Sentences with phrase «behavior of large bodies»

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Paleontologists note that the large opening would have made it rather useless in combat, so it may have been that it was used to regulate its body temperature, or that it was perhaps part of a sexual selection behavior designed to attract a mate.

Along with a large body of morally neutral acts, we are capable of behavior ranging from the inexpressibly wicked to the ineffably saintly.

Certainly the religious broadcaster has access to the much larger body of general communication research on associated topics such as audience patterns and viewing behavior, attitude and value change, and communication uses and effects.

Whereas there is a large body of research suggesting that we have a universal preference for similarity (in everything from behavior to first - name initials), similar is not always better, according to Bahns.

Conversely, general relativity explains gravity and the behavior of large celestial bodies, but doesn't explain the other forces or the behavior of atoms.

In the same way that inbreeding among human populations can increase the frequency of normally rare genes that cause diseases, the selective breeding that created the hundreds of modern dog breeds has put purebred dogs at risk for a large number of health problems, affecting both body and behavior.

Unfortunately, it has also put dogs at risk for a large number of health problems that affect both their body and their behavior.

In addition, this new assessment from Working Group II greatly expands the use of the large body of evidence from the social sciences about human behavior and the human dimensions of climate change.

There's a large body of research on ACT, from Jon Kabat - Zinn's Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, and from the ground - breaking work of Marcia Linehan's Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with borderline personality disorder, suggesting that the shift is a powerful one.

There is a large body of evidence in the clinical literature demonstrating that childhood attachment - related trauma [27], [28], such as prolonged separation from parents or chronic conflict within the family (which were the most frequently reported events among the participants of our study), and lack of parental warmth [29] can increase the risk for aggressive behavior during adolescence and adulthood.

Given that parents play a critical role in children's health and pediatric care, a large body of research dating back at least to the 1970's (e.g., Mechanic, 1980) has focused on parental characteristics and behavior to help explain variations in children's health care use.

The aim of this study was to analyse associations among body weight, eating behavior, and the perceived parent — child relationship in a large, representative community - based sample of preadolescent children.