BACKGROUND In 2004, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) published monitoring guidelines for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT), but no assessment of their utilization has been reported. We evaluated adherence to these recommendations by physicians at infusion centers and then piloted a program of supervision of monitoring by pharmacists. METHODS Phase I: We perfo...

Introduction Individual social status among peers (i.e., acceptance and rejection) has important implications for students’ academic development. The present study investigates the role of individual problem behavior classroom norms in development rejection students with intellectual disabilities (ID) special needs schools.Methods School staff reported on 1125 ID (M = 11.26 years, SD 3.76; 31% ...

The antigens recognized by individual CD8(+) T cells are small peptides bound to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules. The CD8(+) T cell response to a virus is restricted to several peptides, and the magnitudes of the effector as well as memory phases of the response to the individual peptides are generally hierarchical. The peptide eliciting a stronger response is called im...

The aim of this study was to examine the role that personality traits, empathy traits, and gratitude have on ageist attitudes and aging anxiety. Consistent with previous research, participants who exhibited greater aging anxiety were more prone to ageist attitudes. Participants with greater dispositional gratitude exhibited significantly less aging anxiety and less ageist attitudes. All of the ...

Identifying organisms is a key step in accessing information related to the ecology of species. But unfortunately, this is difficult to achieve due to the level of expertise necessary to correctly identify and record living organisms. To try bridging this gap, enormous work has been done on the development of automated species identification tools such as image-based plant identification or aud...

Search task characteristics are recognized as important factors that affect search process and its outcomes. This research examines the relationships among operational measures of searcher’s behavior, individual cognitive differences, subjective task difficulty and mental effort assed by dual-task performance. A web-based information study was conduced in a controlled experimental setting. Fort...

We examine the Cournot oligopoly model in the context of social and individual learning. In both models of learning, firms update their decisions about how much to produce via variants of the genetic algorithm updating procedure. Arifovic (1994) found that both models of social and individual learning converged to the Walrasian, competitive equilibrium. Vriend (2000) reports that the model of s...

Dyads composed of unacquainted females watched a video while snacking on pizza. Their extraversion and self-monitoring scores were used to predict the extent to which individuals within dyads matched each other's food intake. Matching of intake was high irrespective of the personality composition of the dyad. We consider elements of the situation that enhanced matching and whether personality m...

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