Sentences with phrase «behavior as»

Moreover, the information from the thalamus also affects behavior as the cortex contains important areas relating to movement.

A new study reveals that our canine pals are capable of copying our behavior as long as 10 minutes after it's happened.

As part of a long - term study, King and her team carefully screened and studied heavy social drinkers who reported a pattern of binge drinking behavior as young adults — at least four (for women) or five (for men) drinks per occasion, between one and five times per week.

«The debate led us to wonder: Are people willing to punish members of another group when they perceive their behavior as unfair, even when exacting that punishment comes at a personal cost?»

Primates offer unique insights into human evolution, biology and behavior as well as contribute to forest regeneration, tropical biodiversity and ecosystem health.

We know less about how genes affect behavior as animals go about their normal routines.

A study out of none other than the University of Cambridge found the same engagement of several brain areas — all involved in reward and motivation — in people with compulsive sexual behavior as previously found in people struggling with drug addiction.

Bad behavior As much as TBI seems to increase the likelihood that a person will wind up in prison, it also seems to make the corrections environment that much more difficult to navigate.

Sometimes humor is the most effective way to point absurdities in our culture and behavior as a species (think about how much more palatable The Daily Show makes the news!).

«Our research reveals how a behavior as simple as using a cellphone in the workplace can ultimately undermine an employee's success,» the researchers wrote.

Assistant professor Vandenberg and Catanese, a recent graduate of UMass Amherst's neuroscience and behavior graduate program, report, «BPS affects maternal behavior as well as maternally relevant neural correlates.»

These studies hint at how experiences in youth can rewrite the epigenetic marks in our brains, altering our behavior as adults.

Some plants, such as clonal plants, can exhibit avoidance behavior as a third response type: they grow away from their neighbors.

Whenever the data is passed on to functions, which might then send the data out from the smartphone or display other suspicious behavior as defined in a preset corpus of rules, the pertinent markers are checked.

A new study, published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that these chemicals can change reproductive behavior as well, and that these behavioral changes can be passed on from parents to offspring.

«What I'm saying is that the field has been out of balance in pursuing errors and biases, and because of that we don't know as much about either the good or the bad behavior as we should.

So I'm going to be spending time in the future looking into this area, with human behavior as a special case.

The researchers then observed the animals» behavior as they were introduced to a variety of potential partners.

A study in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment notes that reflected light — off of buildings or roadways — can be as disruptive to animal behavior as the direct light that attracts sea turtle hatchlings to begin life in the wrong direction.

SHANK3 - deficient display repetitive grooming behavior as well as social interaction deficits and are considered to be an experimental model for autism.

They want to determine if changing those genes experimentally changes rodent behavior as expected.

Researchers refer to this giving behavior as «need - based transfer.»

«The CIA personality profile of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was actually the Middle Eastern version of «showing off,» not irrational behavior as the Bush administration inaccurately thought,» according to Neuman.

Based on the two surveys, the researchers found that a small minority of fast - food consumers met all conditions, and therefore would be expected to change their eating behavior as a result of menu calorie labeling.

Rami Tzabar said the program «was inspired by a chance meeting with one of the contributors, the MIT linguist Shigeru Miyagawa, who talked about using animal behavior as a way of understanding the evolution of human language.

aims to increase our collective ability to anticipate the complex consequences of change; gain a better understanding of the dynamics of human and social behavior as well as the cognitive and social structures that create and define change; and help people and organizations better manage profound or rapid change.

Treating criminal behavior as a deterministic system they created equations, based on Los Angeles Police Department data, that describe the movement of neighborhood crime and how cops might better control the crime rate.

«We think of prosocial behavior as requiring institutions that reward and direct our behavior.

Establishing links between genes, the brain and human behavior is a central issue in cognitive neuroscience research, but studying how genes influence cognitive abilities and behavior as the brain develops from childhood to adulthood has proven difficult.

«We can infer that the fossil leaf insect showed the same behavior as extant leaf insects do,» Wedmann says.

Looking at the 2015 reports from the SBST and the UK Behavioural Insights Team, the researchers developed a list of relevant policy areas and identified one behavior as the outcome of interest within each area.

The Sun is a solar - type star, a new study claims — resolving an ongoing controversy about whether the star at the center of our Solar System exhibits the same cyclic behavior as other nearby, solar - type stars.

Critics charged that the FDA's drug - safety analyst had made a connection between antidepressants and teenagers» suicidal behavior as early as 2002, but agency higher - ups had rejected his findings and ordered an outside panel to reanalyze his data.

And, they say, it could turn out that the moon has power over other aspects of our behavior as well, such as our cognitive performance and our moods.

«We think this is a valuable tool that could help advance the field of organizational behavior as a whole.

«There's a fundamental trade - off between the complexity of individual agents and the size of the simulation,» says Jonathan Pfautz, who funds agent - based modeling of social behavior as a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Arlington, Virginia.

Boys described their behavior as a joke or a way to get attention while girls said they did it because they were depressed or psychologically hurt.

The researchers recorded the metal's behavior as the surface tension lowered.

Some, like bats, are unfairly maligned; others are adored despite shocking behavior, such as Adélie penguins, whose sex lives were considered so depraved that, in 1915, London's Natural History Museum boldly marked a paper about the birds» mating behavior as «Not for Publication.»

Given such credible reports, «there are no reasonable grounds to interpret this behavior as a sign that this group wants to remain unconnected to the rest of society,» said Patricia Palacios Balbuena, vice minister in Lima's Ministry of Culture that oversees tribal affairs, in a 21 July statement.

Not what you would expect, considering Kaloyeros» criminal behavior as documented in indictments issued by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — As Part of Optimum Power to Learn «Internet Smarts» Event, New York State Senator George Latimer will participate in an event with Sixth -, seventh - and eighth - grade students to address the topic of safe and appropriate online behavior as part of Optimum's Power to Learn Internet Smarts program.

He says the governor's explanations in Buffalo of his staff's behavior as merely offering advice, are inadequate.

«Now after all this, I'm wondering if he tricked her into a massage,» Nehin said in light of revelations of Weinstein's alleged behavior as a sexual predator.

@kram1032 - There are two ways to stop people from behaving a certain way -(1) incentivize them to NOT behave this way by increasing the costs / downsides of behavior as far as punishment.

@Philipp Tobacco isn't associated with the same kinds of anti-social behavior as alcohol.

As he learns more about Uber's decision to undermine a taxi worker protest against the Muslim ban, we hope Gov. Cuomo will join New Yorkers in condemning Uber's behavior as well,» said Dustin Jones of United for Equal Access New York in a statement released by a consortium of taxi companies opposed to the ride hailing expansion.

Mr. Silver, who resigned on Monday as speaker after being arrested on federal corruption charges in January, was accused of essentially facilitating the harassment by not acting forcefully to prevent Mr. Lopez's behavior as leader of the Assembly, which was also named as a defendant in one of the lawsuits.

Character does matter in this race... but it is not my character that is at issue in this election; it is Mr. Fidler's record of highly questionable, unethical behavior as a career politician, a City Councilman and a power broker whose the product of the corrupt Brooklyn Democrat political machine.

The presumed Republican nominee for Governor, Rick Lazio, attacked the Times» behavior as «psychological warfare» in a letter to its editor in chief, Bill Keller.