... there appears to be consistency across three studies in reported behavioral delays in cognitive achievement, motor control, social behavior, and ...

The principal difficulties in achieving good control of polymerization reactors are related to inadequate on-line measurement, a lack of understanding of the dynamics of the process, the highly sensitive and nonlinear behavior of these reactors, and the l...

... behavior-based, fully distributed architecture, called ALLIANCE, that utilizes adaptive action selection to achieve fault tolerant cooperative control. ...

Investigates the effect of the first-grade classroom environment on the shy behavior, aggressive behavior, and concentration problems of 609 children in 19 East Baltimore public schools. First-grade classroom environment was assessed in terms of dominant pattern of classroom achievement and behavior. Structured ...

The review summarizes data on the role of the caudate nucleus and putamen in the organization of some forms of behavior. Corpus striatum control is achieved by means of well-pronounced inhibitory mechanisms. Three types of behavorial changes represent the...

Perceived behavioral control. Recognizing that perceived ability to perform a particular behavior, or achieve a certain goal may influence whether the behavior actually occurs, Ajzen (1991) xClose Ajzen, I. (1991). The theory of planned behavior. Organizational ...

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Adaptation Part 1. Control Loop Achiever Behavior. Mission Data System ... Adaptation: implement symmetrical input and output methods ...

... Develop a DVD using testimonials that industry and regulatory organizations can use to aid in achieving behavior change in food workers, make it available ...

... enhance our ability to achieve important nonproliferation and foreign ... a disciplined way to deal with objectionable Non-proliferation behavior�such ...

behaviors when a large adaptive gain is used to achieve fast adaptation in order to ... due to fast adaptation can be an issue. In certain applications ...

The achievements of this five-year project are summarized. The primary achievement is the development of a new paradigm to investigate the complex reaction processes that control the behavior of heterogeneous energetic materials in munitions throughout th...

The present invention provides a device that acts as an optical switch to control the intensity of a light beam through the action of a second control beam. This behavior is achieved through photoinduced anisotropy that develops in a monomolecular layer c...

One effort to achieve high speed data networks is parallel media access control. In order to understand the behavior of several factors affecting the behavior of the system, a general purpose media access simulator was developed. The results were encourag...

In order to collect fundamental data for the experiments under microgravity in IML-2 (International Microgravity Laboratory-2), behavior of cyprinodonts was observed under microgravity, as well as with visual stimulation. Microgravity condition was achiev...

Prior research on oppositional culture theory has generally focused on beliefs about the opportunity structure, or the "acting white" hypothesis, as an explanation for racial differences in school achievement. However, little attention has been given to the mechanism by which these beliefs affect achievement: schooling behaviors. The ...

Crowd simulation for virtual environments offers many challenges centered on the trade-offs between rich behavior, control and computational cost. In this paper we present a new approach to controlling the behavior of agents in a crowd. Our method is scalable in the sense that increasingly complex crowd ...

Achieving tasks with a multiple robot system will require a control system that is both simple and scalable as the number of robots increases. Collectivebehavior as demonstrated by social insects is a form of decentralized control that may prove useful in controlling multiple robots. Nature's several examples of ...

This study examined parenting styles, Type A behavior in parents and children, and social competence in children. Fifty 1st-6th grade children, parents, and their teachers participated. Type A behavior in parents was associated with a controlling style of parenting, but not with pressuring the child to achieve. ...

An attempt was made to vary systematically the behavior of two elementary school teachers to determine the effects on classroom behavior of Rules, Ignoring Inappropriate Behaviors, and showing Approval for Appropriate Behavior. Behaviors of two children in one class and one child in the other ...

An important problem is how to achieve water quality control with minimal adverse economic impacts. The following analysis focuses on the latter issue. It conceives of the adoption of water pollution abatement measures as an entrepreneurial type of proble...

Linearization by feedback of states is based on the idea of transform the nonlinear dynamic equation of a system in a linear form. This linear behavior can be achieve well in a complete way (input state) or in partial way (input output). This can be appli...

Previous studies documented long-run effects of behavior problems at the start of school on academic achievement. However, these studies did not examine whether the observed effects of early behavior problems are explained by more proximate behavior problems, given the tendency of children's ...

. Environmental Information One of the goals of reactive control is to pro� duce ``intelligent'' behavior without behavior. A high goal gain will cause the Move�to�Goal schema to have a more pronounced effect. If one has the proper set of gain values, opti� mal behavior can be achieved ...

Research Findings: Behavioral regulation (the integration of attention, working memory, and inhibitory control) is critical for school readiness and early academic achievement. In Taiwan, however, where academic success is highly valued, there is a dearth of assessments available to measure young children's ...

--tailored to achieve the desired behavior. Work in control theory helps provide answers for planning in well provided by a priori planning. From a control theory viewpoint, the planning prob� lem may also be viewed and Technology 405 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801 gervasio@cs.uiuc.edu Extended Abstract The ...

This study examined how classroom management practices--care and behavioral control--were differentially associated with students' engagement, misbehavior, and satisfaction with school, using a large representative sample of 3196 Grade 9 students from 117 classes in Singapore. Results of hierarchical linear modeling showed differential relations. After ...

Traditional critics of behaviorism and behavior analysis have emphasized that these approaches cannot deal with creative achievements in the arts or sciences, or even in ordinary speech. This essay explores several lines of research and conceptual issues from different sources in an effort to refute this claim. The emphasis is on ...

This paper presents artificial emotional system based autonomous robot control architecture. Hidden Markov model developed as mathematical background for stochastic emotional and behavior transitions. Motivation module of architecture considered as behavioral gain effect generator for achieving multi-objective ...

This study investigated a measurement model of personality resilience and the contribution of personality resilience to lower achieving first grade students' academic achievement. Participants were 445 ethnically diverse children who at entrance to first grade scored below their school district median on a test of literacy. Participants were administered ...

This study, using NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development longitudinal data, investigated the effects of classroom quality and students' third-grade behavioral engagement on students' third-grade reading achievement (n?=?1,364) and also examined the extent to which students' third-grade behavioral engagement mediated the ...

This study, using NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development longitudinal data, investigated the effects of classroom quality and students� third-grade behavioral engagement on students� third-grade reading achievement (n?=?1,364) and also examined the extent to which students� third-grade behavioral engagement ...

This study utilizes the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) as the theoretical framework from which to explore the factors that have a determining influence upon science and mathematics achievement. The study makes every effort to expand the utility of TPB by assessing its applicability with respect to the achievement of 10th grade female ...

We gathered individual participant data from 16 group design studies on behavioral intervention for children with autism. In these studies, 309 children received behavioral intervention, 39 received comparison interventions, and 105 were in a control group. More children who underwent behavioral intervention ...

We gathered individual participant data from 16 group design studies on behavioral intervention for children with autism. In these studies, 309 children received behavioral intervention, 39 received comparison interventions, and 105 were in a control group. More children who underwent behavioral intervention ...

... science, operational warfare, joint planning, national and ... Fear of Failure and General Achievement Behavior. ... a network of theory surrounding the ...

Recent studies have presented evidence that the prefrontal cortex plays a crucial role in every aspect of the cognitive processes necessary for behavioral planning: processing and integration of perceived or memorized information, associative learning, reward-based behavioral control, behavioral ...

The goal of polyhomeostatic control is to achieve a certain target distribution of behaviors, in contrast to homeostatic regulation, which aims at stabilizing a steady-state dynamical state. We consider polyhomeostasis for individual and networks of firing-rate neurons, adapting to achieve target distributions of ...

The teachers and caretakers (on kibbutzim) of the index and control children were questioned about a variety of behaviors, including emotional adjustment, school performance and achievement, interests and activities, and relations with others. Index children were rated as more impaired or disturbed than control ...

Pursuit of Self-Control (with Chris Janiszewski). Being revised for resubmission to the Journal of Consumer Research. Paper based on my dissertation. Several hypotheses have been advanced to account for how an initial act of selfregulation may influence subsequent behaviors. Much of the literature provides evidence that an initial act of self-regulation ...

East-West relations have noticeably deteriorated, and Russia's behavior has become commensurately more self-assertive. Key arms control achievements are in jeopardy, and Russia claims to be facing an array of growing threats, most prominently from America...

Foaming injected gas is a useful and promising technique for achieving mobility control in porous media. Typically, such foams are aqueous. In the presence of foam, gas and liquid flow behavior is determined by bubble size or foam texture. The thin-liquid...

Content: Modern Stability Research Improves Understanding of Nonlinear Structural Dynamic Behavior, Temporal Evolution of Three Dimensional Turbulent Mixing in Gases Measured Successfully, Control of Compressor Surge Achieved, Quasi-Steady Plasma Sustaine...

Our research achievements under the NASA-JSC grant contributed significantly in the following areas. Multi-agent based robot control architecture called the Intelligent Machine Architecture (IMA) : The Vanderbilt team received a Space Act Award for this r...

Given assertions of the theoretical, empirical, and practical importance of self-control, this meta-analytic study sought to review evidence concerning the relationship between dispositional self-control and behavior. The authors provide a brief overview over prominent theories of self-control, identifying implicit ...

The main aim of this work is finding a practical method which is based on a mathematical model to cure the breast cancer. This model with certain values of parameters could exhibit a chaotic behavior. Consequently, we achieve this goal by controlling chaos and find the best adjustable control parameter in order to ...

This paper describes a system that automates neutral beam source conditioning. The system achieves this with artificial intelligence techniques by encoding the behavior of several experts as a set of if-then rules in an expert system. One of the functions of the expert system is to control an adaptive controller ...

... Investigator October 28, 195/j. * Behavioral correlates of directly and i indirectly measured achievement motivation., by ...

Simulation of physically realistic complex dust behavior is very useful in training, education, art, advertising, and entertainment. There are no published models for real-time simulation of dust behavior generated by a traveling vehicle. In this paper, we use particle systems, computational fluid dynamics, and behavioral simulation ...

In this meta-analysis, the author analyzed 18 response card articles, theses, or dissertations to determine the magnitude of effect that response card strategies have on test achievement, quiz achievement, class participation, and intervals of off-task behavior. The author also determined whether the type of response cards used or the ...

The creation of psychophysical tasks for the behavioral neurosciences has generally relied upon low-level software running on a limited range of hardware. Despite the availability of software that allows the coding of behavioral tasks in high-level programming environments, many researchers are still reluctant to trust the temporal accuracy and resolution ...

B. F. Skinner founded both radical behaviorism and behavior analysis. His founding innovations included: a versatile preparation for studying behavior; explicating the generic nature of stimulus and response; a pragmatic criterion for defining behavioral units; response rate as a datum; the concept of stimulus ...

This paper presents a distributed control approach to legged locomotion that constructs behavior on-line by activating combinations of reusable feedback control laws drawn from a control basis. Sequences of such controller activations result in flexible aperiodic step sequences based on local ...

Using the recently available wave of a large nationally representative sample of American elementary school children (ECLS-K data), this study examined the relationship between 6-7 year old students' behaviors exhibited in the 1st grade (approaches to learning, interpersonal skills, externalizing and internalizing behavior) and their reading and ...

... exhibit motivational behaviors and whether those behaviors influence student achievement. The population for this study consisted of all students ...

This study used both between-subjects and within-subjects analyses to examine the effects of a gluten-free diet on the academic achievement of autistic children. The between-subjects analysis included data from eight autistic children (ages 5 to 7) with four on a gluten-free diet and four serving as controls. The number of attempts needed before mastering ...

The purpose was to describe the social adjustment, academic achievement, and creativity of 127 Taiwanese children with Tourette's Syndrome and a control group of 138 Taiwanese children with typical development and reports of the parents of both groups. The Tourette's Syndrome group had significantly more disruptive behaviors than the ...

The three species ratio-dependent food chain (Holling-Tanner type) model is investigated by Gakkhar and Naji is known to have chaotic behavior for a choice of parameters. An attempt has been made to synchronize the chaos in the model using bidirectional coupling. Numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the analytical results. ...

In this paper we propose markers for coordinating behavior cooperation. Markers ground task-related data on sensor data flow. Behaviors command markers by specifying weights for the different possible command parameter values. Cooperation is achieved by combining the commands sent to the same marker. We discuss also multi-agent ...

Core shell BaTiO3 based particles sintered using advanced processes provide a high control of grain boundaries in bulk composites. As a result, supercapacitor behavior was evidenced which came from the balance between inner grain conductivity and grain boundary dielectric barrier. Thanks to the core-shell structure of the starting particles, improved ...

The transient behavior of a field-effect GaAs laser diode is modeled under a controlled carrier distribution in the central (Gamma) and satellite (S) valleys. The carrier distribution control is achieved by modulating the applied electric field which heat...

An electronically controlled fuel pump for diesel engines provides greater flexibility for meeting changing and additional control needs than current hydromechanical devices. Points out that external plug-in programmable read only memory (PROM) for calibration permits standardizations to be achieved within sets of identical pumps. ...

The Behavior Enhanced Heterogeneous Autonomous Vehicle Environment (BEHAVE) is a distributed system for the command and control of multiple Unmanned Vehicle Systems (UVS) with various sensor payloads (EO, infrared and radar) and mission roles (combat, reconnaissance, penetrator, relay) working in cooperation to fulfill mission goals in light of encountered ...

System-wide practices in schools should diminish the occurrence of children's problem behavior that is deleterious to academic achievement. The current study examined the relationship between variables that affect classroom behavior and observed behavior in schools with and without a theoretically based character ...

The study identified distinct patterns of parental practices that differentially influence adolescent behavior using the National Educational Longitudinal Survey (NELS:88) database. Following Brenner and Fox's research model (1999), the cluster analysis was used to classify the four types of parental practices. The clusters of parenting practices in the current study showed ...

The evolutionary game on graphs provides a natural framework to investigate the cooperation behavior existing in natural and social society. In this paper, degree-based pinning control and random pinning control are introduced into the evolutionary prisoner's dilemma game on scale-free networks, and the effects of ...

is the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) which predicts a person's success or failure in achieving a proposed behavior (e to explore further in our study. Figure 5: Low-tech puppetry model of the Clouds using tomatoes and mushrooms. A randomized controlled trial of smoking cessation for pregnant women to test the effect of a ...

Cooperated multi robots system has much dominance in comparison with single robot system. It is able to adapt to various circumstances and has a flexibility for variation of tasks. However it has still problems to control each robot, though methods for control multi robots system have been studied. Recently, the robots have been coming into real scene. And ...

In order to incorporate the uncertainty and impreciseness present in real-world event-driven asynchronous systems, fuzzy discrete event systems (DESs) (FDESs) have been proposed as an extension to crisp DESs. In this paper, first, we propose an extension to the supervisory control theory of FDES by redefining fuzzy controllable and uncontrollable events. ...

The control of stress and violent behavior is 1 of the 15 priority areas addressed in the Public Health Service's Objectives for the Nation. The National Institute of Mental Health, which provides a national focus for the Federal effort to increase knowledge of, and promote effective strategies dealing with, issues associated with mental illness and mental ...

Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) are very dynamic networks with devices continuously entering and leaving the group. The highly dynamic nature of MANETs renders the manual creation and update of policies associated with the initial incorporation of devices to the MANET (admission control) as well as with anomaly detection during communications among members (access ...

This paper illustrates how different modes of operation such as bilateral teleoperation, autonomous control, and shared control can be described and implemented using combinations of modules in the SMART robot control architecture. Telerobotics modes are characterized by different ``grids`` of SMART icons, where each icon represents a ...

Most school administrations rely on one of two main forms of social control to ensure teacher conformity with organizational goals. The first, feedback and socialization, depends on teachers' attitudinal and behavioral conformity, commitment, and personal involvement in maintaining high standards. The second, programming and sanctions, depends on a system ...

This study investigated predictive relations between preschoolers' (N=310) behavioral regulation and emergent literacy, vocabulary, and math skills. Behavioral regulation was assessed using a direct measure called the Head-to-Toes Task, which taps inhibitory control, attention, and working memory, and requires children to perform the ...

This study investigated predictive relations between preschoolers' (N=310) behavioral regulation and emergent literacy, vocabulary, and math skills. Behavioral regulation was assessed using a direct measure called the Head-to-Toes Task, which taps inhibitory control, attention, and working memory, and requires children to perform ...