1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791269403321

Titolo

Namibia [[electronic resource] ] : communications

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Petaluma, CA, : World Trade Press, 2010

ISBN

1-60780-573-1

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (27 p.)

Disciplina

302.2309

Soggetti

Telecommunication - Namibia

Mass media - Namibia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Sommario/riassunto

Get all three comprehensive reports bundled into one for a complete media and communications profile of Namibia. An excellent source of practical information, this profile offers an extensive dialing guide with city codes, a listing of ISPs and Internet cafes, profiles of the major media outlets (with contact info!) and more.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910953689503321

Autore

Malcolm David <1952->

Titolo

The British and Irish short story handbook / / David Malcolm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2012

ISBN

9786613410887

9781444355208

1444355201

9781444355215

144435521X

9781444355239

1444355236

9781283410885

1283410885

9781782688129

1782688129

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

823.009/9417

Soggetti

English fiction - Irish authors - History and criticism

Short stories, English - History and criticism

Short story

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The British and Irish Short Story Handbook guides readers through the development of the short story and the unique critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction. It includes a wide-ranging analysis of non-canonical and non-realist writers as well as the major authors and their works, providing a comprehensive and much-needed appraisal of this area.    * Guides readers through the development of the short story and critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction  * Offers a detailed discussion of the range of genres in the British and Irish short story  * Includes extensive analysis of non-canonical writers, such



as Hubert Crackanthorpe, Ella D'Arcy, T.F. Powys, A.E. Coppard, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Mollie Panter-Downes, Denton Welch, and Sylvia Townsend Warner  * Provide a wide-ranging discussion of non-realist and experimental short stories  * Includes a large section on the British short story in the Second World War

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960479503321

Titolo

Advanced financial modelling / / edited by Hansjorg Albrecher, Wolfgang J. Runggaldier, Walter Schachermayer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2009

ISBN

9786612456848

9781282456846

1282456849

9783110213140

3110213141

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (464 p.)

Collana

Radon series on computational and applied mathematics ; ; 8

Classificazione

SK 980

Altri autori (Persone)

AlbrecherHansjörg

RunggaldierW. J (Wolfgang J.)

SchachermayerWalter

Disciplina

519.5

Soggetti

Finance - Mathematical models

Options (Finance) - Mathematical models

Insurance - Mathematics

Stochastic differential equations

Mathematical optimization

Financial engineering

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.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Brownian semistationary processes and volatility/intermittency -- From bounds on optimal growth towards a theory of good-deal hedging -- Viscosity solutions to optimal portfolio allocation problems in models with random time changes and



transaction costs -- Discrete-time approximation of BSDEs and probabilistic schemes for fully nonlinear PDEs -- Affine diffusion processes: theory and applications -- Multilevel quasi-Monte Carlo path simulation -- Modelling default and prepayment using Lévy processes: an application to asset backed securities -- Adaptive variance reduction techniques in finance -- Regularisation of inverse problems and its application to the calibration of option price models -- Optimal consumption and investment with bounded downside risk measures for logarithmic utility functions -- A review of some recent results on Malliavin Calculus and its applications -- The numeraire portfolio in discrete time: existence, related concepts and applications -- A worst-case approach to continuous-time portfolio optimisation -- Time consistency and information monotonicity of multiperiod acceptability functionals -- Optimal investment and hedging under partial and inside information -- Investment/consumption choice in illiquid markets with random trading times -- Optimal asset allocation in a stochastic factor model - an overview and open problems

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a collection of state-of-the-art surveys on various topics in mathematical finance, with an emphasis on recent modelling and computational approaches. The volume is related to a 'Special Semester on Stochastics with Emphasis on Finance' that took place from September to December 2008 at the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Linz, Austria.