Asset allocation and private markets : A guide to investing with private equity, private debt, and private real assets
Asset Allocation and Private Markets provides institutional investors, such as pension funds, insurance groups and family offices, with a single-volume authoritative resource on including private markets in strategic asset allocation. The discussion focuses on private equity, private debt and private real assets, and their correlation with other asset classes to establish optimized investment portfolios.
Assessment of Energy-Efficient Building Details for Seismic Regions
Presents a methodology for the assessment of structural building details, taking into account the contemporary guidelines for earthquake-resistant and energy-efficient buildings. A review of structural details for energy-efficient buildings revealed that in some cases the structural system is interrupted, leading to solutions which are not suitable for earthquake-prone regions. Such typical examples would be the use of thermal insulation under the building foundation and reduction of the load-bearing elements’ dimensions – also at the potential locations of plastic hinges which are crucial for the dissipation of seismic energy.
Artificial intelligence for asset management and investment : A strategic perspective
The rise of artificial intelligence is nothing short of a technological revolution. AI is poised to completely transform asset management and investment banking, yet its current application within the financial sector is limited and fragmented. Existing AI implementations tend to solve very narrow business issues, rather than serving as a powerful tech framework for next-generation finance. Artificial Intelligence for Asset Management and Investment provides a strategic viewpoint on how AI can be comprehensively integrated within investment finance, leading to evolved performance in compliance, management, customer service, and beyond.
Artificial immune systems ; Vol. 3627 ; 4th International conference, ICARIS 2005, Banff, Alberta, Canada, August 14-17, 2005, Proceedings
Your immune system is unique. It is in many ways as complex as your brain, butit is not centred in one location, like the brain. It is not a single organ—it consistsof many different cell types, diverse methods of intercellular communication, andmany different organs. Its functionality is blurred throughout you—we can’textract the immune system, or point to where it begins and ends. The immunesystem is not separable from the system it protects. It has integral links to everyorgan of our bodies.This has radical implications for the field of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS),that we are only now beginning to comprehend. One of the first insights is thatmodelling the immune system, or developing any kind of immune algorithm, isdifficult. The immune system is one aspect of biology that we find difficult toapply simple reductionist explanations to. We can very successfully extract sub-processes of the whole and create immune algorithms based on those processes.
Architectures of festival in early modern Europe : Fashioning and re-fashioning urban and courtly space
Draws on up-to-date research by a Europe-wide group of academic scholars and museum and gallery curators to provide a unique, intellectually-stimulating and beautifully-illustrated account of temporary architecture created for festivals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, together with permanent architecture pressed into service for festival occasions across major European locations including Italian, French, Austrian, Scottish and German.
Anestetici locali in analgesia ostetrica : Il modello MLAC : dalla teoria alla pratica clinica = Local anesthetics in obstetric analgesia : The MLAC model : from theory to clinical practice
This monograph contains a detailed description of the MLAC method and its applications and an extensive and updated review of the most significant studies on the subject and their clinical implications. Studies that use the up-down sequential allocation method have made a significant contribution to clarifying numerous questions that the anesthetist asks himself every day in the delivery room and today rightly flank traditional studies representing, together with them, the primary source of updating and knowledge that are indispensable for good clinical practice based not only on experience but also on evidence and scientific rationale.
Android Essentials
Android Essentials is a no–frills, no–nonsense, code–centric run through the guts of application development on Google's Mobile OS. This book uses the development of a sample application to work through topics, focusing on giving developers the essential tools and examples required to make viable commercial applications work. Covering the entirety of the Android catalog in less than 150 pages is simply impossible. Instead, this book focuses on just four main topics: the application life cycle and OS integration, user interface, location–based services, and networking.
An Introduction to Meshfree Methods and Their Programming
This book aims to present meshfree methods in a friendly and straightforward manner, so that beginners can very easily understand, comprehend, program, implement, apply and extend these methods. It provides first the fundamentals of numerical analysis that are particularly important to meshfree methods. Typical meshfree methods, such as EFG, RPIM, MLPG, LRPIM, MWS and collocation methods are then introduced systematically detailing the formulation, numerical implementation and programming. Many well-tested computer source codes developed by the authors are attached with useful descriptions. The application of the codes can be readily performed using the examples with input and output files given in table form. These codes consist of most of the basic meshfree techniques, and can be easily extended to other variations of more complex procedures of meshfree methods. Readers can easily practice with the codes provided to effective learn and comprehend the basics of meshfree methods.
Ambient Intelligence ; European Conference, AmI 2007, Darmstadt, Germany, November 7-10, 2007, Proceedings
This book presented sections on mobility and sensing, applications of AmI, activity and location sensing, AmI and artificial intelligence, AmI middleware and infrastructure, and interaction with the environment. The book is rounded off by a section on case studies and lessons learned, presenting a high level selection of current research reports and papers that reflect the most important activities of current ambient intelligence research.
Al-Thawra Bridge
Al-Thawra Bridge is a Box girder beam bridge located in Syria - Damascus city, connecting "Al Thawra Street with Al Naser Street". The bridge carries two roadway traffic lanes (10.7) meter, and there is no exist of pedestrian or bicycle traffic lane on this bridge. At the time of it's opening, the bridge will have 5 main spans, first and last span were designed to be a simple beam of 20 meter.
Alshaer Hotel
The project is a hotel located in Swaida city consist of 5 mass. The total area of typical floors is 1400 m2 and it continuous for 12 floor.
Alqadam Train Station
Aims to focuses on the redesign of the Southern Train Station of Damascus, located in the Al-Qadam area. The proposal aims to preserve the historical identity of the existing station while expanding it to meet the needs of modern urban mobility. The design balances heritage conservation with contemporary architectural expression, creating a space that respects the cultural fabric of Damascus while addressing future growth.Key elements include increasing station capacity, integrating sustainable design strategies, and enhancing passenger flow. Renewable energy use, passive ventilation, and green spaces are central to reducing environmental impact and improving user comfort. يركّز مشروع التخرج هذا على إعادة تصميم المحطة الجنوبية للقطارات في دمشق، الواقعة في منطقة القديهدف المشروع إلى الحفاظ على الهوية التاريخية للمحطة القديمة مع تطويرها وتوسيعها لتلبية احتياجات النقل الحضري المعاصر. يجمع التصميم بين صون التراث والتعبير المعماري الحديث، ليخلق فضاءً يحترم النسيج الثقافي لدمشق ويستجيب في الوقت نفسه لمتطلبات النمو المستقبلي. تشمل العناصر الأساسية زيادة القدرة الاستيعابية للمحطة، ودمج استراتيجيات التصميم المستدام، وتحسين حركة المسافرين. كما يعتمد المشروع على استخدام الطاقة المتجددة، والتهوية الطبيعية، وإضافة المساحات الخضراء لتقليل الأثر البيئي وتعزيز راحة المستخدمين.
Allocating public and private resources across generations : Riding the age waves ; Vol .2
The chapters in this volume greatly develop our understanding of the nature and measurement of transfers, their motives and mechanisms, and their macro-level dimensions, especially in the context of demographic transitions.
Algorithmic learning theory ; Vol.4264 : 17th International Conference, ALT 2006, Barcelona, Spain, October 7-10, 2006, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2006, held in Barcelona, Spain in October 2006, colocated with the 9th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2006.The 24 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of five invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers are dedicated to the theoretical foundations of machine learning.
Algorithmic learning theory ; 19th International Conference, ALT 2008, Budapest, Hungary, October 13-16, 2008. Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2008, held in Budapest, Hungary, in October 2008, co-located with the 11th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2008.
Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks ; 2nd International Workshop, ALGOSENSORS 2006, Venice, Italy, July 15, 2006, Revised Selected Papers
This volume contains the contributed papers and invited talks presented at the 1stInternational Workshop on Algorithmic Aspect sof Wireless Sensor Networks (ALGOSENSORS 2004), which was held July 16, 2004, in Turku, Finland, - located with the 31st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2004). Wireless ad hoc sensor networks have become a very important research subject due to their potential to provide diverse services in numerous appli- tions. The realization of sensor networks requires intensive technical research and development e?orts, especially in power-aware scalable wireless ad hoc c- munications protocols, due to their unusual application requirements and severe constraints. On the other hand, a solid theoretical background seems necessary for sensor networks to achieve their full potential. It is an algorithmic challenge to achieve e?cient and robust realizations of such large, highly dynamic, complex, n- conventional networking environments
Algorithm Theory - SWAT 2008 ; 11th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2-4, 2008. Proceedings
his book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory, SWAT 2008, held in Gothenborg, Sweden, in July 2008.
AI, data, and digitalization : First International Symposium, SAIDD 2023, Sogndal, Norway, May 9–10, 2023, Revised Selected Papers
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Digitalization allow us more than ever beforeto make use of the data our society and public and private sectors generate every day.Institutions around the world are increasingly turning to such methods and technologiesto help them solve complex problems, promote efficiency and improve performance anddecision-making.
Agile Marketing Performance Management : 10 Success Factors for Maximizing Marketing ROI Dynamically
Helps marketing decision makers in allocating their budget to diverse communication channels and different business units in an ROI-optimal way, and to adapt it in an agile manner.
Advances in XML information retrieval and Evaluation ; 4th International workshop of the initiative for the evaluation of XML retrieval, INEX 2005, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, November 28-30, 2005. Revised and Selected Papers
Content-oriented XML retrieval has been receiving increasing interest due to the widespread use of eXtensible Markup Language (XML), which is becoming a standard document format on the Web, in digital libraries,and publishing. By exploiting the enriched source of syntactic and semantic information that XML markup provides, XML information retrieval (IR) systems aim to implement a more focused retrieval strategy and return document components, so-called XML elements – instead of complete documents – in response to a user query. This focused retrieval approach is of particular bene?t for collections containing long documents or documents covering a wide variety of topics (e.g., books, user manuals, legal documents, etc.), where users’ e?ort to locate relevant content can be reduced by directing them to the most relevant parts of the documents.



















