The purpose of this study was to examine the role of a staff-delivered rule on the occurrence of challenging behavior (stereotypic touching) of an adult with severe intellectual disabilities. Four experimental functional analysis conditions were developed: (a) attention, (b) rule+attention, (c) rule only, and (d) control. Results showed that the percentage of intervals in which stereotypic touc...

this paper aims to study the relationship between intellectual property and patent and economic growth in islamic countries for the period of 1990 – 2010. this theoretical basis of the model is constructed on economic growth models in 1990s. the technique which we employed is the index of patents to measure the impact on economic growth. to analysis this relationship we use “pedroni cointegrati...

Increased use of intellectual property rights over plant germplasm has led to a complicated landscape for exchange among plant breeders. Our goal was to examine phenotypic and genotypic diversity present in commercially available carrot (Daucus carota L. var. sativus) germplasm in relation to the freedom to operate-the ability for plant breeders to access and use crop genetic diversity. A colle...

Intellectual Capital Management (ICM) research has focused predominantly on demonstrating the link between ICM and innovative performance from a general, contextfree perspective. This paper analyzes deeper implications of ICM showing the inadequacy of this one-size-fits-all approach, and introduces a more realistic view of the role of ICM on innovation process. We propose an analytical framewor...

The similar-sequence and the similar-structure hypotheses are the two mainstays of the developmental approach to mental retardation. In the present study, a third way, the similar-trajectory hypothesis, is described and illustrated using the WAIS-R results of adults with and without mental retardation aged from 20 to 54 years. The whole sample (N=633) comprised 306 participants with mental reta...

OBJECTIVES This study examines the effects of own and spousal disability on social and emotional loneliness among married adults aged 65 and older. METHOD Data from 710 men and 379 women of a Dutch community sample were analyzed with linear regression analyses. RESULTS For men, only their wives' disability was related to higher levels of social loneliness, whereas for women mainly their own...

Purpose: Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is common among intellectual disability children that can worsen motor problems, especially motor skills. The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of combining core stability exercises with coordination exercises on Motor Proficiency of the intellectual disability children with DCD. Methods: The population was intellectual disability...

On the basis of an example gained from the perspective of a person reading Intellectual Capital (IC) reports this paper explains the method of BibTechMon which is based on an analysis of the co-occurrence of different terms within databases and the algorithm to visualise the results [Kopcsa, A., Schiebel, E. (1998b)]. The application of this method for the IC report is currently a major step in...