Assessed six categories of college students' health risk behaviors. Student survey data indicated that respondents were engaging in risk behaviors that could impact educational achievement and lead to serious consequences. Youth tended to enter college with established patterns of risk. Most regularly consumed ...

To meet an increasing need to examine the neurophysiological underpinnings of behavior in rats, we developed a behavioral system for studying sensory processing, attention and discrimination learning in rats while recording firing patterns of neurons in one or more brain areas of interest. Because neuronal activity is sensitive to variations in ...

To meet an increasing need to examine the neurophysiological underpinnings of behavior in rats, we developed a behavioral system for studying sensory processing, attention and discrimination learning in rats while recording firing patterns of neurons in one or more brain areas of interest. Because ...

This paper studies two classes of regularization strategies to achieve an improved tradeoff between image recovery and noise suppression in projection-based image deblurring. The first is based on a simple fact that r-times Landweber iteration leads to a fixed level of regularization, which allows us to achieve ...

The single-beat reconstruction of electrical cardiac sources from body-surface electrocardiogram data might become an important issue for clinical application. The feasibility and field of application of noninvasive imaging methods strongly depend on development of stable algorithms for solving the underlying ill-posed inverse problems. We propose a novel spatiotemporal ...

This study examines the influence of psychosocial conventionality and health value orientation on regularity of condom use among adolescents in the US. Data were obtained from 971 ethnically and racially mixed students from a large urban school district in the Rocky Mountain Region who were followed up in the final wave of a 4-wave longitudinal study of adolescent health and ...

Background? Exposure to solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation is believed to be an important contributor to facial photoaging. Daily application of topical photoprotectants is thought to mitigate this process. Objectives? To examine the importance of a number of independent factors in reducing the lifetime UV exposure of facial skin achieved by daily use of photoprotective ...

Educational research, practice, and institutions regularly highlight the significance of factors outside of schooling that affect children's engagement and participation in classroom learning. The health of children and families is one such issue with implications for the quality of children's school experiences, treatment in school, and academic ...

In 1979, a special program was implemented for junior high students unable to benefit from regular programming due to a failure to cope with regular school courses, irregular and non-attendance, disruptive behavior, or poor self-concept. Quantitative and qualitative data were obtained from site visits, achievement ...

Using an automated magnet measurement system employing a variety of current excitation ramps, extensive studies of the hysteretic behavior of magnet strength have been carried out. An analytic description which is accurate at better than 0.1% has been achieved. Prescriptions for setting field strength using these formulas will be adequate for ...

... The protocol includes supplementation of visual observations by regularly- scheduled video samples of the focal whale's behavior; procedures for ...

... CHARACTERISTICS DEPENDING ON THE CONDITIONS OF FORMATION AND LIFE OF ... on the origin of rocks and on the geological processes to ...

... Title : SITUATIONAL CONDITIONED REFLEXES IN DOGS IN NORMAL AND PATHOLOGICAL ... of research on regularities in animal behavior by the ...

Objective:To evaluate the possible association between maternal smoking during pregnancy (MSDP) and offspring outcomes of birth weight, pre-term birth, remediation, low scholastic achievement, regular smoking, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and conduct problems (CD) while controlling for similar behaviors in ...

Increasing diversity among student populations and shifts in special education delivery systems have combined to create a tremendous need for interventions that can help children with learning and behavior problems achieve success in the regular classroom. Noting that many of the published, empirically validated interventions are ...

The aim of the present study was to examine differences among "regular" and dyslexic adult bilingual readers when processing reading and reading related skills in their first (L1 Hebrew) and second (L2 English) languages. Brain activity during reading Hebrew and English unexpected sentence endings was also studied. Behavioral and electrophysiological ...

Using the latest international educational database, TIMSS, this study investigates and compares the occurrences of 11 student problem behaviors as reported by middle school principals in ten countries. For each country, the study reveals the relationships of these problem behaviors with teachers' attitudes and parental involvement, and discusses the ...

This report presents findings, after one year of program implementation, from the Evaluation of Enhanced Academic Instruction in After-School Programs--a two-year intervention and random assignment evaluation of adapted models of regular-school-day math and reading instruction in after-school settings for students in grades 2 through 5. This evaluation seeks to determine ...

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

... It achieves the latter by modelling the excitation source as a regular trapezoid and allows the user to vary the rise time and pulsewidth as the ...

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

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... His result states that if mu is a regular probability measure on a ... of this paper is an example of an interesting family of probability measures on the ...

An experimental group of 11 mentally retarded Arab children were involved in a contingency-management program based on successful completion of academic work. A control group of retarded children with approximately equal mean CA and mean IQ scores was exposed only to the regular teaching routine. Results indicated that academic achievement was greatest in ...

... Pagination or Media Count : 29. ... It investigates retention behavior of TAR and regular active-duty personnel in surface-expansion ratings in an effort ...

The use of machine learning tools is gaining popularity in neuroimaging, as it provides a sensitive assessment of the information conveyed by brain images. In particular, finding regions of the brain whose functional signal reliably predicts some behavioral information makes it possible to better understand how this information is encoded or processed in the brain. However, ...

In this paper we present a novel approach, called FuseJ, for achieving a symbiosis between Aspect-Oriented and Component-Based Software Development. We build on previous research that proposes a new AspectOriented programming language tailored for the Component-Based field, called JAsCo. Although JAsCo provides us with some nice results, we argue that a symbiosis between ...

The heterogeneous, chronic, and proliferating aspect of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and comorbidities covers heritability, cognitive, emotional, motor, and everyday behavioral domains that place individuals presenting the condition at some considerable disadvantage. Disruption of "typical developmental trajectories" in the manifestation of gene-environment ...

Context. With the advent of visible and infrared long-baseline interferometers with more than two telescopes, both the size and the completeness of interferometric data sets have significantly increased, allowing images based on models with no a priori assumptions to be reconstructed with an aperture synthesis technique. Aims: Our main objective is to analyze the multiple parameters of the image ...

A promising method achieving rapid convergence for image reconstruction is introduced for the continuous-wave NIR-DOT. An approach employs a constraint based on Lorentzian distributed function incorporated into Tikhonov regularization, thereby rapidly converging a stable solution.

The Maki contribution to the conductivity above the superconducting transition temperature is regularized within the framework of the BCS theory. This is achieved through the renormalization of the impurity scattering vertex by inclusion of the effects of...

In this chapter the authors discuss the asymptotic approximation of functions that display boundary-layer behavior. The purpose here is to introduce the basic concepts underlying the phenomenon, to illustrate its importance, and to describe some of the fundamental tools available for its analysis. To achieve their purpose in the clearest way possible, the ...

This paper discusses the outcomes of a Finnish study that investigated the school experiences of former special education students with emotional and behavioral disorders. Twenty-three former students, who had attended classes for students with emotional and behavioral disorders were interviewed. The students had been out of special education and ...

The Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994 made safety and efficacy testing of dietary supplements the responsibility of the consumer. Currently, there exists little data on safety and efficacy of supplements, and there is virtually no data regarding safety and efficacy of supplements in individuals under the age of 18 years. Sales indices suggest sports supplement ...

This collection of 13 author-contributed papers addresses various aspects of programming for students with behavioral disorders. Papers have the following titles and authors: (1) "System Support and Transition to Adulthood for Adolescents with Seriously Disordered Behaviors: Orchestrating Successful Transitions" (Eugene Edgar); (2) "Targets for Abuse: ...

Abstract: Proponents of charter schools claim that they generate competitive incentives for traditional public schools to improve student performance. However, it is unclear whether public schools respond to charter schools, nor whether such a response would have the intended impact. In this paper, I look at how charter schools affect student achievement, ...

In the current climate of increased academic assessments, the discussion of student success in school is frequently limited to academic achievement. However, data show that when examining student success, components such as social development and prevention of risky behaviors significantly impact academic achievement. These outcomes ...

This book compares current practices in the education of students with emotional and behavior disorders to those practiced 25 years ago. The first two chapters describe current understanding of and interventions for children with emotional and behavioral disorders. The following chapters are divided into four parts that address the topics of affective ...

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The paper proposes a parameter-free regularization of the one-loop planar unitary dual diagram, very similar to the renormalization in quantum field theory, compatible with duality, Regge behavior, unitarity, and crossing symmetry. (Author)

Exercise regularly scale We would like to know how confident you are in doing certain activities. For each of the following questions, please choose the number that corresponds to your confidence that you can do the tasks regularly at the present time.

A comprehensive strategy targeted to raise student achievement is arguably one of the most important components of any school's vision for improvement. This paper describes a comprehensive intervention program at The San Alejo American School, Honduras (student enrollment: <100). This program was aimed toward raising students' achievement levels while ...

This study experimentally examined the effect of a school-based emancipatory intervention on the psychological and behavioral well-being of African American adolescents. Sixty-five eighth graders in an inner-city, predominantly Black school were randomly assigned to either receive the experimental intervention or a regular Life Skills course (the control ...

The report illustrates in detail areas of behavioral and social science research that have achieved important breakthroughs in knowledge or application or that show promise of achieving such breakthroughs in the near future.

Regularization of nonlinear ill-posed inverse problems is analyzed for a class of problems that is characterized by mappings which are the composition of a well-posed nonlinear and an ill-posed linear mapping. Regularization is carried out in the range of the nonlinear mapping. In applications this corresponds to the state-space variable of a partial ...

... difficult to achieve with distance learning's tools and techniques. ... Due to new laws requiring all officers to enter the service as regular officers, this ...

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breastfeed. * Older adults. Participate in regular physical activity to reduce functional declines associated with aging and to achieve the other benefits of physical...

promote psychological well-being and reduce feelings of mild to moderate depression and anxiety. Regular physical activity is also a key factor in achieving and maintaining a...

During the 1992-93 school year, Billings School District #2 implemented full inclusion of students with disabilities at Garfield Elementary. A Regular Education Initiative Committee of district administrators, teachers, board members, parents, community representatives, and Eastern Montana College faculty met on a regular basis to study the feasibility of ...

Anorectal malformations are inborn developmental defects that are associated with multiple functional Impairments (especially incontinence) and psychosocial burden with a major impact on body schema and self-esteem. Child psychology and psychiatry research begin to identify disorder-dependent and -independent risk and protective factors that predict the outcome of psychological adaptation and ...

The objective of this study is to evaluate the mechanical properties of the cylindrical ceramic filter elements under vibration. These vibrations with different frequencies and amplitudes occur particularly in up/down-turning periods and during pulse cleaning but even under regular operation conditions. The geometry of a filter element with a wall thickness of about 10 mm, an ...

The goal of COPS is to couple a program of regular observations to numerical models, through techniques of data assimilation, in order to provide a predictive capability for the US coastal ocean including the Great Lakes, estuaries, and the entire Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The objectives of the program include: determining the predictability of the coastal ocean and the ...

The Sznajd model (SM) has been employed with success in the last years to describe opinion propagation in a community. In particular, it has been claimed that its transient is able to reproduce some scale properties observed in data of proportional elections, in different countries, if the community structure (the network) is scale-free. In this work, we investigate the properties of the transient ...

Anion exchange behavior of the lanthanides in the system containing strongly basic anion exchange resin Amberlite IRA-400 STAH/sub 2/Y/sup 2//sup -/! and aqueous solution of disodium ethylenediaminetetrsacetate (Na/sub 2/H/sub 2/ Y), was investigated. Distribu tion coefficients were found to increase in a regular way within the cerium group ...

Three off campus private alternative schools have been supported, in part, by the Portland, Oregon, Public Schools. The students, mostly high school age, are largely dropouts or on the verge of dropping out of school. Many were referred because of behavior, attendance, or other discipline problems. At least half of the students in each school have had juvenile court ...

The paper is devoted to the analysis of the 2D or 3D elastic contact problem with Coulomb friction, quasi-static equilibrium, and small displacements. The classical approach is based on two minimum principles, or variational inequalities: the first for unilateral contact and the second for friction. In practical applications involve an algorithm of alternately solving the two problems until ...

The naming game model characterizes the main evolutionary features of languages or more generally of communication systems. Very recently, the combination of complex networks and the naming game has received much attention and the influences of various topological properties on the corresponding dynamical behavior have been widely studied. In this paper, we investigate the ...

How do meetings in elementary classrooms influence student attitudes and behaviors, both individually and collectively? Can regular opportunities to participate in collective problem solving educate students for peacemaking and alter the social dynamic of the classroom? As an experienced teacher who previously studied class meetings in a private Montessori ...

This article presents an interview with Cathy Carnahan, the 2011 MetLife/NASSP National Middle Level Principal of the Year. Carnahan makes adult learning a priority to support student achievement at Duniway Middle School in McMinnville, Oregon. She describes her school as a community of learners that is a safe setting for teachers to lead and continue to learn. She says having ...

In this paper the authors demonstrate the power of artificial neural networks in predicting strengthening in the transverse direction of metal matrix composites by regularly arranged strong fibers. A neural network is trained in different ways based on a numerical study in which the fiber volume fraction and the matrix hardening ability was studied systematically for fibers in ...

Many learning disabled students attending Avocado Elementary School in Homestead, Florida, were unable to write legibly when taught with available cursive handwriting programs. To redress the problem, a complete, sequential cursive handwriting program was devised for use with learning disabled and other students. The program combined tracing and behavior modification ...

This curriculum guide has been developed to assist vocational and special education teachers in teaching handicapped and disadvantaged students in a building trades course. The guide contains suggestions and experiences that are necessary to support the achievement of specific competencies. The guide is divided into units of instruction containing major and minor blocks. It is ...

The Jackson and Hunt (JH) theory has been modified to relax the assumption of isothermal solid/liquid interface used in their treatment. Based on the predictions of this modified theory, the traditional definitions of regular and irregular eutectics are revised. For regular eutectics, the new model identifies a range of spacing within the limits defined by ...

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 has placed a renewed emphasis on the importance of the regular classroom, the regular classroom teacher and the general curriculum as the primary focus of special education. This book contains over 100 topics that deal with real issues and concerns regarding the regular ...

Performance management consists of significantly more than periodic evaluation of performance. It is the art and science of dealing with employees in a manner intended to positively influence their thinking and behavior to achieve a desired level of performance. It is essential for the manager to always model positive behavior ...

Twenty-four children with autism were randomly assigned to a clinic-directed group, replicating the parameters of the early intensive behavioral treatment developed at UCLA, or to a parent-directed group that received intensive hours but less supervision by equally well-trained supervisors. Outcome after 4 years of treatment, including cognitive, language, adaptive, social, ...

The prevalence of obesity and associated comorbidities among children and adolescents has risen worldwide throughout the past 3 decades. To break this trend, population-based activities in health promotion/prevention and health care are necessary. Studies showed that long-term eating behavior improvement with the cooperation of the patient's family together with child-friendly ...

Sedentary lifestyle and overweight are major public health, clinical, and economical problems in modern societies. The worldwide epidemic of excess weight is due to imbalance between physical activity and dietary energy intake. Sedentary lifestyle, unhealthy diet, and consequent overweight and obesity markedly increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases. Regular physical ...

Using Achievement Goal Theory as a theoretical framework, this study examined an elementary physical education running program called Roadrunners and assessed relationships among achievement goals, perceived motivational climate, and student achievement behavior. Roadrunners promotes cardiovascular health, physical ...

These 12 monthly issues from 1999 explore problems encountered by children and adolescents. Regular features include "Keep Your Eye On...," brief accounts of research into childhood and adolescent problems; "What's New in Research," summarizing research from recent publications and professional conferences; "Commentary," editorials from professionals working with children and ...

BackgroundOverweight and obesity are highly prevalent among persons with serious mental illness. These conditions likely contribute to premature cardiovascular disease and a 20 to 30 percent shortened life expectancy in this vulnerable population. Persons with serious mental illness need effective, appropriately tailored behavioral interventions to achieve ...

... Nanoporous materials functionalized (NMF) liquids can be utilized to ... cells in a regular cellular material so as ... The reactor was kept in a water bath ...

... concerning the asymptotic behavior ot the Laplace transform of regularly varying functions. Page 6. ... [5] Abel-Laplace transforms, that is the case that ...

This thesis explores the use of Extensible Annotations to assist users in performing procedural tasks described in guideline documents. Extensible Annotations (EA's) are regular annotations with extended properties and functionality. They contain attribut...

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... GPS measurements onboard Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites ... regular behavior of the global ionosphere. ... near the CHAMP orbit plane between ...

... of One Step Dipolar Energy Transfer on Regular Lattices with Excluded ... step acceptor trapping process on a simple cubic lattice of interconnected ...

Dropout Prevention Reducing Behavior Problems in Elementary School Classrooms Increased Learning Time: Beyond the Regular School Day Helping Students Navigate the Path to College...

Mar 24, 2006 ... Adams, who studies the sun's turbulent behavior for NASA's Marshall ... There, she regularly leads middle- and high-school science classes, ...

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