This study compared the effects of two procedures designed to enhance the extratraining effects of behavioral parent training. Twenty parents of oppositional children were randomly assigned to either a child management training condition or a combined child management plus planned activities condition. A further 10 nonproblem children and their parents served as a social validation group. Obser...

This paper presents quasi-oppositional differential evolution to solve reactive power dispatch problem of a power system. Differential evolution (DE) is a population-based stochastic parallel search evolutionary algorithm. Quasi-oppositional differential evolution has been used here to improve the effectiveness and quality of the solution. The proposed quasi-oppositional differential evolution ...

Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is a common and impairing characterized by angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, vindictiveness. These symptom domains are related to predict attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, conduct mood anxiety problems. ODD often begins early during preschool, relatively stable, exhibits irritability as core feature. also associated with other disr...