As crises do século XIV. As origens duma economia contraída

Financial crises as herds: overturning the critiques

Financial crises are widely argued to be due to herd behavior. Yet recently developed models of herd behavior have been subjected to two critiques which seem to make them inapplicable to financial crises. Herds disappear from these models if two of their unappealing assumptions are modified: if their zero-one investment decisions are made continuous and if their investors are allowed to trade a...

Entrapment as a mediator of suicide crises

BACKGROUND Prior research has validated the construct of a suicide crisis syndrome (SCS), a specific psychological state that precedes and may precipitate suicidal behavior. The feeling of entrapment is a central concept of the SCS as well as of several other recent models of suicide. However, its exact relationship with suicidality is not fully understood. In efforts to clarify the exact role ...

Do as I do, not as I say.

Interactive Constraint Satisfaction (ICS) is an approach to solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP) interactively with the user [3]. This class of problems includes subjective, everyday problems such as finding a house, as well as complex scientific problems. A difficult issue in ICS is how to acquire constraints from the user, when the user may not be able to clearly and accurately arti...

Gender issues: do as I say, not as I do?

In this issue of the Journal, Panteli et al. (6) provide insight into the extent to which a gender-sensitive approach is adopted by sixty health technology assessment (HTA) agencies worldwide. Their findings should make all of us involved in the production of HTA take pause: less than a handful of the agency Web sites that were examined by Panteli's team made any mention of gender as an explici...

Elaboração de um modelo para as Capacidades do Desempenho do CIO como Agente de Transformação na era da Economia Industrial Digital