Relationship of Self-Concept, Depression, Academic Estimation, and Online Soc…

The present study investigated the relationship between academic self-concept, academic outcome confidence, and academic estimation in depressed and non-depressed adolescents, with a focus on gender differences. The study also included exploratory questions on online social networking (OSN) usage. Participants (N = 66) were 9th and 10th grade students from one high school, with 40 fem…

Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation for Non-Experts

Fraud is an activity that takes place in a social setting and has severe conse- quences for the economy, corporations, and individuals. It is an opportunis- tic infection that bursts forth when greed meets the possibility of deception. The fraud investigator is like the attending physician looking and listening for the signs and symptoms that reveal an outbreak. The Association of Certified Fra…

Social Network Sites: Definition, History,  and Scholarship 

Since their introduction, social network sites (SNSs) such as MySpace, Facebook, Cyworld, and Bebo  have attracted millions of users, many of whom have integrated these sites into their daily  practices. As of this writing, there are hundreds of SNSs, with various technological affordances,  supporting a wide range of interests and practices. W…

Raspberry Pi Networking Cookbook

A Raspberry Pi 2, with its 900MHz quad-core processor, has more processing power than a network server from the late-1990s. Created as an educational tool to inspire the next generation of programmers, the Raspberry Pi is also an excellent network server. It can be used to share files, host websites, create Internet access points, and analyze network traffic. Multiple Raspberry Pis can be clust…

Database Systems for Mangement

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…

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Information Security and Data Protection Legal and Policy Frameworks Applicab…

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…

ORAL LITERATURE IN AFRICA

When I first became interested in research into one particular form of African oral literature in 1961, I found to my surprise that there was no easily accessible work to which I could turn to give me some idea of what was known in this field, the various publications available, or the controversies and problems that demanded further investigation. In fact, I gradually discovered, there was an …

Management and Entrepreneurship

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…

Queuing Theory and Telecommunications

From the invention of the first telecommunication systems (i.e., telegraph and telephone networks) the importance of these technologies has been clearly evident. Humans need continuously to interact; the exchange of information of different types at distance is today essential. Telecommunications favor the development of countries and the diffusion of knowledge, and they are playing and will p…

Anxiety and Avoidance,

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…

Information Revelation and Privacy in Online Social Networks

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…

Social networking sites and our lives

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…

The Performativity of Networks

The “performativity thesis” is the claim that parts of contemporary economics and finance, when carried out into the world by professionals and popularizers, reformat and reorganize the phenomena they purport to describe, in ways that bring the world into line with theory. Practical technologies, calculative devices and portable algorithms give actors tools to implement particular models o…

Test Equipment Management 201 Q&A SAP Certified Application Associate Quality…

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Expertise Networks in Online Communities: Structure and Algorithms

Web-based communities have become important places for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other online networks such as the World Wide Web. Systems targeted to augment web-based communities by automatically identifying users with expertise, for example, need to adapt to the underlying interaction dynamics. In th…

Online Social and Business Networking Communities

The ability to send and retrieve information over the Web using traditional and ubiquitous computing methods has changed the way we work and live. Web portals, as content aggregates, act as gateways to pertinent and up- to-date information. Social networking portals are a recent development, allow- ing a user to create and maintain a network of close friends or business associ- ates for social …

Banking, Finance, and Accounting: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applica…

The constantly changing landscape of Banking, Finance, and Accounting challenges experts and practi- tioners to stay apprized of the field’s most up-to-date research. That is why Business Science Reference is pleased to offer this three-volume reference collection that will empower students, researchers, and academicians with a strong understanding of critical issues within Banking, Finance, …

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

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…

OPEN SOURCE FOR WINDOWS ADMINISTRATORS

This book is about using Open Source on a Microsoft® Windows® operating system. Whether you’re an administrator managing a computer network or a power user running a small home/office network, this book is for you. The material presented is entirely based on Open Source software and how it can be used to solve specific problems on the Windows platform. For many people, Open Source is associ…

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SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

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ONLINE IDENTITY AND NETWORKING TOOLS

ZoomInfo (www.zoominfo.com ) culls information on businesses and professionals and mil- lions of companies across virtually every industry. ZoomInfo finds, understands and extracts information from millions of online sources such as Web sites, press releases, electronic news services and SEC filings and summarizes the information into a comprehensive format. The tool also allows subscribers t…

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Online Social Networking 2016

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…

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Criminal Law, Procedure, and Evidence

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…