Test-retest reliability of a vocational assessment battery called the Pennsylvania Bi-Manual Worksample (PBWS) (Roberts, 1969) was examined in this study. The PBWS was administered to 30 adults with developmental disabilities at two different times, with an interval of 7 to 10 days between administrations. The subjects, who had mild to moderate degrees of mental retardation and ranged in age fr...

Behavior categories for observations of 304 mentally disabled adults were analyzed in relation to settings (sheltered workshops and residential facility), personal characteristics (age, sex, IQ, diagnosis, and desire for affiliation) and characteristics of partners. Both settings and personal characteristics predicted individual behavior rates for the 10 most frequently observed behavior catego...

We illustrate the ability to place a water-insoluble biradical, bTbk, into a glycerol/water matrix with the assistance of a surfactant, sodium octyl sulfate (SOS). This surfactant approach enables a previously water insoluble biradical, bTbk, with favorable electron-electron dipolar coupling to be used for dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments in frozen...

Abstract Analytic philosophy has largely neglected the topic of homelessness. The few notable exceptions, including work by Jeremy Waldron and Christopher Essert, focus on our interests in shelter, housing, property rights, but ignore key social functions that a home performs as place which we are welcomed, accepted, respected. This paper identifies ladder home-related concepts begins with mini...

Leprosy is a medico-social problem and more than a disease . Statistics indicate that the disease, as a medical problem, has been decreasing steadily world wide since the advent of multi-drug therapy (MDT) in the early 1980s. However, the social dimensions of the disease in terms of stigma, poverty, disabilities and deformities, loss of self-respect and dignity have continued to constitute a ma...

1 "Visions of what technology can do… are rarely based on any comprehensive understanding of needs". This paper presents some of the early design work of the 'Care in the Digital Community' research project-begun under the EPSRC IRC Network project EQUATOR. One objective of the project is to improve the quality of everyday life by building and adapting technologies for a range of user groups an...