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As a direct result of economic globalization and computerized trading, today's professional stock, bond, and futures traders face a career-making - or breaking - challenge: to track and immediately comprehend the bewildering place of market, volume, and price changes, then some how profit from this unexpected volatility. In "Smarter Trading" distinguished author and trader Perry Kaufman helps harried financial pros cope with financial market uncertainty by creating a "robust" trading model that adapts quickly to market changes and yields stronger, more predictable results. And he shows them how to make sense of the current barrage of sophisticated, hi-tech trading technologies - neural networks, fuzzy logic, expert systems, chaos, and fractals, to name a few - and align these weapons with their own trading strategies..
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This comprehensive text and reference work on numerical weather prediction covers for the first time, not only methods for numerical modeling, but also the important related areas of data assimilation and predictability. It incorporates all aspects of environmental computer modeling including an historical overview of the subject, equations of motion and their approximations, a modern and clear description of numerical methods, and the determination of initial conditions using weather observations (an important new science known as data assimilation)..
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Thomas Berghage has beaten the S&P 500 17 years and running According to this eye-opening book, the key to his success is artificial intelligence and quantum mechanics. In Predicting the Unpredictable, Berghage and Dr. George Olander look at the flaws and limitations of contemporary securities analysis and the ways in which the human element inevitably hinders investment. Computers, with their ability to analyze infinitely more variables at once than a human can possibly handle, have the power to take the guesswork out of finance and save us all from the ambiguities of behavioral finance..
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Here is a provocative argument for predictability as the most powerful of management tools. The book presents tools to hone predictive powers, make decisions, and measure risk. It is as much a useful lens for individuals, as they interpret their own lives as for corporations as they predict and improve on their own futures. Passionate, down-to-earth, and highly readable, Do Lunch or Be Lunch will entertain, provoke, and prompt you to action..
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The memory system is increasingly turning into a bottleneck in the design of embedded systems. The speed improvements of memory systems are lower than the speed improvements of processors, eventually leading to embedded systems whose performance is limited by the memory. This problem is known as the "memory wall" problem. Furthermore, memory systems may consume the largest share of the system’s energy budget and may be the source of unpredictable timing behaviour. Hence, the design of the memory system deserves an increasing amount of attention.

Fast, Efficient and Predictable Memory Accesses presents techniques for designing fast, energy-efficient and timing predictable memory systems. By using a careful combination of compiler optimizations and architectural improvements, we can achieve more than what would be feasible at one of the levels in isolation. The described optimization algorithms achieve the goals of high performance and low energy consumption. In addition to these benefits, the use of scratchpad memories significantly improves the timing predictability of the entire system, leading to tighter worst case execution time bounds (WCET). The WCET is a relevant design parameter for all timing critical systems. In addition, the book covers algorithms to exploit the power down modes of main memories in SDRAM technology, as well as the execute-in-place feature of Flash memories. The final chapter considers the impact of the register file, which is also part of the memory hierarchy.

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Academy of Business and Economics, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 10309 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Predictability and trading efficiency of S&P CNX nifty index returns using support vector machines and random forest regression.
Author: Manish Kumar
Publication:Journal of Academy of Business and Economics (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 7 Issue: 1 Page: 150(15)

Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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Satellite observations and computing technology have advanced our understanding of the monsoon climate enormously in the last two decades. The author provides an update of the knowledge gained over this period, presenting the modern morphology and the physical principles of monsoon climate variation on all time scales ranging from intraseasonal to tectonic time scales. He brings new ideas that can be expected to markedly improve the prediction of monsoon climate, and includes contributions by experts who expand our understanding of the monsoon environment by their study of paleoclimate records, who present evidence of human influences on monsoon climate, and who describe the links of the monsoon to the economy and to human health.

This is a comprehensive interdisciplinary text book summarizing new knowledge of Asian monsoon climate variability, dynamics, modeling, and prediction from intraseasonal to geological time scales, and human influence and its links to environmetal/economic issues..
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