Author: John, H Cochrane
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Keywords: trends, finance, foundations, economy, markets, real, financial
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 2005-10-21
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1933019158
ISBN-13: 9781933019154

What are the real, macroeconomic risks that drive asset prices? This question is centrally important to macroeconomics. Where better to learn about the risks of recessions and depressions than by understanding the prices of assets such as stocks that carry macroeconomic risks? The question is also at the core of finance. For example, finance has long wondered if asset prices are "rational" or not. The only meaning of that term is whether asset prices are properly connected to macroeconomic risks. Financial Markets and the Real Economy reviews the current academic literature on the macroe

Authors:Frank, A. Sloan, Lindsey, M. Chepke,
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Keywords: trends, microeconomics, foundations, health, economics, public, law
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 1601980744
ISBN-13: 9781601980748

The Law and Economics of Public Health synthesizes the empirical research findings on the relationship between law and the public’s health that are found scattered in different literature ranging from economic journals to medical journals, journals on addictive behaviors, law reviews, and books. This is the only study to date that has assembled the empirical evidence from many areas ranging from motor vehicle liability and dram shop liability to medical malpractice, products liability as it applies to pharmaceutical products, and medical devices. The Law and Economics of Public He

Authors:Igal Sason, Shlomo Shamai,
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Keywords: trends, foundations, communications, information, theory, tutorial, decoding, linear, analysis, codes, maximum, likelihood, performance
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2006-06-20
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 1933019328
ISBN-13: 9781933019321

Performance Analysis of Linear Codes under Maximum-Likelihood Decoding: A Tutorial focuses on the performance evaluation of linear codes under optimal maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding. Though the ML decoding algorithm is prohibitively complex for most practical codes, their performance analysis under ML decoding allows to predict their performance without resorting to computer simulations. Performance Analysis of Linear Codes under Maximum-Likelihood Decoding: A Tutorial is a comprehensive introduction to this important topic for students, practitioners and researchers working in communica

Author: Bernd Markert
Publisher: VCH Publishers
Keywords: analysis, trace, sampling, environmental
Number of Pages: 525
Published: 1994-08
List price: $275.00
ISBN-10: 3527300511
ISBN-13: 9783527300518

This work gives a survey of the present sampling techniques for different environmental materials such as air, water, soils and sediments, plants and animals. The book presents techniques for the detection and monitoring of environmental pollution.

Authors:Gerhard Kramer, Ivana Maric, Roy D. Yates,
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Keywords: networking, trends, foundations, communications, cooperative
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 1601980264
ISBN-13: 9781601980267

Cooperative Communications reviews progress in cooperative communication networks. It assembles a representative sample of recent results to serve as a roadmap for the area. The emphasis is on wireless networks, but many of the results apply to cooperation in wireline networks and mixed wireless/wireline networks. Cooperative Communications is intended as a tutorial for the reader who is familiar with information theory concepts but has not actively followed the field. For the active researcher, it serves as an invaluable digest of significant results. It is designed to encourage readers to

Author: James Ziliak
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Keywords: trends, microeconomics, foundations, gaps, poverty, rates, understanding
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2006-06-16
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1933019271
ISBN-13: 9781933019277

Author: Jeffrey Scott Vitter
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Keywords: memory, external, structures, data, algorithms
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-06-09
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 1601981066
ISBN-13: 9781601981066

Data sets in large applications are often too massive to fit completely inside the computer’s internal memory. The resulting input/output communication (or I/O) between fast internal memory and slower external memory (such as disks) can be a major performance bottleneck. Algorithms and Data Structures for External Memory surveys the state of the art in the design and analysis of external memory (or EM) algorithms and data structures, where the goal is to exploit locality and parallelism in order to reduce the I/O costs. A variety of EM paradigms are considered for solving batched and onl