I analyze herding in one of the largest bull runs in the history of U.S. equity markets. Instead of providing a corrective stabilizing force, banks, insurance firms, investment companies, investment advisors, university endowments, hedge funds, and internally managed pension funds participated in herds in the rise and to a lesser extent in the fall of Internet stocks. Institutional investors' buying exerted upward price pressure, and the reversal of prices in the subsequent quarter provides evidence that the herding was destabilizing and not based on information. I also design and use two new...

The alarming rise of geriatric population all over the world has raised several issues related with care and well being of aged population. Common neurodegenerative disorders associated with geriatric population further aggravate complications associated with aging. The present work presents an overview of complicated pathology and clinical symptoms of severe neurodegenertive disorders. This book is authors contribution towards a better comprehension and understanding of neurodegenerative disorders associated with aging. Clinical features and sign and symptoms have been included and an effort...

The fierce pace in manufacturing technologies in the recent times accompanied with short product life-cycle, high time-to-market pressure, vulnerable JIT and lean manufacturing strategies have made it critical for manufacturing companies to adapt the proactive corporate and management strategies as well as production philosophies and processes. In the recent times, manufacturing industry has experienced unprecedented changes related to management perspectives, production and process technologies, drastic changes in customer expectations, supplier attitudes, competitive behavior besides...

The recent observation of the Higgs boson has been hailed as the scientific discovery of the century and led to the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics. This book describes the detailed science behind the decades-long search for this elusive particle at the Large Electron Positron Collider at CERN and at the Tevatron at Fermilab and its subsequent discovery and characterization at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Written by physicists who played leading roles in this epic search and discovery, this book is an authoritative and pedagogical exposition of the portrait of the Higgs boson that has...

The recent observation of the Higgs boson has been hailed as the scientific discovery of the century and led to the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics. This book describes the detailed science behind the decades-long search for this elusive particle at the Large Electron Positron Collider at CERN and at the Tevatron at Fermilab and its subsequent discovery and characterization at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Written by physicists who played leading roles in this epic search and discovery, this book is an authoritative and pedagogical exposition of the portrait of the Higgs boson that has...

The subject of coping with the loss of a loved one mostly deals with the perspective of the "One" who is left behind, poignantly reminiscing about things done or not done, love shared or not shared and most importantly- WORDS said or Not Said, when there was a still a chance to say them- when it could have made all the difference. As Words, whether spoken mellifluously or conveyed silently, shape the world we live in. Giving us the power to celebrate or cope, express or suppress- whatever we choose to do with them. But what about the choices of the "One" whose loss the one who is left behind...

Prasrtih is a word of Sanskrit origin (where 'pra' as prefix 'Sr' as verb root and 'ktin' as suffix) which means continuity. This book is second in continuation of poetry collection first published as Saa. Here two poems are edited versions while rest four are totally new. Specialty of this poetic work is brevity of words (not more than 800 words). Simple easy to grasp Sanskrit language, in Devanagari script is widely appreciated both by simple laypersons and scholars. It touches writer's personal experience with his arguments on different moods and characters. Starting from a character...