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1. |  EPC and 4G Packet Networks, 2nd Edition By: Magnus Olsson; Catherine Mulligan Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 03-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 29-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: EPC and 4G Packet Networks, 2nd Edition
Get a comprehensive and detailed insight into the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) with this clear, concise and authoritative guide - a fully updated second edition that covers the latest standards and industry developments KEY FEATURES • The only book to describe and explain the entire EPC including architecture, features and protocols, giving you the knowledge and insight to see the potential in EPC, develop EPC products and deploy LTE/EPC mobile broadband Networks • The Second Edition includes 150+ new pages and numerous new illustrations. The content has also been focused towards the...
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2. |  Cognitive Radio Technology, 2nd Edition By: Bruce A. Fette Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 28-APR-2009 Insert Date: 19-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Cognitive Radio Technology, 2nd Edition
This book gives a thorough knowledge of cognitive radio concepts, principles, standards, spectrum policy issues and product implementation details. In addition to 16 chapters covering all the basics of cognitive radio, this new edition has eight brand-new chapters covering cognitive radio in multiple antenna systems, policy language and policy engine, spectrum sensing, rendezvous techniques, spectrum consumption models, protocols for adaptation, cognitive networking, and information on the latest standards, making it an indispensable resource for the RF and wireless engineer. The new...
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3. |  Signals and Systems using MATLAB By: Luis Chaparro Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 10-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 11-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Signals and Systems using MATLAB
This new textbook in Signals and Systems provides a pedagogically-rich approach to what can oftentimes be a mathematically 'dry' subject. Chaparro introduces both continuous and discrete time systems, then covers each separately in depth. Careful explanations of each concept are paired with a large number of step by step worked examples. With features like historical notes, highlighted 'common mistakes,' and applications in controls, communications, and signal processing, Chaparro helps students appreciate the usefulness of the techniques described in the book. Each chapter contains a...
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4. |  Pricing, Risk, and Performance Measurement in Practice By: Wolfgang Schwerdt; Marcelle von Wendland Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 22-OCT-2009 Insert Date: 10-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pricing, Risk, and Performance Measurement in Practice
Financial models and portfolios are only as good as the software-based representations of them, and this book is the first to bridge the gap between the theory of financial pricing, risk and performance measurement and modeling, and actually implementing all this in a your firm's software systems. The authors are the developers of the European Central Bank's (ECB) standard for the description of financial instruments. The ECB has adopted this approach because it is an extremely flexible, innovative, yet logically simple and consistent way to accurately define and set up even very large...
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5. |  International Mergers and Acquisitions Activity Since 1990 By: Greg N. Gregoriou; Luc Renneboog Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 11-MAY-2007 Insert Date: 15-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: International Mergers and Acquisitions Activity Since 1990
It is now a well-know fact that mergers and acquisitions activity comes in waves. The most recent wave, the 5th takeover wave of the 1990s, was characterized by an unprecedented number of corporate restructurings in terms of mergers and acquisitions (M&As), public-to-private transactions, spin-offs and divestitures, and leveraged recapitalizations. Following the collapse of the stock market in March 2000, M&A activity slumped dramatically, but this pause ended in the second half of 2004 when takeover deals occurred again quite frequently. Indeed, some observers wonder whether the 6th...
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6. |  The Analytics of Risk Model Validation By: George A. Christodoulakis; Stephen Satchell Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 14-NOV-2007 Insert Date: 15-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Analytics of Risk Model Validation
Risk model validation is an emerging and important area of research, and has arisen because of Basel I and II. These regulatory initiatives require trading institutions and lending institutions to compute their reserve capital in a highly analytic way, based on the use of internal risk models. It is part of the regulatory structure that these risk models be validated both internally and externally, and there is a great shortage of information as to best practise. Editors Christodoulakis and Satchell collect papers that are beginning to appear by regulators, consultants, and academics, to...
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7. |  Forecasting Expected Returns in the Financial Markets By: Stephen Satchell Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 16-AUG-2007 Insert Date: 10-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Forecasting Expected Returns in the Financial Markets
Forecasting returns is as important as forecasting volatility in multiple areas of finance. This topic, essential to practitioners, is also studied by academics. In this new book, Dr Stephen Satchell brings together a collection of leading thinkers and practitioners from around the world who address this complex problem using the latest quantitative techniques. *Forecasting expected returns is an essential aspect of finance and highly technical *The first collection of papers to present new and developing techniques *International authors present both academic and practitioner...
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8. |  By: Lars Wanhammar Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 18-FEB-1999 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: DSP Integrated Circuits
DSP Integrated Circuits establishes the essential interface between theory of digital signal processing algorithms and their implementation in full-custom CMOS technology. With an emphasis on techniques for co-design of DSP algorithms and hardware in order to achieve high performance in terms of throughput, low power consumption, and design effort, this book provides the professional engineer, researcher, and student with a firm foundation in the theoretical as well as the practical aspects of designing high performance DSP integrated circuits. Centered around three design case...
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9. |  Pattern Recognition, 3rd Edition By: Sergios Theodoridis; Sergios Theodoridis; Konstantinos Koutroumbas; Konstantinos Koutroumbas Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 24-FEB-2006 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pattern Recognition, 3rd Edition
A classic -- offering comprehensive and unified coverage with a balance between theory and practice! Pattern recognition is integral to a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines and technologies including image analysis, speech recognition, audio classification, communications, computer-aided diagnosis, and data mining. The authors, leading experts in the field of pattern recognition, have once again provided an up-to-date, self-contained volume encapsulating this wide spectrum of information. Each chapter is designed to begin with basics of theory progressing to advanced topics and...
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10. |  Value at Risk and Bank Capital Management By: Francesco Saita Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 09-FEB-2007 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Value at Risk and Bank Capital Management
While the highly technical measurement techniques and methodologies of Value at Risk have attracted huge interest, much less attention has been focused on how Value at Risk and the risk-adjusted performance measures such as RAROC or economic profit/EVA„· can be effectively used to improve a bank¡¦s decision making processes. Academic books are typically concerned primarily with measurement techniques, and devote only a small section to describing the applications, usually without discussing the problems that changing organizational processes in banks may have on business units¡¦...
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11. |  By: Giorgio Franceschetti; Sabatino Stornelli Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 28-APR-2006 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Wireless Networks
Awarded by the International Calabria's Prize! This multidisciplinary volume originates from lectures presented at a short course on wireless communications in Capri, Italy. This globally attended conference has produced an exceptional book written by pioneers in the field. Lecturers at Capri included pillars in the fields of electromagnetics, communications, information technology and mathematics. As communications technology becomes increasingly wireless, an interdisciplinary viewpoint is necessary for professionals to correct problems and avoid others before they occur. Wireless...
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12. |  Specialty Optical Fibers Handbook By: Alexis Mendez; T. F. Morse Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 15-DEC-2006 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Specialty Optical Fibers Handbook
This book is a comprehensive contributed volume that aims to describe and explain the design, fabrication, operating characteristics, and specific applications of the most popular and useful types of specialty optical fibers. These “specialty fibers? include any kind of optical fiber that has been architecturally manipulated to diverge from a conventional structure. For instance, metal-coated fibers can be utilized for bandwidth improvement, and hollow core fibers offer more controllable dispersion for sensitive medical procedures. Applications for these specialty fibers abound in the...
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13. |  By: Philip Kosky; Robert T. Balmer; Robert T. Balmer; William D. Keat; William D. Keat; George Wise; George Wise Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 11-SEP-2006 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Exploring Engineering
Winner of the Best New Undergraduate Textbook Award from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the American Association of Publishers! Exploring Engineering was developed to meet the need for a better way to introduce incoming engineering students to the fundamental concepts at the heart of all engineering disciplines. It was also created to show students in a vivid way the great array of opportunities and possibilities of today's engineering fields-from classical mechanical engineering to bioengineering and mechatronics. This is the first text to introduce nearly all...
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14. |  Fiscal Health for Local Governments By: Beth Walter Honadle; Beverly Cigler; James M. Costa Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 11-DEC-2003 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fiscal Health for Local Governments
This examination of the fiscal health of local governments offers a "how-to" approach to identifying and solving financial problems. It will serve as a primer for readers interested in understanding financial processes and alternatives, and as a practical guide for those who need access to fiscal measurement tools. Its principal selling point lies in its assumptions: instead of using the vocabulary and research agendas of economists (such as Musgrave, Fisher), finance scholars (Ladd/Yinger) and political scientists (Peterson/Strachota), it will appeal to readers who lack sophisticated...
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15. |  By: Mark Hirschey Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 17-JUN-2003 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Tech Stock Valuation
The contribution of research and development to a company's market value has grown considerably in recent years. In the mid-1970s, accountants were able to capture on their ledgers 90-95% of a firm's book value, but by 2000 the importance of intangible assets had grown to the point where they could account for only 13-15%. Financial economists and accountants have investigated the link between a firm's market value and its R&D spending, and various factions advocate a variety of positions on the amount and rate of investment, investors' ability to capture returns on that investment, and...
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16. |  By: Jerry D. Gibson Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 19-OCT-2000 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Multimedia Communications
The rapid advances and industry demands for networked delivery of information and pictures through computer networks and cable television has created a need for new techniques and standards for the packaging and delivery of digital information. Multimedia Communications presents the latest information from industry and academic experts on all standards, methods and protocols. Internet protocols for wireless communications, transcoding of Internet multimedia for universal access, ATM and ISDN chapters, videoconferencing standards, speech and audio coding standards, multi-casting and...
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17. |  Control in Robotics and Automation By: Bijoy K. Ghosh; T. J. Tarn; Ning Xi Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 24-MAR-1999 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Control in Robotics and Automation
Microcomputer technology and micromechanical design have contributed to recent rapid advances in Robotics. Particular advances have been made in sensor technology that allow robotic systems to gather data and react "intelligently" in flexible manufacturing systems. The analysis and recording of the data are vital to controlling the robot. In order to solve problems in control and planning for a Robotic system it is necessary to meet the growing need for the integration of sensors in to the system. Control in Robotics and Automation addresses this need. This book covers integration...
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18. |  An Introduction to High-Frequency Finance By: Ramazan Gençay; Michel Dacorogna; Ulrich A. Muller; Olivier Pictet; Richard Olsen Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 30-APR-2001 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: An Introduction to High-Frequency Finance
Liquid markets generate hundreds or thousands of ticks (the minimum change in price a security can have, either up or down) every business day. Data vendors such as Reuters transmit more than 275,000 prices per day for foreign exchange spot rates alone. Thus, high-frequency data can be a fundamental object of study, as traders make decisions by observing high-frequency or tick-by-tick data. Yet most studies published in financial literature deal with low frequency, regularly spaced data. For a variety of reasons, high-frequency data are becoming a way for understanding market...
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19. |  By: George Frankfurter; Bob G. Wood; James Wansley Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 10-MAR-2003 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Dividend Policy
Dividend Policy explores the puzzle presented by dividends: irrational and subject to fashion, yet popular and desirable, they remain a priority among managers, even while perceived as largely symbolic. After exploring the history of dividend payments, from the emergence of the modern corporation to current perspectives, it traces the evolution of academic models on dividend policy. Here the authors review models of symmetric and asymmetric information before analyzing academia's accomplishments in solving the dividend puzzle. Related subjects, such as valuation and wealth distribution,...
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20. |  Scattering, Natural Surfaces, and Fractals By: Giorgio Franceschetti; Daniele Riccio Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 08-DEC-2006 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Scattering, Natural Surfaces, and Fractals
This book provides a comprehensive overview of electromagnetic scattering from natural surfaces, ranging from the classical to the more recent (fractal) approach. As remote sensing applications become increasingly important, this text provides readers with a solid background in interpretation, classification and thematization of microwave images. The “scattering problem? is discussed in detail with emphasis on its application to electromagnetic wave propagation, remote sensing, radar detection, and electromagnetic diagnostics. Natural surface and fractals complete this treatise focusing...
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