The divorce revolution of the 1960s had two principal effects. One was in the enactment in most states of “no-fault” divorce laws, whereby marital breakdown either became the sole ground for divorce, as in California, or where a “no-fault” ground was added to the traditional “fault” grounds for divorce (adul- tery, extreme cruelty, and desertion), which were made much easier to prov…
The role of inancial executives in any business has expanded signiicantly in recent years as companies become more accountable to their stake- holders and regulators. Combine this increase in accountability with the increasing sophistication of technology, risk management, inancial analy- sis, and inancial records processing, and we see that the responsibilities of inancial executives in any or…
We have frequently referred to the routing algorithm as the network layer protocol that guides packets through the communication subnet to their correct destination. The times at which routing decisions are made depend on whether the network uses datagrams or virtual circuits. In a datagram network, two successive packets of the same user pair may travel along different routes, and a routing de…
Not-for-profit organizations are among the most influential and powerful institutions in our society. They range in size from small and local to large and national—or even international. Their scope incorporates a wide range of activity: health and welfare, research, education, religion, social, and professional associations. They include foundations, membership societies, churches, hospitals…
Organizations capture and process data for a variety of reasons. Accounting data are used to measure the financial health and vitality of the enterprise: It is useful to internal corporate management in keeping track of how the firm is performing; it is useful to people outside the firm, such as investors interested in the firm's stock and bankers to whom the firm has applied for a loan. Rec…
This study examines the legal and policy frameworks that govern and regulate the use of information and communications technology (ICT) by European Union (EU) institutions and agencies. Specifically, it maps and reviews these frameworks in terms of the extent to which they account for information security and data privacy. The study pursues a two-fold research approach. First, it offers a lar…
It gives me immense pleasure to author the book “Management and Entrepreneurship” prescribed for B.E. 5th/6th Semester courses of all branches of Engineering of the Visvesvaraya Technological University. This subject is of immense value for budding engineers to make them better managers and successful entrepreneurs. I have felt a huge shortage of books and relevant materials on this subjec…
Flexibility is the hallmark of mental and emotional health. The goal of this book is to enhance the flexibility of your thinking, attending, and acting. You’ll learn to shift more easily out of your anxiety and avoidance and into more-reasonable and less-anxiety-evoking thoughts and attitudes so that you can see things as they really are. You’ll also learn to shift your attention by unhook…
Participation in social networking sites has dramatically in- creased in recent years. Services such as Friendster, Tribe, or the Facebook allow millions of individuals to create online profiles and share personal information with vast networks of friends - and, often, unknown numbers of strangers. In this paper we study patterns of information revelation in online social networks and their pr…
Questions have been raised about the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites (SNS) like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. Do these technologies isolate people and truncate their relationships? Or are there benefits associated with being connected to others in this way? The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project decided to examine SNS in a survey that…
Social networking services are a fast-growing business in the Internet. However, it is unknown if online relationships and their growth patterns are the same as in real-life social net- works. In this paper, we compare the structures of three online social networking services: Cyworld, MySpace, and orkut, each with more than 10 million users, respectively. We have access to complete data of Cyw…
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This study examines if Facebook, one of the most popular social network sites among college students in the U.S., is related to attitudes and behaviors that enhance individuals’ social capital. Using data from a random web survey of college students across Texas (n = 2,603), we find positive relationships between intensity of Facebook use and students’ life satisfaction, social trust, civi…
Online social networks are becoming a true growth point of the Internet. As individuals constantly desire to interact with each other both in business and in personal contacts, the ability for the Internet to deliver this networking capability grows stronger and stronger. There are a number of excellent resources available to anyone interested in becoming part of the online social networking co…
The American sense of liberty and individual rights springs from the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These documents provide the guidelines for all federal, state, and local laws; they guarantee that the United States will remain a nation governed by the rule of law. They also balance society’s need to achieve social control, order, and safety against the individual’s right to l…
The 2005 World Summit recognized the responsibility to protect. In one sense, this might be considered a normative revolution: a sign that the international human rights regime has reached a middle stage in a ‘lifecycle’ that has the potential to end in states’ internalization of the obligations of human rights protection (Finnemore and Sikkink 1998). In another sense, however, this was…
The book you hold in your hands forms one panel in a broader Bastards of Utopia triptych. In addition to this written ethnography, there are two documentary film projects: a traditional feature documentary and an online inter- active documentary. Instructions on how to purchase the feature documentary are available at www.bastardsindex.com. The interactive, or “remixable,” version of the …