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UNINA9910466067103321 |
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Autore |
Nason Rick |
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Rethinking risk management : critically examining old ideas and new concepts / / Rick Nason |
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New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2017 |
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[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvii, 124 pages) |
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Finance and financial management collection, , 2331-0057 |
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Risk management |
Libros electronicos. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1. What is risk? -- 2. Have we lost the plot? -- 3. What is complexity? -- 4. What causes risk? -- 5. Are risk frameworks evil? -- 6. Does risk management add value? -- 7. Should risk management be based on process or judgment? -- 8. How do you create a great risk culture? -- 9. Is your risk management too good? -- 10. What is the future of risk management? -- Index. |
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Risk management has become a key factor of successful organizations. Despite risk management's importance, outdated and inappropriate ideas about how to manage risk dominate. This book challenges existing paradigms of risk management and provides readers with new concepts and tools for the current dynamic risk management environment. This book has two major origins: The first is a series of executive workshops that I have been conducting for the last several years for a major international company. The second origin is an innovative and popular course on enterprise risk management that I have developed and delivered for MBA students. The book reflects these two origins in that it covers both the current base of risk management knowledge but critically examines that base by exploring emerging risk management ideas and concepts. The framework for the book is a series of questions that allows for an interesting and thought-provoking look at current ideas and forward-looking concepts. This book, intended for senior managers, directors, risk |
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managers, students of risk management, and all others who need to be concerned about risk management and strategy, provides a solid base for not only understanding current best practice in risk management, but also the conceptual tools for exploiting emerging risk management technologies, metrics, regulations, and ideas. The central thesis is that risk management is a value-adding activity that all types of organizations, public, private as well as not-for-profit, can use for competitive advantage and maximum effectiveness. |
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UNISALENTO991001325869707536 |
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Autore |
Saperstone, Stephen H. |
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Semidynamical systems in infinite dimensional spaces / Stephen H. Saperstone |
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New York : Springer-Verlag, c1981 |
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Applied mathematical sciences ; 37 |
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AMS 34C35 |
AMS 34G |
AMS 58D25 |
AMS 58F |
AMS 60G10 |
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Differentiable dynamical systems |
Differential equations in absract spaces |
Equations in function spaces |
Function spaces |
Stationary processes |
Topological imbeddings |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Bibliography: p. 447-464. |
Includes indexes |
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UNINA9910797137803321 |
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Autore |
Cheng Ta-Pei |
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Titolo |
A College Course on Relativity and Cosmology [[electronic resource]] |
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Oxford, : OUP Oxford, 2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (724 p.) |
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Relativity (Physics) |
Space and time |
Gravity |
Black holes (Astronomy) |
Cosmology |
Physics |
Physical Sciences & Mathematics |
Physics - General |
Atomic Physics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Cover; Preface; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Relativity as a coordinate symmetry; 1.1.1 Coordinate transformations; 1.1.2 The principle of relativity; 1.2 Einstein and relativity; 1.2.1 The new kinematics; 1.2.2 GR as a field theory of gravitation; Review questions; 2 Special Relativity: The New Kinematics; 2.1 Einstein's two postulates and Lorentz transformation; 2.1.1 Relativity of simultaneity and the new conception of time; 2.1.2 Coordinate-dependent time leads to Lorentz transformation; 2.2 Physics implications of Lorentz transformation; 2.2.1 Time dilation and length contraction |
2.2.2 The invariant interval and proper time2.3 Two counterintuitive scenarios as paradoxes; Review questions; 3 Special Relativity: Flat Spacetime; 3.1 Geometric formulation of relativity; 3.2 Tensors in special relativity; 3.2.1 Generalized coordinates: bases and the metric; 3.2.2 Velocity and momentum 4-vectors; 3.2.3 Electromagnetic field 4-tensor; 3.2.4 The energy-momentum-stress 4-tensor for a field |
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system; 3.3 The spacetime diagram; 3.3.1 Invariant regions and causal structure; 3.3.2 Lorentz transformation in the spacetime diagram; Review questions |
4 Equivalence of Gravitation and Inertia4.1 Seeking a relativistic theory of gravitation; 4.1.1 Newtonian potential: a summary; 4.1.2 Einstein's motivation for general relativity; 4.2 The equivalence principle: from Galileo to Einstein; 4.2.1 Inertial mass vs. gravitational mass; 4.2.2 Einstein: ''my happiest thought''; 4.3 EP leads to gravitational time dilation and light deflection; 4.3.1 Gravitational redshift and time dilation; 4.3.2 Relativity and the operation of GPS; 4.3.3 The EP calculation of light deflection; 4.3.4 Energetics of light transmission in a gravitational field |
Review questions5 General Relativity as a Geometric Theory of Gravity; 5.1 Metric description of a curved manifold; 5.1.1 Gaussian coordinates and the metric tensor; 5.1.2 The geodesic equation; 5.1.3 Local Euclidean frames and the flatness theorem; 5.2 From the equivalence principle to a metric theory of gravity; 5.2.1 Curved spacetime as gravitational field; 5.2.2 GR as a field theory of gravitation; 5.3 Geodesic equation as the GR equation of motion; 5.3.1 The Newtonian limit; Review questions; 6 Einstein Equation and its Spherical Solution; 6.1 Curvature: a short introduction |
6.2 Tidal gravity and spacetime curvature6.2.1 Tidal forces-a qualitative discussion; 6.2.2 Deviation equations and tidal gravity; 6.3 The GR field equation; 6.3.1 Einstein curvature tensor; 6.3.2 Einstein field equation; 6.3.3 Gravitational waves; 6.4 Geodesics in Schwarzschild spacetime; 6.4.1 The geometry of a spherically symmetric spacetime; 6.4.2 Curved spacetime and deflection of light; 6.4.3 Precession of Mercury's orbit; Review questions; 7 Black Holes; 7.1 Schwarzschild black holes; 7.1.1 Time measurements around a black hole; 7.1.2 Causal structure of the Schwarzschild surface |
7.1.3 Binding energy to a black hole can be extremely large |
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This advanced undergraduate text introduces Einstein's general theory of relativity. The topics covered include geometric formulation of special relativity, the principle of equivalence, Einstein's field equation and its spherical-symmetric solution, as well as cosmology. An emphasis is placed on physical examples and simple applications without the full tensor apparatus. It begins by examining the physics of the equivalence principle and looks at how it inspiredEinstein's idea of curved spacetime as the gravitational field. At a more mathematically accessible level, it provides a metric descr |
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