Hedge funds are now in the news more than a thousand times a day, and yet it's hard to find clear, factual information about how they actually operate, raise capital, and invest. That's why author Richard C. Wilson-head of the largest hedge fund networking group in the industry-has created The...

Whilst associations between inequalities in healthcare utilisation and socio-economic deprivation are well established in the UK it is argued that deprivation indices, such as the Townsend index, remain insensitive to rural/urban differences. This study examines how Townsend and its components...

A number of packaging problems involve optimization of costs subject to constraints imposed by the geometry of the alternatives. One such problem arises in those consumer goods warehousing systems which pack a large number of similar products, differing in size, into individual boxes for...

The financial market is a complex dynamical system composed of a large variety of intricate relationships between several entities, such as banks, corporations and institutions. At the heart of the system lies the stock exchange mechanism, which establishes a time-evolving network of...