An analysis of the previous method for testing tolerances of noxious weed seeds was performed. Problems of the current techniques were discussed, and the solution to these problems was given. A new technique of testing through the sequential test ratio was developed, and results examined. The sequential test was found to be useful enough to include the use of it in determining tolerances for noxious weed seeds. This study did show that the use of sequential tests does have excellent potential and flexibility as a statistical tool for the tolerances of noxious weed seeds. (75 pages)

Children undergoing surgical procedures often experience pain in the recovery room where parents are typically responsible for managing children’s distress. Research suggests that parents’ behavior influences children’s distress; however, no study has used time-window sequential analysis to examine the likelihood of parents’ reassurance and children’s distress interactions. The purpose of this study was to utilize time-window sequential analysis to examine the likelihood of parents’ distress preceding and following the start of children’s distress. Participants included 148 families with children 2-11 years old undergoing outpatient surgery. Reassurance was positively associated with children’s distress, but sequential analyses revealed that children’s nonverbal distress was significantly less likely to start and stop following parents’ reassurance and children’s verbal distress was significantly less likely to occur after fathers’ reassurance. These data suggest that reassurance does not prompt distress to start; however, it may maintain children’s distress.

The full height truss frame (FHTF) is an exciting new residential framing system in response to the need for low floor-to-floor steel construction. The FHTF has the potential to provide low floor-to-floor heights, a column free first floor area, an integrated frame that uses the entire height to resist loads, and the capacity to resist both gravity and lateral loads. Because of its configuration, the full structural height can be used to resist loads. A FHTF is made up of stacked floor trusses that result in one full height truss spanning the entire width of the building. The FHTF is constructed in a conventional manner one floor at a time. The strength, inertia, and truss height will increase as each floor is added. Therefore, the construction sequence will affect the final stresses in the members. The purpose of this thesis was to analyze and design two prototype FHTFs, to compare the economy of the prototypes with similar staggered truss frames, and to develop an approximate method to calculate staged member stresses. Each prototype was analyzed using a computer program and designed according to the 2001 American Institute of Steel Construction Load and Resistance Factor Design. The prototypes were used to assess the strength and serviceability of the structures, and the results of the staged analysis were used to validate the numerical method developed to approximate a staged loading sequence based on the non-staged dead load results. The results of the analysis and design of the prototypes was the initial step in confirming the viability of the FHTF for use in the residential multistory market. FHTFs can be designed with preexisting procedure, and are capable of offering low floor-to-floor heights. The prototypes exhibited excellent lateral stiffness against wind loads. The numerical method for estimating the staged dead load accurately approximated the results of the analysis preformed by ETABS. The numerical method can be used to simulate a variety of sequences in order to optimize the stages. Lastly, the FHTF was shown to be competitive with the staggered truss systems in terms of material usage, fabrication, and construction.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2009. / "Graduate Program in Computer Science." Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-83).

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Children undergoing surgical procedures often experience pain in the recovery room where parents are typically responsible for managing children’s distress. Research suggests that parents’ behavior influences children’s distress; however, no study has used time-window sequential analysis to examine the likelihood of parents’ reassurance and children’s distress interactions. The purpose of this study was to utilize time-window sequential analysis to examine the likelihood of parents’ distress preceding and following the start of children’s distress. Participants included 148 families with children 2-11 years old undergoing outpatient surgery. Reassurance was positively associated with children’s distress, but sequential analyses revealed that children’s nonverbal distress was significantly less likely to start and stop following parents’ reassurance and children’s verbal distress was significantly less likely to occur after fathers’ reassurance. These data suggest that reassurance does not prompt distress to start; however, it may maintain children’s distress.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2008. / "Graduate Program in Operations Research." Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-88).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Baylor University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-110).

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No. of bitstreams: 1 nobile_gfg_me_bauru.pdf: 848569 bytes, checksum: 59f429f76637b7e07ef432d1f29935fe (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-26 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / O estudo da interação terapêutica possibilita conhecer variáveis interpessoais responsáveis pelas mudanças ocorridas nos comportamentos do cliente na terapia, dessa maneira, a pesquisa com interação terapêutica poderá auxiliar os terapeutas a identificar quais comportamentos tornam a intervenção mais eficaz. A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo descrever os comportamentos da interação terapêutica, a partir de análises sequenciais, tendo o comportamento do terapeuta e do cliente como categoria critério e descrever os qualificadores dos comportamentos. Participaram dois universitários com transtorno de ansiedade social e uma terapeuta. A terapia realizada foi individual, analítico comportamental, incluindo o treino de habilidades sociais e as sessões foram gravadas em vídeos. Onze sessões de cada cliente foram categorizadas, após a concordância entre observadores, utilizando o protocolo de categorias do Sistema Multidimensional de Categorização de Comportamentos na Interação Terapêutica (SiMCCIT) e o software The Observer. Foi realizada análise sequencial tendo o comportamento do terapeuta e do cliente como categoria critério e, na sequência foi conduzida a análise de frequência dos qualificadores dos comportamentos: tom emocional e gestos ilustrativos. Os resultados da análise sequencial, tendo o comportamento do terapeuta como critério, destaca algumas sequências da interação terapêutica, os comportamentos do terapeuta Solicitação de Relato e Facilitação favoreceram o Relato do cliente, as categorias Informação, Interpretação e Recomendação favoreceram a ocorrência de Concordância do cliente. Os resultados da análise sequencial tendo o comportamento do cliente como critério, destacam para o comportamento do terapeuta Solicitação de Relato que favoreceu o Relato do cliente e os comportamentos Solicitação de Reflexão e Facilitação favoreceram o comportamento Relações do cliente. Os resultados da frequência dos qualificadores dos comportamentos apresentam o predomínio da emoção neutra e positiva leve e ausência de emoção negativa, tanto para o terapeuta quanto para o cliente e, na maioria das categorias, ocorreu frequência maior de gestos ilustrativos do que sua ausência, com exceção da categoria Solicitação de Relato. Discute-se que o padrão encontrado nas sequências de comportamentos, em que favorecem o Relato e Relações do cliente e a ocorrência da emoção neutra e positiva leve na interação, pode ser recomendado para o atendimento de pessoas com transtorno de ansiedade social. / The study of therapeutic interaction enables to know interpersonal variables responsible for changes in clients, through behavior therapy; so, research with therapeutic interaction may assist therapists to identify behaviors that make interventions most effective. This research aims to describe the behaviors of therapeutic interaction, from sequential analysis, and the therapist's behavior and client as a criterion category and describe the qualifiers of the behaviors. They attended two university students with social anxiety disorder and a therapist. The therapy was performed individual, behavioral analytic, including social skills training and the sessions were recorded on video. Eleven sessions each client were categorized following the agreement between observers, using the Multidimensional System categories protocol behaviors Categorization in Interaction Therapy (SiMCCIT) and The Observer software. It performed sequence analysis with the therapist's behavior and customer category as the criterion and following was conducted frequency analysis of qualifiers behavior: emotional tone and illustrative gestures. The results of sequence analysis, and the therapist's behavior as a criterion, highlights some sequence of therapeutic interaction, the therapist behaviors Reporting Application and Facilitation favored customer report, the categories Information, Interpretation and Recommendation favored the occurrence of Customer Agreement . The results of sequential analysis with customer behavior as a criterion, stands for the Reporting Request therapist behavior that favored the client reporting and behavior reflection Application and Facilitation favored customer relations behavior. The results of the frequency qualifiers behavior show the predominance of the light neutral and positive emotion, and absence of negative emotion both the therapist and for the customer and, in most categories, occurred more frequently illustrative gestures that its absence, except category Report Request. It is argued that the pattern found in the sequences of behaviors that favor the reporting and customer relations and the occurrence of mild neutral and positive emotion in interaction, can be recommended for the care of people with social anxiety disorder. / FAPESP: 2014/18745-5

We conducted a contingency analysis to evaluate if a sequential relation between social initiations and positive social responses increased for both therapists and children with autism following a conditioned reinforcement procedure. Participants included child-therapist dyads, which were previously identified as having low rapport. These dyads were observed prior to and following an intervention designed to establish therapists' social behavior as a reinforcer. Sessions consisted of unstructured play between the therapist and child. Results from a Yule's Q analysis show that both the child and adult positive responding to the others' social initiations increased following the intervention. Findings highlight the reciprocal effects of therapist-child interactions as well as the effectiveness of establishing social attention as a reinforcer via an operant discrimination training procedure.