Examining the Relationship Between Sleep Quality, Social Functioning, and Behavior Problems in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review.

Over forty percent of autistic children experience poor sleep quality, and social interaction difficulties are a core characteristic of autism. However, the relationship between sleep quality and social functioning and behavior remains poorly understood. This systematic review examined the evidence concerning the impact of sleep quality on the social functioning and behavior problems in autistic children and adolescents.

Improving Joint Expeditionary Medical Planning Tools Based on a Patient Flow Approach.

The U.S. military's current concept of operations for expeditionary medical care emphasizes quickly moving patients to a series of successively more sophisticated medical facilities that provide the patients with the care necessary to treat their injury or condition.

Self-organized criticality in a bead pile.

Self-organized criticality has been proposed to explain complex dynamical systems near their critical points. This experiment examined a monodisperse conical bead pile and how the distribution of avalanches is affected by the pattern of beads glued on a base, by the size or shape of the base, and by the height at which each bead was dropped onto the pile. By measuring the number of avalanches for a given size that occurred during the experiment, the resulting distribution could be compared to a power law description.