Showing papers by "Rider University published in 1991"
TL;DR: Children who weighed less than 2,500 grams at birth are almost fifty percent more likely to be enrolled in any type of special education than children who were of normal weight at birth, which results in an incremental cost ofspecial education of $370.8 million (1989-1990) per year due to low birthweight.
117 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the standard LSI-1985 with a scrambled version of the instrument and found that the scrambled version yielded more extreme classification changes than the standard one.
Abstract: This study is an extension of previous research comparing the standard LSI-1985 with a scrambled version of the instrument. The two forms of the LSI were examined for internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and classification stability. The internal consistency of the standard LSI was greater than that of the scrambled version while the test-retest reliability of the scrambled version was higher. After a five-week interval, classification stability for the two instruments was 56% for the standard LSI and 53% for the scrambled version. This level of classification stability represented a modest improvement over chance. Compared to the scrambled version of the LSI, the standard LSI yielded more extreme classification changes. Many of the differences between the standard and scrambled versions of the LSI may be due to a responseset bias of the standard LSI. Overall, the results suggest that further revision of the LSI would be desirable to reduce the response-set bias and improve the psychometric prop...
59 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduced the idea of record values for a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables and derived some of the distributional properties of these record values and moments up to second order.
Abstract: In this paper, firstly an introduction to the idea of record values for a sequence of independent and identically (Lomax or Pareto II) distributed random variables is given. Some of the distributional properties of these record values and moments up to second order are derived. These moments clearly depend on the location, scale and shape parameter of the Lomax distribution and two types of estlmators of these parameters, based on a series of observed record values are presented.
48 citations
TL;DR: These results, interpreted through Ayres' sensory integration theory and applied to current occupational therapy practices, support Farber's hypothesized importance of early crawling experience in the development of sensory and motor systems of the body and general motor skill development.
Abstract: The influences of early crawling experience on motor skill development were examined in children identified by parents as crawlers or noncrawlers during early infancy. Relative to the performance of crawlers, noncrawlers showed lower average and subtest-specific performance on selected measures of the Miller Assessment for Preschoolers. These results, interpreted through Ayres' sensory integration theory and applied to current occupational therapy practice, support Farber's hypothesized importance of early crawling experience in the development of sensory and motor systems of the body and general motor skill development.
35 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided additional empirical evidence concerning accounting student learning styles as indicated by the revised Learning Style Inventory (LSI-1985) and found that accounting majors exhibit characteristic learning styles different from those of other undergraduate business majors.
21 citations
TL;DR: As an animal swims through the Lashley III maze, an observer types into a Macintosh computer the path taken and the computer program, Observe Software, breaks the string of choices into two-step sequences and counts the number of such sequences.
20 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, some characterizations of the exponential distribution are proved through properties of N XN, where XN is a independent nonnegative random variable having a common continuous distribution.
Abstract: Let where is a independent nonnegative random variables having a common continuous distribution. Some characterizations of the exponential distribution are proved through properties of N XN.
10 citations
TL;DR: It is concluded that adrenalectomy has little or no influence on the odor detection performance of the rat and related nonsensory performance measures were influenced.
10 citations
TL;DR: It is found that having an unhealthy child does decrease the mother's likelihood of being married, and children in poor health will, more likely, face obstacles beyond their illness, since they will also be more likely to suffer consequences of poverty and poor schooling outcomes.
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence on the effect of child health on marital stability and family structure within an economic framework. We use the 1988 National Health Interview Survey's Child Health Supplement, with a sample of about 9,000 families to test whether having an unhealthy child decreases the mother's chance of being married, and whether it increases her chance of living in an extended family. Using two different measures of child health, we find that having an unhealthy child does decrease the mother's likelihood of being married. Our results are strongest for white women who were married at the time of the child's birth and for black women who were unmarried at that time. These results imply that children in poor health will, more likely, face obstacles beyond their illness, since they will also be more likely to suffer consequences of poverty and poor schooling outcomes which results when raised in a female headed household. The only mitigating factor is that, for white children, they will be more likely than healthy children to living in an extended family.
9 citations
TL;DR: An optical model description of momentum transfer in relativistic heavy ion collisions, based upon composite particle multiple-scattering theory, is presented and predictions of fragment momentum distribution observables are made and compared with experimental data.
Abstract: An optical model description of momentum transfer in relativistic heavy ion collisions, based upon composite particle multiple-scattering theory, is presented. The imaginary component of the complex momentum transfer, which comes from the absorptive part of the optical potential, is shown to be the main contributor to the momentum loss of the projectile. Within the context of the Goldhaber formalism, predictions of fragment momentum distribution observables are made and compared with experimental data. Use of the model as a tool for estimating collision impact parameters is also discussed.
01 Jan 1991
TL;DR: A review of the literature that supports the relationship of emotional factors and success in reading and writing activities can be found in this article, where the authors describe specific incidents that describe children's reading behavior and discuss strategies that help children understand what they do and what they need to do to read and write more successfully.
Abstract: This article begins with a brief review of the literature that supports the relationship of emotional factors and success in reading and writing activities. Specific incidents that describe children's reading and writing behaviors comprise most of the article's content. Physical and language behaviors that indicate some emotional involvement with the success or lack of success in comprehension are emphasized. Strategies that help children to understand what they do and what they need to do to read and write more successfully end the article. Self‐evaluation tools that guide children to gain self‐esteem through independence are included in the strategy descriptions.
TL;DR: The present results show that the correction of inaccurate strategic factors most likely represents the temporary acquisition of compensatory strategies that facilitate performance on simple perceptual-motor skills tasks.
Abstract: The present study examined procedure-specific differences in the acquisition and retention of perceptual learning using four forms of the Horizontal-Vertical illusion. Training to criterion was conducted using intertrial feedback, continued visual inspection, or yoked-control procedures. Retention of perceptual learning was assessed at posttraining intervals ranging from 1 minute to 1 month. Subjects trained with feedback achieved criterion in fewer trials and showed greater accuracy and short-term retention of perceptual learning on the inverted-T figure and the 1-in. vertical line-production task. The present results show that the correction of inaccurate strategic factors most likely represents the temporary acquisition of compensatory strategies that facilitate performance on simple perceptual-motor skills tasks.
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that operant methods using small tastant samples produce sensitive estimates of the rat's taste detection performance and response bias, and is consistent with prior observations.
TL;DR: Corporate legal scholarship has failed to grasp the ethical significance of corporate law and policy as discussed by the authors, and too little reflection is given to how such developments affect the moral quality of individual lives within the corporate hierarchy.
Abstract: Corporate legal scholarship has failed in fundamental ways to grasp the ethical significance of corporate law and policy. While the broader economic and social consequences of particular legal developments are routinely debated, too little reflection is given to how such developments affect the moral quality of individual lives within the corporate hierarchy. What is needed is a framework for illuminating the interaction between developments in corporate legal doctrine and the ethical choices of corporate managers. The ethical significance of corporate law derives from two key factors. First, the corporation as an organization mediates between individuals in the corporate hierarchy and their ethical responsibilities. Second, the organizational choices and decision-making structure of the corporation are to a significant degree the product of corporate law.
TL;DR: In this article, a method for triaxial alignment of single crystalline grains may be applicable to ceramics other than the high-T c cuprate superconductors for which it was designed as a means of reducing the grain boundary weak links due to grain orientational misfit.
Abstract: A recently developed method for producing triaxial alignment of single crystalline grains may be applicable to ceramics other than the high-T c cuprate superconductors for which it was designed as a means of reducing the grain boundary weak links due to grain orientational misfit. This technique uses a suitable combination of a mechanical force and a magnetic field acting on the moment of a rare earth element incorporated into the ceramic; a "granular single crystal" is thus formed. A detailed step-by-step procedure is presented here to facilitate use of the new approach.
TL;DR: In this article, the infinite divisibility condition and a relation between the mean and variance were used to characterize the generalized negative binomial distribution, and the relation between mean and covariance was also used.
Abstract: Infinite divisibility condition and a relation between the mean and variance are used to characterize the generalized negative binomial distribution.