Practical Intelligence: Working Smarter in Business and Everyday Life

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Measuring and Controlling Interest Rate and Credit Risk provides keys to using derivatives to control interest rate risk and credit risk, and controlling interest rate risk in a mortgage-backed securities derivative portfolio. This book includes information on measuring yield curve risk, swaps and exchange-traded options, TC options and related products, and describes how to measure and control the interest rate of risk of a bond portfolio or trading position.

Measuring and Controlling Interest Rate and Credit Risk is a systematic evaluation of how to measure and control the interest rate risk and credit risk of a bond portfolio or trading position, defining key points in the process of risk management as related to financial situations. The authors construct a verbal flow chart, defining and illustrating interest rate risk and credit risk in regards to valuation, probability distributions, forecasting yield volatility, correlation and regression analyses. Hedging instruments discussed include futures contracts, interest rate swaps, exchange traded options, OTC options, and credit derivatives. The text includes calculated examples and readers will learn how to measure and control the interest rate risk and credit risk of a bond portfolio or trading position. They will discover value at risk approaches, valuation, probability distributions, yield volatility, futures, interest rate swaps, exchange traded funds; and find in-depth, up-to-date information on measuring interest rate with derivatives, quantifying the results of positions, and hedging.

Frank J. Fabozzi (New Hope, PA) is a financial consultant, the Editor of the Journal of Portfolio Management, and an Adjunct Professor of Finance at Yale Universitys School of Management.

Steven V. Mann (Columbia, SC) is Professor of Finance at the Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. Moorad Choudhry (Surrey, UK) is a Vice President with JPMorgan Chase structured finance services in London.

Moorad Choudhry (Surrey, England) is a senior Fellow at the Centre for Mathematical Trading and Finance, CASS Business School, London, and is Editor of the Journal of Bond Trading and Management. He has authored a number of books on fixed income analysis and the capital markets. Moorad began his City career with ABN Amro Hoare Govett Sterling Bonds Limited, where he worked as a gilt-edged market maker, and Hambros Bank Limited where he was a sterling proprietary trader. He is currently a vice-president in Structured Finance Services with JPMorgan Chase Bank in London.

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Phantom risks are risks whose very existence is unproven and perhaps unprovable, yet they raise real problems at the interface of science and the law. Phantom Risk surveys a dozen scientific issues that have led to public controversy and litigation - among them, miscarriage from the use of video display terminals, birth defects in children whose mothers used the drug Bendectin, and cancer from low-intensity magnetic fields, and from airborne asbestos. It presents the scientific evidence behind these and other issues and summarizes the resulting litigation.

Focusing on the great disparity between the scientific evidence that is sufficient to arouse public fears and that needed to establish a hazard or its absence, these original contributions probe the problem of scientific ambiguity in risk assessment, and the mayhem this creates in the courtroom.

Although the authors are clearly optimistic about the use of science to detect and evaluate risks, they recognize the difficulty of inferring cause-and-effect relationships from epidemiological (observational) evidence and of inferring risks to humans from high-dose animal experiments, the two major sources of evidence. The final chapter reviews the exceptionally difficult problem of how the legal impact of disputes about phantom risks can be reduced.

Kenneth R. Foster is Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. David E. Bernstein is an attorney at the law firm of Crowell & Moring. Peter W. Huber is a Senior Fellow of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and serves as Counsel to the law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt.

Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law

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Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law
Kenneth R., David E. Bernstein, and Peter W. Huber, eds. Foster
Manufacturer: MIT
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GR7K82

Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law. (book reviews): An article from: Trial

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Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law. (book reviews): An article from: Trial
Anthony Z. Roisman
Manufacturer: Association of Trial Lawyers of America
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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Title: Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law. (book reviews)
Author: Anthony Z. Roisman
Publication: Trial (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1994
Publisher: Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Volume: 30 Issue: n1 Page: 80(1)

Article Type: Book Review

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Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and The Law
Kenneth, David E. Bernstein, and Peter W. Huber (editors) Foster
Manufacturer: M.I.T. Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MBEPEE

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Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law
Kenneth R.; Bernstein, David E. Foster
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQMLS4

Transfer of technology to small farmers: An analysis of constraints and experiences
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Transfer of technology to small farmers: An analysis of constraints and experiences
S. N Singh
Manufacturer: Concept Pub. Co
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 8170223431

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Hemostasis is the mechanism that controls thrombosis and bleeding after tissue trauma. In spite of the fact that thrombotic vascular diseases are the most common cause of mortality in developed countries, the basic mechanisms of hemostasis and the causes of thrombosis are still poorly understood. Von Willebrand factor is a key adhesive protein with a crucial role in platelet function and may thus be a key factor in the development of thrombosis. This book provides a state-of-the-art account of the progress made in understanding the structure and function of this protein, providing at the same time an update of the current knowledge of hemostasis and thrombosis.

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For the past 3.8 billion years, the geochemistry of the Earth's surface - its atmosphere, waters and exposed crust - has been determined by the presence of biota. Photosynthetic organisms exposed the Earth's surface to oxygen, denitrifying bacteria have maintained the nitrogen concentration in Earth's atmosphere, and land plants have determined the rate of chemical weathering. Life determines the global biogeochemical cycles of the elements of biochemistry, especially C, N, P and S. Volume 8 traces the origin and impact of life on the geochemistry of the Earth's surface, with special emphasis on the current human impact on global biogeochemical cycles.

Reprinted individual volume from the acclaimed Treatise on Geochemistry, (10 Volume Set, ISBN 0-08-043751-6, published in 2003)

* Comprehensive and authoritative scope and focus
* Reviews from renowned scientists across a range of subjects, providing both overviews and new data, supplemented by extensive bibliographies
* Extensive illustrations and examples from the field

Biogeochemistry: Treatise On Geochemistry, Volume 8 (treatise On Geochemistry S.)
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Biogeochemistry: Treatise On Geochemistry, Volume 8 (treatise On Geochemistry S.)
W.H. Schlesinger
Manufacturer: Elsevier Science
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OGWO68

Loving Voice Ii: A Caregiver's Book of More Read-Aloud Stories for the Elderly
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Loving Voice Ii: A Caregiver's Book of More Read-Aloud Stories for the Elderly

Manufacturer: The Charles Press, Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 091478370X

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A wonderful anthology of short stories that were written by first-class American authors and designed specifically to be read aloud to elderly people. This book, and it's accompanying first volume, A Loving Voice: A Caregiver's book of Read-Aloud Stories for the Elderly, has received critical acclaim from professional caregivers and grateful family members alike for its inventive method of communicating with and bringing joy to the bed-bound and the home-bound.

A Loving Voice II: A Caregiver's Book of More Read-Aloud Stories for the Elderly

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A Loving Voice II: A Caregiver's Book of More Read-Aloud Stories for the Elderly
Carolyn Banks
Manufacturer: Charles Pr Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KNQKJW

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This book offers a striking commentary on the role of accident versus circumstance in history. When tuberculosis forced established Ohio attorney William Henry Gorrill to migrate to California, he left a successful career for uncertainty. In California he was forced to rebuild both life and career. His move to the west took him down a different career path. Giving up the law for bridge building, he began to reestablish his life and co-founded the Pacific Bridge Company.

SRI LANKAN TAMIL NATIONALISM: Its Origins and Development in the 19th and 20th Centuries.(Review)(Brief Article): An article from: Pacific Affairs
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SRI LANKAN TAMIL NATIONALISM: Its Origins and Development in the 19th and 20th Centuries.(Review)(Brief Article): An article from: Pacific Affairs
V. Subramaniam
Manufacturer: University of British Columbia
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008JB4HG
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on December 22, 2000. The length of the article is 484 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: SRI LANKAN TAMIL NATIONALISM: Its Origins and Development in the 19th and 20th Centuries.(Review)(Brief Article)
Author: V. Subramaniam
Publication: Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2000
Publisher: University of British Columbia
Volume: 73 Issue: 4 Page: 617

Article Type: Book Review, Brief Article

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