Описание: "This revised second edition of Monetary Policy, Inflation, and the Business Cycle provides a rigorous graduate-level introduction to the New Keynesian framework and its applications to monetary policy. The New Keynesian framework is the workhorse for the analysis of monetary policy and its implications for inflation, economic fluctuations, and welfare. A backbone of the new generation of medium-scale models under development at major central banks and international policy institutions, the framework provides the theoretical underpinnings for the price stability-oriented strategies adopted by most central banks in the industrialized world. Using a canonical version of the New Keynesian model as a reference, Jordi Gali explores various issues pertaining to monetary policy`s design, including optimal monetary policy and the desirability of simple policy rules. He analyzes several extensions of the baseline model, allowing for cost-push shocks, nominal wage rigidities, and open economy factors. In each case, the effects for monetary policy are addressed, with emphasis on the desirability of inflation-targeting policies. New material includes labor and financial market frictions, the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates, and an analysis of unemployment`s significance for monetary policy. The most up-to-date introduction to the New Keynesian framework available A single benchmark model used throughout New materials and exercises included An ideal resource for graduate students, researchers, and market analysts "--
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Автор: Fink, Heather Hedrick, Название: Practical applications in sports nutrition / ISBN: 1284181340 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781284181340 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 12670.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Every new print copy of Practical Applications in Sports Nutrition, Sixth Edition includes Navigate 2 Premier Access which includes numerous learning tools and study aids including a full eBook, 15 interactive case-study modules, animations, workbook exercises in writable PDF format, and much more. The sixth edition of Practical Applications in Sports Nutrition provides students with the latest sports nutrition information and dietary practices enabling them to assist athletes and fitness enthusiasts in achieving their personal performance goals. The authors provide data and statistics from the latest nutrition research and guidelines to demonstrate effective ways to communicate sports nutrition messages to athletes and outline how to motivate individuals to make permanent behavior change. Early chapters provide an introduction to sports nutrition and give a thorough explanation of macronutrients, micronutrients, and water, and their relation to athletic performance. Later chapters focus on the practical and applied aspects of sports nutrition including behavior change through consultations and weight management. An end-of-text workbook provides readers with an opportunity to apply the information they have learned to various real-world activities. Instructor resources include a test bank with chapter quizzes, mid-term and final (in Navigate 2), Lecture Slides in PowerPoint format, and Instructor's Manual.
Автор: Bridger Emma Название: Employee Engagement: A Practical Introduction ISBN: 0749483512 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780749483517 Издательство: Kogan Page Рейтинг: Цена: 3166.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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A fully engaged workforce is critical to the success and high performance of any organization. Employee Engagement offers a complete, practical resource for understanding, measuring and building engagement. Full of practical tools, techniques and diagnostics, as well as real life examples from British Gas, Capital One, Asda, Ministry of Justice, Mace and RSA, which help assess and drive engagement in an organization.
This updated edition of Employee Engagement considers the increasing use of technology in engagement; the move towards an ongoing listening strategy; the impact of machine learning; the use of enterprise social networks; the rise in interest around employee experience; and the professionalization of employee engagement. Fresh international case studies as well as downloadable templates and checklists for each chapter demonstrate how to apply the theory in practice.
The HR Fundamentals series is endorsed by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the UK professional body for HR and people development with over 145,000 members worldwide. This series of succinct, practical and straightforward guides supports those in the early stages of HR.
Автор: Ryan Название: Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction 3e ISBN: 111906175X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781119061755 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3477.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction, Third Edition, presents a comprehensive introduction to the full range of contemporary approaches to the study of literature and culture, from formalism, structuralism, and historicism to ethnic, gender, and science studies.
Acknowledgments.- Introduction: From ThePrincess Bride to computational personality.- Personality in a nutshell: Understanding who we are.- Computational personality analysis: When the machine meets the psychologist.- Distributional semantics and personality: How to find a perpetrator in a haystack.- Themes of personality: Profiling a political leader.- Going beyond words: How the Sisters of Mercy may identify psychopaths.- Hidden textual themes: Into Shakespeare's mind.- The complexity of personality: From Snowden to Superman.- Attractors of personality: A murderer, a terrorist and some angry Jews.- Taking complexity a step forward: The reversibility of the pedophile's mind.- Discussion.- Appendix.- Author index.- Subject index.
Описание: This concise and approachable introduction to statistics limits its coverage to the concepts most relevant to social workers. Besides presenting key concepts, it focuses on real-world examples that students will encounter in a social work practice.
Applications of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Theories in Healthcare and Biomedical Engineering contains several practical applications on how decision-making theory could be used in solving problems relating to the selection of best alternatives. The book focuses on assisting decision-makers (government, organizations, companies, general public, etc.) in making the best and most appropriate decision when confronted with multiple alternatives. The purpose of the analytical MCDM techniques is to support decision makers under uncertainty and conflicting criteria while making logical decisions.
The knowledge of the alternatives of the real-life problems, properties of their parameters, and the priority given to the parameters have a great effect on consequences in decision-making. In this book, the application of MCDM has been provided for the real-life problems in health and biomedical engineering issues.
Provides a comprehensive analysis and application multi-criteria decision-making methods
Presents detail information about MCDM and their usage
Covers state-of-the-art MCDM methods and offers applications of MCDM for health and biomedical engineering purposes
Описание: This concise and approachable introduction to statistics limits its coverage to the concepts most relevant to social workers. Besides presenting key concepts, it focuses on real-world examples that students will encounter in a social work practice.
Описание: This book describes how dynamic state estimation application in wide-area measurement systems (WAMS) are crucial for power system reliability, to acquire precisely power system dynamics.
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