Computers in geology : 25 years of progress / / edited by John C. Davis, Ute Christina Herzfeld

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911091265503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993
• ISBN: 0-19-756052-0; 1-280-52713-7; 9786610527137; 0-19-535889-9; 1-4294-0787-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Collana: International Association for Mathematical Geology studies in mathematical geology ; ; 5
• Altri autori (Persone): DavisJohn C; HerzfeldUte Christina
• Disciplina: 550.285; 550/.285; 551.0285
• Soggetti: Geology - Data processing; Geology - Mathematics - Data processing
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 1993.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Weights of Evidence Modeling and Weighted Logistic Regression for Mineral Potential Mapping; 3. Gold Prospecting with Factorial Cokriging in the Limousin, France; 4. Recent Experiences with Prospector II; 5. Correspondence Analysis in Heavy Mineral Interpretation; 6. Mathematics Between Source and Trap: Uncertainty in Hydrocarbon Migration Modeling; 7. Risk Analysis of Petroleum Prospects; 8. Characteristic Analysis as an Oil Exploration Tool; 9. Information Management and Mapping System for Subsurface Stratigraphic Analysis; 10. Automated Correlation Based on Markov Analysis of Vertical Successions and Walther's Law; 11. Milankovitch Cyclicity in the Stratigraphic Record-A Review; 12. Can the Ginsburg Model Generate Cycles?; 13. Quantitative Genetics in Paleontology: Evolution in Tertiary ; Ostracoda; 14. An Integrated Approach to Forward Modeling Carbonate Platform Development; 15. Principal Component Analysis of Three-Way Data; 16. A Solution to the Percentage-Data Problem in Petrology; 17. Amplitude and Phase in Map and Image Enhancement; 18. Fractals in Geosciences-Challenges and Concerns; 19. An Executable Notation, with Illustrations from Elementary Crystallography; 20. Uncertainty in Geology; 21. Expert Systems in Environmental Geology; 22. From Multivariate Sampling to Thematic Maps with an Application to Marine Geochemistry; 23. The Kinematics of Paleo Landforms; 24. R. G .V. Eigen: Legendary Father of Mathematical Geology; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume vividly demonstrates the importance and increasing breadth of quantitative methods in the earth sciences. With contributions from an international cast of leading practitioners, chapters cover a wide range of state-of-the-art methods and applications, including computer modeling and mapping techniques. Many chapters also contain reviews and extensive bibliographies which serve to make this an invaluable introduction to the entire field. In addition to its detailed presentations, the book includes chapters on the history of geomathematics and on R.G.V. Eigen, the "father" of mathematical geology. Written to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the International Association for Mathematical Geology, the book will be sought after by both practitioners and researchers in all branches of geology.

Cash return on capital invested : ten years of investment analysis with the CROCI economic profit model / / Pascal Costantini

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911138534203321
• Autore: Costantini Pascal
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Boston, MA, : Butterworth-Heinemann, c2006
• ISBN: 9786610631254; 9781280631252; 1280631252; 9780080461786; 0080461786
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Disciplina: 658.155; 332.632
• Soggetti: Corporations - Valuation; Corporations - Finance; Cash flow; Cash management
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Elsevier finance"--jacket.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; By way of introduction; A temporary confidence crisis; Structure of the book; Acknowledgements; Mentors, peers and children; Part I What is Investment Analysis?; 1 Investment, investors and financial analysis; An annoying question - inquisitive colleagues; Emotions in motion - tea-leaf reading?; The tools of investment - a (very) brief history of financial ratios; The people of investment - an unfair typology; The economic profit framework; The PE paradox - an introduction to behavioral finance; Coffee or beer? The issue of investment 'styles''Approximately and most of the time'; 2 The PE and the Equivalence principle: asset multiple and relative return; Cinderella's slipper - a misunderstanding: economic versus actuarial; The PE ratio and its actuarial framework; The economic construction behind the PE ratio; The equivalence between asset multiple and relative return - the residual income model; ; Why would you use accounting numbers to fuel the EP model?; Empirical evidence of the Equivalence as an investment tool; Cost of capital and expected return; Is it for real?; Discounted cash-flow models and PE ratios - financial and investment analysisThe one-man band; Appendix: The multiple guises of the PE ratio; Part II Digging the Foundations: Reconstruction of Economic Data; 3 Measuring the value of economic assets: the asset multiple; Tidying up a few loose ends; The debt problem: left and right, Cain and Abel, Miller and Modigliani; Liable: legally bound, under an obligation - beware of hidden liabilities; The final calculation of the economic enterprise value; Inflation: apples and oranges, age and half-life, PPP; Invisibility and unaccountability: get a life, a non-smoker's dream, the asset testA certain Nobel Prize winner - not much for half a million - physical assets; 4 The relative return; Keynes the speculator, Tobin the investor; jinxed in Pleasantville; Hotelling; a Stephen Hawking definition of assets - straight line's not so straight; Dealing with infinity - cash return on capital invested; The cost of capital: an implicit calculation - fading and failing; An empirical calculation with multiple uses; 5 The price of growth; The stuff of dreams; CROCI and the Big Mac; Same earnings growth, different valuation Do you think what they think?; Growth matters ... sometimes - some disturbing news for growth managers; The third dimension - the Market Horn of Plenty; Part III Drawing Up the Plans: Analysis of Economic Profits; 6 The fundamental analysis of economic characteristics; The storytellers - fundamental and investment analysis - the special case of financial groups; Missing something? The right chemistry; Three CROCI patterns: a typology of corporate behaviour; Asset growth - another insight into corporate behaviour; Everything and nothing; 7 Investment analysis
• Sommario/riassunto: In this book, Pascal Costantini gives a lively and wonderfully readable account of ten years of efforts by a small group of investment analysts to find a reliable, practical and implementable method for valuing and selecting shares. The result of their effort is an original investment methodology called CROCI (Cash Return on Capital Invested), best described as a variation of the economic profit model. For over a decade now, Costantinis group at Deutsche Bank has been using this valuation tool every time it has had to take a view on the pricing of an equity asset, be it a market, a sector or a