How Markets Fail, by John Cassidy, is another in a run of books that feed off the corpse of neoliberalism. It is inspired by events pertaining to the current financial crisis. But this book is not just about finance, it also provides a rough overview of trends in the field of economics before concentrating on the theory of finance and on the current financial crisis. The book is divided into th...

This contribution is published as part of the Think Piece Series Let's Talk about Women's Rights: 20 Years after the Beijing Platform for Action. In this series, leading feminist thinkers discuss achievements in the field of women’s rights and gender equality; identify the challenges faced in implementing the Beijing Platform for Action; and consider ways of moving forward. They offer both crit...

The global epidemic of obesity and physical inactivity may have detrimental implications for young people's cognitive function and academic achievement. This prospective study investigated whether childhood motor function predicts later academic achievement via physical activity, fitness, and obesity. The study sample included 8,061 children from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986, which co...

Links have recently been established between measures of educational attainment and both verbal and visuo-spatial aspects of working memory. Relationships have also been identified between specific executive functions-shifting, updating, and inhibition-and scholastic achievement. In the present study, scholastic attainment, shifting, updating, inhibition, and verbal and visuo-spatial working me...

The interactive algorithms are often used [2] to solve multicriteria linear integer programming problems (MCIP). These algorithms [3, 6, 7, 11, 13] are modifications of interactive approaches solving multicriteria linear problems that include the integrality constraints. Linear integer programming problems are used as scalarizing problems in these interactive algorithms. These problems are NP-d...

BACKGROUND There is increasing evidence for the association between physical activity, cardiovascular fitness, fatness, and cognitive function during childhood and adolescence. Evidence also suggests that these variables are linked to academic achievement. Classroom-based physical activity provides a viable approach to improve fitness, body mass index (BMI), cognitive function, and ultimately a...