Key Features:

• Roadmap on how to identify, prioritize, and address risks and compliance obligations
• Checklists, action items, and sample protocols
• A-to-Z list of risks and mitigation measures
• Examples of jurisdiction-specific legal requirements
• Guidance on governance and accountability mechanisms

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  Practitioners in corporate legal departments and private practice, compliance officers, programmers, privacy officers, data scientists, human resources (HR) specialists, and other professionals who must address AI and related legal compliance issues will find the guidance on risk assessments and mitigation, data law compliance, intellectual property, and other AI-related topics a vital resource.

Key Features:

• Updated coverage of EU Law and recent case law
• Accessible guidance on how to combat illegal content
• Scrupulous analysis of complex conflict of laws issues that arise with Internet activities
• New sections providing extensive explanations of the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act
• New material on other instruments in the fields of AI, crypto-markets, audiovisual media services, intermediary services, product safety and terrorist content online
• Overview of key topics including information society services, digital services, data protection, defamation, copyright, trademarks, unfair competition and online contracts

Written by award-winning author Pedro De Miguel Asensio, Conflict of Laws and the Internet continues to be an essential guide for practitioners and policy-makers with applications for IT law experts and companies active in e-commerce. The book's strong doctrinal base for an area of ever-increasing importance will also be valuable for academics working in the fields of IT law and private international law.

This book presents an overview of the development of digital finance. It covers various aspects of digital

finance, including its definition, evolution, and importance in modern economics. It explores the interdisciplinary perspective of digital finance and its relationship with capitalism, and discusses the key factors influencing the development of digital finance, as well as the challenges and opportunities it faces. It also offers practical insights into digital finance, such as the innovative digital financial models and

platforms and the strategies of digital transformation in commercial banks. What is new about this approach is that the book takes a holistic view of digital finance, covering not only its economic and financial aspects but also its social and environmental impacts. It also offers a critical evaluation of the challenges and opportunities in digital finance from a global perspective. In this book, authors look into the impact of digital finance in various fields, such as monetary theory, wealth management, central bank digital currency, international monetary system, and network security and data privacy.

By adopting a practical, market-oriented approach to capital allocation, this book sheds light on the complex issue of cash flow deployment and the creation of shareholder value. In order to run a company efficiently, it is not sufficient to simply be a competent businessperson. One must also possess the skills of a knowledgeable investor. The management must determine where to invest capital given the diverse range of investment options available, such as mergers and acquisitions (M&A), dividends, share repurchase programs, and organic growth opportunities.

This book provides a useful analytical framework for corporate executives to consider when allocating capital, along with empirical findings from peer group studies and company case studies.

The book helps answer the following questions:

? What are the primary factors that drive your company's shareholder value? Are they aligned with the strategy the companyis pursuing?

? What are the key dynamics and trade-offs between return on investments (ROIC), growth, and earnings quality?

? What are the current market expectations embedded in the stock price?

? Given the capital allocation priorities, what does an "optimal" capital structure look like?

? How do you set, and in turn communicate, the capital allocation and funding priorities?

Sensory marketing is a way to differentiate businesses from their competition while influencing customers and their behaviour. At its best, sensory marketing guides or helps customers to make certain choices in a way that they are unaware of what actually influenced their choices. Although it sounds like an attractive way to "nudge" customers, it is a highly demanding practice that also involves risks and ethical concerns.

This textbook delves into the world of sensory marketing in a physical retail setting and offers a comprehensive and coherent view of various sensory cues and their capacity to drive our behaviour through stimulating our senses and creating sensory experiences. It particularly highlights the meaning of the multisensory nature of retail stores and emphasises how cues tend to affect us in combination rather than separately as single cues.

After reading this book, you will be able to:

? Identify various cues in a retailing setting

? Categorise cues into different groups

? Understand the multisensory nature of retail stores and the meaning of cue (in)congruence

? Describe how consumers are likely to respond differently to cue combinations than single cues

Ideal reading for students taking classes in consumer behaviour, shopper marketing, retail marketing and store design among others, it contains more than 30 global examples from various retail companies, self-reflective questions and decisions-based questions to aid learning.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of smartphone security, focusing on various operating systems and their associated challenges. It covers the smartphone industry's evolution, emphasizing security and privacy concerns. It explores Android, iOS, and Windows OS security vulnerabilities and mitigation measures. Additionally, it discusses alternative OSs like Symbian, Tizen, Sailfish, Ubuntu Touch, KaiOS, Sirin, and HarmonyOS.

The book also addresses mobile application security, best practices for users and developers, Mobile Device Management (MDM) in enterprise settings, mobile network security, and the significance of mobile cloud security and emerging technologies such as IoT, AI, ML, and blockchain. It discusses the importance of balancing innovation with solid security practices in the ever-evolving mobile technology landscape.

Research skills are as critical to social work practitioners as skills in individual and group counselling, policy analysis, and community development. Adopting strategies similar to those used in direct practice courses, this book integrates research with social work practice, and in so doing promotes an understanding and appreciation of the research process.

The third edition of Practising Social Work Research comprises twenty-seven case studies that illustrate different research approaches, including quantitative, qualitative, single-subject, and mixed methods. The third edition also adopts a greater equity, diversity, and inclusivity focus than the previous editions.

Through the use of applied, real-life examples, the authors demonstrate the processes of conceptualization, operationalization, sampling, data collection and processing, and implementation. Designed to help the student and practitioner become more comfortable with research procedures, Practising Social Work Research capitalizes on the strengths that social work students bring to assessment and problem solving.

This thought-provoking book unravels the intricate interplay between human behavior and disasters, weaving a rich narrative that transcends traditional boundaries. Embark on a captivating exploration of human responses to multifaceted disasters with this book. Unveiling the human psyche and the intricate web of emotions that intertwine with disaster events, this book offers a profound understanding of human responses to multifaceted disasters.

Written with precision and meticulous research, this book captivates scholars, practitioners, and policymakers alike. Its multidimensional perspectives offer valuable insights for disaster management, urban planning, sociology, and public health, transcending disciplinary boundaries.

Despite urgent calls for global action, sustainable social work practice, and a solid "green" theoretical knowledge base, North American social work and helping professions have been slow to learn from community activists, acknowledge the international climate emergency, and act collectively to achieve climate justice.

Greening Social Work Education examines how social work educators can best incorporate sustainability content into social work curricula, integrate green teaching methods, and mobilize students and colleagues towards climate action, justice, and leadership. Drawing on Canadian content, this collection highlights Indigenous, eco-feminist, collective-action, and multi-interdisciplinary approaches to social work. The book provides a rationale for why the topic of greening is important for social work and the helping professions; discussion of current debates, tensions, and issues; useful ideas related to innovative interdisciplinary theoretical approaches, analyses, and constructs; and practical recommendations for teaching green social work education. In doing so, Greening Social Work Education strives to help social workers and educators gain the confidence and tools they need to transform their teaching and curricula.

Weaving together significant theoretical analysis and real-world empirical evidence, Antonia Kupfer presents fresh findings based on intricate sociological research. Chapters utilize accounts from supermarket clerks working in a wide variety of positions and stores, from discounters to high-end grocers. Ultimately, they suggest that political frameworks could greatly improve conditions for these workers and raise the level of professionalism within the service sector.

This engaging book will be highly illuminating for sociology scholars and policy makers seeking to understand the lived experiences of low paid workers. It will additionally be of benefit to those studying labor policy, inequality reduction and the sociology of discrimination.

This book discusses the relationship between women's labour force participation and fertility rates in developed nations. It shows a positive relationship between women's workforce participation and childbirth. It theorises a new approach to explaining this 'fertility paradox' that looks at institutional factors influencing gender equality in developed nations. The book analyses a range of institutional variables that impact the positive relationship between female employment and fertility rates, including labour market institutions, social policies and welfare state institutions (family policies, active labour market programs and public sector employment) as well as household gender dynamics. Written for both academics and policy-makers, this book has theoretical relevance for research on gender and work, and also for policies aimed at increasing women's employment and redressing low fertility, which are important issues in many developed nations.