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A Violent World: Modern Threats to Economic Stability
During the 1990s Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history. The 2000s showed how it is an illusion to imagine a peaceful world without conflict. In this book the authors explore how six major constraints are set to fix the trajectory of the global economy. Three of them are new: the aging population, the failure of technical progress, and the scarcity of savings. The other three have b…
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- 978-1-137-58993-4
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- XIV, 181
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- 339 LOR v
Successful Aging
This book brings together state-of-the-art research on successful aging in Asian populations and highlights how the factors that contribute to successful aging differ from those in the West. It examines the differences between the Asian and Western contexts in which the aging process unfolds, including cultural values, lifestyles, physical environments and family structures. In addition, it exa…
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- 978-94-017-9331-5
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- VI, 349
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The Routledge Companion to Innovation Management
Innovation contributes to corporate competitiveness, economic performance and environmental sustainability. In the Internet era, innovation intelligence is transferred across borders and languages at an unprecedented rate, yet the ability to benefit from it seems to become more divergent among different corporations and countries. How much an organization can benefit from innovation largely dep…
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- 9781351997072
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- 650
A Time Series Approach to Option Pricing: Models, Methods and Empirical Perfo…
The current world financial scene indicates at an intertwined and interdependent relationship between financial market activity and economic health. This book explains how the economic messages delivered by the dynamic evolution of financial asset returns are strongly related to option prices. The Black Scholes framework is introduced and by underlining its shortcomings, an alternative approach…
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- 978-3-662-45037-6
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- XVI, 188
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- 332 CHO t
A Systematic Review of Rural Development Research: Characteristics, Design Qu…
Rapid urbanisation, inequalities in income and service levels within and between communities, and population and economic decline are challenging the viability of rural communities worldwide. Achieving healthy and viable rural communities in the face of rapidly changing social, ecological and economic conditions is a declared global priority. As a result, governments all over the world, in both…
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- 978-3-319-17284-2
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- X, 63
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- SpringerBriefs in Public Health
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- 615 EVA s
A Solar Car Primer: A Guide to the Design and Construction of Solar-Powered R…
This exciting primer on Solar Racing literally starts from the ground up, describing how the interactions of a vehicle with its environment circumscribe its ultimate success, from aerodynamics to resistance and propulsion. By demonstrating how to mathematically model these underlying physical phenomena, the author helps solar racing competitors carefully select key characteristics of the vehicl…
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- 978-3-319-17494-5
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- XXV, 466
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- 620.1 THA s
Study Guide for Statistics for Business and Financial Economics
This Study Guide accompanies Statistics for Business and Financial Economics, 3rd Ed. (Springer, 2013), which is the most definitive Business Statistics book to use Finance, Economics, and Accounting data throughout the entire book. The Study Guide contains unique chapter reviews for each chapter in the textbook, formulas, examples and additional exercises to enhance topics and their applicatio…
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- 978-3-319-11997-7
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- XI, 361
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Studies with a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber
Michael Schenk evaluates new technologies and methods, such as cryogenic read-out electronics and a UV laser system, developed to optimise the performance of large liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPC). Amongst others, the author studies the uniformity of the electric field produced by a Greinacher high-voltage generator operating at cryogenic temperatures, measures the linear energy t…
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- 978-3-658-09430-0
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- XI, 152
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- BestMasters
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Introduction to Fluorescence Sensing
Fluorescence is the most popular technique in chemical and biological sensing and this book provides systematic knowledge of basic principles in the design of fluorescence sensing and imaging techniques together with critical analysis of recent developments. Its ultimate sensitivity, high temporal and spatial resolution and versatility enables high resolution imaging within living cells. It dev…
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- 978-3-319-20780-3
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Re-engineering the Uptake of ICT in Schools
This book reports on a novel and comprehensive approach to the uptake of ICT in Schools. It focuses on key questions, pedagogically sound ways of introducing ICT, new technical artifacts supporting the approach, the evaluation in a large-scale validator, and future work. While many innovations in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) have emerged over the last two decades, the uptake of these inno…
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- 978-3-319-19366-3
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- 370
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