Economic competition is global, focused, and unrelenting; there is no such thing as a “safe” job. Whatever it was that formed the basis of your state’s economy 50, 25, or even 10 years ago is now at risk; and whatever it is that is coming next is hard to see or define, let alone prepare for. This came home to me in the late 1990s when the bloom of the dot com bubble was beginning to fade…
There are many good reasons to reach for this book. If you have been plagued by moodiness, stress, anxiety, or depression, this is the book for you. If you are looking for a more action-based approach to mood management than that afforded by medications or psychotherapy, this is the book to read. If you have tried to exercise regularly and have failed, then this is your book. Why? Because this …
The success of most IT projects can be boiled down to how well they were planned, test- ed, and piloted. It is critical to the success of any IPv6 rollout to establish a lab and work through the network configurations, application deployment, operating system nuances, and management of the entire environment. The lessons learned from the lab directly translate into a more streamlined pilot. Eve…
This book is about the convergence of the Internet - the 'IP' of our title - with mobile - the '3G', as in 'third generation mobile phones'. The book largely focuses on technology - rather than commercial or user-oriented considerations, for example - and in particular on the network aspects. In other words, in terms of the list above, the book is about the final bullet: about bringing the netw…
As the plan to write this book began to develop, a few central points became immediately apparent. First, the concept of violence represents a vast collection of behaviors and cognitions within a theoretical domain whose parameters are extremely ambiguous. Of course, there are distinctions between the types of violence and their nature, which can be clearly articulated, but the causal and corre…
Bluetooth is a technology for short range wireless data and realtime two-way voice transfer providing data rates up to 3 Mb/s. It can be used to connect almost any device to another device. Bluetooth-enabled devices, such as mobile phones, headsets, PCs, laptops, printers, mice, and keyboards, are widely used all over the world. Already in 2006, the one billionth Bluetooth device was shipped, a…
Information storage is a central pillar of information technology. A large quantity of digital information is being created every moment by individual and corporate consumers of IT. This information needs to be stored, protected, optimized, and managed. Not long ago, information storage was seen as only a bunch of disks or tapes attached to the back of the computer to store data. Even today, o…
Telecommunications has been defined as a technology concerned with communicating from a distance, and we can categorize it in various ways. Figure 1.1 shows one possible view of the different sections of telecommuni- cations. It includes mechanical communication and electrical communica- tion because telecommunications has evolved from a mechanical to an electrical form using increasingly more …
Multimedia – an interactive presentation of speech, audio, video, graphics, and text, has become a major theme in today’s information technology that merges the practices of commications, computing, and information processing into an interdisciplinary field. In recent years, there has been a tremendous amount of activity in the area of multimedia communications: applications, middleware, a…
In this paper, we present a horizontal view of social influence, more specifically a quantitative study of the in- fluence of neighbours on the probability of a particular node to join a group, on four popular Online Social Networks (OSNs), namely Orkut, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Flickr. Neighbours in OSNs have a mutually acknowledged relation, most often defined as friendship, and they are…
The concept. Manufacturing industries worldwide are facing tough challenges as a consequence of the globalization of economy and the openness of the markets. Progress of the economic blocks such as the European Union, NAFTA, and MERCOSUR, and the global agreements such as GATT, in addition to their obvious economic and social consequences, provoke strong paradigm shifts in the way that the manu…
During the last two decades Information technology has grown tremendously and became the main source of knowledge. In past few years the world getting closer and closer this is only because of Social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter etc. Yet with usefulness and the popularity, the misuse and cybercrime are more evident. So prevention and detection of these threats is…
Searching a web page or websites can be considered as a process of people/users enter the keyword on search engine and search engine give back a most relevant page based on Query/ Keyword. But result which is returned by the search engine and ranking of webpage is not efficient according to user/ People requirements. Earlier SEO helps to improve website ranking and still it is relevant but now …
In this paper we produce an algorithm for pre- senting messages to users in social networks that integrates reasoning about the message, the author, the recipient and the social network. Our proposed model was derived on the basis of immersion within three different existing social networking environments, that of Coursera, Reddit, and medical self-help groups such as PatientsLikeMe. We first …
The explosive growth of the Internet has led to the need for ubiquitous data and multimedia communications in the twenty-first century. In-home distribution of multimedia content is still a challenge, particularly for homes not equipped with specialized wiring to support high-speed data and multimedia communications. Retrofitting buildings with new wiring is prohibitively expensive and wirele…
Sovereign debt markets have demonstrated incredible resilience despite a century of dramatic political and economic upheaval. Among the most remarkable aspects of the contemporary debt regime is the degree to which expectations of borrowers remain relatively uniform even in the face of such major shifts. These basic expectations resolve into one background rule: sovereign borrowers must repa…
If you have more than one computer in your home, you should have a net- work. I used to consider that statement an opinion, but it’s so logical that I now think of it as a fact of nature. Nobody has ever presented a convincing (to me) argument that supports keeping multiple computers isolated from each other. Using and managing multiple computers is easier if you create a network. You don’…
As distance education continues to grow in its popularity, so does the use of social networking. Hindered by concerns associated with privacy and safety, social networking sites (SNSs) are frequently banned from educational settings. The following article presents the implementation of an alternative social networking site in distance education. Findings from this study highlight the benefits…
A life course approach to mental disorders is concerned with the interplay of social and biological factors in the production and consequences of mental illness over the life span—from the prenatal period to death and across generations. As described by Drs Kuh and Ben-Shlomo in the Preface, the life course approach to mental disorders draws on two foundations: the psychological life span per…