Author : Christian Borch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 27,48 MB
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108489214
A compelling account of how crowd dynamics, or social avalanches, are central to cities and financial markets. Just as urban inhabitants are prone to being caught up in the city's flux, the same dynamic can cause traders on financial exchanges and even the algorithms of present-day financial markets to be captured by the maelstrom of the market.
Author : Christian Borch (professeur de sociologie.)
Publisher :
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 36,58 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Melinda Braun
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481438239
After an avalanche hits, a group of skiers in the Rocky Mountains must survive Mother Nature and a life-threatening injury to one of their members in order to make it out of the mountains and find help.
Author : Lisa Bullard
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822588277
Discusses avalanches, including safety tips to help save lives.
Author : Daniel Callahan
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 1995-03-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781589018679
A provocative call to rethink America's values in health care.
Author : Julia Leigh
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393292738
An intensely personal narrative of loss, hope, and longing for a child. In this brave and lucid account, Julia Leigh broaches a challenging life event often left undiscussed: how the struggle to have a child can take an agonizing toll. Leigh’s experience at the vanguard of medical science is acutely rendered, physically and emotionally, transmitting what it feels like to so desperately wish for a child while knowing that the odds are stacked against you. From the daily shots she puts herself through at home, to hopes raised and dashed, and finally to the decision to stop treatment, Avalanche bears witness to Leigh’s raw desire, suffering, strength, and, in the end, transformation—a shift to a different kind of love. The reader looks behind the scenes of a clinic and discovers how things really work: reality is a far cry from the slick marketing of the billion-dollar infertility industry. As for so many women, Leigh’s treatment failed, but her ghost child lingers in memory.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 1990-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309043352
The present mortality as a result of snow avalanches exceeds the average mortality caused by earthquakes as well as all other forms of slope failure combined. Snow avalanches can range from small amounts of loose snow moving rapidly down a slope to slab avalanches, in which large chunks of snow break off and destroy everything in their path. Although considered a hazard in the United States since the westward expansion in the nineteenth century, in modern times snow avalanches are an increasing concern in recreational mountainous areas. However, programs for snow avalanche hazard mitigation in other countries are far ahead of those in the United States. The book identifies several steps that should be taken by the United States in order to establish guidelines for research, technology transfer, and avalanche legislation and zoning.
Author : Ronald I. Perla
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 17,70 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Avalanches
ISBN :
Deals comprehensively and practically with effects, causes and behaviour of avalanches, protection of ski areas, highways and villages, and safety and rescue.
Author : Christian Huggel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,62 MB
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1316352153
This edited volume, showcasing cutting-edge research, addresses two primary questions - what are the main drivers of change in high-mountains and what are the risks implied by these changes? From a physical perspective, it examines the complex interplay between climate and the high-mountain cryosphere, with further chapters covering tectonics, volcano-ice interactions, hydrology, slope stability, erosion, ecosystems, and glacier- and snow-related hazards. Societal dimensions, both global and local, of high-mountain cryospheric change are also explored. The book offers unique perspectives on high-mountain cultures, livelihoods, governance and natural resources management, focusing on how global change influences societies and how people respond to climate-induced cryospheric changes. An invaluable reference for researchers and professionals in cryospheric science, geomorphology, climatology, environmental studies and human geography, this volume will also be of interest to practitioners working in global change and risk, including NGOs and policy advisors.
Author : Donald MacKenzie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 38,14 MB
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691217793
A remarkable look at how the growth, technology, and politics of high-frequency trading have altered global financial markets In today’s financial markets, trading floors on which brokers buy and sell shares face-to-face have increasingly been replaced by lightning-fast electronic systems that use algorithms to execute astounding volumes of transactions. Trading at the Speed of Light tells the story of this epic transformation. Donald MacKenzie shows how in the 1990s, in what were then the disreputable margins of the US financial system, a new approach to trading—automated high-frequency trading or HFT—began and then spread throughout the world. HFT has brought new efficiency to global trading, but has also created an unrelenting race for speed, leading to a systematic, subterranean battle among HFT algorithms. In HFT, time is measured in nanoseconds (billionths of a second), and in a nanosecond the fastest possible signal—light in a vacuum—can travel only thirty centimeters, or roughly a foot. That makes HFT exquisitely sensitive to the length and transmission capacity of the cables connecting computer servers to the exchanges’ systems and to the location of the microwave towers that carry signals between computer datacenters. Drawing from more than 300 interviews with high-frequency traders, the people who supply them with technological and communication capabilities, exchange staff, regulators, and many others, MacKenzie reveals the extraordinary efforts expended to speed up every aspect of trading. He looks at how in some markets big banks have fought off the challenge from HFT firms, and how exchanges sometimes engineer technical systems to favor certain types of algorithms over others. Focusing on the material, political, and economic characteristics of high-frequency trading, Trading at the Speed of Light offers a unique glimpse into its influence on global finance and where it could lead us in the future.
