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WTO and the greater China economic integration and dispute resolution / by Wu, Chien-Huei

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The Obama presidency a preliminary assessment /

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Pueblos indígenas, plantas y mercados Amazonía y Gran Chaco : V Congreso CEISAL de Latinoamericanistas /

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Of irony and empire Islam, the West, and the transcultural invention of Africa / by Rice, Laura

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Christian society and the Crusades, 1198-1229 sources in translation, including The capture of Damietta by Oliver of Paderborn / by Peters, Edward, 1936-

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Constitutional dynamics in federal systems sub-national perspectives /

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Libraries and the Enlightenment by Bivens-Tatum, Wayne

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When London was capital of America by Flavell, Julie

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Statistical disclosure control

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Preface vii Acknowledgements ix 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Concepts and Definitions 2 1.1.1 Disclosure 2 1.1.2 Statistical disclosure control 2 1.1.3 Tabular data 3 1.1.4 Microdata 3 1.1.5 Risk and utility 4 1.2 An approach to Statistical Disclosure Control 6 1.3 The chapters of the handbook 8 2 Ethics, Principles, Guidelines and Regulations, a general background 9 2.1 Introduction 9 2.2 Ethical codes and the new ISI code 9 2.2.1 ISI Declaration on Professional Ethics 10 2.2.2 New ISI Declaration on Professional Ethics 10 2.2.3 European Statistics Code of Practice 14 2.3 UNECE Principles and guidelines 14 2.4 Laws 17 2.4.1 Committee on Statistical Confidentiality 18 2.4.2 European Statistical System Committee 18 3 Microdata 21 3.1 Introduction 21 3.2 Microdata Concepts 22 3.2.1 Stage 1: Assess need for confidentiality protection 22 3.2.2 Stage 2: Key characteristics and uses of microdata 24 3.2.3 Stage 3: Disclosure risk 27 3.2.4 Stage 4: Protection methods 29 3.2.5 Stage 5: Implementation 30 3.3 Definitions of disclosure 32 3.3.1 Definitions of disclosure scenarios 33 3.4 Definitions of Disclosure Risk 34 3.4.1 Disclosure risk for categorical quasi-identifiers 35 3.4.2 Disclosure risk for continuous quasi-identifiers 37 3.5 Estimating Re-identification Risk 39 3.5.1 Individual risk based on the sample: threshold rule 39 3.5.2 Estimating individual risk using sampling weights 39 3.5.3 Estimating individual risk by Poisson model 42 3.5.4 Further models that borrow information from other sources 43 3.5.5 Estimating per record risk via heuristics 44 3.5.6 Assessing risk via record linkage 45 3.6 Non-Perturbative Microdata Masking 45 3.6.1 Sampling 46 3.6.2 Global recoding 46 3.6.3 Top and bottom coding 47 3.6.4 Local suppression 47 3.7 Perturbative Microdata Masking 48 3.7.1 Additive noise masking 48 3.7.2 Multiplicative noise masking 52 3.7.3 Microaggregation 54 3.7.4 Data swapping and rank swapping 66 3.7.5 Data shuffling 66 3.7.6 Rounding 67 3.7.7 Resampling 67 3.7.8 PRAM 67 3.7.9 MASSC 71 3.8 Synthetic and Hybrid Data 71 3.8.1 Fully synthetic data 72 3.8.2 Partially synthetic data 77 3.8.3 Hybrid data 79 3.8.4 Pros and cons of synthetic and hybrid data 88 3.9 Information Loss in Microdata 91 3.9.1 Information loss measures for continuous data 92 3.9.2 Information loss measures for categorical data 99 3.10 Release of multiple files from the same microdata set 101 3.11 Software 102 3.11.1 _-ARGUS 102 3.11.2 sdcMicro 103 3.11.3 IVEware 106 3.12 Case Studies 106 3.12.1 Microdata files at Statistics Netherlands 106 3.12.2 The European Labour Force Survey Microdata for Research Purposes 108 3.12.3 The European Structure of Earnings Survey Microdata for Research Purposes 111 3.12.4 NHIS Linked Mortality Data Public Use File, USA 117 3.12.5 Other real case instances 119 4 Magnitude tabular data 121 4.1 Introduction 121 4.1.1 Magnitude Tabular Data: Basic Terminology 121 4.1.2 Complex tabular data structures: hierarchical and linked tables 122 4.1.3 Risk Concepts 124 4.1.4 Protection Concepts 127 4.1.5 Information Loss Concepts 127 4.1.6 Implementation: Software, Guidelines and Case Study 127 4.2 Disclosure Risk Assessment I: Primary Sensitive Cells 128 4.2.1 Intruder Scenarios 128 4.2.2 Sensitivity rules 129 4.3 Disclosure Risk Assessment II: Secondary risk assessment 140 4.3.1 Feasibility Interval 141 4.3.2 Protection Level 142 4.3.3 Singleton and multi cell disclosure 143 4.3.4 Risk models for hierarchical and linked tables 144 4.4 Non-Perturbative Protection Methods 145 4.4.1 Global Recoding 145 4.4.2 The Concept of Cell Suppression 145 4.4.3 Algorithms for Secondary Cell Suppression 146 4.4.4 Secondary Cell Suppression in Hierarchical and Linked Tables 149 4.5 Perturbative Protection Methods 151 4.5.1 A pre-tabular method: Multiplicative Noise 152 4.5.2 A Post-tabular Method: Controlled Tabular Adjustment 153 4.6 Information Loss Measures for Tabular Data 153 4.6.1 Cell Costs for Cell Suppression 153 4.6.2 Cell Costs for CTA 154 4.6.3 Information Loss Measures to Evaluate the Outcome of Table Protection 155 4.7 Software for Tabular Data Protection 155 4.7.1 Empirical comparison of cell suppression algorithms 156 4.8 Guidelines: Setting up an efficient table model systematically 160 4.8.1 Defining Spanning Variables 161 4.8.2 Response Variables and Mapping Rules 162 4.9 Case Studies 164 4.9.1 Response Variables and Mapping Rules of the Case Study 164 4.9.2 Spanning Variables of the Case Study 165 4.9.3 Analysing the Tables of the Case Study 165 4.9.4 Software Issues of the Case Study 167 5 Frequency tables 169 5.1 Introduction 169 5.2 Disclosure risks 169 5.3 Methods 176 5.4 Post-tabular methods 178 5.4.1 Cell Suppression 178 5.4.2 ABS Cell Perturbation 179 5.4.3 Rounding 179 5.5 Information loss 184 5.6 Software 186 5.6.1 Introduction 186 5.7 Case Studies 188 5.7.1 UK Census 188 5.7.2 Australian and New Zealand Censuses 190 6 Data Access Issues 193 6.1 Introduction 193 6.2 Research Data Centres 193 6.3 Remote Execution 194 6.4 Remote Access 195 6.5 Licensing 196 6.6 Guidelines on output checking 196 6.6.1 Introduction 196 6.6.2 General approach 197 6.6.3 Rules for output checking 199 6.6.4 Organizational/procedural aspects of output checking 208 6.6.5 Researcher training 215 6.7 Additional issues concerning data access 218 6.7.1 Examples of disclaimers 218 6.7.2 Output description 218 6.8 Case Studies 219 6.8.1 The U.S. …”
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Anatomy of a duchy the political and ecclesiastical structures of early Přemyslid Bohemia / by Kalhous, David

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Vaccinology principles and practice /

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Freedom betrayed Herbert Hoover's secret history of the Second World War and its aftermath / by Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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The Taylor rule and the transformation of monetary policy

Table of Contents: “…Bernanke -- The view from inside the Fed / Janet Yellen -- The view from inside the European Central Bank / Otmar Issing -- The view from central banks in emerging markets / Guillermo Ortiz -- A view from the financial markets / John P. …”
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Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) between science and scholarship /

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John Dewey's educational philosophy in international perspective a new democracy for the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…Waks -- John Dewey and pragmatism in Central Europe (the case of the former Czecho-Slovakia) / Emil Višňovský -- Reception of John Dewey's philosophy in Poland / Krystyna Wilkoszewska -- Dewey in the Italian elementary school / Viviana Burza -- Dewey's influence in Spain and Latin America / Jaime Nubiola -- Dewey and European Catholic pedagogy / Giorgio Chiosso.…”
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Confronting finance mobilizing the 99 per cent for economic and social progress /

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The unpolitical on the radical critique of political reason / by Cacciari, Massimo

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Facing fear the history of an emotion in global perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Fear and Its Opposites in the History of Emotions / Max Weiss -- Fear of the Thirty Years War / David Lederer -- Conceptions of Terror in the European Enlightenment / Ronald Schechter -- "When Fear rather than Reason Dominates" : Priests behind the Lines in the Tupac Amaru Rebellion (1780-83) / Charles Walker -- Fear in Colonial California and within the Borderlands / Lisbeth Haas -- Weimar Cinema between Hypnosis and Enlightenment / Andreas Killen -- Italian Fascism's Wartime Enemy and the Politics of Fear / Marla Stone -- The Persecuted Body : Evangelical Internationalism, Islam, and the Politics of Fear / Melani McAlister -- Danger, Media, and the Urban Experience in Delhi / Ravi Sundaram -- Fear of the Past : Post-Soviet Culture and the Soviet Terror / Alexander Etkind -- White Hajjis : Dutch Islamophobias Past and Present / Michael Laffan.…”
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The dynamics of narrative form studies in Anglo-American narratology /

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The global emerging market in transition articles, forecasts, and studies, 1973-2003 / by Kvint, V. L. (Vladimir Lʹvovich)

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