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Positive Definite Matrices

Positive Definite Matrices

By: Rajendra Bhatia

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Publication Date: 10-JAN-2009

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This book represents the first synthesis of the considerable body of new research into positive definite matrices. These matrices play the same role in noncommutative analysis as positive real numbers do in classical analysis. They have theoretical and computational uses across a broad spectrum of disciplines, including calculus, electrical engineering, statistics, physics, numerical analysis, quantum information theory, and geometry. Through detailed explanations and an authoritative and inspiring writing style, Rajendra Bhatia carefully develops general techniques that have wide...

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Think Like an Option Trader: How to Profit by Moving from Stocks to Options

Think Like an Option Trader: How to Profit by Moving from Stocks to Options

By: Michael Benklifa

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 31-MAY-2013

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THE SECRET TO PROFITING FROM OPTIONS: THINK LIKE A PROFESSIONAL OPTION TRADER, NOT A STOCK TRADER! Understand the unique dynamics of options trades and markets Practical, concise insights based on actual option trading scenarios Master trade selection, risk management, and more By professional options trader Michael Benklifa, best-selling author of Profiting with Iron Condor Options Want to win in options? You must think like a professional option trader. Step #1: Get rid of the habits you learned in stock trading: they’re killing you! Step #2: Understand the...

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Relational Theory for Computer Professionals

Relational Theory for Computer Professionals

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 22-MAY-2013

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This book shows you what a real relational product would be like, and how and why it would be so much better than what’s currently available. Most books try to use SQL as a vehicle for teaching relational theory, but this book deliberately takes the opposite approach. Its primary aim is to teach relational theory as such. Then it uses that theory as a vehicle for teaching SQL, showing in particular how that theory can help with the practical problem of using SQL correctly and productively....

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Microsoft Access 2013 - Das Handbuch

Microsoft Access 2013 - Das Handbuch

By: Lorenz Hölscher

Publisher: Microsoft Press Deutschland

Publication Date: 17-MAY-2013

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In diesem umfassenden Nachschlagewerk finden Sie alles, was Sie für die Arbeit mit Microsoft Access 2013 benötigen: vom Schnelleinstieg bis hin zur Erstellung kompletter Anwendunge ...

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Abfragen von Microsoft SQL Server 2012 - Original Microsoft Training für Examen 70-461

Abfragen von Microsoft SQL Server 2012 - Original Microsoft Training für Examen 70-461

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Publisher: Microsoft Press Deutschland

Publication Date: 21-MAY-2013

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Erlernen Sie das Administrieren von Microsoft SQL Server 2012-Datenbanken und bereiten Sie sich gleichzeitig effizient auf das Examen 70-461 vor. ...

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SQL Server Transaction Log Management

SQL Server Transaction Log Management

By: Tony Davis; Gail Shaw

Publisher: Red Gate Books

Publication Date: 21-DEC-2012

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When a SQL Server database is operating smoothly and performing well, there is no need to be particularly aware of the transaction log, beyond ensuring that every database has an appropriate backup regime and restore plan in place. When things go wrong, however, a DBA's reputation depends on a deeper understanding of the transaction log, both what it does, and how it works. An effective response to a crisis requires rapid decisions based on understanding its role in ensuring data integrity. ...

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Under the Hood of .NET Memory Management

Under the Hood of .NET Memory Management

By: Chris Farrell; Nick Harrison

Publisher: Red Gate Books

Publication Date: 19-DEC-2011

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This book starts with an introduction to the core concepts of .NET memory management and garbage collection, and then quickly layers on additional details and intricacies. Once you're up to speed, you can dive into the guided troubleshooting tour, and tips for engineering your application to maximise performance. And to finish off, take a look at some more sophisticated considerations, and even a peek inside the Windows memory model. ...

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Practical Time Series Analysis Using SAS

Practical Time Series Analysis Using SAS

By: Anders Milhøj

Publisher: SAS Institute

Publication Date: 15-APR-2013

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Anders Milhøj's Practical Time Series Analysis Using SAS explains and demonstrates through examples how you can use SAS for time series analysis. It offers modern procedures for forecasting, seasonal adjustments, and decomposition of time series that can be used without involved statistical reasoning. The book teaches, with numerous examples, how to apply these procedures with very simple coding. In addition, it also gives the statistical background for interested readers. Beginning with an introductory chapter that covers the practical handling of time series data in SAS using the...

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The Design Method: A Philosophy and Process for Functional Visual Communication

The Design Method: A Philosophy and Process for Functional Visual Communication

By: Eric Karjaluoto

Publisher: New Riders

Publication Date: 16-AUG-2013

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. The design section of any bookstore offers a variety of beautiful graphic anthologies, heady academic tomes, and monographs of “celebrity” designers. These books often lead us astray by focusing on visuals and theory, instead of how and why designers arrive at outcomes. The Design Method is a short, functional, relatable book that will help designers clarify their understanding of the nature of design; learn methods for—consistently—creating good design; and find ways to persuade clients to trust in their counsel. It’s not a lofty book....

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Rethinking Valuation and Pricing Models

Rethinking Valuation and Pricing Models

By: Carsten Wehn; Christian Hoppe; Greg N. Gregoriou

Publisher: Academic Press

Publication Date: 17-DEC-2012

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It is widely acknowledged that many financial modelling techniques failed during the financial crisis, and in our post-crisis environment many techniques are being reconsidered.  This single volume provides a guide to lessons learned for practitioners and a reference for academics.  Including reviews of traditional approaches, real examples, and case studies, contributors consider portfolio theory; methods for valuing equities and equity derivatives, interest rate derivatives, and hybrid products; and techniques for calculating risks and implementing investment strategies.  Describing new...

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Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity, 2nd Edition

Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity, 2nd Edition

By: David Stowell

Publisher: Academic Press

Publication Date: 01-SEP-2012

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This description of the symbiotic relationships among investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms shows students how firms simultaneously compete and cooperate. The author has captured the ways these firms are reinventing themselves in the post-crash regulatory environment and, through ten extensive cases, the ways in which they are increasing their power and influence. Emphasizes the needs for capital, sources of capital, and the process of getting capital to those who need it. Integrates into the chapters ten cases about recent transactions, along with case notes and...

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Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability

Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability

By: Gerard Caprio

Publisher: Academic Press

Publication Date: 31-DEC-2012

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Political and social forces exert pressure on our globalized economy in many forms, from formal and informal policies to financial theories and technical models. Our efforts to shape and direct these forces to preserve financial stability reveal much about the ways we perceive the financial economy.  The Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability examines our political economy, particularly the ways in which these forces inhabit our institutions, strategies, and tactics. As economies expand and contract, these forces also determine the ways we supervise and regulate....

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Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure

Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure

By: Gerard Caprio

Publisher: Academic Press

Publication Date: 17-DEC-2012

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Understanding twenty-first century global financial integration requires a two-part background.   The Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure begins its description of how we created a financially-intergrated world by first examining the history of financial globalization, from Roman practices and Ottoman finance to Chinese standards, the beginnings of corporate practices, and the advent of efforts to safeguard financial stability.  It then describes the architecture itself by analyzing its parts, such as markets, institutions, and infrastructure.  The...

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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

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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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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...