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The Handbook of Post Crisis Financial Modelling
The 2008 financial crisis was a watershed moment which clearly influenced the public's perception of the role of 'finance' in society. Since 2008, a plethora of books and newspaper articles have been produced accusing the academic community of being unable to produce valid models which can accommodate those extreme events. This unique Handbook brings together leading practitioners and academ…
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-49449-8
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- XIX, 316
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- The Handbook of Post Crisis Financial Modelling
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- -
The Greenhouse Gas Balance of Italy
The book addresses in a comprehensive way the full greenhouse gases budget of the Italian landscape, focusing on land use and terrestrial ecosystems. In recent years there has been a growing interest in the role of terrestrial ecosystems with regard to the carbon cycle and only recently a regional approach has been considered for its specificity in terms of new methodologies for observations an…
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- 1
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- 978-3-642-32424-6
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- VIII, 211, 27 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
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- Environmental Science and Engineering
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- -
Angiogenesis in Health, Disease and Malignancy
This book is about “Angiogenesis”. A process in which new vasculature is formed from pre-existing capillaries. Angiogenesis process is associated with the proliferation and growth of both physiologically normal and neoplastic tissues, through the formation of vascular supply, essential for delivering growth requirements such as oxygen and nutrients. The book describes more than 100 genes…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-28140-7
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- XVIII, 423
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- -
- Call Number
- 574.192 SAL a
The Golden Rule in Sports
Elite level sport lends itself to a highly competitive environment that encourages players to seek a competitive advantage in order to win. Since competition is an inherent condition that is also considered desirable in this setting, it may at first glance seem as if cooperation does not have any room in elite level sports. Sustainable cooperation can be mutually advantageous for players, but i…
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- 1
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- 978-3-658-07028-1
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- XVI, 189, 17 b/w illustrations
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- The Golden Rule in Sports
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Accountability in Public Policy Partnerships
Public-private partnerships have become an important tool for delivering essential public goods, but critics fear that they erode public accountability. Making partnerships more accountable requires a clear understanding of what accountability means for partnerships and which mechanisms can be used to strengthen it. Accountability in Public Policy Partnerships develops a new model of accountabi…
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- -
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- 9780230238978
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- XIII, 264 halaman
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- -
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- 352 STE a
The Practice of Enterprise Modeling
The 23 short papers accepted were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions and are organized in eight sections on Evolving Enterprises, Securing Enterprises, Making Empirical Studies, Investigating Enterprise Methods, Acquiring User Information, Managing Risks and Threats, Engineering Methods, and Making Decisions in Enterprises.
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- -
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- 978-3-319-25897-3
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- XIII, 389
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
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- -
Analyzing Financial Data and Implementing Financial Models Using R
This book is a comprehensive introduction to financial modeling that teaches advanced undergraduate and graduate students in finance and economics how to use R to analyze financial data and implement financial models. This text will show students how to obtain publicly available data, manipulate such data, implement the models, and generate typical output expected for a particular analysis. …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-14075-9
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- XVI, 351
- Series Title
- Springer Texts in Business and Economics
- Call Number
- 332 ANG a
The Power of Education
This book is about the power of education: the kind of education that simultaneously improves the quality of life both of individuals and the wider society. It explains why education must be viewed as a basic human right, as a value in and of itself, and reviews the evidence on how education builds the human resources that individuals and nations need to be productive, to continue to learn, to …
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- -
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- 978-981-287-221-0
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- XIX, 280
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- Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
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- -
The Politics of Pharmaceutical Policy Reform
Brazil is renowned worldwide for its remarkable reforms in pharmaceutical regulation, which have enhanced access to essential medicines while lowering drug costs. This book innovates by analysing the generic drug reform in Brazil, demonstrating that pharmaceutical regulation is only partially influenced by non-state actors. Little is known about the institutional antecedents and policy process…
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- -
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- 978-3-319-12565-7
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- XII, 117
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Political Science
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- -
Analytical Heat and Fluid Flow in Microchannels and Microsystems
This book focuses on the modeling and analysis of heat and fluid flow in microchannels and micro-systems, compiling a number of analytical and hybrid numerical-analytical solutions for models that account for the relevant micro-scale effects, with the corresponding experimental analysis validation when applicable. The volume stands as the only available compilation of easy to use analytically-b…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-23312-3
- Collation
- XII, 164
- Series Title
- Mechanical Engineering Series
- Call Number
- 536.7 COT a
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