Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.3 EXERCISES -- CHAPTER 3 REVIEW EXERCISES -- 4 - Graphs and Functions -- INTRODUCTION -- 4.1 GRAPHS -- 4.1.1 Rectangular (Cartesian) coordinates -- Example 1 -- Solution -- Example 2 -- Solution -- 4.1.2 Distance between points and midpoint -- Example 1 -- Solution -- Example 2 -- Solution -- 4.1.3 Straight line equation -- Example 1 -- Solution -- Example 2 -- Solution -- Example 3 -- Solution -- Example 4 -- Solution -- Example 5 -- Solution -- Example 6 -- Solution -- Example 7 -- Solution -- Example 8 -- Solution -- Example 9 -- Solution -- 4.1 EXERCISES -- 4.2 FUNCTIONS -- 4.2.1 Theorem: Vertical line test -- Example 1 -- Solution -- Example 2 -- Solution -- Example 3 -- Solution -- Example 4 -- Solution -- Example 5 -- Solution -- 4.2.2 Inverse of function f−1(x) -- Example 1 -- Solution -- Example 2 -- Solution -- Example 3 -- Solution -- Example 4 -- Solution -- Example 5 -- Solution -- Example 6 -- Solution -- 4.2 EXERCISES -- CHAPTER 4 REVIEW EXERCISES -- 5 - Measurement -- INTRODUCTION -- 5.1 LENGTH MEASUREMENTS -- 5.1.1 The metric system -- Example 1 -- Solution -- 5.1.2 The U.S. customary system -- Example 1 -- Solution -- Example 2 -- Solution -- Example 3 -- Solution -- 5.1 EXERCISES -- 5.2 MASS AND WEIGHT MEASUREMENTS -- Example 1 -- Solution -- 5.2 EXERCISES -- 5.3 CAPACITY MEASUREMENTS OF LIQUID -- Example 1 -- Solution -- Example 2 -- Solution -- Example 3 -- Solution -- Example 4 -- Solution -- Example 5 -- Solution -- 5.3 EXERCISES -- 5.4 TIME MEASUREMENTS -- Example 1 -- Solution -- 5.4 EXERCISES -- 5.5 TEMPERATURE (T) MEASUREMENT -- Example 1 -- Solution -- Example 2 -- Solution -- 5.5 EXERCISES -- 5.6 DERIVED UNITS -- Example 1 -- Solution -- Example 2 -- Solution -- Example 3 -- Solution -- Example 4 -- Solution -- Example 5 -- Solution -- 5.6 EXERCISES -- CHAPTER 5 REVIEW EXERCISES -- Chapter 6 - Geometry -- INTRODUCTION…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 11.3.1 The role of insurance -- 11.3.2 Relationship between insurance and innovation -- 11.4 Insurance exposure and tools for risk management -- 11.4.1 Product liability -- 11.4.2 Environmental liability -- 11.4.3 Selecting the "Best" nanotechnology risk management option: MCDA as a tool -- 11.5 Potential risk management and regulatory issues for nanomaterials -- 11.6 Likely insurance scenarios -- 11.6.1 Stage I: The early study phase -- 11.6.2 Stage II: The fear phase -- 11.6.3 Stage III: The mature phase -- 11.7 Conclusions -- References -- 12 A Nanotechnology Legal Framework -- 12.1 Nano-product legal life cycle -- 12.1.1 Supply stage -- 12.1.2 Manufacturing stage -- 12.1.3 Intermediate use stage -- 12.1.4 Consumer stage -- 12.1.5 Disposal stage -- 12.2 Legal issues -- 12.2.1 Intellectual property -- 12.2.2 Workplace and occupational liability -- 12.2.3 Worker's compensation -- 12.2.4 Intentional workplace torts -- 12.2.5 Commercial and contractual liability -- 12.2.6 Government regulation -- 12.2.7 Product and tort liability in the US -- 12.2.8 Product and tort liability in the EU -- 12.3 Conclusion -- References -- 13 Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Shaping the Nanotechnologies Landscape Through Regulatory Choice -- 13.1 Shaping behavior through regulation: subtle and not so subtle approaches…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 17 Structured Finance and the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 -- 17.1 Structured Finance -- 17.2 Poor Risk Management Linked to the Structured Finance Market -- 17.2.1 Lack of Incentive Contracts in the Presence of Information Asymmetry -- 17.2.2 Poor Evaluation of Structured Products by Rating Agencies -- 17.2.3 Poor Pricing of Complex Financial Products -- 17.2.4 Poor Regulation of Structured Finance -- 17.3 Conclusion -- References -- Appendix: How to Create an AAA CDO Tranche from BBB Loans -- Chapter 18 Risk Management and Corporate Governance -- 18.1 Enron and Corporate Governance -- 18.2 Financial Crisis and Corporate Governance -- 18.3 New 2002 Governance Rules -- 18.4 Risk Management and Governance -- 18.5 Administrative Competence of Board Members -- 18.6 New Regulation for Financial Institutions -- 18.7 Economic Analysis of Governance Effect -- 18.7.1 Testable Hypothesis -- 18.7.2 Data and Variables -- 18.7.3 Model -- 18.7.4 Empirical Results -- 18.8 Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A: Governance of Canadian Federal Financial Institutions -- Appendix B: Details on the Construction of the Governance Indexes -- Measuring Governance Standards -- The Quality of the Audit Committee -- The Quality of the Board -- SOX Standards -- NYSE Standards -- SOX and NYSE Standards -- Appendix C: Variables -- Chapter 19 Risk Management and Industrial Organization -- 19.1 Entry, Production, and Hedging -- 19.2 Commitment to Hedging -- 19.3 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 20 Real Implications of Corporate Risk Management -- 20.1 Real Implications of Corporate Risk Management: A Review -- 20.2 Methodology -- 20.2.1 Instrumental Variable -- 20.2.2 Essential Heterogeneity Model -- 20.3 US Oil Producers -- 20.3.1 Sample Construction -- 20.3.2 Descriptive Statistics -- 20.3.3 Oil Hedging Activity -- 20.3.4 Univariate Tests…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Public Mistrust -- Section 20.4. Saving Us From Ourselves -- Section 20.5. Who Is Big Data? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 5.9 Futures Prices of Stock Indices -- 5.10 Forward and Futures Contracts on Currencies -- 5.11 Futures on Commodities -- 5.12 The Cost of Carry -- 5.13 Delivery Options -- 5.14 Futures Prices and Expected Spot Prices -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Quiz -- Practice Questions -- Further Questions -- Chapter 6: Interest Rates Futures -- 6.1 Day Count and Quotation Conventions -- 6.2 Treasury Bond Futures -- 6.3 Eurodollar Futures -- 6.4 Duration -- 6.5 Duration-Based Hedging Strategies Using Futures -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Quiz -- Practice Questions -- Further Questions -- Chapter 7: Swaps -- 7.1 Mechanics of Interest Rate Swaps -- 7.2 Day Count Issues -- 7.3 Confirmations -- 7.4 The Comparative-Advantage Argument -- 7.5 Valuation of Interest Rate Swaps -- 7.6 How the Value Changes through Time -- 7.7 Fixed-for-Fixed Currency Swaps -- 7.8 Valuation of Fixed-for-Fixed Currency Swaps -- 7.9 Other Currency Swaps -- 7.10 Credit Risk -- 7.11 Credit Default Swaps -- 7.12 Other Types of Swaps -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Quiz -- Practice Questions -- Further Questions -- Chapter 8: Securitization and the Credit Crisis of 2007 -- 8.1 Securitization -- 8.2 The U.S. Housing Market -- 8.3 What Went Wrong? -- 8.4 The Aftermath -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Quiz -- Practice Questions -- Further Questions -- Chapter 9: Mechanics of Options Markets -- 9.1 Types of Option -- 9.2 Option Positions -- 9.3 Underlying Assets -- 9.4 Specification of Stock Options -- 9.5 Trading -- 9.6 Commissions -- 9.7 Margin Requirements -- 9.8 The Options Clearing Corporation -- 9.9 Regulation -- 9.10 Taxation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Low-Cost IoT for Sub-Saharan African Applications -- 10.5.1 Lower-Cost, Longer-Range IoT Communications -- 10.5.2 Cost of IoT Hardware and Services -- 10.5.3 Limit Dependency to Proprietary Infrastructures, Provide Local Interaction Models -- 10.5.4 The H2020WAZIUP Project -- 10.6 EU-Japan Collaboration for aWorld Leading Research in IoT -- 10.6.1 ClouT: Cloud of Things for Empowering Citizen ClouT in Smart Cities -- 10.6.2 FESTIVAL Federated Interoperable Smart ICT Services Development and Testing Platform -- 10.6.3 iKaaS - Intelligent Knowledge as a Service -- 10.7 EU-US IoT Cooperation -- 10.7.1 Policy Level Cooperation -- 10.7.2 Technical Cooperation -- 10.7.3 Standards Cooperation -- 10.7.4 Market Cooperation -- 10.8 Conclusions: Cooperation to Balance Globalisationand Differentiation of IoT Solutions Worldwide -- Index -- Backcover…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Valeur de la production agricole finale, en dollars US à parité de pouvoir d'achat... -- Figure 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Les résultats du secteur laitier US dependent de la mise en œuvre de limite de paiement -- Analyse de sensibilité de la variabilité des rendements -- Que signifie « partiellement stochastique » ?.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…International reserves in months of import -- International reserve and short-term debt -- International reserve and broad money -- 8.4 Data Description -- 8.5 Empirical Models and Results -- 8.6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Part Tow: Market Developments and Governance Issues -- 9 Singapore's Financial Market: Challenges and Future Prospects -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Growth of the Financial Sector -- 9.2.1 Singapore's Financial Sector Success Factors -- 9.2.2 The Development, Regulatory, and Supervisory Phases -- The development phase -- The regulatory phase -- The supervisory phase -- 9.3 The Prospects -- 9.4 The Challenges -- 9.4.1 The Flood, the Reservoir, and Finance -- 9.4.2 High-Frequency Trading and H -- 9.4.3 Asian Crisis: Lesson Learned -- 9.4.4 Spain's Banking Crisis -- 9.5 The Instability Paradox -- 9.6 Micro- and Macroprudential Policies -- 9.7 Conclusion -- References -- 10 Wealth Management: A Comparison of Switzerland, Singapore, and Hong Kong -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Switzerland -- 10.3 Singapore -- 10.4 Hong Kong -- 10.5 A Comparison of Switzerland, Singapore, and Hong Kong -- 10.6 Voices of Practitioners in Singapore -- 10.7 Conclusion -- References -- 11 Asian Market Reactions to US Macroeconomic News Surprises -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Data -- 11.2.1 Stock Market Data -- 11.2.2 Announcement Data -- 11.3 Methodology -- 11.4 Empirical Results -- 11.5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- 12 Monetary Policy in Taiwan: The Implications of Liquidity -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Financial Innovation and the Divisia Monetary Aggregate in Taiwan -- 12.3 Data and Methodology -- 12.3.1 Divisia Aggregation -- 12.3.2 Divisia Money and the Official Aggregates -- 12.3.3 Data -- 12.4 Results and Discussions -- 12.4.1 Data Selection -- 12.4.2 VAR Identification -- 12.5 Conclusion -- References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…11 Intermission: An insurance policy for free -- 11.1 Over-the-counter insurance policies -- 11.2 Separating services -- 11.3 A new payment type -- 11.4 A crashed car, a late payment, and a court case -- 11.5 Understanding what went wrong -- 11.6 Seeing the entire picture -- 11.7 A note on microservices architecture -- Summary -- Part 3 Applying the fundamentals -- 12 Guidance in legacy code -- 12.1 Determining where to apply domain primitives in legacy code -- 12.2 Ambiguous parameter lists -- 12.2.1 The direct approach -- 12.2.2 The discovery approach -- 12.2.3 The new API approach -- 12.3 Logging unchecked strings -- 12.3.1 Identifying logging of unchecked strings -- 12.3.2 Identifying implicit data leakage -- 12.4 Defensive code constructs -- 12.4.1 Code that doesn't trust itself -- 12.4.2 Contracts and domain primitives to the rescue -- 12.4.3 Overlenient use of Optional -- 12.5 DRY misapplied-not focusing on ideas, but on text -- 12.5.1 A false positive that shouldn't be DRY'd away -- 12.5.2 The problem of collecting repeated pieces of code -- 12.5.3 The good DRY -- 12.5.4 A false negative -- 12.6 Insufficient validation in domain types -- 12.7 Only testing the good enough -- 12.8 Partial domain primitives -- No double money -- 12.8.1 Implicit, contextual currency -- 12.8.2 A U.S. dollar is not a Slovenian tolar -- 12.8.3 Encompassing a conceptual whole -- Summary -- 13 Guidance on microservices -- 13.1 What's a microservice? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 7.6 Healthcare Innovators -- 7.6.1 Genetic Diagnostics -- 7.6.2 Integrated Genetic-Phenotypic Diagnostics -- 7.6.3 Drug Discovery and Development -- 7.6.4 RNA Therapies -- 7.6.5 Infectious Disease Profiling, Epidemiology, and Therapeutics -- 7.6.6 Agricultural Biology -- 7.6.7 Conservation -- 7.6.7.1 Medical Innovators Using AI and Sound for Better Care and Outcomes -- 7.6.7.2 Artificial Intelligence Could Soon Diagnose Illness Based on the Sound of Your Voice -- 7.6.7.3 Large Academic Medical Center in Texas Uses Simulation for Outcomes -- 7.7 Manufacturing Innovators -- 7.8 Retail Innovators -- 7.8.1 Large US Retailer Improves the Customer Experience with AI -- 7.9 Energy Innovators -- 7.9.1 Predictive Maintenance -- 7.9.2 Optimization of Energy Generation and Distribution -- 7.9.3 Data Analysis and Visualization -- 7.9.4 Cybersecurity -- 7.9.5 ML Modeling Wind for More Efficient Energy Use -- 7.10 Financial Services and Insurance Innovators -- 7.11 Where Do Innovators Go from Here? …”

“…They remind us that the solutions to these challenges are to be found in us becoming 'better humans'. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…1.8.3 Production and Total Quality Management -- 1.8.4 Personnel and Behavioural Aspects -- 1.8.5 Strategic Decisions of Top Management -- 1.9 Corporate Social Responsibility -- 1.10 Financial Planning -- 1.10.1 Steps in Financial Planning -- 1.10.2 Tools of Financial Planning -- 1.10.3 Limitations of Financial Planning -- 1.11 Careers in Finance -- 1.11.1 Corporate Finance -- 1.11.2 Financial Planning -- 1.11.3 Commercial and Retail Banking -- 1.11.4 Insurance -- 1.11.5 Mutual Fund -- 1.11.6 Real Estate -- 1.11.7 International Finance -- 1.11.8 Investment Banking -- Key Terms -- Summary -- Classroom Exercises -- Case Application -- Endnotes -- Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Financial Statements -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 Forms of Business Organizations -- 2.1.2 Types of Business Operations -- 2.1.3 Objectives of Accounting -- 2.1 Service, Merchandising and Manufacturing Companies -- 2.2 Best Corporate Governance Practices -- 2.1.4 The Accounting Process -- 2.1.5 Accrual Basis and Cash Basis -- 2.1.6 Users of Accounting Information -- 2.2 Accounting and Bookkeeping -- 2.3 Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) -- 2.3 ICICI's Net Profit in FY 2004 Differs Under U.S. and Indian GAAP -- 2.4 Fundamentals of Accounting -- 2.4.1 Basic Assumptions -- Business Insight 2.1: Gross Income and Net Income -- 2.4.2 Some Basic Accounting Principles -- 2.5 The Basic Accounting Equation -- 2.5.1 The Elements of Accounting -- 2.5.1.1 Assets -- 2.5.1.2 Liabilities -- 2.5.1.3 Owner's equity -- 2.5.2 The Accounting Equation -- 2.5.3 Recording the Transactions in the Accounting Equation -- 2.5.4 The Interrelationship of Assets, Liabilities and Owner's Equity -- 2.6 Accounting Statements -- 2.6.1 The Income Statement/Profit and Loss Account -- 2.6.1.1 Contents of the income statement -- 2.6.1.2 Types of income statements -- 2.6.1.3 Determining the cost of goods sold…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Symbols -- Preface -- About the Companion Website -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Samples Versus Populations -- 1.2 Comments on Software -- 1.3 R Basics -- 1.3.1 Entering Data -- 1.3.2 Arithmetic Operations -- 1.3.3 Storage Types and Modes -- 1.3.4 Identifying and Analyzing Special Cases -- 1.4 R Packages -- 1.5 Access to Data Used in this Book -- 1.6 Accessing More Detailed Answers to the Exercises -- 1.7 Exercises -- Chapter 2 Numerical Summaries of Data -- 2.1 Summation Notation -- 2.2 Measures of Location -- 2.2.1 The Sample Mean -- 2.2.2 The Median -- 2.2.3 Sample Mean versus Sample Median -- 2.2.4 Trimmed Mean -- 2.2.5 R function mean, tmean, and median -- 2.3 Quartiles -- 2.3.1 R function idealf and summary -- 2.4 Measures of Variation -- 2.4.1 The Range -- 2.4.2 R function Range -- 2.4.3 Deviation Scores, Variance, and Standard Deviation -- 2.4.4 R Functions var and sd -- 2.4.5 The Interquartile Range -- 2.4.6 MAD and the Winsorized Variance -- 2.4.7 R Functions winvar, winsd, idealfIQR, and mad -- 2.5 Detecting Outliers -- 2.5.1 A Classic Outlier Detection Method -- 2.5.2 The Boxplot Rule -- 2.5.3 The MAD-Median Rule -- 2.5.4 R Functions outms, outbox, and out -- 2.6 Skipped Measures of Location -- 2.6.1 R Function MOM -- 2.7 Summary -- 2.8 Exercises -- Chapter 3 Plots Plus More Basics on Summarizing Data -- 3.1 Plotting Relative Frequencies -- 3.1.1 R Functions table, plot, splot, barplot, and cumsum -- 3.1.2 Computing the Mean and Variance Based on the Relative Frequencies -- 3.1.3 Some Features of the Mean and Variance -- 3.2 Histograms and Kernel Density Estimators -- 3.2.1 R Function hist -- 3.2.2 What Do Histograms Tell Us? -- 3.2.3 Populations, Samples, and Potential Concerns about Histograms -- 3.2.4 Kernel Density Estimators -- 3.2.5 R Functions Density and Akerd…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Statistical Finance -- 1.2 Risk Management -- 1.3 Portfolio Management -- 1.4 Pricing of Securities -- Part I Statistical Finance -- Chapter 2 Financial Instruments -- 2.1 Stocks -- 2.1.1 Stock Indexes -- 2.1.1.1 Definition of a Stock Index -- 2.1.1.2 Uses of Stock Indexes -- 2.1.1.3 Examples of Stock Indexes -- 2.1.2 Stock Prices and Returns -- 2.1.2.1 Initial Price Data -- 2.1.2.2 Sampling of Prices -- 2.1.2.3 Stock Returns -- 2.2 Fixed Income Instruments -- 2.2.1 Bonds -- 2.2.2 Interest Rates -- 2.2.2.1 Definitions of Interest Rates -- 2.2.2.2 The Risk Free Rate -- 2.2.3 Bond Prices and Returns -- 2.3 Derivatives -- 2.3.1 Forwards and Futures -- 2.3.1.1 Forwards -- 2.3.1.2 Futures -- 2.3.2 Options -- 2.3.2.1 Calls and Puts -- 2.3.2.2 Applications of Options -- 2.3.2.3 Exotic Options -- 2.4 Data Sets -- 2.4.1 Daily S&amp -- P 500 Data -- 2.4.2 Daily S&amp -- P 500 and Nasdaq‐100 Data -- 2.4.3 Monthly S&amp -- P 500, Bond, and Bill Data -- 2.4.4 Daily US Treasury 10 Year Bond Data -- 2.4.5 Daily S&amp -- P 500 Components Data -- Chapter 3 Univariate Data Analysis -- 3.1 Univariate Statistics -- 3.1.1 The Center of a Distribution -- 3.1.1.1 The Mean and the Conditional Mean -- 3.1.1.2 The Median and the Conditional Median -- 3.1.1.3 The Mode and the Conditional Mode -- 3.1.2 The Variance and Moments -- 3.1.2.1 The Variance and the Conditional Variance -- 3.1.2.2 The Upper and Lower Partial Moments -- 3.1.2.3 The Upper and Lower Conditional Moments -- 3.1.3 The Quantiles and the Expected Shortfalls -- 3.1.3.1 The Quantiles and the Conditional Quantiles -- 3.1.3.2 The Expected Shortfalls -- 3.2 Univariate Graphical Tools -- 3.2.1 Empirical Distribution Function Based Tools -- 3.2.1.1 The Empirical Distribution Function -- 3.2.1.2 The Tail Plots…”

“…Some of the design cases focus on individuals, others on groups. Some help us to rediscover our talents, some support us in forming meaningful relationships, and others enable us to invest in our own happiness and that of those we care about…”

“…The ascent of the Alt-right in the US, and white supremacist influence on parties in the U.S. and Europe. …”

“…Jana and Mejias inspire and equip us so that we can all affect organizational change, together…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. / -- 5.6 Sidestepping the Web with P2P Interaction -- 5.7 Going Beyond Publishing with Web Services -- 5.8 Semantic Web -- 5.9 XML Glue -- 5.10 Real-Time Services -- 5.10.1 Multimedia Streaming -- 5.10.2 Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) -- 6 Client / Server Platforms for Mobile Services -- 6.1 The Greater Challenges -- 6.2 The Specific Challenges -- 6.3 Service Delivery Platforms -- 6.4 Software Services Technologies -- 6.4.1 Example CS Design Issues -- 6.5 Introducing J2EE / The 'Dirty Stuff' Done For Us! -- 6.6 Why All the Fuss About J2EE? -- 6.6.1 The Challenges of Integration -- 6.7 Handling SIP with Java -- 7 HTTP, WAP, AJAX, P2P and IM Protocols -- 7.1 The Rise of the Web -- 7.2 How HTTP and HTML works -- 7.3 Important Detail is in the HTTP Headers -- 7.4 The Challenges of Using HTTP Over a Wireless Link -- 7.5 WAP Data Transmission Protocols -- 7.5.1 Protocol Stack Paradigm -- 7.5.2 The WAP Stack -- 7.5.3 Wireless-Profiled TCP -- 7.5.4 Wireless-Profiled HTTP (W-HTTP) -- 7.6 Wireless Protocols / WTP and WSP -- 7.6.1 Introduction -- 7.6.2 Wireless Transport Protocol (WTP) -- 7.6.3 Concatenation and Segmentation -- 7.6.4 Segmentation and Reassembly in Action -- 7.6.5 Wireless Session Protocol (WSP) -- 7.6.6 WAP Push -- 7.7 AJAX -- 7.8 Peer-to-Peer (P2P) -- 7.8.1 Defining P2P -- 7.8.2 Some P2P Concepts -- 7.8.3 JXTA -- 7.9 Instant Messaging (IM) Protocols -- 7.9.1 SIP/SIMPLE -- 7.9.2 XMPP…”

“…This then returns us to Oedipus at Colonus; but not to him alone. …”