“…The second edition includes new coverage of the important issue of how parameter uncertainty can be dealt with in the estimation of portfolio risk, as well as comprehensive new sections on the pricing of CDSs and CDOs, and a chapter on predicting borrower-specific loss given default with regression models. …”

“…Competing in a global environment has increased the need for enhanced communication exchanges, creating trusting cultures, and the ability to cope with the increased complexity and uncertainty of the ever-changing business environment. …”

“…Moreover, in modern society, the presence of social uncertainty, the changes in family models, the development of social media, and the loss of face-to-face interaction can have an impact on suicide risk, particularly in the younger generation…”

“…In today’s “real world,” however, you must specify and build software in the face of high and continuing uncertainty. Scrum and other agile methods have evolved to reflect this reality. …”

“…The biggest point of the book addresses is the uncertainty or fear businesses have when entering a new market. …”

“…Although superstition is a normal part of our culture, Vyse argues that we must provide alternative methods of coping with life's uncertainties by teaching decision analysis, promoting science education, and challenging ourselves to critically evaluate the sources of our beliefs"--…”

“…Enterprises are facing more uncertainty, opportunities coexist with challenges. …”

“…We are perennially fascinated by luck and by its association with happiness and danger, uncertainty and aspiration. Yet it remains an elusive, ungraspable idea, one that slips and slides over time: all cultures reimagine what luck is and how to tame it at different stages in their history, and the modernity of the 'long twentieth century' is no exception to the rule. …”

“…Perkins reveals how Shackleton's vision, actions, and philosophy of leadership provide a compass to executives and managers in today's climate of fierce competition, economic uncertainty, and constant change…”

“…New powers emerge, old ones re-emerge, and uncertainty about the future global order is increasing. …”

“…A manifestation of the extreme perception that emerged amid uncertainty and the challenge to seeing brought on by urban warfare, the street paintings erected by Protestant motorbike-taxi drivers signaled a radical departure from the aniconic tradition of the old colonial church, a desire to be seen and recognized by political authorities from Jakarta to the UN and European Union, an aim to reinstate the Christian look of a city in the face of the country's widespread islamicization, and an opening to a more intimate relationship to the divine through the bringing-into-vision of the Christian god. …”

“…Modern society is characterized by the fact of contingency, uncertainty, and ambiguity. The purpose of this book is to transform this phenomenal fact into a hopeful norm. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Editor Biographies -- SECTION 1 Financial and Strategic Management in Uncertain Environments -- Chapter 1 Municipal financial management in conditions of uncertainty– selected aspects -- Chapter 2 Japanese industry analysis using Cobb–Douglas production function model -- Chapter 3 Management and image creation in selected local government units -- Chapter 4 Strategic analysis of enterprises and the Avatar model as modern management tools -- Chapter 5 The digital transformation of financial services -- Chapter 6 The digital banking evolution: An opportunity or apitfall? …”

“…Technology is said to amplify the dissemination of radicalism, though there remains uncertainty as to the exact weight of technology on radical behaviors. …”

“…You'll learn how to better manage stress, break free from living in survival mode, and navigate FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) so you can harness change and grow by reclaiming agency and recovering what you care about. …”

“…acclaimed historian John Patrick Diggins tackles the complicated question of why, at a time of great uncertainty about America's proper role in the world, leading politicians and thinkers are turning to Niebuhr for answers. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface / Maja Hoffmann, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tom Eccles -- Morbid symptoms: curating in times of uncertainty and de-globalization, an introduction / Simon Sheikh -- Section I After the global: diagnoses of the current conjuncture -- Introduction: political imaginaries after the global / Mick Wilson -- In the ruins of the present / Vijay Prashad -- Formations of political-aesthetic criticality: decolonizing the global in times of humanitarian viewership / Athena Athanasiou and Simon Sheikh -- Globaphobia / Nkule Mabaso -- The seventh wonder of the Zad / Kristin Ross -- Zone of being and non-being / Qalandar Bux Memon -- The way things are organized: the mesoscopic, the metastable, 'the curatorial' / Joshua Simon -- A 'world' for art and the material turn / Sumesh Sharma -- Beyond the colonial discourse of lack: a humble and difficult art / Franc̦oise Vergès -- Section II -- After the global: exhibition histories Introduction: activating what might have happened to shape what could be / Lucy Steeds -- Archives, struggles and exhibitions / María Berríos and Jakob Jakobsen -- Imagining curatorial practice after 1972 / Yaiza Hernández Velázquez -- Performing pan-Africanism / Ntone Edjabe and David Morris -- L'atelier Gallery: the museum without walls of trans-Mediterranean Modernism / Morad Montazami -- Projeto Terra / Lucy Steeds -- What does the elephant remember? …”

“…His work on choice under conditions of uncertainty underpins much of contemporary economics, as well as decision theory and Bayesian statistics. …”

“…In times of economic uncertainty, it is particularly important for aid to provide value for money, and to ensure that it is not misused. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…9.4 Pain Management and the 'Assume Sentient' Principle -- 9.5 Moving Past the PVS/MCS Distinction -- 9.6 The Question of Treatment Withdrawal -- 9.7 Summary of Chapter 9 -- 10: Fetuses and Embryos -- 10.1 The Cautionary Tale of Newborn Pain -- 10.2 Fetal Sentience and Women's Rights: Separating the Issues -- 10.3 Fetuses as Sentience Candidates -- 10.4 Taking a Precautionary Stance towards Fetuses -- 10.5 Communicating Uncertainty in the Abortion Clinic -- 10.6 Human Embryos and the 14-Day Rule -- 10.7 The 14-Day Rule and Sentience -- 10.8 Summary of Chapter 10 -- 11: Neural Organoids -- 11.1 The Promise of Organoid Research -- 11.2 No Risk of Sentience? …”