Markovian Demand Inventory Models

Inventory management is concerned with matching supply with demand and a central problem in Operations Management. The problem is to find the amount to be produced or purchased in order to maximize the total expected profit or minimize the total expected cost. Over the past two decades, several variations of the formula appeared, mostly in trade journals written by and for inventory managers. A critical assumption in the inventory literature is that the demands in different periods are independent and identically distributed.

Prisoners of Our Thoughts by Alex Pattakos

Alex Pattakos who Frankl urged to write this book applies Frankl’s philosophy and therapeutic approach to life and work in the 21st Century, detailing seven principles for increasing  your capacity to deal with life work challenges, finding meaning in your daily life and work, and achieving your highest potential. This updated and expanded second edition (2010) includes new personal stories, new data on meaning, a new chapter on the difference meaning makes in people’s lives, and new exercises to help apply the seven principles.

Practical Math Success in 20 Minutes a Day

This book is geared toward anyone wishing to overcome math anxiety—from high school and college students to adult test-takers hoping to score well on vocational and certification exams. Now updated and re-evaluated by math experts to ensure the most current lessons and practice exercises.

Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax

The relationship between the meaning of words and the structure of sentences is an important area of research in linguistics. Studying the connections between lexical conceptual meaning and event structural relations, this book arrives at a modular classification of verb types within English and across languages. Ramchand argues that lexical encyclopedic content and event structural aspects of meaning need to be systematically distinguished, and that thematic and aspectual relations belong to the latter domain of meaning.

Essential Clinical Anatomy

Essential Clinical Anatomy, Fourth Edition presents the core anatomical concepts found in Clinically Oriented Anatomy, Sixth Edition in a concise, easy-to-read, and student-friendly format. This streamlined book that includes clinical Blue Boxes, surface anatomy, and medical imaging is an excellent review for the larger text and an ideal primary text for shorter medical courses and/or health professions courses with brief coverage of anatomy.