Filter by
Natural Disasters, Foreign Trade and Agriculture in Mexico
This work responds to the increasing global need of measuring and analyzing impacts, vulnerabilities and coping capacity of countries, regions and communities regarding climate change, extreme weather conditions, natural disasters and institutional constraints. The case of Mexico, analyzed in this work, provides lessons for further developing countries to assess natural disasters vulnerability,…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-17358-0
- Collation
- XI, 155
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
- Call Number
- -
The Value of Wellness in the Workplace A Perspective of the Employee-Organis…
This book examines the links between employee-organisation relationships, work wellness and the impact thereof on the labour market from a South African perspective. By employing this focus, the book explains the role of the employment relationship and the psychological contract in improving work wellness. To do so, it reviews the establishment and management of contracts in the context of labo…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-287-402-3
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Value of Social Media for Predicting Stock Returns Preconditions, Instru…
Michael Nofer examines whether and to what extent Social Media can be used to predict stock returns. Market-relevant information is available on various platforms on the Internet, which largely consist of user generated content. For instance, emotions can be extracted in order to identify the investors' risk appetite and in turn the willingness to invest in stocks. Discussion forums also provid…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-658-09508-6
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Use of Risk Budgets in Portfolio Optimization
Risk budgeting models set risk diversification as objective in portfolio allocation and are mainly promoted from the asset management industry. Albina Unger examines the portfolios based on different risk measures in several aspects from the academic perspective (Utility, Performance, Risk, Different Market Phases, Robustness, and Factor Exposures) to investigate the use of these models for ass…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-658-07259-9
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The University According to Humboldt History, Policy, and Future Possibilities
This book discusses the philosophy and educational reforms initiated by Wilhelm von Humboldt as well as their legacy in the modern university system. It begins with a discussion of the history of the university from antiquity and the Middle Ages through the era of Humboldt’s reforms and its remnants in and implications for the present day. The authors then delve into policy, outlining the key…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-13856-5
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Empirical Evidence on the Macroeconomic Effects of EU Cohesion Policy
Philipp Mohl evaluates the macroeconomic effects of EU Cohesion Policy with the help of empirical methods. His findings indicate that in particular the part of EU Cohesion Policy which is spent for the poorest regions (the so-called Objective 1 funding) has a positive and statistically significant impact on economic growth. Moreover, the employment effects of EU Cohesion Policy seem to be condi…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-658-13852-3
- Collation
- 21 b/w illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Empirical Economic and Financial Research Theory, Methods and Practice
The purpose of this book is to establish a connection between the traditional field of empirical economic research and the emerging area of empirical financial research and to build a bridge between theoretical developments in these areas and their application in practice. Accordingly, it covers broad topics in the theory and application of both empirical economic and financial research, includ…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-03122-4
- Collation
- 45 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Emotional Engineering Volume 4
This book describes the important role of emotion in a hyper-connected society and how product development and manufacture change. It explores how our work and lifestyle may be affected by forthcoming technologies and presents key research on multisensory informatics, one of the most important tools for making the most of emotion. This fourth volume of the Emotional Engineering Series focuse…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-29433-9
- Collation
- 40 b/w illustrations, 85 illustrations in colour
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Emotional Engineering (Vol. 3)
This book examines how theories of human emotion can be applied to engineering in order to improve product design and value. ‘Emotional Engineering Vol. 3’ establishes the idea that customer satisfaction can be maximised by using knowledge and experience in a more flexible manner to respond to a fast-changing world. This integration of emotion and knowledge introduces the reader to the conc…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-11555-9
- Collation
- 19 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Emotion in Group Decision and Negotiation
The volume offers an exploration of methods for analysis of emotion in negotiation, such as cognitive modeling, discourse analysis, all testing, subsequent multidimensional scaling, impression rating, and graph modeling for conflict resolution, reasonable and unreasonable disagreement. It covers activities, such as business negotiation, conflict solving, bargaining, task management meetings,…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-017-9963-8
- Collation
- XI, 218
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography