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Mining of Desalination Brines

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2099
  • Nikolay Voutchkov + 1 more
  • English
Mining of Desalination Brines: Opportunities and Challenges provides an overview of the opportunities and challenges associated with extracting minerals from brines produced by desalination of sea and brackish waters, presenting factors that influence selection of the types of processes for cost effective mining of specific minerals, and the environmental permitting requirements and studies associated with their implementation. This book features widely used traditional ocean mining processes as well as emerging technologies that are in various stages of development and commercial adaptation by the desalination industry, focusing on new opportunities for metal resource recovery from seawater desalination brine and outlining associated sustainability challenges and opportunities.

An Introduction to the Mathematics of Financial Derivatives

  • 4th Edition
  • December 1, 2029
  • Salih N. Neftci + 1 more
  • English
An Introduction to the Mathematics of Financial Derivatives is a popular, intuitive text that eases the transition from basic summaries of financial engineering to more advanced treatments using stochastic calculus. Emphasizing common sense, it offers a simple and heuristic introduction to mathematical concepts that have practical uses in financial markets. It requires only a basic knowledge of calculus and probability and delivers a comprehensive and in‐depth treatment of financial derivatives with clear but not so complicated math. This book is an invaluable reference for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals from a variety of quantitative backgrounds.

Economic Analysis and Policy Evaluation in the Railway Industry

  • 1st Edition
  • December 1, 2029
  • Pedro Cantos-Sanchez + 1 more
  • English
Economic Analysis and Policy Evaluation in the Railway Industry: An International Perspective provides a systematic description of key topics of modern rail systems. Contributors evaluate the economic effects of forces shaping railway and transportation industries worldwide. The book covers a description of the recent evolution of the sector emphasizing those countries or areas where railways have achieved different degrees of development. Economic concepts, techniques and applied empirical models are considered to illustrate the different aspects of the rail markets. The assessment of regulatory, competition and infrastructure issues related to rail markets are also described with detail.

Handbook of the Chinese Economy and Its External Economic Relations

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2029
  • Kar-yiu Wong
  • English
China’s foreign trade and foreign direct investment have contributed substantially to the growth of its economy. China trades heavily not only with its neighboring countries in Asia and with giants such as the United States, Japan, and Germany, but also with smaller partners in Latin America and Africa. It is, for example, the largest trading partner of many African countries. The Handbook of the Chinese Economy and Its External Economic Relations unveils the policies, trends, and economic opportunities that brought China to this point in its development. Featuring extensive data for each chapter, the Handbook separates itself from other reference works by detailing China’s integration with the rest of the world.

Networks in Economics

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2029
  • Chih-Sheng Hsieh + 2 more
  • English
Networks in Economics: Theory, Econometrics, and Policy Implications draws on the latest findings in economics, sociology, physics, computer science and mathematics, providing an empirical review of social network analysis, and their regularities. It discusses random graph-based models as well as strategic models of network formation. The three parts of the book, theory, empirics and policy, are presented in a consistent and interdependent framework. This book supports students, researchers and practitioners, helping them to understand outcomes and behaviors in networked societies, and to be able to evaluate real world policy instruments in this context.

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

  • 1st Edition
  • October 1, 2029
  • Meric Srokosz
  • English
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning: Its Past, Present, and Future Role in the Earth’s Climate presents a comprehensive introduction to this important component of the global ocean circulation and climate system. The book covers all aspects of recent AMOC research: theory, ocean observations, palaeoceanographic data, and ocean and climate modelling.The Atlantic Meridional Overturning brings the reader up to date with what is happening in this exciting field of oceanographic research. As well as describing the physical processes that determine the AMOC, the author explores the impacts that changes in the AMOC can have on ocean biogeochemical processes and on the Earth’s climate. In particular, the possibility for abrupt changes. The book is written for Oceanographers including Professors, lecturers and researchers – teaching and carrying out research in Oceanography.

Christoffersen's Elements of Financial Risk Management

  • 3rd Edition
  • September 1, 2029
  • Chayawat Ornthanalai + 1 more
  • English
Elements of Financial Risk Management focuses on the implementation of technique that help students and practitioners “bridge the gap” between standard textbooks on risk and real-life risk management systems. Without a highly sophisticated quant background, readers can understand its detailed and comprehensive coverage of most market-risk related topics. More a financial econometrics book than a financial risk management book, it shows how to apply tools developed in financial econometrics to risk management. It differs from typical risk management books by digging more deeply in the assumptions and models behind risk calculations.

Non-Human Primates and Human Culture

  • 1st Edition
  • July 1, 2029
  • Kefeng Niu
  • English
Non-Human Primates and Human Culture: Case Studies and Applications of Conservation of Asian Primate Species provides the most comprehensive knowledge on the relations and interactions between humans and non-human primates. It focuses on conservation practices to ensure the safety of both humans and non-human primate species across growing Asian countries. Written by primatology, animal behavior, and conservation experts, this book assesses primate classifications, historical geography, archaeology, and conservation of various species from multiple cultural perspectives. Each chapter covers a case study of a different species of Asian non-human primates, analyzing its conservation threats due to economic expansion, climate change, and deforestation, and the inevitable encounters with humans due to displacement among growing countries. Non-Human Primates and Human Culture: Case Studies and Applications of Conservation of Asian Primate Species is a valuable resource for conservationists, primatologists, and animal behavior researchers, who are seeking to understand the relationship between these distant evolutionary relatives and future implications for protection and conservation.

Principles of Financial Engineering

  • 4th Edition
  • June 1, 2029
  • Robert Kosowski + 1 more
  • English
Principles of Financial Engineering, Fourth Edition presents 5 significantly revised chapters and revisions throughout. It introduces new important derivative products and regulatory changes that affect derivatives markets while maintaining the consistency of its pedagogical philosophy. It explores the discontinuation of IBOR (Inter-bank offered rates) such as LIBOR and its implications. Increased pedagogical elements - such as solutions, case studies, spreadsheets, sample exams, and slides - help instructors design courses appropriate for their students. At the same time it provides freely-accessible solutions to all exercises in every chapter and additional password-protected materials for instructors. Written for students and practitioners who want to learn the practicalities of the financial markets, not their theories; it is fundamentally practical.