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For decades, casino gaming has been steadily increasing in popularity worldwide. Blackjack is among the most popular of the casino table games, one where astute choices of playing strategy can create an advantage for the player. RISK AND REWARD analyzes the game in depth, pinpointing not just...

Geared toward students and professionals in the fields of engineering, physics, chemistry, geophysics, and applied mathematics, this volume offers a unified treatment and critical review of the literature related to the fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and mass transfer of single bubbles, drops, and particles. 1978 edition.

This special issue collects selected contributions (excluding general lectures) of a Symposium on "Micro to MACRO Mathematical Modelling in Soil Mechanics", which took place at the University of Reggio Calabria, Italy, from May 29th to June 1st, 2018. The Symposium provided an opportunity...

Three coherent parts form the material covered in this text, portions of which have not been widely covered in traditional textbooks. In this coverage the reader is quickly introduced to several different topics enriched with 175 exercises which focus on real-world problems. Exercises range from the...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Diagnostik, Note: 1, Hochschule Neubrandenburg (University of applied sciences), 0 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Hausarbeit soll einen Überblick über den Rosenzweig - PFT geben. Er beruht auf meiner...

This unique book provides a self-contained conceptual and technical introduction to the theory of differential sheaves. This serves both the newcomer and the experienced researcher in undertaking a background-independent, natural and relational approach to "physical geometry". In this manner,...

"I stood on the shoulders of giants." Isaac Newton What did Newton mean by the statement above? Was he talking about giants such as Abu Musa Khawrizmi who invented algebra or Ibn Sina whose book was used as the standard text in Europe for over 400 years? The two above were...

William James (n. 11 de enero de 1842, en Nueva York, Estados Unidos - 26 de agosto de 1910, en Nueva Hampshire, Estados Unidos) fue un filósofo estadounidense con una larga y brillante carrera en la Universidad de Harvard, donde fue profesor de psicología, y fue fundador de la psicología funcional....

Risk management for financial institutions is one of the key topics the financial industry has to deal with. The present volume is a mathematically rigorous text on solvency modeling. Currently, there are many new developments in this area in the financial and insurance industry (Basel III and Solvency...

All we think and do involves change. Our needs and values reflect fundamental aspects of our psychological programming; affecting how we perceive change going on around us and what we think and do in response.The Journey sets out to show that all the changes we make, whether of our own volition...

Finance for Normal People teaches behavioral finance to people like you and me - normal people, neither rational nor irrational. We are consumers, savers, investors, and managers - corporate managers, money managers, financial advisers, and all other financial professionals. The book guides us to...

This book collects some recent developments in stochastic control theory with applications to financial mathematics. We first address standard stochastic control problems from the viewpoint of the recently developed weak dynamic programming principle. A special emphasis is put on the regularity issues...

Expanding on the first edition of An Introduction to Continuous-Time Stochastic Processes, this concisely written book is a rigorous and self-contained introduction to the theory of continuous-time stochastic processes. A balance of theory and applications, the work features concrete examples of modeling...

This book provides an analysis, under both discrete-time and continuous-time frameworks, on the price dynamics of leveraged exchange-traded funds (LETFs), with emphasis on the roles of leverage ratio, realized volatility, investment horizon, and tracking errors. This study provides new insights on...