Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.1.3 Knowledge Systems Analysis -- 5.2 New York City Flood Map Case Study -- 5.3 Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- 6 Positive Futures -- 6.1 Approach -- 6.1.1 A Framework for Positive Futures -- 6.1.2 Development of the UREx SRN Scenarios -- 6.2 Scoping and Framing -- 6.3 Goals and Intervention Strategies -- 6.4 Scenario Specificity -- 6.5 Evaluation and Dissemination -- 6.6 Conclusion -- References -- 7 Setting the Stage for Co-Production -- 7.1 Co-Production to Address Urban Resilience Challenges -- 7.2 Co-Production of Positive Long-Term Visions in the UREx SRN -- 7.3 Elements of Co-Production -- 7.3.1 Process and Outcomes -- 7.3.2 Collective Commitment -- 7.3.3 Credibility and Legitimacy -- 7.3.4 Diversity of Perspectives -- 7.4 Confronting the Challenges of Co-Production -- 7.4.1 Power Dynamics -- 7.4.2 Short-Term Needs and Long-Term Thinking -- 7.4.3 Clear Expectations -- 7.4.4 Inclusivity and Retention -- 7.5 Moving Co-Production Forward -- References -- 8 Assessing Future Resilience, Equity, and Sustainability in Scenario Planning -- 8.1 An Instrument for Assessment -- 8.1.1 Defining Resilience, Equity, Sustainability -- 8.1.2 Qualitative Assessment-How It Works -- 8.2 Comparing Drought and Heat Scenarios -- 8.2.1 Identifying Key Components -- 8.2.2 Assessing Resilience-Building Mechanisms -- 8.2.3 Assessing Sustainability and Equity -- 8.3 Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- 9 Modeling Urban Futures: Data-Driven Scenarios of Climate Change and Vulnerability in Cities -- 9.1 Data-Driven Models of Urban Land Use and Climate Hazards -- 9.2 Land Surface Temperature Projections in Cities -- 9.2.1 Surface Temperature Projections at City Scales: New York City Case Study -- 9.3 Urban Flooding -- 9.4 Modeling Future Land Use/Cover Change Scenarios -- 9.4.1 Land Use/Cover Scenarios Modeling: San Juan, Puerto Rico Case Study…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Rethinking the form and content of its country strategies would enable Germany to move towards a coherent, German approach and increase transparency and accountability -- A strong supporter of development effectiveness, Germany could facilitate greater partner ownership -- Germany's predictability and forward planning are strong -- Germany has a broad range of instruments at its disposal to respond flexibly to partner countries' demands, with the COVID-19 response a good example to build on -- Germany links the disbursement of ODA funds to the reform priorities of its six Africa reform partners -- References -- Notes -- 6 Germany's results, evaluation and learning -- Management for development results -- Germany contributes to the 2030 Agenda and aligns with partner countries' priorities -- Results management is being extended from projects to portfolios -- Further work is required to improve results-based management and embed a results culture within German development co-operation -- Evaluation system -- Germany's evaluation capability is strong and respected -- The evaluation function is independent, but management responses to evaluations often lack specificity -- Evaluation capacity is being strengthened in partner countries -- Institutional learning -- Networks exist for knowledge sharing and learning in sectoral and thematic areas -- Knowledge management is challenging in the complex German system -- References -- Notes -- 7 Germany's fragility, crises and humanitarian assistance -- 7.A Crises and fragility -- Strategic framework -- Germany is an active and efficient broker for global peace efforts -- Germany has aligned its strategic framework to its vision for peace -- Germany's ODA is not primarily mobilised towards fragile contexts -- Germany is engaged in many fragile contexts beyond just its nexus and peace partners…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…More measures of quality and outcomes are warranted, even as important gaps in 'input' measures remain -- Patient-reported measures should be at the centre of policy making and service-monitoring -- References -- 2 People-centred mental health policies and services -- Introduction -- Individual-centred mental health care puts the individual at the centre -- People-centred care is a way forward to improve health care systems -- OECD countries are taking important steps towards a people-centred health system -- People-centred care is essential to build high-performing mental health systems -- How effectively are OECD countries delivering individual-centred mental health care? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Executive summary -- Main characteristics of the Kuwaiti innovation system -- The way forward towards "Smart Kuwait" -- 1 Overall assessment and recommendations -- 1.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Checking by auditing and compliance -- Whistle-blowing -- Leaders need courage to fight corruption -- TICS - The Way Forward! -- Chapter 5 In Remembrance of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew -- How Changi Airport Has Transformed Singapore (and Me!) …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Inbound e-mail action - forward -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Inbound e-mail action - reply -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- There's more... -- E-mail Notification by event registry -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- E-mail notification troubleshooting -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Chapter 5: Building and Configuring Reports -- Introduction -- Viewing and running reports -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Creating new reports -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Scheduling reports -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- There's more... -- Sending multiple reports in one e-mail -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Creating a table-specific report module -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Creating a dashboard -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Including the date in a report's e-mail notification -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Working with the report's header and footer template -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Working with the report sources -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Working with the report range -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Creating a database view -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Chapter 6: Creating and Configuring Workflow Activities -- Introduction -- Understanding the Service-Now workflow -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Attaching a workflow with the service catalog -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Attaching workflows with current/new modules…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Why caring is sharing -- Managing stress -- Identify the culprit or culprits -- Identify what you can change and what you can't -- Choose your stress reduction plan -- Implement your stress reduction plan -- Psychological techniques to alleviate stress -- Labelling -- Reframing -- Mobilising the brain to learn -- Safety first -- Towards mental stretch -- Why learning really does take AGES -- Your attention please -- Generating memory -- Emotion is crucial to learning -- Spacing -- Promoting a culture for learning -- 8 Mindfulness: Finding enough thinking space -- Operating at fast-forward -- What's your perspective? -- Mindfulness over matter -- The secret is in the neuroplastic sauce -- Live long and prosper -- Team mindful -- Mindfulness takes a bow -- Johnny-come-lately -- Coming off autopilot -- Practice makes peaceful -- How long should you practice? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Reading and Writing Files -- Files and File Paths -- Backslash on Windows and Forward Slash on OS X and Linux -- The Current Working Directory -- Absolute vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The value of peer learning initiatives in public sector reforms -- Country dialogues strengthen national institutions and promote their use -- Collaborative alliances are the way forward -- References -- Chapter 14. The International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding -- What has the International Dialogue achieved so far? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Takeaways -- Chapter 4 Bias, Data Poisoning, &amp -- Output Oddities -- Whispers from the Static -- Hallucinations: AI's Double-Edged Sword of Creativity -- The Big Bias Problem -- Embarrassing F{ai}lures to Control Bias -- High-Profile Missteps from Two Tech Giants -- Oops...They Did It Again -- AI's Ghost in the Wires and the Future of the Internet -- The Consequences and Way Forward -- Takeaways -- Chapter 5 The Digital Disinformation Pandemic -- Whispers from the Static -- Lies, Darn Lies, and the Internet -- The Landscape of AI-Driven Disinformation -- How AI Can Create and Spread Disinformation -- Types and Tactics of AI-Generated Disinformation -- Deepfakes and Synthetic Media -- Automated Text Generation -- Social Media Manipulation -- Misinformation in Visual Formats -- Influence on Public Discourse -- Potential for Information Warfare and Psychological Operations -- Dark Web and Underground Markets for Disinformation Services -- Emotional Manipulation and Exploitation of Individual Vulnerabilities -- Takeaways -- Chapter 6 Deepfakes and the Spectrum of Digital Deception -- Whispers from the Static -- On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Dog -- What Really Is a Deepfake, Anyway? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Unlocking the Potential of the Middle Corridor: Challenges, Opportunities, and Pathways Forward -- The economies of the South Caucasus and Central Asia remain closely integrated with Russia, leaving them vulnerable to supply risks and secondary sanctions -- Countries along the corridor can foster regional co-operation and generate trade opportunities -- The Middle Corridor has the potential to become a viable route if capacity constraints and regional co-operation issues are addressed -- References -- 2 Further regional economic and trade integration is key to the route's long-term viability -- Limited integration into global trade constrains private-sector demand for the Middle Corridor -- The corridor countries' trade integration could improve -- The participation of the South Caucasus and Central Asia in global trade is limited -- Intra-regional trade remains under-developed in Central Asia and the South Caucasus -- Weaknesses in the overall business climate in Central Asia and the South Caucasus constrain private sector development and export growth -- Regional logistics services remain underdeveloped along the Middle Corridor reducing transit efficiency and reliability -- High prices and low capacity along the Middle Corridor weigh on its competitiveness -- Rail and maritime tariffs and schedules are unpredictable and often poorly accessible -- Overall, quasi-monopolies hamper the development of this sector -- Recommendations -- Further reforms to improve framework conditions for private-sector development can enhance the region's trade potential and stimulate demand along the route -- Develop national and regional export promotion strategies through SME and entrepreneurship development -- Address remaining gaps in the operational environment for firms, particularly in relation to trade and investment…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Drawing on Large-Scale Studies to Examine the Contribution of Teacher Quality to Student Learning -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Using Large-Scale Studies to Examine the Contribution of Teacher Quality to Student Learning -- 2.1 Defining Terms -- 2.2 Sampling Teacher Characteristics and Qualifications -- 2.3 Large-Scale Studies on the Effect of Selected Teacher Characteristics and Qualifications: A Brief Overview -- 2.3.1 Teacher Preparation and Qualifications -- 2.3.2 Teaching Experience -- 2.3.3 Professional Development -- 2.3.4 Teacher Knowledge -- 2.4 Summarising Existing Evidence -- 3 Four Lessons Learned from the Results of Large-Scale Studies Focusing on Teacher Quality -- 3.1 Seeing the Bigger Picture -- 3.2 Exploring (In)Consistency -- 3.3 Adding Teaching Quality to the Equation -- 3.4 Capitalising on Complementarity -- 4 Looking Forward -- Note -- References -- 7. A National Programme for Improving the Quality of Teacher Education -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The QLB Programme in Context -- 2.1 Characteristics of the German System of Teacher Education -- 2.2 The Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung Programme -- 3 Methods -- 4 Findings: Institutionalisation and Structure-Building for Teacher Education -- 4.1 Impact on Institutional Actors for Teacher Education in Universities: University Top Management and Cross-Sectional Institutions -- 4.2 Collaboration between Disciplines and Teacher Education Phases -- 5 Discussion -- Notes -- References -- 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…DQN model -- Training -- Running and performance -- Your model in action -- Summary -- Chapter 7 - DQN Extensions -- The PyTorch Agent Net library -- Agent -- Agent's experience -- Experience buffer -- Gym env wrappers -- Basic DQN -- N-step DQN -- Implementation -- Double DQN -- Implementation -- Results -- Noisy networks -- Implementation -- Results -- Prioritized replay buffer -- Implementation -- Results -- Dueling DQN -- Implementation -- Results -- Categorical DQN -- Implementation -- Results -- Combining everything -- Implementation -- Results -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 8 - Stocks Trading Using RL -- Trading -- Data -- Problem statements and key decisions -- The trading environment -- Models -- Training code -- Results -- The feed-forward model -- The convolution model -- Things to try -- Summary -- Chapter 9 - Policy Gradients - An Alternative -- Values and policy -- Why policy? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…User Issues; 5.2.2. Qmail and .forward Files; 5.3. System Issues…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Thou Shalt Covet Thy Developer's Source Code -- Testing Error Code -- Will the Real Professional Testers Please Step Forward -- The Common Denominators I Found Are (In No Particular Order) -- My Advice Can Be Summarized as Follows -- Strike Three, Time for a New Batter -- Formal Methods -- Tools -- Process Improvement -- The Fourth Proposal -- Software Testing as an Art, a Craft and a Discipline -- Restoring Respect to the Software Industry -- The Well-Intentioned but Off-Target Past -- Moving On to Better Ideas -- A Process for Analyzing Security Holes and Quality Problems -- Appendix C: An Annotated Transcript of JW's Microsoft Blog -- Into the Blogoshere -- July 2008 -- Before We Begin -- PEST (Pub Exploration and Software Testing) -- Measuring Testers -- Prevention Versus Cure (Part 1) -- Users and Johns -- Ode to the Manual Tester -- Prevention Versus Cure (Part 2) -- Hail Europe! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Getting prettier -- Installing Live Server -- Documenting Your Code -- Line comments -- Block comments -- The README file -- The basics of Markdown -- Coding Responsibly with Git -- Introducing Git -- Installing Git -- Configuring and testing Git -- Learning the basics of Git -- Moving forward with Git and GitHub -- Chapter 3 Using Data -- Making Variables with let -- Declaring variables -- Initializing variables -- Using variables -- Naming variables -- Making Constants with const -- When to use constants -- Naming constants -- Taking a Look at the Data Types -- JavaScript is loose and dynamic -- Passing by value -- String data type -- Escaping characters -- Creating strings with template literal notation -- Working with string functions -- Number data type -- Working with number functions -- Knowing when to convert between strings and numbers -- bigInt data type -- Boolean data type -- Converting to Boolean -- Getting Truthy and Falsy -- NaN data type -- Undefined data type -- Symbol data type -- Wrangling the Object: The Complex Data Type -- Examining the Array - a Special Kind of Object -- Getting a Handle on Scope -- Chapter 4 Working with Operators and Expressions -- Building Expressions -- Operators: The Lineup -- Operator precedence -- Using parentheses -- Assignment operators -- Comparison operators -- Arithmetic operators -- Concatenation operator -- Logical operators -- Combining operators -- Other Operators -- Chapter 5 Controlling Flow -- Choosing a Path -- if . . . else statements -- Multiple paths with if else -- The ternary operator -- Switch statements -- Making Loops -- for loops -- for . . . in loops -- for . . . of loops -- while loops -- do . . . while loops -- break and continue statements -- Chapter 6 Using Arrays -- Introducing Arrays -- Creating Arrays -- Using the Array() constructor -- Using array literal notation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…CONCLUSION: A CONVERGENCE OF STANDARDS, CULTURE, AND TRUST-THE WAY FORWARD IN CYBERSECURITY AND DATA PROTECTION -- 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The gift and challenge of being a mum -- Perimenopause and menopause -- The reality of a patriarchal, white-privileged and outwardly focused society -- #metoo -- Workplace gender bias -- Moving forward -- Good enough -- Changing our template -- Part II Care for yourself -- Chapter 5 The challenge and gift of being our own best friend -- Becoming our own best friend with self-compassion -- Learning to love myself -- But isn't it just self-indulgence? …”

“…A leap forward in the field of roboticsUntil now, most of the advances in robotics have taken place in structured environments. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The DNS Files; 6.6.2. The Forward Lookup Zone File; 6.6.2.2. Defining a list of name servers; 6.6.3. …”