Editorial: 2020—a clear vision for Public Money & Management

Editorial: Vision in Cephalopods

Tobacco money and public health.

Over 100 years ago, George Bernard Shaw, speaking through his protagonists, weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft and Undershaft’s daughter Salvation Army Major Barbara, explored the uneasy relationship that existed, and exists still, between ill-gotten gains and the public good. Now, a century later, a similar uneasy relationship exists. But this time it is not cannons versus religion, but to...

Editorial: New Iranian Strategic Plan on Addiction Biology Studies Has a Clear Message for Neuroscientists “Your Help is Seriously Needed”

The fifth Iranian national congress on the biology of addiction was held in 22-24 June 2011 in Tehran University of Medical Sciences with over 100 valuable oral and poster presentations and over 300 participants. One of the main sessions of the congress was devoted to a national strategic planning and Iranian Drug Control Head Quarter (DCHQ) introducing the first national executive road map on ...

Evolutionary Money Management

This paper evolves trading strategies using genetic programming on high-frequency tick data of the USDEUR exchange rate covering the calendar year 2006. This paper proposes a novel quad tree structure for trading system design. The architecture consists of four trees each solving a separate task, but mutually dependent for overall performance. Specifically, the functions of the trees are relate...

Editorial : Bioethics dialogue in public -

The "four principles" of bioethics lack any reference to medicine as a special domain of human practice. It is argued that seeing medicine as one profession among many others goes against our very expectations from medicine. Clinical medicine is defined as the realm of practice that leads people along verges of bodily and existential catastrophe in ways that accommodate personal autonomy and pe...