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Evaluating a self-instructional package on discrete-trials teaching with parents of children with AutismYoung, Kristen L. 07 March 2012 (has links)
The purpose of this research was to evaluate a self-instructional package (Fazzio & Martin, 2007) to train parents of children with autism to conduct discrete-trials teaching (DTT). In Study 1, I investigated the effectiveness of a self-instructional manual and a self-instructional video for teaching five parents of children with autism to correctly apply DTT to teach three tasks to a confederate who role-played a child with autism. For three of the parents I also evaluated their ability to apply DTT to their children with autism. Following an average of 4.76 hours of training, the package produced a strong effect with three parents and a weak effect with two parents. In Study 2, I investigated the effectiveness of the self-instructional manual combined with role-playing and feedback, plus the self-instructional video, for teaching an additional five parents of children with autism to apply DTT to a confederate and to their children. Following an average of 4.68 hours of training, all five parents demonstrated large, clinically significant gains in their performance of DTT, both with a confederate as well as with their own child, with a minimal investment of one-on-one instructor time. The treatment procedures in both experiments were very well received by the parent participants. These results suggest that the training package in Experiment 2 has considerable potential as an effective, efficient and acceptable method of training parents of children with autism to apply DTT.
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New results on discrete-time time-varying linear systemsHafiz, Khaled Mohammad January 1975 (has links)
No description available.
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Estimation of discrete signals containing a nonrandom componentCrump, Norman Dale 08 1900 (has links)
No description available.
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Stochastic resonance and finite resolution in a network of leaky integrate and fire neuronsMtetwa, Nhamoinesu January 2003 (has links)
No description available.
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The complexity of expansion problemsLouis, Anand 27 August 2014 (has links)
Graph-partitioning problems are a central topic of research in the study of algorithms and complexity theory. They are of interest to theoreticians with connections to error correcting codes, sampling algorithms, metric embeddings, among others, and to practitioners, as algorithms for graph partitioning can be used as fundamental building blocks in many applications. One of the central problems studied in this field is the sparsest cut problem, where we want to compute the cut which has the least ratio of number of edges cut to size of smaller side of the cut. This ratio is known as the expansion of the cut. In spite of over 3 decades of intensive research, the approximability of this parameter remains an open question. The study of this optimization problem has lead to powerful techniques for both upper bounds and lower bounds for various other problems, and interesting conjectures such as the SSE conjecture.
Cheeger's Inequality, a central inequality in Spectral Graph Theory, establishes a bound on expansion via the spectrum of the graph. This inequality and its many (minor) variants have played a major role in the design of algorithms as well as in understanding the limits of computation.
In this thesis we study three notions of expansion, namely edge expansion in graphs, vertex expansion in graphs and hypergraph expansion. We define suitable notions of spectra w.r.t. these notions of expansion. We show how the notion Cheeger's Inequality goes across these three problems. We study higher order variants of these notions of expansion (i.e. notions of expansion corresponding to partitioning the graph/hypergraph into more than two pieces, etc.) and relate them to higher eigenvalues of graphs/hypergraphs. We also study approximation algorithms for these problems.
Unlike the case of graph eigenvalues, the eigenvalues corresponding to vertex expansion and hypergraph expansion are intractable. We give optimal approximation algorithms and computational lower bounds for computing them.
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Evaluating a self-instructional package on discrete-trials teaching with parents of children with AutismYoung, Kristen L. 07 March 2012 (has links)
The purpose of this research was to evaluate a self-instructional package (Fazzio & Martin, 2007) to train parents of children with autism to conduct discrete-trials teaching (DTT). In Study 1, I investigated the effectiveness of a self-instructional manual and a self-instructional video for teaching five parents of children with autism to correctly apply DTT to teach three tasks to a confederate who role-played a child with autism. For three of the parents I also evaluated their ability to apply DTT to their children with autism. Following an average of 4.76 hours of training, the package produced a strong effect with three parents and a weak effect with two parents. In Study 2, I investigated the effectiveness of the self-instructional manual combined with role-playing and feedback, plus the self-instructional video, for teaching an additional five parents of children with autism to apply DTT to a confederate and to their children. Following an average of 4.68 hours of training, all five parents demonstrated large, clinically significant gains in their performance of DTT, both with a confederate as well as with their own child, with a minimal investment of one-on-one instructor time. The treatment procedures in both experiments were very well received by the parent participants. These results suggest that the training package in Experiment 2 has considerable potential as an effective, efficient and acceptable method of training parents of children with autism to apply DTT.
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Latin trades and critical sets in Latin squaresCavenagh, N. J. Unknown Date (has links)
No description available.
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Finite settling-time sampled-data control systems with finite pulse-widthClemente, Juan María, January 1969 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1969. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.
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An inclusive determination of hidden phenomena in, and stability criteria of, sampled-data systemsGreer, Robert William, January 1958 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1958. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.
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The startup problem in discrete-event simulationKelton, William David. January 1980 (has links)
Thesis--University of Wisconsin--Madison. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 179-182).
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