Ming Chen: 19 books
Econophysics and Capital Asset Pricing
Splitting the Atom of Systematic Risk
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This book rehabilitates beta as a definition of systemic risk by using particle physics to evaluate discrete components of financial risk. Much of the frustration with beta stems from the failure to disaggregate its discrete components; conventional beta is often treated as if it were "atomic"...
Canadian-Daoist Poetics, Ethics, and Aesthetics
An Interdisciplinary and Cross-cultural Study
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
This monograph takes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach to 20th and 21st -century Canadian Daoist poetry, fiction and criticism in comparative, innovative and engaging ways. Of particular interest are the authors’ refreshing insights into such holistic and topical issues as the globalization...
Finance and the Behavioral Prospect
Risk, Exuberance, and Abnormal Markets
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This book explains how investor behavior, from mental accounting to the combustible interplay of hope and fear, affects financial economics. The transformation of portfolio theory begins with the identification of anomalies. Gaps in perception and behavioral departures from rationality spur momentum,...
by Xiande Xie, Ming Chen
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
This book introduces the unusual shock-related mineralogical features of the shocked Suizhou L6 (S5) meteorite. The olivine and pyroxene in Suizhou display a mosaic shock feature, while most of plagioclase grains have transformed to glassy maskelynite. A few of the shock-induced melt veins in the...
Postmodern Portfolio Theory
Navigating Abnormal Markets and Investor Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This survey of portfolio theory, from its modern origins through more sophisticated, “postmodern” incarnations, evaluates portfolio risk according to the first four moments of any statistical distribution: mean, variance, skewness, and excess kurtosis. In pursuit of financial models that more...
Marxism and 20th-Century English-Canadian Novels
A New Approach to Social Realism
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
This monograph is the first academic work to apply a neo-Marxist approach to 20th-century Canadian social realist novels, pursuing a refreshingly (neo-)Marxist approach to such issues as Bakhtinian notions of the novelistic form and dialogism as applied to Canadian socio-political novels influenced...
A Scholar's Path
An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poems and Prose of Chen Qing ShanA Pioneer Writer of Malayan-Singapore Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
English translation and appreciation by Peter Chen and Michael Tan
Reviewed by Chan Chiu Ming
An original English translation from the Chinese text:
Comprises 60 poems (85 verses) and three prose compositions
Opens a window to the heart and mind of a Chinese scholar who lived from the...
by Ana Iorga, Ming Hsu, Irit Shapira-Lichter
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
A comprehensive introduction to using the tools and techniques of neuroscience to understand how consumers make decisions about purchasing goods and services.
Contrary to the assumptions of economists, consumers are not always rational actors who make decisions in their own best interests....
A New Economic Growth Engine for China
Escaping the Middle-income Trap by Not Doing More of the Same
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
This volume is a report by leading international economic experts on China's economic priorities in the coming years. From various aspects of the domestic and foreign situation, China has now reached a critical juncture in its economic development. Unless China is able to overcome the difficulties...
Buddhist Healing Touch
A Self-Care Program for Pain Relief and Wellness
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
An introduction to the unique healing practices of the Buddhist monks.
• Examines a wide range of specific conditions and includes detailed, illustrated instructions.
• First English translation of the most widely used book on self-massage in China and Taiwan.
When Dr. Ming-Sun...
by Muhammad Rafiq Abuturab, He Wenqi, Ali Mansour
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
New image-processing tools and data-processing network systems have considerably increased the volume of transmitted information such as 2D and 3D images with high resolution. Thus, more complex networks and long processing times become necessary, and high image quality and transmission speeds are...
by Zong-Ming Li, Jennifer S Wayne, Chih-Hwa Chen;Kirstin Woo
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
This is a compilation of tributes to a gentleman who has impacted the field of biomedical engineering and musculoskeletal science for four decades through his research, his guidance and mentorships, his friendships, and his love for the field, family, and friends. It provides readers with a view of...
Mobility Management
Principle, Technology and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
This is the first book devoted to mobility management, covering the important principles, technologies and applications of mobility management based on years of academic research and industry experiences. The content is organized according to the reference models proposed by the authors, and emphasizes...
Toward Balanced Growth with Economic Agglomeration
Empirical Studies of China's Urban-Rural and Interregional Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book explains the relationships between equality and efficiency, as well as between government and market, in urban-rural and regional development by providing theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence. Urban-rural development in China is understood from a regional perspective, while the...
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