VoIP Handbook: Applications, Technologies, Reliability, and Security

Overview

VoIP Handbook: Applications, Technologies, Reliability, and Security by Syed  A. Ahson, Mohammad Ilyas tell from basic concepts to future research directions as well as provides technical information about all aspects of VoIP. Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) can facilitate tasks that may be more difficult to achieve using traditional networks, such as the ability to route calls to VoIP phones. This essential book explores the wide range of applications that VoIP offers, including smartphones and access to emergency services. Leading expert contributors in the field offer their perspectives on numerous related topics, including reliability models. As a single reference source, this comprehensive text also presents the latest technologies and addresses various security issues.

Call Number: TK5105.8865.V65 2009

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Work with Young People: Theory and Policy for Practice

Overview

This authoritative text is a must-read for anyone working, or training to work, with young people. It considers how theory, policy and practice intersect and influence one another in today’s challenging and rapidly changing social, economic, and political contexts. Offering a timely contribution to the debate, it covers key themes and developments, including the principles that underpin work with young people, the policy and practice in a wide range of contexts, both national and international, the key concepts currently high on the policy and practice agenda, and how we understand the lives of young people, in particular investigating their ‘real worlds’ and understanding their social construction.

Call Number: HV1421.W67 2009

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Project Management Recipes for Success

Overview

Project Management Recipes for Success by Guy L. De Furia is explains the procedures for running a successful project and highlights the finer points of managing and controlling the project. It is written specifically for those responsible for the hands-on managing of projects, but is also useful to program managers and senior executives. Project managers gain the confidence that comes from following a good recipe for success. Program manager gain a perspective on the myriad of activities their project managers must perform to achieve a well-disciplined project. Senior managers gain a perspective of the approach necessary at the beginning of a project to reduce the number of ill-advised projects and the effort required to achieve successful projects.

Call Number: HD69.P75D44 2009

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Pervasive Computing in Healthcare

Overview

Pervasive computing has become a very fashionable area for computer science, and many researchers are making much progress in the field. The size of the healthcare sector in the developed world in particular means that there are potentially vast markets for new technologies. It is almost inevitable that researchers, developers and manufacturers will investigate the potential of pervasive computing in healthcare. There are, however, some dangers when computer scientists and engineers blindly jump on this particular band-wagon. The major danger – which has sadly been seen all too often – is that of technology being the driving force with little or no consideration of the healthcare sector’s real needs and wants. Technological push can work in some sectors (personal computers and mobile telephones are two examples), but the healthcare sector has substantially different characteristics from more traditional business and domestic marketplaces.

Call Number: R859.7.U27P47 2007

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