Regret analysis

Regret analysis is potentially misleading and therefore should be used with caution. 

Malaysia). Investment in Malaysia manages to reduce risk over that in Indonesia due to the lower volatility of natural gas prices in Malaysia. Figure 12.13 compares the risk curves and shows values of VaR and OV. Table 12.3 compares the risk indicators more closely. The VaR reduces from 18.1% but the OV (UP) reduces 18.9% and the risk area ratio (RAR) is equal to 2.2. This means that the loss in opportunity is more than twice the gain in risk reduction. The application of the decomposition procedure rendered similar solutions to those obtained using the full stochastic model. The use of regret analysis in this case produced similar but slightly less profitable answers. 

It is regretted that the size of the volume has rendered the insertion of literature references impossible the Selected Bibliography (A,5) may partly compensate for this omission. Section numbers are now included in the headings of the pages—a feature introduced in response to requests by many readers. The volume comprises virtually at least three books under one cover, viz., experimental technique, preparations, and qualitative organic analysis. It should therefore continue to be of value as a one volume reference work in the laboratory. Students at all levels will find their requirements for laboratory work (excluding quantitative organic analysis) adequately provided for and, furthermore, the writer hopes that the book will be used as a source of information to supplement their theoretical studies. 

The present chapter has no ambition to cover all these topics. We focus solely on the information content of the two-pathway coherent control approach, where the energy-domain, single quantum states approach to the control problem simplifies the phase information and allows analysis at the most fundamental level. We regret having to limit the scope of this chapter and thus exclude much of the relevant literature. We hope, however, that this contribution will entice the reader to explore related literature of relevance. 

Ostertag, K. (2003). No-Regret Potentials in Energy Conservation - An Analysis of Their Relevance, Size and Determinants. Heidelberg Physica. 

I regret very much not to be in a position to avail myself of the kind invitation you have extended to me on behalf of yourself and Mr. Lawes. However, I have just returned from a long journey to the southern part of the country and my belated arrival compels me to stay at the farm for the entire season. Moreover, I am involved in an experiment on tobacco which requires regular attendance and a good deal of analysis. 

We also wish to express our gratitude to the many people who have shown interest in our work and have found time to visit our laboratory. We regret that we cannot mention them all. W. E. van der Linden, H. Poppe, and J. M. Reijn were among them, and we are indebted to them for inspiring discussions and for organizing the Flow Analysis Conference in Amsterdam in fall, 1979. 

Analysis of published excitation functions would be greatly facilitated if they could be drawn as a function of collision energy, with laboratory energy shown on a subsidiary scale. Regretfully, this practice has not always been followed in this chapter. Whenever possible, deconvoluted excitation functions should also be published, to remove the effects of the reactant ion energy spread and the thermal motion of the target. This is particularly important for endoergic processes (see Sections 3.2.7 and... 

This review is written with the hope that it will provide some ideas and help for the investigators seeking methods for preconcentrating various species from the aqueous environment. Although the attempt was made to report examples of the techniques for most of the priority inorganic pollutants in several matrices, in some cases this was not possible. In some places we have referred to methods of interest that have not yet been applied to environmental analysis and to other procedures that have not been used analytically. Many publications exist which have not been included in this review due to repetition or similarity of a method or due to the inadequacy of the literature search we offer our regrets and we hope that readers will indicate to us important papers for future consideration. We... 

That the natural relationship of population balance to the analysis of dispersed phase processes called for development of the tool on several fronts was one of the issues which consumed the author s early academic career. Fundamental understanding of the statistical background of population balances depended on the theory of stochastic point processes that had its roots in the physics literature. For one, who had acquired his background of stochastic processes by methods that were somewhat random, the able support of his good friend and colleague. Professor Jay Borwanker of the Department of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, was more than an ordinary scientific collaboration. The author fondly recalls his friendship and association, and regrets his untimely demise towards the end of the last year. 

All in all it would appear that the total logistics impact of focused production will be complex and significant. To ensure that decisions are taken which are not sub-optimal it will become even more important to undertake detailed analysis based upon total system modelling and simulation prior to making commitments that may later be regretted. 

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