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| x Psychology |
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Journal of Abnormal Psychology |
Psychology (lit. "study of the soul" or "study of the mind") is an academic and applied discipline which involves the scientific study of human or animal mental functions and behaviors. In the field of psychology, a professional researcher or...
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| American Imago | |||||
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| x Marketing |
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Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics |
Marketing is the process associated with promoted for sale goods or services. It is considered a "social and managerial process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and values with...
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| Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science | |||||
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Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology | Engineering Science | Structural engineering |
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings. Civil...
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Annual Reports Section C | Natural science |
Chemistry (from Arabic:الكيم Latinized: chem (kēme), meaning "earth") is the science concerned with the composition, behavior, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions. It is a physical...
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| Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics | |||||
| Angewandte Chemie | |||||
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| x Aesthetics |
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Philosophy |
Aesthetics (also spelled æsthetics or esthetics) is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori...
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| x Epistemology |
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Epistemology (from Greek ἐπιστήμη - episteme-, "knowledge, science" + λόγος, "logos") or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope (limitations) of knowledge. It addresses the questions:
Much of the debate...
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| x Ethics |
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Ethics | Philosophy | Medical ethics |
Ethics (also known as moral philosophy) is a branch of philosophy which seeks to address questions about morality; that is, about concepts like good and bad, right and wrong, justice, virtue, etc.
Major branches of ethics include meta-ethics, about...
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| Ethics & International Affairs Journal | Environmental ethics | ||||
| Hastings Center Report | Normative ethics | ||||
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| x Metaphysics |
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Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that investigates principles of reality transcending those of any particular science. Cosmology and ontology are traditional branches of metaphysics. It is concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of...
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| x Philosophy |
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Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal | Ethics |
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning subjects such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
There are at least two senses in which the term philosophy is used. In the more formal sense,...
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| Journal of the History of Philosophy | Philosophy of science | ||||
| Philosophy and Literature | Philosophy of language | ||||
| Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology | Aesthetics | ||||
| Entropy | History of philosophy | ||||
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| x Logic | Journal of Philosophical Logic | Philosophy |
Logic, from the Greek λογικός (logikos) is the study of reasoning. Logic is used in most intellectual activity, but is studied primarily in the disciplines of philosophy, mathematics, and computer science. Logic examines general forms which...
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| x Social sciences |
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Social Evolution & History | Science |
The social sciences are the fields of academic scholarship which explore aspects of human society. Social sciences may draw upon empirical methods and attempt to emulate the standards of conventional scientific practice. By contrast, other social...
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| Qualitative Research | |||||
| Qualitative Sociology | |||||
| Population and Environment | |||||
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| x Music theory |
Music theory is the field of study that deals with how music works. It examines the language and notation of music. It identifies patterns that govern composers' techniques. In a grand sense, music theory distills and analyzes the parameters or...
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| x Nihilism |
Nihilism (from the Latin nihil, nothing) is the philosophical doctrine suggesting the negation of one or more aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism which argues that life is without objective...
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| x Economics |
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Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved |
Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomia, "management of a household, administration") from οἶκος (oikos, ...
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| Quarterly Journal of Economics | |||||
| Economics Letters | |||||
| Comparative Technology Transfer and Society | |||||
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| x Anthropology |
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Social Evolution & History |
Anthropology is the holistic, global, comparative study of humans. It is the comprehensive study of human beings and of their interactions with each other and the environment. The term "anthropology" is pronounced /ænθrɵˈpɒlədʒi/, from the Greek...
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| American Anthropologist | |||||
| Terrain | |||||
| Man | |||||
| Mankind Quarterly | |||||
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Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and opinion via a widening spectrum of media. These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and even, more recently, the mobile phone. Journalists—be they...
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| x Mathematics |
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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society | Category theory |
Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns, formulate new conjectures, and establish truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions.
There is debate over whether...
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| Annals of Mathematics | Topos theory | ||||
| International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences | |||||
| Acta Mathematica | |||||
| Inventiones Mathematicae | |||||
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| x Astronomy |
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Natural science | X-ray astronomy |
Astronomy is the scientific study of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere (such as the cosmic background radiation). It is concerned with the evolution, physics,...
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| Icarus | Exoplanetology | Infrared astronomy | |||
| Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | Gamma-ray astronomy | ||||
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | Neutrino astronomy | ||||
| Astrophysical Journal | Theoretical Astronomy | ||||
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| x Astrophysics |
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Physics | Exoplanetology |
Astrophysics (Greek: Astro - meaning "star", and Greek: physis – φύσις - meaning "nature") is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe, including the physical properties (luminosity, density, temperature, and chemical...
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| Astronomy and Astrophysics | Exoplanetology | ||||
| Astrophysical Journal | |||||
| Astronomische Nachrichten | |||||
| Living Reviews in Solar Physics | |||||
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| x Electrical engineering |
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IEEE Spectrum | EECS |
The precise meaning of the term electrical engineering is not universally agreed upon. In some parts of the world, it is considered to be the most general of the electricity-related engineering disciplines, with electronics engineering being a...
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| Bell Labs Technical Journal | Engineering Science | ||||
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| IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | |||||
| x Computing Science |
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IBIS | EECS | Artificial intelligence |
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems. It is frequently described as the systematic...
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| Bell Labs Technical Journal | Science | Analysis of algorithms | |||
| Entropy | Theory of computation | ||||
| IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | Computer architecture | ||||
| ACM Computing Reviews | Database design | ||||
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| x Architecture |
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Children Youth and Environments Journal | History of Architecture |
For a topical guide to this subject, see Outline of architecture.
Architecture (Latin „architectura“, from the Greek „arkitekton“, ὰρχιτεκτονική – arkhitektonike, from ὰρχι chief or leader and Τεκτονική builder or carpenter) is the art and science...
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Journal of the West | History of Architecture |
History (from Greek ἱστορία - historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the human past, with special attention to the written record. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of...
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| Social Evolution & History | History of science and technology | ||||
| Late Imperial China | |||||
| Journal of Women's History | |||||
| American Jewish History | |||||
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| x Political Science |
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American Political Science Review | Science | International relations |
Political science is a social science concerned with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. It is often described as the pragmatic application of the art and science of...
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| Journal of Democracy | |||||
| Security and Peace | |||||
| Human Rights Quarterly | |||||
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| x Classics |
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Arethusa | Humanities |
Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean World; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity (Bronze...
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| Journal of Early Christian Studies | |||||
| Journal of the History of Philosophy | |||||
| Transactions of the American Philological Association | |||||
| American Journal of Philology | |||||
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| x Criminology | Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment |
Criminology (from Latin crīmen, "accusation"; and Greek -λογία, -logia) is the scientific study of the nature, extent, causes, and control of criminal behavior in both the individual and in society. Criminology is an interdisciplinary field in the...
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| x Applied science |
Applied science is the application of scientific knowledge transferred into a physical environment. Examples include testing a theoretical model through the use of formal science, or solving a practical problem through the use of natural science....
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| x Materials Science |
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Journal of Materials Chemistry |
Materials science or materials engineering is an interdisciplinary field involving the properties of matter and its applications to various areas of science and engineering. This science investigates the relationship between the structure of...
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| Advanced Functional Materials | |||||
| Advanced Materials | |||||
| Journal of Electronic Materials | |||||
| Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering | |||||
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| x Creative writing |
Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works which fall into this category include novels,...
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| x Public policy |
Public policy can be generally defined as the course of action or inaction taken by governmental entities (the decisions of government) with regard to a particular issue or set of issues. Other scholars define it as a system of "courses of action,...
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Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols (known as a writing system). It is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and the recording of language via a non...
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| x Zoology |
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Integrative and Comparative Biology | Biology |
Zoology, (officially pronounced /zoʊˈɑlədʒɪ/, colloquially pronounced /zuːˈɑlədʒɪ/) occasionally also spelled zoölogy, is the branch of biology that focuses on the structure, function, behavior, and evolution of animals.
Humans have been fascinated...
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| Acta Zoologica | |||||
| The Zoological Record | |||||
| Journal of Natural History | |||||
| Physiological and Biochemical Zoology | |||||
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| x EECS | Electrical engineering |
EECS is an abbreviation for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. It is a designation used at some universities for the major or department that blends these two fields together. Curriculum for an EECS degree is comparable to the curriculum...
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| x Computational design |
Computational design ￢ﾀﾓ definition
1. development of a computational theory of design
2. the design of products and processes through the use of digital means.
These products and processes themselves integrate digital technology (they are...
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| x High-performance computing |
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High-performance computing (HPC) uses supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems. Today, computer systems approaching the teraflops-region are counted as HPC-computers.
The term is most commonly associated with...
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| x Electrical and Mechanical Engineering | |||||
| x History and Literature | |||||
| x Cognitive science | Journal of Consciousness Studies |
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of the cognitive processes underlying the acquisition and use of knowledge. It draws from converging evidence and methodology of diverse fields, including psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, ...
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| Mind & Language | |||||
| x Particle physics |
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Physics |
Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary constituents of matter and radiation, and the interactions between them. It is also called high energy physics, because many elementary particles do not occur under normal...
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| x Computer graphics (images) |
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Computer graphics are graphics created using computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of image data by a computer.
The development of computer graphics, or simply referred to as CG, has made computers easier to interact...
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| x Nutrition |
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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition |
Nutrition (also called nourishment or aliment) is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary (in the form of food) to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet.
The diet of an...
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| African Journal of Food and Nutritional Security | |||||
| African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development | |||||
| x Japanese literature |
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Japanese literature spans a period of almost two millennia. Early works were heavily influenced by cultural contact with China and Chinese literature, often written in Classical Chinese. Indian literature also had an influence through the diffusion...
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| x Molecular and Cell Biology |
Molecular and Cell Biology is a major at UC Berkeley with several emphases. Students in this major study biochemistry, such as with nucleic acids, proteins, and carbohydrates. Classes required for this major include general chemistry, organic...
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| x Biochemical engineering |
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Biochemical engineering is a branch of chemical engineering or biological engineering that mainly deals with the design and construction of unit processes that involve biological organisms or molecules, such as bioreactors. Biochemical engineering...
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| x Microbiology |
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Nature Reviews Microbiology | Biology |
Microbiology (from Greek μῑκρος, mīkros, "small"; βίος, bios, "life"; and -λογία, -logia) is the study of microorganisms, which are unicellular or cell-cluster microscopic organisms. This includes eukaryotes such as fungi and protists, and...
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| Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | |||||
| Microbiology | |||||
| Journal of Medical Microbiology | |||||
| International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | |||||
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| x Mechanical Engineering |
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Engineering Science |
Mechanical Engineering is an engineering discipline that was developed from the application of principles from physics and materials science. Mechanical engineering involves the analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of various systems. It...
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| x Biomechanics |
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Biology |
Biomechanics (Greek: βίος + μηχανική = βιομηχανικἠ, Greece: εμβιομηχανική because βιομηχανική = industrial) is the application of mechanical principles to living organisms. This includes bioengineering, the research and analysis of the mechanics of...
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| x Biology |
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Integrative and Comparative Biology | Natural science | Physiological Biology |
Biology (from Greek βιολογία - βίος, bios, "life"; -λογία, -logia, study of) is the natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy....
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| The Quarterly Review of Biology | Evolution | ||||
| Journal of Biological Chemistry | Structural biology | ||||
| PLoS Biology | Taxonomy | ||||
| Cell | Ecology | ||||
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| x Genetics and Development | |||||
| x Immunology |
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Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology | Biomedical science |
Immunology is a broad branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. It deals with, among other things, the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and disease...
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| x Operations research | Interfaces: An International Journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Science |
Operations research or operational research is the application of analytical methods and mathematical models to help in improved decision-making. Originating in military efforts before World War II, its techniques have grown to concern problems in...
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| x Statistics |
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Biometrika | Applied statistics |
Statistics is the science of making effective use of numerical data relating to groups of individuals or experiments. It deals with all aspects of this, including not only the collection, analysis and interpretation of such data, but also the...
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| Journal of Statistical Software | Biostatistics | ||||
| Journal of the Royal Statistical Society | |||||
| Journal of Business & Economic Statistics | |||||
| Journal of the American Statistical Association | |||||
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| x Programming language |
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A programming language is an artificial language designed to express computations that can be performed by a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine, to express...
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| x Finance |
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ICSID Review |
Finance is the science of funds management. The general areas of finance are business finance, personal finance, and public finance. Finance includes saving money and often includes lending money. The field of finance deals with the concepts of time...
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| Financial Markets and Portfolio Management | |||||
| African Journal of Finance and Management | |||||
