We employed a pyramidal training model (PTM) to teach staff to correctly implement and collect data for trial-based functional analysis (TBFA) in simulated situations. First, we trained four behavioral consultants (BCs) in a group format, who each trained one behavior technician (BT) in an individual format. We utilized a non-concurrent multiple baseline design to evaluate the effect of the tra...

Introduction: Specific ventilation (SV) is defined as a dimensionless quantity of inhaled gas ventilation that occurs during tidal breathing and is calculated as tidal volume divided by functional residual capacity [1]. 1H MRI was previously proposed to regionally quantify SV, using inhaled O2 as a contrast agent [2]. Our objective was to develop a novel and rapid way to measure whole lung and ...

Research suggests that inexperienced individuals cannot accurately implement stimulus preference assessments given written instructions alone. Training that includes written instructions supplemented with feedback from a professional with expertise in conducting preference assessments has proven effective; unfortunately, expert-facilitated direct training may not be widely available. In the cur...

Although poverty and gender are inextricably linked, the methodologies commonly used to measure poverty do not allow gender to be reflected in official statistics and consequently in poverty reduction strategies. Gender is frequently mentioned as a cross-cutting theme in many strategies, but when it comes to action plans and specific development projects it receives very little attention. The g...

Supernatural events in narratives have been a part of literature since Shakespeare. There’s new aspect added to it by the concept ideology which is now getting interweaved with subjugated class. People affected supernatural are taken for granted society. In fact, they marginalized an extent where no one can help them. Their fate unpredictable. The research paper takes two short stories complete...

The title furan-ocoumarin, C14H12O4 [systematic name: 9-hy-droxy-2-(prop-1-en-2-yl)-2,3-di-hydro-7H-furo[3,2-g]chromen-7-one], crystallizes with two independent mol-ecules (A and B) in the asymmetric unit. The two mol-ecules differ essentially in the orientation of the propenyl group with respect to the mean plane of the furan-ocoumarin moiety; the O-C(H)-C=C torsion angle is 122.2 (7)° in mol-...

Most implementations of IP security are deeply entwined in the source of of the protocol stack. However, such source code is not readily available for MS-DOS systems. We implemented a version using the packet driver interface. Our module sits between the generic Ethernet driver and the hardware driver; it emulates each to the other. Most of the code is straightforward; in a few places, though, ...

Two cochain complexes are constructed for an algebra A and a coalgebra C entwined with each other via the map ψ : C ⊗ A → A ⊗ C. One complex is associated to an A-bimodule, the other to a C-bicomodule. In the former case the resulting complex can be considered as a ψ-twisted Hochschild complex of A, while for the latter one obtains a ψ-twist of the Cartier complex of C. The notion of a weak com...