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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Internet of Things (IoT)
The 15 chapters in this book explore the theoretical as well as a number of technical research outcomes on all aspects of UAVs. UAVs has widely differing applications such as disaster management, structural inspection, goods delivery, transportation, localization, mapping, pollution and radiation monitoring, search and rescue, farming, etc. The advantages of using UAVs are countless and have led the way for the full integration of UAVs, as intelligent objects into the IoT system. The book covers cover such subjects as: Efficient energy management systems in UAV based IoT networks IoE enabled UAVs Mind-controlled UAV using Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) The importance of AI in realizing autonomous and intelligent flying IoT Blockchain-based solutions for various security issues in UAV-enabled IoT The challenges and threats of UAVs such as hijacking, privacy, cyber-security, and physical safety.
Advanced Portfolio Management
You have great investment ideas. If you turn them into highly profitable portfolios, this book is for you. Advanced Portfolio Management: A Quant’s Guide for Fundamental Investors is for fundamental equity analysts and portfolio managers, present, and future. Whatever stage you are at in your career, you have valuable investment ideas but always need knowledge to turn them into money. This book will introduce you to a framework for portfolio construction and risk management that is grounded in sound theory and tested by successful fundamental portfolio managers. The emphasis is on theory relevant to fundamental portfolio managers that works in practice, enabling you to convert ideas into a strategy portfolio that is both profitable and resilient. Intuition always comes first, and this book helps to lay out simple but effective «rules of thumb» that require little effort to implement and understand. At the same time, the book shows how to implement sophisticated techniques in order to meet the challenges a successful investor faces as his or her strategy grows in size and complexity. Advanced Portfolio Management also contains more advanced material and a quantitative appendix, which benefit quantitative researchers who are members of fundamental teams. You will learn how to: Separate stock-specific return drivers from the investment environment’s return drivers Understand current investment themes Size your cash positions based on Your investment ideas Understand your performance Measure and decompose risk Hedge the risk you don’t want Use diversification to your advantage Manage losses and control tail risk Set your leverage Author Giuseppe A. Paleologo has consulted, collaborated, taught, and drank strong wine with some of the best stock-pickers in the world; he has traded tens of billions of dollars hedging and optimizing their books and has helped them navigate through big drawdowns and even bigger recoveries. Whether or not you have access to risk models or advanced mathematical background, you will benefit from the techniques and the insights contained in the book—and won't find them covered anywhere else.
A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire, 2 Volume Set
A COMPANION TO THE ACHAEMENID PERSIAN EMPIRE <p><b>A comprehensive review of the political, cultural, social, economic and religious history of the Achaemenid Empirem</b> <p>Often called the first world empire, the Achaemenid Empire is rooted in older Near Eastern traditions. <i>A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire</i> offers a perspective in which the history of the empire is embedded in the preceding and subsequent epochs. In this way, the traditions that shaped the Achaemenid Empire become as visible as the powerful impact it had on further historical development. But the work does not only break new ground in this respect, but also in the fact that, in addition to written testimonies of all kinds, it also considers material tradition as an equal factor in historical reconstruction. This comprehensive two-volume set features contributions by internationally-recognized experts that offer balanced coverage of the whole of the empire from Anatolia and Egypt across western Asia to northern India and Central Asia. <p>Comprehensive in scope, the Companion provides readers with a panoramic view of the diversity, richness, and complexity of the Achaemenid Empire, dealing with all the many aspects of history, event history, administration, economy, society, communication, art, science and religion, illustrating the multifaceted nature of the first true empire. <p>A unique historical account presented in its multiregional dimensions, this important resource <ul><li>deals with many aspects of history, administration, economy, society, communication, art, science and religion</li> <li>it deals with topics that have only recently attracted interest such as court life, leisure activities, gender roles, and more</li> <li>examines a variety of available sources to consider those predecessors who influenced Achaemenid structure, ideology, and self-expression</li> <li>contains the study of <i>Nachleben</i> and the history of perception up to the present day</li> <li>offers a spectrum of opinions in disputed fields of research, such as the interpretation of the imagery of Achaemenid art, or questions of religion</li> <li>includes extensive bibliographies in each chapter for use as starting points for further research</li> <li>devotes special interest to the east of the empire, which is often neglected in comparison to the western territories</li></ul> <p>Part of the acclaimed <i>Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World </i>series, <i>A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire</i> is an indispensable work for students, instructors, and scholars of Persian and ancient world history, particularly the First Persian Empire.
