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Deploying Foresight for Policy and Strategy Makers : Creating Opportunities T…
This book develops foresight techniques to turn future societal challenges into opportunities. The authors present foresight approaches for innovation policy and management. Future developments in fields such as education, energy, new materials, nanotechnologies are highlighted for different countries. Readers will discover tools and instruments to capture the potentials of the grand societal c…
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- 9783319256283
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- XX, 273 pages 59 illustrations, 55 illustrations in color.
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- 338.7
Derivative Security Pricing Techniques, Methods and Applications
The book presents applications of stochastic calculus to derivative security pricing and interest rate modelling. By focusing more on the financial intuition of the applications rather than the mathematical formalities, the book provides the essential knowledge and understanding of fundamental concepts of stochastic finance, and how to implement them to develop pricing models for derivatives as…
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- 9783662459065
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- 338.7
Derivatives and Hedge Funds
This book is a collection of papers celebrating 20 years of the Journal of Derivatives and Hedge Funds (JDHF)
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- 9781137554178
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- 330
Mass Customization: Opportunities, Methods, and Challenges for Manufacturers
Mass Customization examines the business opportunities, considerations, and challenges manufacturers in various industries must weigh before committing to the significant investment in machinery and software needed to go to mass customization. For manufacturers who decide that it’s time to take the plunge, the author describes the proven methods and latest technologies for making mass customi…
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- 978-1-4842-1007-9
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Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus
Itu adalah momen yang mempesona dalam sejarah profesi kedokteran hewan ketika Organisasi Pangan dan Pertanian Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa (FAO) mengumumkan pada 28 Juni 2011 bahwa rinderpest telah diberantas secara global dan tidak ada hambatan untuk perdagangan internasional karena rinderpest. Pada saat komunitas penelitian dikumpulkan di bawah "Program Pemberantasan Rinderpest Global (GREP)" u…
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- 978-3-662-45165-6
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- 614.58 MUN p
The Future of the Postal Sector in a Digital World
Worldwide, postal operators have been slow to address the threats from and opportunities created by electronic competition. The European Commission and member states are wrestling with these issues, while at the same time continuing to deal with the interrelated issues of implementing entry into postal markets and maintaining the universal service obligation. The Postal Accountability and Enha…
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- 978-3-319-24454-9
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- XIII, 345, 23 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
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- Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy
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The Inverse Problem of the Calculus of Variations
The aim of the present book is to give a systematic treatment of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations, i.e. how to recognize whether a system of differential equations can be treated as a system for extremals of a variational functional (the Euler-Lagrange equations), using contemporary geometric methods. Selected applications in geometry, physics, optimal control, and general rela…
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- 978-94-6239-109-3
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- IX, 289, 3 illustrations in colour
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- Atlantis Studies in Variational Geometry
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The Influence of Blockholders on Agency Costs and Firm Value
Markus P. Urban investigates the influence of large shareholders (the so-called blockholders) on agency costs and firm value, thereby accounting for blockholder characteristics and blockholder interrelationships. The work provides a profound theoretical and empirical analysis on the nature and effect of shareholder engagement with due regard to the specifics of the German institutional environm…
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- 978-3-658-11402-2
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- XXXVI, 462,
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- Auditing and Accounting Studies
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Design for Experience Where Technology Meets Design and Strategy
Presents a strategic perspective and design methodology that guide the process of developing digital products and services that provide?real experience? to users. Only when the material experienced runs its course to fulfilment is it then regarded as?real experience? that is distinctively senseful, evaluated as valuable, and harmoniously related to others. Based on the theoretical background of…
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- 9783319143040
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- 338.71
The Quartz Crystal Microbalance in Soft Matter Research
From a device for measuring film thickness in vacuum, the quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) has in the past two decades evolved into a versatile instrument for analyzing soft matter at solid/liquid and solid/gas interfaces that found applications in diverse fields including the life sciences, material science, polymer research and electrochemistry. As a consequence of this success, the QCM is n…
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- 978-3-319-07836-6
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- XX, 387
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- Soft and Biological Matter
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