Weighted items provide safe, calming, deep pressure for persons experiencing anxiety, distress, restlessness, and difficulties with attention and executive control. These items include blankets, vests, dolls, and other soft items that are filled with heavy beads or pellets to add extra weight to them. We have successfully used weighted blankets, weighted vests, weighted dolls, and weighted tedd...

Despite a growing body of work examining the expression of infants' positive emotion in joint attention contexts, few studies have examined the moment-by-moment dynamics of emotional signaling by adults interacting with babies in these contexts. We invited 73 parents of infants (three fathers) to our laboratory, comprising parent-infant dyads with babies at 6 (n = 15), 9 (n = 15), 12 (n = 15), ...

In Ruth Rendell’s 1988 London mystery House of Stairs, the narrator suggests a startling sea change in the world of Huntington’s disease (HD). “The newspapers and television and magazines have been full of Huntington’s lately,” she observes. “Huntington’s has become a fashionable disease, displacing multiple sclerosis and even schizophrenia in the public’s curiosity.” [1]. She refers, no doubt,...

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In the past decade the use of the internet has become a major part of most people’s daily lives. The large increase in internet activity has also sparked the growth of new industry, in particular, e-commerce. There are thousands of well-known e-commerce companies. Ebay is one of the most popular and well-known. Ebay is the world’s largest online auction house and plays a large part in the e-com...

Three models of coordination—Reo, Actors-Roles-Coordinators (ARC), and Policy-based Russian Dolls (PBRD)—are compared and contrasted according to a set of coordination features. Mappings between their semantic models are defined. Use of the models is illustrated by a small case study.