Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder caused by an abnormality on the long arm of chromosome 15 (q11-q13) that results in a host of phenotypic characteristics, dominated primarily by hyperphagia and insatiable appetite. Characteristic behavioral disturbances in PWS include excessive interest in food, skin picking, difficulty with a change in routine, temper tantru...

PURPOSE Integrative review of the scientific literature about the behavioral characteristics of dysphonic children discussing profiled and their etiologic relationship with the voice disorder, seeking to define recommendations on the importance of analyzing the behavior of children in voice assessment. RESEARCH STRATEGY Integrative review of articles published in the last 12 years, the Virtua...

BACKGROUND There is growing recognition that violence and other forms of conduct problems increase during adolescence. The exact relationship between biological, psychological, and social variables has not been defined yet. OBJECTIVES To analyze whether Intelligence Quotients (IQS), neurological history, child behavioral problems, executive functions, and soft neurological signs (SNS) can dif...

With regard to animal welfare concerns, behavioral information of weaned and mixed piglets is great interest in swine production. The aim of this study was to demonstrate the change in behavior of weaned piglets over time in two different groups (littermates and piglets from different litters) after mixing. Two weaned groups of piglets (72 individuals in all) housed either with littermates or w...

We surveyed of grocery shoppers in the Northeast United States to measure how demographic characteristics and consumer behavior affect the use of four coupon types (paper, in-store, checkout, and online). We employ logit models to estimate the probability that a consumer is a regular coupon user conditioned to his/her demographic and behavioral characteristics. Readership and economizing-behavi...

Tremendous growth in the use of biometric technologies in high-security applications has motivated the requirement for highly dependable face recognition systems with expressional robustness. Current standards demonstrated that the accuracy of state-of-the-art algorithms is fairly high under constrained conditions, but degrades significantly for images exhibiting facial expression variations. T...

Two studies were carried out with pigs to determine the relationship between back test results and production parameters and between back test results and other factors. In the first study, 823 piglets were tested with the back test at 10 and 17 days of age. Production parameters such as average daily weight gain and lean meat percentage were determined. In the second study, the back test was p...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the practitioners in managed behavioral healthcare organization (MBHO) networks who are treating mental and substance use disorders among privately insured patients in the United States. It is likely that the role of the private sector in treating behavioral health will increase due to the recent implementation of federal parity legislation and the inclusion of ...

CONTEXT Investigators first described the night-eating syndrome (NES), which consists of morning anorexia, evening hyperphagia, and insomnia, in 1955, but, to our knowledge, this syndrome has never been subjected to careful clinical study. OBJECTIVE To characterize NES on the basis of behavioral characteristics and neuroendocrine data. DESIGN AND SETTING A behavioral observational study was...