W introduce and test a behavioral model of consumer product search that extends a baseline normative model of sequential search by incorporating nonnormative influences that are local in the sense that they reflect consumers’ undue sensitivity to recently encountered alternatives. We propose two types of such local behavioral influences that, at each stage of a search process, can manifest them...

BACKGROUND A significant number of opioid-dependent patients in Iran are now being treated by methadone maintenance therapy (MMT). One of the social complications of substance dependency is family disorganization and a decrease in marital satisfaction. This study aimed to determine the effect of group therapy based on the transtheoretical model of change on family functioning of the patients un...

In domains with multiple competing goals, people face a basic challenge: How to make their strategy use flexible enough to deal with shifting circumstances without losing track of their overall objectives. This article examines how young children meet this challenge in one such domoin, tic-tot-toe. Experiment 1 provides an overview of development in the area: it indicates that children’s tic-ta...

This paper proposes a behavioral level partitioning method for efficient behavioral synthesis from a large sequential program consisting of a set of functions. Our method optimally determines functions to be inlined into the main module and the other functions to be synthesized into sub modules in such a way that the overall datapath is minimized while the complexity of individual modules is lo...

Incompleteness results for various behavioral logics are investigated. We show that hidden algebra, observational logic, coherent hidden algebra and other current generalizations of hidden algebra do not admit complete deduction systems for equational behavioral satisfaction. The technique used is reduction from a non-recursively enumerable problem to behavioral validity. In fact we show a stro...

OBJECTIVE To determine if primary nocturnal enuresis (PNE) is accompanied by significant behavioral comorbidity. DESIGN A survey design using a standardized behavioral rating scale. SETTING Behavioral pediatric clinics in the Midwest. PARTICIPANTS Subjects with PNE (n=92) were selected from 122 consecutive referrals for enuresis. Criteria included age 5 years or older, PNE status, and wet...

abstract attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) is a common mental illness in children, so it is very important to identify effective and permanent treatment. the aim of the present research is to compare the efficacy of individual play therapy and play therapy with family therapy on behavioral problems’ reductionin adhd children. twenty 7-12-year- old school children with adhd were se...

alzheimer's disease (ad) is the most common form of neurodegenerative disorders. memory loss in an alert person and impairment in the function of language, attention, perception, judgment or problem solving can occur in patients with ad. however, there are some medications in order to delay the debilitating aspects of the disease; but unfortunately, scientists could not found approaches to...