OBJECTIVE We sought to examine the nature and extent of agreement on cognitive symptoms reported by people aging with multiple sclerosis (MS) and their primary caregivers and the factors associated with disagreement. METHOD Data were generated from telephone interviews with 279 dyads of people with MS and their caregivers. RESULTS Eighty dyads (28.7%) disagreed about the presence of cogniti...

Two studies were conducted to assess the influence of emotional context and social context, in terms of gender and status, on speaker expressivity and observer mimicry in a dyadic interactive setting. For Study 1, 96 same sex dyads and for Study 2, 72 mixed sex dyads participated in a social sharing paradigm. The results showed that in both same sex and mixed sex dyads women smile more than men...

Can covert sensorimotor simulation of stimulus-relevant actions influence affective judgments, even when there is no intention to act? Skilled and novice typists picked which of two letter dyads they preferred. In each pair, one dyad, if typed using standard typing methods, would involve the same fingers (e.g., FV); the other would be typed with different fingers (e.g., FJ). Thus, if typed, dya...

The present study assesses the nature of the behavior of ADHD children in an initial social encounter with a peer. Eight pairs each of previously unacquainted AD liD/normal and normal/normal children were videotaped as they interacted in a free-play setting for 30 minutes. All ADHD subjects were currently receiving psychostimulant medication. As compared to the normal/normal dyads, the ADHD/nor...

OBJECTIVE Care management approaches have been proven to improve outcomes for patients with dementia and their family caregivers (dyads). However, acceptance of services in these programs is incomplete, impacting effectiveness. Acceptance may be related to dyad as well as healthcare system characteristics, but knowledge about factors associated with program acceptance is lacking. This study inv...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether pre-adolescents interacted more similarly and more positively in best friend pairs than those in acquaintance pairs and whether same-sex dyads interacted more similarly and more positively than opposite-sex dyads. Archival videotapes were coded for the face-to-face interaction behaviors of preadolescent best friend and acquaintance dyads and sa...

Observations of aggressive interactions in boys' laboratory play groups were used to evaluate the relative importance of relational and individual factors in accounting for aggressive acts. A classroom peer-rating method for identifying mutually aggressive dyads was validated in 11 5-session play groups, composed of 2 mutually aggressive boys and 4 randomly selected male classmates from 11 pred...

Children of parents with intellectual disability (ID) are at risk behavior problems, but few studies have systematically examined contributions from caregiving and contextual factors. This cross-sectional matched comparison study whether the children display elevated analyzed maternal sensitivity experiences abuse, trauma maltreatment (ATM). The roles child intelligence were also examined. Part...

In this paper we evaluate performance of the vertical BLAST (VBLAST) receiver algorithm in multipletransmitter/multiple-receiver (MTMR) cellular WCDMA systems. We assume that the VBLAST algorithm is executed on a symbol level (i.e, on the despreaded received signal), following a conventional bank of matched filters (correlators). Also, we introduce concept of virtual antennas. BER performance o...

Neonates exposed in-utero to opioids are commonly evaluated for neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) using modified Finnegan Neonatal Abstinence Scoring System (FNASS). FNASS includes 21 different components of central nervous system, metabolic, vasomotor, respiratory, and GI disturbances. Consecutive cumulative scores ≥8 suggestive starting pharmacologic treatment. Our objective was iden...