Authors:Stefano Battilossi, Youssef Cassis,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: international, banking, bretton, woods, cooperation, competition, banks, american, challenge, european
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2002-06-20
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0199250278
ISBN-13: 9780199250271

This volume concentrates on the international banking revolution of the 1960’s and includes a new and important outlook on the groundwork for financial globalization, based on historical perspectives. The four major issues addressed in this book are the revival of London as a strong and competitive world financial center, emergence of Euro-banking as a new benchmark of growth for credit institutions, growing competition between American financial institutions and their global counterparts, and the Strategic response of European and Continental institutions.

Authors:M.Felisa Verdejo, Stefano A. Cerri,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: series, computer, systems, sciences, asi, nato, dialogue, technologies, distance, learning, collaborative
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 1994-11-29
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 3540582495
ISBN-13: 9783540582496

This book focuses on the use of technology-mediated interaction in distance education and open learning. Special emphasis is placed on models for collaborative dialogues in general and learning dialogues in particular, at a distance, through a computer network. The technology is thus used as a medium for conducting conversations and dialogues, allowing the co-construction of new knowledge and understanding among groups of learners and tutors, who might otherwise have little opportunity to interact with each other. The book has three main aspects: it gives an overview of the state of the art; i

Authors:Franco Blanchini, Stefano Miani,
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
Keywords: control, amp, foundations, applications, systems, methods, theoretic
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 2007-11-15
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0817632557
ISBN-13: 9780817632557

This self-contained monograph describes basic set-theoretic methods for control. It provides a discussion of their links to fundamental problems in Lyapunov stability analysis and stabilization, optimal control, control under constraints, persistent disturbance rejection, and uncertain systems analysis and synthesis. The work presents several established and potentially new applications, along with numerical examples and case studies. A key theme is the trade-off between exact (but computationally intensive) and approximate (but conservative) solutions to problems. Mathematical language is kep

Authors:Roberto Scazzieri, Amartya Sen, Stefano Zamagni,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: twenty, first, century, economics, hicksian, money, capital, markets
Number of Pages: 466
Published: 2009-02-09
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0521873215
ISBN-13: 9780521873215

Sir John Hicks (1904-1989) was a leading economic theorist of the twentieth century, and along with Kenneth Arrow was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1972. His work addressed central topics in economic theory, such as value, money, capital and growth. An important unifying theme was the attention for economic rationality ’in time’ and his acknowledgement that apparent rigidities and frictions might exert a positive role as a buffer against excessive fluctuations in output, prices and employment. This emphasis on the virtue of imperfection significantly distances Hicksian economics from

Authors:Yi Ma, Stefano Soatto, Jana Kosecka, S. Shankar Sa
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: vision, invitation
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2005-06-17
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0387008934
ISBN-13: 9780387008936

This book gives senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students and researchers in computer vision, applied mathematics, computer graphics, and robotics a self-contained introduction to the geometry of 3D vision; that is the reconstruction of 3D models of objects from a collection of 2D images. Following a brief introduction, Part I provides background materials for the rest of the book. The two fundamental transformations, namely rigid body motion and perspective projection are introduced and image formation and feature extraction discussed. Part II covers the classic theory of two view

Authors:Judy Sierra,  Stefano Vitale,
Publisher: Clarion Book
Keywords: world, tales, nursery
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1996-02-18
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0395678943
ISBN-13: 9780395678947

Eighteen nursery tales from many cultures are presented in carefully-crafted versions perfect for the young listener. Sierra’s translations are sensitive both to the imagination of the child and the cultural origins of the stories, and Vitale’s illustrations are rendered in a warm folk-art style. Enjoyable listening and looking for everyone, and fascinating reading for ages 8 and up.An international collection of 18 nursery tales for young children, grouped by theme, such as "Runaway Cookies," "Slowpokes and Speedsters," and "Chain Tales," and brillantly illustrated with full-color

Authors:Stefano Casertano, Penny D. Sackett, Franklin H. Bri
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: galaxies, rings, inclined, disks, warped
Number of Pages: 309
Published: 1991-05-31
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0521401844
ISBN-13: 9780521401845

Most galaxies lie in clusters, where tidal interactions are a significant force. Tidal and dynamical interactions and the features they cause in galaxies are important to the study of galactic evolution. For example, a large amount of data has been collected on dust-lane ellipticals, polar-ring galaxies, spirals with extended warps, and galaxies with inclined HI rings or unusual "tails." This book is a record of a meeting held at the University of Pittsburgh that provided an informal, yet focused environment for the interaction of astronomers who have addressed these questions with a wide var