A Double Scotch: How Chivas Regal and The Glenlivet Became Global Icons

Nutrition and the Eye: Basic and Clinical Research (Developments in Ophthalmology, Vol. 38)

Karger, 2004

This volume contains a basic research section focusing on the major compounds of nutrition and food supplements as well as a clinical research section providing up-to-date information on the results of recent clinical studies. The first part gives an insight into the mechanisms of substances relevant to antioxidants and food supplements in...

Analytically Tractable Stochastic Stock Price Models (Springer Finance)

Springer, 2012

Asymptotic analysis of stochastic stock price models is the central topic of the present volume. Special examples of such models are stochastic volatility models, that have been developed as an answer to certain imperfections in a celebrated Black-Scholes model of option pricing. In a stock price model with stochastic volatility, the random...

Node.js in Practice

Manning Publications, 2014

Summary

Node.js in Practice is a collection of fully tested examples that offer solutions to the common and not-so-common issues you face when you roll out Node. You'll dig into important topics like the ins and outs of event-based programming, how and why to use closures, how to structure applications...

The History of Approximation Theory: From Euler to Bernstein

Birkhauser, 2005

The problem of approximating a given quantity is one of the oldest challenges faced by mathematicians. Its increasing importance in contemporary mathematics has created an entirely new area known as Approximation Theory. The modern theory was initially developed along two divergent schools of thought: the Eastern or Russian group, employing...

Beginning Flash, Flex, and AIR Development for Mobile Devices

Wrox Press, 2011

THERE’S A GREAT DEMAND TODAY for mobile content and applications. Many of the leading device manufacturers and platforms are supporting Adobe Flash Player, and since many of them are also integrating Adobe AIR directly into the mobile device’s OS, there has never been a better time for getting to know how to author...

Recent Advances in Computational Optimization: Results of the Workshop on Computational Optimization WCO 2017 (Studies in Computational Intelligence (795))

Springer, 2018

Our everyday lives are practically unthinkable without optimization. We constantly try to minimize our effort and to maximize the reward or progress achieved. Many real-world and industrial problems arising in engineering, economics, medicine and other domains can be formulated as optimization tasks. This volume presents a...