In 2014, UN Member States proposed a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as reference goals for the international development community for the period 2015-2030. The proposed goals and targets can be seen as a network, in which links among goals exist through targets that refer to multiple goals. Using network analysis techniqu…
Several years ago I wrote a book about the proper role of the judiciary— particularly the federal judiciary, and especially the Supreme Court of the United States—in adjudicating constitutional issues.1 In that book I assumed that there can be right answers—and wrong ones, too—to questions of morality. (I was concerned principally with questions of political morality. I argued thatjudge…
Mobile Online Social Networks (mOSNs) have recently grown in popularity. With the ubiquitous use of mo- bile devices and a rapid shift of technology and access to OSNs, it is important to examine the impact of mobile OSNs from a privacy standpoint. We present a taxonomy of ways to study privacy leakage and report on the cur- rent status of known leakages. We find that all mOSNs in our study ex…
If you were in a state of cryogenic suspension for the past two decades and suddenly awoke, you would find yourself inundated with information coming from the use of cellular phones, personal computers connected to the Internet, tablets, digital music players, e-book readers, high-definition televisions, digital cameras, and a variety of other digital gadgets that have entered common households…
Welcome to Wireless Home Networking For Dummies. Wireless network- ing for personal computers is not really a new idea; it’s been around for at least five years. The emergence of an industry standard, however, has caused the use of wireless networking technology to explode. One of the most appealing things about the current crop of wireless network- ing equipment is the ease with which you c…
Subsequent to the mathematical theory of electromagnetic waves formulated by James Clerk Maxwell in 1873 [3] and the demonstration of the existence of these waves by Heinrich Hertz in 1887, Guglielmo Marconi made history by using radio waves for transat- lantic wireless communications in 1901. In 1906, amplitude modulation (AM) radio was invented by Reginald Fessenden for music broadcasting. In…
This forecast is part of the Cisco Visual Networking Index™ (Cisco VNI™), an ongoing initiative to track and forecast the impact of visual networking applications. This document presents the details of the Cisco VNI global IP traffic forecast and the methodology behind it. For a more analytical look at the implications of the data presented in this paper, refer to the companion document,
NP-hard optimization problems exhibit a rich set of possibilities, all the way from allowing approximability to any required degree, to essentially not allowing approximability at all. Despite this diversity, underlying the process of design of approximation algorithms are some common principles. We will explore these in the current chapter. An optimization problem is polynomial time solvable …
At the end of his review of my first book, Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, David Pogue, a brilliant writer and author of countless technical and computer-related texts, wrote this: Unlike actual law, Internet software has no capacity to punish. It doesn’t affect people who aren’t online (and only a tiny minority of the world population is). And if you don’t like the Internet’s syste…
Interest rate risk in the banking book (IRRBB) is currently part of the Basel capital framework’s Pillar 2 (Supervisory Review Process). Most jurisdictions follow this approach, which is based on the Committee’s guidance set out in the 2004 Principles for the management and supervision of interest rate risk (henceforth the IRR Principles).1 The IRR Principles lay out the Committee’s expec…
These lectures, d e l ivered by Ludwig von Mises at the Foundation for Economic Education in the summer of 1951,would not exist if not for Bettina Bien Greaves, who took them down word for word in shorthand, and who kindly made the transcriptions available to FEE. Mrs. Greaves served as a senior staff member at the Foundation for almost 50 years, until her retirement in 1999. She and her late h…