OBJECTIVE It has been suggested that the addition of behavioral interventions to laxative therapy improves continence in children with functional fecal incontinence associated with constipation. Our aim was to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of behavioral therapy with laxatives compared with conventional treatment in treating functional constipation in childhood. PATIENTS AND METHODS In t...

Two recent findings necessitate a closer look at the existing standard models of Particle Physics and Cosmology. These are the discovery of Neutrino oscillation, and hence a non zero mass on the one hand and, on the other, observations of distant supernovae which indicate that contrary to popular belief, the universe would continue to expand for ever, possibly accelerating in the process. In th...

This paper presents a behavioral model library of analogue and mixed circuits used in the radio-frequency domain. The models are described in VHDL-AMS and are carefully documented and validated, in order to be easily used by designers or model developers. These models allows to explore systems architecture easily and rapidly.

We present an analytical approach to the calculation of the linewidth and lineshift of an atom or molecule in the near field of a structured dielectric surface. For soft surface corrugations with amplitude λ/50, we find variations of the linewidth in the ten percent region. More strikingly, the shift of the molecular resonance can reach several natural linewidths. We demonstrate that the latera...

18 We show how state dependent behavioral theory, as implemented by Stochastic Dy19 namic Programming can enhance our understanding of play, assuming that play is an 20 evolutionary adaptation rather than a non-functional consequence of other processes. 21 We first explain in generic terms the components of a state dependent behavioral model. 22 We then develop a state dependent life history mo...

Due to high retention rates, small private online course (SPOC) has become increasingly popular among universities. However, existing analyses of learning behavioral patterns in SPOC remain extremely lacking. This present study conducts an empirical analysis on the behavioral patterns of 12,517 undergraduates engaging in a college’s SPOC platform, called StarC. In this study, the authors collec...

AIM The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a particular behavioral medicine treatment modality, medical hypnosis, on reducing the pain symptoms of temporomandibular disorders (TMD). METHODS Twenty-eight patients who were recalcitrant to conservative treatment for TMD participated in a medical hypnosis treatment program and completed measures of their pain symptoms on 4 sepa...