Sentences with phrase «among other behaviors»

He regularly lashes out with anger and runs away, among other behaviors.

The switch involves receptors that trigger or inhibit the release of the orexin A peptide, which stimulates the appetite, among other behaviors.

With dogs we can see this manifested as hostility to strangers, unpredictable behavior, separation anxiety, and an inability to understand social cues from other dogs, among other behavior problems.

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What constitutes sexual harassment in the workplace varies, but as theAAUW notes, it includes behaviors like «unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, direct or indirect threats or bribes for sexual activity, sexual innuendos and comments, sexually suggestive jokes, unwelcome touching or brushing against a person,» among others.

According to the bank's proxy, the board is supposed to authorize a clawback when, among other things, it is shown that an executive's behavior, or the division he or she is responsible for, damaged the reputation of the bank.

So, to avoid having to deal with those consequences, among many others, you'll need to recognize the signs and make changes to your behaviors, attitude, and approach to leading.

However, when the researchers damaged a more central brain region called the limbic system, which is the source of emotions and pleasure (among other things), the hamsters» maternal behaviors — like nest - building, picking up pups, and nursing — never developed.

Moreover, while Facebook offers advertisers the ability to target both demographically (using users» gender and geography) and psychographically (using users» interests and behaviors among other things based on their likes) on its Facebook Ads Manager tool, most buyers don't consider psychographic traits reliable for ad targeting due to their predictive nature.

Among other commentators, management professor Matthew Bidwell weighed in on the problems with using «crude numeric tools» to achieve desirable behavior.

The paper has broad implications for interdisciplinary science, because it demonstrates a striking pattern in human behavior that bears on, among others, the disciplines of psychology, medicine, sociology, economics, and anthropology.

It will capture various behaviors — including dangerous driving behaviors, such as harsh braking, hard cornering, and quick starts, among others.

With the exception of predatory behaviors that take advantage of the vulnerable among us, we should concentrate on cleaning up our own act, rather than remaking others into our own image so that their presence is not challenge our narcissistic psychological comfort zones.

At the meeting she heard, among other things, a speaker articulate TCF's viewpoint that the Bible forbids homosexual behavior.

But there are other phenomena that have come to attention in recent years about homosexual behavior among women — phenomena which, even though lacking careful study, are suggestive enough to warrant, preliminary comment.

I thought it was the Calvinism I was so heavily involved in until I notice the same behaviors among other men I admire just as much; Chay, Bing, Fruchtenbaum, Ryrie, Crouch and others, we were all doing it regardless of what you believed.

I believe that they derive from evolutionary patterns of behavior, and there are quite a few papers written on the subject detailing equivalent behaviors among other species to support this assertion.

The use of muscle - enhancing behaviors among middle and high school boys and girls - including such unhealthy behaviors as using protein powders or shakes, steroids, and other muscle - enhancing substances - is substantially higher than previously reported, a new study finds.1

Her counsel consisted of, among other things, understanding the whole child, understanding the development of the child, positive reinforcement, affirmation of a child's feelings and discipline with love as correction of negative behavior.

Previous research has tied smoking cigarettes during pregnancy to behavior problems among children later on, but those studies couldn't rule out the influence of other factors, such as genetics or parenting techniques, researchers said.

Drinking soda and other sugary beverages was definitely a high status behavior among students, with many kids making a habit of choosing a lunch consisting only of a soda and a bag of chips.

Behaviors are a normal part of a child's development and are often how they explore their world and figure out social rules among other children and adults.

The books model thinking before acting, choosing among different options, and how one's behavior affects others.

Evergreen Psychotherapy Center, an institute that provides attachment treatment and training offers their custom - tailored therapy program that aims to promote positive changes for couples and adults, including new choices, perspectives, behaviors, and relationships, among others.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- Some behaviors, such as TV watching and eating school lunches, were linked to obesity among sixth grade boys and girls in a new study, but other risk factors were gender specific.

The political climate in Ghana today and Akufo - Addo's own conduct, behavior and approach towards his ambition will show that it's utterly at variance with the personalities of late Prof Mills, Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, General Buhari of Nigeria and even former President Kufuor, among others who were 3rd time lucky.

It would make the animals more adoptable, therefore cutting back on a high number of animals that are euthanized in Onondaga County, and it would offer inmates an opportunity to work with these animals, which in other programs, has led to better behavior among the incarcerated and lowered recidivism.

Each agent is an autonomous subroutine that responds in reasonably human ways to other agents and the evolving disaster by switching among multiple modes of behavior — for example, panic, flight, and efforts to find family members.

Among other achievements, he found that an excess of prolactin can suppress sexual behavior in males, and he published some of the earliest work showing that testosterone is released into the blood in pulses.

Researchers now know our biological clocks help regulate sleep patterns, feeding behavior, hormone release, blood pressure and the body's temperature, among other vital processes.

«Our information examines the association between these different types of drunkorexic behaviors and other predictors of problem drinking among college students, such as gender differences.»

On the other hand, the difference was greater in terms of weight gain among the American women if they chose healthy behaviors over unhealthy ones.

Among other things, they can now better predict the behavior of electrons in graphene, a flat sheet of carbon just a single atom thick, which acts like a strange metal under certain conditions.

A string of such beautiful, interventionist mice experiments over the past several years has revealed specific circuit elements involved in a variety of normal and pathological behaviors: depression, behavioral conditioning, Parkinson's disease and cortical oscillations critical for attention, among others.

On the other hand, believing that a large proportion of people engage in environmentally behaviors was associated with making eco-friendly choices among Japanese participants, but not American participants.

Stoeber takes his research one step further by investigating how the three types of perfectionists differ in their social behavior and the type of humor they engage in, among other traits.

Texting while driving and other risky motor vehicle behaviors among U.S. high school students.

Several studies demonstrate that proactive behaviors — like taking charge, seeking feedback and building social networks — can improve organizational creativity, processes and job satisfaction, among other benefits.

These cohabitation behaviors have rarely been observed among other octopuses.

The animals make close friendships, hoot in celebration, and kiss each other in greeting.Such behavior is even more exaggerated among the lightly built bonobos, each of which uses sex with every member of the group — male and female both — to say hello or calm tensions.

Adolescents are significantly affected by HIV and other STIs, yet many lack access to sexual health education that could minimize their risks, said the researchers, who note that videogames offer an accessible, portable tool for promoting health and reducing risky behavior among teenagers, particularly minority youth who are disproportionately impacted.

LBNL energy technology scientist Jeffery Greenblatt and his colleagues are analyzing technology options as well as data records from 10 historical behavior changes — smoking cessation, seat belt use, vegetarianism, drunk driving, recycling and yoga, among others.

After controlling for other possible contributing mental and physical conditions and their associated behaviors, researchers found no significant increased risk for either congenital malformations or cardiac malformations among women who took either typical or atypical APMs in the first 90 days of pregnancy, with the possible exception of risperidone which continued to show a slightly increased risk.

«Our study examined how time spent in the U.S., along with other aspects reflective of acculturation to the U.S., relates to smoking behavior among Asian and Latino migrants.»

«Many employers are using workplace competitions and financial incentives to encourage physical activity and other healthy behaviors among their employees.»

The accompanying changes in behavior, especially among men, might have helped humans evolve more complex language, live atop each other in cities, and work together to create sophisticated cultures.

Among other functions, dopamine helps drive reward activity and social behaviors.

John Fitzpatrick of Cornell University and the other scientists who originally wrote about the ivory - billed sighting shot back with a their own technical paper, claiming that, among other things, Sibley used inaccurate models of takeoff and flight behavior to interpret the video.

Heiko Woith and colleagues at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences say scientists must determine whether the link between the animal behavior and the earthquake is based on clearly defined rules (such as the animal's distance from earthquakes of a certain magnitude), whether the animal behavior has ever been observed and not followed by an earthquake, whether there is a statistical testing hypothesis in place to examine the evidence, and whether the animal population is a healthy, among other questions.

The higher odds of prevalence of asthma and obesity among ethnic minority children contributed to these differences, although ethnic minority children were less likely to have reported other physical conditions and behavior / learning problems.

Among other things he seeks to understand their social interactions, cognitive capacities, tool - use and hunting behavior.