HTTP is a successful Internet technology on top of which a lot of the web resides. However, limitations with its current specification, i.e. HTTP/1.1, have encouraged some to look for the next generation of HTTP. In SPDY, Google has come up with such a proposal that has growing community acceptance, especially after being adopted by the IETF HTTPbis-WG as the basis for HTTP/2.0. SPDY has the po...

Video games have enormous mass appeal, reaching audiences in the hundreds of thousands to millions. They also embed many pedagogical practices known to be effective in other environments. This article reviews the sparse but encouraging data on learning outcomes for video games in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines, then reviews the infrastructural obstacles to wider a...

The increasing deployment of mobile devices and accompanying services leads to new security challenges. Due to the changed premises caused by particular features of mobile systems, these obstacles cannot be solved solely by traditional security paradigms and mechanisms. Drawing on the example of wireless LANs, this thesis examines the development of security mechanisms for wireless ad hoc and i...

BACKGROUND This article conducts a comparative national and subnational government analysis of the political, economic, and ideational constructivist contextual factors facilitating the adoption of obesity and diabetes policy. METHODS We adopt a nested analytical approach to policy analysis, which combines cross-national statistical analysis with subnational case study comparisons to examine ...

The past decade has seen the accelerated growth and expansion of large-scale data centre operations across world to support emerging consumer business computation needs. Built out rapidly, these emergent digital infrastructures carry promise for new local industrial futures, all while their paths obsolescence are shortened. Their lifespans dependent on financial speculation, shifting corporate ...

This article highlights the problems of determining infrastructural factors in system socioeconomic and cultural development regions. Using systemic synergetic approaches, methods analysis synthesis, induction deduction, comparative analysis, it is justified that a term “infrastructure” its modern sense basis economic components, internal organization, which guarantees integrity. At same time, ...