The genesis for this book was an interest in looking at the world’s most successful substantive international commercial law convention – the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) – from various national and methodological perspectives. Success here is measured by the overwhelming reception of the CISG by countries throughout the world. By late …
Paul Virilio’s major contribution to contemporary European thought has been to demonstrate that questions of visual culture are not only academic and cultural, aesthetic, historical, critical, philosophical and anthropological questions but also extremely important political questions. For Virilio, visual culture does not simply provide ways to understand the visual or examine images; it offe…
In 1989 years of planning and hard work came to fruition when the University of North Carolina Press joined the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi to publish the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. While all those involved in writing, reviewing, editing, and producing the volume believed it would be received as a vital contribution to our understanding of …
Technical analysis involves the use of past and current market price, trading volume, and, potentially, other publicly available information to try and predict future market prices. It is highly popular in practice with plentiful financial trading advice that is based largely, if not exclusively, on technical indicators. In a perhaps belated testament to this fact consider the following quote…
Over the past few decades, social networks have attracted massive interest from scholars in fields as diverse as sociology, biology, physics, business, politics, and computer science. From these diverse fields, researchers have found that many sys- tems can be represented as networks, and that there is much to be learned by studying those networks. With the rapid growth of the Internet and the …
This book is an outgrowth of data mining courses at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG); the RPI course has been offered every Fall since 1998, whereas the UFMG course has been offered since 2002. Although there are several good books on data mining and related topics, we felt that many of them are either too high-level or too advanced. Our goa…