Recent Progress in Mesostructured Materials is a selection of oral and poster communications presented during the 5th International Mesostructured Materials Symposium (5th IMMS2006). Authorized by International Mesostructured Material Association (IMMA) and hosted by the Fudan University, China. The scope of this involved field covers both traditional inorganic mesostructured molecular sieves and mesostructured materials like organic polymers, metals, organic-inorganic nanocomposites, and ordered mesoporous carbons, the hot topics in chemistry, crystallization, structure, liquid...

This book addresses many practical issues in the fixed-income market, some of which are quite important, yet not readily available in the literature in an integral and systematic form. The topics covered include: (l) yield curve models, such as the orthogonal exponential spline model, the two-factor risk model, and the yield decomposition model; (2) actual trading strategies used by leading Wall Street power houses, and forecasting models, such as artificial neural networks; (3) dynamic interest rate modeling and derivative pricing in the Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework with particular emphasis...

This book addresses selected practical applications and recent developments in the areas of quantitative financial modeling in derivatives instruments, some of which are from the authors' own research and practice. It is written from the viewpoint of financial engineers or practitioners, and, as such, it puts more emphasis on the practical applications of financial mathematics in the real market than the mathematics itself with precise (and tedious) technical conditions. It attempts to combine economic insights with mathematics and modeling so as to help the reader to develop...

This textbook describes the types of natural products, the biosynthetic pathways that enable the production of these molecules, and an update on the discovery of novel products in the post-genomic era.