Moral hazard is one of the most basic concepts in economics: If someone pays you for your accidents, you will expend less effort trying to avoid them. Insurance companies understand this perfectly well. That's why most insurance contracts include customer deductibles and limited coverage. This seems straightforward enough. Why is it, then, that policymakers appear to have missed this important ...

The shadow banking system played a major role in the recent financial crisis but remains largely unregulated. We propose principles for its regulation and describe a specific proposal to implement those principles. We document how the rise of shadow banking was helped by regulatory and legal changes that gave advantages to three main institutions: money-market mutual funds (MMMFs) to capture re...

This paper presents a concept of automatic needle placement for brachytherapy. For the success of this minimally invasive treatment, a precise and safe placement of needles inside soft tissue is fundamental. The presented concept incorporates information about the needle as well as the tissue to find a suitable needle trajectory. A patientspecific tissue model is derived from different imaging ...

This paper describes a group communication system called the timewheel group communication system that has been designed for a timed asynchronous distributed system model. The timewheel group communication system consists of three protocols: a clock synchronization, an atomic broadcast protocol, and a group membership protocol. All these protocols have been designed to be fail-aware in the sens...

in this study, the problem of navigation in dynamic and unknown environment is investigated and a navigation method based on force field approach is suggested. it is assumed that the robot performs navigation in unknown environment and builds the map through slam procedure. since the moving objects' location and properties are unknown, they are identified and tracked by kalman filter. kalm...

This publication series is intended for leaders who bear the responsibility of having difficult conversations as part their professional responsibilities. Earlier in this series, foundational principles preparing were established: (1) defining issue and (2) determining your motive conversation. Once those are put into practice, next phase a conversation creating safe environment Components incl...

It is no secret that the world facing challenge of transitioning to healthy diets, which link human and planetary health economy. Among wide variety Palaeolithic diet has become so popular in social media. The main goal this study evaluate environmental sustainability Paleo diet, incorporating dimension economic, nutritional, indicators. Results were compared with those other dietary patterns S...