Building a location-based social networking website for mobile devices, such as smartphones. Users "check in" at venues using a mobile website, text messaging or a device-specific application by selecting from a list of venues the application locates nearby. Location is based on GPS hardware in the[r]
The discipline of law and economics deals with wideranging topics, from competition and environmental policy to crime control, and has been instrumental in determining how an economy performs. Yet its success has fallen short of its potential. The discipline’s shortcomings are nowhere as visible as[r]
opportunity for oral practice in using language, going beyond what ispossible in class work.Pair workPair work is easy and fast to organise. It provides opportunities for intensivelistening and speaking practice. Pair work is usually better than group workif there are discipline[r]
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A skip list is an ordered (sorted) list of items stored in a linkedlist structure in a way that allows O(log n) insertion, removal, and search. So it looks like an ordered list, but has the operational complexity of a balanced tree. Why is this compelling? Doesn’t a sorted array give you O(log n) se[r]
The lack of developed markets for longterm fi nance has become an important and challenging issue in many developing economies. Since the global fi nancial crisis of 2008–09, this issue has become even more prominent in policy discussions. Having access to longterm funds allows governments and fi rm[r]
Native vs. web debate has inspired countless articles, daily Twitter discussions, and panels of experts evangelizing why one approach is superior to the other. More recently, hybrid has been thrown into the mix as a viable third option, making these conversations even more complex. There is a compel[r]
This book describes companies that conduct international business at or near the founding of the fi rm. Despite the limited resources that usually characterize new businesses, these “Born Global” fi rms achieve substantial international sales from an early stage in their development. They internatio[r]
ObjectiveC is the programming language behind native Apple applications. The language was originally designed in the 1980s as a way to add objectoriented capabilities to the ANSI C programming language, and it has since been used to create everything from commandline tools to Mac programs to mobile[r]
This chapter will introduce the basics of multiprocessor scheduling. As this topic is relatively advanced, it may be best to cover it after you have studied the topic of concurrency in some detail (i.e., the second major “easy piece” of the book). After years of existence only in the highend of the[r]
I assume you are a computer programmer. Perhaps you are a new student of computer science or maybe you are an experienced software engineer. Regardless of where you are on that spectrum, algorithms and data structures matter. Not just as theoretical concepts, but as building blocks used to create so[r]
The home screen with these icons looks so great. It just looks fantastic.
And you know a lot of us have our own wallpaper, you know we like pictures of our family there. And now that liveliness actually carries through to the home screen because as you move th[r]
More than ever before, the IT network is a strategic asset to a business, and any downtime or degradation in network or application performance can directly impact an organization’s bottom line. This white paper looks at a methodology for solving network and application performance issues and outlin[r]
This project aims to revive key existing internal features of the house, such as the staircase and the richly ornamental plasterwork, while carefully creating and inserting new elements which will enhance the spatial qualities of the interior. The proposals will offer a senstive response to the past[r]
A mobile app is a computer program designed to run on smartphones, tablet computers and other mobile devices.
Apps are usually available through application distribution platforms, which began appearing in 2008 and are typically operated by the owner of the mobile operating system, such as the Appl[r]
Scratch ProgrammingLesson 1: Introducing Scratch and Creating SpriteHave you heard of Scratch? No, not what you do to your itch, but Scratch from MITthe famous school for the curiously brainy people? If you have not heard, seen, orplayed with Scratch, then you’ve been missing out. Beca[r]
Thus far we have seen the development of two key operating system abstractions: the process, which is a virtualization of the CPU, and the address space, which is a virtualization of memory. In tandem, these two abstractions allow a program to run as if it is in its own private, isolated world; as i[r]
The financial crises in emerging markets in the 1990s dramatically changed the market for transport infrastructure finance. The run of good economic and financial performance, whether actual or illusory, had spurred a boom in project finance activity. As one observer noted in November 1996 (just bef[r]
CSS animations make it possible to animate transitions from one CSS style configuration to another. Animations consist of two components, a style describing the CSS animation and a set of keyframes that indicate the start and end states of the animations style, as well as possible intermediate waypo[r]
industry. Digital video is responsible for special effects in movies, new trends in 3D animation,portable video, and consumer interest in home video. Digital sound transformed the way music ismarketed, sold, purchased, and played. Human speech can also be digitized. For example,[r]