BOOKS with Alphabet F (Fa, Fb,Fc, Fd, Fe…... )

Overview: Das Buch richtet sich an Finanzmathematiker in Ausbildung und Beruf und behandelt die im Versicherungsgeschäft wichtigen Finanzrisiken und die modernen Finanztheorien.Es beleuchtet mit dem Konzept der.Die Finanzrisiken in der Assekuranz werden mit Hilfe der modernen Finanztheorie beleuchtet. Dazu wird mit dem Begriff der Duration die Zinssensitivität von Barwerten, Deckungskapital etc. untersucht. Anhand der mathematischen Risikobegriffe werden die modernen risikobasierten Solvenzanforderungen erläutert und ihre Beziehung zur Portfoliotheorie in der Ökonomie gezeigt. Zudem wird die P

Overview: Über einen der meistzitierten sozialwissenschaftlichen Autoren.Fragestellungen der Politischen Theorie aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven.Stellt Foucault in den Zusammenhang aktueller Debatten in den Das Werk Michel Foucaults hat das Feld politiktheoretisch informierter Analysen erheblich erweitert und dazu beigetragen, Grundbegriffe der Politischen Theorie neu zu verstehen. Der Band unternimmt erstmalig eine Bestandsaufnahme zum Spektrum der aktuellen Arbeiten mit und zu Foucault in der Politischen Theorie. Die Beiträge thematisieren Foucaults Konzeptionen von Freiheit, Kritik, Wahr

Overview: Explores why human beings, especially hunter-gatherers share food with others in cross-cultural perspectives.Examines historical changes in human food sharing practices, focusing on the Inuit.Contribu.This book explores why human beings share food with others using a humanistic anthropological approach. This book provides a comparative examination of distinct features and historical changes in food-sharing practices in various hunting-gathering societies, especially in the Inuit. The author considers human nature through various human food-sharing practices. Food sharing is a charact

Overview: 978-3-476-03975-0Series ISSN 0558-3667 Series E-ISSN 2512-5222

Overview: Covers analysis of disaggregated flows of foreign capital and their long run relationship with growth process.Presents an analysis of disaggregated flows of foreign capital and their long run relationThis book is designed to fulfill a long felt need for a wide ranging empirical research on foreign capital-growth nexus. It presents an analysis of disaggregated flows of foreign capital and their long run relationship with growth process in an emerging nation like India during the past four decades. The study detects factors like financial deepening, trade openness and market size, as p

Overview: The purpose of the third symposium organised by the Advisory Committee on Nutrition and Crop Husbandry _of the Rank Prize Funds was to explore in some depth the complex processes whereby organic and inorganic materials reach man‘s diet, paying particular attenti978-94-011-7338-4978-94-011-7336-0

Overview: Describes state-of-the-art field-driven micro and nanorobotic technologies.Covers physical principles for designing micro and nanorobots.Provides examples of micro and nanorobotic systems and biomedic.This book describes the substantial progress recently made in the development of micro and nanorobotic systems, utilizing magnetic, optical, acoustic, electrical, and other actuation fields. It covers several areas of micro and nanorobotics including robotics, materials science, and biomedical engineering. .Field-Driven Micro and Nanorobots for Biology and Medicine. provides readers wit

Overview: Ein neuer Band aus der Reihe Springer Essentials.Der politische Sauerbruch im Wandel der Systeme.Eine kompakte Biografie für Ärzte und Patienten.Includes supplementary material: .WolfgangU. Eckart setzt sich vornehmlich mit dem politischen Sauerbruch – oder besser:der politischen Selbstinszenierung des großen Chirurgen – im Wandel derSysteme, die seinen Lebensweg begleiteten, auseinander. Insbesondere die überweite Strecken von seinem Ghostwriter konstruierte, teilweise erfundene‚Autobiographie’ „Das war mein Leben“ hat dem Publikum zusammen mit dem aufihrer Grundlage entstandenen Sp

Overview: Provides a comprehensive understanding of fretting damage, its mechanisms, and effective countermeasures.Emphasizes the importance of studying practical accident cases to efficiently acquire technical.This book provides a comprehensive overview of the mechanical distinctions between fretting damage under axial or bending external forces and fretting damage under a torsional load. It emphasizes the importance of studying practical accident cases to efficiently acquire technical skills. The book is structured around the fundamental technologies of material science, tribology, and mecha

Overview: th This book is published to commemorate the 50 Anniversary of the S.S. Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education. Administered at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the Huebner Foundation was established in 1941 to strengthen insurance education at the collegiate level by increasing the number of professors specializing in insurance and enriching the literature in the field. The financial support of leading life insurance companies has enabled the Foundation to provide post-graduate education for prospective insurance teachers and scholars. Through its fellowship

Overview: Addresses the topic of forward lease sukuk as core object, providing a single reference with regard to lease and forward lease sukuk (the first book in the market to do this)..Adds value to sukuk mark.This book focuses on forward lease .sukuk., which is one of the most viable and dynamic .Shari’ah.-compliant instruments in the Islamic capital market. The idea of forward lease .sukuk. is to raise funds from non-existent assets whose subject matter does not exist at the time of the .sukuk. issuance. This book discusses the significant features of forward lease .sukuk. and demonstrates

Overview: Includes supplementary material: Terrain has a profound effect upon the strategy and tactics of any military engagement and has consequently played an important role in determining history. In addition, the landscapes of battle, and the geology which underlies them, has helped shape the cultural iconography of battle certainly within the 20th century. In the last few years this has become a fertile topic of scientific and historical exploration and has given rise to a number of conferences and books. The current volume stems from the international Terrain in Military History conferen

Overview: Einführung in die Festigkeitslehre.Mit zahlreichen ausgearbeiteten Beispielen.4. Auflage mit neuen Kapiteln über Flächentragwerke, über die Fließgelenktheorie und über die Randelementemethode.Includes.Umfassend und verständlich führen die Autoren in die "Technische Mechanik deformierbarer fester Körper" (Festigkeitslehre) ein. Anhand zahlreicher, vollständig ausgearbeiteter Beispiele demonstrieren sie die Leistungsfähigkeit analytischer, numerischer und experimenteller Methoden der Festigkeitslehre zur Lösung bedeutender technischer Aufgaben..Im Anschluss an die wesentlichen mathemat

Overview: Stands out as the first book on least gradient functions.Presents both classic and new results on this topic.Features open problems.This book is devoted to the least gradient problem and its variants. The least gradient problem concerns minimization of the total variation of a function with prescribed values on the boundary of a Lipschitz domain. It is the model problem for studying minimization problems involving functionals with linear growth. Functions which solve the least gradient problem for their own boundary data, which arise naturally in the study of minimal surfaces, are ca

Overview: Eine sportökonomische StudieIm Zuge der Kommerzialisierung des professionellen Mannschaftssports hat sich neben dem traditionellen Fantypus (supporter) ein konsumorientierter Fantypus (customer) herausgebildet. Zur verbesserten Fan- bzw. Kundenbindung haben daher Teamsportverbände in Deutschland Fanclubs zu ihren Nationalmannschaften gegründet. Gerald Fritz untersucht diese Fanclubs mithilfe eines Mixed‐Methods‐Ansatzes, der qualitative Interviews von DFB‐Fanclub‐Mitgliedern und Experten der Verbände mit einer quantitativen Online‐Befragung verbindet. Er arbeitet Unterschiede und Gem

Overview: Der soziale Wandel ändert auch die Aufgabenbestimmungen von Familien und öffentlicher Erziehung. Die Beiträge aus Wissenschaft und Praxis setzen sich mit den Aufgaben, Gemeinsamkeiten und gegenseitigen Ansprüchen auseinander...Familie und Einrichtungen öffentlicher Erziehung sind wechselseitig miteinander verbunden. Eltern sind von öffentlicher Erziehung abhängig und delegieren Erziehungsaufgaben; öffentliche Erziehung versucht, familienorientiert zu wirken. Eltern bedienen sich eines Erziehungswissens, das sich immer weniger an tradierten Vorgaben orientiert, statt dessen von Expert

Overview: Describes current and future communications applications, services, and their requirements in this decade and beyond.Includes novel future network and management architectures to support given applica.This book describes the networks, applications, services of 2030 and beyond, their management. Novel end-to-end network and services architectures using cloud, wired, wireless, and space technologies to support future applications and services are presented. The book ties key concepts together such as cloud, space networking, network slicing, AI/ML, edge computing, burst switching, and

Overview: Contains everything you need to know to measure even the shortest, weakest, or most complex ultrashort laser pulsesThe Frequency-Resolved Optical-Gating (FROG) technique has revolutionized our ability to measure and understand ultrashort laser pulses. This book contains everything you need to know to measure even the shortest, weakest, or most complex ultrashort laser pulses. Whether you‘re an undergrad or an advanced researcher, you‘ll find easy-to-understand descriptions of all the key ideas behind all the FROG techniques, all the practical details of pulse measurement, and many ne

Overview: The first book to apply microsimulation modelling theory to the farming sector.Written by one of the most respected agricultural development specialists in the field.Features a series of case studies .This book, which is the first to be published in the emerging field of farm-level microsimulation, highlights the different methodological components of microsimulation modelling: hypothetical, static, dynamic, behavioural, spatial and macro–micro. The author applies various microsimulation-based methodological tools to farms in a consistent manner and, supported by a set of Stata codes

Overview: Totally new introductory course on databases Written by teachers for teachers and their students Combination of book and electronic material.Each chapter comes with a lesson including dynamic and inteThe number ofbooks on databases is very large. Thus, our decision to yet add another book to the body of literature requires some justification. However, even a cursory glance through this book will show that we have taken a rather different approach indeed when compared to monographs on databases. First, material ties together the well-known relational model with the newer and not yet a