Sentences with phrase «about altering behavior»

Weight loss is as much about altering behavior and habits as it is finding a good diet plan.

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As the gap widens, it creates rising uncertainty about how excess debt servicing costs will ultimately be allocated, and at the point at which this uncertainty is high enough to alter materially the behavior of economic agents, and so lower the net asset value of the economic entity, the borrowing country has «excessive» debt.

Here's my popular interview (originally published on March 31, 2011) with Dr. Brian Wansink of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab about the various tricks he's discovered — some of them deceptively simple — that alter consumer behavior in the lunch room.]

Though the earlier JSATS tag provided a very detailed picture of fish migration, researchers worried that the mere presence of their tag — which was about three times heavier in 2007 than today's injectable tag — could alter fish behavior and make tag - gathered data less reliable for small fish.

Big cats are finicky about their habitat, he notes, so even seemingly minor intrusions such as gathering pine nuts and frog farming can alter their behavior.

«I'd want to know more about the mechanism» by which the bacteria altered behavior in the mice before beginning to translate the findings to humans, he says.

One school claims that hypnosis fundamentally alters a subject's state of mind; the other believes that there is nothing radical about it, that all the strange experiences and odd behaviors typically associated with hypnosis can be observed in people who are not actually in a hypnotic trance.

Ingram became interested in the protozoan parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, after reading about its behavior - altering effects in mice and rats and possible implications for its common host, the domesticated cat, and even humans.

The scientists can then turn different neurons in the striatum on and off to see how this alters the animal's behavior, revealing more about which cells do what in the brain.

However, data about food production and costs throughout the world suggest that we in the United States need to alter our thinking and behavior to accommodate a lifestyle of routinely eating high quality foods.

It is about being the «you» you are supposed to be right now; The «you» that nature intended before illness, stress, injuries, surgeries, medications, and behaviors that reduce testosterone levels crept in and altered your natural production.

Although information about sleep hygiene practices was provided to participants 4 days before the sleep hygiene period, participants reported that they did not alter their behaviors until the first day of the 1 - week sleep hygiene period.

If you're annoyed about the actual scratching and not the gashes they cause, then you might want to look for another solution like declawing as caps only cover claws and don't alter a cat's natural behavior.

If you think about it evolutionarily, the parasite (over millions of years) figured out where to go in the brain to alter the behavior of the host to put it someplace where it would be eaten by a cat.

I've wondered about the limits of virtual experience in altering actual human priorities and behaviors.

As changing climate alters the behavior of water, climate science is called upon to provide information about the future of the water cycle.

This may even alter the psychological behavior of people towards the app and the intimacy built upon their minds about the app may get affected which negatively impacts the user experience.

For example, if you are quick to anger and you consider yourself an angry person, you must fundamentally change something about yourself to address the problem; however, if you are a person who acts aggressively and becomes angry easily, you simply need to alter the behaviors to address the problem.

Having a professional work with you to increase your awareness about your attachment style is a great way to alter your behavior.

In line with the attentional - resource perspective, we argue that high relationship conflict alters attributions that group members make about each others» actions and behaviors during teamwork [42].