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Control in an Information Rich World: Report of the Panel on Future Directions in Control, Dynamics, and Systems.pdf

October 28, 2009 · Filed Under Electrical Engineering · Comment  · Tags:

The purpose of this report is to spell out some of the prospects for control in the current and future technological environment, to describe the role the field will play in military, commercial, and scientific applications over the next decade, and to recommend actions required to enable new breakthroughs in engineering and technology through application of control research.

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Calculus Unlimited.pdf

October 27, 2009 · Filed Under Math · Comment  · Tags: , , , ,

This book is for calculus instructors and students interested in trying an alternative to limits. The prerequisites are a knowledge of functions, graphs, high school algebra and trigonometry.

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Applications to Organic Chemistry.pdf

Taken from Introdution: The development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy subsequent to the initial discoveries by Purcell and Bloch in 1946 is now recognized as one of the most important events in the last fifty years for the advancement of organic chemistry. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques are throwing new light on many difficult organic problems. With the possible exception of gas-liquid chromatography, no new experimental method has been so rapidly accepted or proved so widely applicable. It is the purpose of this book to present the elements of NMR spectroscopy in a form suitable for practical use by organic chemists. Examples of applications will be mainly drawn from high resolution proton resonance spectroscopy, but the principles so illustrated will often be useful in dealing with other types of NMR spectroscopy.

Introduction to Economic Analysis.pdf

This book presents introductory economics (”principles”) material using standard mathematical tools, including calculus. It is designed for a relatively sophisticated undergraduate who has not taken a basic university course in economics. It also contains the standard intermediate microeconomics material and some material that ought to be standard but is not. The book can easily serve as an intermediate microeconomics text. The focus of this book is on the conceptual tools and not on fluff. Most microeconomics texts are mostly fluff and the fluff market is exceedingly overserved by $100+ texts. In contrast, this book reflects the approach actually adopted by the majority of economists for understanding economic activity. There are lots of models and equations and no pictures of economists.

An Artificial Market Model of a Foreign Exchange Market.pdf

October 23, 2009 · Filed Under Trading · 1 Comment  · Tags: , , , ,

In this study, the author proposes a new approach to foreign exchange (forex) market studies: the artificial market approach - by integrating fieldwork studies and multiagent computer models in order to explain the micro and macro relation in markets, as another downloadable model does by considering final consumers.
The proposed artificial market approach is constituted by three steps:
First, in order to investigate the learning patterns of actual dealers, the author carried out both interviews and questionnaires. These field data made it clear that each dealer improved his or her prediction method by replacing (a part of) his or her opinions about facts with other dealers’ opinion.
Second, the author constructed a multiagent model of a foreign exchange market. Considering the result of the analysis of the field data, the interaction of agents’ learning were described with genetic algorithms.
Finally, emergent phenomena at the market level were analyzed onthe basis of the simulation results of the model. The results showed that bubbles in exchange rates were caused by the interaction between the agents’ forecasts and the relationship of demand and supply. Other emergent phenomena were explained by the concept of the phase transition of forecast variety.
The simulation results were supported by further empirical data.

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