Social networks on the web are growing dramatically in size and number. The huge popularity of sites like MySpace, Facebook, and others has drawn in hundreds of millions of users, and the attention of scientists and the media. The public accessibility of web-based social networks offers great promise for researchers interested in studying the behavior of users and how to integrate social inf…
Ethernet has been the dominant technology for local area networks (LANs) for many years. With the introduction of circuit concept over Ethernet by the IEEE and MEF specifications, Ethernet is becoming a key technology for Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) and Wide Area Networks (WANs). This book makes an attempt to describe various aspects of data networks and services based on carrier Etherne…
Networks are groups of computers that communicate by either cable or wireless transmissions. By the use of computer networking, we can share data with others. Today, all businesses, small or large use some type of computers and most use computer networking to handle their daily business operations such as bookkeeping, inventory tracking, document storing, and e-mail. Networks are growing in siz…
So how was it possible that the archives of a political international organization were kept safe throughout the growing pains of the 1920s, its steady demise in the 1930s, and its almost entire shut-down during the World War II? And how are the archives of the United Nations Office at Geneva managed in order to ensure that they will be available to researchers in the future? In order to answe…
n 1995, delegates from 189 countries and territories and representatives from over 2,100 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) traveled to Beijing for the Fourth World Conference on Women. Focusing specially on mainstreaming women’s needs into policy and development plans, this historic conference concentrated on the ways in which women’s equality related to human rights as well as on women…
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…
It has been a productive challenge to write an introductory book on contemporary readymade practices that would appeal to a broad and critical audience. Despite its accruing history and heavily validated art historical pedigree, the readymade can still be mystifying to art viewers. I wanted to write a book that would address this—not by simply rehashing its history with new little twists, but…
Make a concerted effort to meet and talk to people who can help advance your career –Established researchers –Program directors –Your contemporaries –People who can provide good technical advice –People who can introduce you to any of the above
By server I mean a computer, running an operating system, whose main task is providing services to other servers or users, rather than supporting the network. A sysadmin is someone responsible for managing such devices. Some network administrators build routers, firewalls, proxy servers, intrusion detection devices, and more out of carefully selected server hardware. When this book says server…
The network package provides tools for creation, access, and modification of network class objects. These objects allow for the representation of more complex structures than can be readily handled by other means (e.g., adjacency matrices), and are substantially more efficient in handling large, sparse networks. While the full capabilities of the network class can only be exploited by means o…
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 …
This manual provides an overview of concepts and technologies considered to be fundamental to organizational network design. The contents of this manual are grouped into seven chapters, as follows: This chapter provides an overview of basic networking concepts, including network architecture, design, and project management. Chapter 2: Network Connectivity, describes cabling and wire…
The Network Advertising Initiative (NAV) is the leading non-profit, self-regulatory body governing advertising technology providers in the online advertising ecosystem.
The last time Apple updated the Mac operating system—2009’s Snow Leopard release—the most noteworthy changes happened under the hood. That’s not the case with Lion, the next major version of Mac OS X. Apple has gradually pulled back the curtain on a pretty significant shift for the Mac OS, influenced in large part by Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS. Lion’s big changes naturall…
Modern networking applications require a sophisticated approach to carrying data from one machine to another. If you are managing a Linux machine that has many users, each of whom may wish to simultaneously connect to remote hosts on a network, you need a way of allowing them to share your network connection without interfering with each other. The approach that a large number of modern network…
This book provides a basic description and evaluation of clinical theory and research regarding psychopathology. It is intended primarily as an advanced text for psychopathology courses taught to graduate students in clinical, counseling, and school psychology, as well as neuroscience, psychiatry, and social work. Some instructors may find it appropriate for an upper-level undergraduate course …
There are many interesting “laws” in the folklore of Information Technology. One of them, attributed to Niklaus Wirth, states that software is slowing faster than hardware is accelerating—a testimonial to the irony of modern- day system design. The “slowing down” in Wirth’s law can refer to both the run-time performance as well as software development time. Due to time-to- market pr…
The new world, which we have already entered, is a world with fast changing technologies and these changes open up new opportunities for companies to communicate and work. As a consequence of this constant change of technology and due to the growing importance of the Internet, the phenomenon of Web 2.0 has occurred. The idea of Web 2.0 was generated from a brainstorming session between Tim O´R…
Themobilemultihopadhocnetworkingparadigmwasbornwiththeideaofextending Internet services to groups of mobile users. In these networks, often referred to as MANETs (Mobile Ad hoc NETworks), the wireless network nodes (e.g., the users’ mobile devices) communicate with each other to perform data transfer without the support of any network infrastructure: Nearby users can communicate directly by e…
The aim of this book is to explore the chang- ing nature of politics in the developing world in the twenty-first century. Both ‘politics’ and the ‘developing world’ are concepts that require fur- ther elaboration and which are discussed more fully below. By politics, we mean broadly activities associated with the process and institutions of gov- ernment, or the state, but in the context…