Cyber Security and Global Information Assurance: Threat Analysis and Response Solutions provides a valuable resource for academicians and practitioners by addressing the most pressing issues facing cyber-security from both a national and global perspective. This reference source takes a holistic approach to cyber security and information assurance by treating both the technical as well as manag…
A range of very different ideas have been used to formulate the human ability to view and comprehend phenomena on different scales. Wavelet and other multiscale transforms are treated in this book. Just a few alternative approaches are surveyed in this section. In this section also, various terms are introduced in passing, which will reappear many times in later chapters. Data classification…
Nutrition is one of the most important factors in protecting and developing human health beginning from the pregnancy stage of the mother. Healthy, satisfactory and balanced nutrition is essential for everybody, especially for children, because nutritional habits that are made in our early ages turn out to be our lifetime habits. Infancy, childhood and adolescence periods, as being periods…
We must first make a distinction between literature and literary study. The two are distinct activities: one is creative, an art j the other, if not precisely a science, is a species of knowledge or of learning. There have been attempts, of course, to obliterate this distinction. For instance, it has been argued that one cannot understand literature unless one writes it, that one cannot and …
when World Bank staff members meet with representatives of a country’s microfi nance sector, microfi nance institution (MFI) managers often assume that they will receive some kind of new fi nancing—credit lines, guarantees, or grants—to support their development eff orts. Th ey do not expect the Bank to provide technical assistance or best-practice information. More recently, however,…
Evenasthesestageshaveprogressedrapidlyoverthepast20years, the enabling technologies have changed more quickly. Information technology (IT) evolution is now measured in terms of “Internet time” as fourth-generation hardware, software, and network system technologies are deployed. Ubiquitous access to information at any time, in anyplace, andin any wayis expectedas aroutine practicethat provi…
The “information age” is transformative for people with disabilities. Never before in modern history have the civil and human rights of people with disabilities aligned so well with fast-moving developments in communications and information technology. Without doubt, the center of the knowledge revolution is the Internet’s World Wide Web (web) which has opened up unprecedented opportuni…
Nowadays information technology is based on semiconductor and ferromagnetic materials. Information processing and computation are performed using electron charge by semiconductor transistors and integrated circuits, but on the other hand the information is stored on magnetic high-density hard disks by electron spins. Recently, a new branch of physics and nanotechnology, called magneto- electron…
This course will provide students with a working knowledge of courts and judicial process in the U.S. We will (broadly) review institutional features of courts at both the federal and state levels, and we will review processes surrounding both trial and appellate court litigation in both the criminal and civil contexts. Finally, we will study key actors in the judicial process, including liti…
In the 20th century, new information technology has the potential to influence the lives of ordinary citizens as much as it has influenced business, edu- cation, and government. In many of the countries in Europe, North America, and Asia, the majority of individuals and households are using personal computers, the Internet, and mobile telephones. In the United States, this equipment is often re…
The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 is now seen as one of the most significant economic events in recent world history. The crisis began in early July 1997, when the Thai baht was floated, and spread into a virulent contagion—leaping from Thailand to South Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia. It led to severe currency depreciations and an economic recession that threatened to er…
Electronic government or e-government has impacted all countries of the world. E-government is not just a movement that has transpired in one particular country, it is truly a global phenomenon, impacting both developed and developing nations. Essentially, e-government has influenced nations on all corners of the earth to dif- ferent degrees. The discussion of e-government does not necessarily…
The past 25 years have seen a major paradigm shift in the field of violence prevention, from the assumption that violence is inevitable to a recognition that violence is preventable. As evidence-based interventions increasingly demonstrate measurable impacts on the prevalence of violence, those who work in the field of violence prevention face the challenge of finding new ways to disseminate in…
This book is a revised version in English of a text originally written in Danish for a first course in applied statistics for students of economics, public administration and business administration. A limited knowledge of mathematics is required for understanding the text, except for a single chapter where some knowledge of elementary matrix algebra is necessary. Complicated mathematical …
Let me start by saying I’m a lazy developer by design. I’d rather spend a day to code something once than code the same task over and over again. The same goes for processes: why do repetitive tasks if you can automate them? Imagine all the time you’ll save. We live in a world where time is scarce and where project managers are breathing down our necks to get that specific feature, th…
There are many sources of information and documentation for configuring Cisco networking devices, but few provide a quick and portable solution for networking professionals. This book is designed to provide a quick-and-easy reference guide for a wide range of commonly used features that can be configured on Cisco routers. In essence, the subject matter from an entire bookshelf of Cisco IOS Soft…