Tabla de Contenidos: “…Government Restrictions and Accreditation Uncertainties 29. Due Process Epilogue Bibliography…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Always Day One: The Perpetual Assumption -- 70/30: Knowing How to Distinguish Risk and Uncertainty -- Discerning Four Horizons of Opportunity -- Horizon 4 - What Ignorance are We (Intentionally) Generating? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…An Analysis of Problems and Research in DAI; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Description, Decomposition, Distribution, and Allocation of Tasks; 1.3 Interaction, Language, and Communication; 1.4 Coherence and Coordination; 1.5 Modeling Other Agents and Organized Activity; 1.6 Interagent Disparities: Uncertainty and Conflict; 1.7 Tools for Distributed Artificial Intelligence; 1.8 Open Problems…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 11 Management Accounting and Performance Management/Improvement in Public Services -- Introduction -- Nature of Performance in Public Services -- Dimensions of Performance -- Systems of Performance Management -- Performance Information -- Improving Performance in Public Services -- Management Accounting Contribution -- Chapter 12 Management Accounting and Risk Management in Public Services -- Introduction -- Distinction between Risk and Uncertainty -- Risk and Risk Management in Public Service Organisations -- Risk Management Features In Public Services -- Importance of Organisational Resilience -- Management Accounting in an Environment of Risk and Uncertainty -- Chapter 13 Contemporary Aspects of Management Accounting in Public Services -- Introduction -- Modern Costing Developments -- Inter-Organisational Cost Management (IOCM) -- Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) -- Management Accounting and Modern Operational Processes -- Technology and Management Accounting -- Impact on Management Accounting -- References -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Priors on Hypergraphical Models via Simplicial Complexes; 20. A Bayesian Uncertainty Analysis for Nonignorable Nonresponse; 21. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Consideration of Alternative Analyses -- Interpretation -- Litter Decomposition -- CONCLUSIONS -- UPLAND FLORA -- PROJECT PROPOSAL -- SPECIES OR SYSTEM SELECTION -- SELECTION OF RESPONSE VARIABLES -- EXPERIMENT DESIGN -- Biologic and Ecological Sampling Techniques -- Physical and Chemical Measurements -- Statistical Methods -- RESPONSE TO REVIEW -- PRESENTATION OF RESULTS -- Consideration of Alternative Hypotheses -- Interpretation -- CONCLUSIONS -- Validity -- Uncertainties -- AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS -- PROJECT PROPOSAL -- SPECIES AND SYSTEM SELECTION -- SELECTION OF RESPONSE VARIABLES -- Periphyton -- Insect Response -- Fish Abundance and Movement -- EXPERIMENT DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION -- PRESENTATION OF RESULTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- Validity -- Uncertainties -- POLLINATING INSECTS -- PROJECT PROPOSAL -- SPECIES SELECTION -- SELECTION OF RESPONSE VARIABLES -- EXPERIMENT DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION -- Biologic and Ecological Sampling Techniques -- Physical Measurements -- Statistical Methods -- Quality Assurance and Quality Control -- Exposure Assessment -- RESPONSE TO REVIEW -- PRESENTATION OF RESULTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- Validity -- Uncertainties -- Summary -- SOIL ARTHROPODS AND EARTHWORMS -- PROJECT PROPOSAL -- SPECIES AND SYSTEM SELECTION -- Soil and Litter Arthropods -- Surface-Active Arthropods -- Earthworm Field Populations -- Earthworm Growth and Reproduction in Incubation Bags -- Litter Inputs -- Litter Decomposition -- SELECTION OF RESPONSE VARIABLES -- EXPERIMENT DESIGN -- Biologic and Ecological Sampling Techniques -- Physical and Chemical Measurements -- Statistical Methods -- PRESENTATION OF RESULTS -- Consideration of Alternative Analyses -- Interpretation -- CONCLUSIONS -- SOIL AMEBAS -- PROJECT PROPOSAL -- SPECIES SELECTION -- SELECTION OF RESPONSE VARIABLES -- EXPERIMENT DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION -- Biologic Sampling Techniques…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Toxicological Risks of Selected Flame-Retardant Chemicals -- Copyright -- OTHER REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON TOXICOLOGY -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- THE CHARGE TO THE SUBCOMMITTEE -- THE SUBCOMMITTEE'S APPROACH -- Hazard Identification -- Dose-Response Assessment -- Exposure Assessment -- Risk Characterization -- SUMMARY OF TOXICOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENTS -- UNCERTAINTIES ASSOCIATED WITH RISK ESTIMATES -- DATA GAPS AND RESEARCH RECOMMENDATIONS -- 1 Introduction -- THE CHARGE TO THE SUBCOMMITTEE -- THE SUBCOMMITTEE'S APPROACH TO ITS CHARGE -- FLAME RETARDANT PROCESSES -- CALIFORNIA, UNITED KINGDOM, AND EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE -- ORGANIZATION OF THIS REPORT -- REFERENCES -- 2 Assessment of Health Risks from the Use of Flame Retardants -- THE SUBCOMMITTEE'S RISK ASSESSMENT PROCESS -- Hazard Identification -- Observations of Humans -- Studies of Laboratory Animals -- In Vitro Studies -- Discussion -- Toxic Potency or Dose-Response Assessment -- Determination of Toxic Potency for Noncancer Effects -- Uncertainty Factors -- Interspecies Extrapolation -- Intraspecies Extrapolation -- Extrapolation from Subchronic to Chronic Exposures -- Extrapolation from LOAEL to NOAEL -- Route-to-Route Extrapolation -- Adjustment to Account for Poor Quality of the Database -- Overall Uncertainty Factor -- Carcinogenic Potency -- Exposure1 Assessment for Flame Retardants -- Risk Characterization of Flame Retardants -- Risk Characterization of Noncarcinogenic Effects -- Risk Characterization of Carcinogenic Effects -- REFERENCES -- 3 Exposure Assessment Methodology -- DERMAL EXPOSURE SCENARIO -- First Iteration -- Alternative Iteration -- INHALATION EXPOSURE SCENARIO -- Particles -- Vapors -- Uncertainty in the Inhalation Exposure Estimates -- ORAL EXPOSURE SCENARIO -- Uncertainties in the Oral Exposure Estimate -- REFERENCES -- 4 Hexabromocyclododecane…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…15.8.3 Advances 426 -- 15.8.4 Combination with Other Methods 427 -- 15.9 Discussion and Conclusion 428 -- Acknowledgments 429 -- References 430 -- 16 Computational Auditory Scene Analysis and Automatic Speech Recognition 433 / Arun Narayanan, DeLiang Wang -- 16.1 Introduction 433 -- 16.2 Auditory Scene Analysis 434 -- 16.3 Computational Auditory Scene Analysis 435 -- 16.3.1 Ideal Binary Mask 435 -- 16.3.2 Typical CASA Architecture 438 -- 16.4 CASA Strategies 440 -- 16.4.1 IBM Estimation Based on Local SNR Estimates 440 -- 16.4.2 IBM Estimation using ASA Cues 442 -- 16.4.3 IBM Estimation as Binary Classification 448 -- 16.4.4 Binaural Mask Estimation Strategies 451 -- 16.5 Integrating CASA with ASR 452 -- 16.5.1 Uncertainty Transform Model 454 -- 16.6 Concluding Remarks 458 -- Acknowledgment 458 -- References 458 -- 17 Uncertainty Decoding 463 / Hank Liao -- 17.1 Introduction 463 -- 17.2 Observation Uncertainty 465 -- 17.3 Uncertainty Decoding 466 -- 17.4 Feature-Based Uncertainty Decoding 468 -- 17.4.1 SPLICE with Uncertainty 470 -- 17.4.2 Front-End Joint Uncertainty Decoding 471 -- 17.4.3 Issues with Feature-Based Uncertainty Decoding 472 -- 17.5 Model-Based Joint Uncertainty Decoding 473 -- 17.5.1 Parameter Estimation 475 -- 17.5.2 Comparisons with Other Methods 476 -- 17.6 Noisy CMLLR 477 -- 17.7 Uncertainty and Adaptive Training 480 -- 17.7.1 Gradient-Based Methods 481 -- 17.7.2 Factor Analysis Approaches 482 -- 17.8 In Combination with Other Techniques 483 -- 17.9 Conclusions 484 -- References 485 -- Index 487.…”

“…""We live in a period of uncertainty about the fate of American global leadership and the future of international order. …”

“…Making the Englishmen: Debates on National Identity 1550-1650 asks how Englishmen defined themselves at a time of profound change and uncertainty. It will seek to contextualise the ways in which Englishness came to be construed as free, plain and unCatholic, and situate this construction as part of a larger attempt to create a narrative which would distinguish them from the rest of Europe. …”

“…In an age of political and economic uncertainty, from the Great Recession to the election of Donald Trump, it is essential to understand the ways capitalism and imperialism are central to the American way of life. …”

“…Examining their written and visual works over the past fifty years, Mathur illuminates how her protagonists’ political and aesthetic commitments intersect and foreground uncertainty, difficulty, conflict, and contradiction. …”

“…Recent increases in uncertainty and speed of market change are driving the adoption of new intelligent mobile office systems. …”

“…The first part of the book looks at innovation and its effects on economic performance, addressing issues of motives, behavioral rules under uncertainty, actor properties, and technology characteristics. …”

“…Through a focus on how it feels to live in environments where data is emergent, present and characterized by a sense of uncertainty, the authors argue for a new interdisciplinary approach to understanding the implications of self-tracking, which attends to its past, present and possible future. …”

“…One of the main advantages of Bayesian inference is the ability to deal with many different sources of uncertainty, including data, models, parameters and parameter restriction uncertainties, in a unified and coherent framework. …”

“…Agility is a tool that can help governments to not only maintain but even improve public services in a time of fiscal consolidation. Financial uncertainty is not the only challenge governments face today. …”

“…Private investment can be encouraged by tackling regulatory uncertainty in many areas. To this end, recent initiatives include a new regulatory model for the electricity sector, and new draft legislation on the role and structure of the regulatory agencies (currently in Congress). …”

“…There is, however, considerable uncertainty associated with all stages of “costing” the impacts of environmental and resource degradation. …”

“…The longer the timeframe, the less industry investment is handicapped by uncertainty. Subsidies to electric vehicles are more problematic because of the risks of prematurely picking winning technologies and creating subsidy dependence. …”