Slow but steady wins the drug race

Slow and steady wins the race? No signs of reduced welfare in smallerbroiler breeder hens at four weeks of age

The tortoise wins only when the race is long: How the task environment changes the behavior of Tetris models

Tetris can be viewed as a highly complex decision making task, and used as a paradigm for studying human expertise. We hypothesized that models capable of playing Tetris for a long time are doing so by adopting slow but steady strategies to accumulate points, while human players are much more prone to using high-risk, high-reward strategies that earn more points in a shorter time frame. This wo...

Sperm competitiveness in frogs: slow and steady wins the race.

When sperm compete to fertilize available ova, selection is expected to favour ejaculate traits that contribute to a male's fertilization success. While there is much evidence to show that selection favours increased numbers of sperm, only a handful of empirical studies have examined how variation in sperm form and function contributes to competitive fertilization success. Here, we examine sele...

Parity and Ruin in a Stochastic Game

We study an elementary two-player card game where in each round players compare cards and the holder of the card with the smaller value wins. Using the rate equations approach, we treat the stochastic version of the game in which cards are drawn randomly. We obtain an exact solution for arbitrary initial conditions. In general, the game approaches a steady state where the card value densities o...

Debunking the curse of the rainbow jersey: historical cohort study

OBJECTIVE To understand the underlying mechanism of the "curse of the rainbow jersey," the lack of wins that purportedly affects the current cycling world champion. DESIGN Historical cohort study. SETTING On the road. PARTICIPANTS Professional cyclists who won the World Championship Road Race or the Tour of Lombardy, 1965-2013. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Number of professional wins per seaso...