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Modelling, Pricing, and Hedging Counterparty Credit Exposure: A Technical Guide (Springer Finance)

Springer, 2010

The credit crisis that started in 2007, with the collapse of well-established financial institutions and the bankruptcy of many public corporations, has clearly shown the importance for any company entering the derivative business of modelling, pricing, and hedging its counterparty credit exposure.

Building an accurate...

Handbook of Data Intensive Computing

Springer, 2011

This handbook is carefully edited book – contributors are worldwide experts in the field of data intensive computing and their applications. The scope of the book includes leading edge data intensive computing architectures and systems, innovative storage, virtualization, and parallel processing technologies applied in...

The Radiation Therapy of Benign Diseases: Current Indications and Techniques 33rd San Francisco Cancer Symposium, San Francisco, Calif., April 1999 ... of Radiation Therapy and Oncology, Vol. 35)

Karger, 2001

This volume discusses radiotherapy and its role in the treatment of benign diseases. Its intent is to broaden the application of radiotherapy beyond malignancy to treat a range of clinical concerns, from minor skin problems to life-threatening arterial disease. In addition, it aims to encourage medical practitioners to consider the benefits...

On Mercy

Princeton Press, 2019

Is mercy more important than justice?

Since antiquity, mercy has been regarded as a virtue. The power of monarchs was legitimated by their acts of clemency, their mercy demonstrating their divine nature. Yet by the end of the eighteenth century, mercy had become “an injustice committed against society . . ....

The System Designer's Guide to VHDL-AMS (Systems on Silicon)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2002

The demand is exploding for complete, integrated systems that sense, process, manipulate, and control complex entities such as sound, images, text, motion, and environmental conditions. These systems, from hand-held devices to automotive sub-systems to aerospace vehicles, employ electronics to manage and adapt to a world that is, predominantly,...

TcL Scripting for Cisco IOS (Networking Technology)

Cisco Press, 2010

A guide to building and modifying Tcl scripts to automate network administration tasks

Streamline Cisco network administration and save time with Tcl scripting

Cisco networking professionals are under relentless pressure to...

Practical Big Data Analytics: Hands-on techniques to implement enterprise analytics and machine learning using Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL and R

Packt Publishing, 2018

Get command of your organizational Big Data using the power of data science and analytics

Key Features

A perfect companion to boost your Big Data storing, processing, analyzing skills to help you take informed business decisions

Work with the best tools such as Apache...

Modern C++: Efficient and Scalable Application Development: Leverage the modern features of C++ to overcome difficulties in various stages of application development

Packt Publishing, 2018

Create apps in C++ and leverage its latest features using modern programming techniques.

Key Features

Develop strong C++ skills to build a variety of applications

Explore features of C++17, such as containers, algorithms, and threads

Grasp the standard...

Under Control: Governance Across the Enterprise

Apress, 2009

With the economic crisis that began in 2008, a long-standing trend toward increased regulation is becoming a flood. The clamor for improved enterprise risk management and the complexity of multinational compliance present executives with a dramatically new array of challenges.

Governance should offer solutions, but it is clear that...

The Five-Year Party: How Colleges Have Given Up on Educating Your Child and What You Can Do About It

BenBella Books, 2010

My first inkling that something had gone seriously hay-wire in higher education came just after the turn of the millennium, when I was asked to take over the job of advisor to the campus radio station. I had spent the previous five years as a full-time journalism instructor and advisor to the student newspaper at Keene State College in New...

Future Cities: Designing Better, Smarter, More Sustainable and Secure Cities

BookSurge Publishing, 2009

In Future Cities, three authors - futurists, urban experts and systems architects - consider how the demands of the 21st Century will reshape the places where half of the world's population lives. From the history of urban development to the challenges of climate change and terrorism, they show how technology advances have shaped cities...

Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions: Practices of legitimation and accountable governance

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct energy transitions, and presents a typology of these practices to help determine whether energy...

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