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Overview: Contains the latest developments in credit risk research.Gives a broad overview of credit risk modelsThis new edition is a greatly extended and updated version of my earlier monograph "Pricing Credit Linked Financial Instruments" (Schmid 2002). Whereas the first edition concentrated on the re­ search which I had done in the context of my PhD thesis, this second edition covers all important credit risk models and gives a general overview of the subject. I put a lot of effort in explaining credit risk factors and show the latest results in default probability and recovery rate modeling

Overview: Offers a unique account of embodiment, emotion and wellbeing in relation to men‘s health and masculinity.Explores the discursive parameters within which gender and health practices are enacted.Present.This book assesses the construction of masculinities in relation to appearance, embodiment and emotions by drawing on perspectives in psychology, sociology, gender studies and public health. Brendan Gough questions conventional assumptions about masculinity and men’s health and responds to recent trends in critical studies of masculinities which discuss ‘positive’ or ‘healthy’ masculine

Overview: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, this title provide an international perspective on new approaches to healing..This book should appeal to a wide raWHAT HAPPENED IN KANAZAWA? THE BIRTH OF eCAM This book contains the proceedings of the International Symposium on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, (CAM) which was convened in Kanazawa Japan, November 8-10, 2002. The participants were mainly from Japan, USA, China, France, England, Germany, Taiwan, and India. The world of western medicine is gradually opening its doors to new ways

Overview: A study of the issues raised by chemical warfare, which examines the use of chemical weapons in wartime and analyzes allegations that certain countries, including the Soviet Union, are waging chemical warfare. The author examines the negotations currently underway regarding chemical deployment.978-1-349-08903-1

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Overview: Focuses on well-defined metric and quantitative procedures, with data-driven research.Examines standard rules of facial beauty analytics to demonstrate their validity.Includes the designs for a new faThis book covers the key advances in computerized facial beauty analysis, with an emphasis on data-driven research and the results of quantitative experiments. It takes a big step toward practical facial beauty analysis, proposes more reliable and stable facial features for beauty analysis and designs new models, methods, algorithms and schemes while implementing a facial beauty analysis

Overview: This book is both a resource for clinical decision support systems for informatics specialists as well as a reference for students in health informatics or medical informatics training programs.IncludBuilding on the success of the previous editions, this fully updated book once again brings together worldwide experts to illustrate the underlying science and day-to-day use of decision support systems in clinical and educational settings..Topics discussed include:.-Mathematical Foundations of Decision Support Systems.-Design and Implementation Issues.-Ethical and Legal Issues in Decisi

Overview: Illustrates how advances in numerical computing have contributed to progress in many areas of statistical physics and beyond (e.g. financial theory, evolution, traffic planning).Contains up-to-date tuIn recent years statistical physics has made significant progress as a result of advances in numerical techniques. While good textbooks exist on the general aspects of statistical physics, the numerical methods and the new developments based on large-scale computing are not usually adequately presented. In this book 16 experts describe the application of methods of statistical physics to

Overview: The thoroughly updated Third Edition of this useful and popular textbook.Includes Points of Engagement to stimulate discussion, and Information Boxes for additional insight.Explores conservation biolo.This book provides a thorough, up-to-date examination of conservation biology and the many supporting disciplines that comprise conservation science. In this, the Third Edition of the highly successful Conservation Biology: Foundations, Concepts, Applications, the authors address their interdisciplinary topic as it must now be practiced and perceived in the modern world. . .Beginning wi

Overview: Mycorrhiza will be the focus of research and study for thecoming decade. Successful survival and maintenance of plant cover ismostly dependent on mycorrhization. During the last decade about tenbooks have appeared on various aspects of mycorrhiza, including two onmethodology. The present book has been compiled to give a complete andcomprehensive description of the topic to the students and researchersin botany, applied mycology, biotechnology, forestry and agriculture.The book will also be useful to planners dealing with biofertilizersand forestation. Besides topics of academic inter

Overview: Considers different understandings of the past that are crucial to any study.Looks at how collective memory is formed and used to create group identities and the basis for political statements.Draws h.This book covers the notion of collective memory – broadly defined as the waysin which differing pasts are created, understood and reproduced – and how thisis perpetuated in Northern Ireland by a wide set of social actors, includingnations, religious and political groupings, and local communities. Such collectivememories are not a preservative for historically accurate recall of bygone

Overview: Discusses the role of local communities and civic engagement in school improvement in the US.Examines education policy at the federal, state, and local levels.Analyzes the school choice movement and c.In the United States, government participation in education has traditionally involved guaranteeing public access, public funding, and public governance to achieve accountability, representativeness and equality. This volume discusses the role of broad regimes of local community actors to promote school improvement through greater civic engagement. Taking a historical perspective, this

Overview: 978-0-333-13250-0978-1-349-01368-5Series ISSN 2947-0226 Series E-ISSN 2947-0234

Overview: Provides theoretical and practical knowledge to serve as a baseline for coastal ecosystem research.Discusses the impacts of pollution, industrialisation, agriculture and climate change on coastal ecos.This volume incorporates theoretical and practical knowledge through case studies and reviews to serve as a baseline of information for coastal ecosystem research, and discusses the impacts of pollution, industrialisation, agriculture and climate change on coastal ecosystem biogeochemistry and biodiversity. The case studies address the role of coastal ecosystems as a carbon sink which i

Overview: Offers a deeper understanding of Cultural Literacy, and the way it can be successfully embedded in an educational context.Argues that Cultural Literacy can be used as a method for developing awarenessThis book explores a new approach to cultural literacy. Taking a pedagogical perspective, it looks at the skills, knowledge, and abilities involved in understanding and interpreting cultural differences, and proposes new ways of approaching such differences as sources of richness in intercultural and interdisciplinary collaborations. .Cultural Literacy and Empathy in Education Practice .

Overview: Focuses on three major areas of memory policy in relation to the victims of the SBZ/GDR.Interrogates the limitations of state-mandated memorializations and policies that address aspects of the nationa.The post-war Federal Republic of Germany faced the task of addressing the plight of the victims of state socialism under the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany and in the German Democratic Republic, many of whom fled to the west. These victims were not passive objects of the West German state’s policy, but organized themselves into associations that fought for recognition of their con

Overview: Links methodological individualism with the enactive paradigm of cognitive science.Uses the theory of the mind as a complex self-organizing system to defend the interpretative approach of methodologic.“Di Iorio offers a new approach to Hayek’s .Sensory Order., linking neuroscience to the old .Verstehen .tradition and to contemporary theories of self-organizing systems; this should be on the reading list of everyone who is interested in Hayek’s thought.”.Barry Smith.University at Buffalo, editor of .The Monist.“This impressive and well-researched book breaks new ground in our understa

Overview: Describes in detail interactions between cancerous cells and various components of the innate and adaptive immune system.Focuses on clinical aspects in order to educate clinicians in the clinical impl.This book focusing on the immunopathology of cancers is published as part of the three-volume Springer series .Cancer Immunology., which aims to provide an up-to-date, clinically relevant review of cancer immunology and immunotherapy. Readers will find detailed descriptions of the interactions between cancerous cells and various components of the innate and adaptive immune system. The p

Overview: One of the first books that models mental function within sociocultural, socioeconomic, and environmental context.This volume applies the asymptotic limit theorems of information and control theories .This book explores mental disorders from a uniquely evolutionary perspective. Although there have been many attempts to mathematically model neural processes and, to some extent, their dysfunction, there is very little literature that models mental function within a sociocultural, socioeconomic, and environmental context. . .Addressing this gap in the extant literature, this book explor

Overview: An up to date review of Campylobacter species.and related organisms and their interaction with poultry.Covers the latest molecular techniques for the.investigation of various aspects of Campylobacter..This book provides an extensive review of researchinto .Campylobacter., .Helicobacter. and .Arcobacter .speciesfound in poultry. It includes the epidemiology, diagnosis, immune response anddisease control of these organisms in commercial poultry production.Antimicrobial resistance, and the incidence and human disease potential ofthese bacteria is also discussed...A global perspective is