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Alternative Alternatives : Risk Returns and Investment Strategy
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Subject(s): Investments | Speculation | Risk | Portfolio management Summary: "In the aftermath of the financial crisis, investors are searching for new opportunities and products to safeguard their investments for the future. Riding high on the wave of new financial opportunities are Alternative Alternatives (AA). However, there is a dearth

Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility
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Subject(s): Medical ethics -- Philosophy | Bioethics -- Philosophy | Biotechnology -- Philosophy Summary: "Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility explores the role of democratically oriented argument in promoting public understanding and discussion of the benefits and burdens of biotechnological progress. The contributo

Handbook of Modeling high-Frequency Data in Finance
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Subject(s): Finance -- Econometric models Summary: "This exciting volume presents cutting-edge developments in high frequency financial econometrics, spanning a diverse range of topics: stochastic modeling, statistical analysis of high-frequency data, models in econophysics, applications to the analysis of high-frequency data, systems and c

Green Building with Concrete : Sustainable Design and Construction
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Subject(s): Concrete construction | Sustainable construction | Concrete -- Recycling Summary: "Packed with case studies highlighting construction companies that regularly recycle between 70% and 95% of concrete from their waste streams, this book presents practical, up-to-date information about concrete's history in the green building m

Knowledge Automation : How to Implement Decision Management in Business Processes
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Subject(s): Information technology | Decision making Summary: "A proven decision management methodology for increased profits and lowered risksAutomating Decisions in Business Processes describes a simple but comprehensive methodology for decision management projects, which use business rules and predictive analytics to optimize and automat

Broadband Optical Access Networks : Emerging Technologies and optical-Wireless Convergence
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Subject(s): Optical communications Summary: "Broadband optical access network is an ideal solution to alleviate the first/last mile bottleneck of current Internet infrastructures. Richly illustrated throughout to help clarify important topics, Broadband Optical Access Networks covers the architectures, protocols enabling technologies of bro

Advances in web-Based Gis, Mapping Services and Applications
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Subject(s): Geographic information systems | Geography -- Computer network resources | World Wide Web Summary: "A detailed look at the field of web-based GIS and mapping services and applications, this book reviews current progress and achievements, while looking forward to future developments. It address issues involved in constant updatin

The Humanitarian Leader in Each of Us : 7 Choices That Shape a Socially Responsible Life
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Subject(s): Leadership | Social entrepreneurship Summary: "Socially Responsible Leadership is a supplementary (and core) text for undergraduate and graduate courses in leadership, servant leadership, social leadership, service learning, and Social Entrepreneurship (the latter primarily as a supplement to aid in self-discovery about one'

Longitudinal Data Analysis : a Practical Guide for Researchers in Aging, Health, and Social Sciences
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Subject(s): Social sciences -- Research | Social sciences -- Longitudinal studies | Longitudinal method | Aging -- Longitudinal studies -- Research | Health -- Longitudinal studies -- Research Summary: "This book provides accessible treatment to state-of-the-art approaches to analyzing longitudinal studies. Comprehensive coverage of the mos

Materials for Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort in Buildings
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Subject(s): Buildings -- Energy conservation | Insulating materials Review: "Almost half of the total energy produced in the developed world is inefficiently used to heat, cool, ventilate and control humidity in buildings, to meet the increasingly high thermal comfort levels demanded by occupants. The utilisation of advanced m̀aterials and

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