Tabla de Contenidos: “…Mixture models for categorical data -- 2.1.1. Mixture of ranking data…”

“…This has led to an increase in interest in the accelerated assessment and ranking of scientists and scientific institutions. …”

“…Note: Per the Penguin Policy 2.0 update, some of the tasks in Chapter 6 may present a risk to Google page rank. Please read the latest policy update from Google to know fully what will work best for increasing and maintaining Google Page Rank…”

“…Can governments elevate their broadband performance rankings? This paper aims to identify the factors that are significant in driving broadband penetration…”

“…"For 20 years, the Great Place to Work® Institute has been developing the annual ranking of the best companies to work for in the US and in 39 countries around the world. …”

“…Since the journal was established, JRFM has published in excess of 580 topical and interesting theoretical and empirical papers in financial economics, financial econometrics, banking, finance, mathematical finance, statistical finance, accounting, decision sciences, information management, tourism economics and finance, international rankings of journals in financial economics, and bibliometric rankings of journals in cognate disciplines. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Geometric Mean -- Chapter 2 Linear Algebraic Systems -- 2.1 Problem Definition and Vector Spaces -- 2.1.1 Vector Spaces in Tomographic Radiometric Inversion -- 2.2 Rotations -- 2.3 Projection Matrixes and Data-Filtering -- 2.3.1 Projections and Commercial FM Radio -- 2.4 Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and Subspaces -- 2.4.1 How to Choose the Rank of A? -- 2.5 QR and Cholesky Factorization -- 2.6 Power Method for Leading Eigenvectors -- 2.7 Least Squares Solution of Overdetermined Linear Equations -- 2.8 Efficient Implementation of the LS Solution -- 2.9 Iterative Methods -- Chapter 3 Random Variables in Brief -- 3.1 Probability Density Function (pdf), Moments, and Other Useful Properties -- 3.2 Convexity and Jensen Inequality -- 3.3 Uncorrelatedness and Statistical Independence -- 3.4 Real-Valued Gaussian Random Variables…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…11.6 Standards Requiring Design Safety -- 11.7 The Review of Designs -- 11.8 Hazardous Energy Control -- 11.9 Ergonomic Review of Designs -- 11.10 Design Review Process -- 11.11 Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment in Design -- 11.12 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12 Industrial Hygiene Risk Assessment -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Fundamental Concepts -- 12.3 US Navy Industrial Hygiene Field Operations Manual -- 12.4 Alternate Health Risk Ranking Systems -- 12.5 More Complex Occupational Hygiene Risk Assessment Tools -- 12.6 Health Risk Assessments and Prioritization -- 12.7 Modified HRR/IH FMEA Methodology -- 12.8 Case Study -- 12.8.1 Sampling -- 12.8.2 Results -- 12.9 Control Banding Nanotool -- 12.10 Dermal RA -- 12.11 Occupational Health Risk and PtD Process Alignment -- 12.12 Summary -- Review Questions -- References -- Chapter 13 Machine Risk Assessments -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Machine Safety Standards -- 13.2.1 The B11 Standards -- 13.3 Machine Hazards -- 13.4 Machine Safeguarding -- 13.4.1 Machine Safety Control Systems -- 13.5 Selecting Machines for Assessment -- 13.6 Risk Assessment of Machines -- 13.7 Estimating Risk -- 13.8 Case Study -- 13.9 Assessment of Machine Maintenance and Service -- 13.10 Summary -- Appendix A Machine Safeguards Methods (Adapted from OSHA) -- References -- Chapter 14 Project-Oriented Risk Assessments -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Fatalities and Serious Incidents -- 14.3 Error Traps in Nonroutine Tasks -- 14.4 Management of Change -- 14.5 Construction Project Work -- 14.6 Construction Project Risk Assessment -- 14.7 Safe Work Methods -- 14.8 Pre-Task Hazard Analysis -- 14.9 The Use of Checklists -- 14.10 Maintenance and Service Work -- 14.11 Operating Hazard Analysis -- 14.12 Analyzing Specific Hazards -- 14.13 Pre-Entry Hazard Analysis -- 14.14 Fall Hazard Assessment -- 14.15 Summary -- Review Questions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Establish ALARP -- 1.5 Costs -- 1.5.1 Costs of Applying the Standard -- 1.5.2 Savings from Implementing the Standard -- 1.5.3 Penalty Costs from Not Implementing the Standard -- 1.6 The Seven Parts of IEC 61508 -- 1.7 HAZOP (Hazard and Operability Study) -- 1.7.1 Objectives of a HAZOP -- 1.7.2 HAZOP Study Team -- 1.7.3 Typical Information Used in the HAZOP -- 1.7.4 Typical HAZOP Worksheet Headings -- Design Intent -- Nodes -- Parameter/Guidewords -- Causes -- Consequence -- Safeguards -- Action Required -- 1.7.5 Risk Ranking -- 1.7.6 Quantifying Risk -- 2 - Meeting IEC 61508 Part 1 -- 2.1 Establishing Integrity Targets -- 2.1.1 The Quantitative Approach -- (a) Maximum Tolerable Risk -- (b) Maximum tolerable failure rate -- Example -- On site -- Off site -- (c) Safety integrity levels (SILs) -- Simple example (low demand) -- Simple example (high demand) -- More complex example -- (d) Exercises -- 2.1.2 Layer of Protection Analysis -- 2.1.3 The Risk Graph Approach -- 2.1.4 Safety Functions -- 2.1.5 "Not Safety-Related" -- 2.1.6 SIL 4 -- 2.1.7 Environment and Loss of Production -- 2.1.8 Malevolence and Misuse -- Paragraph 7.4.2.3 of Part 1 of the Standard -- 2.2 "As Low as Reasonably Practicable" -- 2.3 Functional Safety Management and Competence -- 2.3.1 Functional Safety Capability Assessment -- 2.3.2 Competency -- (a) IET/BCS "Competency guidelines for safety-related systems practitioners" -- (b) HSE document (2007) "Managing competence for safety-related systems" -- Annex D of "Guide to the application of IEC 61511" -- (d) Competency register -- 2.3.3 Independence of the Assessment -- 2.3.4 Hierarchy of Documents -- 2.3.5 Conformance Demonstration Template -- IEC 61508 Part 1 -- 2.4 Societal Risk -- 2.4.1 Assess the Number of Potential Fatalities…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…7.5.2 The Fisher Information -- 7.6 Point Estimation -- 7.6.1 Maximum Likelihood Estimation -- 7.6.2 Method of Moments Estimator -- 7.7 Comparison of Estimators -- 7.7.1 Unbiased Estimators -- 7.7.2 Improving Unbiased Estimators -- 7.8 Confidence Intervals -- 7.9 Testing Statistical Hypotheses-The Preliminaries -- 7.10 The Neyman-Pearson Lemma -- 7.11 Uniformly Most Powerful Tests -- 7.12 Uniformly Most Powerful Unbiased Tests -- 7.12.1 Tests for the Means: One- and Two-Sample t-Test -- 7.13 Likelihood Ratio Tests -- 7.13.1 Normal Distribution: One-Sample Problems -- 7.13.2 Normal Distribution: Two-Sample Problem for the Mean -- 7.14 Behrens-Fisher Problem -- 7.15 Multiple Comparison Tests -- 7.15.1 Bonferroni's Method -- 7.15.2 Holm's Method -- 7.16 The EM Algorithm* -- 7.16.1 Introduction -- 7.16.2 The Algorithm -- 7.16.3 Introductory Applications -- 7.17 Further Reading -- 7.17.1 Early Classics -- 7.17.2 Texts from the Last 30 Years -- 7.18 Complements, Problems, and Programs -- Chapter 8 Nonparametric Inference -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Empirical Distribution Function and Its Applications -- 8.2.1 Statistical Functionals -- 8.3 The Jackknife and Bootstrap Methods -- 8.3.1 The Jackknife -- 8.3.2 The Bootstrap -- 8.3.3 Bootstrapping Simple Linear Model* -- 8.4 Non-parametric Smoothing -- 8.4.1 Histogram Smoothing -- 8.4.2 Kernel Smoothing -- 8.4.3 Nonparametric Regression Models* -- 8.5 Non-parametric Tests -- 8.5.1 The Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Test -- 8.5.2 The Mann-Whitney test -- 8.5.3 The Siegel-Tukey Test -- 8.5.4 The Wald-Wolfowitz Run Test -- 8.5.5 The Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test -- 8.5.6 Kruskal-Wallis Test* -- 8.6 Further Reading -- 8.7 Complements, Problems, and Programs -- Chapter 9 Bayesian Inference -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Bayesian Probabilities -- 9.3 The Bayesian Paradigm for Statistical Inference…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editor Bios -- Contributor Bios -- Acknowledgments -- Introductory Chapter: Asia Finance: The Emergence of Asia Economy and New Development in Finance -- Banking -- Market Developments and Governance Issues -- Sovereign Wealth Funds -- Summary of Individual Chapters in Volume 1 -- Disclaimers -- Part One: Banking -- 1 Risk Rating in Asian Banks -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 PIT Versus Behavior Modeling -- 1.2.1 Transaction Behavior Data -- 1.2.2 Back-Testing -- 1.3 Transaction Behavior Scoring -- 1.3.1 Scoring Process -- 1.3.2 Validation -- 1.4 Simulation and Conclusion -- References -- 2 Private Wealth Management in Asia -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Global Market Distribution of Private Wealth -- 2.3 Asian Market Distribution of Private Wealth -- 2.4 Asian Private Wealth Management -- 2.5 Asian Centers of Private Wealth Management -- 2.5.1 Hong Kong and Singapore -- 2.5.2 China and India as Emerging Markets -- 2.5.3 Japan's Challenges -- 2.6 Swiss Private Banking Across Asia -- 2.7 Conclusion -- References -- 3 The Banking Networks of Asian Financial Centers -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Roots of Asia's Banking Networks -- 3.3 Asia's Leading Financial Centers -- 3.3.1 The View from HSBC -- 3.3.2 The Ranking of Asia's Financial Centers -- 3.4 Asia's Exchanges -- 3.5 China's Financial Centers -- 3.6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 4 Dynamics of House Prices and Bank Lending in Korea -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Literature Review -- 4.3 Apartment House Prices and Bank Lending: Stylized Facts in Regional Submarkets of House in Korea -- 4.4 Long-Run Analysis -- 4.5 Short-Run Relationship -- 4.6 Conclusion -- Appendix 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Regulatory Systems Within International Sport -- 2.1 A Systemic Framework for Analysing the Worldwide Regulation of Sports -- 2.1.1 A Global Explanatory Model -- 2.1.2 Four Types of Regulation: Social, Economic, Legal and Political -- 2.1.3 Principles Underlying the Model -- 2.1.4 The Four Key Variables in a Sport's International Ecosystem -- (a) Number of Actors Involved -- (b) Uniformity of International Rules of Play -- (c) Control Over the International Competition Calendar and World Rankings -- (d) Ownership and Control of Hallmark Events By an IF -- 2.1.5 Resources and Competencies Needed for the Four Types of Regulation -- 2.1.5.1 Social Regulation -- 2.1.5.2 Economic Regulation -- 2.1.5.3 Legal Regulation -- 2.1.5.4 Political Regulation -- 2.2 Five Regulation Configurations for International Sport -- 2.2.1 Regulation Dominated By an International Federation -- 2.2.2 Regulation Coordinated By an International Federation -- 2.2.3 Parallel Regulation By an International Federation and Commercial Body -- 2.2.4 Regulation Dominated By a Commercial Operator -- 2.2.5 Totally Private Regulation By the Commercial Sector -- 2.3 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Global Regulation Dependent On National Sport Configurations -- 3.1 The Main Organisational Models of Sport -- 3.1.1 Three Traditional Models: American, European, State-Controlled -- 3.1.1.1 The American Model -- 3.1.1.2 The (Western) European Model -- 3.1.1.3 The State-Run Model -- 3.1.2 New Actors Focusing On 'Sport Power': China, Russia, Gulf States -- 3.1.3 Fragility and Instability in Least-Developed Countries -- 3.2 National Sport Configurations in Europe -- 3.2.1 The Characteristics of National Sport Configurations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Fraud detection example -- 5.1 The business issue -- 5.2 Mapping the business issue to data mining functions -- 5.3 The business application -- 5.4 Environment, components, and implementation flow -- 5.5 Data to be used -- 5.5.1 Data extraction -- 5.5.2 Data manipulation and enrichment -- 5.6 Implementation in DB2 UDB V8.1 -- 5.6.1 Enabling database for modeling and scoring -- 5.6.2 Installing additional UDFs and stored procedures -- 5.6.3 Model building -- 5.7 Implementation in DB2 UDB V7.2 -- 5.7.1 Prerequisite: Initial model building -- 5.7.2 Data settings -- 5.7.3 Model parameter settings -- 5.7.4 Building the mining task -- 5.7.5 Running the model by calling a stored procedure -- 5.7.6 Scoring script generation -- 5.7.7 Applying the scoring model -- 5.7.8 Ranking and listing the five smallest clusters -- 5.7.9 Actionable result for investigation -- 5.7.10 Scheduling the job to run at regular intervals -- 5.8 Benefits -- 5.8.1 A system that adapts to changes in undesirable behavior -- 5.8.2 Fast deployment of fraud detection system -- 5.8.3 Better use of data mining resource…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.4 Solar position modeling -- 6.4.1 Solar angle -- 6.4.2 Solar tracking angle -- 6.4.3 Direct normal beam insolation -- 6.5 Design of a parabolic through solar thermal power plant -- 6.5.1 Parabolic through collector design -- Geometric configuration -- Solar energy absorption modeling -- Solar receiver design -- Transfer of heat from the absorber to the heat transfer fluid -- Conduction heat transfer through absorber wall -- Transfer of heat from the absorber to the glass envelope -- Vacuum in annulus (p&lt -- 1 Torr) -- Annulus pressure higher than 1 Torr -- Radiation heat transfer from the absorber to the envelope -- Conductive heat transport through the glass envelope -- Heat transfer from HCE support bracket -- Heat loss from the glass envelope to the atmosphere -- Pressure drops from the piping system -- HTF pump -- 6.6 Design of a solar tower power plant -- 6.6.1 Heliostat field modeling -- 6.6.2 Central receiver modeling -- 6.7 Heat transfer fluid -- 6.7.1 Available heat transfer fluid -- 6.7.2 Correlations for thermophysical property of HTFs -- 6.8 Site selection and mapping -- 6.8.1 Method related to sites selection of solar power plants -- 6.8.2 Evaluation criteria -- 6.8.3 AHP and ANP ranking approach -- 6.8.4 Site selection principle -- 6.8.5 Land selection and site elevation -- 6.9 Design of thermal collector for power plant -- 6.9.1 Flat plate solar collectors -- Convection loss -- Conduction loss -- Radiation loss -- 6.9.2 Evacuated tube collectors -- 6.10 Solar aided power generation -- 6.11 Hybridization of power cycle with solar thermal energy resources -- 6.11.1 Hybridizing with Rankine cycle -- 6.12 Performance analysis -- 6.12.1 Overall efficiency -- 6.12.2 Fuel-based efficiency -- 6.12.3 Solar-to-electric efficiency -- 6.12.4 Solar heat fraction -- 6.12.5 Fuel saving fraction -- References -- 7 - Solar thermal energy storage…”