Two decades have passed since the devolution of social care policy, with key differences emerging between the UK’s four systems, but what impact have these differences had? This book presents for the first time research on the perspectives of social care policy makers on the four systems in which they operate and the ways in which they borrow from one another. Drawing on extensive interviews with national and local policy makers across the UK, the book raises vital questions about the role of ‘standardisation’ and ‘differentiation’ in social care, concluding that when given equal capacity to reform their respective systems, the regimes in each nation may take radically different shapes. Chapter 4 and chapter 7 are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Two decades have passed since the devolution of social care policy, with key differences emerging between the UK’s four systems, but what impact have these differences had? This book presents for the first time research on the perspectives of social care policy makers on the four systems in which they operate and the ways in which they borrow from one another. Drawing on extensive interviews with national and local policy makers across the UK, the book raises vital questions about the role of ‘standardisation’ and ‘differentiation’ in social care, concluding that when given equal capacity to reform their respective systems, the regimes in each nation may take radically different shapes. Chapter 4 and chapter 7 are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

The past decade has witnessed a wide adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) technologies. However, a lack of oversight into their widespread implementation has resulted in harmful outcomes that could have been avoided with proper oversight. Before we can realize AI/ML's true benefit, practitioners must understand how to mitigate its risks. This book describes responsible AI, a holistic approach for improving AI/ML technology, business processes, and cultural competencies that builds on best practices in risk management, cybersecurity, data privacy, and applied social science. It's an ambitious undertaking that requires a diverse set of talents, experiences, and perspectives. Data scientists and nontechnical oversight folks alike need to be recruited and empowered to audit and evaluate high-impact AI/ML systems. Author Patrick Hall created this guide for a new generation of auditors and assessors who want to make AI systems better for organizations, consumers, and the public at large. Learn how to create a successful and impactful responsible AI practice Get a guide to existing standards, laws, and assessments for adopting AI technologies Look at how existing roles at companies are evolving to incorporate responsible AI Examine business best practices and recommendations for implementing responsible AI Learn technical approaches for responsible AI at all stages of system development

This book provides a fresh, contemporary perspective on how best to equip enterprises with appropriate IT infrastructures and products. Readers will learn how to strategically manage the relationship between software and organisations using enduring principles. In addition, this book provides a unique insight into managing and developing personnel who work on and with software. Procurement and marshalling of software and the skills required to sustain software in the face of a changing world and requirements are also covered. This book will be invaluable for Computing and Information Systems senior undergraduate and masters students whose subject of study requires strategic consideration of software development and project management.

BORN OUT OF THE LIGHT OF TRUTH, THE WINDS OF CHANGE SHALL UNLEASH THE FIRES OF DESTRUCTION UPON THE MORTAL WORLD, AND ALL SHALL BURN. WELCOME TO THE DRAGONLANDS, a place of love, friendship, tolerance, and peace. It is also a place of hate, betrayal, religious and ethnical discrimination, and war. Dark forces conspire against the mortal world Siva. A scheme, thousands of years in the making, is set in motion by the Maenic worshipper Raul Drakhi. With a vile device as his tool, he intends to finish that which the dragons could not. Can the last dragon hunter put a stop to it? Or will THE WINDS OF CHANGE unleash the fires of destruction, and see the world burn? The Dragon Hunter Series of The Long Lost Tales of the Dragonlands epic fantasy universe starts with The Winds of Change. It introduces the vast Dragonlands, and is the beginning of an extraordinary journey that will always leave you wanting more... Visit www.authorpatrickhall.com or www.facebook.com/patrickhallofficial for more information. Send an email to [email protected] to Contact the author.

Blades in the Dark is the first book in the Guardian Blades series of The Long Lost Tales of the Dragonlands franchise by Patrick Hall. It is what Hall calls a short novel in three parts, with The Guardians of Siva, Tah Ansenta Mas'plu, and Into the Fire (also available as individual e-books). It is a prologue to The Winds of Change, the first novel in the Dragon Hunter series. Included in this pocket is a preview of said novel. Dark times are nearing. The Maenic forces of Oblivion will once again try to conquer the mortal world of Siva. Four knights of the Guardian Blades of Siva have trailed a malicious sorcerer and summoner of Maenics to an ancient and forgotten fort-one holding a dark secret. As they delve deeper into the fort in search of the man, they uncover a plot that is so insidious and horrendous they are shaken to their very cores. Stay strong Darkness is settling upon the Dragonlands, and the light up ahead is far away... Visit www.authorpatrickhall.com or www.facebook.com/patrickhallofficial for more information. Send an email to [email protected] to contact the author.

Title: The Soul of a People the Burmese].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Hall, Harold Fielding Patrick; 1898. viii. 363 p.; 8 . RL 37

This book provides a unique overview of different approaches to developing software that is flexible, adaptable and easy to maintain and reuse. It covers the most recent advances in software architecture research. In addition, it provides the reader with scalable solutions for engineering and reengineering business processes, including architectural components for business applications, framework design for Internet distributed business applications, and architectural standards for enterprise systems.

3. 1 What are formal methods? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3. 2 A survey of formal methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3. 2. 1 FDTs and FSLs for sequential software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3. 2. 1. 1 VDM (Vienna Development Method). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3. 2. 1. 2 Z. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3. 2. 1. 3 me too . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3. 2. 1. 4 HOS and AXES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3. 2. 1. 5 Gist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3. 2. 1. 6 Clear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3. 2. 1. 7 OBJ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3. 2. 1. 8 ACT ONE and ACT TWO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3. 2. 1. 9 CIP-L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3. 2. 1. 10 LPG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3. 2. 1. 11 Larch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3. 2. 1. 12 Logic languages-the Prolog family. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3. 2. 1. 13 Functional languages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3. 2. 2 FDTs and FSLs for concurrent software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3. 2. 2. 1 LOTOS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 3. 2. 2. 2 Estelle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3. 2. 2. 3 SDL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3. 2. 2. 4 ASN. l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3. 2. 2. 5 TTCN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3. 2. 2. 6 Gypsy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3. 2. 3 Graphical formalisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3. 2. 3. 1 Petri nets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3. 2. 3. 2 Higraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3. 2. 4 Less formal methods and notations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 3. 2. 4. 1 SADT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 3. 2. 4. 2 Structured Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 3. 2. 4. 3 SSADM and LSDM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 3. 2. 4. 4 JSPandJSD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 3. 2. 4. 5 HDM and the SPECIAL language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 3. 2. 4. 6 Structured analysis and design of real-time systems. . 27 3. 3 Support tools for FDTs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .