Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Practical Financial Modelling, 3e, is an audit/quality book on model development. With directness and simplicity it uses realism to improve the modeling process. It emphasizes audits, controls, checks of models for accuracy, and reliability. New content on validation and verification, model use, and sensitivity analysis is presented through a top-down approach to illuminate the modeling process. This book isn't about the details of building cash flow models. It's about building better cash flow models. Entirely compliant with Sarbanes-Oxley, it provides more details than other books yet is general enough for applying its methodology to many applications.

The goal of any research assessment is to evaluate the value or quality of the research in comparison to other research. As quality is highly subjective and difficult to measure, citations are used as a proxy. Citations are an important part of scholarly communication and a significant component of research evaluation, with the assumption being that highly cited work has influenced the work of many other researchers and hence it is more valuable. Recently we have seen new online data sources being researched for this purpose and disruptive ideas with the power to change research assessment, and perhaps even science as a whole, have been born. Altmetrics is the new research area that investigates the potential of these new data source as indicators of the impact that research has made on the scientific community and beyond, and thus possibly also as indicators of the societal impact of research. This book will present some of these new data sources, findings from earlier altmetrics research, and the disruptive ideas that may radically change scholarly communication.

Design Recipes for FPGAs provides a rich toolbox of design techniques and templates to solve practical, every-day problems using FPGAs. Using a modular structure, it provides design techniques and templates at all levels, together with functional code, which you can easily match and apply to your application. Written in an informal and easy to grasp style, this invaluable resource goes beyond the principles of FPGAs and hardware description languages to demonstrate how specific designs can be synthesized, simulated and downloaded onto an FPGA. In addition, the book provides advanced techniques to create `real world¿ designs that fit the device required and which are fast and reliable to implement.