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COMPUTER NETWORKS

A network is a set of devices (often referred to as nodes) connected by communication links that are built using different physical media. A node can be a computer, telephone, or any other device capable of sending and receiving messages. The communication medium is the physical path by which message travels from sender to receiver. Example media include fiber-optic cable, copper wire, or air c…

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…

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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…

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…

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.

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…

Global Governance and Regulatory Failure

Did global governance through transgovernmental networks lead to regulatory failure that caused the Great Recession? And, if yes, should we enhance global cooperation to prevent future crises or focus on the national level? In 2005, bank supervisors from industrialised nations – within the transgovernmental network of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision – agreed to harmonise their …

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…

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…

Cable and Wireless Networks Theory and Practice

This book presents a comprehensive approach to networking, cable and wireless communications, and networking security. It describes the most important state-of-the-art fundamentals and system details in the field, as well as many key aspects concerning the development and understanding of current and emergent services. Three of the author's earlier books, Transmission Techniques for Emergent M…

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A Practical Guide to NETWORKING AND SECURITY IN iOS 8

Welcome to A Practical Guide to Networking and Security in iOS 8, version 1.0.0, published in February 2015 by Aperiodical LLC. This book describes how to use your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad with iOS 8 on Wi-Fi and cellular/mobile networks securely, making connections with ease while protecting your data. It also covers Bluetooth networking, track- ing an iOS device, Personal Hotspot, two-s…

ADVANCES IN PERVASIVE COMPUTING AND NETWORKING

The emergence of a new generation of technologies for pervasive computing and networking is challenging basic assumptions about how networked applications should behave. Wired systems typically ignore power and location considerations and operate "in the dark" with respect to overall system configuration, current operating modes or detected environmental properties, and positions of devices bot…

Towards Automating Social Engineering Using Social Networking Sites

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…

CYBER THREATS IN SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITES

A social network is a social structure made up of individuals or organizations called nodes, which are connected by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, common interest, and exchange of finance, relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige. A cyber threat can be both unintentional and intentional, targeted or non targeted, and it can come from a variety of sourc…

Social Networking Websites as an Innovative Framework for Connectivity

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…

A Short Description of Social Networking Websites And Its Uses

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.

Typo Tips

There are three different ways to connect or separate words: the hyphen -, the en dash –, a little wider than the hyphen, and the em dash —, wider still. The regular hyphen is easily accessible on any Mac or PC keyboard, whereas the en dash needs the combination option-hyphen on the Mac. The em dash is accessed by pressing option-shift-hyphen on the Mac. The use of these dashes depends on h…

Beginning Android Tablet Programming

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An Idiot's Guide to Photoshop

You don’t have to know every single tool or item in Photoshop to become a good designer. Of course, the more you know the better, but the most important is your creativity. It’s all about playing with colors, layout, objects, etc. basically, everything which a mind perceives. And in these series of MakeUseOf.com Photoshop Guides you’re going to learn the most crucial tools and tips to hel…

Beginning Linux Programming

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DO YOUR BEST WORK!

Let’s start by defi ning our terms: First, crowdsourcing is outsourcing to a crowd of people via an open call for contributions. There’s nothing inherent in the term about a contest, though sponsoring a design contest seems to be where the controversy lies. In such a con- test, a project is posted and anyone can participate by offering a solution. Typically a winner is chosen, and only tha…

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HOW TO BE CREATIVE

The more original your idea is, the less good advice other people will be able to give you. When I first started with the cartoon-on- back-of-bizcard format, people thought I was nuts. Why wasnʼt I trying to do some- thing more easy for markets to digest, i.e., cutie-pie greeting cards or whatever? You donʼt know if your idea is any good the moment itʼs created. Neither does anyone else. Th…

Becoming More Effective

This workbook addresses the issues of Becoming More Effective. Should you wish to extend your study to other Super Series workbooks covering related or different subject areas, you will find a comprehensive list at the back of this book.