Tabla de Contenidos: “…; 1.2 Economic history and globalisation; 1.2.1 The desire to control and its impact on trade; 1.2.2 The influence of money; 1.2.3 Trade and commodification; 1.2.4 Nationalism; 1.3 Recent globalisation; 1.3.1 Bretton Woods; 1.3.2 Ideological shifts; 1.3.3 Participating in globalisation: living with volatility; 2 Defining Emerging Markets…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 4 Understanding GPT Models in ChatGPT -- Summarizing Model Progress -- Comparing GPT-4 to Earlier ChatGPT Models -- Choosing ChatGPT Models -- Learning about GPT-4 Advancements -- Adjusting to GPT-4's Limitations -- Chapter 5 Warnings, Ethics, and Responsible AI -- Making Responsible AI -- Troubling developments -- Protecting humans from humans using AI -- Understanding the good, the bad, and the ugly -- Heeding OpenAI Warnings -- Considering Copyright and IP Protections -- Searching for Predictability -- Reaching for reliability -- Hallucinating versus accuracy -- Humanizing the machine -- Mitigating Risks and Liability -- Chapter 6 Probing Professional and Other Uses for ChatGPT -- Finding ChatGPT Embedded in Software -- Locating ChatGPT in business software -- Integrating with everything, everywhere, all at once -- Zooming in on ChatGPT in virtual meetings -- Letting ChatGPT summarize and translate -- Searching for ChatGPT in other applications -- Seeing ChatGPT in AR, VR, and the Metaverse -- Discovering ChatGPT in search engines -- Coding with ChatGPT and Copilot X -- Learning Where to Use ChatGPT for Marketing -- Retrieving Smart Answers for HR -- Harnessing ChatGPT in Legal -- Storytelling in Journalism -- Consulting ChatGPT in Healthcare -- Cashing In on ChatGPT in Finance -- Chapter 7 Working with ChatGPT in Education -- Flipping Critical Thinking to a New Learning Model -- Leveraging ChatGPT to Aid Overworked Educators -- Changing How Subjects Are Taught -- Banning ChatGPT Stifles Education -- Chapter 8 Using ChatGPT in Daily Life -- Dying Keywords -- Moving from Information Search to Knowledge Assistants -- Living with Misinformation and Manipulation -- Narrowing Options -- Chapter 9 Recognizing the Ways ChatGPT and Generative AI Will Change the World -- Understanding What Is and Isn't of Real Concern…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Maintaining for now and for later; 6.1 Starting out; 6.2 Getting oriented; 6.3 Maintaining for now; 6.4 Maintaining for later; 6.5 Maintaining for our lives and beyond; 6.6 Looking back, looking forward…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The payback rule NPV and DCF Capital rationing: profitability index Strategic fit and roadmaps Sensitivity analysis Risk Post-investment appraisal Long-term cash flow planning Asset replacement and enhancement Investment in working capital Part 2 Managing your budget and delivering performance 7 Back to basics: living within your means and delivering VFM Budget feedback mechanism Ratios and budgets Managing budgets The VFM model for managing and planning budgets 8 Making sense of standard costing and variances Making sense of variances Standard costing Breakdown of variances Practical variance analysis without standard costing 9 Risks, forecasts, balanced scorecards and KPIs The balanced scorecard and strategy maps KPIs and budgets Values, mission and vision statements and budgets Risks and budgets 10 Delegating budgets to others Why delegate? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Other types of investment funds -- Other investment considerations -- Impact of dividends on overall investment returns -- The impact of regular withdrawals from your portfolio -- The importance of rebalancing your portfolio -- The use of debt and investing -- Part 3 Other Financial Planing issues -- Minimising portfolio taxation -- The individual savings account (ISA) allowance -- The three main non-pension investment tax wrappers -- General tax planning -- The main taxes -- Your tax risk profile -- Tax planning principles -- Practical ways of saving tax -- The need for advice -- The role of insurance -- Insuring property and possessions -- Insuring against ill health -- Insuring against loss of income -- Insuring against liabilities arising on death -- Insuring against living too long -- Inheritance tax (IHT) -- State and private pensions -- Basic State pension -- Private pensions -- Managing your pension portfolio -- Cashflow needs -- Life expectancy and dependants -- Income tax, etc. -- Pension lifetime allowance -- Investment risk and tax efficiency -- Estate planning -- Taking benefits -- Annuities -- Self-Invested Personal Pensions (SIPPs) -- Later life planning -- Power of attorney -- Making wills in old age -- Long-term care fees -- Wealth succession -- Inheritance tax (IHT) -- Estate planning basics -- Getting a bit more creative -- Using trusts and alternative structures -- The two main types of trusts -- Practical uses of trusts -- Philanthropy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: The truth about what makes writing work -- TRUTH 1 Most people aim for the wrong target -- TRUTH 2 If you can say it, you can write it -- TRUTH 3 Forget yesterday-write for today -- TRUTH 4 Planning is the magic ingredient -- TRUTH 5 To achieve your goal, look below its surface -- TRUTH 6 Cut to the chase: Put the bottom line on top -- TRUTH 7 "Me"-focused messages fail -- TRUTH 8 People are not the same: Write for differences -- TRUTH 9 Tone makes-or breaks-your message -- TRUTH 10 Knowing your inside story is the key -- TRUTH 11 Forget outlines-organize your thinking -- TRUTH 12 How to organize is a personal choice -- TRUTH 13 Every message you send has a psychological impact -- TRUTH 14 Effective messages lead with strength -- TRUTH 15 To succeed, cover your ground and remember "the ask" -- TRUTH 16 Your goal and audience determine the best way to communicate -- Part II: The truth about self-editing -- TRUTH 17 The best writers don't write -- they rewrite -- TRUTH 18 Rhythm and transitions make writing move -- TRUTH 19 Less can be a whole lot more -- TRUTH 20 Passive thinking and jargon undermine clarity -- TRUTH 21 You don't need grammar drills to spot your writing problems -- Part III: The truth about successful e-mail -- TRUTH 22 Use e-mail to communicate in the fast lane-powerfully -- TRUTH 23 Good subject lines say, "Open sesame" -- TRUTH 24 Know your e-mail do's and don'ts -- TRUTH 25 Writing good progress reports is worth your time -- Part IV: The truth about letters -- TRUTH 26 Letters: They live! And you need them -- TRUTH 27 Letters build relationships -- TRUTH 28 Cover letters matter, big time -- Part V: The truth about reports and proposals -- TRUTH 29 Good reports generate action -- TRUTH 30 Organizing complex projects isn't that hard -- TRUTH 31 Well-crafted proposals win…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…95 -- The spirit world is not used as a practical tool 97 -- Truth and responses to the world 104 -- Living with a diversity of responses 111 -- The belief in the spirit world responds to the -- same one world 113 -- No need for mediation between different responses 117 -- Conclusion 120 -- Chapter 4: Power: In things and words 123 -- Introduction 123 -- The symbolic quality of things 126 -- The power of anointing oil and anointed pens 128 -- Things as part of a symbolic context 134 -- Symbolic things are treated differently 140 -- Enchantment 146 -- The material quality of words 152 -- Positive confession and speaking into someone's life 155 -- Performative or perlocutionary language? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Theoretische Fundierung von Konzertsituationen -- Einleitung -- 5.1 Das Konzert als musikalische Situation der Veränderung -- 5.2 Erneuerung von Konzertsituationen -- 5.3 Design für Konzertsituationen -- 5.4 Intention und Dringlichkeit von Konzertsituationen -- 5.5 Intrinsische Motivationen und Auswirkungen von Konzertbesuchen -- 5.6 Togetherness, Liveness und Nähe in Konzertsituationen -- 5.7 Ebenen des Musikerlebens in Konzertsituationen -- 5.8 Zusammenfassung -- 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Interrogation of Waldensians / Peter Biller -- 31. The lives of the Beghards / Walter Simons -- 32. The renovation of the chapel in the Beguinage of Lille / Penny Galloway -- 33. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Bradburn -- Art, music, and literature : do the humanities make our lives richer, happier, and more meaningful? / Erin Westgate and Shigehiro Oishi -- Lessons for positive arts and humanities from the science of meaning in life / Alexis N. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ Inter-firm network policies and firm performance : evaluating the impact of initiatives in the United Kingdom / Assessment of a venture creation programme : the case of Shell LiveWIRE / Exploring the link, among small firms, between management training and firm performance : a comparison between the UK and other OECD countries / Do preferential procurement programs benefit minority business?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The "right to be forgotten" and journalists' conflicting principles / Ivor Shapiro & Brian MacLeod Rogers -- Defamation in unbounded spaces: Journalism and social media / Diana Bossio & Vittoria Sacco -- Hacks, hackers and the expansive boundaries of journalism / Nikki Usher -- Journalistic freedom and the surveillance of journalists post-Snowden / Paul Lashmar -- How and why pop up news ecologies come into being / Melissa Wall -- The movement and its mobile journalism: a phenomenology of Black Lives Matter journalist-activists / Allissa V. Richardson -- Nature as knowledge: the politics of science, open data, and environmental media platforms / Inka Salovaara -- Opting in and opting out of media / Bonnie Brennen -- Silencing the female voice: the cyber abuse of women on the internet / Pamela Hill Nettleton -- Social media and journalistic branding: explication, enactment, and impact / Avery E. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…APPLICATION: Does Population Growth Improve Living Standards?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Adopt a housing and habitat policy geared towards sustainable and inclusive urbanisation -- Modernise land use planning to manage urban development -- Shift the focus from urban mobility to urban accessibility -- Leverage digitalisation for more productive, innovative and inclusive cities -- Harness urban policy to advance equity and social justice -- Strengthening the urban governance framework -- Reinforcing inter-municipal co-ordination mechanisms -- Facilitating metropolitan governance -- Strengthening co-ordination across levels of government -- Leveraging fiscal instruments to reinforce urban finance and investment -- Building the capacity and capability of subnational governments -- 1 Colombia's urbanisation trends and challenges -- Introduction -- Colombia's urbanisation trends -- A highly urbanised and polycentric country -- A young but ageing urban population -- Densification and urban expansion -- Informal settlements -- Economic performance of Colombian cities -- Colombian cities are the main engines of economic growth and hubs of employment -- The informal economy is widespread in Colombian cities -- Productivity in Colombian cities is low and agglomeration economies limited -- Living in Colombian cities -- The quantitative and qualitative housing deficit in cities drive low housing affordability -- While social indicators have improved in urban areas, urban inequality remains an issue -- Colombian cities remain unsafe despite recent improvements -- Congestion, fatalities and pollution are the main mobility challenges in Colombian cities -- While air pollution remains high, Colombian cities fare relatively well in other environmental indicators -- References -- Notes -- Annex 1.A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Executive summary -- Making student assessment an integral part of student learning -- Ensuring that investment in the teaching profession is strategic and leads to improvements in quality -- Establishing a common understanding of school quality and helping schools to lead their own development -- Building a system-level monitoring framework that can advance national education goals -- Assessment and recommendations -- Education in Bulgaria -- Educational improvement aims to support inclusive and resilient growth in Bulgaria -- Bulgaria's education system has evolved over recent years but challenges remain -- Participation in early childhood education and care is a central education priority -- Despite previous gains in secondary enrolments, participation in basic education appears to be falling -- Many young people have not mastered foundational competencies -- Teaching practices and the school environment are not conducive to student learning and engagement -- Learning outcomes are notably lower for ethnic minorities and those living in rural areas -- Bulgaria is working to improve teaching and learning -- Evaluation and assessment in Bulgaria -- Applying the OECD framework for evaluation and assessment policies to Bulgaria's education system -- Policy issue 2.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Marketers Position Brands -- But Ultimately Brand Meanings Live in Consumers' Minds -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Review -- Consumer Behavior Challenge -- Case Study. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Shapiro, April 12, 2024 -- Part One - Hyper‐Modernism: Digital Media Technologies and Science Fiction -- Overview of Part One -- Short Definitions of Modernity, Postmodernism, and Hyper‐Modernism -- The Three Essays of Part One -- Mobility and Science Fiction -- Introduction -- We Do Not Live in a Society Where Mobility is Encouraged -- The Dream of the Tomorrow‐Car -- Henri Matisse Paints "the Vision Machine" -- The New Vision Machine -- Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Menace of Verticality -- The "Spinner" Flying Cars of Blade Runner: Simulation and Surveillance -- Blade Runner: We Are All Replicants -- Blade Runner 2049: Android Liberation Between Old and New Informatic Power -- Minority Report: The Utopia/Dystopia of Surveillance Technologies -- The Fifth Element: When Manhattan has no More Ways to Expand -- Back to the Future: A Speed So Fast that the Laws of Spacetime Get Shattered -- Total Recall: You're in a Johnny Cab -- Robots Versus Androids -- Self‐Owning Cars -- Enhance the Physical World -- The Simulacra, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Macroeconomic policy is becoming more restrictive -- Economic growth will slow after a rapid recovery -- Reducing emissions from greenhouse gases remains a priority -- Austria -- Growth is slowing amidst rising inflation -- Fiscal spending partly offsets energy price inflation -- Economic growth will be weak -- Reforms could make growth stronger and more sustainable -- Belgium -- The economy has slowed amid a deteriorating global outlook -- Public finances are under pressure -- Growth will be low but improve gradually -- Ensuring fiscal sustainability and energy security is key -- Brazil -- Activity surprised on the upside in the first half of 2022 -- Restrictive monetary and fiscal policies are on the way -- Economic growth is slowing -- An overhaul of the fiscal framework is needed -- Bulgaria -- Bulgaria faces weaker growth and high inflation -- Extensive policy supports have been put in place -- A resilient rebound is expected after the near-term slowdown -- Structural reform needs are pressing -- Canada -- Economic activity is cooling -- Near-term policy goals are to tame inflation and provide living-cost relief -- Inflation will moderate as growth slows -- Staying focused on sustainable long-term growth -- Chile -- Activity has cooled down during 2022 -- Commitment to the fiscal rule and restrictive monetary policy in 2023-24 -- After a contraction in 2023, growth will resume in 2024 -- Policies should aim for higher productivity and a more progressive tax system -- China -- Disruptions due to pandemic-related lockdowns persist -- Monetary and fiscal policy have become more supportive -- Activity will recover only slowly -- Structural reforms are needed to reinvigorate the economy -- Colombia -- The economy is cooling down -- Fiscal and monetary policy will remain tight -- Growth is projected to weaken…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Servicios con buenas prácticas que promueven los derechos y la recuperación -- 2.1 Servicios de salud mental en momentos de crisis -- 2.1.1 Afiya House - Massachusetts, Estados Unidos de América -- 2.1.2 -- 2.1.3 -- 2.1.4 -- 2.2 Servicios de salud mental hospitalarios -- 2.2.1 -- 2.2.2 -- 2.2.3 -- 2.3 Centros de salud mental comunitarios -- 2.3.1 -- 2.3.2 -- 2.3.3 -- 2.4 Servicios de salud mental de apoyo entre pares -- 2.4.1 Grupos de apoyo Hearing Voices -- 2.4.2 Grupo de apoyo entre pares para el empoderamiento mental de Nairobi - USP Kenya -- 2.4.3 Peer Support South East Ontario - Ontario, Canadá -- 2.5 Servicios de salud mental de alcance comunitario -- 2.5.1 Atmiyata - Gujarat, India -- 2.5.2 Friendship Bench - Zimbabwe -- 2.5.3 Home Focus - Cork Occidental, Irlanda -- 2.5.4 Naya Daur - Bengala occidental, India -- 2.5.5 Ómbudsman - Suecia -- 2.6 Servicios de asistencia para la vida autónoma en materia de salud mental -- 2.6.1 Servicio de asistencia para la vida autónoma Hand in Hand - Georgia -- 2.6.2 Home Again - Chennai, India -- 2.6.3 Redes de asistencia para la vida autónoma Key Ring -- 2.6.4 Shared Lives - Gales sudoriental, Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del norte -- 2.7 Conclusiones…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…--Obtaining dual-energy computed tomography (CT) information from a single-energy CT image for quantitative imaging analysis of living subjects by using deep learning / Wei Zhao ... …”