In 2012, the Chatham House established a Working Group on Health Financing, of which I was a member, to deliberate on a global framework for health financing (Røttingen et al., 2014) (reference to paper by McIntyre et al., 2017). Intensive discussions and exhaustive studies brought out 20 recommendations. Of them three were important points emphasizing the need for countries to (i) ensure a min...

One advantage of the asynchronous and distributed character of embodied evolution is that it can be executed on real robots without external supervision. Further, evolutionary progress can be measured in real time instead of in generation based evaluation cycles. By combining embodied evolution with lifetime learning, we investigated a largely neglected aspect with respect to the common assumpt...

The European Union plays an increasingly influential role in the management of asylum-seekers and refugees in Europe. This paper addresses the question why European states have decided to cooperate in this policy area and why they have been prepared to give EU institutions an increasingly greater role in this process. It seeks to offer new insights into the motivation for international cooperat...

Zoonoses with a wildlife reservoir represent a major public health problem, affecting all continents. Hundreds of pathogens and many different transmission modes are involved, and many factors influence the epidemiology of the various zoonoses. The importance and recognition of wildlife as a reservoir of zoonoses are increasing. Cost-effective prevention and control of these zoonoses necessitat...

Introducing the concept of replication strategies this paper studies the evolution of cooperation in populations of agents whose offspring follow a social strategy that is determined by a parent’s replication strategy. Importantly, social and replication strategies may differ, thus allowing parents to construct their own social niche, defined by the behaviour of their offspring. We analyse the ...

In this paper I review the basic parameters of Classical Novae and then move on to describe the evolution of their ejected envelopes. The early shaping of the remnant, thought to be a consequence of a common envelope phase, and with analogies to what may occur in PNe with binary star nuclei, is then described. Finally, the curious case of Nova GK Persei (1901) and its potential to aid our under...

"Environmental health" and "multidimensional development process" are two concepts that have been used and discussed since the last two decades within different conceptual frameworks. The present paper presents and discusses an interpretation concerning the interconnection between these two concepts in line with the integrated approach to health of environmental epidemiology and the multidimens...

The United Nations/European Space Agency workshops on basic space science are a long-term effort for the development of astrophysics and space science and regional and international cooperation in this field on a world-wide basis, particularly in developing nations. The first four workshops in this series (India (1991), Costa Rica and Colombia (1992), Nigeria (1993), Egypt (1994)) explored the ...

This paper discusses our investigation into the evolution of cooperative players in an online business environment. We explain our design of an incentive based system with its foundation over binary reputation system whose proportion of reward or punishment is a function of transaction value and the player’s past history of cooperation. We compare the evolution of cooperation in our setting wit...