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Clinical and Genetic Findings with Natural History of Prader-Willi Syndrome

Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a complex neurodevelopmental genetic condition characterized by infantile hypotonia with a poor suck and feeding difficulties leading to failure to thrive; hypogenitalism/hypogon...

Merlin G. Butler, Travis Thompson in Management of Prader-Willi Syndrome (2022)

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Unfinished Business: J. E. R. Staddon’s The New Behaviorism, 2^nd ed

Travis Thompson in The Psychological Record (2019)

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Behavioral Functions of Aesthetics: Science and Art, Reason, and Emotion

In his landmark article for this journal, Francis Mechner (2017) presents a novel analysis of the confluence of unique combinations of variables accounting for aesthetic experiences, a phenomenon he calls synerge...

Travis Thompson in The Psychological Record (2018)

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Protective enamel coating for n- and p-type skutterudite thermoelectric materials

Transitioning skutterudite (SKD) thermoelectric technology from space to terrestrial power generation requires oxidation suppression technology. One approach involves the development of protective coatings con...

Young-Sam Park, Travis Thompson, Yunsung Kim… in Journal of Materials Science (2015)

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Comparative Assay of Antioxidant Packages for Dimer of Estolide Esters

A series of 26 different antioxidants and commercial antioxidant packages designed for petroleum-based materials, containing both natural and synthetic-based materials, were evaluated with dimeric coconut-olei...

Steven C. Cermak, Jakob W. Bredsguard… in Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Soci… (2014)

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A Review of Radical Behaviorism for ABA Practitioners by James M. Johnston

Travis Thompson in The Psychological Record (2014)

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Physical Properties of Low Viscosity Estolide 2-Ethylhexyl Esters

Acetic- and butyric-capped oleic estolide 2-ethylhexyl (2-EH) esters were synthesized in a perchloric acid catalyzed (0.05 equiv) one-pot process from industrial 90 % oleic acid and either acetic or butyric f...

Steven C. Cermak, Jakob W. Bredsguard… in Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Soci… (2013)

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Impressions of Consequences: A Review of The Science of Consequences by Susan M. Schneider

Travis Thompson in The Psychological Record (2013)

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Thermal to Electrical Energy Conversion of Skutterudite-Based Thermoelectric Modules

The performance of thermoelectric (TE) materials has improved tremendously over the past decade. The intrinsic thermal and electrical properties of state-of-the-art TE materials demonstrate that the potential ...

James R. Salvador, Jung Y. Cho, Zuxin Ye… in Journal of Electronic Materials (2013)

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Joseph V. Brady: Synthesis reunites what analysis has divided

Joseph V. Brady (1922–2011) created behavior-analytic neuroscience and the analytic framework for understanding how the external and internal neurobiological environments and mechanisms interact. Brady’s appro...

Travis Thompson in The Behavior Analyst (2012)

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Fred R. Volkmar and Lisa A. Wiesner: A Practical Guide to Autism: What Every Parent, Family Member and Teacher Needs to Know

Travis Thompson in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (2010)

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Acoustic Properties of Organic/Inorganic Composite Aerogels

Composite aerogels (with varying concentrations of silica and poly-dimethylsiloxane) were developed and their acoustic absorption coefficient as a function of composition and average pores size have been measu...

Winny Dong, Tanya Faltens, Michael Pantell, Diana Simon… in MRS Online Proceedings Library (2009)

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Introduction: Translational science lectures

Travis Thompson, Timothy D. Hackenberg in The Behavior Analyst (2009)

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Self-awareness: Behavior analysis and neuroscience

Self-awareness is a specific type of autoclitic discriminative behavior and inferential generalization to similar performances exhibited by other people. Brain imaging findings take on special importance within b...

Travis Thompson in The Behavior Analyst (2008)

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Stigma and Architecture

Insofar as people with disabilities work and live in settings that are less attractive and that are identifiable as “for the handicapped,” they are likely to remain outside mainstream society. As stated by (Wo...

Julia W. Robinson, Travis Thompson in Enabling Environments (1999)

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Prevention and Early Treatment of Behavior Disorders of Children and Youth with Retardation and Autism

In science as in human affairs more generally, we seem more at home scurrying about undoing the consequences of our own folly than preventing problems in the first place. In the case of developmental disorders...

Travis Thompson in Mental Retardation and Mental Health (1988)

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Ethical Issues in Interventions for Persons with Retardation, Autism and Related Developmental Disorders

Jean Itard’s remarkable effort to cure Victor, the so-called “Wild Child of Aveyron” (Itard, 1976), is the first documented case of the use of systematic teaching methods to overcome the disability of a severe...

Travis Thompson, William I. Gardner… in Mental Retardation and Mental Health (1988)

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The effects of methadone on operant behavior maintained with and without conditioned reinforcement in the pigeon

Effects of methadone on key pecking supplemented with brief stimuli either correlated with or independent of unconditioned reinforcement was investigated. On average, key pecks by pigeons produced brief stimul...

Thomas H. Kelly, Travis Thompson in Psychopharmacology (1985)

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Behavioral pharmacokinetics of marijuana

Male volunteer subjects smoked one marijuana cigarette containing 100, 200, or 250 μg/kg Δ-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and were tested on three perceptual-motor performance measures related to driving. Perfor...

Gene Barnett, Vojtech Licko, Travis Thompson in Psychopharmacology (1985)