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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"behavioral profile"”.
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A Description of Female, Adult Recreational Drug Users: A Sub-Analysis of the Drugnet Survey
… of this study is to provide a descriptive and behavioral profile of adult, female, recreational drug users (i.e., not abusers). The instrument utilized for data collection and analysis was the on-line DRUGNET survey. Data was collected from volunteer, female subjects who completed the survey …
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Using open-source data repository initiatives to investigate impaired white matter connectivity in autism
… made enormous progress in identifying the unique behavioral features of autism, the underlying pathophysiology is not well understood, and diagnosis is entirely reliant on behavioral observation. Emerging evidence suggests that an important feature of autism pathology involves disruptions to the …
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Um estudo sobre o perfil do contador frente às exigências do mercado de trabaho nacional para vagas na área Contábil
… context, the present study aimed to identify the profile of the accountant professional required by the labor market. For this purpose, it was applied a questionnaire developed by Ferreira (2011), to identify the requirements of the contracting companies through the advertisements provided by …
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A comparison of Behavior Assessment System for Children -Second Edition Parent Rating Scale scores for children and adolescents with ADHD, traumatic brain injury, and high functioning autism
… control group. Specifically, scale scores on the Behavioral Assessment System for Children, Second Edition (BASC-2) Parent Rating Scale (PRS) were analyzed.the data used on the BASC-2 PRS include the following scales: Hyperactivity, Aggression, Conduct Problems, Anxiety, Depression, Somatization, …
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Modeling Human Movement in the Wilderness: Navigating Lost Person Behavior and Searcher Response
Search and rescue (SAR) outcomes hinge on two behavioral uncertainties: how lost people move through complex landscapes and how ground teams search those landscapes. This dissertation develops a unified, data-driven view of both. First, we present a dynamic, agent-based model of lost person …
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The differential effects of stressors on aversive, novel and appetitive stimuli in rats
… effects of footshock and restraint in several behavioral procedures that measure responses to aversive and appetitive stimuli. Because of evidence that novel stimuli may also be aversive, the impact of stressors on responding to novel stimuli were also evaluated. CTA studies indicated that …
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Parallel Process: An Empirical Investigation
… with repeated measures indicated that the behavioral profile obtained by patients was similar to the profile obtained by supervisees. The finding suggested that helpees, whether patients or supervisees, tended to manifest similar behaviors. It was concluded that the occurrence of parallel …
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The Role of CLOCK in Regulation of Dopamine Neurotransmission in the CLOCKdelta19 Mutant Mouse Model
… circadian gene Clock (Clockdelta19) display a behavioral profile which parallels a euphoric manic-like state including hyperactivity, disrupted activity rhythms, increased substance abuse vulnerability, and decreases in anxiety and depression-related behavior. The molecular clock has …
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A Hierarchical Typology of Children in Elementary School Using Teacher Ratings of Behavior
… 6 -11) using the norming data for the revised Behavioral Assessment System for Children Teacher Rating - Child form (BASC-2 TRS-C Reynolds & Kamphaus, 2004). To obtain the two tiers of this classification system, two multivariate classification procedures were employed: latent class cluster …
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On the fringes of formality : organizational capability in street-level bureaucracies in Brazil
… three years, I find that there is a particular behavioral profile among middle-tier bureaucrats - what I call the fringes of formality behavior - that is associated with more positive bureaucratic administrative- outputs in the front-line units. Middle-tier bureaucrats practicing this behavior …
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Serotonin Modulates the Maturation of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Hippocampus: Relevance to the Etiology of Emotional and Cognitive Behaviors
… fear ("fear extinction"), as performance in this behavioral paradigm is modulated by IL/PL output. Congruent with their altered IL/PL balance, PN-FLX mice display deficits in fear extinction learning and recall. Mimicking the diminished IL/PL ratio by selectively lesioning the IL, in control mice, …
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Possibile ruolo del sistema endocannabinoide nel disturbo d’alimentazione incontrollata (binge eating disorder): studi comportamentali, farmacologici e biochimici
… system. Furthermore an analysis of the behavioral profile of animals with BED has been evaluated before the start of drug treatment by means of different mazes in which is possible to study anxiety and depression. Binge eating behavior was induced in animals by giving them a sporadic (3 …
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Improving caretaker mental welfare through targeted on-farm euthanasia training programs
… assessment tool is the Predictive Index (PI) Behavioral Assessment. This is an untimed, free-choice, self-report tool based on two questions. Question one asked caretakers to select as many words from a provided list that they thought represented how others expect them to act. The second …
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INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE STEREOCHEMICAL AND GLUTAMATERGIC MECHANISMS OF THE "BATH SALTS" SYNTHETIC CATHINONES MEPHEDRONE AND MDPV IN RATS
… We first evaluated MEPH’s ability to produce behavioral sensitization (detailed in Chapter 2), a hallmark behavior of psychostimulants involving repeated, intermittent drug administration, followed by a period of drug abstinence, and a subsequent drug challenge. This evaluation of MEPH’s …