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Human Systems Management: Integrating Knowledge, Management And Systems

By: Milan Zeleny

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Human Systems Management: Integrating Knowledge, Management And Systems

By: Milan Zeleny

Human Systems Management is an important work that integrates knowledge, management and systems into a unified world of thinking and action in business, decision-making and economics. It presents a modern synthesis of the fields of knowledge management, systems science and human organization. A biological rather than mechanistic perspective pervades the text. New and original ideas and approaches are presented with the simplicity and clarity typical of the well-known author.

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World Scientific

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9814488844

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Joint Operational Warfare

Theory and Practice

By: Milan N. Vego

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Joint Operational Warfare

Theory and Practice

By: Milan N. Vego

Smallholder farmers and pastoralists fulfil an invaluable yet undervalued role in conserving biodiversity. They act as guardians of locally adapted livestock breeds that can make use of even marginal environments under tough climatic conditions and therefore are a crucial resource for food security. But in addition, by sustaining animals on natural vegetation and as part of local ecosystems, these communities also make a significant contribution to the conservation of wild biodiversity and of cultural landscapes. This publication provides a glimpse into the often intricate knowledge systems that pastoralists and smallholder farmers have developed for the management of their breeds in specific production systems and it also describes the multitude of threats and challenges these often marginalized communities have to cope with.

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Government Printing Office

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188473362X

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The Battle for Leyte, 1944

Allied and Japanese Plans, Preparations, and Execution

By: Milan Vego

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The Battle for Leyte, 1944

Allied and Japanese Plans, Preparations, and Execution

By: Milan Vego

One of the largest and most complex military efforts ever undertaken, the Leyte Operation was the Allies' first and most important major combined operation to liberate the Philippine archipelago. The stakes were high: a successful landing at Leyte was critical to a subsequent assault on Luzon and total control of the Philippines. If Japan lost the Philippines, its supply of oil and other strategic raw materials would be cut off and its Navy doomed to an inglorious end. In this comprehensive study, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject addresses all aspects of the two-month-long ground, sea, and air invasion, and presents a complete evaluation of theater-wide command, organization, intelligence, and logistics. Drawing on a wealth of Allied and Japanese primary documents and countless secondary sources, Milan Vego describes and analyzes the operational planning and preparation as well as the execution of actions on both sides. Focusing on the operational versus tactical aspects of the struggle, he critically assesses the major decisions made by the senior commanders. His access to the Allied Magic radio intercepts allows him to shed light on what Allied and Japanese commanders knew and did not know about each other. Unlike other books on the subject, Vego draws conclusions and provides operational lessons learned based on his conclusions. A large number of maps, figures, and tables enhance the text.

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Naval Institute Press

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1612511716

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9781612511719

Detroit

Ragtime and the Jazz Age

By: Jon Milan

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Detroit

Ragtime and the Jazz Age

By: Jon Milan

Detroit has always been at the forefront of American popular music development, and the ragtime years and jazz age are no exception. The citys long history of diversity has served the region well, providing a fertile environment for creating and nurturing some of Americas most distinctly indigenous music. With a focus on the people and places that made Detroit a major contributor to Americas rich musical heritage, Detroit: Ragtime and the Jazz Age provides a unique photo journal of a period stretching from the Civil War to the diminishing years of the big bands in the early 1940s.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439621233

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What Slice of the Pie? The Corporate Bond Market Boom in Emerging Economies

By: Ms.Diana Ayala Pena,Milan Nedeljkovic,Christian Saborowski

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What Slice of the Pie? The Corporate Bond Market Boom in Emerging Economies

By: Ms.Diana Ayala Pena,Milan Nedeljkovic,Christian Saborowski

This paper studies the determinants of shifts in debt composition among EM non-financial corporates. We show that institutions and macro fundamentals create an enabling environment for bond market development. During the recent boom episode, however, global cyclical factors accounted for most of the variation of bond shares in total corporate debt. The sensitivity to global factors appears to vary with relative bond market size—which we interpret to be associated with liquidity and easy entry and exit—rather than local fundamentals. Foreign bank linkages help explain why bond markets increasingly substituted for banks in channeling liquidity to EMs. Our results highlight the risk of capital flow reversal in EMs that benefited from the upturn in the global financial cycle mostly due to their liquid markets rather than strong fundamentals.

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International Monetary Fund

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1513579754

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The Destiny of Modern Societies

The Calvinist Predestination of a New Society

By: Milan Zafirovski

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The Destiny of Modern Societies

The Calvinist Predestination of a New Society

By: Milan Zafirovski

This book is a sociological analysis of the relationship between modern society, in particular America, and Calvinism in the Weberian tradition. While the book continues this tradition, it further expands, elaborates on, and goes beyond earlier sociological analyses. The book examines the impact of Calvinism on modern society as a whole, thus extending, elaborating on, and going beyond the previous analyses of the influence of the Calvinist religion only on the capitalist economy. It analyzes how Calvinism has determined most contemporary social institutions, including political, civic, cultural, and economic, in its respective societies, particularly, through its derivative Puritanism, America. For that purpose, the book applies the idea of the destiny of societies or nations to American society in particular. It argues, demonstrates, and illustrates the Calvinist societal "predestination," through the Puritan determination, of American society .

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BRILL

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9004176292

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Democracy, Economy, and Conservatism

Political and Economic Freedoms and Their Antithesis in the Third Millennium

By: Milan Zafirovski

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Democracy, Economy, and Conservatism

Political and Economic Freedoms and Their Antithesis in the Third Millennium

By: Milan Zafirovski

This book identifies and documents the several ways conservatism functions as the nemesis of the democracy and the free market. He provides discussion on forms of conservative government and the rise of nationalism, imperialism, and militarism, with special attention to wars of aggression and the threat of mutually assured destruction (MAD).

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Lexington Books

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0739117963

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Conspiracies of Conspiracies

How Delusions Have Overrun America

By: Thomas Milan Konda

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Conspiracies of Conspiracies

How Delusions Have Overrun America

By: Thomas Milan Konda

“The most comprehensive intellectual history of American conspiracy theories yet produced.” —The American Historical Review It’s tempting to think we live in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories, with seemingly each churn of the news cycle bringing fresh manifestations of large-scale paranoia. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion—and the delusional psychologies that fuel them—have been a constant presence in American life for nearly as long as there’s been an America. In this sweeping book, Thomas Milan Konda traces the country’s obsession with conspiratorial thought from the early days of the republic to our own anxious moment. Conspiracies of Conspiracies details centuries of sinister speculations—from antisemitism and anti-Catholicism to UFOs and reptilian humanoids—and their often-incendiary outcomes. Rather than simply rehashing the surface eccentricities of such theories, Konda draws from his extraordinary assemblage of conspiratorial writing to crack open the mindsets that lead people toward these self-sealing worlds of denial. What is distinctively American about these theories, he argues, is not simply our country’s homegrown obsession with them but their ongoing prevalence and virulence. Konda proves that conspiracy theories are no harmless sideshow. They are instead the dark and secret heart of American political history—one that is poisoning the bloodstream of an increasingly sick body politic. “Meticulous scholarship . . . essential context for understanding our present mess.” —Survival: Global Politics and Strategy “Incisive and engaging . . . Konda’s assessment of the ‘new dynamics’ of conspiracy theories in contemporary US politics is a significant contribution. Written with a clarity of expression rare in academic writing, the book is accessible to a wide readership.” —Choice

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University of Chicago Press

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022658593X

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Iconic Restaurants of Ann Arbor

By: Jon Milan and Gail Offen

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Iconic Restaurants of Ann Arbor

By: Jon Milan and Gail Offen

This collection of Ann Arbor's most iconic local eateries from college hangouts to elegant eateries is sure to satisfy. What is an iconic Ann Arbor restaurant? Ask anyone who has ever spent time there as a student, traveler, or townie, and they are likely to name several favorites in an instant. From debating the best place to celebrate or console on football Saturdays to deciding where to eat after the bars close, the choices have always sparked passionate conversation. In Ann Arbor, people are known to have strong feelings about the best places for pizza, coffee, beer, burgers, noodles, and burritos. Although many of the go-to hangouts are long gone, a surprising number still thrive. And there are always a few newcomers coming along to win the hearts of the next generation of diners, nibblers, and noshers. Some are fine restaurants and taverns, and others are lunch counters, diners, carry-outs, and drive-ins--but in each and every case, they are unique and together make up a collection of iconic local eateries.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467117331

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The velvet spiders: an atlas of the Eresidae (Arachnida, Araneae)

By: Jeremy A. Miller,Charles E. Griswold,Nikolaj Scharff,Milan ?ez??,Tam?s Sz?ts,Mohammad Marhabaie

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The velvet spiders: an atlas of the Eresidae (Arachnida, Araneae)

By: Jeremy A. Miller,Charles E. Griswold,Nikolaj Scharff,Milan ?ez??,Tam?s Sz?ts,Mohammad Marhabaie

The name velvet spider describes the dark and shiny appearance of members of the family Eresidae. Some species also have brightly-colored highlights, such as the red, white, and black ladybird spiders of Europe and North Asia. This family also includes some of the world?s most cooperative spider species. Social species can be very abundant in parts of tropical Africa and Asia with conspicuous colonies dotting the landscape. Social colonies may consist of hundreds of closely-related individuals that participate in dramatic mass attacks on prey and care for their young. The ecology of these social species is fascinating and has been the subject of several landmark scientific papers. By contrast, most kinds of velvet spider are rarely encountered. Most species keep well hidden or dig burrows and live underground. This monograph provides a generic-level review of Eresidae documented with collections of photographs, scanning electron micrographs, and illustrations. A key to the nine genera and other major lineages is provided. A new phylogeny of Eresidae based on molecular sequence data expands on a previously published analysis. Cybertaxonomic enhancements include an interactive map of the specimens used in the study explorable using Google Earth, specimen records uploaded to GBIF, and molecular sequence alignments and other data archived on Dryad. An EDIT Integrated Research grant provided principal funding for this project.

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9546426385

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The Politics of Authoritarian Rule

By: Milan W. Svolik

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The Politics of Authoritarian Rule

By: Milan W. Svolik

What drives politics in dictatorships? Milan W. Svolik argues authoritarian regimes must resolve two fundamental conflicts. Dictators face threats from the masses over which they rule - the problem of authoritarian control. Secondly from the elites with whom dictators rule - the problem of authoritarian power-sharing. Using the tools of game theory, Svolik explains why some dictators establish personal autocracy and stay in power for decades; why elsewhere leadership changes are regular and institutionalized, as in contemporary China; why some dictatorships are ruled by soldiers, as Uganda was under Idi Amin; why many authoritarian regimes, such as PRI-era Mexico, maintain regime-sanctioned political parties; and why a country's authoritarian past casts a long shadow over its prospects for democracy, as the unfolding events of the Arab Spring reveal. Svolik complements these and other historical case studies with the statistical analysis on institutions, leaders and ruling coalitions across dictatorships from 1946 to 2008.

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Cambridge University Press

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110702479X

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Sustainable Steel Buildings

A Practical Guide for Structures and Envelopes

By: Milan Veljkovic

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Sustainable Steel Buildings

A Practical Guide for Structures and Envelopes

By: Milan Veljkovic

Sustainable Steel Buildings reviews steel and its potential as a sustainable building material and shows how steel can be used to deliver buildings and structures with a high level of sustainability. The book's main focus is on the advantages and disadvantages of steel and how those characteristics can be used under a range of international certification systems (DGNB, LEED, BREEAM, openhouse etc).

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118740793

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The Enlightenment and Its Effects on Modern Society

By: Milan Zafirovski

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The Enlightenment and Its Effects on Modern Society

By: Milan Zafirovski

The Enlightenment of the late 17th and 18th century is characterized by an emphasis on reason and empiricism . As a major shaping philosophy of Western culture, it had a historical impact on the religious, cultural, academic, and social institutions of 18th century Europe. In this compelling volume, the author explores the lasting impact of Enlightenment thinking on modern Western societies and other democracies. With an interdisciplinary, comparative-historical approach this volume explores the impact of Enlightenment ideals such as liberty, equality, and social justice on current social institutions. Combining sociological theory with concrete examples, the author provides a unique framework for understanding modern cultural development, including a picture of how it would look without this Enlightenment basis. This work provides a multi-faceted approach, including: an historical overview, analysis of the Enlightenment’s influence on modern democratic societies, modern culture, political science, civil society and the economy, as well as exploring the counter-Enlightenment, Post-Enlightenment, and Neo-Enlightenment philosophies.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1441973877

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Transportation Engineering

Theory, Practice, and Modeling

By: Dusan Teodorovic,Milan Janić

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Transportation Engineering

Theory, Practice, and Modeling

By: Dusan Teodorovic,Milan Janić

Transportation Engineering: Theory, Practice and Modeling, Second Edition presents comprehensive information related to traffic engineering and control, transportation planning and evaluation of transportation alternatives. The book systematically deals with almost the entire transportation engineering area, offering various techniques related to transportation modeling, transportation planning, and traffic control. It also shows readers how to use models and methods when predicting travel and freight transportation demand, how to analyze existing transportation networks, how to plan for new networks, and how to develop traffic control tactics and strategies. New topics addressed include alternative Intersections, alternative interchanges and individual/private transportation. Readers will also learn how to utilize a range of engineering concepts and methods to make future transportation systems safer, more cost-effective, and "greener". Providing a broad view of transportation engineering, including transport infrastructure, control methods and analysis techniques, this new edition is for postgraduates in transportation and professionals needing to keep up-to-date with the latest theories and models. - Covers all forms of transportation engineering, including air, rail, road and public transit modes - Examines different transportation modes and how to make them sustainable - Features a new chapter covering the reliability, resilience, robustness and vulnerability of transportation systems

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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0323910416

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9780323910415

Creep and Hygrothermal Effects in Concrete Structures

By: Zdeněk P. Bažant,Milan Jirásek

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Creep and Hygrothermal Effects in Concrete Structures

By: Zdeněk P. Bažant,Milan Jirásek

This comprehensive treatise covers in detail practical methods of analysis as well as advanced mathematical models for structures highly sensitive to creep and shrinkage. Effective computational algorithms for century-long creep effects in structures, moisture diffusion and high temperature effects are presented. The main design codes and recommendations (including RILEM B3 and B4) are critically compared. Statistical uncertainty of century-long predictions is analyzed and its reduction by extrapolation is discussed, with emphasis on updating based on short-time tests and on long-term measurements on existing structures. Testing methods and the statistics of large randomly collected databases are critically appraised and improvements of predictions of multi-decade relaxation of prestressing steel, cyclic creep in bridges, cracking damage, etc., are demonstrated. Important research directions, such as nanomechanical and probabilistic modeling, are identified, and the need for separating the long-lasting autogenous shrinkage of modern concretes from the creep and drying shrinkage data and introducing it into practical prediction models is emphasized. All the results are derived mathematically and justified as much as possible by extensive test data. The theoretical background in linear viscoelasticity with aging is covered in detail. The didactic style makes the book suitable as a textbook. Everything is properly explained, step by step, with a wealth of application examples as well as simple illustrations of the basic phenomena which could alternate as homeworks or exams. The book is of interest to practicing engineers, researchers, educators and graduate students.

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Springer

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9402411380

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Landside Accessibility of Airports

Analysis, Modelling, Planning, and Design

By: Milan Janić

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Landside Accessibility of Airports

Analysis, Modelling, Planning, and Design

By: Milan Janić

This book covers the analysis, modelling, planning, and design of airport landside access modes and their systems. It elaborates on the issues and related problems of airport landside accessibility in an innovative, comprehensive and systematic way. In addition to the general concept of accessibility, the book addresses the analysis and modelling of infrastructure-related, technological, operational, economic, social and environmental performance of road- and rail-based transport systems, as well as the core principles of their planning and design. The book provides guidelines on the modelling, planning, and design of airport landside access modes and their systems, which will contribute to the overall sustainable development of airports. Its main features are: presents a multidimensional examination of performance for specific airport landside access modes and their systems; pursues a qualitative and quantitative approach to developing performance indicators for estimating the sustainability of airport landside access modes and their systems; includes illustrative cases of airport landside accessibility, and numerical examples as exercises for assessing performance using the systems’ indicators. As such, the book offers a valuable source of information for all practitioners involved in analysing, planning and designing more environmentally friendly airport access modes and systems, and who want to learn how to overcome the issues and problems surrounding landside accessibility. It will also benefit students studying the analysis and modelling of transportation systems, and researchers seeking to promote improved sustainability at airports.

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Springer

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3319761501

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9783319761503

Hedžing deviznog rizika: razvoj i primena finansijskih i operativnih strategija

By: Milan Čupić

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Hedžing deviznog rizika: razvoj i primena finansijskih i operativnih strategija

By: Milan Čupić

Gotovo neprekidne finansijske neizvesnosti i krize izazvane finansijskim i nefinansijskim faktorima nas podsećaju na neophodnost i značaj literature u vezi sa hedžingom rizika. Nepredvidivost budućih promena deviznih kurseva je jedan od najvažnijih izvora neizvesnosti za preduzeća, bez obzira na to da li posluju u granicama jedne nacionalne privrede ili na globalnom nivou. Devizni rizik, kao izraz te neizvesnosti, može usloviti veoma nepovoljne promene domaće vrednosti nekih pozicija preduzeća ili pokazatelja poslovanja, pa privlači pažnju teorije i prakse. Budući da promene deviznih kurseva mogu značajno odrediti konkurentnost, novčane tokove i strategijsku orijentaciju preduzeća, izloženost deviznom riziku je strategijski problem koji zahteva strategijski odgovor. S tim u vezi, preduzeća koriste finansijske i operativne strategije. Finansijske strategije podrazumevaju zauzimanje pozicije u valutnom derivatu, sa ciljem smanjenja izloženosti u vezi sa osnovnom pozicijom u stranoj valuti, dok se operativne strategije zasnivaju na razvoju realnih opcija u domenu snabdevanja, proizvodnje i prodaje, sa ciljem optimiziranja izloženosti preduzeća u vezi sa očekivanim novčanim tokovima. Budući da se teorija i praksa finansija brzo menjaju i unapređuju, ova monografija je pisana u nastojanju da ukaže na strategijske odgovore koje preduzeća mogu da koriste kako bi kontrolisala uticaj deviznog rizika na svoje poslovanje. Imajući u vidu strategijsku dimenziju ovog problema, najviše pažnje je posvećeno analizi i objašnjenju modela za procenu izloženosti i strategijama za hedžing deviznog rizika. Posebno su istaknuti i analizirani pristupi dostupni preduzećima u Srbiji. Monografija „Hedžing deviznog rizika: razvoj i primena finansijskih i operativnih strategija“ je namenjena stručnjacima koji se u svakodnevnom radu sreću sa deviznim rizikom, studentima ekonomskih fakulteta, ali i svima koji žele da bolje razumeju uticaj deviznog rizika i praktične pristupe hedžingu. U očekivanju da će ova monografija doprineti boljem razumevanju složene problematike hedžinga deviznog rizika, autor je otvoren za konstruktivne sugestije naučne i stručne javnosti.

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University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Economics

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8660911598

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Afghanistan And The Soviet Union

Collision And Transformation

By: Milan Hauner

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Afghanistan And The Soviet Union

Collision And Transformation

By: Milan Hauner

Since the dramatic events of a decade ago-the revolutions in Kabul and Teheran, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the Gulf War- "Greater Central Asia" has recaptured the imagination of academia. Historians, Islamicists, anthropologists, political scientists, and defense analysts began to convene conferences and to produce collective volumes that concentrated on two seemingly unrelated subjects: the continuity and strength of ethnocultural patterns in Muslim Central Asia, on the one hand, and the limited range of U.S. military options for defense of the oil-rich Gulf region against hypothetical Soviet invasion, on the other. The contributors to this volume were asked to focus on the long term significance of the junction between Afghanistan and Soviet Eurasia through the "Midlands" region-a relationship that could have wide implications.

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Routledge

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0429722079

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Historic Donner Stock Trail

2007

By: Milan E. Wight

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Historic Donner Stock Trail

2007

By: Milan E. Wight

It would be a tragedy for the historic Donner Stock Trail to be abandoned. We must use it or we will surely lose it as a great hiking experience. This is the key trail between the Town of Truckee, the Donner Rim Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail.

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Trafford Publishing

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1425139558

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Free Radicals in Chemistry and Biology

By: Milan Lazar

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Free Radicals in Chemistry and Biology

By: Milan Lazar

Elementary radical reactions are described in terms of fundamental knowledge of organic chemistry and chemical physics in this valuable reference text. The complex radical processes of nonchain and chain mechanisms, such as dimerization, alkylation, polymerization, telomerization, halogenation pyrolysis, oxidation and combustion, are complemented by reactions in chemical lasers and in the cosmos, as well as by reactions in biological objects under normal or pathological metabolism. The text also provides the synthesis of facts from various fields of research and involves mechanisms where free radicals appear either as main or side intermediates in one of the several alternatives of the reaction pathway. Highlights include 38 tables and 39 figures.

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CRC Press

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0849353874

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9780849353871

Agile Project Management for Business Transformation Success

By: Paul Paquette,Milan Frankl

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Agile Project Management for Business Transformation Success

By: Paul Paquette,Milan Frankl

This book is intended to provide project management office (PMO) executives’ practical information to promote enterprise Agile for business value compatibility within their organization. The primary benefit of this book is to promote a sense of common purpose and collaboration between the project delivery and the organization. Agile project delivery methods are adaptable to the emergence of unknown requirements identified in the later part of the project delivery lifecycle. The key success factor is direct business participation and collaboration to ensure that a business focus determines the output. Agile promotes innovation and creates synergies through a business focus viewing technology deployments as a catalyst for change rather than the final objective. Technology investments implemented through Agile processes result in improved market leadership, organizational alignment, and resource efficiency delivering competitive advantage.

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Business Expert Press

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1631573241

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9781631573248

The Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and on Tracks

Proceedings of 10th IAVSD Symposium Held in Prague, Czechoslovakia, August 24-28, 1987

By: Milan Apetaur

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The Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and on Tracks

Proceedings of 10th IAVSD Symposium Held in Prague, Czechoslovakia, August 24-28, 1987

By: Milan Apetaur

This book deals with identification methods for vehicle system dynamics and dynamic interaction of vehicles with tracks and roads. It also deals with injury sequence and injury severity as the consequence of the dynamic response of the vehicle during and after collision.

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1000443507

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Social Movements and Their Technologies

Wiring Social Change

By: Stefania Milan

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Social Movements and Their Technologies

Wiring Social Change

By: Stefania Milan

Now in paperback for the first time, Social Movements and their Technologies explores the interplay between social movements and their 'liberated technologies'. It analyzes the rise of low-power radio stations and radical internet projects ('emancipatory communication practices') as a political subject, focusing on the sociological and cultural processes at play. It provides an overview of the relationship between social movements and technology, and investigates what is behind the communication infrastructure that made possible the main protest events of the past fifteen years. In doing so, Stefania Milan illustrates how contemporary social movements organize in order to create autonomous alternatives to communication systems and networks, and how they contribute to change the way people communicate in daily life, as well as try to change communication policy from the grassroots. She situates these efforts in a historical context in order to show the origins of contemporary communication activism, and its linkages to media reform campaigns and policy advocacy.

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1137313544

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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Authoritarianism

Puritanism, Democracy, and Society

By: Milan Zafirovski

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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Authoritarianism

Puritanism, Democracy, and Society

By: Milan Zafirovski

This book explores the historical and contemporary relationships of Protestant Puritanism to political and social authoritarianism. It focuses on Puritanism’s original, subsequent and modern influences on and legacies in political democracy and civil society within historically Puritan Western societies. There is emphasis on Great Britain and particularly America, from the 17th to the 21st century.

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0387493212

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Heterometallic Coordination Copper (II) Compounds

Classification and Analysis of Crystallographic and Structural Data

By: Milan Melník

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Heterometallic Coordination Copper (II) Compounds

Classification and Analysis of Crystallographic and Structural Data

By: Milan Melník

Heterometallic Coordination Copper (Ii) Compounds - Classification & Analysis of Crystallographic & Structural Data

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1560727470

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Camptothecins New Anticancer Agents

By: Milan Potmesil,Herbert M. Pinedo

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Camptothecins New Anticancer Agents

By: Milan Potmesil,Herbert M. Pinedo

This exciting new book presents the first comprehensive overview of clinical trials of camptothecins, a new class of anticancer agents. Camptothecins are synthetic and semisynthetic derivatives of a plant alkaloid that inhibit a cellular enzyme and trigger a cascade of events leading to programmed cell death. Special attention is given to the adverse effects of camptothecin treatment, as well as to prevention and control. The book boasts contributions by some of the most respected authorities in camptothecin research, who have Conducted much of the pre-clinical work which helped to renew interest in camptothecins Discovered and identified the natural product camptothecin and synthesized most of the anlogues Discovered the mechanism of camptothecin cytotoxicity

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CRC Press

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0849347645

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Chromatographic Analysis of Alkaloids

By: Milan Popl,Jan Fahnrich,Vlastimil Tatar

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Chromatographic Analysis of Alkaloids

By: Milan Popl,Jan Fahnrich,Vlastimil Tatar

Beginning with classification, nomenclature, and structures, this reference discussesphysicochemical properties of alkaloids relevant to the chromatographic process.Chromatographic Analysis of Alkaloids explores the main experimental factors affectingthe separation and detection of alkaloids in gas (GC), liquid (LC), and thinlayer(1LC) chromatography ... illustrates separation conditions described in recentliterature ... provides, for a given compound, the GC, LC, and 1LC techniquesavailable within the same paragraph ... surveys, in tabular form, the methods forsample preparation for chromatographic analysis ... contains over 1,200 up-to-datereferences covering the majority of papers on the chromatography of alkaloids... and more.Serving as a rich resource of practical information, Chromatographic Analysis ofAlkaloids is essential reading for analytical, organic, natural products, and forensicchemists and biochemists, pharmacologists, and graduate-level students in thesedisciplines.

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Routledge

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1351460889

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The Poetics of International Politics

Fact and Fiction in Narrative Representations of World Affairs

By: Milan Babík

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The Poetics of International Politics

Fact and Fiction in Narrative Representations of World Affairs

By: Milan Babík

A cutting-edge contribution to the aesthetic turn in international relations scholarship, this book exposes the role of poetic techniques in constituting the reality of international politics. It has two symmetrical goals: to illuminate the nonempirical fictions of factual international relations literature, and to highlight the real factual inspirations and implications of contemporary international relations fiction. Employing narrative theory developed by Hayden White, the author examines factual and fictional accounts of world affairs ranging from the anarchy narrative, central to mainstream international relations research, to novels by Don DeLillo and Milan Kundera. Chapters analyzing factual literature flesh out its unacknowledged inventions, while those dedicated to fiction explain its political roots and agenda. Throughout, the distinction between factual and fictional representations of international relations breaks down. Social-scientific narratives emerge as exercises in rhetoric: the art and politics of persuasion through language. Artistic narratives surface as real pedagogical lessons and exercises in political activism. The volume challenges the autonomy of academic international relations as an exclusive purveyor of serious knowledge about world affairs and calls for active engagement with literary art. It will be of interest to scholars of International Relations, Political Theory, Historiography, Cultural Theory, and Literary Studies and Criticism.

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0429794142

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Persuasion Strategies: Canadian Campus Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaigns and the Development of Activists, 2012–20

By: Milan Prazak Ilnyckyj

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Persuasion Strategies: Canadian Campus Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaigns and the Development of Activists, 2012–20

By: Milan Prazak Ilnyckyj

Milan Prazak Ilnyckyj's PhD dissertation in Political Science at the University of Toronto

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Milan Prazak Ilnyckyj

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0994752423

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Multiple Risk Factors in Cardiovascular Disease

Strategies of Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease, Cardiac Failure, and Stroke

By: Giovanni Lorenzini Foundation (Milan),International Symposium on Multiple Risk Factors in Cardiovascular Disease

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Multiple Risk Factors in Cardiovascular Disease

Strategies of Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease, Cardiac Failure, and Stroke

By: Giovanni Lorenzini Foundation (Milan),International Symposium on Multiple Risk Factors in Cardiovascular Disease

The issue of interaction of risk factors in cardiovascular disease is timely and of clinical relevance. This book is a collection of the scientific contributions to the 4th International Symposium on Multiple Risk Factors and Cardiovascular Disease: Strategies of Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease, Cardiac Failure, and Stroke, and addresses the role of simultaneous risk factors in patients. Because patients with two or more risk factors are at very high risk for developing cardiovascular diseases, special care should be taken in the choice of appropriate therapeutic intervention. Risk factors are also discussed from the point of view of the biochemist and the pharmacologist by addressing the mechanisms underlying the onset of hypertension, hyperlipoproteinemia, hypercoagulability, and the possibility of therapeutic intervention. This book will therefore be of value to the biochemist, pharmacologist, and clinical pharmacologist, as well as to specialists in the field of cardiovascular medicine in order,to keep up-to-date with current knowledge in this fast moving field of research.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0792350235

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9780792350231

R: Data Analysis and Visualization

By: Tony Fischetti,Brett Lantz,Jaynal Abedin,Hrishi V. Mittal,Bater Makhabel,Edina Berlinger,Ferenc Illes,Milan Badics,Adam Banai,Gergely Daroczi

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R: Data Analysis and Visualization

By: Tony Fischetti,Brett Lantz,Jaynal Abedin,Hrishi V. Mittal,Bater Makhabel,Edina Berlinger,Ferenc Illes,Milan Badics,Adam Banai,Gergely Daroczi

Master the art of building analytical models using R About This Book Load, wrangle, and analyze your data using the world's most powerful statistical programming language Build and customize publication-quality visualizations of powerful and stunning R graphs Develop key skills and techniques with R to create and customize data mining algorithms Use R to optimize your trading strategy and build up your own risk management system Discover how to build machine learning algorithms, prepare data, and dig deep into data prediction techniques with R Who This Book Is For This course is for data scientist or quantitative analyst who are looking at learning R and take advantage of its powerful analytical design framework. It's a seamless journey in becoming a full-stack R developer. What You Will Learn Describe and visualize the behavior of data and relationships between data Gain a thorough understanding of statistical reasoning and sampling Handle missing data gracefully using multiple imputation Create diverse types of bar charts using the default R functions Familiarize yourself with algorithms written in R for spatial data mining, text mining, and so on Understand relationships between market factors and their impact on your portfolio Harness the power of R to build machine learning algorithms with real-world data science applications Learn specialized machine learning techniques for text mining, big data, and more In Detail The R learning path created for you has five connected modules, which are a mini-course in their own right. As you complete each one, you'll have gained key skills and be ready for the material in the next module! This course begins by looking at the Data Analysis with R module. This will help you navigate the R environment. You'll gain a thorough understanding of statistical reasoning and sampling. Finally, you'll be able to put best practices into effect to make your job easier and facilitate reproducibility. The second place to explore is R Graphs, which will help you leverage powerful default R graphics and utilize advanced graphics systems such as lattice and ggplot2, the grammar of graphics. You'll learn how to produce, customize, and publish advanced visualizations using this popular and powerful framework. With the third module, Learning Data Mining with R, you will learn how to manipulate data with R using code snippets and be introduced to mining frequent patterns, association, and correlations while working with R programs. The Mastering R for Quantitative Finance module pragmatically introduces both the quantitative finance concepts and their modeling in R, enabling you to build a tailor-made trading system on your own. By the end of the module, you will be well-versed with various financial techniques using R and will be able to place good bets while making financial decisions. Finally, we'll look at the Machine Learning with R module. With this module, you'll discover all the analytical tools you need to gain insights from complex data and learn how to choose the correct algorithm for your specific needs. You'll also learn to apply machine learning methods to deal with common tasks, including classification, prediction, forecasting, and so on. Style and approach Learn data analysis, data visualization techniques, data mining, and machine learning all using R and also learn to build models in quantitative finance using this powerful language.

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Packt Publishing Ltd

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1786460483

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9781786460486

Modern Free Society and Its Nemesis

Liberty Versus Conservatism in the New Millennium

By: Milan Zafirovski

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Modern Free Society and Its Nemesis

Liberty Versus Conservatism in the New Millennium

By: Milan Zafirovski

Modern Free Society and Its Nemesis examines contemporary free society in relation to conservatism as its possible negation. Analyzing the impact of conservatism on such attributes of a free society as civil liberties, political democracy and economic freedom, it redefines a free society and its constitutive principles of liberty, equality and justice. It also reconsiders conservatism, including its social foundations, characteristics and types, as well as its relations to liberalism. Milan Zafirovski concentrates specifically on the effects of conservatism on the civil sphere, political democracy, and the economy, as integral elements of a free society.

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Lexington Books

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0739115154

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9780739115152

Prime Minister for Peace

My Struggle for Serbian Democracy

By: Milan Panic

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Prime Minister for Peace

My Struggle for Serbian Democracy

By: Milan Panic

In this remarkable memoir, Milan Panic tells the formerly unknown story of his attempts to oust Slobodan Milosevic and his battles with the U.S. State Department in an effort to bring peace to the Balkans during the Yugoslav Wars. A young cycling champion who fought the Nazi occupation in Yugoslavia with Tito’s partisans, Panic defected after World War II from his now-communist country to start a new life in the United States. But his greatest challenge still lay ahead when he was invited to serve as prime minister of Yugoslavia. But in Belgrade, ancient enmities and suspicions festered, and the threat of tragedy and bloodshed loomed large as ethnic conflict raged. And even as Panic implored the West for support, he would have to outwit the machinations of a wily Serbian dictator, Slobodan Milosevic. Including behind-the-scenes details of his rivalry with Milosevic, this book is a compelling chronicle of the road to peace in the Balkans.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442243635

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9781442243637

Exercising Control of the Sea

Theory and Practice

By: Milan Vego

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Exercising Control of the Sea

Theory and Practice

By: Milan Vego

This book explains both the strategic and the operational aspects of exercising control of the sea. The struggle for sea control consists of three mutually related and overlapping phases: obtaining, maintaining and exercising sea control. It is in the phase of exercising sea control when one’s strategic or operational success is exploited; otherwise, the fruits of victories achieved would be wasted. This work describes the strategy of a stronger side in wartime after a desired degree of control has been obtained, which is followed by a discussion on the objectives and main methods used in exercising sea control. The remaining chapters explain and analyze in some detail each of the main methods of exercising sea control: defence and protection of one’s own and destruction/neutralization of the enemy’s military-economic potential at sea, capturing the enemy’s operationally important positions ashore, destroying/weakening the enemy’s military-economic potential ashore and supporting one’s ground forces in their offensive and defensive operations on the coast. This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, sea power and naval history.

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1000196054

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9781000196054

Capitalist Dictatorship

A Study of Its Social Systems, Dimensions, Forms and Indicators

By: Milan Zafirovski

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Capitalist Dictatorship

A Study of Its Social Systems, Dimensions, Forms and Indicators

By: Milan Zafirovski

Milan Zafirovski identifies and investigates the resurgence of capitalist dictatorship in contemporary society, especially after 2016. This book introduces the concept of capitalist dictatorship to the academic audience for the first time.

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BRILL

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9004459758

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9789004459755

Maritime Strategy and Sea Control

Theory and Practice

By: Milan Vego

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Maritime Strategy and Sea Control

Theory and Practice

By: Milan Vego

This book focuses on the key naval strategic objectives of obtaining and maintaining sea control. During times of war, sea control, or the ability of combatants to enjoy naval dominance, plays a crucial role in that side’s ability to attain overall victory. This book explains and analyzes in much greater detail sea control in all its complexities, and describes the main methods of obtaining and maintaining it. Building on the views of naval classical thinkers, this book utilizes historical examples to illustrate the main methods of sea control. Each chapter focuses on a particular method, including destroying the enemy forces by a decisive action, destroying enemy forces over time-attrition, containing enemy fleet, choke point control, and capturing important enemy's positions/basing area, The aim is to provide a comprehensive theory and practice of the struggle for sea control at the operational level. It should therefore provide a guide to practitioners on how to plan and conduct operational warfare at sea. The book will be of much interest to students of naval strategy, defence studies and security studies.

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Routledge

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1317439848

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9781317439844

Atlas of the Human Body

Central Nervous System and Vascularization

By: Branislav Vidic,Milan Milisavljevic

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Atlas of the Human Body

Central Nervous System and Vascularization

By: Branislav Vidic,Milan Milisavljevic

Atlas of Human Body: Central Nervous System and Vascularization is a multidisciplinary approach to the technical coverage of anatomical structures and relationships. It contains surface and 3D dissection images, native and colored cross sectional views made in different planes, MRI comparisons, demonstrations of cranial nerve origins, distribution of blood vessels by dissection, and systematic presentation of arterial distribution from the precapillary level, using the methyl metacrylate injection and subsequent tissue digestion method. Included throughout are late prenatal (fetal) and early postnatal images to contribute to a better understanding of structure/relationship specificity of differentiation at various developmental intervals (conduits, organs, somatic, or branchial derivatives). Each chapter features clinical correlations providing a unique perspective of side-by side comparisons of dissection images, magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography. Created after many years of professional and scientific cooperation between the authors and their parent institutions, this important resource will serve researchers, students, and doctors in their professional work. - Contains over 700 color photos of ideal anatomical preparations and sections of each part of the body that have been prepared, recorded, and processed by the authors - Covers existing gaps including developmental and prenatal periods, detailed vascular anatomy, and neuro anatomy - Features a comprehensive alphabetical index of structures for ease of use - Features a companion website which contains access to all images within the book

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0128095016

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9780128095010

Operational Warfare at Sea

Theory and Practice

By: Milan Vego

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Operational Warfare at Sea

Theory and Practice

By: Milan Vego

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of both the theory and practice of operational warfare at sea and this 2nd edition has been thoroughly revised, with two completely new chapters.

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Taylor & Francis

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1315402939

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9781315402932

The Economy of West Bank and Gaza

Recent Experience, Prospects, and Challenges to Private Sector Development

By: Mr.Steven Barnett,Ms.Nur Calika,Mr.Oussama Kanaan,Dale Chua,Milan Zavadjil

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The Economy of West Bank and Gaza

Recent Experience, Prospects, and Challenges to Private Sector Development

By: Mr.Steven Barnett,Ms.Nur Calika,Mr.Oussama Kanaan,Dale Chua,Milan Zavadjil

The economy of the West Bank and Gaza Strip faces a difficult external environment in 1997. This paper, by Steven Barnett, Nur Calika, Dale Chua, Oussama Kanaan, and Milan Zavadijil, presents an assessment of the recent experience of the Palestinian economy and examines prospects for 1998 and beyond.

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1557757259

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