Objectives: The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale-II is useful in assessing an individual’s daily functioning. They can be used as an evaluation and diagnostic tool for individuals who are mentally retarded or individuals with other handicaps. Methods: To determine the efficacy of VABS in clinical settings, 3 cases with mental retardation and behavioral or emotional problems were evaluated ac...

OBJECTIVE To examine changes in reported functioning over a 12-month follow-up period and predictors of those changes for a cohort of young children enrolled in foster care. DESIGN Data came from a longitudinal follow-up of a cohort of young children entering foster care in one Connecticut region. These data were originally assembled to evaluate the effectiveness of a specialized set of servi...

We argue that human economic interactions particularly bargaining and trading in market environments can be considered as adaptive behaviors Moreover the tools and techniques of adaptive behavior research could be pro tably employed to build predictive models of existing or planned market systems In addition to applications in economic modeling trading animats could nd use in market based resou...

Swarm coordination and formation control designs focus on multi-agent dynamic system behavior and aim to achieve desired coordinated behavior or predefined geometric shape. They utilize techniques from the control theory and graph theory literature. On the other hand, adaptive control theory is concerned with uncertainties in the system dynamics, and has structured frameworks for various types ...

In an adaptive generalized sidelobe canceler interference signals are canceled when the reference inputs, or auxiliary beams, contain information about those interference signals while not containing information about the mainlobe signal of interest. Assuming a wide sense stationary scenario, the behavior and performance of this adaptive system approach the behavior and performance of the corre...