chapter 13  the anatomy of a conversation

... created maps containing as many as 518 million of these hyperlinks, a significant sample of the total These maps allow rapid calculation of a web page’s "PageRank", an objective measure of its citation ... PageRank, again see [Page 98] Another intuitive justification is that a page can have a high PageRank if there are many pages that point to it, or if there are some pages that point to it and have ... DARPA and NASA, and by Interval Research, and the industrial partners of the Stanford Digital Libraries Project References Best of the Web 1994 Navigators http://botw.org/1994/awards/navigators.html...

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... total revenue obtained from an additional unit of that input d quantity of output obtained from an additional unit of that input ANSWER: d quantity of output obtained from an additional unit of ... 89 Average variable cost will be a always rising b always falling c U-shaped d constant ANSWER: a always rising TYPE: M DIFFICULTY: SECTION: 13.3 90 Marginal cost will be a always rising b always ... Average total cost is increasing whenever a total cost is increasing b marginal cost is increasing c marginal cost is less than average total cost d marginal cost is greater than average total...

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... thousand babies, and the average age among adults living in the area (as a proxy for the demand for health care).16 The first column of Table shows the mean across all areas and years and the standard ... The average number of babies in an area-year cell is 6,106 with a standard deviation of 2,629 Most of this variation is due to area-size differences: the standard deviation in number of babies across ... increase of about percentage points in the last two years of data portion of lone parents, number of GPs, and average age of adults, has not been uniform across areas 19 The second specification adds...

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... president of THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA In 1789, he became assistant secretary of the Treasury THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA 1800, Adams left Philadelphia for the new capital city, ... Panic of 1792: Financial Crisis Management and the Lender of Last Resort,” mimeo (July 2006) Daniels, Belden L Pennsylvania: Birthplace of Banking in America Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Bankers Association, ... most of the images that appear in this publication Thanks also to Independence National Historical Park and its staff, particularly Karen Stevens, Karie Diethorn, and James Mueller, for their assistance...

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... fraud attacks Acknowledgments Thanks to Enrique Gonzalez Ochoa at Panda Software for collaborating during the investigation of Clickbot .A Thanks to Panda Software and RSA for helping investigate ... a link associated with a referral account, the agent arrives at a landing page A landing page is a web page that an advertiser pays a search engine or referrer to direct traffic to When ad impression ... that helped improve the quality of this paper References [1] Panda Software and RSA Security dismantle a new online fraud, http://www.pandasoftware.com/ about panda/ press room/ Panda+ Software+...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 16:20

... be installed – The amount of data and the speed at which it must be transmitted – The cost of the media and installation 17 Local Area Network (LAN) Local Area Network (LAN) An individual network ... Frame Header IP Header Data App TCP Header Header Frame Trailer Data Message: Data Multiple protocols 26 Multiple protocols (encapsulated) HTTP Header Protocols Frame Header IP Header Data App TCP ... Data App TCP Header Header Frame Trailer Data Encapsulation – Process of adding a header to the data or any previous set of headers Decapsulation – Process of removing a header 27 Example: Protocol...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 12:20

... superhuman, efforts of my assistants, administrative, technological, and academic: Simone Ross, Shoshana Haulley, Isabelle Mussard, Dave Irvine, John Castro, and Audrey Marrs They found facts, articles, ... others—raised large amounts of capital regardless of the sustainability of their business, technical, and competitive plans These plans were in fact not sustainable, in part due to the resistance of ... operations are concerned The widespread availability of high-quality broadband services (for videoconferencing among other applications) would also substantially increase the capacity of U.S law...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 00:55

... that will guarantee the integrity of the data A checksum is a series of data bits that serve to summarize a block of data The sender can chop the data stream into a series of blocks that may ... of a private house We broadcast as WRFI for about two years, playing the music we felt like playing and rebroadcasting the BBC as our newscast I was a DJ and a peripheral player We had fake airwave ... is not a possibility because of distance Unmodulated data signals are generally relatively low in frequency Transmitting a slower baseband signal through an antenna requires an antenna roughly...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... trading day Throughout the trading day market participants are trading an asset that only exchanges hands after trading ceases Since a one day repo today is not the same asset as a one day repo ... to actual trading patterns in financial markets in emerging economies, instead of macroeconomic variables, or daily market summary variables Our results accentuate the importance of the financial ... microstructure analysis, see e.g Easley and O’Hara (1987), O’Hara (1994), and Lyons (2001) In the Turkish market, several channels of information are open to market participants First, large local banks have...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2014, 11:24

... of social solidarity, of social ranking, of professional advancement and of business It is also a medium through which much language is learnt, and for many is particularly conductive for learning.” ... message, whereas interactional uses of conversation focus primarily on the social needs of the participants As stated by Nolasco and Arthur (2000:5), conversation targets at exchanging information, ... that native speakers usually carry out in the real life 3.2.4 Difficulties of teaching and learning conversations and conversational activities in classes a Difficulties of teaching and learning...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 08:48

... of social solidarity, of social ranking, of professional advancement and of business It is also a medium through which much language is learnt, and for many is particularly conductive for learning. ... VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST- GRADUATE STUDIES Hoàng lê hanh A study on the reality of teaching conversational skills ... teaching conversational skill Teaching conversational skills should be teaching how, not teaching what That means teachers should teach students the way to make a normal conversation and the way to...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 09:33

... Overview of management What managers actually Managerial qualities Management job roles 21st century management © 2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PowerPoint Overview of management ‘Management ... actual performance conforms to expected organisational standards and goals © 2003 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PowerPoint Overview of management Achievement Achievementof oforganisational organisationalgoals ... precise and relevant information to facilitate this role Therefore, the best managers: • Place themselves at the centre of a vast network of contacts that are social, political, occupational, organisational,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/05/2016, 14:24

... nature to a data manager which fails to free data, but is easier to detect and prevent • Data manager changes data A malicious data manager may change the value of its data on each cache refresh ... access to cached data than the data manager has permitted (e.g., a write fault on a page made read-only by a pager_data_lock call), the kernel issues a pager_data_unlock call The data manager is ... memory as a cache of secondary storage data pages The effect of this kind of caching on the performance of UNIX and its traditional suite of application programs is dramatic Compilation of a small...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05

... – Advantages • Can carry up to three times the amount of data as TDMA • Transmissions are much harder to eavesdrop on • A would-be eavesdropper must also know the exact chip in which the transmission ... the signal • Attenuation – A loss of signal strength • Multipath distortion – As a radio signal is transmitted, the electromagnetic waves spread out 24 Signal Strength (continued) 25 Radio Frequency ... (continued) Antennas • Transmit or receive an RF signal Multiple Access • Only a limited number of frequencies are available for radio transmission – Conserving the use of frequencies is important • Conserving...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2012, 10:52

... contained a core of Afro-Mediterranean race and spoke an Afroasiatic language Egyptian civilisation displayed many cultural and political patterns later to appear elsewhere in the continent, although ... rainfall declined thereafter, Nilo-Saharan speakers may have carried this culture and later the exploitation of grain southward towards Lake Victoria, although there is as yet no archaeological ... contrast with the characteristically tall and slender Nilotic peoples whose languages belonged to a third, Nilo-Saharan family, which may have originated in the broad Saharan region at least as early...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:39

... (not, reversal) ex- (out of, former) pre- (before) re- (again, restore) un- (do the opposite of) ad- (to, toward) com-, con-, co- (with, together) en-, em- (in, into, to cover or contain) in- (into, ... (with, together) en-, em- (in, into, to cover or contain) in- (into, not) pro- (in favor of, before) sub- (under, beneath) ...

Ngày tải lên: 02/10/2012, 12:07

... non-parametric correlations A P value of less than 0.05 was regarded as significant Software package STATA 9.0 (USA) was used for the analysis Materials and Methods Results Hospital setting and antibiotic ... and resistance patterns of leading nosocomial pathogens (gram) and number of boxes were calculated from two databases, 1) Hospital pharmacy computer databases, and 2) International Medication System ... NARP was initiated in Turkey in February 2003 by a central regulation of Ministry of Health and was announced nation-wide via official newspaper of the state [11] This is a quasi-experimental...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:00

... Generating a model class var TodoItem = Backbone.Model.extend({}); Generating a model instance var todoItem = new TodoItem( { description: 'Pick up milk', status: 'incomplete' } ); To get an attribute ... To create a view class var TodoView = Backbone.View.extend({}); To create a view instance var todoView = new TodoView({ model: todoItem }); Introduction Rendering the View var TodoView = Backbone.View.extend({ ... Todo App To get the todo data $.getJSON('/todo', function(data) { The data returned { description: 'Pick up milk', status: 'incomplete', id: } Introduction Adding Functionality Checking off a todo...

Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2013, 22:48

... engages mainly in the industry of household appliances, as well as the domains of real estate and logistics The group is also one of the largest manufacturing and exportation bases of electric appliances ... contract A contract serves as a guide and a memorial of the agreement that must be followed by both parties 2.1.2.2 Characteristics of foreign sales contract Basically, a foreign sales contract ... insurance policies, but it is too strict and necessary for an international transaction Unless parties are assured that the coverage is available in the amount designated, the failure of a party...

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