A Return

A return to virtue.

T he dominant trend in contemporary medical ethics describes ethical behavior in terms of the principles and rules that must be followed to bring it about, most notably nonmaleficence, beneficence, justice, and respect for autonomy. An alternative approach to ethics, virtue ethics, emphasizes not principles and rules, but rather the virtues, or characteristics, whose exercise will bring about e...

Market Anomalies on Return

There are various anomalies in the financial markets such as profitability, financial distress, lottery, volatility, and growth options, which origin and nature are unclear, ambiguous and apparently unrelated. In this study, we investigate the seemingly unrelated anomalies using the third and fourth moments of return’s distribution function and by isolating the expected skewness effect attribut...

RETURN Integer IS RETURN Integer ISMinVal

Mutation testing is a technique for testing software units that has great potential for improving the quality of testing, and thereby increasing our ability to assure the high reliability of critical software. It will be shown that recent advances in mutation research have brought a practical mutation testing system closer to reality. One recent advance is a partial solution to the problem of a...

A Return to the Landscape

Games of no return a

Let D = (V,A) be a finite directed graph (digraph) each vertex v ∈ V of which is interpreted as a position and each arc a = (v, v′) ∈ A as a possible move from position v to v′. Two players, 1 and 2, take turns moving a token from a given initial position v0. The game ends as soon as the token returns to a position, where it has already been. By definition, the player who made the last move los...