Trends in Mathematical, Information and Data Sciences A Tribute to Leandro Pardo / edited by Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan, María Ángeles Gil, Nirian Martín, Domingo Morales, María de...

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Dividends and dividend policy / [edited by] H. Kent Baker.

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The value of debt in retirement : why everything you have been told is wrong / Thomas J. Anderson. by Anderson, Thomas J. (Certified investment management analyst)

Table of Contents: “…Some Brief Preliminaries: Income versus Incoming MoneyThe Websters: A Tale That Taxes the Imagination; Your De Facto Tax Advisor; An Inconvenient Truth; How to Pay Almost No Taxes in Retirement: A Few More Examples; Everyday Example #5: "Auto" You Not Be Sure You Are Getting the Best Loan?…”
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For a Better Future, Live in a Red State A Debate / Intelligence Squared.

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Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA) for Young Scientists Proceedings of the First International Early Research Career Enhancement School (FIERCES 2016) / edited by...

Table of Contents: “…Models of Autonomous Cognitive Agents -- Differentiation of Groundwater Tax Rates as an Element of Improving the Economic Mechanism in the State Groundwater Extraction Management -- Users' of Information Systems Protection Analysis from Malefactor's Social Engineering Attacks Taking into Account Malefactor's Competence Profile -- Character Reasoning of the Social Network Users on the Basis of the Content Contained on Their Personal Pages -- Bayesian Optimization of Spiking Neural Network Parameters to Solving the Time Series Classiffcation Task -- Simulation of Learning in Neuronal Culture -- Unsupervised Neural Architecture for Saliency Detection: Extended Version -- Active adaptation of expert-based suggestions in ladieswear recommender system LookBooksClub via Reinforcement Learning -- Visual Analytics Support for Carbon Nanotube Design Automation -- A model of Neurodynamics of Hippocampal Formation Neurons Performing Spatial Processing Based on Even Cyclic Inhibitory Networks -- Feature Selection for Time-Series Prediction in Case of Undetermined Estimation -- A New Approach for Semantic Cognitive Maps Creation and Evaluation Based on Affix Relations -- On Alternative Instruments for the fMRI Data Analysis: General Linear Model Versus Algebraic Topology Approach -- Application of Hopfield Neural Network to the N-Queens Problem -- Simulation of a Fear-Like State on a Model of Dopamine System of Rat Brain -- Spatial and Temporal Parameters of Eye Movements During Viewing of Affective Images -- MEG Data Analysis Using the Empirical Mode Decomposition Method -- Evolutional Approach to Image Processing on the Example of Microsections -- "Cognovisor" for the Human Brain: Towards Mapping of Thought Processes by a Combination of fMRI and Eye-tracking -- Dynamic Intelligent Systems Integration and Evolution of Intelligent Control Systems Architectures -- Automated Planning: Usage for Integrated Expert Systems Construction -- Some Aspects of Temporal Knowledge Acquisition and Representation in Dynamic Integrated Expert Systems -- Collaboration of All-purpose Static Solver, Temporal Reasoning and Simulation Modeling Tools in Dynamic Integrated Expert Systems -- Some Aspects of Intellectual Tutoring Based on the Integrated Tutoring Expert Systems Usage -- To the Question of Learnability of a Spiking Neuron with Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity in Case of Complex Input Signals -- Causal Interactions Within the Default Mode Network as Revealed by Low-frequency Brain Fluctuations and Information Transfer Entropy -- Hierarchical Temporal Memory Implementation with Explicit States Extraction -- Swarm MeLiF: Feature Selection with Filter Combination Found via Swarm Intelligence -- Agent-based Model of Interactions in the Community of Investors and Producers -- Patterns of Spiking Activity of Neuronal Networks in Vitro as Memory Traces -- The Competency Management Based on Ontologies: Issues of Using in Organizations -- The Approach to Modeling of Synchronized Bursting in Neuronal Culture Using a Mathematical Model of a Neuron with Autoregulation Mechanism -- Dynamic Clustering of Connections Between fMRI Resting State Networks: A Comparison of Two Methods of Data Analysis -- Neural Network Solution of an Inverse Problem in Raman Spectroscopy of Multi-Component Solutions of Inorganic Salts -- Prediction of Relativistic Electrons Flux in the Outer Radiation Belt of the Earth Using Adaptive Methods -- Comparative Analysis of Residual Minimization and Artificial Neural Networks as Methods of Solving Inverse Problems: Test on Model Data -- A Biologically Inspired Architecture for Visual Self-Location.…”
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East and West in late antiquity : invasion, settlement, ethnogenesis and conflicts of religion / by Wolf Liebeschuetz. by Liebeschuetz, J. H. W. G. (John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon)

Table of Contents: “…-- Habitus Barbarus : did Barbarians look different from Romans? -- Barbarians and taxes -- Violence in the Barbarian successor kingdoms -- Goths and Romans in the Leges Visigothorum -- Part 2. …”
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The road taken : the history and future of America's infrastructure / Henry Petroski. by Petroski, Henry

Table of Contents: “…Lay in Leaves : triage, budgets, and choice, again -- 16. Trodden Black : corruption, graft, waste, fraud, abuse -- 17. …”
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Education Attainment in Public Administration Around the World. by Arezki, Rabah

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Fiscal politics / editors Vitor Gaspar, Sanjeev Gupta, Carlos Mulas-Granados.

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The cycle of the gift : family, wealth, and wisdom / James E. Hughes Jr, Susan E. Massenzio, Keith Whitaker. by Hughes, James E., Jr

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Smart Technologies for the Digitisation of Industry: Entrepreneurial Environment edited by Agnessa O. Inshakova, Evgenia E. Frolova.

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Chile in Transition Prospects and Challenges for Latin America’s Forerunner of Development / edited by Roland Benedikter, Katja Siepmann.

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Mexico, a comprehensive development agenda for the new era / edited by Marcelo M. Giugale, Olivier Lafourcade, and Vinh H. Nguyen.

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Brazil is the new America : how Brazil offers upward mobility in a collapsing world / James Dale Davidson. by Davidson, James Dale

Table of Contents: “…Budget Deficits Would Make Greece Blush; Worse than the Great Depression; The Collapse of the Boom; Chapter 7: ""Rome"" Falls, Again: Economic Closure and Financial Repression as the United States Faces Bankruptcy; Slip-Sliding Down the Road to National Insolvency; The Destruction of the Middle Class; Pre-Industrial Growth Rates; Are You Ready for Taxes to Double?…”
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Brazil is the new America : how Brazil offers upward mobility in a collapsing world / James Dale Davidson. by Davidson, James Dale

Table of Contents: “…Budget Deficits Would Make Greece Blush; Worse than the Great Depression; The Collapse of the Boom; Chapter 7: ""Rome"" Falls, Again: Economic Closure and Financial Repression as the United States Faces Bankruptcy; Slip-Sliding Down the Road to National Insolvency; The Destruction of the Middle Class; Pre-Industrial Growth Rates; Are You Ready for Taxes to Double?…”
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The essential advisor : building value in the investor-advisor relationship / Bill Crager, Jay Hummel. by Crager, Bill, Hummel, Jay W., 1979-

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The law and practice of restructuring in the UK and US / edited by Christopher Mallon, Shai Y. Waisman.

Table of Contents: “…Tax Issues in Restructuring -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 US tax -- 9.2.1 Debt-for-debt exchanges, and significant modifications of debt -- 9.2.2 Debt repurchases and related party acquisitions of debt -- 9.2.3 Debt-for-equity exchanges -- 9.2.4 Cancellation of debt income exceptions -- 9.2.5 Change in ownership limitations on tax attributes -- 9.2.6 Additional planning considerations -- 9.3 UK tax -- 9.3.1 Debt restructuring-general -- 9.3.2 Loan relationships -- 9.3.3 Debt restructuring-specific cases -- 9.3.4 Debt repurchases -- 9.3.5 Tax consequences of a change in control -- 9.3.6 Conclusion.…”
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International Financial Statement Analysis Workbook, 2nd Edition CFA, Thomas. by CFA, Thomas, CFA, Elaine, CFA, Wendy, CFA, Anthony, CFA, Michael

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Beyond Survival : Protecting Households from Health Shocks in Latin America. by Packard, Truman G.

Table of Contents: “…-- Policy Options for Extending Contributory Risk Pooling among the Informal and the Self-Employed Nonpoor -- 6 THE QUEST FOR EFFICIENCY AND UNIVERSAL COVERAGE: HEALTH SECTOR REFORM IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN -- Achieving Universal Coverage -- Improving Health Sector Efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Lessons and Challenges -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- BOXES -- 5.1 Spain's Shift from Bismarck to Beveridge: Delinking Risk-Pool Financing from Labor Status -- 5.2 Trends in Latin American and Caribbean Tax Policies: Balancing the Efficiency-Equity Tradeoff -- 5.3 Mitigating the Fiscal Burden in a Transition toward General Tax-Funded Risk-Pooling: Simulations for the Chilean Health System in 1999 -- 6.1 South Korea and Taiwan: From Fragmentation to Universal Coverage through Social Insurance -- Reforms and Breadth versus Depth Choices -- 6.2 United Kingdom: Strengthening the Purchaser-Provider Compact through Inte.…”
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Handbook of State Aid for Film Finance, Industries and Regulation / edited by Paul Clemens Murschetz, Roland Teichmann, Matthias Karmasin.

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 31: An Irish Film Industry or a Film Industry in Ireland? The Paradoxes of Film Tax Incentives -- Chapter 32: Tax Incentive Schemes for Film Production: A Pivotal Tool of Film Policy? …”
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