“…As technology becomes increasingly integrated into our daily lives, the information that we can collect from devices, OSINT, and other sources becomes a critical part of any investigation, allowing us to map out a person's life."--…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Results -- 4.1. 2016 Brexit referendum -- 4.2. 2016 US election - Trump -- 4.3. 2017 French elections -- 4.4. 2017 UK general election -- 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…9.3.1.2 Institutional Interactions through Partnerships-Urban Entrepreneurialism and Urban Clusters (Chengshiqun) in China -- 9.4 Chapter Conclusion-Theory Testing and the Implications of Case Findings for Theory and Practice -- 9.4.1 Lessons for Theory -- 9.4.2 Lessons for Practice -- 10 The Philippines as a Case Study-Populism and Institutional Activism in Transformation Processes Towards Sustainability -- 10.1 Context-Sustainable, Low-Carbon Development in the Philippines -- 10.1.1 The Paris Agreement and Responses From the Philippines -- 10.1.1.1 Sustainable Development Policies in the Philippines -- 10.1.1.2 Energy Security Policies in the Philippines -- 10.1.2 Multiple Entry Points to Climate Mitigation and Sustainable Development in the Philippines -- 10.1.2.1 Rural Development as an Entry Point to Sustainable, Low-Carbon Development -- 10.2 Case Study-Institutional Activism and Sustainable and Low-Carbon Policy Goals in the 'Weak' Philippine State -- 10.2.1 Institutional Activism in the Philippines-The Historical Context and the Party List System -- 10.2.1.1 Institutional Activism in the Philippines-The Appointment of Secretary Regina Lopez -- 10.2.2 An Ideal Type Analysis of Sustainable, Low-Carbon Development in the Philippines -- 10.3 Conclusion-Lessons for Theory and for Practice -- 10.3.1 Lessons for Theory -- 10.3.2 Lessons for Practice -- 11 The United States of America-Disruptive Governments, Social Movements and Technocrats in Transformation Processes Towards Sustainability -- 11.1 Context-Sustainable Low Carbon Transformation Under Protectionism and Isolationism -- 11.1.1 The Paris Agreement and Responses from the United States -- 11.1.1.1 Climate Change Discourse in the United States Under President Trump and the U.S. Response to the Paris Climate Agreement -- 11.1.1.2 Economic Development and Energy Security Policies in the United States-The Return of a Fossil-Based Energy and Economy System…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Tarifs marchandises des chemins de fer américains en 2001 : Recettes/t-km (en cents US) par catégorie de marchandises et rapport recettes/ coûts variables -- Graphique 4.13. …”

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…”