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Managing a portfolio of mortgage-backed securities requires an understanding of the unique risk/return characteristics of these securities-and the use of specific tools for constructing a portfolio to satisfy investment objectives. Managing MBS Portfolios explores mortgage-backed securities and describes the wide range of agency and non-agency MBS available, while providing the analytical tools necessary to effectively manage portfolios. With Managing MBS Portfolios you can finally start enhancing returns on your portfolio and safely control risk at the same time.
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The authors of the widely acclaimed The Purchasing Machine deliver an eye-opening look at the power of supply management with The Incredible Payback.This timely book presents amazing success stories from best-of-the-best procurement organizations like Honda, Delphi, John Deere, and others.Using the same cost-management strategies implemented at these leading organizations, The Incredible Payback shows how any company can reap benefits including:* saving up to 30 percent on material and service expenses* leveraging technology to accelerate savings* high-yield supplier development programs* extension of financial opportunities throughout the highest levels of the enterprise, exponentially increasing savings potentialGreat companies save money every day. Now every organization can realize The Incredible Payback
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Scientific Evidence Review: Admissibility of Expert Evidence
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This sixth book in the best-selling monograph series offers a complete update of Monograph No. 4 focusing entirely on expert evidence issues.
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Title: Alabama's evolving standard of admissibility for expert scientific testimony.
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This sourcebook provides a synthesis of literature and experience that introduces monitoring and evaluation (MandE) principles, processes and methods, presents examples of MandE, and identifies useful sources of expertise and information. Applications to agricultural research from both industrialized and developing countries are presented. The book will be an indispensable guide and reference for agricultural research managers, as well as development workers and trainers involved in agricultural research management.
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A fundamental and frequently cited book in two very exciting fields: pattern formation and synchronization of oscillators. Provides asymptotic methods that can be applied to the dynamics of self-oscillating fields of the reaction-diffusion type and of some related systems. Graduate level. 40 Figures.
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Lagrangian Transport in Geophysical Jets and Waves: The Dynamical Systems Approach (Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics)
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This book provides an accessible introduction to a new set of methods for the analysis of Lagrangian motion in geophysical flows. These methods were originally developed in the abstract mathematical setting of dynamical systems theory, through a geometric approach to differential equations. Despite the recent developments in this field and the existence of a substantial body of work on geophysical fluid problems in the dynamical systems and geophysical literature, this is the first introductory text that presents these methods in the context of geophysical fluid flow. The book is organized into seven chapters; the first introduces the geophysical context and the mathematical models of geophysical fluid flow that are explored in subsequent chapters. The second and third cover the simplest case of steady flow, develop basic mathematical concepts and definitions, and touch on some important topics from the classical theory of Hamiltonian systems. The fundamental elements and methods of Lagrangian transport analysis in time-dependent flows that are the main subject of the book are described in the fourth, fifth, and sixth chapters. The seventh chapter gives a brief survey of some of the rapidly evolving research in geophysical fluid dynamics that makes use of this new approach. Related supplementary material, including a glossary and an introduction to numerical methods, is given in the appendices.
This book will prove useful to graduate students, research scientists, and educators in any branch of geophysical fluid science in which the motion and transport of fluid, and of materials carried by the fluid, is of interest. It will also prove interesting and useful to the applied mathematicians who seek an introduction to an intriguing and rapidly developing area of geophysical fluid dynamics. The book was jointly authored by a geophysical fluid dynamicist, Roger M. Samelson of the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, USA and an applied mathematician, Stephen Wiggins of the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK.
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Chaotic Dynamics: An Introduction Based on Classical Mechanics
Tamás Tél , and
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It has been discovered over the past few decades that even motions in simple systems can have complex and surprising properties. This volume provides a clear introduction to these chaotic phenomena, based on geometrical interpretations and simple arguments, without the need for prior in-depth scientific and mathematical knowledge. Richly illustrated throughout, its examples are taken from classical mechanics whose elementary laws are familiar to the reader. In order to emphasize the general features of chaos, the most important relations are also given in simple mathematical forms, independent of any mechanical interpretation.
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Dynamics of Earth Fluid System
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Dynamics of Earth's Fluid System describes several geological processes such as the lithospheric deformation, evolution of groundwater resources, hydrothermal circulation, mantle convection, generation of the earth's magnetic field etc., which are directly or indirectly influenced by the movements of subsurface fluids from crustal level to the earth's core. This book attempts to bridge the gap between theories and their applications to understand the geological processes.
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This work brings together previously unpublished notes contributed by participants of the IUTAM Symposium on Hamiltonian Dynamics, Vortex Structures, Turbulence (Moscow, 25-30 August 2006). The study of vortex motion is of great interest to fluid and gas dynamics: since all real flows are vortical in nature, applications of the vortex theory are extremely diverse, many of them (e.g. aircraft dynamics, atmospheric and ocean phenomena) being especially important. The last few decades have shown that serious possibilities for progress in the research of real turbulent vortex motions are essentially related to the combined use of mathematical methods, computer simulation and laboratory experiments. These approaches have led to a series of interesting results which allow us to study these processes from new perspectives. Based on this principle, the papers collected in this proceedings volume present new results on theoretical and applied aspects of the processes of formation and evolution of various flows, wave and coherent structures in gas and fluid. Much attention is given to the studies of nonlinear regular and chaotic regimes of vortex interactions, advective and convective motions. The contributors are leading scientists engaged in fundamental and applied aspects of the above mentioned fields.
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Physical Modeling of Mixing in Water Storage Tanks
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The results of extensive experimental studies on jet-induced mixing in water storage tanks are reported. The experiments were conducted using a newly developed three-dimensional laser-induced fluorescence (3DLIF) system that can measure the whole field of tracer concentrations in the tanks and its temporal evolution through the mixing process. A total of about 140 experiments were done, forming a huge database that should aid in rational tank design and in the development of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes. Include CD.
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Trubulence and Coherent Structures in Fluids, Plasmas and Nonlinear Media (World Scientific Lecture Notes in Complex Systems)
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This digital document is an article from Ground Water, published by Ground Water Publishing Company on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 579 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Advances in multilevel well technology. (Solinst Technical Bulletin).
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Hydroinformatics 96 2v Set
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Methods and Models in Neurophysics, Volume Session LXXX: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School 2003 (Les Houches)
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Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field that strives to understand the functioning of neural systems at levels ranging from biomolecules and cells to behaviour and higher brain functions (perception, memory, cognition). Neurophysics has flourished over the past three decades, becoming an indelible part of neuroscience, and has arguably entered its maturity. It encompasses a vast array of approaches stemming from theoretical physics, computer science, and applied mathematics. This book provides a detailed review of this field from basic concepts to its most recent development.
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Pictures: A Collection of Verse and Short Prose
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Was murder planned for a vacation on the island of Capri? Will a hunterÂ's longing for his love be realized? What does the dark world of death look like? What is an easy non-medical remedy for nightmares?
The author resolves these and other intriguing questions in this collection of poetry and prose. Readers will go to Tahiti on a sailboat with an intrepid young woman who dares to travel alone with a strange man. And they will cross the Yellow Sea with a lonely man who reads Chinese philosophy.
They will find sexuality in Gone to Hell, sad moments in Pit of Pain and happy hours in Where Gone. Other poems offer compelling commentaries on our lives and times, past and present.
More than two dozen short prose pieces with humor, fantasy or confrontation add to the wide range of poetry subjects. The death of a bullying bigot is described in Trouble. In Anya, a young girl falls in love with a handsome gypsy boy. An innocent woman dies in Murder in Elmer, and in Mirrors, Kate sees events from her past.
Many verses and short tales in this varied menu of fiction have been published previously.
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