Tabla de Contenidos: “…Inheritance and gift taxation enhances equality of opportunity -- 2.2.2. Inheritance and gift taxation can strengthen horizontal and vertical equity -- 2.2.3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…... while still others have considered restrictions or additional requirements -- Reforms to the composition of and eligibility for integration measures -- Access to education and skills recognition remains high on the integration policy agenda -- Language for adult migrants is an increasingly universal pillar of integration measures -- Countries have continued their attention to anti-discrimination policies, including in the context of broader anti-racism strategies -- Specific needs of women and young migrants -- Countries seek to reduce gender barriers to increase equality of outcomes -- Recognition of issues specific to migrant youth has increased -- Countries reorganise and delineate responsibilities to improve co-ordination -- References -- 4 Responding to the Ukrainian refugee crisis -- Introduction -- Migration flows triggered by the Russian large-scale invasion of Ukraine -- Immigration permits and rights granted to Ukrainians -- The EU activated the Temporary Protection Directive -- Approaches in other OECD countries -- Initial support measures in OECD countries -- Emergency shelter -- Access to assistance and public services -- Transitioning towards medium and long-term responses -- Securing durable housing -- Capacity constraints and dispersal -- Assistance with finding and securing accommodation -- Ensuring educational continuity -- Primary and secondary education -- Vocational education and training (VET) -- Tertiary education -- Promoting employment and employability -- Job search and matching -- Skills assessment and recognition -- Addressing gender-specific needs -- Emerging challenges -- Phasing out temporary protection in the EU and beyond -- Transitioning from exceptional measures to mainstream solutions -- Addressing secondary movements -- Preparing for changes in public opinion and support -- References -- Notes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Trends and impacts of FDI in Indonesia -- Summary and policy directions -- Main policy directions -- FDI can support Indonesia's sustainable development agenda -- Boosting productivity -- Creating more decent jobs, improving skills and enhancing gender equality -- Transition to a low-carbon and energy efficient economy -- FDI trends -- Recently FDI as a share of GDP has fallen -- Greenfield investment dominates manufacturing, while M&amp -- A deals prevail in the primary and services sectors -- Manufacturing FDI accounts for the largest share but is declining -- The bulk of FDI to Indonesia originates in Singapore and Japan -- FDI qualities -- Foreign firms generate significant direct economic effects -- Foreign firms favour GVC integration of Indonesia -- FDI supports productivity gains within the economy -- FDI is prevalent in sectors that are more productive -- Indonesian firms may lack capacity to benefit from FDI positive spillovers -- Business linkages with foreign firms are significant -- FDI has mixed effects on labour market outcomes -- Foreign firms operate in sectors with higher wages and pay their employees more -- Foreign and domestic firms do not differ systematically in their skill intensity -- Foreign firms operate in male-dominated sectors but are more gender-inclusive -- FDI affects environmental targets in contrasting ways…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- References -- Notes -- 3 Policies for sustainable cities in Colombia -- Introduction -- Pursuing urban sustainability -- Improving spatial and land use planning -- Strategic planning is underexploited and reduced to a bureaucratic requirement -- POTs are too complex and mostly outdated and underused -- The POT formulation process is costly and prone to political influence -- POTs include a large number of topics that makes them complex to elaborate or update -- Lack of sufficient financial resources hinders the implementation of POTs -- Land use planning must be more flexible and simplified -- POTs should be supported by fiscal incentives to steer land use -- POTs should pursue compact development and be forward-looking -- The metropolitan dimension in land use planning should be reinforced -- Land use planning should prioritise urban regeneration and environmental preservation -- Improving urban accessibility -- Urban mobility plans are not widely adopted and face financial difficulties -- Public transport and urban planning are not always aligned -- COVID-19 imposed constraints on the use of public space and movement -- A new national policy to overcome mobility challenges has been adopted although some limitations remain -- The national urban mobility policy lacks a focus on accessibility and equality…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Chapter 2: Univariate and Multivariate Tests for Equality of Means -- Introduction -- The univariate t-test -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- The Fisher-Behrens problem -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Paired t-test -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Calculating ANOVA sum of squares and F tests -- How to do it... -- Two-way ANOVA -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Type I, Type II, and Type III sum of squares -- Type I -- Type II -- Type III -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Random effects -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Repeated measures -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Multivariate t-test -- Getting ready... -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- MANOVA -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Chapter 3: Linear Regression -- Introduction -- Computing ordinary least squares estimates -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Reporting results with the sjPlot package -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Finding correlation between the features -- Getting ready... -- How to do it... -- Testing hypothesis -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Testing homoscedasticity -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Implementing sandwich estimators -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Variable selection -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Ridge regression -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Ethereum name service -- Civic/uPort -- Gnosis -- Steemit -- CryptoKitties -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 18: Mining -- Cryptocurrency mining -- The mining process -- Algorithms -- Mining hardware -- CPU-based mining -- GPU-based mining -- FPGA-based mining -- ASIC-based mining -- Miner types -- Cloud mining -- Hardware mining -- Mining rigs -- Mining pools -- Pay-per-share - PPS -- Proportional - PROP -- Pay-per-last-N-shares - PPLNS -- The double geometric method - DGM -- Shared maximum pay per share - SMPPS -- Equalized shared maximum pay per share - ESMPPS -- Recent shared maximum pay per share - RSMPPS -- Capped pay per share with recent backpay - CPPSRB -- Bitcoin pooled mining - BPM -- Pay on target - POT -- SCORE -- Popular pools -- Mining software -- Summary -- Chapter 19: ICO 101 -- The current state of the ICO market -- Increasing volume of ICOs -- Typical aspects of an ICO campaign -- Whitepaper -- Private placement -- Pre-sale -- Good pre-sale practices -- Public sale -- Capped sale -- Uncapped sale -- Dutch auction -- Influencer marketing -- PR campaigns -- Content marketing -- ICO reviewers -- Smart contract and prototype development -- Code audits -- Bounty campaigns -- Airdrops…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Understanding the Anatomy of an HTML Element -- Understanding Attributes -- Understanding Element Content -- Understanding Void Elements -- Understanding the Document Structure -- Understanding Bootstrap -- Applying Basic Bootstrap Classes -- Modifying Style Context -- Modifying Sizes -- Using Bootstrap to Style Tables -- Ensuring the Correct Table Structure -- Using Bootstrap to Create Forms -- Using Bootstrap to Create Grids -- Creating Responsive Grids -- Summary -- Chapter 5: JavaScript Primer -- Preparing the Example Project -- Understanding the Script Element -- Using Statements -- Defining and Using Functions -- Defining Functions with Parameters -- Defining Functions That Return Results -- Detecting Functions -- Using Variables and Types -- Using the Primitive Types -- Working with Booleans -- Working with Strings -- Working with Numbers -- Creating Objects -- Using Object Literals -- Using Functions as Methods -- Extending Objects -- Working with Objects -- Detecting Objects -- Reading and Modifying the Property Values -- Enumerating an Object's Properties -- Adding and Deleting Properties and Methods -- Determining Whether an Object Has a Property -- Using JavaScript Operators -- Using Conditional Statements -- The Equality Operator vs. the Identity Operator -- Explicitly Converting Types -- Converting Numbers to Strings -- Converting Strings to Numbers -- Working with Arrays -- Using an Array Literal -- Detecting an Array -- Reading and Modifying the Contents of an Array -- Enumerating the Contents of an Array -- Using the Built-in Array Methods -- Comparing undefined and null Values -- Checking for null or undefined -- Working with Promises -- Working with JSON -- Summary -- Chapter 6: SportsStore: A Real Application -- Getting Started -- Preparing the Data -- Creating the Data Structure -- Adding the Data -- Testing the Data Service…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…BANKING REGULATIONS -- Consumer Compliance Management -- Board of Directors and Management Supervision and Administration -- Compliance Program -- Compliance Committee -- Duties, Responsibilities, Authorities, and Accountability of the Compliance Committee -- Internal Controls -- Organizational Structure -- Policies and Procedures -- Training -- Compliance Audit Function -- SUMMARY OF FEDERAL BANKING REGULATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES -- Regulation B: Equal Credit Opportunity -- Fair Lending Policy -- General Policy Statement -- Advertising -- Applications and Information Gathering -- Application Processing and Evaluation and Loan Application Second Review Process -- Credit Extension -- Notification -- Record Retention -- Government Monitoring Program -- Fair Lending Training -- Regulation C: Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) -- Purpose of the Act -- Reporting Requirements -- Denial Reasons and Other Data -- Disclosure -- Training and Oversight Responsibilities -- Regulation Q: Prohibition against Payment of Interest on Certain Deposit Account Types…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 10 Quiz -- Answers to Chapter 10 Quiz -- Chapter 11 Exploring Exponential and Logarithmic Functions -- Evaluating e-Expressions and Powers of e -- Exponential functions: it's all about the base, baby -- Meeting the most frequently used bases: 10 and e -- Solving Exponential Equations -- Taking advantage of matching bases -- Recognizing and using quadratic patterns -- Taking out a greatest common factor -- Factoring like a quadratic trinomial -- Making Cents: Applying Compound Interest -- Applying the compound interest formula -- Measuring the actual compound: effective rates -- Looking at continuous compounding -- Logging On to Logarithmic Functions -- Meeting the properties of logarithms -- Putting your logs to work -- Expanding and contracting expressions with log notation -- Solving Logarithmic Equations -- Setting log equal to log -- Rewriting log equations as exponentials -- Graphing Exponential and Logarithmic Functions -- Expounding on the exponential -- Graphing log functions using intercepts -- Reflecting on inverses of exponential functions -- Practice Questions Answers and Explanations -- Whaddya Know? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The former shows submission by workers and women to an unjust system -- the latter reveals the just equality supposedly brought by industry and mechanical labour. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Identity and the Self -- The Self -- The Self-Concept and Self-Esteem -- The Self and Others -- The Malleable Self -- We Consume to Express Our Identities -- The Extended Self -- New Ways to Express Identity -- Compensatory Consumption -- Anti-Consumption as Self-Defining -- Embodied Cognition -- Our Digital Selves -- Gender and Consumer Behavior -- Gender Socialization and Gender Roles -- Gender Differences in Consumer Behavior -- Toward Greater Gender Fluidity -- The Quest for Gender Justice and Equality -- The Body -- Ideals of Beauty and Stereotypes -- Body Positivity: Enter the Fatshionistas -- Body Decoration and Mutilation -- The Mechanized Body -- The Quantified Self -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Review -- Consumer Behavior Challenge -- Case Study. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Understanding the distinction between information and knowledge -- Asking questions to extract information -- Asking questions to gain knowledge -- Seeking clarification with follow-up questions -- Using Questions and Guardrails to Initiate and Guide Conversations -- Asking safe questions to get the conversation moving -- Adding guardrails to limit the scope of a question -- Using questions to transition to other topics -- Chapter 7 Holding Productive and Meaningful Conversations -- Appreciating the Value of Reciprocity, Self-Disclosure, and Give-and-Take -- Embracing reciprocity -- Building trust and reciprocity through self-disclosure -- Giving and taking more or less equally -- Being a Good Conversation Partner -- Cultivating two-way interaction -- Putting the principle of reciprocity into practice -- Strengthening Relationships with Self-Disclosure -- Following the ebb and flow of the conversation -- Getting personal, even in a business setting -- Creating Mutual Meaning -- Checking for confirmation -- Agreeing on next steps -- Part 3 Owning Your Message with Confident Communication -- Chapter 8 Making Simple Communication Changes for Significant Impact -- Making People Less Defensive and More Receptive -- Using the I+verb framework -- Avoiding "you" statements -- Steering clear of generalizations -- Getting to Yes Faster -- Subtly framing your requests -- Providing choices -- Removing all reasons to say no -- Focusing Less on Names and More on Pertinent Details -- Avoiding cheesy sales talk -- Admitting what you don't know -- Pivoting to someone else -- Tabling a topic for later -- Returning the serve -- Purging "Sorry" and "Just" from Your Vocabulary -- Stop saying "sorry" -- Jettison "just" -- Chapter 9 Setting the Stage for Effective Communication -- Challenging the Status Quo -- Understanding why changing the status quo can be difficult…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Globally agreed common attitudes and values towards common future goals -- Attitudes and values made explicit in national/jurisdictional curriculum -- Case 1: Values aligned with national priorities, traditional social tenets, and enshrined in national vision statements: -- Case 2: Values reflecting respect for and learning from Indigenous cultures and peoples: -- Case 3: Values reflecting the need to prepare students for emerging societal change or reflect on historical change, such as social diversity, democracy, migration, equity, equality and inclusion, and environmental challenges: -- Case 4: Values promoting education goals that are aligned with international and regional instruments and declarations. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- ...and, there still remains a margin of opportunity to invest in innovation in rural counties -- Equal opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship across metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties is critical -- The share of persistently poor counties is 5 times higher in rural counties than in metropolitan counties -- Workers in rural counties are ageing faster -- The scale and scope of innovation in rural areas in the United States -- Innovation in rural America is supported by direct and indirect funding and support from federal agencies -- However, the focus on direct support for technology-based innovation is at odds with how rural innovation occurs…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Use of Logical Operators with Conditionals -- Operator Precedence -- The Ternary Operator -- Preprocessor Directives -- Defining Identifiers -- Undefining Identifiers -- #if, #elif, #else, and #endif -- #region -- Classes and Objects -- Defining Classes -- Access Modifiers -- Method Arguments -- Creating Objects -- Constructors -- Initializers -- The ICloneable Interface -- The this Keyword -- Using Static Members -- Invoking Static Methods -- Using Static Constructors -- Static Classes -- Using Static Fields -- Destroying Objects -- The C# Destructor -- Destructors Versus Dispose -- Implementing the Close() Method -- The using Statement -- Passing Parameters -- Passing by Reference -- Overcoming Definite Assignment with out Parameters -- Overloading Methods and Constructors -- Encapsulating Data with Properties -- The get Accessor -- The set Accessor -- Property Access Modifiers -- readonly Fields -- Inheritance and Polymorphism -- Specialization and Generalization -- Inheritance -- Implementing Inheritance -- Polymorphism -- Creating Polymorphic Types -- Creating Polymorphic Methods -- Calling Base Class Constructors -- Controlling Access -- Versioning with the new and override Keywords -- Abstract Classes -- Limitations of Abstract -- Sealed Class -- The Root of All Classes: Object -- Boxing and Unboxing Types -- Boxing Is Implicit -- Unboxing Must Be Explicit -- Nesting Classes -- Operator Overloading -- Using the operator Keyword -- Supporting Other .NET Languages -- Creating Useful Operators -- Logical Pairs -- The Equality Operator -- Conversion Operators -- Structs -- Defining Structs -- Creating Structs -- Structs as Value Types -- Creating Structs Without new -- Interfaces -- Defining and Implementing an Interface -- Implementing More Than One Interface -- Extending Interfaces -- Combining Interfaces -- Casting to extended interfaces…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- About the Authors -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Digital Image Processing -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Steps in Image Processing -- 1.3 Building Blocks of a Digital Image Processing System -- 1.3.1 Image Acquisition -- 1.3.2 Storage -- 1.3.3 Processing -- 1.3.4 Display and Communication Interface -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Chapter 2: Digital Image Representation -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Digital Image Representation -- 2.3 Sampling and Quantization -- 2.4 Basic Relationship Between Pixels -- 2.4.1 Neighbors and Connectivity -- 2.4.2 Distance Measure -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Chapter 3: Image Transforms -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Fourier Transform -- 3.3 Discrete Fourier Transform -- 3.4 Properties of Fourier Transform -- 3.4.1 Separability -- 3.4.2 Translation -- 3.4.3 Periodicity and Conjugate Symmetry -- 3.4.4 Rotation -- 3.4.5 Distributivity and Scaling -- 3.4.6 Average Value -- 3.4.7 Laplacian -- 3.4.8 Convolution and Correlation -- 3.5 Fast Fourier Transform -- 3.5.1 Fast Fourier Transform Algorithm -- 3.5.2 The Inverse FFT -- 3.6 Discrete Cosine Transform -- 3.6.1 Properties of Cosine Transform -- 3.7 Walsh Transform -- 3.8 Hadamard Transform -- 3.9 The Haar Transform -- 3.10 The Slant Transform -- 3.11 The Hotelling Transform -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Chapter 4: Image Enhancement -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Spatial Domain and Frequency Domain Approaches -- 4.2.1 Frequency Domain Techniques -- 4.3 Spatial Domain Techniques -- 4.3.1 Negative of an Image -- 4.3.2 Contrast Stretching -- 4.3.3 Gray Level Slicing -- 4.3.4 Bit Plane Slicing -- 4.3.5 Histogram and Histogram Equalization -- 4.3.6 Histogram Specifications -- 4.3.7 Local Enhancement Technique -- 4.3.8 Image Subtraction -- 4.3.9 Image Average -- 4.4 Spatial Filtering -- 4.4.1 Low-Pass Spatial Filters…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Propositions/acts passed by other countries -- Special regulations for children and minority groups -- Promoting equality for minority groups -- Educational initiatives -- International AI initiatives and cooperative actions -- Next steps for trustworthy AI -- Proposed solutions and improvement areas -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 2: Building Blocks and Patterns for a Next-Generation AI Ecosystem -- Chapter 4: Privacy Management in Big Data and Model Design Pipelines -- Technical requirements -- Designing privacy-proven pipelines -- Big data pipelines -- Architecting model design pipelines -- Incremental/continual ML training and retraining -- Scaling defense pipelines -- Enabling differential privacy in scalable architectures -- Designing secure microservices -- Vault -- Cloud security architecture -- Developing in a sandbox environment -- Managing secrets in cloud orchestration services -- Monitoring and threat detection -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 5: ML Pipeline, Model Evaluation, and Handling Uncertainty -- Technical requirements -- Understanding different components of ML pipelines -- ML tasks and algorithms -- Uncertainty in ML -- Types of uncertainty -- Quantifying uncertainty -- Uncertainty in regression tasks -- Uncertainty in classification tasks -- Tools for benchmarking and quantifying uncertainty -- The Uncertainty Baselines library -- Keras-Uncertainty -- Robustness metrics -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 6: Hyperparameter Tuning, MLOps, and AutoML -- Technical requirements -- Introduction to AutoML -- Introducing H2O AutoML -- Understanding Amazon SageMaker Autopilot -- The need for MLOps -- TFX - a scalable end-to-end platform for AI/ML workflows -- Understanding Kubeflow -- Katib for hyperparameter tuning -- Vertex AI -- Datasets -- Training and experiments in Vertex AI -- Vertex AI Workbench -- Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Self-employment can offer immigrants a way out of labour market exclusion, but low survival rates point to the need for more guidance and counselling -- Mentorship is relatively well-developed, and stronger targeting would improve its effectiveness -- Discrimination is an important obstacle to labour market integration, and Flanders aims to tackle it more effectively through sector-specific actions -- Equal employment policy measures have become less targeted and the effect of this should be closely monitored -- The population of youth with migrant parents is becoming increasingly important in the Flemish education system and labour market... -- ...and overall, children of immigrants fare poorly in Flanders, highlighting the persistent nature of integration challenges -- Gaps in educational performance already manifest themselves at an early age, despite high participation in Early Childhood Education and Care -- Flanders employs an inclusive approach to enhance the educational chances of pupils with migrant parents, yet outcomes still leave much to be desired... -- Youth born abroad face difficulties transitioning from reception education -- The employment gap between immigrant and native-born offspring is among the widest in the OECD, regardless of level of education -- The large public sector plays an important role-model function, but immigrants and their offspring remain strongly underrepresented -- A comprehensive action plan on integration should be considered -- 2 The context of integration policy in Flanders -- Characteristics of immigrants -- The immigrant population is rapidly increasing and diversifying -- The share of the immigrant population with (very) low levels of education is high -- Labour market integration of immigrants -- Despite improvement, non-EU immigrants' employment outcomes remain poor in international comparison…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Getting Started with Inclusive Leadership -- Chapter 1 Establishing the Basics of Leadership and Inclusion -- Knowing Why Inclusive Leadership is Important -- Summarizing Key Workforce Shifts -- Understanding Inclusive Terminology -- Belonging -- BIPOC -- Diversity -- Equity and Equality -- Implicit bias -- Inclusion -- Intersectionality -- Microaggressions -- Neurodiversity -- Phobias and -isms -- Looking at Leadership Models and Frameworks -- Chapter 2 Revealing What the New Generation of Talent Needs at Work -- Understanding the Workforce Demographics of the Future -- Addressing the Needs of the Changing Workforce -- Honing the Competencies and Key Traits of an Inclusive Leader -- Tackling the Challenges of Leading a More Diverse Workforce -- Unconscious bias -- Communication barriers -- Cultural differences impeding teamwork -- Retaining diverse talent -- Developing inclusive leaders from within -- Recognizing the Benefits that Top Talent of the Future Brings -- Chapter 3 Making the Business Case for More Inclusive Leaders -- Accessing a Larger Talent Pool -- Enhancing Financial Performance and Company Reputation -- Boosting Employee Engagement, Productivity, and Retention -- Driving Innovation and Creativity -- Growing Customer Loyalty and Expanding New Markets -- Digging into Examples of Inclusive Leadership in Action -- Biases and lack of visible diversity -- Microaggressions and a hostile work environment -- Chapter 4 How Inclusive Are You? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…It Also Applies to You -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Research on Holocaust Education -- 3 Research on Inclusion and Intercultural Education - My Own Research -- 4 Narrative Inquiry -- 5 Autoethnographical Narrative Inquiry -- 6 Turning Point in Narrative Research -- 7 Using the Feeling of Concern as a Critical Lens -- 8 An Equal Education for All -- 9 The Education about Evil -- 10 The Feeling of Shame -- 11 Conclusion -- References -- 13. …”