1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990002002250403321

Autore

Hemming, Francis

Titolo

Official list of specific names in zoology / Francis Hemming, Diana Noakes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, 1958

Descrizione fisica

206 p. ; 28 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Noakes, Diana

Disciplina

590.16

Locazione

DAGEN

Collocazione

61 II B.7/40

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910806801503321

Autore

McLeod Scott <1968->

Titolo

Different schools for a different world / / Scott McLeod, Dean Shareski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Solution Tree Press, , [2018]

�2018

ISBN

1-943874-11-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 61 pages)

Collana

Solutions series

Disciplina

370.973

Soggetti

Educational change - United States

Education - Aims and objectives - United States

Educational accountability - United States

Comparative education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



Nota di contenuto

ch. 1. The information literacy argument -- ch. 2. The economic argument -- ch. 3. The learning argument -- ch. 4. The boredom argument -- ch. 5. The innovation argument -- ch. 6. The equity argument -- ch. 7. The alternative.

Sommario/riassunto

This book details six key arguments for why educators must approach schooling differently in the 21st century: information literacy, the economy, learning, boredom, innovation, and equity. It examines what makes traditional school reforms counterproductive, the building blocks of deeper learning schools, the research that proves deeper learning environments enhance results, and examples of deeper learning schools showing emerging organizational and instructional models.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910812511103321

Autore

Ziemba W. T.

Titolo

Stochastic optimization models in finance / / editors, W. T. Ziemba, R. G. Vickson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Academic Press, , 1975

©1975

ISBN

1-4832-7399-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 719 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Economic Theory and Mathematical Economics

Disciplina

332.01/51922

332.0151922

Soggetti

Finance - Mathematical models

Mathematical optimization

Stochastic processes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Stochastic Optimization Models in Finance; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Part I: Mathematical Tools; INTRODUCTION; I. Expected Utility Theory; II. Convexity and the Kuhn-Tucker Conditions; III. Dynamic



Programming; SECTION1: EXPECTED UTILITY THEORY; CHAPTER 1. A GENERAL THEORY OF SUBJECTIVE PROBABILITIESAND EXPECTED UTILITIES; 1.Introduction; 2. Definitions andnotation; 3. Axioms and summarytheorem; 4.Theorems; 5. Proof of Theorem3; 6. Proof of Theorem4; SECTION2: CONVEXITY AND THE KUHN-TUCKERCONDITIONS; CHAPTER2. PSEUDO-CONVEX FUNCTIONS

Abstract1.Introduction; 2. Properties of pseudo-convex functions and applications; 3. Remarks on pseudo-convex functions; 4.Acknowledgement; CHAPTER3. CONVEXITY, PSEUDO-CONVEXITY AND QUASI-CONVEXITY OF COMPOSITE FUNCTIONS; ABSTRACT; Preliminaries; Principal result; Applications; SECTION3: DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; Chapter4. Introduction to Dynamic Programming; I. Introduction; II. Sequential Decision Processes; III. Terminating Process; IV. The Main Theorem and an Algorithm; V. Nonterminating Processes; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES; CHAPTER5. COMPUTATIONAL AND REVIEW EXERCISES; Exercise Source Notes

CHAPTER6. MIND-EXPANDING EXERCISES Exercise Source Notes; Part II: Qualitative Economic Results; INTRODUCTION; I. Stochastic Dominance; II. Measures of Risk Aversion; III. Separation Theorems; IV. Additional Reading Material; SECTION1: STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE; Chapter 1. The Efficiency Analysis of Choices Involving Risk; I. INTRODUCTION; II. UNRESTRICTED UTILITY-THE GENERALEFFICIENCY CRITERION; III. EFFICIENCY IN THE FACE OF RISK AVERSION; IV. THE LIMITATIONS OF THE MEAN-VARIANCEEFFICIENCY CRITERION; V. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 2. A Unified Approach to Stochastic Dominance

I. Introduction to Stochastic Dominance II. Examples of Stochastic Dominance Relations; III. Probabilistic Content of Stochastic Dominance; REFERENCES; SECTION2: MEASURES OF RISK AVERSION; CHAPTER3. RISK AVERSION IN THE SMALL AND IN THE LARGE; 1. SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION; 2. THE RISK PREMIUM; 3. LOCAL RISK AVERSION; 4. CONCAVITY; 5. COMPARATIVE RISK AVERSION; 6. CONSTANT RISK AVERSION; 7. INCREASING AND DECREASING RISK AVERSION; 8. OPERATIONS WHICH PRESERVE DECREASING RISK AVERSION; 9. EXAMPLES; 10. PROPORTIONAL RISK AVERSION; 11. CONSTANT PROPORTIONAL RISK AVERSION

12. INCREASING AND DECREASING PROPORTIONAL RISK AVERSION13. RELATED WORK OF ARROW; ADDENDUM; SECTION3: SEPARATION THEOREMS; CHAPTER 4. THE VALUATION OF RISK ASSETS AND THE SELECTION OF RISKY INVESTMENTS IN STOCKPORTFOLIOS AND CAPITAL BUDGETS; Introduction and Preview of Some Conclusions; I - Portfolio Selection for an Individual Investor: The Separation Theorem; II -Portfolio Selection: The Optimal Stock Mix; Ill Risk Premiums and Other Properties of Stocks Held Long or Short in Optimal Portfolios; IV - Market Prices of Shares Implied by Shareholder Optimization in Purely Competitive Markets Under Idealized Uncertainty

Sommario/riassunto

Stochastic Optimization Models in Finance



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910768452403321

Autore

O'Brien Karen

Titolo

Cursing, Crisis and Customary Knowledge in Early Modern English Townships / / by Karen O'Brien

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031440458

3031440455

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic, , 2731-5649

Disciplina

306.4

Soggetti

Social history

Civilization - History

Great Britain - History

Law - History

Social History

Cultural History

History of Britain and Ireland

Legal History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1, Cursing in Early Modern Townships  -- 2. Spoken Transgression and the Courts  -- 3. Economic Fluctuation  -- 4. Customary Knowledge, Magic, and Cunning in Local Context  -- 5. Narratives of Desperation  -- 6. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a historical and socio-legal investigation into the prevalence of litigation arising from cursing and interpersonal hostility in the under-explored region of Northwest England during a period of acute socio-economic crisis in the seventeenth century. Contributing to the scholarship of magic and witchcraft, it shows the complex circumstances of the world of healing and harming using customary knowledge such as magic and folk medicine as it is variously presented in the documents of the legal system. While primary sources such as pamphlets have usefully informed numerous witchcraft studies, this book establishes popular belief derived from the depositions,



interrogatories and various other manuscripts of the manorial, ecclesiastical and secular courts positioned within a micro historical early modern context. Karen O’Brien is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is a social historian of comparative socio-legal history and criminology. Within a range of global, thematic and temporal contexts, and in an appraisal of the requests of the weak to the powerful, her publications investigate legal sources such as petitions and depositions to ascertain how people transcend the hardships of daily life, principally by appealing to the law for justice. Her research is internationally influential in the field of petitioning and her forthcoming research and publications address the wide-ranging area of customary knowledge in international comparative historical context.