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Digital Informatics and Isotopic Biology discusses self-organization and the emergence of order at the atomic scale with a particular emphasis on the digital information that can be carried by proper ordering of stable isotopes. This ushers in the concept of isotopic biology as a complimentary level to the "common" biology. The book discusses the area of isotopic randomness (isotopicity) and numerous implications of it for physics, biology, biomedicine, informatics, and other areas of science. It offers a unique and original view and may be the first milestone of this novel emerging area. The character of the book is highly interdisciplinary with numerous philosophical and historical discourses and comments.

Isotopes. --- System theory. --- Information technology. --- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General. --- Science: General Issues.

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New technologies are driving transformational changes in the global financial system. Virtual currencies (VCs) and the underlying distributed ledger systems are among these. VCs offer many potential benefits, but also considerable risks. VCs could raise efficiency and in the long run strengthen financial inclusion. At the same time, VCs could be potential vehicles for money laundering, terrorist financing, tax evasion and fraud. While risks to the conduct of monetary policy seem less likely to arise at this stage given the very small scale of VCs, risks to financial stability may eventually emerge as the new technologies become more widely used. National authorities have begun to address these challenges and will need to calibrate regulation in a manner that appropriately addresses the risks without stifling innovation. As experience is gained, international standards and best practices could be considered to provide guidance on the most appropriate regulatory responses in different fields, thereby promoting harmonization and cooperation across jurisdictions.

Banks and Banking --- Money and Monetary Policy --- Industries: Financial Services --- Criminology --- Financial Economics: General --- General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data) --- General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation --- Financial Institutions and Services: General --- Pension Funds --- Non-bank Financial Institutions --- Financial Instruments --- Institutional Investors --- Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation --- Monetary Systems --- Standards --- Regimes --- Government and the Monetary System --- Payment Systems --- Banks --- Depository Institutions --- Micro Finance Institutions --- Mortgages --- Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law --- Innovation --- Research and Development --- Technological Change --- Intellectual Property Rights: General --- Monetary economics --- Distributed ledgers --- Banking --- Corporate crime --- white-collar crime --- Technology --- general issues --- Currencies --- Blockchain and DLT --- Virtual currencies --- Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) --- Money --- Crime --- Blockchains --- Databases --- Financial services industry --- Technological innovations --- Banks and banking --- Money laundering --- United States --- General issues --- White-collar crime

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This book offers the first systematic critical appraisal of the uses of work and work therapy in psychiatric institutions across the globe, from the late eighteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Contributors explore the daily routine in psychiatric institutions and ask whether work was therapy, part of a regime of punishment or a means of exploiting free labour. By focusing on mental patients' day-to-day life in closed institutions, the authors fill a gap in the history of psychiatric regimes. The geographical scope is wide, ranging from Northern America to Japan, India and Western as well as Eastern Europe, and the authors engage with broad historical questions, such as the impact of colonialism and communism and the effect of the World Wars. The book presents an alternative history of the emergence of occupational therapy and will be of interest not only to academics in the fields of history and sociology but also to health professionals.

Occupational therapy --- Work --- Industry (Psychology) --- Method of work --- Work, Method of --- Human behavior --- Labor --- Occupations --- Work-life balance --- Activity programs, Therapeutic effect of --- Occupation therapy --- Work, Therapeutic effect of --- Medical rehabilitation --- Physical therapy --- Psychotherapy --- Therapeutics, Physiological --- History --- Psychological aspects. --- Treatment --- Social aspects. --- Mental Disorders --- Occupational Therapy --- Hospitals, Psychiatric --- History, Modern 1601 --- -History of Medicine, Modern --- Medicine, Modern --- Modern History (Medicine) --- Modern Medicine --- History, Modern --- Modern History --- 1601- History, Modern --- History, Modern (Medicine) --- Modern 1601- History --- Treatment&delete& --- Social aspects --- History&delete& --- Psychological aspects --- therapy --- history --- rehabilitation --- Mental illness --- History of medicine. --- MEDICAL / History. --- Medicine & Nursing --- Medicine: general issues --- Madness --- Mental diseases --- Mental disorders --- Disabilities --- Psychology, Pathological --- Mental health --- -Treatment

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Finance and Development, September 2016.

Banks and Banking --- Banks --- Currencies --- Depository Institutions --- Diffusion Processes --- Emerging and frontier financial markets --- Finance --- Finance: General --- Financial services industry --- General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data) --- General issues --- Government and the Monetary System --- Innovation --- Intellectual Property Rights: General --- International finance --- Macroeconomics --- Micro Finance Institutions --- Monetary economics --- Monetary Systems --- Money and Monetary Policy --- Money --- Mortgages --- Payment Systems --- Public finance & taxation --- Public Finance --- Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP) --- Public-private sector cooperation --- Regimes --- Research and Development --- Robotics --- Standards --- Technological Change --- Technological Change: Choices and Consequences --- Technology --- United States

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Finance and Development, September 2016.

Banks and Banking --- Banks --- Currencies --- Depository Institutions --- Diffusion Processes --- Emerging and frontier financial markets --- Finance --- Finance: General --- Financial services industry --- General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data) --- General issues --- Government and the Monetary System --- Innovation --- Intellectual Property Rights: General --- International finance --- Macroeconomics --- Micro Finance Institutions --- Monetary economics --- Monetary Systems --- Money and Monetary Policy --- Money --- Mortgages --- Payment Systems --- Public finance & taxation --- Public Finance --- Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP) --- Public-private sector cooperation --- Regimes --- Research and Development --- Robotics --- Standards --- Technological Change --- Technological Change: Choices and Consequences --- Technology --- United States