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The Blockchain Alternative: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory

Apress, 2017

Examine what would happen if we were to deploy blockchain technology at the sovereign level and use it to create a decentralized cashless economy. This book explains how finance and economics work today, and how the convergence of various technologies related to the financial sector can help us find solutions to problems,...

International Investments (The Addison-Wesley Series in Finance)

Addison Wesley, 2003

Almost thirty years ago, Bruno Solnik published an article entitled "Why not diver. sify internationally rather than domestically?" in the Financial Analysts Journal Uuly/August 1974). At the time, US. pension funds had never invested outside of the United States. The situation was not very different in most other countries...

Surveillance and Threat Detection: Prevention versus Mitigation

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2014

Surveillance and Threat Detection offers readers a complete understanding of the terrorist/criminal cycle, and how to interrupt that cycle to prevent an attack.

Terrorists and criminals often rely on pre-attack and pre-operational planning and surveillance activities that can last a period of weeks, months, or even years....

Spring Security 3.x Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2013

Secure your Java applications against online threats by learning the powerful mechanisms of Spring Security. Presented as a cookbook full of recipes, this book covers a wide range of vulnerabilities and scenarios.

Overview

Learn about all the mandatory security measures for modern day applications using...

Cryptography and Network Security

McGraw-Hill, 2007

The Internet, as a worldwide communication network, has changed our daily life in many ways. A new paradigm of commerce allows individuals to shop online. The World Wide Web (WWW) allows people to share information. The E-mail technology conned people in far-flung corners of the world. 'ITiis inevitable evolution has also cre-...

UML Demystified

McGraw-Hill, 2005

There’s no easier, faster, or more practical way to learn the really tough subjects

UML Demystified explains how to read, model, and use UML to create well-structured, stable software products. This self-teaching guide comes complete with key points, background information, quizzes at the end of each chapter,...

Design and Control of Workflow Processes: Business Process Management for the Service Industry (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Springer, 2008

The motivation behind the conception of this monograph was to advance scientific knowledge about the design and control of workflow processes. A workflow pr- ess (or workflow for short) is a specific type of business process, a way of or- nizing work and resources. Workflows are commonly found within large admin- trative organizations such as...

Reason 3 for Windows and Macintosh : Visual QuickStart Guide

Peachpit Press, 2005

Combining pristine sound quality with a comfortably retro-styled virtual rack (including a polyphonic synthesizer, mixing console, sampler, and drum machine), Reason has won legions of fans since its introduction. Now, everyone is singing its praises -- from bands like Nine Inch Nails and Prodigy to video producers. Here to show you why is the...

Risk Management and Capital Adequacy

McGraw-Hill, 2003

A Step-by-Step Approach for Integrating Market, Credit, and Operational Risk Management--While Complying with New Basel Accord Guidelines

For financial institutions around the world, the work involved in managing market, credit, and operational risk exposures--as well as the capital required to support such...

Governing Climate Change (Global Institutions)

Routledge, 2010

Governing Climate Change provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diverse range of actors, from civil society and market actors to multilateral development banks, donors and cities.

The issue of global climate change has risen to the top of the international...

The Fearful Rise of Markets: Global Bubbles, Synchronized Meltdowns, and How To Prevent Them in the Future

FT Press, 2010

“This enjoyable, fast-moving book is concise, relevant, and perceptive. My bottom line is a simple one: This book should be read by all those interested in the way markets operate, be they investors, analysts, or policy makers.”

From the Foreword by Mohamed A....

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...

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