Every day young people engage in risky behaviors that affect not only their immediate well-being but their long-term health and safety. These well-honed essays apply diverse economic analyses to a wide range of unsafe activities, including teen drinking and driving, smoking, drug use,...

More than any other altruistic gesture, blood and organ donation exemplifies the true spirit of self-sacrifice. Donors literally give of themselves for no reward so that the life of an individual-often anonymous-may be spared. But as the demand for blood and organs has grown, the value of a...

While debates over the consequences of climate change are often pessimistic, historical data from the past two centuries indicate many viable opportunities for responding to potential changes. This volume takes a close look at the ways in which economies-particularly that of the United...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of table -- Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- PART ONE Fashion and fashion theories -- Introduction -- 1 Explaining it Away -- 2 The Empire of Fashion: Introduction -- 3...

Coppice Agroforestry is a comprehensive guide to resprout silviculture - coppicing, pollarding, shredding, and pleaching hardwood trees for firewood, building materials, furniture, basketry, and more. Covers coppice history, biology, ecology, products, woodland economics, and agroforestry system...

"This new second edition of Swaps and Other Derivatives leads the reader from simple swap pricing to more complex derivatives and different approaches to risk management of these. The theory is complemented by easy to understand examples and exercises in spreadsheets. The structure of the book...

Pricing Metal Futures. The Two-Regime-Pricing Model revisited -- Vorwort -- Abstract -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature review -- 3 Statistical Properties of Metal Prices -- 3.1 Data set -- 3.2 Stationarity and Mean...

Intro -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Motivation -- 1.2 Tracking Versus Economic Model Predictive Control: A High-Level Overview -- 1.3 Chemical Processes and Time-Varying Operation -- 1.3.1 Catalytic Oxidation of...

The Handbook of Simulation Optimization presents an overview of the state of the art of simulation optimization, providing a survey of the most well-established approaches for optimizing stochastic simulation models and a sampling of recent research advances in theory and methodology. Leading...

This handbook provides sophisticated models for the study and analysis of activities involving the transportation of hazardous materials: risk assessment, shipment and route planning, decisions on location and emergency planning for terrorist attacks.