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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Taking Stock of Air Liberalization is about Technology, Economy, and Policy (TEP) in the airline industry. Ten years ago, the practical collaboration was begun of bringing together people who belonged to the complementary streams of economic analysis and policy analysis presented int his book. During...
Data Envelopment Analysis
A Handbook of Empirical Studies and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
This handbook compiles state-of-the-art empirical studies and applications using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). It includes a collection of 18 chapters written by DEA experts. Chapter 1 examines the performance of CEOs of U.S. banks and thrifts. Chapter 2 describes the network operational structure...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the book's four Parts, the interdisciplinary approach to many issues contributes to the relationship between water and poverty.
Part I includes articles on the conceptual and methodological issues concerning poverty reduction through water resources development. It also offers analysis of...
Chemical-Mechanical Polishing of Low Dielectric Constant Polymers and Organosilicate Glasses
Fundamental Mechanisms and Application to IC Interconnect Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
As semiconductor manufacturers implement copper conductors in advanced interconnect schemes, research and development efforts shift toward the selection of an insulator that can take maximum advantage of the lower power and faster signal propagation allowed by copper interconnects. One of the main...
by Terry L. Friesz, David Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
This is a book about infrastructure networks that are intrinsically nonlinear. The networks considered range from vehicular networks to electric power networks to data networks.
The main point of view taken is that of mathematical programming in concert with finite-dimensional variational inequality...
Hidden Markov Models in Finance
Further Developments and Applications, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Since the groundbreaking research of Harry Markowitz into the application of operations research to the optimization of investment portfolios, finance has been one of the most important areas of application of operations research. The use of hidden Markov models (HMMs) has become one of the hottest...
by Laszlo Lakatos, Laszlo Szeidl, Miklos Telek
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
The book is composed of two main parts: mathematical background and queueing systems with applications. The mathematical background is a self containing introduction to the stochastic processes of the later studies queueing systems. It starts with a quick introduction to probability theory and stochastic...
by Xiaoqiang Cai, Xian Zhou, Xianyi Wu
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Many interesting and important results on stochastic scheduling problems have been developed in recent years, with the aid of probability theory. This book provides a comprehensive and unified coverage of studies in stochastic scheduling. The objective is two-fold: (i) to summarize the elementary...
Mentoring Across Generations
Partnerships for Positive Youth Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Currently, blame for the difficulties facing youth is too often laid on one particular segment of the community - whether parents, school personnel or the children themselves. However, the problems of today's young people are problems for all generations.
In response, the past decade has seen unparalleled...
Psychiatric Hospital Closure
Myths and realities
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Race and Affluence
An Archaeology of African America and Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
An archaeological analysis of the centrality of race and racism in American culture. Using a broad range of material, historical, and ethnographic resources from Annapolis, Maryland, during the period 1850 to 1930, the author probes distinctive African-American consumption patterns and examines how...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A consistently identified criticism about contemporary higher education is that academia is not playing a visible role in contributing to the improvement of the lives of people in the community - as the lives are lived on a day-to-day basis. However, there has been a long tradition of such `Outreach...
Marihuana
The First Twelve Thousand Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Of all the plants men have ever grown, none has been praised and denounced as often as marihuana (Cannabis sativa). Throughout the ages, marihuana has been extolled as one of man's greatest benefactors and cursed as one of his greatest scourges. Marihuana is undoubtedly a herb that has been many...