Drugs, information and influence

Newer drugs which influence behavior.

732 M ANY chemicals affect the behavior of children in health and in disease. Often the precise mode of action of these is elusive. The effect of insulin in erasing coma from a diabetic child is better known to us than the method by which the insulin does so. When a chemical has a reproducible effect-either preventive or therapeutic-which is considered desirable, we use it. The therapeutic skep...

Information and Influence

Impact of Managers’ Optimism on the Relationship between Patience of Major Shareholders and Information Influence Management

Behavioral financial knowledge deals with the behavior of investors and other users in the capital market. According to the financial knowledge, it is no longer expected that only factors such as accounting information and macroeconomic variables will affect decision-making but also a variety of behavioral variables including manager’s optimism, information influence management, patience of maj...

[Driving under the influence of drugs].

Information/Relevance Influence Diagrams

In this paper we extend the influence diagram (ID) representation for decisions under uncertainty. In the standard ID, arrows into a decision node are only infonnational; they do not represent constraints on what the decision maker can do. We can represent such constraints only indirectly, using arr ows to the children of the decision and sometimes adding more variables to the influence diagram...