Books in Economics and finance

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Books Journals

Atlas Netter d'anatomie humaine

8th Edition
June 1, 2023
Frank H. Netter
French

Le succès de cet ouvrage réside dans la qualité et la beauté du travail du Dr Frank H. Netter ainsi que du Dr Carlos A. G. Machado, parmi les plus grands illustrateurs médicaux au monde.Ensemble, ces deux médecins-artistes au talent unique mettent en évidence le corps humain du point de vue du clinicien.Les magnifiques planches s’accompagnent d’une soixantaine d’images radiologiques soigneusement sélectionnées qui permettent de relier l’anatomie illustrée à l’anatomie vivante pour aider à la compréhension et à la pratique quotidienne.Cette 8e édition, entièrement révisée, est conforme à la Terminologia Anatomica dans sa dernière version et s’est considérablement enrichie :Plus de 30 nouvelles illustrations du Dr Machado sont notamment dédiées à l’anatomie desystème en ouverture de l’ouvrage, mais offrent également une diversification des modèlesmasculin et féminin et prennent en compte les variations de couleur de peau ; de nouvellesplanches sont consacrées au coeur et aux aires précordiales d’auscultation, aux valves cardiaques,aux veines du membre supérieur et du membre inférieur, et à une coupe transversale du pied.De nouveaux tableaux récapitulatifs sur les nerfs (incluant l’origine, le trajet, la fonction, etc.)complètent les tableaux de grande importance clinique des structures anatomiques et lestableaux des muscles, déjà présents dans la précédente édition.Les clichés d’imagerie, repérables facilement, ont été sélectionnés selon des critères d’utilitépour les étudiants apprenant l’anatomie.Cette 8e édition donne accès à des compléments en ligne français inédits et interactifs – 150 planches pour s’entraîner en mode « drag and drop » et 341 QCM interactifs – et à l’ensemble des compléments en ligne américains – modèles tridimensionnels (3D), vidéos de dissections, planches de dissections commentées ainsi que des planches supplémentaires.Cette 8e édition offre également un accès gratuit à une vingtaine de modèles 3D (corrélés auxplanches correspondantes dans l’ouvrage) de la plateforme d’anatomie 3D immersive « Complete Anatomy ».

Sustainable Mass Transit

2nd Edition
May 25, 2023
Thomas Abdallah
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Sustainable Mass Transit: Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Public Transportation, Second Edition highlights the many sustainability solutions and alternatives to fossil fuel usage including renewable energy and efficiency in mass transit, as well as the conservation of materials, water, and air and the overall health of communities. This new edition will update the reader on developments in the field since 2017 and advancements in sustainability solutions. It explores how Environmental Management System frameworks improve environmental performance in the operations, maintenance, design, rehabilitation, and expansion of a mass transportation system. The book covers the numerous types of mass transit systems, looking closely at all their key functions, including operations, maintenance, development, design, building, and retrofitting. It explores the mitigation measures that reduce or eliminate negative environmental impacts, including green infrastructure, materials conservation, ecological conservation, and more. It covers energy, greenhouse gas emissions, toxic pollution and other significant environmental impacts, recycling, and more. It also examines organizational best practices and environmental regulatory constraints and life cycle assessments, describing which sustainable elements can be added while rehabilitating or expanding a mass transportation infrastructure or ancillary facility. The book concludes with a look at forthcoming sustainable initiatives that will enhance mass transit systems.

Solar-Driven Green Hydrogen Generation and Storage

1st Edition
May 18, 2023
Rohit Srivastava + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Solar-Driven Green Hydrogen Generation and Storage presents the latest research and technologies in hydrogen generation through solar energy. With in-depth coverage of three key topics, the book discusses green hydrogen technologies, solid hydrogen storage, and hydrogen energy applications.The book begins with a deep dive into photoelectrochemical water splitting, examining different catalysts, such as perovskite-based, phosphorene-based, polymer-based, transition metal-based single atom, blue-titania, carbon-based, Mxene and semiconductor-based catalysts. Subsequent chaptersanalyze hydrogen production techniques, including electrolysis, photobiological, thermochemical, and biomass gasification methods. After reviewing key hydrogen storage technologies, the book concludeswith a summary of the applications of hydrogen in various industry sectors.This book is an essential resource for students, researchers, and engineers interested in renewable energy, hydrogen production, and energy storage.

Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity

4th Edition
April 28, 2023
David P. Stowell + 1 more
English
Hardback
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eBook
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Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity, Fourth Edition provides a real-world view of this fast-evolving field, reviewing and analyzing recent innovations and developments. This reference captures the actual work of bankers and professional investors, providing readers with templates for real transactions and insight on how investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms provide services to each other while creating opportunities for corporations and investors to raise capital, invest, hedge, finance, acquire, divest, and risk manage. For each type of institution, the business model, organizational structure, products, challenges, regulatory issues, and profit-making opportunities are explained. In addition, specific transactions are analyzed to make clear how advisory services, financings, investments, and trades produce profits or losses, and which types of risks are most commonly taken by each type of institution. Importantly, the linkage of investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity to corporations, governments, and individuals is described, enabling the reader to more clearly understand how these organizations impact them and how their products and services can be best utilized.

Waste Biorefineries

1st Edition
April 25, 2023
Jinyue Yan + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Waste Biorefineries: Advanced Design Concepts for Integrated Waste to Energy Processes presents a detailed guide to the design of energy-efficient and cost-effective waste-integrated biorefineries. Integrating thermochemical processing of waste with existing waste-to-energy technologies, the book includes the latest developments and technologies. It introduces current waste valorization techniques and examines reasons to modify existing waste-to-energy systems through the integration of new processes. In addition, the book explains the design of novel biorefineries and methods to assess these processes alongside detailed results, including the integration of waste-based CHP plants with waste gasification and the integration of pyrolysis technologies and biogas plants with waste thermochemical processing.Other sections discuss the issues and challenges of commercializing waste-to-energy technologies, including uncertainty in waste thermochemical process designs, the environmental impact of waste-integrated biorefineries, and the role of integrated waste-to-energy management in smart cities and urban energy systems. This book will be an invaluable reference for students, researchers and those in industry who are interested in the design and implementation of waste-to-energy systems, waste biomass-based combined heat and power plants, biogas plants and forest-based industries.

Handbook of the Economics of the Family

1st Edition
March 23, 2023
Shelly Lundberg + 1 more
English
Hardback
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eBook
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Handbook of the Economics of the Family, Volume One includes comprehensive surveys of the current state of the economics literaure in the field, prepared by leading scholars, with a particular empahsis on the most recent developments in each area. Chapters cover Culture and the family; Mating markets; Household decisions and intra-household distributions; The economics of fertility: a new era; Families, labor markets, and policy; Family background, neighborhoods, and intergenerational mobility; The great transition: Kuznets facts for family-economists; An institutional perspective on the economics of the family.

Multi-Hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building

1st Edition
March 21, 2023
Indrajit Pal + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Multi-hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building: Cross Cutting Issues presents multi-disciplinary issues facing disaster risk reduction and sustainable development, focusing on various dimensions of existing and future risk scenarios and highlighting concerted efforts of scientific communities to find new adaptation methods. Disaster risk reduction and resilience requires participation of a wide array of stakeholders, ranging from academicians to policy makers to disaster managers. The book offers evidence-based, problem-solving techniques from social, natural, engineering, and other perspectives, and connects data, research, and conceptual work with practical cases on disaster risk management to capture multi-sectoral aspects of disaster resilience, adaptation strategy, and sustainability.

Building Energy Flexibility and Demand Management

1st Edition
February 10, 2023
Zhenjun Ma + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Building Energy Flexibility and Demand Management looks at the high penetration of intermittent renewable energy sources and the need for increased flexibility. Ensuring electrical power systems adapt to dynamic energy demand and supply conditions, the book supports the transition to a renewable energy future with current fluctuating power generation. By facilitating the penetration of renewable energy sources into the building sector and balancing electricity supply with demand in real-time, this book will provide fundamental concepts, theories, and methods to understand, quantify, design and optimize building energy flexibility. In addition, the book also provides case studies with emerging technologies to enhance building energy flexibility and demonstrate how demand management strategies can utilize energy flexibility for demand reduction and load shifting. It will be useful for all those researchers and engineers working in flexible energy systems and advanced demand side management strategies.

Handbook of the Economics of Education

1st Edition
Volume 6
January 18, 2023
Eric A. Hanushek + 2 more
English
Hardback
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eBook
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The Handbook of the Economics of Education describes the research frontier in key topical areas and sets the agenda for further work. Modern analysis in the economics of education has made tremendous strides in understanding fundamental issues related to the production of human capital and the impact of varying institutional features of education systems. By bringing together some of the world’s leading scholars, this volume provides a unique view of scholarship in the area. The international perspectives of the editors – Hanushek at Stanford, Machin at LSE, and Woessmann at Munich – leads to a volume with something for all researchers. Topics range from the economics of early childhood education to inequality in society to cash transfers in developing countries.

Recent Advancement of IoT Devices in Pollution Control and Health Applications

1st Edition
January 13, 2023
Swapnila Roy + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Recent Advancement of IoT Devices in Pollution Control and Health Applications covers current developments in Internet of Things (IoT)-based pollution control, solid waste management, transportation, and healthcare systems. Because of its effects on physical and biological entities of the environment, the issue of environmental pollution and action has become a global concern. This guide highlights how environmental and health data from connected devices can be stored, analyzed, and eventually used—from developing indices for the state of environmental pollution, to diagnosing and treating patients and the role of IoT-based technology for pollution control.

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