Author: Hari SunartoPublisher: Rozenberg Publishers
ISBN: 9051709420
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Understanding the role of bank relationships, relationships marketing and organizational learning in the performance of people's
Author: Hari SunartoPublisher: Rozenberg Publishers
ISBN: 9051709420
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Efficient pricing algorithms for exotic derivatives
Author: Roger LordPublisher: Rozenberg Publishers
ISBN: 9051709099
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Maintenance models for systems subject to measurable deterioration
Author: Robin Pieter NicolaiPublisher: Rozenberg Publishers
ISBN: 9051709978
Category : Banks and banking, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Complex engineering systems such as bridges, roads, flood defence structures, and power pylons play an important role in our society. Unfortunately such systems are subject to deterioration, meaning that in course of time their condition falls from higher to lower, and possibly even to unacceptable, levels. Maintenance actions such as inspection, local repair and replacement should be done to retain such systems in or restore them to acceptable operating conditions. After all, the economic consequences of malfunctioning infrastructure systems can be huge. In the life-cycle management of engineering systems, the decisions regarding the timing and the type of maintenance depend on the temporal uncertainty associated with the deterioration. Hence it is of importance to model this uncertainty. In the literature, deterioration models based on Brownian motion and gamma process have had much attention, but a thorough comparison of these models lacks. In this thesis both models are compared on several aspects, both in a theoretical as well as in an empirical setting. Moreover, they are compared with physical process models, which can capture structural insights into the underlying process. For the latter a new framework is developed to draw inference. Next, models for imperfect maintenance are investigated. Finally, a review is given for systems consisting of multiple components.
The Structure of Healthy Life Determinants
Author: Tanji HoshiPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811066299
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
This book is the first one to examine the cause and effect of elderly people’s healthy life expectancy, providing models that are easy to understand. The novel point is the success achieved in constructing a single structural model of cause and effect of healthy life expectancy. In the final models of the authors’ studies, it was possible to clearly point out that it is not the case that lifestyle habits including an ideal diet directly provide for healthy life expectancy.This book is made up of published studies based on scientific evidence, using a vast amount of data based on about 8,000 in-home elderly people tracked longitudinally from 3 to 6 years, three times in all including baseline research, in a specific region of Japan. Therefore, health policy makers will be able to use this book as scientific evidence for creating area programs to promote good health that are focused on healthy longevity as the central issue. Academic researchers whose special fields are mainly public health will be able to learn both theory and practice to structurally analyze cause and effect of health factors.
Local clusters in global value chains
Author: Roos Kities AndadariPublisher: Rozenberg Publishers
ISBN: 9051708947
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Advances in monitoring the economy
Author: Rene SegersPublisher: Rozenberg Publishers
ISBN: 9036101042
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Monitoring involves the collection, analysis and evaluation of information over time. For many professionals, monitoring is a central aspect of their work. For example, policy- makers closely watch the e®ects of their current policies to set the right course for reform. Likewise, physicians monitor the well-being of their patients to adjust their treatments when necessary. In business, n̄ancial investors monitor stock prices and interest rates to optimally time their investments, while marketing managers watch their customers' needs and wants to frame their marketing e®orts. The above examples illustrate that monitoring is crucial in many disciplines to make the right decisions at the right moment. For this reason, there has always been a need for improved monitoring methods. With the advent of increasingly powerful computers and advanced analytical techniques, monitoring systems can nowadays process large amounts of information and have become fully automated where desired. A large body of moni- toring methods originate from academics. Especially during the past four decades, many insights from various ēlds such as economics, statistics, psychometrics and econometrics found their way into everyday monitoring practice. With the overwhelming availability of information in some cases, but also the intrinsic lack of information in other cases, the area is continuously faced with new and highly relevant research challenges. The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the development of new monitoring methods by o®ering potential solutions to some of these challenges. The challenges studied in this thesis arise from all three aspects of monitoring, that is from the collection, the analysis as well as from the evaluation of information.
Forecasting Financial Time Series Using Model Averaging
Author: Francesco RavazzoloPublisher: Rozenberg Publishers
ISBN: 9051709145
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Believing in a single model may be dangerous, and addressing model uncertainty by averaging different models in making forecasts may be very beneficial. In this thesis we focus on forecasting financial time series using model averaging schemes as a way to produce optimal forecasts. We derive and discuss in simulation exercises and empirical applications model averaging techniques that can reproduce stylized facts of financial time series, such as low predictability and time-varying patterns. We emphasize that model averaging is not a "magic" methodology which solves a priori problems of poorly forecasting. Averaging techniques have an essential requirement: individual models have to fit data. In the first section we provide a general outline of the thesis and its contributions to previ ous research. In Chapter 2 we focus on the use of time varying model weight combinations. In Chapter 3, we extend the analysis in the previous chapter to a new Bayesian averaging scheme that models structural instability carefully. In Chapter 4 we focus on forecasting the term structure of U.S. interest rates. In Chapter 5 we attempt to shed more light on forecasting performance of stochastic day-ahead price models. We examine six stochastic price models to forecast day-ahead prices of the two most active power exchanges in the world: the Nordic Power Exchange and the Amsterdam Power Exchange. Three of these forecasting models include weather forecasts. To sum up, the research finds an increase of forecasting power of financial time series when parameter uncertainty, model uncertainty and optimal decision making are included.
Private equity acquistions
Author: W. A. van den BergPublisher: Rozenberg Publishers
ISBN: 9051706782
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Marriage markets and vertiltiy in South Africa with comparisons to Britain and Sweden
Author: Seble Worku-Yergou BelayPublisher: Rozenberg Publishers
ISBN: 9051707908
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Designing controls for network organizations
Author: Vera KartsevaPublisher: Rozenberg Publishers
ISBN: 9051708610
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description