Tabla de Contenidos: “…Acknowledgments 11 -- Abstract . 13 -- List of Figures . 15 -- List of Tables 17 -- 1 Introduction . 19 -- 1.1 Relevance of the Study . 20 -- 1.2 Structure of the Study . 24 -- Theoretical Part -- 2 Moving with Skills: A Review of the Literature 31 -- 2.1 Historical Overview 31 -- 2.2 Conceptual Overview . 33 -- 2.2.1 State . 33 -- 2.2.2 Employer . 34 -- 2.2.3 Migrants, Families, and Couples . 35 -- 2.3 Highly-Skilled Migration Studies . 36 -- 2.3.1 Dichotomising Migration . 36 -- 2.3.2 Deepening Migration 39 -- 2.3.3 Intermediary Summary: Construction of a Polarisation I . 42 -- 2.4 Expatriation Studies 43 -- 2.4.1 Defining Expatriates 44 -- 2.4.2 Assigned Expatriate and Self-Initiated Expatriate 46 -- 2.4.3 Expatriate Adjustments 49 -- 2.4.4 Intermediary Summary: Construction of a Polarisation II . 56 -- 2.5 Gender and Highly-Skilled Migration . 57 -- 2.5.1 Gender Binaries . 58 -- 2.5.2 Gender as a Dichotomous Variable . 60 -- 2.5.3 Gender as a Relational and Situational Feature . 61 -- 2.5.4 Intermediary Summary: Overcoming the Polarisation 69 -- 3 Decentring the Research on Highly-Skilled Migration and -- Expatriation: Three Methodological Premises . 71 -- 3.1 Decentring and Deconstructing . 71 -- 3.2 Methodological Individualism 73 -- 3.2.1 Defining the Family and the Couple . 74 -- 3.2.2 The Hidden Economy of Kinship 77 -- 3.2.3 Doing Family 78 -- 3.3 Methodological Nationalism . 80 -- 3.3.1 Changing the Entry Points . 81 -- 3.4 Methodological Economism . 84 -- 3.4.1 Mobility and Migration 84 -- 3.4.2 Temporal Mobilities and Permanent Migration 86 -- 3.4.3 Defining and Problematising the Skills 87 -- 3.5 Research Questions 91 -- Methodological Part -- 4 Research Design 95 -- 4.1 Epistemology . 95 -- 4.2 Methods in Practice 99 -- 4.2.1 Accessing the Field 99 -- 4.2.2 Constructing the Interview Corpus 101 -- 4.2.3 Analysing the Interview Corpus 107 -- 5 Contextualising the Study 115 -- 5.1 Contextualising the Researcher 115 -- 5.2 Contextualising the Lake Geneva Region and Frankfurt RhineMain Region 118 -- 5.2.1 Family Policy in the two Regions 124 -- Empirical Part -- 6 Professional Careers Coordination . 137 -- 6.1 Migration Triggering: An Individual Approach . 138 -- 6.1.1 Assigned Expatriate . 138 -- 6.1.2 Drawn Expatriate . 139 -- 6.1.3 Intra Self-Initiated Expatriate 140 -- 6.1.4 Inter Self-Initiated Expatriate 141 -- 6.2 Migration Triggering: A Collective Approach 142 -- 6.2.1 Primary-Mover and Secondary-Mover 143 -- 6.3 Conceptualising the Professional Careers Coordination 145 -- 6.4 Primary-Mover 148 -- 6.4.1 Expat-Move 149 -- 6.4.2 Local-Move . 153 -- 6.4.3 Continuum of the Primary-Mover 155 -- 6.5 Secondary-Mover and Secondary-Stayer 157 -- 6.5.1 Total-Move of a Partner-Initiated Mover . 158 -- 6.5.2 Unique Challenges of a Partner-Initiated Mover 159 -- 6.5.3 Half-Move of a Partner-Coordinated Mover . 165 -- 6.5.4 Immobility of a Secondary-Stayer . 170 -- 6.5.5 Access to the Labour Force 171 -- 6.5.6 Types of Moves of the Secondary-Mover . 179 -- 6.6 Theorising the Professional Careers Coordination 180 -- 7 Representing Migration: Between Motilities and Anchors 183 -- 7.1 Displaying Family . 184 -- 7.2 Motile Narratives 186 -- 7.2.1 Structural Constraints . 187 -- 7.2.2 Career Men and Career Women 195 -- 7.2.3 Paradoxical Family Men . 201 -- 7.3 Anchored Narratives 207 -- 7.3.1 Ignoring Motility . 208 -- 7.3.2 Refusing Motility . 211 -- 7.3.3 After Motility . 215 -- 7.4 Gender and Motility . 221 -- 8 Family-Strategies of Highly-Skilled Migrants 225 -- 8.1 Conceptualising the Family-Strategies . 225 -- 8.2 Motile Family-Strategy . 226 -- 8.2.1 Prioritising one Career . 227 -- 8.2.2 Homemaking and Caregiving 235 -- 8.2.3 Company's Support . 239 -- 8.3 Local Family-Strategy . 248 -- 8.3.1 Low Support for the Care Work 249 -- 8.3.2 Combination of Formal, Informal and Non-Formal Care -- Support 252 -- 8.3.3 Separations and Divorces . 258 -- 8.4 Mobile Family-Strategy 264 -- 8.4.1 Succession of Half-Moves . 265 -- 8.4.2 Power-Dynamics . 268 -- 8.4.3 Mobile Family-Strategy and Children 272 -- 8.5 Theorising the Family-Strategies 275 -- 8.5.1 Care Work Organisation and Social Networks 275 -- 8.5.2 Iterative Logic, Path-Dependency, and Conflicts 278 -- 8.5.3 Mutually Exclusive Model 281 -- Discussion Part -- 9 Theoretical and Empirical Insights . 289 -- 9.1 Decentring the Literature and the Research Design 289 -- 9.2 Doing Family on the Move 295 -- 9.2.1 Consequences following the Decision to Migrate 296 -- 9.2.2 Narratives Displaying the Division of the Tasks . 299 -- 9.2.3 Family-Strategies 302 -- 10 Recommendations for Practice . 307 -- 10.1 Migration, Children, and Gender Wage Gap . 307 -- 10.2 Childcare in the Geneva and the Frankfurt regions 313 -- 10.3 Family-Friendly Companies . 317 -- 10.4 Summary of the Implications for Further Research and the -- Recommendations for Practice 320 -- 11 Conclusion: Motility and Mobility 321 -- Appendix . 323 -- Bibliography 339.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Startup Finance versus Corporate Finance -- Basic Startup Financial Literacy -- Revenue Plan -- Cost of Goods Sold -- Staffing -- Operating Expenses -- Capital Expenses -- Other Financial Inputs -- Financial Model Outputs -- Path to Profitability -- Beyond Modeling: Ongoing Monitoring with Finance Tools -- Banking -- Summary -- Tactic 13 Pitch Deck Design: Pitch Decks for Startups -- In This Tactic, You Will: -- Audience Identification -- Story Over Slides -- Revisions -- Slide Design -- Critical Components -- Tips and Tricks -- Example -- Amira Health -- Summary -- Tactic 14 Fundraising: Executing Your Venture's Fundraising Plan -- In This Tactic, You Will: -- Milestone-Based Financing -- Sources of Funding -- Running a Fundraising Process -- Building the Lead List -- Generating Leads -- Who You Already Know -- Who You Need to Know -- A Note on Who You're Targeting -- Quality Over Quantity: Doing Your Research -- Prioritization: Sequencing the Leads -- Introductions: Getting in Front of Investors You've Identified -- Requesting the Introduction -- Fundraising Assets -- Follow-up and Urgency -- Diligence Goes Two Ways -- More than Money -- Optimizing Your Time Raising Money -- Example -- Ecovent -- Summary -- Tactic 15 Hiring: Finding and Onboarding Your First Ten Employees -- In This Tactic, You Will: -- Determining Who You Need to Hire -- Hiring versus Outsourcing -- When to Hire Generalists and Specialists -- Writing the Job Description -- Sourcing Candidates -- Interviewing -- Compensation Considerations -- Benefits -- Setting New Hires up for Success -- Creating Culture -- Example -- nurtur -- Summary -- Next Steps -- Educator Materials -- Index -- EULA…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Checkpoints keep you in synch with your audience -- Try to secure acceptance at each stage -- Anticipate likely questions and be ready to answer them -- Translating the blueprint into a document -- The executive summary -- Chapters and sub-sections -- Use meaningful titles -- Employ an approachable writing style -- Translating the blueprint into a presentation -- Design effective presentation slides -- The content of a slide represents a hierarchy of information -- Titles play an important role in presentations -- The title of the agenda slide requires particular consideration -- Busy slides are a distraction to your audience -- Apply a consistent template and branding guide -- Use animations wisely -- Case study: Jensen's presentation to SmartStream -- Experience from the field -- Chapter summary -- Next steps -- Notes -- Chapter five Preparing an engaging delivery -- Part 1: Mastering the five presentation phases -- Opening words set the tone of your delivery -- A well-crafted speaker introduction wins the listening ear of your audience -- Objective -- Tangible -- Relevant -- Concise -- A good topic introduction presents a value proposition to the audience -- The main body follows the structure of your story blueprint -- Closing words are often what people remember the most -- Part 2: Linguistic structures: metaphors, analogies, and anecdotes -- Metaphors -- Analogies…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Developing documentation for compliance -- Identifying regulatory requirements -- Structuring compliance documentation -- Best practices in developing compliance documentation -- Automating control assessment -- Benefits of automating control assessments -- Starting with a clear strategy -- Choosing the right tools and technologies -- Integration with existing systems -- Developing automated assessment processes -- Training and skills development -- Testing and validation -- Continuous improvement and adaptation -- Documenting the automation process -- Addressing challenges and risks -- Case studies and examples -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Assessment and Authorization -- Conducting security assessments -- Understanding the scope of security assessments -- Selecting assessment methods -- Developing an assessment plan -- Reporting and analysis -- Recommending improvements -- Follow-up and review -- The risk assessment and authorization process -- Understanding the risk assessment in the RMF context -- Conducting the risk assessment -- Documenting and reporting risk assessment findings -- Risk mitigation strategy development -- System authorization process -- Continuous monitoring and authorization maintenance -- Preparing for security audits -- Understanding the purpose and importance of security audits -- Types of security audits -- Overview of common audit frameworks and standards -- Audit preparation strategies -- Conducting a pre-audit self-assessment -- Updating policies and procedures -- Enhancing security controls -- Data management and protection -- Stakeholder engagement and communication -- Logistics and operational readiness -- Post-audit activities -- Summary -- Part 3: Advanced Topics and Best Practices -- Chapter 8: Continuous Monitoring and Incident Response -- Implementing continuous monitoring -- Understanding continuous monitoring…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Interview Buyers Who Chose You as Well as Those Who Didn't -- Buyer Group 1 -- Buyer Group 2 -- Buyer Group 3 -- Buyer Group 4 -- Contacting Buyers to Request an Interview -- Making Initial Contact via Phone -- Following Up with E-mail -- Knowing When to Move On -- Chapter 6 Conduct Probing Buyer Interviews -- Who Should Conduct the Interview? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 3: ChatGPT Mastery - Unlocking Its Full Potential -- Technical requirements -- Mastering the ChatGPT interface -- The Free and Plus versions of ChatGPT -- ChatGPT interface -- GPTs -- Exploring OpenAI Playground -- Getting started -- UI features -- Pricing for API and Playground -- Learning to use the ChatGPT API -- Getting started -- Calling the API directly -- Setting up with the OpenAI Python library -- Setting up with the OpenAI Node.js library -- Other ChatGPT libraries -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 4: Prompt Engineering with ChatGPT -- Technical requirements -- Going through the concepts of prompt engineering -- Understanding the core components of a successful prompt -- Instruction -- Context -- Scope -- Role -- Audience -- Input data -- Output data -- Conclusion -- Working with a prompt engineering strategy -- Define clear goals -- Employ iterative prompt development -- Start simple -- Use follow-up prompts to test against multiple examples -- Use temperature when you need to -- Handling memory limitations in ChatGPT -- Conclusion -- Knowing the prompt engineering techniques -- Few-shot learning for a customer support chatbot -- Prompting to summarize data for a conversational agent -- Prompting to create your own chatbot powered by ChatGPT -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 5: Getting Started with LangChain -- Technical requirements -- Introduction to LangChain -- LangChain libraries -- Core components of LangChain -- Working with LLMs in LangChain -- Prompt templates -- Using output parsers -- Understanding LangChain Expression Language -- What is LCEL? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…National Priorities for the Assessment of Clinical Conditions and Medical Technologies -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Contents -- Summary -- ASSESSING MEDICAL PRACTICE -- A NATIONAL APPROACH -- PRIORITY-SETTING CRITERIA -- TWENTY ASSESSMENT PRIORITIES -- USING THE PRIORITIES -- ACCOMMODATING CLINICAL CONDITIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES -- NEXT STEPS -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Pilot Process for Setting National Assessment Priorities -- ELEMENTS OF A NATIONAL APPROACH -- NATIONALLY APPLICABLE PRIORITY-SETTING CRITERIA -- Primary Criteria -- Potential (for an Assessment) to Improve Individual Patient Outcome -- Potential to Affect a Large Patient Population -- Potential to Reduce Unit or Aggregate Cost -- Potential to Reduce Unexplained Variations in Medical Practice -- Secondary Criteria -- Potential to Address Social and Ethical Implications -- Potential to Advance Medical Knowledge -- Potential to Affect Policy Decisions -- Potential to Enhance the National Capacity for Assessment -- Potential to Be Readily Conducted -- A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR PRIORITIES -- The Clinical Condition Approach -- The Technology Approach -- Integrating the Clinical Condition and Technology Approaches -- METHOD OF THIS PILOT STUDY -- Overview -- Round I of the Modified Delphi Process -- Round II of the Modified Delphi Process -- The Priority-Setting Group's Meeting -- Activities Following the Priority-Setting Meeting -- 3 Twenty Priority Assessment Areas -- CLINICAL CONDITIONS -- Breast Cancer -- Improve Individual Patient Outcome -- Affect a Large Patient Population -- Reduce Unit or Aggregate Cost -- Reduce Unexplained Variations in Medical Practice -- Advance Medical Knowledge -- Affect Policy Decisions -- Cataracts -- Improve Individual Patient Outcome -- Affect a Large Patient Population -- Reduce Unit or Aggregate Cost…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Happiness, resilience, and positive growth following physical disability : issues for understanding, research, and therapeutic intervention / Dana S. …”

“…You’ll gain all the knowledge needed to create a cross-platform application for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows following an example project step by step. As you advance, you’ll integrate the latest frontend technology into your app using Blazor components, including the new Blazor Bindings feature. …”

“…Review reports Reviewers are asked to evaluate whether the manuscript: Is original by stating the objectives and gap clearly Is methodologically sound Follows appropriate ethical guidelines Has results/findings which are clearly presented and support the conclusions Correctly references previous relevant work Reviewers are not expected to correct or copyedit manuscripts. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…7.3.3 Localization, Mapping, and SLAM -- 7.3.4 Control Strategies -- 7.3.5 Planning Routes and Scheduling -- 7.4 Wheeled Mobile Robots in Industry -- 7.4.1 About -- 7.4.2 Setup -- 7.4.3 Sensors -- 7.4.4 Localization and Mapping -- 7.4.5 Control -- 7.4.6 Path Planning -- 7.4.7 Decision Making -- 7.5 Wheeled Mobile Robots in Domestic Environments -- 7.5.1 About -- 7.5.2 Setup -- 7.5.3 Sensors -- 7.5.4 Localization and Mapping -- 7.5.5 Path Planning -- 7.5.6 Control -- 7.5.7 Decision Making -- 7.6 Assistive Mobile Robots in Walking Rehabilitation Therapy -- 7.6.1 About -- 7.6.2 Setup -- 7.6.3 Sensors -- 7.6.4 Localization and Mapping -- 7.6.5 Control -- 7.6.6 Path Planning -- References -- Chapter 8: Project Examples for Laboratory Practice -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Localization Based on Bayesian Filter Within a Network of Paths and Crossroads -- 8.2.1 Introduction -- 8.2.2 Line Following -- 8.2.3 Odometry -- 8.2.4 Map Building -- 8.2.5 Localization -- 8.3 Localization Based on Extended Kalman Filter Using Indoor Global Positioning System and Odometry -- 8.3.1 Introduction -- 8.3.2 Experimental Setup -- 8.3.3 Extended Kalman Filter -- 8.4 Particle-Filter-Based Localization in a Pattern of Colored Tiles -- 8.4.1 Introduction -- 8.4.2 Experimental Setup -- 8.4.3 Manual Control -- 8.4.4 Wheel Odometry -- 8.4.5 Color Sensor Calibration -- 8.4.6 Particle Filter -- 8.5 Control of Vehicles in a Linear Formation -- 8.5.1 Introduction -- 8.5.2 Localization Using Odometry -- 8.5.3 Estimating Reference Trajectory -- 8.5.4 Linear Formation Control -- 8.6 Motion and Strategy Control of Multiagent Soccer Robots -- 8.6.1 Introduction -- 8.6.2 Motion Control -- 8.6.3 Behavior-Based Agent Operation -- 8.6.4 Multiagent Game Strategy -- 8.7 Image-Based Control of a Mobile Robot -- 8.7.1 Introduction -- 8.7.2 Experimental Setup -- 8.7.3 Position-Based Visual Servoing…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 1.9.2 Risk Management Steps -- 1.9.3 Risk Management in Product Innovation Projects -- 1.9.4 Decision Trees -- 1.10 Metrics and Key Performance Indicators -- 1.10.1 The Balanced Scorecard -- 1.10.2 Product Innovation Metrics -- 1.10.3 Developing a Balanced Scorecard for Product Innovation -- 1.10.4 Benchmarking and Continuous Improvement -- 1.11 In Summary -- 1.A Product Innovation Management Practice Questions -- 1.B A Questionnaire for Evaluating an Organization's New Product Innovation Management Practices and Processes -- Introduction -- Complete the Following Questionnaire -- Section 1: Doing the Right Product Innovation -- Section 2: Doing Product Innovation Right -- Section 3: Culture, Climate, and Organization -- Section 4: Metrics -- Section 5: Summary -- References -- Chapter 2 Strategy -- What You will Learn in this Chapter -- The Chapter Roadmap -- 2.1 What is Strategy? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating the Gameplay is Just a Part of the Game -- Applying your new coding skills to a State Machine -- Understanding the concepts of a State Machine -- Benefits of by using a State Machine -- Following the State Machine logic flow -- Delegating game control to a State -- Switching to another State when called to do so -- Keeping track of the active State -- Creating Components objects and C# objects -- Unity creates Components behind the scenes -- Instantiate a class to create an object -- Time for action - creating a script and a class -- What just happened? …”

“…While mostly attentive to comparative public policy in Africa, this book attempts to address some of the following pertinent questions: How can public policy be understood and taught in Africa? …”

“…The reader is advised, following reading this chapter, to proceed to Chapter 2 which, together with this chapter, forms our introduction to programming in R. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cai -- The tracking error analysis of a weld seam tracking follower system / X.G. Liu and R. Wu -- A recommendation algorithm and a system research of mobile platforms / Z.F. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Tough Questions, Tough Decisions -- When a Hobby Becomes a Business -- When It's Right to Be Brutal -- Course Corrections -- Seeing the World as It Really Is -- Four Crucial Decisions -- Decision 1: Change Nothing or Decide to Change Something -- Decision 2: Make All the Mistakes Yourself or Learn from Others -- Decision 3: Follow the Recipe, or Strike Out on Your Own -- Decision 4: Bag It Early, or Push on Through -- Be Like a Duck -- Work-Life Integration -- Put Your Mask on First -- Chapter 3 Crucial Numbers -- Back-Pocket Accounting -- One-Sheet Accounting -- Revenue -- Expenses -- Income -- Cash Flow -- 100-Foot Level -- Hobby Hell -- The Balance Sheet -- Lengthen the Time Span -- Let's Do Some Basic Analysis -- Cost of Goods Sold -- What's Your Capacity and True Market Demand? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Consult with a Lawyer -- Try to Follow the Money -- Get Law Enforcement Involved -- Get an OFAC License to Pay the Ransom -- Do Your Due Diligence -- Is It an Official Data Breach? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: National Veterinary Services Roles and Responsibilities in Preparing for and Responding to Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies -- References -- Chapter 2: Short Refresher of Radiobiology -- 2.1 Atoms and Isotopes -- 2.2 Definition of Radiation -- 2.3 Types of Ionizing Radiation -- 2.3.1 ß− Decay -- 2.3.2 ß+ Decay -- 2.3.3 Electron Capture -- 2.4 Physical Half-Life of Radioactive Isotopes -- 2.5 Biological Half-Life of the Radioactive Isotopes -- 2.6 Effective Half-Life of the Radioactive Isotopes in the Body of Animals -- 2.7 Decay Chains and Ingrowth -- 2.8 Units of Radioactivity -- 2.9 Specific Radioactivity -- 2.10 Radiation Dose -- 2.11 Effective Dose Equivalent -- 2.12 Lethal Dose -- 2.13 Interaction of the Ionizing Radiation with the Matter -- 2.14 The Sources of Man-Made Environmental Contamination -- References -- Chapter 3: Measurement of Radioactivity -- 3.1 Measuring Instruments -- 3.1.1 Personnel Dosimeters -- 3.2 Measuring Contamination Levels in Live Farm Animals -- References -- Chapter 4: Preparedness and Response to Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies in Animal Production Systems in the Context of IAEA Safety Standards -- 4.1 Relevant IAEA Publications on Emergency Preparedness and Response for Animal Production Systems -- 4.2 Phases of a Nuclear or Radiological Emergency -- 4.2.1 The Preparedness Stage -- 4.2.1.1 Hazard Assessment -- 4.2.1.2 Development, Justification and Optimisation of a Protection Strategy -- 4.2.1.3 International Trade of Food Following a Nuclear or Radiological Emergency -- 4.2.1.4 OILs for Triggering Food, Milk and Drinking Water Restrictions -- 4.2.1.5 Emergency Planning Zones and Emergency Planning Distances -- 4.2.2 Emergency Exposure Situation -- 4.2.2.1 The Urgent Response Phase…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Transport and vehicle tax reforms resumed in 2021, following a slowdown during the height of the pandemic in 2020.…”