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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"adaptive behaviors"”.
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Measuring Adaptive Behaviors in Individuals with Autism Enrolled in Project-Based Therapy
… of Autistry Studios, which focuses on improving adaptive behavior skills for adults and adolescents with ASD using project-based therapy. The study used the Brief Adaptive Behavior Scale (BABS), a novel quantitative assessment, to track the development of adaptive behaviors in individuals with …
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Job satisfaction as a reflection of disposition: Investigating the relationship and its effect on employee adaptive behaviors
… was tested as a construct involving many work behaviors individuals invoke to respond to dissatisfaction, including quitting, lateness, absenteeism, retirement, and shirking. A causal model was tested employing three different sources of data: self-reports, ""significant other"" evaluations, …
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The Relationships Among Adaptive Behaviors of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Their Family Support Networks, Parental Stress, and Parental Coping
… The purpose of this study was to examine the adaptive behaviors of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), their family support networks, parental stress, and parental coping and the relationships among these variables. </p> <p><strong>Background: </strong> Autism is the fastest growing …
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Job Satisfaction and Adaptation
… determinants of behavior, and frequency of adaptive behaviors (acts intended to alleviate dissatisfaction) was performed with female nurses in a midwestern hospital. A variation of the job adaptation model proposed by Rosse and Miller (Rosse, J. G. & Miller, H. E. (1984). Relationship …
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Employee Withdrawal and Adaptation: An Expanded Framework
… An expanded model of employee withdrawal behaviors emphasizing their adaptive function is presented and selected hypotheses tested. In a longitudinal study of new hospital employees, intentions to quit, turnover, absence, attempts to change the job, and health disorders were negatively …
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Developmental Trajectories of Effortful Control In Young Boys With Fragile X Syndrome
… trajectory by examining the role of adaptive behaviors and autistic symptoms in the development of effortful control in boys with FXS. Participants included 38 males with FXS assessed 3 to 4 times (121 observations) between the ages of 4 and 8. Results from this study did not find a …
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Autonomous cooperation of heterogeneous platforms for sea-based search tasks
… framework for cooperative, adaptive search is proposed that allows multiple search platforms to adapt to changes in both mission objectives and environmental parameters. Software modules for the autonomy framework MOOS-IvP are described that implement this framework. …
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Social Experiences of Adolescents with High Functioning Autism (HFA) and/or Asperger Syndrome (AS) - Their Perceptions and Their Views of Their Caregivers: An Exploratory Study
… managing a diagnosis of HFA/AS and the current adaptive behaviors of the adolescents.</p><p>Seven adolescents and their respective parent/caregivers participated in video-taped paired interviews. The themes emergent from the interviews regarding the diagnosis of HFA/AS for the parents were: …
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Exploiting the Intrinsic Embodied Dynamics for Adaptive Robotic Behaviors
… of embodied intelligence for the development of adaptive robotic systems. This concept hypothesizes that intelligent behaviors result from the strict coupling of the physical interactions of the brain, the body and the environment. By utilizing the system-environment interaction, the "brainless" …
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Scavenger-Predator-Prey Model with Finite Resources
… of studies that advance the understanding of adaptive behaviors in ecological systems. The thesis is composed of three interconnected works, each delving into the dynamics of predator-prey-scavenger interactions. The first segment of the thesis investigates the role of predator-taxis in …
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Reinforcement Learning and the Error -Related Negativity: A Computational and Neurophysiological Investigation
… concerned with the development and expression of adaptive behaviors: a mesencephalic dopamine system for reinforcement learning, and a ""generic"" error-processing system associated with anterior cingulate cortex. The existence of the error-processing system has been inferred from the …
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Impact of Typhoons on Children's Human Capital Investments in Filipino Households
… households, suggesting that loss of income and adaptive behaviors of wealthier households are channels for these allocation decisions. No apparent gender differences were observed.</p>
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Curriculum, transition and employment of individuals with disabilities: Interconnections, relationships and perspectives
… of the individual and family, individual adaptive behaviors, skill level and lack of knowledge by potential employers of individuals with disabilities. This study sought to understand the following questions: a) in what ways are curricular approaches, transition services, and employer …
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Religiosity and resilience: Cognitive reappraisal and coping self-efficacy mediate the link between religious coping and well-being
… shed light on psychological factors influencing adaptive behaviors that promote increased resilience, reduce symptoms of distress, and maintain emotional well-being. These findings inform general counseling practices and counseling of religious clients alike.
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Oral Health Care Services Available to Mentally Retarded Individuals in Public Residential Facilities
… retarded persons the opportunity to develop adaptive behaviors. The realization of the significance of environmental stimuli on development has led to the trend of "mainstreaming" of many mentally retarded citizens. Mainstreaming involves the relocation of some institutionalized mentally …
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Synaptic Control of Dopamine as a Driver of Reward Learning
… and their role in the associated reward learning behaviors. My key finding is that antagonizing GABAA receptors on VTADA neurons decreases the pauses in firing these cells exhibit, but also accelerates extinction learning in response to unexpected reward omission. In the same mice, the …
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Deinstitutionalization and its Effects on Social Inclusion, Choice-Making, Adaptive and Maladaptive Behavior for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities: Case Studies Analysis
… in social inclusion, choice-making/autonomy, and adaptive/maladaptive functioning of four individuals prior to and following transition to the community. The results suggested that, in most cases, community integration was related to more social inclusion opportunities and autonomy in …
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The effects of peer social interaction and support on the self-esteem of young people with spina bifida.
… there would be an improvement on a number of adaptive behaviors. Due to the attrition rates in the treatment group the focus of this study changed from the hypotheses stated above to a number of empirical questions. These questions included: (a) Were the measures utilized reliable for this …
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Robotic Contextual Awareness for Human-Robot Collaboration and Environmental Understanding
… perceptual knowledge, robots struggle to plan adaptive behaviors or engage in meaningful interaction with humans. This thesis presents novel solutions to this challenge by exploring two distinct but complementary research directions. The first direction involves human re-identification and …
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They're All in it Together: A Pattern Approach to Exploring Goal Orientation
… patterns. Specifically, PGO exhibited adaptive behaviors when paired with a strong learning goal orientation (LGO) and weak performance-avoid goal orientation (AGO), and maladaptive behaviors when paired with a strong AGO and low LGO. Taken as a whole, the results indicated that the use …
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