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"This book is about the management of cities amid the major challenges to fast growing cities as well as the struggling ones. It discusses the trends in urbanization, urban challenges, and the urban management approach, the theories of the state and urban management, building capacity, urban planning, local economic development, housing, urban service delivery, public utilities, social services, general urban services, and transport. The book emphasizes the general principles rather than specific case studies on managing cities. The book is of interest to practitioners and students in the built environment including mayors, urban managers, urban planners, developers, lenders, insurers, architects, engineers, project managers, and other consultants, contractors, and suppliers"--

"The threat from global warming is growing and human activity is a major contributor to the problem. It is clear that we must change our wasteful behavior before it is too late. The Tzu Chi Foundation believes it can make a difference in addressing this critically important challenge. Over the last three decades it has embraced the cause of recycling and conserving resources to ensure a cleaner environment for future generations. Tzu Chi has mobilized tens of thousands of people in this campaign, expanding from Taiwan to 19 countries and territories around the world. Co-Existing with the Earth, Tzu Chi's Three Decades of Recycling tells the story of this uniquely effective grassroots effort and examines the reasons for its success. It also relates the stories of individual recycling volunteers and explains why they chose to join this international movement"--Publisher's website

Preface -- Introduction -- Data objects in R -- Data handling in R -- R programming & control flow -- Data exploration -- Graphics in R -- Regression analysis-1 -- Regression analysis-ii -- Time series analysis -- Extreme value theory modelling -- Introduction to multivariate analysis using copulas -- Bibliography -- Index

Introduction -- Discovery of the bond-stock earnings yield differential model -- Prediction of the 2007-2009 stock market crashes in the US, China and Iceland -- The high price-earnings stock market danger approach of Campbell and Shiller versus the BSEYD model -- Other prediction models for the big crashes averaging -25% -- Effect of Fed meetings and small-cap dominance -- Using Zweig's monetary and momentum models in the modern era -- Analysis and possible prediction of declines in the -5% to -15% range -- A stopping rule model for exiting bubble-like markets with applications -- A simple procedure to incorporate predictive modelsin stochastic investment models