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ZIP! Tips

ZIP! Tips

By: Mike Song

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Publication Date: 03-JUN-2013

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Overloaded? Overwhelmed? Overworked? You need ZIP! Today, the fastest way to get more done is to focus on tech management—not time management. Mike Song, with the help of productivity superhero “Z,” shows you that the secret is right at your fingertips. The devices and software you use every day have incredible time-saving features almost nobody knows about! Once you discover them you’ll effortlessly boost your performance and zoom to your goals like never before. ZIP! to what matters most in a single click! Print long phrases in two keystrokes! Convert an Outlook email into a LinkedIn...

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PowerPoint® 2013 on Demand

PowerPoint® 2013 on Demand

By: Steve Johnson, Perspection Inc.

Publisher: Que

Publication Date: 09-APR-2013

Insert Date: 22-MAY-2013

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Need answers quickly? PowerPoint 2013 on Demand provides those answers in a visual step-by-step format. We will show you exactly what to do through lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions. Inside the Book • Create powerful presentations faster using ready-made templates • Use gestures to navigate your presentation and slide show on touch screens • Organize information in sections and add impact with online pictures, SmartArt diagrams, tables, and charts • Make your presentation come alive with custom animations, 3-D effects, and slide transitions • Embed,...

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Credit Insurance

Credit Insurance

By: Miran Jus

Publisher: Academic Press

Publication Date: 26-FEB-2013

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<p>This monograph is practically oriented, presenting a survey and explanation of credit insurance services for protection of short-term trade receivables primarily against commercial risk of insolvency and protracted default. The subject matter (i.e., main functions, features and principles of credit insurance with detailed description of credit insurance coverage, insurance conditions, and credit insurance policy management) follows procedural stages and presents commercial, financial, legal, and practical points of view which emphasize the needs of both the providers of these services...

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Project Strategy and Strategic Portfolio Management

Project Strategy and Strategic Portfolio Management

By: William H.A. Johnson; Diane H. Parente

Publisher: Business Expert Press

Publication Date: 20-MAY-2013

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Projects have become the de facto method of implementing business strategy and operations. As such, understanding how projects relate to business strategy and managing projects strategically is increasingly important to effective and efficient business management This book is designed as a short and concise treatise on how to go about doing that. The authors start by figuring out how the project relates to the rest of the business and environment and what separates it from other projects and functions. They go on to discuss how you can use principles of strategic management to better organize...

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Take Control of PDFpen 6

Take Control of PDFpen 6

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Publisher: TidBITS Publishing, Inc.

Publication Date: 18-MAY-2013

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Learn to create, edit, and manipulate PDFs with Smile's PDFpen 6!Have you ever needed to give feedback on a PDF, but stumbled around trying to insert comments and proofreading marks? Or spent way too long trying to refresh the date on a PDF-based flyer? Maybe you wanted to fill out and sign a PDF-based form without printing it and faxing it back? What about making your own PDF-based form with fill-in fields that could be submitted over the Internet? Or have you wished you could OCR scanned text so you could revise it right in the PDF? All these tasks--and much more--can be done with PDFpen...

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Training Guide: Administering Windows Server 2012

Training Guide: Administering Windows Server 2012

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Publisher: Microsoft Press

Publication Date: 28-MAY-2013

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Build the real-world skills needed to deploy, configure, manage, and maintain core infrastructure services in Windows Server 2012. Work at your own pace through the lessons, exercises, and practices in this Training Guide—for the hands-on expertise your job demands....

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Future Trends in Microelectronics: Up the Nano Creek

Future Trends in Microelectronics: Up the Nano Creek

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Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press

Publication Date: 18-MAY-2007

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In this book leading profesionals in the semiconductor microelectronics field discuss the future evolution of their profession. The following are some of the questions discussed: Does CMOS technology have a real problem? Do transistors have to be smaller or just better and made of better materials? What is to come after semiconductors? Superconductors or molecular conductors? Is bottom-up self-assembling the answer to the limitation of top-down lithography? Is it time for Optics to become a force in computer evolution? Quantum Computing, Spintronics? Where is the...

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Handbook of Economic Growth

Handbook of Economic Growth, Volume 1B

By: Philippe Aghion; Steven Durlauf

Publisher: North Holland

Publication Date: 09-DEC-2005

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<div><p>The Handbooks in Economics series continues to provide the various branches of economics with handbooks which are definitive reference sources, suitable for use by professional researchers, advanced graduate students, or by those seeking a teaching supplement. </p><p><br/><br/>The Handbook of Economic Growth, edited by Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf, with an introduction by Robert Solow, features in-depth, authoritative survey articles by the leading economists working on growth theory. </p><p><br/><br/><b>Volume 1a</b>, the first in this two volume set, covers theories of...

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Handbook of Economic Growth

Handbook of Economic Growth, Volume 1A

By: Philippe Aghion; Steven Durlauf

Publisher: North Holland

Publication Date: 09-DEC-2005

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<p>The Handbooks in Economics series continues to provide the various branches of economics with handbooks which are definitive reference sources, suitable for use by professional researchers, advanced graduate students, or by those seeking a teaching supplement.<br/><br/>The Handbook of Economic Growth, edited by Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf, with an introduction by Robert Solow, features in-depth, authoritative survey articles by the leading economists working on growth theory.<br/><br/>Volume 1A, the first in this two volume set, covers theories of economic growth, the empirics of...

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Handbook of Economic Forecasting

Handbook of Economic Forecasting, Volume 1

By: G. Elliott; C. W.J. Granger; A. G. Timmermann

Publisher: North Holland

Publication Date: 14-JUL-2006

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<p>Research on forecasting methods has made important progress over recent years and these developments are brought together in the Handbook of Economic Forecasting. The handbook covers developments in how forecasts are constructed based on multivariate time-series models, dynamic factor models, nonlinear models and combination methods. The handbook also includes chapters on forecast evaluation, including evaluation of point forecasts and probability forecasts and contains chapters on survey forecasts and volatility forecasts. Areas of applications of forecasts covered in the handbook...

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Handbook of Environmental Economics

Handbook of Environmental Economics, Volume 3

By: Karl-Goran Maler; Jeffrey R. Vincent

Publisher: North Holland

Publication Date: 09-DEC-2005

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<p>Many of the frontiers of environmental economics research are at the interface of large-scale and long-term environmental change with national and global economic systems. This is also where some of the most of challenging environmental policy issues occur. Volume 3 of the Handbook of Environmental Economics provides a synthesis of the latest theory on economywide and international environmental issues and a critical review of models for analyzing those issues. It begins with chapters on the fundamental relationships that connect environmental resources to economic growth and...

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Handbook of Environmental Economics

Handbook of Environmental Economics, Volume 2

By: Karl-Göran Mäler; Jeffrey R. Vincent

Publisher: North Holland

Publication Date: 21-DEC-2005

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<p>Much applied environmental economics is concerned with the valuation of changes in environmental quality. Obtaining reliable valuation estimates requires attention to theoretical and econometric issues that are often quite subtle. Volume 2 of the Handbook of Environmental Economics presents both the theory and the practice of environmental valuation. It synthesizes the vast literature that has accumulated since the publication of the Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics two decades ago. It includes chapters on individual valuation methods written by researchers...

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InDesign CC: Visual QuickStart Guide

InDesign CC: Visual QuickStart Guide

By: Sandee Cohen

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 25-JUL-2013

Insert Date: 22-MAY-2013

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. InDesign CC: Visual QuickStart Guide highlights the important new features, as well as covering the ones readers have relied on in previous versions of InDesign. Complete coverage of InDesign CC's new features includes: updated tools for a variety of output formats; the new QR code generator, to easily allow linking to online content; Font Favorites, to make it easy to customize workspaces. Users will learn how to create and automate documents, import and style text and objects, manage long documents, export files for a wide variety of...

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Econophysics

Econophysics

By: Gheorghe Savoiu

Publisher: Academic Press

Publication Date: 27-NOV-2012

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The remarkable evolution of econophysics research has brought the deep synthesis of ideas derived from economics and physics&#160;to subjects as diverse as education, banking, finance, and the administration of large institutions.&#160; The original papers in this collection present a broad summary of these advances, written by interdisciplinary specialists. &#160; Included are studies on subjects in the development of econophysics; on the perspectives offered by econophysics on large problems in economics and finance, including the 2008-9 financial crisis; and on higher education and...

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The Evidence and Impact of Financial Globalization

The Evidence and Impact of Financial Globalization

By: Gerard Caprio

Publisher: Academic Press

Publication Date: 31-DEC-2012

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<p>The sharp realities of financial globalization become clear during crises, when winners and losers emerge. Crises usher in short- and long-term changes to the status quo, and everyone agrees that learning from crises is a top priority.&#160; <i>The Evidence and Impact of Financial Globalization</i> devotes separate articles to specific crises, the conditions that cause them, and the longstanding arrangements devised to address them. While other books and journal articles treat these subjects in isolation, this volume presents a wide-ranging, consistent, yet varied specificity....

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Project Finance in Theory and Practice, 2nd Edition

Project Finance in Theory and Practice, 2nd Edition

By: Stefano Gatti

Publisher: Academic Press

Publication Date: 02-AUG-2012

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<p>This book presents comprehensive coverage of project finance in Europe and North America.&#160; The Second Edition features two new case studies, all new pedagogical supplements including end-of-chapter questions and answers, and insights into the recent market downturn.&#160; The author provides a complete description of the ways a project finance deal can be organized-from industrial, legal, and financial standpoints-and the alternatives available for funding it.&#160; After reviewing recent advances in project finance theory, he&#160;provides illustrations and case studies. At key...

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Auction Theory, 2nd Edition

Auction Theory, 2nd Edition

By: Vijay Krishna

Publisher: Academic Press

Publication Date: 28-SEP-2009

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<p>Vijay Krishna&#8217;s 2e of <i>Auction Theory</i> improves upon his 2002 bestseller with a new chapter on package and position auctions as well as end-of-chapter questions and chapter notes. Complete proofs and new material about collusion complement Krishna&#8217;s ability to reveal the basic facts of each theory in a style that is clear, concise, and easy to follow. With the addition of a solutions manual and other teaching aids, the 2e continues to serve as the doorway to relevant theory for most students doing empirical work on auctions. </p><br><br><ul><li>Focuses on key auction...

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Rating Based Modeling of Credit Risk

Rating Based Modeling of Credit Risk

By: Stefan Trueck; Svetlozar T. Rachev

Publisher: Academic Press

Publication Date: 15-JAN-2009

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In the last decade rating-based models have become very popular in credit risk management. These systems use the rating of a company as the decisive variable to evaluate the default risk of a bond or loan. The popularity is due to the straightforwardness of the approach, and to the upcoming new capital accord (Basel II), which allows banks to base their capital requirements on internal as well as external rating systems. Because of this, sophisticated credit risk models are being developed or demanded by banks to assess the risk of their credit portfolio better by recognizing the different...

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An Introduction to Credit Derivatives, 2nd Edition

An Introduction to Credit Derivatives, 2nd Edition

By: Moorad Choudhry

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Publication Date: 31-DEC-2012

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<p>The second edition of <i>An Introduction to Credit Derivatives</i> provides a broad introduction to products and a marketplace that have changed significantly since the financial crisis of 2008. Author Moorad Choudhry gives a practitioner's perspective on credit derivative instruments and the risks they involve in a succinct style without sacrificing technical details and scientific precision. </p> <p>Beginning with foundational discussions of credit risk, credit risk transfer and credit ratings, the book proceeds to examine credit default swaps and related pricing, asset swaps,...

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SQL Server Execution Plans, 2nd Edition

SQL Server Execution Plans, 2nd Edition

By: Grant Fritchey

Publisher: Red Gate Books

Publication Date: 12-OCT-2012

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Every day the same types of questions come up repeatedly: Why is this query running slowly? Why is SQL Server ignoring my index? My response is the same in each case: have you looked at the execution plan? An execution plan describes what's going on behind the scenes when SQL Server executes a query. It shows how the query optimizer joined the data from the various tables defined in the query, which indexes it used, if any, how it performed any aggregations or sorting, and much more. It also estimates the cost of all of these operations, in terms of the relative load placed on the system....