Tabla de Contenidos: “…A in Japan's Financial Sector -- 5.3 Methodology -- 5.3.1 Obtaining Excess Returns -- 5.3.2 Shareholder Value Creation Analysis -- 5.3.3 Performance Ratio Analysis -- 5.4 Data Description -- 5.5 Results -- 5.5.1 Shareholder Value Creation -- Cumulative abnormal returns-acquirer vs. target -- Cumulative abnormal returns-mega-mergers -- Cumulative abnormal returns-regression analysis -- 5.5.2 Performance Ratios -- Performance ratios-pre-merger acquirer vs. all banks -- Performance ratios-regression analysis -- 5.6 Conclusions -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 6 A Regime-Switching Analysis of Asian Bank Stocks -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 RavenPack News Database -- 6.3 Data and Sample -- 6.3.1 Return Series -- 6.3.2 News Variables -- 6.4 Markov Regime-Switching (MRS) Model -- 6.5 Empirical Results -- 6.5.1 Descriptive Statistics of the Dataset -- 6.5.2 MRS-t Model Without News Variables -- 6.5.3 Effects of News Sentiment Sign -- 6.5.4 Effects of News Sentiment Dummy -- 6.5.5 Effects of News Sentiment -- 6.6 Conclusion -- 6.7 Appendix A: Selected 20 Asian Banks List -- 6.8 Appendix B: RavenPack Algorithms -- 6.8.1 Market Response Methodology -- 6.8.2 Expert Consensus Tagging Methodology -- 6.8.3 Factors in the Event Sentiment Score -- References -- 7 Embedded Predictor Selection for Default Risk Calculation: A Southeast Asian Industry Study -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Data and Default Predictors -- 7.3 Embedded Predictor Selection -- 7.3.1 Lasso and Elastic-Net Penalties -- 7.3.2 Regularization on Logit Model -- 7.4 Empirical Result -- 7.5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- 8 Demand for International Reserve and Monetary Disequilibrium: Evidence from Emerging Asia -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Literature Review -- 8.3 Stylized Facts and Adequacy of Reserves -- 8.3.1 Stylized Facts -- 8.3.2 Adequacy of Reserves…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.6 Case Study: Hedging a Forecast Sale with an FX Forward -- 5.6.1 Setting the Hedging Relationship Term -- 5.6.2 Hedging Relationship Documentation -- 5.6.3 Hedge Effectiveness Assessment -- 5.6.4 Hedge Effectiveness Assessment Performed at Hedge Inception -- 5.6.5 Fair Valuation of Hedged Item and Hypothetical Derivative at the Relevant Dates -- 5.6.6 Accounting Entries When the Forward Element is Included in the Hedging Relationship -- 5.6.7 Accounting Election When the Forward Element is Excluded from the Hedging Relationship -- 5.6.8 Accounting When the Forward Element is Excluded from the Hedging Relationship and Recognised in Profit or Loss -- 5.6.9 Accounting When the Forward Element is Excluded from the Hedging Relationship and Aligned Portion Temporarily Recognised in OCI -- 5.6.10 Final Remarks: Inclusion versus Exclusion of the Forward Element -- 5.7 Case Study: Hedging a Forecast Sale and Subsequent Receivable with a Tunnel -- 5.7.1 Hedging Relationship Documentation -- 5.7.2 Hedge Effectiveness Assessment -- 5.7.3 Hedge Effectiveness Assessment Performed at Hedge Inception -- 5.7.4 Fair Valuation of Hedged Item and Hypothetical Derivative at the Relevant Dates -- 5.7.5 Calculation of Effective and Ineffective Amounts -- 5.7.6 Accounting Entries -- 5.7.7 Accounting Entries - Discontinuation by Changing Risk Management Objective -- 5.7.8 Final Remarks -- 5.8 Case Study: Hedging A Forecast Sale and Subsequent Receivable with a Participating Forward -- 5.8.1 Participating Forward Hedge Accounting Issues -- 5.8.2 Alternative 1: Participating Forward Split into a Forward and an Option -- 5.8.3 Alternative 2(a): Participating Forward in its Entirety -- 5.8.4 Alternative 2(b): Participating Forward in its Entirety - Readjusting the Hedge Ratio -- 5.9 Case Study: Hedging a Highly Expected Foreign Sale with a Knock-In Forward (Introduction)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Visualizing Sametime -- Overview -- Architecture -- Outline -- Visualizing Sametime client -- Implementation -- GUI Design -- Web services -- IM session data aggregation -- Outcome -- Trial program -- Results -- Concerns -- Future improvements -- Lessons learned -- Appendix B. Online customer support application example -- Overview…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.1.7 Portfolio Return -- 3.2 Concept and Measurement of Risk -- 3.2.1 Sources of Risk -- 3.2.2 Risk in Case of a Single Investment -- 3.3 Portfolio Risk -- 3.4 The Capital-Asset-Pricing Model (CAPM) -- 3.4.1 Systematic Risk versus Unsystematic Risk -- 3.4.2 Measurement of Systematic Risk and Determinants of Beta -- 3.4.3 Beta and the Required Rate of Investment -- 3.4.4 Security Market Line -- 3.4.5 Appraisal of CAPM -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Descriptive Questions -- Objective-type Questions -- Numerical Problems -- Solved Numerical Problems -- References -- Select Further Readings -- Chapter 4: Valuation of the Firm -- 4.1 Various Concepts of Value -- 4.1.1 Intrinsic Value -- 4.1.2 Market Value -- 4.1.3 Book Value -- 4.1.4 Liquidation Value -- 4.1.5 Going-concern Value -- 4.1.6 Replacement Value -- 4.2 Valuation of Bonds or Debentures -- 4.2.1 Valuation of Bonds with Fixed Maturity -- 4.2.2 Perpetual Bonds -- 4.3 Factors Influencing Bond Valuation -- 4.3.1 Discount Rate versus Coupon Rate -- 4.3.2 Maturity and Value of Bonds -- 4.3.3 Yield to Maturity -- 4.3.4 Duration and the Bond Price -- 4.3.5 Riskiness and the Value of Bond -- 4.4 Valuation of Preference Shares -- 4.5 Valuation of Ordinary Shares -- 4.5.1 Single-period Analysis -- 4.5.2 Multi-period Analysis -- 4.5.3 P/E Ratio Approach to Equity Valuation -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Descriptive Questions -- Objective-type Questions -- Numerical Problems -- Solved Numerical Problems -- Reference -- Select Further Reading -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Part II: Long-term Investment Decision -- Chapter 5: Principles of Capital Budgeting -- 5.1 Nature of Capital Budgeting -- 5.1.1 Meaning and Significance -- 5.1.2 Types of Proposals -- 5.1.3 Steps in Capital Budgeting Process -- 5.2 The Concept of Cash Flows -- 5.2.1 Nature and Timing of Cash Flows…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Mathematical foundations -- Vectors, matrices, and beyond: a linear algebra primer -- Vectors: one-dimensional data -- Matrices: two-dimensional data -- Rank 3 tensors -- Rank 4 tensors -- Calculus in five minutes: derivatives and finding maxima -- Appendix B. The backpropagation algorithm -- A bit of notation -- The backpropagation algorithm for feed-forward networks…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Show Me: Media 7.3-Setting Parental Controls for a User Account -- Show Me: Media 7.4-Creating a Bookmark Folder -- Show Me: Media 7.5-Setting the Auto-Click Preference in Safari -- Show Me: Media 7.6-Copying Text in a PDF File -- Show Me: Media 7.7-Saving a Web Receipt -- Chapter 8: Keeping Your Address Book and Schedule -- Show Me: Media 8.1-Editing the Address Card Template -- Show Me: Media 8.2-Creating a New Address Card -- Tell Me More: Media 8.3-Publishing a Calendar to the Web -- Show Me: Media 8.4-Setting an Alarm -- Show Me: Media 8.5-Creating a Birthday Calendar -- Show Me: Media 8.6-Creating a To Do Item -- Chapter 9: Emailing and Chatting Online -- Tell Me More: Media 9.1-Special Uses for the Bcc Field -- Show Me: Media 9.2-Creating Smart Mailboxes -- Show Me: Media 9.3-Creating To Do Items in Mail -- Show Me: Media 9.4-Creating a Status Description -- Show Me: Media 9.5-Sending a Text Message in iChat -- Show Me: Media 9.6-Presenting an iPhoto Slideshow -- Show Me: Media 9.7-Sharing Your Screen with Another Mac User -- Chapter 10: Using TextEdit -- Show Me: Media 10.1-Using the Find Command -- Show Me: Media 10.2-Setting Tabs -- Tell Me More: Media 10.3-Using Paragraph Spacing -- Show Me: Media 10.4-Other Formatting Features -- Media 10.4a-Creating Numbered Lists -- Media 10.4b-Creating a Task -- Media 10.4c-Creating Styles -- Media 10.4d-Inserting Special Characters -- Chapter 11: Managing and Editing Your Photos -- Show Me: Media 11.1-Selecting and Viewing Photos in a Slideshow -- Show Me: Media 11.2-Assigning Ratings to Photos -- Show Me: Media 11.3-Splitting and Merging Events -- Show Me: Media 11.4-Viewing Faces and Making Corrections -- Show Me: Media 11.5-Using Automatic and Manual Red-Eye Removal -- Tell Me More: Media 11.6-Enhancing Photo Attributes -- Show Me: Media 11.7-Retouching a Photo…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Service management and the ITIL -- The ITIL -- Service management -- Service delivery -- Service support -- Service support disciplines -- Configuration management -- Service desk -- Incident management -- Problem management -- Change management -- Release management -- Service delivery disciplines -- Capacity management -- Availability management -- Financial management for IT services -- IT service continuity management -- Service level management -- Bringing it all together -- Organization -- Processes -- Tools -- Constant improvement is a must -- Planning -- Delivery -- Measurement -- Calibration -- The power of integration -- Appendix B. Important concepts and terminology -- IBM Tivoli Service Level Advisor concepts -- IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager concepts -- Appendix C. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 2.3 Types of Customer Data used in Retail Analytics -- 2.4 Application of Consumer Data - Retail Analytics -- 2.5 Analytics in Retail Industry - How it Works -- 2.6 Metrics in Retail Industry -- 2.7 Analytics in Practice in Renowned Retail Organizations -- 2.8 Challenges and Pitfall - Retail Analytics -- 2.9 Way Ahead -- 2.10 Discussion Questions -- References -- 3 Multi-Agent Paradigm for B2C E-Commerce -- 3.1 Business Perspective -- 3.1.1 Negotiation -- 3.1.1.1 Types of Agent-to-Agent Negotiations -- 3.1.1.2 Negotiation Strategies -- 3.1.1.3 Negotiation Types -- 3.1.2 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Customer Orientation (CO) -- 3.1.3 Broker and Brokering -- 3.1.4 Business Model -- 3.2 Computational Perspective -- 3.2.1 Multi-Agent System -- 3.2.1.1 Agent: Definition and Characteristics -- 3.2.1.2 Multi-agent Systems: Salient Features -- 3.2.2 Cognitive and Social Parameters -- 3.2.3 MAS Communication -- 3.2.4 Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) -- 3.3 Machine Learning: Functions and Methods -- 3.3.1 Supervised and Unsupervised Learning -- 3.3.2 Decision Tree (DT) -- 3.3.3 Neural Network -- 3.3.4 Sensitivity Analysis (SA) -- 3.3.5 Feature Selection -- 3.4 Conclusion…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…10.3.5 Time-Based Charging -- 10.3.6 Pulse Charging -- 10.3.7 Trickle Charging -- 10.4 Effect of Charge Control on Battery Performance -- 10.5 Charging Circuits -- 10.5.1 Half-Bridge and Full-Bridge Circuits -- 10.5.2 On-Board Charger (Level 1 and Level 2 Chargers) -- 10.5.3 Off-Board Charger (Level 3) -- 10.5.4 Fast Charger -- 10.5.5 Ultra-Fast Charger -- 10.6 Infrastructure Development and Challenges -- 10.6.1 Home Charging Station -- 10.6.2 Workplace Charging Station -- 10.6.3 Community and Highways EV Charging Station -- 10.6.4 Electrical Infrastructure Upgrades -- 10.6.5 Infrastructure Challenges and Issues -- 10.6.6 Commercially Available Charges -- 10.7 Isolation and Safety Requirement for EC Chargers -- References -- 11 Balancing/Balancing Control -- 11.1 Balancing Control Management and Its Significance -- 11.1.1 Two Expressions of Battery Capacity and SoC Inconsistency -- 11.1.2 Significance of Balancing Control Management -- 11.2 Classification of Balancing Control Management -- 11.2.1 Centralized Balancing and Distributed Balancing -- 11.2.2 Discharge Balancing, Charge Balancing, and Bidirectional Balancing -- 11.2.3 Passive Balancing and Active Balancing -- 11.3 Review and Analysis of Active Balancing Technologies -- 11.3.1 Independent-Charge Active Balancing Control -- 11.3.2 Energy-Transfer Active Balancing Control -- 11.3.3 How to Evaluate the Advantages and Disadvantages of an Active Balancing Control Scheme (an Efficiency Problem of Active B -- 11.4 Balancing Strategy Study -- 11.4.1 Balancing Time -- 11.4.2 Variable for Balancing -- 11.5 Two Active Balancing Control Strategies -- 11.5.1 Topologies of Two Active Balancing Schemes -- 11.5.2 Hierarchical Balancing Control Strategy -- 11.5.3 Lead-Acid Battery Transfer Balancing Control Strategy -- 11.6 Evaluation and Comparison of Balancing Control Strategies…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.6 Disadvantages of AI in Agriculture -- 5.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 The Potential of Artificial Intelligence in the Healthcare System -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Machine Learning -- 6.3 Neural Networks -- 6.4 Expert Systems -- 6.5 Robots -- 6.6 Fuzzy Logic -- 6.7 Natural Language Processing -- 6.8 Sensor Network Technology in Artificial Intelligence -- 6.9 Sensory Devices in Healthcare -- 6.9.1 Wearable Devices -- 6.9.2 Implantable Devices -- 6.10 Neural Interface for Sensors -- 6.10.1 Intrusion Devices in Artificial Intelligence -- 6.11 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare -- 6.11.1 Role of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine -- 6.11.2 Role of Artificial Intelligence in Surgery -- 6.11.3 Role of Artificial Intelligence in Rehabilitation -- 6.12 Why Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare -- 6.13 Advancements of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare -- 6.14 Future Challenges -- 6.15 Discussion -- 6.16 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 Improvement of Computer Vision-Based Elephant Intrusion Detection System (EIDS) with Deep Learning Models -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Elephant Intrusion Detection System (EIDS) -- 7.2.1 Existing Approaches -- 7.2.2 Challenges -- 7.3 Theoretical Framework -- 7.3.1 Deep Learning Models for EIDS -- 7.3.1.1 Fast RCNN -- 7.3.1.2 Faster RCNN -- 7.3.1.3 Single-Shot Multibox Detector (SSD) -- 7.3.1.4 You Only Look Once (YOLO) -- 7.3.2 Hardware Specifications -- 7.3.2.1 Raspberry-Pi 3 Model B -- 7.3.2.2 Night Vision OV5647 Camera Module -- 7.3.2.3 PIR Sensor -- 7.3.2.4 GSM Module -- 7.3.3 Proposed Work -- 7.4 Experimental Results -- 7.4.1 Dataset Preparation -- 7.4.2 Performance Analysis of DL Algorithms -- 7.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8 A Study of WSN Privacy Through AI Technique -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Review of Literature -- 8.3 ML in WSNs -- 8.3.1 Supervised Learning…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2.2 Methodology -- 2.2.1 Collection of Plant Material -- 2.2.2 Qualitative Analysis of Phytochemicals -- 2.2.3 Study of In Vitro Antiurolithiatic Activity Using Titrimetry Method -- 2.2.3.1 Preparation of Calcium Oxalate -- 2.2.3.2 Preparation of Semipermeable Membrane From Eggs -- 2.2.3.3 In Vitro Antiurolithiatic Test Using Titrimetry Method -- 2.3 Result and Discussion -- 2.3.1 In Vitro Antiurolithiatic Activity Test -- 2.3.2 Analysis of Dissolved Calcium Oxalate -- 2.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Parkinson's Disease Detection Using Voice and Speech- Systematic Literature Review -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Research Questions -- 3.3 Method -- 3.3.1 Search Strategy -- 3.3.2 Inclusion Criteria -- 3.3.3 Subprocesses Involved in PD Detection Process -- 3.3.4 Data Sets -- 3.3.4.1 Parkinson's Data Set-UCI Machine Learning Dataset -- 3.3.4.2 PC-GITA Dataset -- 3.3.4.3 mPower Dataset -- 3.3.4.4 Mobile Device Voice Recordings (MDVR-KCL) Dataset -- 3.3.4.5 Italian Parkinson's Voice and Speech (IPVS) Dataset -- 3.3.4.6 Parkinson Speech Dataset With Multiple Types of Sound Recordings Dataset -- 3.3.4.7 Parkinson's Telemonitoring Dataset -- 3.4 Algorithms -- 3.5 Features -- 3.5.1 Acoustic Features -- 3.5.1.1 Jitter (Local, Absolute) -- 3.5.1.2 Jitter (Local) -- 3.5.1.3 Jitter (rap) -- 3.5.1.4 Jitter (ppq5) -- 3.5.1.5 Shimmer (Local) -- 3.5.1.6 Shimmer (local, dB) -- 3.5.1.7 Shimmer (apq3) -- 3.5.1.8 Shimmer (apq5) -- 3.5.2 Spectogram-Based Methods -- 3.5.2.1 MFCC -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Tumor Detection and Classification -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Methods Used for Detection of Tumors -- 4.3 Methods Used for Classification of Tumours -- 4.3.1 Segmentation -- 4.3.2 Region Growing Method -- 4.3.3 Seeded Region Growing Method -- 4.3.4 Unseeded Region Growing Method -- 4.3.5 .…”

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