Enhancing the Quality of Life of People with Intellectual Disabilities: From Theory to Practice

This book contains a series of articles, written by international experts in the fields of intellectual disability and quality of life, that explore a broad range of issues that impact on the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities and their families. The book commences with a general discussion on defining quality of life and family quality of life and the appropriateness of using these constructs in the field of intellectual disability, and is followed by an analysis on the effects of living arrangements and employment on quality of life. 

The Illustrated Guide to Technical Analysis Signals and Phrases

The Illustrated Guide to Technical Analysis Signals and Phrases provides traders with illustrations of more than 275 key chart patterns along with their most important variations. An innovative and soon-to-be essential addition to every technical trader's reference library.

Trading with Candlesticks: Visual Tools for Improved Technical Analysis and Timing

Want to consistently outperform? Candlestick charts can help! In this book, top investment author Michael C. Thomsett completely demystifies them, revealing how to use them to anticipate stock price trends and improve the timing of every order. Packed with visuals, definitions, and checklists—for traders at all levels of experience. 

The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It

An essential guide to the calibrated risk analysis approach 
The Failure of Risk Management takes a close look at misused and misapplied basic analysis methods and shows how some of the most popular "risk management" methods are no better than astrology! Using examples from the 2008 credit crisis, natural disasters, outsourcing to China, engineering disasters, and more, Hubbard reveals critical flaws in risk management methods–and shows how all of these problems can be fixed.

Mathematical Analysis of Problems in the Natural Sciences

Based on a two-semester course aimed at illustrating various interactions of "pure mathematics" with other sciences, such as hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, statistical physics and information theory, this text unifies three general topics of analysis and physics, which are as follows: the dimensional analysis of physical quantities, which contains various applications including Kolmogorov's model for turbulence; functions of very large number of variables and the principle of concentration along with the non-linear law of large numbers, the geometric meaning of the Gauss and Maxwell distributions, and the Kotelnikov-Shannon theorem;