1. Therapeutic Policies

Tough Policies, Incredible Policies?1

Apelin: A promising therapeutic target? (Part 1)

Apelin is a recently discovered bioactive peptide, known to be an endogenous high-affinity ligandfor the previously orphan G protein-coupled receptor APJ. Apelin/APJ as a novel signaling pathwayhas been shown to play many crucial roles in cardiovascular function, blood pressure regulation, fluidhomeostasis, feeding behavior, obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, adipoinsular axis regulation, cellp...

Why migration policies fail 1

Immigration and asylum are key political issues in Britain and the European Union. Yet the policies of states and supranational bodies seem to have had little success in preventing unwanted flows and effectively managing immigration and integration. This article examines three types of reasons for policy failure: factors arising from the social dynamics of the migratory process; factors linked ...

Stabilizing , Pareto Improving Policies 1

One of the objectives of the current policies of many central banks arguably is to stabilize economic activity. One possible justification for such a policy is that there is volatility in macro variables that individual agents cannot insure against. We study the simplest possible extension of the stochastic 2-period, one agent and one commodity OLG model, where we have added 1 more period, with...

Search Policies in Multi - Player Games 1

In this article we investigate how three multi-player search policies, namely maxn, paranoid, and Best-Reply Search, can be embedded in the MCTS framework. The performance of these search policies is tested in four different deterministic multi-player games with perfect information by running self-play experiments. We show that MCTS with the maxn search policy overall performs best. Furthermore...