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Realistic Simulation of Financial Markets: Realistic Simulation of Financial …
This book takes up unique agent-based approaches to solving problems related to stock and their derivative markets. Toward this end, the authors have worked for more than 15 years on the development of an artificial market simulator called U-Mart for use as a research and educational tool. A noteworthy feature of the U-Mart simulator compared to other artificial market simulators is that U-Mart…
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- 978-4-431-55057-0
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- 332
Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors
This book addresses the important physical phenomenon of Surface Plasmon Resonance or Surface Plasmon Polaritons in thin metal films, a phenomenon which is exploited in the design of a large variety of physico-chemical optical sensors. In this treatment, crucial materials aspects for design and optimization of SPR sensors are investigated and outlined in detail. The text covers the selection of…
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- 978-3-319-14926-4
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- XIII, 183
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- SpringerBriefs in Physics
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Accelerated Economic Growth in West Africa
The book provides a detailed analysis of the causes of West Africa’s current economic high-growth episode and proposes ways to extend it sustainably. It examines the potential role of regional integration through the establishment of a common currency union and of other policy options that can enhance economic growth. The authors suggest appropriate methods of coordination between macroeconom…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-16826-5
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- XIV, 211
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- Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
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- 339 ACC a
Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education: Neoliberal Policie…
This book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher education and research work that are underway today have not only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually be producing unemployment both for those within academia and for graduate job-seekers in other sectors. Recent and current re-organisations of higher education and research work, and re-orientations…
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- 978-1-137-49324-8
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- XVI, 252
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- Palgrave Critical University Studies
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- 378 ACA a
Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality
The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists' representations of university life all describe a global university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality.
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- 978-1-137-54761-3
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- X, 175
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- Palgrave Critical University Studies
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- 378 OSU a
Realising the 'Triple Dividend of Resilience': A New Business Case for Disast…
Why aren’t we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events? This book argues that decision-makers in governments, businesses, households, and development agencies tend to focus on avoiding losses from disasters, and perceive the return on investment as uncertain – only realised if a somewhat unlikely disaster event actually happens. This book develo…
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- 978-3-319-40694-7
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- 333.7
Real-time Speech and Music Classification by Large Audio Feature Space Extrac…
This book reports on an outstanding thesis that has significantly advanced the state-of-the-art in the automated analysis and classification of speech and music. It defines several standard acoustic parameter sets and describes their implementation in a novel, open-source, audio analysis framework called openSMILE, which has been accepted and intensively used worldwide. The book offers extensi…
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- 978-3-319-27299-3
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- 005.437
Abiotic Stress Physiology of Horticultural Crops
This book brings together recent advances in the area of abiotic stress tolerance in various vegetables, fruit crops, plantation crops and tuber crops. The main challenges to improving the productivity of horticultural crops are the different types of abiotic stresses generally caused by climate change at the regional and global level. Heat, drought, cold and salinity are the major abiotic stre…
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- 978-81-322-2725-0
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- XIV, 368
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- 581 ABI a
Abiotic Stress Biology in Horticultural Plants
The purpose of this publication is to elucidate the biological aspect of the abiotic stress response from the field to the molecular level in horticultural plants. This book is unique in that it concerns the basic aspect of abiotic stress biology and research progress at the molecular level in model plants or major field crops, as it focuses mainly on the abiotic stress response in existing hor…
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- 978-4-431-55251-2
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- VIII, 220
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- 581 ABI a
Music as Labour : Inequalities and Activism in the Past and Present
This book brings together research at the intersection of music, cultural industries, management, antiracist politics and gender studies to analyse music as labour, in particular highlighting social inequalities and activism. Providing insights into labour processes and practices, the authors investigate the changing role of manifold actors, institutions and technologies and the corresponding s…
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- 9781000615760
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- 650
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