Currency Strategy, Second Edition develops new techniques and explains classic tools available for predicting, managing, and optimizing fluctuations in the currency markets. Author Callum Henderson shows readers ho to use mathematical models to assist in the prediction of crises and gives practical advice on how to use these and other tools successfully. Given there such huge focus on China at the moment, the timing of this new edition is particularly important. The new edition will feature a thorough update on the key developments in the past 3 years, new chapters on emerging markets, an in-depth review of the markets of China and India and their currencies and much more.
Implicit objects have gained increasing importance in geometric modeling, visualisation, animation, and computer graphics, because their geometric properties provide a good alternative to traditional parametric objects. This book presents the mathematics, computational methods and data structures, as well as the algorithms needed to render implicit curves and surfaces, and shows how implicit objects can easily describe smooth, intricate, and articulatable shapes, and hence why they are being increasingly used in graphical applications. Divided into two parts, the first introduces the mathematics of implicit curves and surfaces, as well as the data structures suited to store their sampled or discrete approximations, and the second deals with different computational methods for sampling implicit curves and surfaces, with particular reference to how these are applied to functions in 2D and 3D spaces.
> Detective Inspector Ron Scott of K Division, Greenock, Police Scotland, and his team are investigating a series of murders committed by a killer they are calling ‘The Gardener.’ > > Curiously, the victims have been murdered by a perpetrator who uses common garden tools as his weapons of choice. In addition, a four-year-old girl has been brazenly abducted from a shopping mall by a man, in full sight of security cameras. > > Greenock police have a lot on their hands, and time is of the essence.
Britain since 1707 is the first single-volume book to cover the complex and multi-layered history of Great Britain from its inception until 2007. Bringing together political, economic, social and cultural history, the book offers a reliable and balanced account of the nation over a 300 year period. It looks at major developments – such as the Enlightenment, the growth of democracy and gender change – while also tracing the distinctive experience of different, the book’s additional features include: social and ethnic groups through the decades. Fully integrating Scotland, Wales and the Irish experience, the book’s comprehensive sweep includes coverage of the industrial revolution, the British Empire, the two world wars and today’s multicultural society. Ideally structured to support courses and classes on British history · ‘Focus On’ sections with original documents and sources · Timelines and tables to aid understanding · Historical sources and further reading suggestions at the end of each chapter · Illuminating contemporary illustrations From Queen Anne to Gordon Brown, this wide-ranging and accessible book provides a complete and up-to-date history of Britain. Offering a coherent account of the evolution of the nation and its people, it will be essential reading for all students of British history.
Global Heating and the Australian Far Right examines the environmental politics of far-right actors and movements in Australia, exploring their broader political context and responses to climate change. The book traces the development of far-right pseudo-environmentalism and territorial politics, from colonial genocide and Australian nationalism to extreme-right political violence. Through a critical analysis of news and social media, it reveals how denialist and resignatory attitudes towards climate change operate alongside extreme right accelerationism, in a wider Australian political context characterised by reactionary fossil fuel politics and neoliberal New Right climate change agendas. The authors scrutinise the manipulation of environmental politics by contemporary Australian far- and extreme-right actors in cross-national online media. They also assess the political-ideological context of the contemporary far right, addressing intergovernmental approaches to security threats connected to the far right and climate change, and the emergence of radical environmentalist traditions in ‘New Catastrophism’ literature. The conclusion synthesises key insights, analysing the mainstreaming of ethnonationalist and authoritarian responses to global heating, and potential future trajectories of far-right movements exploiting the climate crisis. It also emphasises the necessity for radical political alternatives to counter the far right’s exploitation of climate change. This book will be of interest to researchers of climate change, the far right, neoliberal capitalism, extremism and Australian politics.
...this study of the Korean War...is a noteworthy addition to the literature of this conflict. A sometime brilliant and consistently disturbing work.' D.Clayton James, Mississippi State University '...MacDonald's powerful and richly detailed account of the Korean War renders all the painful details of American involvement. A masterful account that should be widely read.' M.Cantor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Humanists have been a major force in British life since the turn of the 20th century. Here, leading historians of religious non-belief Callum Brown, David Nash, and Charlie Lynch examine how humanist organisations brought ethical reform and rationalism to the nation as it faced the moral issues of the modern world. This book provides a long overdue account of this dynamic group. Developing through the Ethical Union (1896), the Rationalist Press Association (1899), the British Humanist Association (1963) and Humanists UK (2017), Humanists sought to reduce religious privilege but increase humanitarian compassion and human rights. After pioneering legislation on blasphemy laws, dignity in dying and abortion rights, they went on to help design new laws on gay marriage, and sex and moral education. Internationally, they endeavoured to end war and world hunger. And with Humanist marriages and celebration of life through Humanist funerals, national ritual and culture have recently been transformed. Based on extensive archival and oral-history research, this is the definitive history of Humanists as an ethical force in modern Britain.
This book provides a detailed example of an eye-tracking method for comparing the reading experience of a literary source text readers with readers of a translation at stylistically marked points. Drawing on principles, methods and inspiration from fields including translation studies, cognitive psychology, and language and literary studies, the author proposes an empirical method to investigate the notion of stylistic foregrounding, with 'style' understood as the distinctive manner of expression in a particular text. The book employs Raymond Queneau’s Zazie dans le métro (1959) and its English translation Zazie in the Metro (1960) as a case study to demonstrate the proposed methods. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of translation studies, as well as those interested in literary reception, stylistics and related fields.
This book explores the challenges our society faces in making the transition to renewable resource use in a way that is truly sustainable – environmentally, economically and socially. After exploring the physical limits the laws of thermodynamics impose on resource exploitation, the book outlines options for managing resources within these limits. It then moves on to look at the resources themselves (from fossil fuels, through minerals to renewable resources such as timber) and the salient question of how the relentless increase in consumption is putting untenable strain on resource use. Case studies investigate what is being done across a range of sectors – and what is and isn't working. The second half of the book turns to solutions, from the promise of industrial ecology to a new economy based on renewable resources such as biobased materials from agricultural crops and forests. Suitable for under- and postgraduate courses on environmental limits and resource use, and continuing professional development – particularly resource management, materials, industrial ecology, energy, resource economics and engineering.
Williams has chosen an engaging cast of characters; his collection is full of well-lived lives and grisly endings ... Consume it as a whole or dip in and out. Either way, he leaves you a lot wiser.' - Philip Aldrick, Times Opinions vary about who really counts as a classical economist: Marx thought it was everyone up to Ricardo. Keynes thought it was everyone up to Keynes. But there's a general agreement about who belongs to the heroic early phase of the discipline. Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Malthus, Mill, Marx: scarcely a day goes by without their names being publicly invoked to celebrate or criticise the state of the world or the actions of governments. Few of us, though, have read their works. Fewer still realise that the economies that many of them were analysing were quite unlike our modern one, or the extent to which they were indebted to one another. So join the Economist's Callum Williams to join the dots. See how the modern edifice of economics was built, brick by brick, from their ideas and quarrels. And find out which parts stand the test of time.
In the 1960s Christian religious practice and identity declined rapidly and women's lives were transformed, spawning a demographic revolution in sex, family and work. The argument of this book is that the two were intimately connected, triggered by an historic confluence of factors.
SECTION 1: Airway Management -- Current Controversies 1. Can Sellick Maneuver Prevent Pulmonary Aspiration in the Critically Ill? 2. Etomidate vs. Ketamine -- What Should We Use for Intubation in ICU SECTION 2: Extracorporeal Therapies 3. Plasmapheresis: Current Indications in the Critically Ill 4. Are Super High-Flux Membrane Dialyzers the Future of RRT? 5. What is New in Artificial Liver Support Systems? SECTION 3: Sepsis 6. Back to the Genes: Does Genetic Polymorphism have a Role in Sepsis Management? 7. Controversies in Surviving Sepsis Guidelines 2021 8. Are We Back to Square One? Early Fluids vs. Vasopreressors in Septic Shock 9. Have We Achieved Balance in Fluid Therapy: Balanced Salt Solutions vs. Normal Saline? SECTION 4: Biomarkers 10. Novel Biomarkers During Circulatory Shock 11. Biomarkers in Acute Intoxications 12. Do Biomarkers have a Role in Patients with Primary Brain Injury? 13. Utility of MicroRNAs in the Critically Ill 14. Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio in Critically Ill: A Simple but Useful Marker? 15. Do Vocal Biomarkers have a Future in Critical Care SECTION 5: COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learnt 16. Awake Prone Positioning in ARDS? 17. Immunomodulators for COVID-19 Therapy 18. Has Critical Care Telemedicine Come of Age During the Pandemic 19. Post-COVID Conditions (PCCs) or Long COVID Syndrome 20. Capacity Building During Large Scale Disasters 21. Clearing the Air: Alternatives to Isolation Rooms SECTION 6: Mechanical Ventilation 22. Revisiting Exogenous Surfactant Therapy in Acute Lung Injury and ARDS 23. Mechanical Power 24. Volumetric Capnography in 2022 25. Metabolic Alkalosis in Critical Care: A Classical and Physicochemical Approach 26. Oxygen Revisited SECTION 7 28. High-flow Nasal Cannula: Beyond a COVID-19 Therapy 29. Cefiderocol 30. Newer Fluoroquinolones: Levonadifloxacin, Delafloxacin and Lascufloxacin 31. Newer Combinations of B-Lactam/B-Lactamase 32. Newer Tetracyclines -- Eravacycline and Omadacycline 33. Plazomicin: A New Aminoglycoside 34. Lefamulin: A Pleuromutilin Antibiotic 35. Pretomanid for Antitubercular Therapy 36. Contezolid Acefosamil: A New Oxazolidinone 37. Solithromycin and Nafithromycin: The New Macrolides 38. Benapenem and Sulopenem 39. The Dsb (Disulfide bond) 40. Antivirulence Strategies: The Future of Antibacterial Therapy 41. Alternatives to Conventional Antibacterials: Use of Nanomaterials 42. Newer Treatment Approach to Clostridioides Difficile - Fidaxomicin and Bezlotoxumab 43. Recent Advances for Immunotherapies Against Infectious Disease SECTION 8: What's New Elsewhere? 44. Risk Scoring Systems in Upper Gastrointestinal Bleed 45. Has Hypotension Prediction Index Come of Age 46. Postintensive Care Syndrome and Postintensive Care Syndrome-Family 47. Closed-Loop Hemodynamic Resuscitation In Shock 48. Is Electrical Impedance Tomography Finally Here to Stay 49. Cardiac Output Measurement: Capnodynamic Method and Auto VTI Tool 50. What's New in Glucose Management Technologies for the Critically-ill 51. Vitamins and Trace Element Supplementation for Critically Ill Patients in 2022 Index
Currency Strategy, Second Edition develops new techniques and explains classic tools available for predicting, managing, and optimizing fluctuations in the currency markets. Author Callum Henderson shows readers ho to use mathematical models to assist in the prediction of crises and gives practical advice on how to use these and other tools successfully. Given there such huge focus on China at the moment, the timing of this new edition is particularly important. The new edition will feature a thorough update on the key developments in the past 3 years, new chapters on emerging markets, an in-depth review of the markets of China and India and their currencies and much more.
Veteran Asia-watcher Callum Henderson - Standard & Poor's senior authority on the Asian currency market and one of the few insiders to counsel caution during the heady boom days - delivers a first-hand examination of the political and economic events that led to Asia's currency crisis. Written with clarity and objectivity, and supported by fact-filled case studies of Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia, this book goes beyond the hyperbole and the punditry to give investors an in-depth, country-by-country analysis of the crisis, and forecast the economic effects on the region; provide policy-level political analysis on governmental actions and reactions that led to Asia's ongoing currency crisis; and outline specific opportunities resulting from the Asian currency crisis and its consequent economic impact.
This text looks at Asia's economic recovery from what was Asia's worst economic crisis since World War II. The author notes that the situation could take another turn for the worse, and offers predictions on Asia's economic future and advice on the best investment opportunities in the new Asia.
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