05736nam 2200745Ia 450 991045808700332120200520144314.01-280-63793-597866106379350-08-045422-4(CKB)1000000000363831(EBL)269864(OCoLC)475999834(SSID)ssj0000128041(PQKBManifestationID)11138721(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000128041(PQKBWorkID)10063360(PQKB)11576791(MiAaPQ)EBC269864(Au-PeEL)EBL269864(CaPaEBR)ebr10138401(CaONFJC)MIL63793(OCoLC)75261943(EXLCZ)99100000000036383120050825d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrComputer-graphic facial reconstruction[electronic resource] /[edited by] John G. Clement and Murray K. MarksBurlington, MA Elsevier Academic Pressc20051 online resource (409 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-12-473051-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.COVER; COMPUTER-GRAPHIC FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITORS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; PART I HISTORY AND BACKGROUND; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION; 1.1 BACKGROUND; 1.2 UNITING MICRO- AND MACROMORPHOLOGICAL THEMES; 1.3 FORENSIC IMPERATIVES; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2 CLASSICAL NON-COMPUTER-ASSISTED CRANIOFACIAL RECONSTRUCTION; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 CRANIOFACIAL RECONSTRUCTION; 2.3 HISTORY OF CFR; 2.4 ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SKULL; 2.5 SOFT-TISSUE DEPTH; 2.6 MANUAL 2D CFR; 2.6.1 SKETCHES; 2.6.2 GEORGE'S METHOD2.7 MANUAL 3D CFR2.8 DISCUSSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3 THE WISDOM OF BONES: FACIAL APPROXIMATION ON THE SKULL; 3.1 INTRODUCTION; 3.2 THE PURPOSE OF FACIAL APPROXIMATION; 3.3 A HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE; 3.4 WHAT THE SKULL CAN TELL US: POSITIONAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE SKULL AND THE FACIAL FEATURES; 3.4.1 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ORBIT AND THE EYE; 3.4.2 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE BONY NASAL APERTURE AND THE NOSE; 3.4.3 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SKULL, THE TEETH, AND THE MOUTH; 3.4.4 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SKULL AND THE EARS; 3.4.5 SEXUAL DIMORPHISM IN THE FACE3.5 BUILDING THE FACE FROM THE SKULL3.5.1 PRELIMINARY COLLECTION OF DATA; 3.5.2 CLEANING AND PREPARATION OF THE SKULL; 3.5.3 REPAIRING THE DAMAGED SKULL; 3.5.4 THE CLAY MODELING PROCEDURE; 3.6 HOW SUCCESSFUL IS FACIAL APPROXIMATION?; 3.7 COMPUTER ENHANCEMENT OF THE APPROXIMATION; 3.8 PUBLICIZING THE RESULTS; 3.9 CASE REPORTS; 3.10 CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 4 THREE-DIMENSIONAL QUANTIFICATION OF FACIAL SHAPE; 4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.2 BACKGROUND: WHY MEASURE FACES?; 4.3 BACKGROUND: WHAT IS A FACE?; 4.4 DATA ACQUISITION METHODS; 4.5 SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR DATA EXTRACTION AND ANALYSIS4.6 QUANTITATIVE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FACES4.7 DATA TYPES: POINT CLOUDS; 4.8 DATA TYPES: LANDMARKS; 4.9 DATA TYPES: OUTLINES; 4.10 CALCULATION OF DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FACES; 4.11 CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5 AUTOMATIC 3D FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION BY FEATURE-BASED REGISTRATION OF A REFERENCE HEAD; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; MORPHOMETRY-BASED METHODS; MORPHOLOGY-BASED METHODS; REGISTRATION-BASED METHODS; 5.2 DESCRIPTION OF THE METHOD; 5.2.1 DATA ACQUISITION; THE ACQUISITION PROCESS; THE REFERENCE HEAD; EXPERIMENT 1: UNKNOWN CONTEMPORARY SKULLEXPERIMENT 2: PREHISTORIC SKULL OF THE MAN OF TAUTAVEL5.2.2 EXTRACTION OF FEATURE POINTS AND LINES; 5.2.3 REGISTRATION OF FEATURE LINES; 5.2.4 GEOMETRICAL NORMALIZATION; 5.2.5 COMPUTING THE 3D TRANSFORMATION; 5.3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; 5.3.1 THE PROBLEM OF THE VALIDATION; EXPERIMENT 1; EXPERIMENT 2; 5.3.2 DEFINING A REFERENCE HEAD; 5.3.3 MODELING THE HUMAN VARIABILITY; AGE; ETHNICITY; CORPULENCE; EXPRESSIVITY; 5.3.4 INFERRING ILL-DEFINED FACIAL PARTS OR FEATURES; 5.4 CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; PART II CONCEPTS AND CREATION OF FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION MODELSCHAPTER 6 TWO-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER-GENERATED AVERAGE HUMAN FACE MORPHOLOGY AND FACIAL APPROXIMATIONThis unique books looks at a cost-efficient, fast and accurate means of facial reconstruction--from segmented, decomposed, or skeletal remains--using computer-graphic and computational means.Computer-Graphic Facial Reconstruction is designed as a valuable resource for those scientists designing new research projects and protocols, as well as a practical handbook of methods and techniques for medico-legal practitioners who actually identify the faceless victims of crime. It looks at a variety of approaches: artificial intelligence using neural networks, case-based reasoning, Baysian beForensic osteologyFacial reconstruction (Anthropology)Forensic anthropologyHuman face recognition (Computer science)DeadIdentificationElectronic books.Forensic osteology.Facial reconstruction (Anthropology)Forensic anthropology.Human face recognition (Computer science)Dead006.4614.1Clement John G974848Marks Murray K974849MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458087003321Computer-graphic facial reconstruction2219780UNINA04972oam 2200709I 450 991046490810332120200520144314.01-136-05653-X0-203-07836-510.4324/9780203078365 (CKB)3710000000115704(EBL)3061325(OCoLC)922959355(SSID)ssj0001184843(PQKBManifestationID)11748838(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001184843(PQKBWorkID)11199054(PQKB)10336023(OCoLC)882261595(MiAaPQ)EBC3061325(Au-PeEL)EBL3061325(CaPaEBR)ebr10872870(CaONFJC)MIL761674(OCoLC)889813011(EXLCZ)99371000000011570420180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCorporate governance and banking in China /Michael N.T. TanAbingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (232 p.)Routledge Contemporary China Series ;98Description based upon print version of record.1-138-85189-2 0-415-65591-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of tables""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of acronyms and abbreviations""; ""1 Introduction""; ""1 Preamble""; ""2 Overview of banking system""; ""3 Research objectives""; ""4 The reform of China's banking sector""; ""5 Conceptual tools to analyse corporate governance""; ""6 Summary""; ""2 Models of corporate governance""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Models of corporate governance""; ""3 Conclusion""; ""3 Corporate governance in transitional economies""; ""1 An overview of transitional economies""""2 The Big Bang approach versus the Gradualist approach""""3 Reasons for the different economic results""; ""4 Corporate governance in Russia""; ""5 Corporate governance in Central and Eastern European countries""; ""6 Comparison of corporate governance in Russia and China""; ""7 Conclusion""; ""4 The Chinese perspective on corporate governance""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 The history of corporate governance in China""; ""3 Chinese scholarship on corporate governance""; ""4 Conclusion""; ""5 Chinese corporate governance problems encountered""; ""1 Misconceptions about corporate governance""""2 Problems of governance at the micro level""""3 Problems of governance at the macro level""; ""4 Results of lack of corporate governance""; ""5 Conclusion""; ""6 External determinants of corporate governance""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 The China Banking Regulatory Commission""; ""3 The China Securities Regulatory Commission""; ""4 Code of Corporate Governance""; ""5 Business and informal networks""; ""6 The role of the state and the Chinese Communist Party""; ""7 Conclusion""; ""7 Financial systems and economic growth""; ""1 Introduction""""2 Measurement of the development of banking and finance""""3 Bank based and market based financial systems""; ""4 How financial systems impact on economic growth""; ""5 Corporate governance and economic growth""; ""6 Why aim for economic growth?""; ""7 What causes long-term economic growth?""; ""8 Conclusion""; ""8 A historical perspective of City Commercial Banks in China""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Background of China's Urban Credit Cooperatives""; ""3 The emergence and development of UCCs""; ""4 The unique features of UCCs""; ""5 Origins of CCBs""""6 Foreign investor interest in China's CCBs""""7 Foreign investments in CCBs""; ""8 China's CCBs""; ""9 Conclusion""; ""9 Government policies affecting City Commercial Banks""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 National policies of the National Development and Reform Commission""; ""3 Preferred lending policies directed by the government""; ""4 Bridging the urban�rural and rich�poor divide""; ""5 Conclusion""; ""10 Foreign partners in China's City Commercial Banks""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Foreign investors in China's CCBs""; ""3 Part 1: the Australian banks""; ""4 Part 2: the European banks""""5 Part 3: the Asian banks""Routledge contemporary China series ;98.Banks and bankingChinaBanks and bankingGovernment policyChinaCorporate governanceChinaElectronic books.Banks and bankingBanks and bankingGovernment policyCorporate governance332.10951Tan Michael1945-,927968MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464908103321Corporate governance and banking in China2084762UNINA02576nam 2200613 a 450 991013919290332120170810191402.01-282-68442-61-118-53156-697866126844250-470-88334-0(CKB)2560000000011992(EBL)542995(OCoLC)645098582(SSID)ssj0000415613(PQKBManifestationID)11283525(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000415613(PQKBWorkID)10410787(PQKB)10752257(MiAaPQ)EBC542995(EXLCZ)99256000000001199220080714d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDeMark indicators[electronic resource] /Jason Perl ; foreword by Thomas R. DeMark1st ed.New York Bloomberg Press20081 online resource (225 p.)Bloomberg market essentialsIncludes index.1-57660-314-8 About DeMark indicator trademarks -- TD sequential : defining the trend and identifying exhaustion points -- TD combo -- TD D-wave -- TD lines -- TD retracements -- TD trend factor and TD propulsion -- TD oscillators -- TD moving averages -- TD range projection, TD range expansion breakout, and TD channels -- Short-term indicators: TD differential, TD reverse differential, and TD anti-differential -- TD Waldo patterns -- Putting it all together -- Learning the DeMark indicators."Tom DeMark, creator of the widely known and respected DeMark indicators, served as mentor to author Jason Perl. Perl defines and explains how the indicators bring a successful trading decision to conclusion, and offers aggressive or conservative alternative indications. 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