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Extant literature documents the role of effective governance in mitigating bank risk-taking and limiting managerial opportunism. The banking industry forms a necessary pillar for global economic and...

Relatively little is known so far about financial stability and long-term resilience within the global banking sector. The complexity and diversity of banking financial instruments and transactions...

The transition from pre-clinical to clinical medicine is as difficult as it is exciting. Medical students at this seminal point in their journey are yearning to combine their knowledge with their...

This book quantifies best practices for developing innovative products cost-effectively. Analyses of dozens of studies show how managing the work of people collaborating in parallel creates products...

This book begins by introducing the basic concepts of impedance to non-specialist readers who have only an elementary knowledge of physics and mathematics. Mathematical concepts are explained clearly...

Competing in today's marketplace requires a holistic view of both products and processes. It requires that companies pay attention to their stakeholders in addition to their customers. Environmental...

Fair Exchange is the first comprehensive work on the discipline of fair exchange. More and more of our lives are spent interacting digitally across fields such as payments, certified delivery,...

Fintech and Green Investment: Transforming Challenges into Opportunities is a comprehensive resource that aims to provide insights into the challenges and opportunities of the transitional process to...

Green finance plays a crucial role in promoting sustainable development by mobilizing financial resources towards environmentally sustainable projects. It enables the transition to a low-carbon and...

According to World Bank (2021), the economic recovery in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has been uneven and tumultuous, based on the individual exposure to oil-price fluctuations and...

This book is a comprehensive collection of main mathematical concepts: definitions, theorems, tables, and formulas that the students of science and engineering encounter in their studies and later on...

This Handbook seeks for methodological, empirical, and policy-oriented contributions to provide scholars, investors, regulatory bodies, and policymakers with comprehensive insights on the efficiency...

Following the 2008 Beijing Olympics and Global Financial Crisis, China's foreign policy shifted to become more assertive, effecting a systematic deterioration in the US-China relationship. In 2017,...

The calculus of variations is one of the oldest subjects in mathematics, and it is very much alive and still evolving. Besides its mathematical importance and its links to other branches of...

The language of the universe is mathematics, but how exactly do you know that all parts of the universe 'speak' the same language? Benioff builds on the idea that the entity that gives substance to...

This book reflects on work done through the Managing Extreme Technological Risk (METR) project, a pioneering research programme within the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. METR has been both...

The 3rd edition strikes a nice balance between mathematical rigor and engineering oriented applications, helping students to understand the mathematical and engineering aspects of control theory.The...

Poor bankers! Poor economists! You won't see people at their windows and on their balconies clapping for members of these two professions. Economists are decried for never having anticipated crises...

How did a journalist find out who was responsible for bombing hospitals in Syria without leaving his desk in New York? How can South Sudanese activists safely track and detail the weapons in their...

Our Renewable Energy Future focuses on clean energy technology evolution and where our energy system is going. While its foundation is technology innovation, it brings a unique perspective that...

In the age of the Internet of Things and social media platforms, huge amounts of digital data are generated by and collected from many sources, including sensors, mobile devices, wearable trackers...

Cutting through the mass of technical literature on machine learning and AI and the plethora of fear-mongering books on the rise of killer robots, Secrets of Machine Learning offers a clear-sighted...

With a Foreword by Dr Fatih BirolHirst provides a wide-ranging account of international energy strategies to counter climate change. He argues that six policies hold the key to addressing this global...

The book presents a comprehensive coverage on smart structures, starting from basic concepts, to a wide spectrum of critical applications, that include piezoelectric-based sensors, actuators, and the...

Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon introduces financial concepts through a lively history of the solar industry, and cuts through the main areas of mystique and misinformation about solar...

The Lost Scientists of World War II tells the stories of scientists from Germany and other European countries who vanished during World War II. These erudite scholars contributed to diverse...

The Practical Philosophy of AI-Assistants presents a formal conversation between an AI engineer, Peter, and a humanities researcher, Suman. It is written so that specialist terms and concepts in AI...

The Practical Philosophy of AI-Assistants presents a formal conversation between an AI engineer, Peter, and a humanities researcher, Suman. It is written so that specialist terms and concepts in AI...

This monograph presents a Guided Wave Structural Health Monitoring (GWSHM) system for aeronautical composite structures. Particular attention is paid to the development of a reliable and reproducible...