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Although monetary policy is widely believed to influence investment performance, surprisingly little evidence exists to substantiate the nature or significance of the connection. In this monograph, the authors investigate and document the relation between monetary policy and investment performance. In examining the correlation between directional changes in the discount rate and various asset classes, they unearth surprising findings for U.S. stock returns in particular.

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The Taney Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy.(Book Review) : An article from: Journal of Southern History

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The Taney Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy.(Book Review) : An article from: Journal of Southern History
Austin Allen
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000EQIJIK
Release Date: 2006-02-28

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2006. The length of the article is 529 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: The Taney Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy.(Book Review)
Author: Austin Allen
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 72 Issue: 1 Page: 181(2)

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Dieses Buch liefert praxisbezogenes Wissen zur Planung, Durchführung und Interpretation von klinischen Studien und richtet sich an alle Personen, die eine wissenschaftliche Karriere beschreiten wollen oder an Evidence Based Medicine interessiert sind. Dem Leser wird didaktisch eindrucksvoll vermittelt wie z.B. Studienprotokolle richtig erstellt werden, welche statistische Auswertung wofür verwendet wird oder wie wissenschaftliche Studien anderer kritisch gelesen oder hinterfragt werden können. Wichtige Fragen und Punkte werden dabei anhand von praxisrelevanten Beispielen ausführlich behandelt. Die zweite Auflage wurde völlig neu überarbeitet und mehrere neue Kapitel sind dazugekommen. Unter anderem werden nun auch Analyse und Interpretation von Beobachtungsstudien, Good Clinical Practice, Messung von Lebensqualität, Randomisierungsformen (z.B. cross-over und faktorielles Design) und Wissenschaftstheorie beschrieben. Außerdem gibt es noch mehr anschauliche Fallstudien.

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Pages of Stone: Geology of Western National Parks and Monuments : Sierra Nevada, Cascades and Pacific Coast (Pages of Stone - Geology of Western National Parks & Monumen)
Halka Chronic
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Pages of Stone - Geology of Western National Parks and Monuments : Sierra Nevada, Cascades and Pacific Coast (Vol. 2)
Halka Chronic
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Branes are solitonic configurations of a string theory that are represented by extended objects in a higher-dimensional space-time. They are essential for a comprehension of the non-perturbative aspects of string theory, in particular, in connection with string dualities. From the mathematical viewpoint, branes are related to several important theories, such as homological mirror symmetry and quantum cohomology. Geometry and Physics of Branes provides an introduction to current research in some of these different areas, both in physics and mathematics. The book opens with a lucid introduction to the basic aspects of branes in string theory. Topics covered in subsequent chapters include tachyon condensation, the geometry surrounding the Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture (a duality between the SU(N) Chern-Simons theory on S3 and a IIA string theory compactified on a Calabi-Yau 3-fold), two-dimensional conformal field theory on open and unoriented surfaces, and the development of a homology theory naturally attached to the deformations of vector bundles that should be relevant to the study of homological mirror symmetry.

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Not a textbook.......2006-06-23

This book should not be considered as a textbook for either graduate or undergraduate students. Even although, as the editors explain in the preface, it brings together the contents of the courses given at the doctoral school on `Geometry and Physics of Branes' which took place in Italy in 2001. The reason for this is that this book is not a self-contained and pedagogical text on the subject. Rather, it is a concise introduction to the following current lines of research in the mathematics and physics of branes: two-dimensional conformal field theory on open and unoriented surfaces, string tachyon dynamics, mirror symmetry, and the Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture. As a consequence, one has to be familiar with fundamental concepts in both mathematical and physical aspects of string theory in order to read the book. In my viewpoint, the minimum prerequisite for the physical aspects should be Zwiebach, Polchinski vol. I and some of Polchinski vol. II, and for the mathematical aspects should be the whole of Nakahara.

The book is organized into three parts. The first part, consisting of five extremely short chapters, introduces branes in string theory and the corresponding effective action. Although this part tells little to either those who already know the material therein or to beginners in string theory, it is still better than none as it provides many of useful formulae and equations that save the readers from having to look them up somewhere else. Part 2 focuses on the physical aspects via two larger chapters--chapters 6 and 7-- contributed by Y. Stanev, C. Gómez and P. Resco. Chapter 6 addresses the topic of two-dimensional conformal field theory on open and unoriented surfaces with an emphasis on the construction of correlation functions and partition functions. Chapter 7 deals with string tachyon dynamics. Part 3, an account of the mathematical aspects of String Theory, contains Chapters 8 and 9, which are the contribution of K. Fukaya, A. Grassi and M. Rossi. Chapter 8 discusses homological algebra and deformation theory and their application to mirror symmetry. Chapter 9 explains Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture and a possible way to tackle it.

Part I and each of Chapters 6 through 9 have references to carefully selected articles closely related to their content. The definitions, theorems, lemmas, etc. are nicely phrased and thus may refresh the memories of those who already know some of them. For most of the lemmas and some of the theorems the authors provide full proofs. For the case where a full proof is not given the authors give either a sketch of proof or a reference. Unfortunately, there are very few exercises for students to work through. This provides yet another reason why the book is not as appropriate as a textbook. Small compensation is found, however, in the number of well treated examples that are presented.

Chapters 6 through 9 are independent of each other to a great extent allowing the reader to only read the chapter he or she is interested in. Nevertheless, one should not expect a full understanding of the material without reading the referred articles. On the other hand, it may not be necessary for one to read the book word by word. I would suggest reading the reference articles indicated in the book and come back to the book for hints or solutions to comprehend the difficult parts of the articles.

In summary, the goal of this book is to inspire the readers to follow in their own research one or more of the research lines being discussed. In this sense, I think it should be successful in this sense. Therefore, with my aforementioned reservations, I recommend this book to those advanced graduate students and researchers who take this subject seriously and are willing to dwell in any of the research directions described in the book.

A slightly different version of this review can be found on my web blog

Noncommutative Differential Geometry and Its Applications to Physics (Mathematical Physics Studies)

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