Authors:Jean-Michel Marin, Christian Robert,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: statistics, bayesian, texts, springer, approach, core, practical, computational
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 2007-02-02
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 0387389792
ISBN-13: 9780387389790

This Bayesian modeling book is intended for practitioners and applied statisticians looking for a self-contained entry to computational Bayesian statistics. Focusing on standard statistical models and backed up by discussed real datasets available from the book website, it provides an operational methodology for conducting Bayesian inference, rather than focusing on its theoretical justifications. Special attention is paid to the derivation of prior distributions in each case and specific reference solutions are given for each of the models. Similarly, computational details are worked out to l

Authors:Jean-Michel Gobat, Michel Aragno, Willy Matthey,
Publisher: Science Publishers
Keywords: soil, biology, science, fundamentals, living
Number of Pages: 602
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1578082102
ISBN-13: 9781578082100

This study looks at the fundamentals of soil science and soil biology, encompassing topics such as the building blocks of the soil system and bioremediation of contaminated soils.

Authors:Daniel Esteve, Jean-Michel Raimond, Jean Dalibard Ph
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: les, notes, houches, summer, school, lecture, lxxix, information, entanglement, processing, volume, session, quantum
Number of Pages: 638
Published: 2004-12-27
List price: $86.95
ISBN-10: 0444517286
ISBN-13: 9780444517289

It has been recognised recently that the strange features of the quantum world could be used for new information transmission or processing functions such as quantum cryptography or, more ambitiously, quantum computing. These fascinating perspectives renewed the interest in fundamental quantum properties and lead to important theoretical advances, such as quantum algorithms and quantum error correction codes. On the experimental side, remarkable advances have been achieved in quantum optics, solid state physics or nuclear magnetic resonance. This book presents the lecture notes of the Les Houc

Authors:Jean-Francois Clouet, Bruno Despres, Jean-Michel Ghi
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: ã‰cole, supã©rieure, cachan, scopos, french, normale, polytechnique, psi, concours, entrã©e, ã©preuve, mathã©matiques
Number of Pages: 135
Published: 1998-01-21
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 3540639152
ISBN-13: 9783540639152

Cet ouvrage rassemble l’intégralité des épreuves écrites et orales (ainsi que leurs corrigés) en mathématiques du concours commun d’admission à l’Ecole Polytechnique et à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan option PSI (Physique et Sciences de l’Ingénieur), session de juin 1997. S’agissant d’une première, tant pour les Candidats que pour les enseignants des classes préparatoires, ce livre a pour but de faciliter la préparation à ce concours. Les exercices (et le problème) sont de portée plus générale que le concours PSI et les étudia

Authors:Mondher Bellalah, Jean-luc Prigent, & Jean-michel Sa
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: scientific, studies, international, economics, world, pricing, management, value, valuation, asset, risk
Number of Pages: 644
Published: 2008-02-28
List price: $178.00
ISBN-10: 9812770739
ISBN-13: 9789812770738

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the issues related to risk, volatility, value and risk management. It includes a selection of the best papers presented at the Fourth International Finance Conference 2007, qualified by Professor James Heckman, the 2000 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics, as a high level one. The first half of the book examines ways to manage risk and compute value-at-risk for exchange risk associated to debt portfolios and portfolios of equity. It also covers the Basel II framework implementation and securitisation. The effects of volatility and risk on the valu

Authors:Jean-Pierre Franc, Jean-Marie Michel,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: applications, mechanics, fluid, cavitation, fundamentals
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 2004-08-03
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 1402022328
ISBN-13: 9781402022326

Why are propeller blades of speedboats strongly eroded? Why does a syringe have to be filled slowly in order to avoid the formation of a vapour cavity near the piston? Why does a pump for watering the garden not work efficiently if it is placed too high above the ground water level? These questions, and many others taken from day to day experience, refer to situations which apparently have no connection between them, except for the fact that the motion of a liquid in part of the system plays an essential role. Cavitation science is that part of liquid physics which addresses the motion of liqu

Author: Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: egoism, politics, joyce, james
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 2001-08-13
List price: $38.99
ISBN-10: 0521009588
ISBN-13: 9780521009584

In James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism a leading scholar approaches the entire Joycean canon through the concept of "egoism". This concept, Jean-Michel Rabaté argues, runs throughout Joyce’s work, and involves and incorporates its opposite, "hospitality", a term Rabaté understands as meaning an ethical and linguistic opening to "the other". Rabaté explores Joyce’s complex negotiation between these two poles in a study of interest to all scholars of modernism.