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A Comparison Of The Frequency Of Occurrence Of Stereotypic Behaviors Demonstrated By A Youth With Autism During Two Recreation Activities: Horseback Riding and Board Game Play
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to compare the frequency of occurrence of stereotypic behaviors demonstrated by a youth with autism during two recreation activities: horseback riding and board game play.. Stereotypic behaviors are one of the three diagnostic criteria for autism as listed in the DSM IV and can impact an individual\u27s functional abilities by interfering with learning and daily social behaviors. This study examined the frequency of occurrence of stereotypic behaviors in two different recreation activities. Despite the increase of attention and press coverage autism has received in recent years, there still remains a multitude of questions about the disorder. Many of the traditional therapy approaches do not address the multifaceted aspects of autism, and leave the individual\u27s treatment plan incomplete. Alternative therapies, such as animal-assisted therapy, have shown to be beneficial for individuals with autism by increasing attention, on task behavior, and prosocial behavior, while reducing maladaptive behaviors. Therapeutic horseback riding is a type of animal-assisted therapy, which has shown to benefit individuals with various physical disabilities but has yet to be documented for individuals with autism
Recognizing and forecasting the sign of financial local trends using hidden Markov models
The problem of forecasting financial time series has received great attention in the past, from both
Econometrics and Pattern Recognition researchers. In this context, most of the efforts were spent to
represent and model the volatility of the financial indicators in long time series. In this paper a different
problem is faced, the prediction of increases and decreases in short (local) financial trends. This problem,
poorly considered by the researchers, needs specific models, able to capture the movement in the short
time and the asymmetries between increase and decrease periods. The methodology presented in this
paper explicitly considers both aspects, encoding the financial returns in binary values (representing the
signs of the returns), which are subsequently modelled using two separate Hidden Markov models, one for
increases and one for decreases, respectively. The approach has been tested with different experiments
with the Dow Jones index and other shares of the same market of different risk, with encouraging results
Backscatter from the Data Plane --- Threats to Stability and Security in Information-Centric Networking
Information-centric networking proposals attract much attention in the
ongoing search for a future communication paradigm of the Internet. Replacing
the host-to-host connectivity by a data-oriented publish/subscribe service
eases content distribution and authentication by concept, while eliminating
threats from unwanted traffic at an end host as are common in today's Internet.
However, current approaches to content routing heavily rely on data-driven
protocol events and thereby introduce a strong coupling of the control to the
data plane in the underlying routing infrastructure. In this paper, threats to
the stability and security of the content distribution system are analyzed in
theory and practical experiments. We derive relations between state resources
and the performance of routers and demonstrate how this coupling can be misused
in practice. We discuss new attack vectors present in its current state of
development, as well as possibilities and limitations to mitigate them.Comment: 15 page
Vintage capital and the dynamics of the AK model
This paper analyzes the equilibrium dynamics of an AK-type endogenous growth model with vintage capital. The inclusion of vintage capital leads to oscillatory dynamics governed by replacement echoes, which additionally influence the intercept of the balanced growth path. These features, which are in sharp contrast to those from the standard AK model, can contribute to explaining the short-run deviations observed between investment and growth rates time series. To characterize the optimal solutions of the model we develop analytical and numerical methods that should be of interest for the general resolution of endogenous growth models with vintage capital.Endogenous growth, Vintage capital, AK model, Differencedifferential equations
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