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Digitalization of the financial sector in the era of globalization has made it highly vulnerable to misuse for money laundering and terrorist financing. At the same time, the financial innovations due to digitalization have led to higher financial inclusion, especially in areas where there is no or limited access to regular banking facilities. To tackle the increased risk of money laundering and terrorist financing, the European Union, among other jurisdictions, has significantly increased regulation and supervision while balancing the security of financial inclusion. One of the issues with intensifying regulation in one sector or jurisdiction is that actors that need to operate in a less regulated and surveilled economy will tend to switch their sector, jurisdiction, or method of getting financial services. One available alternative, which has gathered much attention in recent years, is the hawala remittance system. Especially within the area of anti-money laundering and terrorist financing, the hawala system has been of great interest, as it gives criminals alternative ways of moving wealth outside of the regulated financial sector. This chapter seeks to understand the hawala system in its essence, considering the problems and regulatory dilemmas that this financial alternative creates in a modern financial system.

After reading this chapter, you will be able to do the following:

• Develop a fundamental understanding of diversity and inclusion.
• Understand how diversity and inclusion are related to aspects of social identity.
• Critically engage with the major areas of impact regarding diversity and inclusion in sports social media.
• Understand trends and current issues that exist around diversity and inclusion in sports social media.
• Summarize the key skills needed to address diversity issues in sports social media.

How can storytelling help create more inclusive workplaces and bring about consent with things as they really are? This chapter presents our intervention tool, Collaborative Story Craft (CSC), as a way to involve more members in the collective story at the workplace. From our positions as researchers and practitioners, we give an account of the tool’s theoretical framework, specifically schools of sensemaking and social worlds, to describe and connect our method to practice. In this chapter, we also introduce a fictional story to highlight the sensemaking process of using CSC as a meaningful way to include more voices into the collective story.

This chapter explores the concepts of ethics, morals and social responsibility from organisational and societal perspectives covering both marketing that is focused on profit and marketing focused on bringing about social benefit. It discusses the meanings of social responsibility from different paradigmatic viewpoints and highlights the advantages and limitations of particular approaches. The chapter also considers some aspects of legal and regulatory frameworks and the potential for the development of codes of conduct for socially responsible for-profit marketing and social marketing. The discussion is positioned in a global context and is grounded by intercultural considerations and the diversity of ethical perspectives and norms across cultures.

This chapter presents personal narrative accounts of lived experiences from African American diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practitioners and guides. These narrative accounts are an individual and collective reflection of life events, artifacts revealed during training events toward the achievement of True Storytelling institute (TSI) Train the Trainer certification and completion of Organizational Development modules. The Seven Principles of True Storytelling were the frame-work and methodology used to reveal parallel fractals and artifacts among the participants represented in the chapter. The account of events leading up to and including the training path toward guide certification presented an in-depth and absorptive milieu toward the objective of deconstruction and reconstruction driven by antenarrative interplay as a change process over the grand narrative in the DEI space. The seamless change process evolved through the seven principles and organizational development processes stimulated by David Boje’s 7 B’s and four hearts. The narrative life stories in the context of the seven principles of True Storytelling embody authentic voices of personal experiences integrating natural ways of thinking about aspects of DEI, rehistorizing from the past to the present.

This short paper outlines the main aims and objectives of the CAPTeaM project and the activities that took place during the CAPTeaM workshop at ICME14 on Wednesday 14 July 2021.

The elastodynamic response of the transformation-toughened ceramics under an instantaneous phase transformation is investigated. Some composite materials, such as Zirconia toughened ceramics, are the remarkable material, which has a high strength, a high elastic modulus, and an improved toughness, etc. Most of the good qualities are common in many ceramic composite materials. These good qualities are made possible through the phase transformation of composite particles. The transformation toughening utilizes the stress-induced phase transformation of particles, which is accompanied by a volumetric expansion. In this paper a phenomenological model is proposed to describe the situation, which involves a dynamic martensitic transformation in a spherical particle of Zirconia embedded in an infinite elastic matrix. Following the ray methods, we clarify the stress-focusing effect caused by the instantaneous phase transformation in a spherical inclusion of Zirconia. It should be noted that the mechanism in the toughening of ceramics in the steady state does not hold in the dynamic state.

A new deoxidation technology using ZrO₂ solid electrolyte has been developed for metallurgical process, in which no any inclusion will be introduced after deoxidation and a clean metal will be obtained. This new technique is simple and flexible; it can be used in various cases in metallurgical process. A theoretical formula has been used to describe this process and a good agreement has been reached between experiment and theoretical calculation.

In order to study the impact of Mg deoxidation on the inclusions and properties of Low Carbon and Low Alloy Steel, five heats of 5.72%Mg-50.5%A1-7.92Mn-Fe Alloy (AlMnMgFe) deoxidation trails were done during a 150 tons BOF taping at a steelmaking plant. Optical microscope (OM) was used to test the diameter and number of the inclusions. SEM and EDS were used to examine the types of the inclusions. Then the microstructures and properties of the steels were tested at the room temperature. The results show that, by using AlMnMgFe as the deoxidizer, the inclusions, microstructures and properties of the low carbon and low alloy steel Q195 are improved. There are some spherical MgO·Al₂O₃ inclusions in the AlMnMgFe deoxidation heats. The diameters of 97.01 percent inclusions are smaller than 3 µm in the AlMnMgFe deoxidization steel, and it is higher than that of Al-killed steel. The mean yield strength, mean tensile strengths and mean elongation of the AlMnMgFe deoxidization steels are higher than Al-killed steels.

The inclusions in 10CrNi3Mo steel based on BOF-RH-CC metallurgical process was studied with samples and whole temperature and cleanness analysis. Temperature and operation of BOF smelting, Ar station blowing and RH refining process all have some deficiency for inclusion control. Countermeasures include BOF process optimization, Ar blowing time shortening and RH treating standardization have been taken, inclusions of the end produce decreased from 0.0126% to 0.0084% on average.