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    ANU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-05-12
    Description: Contested Terrain provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive and innovative approach to critically analysing the multidimensional and contested nature of security narratives, justified by different ideological, political, cultural and economic rationales. This is important in a complex and ever-changing situation involving a dynamic interplay between local, regional and global factors. Security narratives are constructed in multiple ways and are used to frame our responses to the challenges and threats to our sense of safety, wellbeing, identity and survival but how the narratives are constructed is a matter of intellectual and political contestation. Using three case studies from the Pacific (Fiji, Tonga and Solomon Islands), Contested Terrain shows the different security challenges facing each country, which result from their unique historical, political and socio-cultural circumstances. Contrary to the view that the Pacific is a generic entity with common security issues, this book argues for more localised and nuanced approaches to security framing and analysis.
    Keywords: Pacific ; Security ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHM Australasian and Pacific history ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JW Warfare and defence::JWK Military and defence strategy
    Language: English
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-11
    Description: Science, the growth of reliable knowledge, became a major triumph of the European Enlightenment in the seventeenth century, under the guise of 'natural philosophy': investigating what the earth and universe are made of and how things work. It took another century for the parallel subject ‘natural history’ to glimpse how the earth, its geography and its richly diverse life came to be. Later, geology and biology became intertwined as biogeohistory—an ever-changing environmental theatre hosting an ever-changing evolutionary play. This environmental theatre has shifted with the making and breaking of supercontinents, the birth and death of global oceans, and the rise and fall of global hothouses and ice ages. The evolutionary play begins with biostratigraphy, wherein fossils revealed deep time and ancient environments and built the first meaningful geological timescale, and ends with the still young science of palaeoceanography—central to which are microfossils, rich in information about the oceans and climates of the past. In Southern Limestones under Western Eyes, Brian McGowran recounts the history of biogeohistory itself: the ever-changing perceptions of rocks, fossils and landscapes, from the late 1600s to the present. McGowran’s focus is southern Australia, the north shore of the dying Australo-Antarctic Gulf, in an era bracketed by two catastrophes: the extinction of dinosaurs and the emergence of humans.
    Keywords: biogeohistory ; biostratigraphy ; palaeoceanography ; microfossils ; southern Australia ; Australo-Antarctic Gulf ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences ; thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGM Biogeography
    Language: English
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    ANU Press | ANU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-14
    Description: Terrorism, global pandemics, climate change, wars and all the major threats of our age have been targets of online extremism. The same social media occupying the heartland of our social world leaves us vulnerable to cybercrime, electoral fraud and the 'fake news' fuelling the rise of far-right violence and hate speech. In the face of widespread calls for action, governments struggle to reform legal and regulatory frameworks designed for an analogue age. And what of our rights as citizens? As politicians and lawyers run to catch up to the future as it disappears over the horizon, who guarantees our right to free speech, to free and fair elections, to play video games, to surf the Net, to believe ‘fake news’? Rethinking Social Media and Extremism offers a broad range of perspectives on violent extremism online and how to stop it. As one major crisis follows another and a global pandemic accelerates our turn to digital technologies, attending to the issues raised in this book becomes ever more urgent.
    Keywords: online extremism ; social media ; digital technology ; cybercrime ; electoral fraud ; fake news ; far-right violence ; hate speech ; thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UB Information technology: general topics::UBW Internet: general works ; thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UD Digital Lifestyle and online world: consumer and user guides::UDB Internet guides and online services::UDBS Social media / social networking
    Language: English
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 2024-04-14
    Description: Professionalism is arguably more important in some occupations than in others. It is vital in some because of the life and death decisions that must be made, for example in medicine. In others the rapidly changing nature of the occupation makes efficient regulation difficult and so the professional behaviour of the practitioners is central to the good functioning of that occupation. The core idea behind this book is that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is changing so quickly that professional behaviour of its practitioners is vital because regulation will always lag behind.
    Keywords: information technology ; ethics ; communication technology ; Ethical code ; Professional association ; Software ; thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UB Information technology: general topics::UBJ Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects
    Language: English
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    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Publication Date: 2024-04-14
    Description: Shape memory alloys (SMAs) have special property of the shape memory effect. After thermal treatment above the martensitic transition temperature, the alloys come back to the original shape when the alloys heat again after having cooled it to the temperature that is lower than the martensitic transition temperature. By means of this property, many industrial parts and systems were produced. This Special Issue "Shape Memory Alloys 2017" is constructed articles reporting new and progressive research results, as well as reviews of particular classes of fundamental physics of the materials and their applications of SMAs. Through its 17 efficient articles, the reader will approach to researches related to SMAs with their peculiar magnetic, thermo-mechanical properties, superelasticity, plastic deformation and compression under pressure. These physical properties introduce a large number of applications as faster SMA actuators, application of medical devices, industrial joining parts, volts, and magnetic/mechanical/thermal sensors. These articles are intended scientific researchers, professional engineers, students to obtain a better understanding in this field lately.
    Keywords: TN1-997 ; QC501-766 ; Spectroscopy ; Superelasticity ; Thin SMA film ; Plasticity ; Ferromagnetic shape memory alloys ; Martensitic transformation ; SMA applications ; Lattice softening ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TT Other technologies and applied sciences
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  • 6
    Publication Date: 2024-04-14
    Description: This volume contains the papers presented at the third biennial Information Systems Foundations ('Theory, Representation and Reality') Workshop, held at The Australian National University in Canberra from 27-28 September 2006. The focus of the workshop was, as for the others in the series, the foundations of Information Systems as an academic discipline. The particular emphasis was, as in past workshops, the adequacy and completeness of theoretical underpinnings and the research methods employed. At the same time the practical nature of the applications and phenomena with which the discipline deals were kept firmly in view. Accordingly, the papers in this volume range from the unashamedly theoretical n their focus (Designing for Mutability in Information Systems Artifacts; Towards a Unified Theory of Fit: Task, Technology and Individual) to the much more practically oriented (An Action-Centred Approach to Conceptualising Information Support for Routine Work). The contents of this volume will be of interest and relevance to academics and advanced students as well as thoughtful and reflective practitioners in the Information Systems field.
    Keywords: Technology ; thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UY Computer science::UYZ Human–computer interaction::UYZM Information architecture
    Language: English
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  • 7
    Publication Date: 2024-04-14
    Description: Japan is quintessentially by geography a maritime country. Maritime surveillance capabilities – underwater, shore-based and airborne – are critical to its national defence posture. This book describes and assesses these capabilities, with particular respect to the underwater segment, about which there is little strategic analysis in publicly available literature.
    Keywords: surveillance ; asia ; maritime ; japan ; Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ; Signals intelligence ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TT Other technologies and applied sciences
    Language: English
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    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Publication Date: 2024-04-14
    Description: Credit risk remains one of the major risks faced by most financial and credit institutions. It is deeply connected to the real economy due to the systemic nature of some banks, but also because well-managed lending facilities are key for wealth creation and technological innovation. This book is a collection of innovative papers in the field of credit risk management. Besides the probability of default (PD), the major driver of credit risk is the loss given default (LGD). In spite of its central importance, LGD modeling remains largely unexplored in the academic literature. This book proposes three contributions in the field. Ye & Bellotti exploit a large private dataset featuring non-performing loans to design a beta mixture model. Their model can be used to improve recovery rate forecasts and, therefore, to enhance capital requirement mechanisms. François uses instead the price of defaultable instruments to infer the determinants of market-implied recovery rates and finds that macroeconomic and long-term issuer specific factors are the main determinants of market-implied LGDs. Cheng & Cirillo address the problem of modeling the dependency between PD and LGD using an original, urn-based statistical model. Fadina & Schmidt propose an improvement of intensity-based default models by accounting for ambiguity around both the intensity process and the recovery rate. Another topic deserving more attention is trade credit, which consists of the supplier providing credit facilities to his customers. Whereas this is likely to stimulate exchanges in general, it also magnifies credit risk. This is a difficult problem that remains largely unexplored. Kanapickiene & Spicas propose a simple but yet practical model to assess trade credit risk associated with SMEs and microenterprises operating in Lithuania. Another topical area in credit risk is counterparty risk and all other adjustments (such as liquidity and capital adjustments), known as XVA. Chataignier & Crépey propose a genetic algorithm to compress CVA and to obtain affordable incremental figures. Anagnostou & Kandhai introduce a hidden Markov model to simulate exchange rate scenarios for counterparty risk. Eventually, Boursicot et al. analyzes CoCo bonds, and find that they reduce the total cost of debt, which is positive for shareholders. In a nutshell, all the featured papers contribute to shedding light on various aspects of credit risk management that have, so far, largely remained unexplored.
    Keywords: recovery rates ; beta regression ; credit risk ; contingent convertible debt ; financial modelling ; risk management ; financial crisis ; recovery rate ; loss given default ; model ambiguity ; default time ; no-arbitrage ; reduced-form HJM models ; recovery process ; Counterparty Credit Risk ; Hidden Markov Model ; Risk Factor Evolution ; Backtesting ; FX rate ; Geometric Brownian Motion ; trade credit ; small and micro-enterprises ; financial non-financial variables ; risk assessment ; logistic regression ; probability of default ; wrong-way risk ; dependence ; urn model ; counterparty risk ; credit valuation adjustment (CVA) ; XVA (X-valuation adjustments) compression ; genetic algorithm ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WC Antiques, vintage and collectables::WCF Collecting coins, banknotes, medals and other related items
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    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Publication Date: 2024-04-14
    Description: The present volume collects the contributions selected for publication in the Special Issue entitled "Microlocal and Time-Frequency Analysis" of the journal Mathematics, edited by Elena Cordero and S. Ivan Trapasso over 2020 and 2021.
    Keywords: pseudodifferential operators ; Gevrey regularity ; sharp Gårding inequality ; p-evolution equations ; ultradifferentiable functions ; ultradistributions ; extended Gevrey regularity ; boundary values of analytic functions ; wave front sets ; Rio Papaloapan Bridge ; vibration signals ; damage identification ; wavelet energy accumulation method ; admissibility condition ; the continuous wavelet transform ; inversion formula ; semi-discrete wavelet transform ; tight frames ; covriance matrix ; polar duality ; uncertainty principle ; reconstruction problem ; BBM equation ; ill-posedness ; Fourier amalgam spaces ; Wiener amalgam spaces ; Fourier–Lebesgue spaces ; modulation spaces ; bounded measures ; convolution ; homogeneous Banach spaces ; integrated group representation ; Segal algebra ; Wiener amalgam space ; bounded uniform partition of unity ; locally compact groups ; thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology ; thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UY Computer science
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    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Publication Date: 2024-04-14
    Description: Modern financial management is largely about risk management, which is increasingly data-driven. The problem is how to extract information from the data overload. It is here that advanced statistical and machine learning techniques can help. Accordingly, finance, statistics, and data analytics go hand in hand. The purpose of this book is to bring the state-of-art research in these three areas to the fore and especially research that juxtaposes these three.
    Keywords: Index parameter ; estimation ; wrapped stable ; Hill estimator ; characteristic function-based estimator ; asymptotic ; efficiency ; GARCH model ; HARCH model ; PHARCH model ; Griddy-Gibs ; Euro-Dollar ; safe-haven assets ; gold price ; Swiss Franc exchange rate ; oil price ; generalized Birnbaum–Saunders distributions ; ACD models ; Box-Cox transformation ; high-frequency financial data ; goodness-of-fit ; banking competition ; credit risk ; NPLs ; Theil index ; convergence analysis ; interest rates ; yeld curve ; no-arbitrage ; bonds ; B-splines ; time series ; multifractal processes ; fractal scaling ; heavy tails ; long range dependence ; financial models ; Bitcoin ; capital asset pricing model ; estimation of systematic risk ; tests of mean-variance efficiency ; t-distribution ; generalized method of moments ; multifactor asset pricing model ; Lerner index ; stochastic frontiers ; shrinkage estimator ; seemingly unrelated regression model ; multicollinearity ; ridge regression ; financial incentives ; public service motivation ; job performance ; job satisfaction ; intention to leave ; thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WC Antiques, vintage and collectables::WCF Collecting coins, banknotes, medals and other related items
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