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"The authors provide an overview of Canada's NF capability in addition to general aspects of the nuclear forensics that is useful for both nuclear forensic practitioners and for countries that are signatories to the Nuclear Non-proliferation treaty in establishing their NF capability. The authors summarize challenges that first responders face at crime scenes involving RN materials. Next, they describe the RN materials from the uranium fuel cycle in Canada that are most relevant to NF and a summary of their use and construction, possible NF signatures, and how those signatures were used in the Canadian exercise. Then there is an overview of selected NF laboratory methods, along with an important example of radiochronometric measurements. The importance of Certified Reference Materials specific for NF is described, along with the Canadian perspective. The Laboratory Network chapter provides the Canadian experience in establishing the nuclear forensic capability, while Nuclear Forensic Library chapter describes in general the need and establishment of the NNFL, with some details on the Canadian project. In the final chapter, the authors discuss the Canadian experience in using its nuclear forensic capability in two international exercises"--

This book is an invaluable resource of hedging case studies and examples, explaining with clarity and coherence how various instruments, such as futures and options, are used in different market scenarios to contain, control, and eliminate price risk exposure. Its core objective is to elucidate hedging transactions and provide a systematic, comprehensive view on hedge performance

L'un des plus grands hommes d'État serbes du XIXe siècle, Jovan Ristić (1831-1899) fut également historien distingué qui contribua largement au développement de l'histoire diplomatique en tant que discipline en Serbie, précédant de tels histo­riens remarqués comme Mihailo Gavrilović et Grgur Jakšić . Ayant étudié à Berlin et à Heidelberg, Ristić se développa sous l'influence décisive du grand maître allemand de l'époque qui fut Leopold von Ranke. L'auteur examine les écrits majeurs de Ristić questionnant son approche méthodologique et la notion de l'objectivité à la lumière des débats du XIXe siècle. En analysant l'expérience de Ristić en tant qu'homme poli­tique, Jovanović met l'accent sur la distinction entre mémoires et histoire dans l'oeuvre de cette figure illustrée de la vie politique et culturelle serbe.

Local self-government has the task of enabling stable economic development, in addition to enabling a normal quality of life for citizens. This is why the state government should provide guidelines that will improve the local business climate, and by doing so enable local economic development. This can be done through the introduction of a business-friendly certification procedure, which is influenced by uncertain inputs and influences many output factors. Each local government has the important task of determining its rank of efficiency in this process. A number of methodologies developed to solve this problem are generally divided into two groups: Parametric and non-parametric. These two groups of methodologies could provide quite different results. Therefore, the purpose of this paper was to create a model using both approaches to achieve a balanced symmetrical approach that produces better results than each approach individually. For this purpose, the paper describes a multicriteria decision aid-based model of optimization to evaluate the effectiveness of this process, integrating classification, data envelopment analysis, and stochastic frontier analysis, as well as its application in a case study of business-friendly certification in the Republic of Serbia.