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Methods for macrosociological research
Strategies of analysis for macrosociological data have long relied on questionable methodology which sacrifices information in exchange for summary measures. This book provides the means to handle distributions and compositional data without forfeiting the information from which they derive. It f...
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Risk management
Examines the expectations that underlie financial risk models and the practices and institutions they have engendered. This work includes subjects ranging from risk reporting and risk forecasting to enterprise risk management and the effect of behavioral finance on compensation systems. It seeks ...
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Personnel preparation
Advances in knowledge of effective strategies for the treatment of learning and behavioral disabilities are of little use without highly trained and effective personnel to implement these strategies. This volume discusses a wide range of important issues in the preparation of those personnel.
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Link analysis
This book provides methods, guidelines and examples to guide researchers and students through a research project, and reviewing a considerable body of previous work. It contains a complete link analysis methodology for information science and social science research. Case studies include academic...
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Forecasting in business and economics
Describes the major techniques of forecasting used in economics and business. This book focuses on the forecasting of economic data and covers a range of topics, including the description of the Box-Jenkins single series modeling techniques; forecasts from purely statistical and econometric model...
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Nonlinear economic dynamics
Nonlinear Economic Dynamics
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Eu and us banking in the 1990s
Provides an example of applied analysis of banking to students attending courses on financial markets and banking and financial integration. This book discusses the nature of banking in relation to 3 main areas in economic theory which are: market failure and the need for regulation; effects of d...
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Grounding grounded theory
In searching out the methodological principles on which grounded theory is built, the author reveals its main features as a qualitative research methodology for social research and the issues fundamental to understanding it. He also highlights the disagreements between the originators of grounded...
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Social welfare spending
Social Welfare Spending: Accounting for Changes from 1950 to 1978
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Modern information systems for managers
Offers several features to prepare executives for effective utilization of information systems. This book presents coverage of the information systems technology within the context of information systems and issues surrounding design and implementation of information systems including microcomput...
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Mathematics for economists
Focuses on two key components of microeconomics - optimization subject to constraints and the development of comparative statics. The book assumes familiarity with calculus of one variable and basic linear algebra, allowing coverage of additional topics like the chain rule and Taylor's theorem.
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The myceneaens and europe
This book presents a catalogue and discussion of the Late Bronze Age Minoan-Mycenaean agricultural, wood-working, met-allurgical and general purpose tools found in Europe.
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Bargaining and markets
The formal theory of bargaining originated with John Nash's work in the early 1950s. This book discusses the developments in this theory. It uses the tool of extensive games to construct theories of bargaining in which time is modeled explicitly, and also applies the theory of bargaining to the s...
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Ceramics, chronology and community patterns
This book should prove useful to scholars in a variety of ways, for it deals with culture-historical, methodological, and evolutionary issues from shedding light on Moundville’s development. In addressing matters of culture history, the study presents a detailed and well documented Mississippian ...
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Advances in librarianship
This volume focuses on how libraries have been changed by electronic communication of information and knowledge. his volume not only covers digital trends but also looks at issues of significance to librarians today in the areas of reference and management in its last three papers.
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Advances in librarianship
Covers various areas of public, college, university, primary and secondary schools, and special libraries. This is a useful reference source for developments in the field of libraries and library science. The articles featured have won national prizes.
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The methods and materials of demography
Presents an exposition of the methods used by technicians and research workers in dealing with demographic data. This book is concerned with the ways data on population are gathered, classified, and treated to produce tabulations and various summarizing measures that reveal the significant aspect...
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Progress in psychobiology and physiological psychology
Covers a broad range of contemporary topics in behavioral neuroscience. This book focuses on the mammalian suprachiasmatic nucleus system emphasizing inputs to the 'clock', their neurochemical phenotype, and outputs from the 'clock' to behavioral and other effector systems.
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Asymptotic theory for econometricians
An econometric estimator is a solution to an optimization problem. This book provides the tools and concepts necessary to study the behavior of econometric estimators and test statistics in large samples.
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Economics at the wheel
Talks about cars and driving, and the various problems that cars and drivers create for America. This book explains actual government policy intended to reduce the damage cars and drivers do to us, and it explains why these government policies are almost all failures because they attack the wrong...
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Macroeconomic theory
Include chapters such as: The Consumption Function, Government Debt and Taxes, and Dynamic Optimal Taxation. This book also features chapters dealing with difference equations, stochastic difference equations, and investment under uncertainty.
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The four asian tigers
Examines the geopolitical and economic contexts of the region's export-oriented industrialization. This book focuses on the global and regional elements of the economic system and geo-politics. It also focuses on the domestic actors and institutions which played critical roles in the miracle econ...
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Advances in librarianship
An essential reference source for developments in the field of libraries and library science. All areas of public, college, university, primary and secondary schools, and special libraries are given up-to-date, critical analysis by experts engaged in the practice of librarianship, in teaching, an...
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Communication and relational maintenance
Addresses the question, "How do people maintain their personal relationships?" This volume discusses the everyday processes used to maintain an on-going relationship. It looks at interpersonal communication, social-psychological factors relevant to maintenance, and the resolution of conflict.
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Advances in librarianship
All areas of public, college, university, primary and secondary schools, and special libraries are given up-to-date, critical analysis by experts engaged in the practice of librarianship, in teaching, and in research.
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Eurasia
Focuses on a new peace agenda grounded in a dialogue among the Eurasia civilizations. This work deals with the problems and prospects of such a dialogue and its consequences for world peace. It also concentrates on globalization and regionalization as the two dominant Eurasian trends, and compare...
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Resource theory
Presents the developments in resource theory and gives a representative sample of contemporary research conducted within this theoretical perspective. This book provides empirical evidence supporting the cross-cultural validity of this framework. It talks about social exchange theory, cross-cultu...
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Big bets gone bad
In December 1994, Orange County became the largest municipality in US history to become bankrupt. How can a municipal investment pool, which is supposed to be safe, lose billions of dollars? What are derivatives and how did they contribute to this tragedy? This book presents a description of the ...
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Managerial economics
Managerial economics is the application of economic theory and quantitative methods (mathematics and statistics) to the managerial decision-making process. This book contains a chapter on game theory and on the time value of money and capital budgeting. It is intended for students with limited pr...
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The social impact of computers
Technology does not invite an examination of its own consequences. Issues concerning ethics and professionalism, privacy, autonomy, free speech, and ethics have often been recognized but rarely receive analysis and illumination they deserve. This book is a study in the success of the computer in ...
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Beyond limits?
The European chemical industry is the largest in the world but it is by no means the only source of occupational exposure to chemical hazards, because chemical products are both used and are bi-products in many diverse forms of work. This book is a study of strategic approaches to managing the ri...
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Managing customer relationships on the internet
One important marketing issue is how to initiate, develop, and manage relationships with customers through the Internet. This book aims to improve our knowledge on utilization of the Internet in marketing. It offers theoretical as well empirical knowledge on managing customer relationships on the...
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Mathematics in transport
Contains selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the IMA 4th International Conference on Mathematics in Transport. This work focuses on the development and application of mathematical and statistical modelling in transport.
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Negotiating moves
This study of Japanese business discourse adopts Bakhtin's notion of speech genres as an heuristic, to analyze groups of spoken texts which display similar constellations of compositional, thematic, and stylistic features. It examines strategies used by a non-Western community of speakers.
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The permanent representatives committee
Derived from practical experience, this book provides a picture of the state of affairs of European integration in general, and the functioning of the European institutions in particular. It serves the political objective of creating transparency in the decision-making of the European Union.
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Non-business actors in a business network
Develops a model for the exchange relationship between local customers and MNCs, and investigates the effect of different political organizations and other business firms. This book examines relationship using many dimensions, business, social and political, through multiple cases from a developi...
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Power laws in the information production process
Explains numerous informetric regularities based on a decreasing power law as size-frequency function, i.e. Lotka's law. It revives the historical formulation of Alfred Lotka of 1926 and shows the power of this power law, both in classical aspects of informetrics (libraries, bibliographies) and i...
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Measuring the new economy
Presents the intriguing subject of measuring the New Economy, which means ICT and its impact on society. This book talks about various statistical issues which call for a solution, not in the least because politicians in the EU wish to be reliably enlightened on how the EU is performing vis-a-vis...
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Communicating in the classroom
This volume brings together a multidisciplinary perspective of recent work, both theoretical and empirical, on the use of language for communicating in the classroom.
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Functional structure and approximation in econometrics
This book contains state-of-the-art cumulative research and results on functional structure, approximation and estimation for: individual economic agents; aggregation over those agents; and equilibrium solution stochastic processes. Contributions to time series modeling and inference in the time ...
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Advances in librarianship
An essential reference source for developments in the field of libraries and library science. All areas of public, college, university, primary and secondary schools, and special libraries are given up-to-date, critical analysis by experts engaged in the practice of librarianship, in teaching, an...
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Simulating an ageing population
Presents the international exchange of scientific information. This series represents a range of geographic and subject matter interests in economics, and includes books from various areas of macroeconomics and microeconomics.
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Essays in index number theory
Containing papers on index number and aggregation theory, this volume studies aggregation problems in economics, primarily the aggregation over goods problem. It is useful for government agencies around the world that produce price statistics, insuring an understanding of important properties of ...
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Telecommunications
Global changes in policy and technology in the telecommunications industry in the 1990s are described and analyzed in this volume, showing how this industry creates a bridge for society's transition to the next century. It explores such areas as multimedia, cellular communications and the Internet.
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The conceptual foundations of descriptive cataloging
Presents the general principles underlying the design of bibliographic databases. This book covers topics such as the impact of technology on catalogs and catalog codes, design objectives for online catalogs, standardization and integration in bibliographic control, and access to bibliographic in...
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Panel data econometrics
This volume includes some of the papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Panel Data, Texas, June 2004, and other solicited papers that passed the refereeing process and includes such topics as dynamic panel data estimation, non-linear panel data methods and the phenomenal growth...
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Strategic management
Strategic Management
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Astute competition
This book is embedded in practical tools which proposes a fourth field of economics in addition to macro, micro and industrial organisation economics (IO); namely what may be called the economics of diversity. This book asserts that businesses are as individual as people. All have unique identiti...
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Progress in activity-based analysis
Reflects an eventful decade of development and application of activity-based models. This work in three extensive sections: reviews a range of approaches to incorporating increased complexity in models; discusses how to obtain the rich data necessary to support complex models; and reports on real...
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Optimal growth economics
Contemporary issues in general economics, growth economics and in the formulation of optimal growth programs, especially the issue of the sustainability of growth, are investigated in this book. A wide range of optimal economic growth models are developed here to address the crucial issues of dif...
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Innovation and diffusion of software technology
Examines B2B decision making processes for software application development. This book provides DSA Models, event chronology maps, and cognitive maps for a more comprehensive analysis. It includes individual case study and cross-case findings for theory development.
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Elsevier's dictionary of art history terms
Contains terms covering the following fields and subfields of arts and antiques: painting, drawing, engraving, sculpture, architecture, dressmaking, armament, heraldry, ceramics, styles and art criticism, music, furniture, religious monuments and objects, textile, gilding, numismatics, jewels, ca...
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Public provision and performance
Governments are searching for possibilities to improve efficiency and reduce cost of the public sector services. There is a gap between efficiency research and policy implementation of the results. This book aims to bridge this gap. It provides a summary of research, an overview of methods, an in...
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