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This monograph presents an analysis of construction safety problems and on-site safety measures from an economist?s point of view. The book includes examples from both emerging countries, e.g. China and India, and developed countries, e.g. Australia and Hong Kong. Moreover, the author covers an analysis on construction safety knowledge sharing b...

This textbook contains the lecture series originally delivered at the "Advanced Course on Limit Cycles of Differential Equations" in the Centre de Rechercha Mathematica Barcelona in 2006. It covers the center-focus problem for polynomial vector fields and the application of abelian integrals to limit cycle bifurcations. Both topics are related t...

This book examines the techniques and applications involved in the Web Mining, Web Personalization and Recommendation and Web Community Analysis domains, including a detailed presentation of the principles, developed algorithms, and systems of the research in these areas. The applications of web mining, and the issue of how to incorporate web mi...

This book provides a comprehensive coverage on robot fish including design, modeling and optimization, control, autonomous control and applications. It gathers contributions by the leading researchers in the area. Readers will find the book very useful for designing and building robot fish, not only in theory but also in practice. Moreover, the ...

This book gives a comprehensive overview of graphene oxides from atomic structures and fundamental properties to technological applications. Atomic structural models, electronic properties, mechanical properties, optical properties, and functionalizing and compositing of graphene oxides are illustrated. Moreover, the excellent physical and chemi...

This book examines the role of financial institutions in the financial markets during normal times, as well as during the global financial crisis. Chapter 1 offers a brief introduction to the research topics in the book, while Chapter 2 discusses the impact of financial derivatives on risk exposures of BHCs. Chapter 3 then investigates whether a...

THIS TEXTBOOK OFFERS AN ACCESSIBLE AND COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW OF STATISTICAL ESTIMATION AND INFERENCE THAT REFLECTS CURRENT TRENDS IN STATISTICAL RESEARCH. IT DRAWS FROM THREE MAIN THEMES THROUGHOUT: THE FINITE-SAMPLE THEORY, THE ASYMPTOTIC THEORY, AND BAYESIAN STATISTICS. THE AUTHORS HAVE INCLUDED A CHAPTER ON ESTIMATING EQUATIONS AS A MEANS TO...