Given the personal and societal costs associated with acute impairment and enduring post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the mental health response to disasters is an integral component of disaster response planning. The purpose of this paper is to explore the compatibility between cognitive-behavioral psychology and the disaster mental health model, and explicate how cognitive-behavioral per...

With the “graying” of the American population, the number of older adults, and particularly the number of the “oldest-old” adults over the age of 85, has grown exponentially. Moreover, because individuals are more likely to develop multiple physical and mental health co-morbidities with advancing age, long-term care providers are increasingly responsible for meeting very complex needs in the in...

OBJECTIVE To examine the associations between having a special health care need and school outcomes measured as attendance, student engagement, behavioral threats to achievement, and academic achievement. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS A total of 1457 children in the fourth through sixth grades from 34 schools in 3 school districts and their parents provided survey data; parents completed the Child...

BACKGROUND The Internet provides a means of disseminating medical education curricula, allowing institutions to share educational resources. Much of what is published online is poorly planned, does not meet learners' needs, or is out of date. DISCUSSION Applying principles of curriculum development, adult learning theory and educational website design may result in improved online educational...

Specifying behavioral specifications for components apart from the conventional syntactic interface specifications can be very useful in component based system development. Preconditions and postconditions describe one form of behavioral aspects of components. We discuss a tool and an implementation mechanism to incorporate behavioral contracts expressed in terms of preconditions and postcondit...

PURPOSE Describe patterns of health care utilization among vulnerable subgroups of an underserved population and identify populations that could benefit from interventions to reduce health care costs and improve quality of care. METHODS Health Information Exchange data focused on underserved patients was used to estimate the risk of an emergency department (ED) or inpatient (IP) visit among v...

The component-based software development (CBSD) has been paid more attention by software practicers in recent years. How to analyze and verify behavior-level component substitutability is very important when the component-based software system needs upgrading or maintaining. Concentrating on the component-based software system, this paper formally specifies the components and their interaction ...

aim and background: the behavioral inhibition system (bis) and the behavioral activation system (bas) are considered as factors to verify the effects of personality significance on cortical activity. the present study explored the effects of the bis and bas on frontal asymmetry in response to affect stimuli. methods and materials: this study included 36 individuals (18 with high bas sensitivity...

— In consideration of a previous study for developing a next-generation sensible information display set, this paper proposes a development model of a more realistic type that is applied to user needs through an analysis of technology, trends, and patterns by needs analysis and development case research through a user survey. This is utilized in the creation of ideas and the preparation of a pr...

The 2015 AAHA Canine and Feline Behavior Management Guidelines were developed to provide practitioners and staff with concise, evidence-based information to ensure that the basic behavioral needs of feline and canine patients are understood and met in every practice. Some facility in veterinary behavioral and veterinary behavioral medicine is essential in modern veterinary practice. More cats a...