s ago most rms would manage cybersecurity and make investment decisions based mainly on industry best practices, resulting in their adopting certain technologies, policies and practices, without a detailed understanding of their specic overall cyber risk situation. As a result, very few successfully developed and deployed a strategic, comprehensive and eective cyber risk mana…
These essays deal for the most part with Science in Arcady. 'Tis my native country: for I am not of those who 'praise the busy town.' On the contrary, in the words of the great poet who has just departed to join Milton and Shelley in a place of high collateral glory, I 'love to rail against it still,' with a naturalist's bitterness. For the town is always dead and lifeless. There are who admire…
For L ATEX use the ‘Not so short introduction to L ATEX’ by Oetiker et al. For further reading and future reference, it is highly recommended that you get ‘Guide to L ATEX’ by Kopka and Daly [15]. The original reference is the book by Lamport [16]. While it is a fine book, it has not kept up with developments around L ATEX, such as contributed graphics and other packages. A book that d…
Think Java is an introduction to computer science and programming intended for people with little or no experience. We start with the most basic concepts and are careful to define all terms when they are first used. The book presents each new idea in a logical progression. Larger topics, like recursion and object- oriented programming, are divided into smaller examples and introduced over the…
Color is common to every website. While the way designers use col- or changes dramatically based on trends and time periods, we are definitely designing in the decade of vibrant color. Red, orange, pink and bright green, blue and purple have become the focal point of web design projects across a variety of industries. Designers are pairing bright color choices in a way that was almost taboo a …
There are a number of protocols and standards, mostly built on top of HTTP, designed for building Web Services (note the capitalization). These standards are collectively called the WS-* stack. They include WS-Notification, WS-Security, WSDL, and SOAP. Throughout this book we give the name “Big Web Services” to this collection of tech- nologies as a fairly gentle term of disparagement. Thi…
This book assumes that you understood precalculus when you took it. So you used to know how to do things like factoring polynomials, solving high school geometry problems, using trigonometric identities. However, you probably can’t remember it all cold. Many useful facts can be looked up (e.g. on the internet) as you need them. This chapter reviews concepts and notation that will be used a lo…
In the modern world of computers and information technology, the importance of statistics is very well recogonised by all the disciplines. Statistics has originated as a science of statehood and found applications slowly and steadily in Agriculture, Economics, Commerce, Biology, Medicine, Industry, planning, education and so on. As on date there is no other human walk of life, where statistics …
This 15th edition of Energy Efficiency Trends in Canada delivers on Canada’s commitment to provide a comprehensive summary of secondary energy use and related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Canada. It also tracks trends in energy efficiency. This year’s edition is produced electronically and in paper format. For more secondary energy use statistics, see the comprehensive energy use d…
This document outlines the Risk Management Strategy for the management of the EEA & Norway Grants. 2. The strategy applies directly to the donor states and their Secretariat – the Financial Mechanism Office (FMO) . 3. The risk management of the beneficiary states is guided by the respective national systems , while the Regulations require …
Since the turn of the century most western countries have experienced alternating periods of population booms and busts. In the United Kingdom, the low birth rate during the Great Depression and the war years was followed by the baby-‐boom of the 1950s and early 1960s and the baby bust of …
Nearly 60% of the world’s human population is malnourished and the numbers are growing. Shortages of basic foods related to decreases in per capita cropland, water, and fossil energy resources contribute to spreading malnutrition and other diseases. The suggestion is that in the future only a smaller number of people will have access to adequate nourishment. In about 100 years, when it is rep…
The Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services is an important first step in addressing a growing demand from Governments, business and analysts for more relevant, detailed and internationally comparable statistics on such trade. A special emphasis is given to the statistical information needs of international trade negotiations and agreements. The aim of the Manual is to provid…
This publication summarises the numerical results and methodological findings of pilot water accounts in 15 European countries. Water accounts focus on physical flows of water in to and out of the economy: abstraction and use of water by industries and households, emissions to water by different actors; as well as the costs of water supply and wastewater treatment. These pilot accounts generat…
In a somewhat simplified analysis of the economy, the economic system can be broken down into two main parts: on one side the enterprise 'operators', producing goods and services, providing employment and distributing income in the form of wages; on the other the household operators, receiving income and consuming goods and services. The other operators in the economic system are the genera…
Many people believe that excessive risk taking at large financial firms was an important cause of the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and that preventing another crisis requires improving risk-management systems at such institutions. One way to do this would be to use board oversight liability to hold directors personally liable for failing to properly monitor the risks that their firms are run…
Human Resource Management (HRM) is a relatively new approach to managing people in any organisation. People are considered the key resource in this approach. it is concerned with the people dimension in management of an organisation. Since an organisation is a body of people, their acquisition, development of skills, motivation for higher levels of attainments, as well as ensuring maintenance o…
This guide, and the tools and templates available from www.disasterresilience.comwill support your planning processes and strengthen your resilience. Using familiar software (Microsoft Word, Access,Excel and PowerPoint), we focus on quality processes within a risk management framework. These approaches serve as best practice models. They should not be used as "templates for duplication"with glo…
Trading in derivatives involves heavy use of quantitative models for valuation and risk management. These models are necessarily imperfect, and when options are involved, the models require a volatility input that must be forecasted, subject to error. This creates “model risk” to which nearly all participants in derivatives markets are exposed. In this paper, we conduct an empirical sim…