In recent years, there have been important changes in antimicrobial therapy. New antimicrobials are available and a greater database of species-specific pharmacokinetic information is available, allowing for more accurate dosing with drugs. Antimicrobial drugs are the most widely prescribed and administered drugs in veterinary medicine. Unfortunately, they are not always used appropriately. In ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate decision making in patients with primary restless legs syndrome (RLS) with and without augmentation treated with dopaminergic medication. METHODS A total of 64 non-demented RLS patients treated with dopaminergic medication with and without augmentation were included in this study. We used an information sampling task to assess how much evidence participants gather be...

In many situations of indeterminacy, where people agree that no decisive arguments favor one alternative to another, they are still strongly opposed to resolving the dilemma by a coin toss. The robustness of this judgment-decision discrepancy is demonstrated in several experiments, where factors like the importance of consequences, similarity of alternatives, conflicts of opinion, outcome certa...

This paper handles a kind of strategic game called potential games and develops a novel learning algorithm Payoff-based Inhomogeneous Partially Irrational Play (PIPIP). The present algorithm is based on Distributed Inhomogeneous Synchronous Learning (DISL) presented in an existing work but, unlike DISL, PIPIP allows agents to make irrational decisions with a specified probability, i.e. agents c...