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Value at risk and bank capital management
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ISBN: 9780123694669 0123694663 9780080471068 0080471064 128096281X 9781280962813 9786610962815 6610962812 Year: 2007 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press,

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While the highly technical measurement techniques and methodologies of Value at Risk have attracted huge interest, much less attention has been focused on how Value at Risk and the risk-adjusted performance measures such as RAROC or economic profit/EVA„· can be effectively used to improve a bank¡¦s decision making processes. Academic books are typically concerned primarily with measurement techniques, and devote only a small section to describing the applications, usually without discussing the problems that changing organizational processes in banks may have on business units¡¦ behaviour. Practitioners¡¦ books are often based on a single experience, presenting the approach that has been pursued by a single bank, but often do not adequately evaluate that approach. In actual practice, the choice of how to use Value at Risk and risk-adjusted performance measures has no single optimal solution, but requires effective decision making that can identify the solution that is consistent with the bank¡¦s style of management and coordination mechanisms, and often with characteristics of individual business units as well. In this book, Francesco Saita of Bocconi University argues that even though risk measurement techniques have greatly improved in recent years for market, credit and now also operational risk, capital management and capital allocation decisions are far from becoming purely technical and mechanical. On one hand, decisions about capital management must consider handling different capital constraints (e.g. regulatory vs. economic capital ) and face remarkable difficulties in providing a measure of ¡§aggregated¡¨ Value at Risk (i.e. a measure that considers the overall value at risk of the bank after diversification across risk types). On the other hand, the aim of using capital more efficiently through capital allocation cannot be achieved only through a sort of centralized asset allocation process, but rather by designing a Value at Risk limit system and a risk-adjusted performance measurement system that are designed to provide the right incentives to individual business units. This connection between sophisticated and cutting edge risk measurement techniques and practical bank decision making about capital management and capital allocation make this book unique and provide readers with a depth of academic and theoretical expertise combined with practical and real-world understanding of bank structure, organizational constraints, and dec...


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Metodi di previsione statistica
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ISBN: 9788847006034 8847006023 9788847006027 9786613693501 8847006031 1280783117 Year: 2007 Publisher: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer,

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Il libro tratta un vasto ventaglio di argomenti, affiancando alla trattazione delle serie temporali anche materiale sulle catene di Markov e i processi di punti, non solo dal punto di vista della probabilità, ma anche da quello della statistica e della previsione; contiene anche una trattazione nel dominio delle frequenze. Inoltre può essere letto a diversi livelli di approfondimento, perché oltre a presentare i vari argomenti, la loro logica e le potenzialità applicative, ne fornisce anche una giustificazione teorica e matematica. Vengono proposti due percorsi, l'uno adatto a un corso introduttivo per la laurea triennale, l'altro a un corso completo per la laurea specialistica o il dottorato.

Electromagnetic compatibility in power systems
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ISBN: 1280746742 9786610746743 008046761X 0080452612 9780080452616 9780080467610 Year: 2007 Publisher: Amsterdam Boston Elsevier

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A large amount of natural or artificially produced physical phenomena are exploited for practical applications, even though several of them give rise to unpleasant consequences. These ultimately manifest themselves under form of malfunction or definitive failure of components and systems, or environmental hazard. So far, manifold categories of inadvertent or deliberate sources have been discovered to simultaneously produce useful effects in some ways but adverse ones in others. In particular, responsible for the growing interest in the last decades for Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) has b


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Merkwaardige ongevallen in de les L.O.
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Year: 2007 Publisher: Heverlee Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven. Departement Lerarenopleiding

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In dit eindwerk zijn de resultaten te vinden van het onderzoek dat gedaan is naar ongevallen tijdens de les LO in Vlaanderen. Om dit mogelijk te maken is er gewerkt met een onderzoekssite op het Internet. De opzet van het onderzoek was om een beeld te krijgen van de meest voorkomende en ingrijpende ongevallen tijdens de lessen LO in Vlaanderen. Aan de hand hiervan zou er nagegaan worden of alle ongevallen die zich voordoen tijdens de les LO kunnen gesitueerd worden in het schema in verband met ongevaloorzaken van Van Assche, W. Vervolgens zou een verwerking van de resultaten meer inzicht kunnen geven in het al dan niet frequent voorkomen van ongevallen, en de aard en oorzaak ervan. Nadat het onderzoek is uitgevoerd kon de conclusie getrokken worden dat, ondanks de grote mate van verspreiding van het onderzoek, toch nog maar een klein aantal leerkrachten deelgenomen had aan het onderzoek, en dat er na selectie hiervan, nog slechts éénderde overbleef. Toch was het aantal relevante antwoorden nog dusdanig groot dat er een redelijk betekenisvolle verwerking van de resultaten gedaan kon worden. Hieruit bleek dat het schema rond ongevaloorzaken van Van Assche voldoende was om de oorzaken van dit onderzoek in te kaderen. Ook bleek uit het onderzoek dat de meeste merkwaardige ongevallen zich voordeden tijdens balsportlessen, maar ook hoogspringen en honkbal bleken risicoactiviteiten. De jaren ervaring van de leerkrachten bleken duidelijk verband te houden met het aantal ongevallen, en er bleek dat leerkrachten met minder dan tien jaar ervaring de grootste kans op ongevallen in hun lessen LO hadden. (Bron: auteur)

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Invasive Bladder Cancer
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ISBN: 128095647X 9786610956470 1846283779 1846283760 Year: 2007 Publisher: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer,

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Invasive Bladder Cancer draws on the expertise of an international community of experts in the area. It offers an updated, simple overview bridging the information coming from basic research to clinical practice, facilitated by most chapters having both a basic researcher and a clinician writing together. The book will be of particular interest to office urologists, and oncologists with a specialist interest in urology.


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Re-engineering Engineering Education in Europe
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Year: 2007 Publisher: Florence : Firenze University Press,

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Contributing to the development and the enrichment of the European dimension in Engineering Education (EE), constituted the global goal of TREE. In other words to enhance the compatibility of the many diverse routes to the status of Professional Engineer which exist in Europe and, hence, to facilitate greater mobility of skilled personnel and integration of the various situations throughout Europe. The activity of the TN TREE, made up by some 110 higher education Institutions and Associations, has been developed along four main lines: A. the tuning line B. the education and research line C. the attractiveness of EE line D. the sustainability line This volume, accompanied by a CD Rom, presents the results of three years of works in the frame of the Thematic Network TREE which was activated and financed in the frame of the SOCRATES Programme in the period 2004-2007.


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TREE : Teaching and research in engineering in Europe : re-engineering engineering education in Europe : SOCRATES Erasmus thematic network
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ISBN: 8884536766 Year: 2007 Volume: 43 Publisher: Firenze : Firenze University Press,

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Advances in Brain, Vision, and Artificial Intelligence : Second International Symposium, BVAI 2007, Naples, Italy, October 10-12, 2007, Proceedings
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ISBN: 9783540755548 3540755543 3540755551 Year: 2007 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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Neural networks (Neurobiology) --- Neural networks (Computer science) --- Computer vision --- Optical pattern recognition --- Artificial intelligence --- Réseaux neuronaux (Neurobiologie) --- Réseaux neuronaux (Informatique) --- Vision par ordinateur --- Reconnaissance optique des formes (Informatique) --- Intelligence artificielle --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Nerve Net --- Artificial Intelligence --- Neural Networks (Computer) --- Visual Perception --- Congresses --- Perception --- Nervous System --- Computing Methodologies --- Mathematical Concepts --- Pattern Recognition, Automated --- Publication Formats --- Publication Characteristics --- Information Science --- Anatomy --- Phenomena and Processes --- Mental Processes --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Electrical Engineering --- Applied Physics --- Technology - General --- Neuroscience --- Electrical & Computer Engineering --- Human Anatomy & Physiology --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Computer science. --- Computers. --- Algorithms. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computer graphics. --- Pattern recognition. --- Bioinformatics. --- Computer Science. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics. --- Computation by Abstract Devices. --- Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity. --- Pattern Recognition. --- Bio-informatics --- Biological informatics --- Biology --- Information science --- Computational biology --- Systems biology --- Design perception --- Pattern recognition --- Form perception --- Figure-ground perception --- Automatic drafting --- Graphic data processing --- Graphics, Computer --- Computer art --- Graphic arts --- Electronic data processing --- Engineering graphics --- Image processing --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Algorism --- Algebra --- Arithmetic --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Computer systems --- Cybernetics --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Informatics --- Science --- Data processing --- Digital techniques --- Foundations --- Computer vision. --- Computer software. --- Optical pattern recognition. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Optical data processing --- Pattern perception --- Perceptrons --- Visual discrimination --- Software, Computer --- Machine vision --- Vision, Computer --- Pattern recognition systems --- Optical data processing. --- Optical computing --- Visual data processing --- Integrated optics --- Photonics --- Computers --- Optical equipment


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Stratified Lie Groups and Potential Theory for Their Sub-Laplacians
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ISSN: 14397382 ISBN: 128106646X 9786611066468 3540718974 Year: 2007 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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The existence, for every sub-Laplacian, of a homogeneous fundamental solution smooth out of the origin, plays a crucial role in the book. This makes it possible to develop an exhaustive Potential Theory, almost completely parallel to that of the classical Laplace operator. This book provides an extensive treatment of Potential Theory for sub-Laplacians on stratified Lie groups. In recent years, sub-Laplacian operators have received considerable attention due to their special role in the theory of linear second-order PDE's with semidefinite characteristic form. It also provides a largely self-contained presentation of stratified Lie groups, and of their Lie algebra of left-invariant vector fields. The presentation is accessible to graduate students and requires no specialized knowledge in algebra nor in differential geometry. It is thus addressed, besides PhD students, to junior and senior researchers in different areas such as: partial differential equations; geometric control theory; geometric measure theory and minimal surfaces in stratified Lie groups.

Cartographies of the Mind : Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection
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ISBN: 9781402054433 1402054432 9048173701 9786610940554 1280940557 1402054440 Year: 2007 Volume: v. 4 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,

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The present book is a collection of essays exploring some classical dimensions of mind both from the perspective of an empirically-informed philosophy and from the point of view of a philosophically-informed psychology. In the last three decades, the level of interaction between philosophy and psychology has increased dramatically. As a contribution to this trend, this book explores some areas in which this interaction has been very productive – or, at least, highly provocative. The interaction between philosophy and psychology can be of different kinds. For example, psychology can be the subject for philosophy of science. In such a case, the philosopher of science pursues the usual set of issues (explanation, reduction, etc.) within the special case of psychology. Or, philosophy can be the source of proposals for improving psychology. Vice versa, the findings of psychology can be used to criticize philosophical theories and suggest ways to resolve some traditional philosophical questions about the mind, such as the nature of mental representation, perception, emotion, memory, consciousness and free will. The chapters in this book reflect these different forms of interaction in an effort to clarify issues and debates concerning some traditional cognitive capacities. The result is a philosophically and scientifically up-to-date collection of "cartographies of the mind".

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