Extreme Risk Management: Revolutionary Approaches to Evaluating and Measuring Risk
A revolutionary new approach for detecting and managing inherent risk The unprecedented turmoil in the financial markets turned the field of quantitative finance on its head and generated severe criticism of the statistical models used to manage risk and predict “black swan” events. Something very important had been lost when statistical representations replaced expert knowledge and statistics substituted for causation.
The Two Halves of the Brain: Information Processing in the Cerebral Hemispheres
Hemispheric asymmetry is one of the basic aspects of perception and cognitive processing. The different functions of the left and right hemispheres of the brain have been studied with renewed interest in recent years, as scholars explore applications to new areas, new measuring techniques, and new theoretical approaches.
Measuring Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition describes the effect that word frequency and lexical coverage have on learning and communication in a foreign language. It examines the tools we have for assessing the various facets of vocabulary knowledge, the scores these produce, and the way these are tied to exam and communicative performance.
Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance
This book provides a road map for managers to learn for themselves and then teach their employees how to approach their work by emphasizing their strengths rather than weaknesses. He offers a six-step plan for six weeks of reading and habit-forming action for discerning strengths, along with optional tools to enhance the process such as online questions for measuring strengths and downloaded films (two of which are free).
Great Hands-on Activities and Reproducibles to Explore a Million and Other Big Numbers Demystify big numbers with these real-life, hands-on classroom activities that will give kids practice in estimating, calculating, measuring, and other important math skills. Reproducible data collection sheets included.
