Increased internet-access spending by Texas public schools improved academic performance and led to more disciplinary problems among students, a study of 9,000 schools conducted by a research team from Rice University, Texas A&M University and the University of Notre Dame shows. According to the researchers, whether students benefit from increased internet access in public schools …
Stress Diaries is an interactive self-help book that tells real-life experiences of people’s troubles at work and in their relationships, and how they eventually overcome them with the help of therapy. This is a must-read book for anybody who works or is preparing to work, as it inspires us to hope and fight. In …
Simply, the goal of Mission Karmayogi is to transform civil servants into catalysts of change. The challenge is how to quickly transmute the existing training wherewithal (e.g. course material, physical infrastructure) of different training institutes to fulfill the core principles set out in the mission. One core guiding principle of Mission Karmayogi is to create …
The lack of evenness between the vertical and horizontal trade had two effects. First, a highly skewed ratio between cities and villages emerged. For example, Johnson (in the 1950s) found that in India, on an average, there were 468 villages for every town. If the inter-urban hierarchy of settlements was not skewed and the ratio was the same …
The famous lecture of Richard Feynman in 1959 to the American Physical Society titled There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom gave birth to the vast field of nanoscience and nano- technology. Feynman talked about the staggeringly small world out there and gave the exam- ple of how all the 24 volumes of Encyclopaedia Brittanica …
A Virtual Book Release of A Textbook of Urban Planning and Geography written by Sameer Sharma was organised by PHI Learning Private Limited – a renowned Indian Academic Publisher with 58 years of experience in the Textbook Market – on January 20, 2021. The book was released by the Chief Guest Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu, …
Many of these inventions in information and communication technology have occurred in the last 55 years. During my school days, a computer was a machine occupying a garage space, used only by engineers. Now, within 50 years, I hold it in my pocket like a mobile smartphone, as do 50 crores other Indians! How …
PHI Learning is going to release a book Groundbreaking Inventions in Information and Communication Technology by V. Rajaraman on 24th September 2020. This virtual book launch event is being organized by the Computer Society of India, Chennai Chapter, ACM Chennai Professional Chapter, and IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter in association with PHI Learning Private Limited. …
Nowadays, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) touches every aspect of our life. When we get up in the morning, we check our smartphones for any missed calls, SMS, and WhatsApp messages that include audio clips, video clips, and sometimes computer-generated cartoons and animations. Many of us read the latest news and email on our smartphones, …
Demand for security and cryptologists will increase as safeguarding data and documents in the age of internet banking, and online payments assume great importance What is cryptology? Historically, when did this start? Cryptology is the art and science of secret writing. The word is derived from ‘Cryptos’ and ‘Logia,’ meaning ‘secret’ and ‘study’ respectively. Today, …