This book focuses on snow atmosphere interactions at climate system, in particular the snow atmosphere coupling and the role of snow cover as a source of climate predictability at seasonal time scales....

We investigate the existence of style drift within the hedge fund industry and examine the relationship between style drift and both the stages of the funds’ lives and the past returns. There are two key contributions made in this study....

The future development of knowledge requires systems research, the second dimension of science, to shed new lights on the unsettled problems of the traditional disciplines, the first dimension of science. This book provides a unified mathematical knowledge of systems science with its proven intuition and playground of thinking....