The purpose of the present study was to investigate effects of a training package on appropriate and inappropriate behaviors of residents with mental retardation with internalizing or externalizing behavior problems and the responses of staff to these behavior problems. The training procedure included resident training with video feedback and self-management procedures and staff training with v...

The trend to minimize electronic devices also accounts for Unmanned Airborne Vehicles (UAVs) as well as for sensor technologies and imaging devices. Consequently, it is not surprising that UAVs are already part of our daily life and the current pace of development will increase civil applications. A well known and already wide spread example is the so called flying video game based on Parrot’s ...

Objective. This technical report describes the procedures involved in developing the recommendations of the Subcommittee on Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome in children. The group of primary interest for this report was otherwise healthy children older than 1 year who might have adenotonsillar hypertrophy or obesity as underlying risk factors of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). The goal...

A a junior surgical trainee in the University of Alberta’s General Surgical Residency Program, I found that one of my mentors was exceedingly patient in instructing me, step by step, on the fundamentals of surgical technique. One day as I was completing an intestinal anastomosis and receiving patient, persistent feedback at each step, while being watched by the operating team (and conscious of ...

BACKGROUND Autism is a severe developmental disorder with poorly understood etiology. A recently published case series describes 3 autistic children with gastrointestinal symptoms who underwent endoscopy and intravenous administration of secretin and were subsequently noted by their parents to demonstrate improved language skills over a 5-week period. This report sparked tremendous public inter...

False confessions extracted during police interrogations have been linked to the wrongful conviction of innocent people (Drizin & Leo, 2004; Dwyer, Neufeld, & Scheck, 2000). Many scientific, legal, and political leaders have called for mandatory videotaping of custodial interrogations as one solution to this troubling problem (e.g., Drizin & Reich, 2004). However, the well-documented phenomenon...

—We examined the provisioning behavior of male and female Grasshopper Sparrows (Ammodramus savannarum) during 2002 and 2003 by videotaping nests (n 5 15) and subsequently reviewing tapes to quantify provisioning rates and identify prey items. There was no difference in provisioning rates of male and female Grasshopper Sparrows (P 5 0.13) with mean rates of 2.16 visits/hr for females and 1.86 vi...

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) which applies specifically to England and Wales pervades several aspects of daily clinical care within many clinical as well as non-clinical environments, such as care homes. The authors of A Practical Guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005whose backgrounds are social work and advocacy observe that ‘Seven years on [. . .] the MCA is still not being adhered to n...

The ethnographic analysis presented here examines a play routine that centered on two four-year-old female children constructing and being ‘sassy girls’. Data was gathered over the course of six months in one preschool classroom by acting as a participant observer, videotaping, audiotaping, and conducting formal and informal interviews with the teacher. The analysis consisted of taking a broad ...

OBJECTIVE This technical report describes the procedures involved in developing the recommendations of the Subcommittee on Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome in children. The group of primary interest for this report was otherwise healthy children older than 1 year who might have adenotonsillar hypertrophy or obesity as underlying risk factors of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). The goals...