David Bowie's Low
David Bowie's Low

Author: Hugo Wilcken

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2005-08-19

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 0826416845

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"One day I blew my nose and half my brains came out." Los Angeles, 1976. David Bowie is holed up in his Bel-Air mansion, drifting into drug-induced paranoia and confusion. Obsessed with black magic and the Holy Grail, he's built an altar in the living room and keeps his fingernail clippings in the fridge. There are occasional trips out to visit his friend Iggy Pop in a mental institution. His latest album is the cocaine-fuelled Station To Station (Bowie: "I know it was recorded in LA because I read it was"), which welds R&B rhythms to lyrics that mix the occult with a yearning for Europe, after three mad years in the New World. Bowie has long been haunted by the angst-ridden, emotional work of the Die Brucke movement and the Expressionists. Berlin is their spiritual home, and after a chaotic world tour, Bowie adopts this city as his new sanctuary. Immediately he sets to work on Low, his own expressionist mood-piece.

Future Data and Security Engineering
Future Data and Security Engineering

Author: Tran Khanh Dang

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-11-07

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 3319261355

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering, FDSE 2015, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in November 2015. The 20 revised full papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. They have been organized in the following topical sections: big data analytics and massive dataset mining; security and privacy engineering; crowdsourcing and social network data analytics; sensor databases and applications in smart home and city; emerging data management systems and applications; context-based analysis and applications; and data models and advances in query processing.

Sixteenth International Seaweed Symposium
Sixteenth International Seaweed Symposium

Author: Joanna M. Kain (Jones)

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 672

ISBN-13: 9401144494

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The papers presented in this volume reflect continuing worldwide interest in marine algae and range from results using cutting-edge laboratory techniques to simple but important field observations. Many of the contributors frequently publish in their own languages.

Source
Source

Author: Larry Austin

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011-07-06

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0520267451

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This work is a seminal source for materials on the heyday of experimental music and arts. The book documents crucial changes in performance practice and live electronics, computer music, notation and event scores, theatre and installations, and much more.

Applied Conjoint Analysis
Applied Conjoint Analysis

Author: Vithala R. Rao

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2014-02-20

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 3540877533

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Conjoint analysis is probably the most significant development in marketing research in the past few decades. It can be described as a set of techniques ideally suited to studying customers’ decision-making processes and determining tradeoffs. Though this book is oriented towards methods and applications of conjoint analysis in marketing, conjoint methods are also applicable for other business and social sciences. After an introduction to the basic ideas of conjoint analysis the book describes the steps involved in designing a ratings-based conjoint study, it covers various methods for estimating partworth functions from preference ratings data, and dedicates a chapter on methods of design and analysis of conjoint-based choice experiments, where choice is measured directly. Chapter 5 describes several methods for handling a large number of attributes. Chapters 6 through 8 discuss the use of conjoint analysis for specific applications like product and service design or product line decisions, product positioning and market segmentation decisions, and pricing decisions. Chapter 9 collates miscellaneous applications of marketing mix including marketing resource allocation or store location decisions. Finally, Chapter 10 reviews more recent developments in experimental design and data analysis and presents an assessment of future developments.

Teams
Teams

Author: Ronald Recardo

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-11-03

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1136359990

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Is team-based management best for your business? Will it help your organization meet the challenges of the twenty-first century to cut production costs, increase quality and service, and compete in the global economy? his practical, immensely informative book will help you make that decision. Teams tells you: When to use teams and when not to use them. What conditions must exist for teams to be successful. Which teams are appropriate for a particular situation. How to develop teams to meet the specific needs of your organization.

Simulation in Computational Finance and Economics: Tools and Emerging Applications
Simulation in Computational Finance and Economics: Tools and Emerging Applications

Author: Alexandrova-Kabadjova, Biliana

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2012-08-31

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 1466620129

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Simulation has become a tool difficult to substitute in many scientific areas like manufacturing, medicine, telecommunications, games, etc. Finance is one of such areas where simulation is a commonly used tool; for example, we can find Monte Carlo simulation in many financial applications like market risk analysis, portfolio optimization, credit risk related applications, etc. Simulation in Computational Finance and Economics: Tools and Emerging Applications presents a thorough collection of works, covering several rich and highly productive areas of research including Risk Management, Agent-Based Simulation, and Payment Methods and Systems, topics that have found new motivations after the strong recession experienced in the last few years. Despite the fact that simulation is widely accepted as a prominent tool, dealing with a simulation-based project requires specific management abilities of the researchers. Economic researchers will find an excellent reference to introduce them to the computational simulation models. The works presented in this book can be used as an inspiration for economic researchers interested in creating their own computational models in their respective fields.