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Shapiro, D and Oakley, M., Methodological issues in the evaluation of drug behavioral interactions in the treatment of hypertension. Psychosomatic Medicine 51(3), 269-276, 1989. 

Jacobson, J.L., and S.W. Jacobson. 1991. Assessment of teratogenic effects on cognitive and behavioral development in infancy and childhood. Pp. 248-261 in Methodological Issues in Controlled Studies on Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Drugs of Abuse, Research Monograph 114, M.M. Kilbey, and K. Asghar, eds. Rockville, MD National Institute on Drug Abuse. 

The recording of posture and motion is another basic issue in the methodology of behavior observation and performance measurement. Calibrated piezoresistive sensors allow the separation of a DC-component, indicating d ree of inclination, that is, borty position, and an AC-component, representing acceleration, that is movement. Multicharmel accelerometry can be used for... 

Edelstein, B. A. (1989). Generalization Terminological, methodological, and conceptual issues. Behavior Therapy, 20, 311-324. 

In this chapter we revisited an old problem, namely, exploring the information provided by a set of (x, y) operation data records and learn from it how to improve the behavior of the performance variable, y. Although some of the ideas and methodologies presented can be applied to other types of situations, we defined as our primary target an analysis at the supervisory control level of (x, y) data, generated by systems that cannot be described effectively through first-principles models, and whose performance depends to a large extent on quality-related issues and measurements. 

Salamone, J.D. (1996) The behavioral neurochemistry of motivation methodological and conceptual issues in studies of the dynamic activity of nucleus accumbens dopamine. / Neurosci Methods 64 137-149. 

Tiffany, S. T. (1992). A critique of contemporary urge and craving research Methodological, psychometric, and theoretical issues. Advances in Behavior Research and Tlterapy, 14,... 

The goal of the hardware synthesis work within these projects has been to contribute design methodologies and synthesis techniques which address the design trajectory from real behavior down to the RT-level structural specification of the system. In order to provide complete support for this synthesis trajectory, many design problems must be tackled. We do not claim to cover the complete path, but we do believe we have contributed to the solution of a number of the most crucial problems in the domains of specification and synthesis. We therefore expect this book to be of interest in academia not for detailed descriptions of the research results—these have been published elsewhere—but for the overview of the field and a view on the many important but less widely known issues which must be addressed to arrive at industrially relevant results. 

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