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Preexposing a stimulus may enhance its subsequent extinction
(2013-12-04)
Extinction, the repeated exposure to a stimulus following conditioning results in decreased conditioned responding (i.e., conditioned fear), has long been used as a therapeutic treatment to attenuate various anxiety ...
Preference for Accumulated and Distributed Token Exchange-Production Schedules: Effects of Task Difficulty and Variable Token-Production Schedules
(2018-06-06)
Organisms allocate behavior to simultaneously available schedules of reinforcement as a
function of different dimensions of reinforcement (e.g., delays, magnitude, response effort).
Previous research suggests that ...
The Preference for the Aesthetic Middle: A Perceived Risk Based Explanation and the Moderating Role of Aesthetic Expertise and Product Confidence
(2018-04-27)
In the context of the aesthetics of consumer products, this study proposed an explanation for the preference for the aesthetic middle based on the psychological construct of perceived risks. The study proposed two research ...
Preferential Seating for College Students with Adhd: Is It an Effective Accommodation?
(2007-12-15)
Given that adjusting student seating is a frequent intervention recommended for many students with ADHD, one would expect solid empirical evidence to support this recommendation. However, the available literature is not ...
Prejudice by Any Other Name: Conditional Support of Gay Males by Heterosexuals
(2015-01-09)
In U.S. popular culture, it is often easy to find both unambiguously supportive and unambiguously non-supportive statements in terms of the rights of sexual minorities. Although unambiguous attitudes are often expressed, ...
Preliminary Assessment of Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.) Rhizomes: An Underutilized Aquatic Vegetable Crop
(2014-08-18)
Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.) is a perennial aquatic edible plant which offers a wide diversity of potential health benefits including improving learning and cognitive memory, anti-obesity activity, anti-HIV activity, ...
Preliminary Assessment of the Petroleum Source-Rock Potential of Upper Eocene Kopili Shale, Bengal Basin, Bangladesh
(2016-08-05)
The upper Eocene Kopili Shale occurs throughout the northern end of the Bengal Basin, including on the northwestern Indian Platform and in deeper basin areas (e.g., Sylhet Trough) of northeastern Bangladesh. The Kopili-equivalent ...
Preliminary Design Optimization of an Amphibious Aircraft
(2011-08-02)
An amphibious aircraft combines the speed and range benefits of a conventional aircraft with the ability to land and takeoff on open water. There are other appealing factors to operating an amphibious aircraft including ...
A Preliminary Examination of Religion in the Perception of Therapists' Helpfulness
(2006-12-15)
The current study aimed to assess religious clients’ evaluation of therapists’ helpfulness in psychotherapy. Participants (N = 35) were undergraduate and graduate students from 11 public institutions of higher learning ...
Preliminary Materials Toward a Library of Affective Films (LAF): Standardization and Psychophysiological Validation
(2016-05-04)
Abstract
Most emotion-elicitation film libraries use only self-report measures (e.g., Hagemann et al., 1999) and even those including physiological data (e.g., Gross & Levenson, 1995) often fail to control for variables ...
A Preliminary Study of Faculty and Graduates Perceptions of Vocational Evaluation Competencies in the Educational Curriculum
(2006-05-15)
This study investigated faculty and graduates' perceptions of vocational evaluation competencies in the curriculum. The study surveyed 55 faculty and practitioners in regards to 51 competencies found credible by the Newman ...
A preliminary study of remote control skidder operation
(2016-07-26)
In timber harvesting, skidders are widely used by operators who are in charge of pulling the woods. However, operators have to visually monitor multifarious objects such as loggers, machinery, trail, terrain and trees are ...
A Preliminary Study of the Impact of Service Dogs on People with Physical Disabilities: Activities of Daily Living, Social Connectedness, Employment, and Quality of Life
(2022-07-26)
The use of service dogs as a holistic intervention for individuals with physical disabilities has increased in the past few decades. There is a relatively new body of research that demonstrates that service dogs positively ...
Preliminary Study of Tribology: Uniform Control of the Density Control of the Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles on a Modified Silicon Surface
(2007-05-15)
Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) are important in diverse fields such as BioMEMS, optical MEMS, and radio frequency MEMS. The low cost, small device size and high reliability are contributing to successful commercialization ...
A preliminary study on removing vanadium (V) from groundwater using Fe–Mn oxide nanoparticle with different stabilizers
(2018-11-16)
The Vanadium V5+ removal from water body and soil is an important issue for environmental protection and conservation. Nanoparticles as adsorption and the stabilizer against nanoaprticle aggregating have become the key ...
Prenatal Nicotine Exposure and Glutamatergic-Cholinergic Interplay
(2013-12-02)
Smoking in pregnant women is reported as a risk factor in neurobehavioral alterations such as learning and memory deficits. Prenatal exposure of nicotine (6mg/kg /day) in animal models induces memory impairment associated ...
Prenatal Nicotine Exposure and Molecular Mechanisms of Memory Impairment
(2008-08-15)
Prenatal nicotine exposure in the form of active maternal smoking is a major risk factor for several harmful effects in the children. These effects include reduced motor skills, poor IQ scores and most importantly learning ...
Preparation and Application of Regenerable N-Halamine Biocidal Materials
(2009-05-06)
Copolymers of an N-halamine siloxane and a quaternary ammonium salt siloxane were prepared using 5,5-dimethylhydantoin and trimethylamine as functional groups. The solubility of this siloxane copolymer in water was ...
Preparation and Characterization of Activated Biochar for Lithium-Sulfur Battery Application
(2017-08-29)
Utilization of low-value, abundant and sustainable biomass materials for high-value energy storage application was the main goal of this thesis. Energy storage for vehicle electrification and intermittent renewable energy ...
Preparation, Characterization, and Applications of Polysaccharide-stabilized Metal Nanoparticles for Remediation of Chlorinated Solvents in Soils and Groundwater
(2007-12-15)
Removal of chlorinated solvents in groundwater and soils represents one of the most challenging environmental issues. Highly reactive palladized iron (Fe-Pd) nanoparticles offer the potential to migrate in the soil and ...