Access device fraud and related financial crimes

An informant once said to us, “Man, you have to be crazy to use a gun to hold up a bank; those credit cards can get you the same thing with no risk.” Whether it be filling out fraudulent applications, stealing cards from the mail, or taking over legitimate accounts, it can be done — “You have to pick them though, watch out for the good banks; they’ve got systems to catch you if you …

How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know

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Best Practices for Transportation Agency Use of Social Media

Social media constitutes a group of online applications that encourages users to create content and interact with one another. Examples include blogs, social and professional networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn, micro-blogging sites such as Twitter, media-sharing sites like YouTube and Flickr, social aggregation applications like Pinterest, and location-based sites like Foursquare. Some…

Global and ReGional PRoblems

In this book we will propose new interdisciplinary directions for the study of global and regional problems and the interactions between these two scales. Today contemplating and addressing global and regional problems are bread and butter activities for many professionals interested in ‘international’ matters broadly conceived: academic analysts in several disciplines and fields, practisin…

The Wealth of Networks

Increased practical individual autonomy has been central to my claims throughout this book. It underlies the efficiency and sustainability of nonproprietary production in the networked information economy. It underlies the improvements I describe in both freedom and justice. Many have raised concerns that this new freedom will fray social ties and fragment social relations. On this view, the n…

Quantitative easing as a highway to hyperinflation

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the European crisis and the recessions associated with these crises, one tends to think that the risk of deflation is greater than the risk of inflation as things stand at the end of 2012. This is a valid argument insofar as demand-pull factors and cost-push factors are associated with economic booms, when there is unutilized capacity in the econ…

Characterizing User Behavior in Online Social Networks

Understanding how users behave when they connect to social networking sites creates opportunities for better interface design, richer studies of social interactions, and improved design of content distribution systems. In this paper, we present a first of a kind analysis of user workloads in on- line social networks. Our study is based on detailed click- stream data, collected over a 12-day pe…

After Software Wars

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15 minute Azure Installation Set up the Microsoft Cloud Server by the Numbers

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RISK MANAGEMENT COMPANIES AND HEDGE ACCOUNTING

The increasing use of derivatives for risk management of a company lately has led to the need to report on an actual basis as these instruments and regulate these operations accounting. This paper proposes a presentation of hedging transactions and their accounting evaluating the impact, in terms of accounting, risk management derivatives on a company. Hedges are often ineffective. Overcoming t…

THE ROLE OF CENTRAL BANKS IN FINANCIAL STABILITY How Has It Changed?

The wide-scale financial crisis of recent years has focused attention on the role of central banks in achieving and maintaining financial stability. Indeed, financial stability was the primary reason for the establishment of many of the earliest central banks. But as financial crises diminished in frequency and severity in the post-World War II period, particularly in industrial coun- tries, ce…

Ambient Intelligence, Wireless Networking, and Ubiquitous Computing

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) has recently emerged as a vibrant research endeavor shaping our view of future computing and its role in society. While the inception point of AmI could always be argued about, it becomes apparent today that AmI has emerged and established itself as a result of a vivid synergy between several essential components such as- ubiquitous or pervasive computing, intelligent…

Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide

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Corruption, good governance and economic development : contemporary analysis …

The question may be asked, why is it important to discuss good govern- ance as a prerequisite for sustainable and environmentally friendly development? The answer to the above question lies in the historical experience of failure to achieve economic growth by many countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America in the past several decades. Since the end of World War II, the economic literature o…

Making Capitalism Fit for Society

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…

Amazon Web Services in Action

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 CONTRIBUTION OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TO STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

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Advanced Routing Protocols for Wireless Networks

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.

Automating ActionScript Projects with Eclipse and Ant

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Advanced Lectures on Networking

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 …

Parochial Global Europe

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…

A theoretical framework for building online communities of practice with soci…

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…

Observatory on ICT Accessibility Discapnet

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,…

Academic social networks

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A Manager's Primer on e-Networking

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…

PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW

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…

States and Markets in Hydrocarbon Sectors

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…

A Practical Guide to Networking, Privacy, & Security in iOS 9

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…

APIs- A Strategy Guide

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The Networking of Chaperones by Co-chaperones

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…