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Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture

New Society Publishers, 2006

The miracle of the Green Revolution was made possible by cheap fossil fuels to supply crops with artificial fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation. Estimates of the net energy balance of agriculture in the United States show that ten calories of hydrocarbon energy are required to produce one calorie of food. Such an imbalance cannot...

Modeling Risk: Applying Monte Carlo Simulation, Real Options Analysis, Forecasting, and Optimization Techniques (Wiley Finance)

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

This completely revised and updated edition of Applied Risk Analysis includes new case studies in modeling risk and uncertainty as well as a new risk analysis CD-ROM prepared by Dr. Mun. On the CD-ROM you'll find his Risk Simulator and Real Options Super Lattice Solver software as well as many useful spreadsheet models.

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Mathematics of Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing)

Springer, 2012

This book presents a mathematically-based introduction into the fascinating topic of Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic and might be used as textbook at both undergraduate and graduate levels and also as reference guide for mathematician, scientists or engineers who would like to get an insight into Fuzzy Logic.

Fuzzy Sets have been...

Bayesian Logical Data Analysis for the Physical Sciences: A Comparative Approach with Mathematica® Support

Cambridge University Press, 2005

Bayesian inference provides a simple and unified approach to data analysis, allowing experimenters to assign probabilities to competing hypotheses of interest, on the basis of the current state of knowledge. By incorporating relevant prior information, it can sometimes improve model parameter estimates by many orders of magnitude. This book...

Handbook of Market Risk

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

A ONE-STOP GUIDE FOR THE THEORIES, APPLICATIONS, AND STATISTICAL METHODOLOGIES OF MARKET RISK

Understanding and investigating the impacts of market risk on the financial landscape is crucial in preventing crises. Written by a hedge fund specialist, the Handbook of Market Risk is the comprehensive guide to the subject of...

Apple Pro Training Series: Logic Pro 9 and Logic Express 9

Peachpit Press, 2009

Completely revised and updated for Logic Pro 9 and Logic Express 9, this Apple-certified guide shows you how to record, produce, and polish music files with Apple’s professional audio software. Veteran music producer David Nahmani’s step-by-step, instructions teach you everything from basic music creation to advanced production...

Automated Trading with R: Quantitative Research and Platform Development

Apress, 2016

Learn to trade algorithmically with your existing brokerage, from data management, to strategy optimization, to order execution, using free and publicly available data. Connect to your brokerage’s API, and the source code is plug-and-play.

Automated Trading with R explains automated trading, starting with its...

Multiple Sclerosis (World Federation of Neurology Seminars in Clinical Neurology) (World Federation of Neurology Series)

Demos Medical Publishing, 2006

"The Multiple Sclerosis International Foundation estimates that over 2.5 million people worldwide have multiple sclerosis. Throughout developed countries, increased attention has been paid to this disorder, due in large part to advanced imaging technology and the development of new therapeutic pharmaceutical agents.

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Fibrosis Research: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Medicine)

Humana Press, 2005

Fibrosis or scar, defined pathologically as inappropriate repair by connective tissue, is increasingly recognized as an important feature of many chronic diseases (Table 1), and as such, represents an enormous health burden. The United States government estimates that 45% of deaths in the United States can be attributed to...

Information Security Science: Measuring the Vulnerability to Data Compromises

Syngress Publishing, 2016

Information Security Science: Measuring the Vulnerability to Data Compromises provides the scientific background and analytic techniques to understand and measure the risk associated with information security threats. This is not a traditional IT security book since it includes methods of information compromise that are not typically...

Solar Resources Mapping: Fundamentals and Applications (Green Energy and Technology)

Springer, 2019

This book presents methods for optimising the spatial and network configuration of solar radiation measuring stations. Various physical and mathematical models are demonstrated, which together with high quality measurements, provide the essential tools to generate and validate solar resource estimates to improve the mapping of solar...

SQL Server Execution Plans

Red gate, 2012

Every day, out in the various online forums devoted to SQL Server, and on Twitter, the same types of questions come up repeatedly: Why is this query running slowly? Why is SQL Server ignoring my index? Why does this query run quickly sometimes and slowly at others? My response is the same in each case: have you looked at the execution plan? An...

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