What's needed to address bad behavior?

Bad behavior: Good drugs and natural solutions

Pharmacotherapy When a pet is excessively aroused, fearful, anxious, stressed, reactive, lacking impulse control or “behaviorally abnormal”, psychotropic medications are indicated to improve the problem as well as address the pet’s well-being. However, drugs do not change the relationship with the stimulus; therefore, concurrent behavior modification is needed to desensitize, countercondition a...

Moral Responsibility & Mental Illness: A Call for Nuance

Does having a mental disorder, in general, affect whether someone is morally responsible for an action? Many people seem to think so, holding that mental disorders nearly always mitigate responsibility. Against this Naïve view, we argue for a Nuanced account. The problem is not just that different theories of responsibility yield different verdicts about particular cases. Even when all reasonab...

What's needed for reprocessing, storage of laryngoscope blades?

Programming robots with associative memories

Today, there are several drawback that impede the necessary and much needed use of robot learning techniques in real applications. First, the time needed to achieve the synthesis of any behavior is prohibitive. Second, the robot behavior during the Iearning phase is by dejinition bad, it may even be dangerous. Third, except within the lazy learning approach, a new behavior implies a new learnin...

Modeling and Simulation of Elementary Robot Behaviors using Associative Memories

Today, there are several drawbacks that impede the necessary and much needed use of robot learning techniques in real applications. First, the time needed to achieve the synthesis of any behavior is prohibitive. Second, the robot behavior during the learning phase is – by definition – bad, it may even be dangerous. Third, except within the lazy learning approach, a new behavior implies a new le...