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Forecasting High-Frequency Volatility Shocks
This thesis presents a new strategy that unites qualitative and quantitative mass data in form of text news and tick-by-tick asset prices to forecast the risk of upcoming volatility shocks. Holger Kömm embeds the proposed strategy in a monitoring system, using first, a sequence of competing estimators to compute the unobservable volatility; second, a new two-state Markov switching mixture mode…
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- 978-3-658-12596-7
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- XXIX, 171 hlm.
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Force-Controlled Robotic Assembly Processes of Rigid and Flexible Objects
This book provides comprehensive and integrated approaches for rigid and flexible object assembly. It presents comparison studies with the available force-guided robotic processes and covers contact-state modeling, scheme control strategies, and position searching algorithms. Further, it includes experimental validations for different assembly situations, including those for the assembly of ind…
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- 978-3-319-39185-4
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- XXI, 184 hlm.
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Football Traumatology: New Trends
This book provides a comprehensive guide to the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal injuries commonly experienced by football (soccer) players. It will be of particular value for orthopedists and sports medicine practitioners, and will provide the information required by trainers and medical staff regarding the traumatic lesions associated with the sport. It is also ant…
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- 978-3-319-18245-2
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- XV, 392 hlm.
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Foot Steps of the Ancient Great Glacier of North America
John K. DeLaski, M.D. practiced medicine in the Penobscot Bay region of Maine and, in addition, was a naturalist with keen powers of observation. His study of the landscape led to the conclusion that a thick glacier had overtopped the highest hills, flooded all of Penobscot Bay, extended far to the east and west and probably was part of a greater continental glacier. He published these very cri…
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- 978-3-319-13200-6
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- X, 202 hlm.
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Food Waste and Sustainable Food Waste Management in the Baltic Sea Region
This work presents the findings of an extensive study on the state-of-the-art regarding the problem of food waste in Belarus, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. The results show that the problem of food waste can be found at different levels in each country and that our knowledge of it is limited by the current lack of studies in the area. The problem is primarily due to fo…
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- 978-3-319-10906-0
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- XII, 222 hlm.
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- Environmental Science and Engineering
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Food Security and Risk Reduction in Bangladesh
This book draws examples from food security issues in Bangladesh. The book is structured around those issues and underlying causes of food security, the implications from different sectors, policy analysis, and the role and actions of various stakeholders from different sectors to ensure food security. Bangladesh is situated in a climatically vulnerable position and is impacted frequently by…
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- 978-4-431-55411-0
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- XII, 273 hlm.
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- Disaster Risk Reduction
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Food Security and Industrial Clustering in Northeast Asia
This book integrates diversified methodologies of area studies, regional economic development, regional science, and related fields to draw up a strategy for forming the “regional food industrial cluster” in Northeast Asia. This is done by assigning “innovation” to a core concept, with the basic problem of food security as the horizontal axis and the areas of Northeast Asia as the verti…
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- 978-4-431-55282-6
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- XII, 282 hlm.
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- New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives
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Geologic map of Chase County
Relief shown by contours.Includes text, location diagram, and composite stratigraphic section.Bibliography.
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- 1588068900
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- 1 map :col. ;97 x 85 cm.
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To Save the People from Themselves': The Emergence of American Judicial Revie…
In this expansive history, Robert J. Steinfeld offers a thorough re-interpretation of the origins of American judicial review and the central role it quickly came to play in the American constitutional system. Beginning with Privy Council review of American colonial legislation, the book goes on to provide detailed descriptions of the character of the first American constitutions, showing that …
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- 9781108989619
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Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany
Convinced that sexual immorality and unstable gender norms were endangering national recovery after World War One, German lawmakers drafted a constitution in 1919 legalizing the censorship of movies and pulp fiction, and prioritizing social rights over individual rights. These provisions enabled legislations to adopt two national censorship laws intended to regulate the movie industry and retai…
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- 9781316443750
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