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Grammar in Plain English

sndk02@gmail.com — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:09:17 PDT

Author: Harriet Diamond, Phyllis Dutwin
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
File size: 1,65 MB
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Here is an excellent English grammar brush-up manual and subject review for adults preparing for the GED, for students of English as a second language preparing for the TOEFL or TOEIC exams, and for all others who need to improve their skills in basic English usage.

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Longman Student CD ROM 3.0 for the Computer Based TOEFL Test

sndk02@gmail.com — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:48:51 PDT

Author: Deborah Phillips
Publisher: Pearson Education
File size: 307MB (474 MB)
File type: iso

The Longman Student CD-ROM is an interactive practice tool linked to the book in coverage, but with all different content, no test items or tests are repeated from the book. The Student CD-ROM includes:
* Over 800 practice questions covering all the language skills tested in the TOEFL Test.
* Almost 900 additional questions in section tests and complete tests designed to simulate the computer adaptivity, timing, and scoring of the computer-based test.
* Pop-up explanations for all practice and test items.
* Scoring and record-keeping functions to monitor student progress.

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ETS TOEFL iBT Tips - How to prepare for the TOEFL test and Communicate with Confidence

sndk02@gmail.com — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:42:52 PDT

Publisher: Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ, USA
File size: 2,99 Мб
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In 2005, ETS is introducing a next generation TOEFL test. It is an Internet-based test (iBT) that will be delivered in secure testing centers around the world. The new TOEFL iBT test will be phased in starting September 2005. It will be offered fi rst in the United States in September 2005; and in Canada, France, Germany, and Italy in October 2005. It will be introduced in the rest of the world in 2006.
What is different about the TOEFL iBT test?

• It tests all four language skills that are important for effective communication: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The emphasis will be on using English to communicate.
• It will be delivered via the Internet in secure test centers around the world. Once the new test is introduced in an area, the computer-based and paper-based tests will no longer be offered there.
• Some tasks require test takers to combine more than one skill. To succeed academically in Englishspeaking colleges and universities, students need to be able to combine their language skills in the classroom. New integrated questions, or “tasks,” help students build the confi dence needed to communicate in the academic environments they plan to enter. The new integrated tasks will ask test takers to:
• read, listen, then speak in response to a question
• listen, then speak in response to a question
• read, listen, then write in response to a question

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Getting to Know the TOEFL

sndk02@gmail.com — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:31:18 PDT

Author: Unknown
Publisher: Unknown
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Getting to know the TOEFL is 184 page book to help you achieve a better score on the exam. It includes detailed strategies for each section of the test. Included in the book are 30 tests to check your progress. An answer key is included.

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Super deluxe first grade scholar

sndk02@gmail.com — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:25:32 PDT

Publisher: School Zone Pub
File size: 17481 KB
File type: PDF in rar

First Grade Scholar combines two School Zone Deluxe Edition workbooks into one convenient 128-page volume. The proven activities will help your child develop important first grade skills, including vowel sounds, sequencing, addition, patterns, and more. Simple instructions, colorful illustrations, and entertaining activities will help your child gain confidence and enjoy learning.

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A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World's Greatest Management Teacher

sndk02@gmail.com — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:46:20 PDT

William A. Cohen : A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World's Greatest Management Teacher
AMACOM | 2007-11-14
ISBN: 0814409199
272 pages | PDF | 1 Mb

Long considered the world’s greatest thinker and writer on management, Peter Drucker’s teachings continue to inspire leaders everywhere. From 1975 to 1979, author William Cohen studied under the Great Man and became the first graduate of his doctoral program. What Drucker taught him literally changed his life. In a matter of a few years, he was recommissioned in the Air Force and rose to the rank of major general. Eventually, he became a full professor, management consultant, multibook author, and university president – as well as maintaining a nearly lifelong friendship with the master.

In A Class with Drucker, Cohen shares many of Drucker’s teachings that never made it into his countless books and articles, ideas that were offered to his students in classroom or informal settings. Cohen expands on Drucker’s lessons with personal anecdotes about his teacher’s personality, lack of pretension, and interactions with students and others. He also shows how Drucker’s ideas can be applied to the real-world challenges managers face today. Now every reader can benefit from Drucker’s thoughts on such topics as:
* what everybody knows is frequently wrong * why everyone should approach problems with their ignorance * top executives should stay no longer than six years * some so-called menial tasks can only be done by the boss * what everyone needs to be an effective manager * why self-confidence is a necessity
Enlightening and intriguing, A Class with Drucker will enable anyone to gain from the timeless wisdom of the inspiring man himself.

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Making Common Sense Common Practice: Models for Manufacturing Excellence

sndk02@gmail.com — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:39:25 PDT

Making Common Sense Common Practice: Models for Manufacturing Excellence
Butterworth-Heinemann 2001-11
ISBN: 0750674628 |
368 pages PDF 1,7 Mb

Make more money in the manufacturing business - but not through cost-cutting and employee layoffs. This book clearly describes how you can turn common sense into common practice to achieve superior manufacturing performance and low-cost production.
Presenting the best practices of the best manufacturing companies in the world, this book presents proven models for achieving world-class performance. Using a fictional company called Beta International, the book illustrates the success and failures of the world's premier manufacturers, illustrating a stable path of growth for almost any manufacturing company.

Through the experience of Beta International, you'll see how to increase uptime, lower costs, increase market share, maximize asset utilization, apply benchmarks and best practices, and improve many other aspects that ultimately raise your company's performance to the level of world-class. 'Making Common Sense Common Practice' takes a good, hard look at plant design, procurement, parts management, installation and maintenance, training and even offers a chapter on how to implement a computerized maintenance management system.
In today's tough competitive markets, 'Making Common Sense Common Practice' greatly enhances your company's chance to succeed - and profit.
presents the best practices and proven models from the best manufacturing companies from around the world by exploring the successes and failures that have led to a stable path of growth for any company
Author is a manufacturing management consultant to major manufacturers from all over North and South America to the U.K., Europe, Asia, Russia, and Australia, with over 30 years experience studying and solving management performance.

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Trade and Environment: A Resource Book

sndk02@gmail.com — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:24:52 PDT

Trade and Environment: A Resource Book
IISD 2007
ISBN 9781895536997
274 pages | PDF | 1.7 Mb

Trade and environment policy is increasingly intertwined and the stakes are nearly always high in both trade and environmental terms. These issues are often complex and discussions tend to become very specialized, challenging policy practitioners to understand and follow all the various sub-strands of trade and environment debates. This Resource Book seeks to demystify these issues without losing the critical nuances.

This collaborative effort of some 61 authors from 34 countries provides relevant information as well as pertinent analysis on a broad set of trade and environment discussions while explaining, as clearly as possible, what are the key issues from a trade and environment perspective; what are the most important policy debates around them; and what are the different policy positions that define these debates.

The volume is structured and organized to be a reference document that is useful and easy to use. Our hope is that those actively involved in trade and environment discussions—as practitioners, as scholars and as activists—will be able to draw on the analysis and opinions in this book to help them advance a closer synergy between trade and environmental policy for the common goal of achieving sustainable development.

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Econometric Methods with Applications in Business and Economics

sndk02@gmail.com — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:16:44 PDT

Econometric Methods with Applications in Business and Economics
Oxford University Press, USA 2004-05-12
ISBN: 0199268010
816 pages | PDF | 10 Mb

Nowadays applied work in business and economics requires a solid understanding of econometric methods to support decision-making. Combining a solid exposition of econometric methods with an application-oriented approach, this rigorous textbook provides students with a working understanding and hands-on experience of current econometrics. Taking a 'learning by doing' approach, it covers basic econometric methods (statistics, simple and multiple regression, nonlinear regression, maximum likelihood, and generalized method of moments), and addresses the creative process of model building with due attention to diagnostic testing and model improvement.

Its last part is devoted to two major application areas: the econometrics of choice data (logit and probit, multinomial and ordered choice, truncated and censored data, and duration data) and the econometrics of time series data (univariate time series, trends, volatility, vector autoregressions, and a brief discussion of SUR models, panel data, and simultaneous equations). DT Real-world text examples and practical exercise questions stimulate active learning and show how econometrics can solve practical questions in modern business and economic management. DT Focuses on the core of econometrics, regression, and covers two major advanced topics, choice data with applications in marketing and micro-economics, and time series data with applications in finance and macro-economics. DT Learning-support features include concise, manageable sections of text, frequent cross-references to related and background material, summaries, computational schemes, keyword lists, suggested further reading, exercise sets, and online data sets and solutions. DT Derivations and theory exercises are clearly marked for students in advanced courses. This textbook is perfect for advanced undergraduate students, new graduate students, and applied researchers in econometrics, business, and economics, and for researchers in other fields that draw on modern applied econometrics.

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Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property

sndk02@gmail.com — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:08:43 PDT

Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property
Ludwig von Mises Institute 2008
ISBN: 9781933550244
496 pages PDF 10.4 Mb

This economic manifesto by Ron Paul (484 pages!) collects his greatest speeches and debates over the last 30 years, and provides documentary evidence that he is not only a master of the topic; he has provided a coherent explanation of nearly everything the government has done wrong in this area since he first entered public office. He also provides a way out, as implied by the subtitle: free market, honest money, and private property.

Dr. Paul has consistently battled for all three.
Economics is topic about which most politicians are abysmally ignorant. As this books shows, Ron Paul is a master of the topic and the nation's teacher on a vast range of economic issues. He addresses monetary policy during critical times such as the late 1970s inflation mania, and was a lone voice pointing to the real cause of Federal Reserve monetary policy.

Whereas most members of Congress are intimidated by Fed officials, Paul's confrontations with Greenspan are documented here word for word. In addition, he reveals the social and economic effects of loose credit, and shows the ill-effects of bailouts. He addresses high taxes, regulation, trade restrictions, and bravely denounces sanctions against foreign countries for fueling international tensions.

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The Economics of Karl Marx: Analysis and Application (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)

sndk02@gmail.com — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:00:27 PDT

Samuel Hollander “The Economics of Karl Marx: Analysis and Application"
Cambridge University Press 2008-04-07
ISBN: 0521790786
552 pages PDF 2,7 Mb

This book presents an account and technical assessment of Marx's economic analysis in Capital, with particular reference to the transformation and the surplus-value doctrine, the reproduction schemes, the falling real-wage and profit rates, and the trade cycle. The focus is on criticisms that Marx himself might have been expected to face in his day and age. In addition, it offers a chronological study of the evolution of that analysis from the early 1840s through three "drafts": documents of the late 1840s, the Grundrisse of 1857-1858, and the Economic Manuscripts of 1861-1863.

It also provides three studies in application, focusing on Marx's "evolutionary" orientation in his evaluation of the transition to communism and his rejection of "egalitarianism" under both capitalist and communist regimes; his evolving perspective on the role of the industrial "entrepreneur"; and his evolving appreciation of the prospects for welfare reform within capitalism. Throughout, Hollander emphasizes Marx's relation with orthodox canonical classicism.

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Skills For Successful Teaching

sndk02@gmail.com — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:36:32 PST

Author: Barbara Allman, Jeffrey Owen, Sara Freeman
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
File size: 3,80 MB
File type: pdf

These diverse chapters contain many useful suggestions. Included are techniques and ideas for teaching children time management and study skills, as well as ways to bolster self-esteem, foster socialization skills, strengthen verbal and written communication skills, and much more.

This resource also provides suggestions for utilizing community resources as a springboard for well-rounded learning experiences. Inside, you will find ideas for transforming the classroom environment into a vibrant learning center. Encourage children to celebrate their interests and talents with science fair projects or by creating a classroom museum.

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Learn More, Study Less

sndk02@gmail.com — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:36:32 PST

Author: Scott Young
File size: 2,02 MB
File type: pdf

Are you a student who dreads studying, has problems getting great grades despite loads of studying, or just has a hard time memorizing facts and formulas and concepts?
This book is of great value for anyone trying to learn something, especially if you’re a student. Scott has taken the process of learning and has hit upon the methods that most quick learners use, breaking it down into easily understandable and practical steps that any of us can implement.

The book is split into three major parts:
1. Strategy
2. Techniques
3. Beyond Holistic Learning
The first section explains what holistic learning is, what the stages of holistic learning are and how holistic learning looks at different types of problems.
The second section goes into detail explaining how to apply holistic learning. There are over a dozen techniques split into over ten chapters.
The third section includes a chapter devoted to productivity and another chapter on self-education.

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SAS for Forecasting Time Series, Second Edition

sndk02@gmail.com — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:52:42 PDT

John C., Ph.D. Brocklebank, David A. Dickey July, 2003
ISBN: 1590471822
SAS Publishing

A time series is a set of ordered observations on a quantitative characteristic of a phenomenon at equally spaced time points. The goal of univariate time series analysis is to forecast values of a single historical series. The goal of multivariate time series analysis can be to model the relationships among component series as well as to forecast those components.

Time series analysis can be accomplished most effectively by the SAS procedures ARIMA, STATESPACE, SPECTRA, and VARMAX. To use these procedures properly, you must (1) understand the statistics you need for the analysis and (2) know how to invoke the procedures. SAS for Forecasting Time Series, Second Edition, makes it easier for you to apply these procedures to your data analysis problems.

Chapter 1, “Overview of Time Series,” reviews the goals and key characteristics of time series. The analysis methods available through SAS/ETS software are presented, beginning with the simpler procedures FORECAST, AUTOREG, and X11 and continuing with the more powerful SPECTRA, ARIMA, and STATESPACE. This chapter shows the interrelationships among the various procedures. It ends with a discussion of linear regression, seasonality in regression, and regression with transformed data.

Chapter 2, “Simple Models: Autoregression,” presents the statistical background necessary to model and forecast simple autoregressive (AR) processes. A three-part forecasting strategy is used with PROC ARIMA to identify, estimate, and forecast. The backshift notation is used to write a time series as a weighted sum of past shocks and to compute covariances through the Yule-Walker equations. The chapter ends with an example involving an AR process with regression techniques by overfitting.

Chapter 3, “The General ARIMA Model,” extends the class of models to include moving averages and mixed ARMA models. Each model is introduced with its autocovariance function. Estimated autocovariances are used to determine a model to be fit, after which PROC ARIMA is used to fit the model, forecast future values, and provide forecast intervals. A section on time series identification defines the autocorrelation function, partial autocorrelation function, and inverse autocorrelation function. Newer identification techniques are also discussed. A catalog of examples is developed, and properties useful for associating different forms of these functions with the corresponding time series are described. This chapter includes the results of 150 observations generated from each of eight sample series. Stationarity and invertibility, nonstationarity, and differencing are discussed.

Chapter 4, “The ARIMA Model: Introductory Applications,” describes the ARIMA model and its introductory applications. Seasonal modeling and model identification are explained, with Box and Jenkins’s popular airline data modeled. The chapter combines regression with time series errors to provide a richer class of forecasting models. Three cases are highlighted: Case 1 is a typical regression, case 2 is a simple transfer function, and case 3 is a general transfer function.
New in Chapter 4 for the second edition are several interesting intervention examples involving analyses of :
1. the effect on calls of charging for directory assistance
2. the effect on milk purchases of publicity about tainted milk
3. the effect on airline stock volume of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Chapter 5, “The ARIMA Model: Special Applications,” extends the regression with time series errors class of models to cases where the error variance can change over time—the ARCH and GARCH class. Multivariate models in which individual nonstationary series vary together over time are referred to as “cointegration” or “error correction” models. These are also discussed and illustrated.
This chapter presents new developments since the first edition of the book.

Chapter 6, “State Space Modeling,” uses the AR model to motivate the construction of the state vector. Next, the equivalence of state space and vector ARMA models is discussed. Examples of multivariate processes and their state space equations are shown. The STATESPACE procedure is outlined, and a section on canonical correlation analysis and Akaike’s information criterion is included. The chapter ends with the analysis of a bivariate series exhibiting feedback, a characteristic that cannot be handled with the general ARIMA transfer function approach.

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How to Get a PhD

sndk02@gmail.com — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:27:02 PDT

Open University Press (2005-06-01)
ISBN 0335216846
240 Pages PDF 1 Mb

This is a handbook for Ph.D. students, providing a practical, realistic understanding of the processes of doing research for a doctorate. New to this edition: a section on increasingly popular professional doctorates such as Ed.D., D.B.A., and D.Eng; material for supervisors of overseas, part-time, and mature students; and a diagnostic questionnaire for students to monitor progress.

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Check Your English Vocabulary for TOEFL

sndk02@gmail.com — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:20:25 PDT

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New English File

sndk02@gmail.com — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:16:17 PDT

Oxford University Press 2004-04-15
ISBN: 0194384268
238 pages Djvu 6 Mb

The Elementary coursebook that gets students talking, and that helps teachers and students more than any other.

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The Secret Language of Business

sndk02@gmail.com — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:06:49 PDT

Wiley 2008-01-28
ISBN: 0470222891
PDF 256 pages 1,2 Mb

The Secret Language of Business reveals the secrets of body language and nonverbal communication. Successful professionals need more than just good communication skills, you also need the ability to interpret the nonverbal signals that everyone displays. You’ll learn how to master and manipulate your own body language, read the body language of others, and influence people through your new skills and perception. No matter what business you’re in, this is a valuable guide to achieving more in life and business.

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The Wall Street Waltz: 90 Visual Perspectives, Illustrated Lessons From Financial Cycles and Trends

sndk02@gmail.com — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:56:23 PDT

Wiley 2007-11-12
ISBN: 0470139501
PDF 240 pages 8,7 Mb

An engaging and informative source of financial market history
This new, updated edition offers revealing and provocative snapshots of modern financial markets that reveal how stocks relate to sales, earnings, dividends, cash flows, and assets; while others include turn-of-the-century originals, and new charts of even older events. In each case, Fisher provides what he calls a visualization in which he analyzes each chart according to its origin, historical significance, and most importantly, its relevance to today's market. A combination of illustrative charts and informative explanations, The Wall Street Waltz paints a compelling portrait of financial history that paves the way for future profits.

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Leading Quietly

sndk02@gmail.com — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:52:40 PDT

Harvard Business School Press; 1 edition
February 11, 2002
ISBN: 1578514878
224 pages PDF 2 Mb

When we think of great leaders, it's usually the charismatic, globally influential Churchill, Patton, Jack Welch who spring to mind. But as Harvard Business School professor Badaracco (Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right) correctly points out, everyday leadership is not so dramatic, and daily leadership decisions are rarely carried out at the top of an organization. Badaracco focuses here is on helping the middle- and senior-level managers who make the ordinary decisions that ultimately determine an organization's success.

As he puts it: "What usually matters are careful, thoughtful, small, practical efforts by people working far from the limelight. In short, quiet leadership is what moves and changes the world." Out of a four-year study of these real-life leaders, Badaracco describes eight strategies for making effective leadership decisions in murky situations where the "right" thing is far from obvious. The strategies range from the commonsensical (truly examine the question at hand; don't ignore corporate politics) to the counterintuitive (don't expect to be wholly altruistic and accept that some of your motives are self-interested; try not to make important decisions as quickly as possible). Badaracco presents each principle with a brief introduction, followed by a case study and summary of the lessons to be learned. The sum is a useful checklist middle-level managers can put to work immediately.

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10 Technologies Every Executive Should Know

sndk02@gmail.com — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:42:52 PDT

Aspatore Books 2004
ISBN:1587620480
PDF 1,10 Mb 140 Pages

It seems that with every passing day in this ever-changing business climate, technology continues to evolve as an intrinsic part of all we do. From the Internet to wireless networks, from data warehousing to security, it is imperative that today’s executive go beyond the buzzwords and really understand how critical technologies drive business and how return on technology investment can be maximized. Let this book serve as your technology ambassador, with clear descriptions and lucid explanations of the core concepts behind, and the potential global impact of, 10 key technologies. Topics addressed include Web Services, Security, Wireless, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Complete with a glossary, this book is both understandable and insightful, with descriptions in plain English and explanations further enhanced by diagrams. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Mathematical Puzzles

sndk02@gmail.com — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:32:22 PDT

Author: Peter Winkler
Publisher: AK Peters, Ltd.
File size: 10,52 MB
File type: pdf

Creative reasoning is the key to these puzzles. No involved computation or higher mathematics is necessary, but your ability to construct a mathematical proof will be severly tested--even if you are a professional mathematician.

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Computational Intelligence in Time Series Forecasting: Theory and Engineering Applications

sndk02@gmail.com — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:12:38 PDT

Foresight can be crucial in process and production control, production-and-resources planning and in management decision making generally. Although forecasting the future from accumulated historical data has become a standard and reliable method in production and financial engineering, as well as in business and management, the use of time series analysis in the on-line milieu of most industrial plants has been more problematic because of the time and computational effort required.

The advent of intelligent computational technologies such as the neural network and the genetic algorithm promotes the efficient solution of on-line forecasting problems. Their most outstanding successes include:

prediction of nonlinear time series and the nonlinear combination of forecasts using neural networks;
prediction of chaotic time series and of output data for second-order nonlinear plant using fuzzy logic.
The power of intelligent technologies applied individually and in combination, has created advanced forecasting methodologies, exemplified in Computational Intellingence in Time Series Forecasting by particular systems and processes. The authors give a comprehensive exposition of the improvements on offer in quality, model building and predictive control, and the selection of appropriate tools from the plethora available using such examples as:

forecasting of electrical load and of output data for nonlinear plant with neuro-fuzzy networks;
temperature prediction and correction in pyrometer reading, tool-wear monitoring and materials property prediction using hybrid intelligent technologies;
evolutionary training of neuro-fuzzy networks by the use of genetic algorithms and prediction of chaotic time series;
isolated use of neural networks and fuzzy logic in the nonlinear combination of traditional forecasts of temperature series obtained from a pilot-scale chemical reactor with temporarily disconnected controller.
Application-oriented engineers in process control, manufacturing, the production industries and research centres will find much to interest them in Computational Intelligence in Time Series Forecasting and the book is suitable for industrial training purposes. It will also serve as valuable reference material for experimental researchers.

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Forecasting Financial Markets: The Psychology of Successful Investing

sndk02@gmail.com — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:06:49 PDT

Publisher: Kogan Page; 5th ed. edition (September 1, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0749447494

Provides the reader with an in-depth assessment of the phenomenon of cycles and patterns of economic and financial activity in order to make money in the world's financial markets. Guides investors in understanding the forces at work in logical terms, and in designing an investment process that generates objective 'buy' or 'sell' signals.

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Financial Markets in Continuous Time

sndk02@gmail.com — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:00:14 PDT

In modern financial practice, asset prices are modelled by means of stochastic processes, and continuous-time stochastic calculus thus plays a central role in financial modelling. This approach has its roots in the foundational work of the Nobel laureates Black, Scholes and Merton. Asset prices are further assumed to be rationalizable, that is, determined by equality of demand and supply on some market. This approach has its roots in the foundational work on General Equilibrium of the Nobel laureates Arrow and Debreu and in the work of McKenzie. This book has four parts.

The first brings together a number of results from discrete-time models. The second develops stochastic continuous-time models for the valuation of financial assets (the Black-Scholes formula and its extensions), for optimal portfolio and consumption choice, and for obtaining the yield curve and pricing interest rate products. The third part recalls some concepts and results of general equilibrium theory, and applies this in financial markets. The last part is more advanced and tackles market incompleteness and the valuation of exotic options in a complete market.

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