Technical Report from the year 2017 in the subject Economics - Statistics and Methods, , language: English, abstract: The estimation and grading of customer Probability of Default (PD) using a firm-wide master scale for internal portfolios is a well established procedure in many financial institutions....

\\\"This fascinating study is one of the first to subject community development interventions in China, which espouse ‘gender mainstreaming’, ‘empowerment’ and ‘participation,’ to rigorous critique....

Bioinformatics is an exciting new interdiscipline. This book introduces how computer hardware platforms (computer cluster, FPGA, and GPU) can be used to accelerate time-consuming bioinformatics applications and also introduces two bioinformatics data analysis pipelines to extract knowledge from large amount of biological data....

The effects of adding nano-fillers, including core shell rubber (CSR), carbon nanotube (CNT) and the simultaneous addition of CSR and CNT on the curing behavior and material properties of the benzoxazine-epoxy-phenolic (BEP) ternary system have been investigated....

Non-Gaussian data is encountered in a variety of fields. To make reliable judgement and reasonable simulation, it is important to establish an appropriate probability density function(PDF) model for non-Gaussian data. In this book, three PDF models are studied to represent the distribution of non-Gaussian data....

This textbook instructs learners on how to rid themselves of poor reading habits such as vocalization and finger reading. Through the use of scientific reading methods, and accompanying exercises, learners will develop their sensitivity towards the Chinese language and read a greater amount faster, and more naturally....

\"This is a very timely book. With the recapitalization and reform of China\'s banking sector now well under way, the banks are on the brink of a new era of growth and expansion....

This volume is dedicated to a range of CDMA and MC-CDMA transmission aspects of systems designed for communicating over fading wireless channels. Currently, a technical in-depth book on this subject, which has a similar detailed exposure of the ecent advances in CDMA, M-ary CDMA and MC-CDMA, is unavailable....

* Focuses on learning patterns and knowledge from data generated by mobile users and mobile technology....

The state of the art of high-performance computing Prominent researchers from around the world have gathered to present the state-of-the-art techniques and innovations in high-performance computing (HPC), including: * Programming models for parallel computing: graph-oriented programming (GOP), OpenMP, the stages and transformation (SAT) approach, t...