Sixten Franzen, MD, PhD, Honorary Professor, 1919-2008

In Memoriam: Honorary Member Tomoyuki Shirai, MD, PhD, 1946–2015

An honorary member and the former president of the Japanese Society for Toxicologic Pathology, Doctor Tomoyuki Shirai, suddenly passed away from acute aortic dissection on November 19, 2015. For me, it is still difficult to find ways to manage my grief for his sudden and too early death with his seventieth birthday close at hand. On that day, Doctor Shirai attended the 46th International Sympos...

Professor Mladen Petrovecki, MD, PhD (1960 – 2016)

IN MEMORIAM / ACTA INFORM MED. 2017 MAR; 25(1): 60-60 Professor Mladen Petrovecki died on August 30th in 2016. He was born in Zagreb in 1960. Mladen graduated from high school in 1979 in Zagreb, Croatia, and enrolled the School of Medicine at University of Zagreb (1). Professor Petrovecki was dedicated to clinical and academic work. As a doctor of medicine, laboratory immunology specialist, he ...

Professor Constantin MITRUŢ, PhD

As the companies are more and more in media’s focus, there is a notable influence of media news on investment decisions. Our analysis relates the volume of positive or negative news in key newspapers with the evolution of the share prices of four main companies listed in the Bucharest Stock Exchange. A series of regression models helps us distinguish between the company-related variables which ...

Edwin Clarke, MD, FRCP (1919-1996).

Professor Emil SCARLAT, PhD

Trust and reputation are fundamental concepts in multi-agent systems, but at the same time are significant to human life. The purpose of this paper is to find a way to enhance collective intelligence within organizations. First, we present some perspectives concerning the concepts of collective intelligence, trust and reputation. Then we suggest four computational models of trust and reputation...