Sheep are managed under a variety of different environments (continually outdoors, partially outdoors with seasonal or diurnal variation, continuously indoors) and for different purposes, which makes assessing welfare challenging. This diversity means that resource-based indicators are not particularly useful and, thus, a welfare assessment scheme for sheep, focusing on animal-based indicators,...

In order to address JJ-TRIALS goals of: a) improving behavioral health services for youth with substance use problems; and b) advancing the investigation of implementation efforts in the field of behavioral health, the JJ-TRIALS Workgroup on Evidence-Based Practices (EPA) was first charged with defining quality indicators for practices and programs. We limited that effort to programs, practices...

OBJECTIVES This article summarizes the results of 153 studies published between 1977 and 1994 that evaluated the effectiveness of interventions to improve patient compliance with medical regimens. METHODS The compliance interventions were classified by theoretical focus into educational, behavioral, and affective categories within which specific intervention strategies were further distinguis...

. Beliefs about behavioral clues to deception were investigated in 212 people, consisting of prisoners, police detectives, patrol police officers, prison guards, customs officers, and college students. Previous studies, mainly conducted with college students as subjects, showed that people have some incorrect beliefs about behavioral clues to deception. It was hypothesized that prisoners would ...

Title of Thesis: THE BEHAVIORAL SIGNATURE OF PERMAGS: EXAMINING THE BEHAVIORAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PSYCHOMETRICALLY IDENTIFIED PUTATIVE SCHIZOTYPES Clifton Chamberlin, Master of Arts, 2005 Thesis directed by: Associate Professor Jack Blanchard Department of Psychology Perceptual aberrations and magical ideation have been found to be indicators of Meehl’s construct of schizotypy and, more general...


 The imposition of lockdowns in response to the COVID-19 outbreak has underscored importance human behavior mitigating virus transmission. scientific study interventions designed change (e.g., promote physical distancing) requires measures effectiveness that are fast, can be assessed through experiments, and investigated without actual This paper presents a methodological approach deliver...

Improving the everyday adaptive skills of individuals with autism spectrum disorders and developing behavior is an important task corrective educational intervention. The question selecting effective means physical education to correct abilities children remains open. aim article investigate changes in indicators under influence author's program. To assess degree adaptability behavior, a rating...