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Advances in Mathematical Economics Volume 19
The series is designed to bring together those mathematicians who are seriously interested in getting new challenging stimuli from economic theories with those economists who are seeking effective mathematical tools for their research. A lot of economic problems can be formulated as constrained optimizations and equilibration of their solutions. Various mathematical theories have been supplying…
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- 978-4-431-55489-9
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- V, 138
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- Advances in Mathematical Economics
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- 519.2 ADV a
Advances in Happiness Research: A Comparative Perspective
This edited volume makes a contribution to the literature on happiness research by compiling studies based on cross-national research and from diverse academic disciplines. The book is distinctive in that it contains both theoretical and empirical analyses, investigating relationship between causes of happiness and economic behavior relating to employment, consumption, and saving. Most notably,…
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- 978-4-431-55753-1
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- XX, 344
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- Creative Economy
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- 330.07 ADV a
Statistical Applications from Clinical Trials and Personalized Medicine to Fi…
The papers in this volume represent a broad, applied swath of advanced contributions to the 2015 ICSA/Graybill Applied Statistics Symposium of the International Chinese Statistical Association, held at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. The contributions cover topics that range from statistical applications in business and finance to applications in clinical trials and biomarker analysi…
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- 9783319425689
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Liberal Arts Education and Colleges in East Asia: Possibilities and Challenge…
This book discusses liberal arts education and liberal arts colleges in the context of East Asia, specifically focusing on Japan, China and S. Korea where it has become an emerging issue in higher education in recent years. It first explores the development, concepts and challenges of liberal arts education and liberal arts colleges in East Asia. It then delineates the implications of the best …
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- 978-981-10-0513-8
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Spotlight on China
Fuelled by forces of globalization, China has gradually shifted from a centrally planned economy to a socialist market economy. Under the market economy China has experienced a massive and protracted economic boom. It is not clear however whether recent economic changes have brought the same miracle to education in China. Spotlight on China brings together established and emerging scholars from…
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- 978-94-6209-881-7
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The Cadherin Superfamily
This book presents an overview of the entire field of cadherin research and provides the current basic concept of cadherins. Cadherins have been widely accepted as key regulators of animal development and physiological functions, and it also has become clear that they play essential roles in various human diseases. With contributions by leading scientists, the book covers various aspects of the…
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- 978-4-431-56033-3
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- XII, 428
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Advances in Audio Watermarking Based on Singular Value Decomposition
This book introduces audio watermarking methods for copyright protection, which has drawn extensive attention for securing digital data from unauthorized copying. The book is divided into two parts. First, an audio watermarking method in discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and discrete cosine transform (DCT) domains using singular value decomposition (SVD) and quantization is introduced. This meth…
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- 978-3-319-14800-7
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- XVIII, 58
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- SpringerBriefs in Speech Technology
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- 625.165 DHA a
Advances in Advertising Research (Vol. V): Extending the Boundaries of Advert…
Ivana Bušljeta Banks is a senior lecturer in the Department of Marketing and Communication at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management. Patrick De Pelsmacker is professor of marketing at the University of Antwerp, part-time professor of marketing at Ghent University (both in Belgium), and visiting professor at the Universities of Lugano, Genève (Switzerland), and IBS Moscow (Russia). Shi…
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- 978-3-658-08132-4
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- XI, 330
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- European Advertising Academy
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- 658 ADV a
Education as Cultivation in Chinese Culture
Given the increasing global interest in Chinese culture, this book uses case studies to describe and interpret Chinese cultivation in contemporary Taiwanese schools. Cultivation is a concept unique to Chinese culture and is characterized by different attitudes towards teaching and learning compared to Western models of education. The book starts with a discussion of human nature in Chinese scho…
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- 978-981-287-223-4
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- 20 b/w illustrations
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- VIII, 288
Evolving Norms Cognitive Perspectives in Economics
This book presents institutional evolution and individual choice as codependent results of behavioral patterns. Drawing on F.A. Hayek's concepts of cognition and cultural evolution, Teraji demonstrates how the relationship between the sensory and social orders can allow economists to track social norms and their effects on the global economy. He redirects attention from the conventional focus o…
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- 220220101007
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- 7 b/w illustrations
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