Macroeconomic forecasts are used extensively in industry and government even though the historical accuracy and reliability is questionable. Moreover, professional forecasters lack a test environment in which they can test their forecasting ability. We design a play-money market game for economic variables that aggregates macro-economic information. We analyse participation and learning in such...

Rapid developments in medicine and medical technology during recent years have created a variety of ethical dilemmas including the allocation of limited or scarce resources such as money, instruments, medications, health-care facilities, time and manpower. This is quite a new dilemma, which has been created due to the advancements in very expensive scientific and technological measures. No coun...

(1) For every macro instruction I and for every integer location a holds card(if a = 0 then I; Goto(insloc(0)) else (StopSCMFSA)) = card I +6. (2) For every macro instruction I and for every integer location a holds card(if a > 0 then I; Goto(insloc(0)) else (StopSCMFSA)) = card I +6. Let a be an integer location and let I be a macro instruction. The functor while a = 0 do I yields a macro inst...

Although canine rabies has been eliminated from industrialized countries, infected dogs remain the primary source of human and livestock exposures in Asia, Africa and much of South America. Human deaths are the most important direct economic impact of canine rabies, followed by livestock losses and the cost of PEP, while expenses associated with dog vaccination and control are major indirect im...

In this study, we propose dynamic prioritization of image macro-blocks for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSN). An encoding scheme is employed at the source node by labeling the blocks as “important” or “not-important” based on the information they contain. We introduce a set of novel priority measures to weigh importance of macro-blocks using their intrinsic properties. Experimental res...

It is now fashionable in many circles to advocate vegetarianism, and many activist groups are vocal in their aim to convert the human race to vegetarians. What would be the economic costs and benefits of a shift away from meat consumption? In this article we provide some partial answers to this question. In three separate analyses we show (i) that it is much more costly to produce energy and pr...

Fucoxanthin, an allenic carotenoid, is abundant in macro and microalgae as a component of the light-harvesting complex for photosynthesis and photo protection. This carotenoid has shown important pharmaceutical bioactivity, exerting antioxidant, anti-cancer, anti-diabetic, anti-obesity, anti-photoaging, anti-angiogenic, and anti-metastatic effects on a variety of biological models. This caroten...

The ever-increasing number of electric vehicles (EV) on the road promotes the idea of sustainable transportation by reducing CO2 emissions. This inherently means there is a growing need for charging stations as well. A potential solution to address the need for charging stations is to transform traditional parking lots into smart parking lots, in a sense that smart parking lots provide not only...

The assignment in this report is motivated by the current financial crisis, which equally, or maybe even more accurately should be called a debt crisis. The research problem to be solved in this report is therefore to assess four conceptual different macroeconomic systems, including today’s Basel-type banking system, to find advantages and disadvantages in these systems compared to each other. ...