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Democrats and Republicans-- rhetoric and reality comparing the voters in statistics and anecdotes / by Fried, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…-- Introduction -- Details of a Seriously Flawed Study -- The terms "liberal" and "conservative" are too vague. -- Researcher assessments added circularity. -- Did Democrats make the conservatives look bad? …”
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Trace metals in aquatic systems by Mason, Robert P. (Robert Peter), 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Chapter Summary Chapter 5: Metal(loid)s in the Atmosphere and their Inputs to Surface Waters 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Atmospheric Transport and Deposition 5.3 Atmospheric Chemistry and Surface Water Photochemistry of Metals 5.4 Solubilization of Aerosol Metal(loid)s in Natural Waters 5.5 Focus Topics 5.6 Inputs of Atmospheric Metals to the Biosphere 5.7 Chapter Summary Chapter 6: Trace Metal(loid)s in Marine Waters 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Metal(loid) Partitioning in Coastal and Open Ocean Waters 6.3 Metals in Coastal and Offshore Sediments 6.4 Metal Distributions in Open Ocean Waters 6.5 Chapter Summary Chapter 7: Trace Metals in Freshwater 7.1 Overview of Metal cycling in Freshwaters 7.2 Trace Element Cycling in Lakes 7.3 Trace Elements in Rivers and Groundwater 7.4 Human Activities and Their Impact on Trace metal(loid) Concentration in Drinking Water and Receiving Waters 7.5 Metal Stable Isotopes and Their Uses 7.6 Chapter Summary Chapter 8: Trace Metals and Organisms: Essential and Toxic Metals, Organometallics, Microbial Processes and Metal Bioaccumulation 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Mechanisms of Metal Accumulation by Microorganisms 8.3 Essential Trace Metals 8.4 Organometallic Compounds and Microbial Transformation of Metals 8.5 Bioavailability and Bioaccumulation 8.6 Chapter Summary Index.…”
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Facilitating trade through competitive, low-carbon transport : the case for Vietnam's inland and coastal waterways / by Blancas, Luis C.

Table of Contents: “…Context -- Objectives of the report -- Scope and methodology -- Key data sources -- Structure of the report -- Demand for waterborne and multimodal transport -- Size and historical growth patterns of IWT and coastal shipping -- Growth projections for IWT and coastal shipping -- Commodity tonnage and tonnage distribution by mode -- Inland and coastal shipping lengths of haul -- Main freight flows -- Regional routes and modal competition -- Primary intra- and interregional corridors -- Red River delta region -- Mekong delta -- Coastal shipping -- Corridor 1: Hanoi, Haiphong, Quang Ninh -- Corridor 2: Quang Ninh, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 3: Hanoi, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 1: HCMC northwest -- Corridor 3: HCMC southwest --Container transport in the Mekong delta -- IWT market structure -- Shipping companies -- Coastal shipping -- Shipping volumes -- Container flows -- Containerized cargo (domestic cargo) -- Ccontainerized cargo (feeder cargo) -- Sea-river transport -- Market structure for coastal shipping -- Vinalines -- Competitive position of IWT and coastal shipping -- Competitive position of IWT -- Competitive position of coastal shipping -- Supply chains and logistics costs in Vietnam -- Conclusions on demand -- Supply-side considerations: waterways, ports, and fleet -- Institutional framework for the waterway and port sectors -- Waterway infrastructure -- Northern waterways -- Southern waterways -- Central region waterways -- Technical classification of the waterways -- Planned investments in waterways -- The IWT master plan for 2020 -- Major channel projects -- Ports -- River ports -- Planned investments in river ports -- Seaports -- Fleet -- Fleet of river-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-river vessels -- Modernization of IWT fleet -- Conclusions on waterways, ports, and fleet -- Modal differences in fuel efficiency and GHG emissions -- Relative carbon intensity among transport modes -- Main challenges and recommendations -- Planning -- Institutional/regulatory environment -- Phsical bottlenecks -- Lack of IWT hinders market development -- Financing -- Strategy and action plan -- Estimated impact of public sector interventions in IWT and coastal shipping -- Translating the IWT/coastal shipping strategy into tangible interventions -- Methodology: translating interventions into impacts -- Modal shift and emissions impact of the proposed interventions -- CBA results -- References -- Appendix A: list of stakeholders interviewed -- Appendix B: major waterway routes in the north and south -- Appendix C: general considerations on DWT capacity increases in the national IWT fleet -- Appendix D: cargo data and modal split model -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: iwt in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: IWT in tons per day -- Appendix E: detailed description of proposed interventions -- Appendix F: detailed impacts of proposed interventions.…”
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Democrats and Republicans-- rhetoric and reality comparing the voters in statistics and anecdotes / by Fried, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…-- Introduction -- Details of a Seriously Flawed Study -- The terms "liberal" and "conservative" are too vague. -- Researcher assessments added circularity. -- Did Democrats make the conservatives look bad? …”
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Trace metals in aquatic systems by Mason, Robert P. (Robert Peter), 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Chapter Summary Chapter 5: Metal(loid)s in the Atmosphere and their Inputs to Surface Waters 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Atmospheric Transport and Deposition 5.3 Atmospheric Chemistry and Surface Water Photochemistry of Metals 5.4 Solubilization of Aerosol Metal(loid)s in Natural Waters 5.5 Focus Topics 5.6 Inputs of Atmospheric Metals to the Biosphere 5.7 Chapter Summary Chapter 6: Trace Metal(loid)s in Marine Waters 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Metal(loid) Partitioning in Coastal and Open Ocean Waters 6.3 Metals in Coastal and Offshore Sediments 6.4 Metal Distributions in Open Ocean Waters 6.5 Chapter Summary Chapter 7: Trace Metals in Freshwater 7.1 Overview of Metal cycling in Freshwaters 7.2 Trace Element Cycling in Lakes 7.3 Trace Elements in Rivers and Groundwater 7.4 Human Activities and Their Impact on Trace metal(loid) Concentration in Drinking Water and Receiving Waters 7.5 Metal Stable Isotopes and Their Uses 7.6 Chapter Summary Chapter 8: Trace Metals and Organisms: Essential and Toxic Metals, Organometallics, Microbial Processes and Metal Bioaccumulation 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Mechanisms of Metal Accumulation by Microorganisms 8.3 Essential Trace Metals 8.4 Organometallic Compounds and Microbial Transformation of Metals 8.5 Bioavailability and Bioaccumulation 8.6 Chapter Summary Index.…”
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Facilitating trade through competitive, low-carbon transport : the case for Vietnam's inland and coastal waterways / by Blancas, Luis C.

Table of Contents: “…Context -- Objectives of the report -- Scope and methodology -- Key data sources -- Structure of the report -- Demand for waterborne and multimodal transport -- Size and historical growth patterns of IWT and coastal shipping -- Growth projections for IWT and coastal shipping -- Commodity tonnage and tonnage distribution by mode -- Inland and coastal shipping lengths of haul -- Main freight flows -- Regional routes and modal competition -- Primary intra- and interregional corridors -- Red River delta region -- Mekong delta -- Coastal shipping -- Corridor 1: Hanoi, Haiphong, Quang Ninh -- Corridor 2: Quang Ninh, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 3: Hanoi, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 1: HCMC northwest -- Corridor 3: HCMC southwest --Container transport in the Mekong delta -- IWT market structure -- Shipping companies -- Coastal shipping -- Shipping volumes -- Container flows -- Containerized cargo (domestic cargo) -- Ccontainerized cargo (feeder cargo) -- Sea-river transport -- Market structure for coastal shipping -- Vinalines -- Competitive position of IWT and coastal shipping -- Competitive position of IWT -- Competitive position of coastal shipping -- Supply chains and logistics costs in Vietnam -- Conclusions on demand -- Supply-side considerations: waterways, ports, and fleet -- Institutional framework for the waterway and port sectors -- Waterway infrastructure -- Northern waterways -- Southern waterways -- Central region waterways -- Technical classification of the waterways -- Planned investments in waterways -- The IWT master plan for 2020 -- Major channel projects -- Ports -- River ports -- Planned investments in river ports -- Seaports -- Fleet -- Fleet of river-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-river vessels -- Modernization of IWT fleet -- Conclusions on waterways, ports, and fleet -- Modal differences in fuel efficiency and GHG emissions -- Relative carbon intensity among transport modes -- Main challenges and recommendations -- Planning -- Institutional/regulatory environment -- Phsical bottlenecks -- Lack of IWT hinders market development -- Financing -- Strategy and action plan -- Estimated impact of public sector interventions in IWT and coastal shipping -- Translating the IWT/coastal shipping strategy into tangible interventions -- Methodology: translating interventions into impacts -- Modal shift and emissions impact of the proposed interventions -- CBA results -- References -- Appendix A: list of stakeholders interviewed -- Appendix B: major waterway routes in the north and south -- Appendix C: general considerations on DWT capacity increases in the national IWT fleet -- Appendix D: cargo data and modal split model -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: iwt in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: IWT in tons per day -- Appendix E: detailed description of proposed interventions -- Appendix F: detailed impacts of proposed interventions.…”
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The Emerald handbook of childhood and youth in Asian societies : generations between local and global dynamics /

Table of Contents: “…Fluid childhoods: Chinese migrants' descendants growing up transnationally / Laura Lamas-Abraira -- Chapter 4. Transformations of early childhood in Japan: From free play to extended education / Frederick De Moll and Akihide Inaba -- Section two - Introduction multiplicity and fundamental inequality of childhoods in south asia / Doris Bühler-Niederberger and Asma Khalid -- Chapter 5. …”
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Nurse Writers of the Great War / by Hallett, Christine E.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Part I Independent ladies; 1 Heroines in Belgium and Serbia; Introduction: plucky nurses; The duchess-directrice: Millicent Sutherland and her ambulance; Escaping the German advance: a war nurse's diary; Nurse fighters on the Serbian Front; A quest too far: the death of Sarah Macnaughtan; Conclusion: heroines on Western and Eastern Fronts; Notes; 2 Le petit paradis des blesses; Introduction: the little paradise.…”
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Palmerín y sus libros : 500 años /

Table of Contents: “…Palmerín : construcción y contexto caballeresco / Aurelio González -- El episodio de la metamorfosis en el Palmerín de Olivia / Karla Xiomara Luna Mariscal -- De aguas maravillosas : la liquidez como prodigio en el Palmerín de Olivia / María Jose Rodilla León -- La fe del mundo es faltada : funcionamiento y lImites del sistema profetico del Palmerín de Olivia / Penelope Cartelet -- Acordó de fazerse mudo e jamás fablar : Palmerín entre moros / Carlos Rubio Pacho -- Del Libro segundo del emperador Palmerín (Salamanca, 1512) a los tres libros del Primaleón (Venecia, 1534) / Juan Manuel Cacho Blecua -- La dualidad de la huerta en el Primaleón del hortus delicarium al JardIn de los suplicos / María del Rosario Aguilar Perdomo -- Caballeros contra jayanas : dos homejajes al ciclo palmeriniano / Claudia Dematte -- Morfología y sentido de la aventura maravillosa : las aventuras del espejo en Primaleón y Platir / Javier Roberto González -- Algunas consideraciones acerca de un posIble sustrato feerico en el ciclo de los Palmerinies / Mónica Nasif -- Los palmerines italianos : una primera aproximación / Anna Bognolo -- Cuadro de la difusión europea del ciclo palermianiano, siglos XVI-XVII / Stefano Neri -- Dos estudios sobre la sintaxis de la prosa de arte de Amadis de Gaula : entrelazamiento sintático y sintaxis de tema y rema / Aquilino Suárez Pallasá -- Urganda, la otrora gran sabidora : evolución y refuncionalización / Axayácatl Campos García Rojas -- Rasgos narrativos de bucolismo en el episodio final de AmadIs de Grecia / Paola Encarnación Sandoval -- Madre e hijas en lso libros de caballerIas / María del Carmen Marín Pina -- No dejarás con vida a la hechicera : la imagen de la bruja y su influencia en algunos personajes femeninos de los libros de caballerIas hispánicos / Paloa Zaumudio Topete -- El engaNo del caballero y la concepción forzada e inconsciente : el caso de Lanzarote del Lago y Palmerín de Olivia / Daniel Gutierrez Trápaga -- El rey Arturo en El Baladro del sabrio Merlín / Rosalba Lendo Fuentes -- Jofre, el caballero que no conoce el miedo / Paola Garces -- La función de la aventura novelesca en la articulación del genero caballeresco breve / Lucila Lobato Osorio.…”
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Memoria e interpretación de Al filo del agua /

Table of Contents: “…Young -- El lilbro, un eco cervantino en Yáñez / Ignacio Díaz Ruiz -- Al filo del agua y Las vueltas del tiempo a traves de Joyce y Vico / John Skirius -- Huellas pictóricas en Al filo del agua / Edith Negrín -- Yáñez, Revueltas y la nueva novela mexicana / Jorge Fornet -- Al filo del agua en la República de las letras / Antonio Saborit -- Del otro lado del agua: Agustín Yáñez y la literatura hispanoamericana en Polonia / Grazyna Grudzinska -- El azar y la predestinación en Al filo del agua / Arturo Azuela -- Reflexiones sobre Al filo del agua / Jose Luis Martínez -- Conciencia de la Revolución en Al filo del agua / Christopher Harris -- Emancipación mental y reflexión nacional: la situación conflictiva prerrevolucionaria en Al filo del agua / Karl Hölz -- Agustín Yáñez, Al filo del agua y la tradición narrativa mexicana / Aralia López González -- Soneto / Carlos Pellicer -- Yáñez en Al filo del agua / Jaime Torres Bodet -- Al filo del agua / Rosario Castellanos -- Bibliograpfía general de Agustín Yáñez / Ana Laura Zavala Díaz -- Una visita a la casa y a la biblioteca de Agustín Yáñez / Yvette Jimenez de Báez -- Fotografías / Marco Antonio Molina -- "Coro de ángeles" / Agustín Yáñez…”
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The Emerald handbook of childhood and youth in Asian societies : generations between local and global dynamics /

Table of Contents: “…Fluid childhoods: Chinese migrants' descendants growing up transnationally / Laura Lamas-Abraira -- Chapter 4. Transformations of early childhood in Japan: From free play to extended education / Frederick De Moll and Akihide Inaba -- Section two - Introduction multiplicity and fundamental inequality of childhoods in south asia / Doris Bühler-Niederberger and Asma Khalid -- Chapter 5. …”
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Drug discovery handbook

Table of Contents: “….] -- Biological and chemistry assays available during drug discovery and developability assessment / Duane B. Lakings -- Strategies and methods in monitoring and targeting protein-protein interactions / Arianna Loregian, Giorgio Palù -- High throughput screening: evolution of technology and methods -- Martyn N. …”
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Nurse Writers of the Great War / by Hallett, Christine E.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Part I Independent ladies; 1 Heroines in Belgium and Serbia; Introduction: plucky nurses; The duchess-directrice: Millicent Sutherland and her ambulance; Escaping the German advance: a war nurse's diary; Nurse fighters on the Serbian Front; A quest too far: the death of Sarah Macnaughtan; Conclusion: heroines on Western and Eastern Fronts; Notes; 2 Le petit paradis des blesses; Introduction: the little paradise.…”
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Palmerín y sus libros : 500 años /

Table of Contents: “…Palmerín : construcción y contexto caballeresco / Aurelio González -- El episodio de la metamorfosis en el Palmerín de Olivia / Karla Xiomara Luna Mariscal -- De aguas maravillosas : la liquidez como prodigio en el Palmerín de Olivia / María Jose Rodilla León -- La fe del mundo es faltada : funcionamiento y lImites del sistema profetico del Palmerín de Olivia / Penelope Cartelet -- Acordó de fazerse mudo e jamás fablar : Palmerín entre moros / Carlos Rubio Pacho -- Del Libro segundo del emperador Palmerín (Salamanca, 1512) a los tres libros del Primaleón (Venecia, 1534) / Juan Manuel Cacho Blecua -- La dualidad de la huerta en el Primaleón del hortus delicarium al JardIn de los suplicos / María del Rosario Aguilar Perdomo -- Caballeros contra jayanas : dos homejajes al ciclo palmeriniano / Claudia Dematte -- Morfología y sentido de la aventura maravillosa : las aventuras del espejo en Primaleón y Platir / Javier Roberto González -- Algunas consideraciones acerca de un posIble sustrato feerico en el ciclo de los Palmerinies / Mónica Nasif -- Los palmerines italianos : una primera aproximación / Anna Bognolo -- Cuadro de la difusión europea del ciclo palermianiano, siglos XVI-XVII / Stefano Neri -- Dos estudios sobre la sintaxis de la prosa de arte de Amadis de Gaula : entrelazamiento sintático y sintaxis de tema y rema / Aquilino Suárez Pallasá -- Urganda, la otrora gran sabidora : evolución y refuncionalización / Axayácatl Campos García Rojas -- Rasgos narrativos de bucolismo en el episodio final de AmadIs de Grecia / Paola Encarnación Sandoval -- Madre e hijas en lso libros de caballerIas / María del Carmen Marín Pina -- No dejarás con vida a la hechicera : la imagen de la bruja y su influencia en algunos personajes femeninos de los libros de caballerIas hispánicos / Paloa Zaumudio Topete -- El engaNo del caballero y la concepción forzada e inconsciente : el caso de Lanzarote del Lago y Palmerín de Olivia / Daniel Gutierrez Trápaga -- El rey Arturo en El Baladro del sabrio Merlín / Rosalba Lendo Fuentes -- Jofre, el caballero que no conoce el miedo / Paola Garces -- La función de la aventura novelesca en la articulación del genero caballeresco breve / Lucila Lobato Osorio.…”
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Memoria e interpretación de Al filo del agua /

Table of Contents: “…Young -- El lilbro, un eco cervantino en Yáñez / Ignacio Díaz Ruiz -- Al filo del agua y Las vueltas del tiempo a traves de Joyce y Vico / John Skirius -- Huellas pictóricas en Al filo del agua / Edith Negrín -- Yáñez, Revueltas y la nueva novela mexicana / Jorge Fornet -- Al filo del agua en la República de las letras / Antonio Saborit -- Del otro lado del agua: Agustín Yáñez y la literatura hispanoamericana en Polonia / Grazyna Grudzinska -- El azar y la predestinación en Al filo del agua / Arturo Azuela -- Reflexiones sobre Al filo del agua / Jose Luis Martínez -- Conciencia de la Revolución en Al filo del agua / Christopher Harris -- Emancipación mental y reflexión nacional: la situación conflictiva prerrevolucionaria en Al filo del agua / Karl Hölz -- Agustín Yáñez, Al filo del agua y la tradición narrativa mexicana / Aralia López González -- Soneto / Carlos Pellicer -- Yáñez en Al filo del agua / Jaime Torres Bodet -- Al filo del agua / Rosario Castellanos -- Bibliograpfía general de Agustín Yáñez / Ana Laura Zavala Díaz -- Una visita a la casa y a la biblioteca de Agustín Yáñez / Yvette Jimenez de Báez -- Fotografías / Marco Antonio Molina -- "Coro de ángeles" / Agustín Yáñez…”
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Classical and modern engineering methods in fluid flow and heat transfer an introduction for engineers and students / by Dorfman, A. Sh. (Abram Shlemovich)

Table of Contents: “…Modern numerical methods in turbulence -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Direct numerical simulation -- 9.3 Large eddy simulation -- 9.4 Detached eddy simulation -- 9.5 Chaos theory -- 9.6 Concluding remarks -- Exercises 9.1-9.12 --…”
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Classical and modern engineering methods in fluid flow and heat transfer an introduction for engineers and students / by Dorfman, A. Sh. (Abram Shlemovich)

Table of Contents: “…Modern numerical methods in turbulence -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Direct numerical simulation -- 9.3 Large eddy simulation -- 9.4 Detached eddy simulation -- 9.5 Chaos theory -- 9.6 Concluding remarks -- Exercises 9.1-9.12 --…”
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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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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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