A recent Newsweek article entitled “Why We’re Married to the Market” observed: “Seldom, if ever, has Main Street been so enthralled with Wall Street. We have become a nation of stock junkies—splurging on mutual funds, scouring market tables, and studying personal-finance columns” (Samuelson 1998). Journalists, policymakers, and observers from all walks of life have been taking note of the incre...

the concepts of democracy have been around for centuries in different fields of human sciences. however, in most of these fields the idealistic and far-fetched features attributed to democracy have not been manipulated yet. it should be mentioned that there have been only a few serious attempts to find proper go-between elements, which could make such a concept as comprehensible and tangible as...

This short summary presents an insider’s look at the construction of the Santa Fe artificial stock market. The perspective considers the many design questions that went into building the market from the perspective of a decade of experience with agent-based financial markets. The market is assessed based on its overall strengths and weaknesses. Graduate School of International Economics and Fin...

A street child is someone under age 18 years who spends a considerable amount of time living or working on the street. Street children may have either run away from the home without their parents' permission, been forced onto the streets by their parents, or be orphans. Data are presented on 1147 street children aged 8-19 years interviewed between May 13 and June 9, 1997, in four market areas...

Night-market is a special living culture of Taiwan. It is a natural process of spatial development, and presents popular night entertainment of Taiwanese people. The goal of this research is to establish the simulation model to analyze spatial development factors of Taiwanese Night-market. The method is integrated「Cellular Automata」(CA) and 「Artificial Neural Network」(ANN) to experiment spatial...

background: the illicit vials with street name temgesic and norgesic has been distributed in black market of iran in recent years. with reference to their name, one may presume that they contain the opioid buprenorphine but there are some reports in opposition to this. true nature of these vials has been shown in the current study. methods: all of drugs that had been apprehended by law enforcem...