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Bear Market Investing Strategies (Wiley Trading)

John Wiley & Sons, 2002

"The first investment book I ever read - in the late 1960s - was Harry Schultz's Bear Markets. After watching the late 1990s lunacy and inevitable fallout, I feel every market student and investor should read a great book on bear markets and thus become wise through the printed word not later through painful disillusion. To the rescue...

Newman and the Alexandrian Fathers: Shaping Doctrine in Nineteenth-Century England

Oxford University Press, 2009

John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman is generally known to have been devoted to reading the Church Fathers. In this volume, Benjamin King draws on archive as well as published material to explore how Newman interpreted specific Fathers at different periods of his life. King draws connections between the Alexandrian Fathers Newman was reading and the...

Spatial Variation of Seismic Ground Motions: Modeling and Engineering Applications (Advances in Engineering Series)

CRC Press, 2009

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book provides coverage from seismological and engineering, deterministic and stochastic, as well as physical and mathematical points of view. The author describes the estimation of spatial variability from recorded data, its physical interpretation, and the development of spatial variability/coherency...

Rare Event Simulation using Monte Carlo Methods

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

In a probabilistic model, a rare event is an event with a very small probability of occurrence. The forecasting of rare events is a formidable task but is important in many areas. For instance a catastrophic failure in a transport system or in a nuclear power plant, the failure of an information processing system in a bank, or in the communication...

Terrorism and Public Safety Policing: Implications for the Obama Presidency

CRC Press, 2009

A Pragmatic Answer to the Systematic Change Already Underway

The trends, data, and battle-tested logic do not lie. A perfect storm of extremist ideologies is on the horizon that threatens to challenge the current state of public safety—forcing police chiefs, public administrators, and security...

Sufis in Western Society: Global Networking and Locality (Routledge Sufi)

Routledge, 2009

In recent years Sufism has undergone something of a revival as a spiritual alternative to other manifestations of Islam. This book investigates the development of Sufism in Western societies, with a regional focus on North America and Europe. Exploring a number of issues relating to the dynamic tensions between religious globalization processes...

The Quest for the Invisible

Ashgate, 2009

The eighteenth century has often been viewed as a period of relative decline in the field of microscopy, as interest in microscopes seemed to wane after an intense period of discovery in the seventeenth century. As such, developments in the field during the Enlightenment have been largely overlooked. This study therefore fills a considerable gap in...

Performance Analysis of Transaction Processing Systems

Prentice Hall, 1989

This book provides the tools necessary for predicting and improving the performance of real-time computing systems, with special attention given to the rapidly growing field of on-line traDsaCtion-processing (OLTP) systems. It is aimed at two audiences:

1. The system analyst who thorougbly understands the concepts of modem operating...

Introduction to Data Technologies (Computer Science and Data Analysis)

CRC Press, 2009

Perform Research Tasks with Ease

Focuses on computer languages as tools for data management
Providing key information on how to work with research data, Introduction to Data Technologies presents ideas and techniques for performing critical, behind-the-scenes tasks that take up so...

Advances in Machine Learning II: Dedicated to the memory of Professor Ryszard S. Michalski

Springer, 2010

This is the second volume of a large two-volume editorial project we wish to dedicate to the memory of the late Professor Ryszard S. Michalski who passed away in 2007. He was one of the fathers of machine learning, an exciting and relevant, both from the practical and theoretical points of view, area in modern computer science and information...

Advances in Machine Learning I: Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Ryszard S. Michalski (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2010

This is the first volume of a large two-volume editorial project we wish to dedicate to the memory of the late Professor Ryszard S. Michalski who passed away in 2007. He was one of the fathers of machine learning, an exciting and relevant, both from the practical and theoretical points of view, area in modern computer science and...

$Statistics II for Dummies (Math & Science)$

Statistics II for Dummies (Math & Science)

For Dummies, 2009

So you’ve gone through some of the basics of statistics. Means, medians, and standard deviations all ring a bell. You know about surveys and experiments and the basic ideas of correlation and simple regression. You’ve studied probability, margin of error, and a few hypothesis tests and confidence intervals. Are you ready to load your...

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