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…
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…
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,…
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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…
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…
Current research focuses on examining Facebook, one of the most popular social networking site, and education and social interaction. use in an undergraduate sample and explore time investment of the stud social network site. Social, daily and educational measured via a questionnaire administered to 1300 undergraduate students. indicate that only 6.2% st udents have no Facebook account. in this…
A growing number of people use social networking sites to foster social relationships among each other. While the advantages of the provided services are obvious, drawbacks on a users’ privacy and arising implications are often neglected. In this paper we introduce a novel attack called automated social engineering which illustrates how social networking sites can be used for social engineeri…
This report sets out the results of a small-scale research project commissioned by Acas examining the implications of social networking and mobile information and communications technologies (ICT) for employment relations. Social networking involves use of an online platform or website that enables people to communicate, usually for a social purpose, through a variety of services, most of which…
With the Internet’s innate structure, new generations have increased their abilities on finding new people whom they have something in common and networking with them. Web 2.0 technologies have altered the ways how new generations manage their learning activities. Many studies showed that most of the social networking websites have created different learning networks and online communities on…
This book contains 250 questions based on networking concepts like Firewall, NAT, VPN, Wireless networking, TCP/IP, Frame relay, Routing and switching. The book also includes scenario based questions with diagrams and detailed tutorials. It is ideal for candidates aspiring for networking job interview.
The past year has seen a dramatic increase in the amount of social information published in RDF documents. Our investigations [1, 2] show that the Friend of a Friend (FOAF) on- tology [3] is among the most used semantic web ontologies. This is true if we measure the number of semantic web documents (SWDs) that use the FOAF namespace, as Table I shows, or the number of triples using FOAF terms. …
The growing popularity of social networking sites (SNS) among the Internet users demands an introspection of personal and social behavior of human beings. Today 1.5 billion people across the world have their profiles in social networking sites. Everything looks nice when you create a profile on social networking site, but how you feel when someone starts blackmailing using your personal data. Y…
The main purpose of this research is to analyze the impact of social networks on educational process in Romanian higher education. Employing a theoretical framework regarding the educational value of the social networking web sites, we propose a model of implementing Facebook usage in higher education leaning processes. In order to support our argument, data were gathered through a survey on st…
Now days the use of the Internet for social networking is a popular method among youngsters. The use of collaborative technologies and Social Networking Site leads to instant online community in which people communicate rapidly and conveniently with each other. The basic aim of this research paper is to find out the kinds of social network are commonly using by the people.
Distance education as a primary means of instruction is expanding significantly at the college and university level. Simultaneously, the growth of social networking sites (SNS) including Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace is also rising among today’s college students. An increasing number of higher education instructors are beginning to combine distance education delivery with SNSs. However, …
This study focused on why the act of taking selfies and posting them to the Internet is a factor leading to an increase in narcissistic and selfish behaviors. This study examined whether the Millennial Generation believes the selfie phenomenon is a contributor to the rise in narcissism. A 12-item survey was administered to 93 female college participants. A single open-ended question asked wheth…