The rise of sustainable and socially responsible investing reflects a growing recognition that financial success cannot be separated from social environmental impact. Investors are increasingly aware their choices have consequences beyond returns, they responsibility to consider the impact investments on society planet. At same time, investors faced with complex rapidly changing landscape, new ...

Akinetic crises are one of the problems arising in patients with Parkinson's disease in particular after long term treatment with levo-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA). They are characterized by severe disability to move. Increasing dosages of L-DOPA and decarboxylase or monoaminooxidase inhibitors do not improve these symptoms. Intravenously applied iron in the form of a ferri-ferro-complex exh...

Before an outstanding article in 1999 by Richard Holton, weakness of will was identified as an agent's action contrary to his or her better judgment, while other better choices are available. The contemporary account of weakness of will (i.e., Holton’s theory) explains it in terms of intention. Accordingly, weakness of will happens if an agent fails to stick to his or her previously formed inte...

Lead contamination in the drinking water of a US Rust Belt city seems to have little in common with a mosquito-borne viral outbreak creating global infectious disease concern. However, the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has important similarities to the Zika virus in South America, relevant to the field of disaster medicine and public health preparedness. As we face emerging infectious diseas...

Compassion shown towards victims often decreases as the number of individuals in need of aid increases, identifiability of the victims decreases, and the proportion of victims helped shrinks. Such “compassion fade” may hamper individual-level and collective responses to pressing large-scale crises. To date, research on compassion fade has focused on humanitarian challenges; thus, it remains unk...

Sudden stops can be characterized by sharp reversals in capital inflows, large declines in output, and steep collapses in real asset prices (Mendoza and Smith, 2009). In almost all recent crises, capital account reversals amounting to more than 10% of an afflicted country’s GDP have occurred (Calvo and Reinhart, 1999 and Nabli, 1999). More specifically, reversals in capital flows to emergin...