets, technologies, and policies constantly evolve at different levels in various countries, and this has led us to analyse these aspects as the drivers of energy policies. All have a policy and regulatory impact on market structures, which further stimulates technological development. It is noteworthy that the causes of the energy transition may either stem from the state or from market for…
Welcome to A Practical Guide to Networking, Privacy, & Security in iOS 9, version 1.0.0, published in October 2015 by Aperiodical LLC. This book describes how to use your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad with iOS 9 on Wi-Fi and cellular/mobile networks securely, making connections with ease while protecting your data and your privacy. It also covers Bluetooth networking, tracking an iOS device, the…
Cells are confronted with a variety of adverse environmental conditions such as heat shock, oxidative injury, heavy metals and glucose-depletion and pathologic states such as inflammation, tissue damage, infection, ischemia and reperfusion. To cope with this plethora of stresses, cells induce the expression of cytoprotective genes including heat shock proteins (Hsps). Many Hsps function as mole…
This book presents a comprehensive approach to networking, cable and wireless communications, and networking security. It describes the most important state-of-the-art fundamentals and system details in the field, as well as many key aspects concerning the development and understanding of current and emergent services. Three of the author's earlier books, Transmission Techniques for Emergent M…
The book you are reading right now is a direct result of networking. In 2011, I was writing an article forScience Magazine about common mistakes to avoid in the postdoc appointment and was looking for sources to inter- view. I asked a colleague if she knew of anyone and she introduced me to Sarah Andrus, an editor at Wiley who was overseeing a program called Wiley Science Advisors. Sarah transm…
Welcome to A Practical Guide to Networking and Security in iOS 8, version 1.0.0, published in February 2015 by Aperiodical LLC. This book describes how to use your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad with iOS 8 on Wi-Fi and cellular/mobile networks securely, making connections with ease while protecting your data. It also covers Bluetooth networking, track- ing an iOS device, Personal Hotspot, two-s…
The emergence of a new generation of technologies for pervasive computing and networking is challenging basic assumptions about how networked applications should behave. Wired systems typically ignore power and location considerations and operate "in the dark" with respect to overall system configuration, current operating modes or detected environmental properties, and positions of devices bot…