The Computerphobia Reduction Program: Year 1. Program development and preliminary results

Evaluation of the Childeren at Risk Program: Results 1 Year After the End of the Program

Results from CAR were mostly encouraging. Youths in the treatment group, compared with youths in the control and comparison groups, participated in significantly more social and educational activities, exhibited less antisocial behavior, committed fewer violent crimes, and used and sold fewer drugs in the year after the program ended. They also were more likely to report attending a drug or alc...

Results from the Slac Psc Development Program

Planar Spark Counters (PSC's) have unique detection properties for charged particles. These counters have achieved the best time resolutions of any particle detector.' This in combination with their other properties makes PSC's attractive for use in high energy particle physics. At SLAC a program to develop this technology has been in progress since 1978.2 Last year we tested a pair of PSC's at...

Preliminary program.

Price Spikes Reduction with EDRP Program

With the development of deregulated power systems and increase of prices in some hours of day and increase fuel price, demand response programs were noticed more by customers. demand response consists of a series of activities that governments or utilities design to change the amount or time of electric energy consumption, to achieve better social welfare or some times for maximizing the benefi...

Outcomes of a Family Based Pediatric Obesity Program - Preliminary Results

Children that are classified as obese (body mass index (BMI) > 95th percentile for age and sex, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) have an increased risk for metabolic and cardiovascular complications. Family based programs that focus on physical activity (PA) and healthy eating are recommended for treatment of pediatric obesity. The purpose of the current study is to determine the out...