Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Field Note: Czech Republic; Chapter Seven: The Reality of Risk: And Why Not to Fear It; The Big Picture; Hedging Your Bets; Sit Tight, Don't Worry, Be Happy; Chapter Eight: Timing Market Factors: Currencies: Why a Crisis Can Be the Best Time to Buy; Understanding Foreign Exchange; The Upside of Political Uncertainty…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- Preface to the third edition -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Scope, rationale and relevance of the book -- The changing context of EU foreign policy -- Objectives and approach -- Outline of chapters -- 1 The nature of EU foreign policy -- Understanding EU foreign policy -- EU and national foreign policies -- Areas of tension in EU foreign policy -- Back to the Treaties: Principles and objectives -- Relational and structural foreign policy -- The globalizing context of EU foreign policy -- Conclusion -- 2 European integration and foreign policy: Historical overview -- European integration: The product of a structural foreign policy (1945-52) -- The first decades (1952-70): A taboo on defence, decisive steps on trade and international agreements -- European Political Cooperation (EPC) (1970-93): Setting the stage -- The Maastricht Treaty (1993) and the illusory CFSP -- The Amsterdam Treaty (1999) and ESDP: Moving towards action -- Eastern enlargement (2004/07) and the Lisbon Treaty (2009) -- Crises, instability and uncertainty (2010-20) -- Conclusion -- 3 The EU's foreign policy system: Actors -- One framework, two policymaking methods, or a continuum? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface -- Section 1 Natural Hazard Risks and Eco-DRR in the Alpine Space -- Chapter 1 The Concept of Risk and Natural Hazards by Cristian Accastello, Silvia Cocuccioni and Michaela Teich -- Chapter 2 Protective Forests for Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR) in the Alpine Space by Michaela Teich, Cristian Accastello, Frank Perzl and Frédéric Berger -- Chapter 3 Protective Effects of Forests against Gravitational Natural Hazards by Frank Perzl, Alessia Bono, Matteo Garbarino and Renzo Motta -- Chapter 4 Flood Protection by Forests in Alpine Watersheds: Lessons Learned from Austrian Case Studies by Gerhard Markart, Michaela Teich, Christian Scheidl and Bernhard Kohl -- Section 2 Supporting Integrated Natural Hazard Risk Management by Eco-DRR -- Chapter 5 Geodata Requirements for Mapping Protective Functions and Effects of Forests by Frank Perzl and Michaela Teich -- Chapter 6 Natural Disturbances and Protection Forests: At the Cutting Edge of Remote Sensing Technologies for the Rapid Assessment of Protective Effects against Rockfall by Emanuele Lingua, Niccolò Marchi, Francesco Bettella, Maximiliano Costa, Francesco Pirotti, Marco Piras, Matteo Garbarino, Donato Morresi and Raffaella Marzan -- Chapter 7 Modeling Protective Forests for Gravitational Natural Hazards and How It Relates to Risk-Based Decision Support Tools by Christopher James Laplante D'Amboise, Michaela Teich, Anne Hormes, Stefan Steger and Frédéric Berger -- Chapter 8 141 Influence of Canopy Disturbances on Runoff and Landslide Disposition after Heavy Rainfall Events by Christian Scheidl, Micha Heiser, Sebastian Kamper, Thomas Thaler, Werner Rammer, Rupert Seidl, Klaus Klebinder, Veronika Lechner, Fabian Nagl, Bernhard Kohl and Gerhard Markart -- Chapter 9 155 Risk-Based Decision Support for Protective Forest and Natural Hazard Management by Cristian Accastello, Francesca Poratelli, Kathrin Renner, Silvia Cocuccioni, Christopher James Laplante D'Amboise and Michaela Teich -- Chapter 10 Cost-Benefit Analysis as a Basis for Risk-Based Rockfall Protection Forest Management by Christine Moos and Luuk Dorren -- Chapter 11 Avalanche Protection Forest: From Process Knowledge to Interactive Maps by Peter Bebi, Alexander Bast, Kevin Helzel, Gregor Schmucki, Natalie Brozova and Yves Bühler -- Chapter 12 Dealing with Uncertainties in the Assessment of the Avalanche Protective Effects of Forests by Ana Stritih -- Section 3 From Risk Communication to Science-Based Political Action to Facilitate Eco-DRR 211 -- Chapter 13 Stakeholder Integration and Participatory Processes as Part of an Ecosystem-Based and Integrated Natural Hazard Risk Management by Silvia Cocuccioni, Matthias Plörer and Michael Kirchner -- Chapter 14 Improving Risk Communication Strategies through Public Awareness and Engagement: Insights from South Tyrol and Carinthia by Lydia Pedoth, Fabio Carnelli, Gernot Koboltschnig, Paul Krenn, Anna Rudloff, Willigis Gallmetzer, Pierpaolo Macconi and Nicola Marangoni -- Chapter 15 How to Use Scientific Information: Road Map for Tailoring Your Own Natural Hazard Risk Management Solution by Michael Kirchner, Mirjana Stevanov and Max Krot…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Unravelling the Original Compromise -- IV. Uncertainty and Rationally Arbitrary Decisions -- V. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Executive summary -- Key findings and recommendations -- 1 Updating the regional lens in Wales -- Introduction -- A note on this report -- Overcoming challenges to regional development in Wales -- With Brexit, Wales sought a new model to drive regional development -- There are constraints to applying the new model fully -- Moving the regional lens forward with the four economic regions -- Actionable regional evidence is crucial to advancing the regional lens -- Building a comprehensive regional development picture to inform policy making -- Key messages and recommendations -- References -- Notes -- 2 Pulling the pieces together for regional development -- Introduction -- Charting a course for regional development in Wales -- Futures thinking, foresight and seeds of a vision provide foundations for a long-term view of regional development in Wales -- A strategic thread can unify regional development efforts towards shared objectives -- Weaving a strategic thread for regional development across the Welsh Government -- Making sure everyone moves in the same direction -- Filling a co-ordination gap for regional development -- Strengthen and diversify co-ordination mechanisms for regional development -- Adjust ways of working to support integrated regional development -- Key messages and recommendations -- References -- Notes -- 3 Harnessing the power of regional working -- Introduction -- The "why" behind the Corporate Joint Committees -- In Wales, co-operative regions were established to build territorial scale and favour cross-local authority collaborative working -- A need for greater clarity on the purpose and goals of the CJCs -- Uncertainties and mismatched expectations limit local authority ownership of the CJCs…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Handling registers: Binary and hexadecimal math ; Bitwise operations ; Test, set, clear, and toggle -- Toggling an output: Setting the pin to be an output ; Turning on the LED ; Blinking the LED ; Troubleshooting -- Separating the hardware from the action: Board-specific header file ; I/O-handling code ; Main loop -- Facade pattern -- The input in I/O -- Momentary button press: Interrupt on a button press ; Configuring the interrupt ; Debouncing switches -- Runtime uncertainty: Increasing code flexibility ; Dependency injection -- Using a timer: Timer pieces ; Doing the math ; More math: difficult goal frequency ; A long wait between timer ticks ; Using a timer -- Using pulse-width modulation -- Shipping the product -- Further reading -- 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 6: The Imprecise Wanderings of a Precise Idea: The Travels of Spatial Analysis -- The View from Somewhere: Place and the Spatial Mobility of Knowledge -- Place and Knowledge -- Spatial Mobility of Knowledge -- A History and Geography of Spatial Analysis -- The Early Years -- The Later Years -- Seattle and Iowa City -- Lund -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Knowledges in Disciplines and Cities: An Essay on Relations Between Archaeology and Social Sciences -- Preamble: Knowledges -- Introductions -- The Times and Spaces of Academic Social Knowledges -- Practical Knowledges in, Through, and Out of Cities -- Indictments -- Of Mainstream Social Science -- Of Mainstream Archaeology -- Debates Generated by Bringing Cities Back In -- Cities and the Creation of States -- Cities and the Development of Agriculture -- Conclusion: The Limiting Case of Uncertainty of Knowledge -- References -- Part II: Mediators, Networks, and Learning -- Chapter 8: Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange between Scholars in Britain and the Empire, 1830-1914 -- Motivations Driving Scholarly Networking Within the British Empire -- An International Republic of Letters -- Critiques of Imperialism -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Geographies of Selection: Academic Appointments in the British Academic World, 1850-1939 -- Selection Practices -- Assessing Specialized Knowledge -- Search Committees -- London Selection Committees -- Personalized Trust Versus Government Recruitment -- Geographies of Selection -- Origin and Nationality -- Social Proximity and Distance -- Cultures of Academic Sociability -- References -- Chapter 10: The University of Cambridge, Academic Expertise, and the British Empire, 1885-1962 -- Knowing the Empire -- Capitalizing on the Empire -- Imperial Travels Until 1945 -- Imperial Travels After 1945 -- Empowering the Empire -- Conclusions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- A Quick Look at the Nation-State -- A Quick Look at a Tech-State -- Advantages of the Tech-State -- The Unintended or Willfully Ignored Negative Consequences of a Tech-State -- References -- Part II Technologies and Trends with Lots of Promise but Also Uncertainty -- Chapter 3 Data: What Is the Data Industrial Complex? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Summary of the mapping of existing approaches -- Cost information -- Cost rating or assessment -- Standards concerning economic evaluations -- Standards for framing an economic evaluation -- Standards for identifying the programme/policy impacts -- Standards for estimating programme costs -- Standards for valuing the costs and benefits of programmes -- Standards for handling estimate uncertainty -- Standards for reporting the results of economic evaluations -- Implementation and Scale up of Interventions -- Why is it important? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Emerging market issuers should be vigilant amid continued global uncertainty -- References -- Annex 3.A. Methods and sources -- Primary sovereign bond market data and country groupings -- Credit ratings data -- Notes -- Annex A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chaos in organizations - the certainty of uncertainty -- 3.4.1. Chaos and big data: what is data deluge? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Lead management: Translating uncertainty -- 10.3. From strategy to project actions -- 10.4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Mixed methods -- Dealing with uncertainty -- References -- Note -- 5 Exploiting big data to measure skills needs for the green transition -- Introduction -- What is big data? …”

“…Congress into consideration Historical research indicates that, more often than not, when Congress is in session there is a negative effect on equities markets (the ""Congressional Effect"") due possibly to investor uncertainty surrounding government action or inaction as well as the unintended consequences of Congressional legislative initiatives on the stock market. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Section One: The Customer and the Implications of Customer Experience -- Section Two: Designing the End-to-End Customer Experience -- Section Three: Key Issues of Implementation -- Section One The Customer and the Implications of Customer Experience -- 1 Why Good Service Might Not Result in a Great Experience -- Understanding Customer Expectations -- No Unpleasant Surprises -- Identifying Sources of Customer Dissatisfaction and Uncertainty -- No News Is Not Necessarily Good News -- Why Your Current CE Is Leaving Huge Amounts of Money on the Table -- Leveraging Technology for a Great Customer Experience -- Eliminating Unpleasant Surprises -- Getting Started: Questions to Ask Yourself About Moving Your Company Out of Complacency -- Key Takeaways -- 2 More Than People: Customer Experience = People + Process + Technology -- Delivering a Great Customer Experience: A Four-Part Framework -- Applying Technology During Each Phase of the CE Framework -- Metrics to Measure and Manage Customer Experience Effectiveness -- Getting Started: Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Existing CE -- Key Takeaways -- 3 Jump-Starting Action by Quantifying the Revenue Cost of Inaction -- Why Executives Believe a Great CE Is More Costly Than a Good CE -- Measuring the Revenue Impact of a Great CE -- Calculating the Top-Line Payoff of an Improved CE -- Quantifying the Savings of a Great CE -- Convincing the CFO -- Picking Your Battles -- Getting Started: Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Business Case for CE -- Key Takeaways -- Section Two Designing the End-to-End Customer Experience -- 4 Do It Right the First Time (DIRFT) -- DIRFT: The Essential Steps -- Building a Flexible, Customer-Focused Culture That Delivers DIRFT -- DIRFT with Flexibility…”

“…Precise and approximate formulas are explained, which are relatively simple and can be used for engineering applications such as the design of devices which can overcome the high initial uncertainty of the self-training period. The information presented in the monograph can be used to implement adaptive signal processing devices capable of d…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Executive summary -- Enhancing the relevance of learning pathways -- Easing transitions along learners' personal pathways -- Nurturing learners' aspirations -- 1 Overview -- Introduction -- Recent shocks and accelerated trends shape global challenges in 2023 -- Global economic uncertainty puts pressure on public and private funds for education -- Despite tight labour markets, some still struggle to find a job -- Growing urgency for a green transition is provoking some policy change -- Digital transitions continue to accelerate, increasing a demand that is not being met -- People of all ages need the skills to sort the good information from the bad -- Making the case for transforming pathways for lifelong learners in 2023 -- Transforming pathways to make greater progress towards quality and equity goals -- Transforming pathways to develop responsiveness and resilience in education policy -- About this report -- References -- 2 Enhancing the relevance of learning pathways through anticipation, adaptability and assessment of impact -- Introduction -- Education systems need to strengthen their skills anticipation capacity, starting with shorter-term forecasts -- Selected recent policy efforts -- Bringing together a range of tools for short- and long-term insights is helping governments overcome the limitations of data availability or sectoral bias -- Collaborating with various actors is also helping to enrich forecasts -- Some policy lessons emerge on anticipation of skills' needs for 2023 -- Proactive and reactive adaptations of education and training opportunities should ultimately seek to empower learners to navigate broader change -- Selected recent policy efforts…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.4 EU POLICIES TARGETED TO IMPROVE NATURAL GAS SECURITY -- 3.4.1 Energy Union -- 3.4.2 Natural Gas Pricing -- 3.4.3 Limiting Russian-European Union Market Access -- 3.4.4 Diversification of Gas Resources -- 3.4.4.1 Increasing Imports From Norway -- 3.4.4.2 Liquefied Natural Gas -- 3.4.4.3 Pipelines and Interconnectors -- 3.4.4.4 Gas Storage -- 3.4.4.5 Shift Towards Low-Carbon Policies and Technologies -- 3.4.4.6 European Union External Policy Instruments -- 3.5 RUSSIAN GAS STRATEGIES UNDER UNCERTAINTY -- 3.6 CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 4 - The Macroregional Geopolitics of Energy Security: Towards a New Energy World Order? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…13.1.1 State-based regulation -- 13.1.2 Civil-based regulation -- 13.1.3 Co-regulation -- 13.2 Key lessons and recommendations of regulatory reviews to date -- 13.3 Multilateral and multiparty initiatives: the story so far -- 13.4 Moving forward amidst uncertainty -- References -- 4 SUSTAINABILITY -- 14 Exploring Boundaries Around the Safe Use of Advanced Materials: A Prospective Product-Based Case Studies Approach -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Defining advanced materials -- 14.3 Advanced material risks and safe use-a prospective product-based case study approach -- 14.4 Testing the prospective product case study methodology-an example using a hypothetical dynamic food product label -- 14.5 A prospective product case study-a graphene-based dynamic labels for food products -- 14.5.1 Product description -- 14.5.2 Material generation -- 14.5.3 Intermediary production -- 14.5.4 Final production -- 14.5.5 Product storage and transportation -- 14.5.6 Product use -- 14.5.7 Product disposal -- 14.5.8 Exposure potential -- 14.5.9 Risk red flags -- 14.5.10 Summary -- 14.6 Utility of the prospective product case study methodology -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 15 Nanomaterial Governance, Planetary Health, and the Sustainocene Transition -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Nanotechnology safety in global context -- 15.3 Regulatory uncertainty and nano-sunscreens -- 15.4 Regulatory uncertainty and nanosilver -- 15.5 Paths to greater nanoregulatory certainty -- 15.6 Reorienting global regulation so nanotechnology assists the Sustainocene -- 15.7 Reorienting the scientific quest toward nanotechnology's role with the Sustainocene -- 15.8 Rethinking the ethics of corporate globalization -- 15.9 Reorienting international law to nanotechnology's role with the Sustainocene -- 15.10 The moral culmination of nanoregulation in globalized artificial photosynthesis…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Newcomb-Benford's law -- References -- Chapter 4. Error Theory: Uncertainty of Measurement Results -- 4.1 Uncertainty of Measurement Results -- 4.2 Sensitivity, precision, and accuracy -- 4.3 Source of errors -- 4.3.1 Errors introduced by the instrument -- 4.4 Classification of errors -- 4.5 Significant figures -- 4.6 Determination of measurement errors -- 4.7 Nonius, vernier, or caliper -- 4.8 Summary of important concepts -- 4.9 Exercises and problems -- References -- Chapter 5. …”