Agents - the future of exclusivity

Antifungal agents: Polyene, azole, antimetabolite, other and future agents

Antifungals have always been considered as one of the astonishing discoveries of the 20th century. This is correct, but the real marvel is the development of antifungal resistance in hospitals, communities, and the environment concomitant with their use. Fungal infections have emerged as an important clinical threat, with significant associated morbidity and mortality.  This study is desig...

The Myths of Data Exclusivity

This Article contributes to an ongoing academic and public policy dialogue over whether and on what terms U.S. law should provide “data exclusivity” for new medicines. Five years after a new drug has been approved on the basis of an extensive application that may have cost more than one billion dollars to generate, federal law permits submission of a much smaller application to market a duplica...

Mutual Exclusivity 1 Running head : MUTUAL EXCLUSIVITY IN AUTISM

While there is ample evidence that children treat words as mutually exclusive, the cognitive basis of this bias is widely debated. We focus on the distinction between pragmatic and lexical constraints accounts. High-functioning children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) offer a unique perspective on this debate, as they acquire substantial vocabularies despite impoverished social-pragmatic s...

Smart Agents and Organizations of the Future

Software Agents: The Future of Web Services

The World-Wide Web is evolving from an environment for people to obtain information to an environment for computers to accomplish tasks on behalf of people. The resultant Semantic Web will be computer-friendly through the introduction of standardized Web services. This paper describes how Web services will become more agent-like, and how the envisioned capabilities and uses for the Semantic Web...