Financial markets, banking, and monetary policy by Simpson, Thomas D., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Lottery Choice -- Current Price of a Coupon Security -- Price of an Aasset Providing Uneven Cash Flows -- Yield to Maturity -- ch. 5 Factors Affecting Yields -- What You Will Learn in This Chapter -- Background -- The Term Structure of Interest Rates -- The Expectations Hypothesis -- The Term Premium Hypothesis -- Market Segmentation Hypothesis -- Implicit Forward Rates -- The Role of the Term Structure -- Credit Risk -- Credit Rating Agencies -- Investment-Grade versus Below-Investment-Grade Debt -- Cyclical Behavior of Credit Risk and Spreads -- Credit Default Swaps (CDSs) -- Changing Investor Tolerance for Risk -- Liquidity -- Taxation -- Embedded Options -- Flights to Safety -- ch. 6 Principles of Portfolio Selection and Efficient Markets -- What You Will Learn in This Chapter -- Overview -- Uncertainty, Expected Return, and Risk -- Selecting a Portfolio -- Expected Return -- Risk -- Interpreting the Expression for Risk -- An Illustration.…”
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Progress in Systems Engineering Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Conference on Systems Engineering

Table of Contents: “…Titan Science Return Quantification -- Robust Output Feedback Attitude Control of Spacecraft Using Solar Radiation Pressure -- Online Near-Optimal Path Planning to Back-up Aircraft Mission Capabilities in Emergency Conditions -- Nonlinear Optimal Tracking With Incomplete State Information Using State Dependent Riccati Equation -- Nonlinear Position Control of DC Motor Using Finite-Horizon State Dependent Riccati Equation -- Generalization of the Observer Principle for Youla-parametrized Regulators -- The Compensation of N-th Order Bilinearity Applied with Model Based Controller -- Estimation For Target Tracking Using A Control Theoretic Approach: Part 2 -- Identification of Fractional Order Models: Application to 1D Solid Diffusion System Model of Lithium Ion Battery Cell -- Robust Adaptive Control of the Dynamic Multilinked Object: Control of Robot Manipulator -- Modeling and Identification of a Fractional-order Discrete-time Laguerre-Hammerstein System -- A Comparative Study of Model-based and Data-based Model Order Reduction Techniques of Nonlinear Systems -- Optimised Job-Shop Scheduling via Genetic Algorithm for a Manufacturing Production System -- 3D CFD Simulation of the Thermal Performance of an Air Channel Solar Heater -- A Compact Heat Pump Concept Utilizing High Speed Rotation -- Experimental Investigation of Spray Evaporation on a Flat Flake Surface with Constant Heat Flux -- Life Cycle Assessment of Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustion with CO2 Post-combustion Capture -- Suggested Simulation of the First Copper-Chlorine Reactor Step for Solar Hydrogen Generation Process -- Voltage regulation in Resonant Coupled Systems for Near Field Power Transfer -- Security Breach Possibility with RSS-Based Localization of Smart Meters Incorporating Maximum Likelihood Estimator -- Active/Reactive Power Control of Three Phase Grid Connected Current Source Boost Inverter Using Particle Swarm Optimization -- Anti-islanding Test results for Multiple PV Inverter Operations -- Presentation of a Fuzzy Control Training and Test System -- Web Service Intrusion Detection Using a Probabilistic Framework -- Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Control for Ramp Metering -- Intelligent system concept for high-energy performance and adaptable user comfort -- Sparse hidden units activation in Restricted Boltzmann Machine -- Accelerated learning for Restricted Boltzmann Machine with momentum term -- Optimizing Interface Area of Percolated Domains in Two Dimensional Binary Compound: Artificial Neural Network Modeling on Monte Carlo Experiments -- Cognitive Science Based Scheduling in Grid Environment -- Vulnerability Evaluation of Multiplexing PUF for SVM Attacks -- Autonomous Visualization for Mitigating Lack of Peripheral Vision in Remote Safe Teleoperation -- Improving Multi-Panel Lamination Process Optimization using Response Surface Methodology and Neural Network -- Selecting Right Questions with Restricted Boltzmann Machines -- A Semantic Approach for Identifying Assurance Deficits in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Software -- A Load Optimization Considering Reverse Synergy that may Occur with Mixed Load -- Predictability of Firm Financial Sustainability Using Artificial Neural Networks: The Case of Qatar Exchange -- The Periodic Signal Filtration Using the Robust Digital Filter Order Calculation Optimized by Approximation -- A Reasoning System for Predicting Study Level based on Users Watching Behaviors -- Temporal Constraints and Sub-Dimensional Clustering for Fast Similarity Search over Time Series Data. …”
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Millennial stages : essays and reviews, 2001-2005 by Brustein, Robert, 1927-2023

Table of Contents: “…-- Comedy is harder: Private lives; The Underpants -- Prescient plays: Far away; A number -- Clever ladies: imaginary friends; adult entertainment -- Creations: Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night; Take me out; Our lady of 121st street -- Dysfunctional families, dysgenic dynasties: Salome; Gypsy; Long day's journey into night -- Smelly orthodoxies: A bad friend; I am my own wife -- Shotover's apocalypse: Omnium gatherum; Anna in the tropics -- Palace and garden: Maria Stuart; House and garden -- The political power of puns: Caroline, or change; The beard of Avon -- A king and two queens: King Lear; Valhalla -- Homeboy Godot: topdog/Underdog; Fortune's fool -- Pyrotechnics and ice: Jimpers; Frozen -- The past revisited: The frogs; After the fall -- In the jungle: Rose Rage, Hedda Gabler -- Impersonations: Monty Python's Spamalot; Orson's shadow: Julius Caesar -- Prosecution plays: Doubt; Romance; The last days of Judas Iscariot; The Pillowman; Thom Pain; The light in the Piazza -- theatre of the mushy tushy: Le dernier caravanserail (Okyssees) -- Lear's lendings: King Lear.…”
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Home coming : sixty years of Egyptian short stories

Table of Contents: “…R. concerning the last day of the week / Radwa Ashour -- Drops of lemon juice / Ibrahim Aslan -- The palm tree my aunt loved / Hana Atia -- Sundown / Shukri Ayyad -- A small white mouse / Salwa Bakr -- The days of the black cat / Rehab Bassam -- The room next door / Mohamed El-Bisatie -- A house for my children / Mahmoud Diab -- Hashish steals the night / Shehata al-Erian -- Eyes staring into space / Mansoura Ez Eldin -- The dancer / Shawqi Faheem -- A place under the dome / Abdul Rahman Fahmy -- The story of black knight / Hosam Fakhr -- Red and white / Ibrahim Farghali -- The accusation / Suleiman Fayyad -- A dog / Hamdy el-Gazzar -- The old clothes man / Fathy Ghanem -- A visit / Gamal al-Ghitani -- Put out those lights / Yousef Gohar -- Cairo is a small city / Nabil Gorgy -- The girls and the rooster / Abdou Gubeir -- Mother of the destitute / Yahya Hakki -- The old man / Gamil Atia Ibrahim -- Across three beds in the afternoon / Sonallah Ibrahim -- The chair carrier / Yusuf Idris -- Undoing the spell / Said al-Kafrawi -- Birds' footsteps in the sand / Edwar al-Kharrat -- The man who saw the sole of his left foot in a cracked mirror / Lutfi al-Khouli -- A murder long ago / Naguib Mahfouz -- The arrival / Mohamed Makhzangi -- The guard's chair / Mohamed Makhzangi -- A lover / Mohamed Makhzangi -- The man with the mustache and the bow tie / Mohamed Makhzangi -- The son, the father, and the donkey / Sabri Moussa -- Naked he went off / Mohamed Mustagab -- The whistle / Abd al-Hakim Qasim -- The dental crown / Youssef Rakha -- Another evening at the club / Alifa Rifaat -- Paradise itself / Mahmoud al-Saadani -- For the love of God / Abdul Hamid Gouda al-Sahhar -- The snooper / Mekkawi Said -- The lost suitcase / Abdel-Moneim Selim -- The clock / Khairy Shalaby -- The man and the farm / Yusuf Sharouni -- The mother / Ibrahim Shukrallah -- The country boy / Yusuf al-Sibai -- Useless cats / Bahaa Taher -- The house of the spinster / Sahar Tawfiq -- Abu Arab / Mahmoud Teymour -- Thirst / Mahmoud Al-Wardani -- The picture / Latifa al-Zayyat.…”


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Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design Selected Proceedings from the International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS)

Table of Contents: “…Sustainability and Technology -- An Evaluation of Thermal and Lighting Performance within an ETFE Structure -- Double Skin Façades for the Sustainable Refurbishment of Nondomestic Buildings: A Life Cycle Environmental Impact Perspective -- Off the Shelf Solutions to the Retrofit Challenge: Thermal Performance and Comfort -- African Energy Plus construction – A Case Study of House Rhino -- Smart Badge for Monitoring Formaldehyde Exposure Concentration -- Part 3. …”
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Artificial intelligence research and development : proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence

Table of Contents: “…Post-Processing, Model Interpretability and Decision SupportPost-Processing the Class Panel Graphs: Towards Understandable Patterns from Data; Natural Language-Based Automatic Qualitative Description of Clusters; The Use of NLP Interchange Format for Question Answering in Organizations; Annotated-Traffic Lights Panel as a Tool to Evaluate the Risk of Decisions Based on Prototypes; Cartogram-Based Data Visualization Using the Growing Hierarchical SOM; Analysis of GPR Data Through Interpretation of Pre-Processed Images Obtained by a Multi-Agent Approach to Identify Pipes in Water Supply Systems…”
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The complete guide to Blender graphics : computer modeling & animation by Blain, John M., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…<P>Introduction</p><p>Download and Installation</p><p>The Author</p><p>Acknowledgements</p><p>Preamble</p><p><b>CH01 Understanding the Interface</b></p><p><b>CH02 Editors-Workspaces-Themes</b></p><p><b>CH03 Navigate and Save</b></p><p><b>CH04 Objects in the 3D View Editor</b></p><p><b>CH05 Editing Objects</b></p><p><b>CH06 Editing Tools</b></p><p><b>CH07 Modifiers</b></p><p><b>CH08 Editing with Generate Modifiers</b></p><p><b>CH09 Editing with Deform Modifiers</b></p><p><b>CH10 Editing Using Curves</b></p><p><b>CH11 Editing Techniques and Examples</b></p><p><b>CH12 The Outliner and Collections</b></p><p><b>CH13 3D Text</b></p><p><b>CH14 Viewport Shading</b></p><p><b>CH15 Scene Lighting and Cameras</b></p><p><b>CH16 Nodes -- Materials and Textures</b></p><p><b>CH17 Textures</b></p><p><b>CH18 Node System and Usage</b></p><p><b>CH19 Rendering</b></p><p><b>CH20 Animation</b></p><p><b>CH21 Constraints</b></p><p><b>CH22 Armature and Character Rigging</b></p><p><b>CH23 Shape Keys and Action Editors</b></p><p><b>CH24 Particle Systems</b></p><p><b>CH25 Physics and Simulation</b></p><p><b>CH26 Dynamic Paint</b></p><p><b>CH27 Installing Add-Ons</b></p><p><b>CH28 Grease Pencil -- 2D Animation</b></p><p><b>CH29 Making a Movie</b></p><p><b>CH30 Drivers</b></p><p><b>CH31 Cycles & Workbench Render</b></p><p>Appendix A</p><p>Internet Resources</p><p>Index</p>…”
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Exploring the History of Southeast Asian Astronomy A Review of Current Projects and Future Prospects and Possibilities

Table of Contents: “…Oudemans and Nineteenth Century Astronomy in the Dutch East Indies -- Chapter 8: The 1875 British Solar Eclipse Expedition to Siam Led by Dr Arthur Schuster -- Chapter 9: Observations of the 6 April 1875 Total Solar Eclipse from the Grand Palace in Bangkok -- Chapter 10: The Total Solar Eclipse of 9 May 1929: British and German Expeditions to Pattani in Southern Siam -- Chapter 11: The Total Solar Eclipse of 9 May 1929: the British Expedition to Alor Star in the Unfederated Malay State of Kedah -- Chapter 12: Time Signals for Mariners in SE Asia: Time Balls, Discs, Bells, Guns and Lights -- Part 3: Southeast Asian Studies: Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy -- Chapter 13: An Archaeoastronomical Investigation of Vaastu Shastra Principles (Vedic Architecture) Implemented in the City Planning of Ancient Chiang Mai -- Chapter 14: Astronomical Aspects of the Prambanan Temple in Central Java, Indonesia -- Chapter 15: Astronomical Knowledge and Practices of the Orang Asli of Malaysia -- Chapter 16: The Linkage Between Asterisms and Local Ecological Systems among the Austronesian Speakers of Southeast Asia -- Chapter 17: Folk Astronomy of the Northern West Coast of Peninsula Malaysia -- Chapter 18: Star Patterns in Mandar Navigation -- Chapter 19: Ethnoastronomy in Madura, Indonesia: Observations of the Night Sky and Eclipses -- Chapter 20: The Pengalantaka Eka Sungsang Ka Paing System and a Diagram for Determining Purnama and Tilem in the Balinese Calendar -- Part 4: Southeast Asia in Regional Context -- Chapter 21: Possible Influences of India on Southeast Asian Astronomy: A Brief Review of the Archaeoastronomical Record -- Chapter 22: The Influence of India on Southeast Asian Astronomy: Of Calendars and Calculations -- Chapter 23: Investigating the Astronomical Histories of India and Southeast Asia: The Role of Stone Inscriptions -- Chapter 24: The Evolution of Local Southeast Asian Astronomy and the Influence of China, India, the Islamic World and the West -- The Authors -- Index.…”
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The Bourgeois Charm of Karl Marx and the Ideological Irony of American Jurisprudence by Neacsu, Dana

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Hardtack and coffee, or the unwritten story of Army life by Billings, John Davis, 1842-1933

Table of Contents: “…sthetic Dish-washing""; ""Lighting by Candles and Slush Lamps""; ""Candlesticks""; ""Night-Gowns and Night-Caps""; ""The Shelters in a Rain""…”
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Simulation Scenarios for Nursing Educators : Making It Real

Table of Contents: “…Simulation-focused pedagogy for nursing education -- Integrating simulation-focused pedagogy into curriculum -- Enhancing communication skills through simulations -- Faculty learning communities: an innovative approach to faculty development -- Building a learning resource center -- Lights, camera, action! The process of evaluating, acquiring, and implementing an audio/visual capturing solution to enhance learning -- Tune into simulation through physical examination -- Postoperative care following appendectomy -- Medical-surgical skill-based scenarios -- Acute management of respiratory distress in an adult patient -- Small bowel obstruction -- Trauma resuscitation -- Cardiovascular resuscitation: code simulation for student nurses -- Obstetric emergency: postpartum hemorrhage -- Intrapartal obstetric emergency: shoulder dystocia -- Perinatal grief: threatened spontaneous abortion -- Care of an infant with congenital heart disease status postcardiac surgical repair -- Abusive head trauma: infant -- Bacterial meningitis in a pediatric patient -- Pediatric emergency -- Posttraumatic stress disorder/traumatic brain injury and other conditions in military combat veterans -- Assessing a patient with a mood disorder -- Wound management in home health care -- Home care patient with elevated blood sugars -- Home care community setting with limited English proficient patients: second semester -- Care of an older adult with congestive heart failure -- The older adult in an ICU with acute respiratory failure: critical care nursing: senior-year elective -- Communication with an elderly client -- QSEN carousel for first-year nursing students -- Diabetes management-nurse practitioner -- Assessment and differential diagnosis of a patient presenting with chest pain -- The prescriber's skit: a simulation designed to build confidence and competency in new psychiatric APRN prescribers -- Abdominal pain in a woman of childbearing age -- Primary care patient with gastrointestinal problems: graduate program advanced physiology and pathophysiology -- Care/ACNP: aortic emergencies -- Multiple patient medical-surgical scenario -- Improving patient safety through student nurse-resident team training: the central venous catheterization pilot project -- Prevention and management of operating room fires -- Undergraduate senior capstone scenarios: pearls, pitfalls, and politics -- Student-generated scenarios for senior simulation day -- Quality, safety, and process improvement with an interdisciplinary team -- Care of the hospitalized older with abdominal surgery for colon cancer -- Cutting-edge visions of the future of simulations -- Framework for simulation learning in nursing education -- Certification in simulation -- Publishing your simulation work -- The Connecticut league for nursing simulation teaching and learning initiative: a grant-funded project to support effective integration of simulated teaching and learning into nursing education in Connecticut -- Integrating an academic electronic health record into simulations -- Final words of wisdom on simulation.…”
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Materials, mechatronics and automation IV : selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 4th International Conference on Materials, Mechatronics and Automation (ICMMA 2014), April...

Table of Contents: “…Analysis and Realization of Critical Points on Hardware Design of FPGAA Novel Surface Reconstruction Method for Noisy Cloud Points Based on Support Vector Machine; A Efficient Surface Reconstruction Method for Noisy Samples Based on Bilateral Filtering and down Sampling; Study of Organic Solar Cells Conversion Efficiency; The Design and Implementation of Testing System for Network Equipment Configuration Status and Light Power; Design Method and Parameters Matching of Electric Motors for Hybrid Construction Equipment…”
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Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering III

Table of Contents: “…Application of Cascaded Multilevel Inverter for High Voltage Grid-Connected PV System; Characteristic Study of Solar Cell under the Different Concentrating Light Intensity; Effect of a Cumulative Cold and Heat Load Ratio on Hybrid Ground-Source Heat Pump System Performance Parameters; Improving the Utilization Rate of Wind Power Based on the Thermal-Electricity Combined Operation Technology; Numerical Simulation of the Wake Effect of a H-Type Wind Turbine on Downstream Wind Turbine; One Operational Method for Offshore Wind Speeds Retrieval from SAR Image.…”
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The fruit machine : twenty years of writings on queer cinema by Waugh, Thomas, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Real: Chant d'amour, Army of Lovers, We Were One Man (1980) -- Nighthawks, by Ron Peck and Paul Hallam (1980) -- A Saturday Night Surprise: Burin des Roziers's Blue Jeans (1980) -- Caligula (1981) -- Taxis and Toilets: Ripploh and His Brothers (1981) -- Bright Lights in the Night: Pasolini, Schroeter, and Others (1981) -- Patty Duke and Tasteful Dykes (1982).…”
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Museum Architecture : a New Biography. by MacLeod, Suzanne

Table of Contents: “…New scientific approaches to lighting picture galleriesThe new Walker Art Gallery; Conclusion; 4. …”
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Decline of the Sea Turtles : Causes and Prevention. by Staff, National Research Council

Table of Contents: “…ABIOTIC SOURCES OF MORTALITYErosion, Accretion, and Tidal Inundation; Heavy Rains; Thermal Stress; QUANTITATIVE STUDIES OF NATURAL MORTALITY; SUMMARY; 6 Sea Turtle Mortality Associated with Human Activities; MORTALITY OF SEA TURTLE EGGS AND HATCHLINGS; Beach Erosion and Accretion; Beach Armoring; Beach Nourishment; Artificial Lighting; Beach Cleaning; Increased Human Presence; Recreational Beach Equipment; Beach Vehicles; Exotic Dune and Beach Vegetation; MORTALITY OF SEA TURTLE JUVENILES AND ADULTS; Shrimp Fishing; Description of the Fishery; Distribution and Intensity of the Fishery.…”
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Contradictory Woolf. by Ryan, Derek

Table of Contents: “…Dalloway: Neuroscience and Woolf; "When the lights of health go down": Virginia Woolf's Aesthetics and Contemporary Illness Narratives; Kinetic Tropes, Comedic Turns: Dancing To The Lighthouse.…”
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Economic and Societal Transformation in Pandemic-Trapped India Emerging Challenges and Resilient Policy Prescriptions

Table of Contents: “…Impact of COVID-19 and Responses to It: A Comparative Study of SAARC Countries in Light of Global Experiences -- Chapter 5.The COVID-19 Pandemic and Socio-spatial Inequality: A Study from the Metropolitan Area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- Chapter 6. …”
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Progress in industrial and civil engineering III : selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 3rd International Conference on Civil, Architectural and Hydraulic Engineering (ICCA...

Table of Contents: “…Estimation of Load Bearing Capacity of Eccentrically Compressed Reinforced Concrete Elements under Dynamic Loading in Fire ConditionsEvaluation of the SIF for the Multiple Crack Problems; Experimental Research on Thermal Behavior of Light Gauge Steel-Framed Composite Walls with Slotted Studs; Experimental Study and Theoretical Analysis of Ultimate Strength for Steel Tubular Joint of UHV Transmission Towers; Experimental Study on Bearing Capacity of Q690 High-Strength Steel Tubes under Axial Load; Experimental Study on Durability of Foundation Concrete of Transmission Lines in Golmud Area…”
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Advances in manufacturing systems : selected, peer reviewed papers from the 5th International Conference of Manufacturing Engineering Society (MESIC 2013), June 26-28, 2013, Zarago...

Table of Contents: “…Industrial Metrology; A Survey of Surface Texture Characterization with Two and Three-Dimensional Contact Methods; Accuracy Analysis of Fringe Projection Systems Based on Blue Light Technology; A Comparative of 3D Surface Extraction Methods for Potential Metrology Applications; A Strategy for Geometric Error Characterization in Multi-Axis Machine Tool by Use of a Laser Tracker; Accuracy and Reliability Control of Machining Operations on Machining Centres.…”
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